#Aloy

[maja-paja]

happy bday aloy

These were the instructions GAIA sent to ELEUTHIA-9 in her dying plea

[charger-lens]

[pokchookity]

HORIZON: ZERO CAT

[han-ban-bam]

taking cover in a cauldron

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

Why was Varl asking Aloy for relationship advice when Miss “I Pulled A Hottie In Quen Diviner School” was right there?

[artpalace-22]

Aloy concept art.

[spleenmuncher]

Man, I just love that one two part video game series with a 19-year-old hot lesbian protagonist with red hair, a knack for archery, and a divine purpose to save the world.

Y'know?

She grew up in a post-apocalyptic world where she was ostracized from the kids around her, and she ended up being raised by a gruff brunette man who wasn't her father, but treated her like one after he lost his own daughter. And he taught her about how the things she views as monsters were once peaceful. And he also taught her how to fight, shoot, and hunt.

Is this really not narrowing it down much for you?

All right, fine.

And then the girl loses her father figure due to a higher up in a faction that she's never heard of. And this attack shakes her community, so she's given special permission by the leader to leave.

So she travels miles upon miles, meeting warring factions at the height of their disagreement. And some of the people that she comes across are shocked at the control that she has over the things they viewed as enemies.

Seriously, how do you not know which game I'm talking about already?

And it culminates in a all out war between two of the main factions, and the protagonist finally faces off with the person who killed her father figure.

And at one point, the antagonist up with the ability to easily kill the protagonist, but they choose against it.

Man, I just love that game.

[xinilia]

on my second forbidden west playthrough im realizing that while the first time i played it i thought the bonding between aloy and beta was a bit rushed, I now understand it’s perfect.

the whole game echoes themes of trust and support. aloy constantly shirks other’s attempts to reach her (varl and erend in the early game especially) and pushes them away. whoever, I wholeheartedly believe that the single thing that flips her “I work alone” mentality is the “elisabet and Travis” datapoint in the hades proving lab.

this datapoint is fucking FASCINATING. we see aloy immediately excited to see elisabet only to be let down by the conversation: Travis extending a simple invitation to Elisabet only to be shut down immediately (and rather coldly). I think this stats point is a wake up call for aloy in the early game, especially as Sylens makes his comment afterward: “the exceptional walk in solitude.”

but aloy never wanted to be seen as exceptional. she never even wanted to stand out. all she wanted to do was be accepted. I think this moment is something of a hard reset and she’s forced to ask herself if that’s how she comes across to others—harried and distant. it even comes up later when she’s grilling tilda on what elisabet was really like. you can hear the nervousness in her voice as she asks, “so when you met her, she was… what? Aloof? Distant?”

all of this to say that as aloy learns more about what elisabet was like and how she sees time and time again through the side quests in the game that pushing people away and not communicating leads to nothing but sorrow, you can see her mentally building up to the moment where she essentially accepts beta as part of her family. she refuses to be distant and she refuses to run away. and when she loses beta she risks it all to save her.

god i love them

[carvion]

Today on "Be careful what you wish for"

[shockwavedshark27]

The sad look in his eyes makes me wanna cry

“I thought you died-”

[horizonslut]

her dramatic ass fell on purpose

[charger-lens]

[crusty-weevil]

I love how everyone upon first meeting Aloy is like "hm. she's a bit odd, must be a nora thing." and then smash cut to a few minutes later and they're like "oh, she's insane actually."

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

When you briefly spot Ashly Burch in the background of motion capture for the most traumatic scene of The Last Of Us Part II

When I first played TLOU P2, I hadn't played Horizon yet; now I can only hear Aloy when Mel speaks

[robo-dino-puppy]

on the hunt