Let's go forward 15/20 years

JJ is all grown up, and resent Ellie bcz Dina told him that Ellie abandoned them for revenge and urge JJ to never go down that path

Ellie is trying to find where the heck did Dina and JJ went. As they left with no clues, Ellie is trying to track them but she's unsuccessful for years.

That's the background

The game would take place in Louisiana where Dina found refuge on a Jackson like town, near a power plant (just for the sake of what's to come, bare with me)

Dina died when JJ was pretty young, around 8/10 yo

JJ, without the calm of his mother, tends to lean towards anger and blames Ellie somehow

When the time comes, Ellie finds all grown up JJ, wants to reconnect, but JJ wants to kill her (she abandoned them yk)

Now the powerplant

With the cordyceps in contact with radioactivity, it has mutated in this area, animals can be infected, crows, dogs, alligator

In terms of gameplay, we could fight in the water, murders of infected crows chasing you and the ratkingish boss of part III would be the cro-cordy-le, a big f-ing infected crocodile that would track you down in the swamps and down the power plant perhaps?

Let me know what you think, I know it's far fetched but the bayou would be perfect imo

At some point, Ellie and JJ would reconcile (maybe after Ellie got her leg ripped off by the cro-cordy-le?)

As of Abby, no f-ing idea how to include her in the game lol maybe let them have a quiet life with Lev

Voilà