What Is The Washington Liberation Front?

This message contains spoilers For “The Last of Us” season 2, episode 3 and some video game information “The Last of Us Part II”.

Season 1 of “The Last of Us” consisted in finding a new place in a world that attacked an older period. Decapped by the cordyceps virus, we had a view at the ground level of what civilization looked like, with small pockets of vagrants trying to cross this cultivated nightmare. Now, in season 2, the mission of revenge on which Ellie (Bella Ramsey) finds himself opened the doors of Jackson and returned it to nature to find Abby (Kaitlyn Dever), which was seen for the last time practicing his golf course on Joel (Pedro Pascal) in a scene which delivered a pure track of your horror.

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Fortunately, with the kind authorization of a lively Dina (Isabela Merced), Ellie knows that the first name name of her killing list belongs to the WLF, a mysterious group which could spell a danger for our hero and prevent it from accomplishing its mission. But what is WLF? How many members are there? Is Ellie the only imminent threat to this mysterious group and which directs the unknown organization pack? To decompose everything, here is everything you need to know about one of the biggest threats of season 2 of “The Last of Us” and the Left of all that has a vendetta against another coalition at war.

While Joel and Ellie’s relationship collapsed gradually, the same goes for an organization that they made a desperate effort to avoid the last time we saw them. The WLF, also known as Washington Liberation Front or Wolves, was a group formed from rebellion against Fedra (Federal Disaster Response Agency), which worked as the last remaining entity applying public order across the country. Their militarist methods finally met the friction in Seattle when a rebel group that would become WLF protested the limited distribution of food and supplies by their oppressor, as well as the public executions that Fedra was performing.

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While the conflict continued, peaceful demonstrations led the supporters of the WLF and the founding werewolves being labeled as terrorists. Fedra applied fierce methods to cancel the uprising, kill some of the founding members of the WLF and leave a person alive who would eventually guide the increasing opposite force (more on him later). With this change of power, wolves have become a greater threat to Fedra, causing a total war. The ultimate victory went to WLF, graciously a new chief who has negotiated new alliances and transformed the Washington Liberation Front into a successor. However, whatever the initial objectives to fight against a tyrannical organization, the WLF was finally very different at the end.

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In “The Last of Us Part II”, one of the main bad guys of the game is Isaac Dixon by Jeffrey Wright, who resumes his role for the second season of the show. In the 2020 game, the background of Dixon is not deeply explored, but it is known that he was a former member of the Fedra before defection for the WLF. After the death of the key members of this last group, Dixon took office as a leader and, in doing so, applied drastic measures to ensure the safety of those who, Fedra, oppressed before.

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By bringing together the survivors near Seattle, Dixon transformed the city’s football stadium into a safe refuge – a habitable fortress to cultivate and cultivate, keeping any threat, infected or not, outside. However, in doing so, Dixon began to reign with an iron fist, gradually becoming as authoritarian as the old entity he fought to overthrow. Rounding and executing the remaining members and sympathizers of the Fedra, Dixon has just become another dictator in a world that was coming to an end. Despite this, with military training (which should be explored in the show), former members of other broken factions have found a house with the chief wolf, including Ellie’s greatest enemy.

Before Abby made her plans in episode 2 of this season, she revealed to Joel not only who she was and where she came from, but where she had been so far. After the assault of Joel on the base of Firefly and the rescue of Ellie, the survivors found themselves without a place to go, leading them to align with the newly formed WLF of Dixon. With his former comrades Firefly, Abby and his group obtained the nickname “Salt Lake Crew” after their previous house in Salt Lake City. The group was made up of Jordan, Leah, Manny, Nick, Mel, Nora and Owen, who all played a role in the avenger of their old group by tracking Joel and encouraging his brutal execution by the hands of Abby.

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Before this central moment in the life of Abby and Ellie, Abby drew Isaac’s attention when he saw the potential of the old firefly. To discuss the importance, Abby will become spoiled the intrigue’s future sons for “The Last of Us” fans who have never taken the games, but know that Abby’s story is far from over and will somehow end in the middle of the WLF and another faction that is just starting to appear in the show so far.

Part of what makes Dixon such a force with which it is necessary to count is its unshakable determination to destroy the neighboring group at WLF, the Séaphites. A cult order that carries dresses and has abandoned what remains of technology, the group uses basic weapons and communicates in whistle, which can sometimes be more terrifying than any click near an infected. Nicknamed “scars” among the WLF because of the facial scars they apply to themselves, the Séaphites have found a new house on an island which was once the lower suburbs of Queattle’s Queen Anne but was cut due to the floods. Keeping their distance from the WLF, they were able to live alone with pockets of seaphites strewn around the newly formed island.

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But even with the efforts of the Séaphites to live in peace, Dixon was determined to eliminate the scars. Fasted with anyone other than his own and pushed to take control of all Seattle, the WLF went to war, the two parties committing unspeakable acts against the other. In the game, Dixon is seen throwing seaphites in cages and torturing it for more information. Although the Séaphites can be a peaceful surface group, their members use ceremonial executions of enemies which implied disinterestedness for the good of their prophet. It was because of these archaic rituals and tactics that Dixon applied extreme measures to eliminate the enemy, he became obsessed with destruction, becoming such a hard to cook that he even makes his best soldiers uncomfortable.

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When you overthrew a government force that reprimanded those they were supposed to protect, something that must be taken into account is to make sure you don’t do the same. Unfortunately, this is a lesson that Isaac Dixon fails to learn (or simply to ignore), becoming even colder and intolerant of everything that is not willing to follow the WLF law of the country. What is interesting is the way it will take place in the show compared to the game … in particular for Abby, which is part of this intrigue.

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The question is now to know what part of this information will be revealed (and when) in the HBO show, since the game makes the brilliant choice to divide the playing time between Ellie and Abby. We will have to see if the show adopts a similar approach, and we are curious to see if the WLF or the Séaphites arise while season 2 of “The Last of Us” continues on HBO and Max.