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The quest where you use a Bristleback to uncover the buried gear and Aloy praises the machine for finding it and calls him 'buddy' is so adorable!

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drew my favorite sisters (◕ᴗ◕✿) by Hamms_Hamms

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Autumn🍂🍁🍂

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Let's clean it up.

Good morning.

I'm busy right now.

First time going outside.

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I've absolutely fallen in love with Beta. I love seeing how she interacts with Aloy, and how she is reacting to the absolute chaos her life is. One thing I have loved most about her is her body language.

Hear me out.

The characters in general talk a bit more with their hands than I think most people in real life would, and that's likely in order to keep the visuals interesting for the player--I remember in BG3 Early Access your Tav spent 90% of cut scenes with their hands on their hips and it became a great meme. But I'm particularly fascinated by watching Beta's movements, because she basically always talks with her hands and body, much more so than most of the other characters. With her body she will step back, sit and make herself small when talking to Aloy, look away when she is concerned or sharing 'bad news' and look up if she is seeking hope, etc. And with her hands she is always gesturing, "swiping," etc.

Making herself small is pretty clearly tied to her upbringing and her intrinsic fear and insecurity in her actual physical safety, and may also be a display of her more psychologically-based insecurity as lesser than/beneath Aloy.

But the hands, why the active hands? At first I thought it was probably a learned mannerism from all her interactions being with tech-- that she's used to swiping around on a Focus to interact with "the world." But when she gets it she considers the Focus rudimentary; she probably didn't control the APOLLO training interface and other AI in a similar manner. Maybe, but probably not.

Then I was like "Wait; I think that these characters are gesturing so much to keep my cut scenes interesting."

APOLLO was designed to be a gamified dispenser of knowledge; and particularly for training children in the Lyceum, there were two "guides." I forget if Beta's had the same names (she mentioned them at one point, but I've forgotten), but the original APOLLO was supposed to have Aristotle and Aspasia as AI avatars to help the children learn.

Odds are that, just like Horizon's designers gave our Horizon characters a bit more activity/mannerisms to keep things more interesting and engaging for the player; so too were Aristotle and Aspasia designed to be interesting to watch for the children in their education game. And these were, for all intents and purposes, the only "people" Beta interacted with and was able to learn from/mirror behaviours of. And so Beta has learned to speak so much with her body and hands because she learned her mannerisms from AI avatars meant to be engaging for a game, and thus she is the most engaging avatar in this game for me.

It's just so, so good.

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You are at a bar, and are asked to hook up by the person selected by this wheel. What's your response?

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Now we're having fun, right?

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Just very angry Aloy:^

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MONSTER HUNTER WILDS (2025) dev. Capcom Olivia

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Chibi Gang and Zero Gravity 🌌🛰️ 🌱

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Here's a list of random Beta-focused Horizon headcanons/scenarios I've accumulated over the months bc guess who's my favourite blorbo :3

TW attempted suicide

-Even after the Zeniths are defeated, Beta still experiences panic attacks and traumatic flashbacks when she gets startled or something reminds her of them, when it gets too much to handle she'll curl up, knees to her chest, hyperventilating and basically unresponsive to anyone around her. She also often gets irrational worries that the gang will "make her go back" when she makes a mistake or does something wrong, she knows that this isn't realistic but her mind can't help but make her worry sometimes, poor girl.

-if things get really bad for her, the gang is there to help. Zo likes to sit with her and sing her soothing songs, Varl is always fussing over her and tries to get her anything she might need, a blanket, some food, or maybe just a hug. Kotallo... he wants to help but doesn't know how so he just awkwardly stares and mumbles something about how a warrior must persevere through hardships. Erend is helpless in a similar fashion and sometimes just offers her a drink (much to the dismay of everyone else)

-Beta definitely attempted to take her life at least a couple of times while on the Zenith ship, but the Zeniths would just psychologically punish her in increasingly brutal ways until she stopped trying altogether.

-the Zeniths didn't bother with giving Beta actual meals to eat, instead a small, tasteless pill filled with all the nutrients the human body needs would be dropped off into her room once a day to keep her alive. When she gets to the base, Zo offers her a meal and Beta tells her she's never really eaten anything before and it absolutely blows Zo's mind. She can't believe they'd completely rob her of experiencing one of her senses and such a vital part of being human, and immediately tries getting her used to different tastes and textures. Even though Beta is pretty freaked out by it at first and has trouble handling anything strong or spicy, over time she grows accustomed to it and learns to love Zo's homemade meals and even picks up some basic cooking skills from watching her.

-The gang has taken to teaching Beta all she needs to know about surviving and fighting for herself in the wilds, just in case. Since Aloy is often busy helping people in the West or tracking down clues, Kotallo, Erend, and Varl take turns training with her, meanwhile Zo teaches her all about foraging and herbology.  Especially Kotallo is happy to have a student he can pass all his knowledge from his past battles onto and makes for a very patient and dedicated mentor. He even calls her "young warrior" sometimes during training.

-She also definitely gets her first armor from one of them, I like to imagine her in the yellow-white Oseram stripes (for art see my latest post hehe)

-While training with her, Kotallo and Erend both develop a certain protectiveness over Beta, much like Varl has. Beta is still deathly afraid of machines of any kind, but she's a quick learner and is even able to use her knowledge of chemistry, physics, and technology to her advantage sometimes. The day she strikes her first charger down all by herself is a big cause for celebration in the base, everyone congratulates her on her first hunt and Beta is filled with a sense of pride and belonging like never before.

(lmk what u think of these and if you have any beta related thoughts and headcanons as well !!!)

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Aylin and Isobel flying together (drawn for Candy Hearts Exchange 2025).

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#i love alva’s “hoe don’t do it” look #and aloy like “i’m already doin it” 

sounds about right!!! 

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“Yeah, the people of the old world called them memes.”

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Painted this for aloys birthday yesterday and forgot to put it here NFJAJDAJ. anyways sibling bonding. you can tell i painted these on separate days

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Beta! 🥰

Ok but Regalla was badass. And for some reason I want her and Beta to be besties 😆

hfw ladies ✨