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| “ | Guess what, we're s-itty people, Joel. It's been that way for a long time. | „ |
| ~ Tess Servopoulos to Joel Miller. |
| “ | I can buy you some time but you have to run... I will not turn in to one of those things. Come on. Make this easy for me. | „ |
| ~ Tess to Joel. |
Theresa "Tess" Servopoulos is a major character in the 2013 video game The Last of Us. She is a hardened survivor and Joel's smuggling partner in surviving the apocalypse.
She was portrayed by the late Annie Wersching, who also played Ethan in One Night Live. In the HBO tv series, she was portrayed by Anna Torv.
History[]
Pre-Events[]
Tess' life before the apocalypse is almost unknown, but known fact is that she eventually met Joel and the two started a partnership by smuggling weapons, rations, and other things in Boston. The two also met Bill, who would also trade supplies with them within the Quarantine Zone.
The Last of Us[]
Tess is first seen when she enters Joel's apartment in the Boston Zone. Joel asks why she didn't wait for him when she went to trade ration cards for pills in the West End district. Tess attempts to calm him by showing him her success. But Joel isn't happy, as he asks her why she hides the poor face with the alcohol, to which Tess explains that she was attacked by "a couple of nobodies" sent by Robert, another local smuggler who is overdue on paying them a considerable amount of weapons. She then asks Joel to help her find Robert and return their stolen weapons, as somehow Joel accepts, the two begin their search.
Whilst heading to the checkpoint, they talk about how rations must be low and see four people who are forced from a building to be scanned, with one being infected. They almost make it through the checkpoint but the local military chase the terrorists, causing a bomb. The pair sprint away into a building, however Joel got injured in the attack, to which Tess gives him a health kit to patch himself up. Tess then shows her impressive contacts to sneak out through an underground route to Robert's hideout. The pair learn that Marlene, the leader of the Fireflies, is also searching for Robert.
After reminiscing on coming through the same path before, they go underground and find the area full of spores, causing them to don respirator masks. They discuss when their next shipment with Bill is due to how he always has something that could be beneficial to them, sometimes not the good. They go back within the walls and through the slums of Boston, one smuggler offering Tess a deal on their way, although she ignores him. While crossing through a bus, a smuggler gets in Joel's way. The pair glare at each other, but Tess tells the man to stand down, calling that guy another old headache. She finds a man guarding a gate, giving him ration cards in exchange for information of Robert's movement.
The two infiltrate the compound, and learn the security detail is more concerned about Robert's fate should Tess reach him, rather than the more formidable Joel. Robert apparently hasn't paid the men in a while either. Once they found him, Robert quickly gets defeated and tries to play nice with them in order not to get hard feelings out of them, Tess breaks his leg as Robert reveals he sold their weapons to the Fireflies, Tess gets angered and Joel tortures Robert, just before Tess finishes him off and leaves to find the Fireflies.
Moments later a wounded Marlene shows up and decides to deal with Tess and Joel — if they smuggle something out of the city, she will give them their weapons back and plus with double what Robert owed them.
When Tess and Joel reach Marlene's hideout, they meet Ellie, a 14-year-old girl who has been under Marlene's protection. Ellie is to be taken by Joel and Tess to the Capitol Building, deep in the city. Once there, a group of Fireflies is supposed to pick her up, thus completing Tess and Joel's mission. Tess and Joel agree to smuggle Ellie, though Joel is not very happy about it; his relationship with Ellie is quite tense at first. Tess seems to be more protective of Ellie, reassuring her that everything will be fine.
The trio make their way through the city, they get caught by soldiers, to which Tess tries to reason with them, not until Ellie stabs one of the soldiers in the leg while Joel and Tess kill the two. They make their escape to an abandoned and nearly destroyed skyscraper. Together they make their way out, getting closer to their destination. They reach a museum where Joel gets separated from Tess and Ellie. As Joel makes his way through, he finds Tess fighting a Runner, killing it. Joel and Tess kill the remaining Runners in the museum and make their way to the roof. After crossing several roofs they finally arrive at the Capitol Building. In the courtyard, Ellie expresses her gratitude for Marlene selecting them, even though they get paid for delivering her to the building.
As Joel, Tess, and Ellie enter the Capitol Building, they see the group of Fireflies that were supposed to rendezvous with them lying dead in the lobby. Tess is determined to get Ellie out of Boston and deliver her to the Fireflies, but Joel is reluctant to do so.
Then Joel gets into argument with Tess to which she behaves weird, Ellie then realizes that Tess is infected. Tess begs Joel to get Ellie to Joel's brother and ex-Firefly, Tommy, as she realizes her infection is worse than Ellie despite being only one hour ago, she feels Joel is obligated to her to do so. However, soldiers arrive, Tess demands that Joel and Ellie go on without her as she decides to slow the soldiers and hope to die as she does not want to become runner, Joel does not accept but Tess says to just go. As Joel listens to her, he leaves as Tess watches them with tears, being sad she won't be with them anymore.
As Joel and Ellie make their escape, Tess can be heard fighting and killing two soldiers and letting out her final scream after being shot. Once Joel gets on balcony, he then gets to see the last of Tess, being dead.
After death[]
After the escape, Joel tells Ellie that after what happened, one of rules is not to mention Tess ever again. However, Tess is mentioned by Bill (although he doesn't know about her fate) to which Joel takes as an offense.
Tess, despite being said not to, is mentioned by Ellie how she feels guilty since Tess' sacrifice was motivated by infection to which Ellie is immune.
External Links[]
- Tess Servopoulos on the Heroes Wiki.
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