Ronnie
Ronnie is a short-tempered Boston quarantine zone resident Joel passes near a checkpoint in The Quarantine Zone. If you stop to listen, he is gossiping about his friend Mark, and he snaps at Joel for staring.
- Role
- Minor
Appears in
Found in
- BostonBoston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- Quarantine zoneQuarantine zones are the walled, military-run safe areas FEDRA set up across the United States after martial law was declared. Most have since fallen to infection, revolt or abandonment. Boston's North End zone is the one you live in and play through at the start of Part I, and you pass the dead zones of Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City later.
Good to know
- Stands against a wall with another man near a checkpoint.
- Tells his friend that soldiers beat Mark for using fake ration cards.
- Defends Mark for trying to feed his family.
- In Part I he is redesigned with a ball cap and full beard.
The confrontation
Linger near the pair and Ronnie calls Joel an asshole. His friend tells him to shut up, assures Joel they want no trouble, and Joel lets it go. The friend then asks Ronnie if he knows who that was, and Ronnie shrugs it off.
Why it is worth hearing
The conversation is optional, but it gives you a picture of life under FEDRA: weeks of half rations, beatings, and people who disappear into lockup.
Where to find him
He stands near the checkpoint Joel and Tess cross in 20 Years Later, the opening stretch of the chapter. Not long after, a Firefly bomb wrecks a military vehicle there and soldiers clear the street. His friend's question about whether Ronnie knows who Joel is hints at how few people in the zone want to cross Joel and Tess.
Related characters
- Minor
Mark
Mark is a Boston quarantine zone resident who is only talked about. In The Quarantine Zone, Joel can overhear Ronnie telling a friend that soldiers caught Mark using fake ration cards.
- Protagonist
Ellie Williams
Ellie Williams is the 14-year-old girl Joel is hired to smuggle out of Boston, and your companion for most of The Last of Us Part I. She was bitten weeks earlier and never turned, so the Fireflies believe her immunity could lead to a vaccine. You play as her in the winter chapter and in the Left Behind DLC.
- Protagonist
Joel Miller
Joel Miller is the man you play for almost all of The Last of Us Part I. A hardened smuggler in the Boston quarantine zone, he takes a job escorting 14-year-old Ellie out of the city, and the drop-off turns into a year-long trip across the country to find the Fireflies.
- Minor
Malick
Malick is a tough in the Boston slums who tries to block Joel's path in The Quarantine Zone. Tess knows him and sends him back to his seat with a single word.