Recently, it has been announced that the actress will play the role of Abby in the second season The Last of Us There is Caitlin Dever, known for her roles Last Man Standing, Booksmart, And Someone will save you.
Now we know who will play Abby The Last of Us, it seems fitting to get a recap of who she is and why she’s so important to the show’s second season. Keep in mind that this article will explain AB, her inside backstory The Last of Us Part 2, And because of its importance to the story, there are potential spoilers for the show’s second season.
Abby’s backstory and her importance in The Last of Us Part 2
It seems appropriate to start at the beginning and explain who AB is to those who haven’t played the game. Similar to the first season of the show, the first game ends with the realization that Ellie has a cure for the Cordyceps virus in her brain and must remove the organ to find a cure.
After a daring rescue attempt by Joel, both he and Ellie leave to continue their lives in Jackson, unaware that Joel sets their next story in motion. During their escape, Joel interferes with the surgery that was to remove Ellie’s brain and create a cure, killing the surgeon in charge.
At the time, Joel is unaware of who the creature is and how much it will affect his future, as the creature is none other than Jerry Anderson, who turns out to be Abby’s father. Gamers discover this through an in-game flashback, which shows us a scene of Abby walking into the surgical suite and seeing her father’s corpse on the floor.
This ultimately sets the second game, and now the second season, in motion, as Abby and her friends who were separated from Firefly at the time leave the hospital in search of the Washington Liberation Front, also known as the WLF.
After arriving in Seattle and joining the WLF, Abby is inspired to seek revenge, and after a few years pass, she tries to track down Joel as the one who killed her father. Ultimately, this brings us to the potential opening of the second season, as viewers see Abby finally catch Joel.
This is where spoilers will most likely show up, so be warned. Now that Abby has finally caught up with Joel, along with his friends who have left the Fireflies with him, they decide to capture him and his brother Tommy. They then torture Joel as a form of punishment for him.crimesUntil Eli finally entered the fray.
As Ellie enters the room and is subsequently caught up with Joel and Tommy, the group of friends who have been stalking Joel for years, tragically decide to take his life in one of the most gruesome deaths in video game history.
What makes this such a poignant death is the fact that Eli has to watch helplessly as his father figure is killed by Abby. This gives Alice her own reason to take revenge on Abby, showing the constant endless cycle of revenge caused by a simple action.
Because of this one work of AB, the story The Last of Us The second season will begin, leading Ellie to hunt down Joel’s killer. If the TV show follows the same plot line as the game, there will also be a part of the season dedicated to Abby and her story, in which we will see flashbacks of her and her father, who shares the same relationship as Eli, and Joel.
Abby is not a favorite character though The Last of Us Part 2 For obvious reasons, her story in Part 2 is absolutely fantastic, as we see her attempt to find friends who are being hunted by Tommy and Ellie to avenge Joel’s death.
What makes her story more interesting is the fact that we see her from Ellie’s point of view after playing more than 50% of the game, hunting down Abby and her friends. As gamers play as Ellie, they find some of those friends and eventually kill them.
After all of Abby’s friends die and she’s the last one standing, Eli returns to her friend Dina. Abby’s story then picks up over the course of a few days, until she returns home after killing Joel.
What makes this important to the overall story of The Last of Us And its second season is the fact that players will now play on the other side of their actions. This means that gamers will be able to find Abby her lost friends and see all the carnage that Ellie and Tommy have done throughout their adventure.
Then we see that perspective, playing as Ellie, that actions have consequences, even if we agree with her decision to avenge Joel’s murder. Now we see that even though this is a fictional world, our decisions matter, and while from one point of view Abby and her friends are the villains, from the other, they are the victims.
This is why Abby and her story are so important to the second season The Last of UsNot just because they teach the simple lesson that every decision has a butterfly effect, but because we can see someone as a villain who may be going through the same pain as us.
Overall, by the end of the story, we see both Allie and Abby develop into completely new people, as Allie can’t let go of her revenge and loses everything she cares about. And for Abby, she finds a new reason to live and pushes forward with the intent to hold on to what she holds dear after losing so much.
We will see Abby grow as a person and understand the choices Joel and other characters have made throughout the franchise. We will see the hardships she faced as an independent person who made certain choices for her, leading to the scenarios that make up the story. The Last of Us.
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