When Ellie was fourteen, the pair were both infected with the Cordyceps brain infection, where Ellie discovered she was immune. Įllie grew up as an orphan in the Boston quarantine zone and attended a military preparatory school, where she met and befriended Riley Abel.
She serves as the protagonist of The Last of Us: American Dreams, the playable deuteragonist of The Last of Us, and the playable protagonist of both The Last of Us: Left Behind and The Last of Us Part II. Ellie Williams is the central character of The Last of Us series.
