#.:[ aloy :: in character ]:.

[arcturus-10]

🦒

Spend all my shard just to buy this armor, now I am broke cannot buy weapon

[nerd-artist]

Throwback to my Horizon Greek Gods series, and the classic paintings they’re based on.

(Still some characters I want to add)

Diana The Huntress by Guillaume Seignac

Bacchus by Caravaggio

Hermes by W.B. Richmond

Proserpine by Rossetti

Mars by Velazquez

An Allegory of Victory by Lefebvre

The Palm Leaf and The Pearl by Bouguereau

Priestess of Vesta by Frederick Leighton

[astralpaint]

Finally. After all these years...I have all the Mythical Pokémon 🔥 ❄️ 💀 ⚡️ 🌱 🌫 💿

[icantdothistodaybruh]

For the kuro requests, can we get an Alois? I think he'd look super sweet in your style 👀🙏

It's been a year anon I'm so sorry but here you go🥀🥀🥀

[redthemarten]

This is the real story of how I went broke on Primogems and Starglitter and then worked my ass off for every single wish after that, just to bring Wrio his dragon boyfriend

[themissakat]

i finished horizon forbidden west last week and i'm insane

[robo-dino-puppy]

horizon forbidden west | kotallo 16/?

bonus!

[fieryraptorcreative]

Here’s Aloy again!

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Upon completing Zero Dawn and before starting Forbidden West, I decided to design Aloy an outfit that includes little bits of all the tribes she’s encountered. I felt like because she’s a wanderer she’d have picked up the most useful pieces of kit from different tribes and the old world along her travels (as is evidenced by the Ancient Armory armor look, which blends Nora and old world tech).

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I feel like my design came out a bit lacking, but I like the colors.

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Also the games were so fun and the world is amazing.

[goatpunches]

I wanted to pay a little tribute to one of my favorite video games of all time :')

You can also grab a PDF of this on my itch.io for just $1!

[maeve-99]

Kotallo asking Aloy to accompany him to test out his new mechanical arm and then killing a machine together is really just the Tenakth way of taking someone out on a date.

You can't convince me otherwise.

[windstir]

put all of them in a room and make them fight to the death 🤍

[kelsochronicles]

🏹TO THE HUNT!!🏹

Make sure to get those 3 Marks 😉

[i-lavabean]

Happy Birthday to Aloy

[astralpaint]

Z. Aloy

Weapon/s: Bow and Arrow | Pyrokinesis | Berserker mode | Regeneration (not as fast as Zo)

[larachelledrawsfe]

Prompts: characters with cats, masked ballroom, magical girl AU, Modern AU, Pokemon AU

FE3H sketch set (aka I'll draw all your favorite FE characters in magical girl outfits)

For the FE Artscuffle - Alois & Bernadetta Day Events

Gatekeeper is for @bees-and-sunshine

Marianne is for @emotiandon

Bernadetta & friends is for for pandorasphinx on Discord

BBQ Alois is for @alrest

Pokemon AU! Alois is for @kikijidraws

[xamiipholia]

Since it’s been a year since Burning Shores came out, some thoughts on Seyka:

TL;DR: Great character, really happy with her as a love interest for Aloy. They do some really interesting things with her that I never really see addressed so I wanted to talk about them.

She is tangibly shown to be much more of a match for Aloy through gameplay. Compared to other npcs, she solves things faster, does more damage, is a much more formidable melee combatant, faster climber - she even has a fucking Valor Surge using her Focus that does pretty significant tear damage to large machines like Slaughterspines. Environmental storytelling- Seyka’s skiff has at least 2-3 Tiderippers’ worth of parts, meaning she’s been out on her own killing the things to build boat motors, and she has some ambient dialogue that strongly suggests she’s fought and killed Slaugterspines before. Is some of this npc tech advancements in Burning Shores? Maybe, but it feels intentional. 

Seyka has a natural probing curiosity about the old world that for the most part Aloy’s other companions didn’t have without some significant hand-holding from Aloy to get them started, and some of her close friend (but not base team) characters just don’t have at all. I don’t mean this as a moral judgement, everyone is different and has different strengths and priorities , but it’s absolutely critical that a partner for Aloy have that kind of curiosity - it’s such a big part of her character. While she lives in this new world, she’s never going to be entirely a part of it. Like she says, she finds belonging in individuals, and not really the tribes. I don’t really see Aloy settling down in Meridian or Mother’s Heart. She needs to have a life of exploration and discovery and Seyka seems cut from that cloth too, whether she was always that way or being marooned gave her a fresh perspective.

Seyka did risk death using the focus and decided to do it anyway- in Rheng’s notes he calls for capital punishment for her. The threat is never *too* present but honestly I think that’s a broader critique of the series and pretty consistent with the writing of conflicts in Horizon. I agree they could have played up the dramatic tension a bit, but this is a person who weighed the risk of a military execution by a totalitarian state and immediately decided it was worth it to save her sister and others. I think Aloy can intimately relate, given what she went through for Beta.

Even though it’s a DLC, she has a TON of screen time, probably comparable to Kotallo in HFW, and Horizon does SO much storytelling through gameplay and ambient dialogue. I think she’s given a LOT of narrative space to breathe. She’s also has her own musical cues and leitmotifs that do a ton of foreshadowing work through the DLC - in terms of musical cues and framing she’s very associated with the acoustic guitar, and the flute melody in ‘Her Sky, Her Sea’ has for Aloy and Seyka the same function that ‘It Can’t Last’ does for Ellie and Dina in TLOU2 - next time you play Burning Shores, listen for it. That and the guitar cues from ‘The Idea of Home’ and ‘For His Entertainment’ do a lot of emotional work. It’s great stuff.

Okay and lastly- YMMV on this one - I’ve def talked about it with friends before but I don’t think I’ve said it on Tumblr. I’m a firm believer that meta narratives and the way that stories are situated and created in our own world matter and that art deserves to be taken seriously and dissected. I love Horizon, but it, and Aloy as a protagonist, are absolutely drenched in white savior and colonial storytelling tropes. Every time I play Frozen Wilds, all I can think of is Jack Sparrow going “and then they made me their chief”. There’s a lot of iffy stuff in the games, as much as I absolutely love them. We’ll have to see how H3 goes, but Burning Shores is MUCH better about this and honestly Seyka is a huge part of it. The story centers itself on a queer woman of color who is pretty tangibly presented as Aloy’s equal with her own strengths and weaknesses throughout the story and takes the lead just as often if not more than Aloy does, which I find really refreshing. It doesn’t entirely fix Aloy’s white savior issues but I think it’s a really good move for the narrative that continues the themes found in HFW about community and connection.

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (2017)