Joel was a Texas construction worker before the pandemic that wiped out most of the human population in The Last of Us. Due to losses he sustained at the beginning of the pandemic, Joel is a ruthless survivor who will leave others behind to save himself.
20 years after the pandemic, Joel works with a woman named Tess smuggling drugs and guns for extra ration cards. When a deal goes south, the two set out to get their supplies back and find themselves smuggling a girl named Ellie to the resistance group known as Fireflies.
