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You may have been young when the world fell, but you adapted with all the challenges that come with trying to survive. You spent your time doing runs out in the badlands beyond the QZ walls to ensure people had little pleasures to keep them going. You were dropping off some medical supplies that FEDRA was willing to pay big for when you got tangled up in a mission that involves a teenager with a mouth almost as smart as yours and gruff older man whose graying curls were his only redeeming quality. But the longer you traveled with them and the more that happened out in the open land of what once was, the more you find yourself connecting with them and wanting to protect them both at any cost.
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13 Feb 2025
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Returning home after your college graduation, you expect the same sleepy rhythm—quiet nights with your dad, maybe a summer job at his firm, and that ever-present question: what now? But the heat stretches long and slow, and you find yourself babysitting your neighbor’s daughter just to pass the time.
Joel Miller—your dad’s best friend, all calloused hands and quiet glances—is supposed to be off-limits. He’s older, steady, and familiar. But something between you has shifted. There’s tension, thick as the summer air, now impossible to ignore.
And as the days blur and the lines between you begin to fray, it becomes harder to remember where the rules used to be—or why they mattered.
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25 Jan 2025
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Homecoming by floatyourboat1997
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
26 Feb 2025
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*TLOU AU - No Cordyceps Outbreak*
You’re not sure when it happened, exactly. The moment when you began to see Joel Miller as more than just your neighbor. More than just your dad’s friend. More than just the surly, sawdust-covered parental figure he’d always seemed to be.
You suppose you can’t actually pin it down to one specific moment. It was more of a...culmination of events.
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16 Jan 2025
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feelings on fire by joelscruff
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
06 Feb 2024
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you're back from college for the summer, staying with your devout catholic parents in your childhood home while they order you around and try to keep authority over you. as an act of rebellion you ask your new neighbor mr. miller to teach you how to play guitar, but it turns out there's a lot more he wants to teach you. no outbreak, no use of y/n.
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25 Sep 2024
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The Weakness In Me by metal_jenny
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
10 Apr 2025
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After the events of Utah, Ellie and Joel aren't speaking. You, his patrol partner, grapple with your own loneliness. Finding each other will turn both your worlds upside down.
Set during TLOU Pt. 2. Not canon compliant (no WLF/Seraphites, Abby etc).
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17 Jan 2024