Luna even let his hair grow out a bit so it looks more like Tommy’s. He also has facial hair, which you can see in the photos below, which were taken during a meet and greet at Saddle City Comics in Calgary (Luna clearly has no character here).
Fans were introduced to Tommy for the first time in the opening minutes of The last of us as he tries to help Joel and his daughter Sarah navigate the chaos of the first outbreak in Austin, Texas. Tommy eventually traveled with Joel to the Boston QZ. After becoming disillusioned with the conditions in the quarantine zone under the complete control of a tyrannical military force known as FEDRA, Tommy decided to leave Boston and join a terrorist faction known as the Fireflies to fight back. against the remnants of the US government across the country. We learn that Tommy spent time in Denver to free that quarantine zone from FEDRA, but it came at a cost. The Fireflies’ guerrilla tactics often dealt collateral damage, including bombing raids that killed many of the civilians they were trying to save in the first place.
Finally, Tommy decided he’d had enough and moved on with the Fireflies to help establish a new settlement in Jackson. There Tommy met his future wife Maria, the leader of the Jackson community.
It remains to be seen how much of this backstory will be explored in the show. Will we get Tommy flashbacks to dark times before he reunited with Joel in Jackson? Showrunner Craig Mazin (Chernobyl) has already said that the show would expand on plot points only hinted at in the games, meaning there’s a possibility we’ll be able to see more of Tommy’s story than ever before in 2013.
Other photos taken from the set show the HBO series reimagining Jackson. The set design team recreated several landmarks from the games, including the Tipsy Bison, the bar that appeared in The Last of Us Part II.
You can also expect a little holiday cheer:
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