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Travis Tate has Dr. Elisabet Sobek as âđŚ(lis-ard)â in his contacts.
#horizon zero dawn#horizon forbidden west#travis tate#elisabet sobeck#hzd#hfw#Travis: Lis is short for Lizard right?#Elisabet: absolutely not#and then he never changed it#all the alphas are whatever nickname he gave them when they first met#they all hate it but itâs *for security*
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the lack of fandom insanity about aloy hzd is crazy to me.....she was literally born of immaculate conception to be the saviour of a world that doesnt want her. she was the loneliest girl in the world the first and last of her kind. while gay
#she is everything to me!!!!!!!!#went back to my hzd replay and in my feelings currently#also started on burning shores finally and while its good. for reasons known. opening hfw again does remind me#how i feel that it did not do justice to the themes of hzd#manyyyy thoughts on that#one major thing is that the zeniths even existing takes away the fact that up to that point there was absolutely nobody left#from the old world. just recording and emails and broken holograms#not even gaia (!!)#(yes it is very important to me that the gaia in hfw is just a backup copy she is the same program per se but NOT the same gaia#that chose to give life to aloy. out of her love and trust in elisabet. it was actually very impactful imo how that gaia was destroyed#before she could ever speak to aloy. she could nly leave her a message. addressing her as elisabet iirc#which ended on 'i only wish i could hear your voice again' DEAR GOD#anyways the fact that the hfw gaia is NOT the same one. and thats never addressed or anything#just encapsulates the emotional hollowness of hfw compared to hzd#hzd just had this massive all encompasing theme of loneliness. that came together in all aspects of the game#hfw was such a paradigm shift from that it should have been more meaningful#but they got lost in the sauce and ended up with kind of a nothingburger in comparison#hzd was a story hfw was just a game. THERE!!#wow this turned into kind of a rant anyways. aloy girl of all time!!!!#hzd#hfw#aloy
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Okay, new chapter posted, so now I can write this.
Elisabet, immediately picking up vibes from Avad from like, one sentence: he likes her
Also Elisabet: *gets offered to be escorted to a weapons shop by a rando Carja soldier whoâs 100% flirting with her* hmm, the carja are really nice!
(As someone with an ace best friend, this is exactly how this goes) (I mean, she clocked a person flirting with me like in two heartbeats but spent a year CUDDLING AND WATCHING MOVIES WITH A GUY AND WENT oh, yeah heâs my friend ONLY TO BE TAKEN OFF GUARD WHEN HE ASKED HER OUT) (I adore my best friend sheâs precious)
With affection:
Petra: Aloy <3
Aloy: I canât-
Petra: Aloyâs mom <3
Vanasha: Iâm gonna kill those slavers
Aloy: can I stab them with you
Vanasha: babie, duckling, little huntress⌠grab your sharpest spear
#horizon zero dawn#elisabet sobeck#aloy despite the nora#aloy horizon#aloy#acebabies#vanasha#carja#carja guard flirting with Elisabet and getting absolutely nowhere#youâre the wrong gender hun#also you were too subtle#Elisabet needs to be hit with a confession brick to get that you like her
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Happy birthday to one Elisabet Sobeck, your hope was a seed to a new world.
#horizon zero dawn#elisabet sobeck#also absolutely fucking ironic her birthday happens to fall on the worldwide declaration of the pandemic
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alternate Horizon Zero Dawn subplot where Travis Tateâs Lightkeeper Protocol clone exists and has to try and fix Hades or put that thing back where it came from, so help me god
One part therapist, one part programmer, you work to help damaged, insane, or otherwise unstable robots and digital intelligences heal. You've just been handed your hardest work yet; a 200 year-old computer core from the old machine uprising, a true genocidal war machine.
#horizon zero dawn#horizon forbidden west#aloy horizon#horizon fandom#elisabet sobeck#travis tate#project zero dawn#Iâve thought about the potential Travis Tate clone a lot bcs I think the#because I think the contrast between Aloy finding joy in her similarities to Sobeck#and a Tate clone being just absolutely miserable the more they find out about Tate would be so fucking funny#also i headcanon Travis Tate somehow got his Lightkeeper clone to be female bcs heâs a nasty bastard#and Travis Tateâs clone is like aloy you can see sobeck as your mother thatâs fine#but i am not going to look at my genetic predecessor the same way i hope you understand
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Shot Through The Heart III
Alexia Putellas x Archer!Reader
Summary: You're pregnant
"Don't."
Alexia backed away quickly, rocking back and forth on the balls of her feet.
"I was just-"
"No."
"Amor-"
"No, Alexia. I'm pregnant, not an invalid."
You got to your feet and stretched, ignoring the way that Alexia hovered uncertainly as you balanced the laundry basket on your hip on your way up the stairs.
"I can carry it." She trailed you everywhere you went. "You shouldn't be carrying such heavy things. The babies-"
"The babies will be fine and, unless you're going through twenty kits daily, this basket barely weighs anything."
Your pregnancy hadn't come as a surprise. You and Alexia had been trying for a while before it worked. It had been decided that you would carry, your sport was a lot less physically taxing than Alexia's. It was all going smoothly until you had gone to a scan one day to find out that you weren't having one baby girl like you thought.
You were having two.
Alexia, of course, had taken mother henning to the extreme when she had found out, hovering incessantly and staying with you as long as possible before heading to practice.
That hovering nature had extended to every aspect of your life the moment that you started showing.
She trailed you up the stairs, opening the wardrobe doors for you when you started to fold the clothes.
"Alexia," You said in warning when she started dividing everything up.
"Amor," She said back," I'm just helping."
You swatted at her with a t-shirt. "You're being a nuisance and you're hovering. Again. Cut it out."
"I'm not hovering!" She insisted, still very clearly hovering.
"You are." You rolled your eyes, bending down to grab the socks that had fallen on the floor.
"I'm not!"
"Alexia," You said, putting the last of the laundry away," You are most certainly hovering." You turned to face her. "I'm fine. The girls are fine. Everything's fine."
She sighed, holding her breath in for a few seconds before releasing. "Okay. I'm sorry, amor. I just want to make sure all three of you are safe."
You press a kiss onto her cheek. "I know. If it didn't annoy me so much, I'd say it's cute how protective you are over us."
Alexia took a step forward and placed her hand daringly on your bump. "I just want you to be careful."
You rolled your eyes fondly. "What do you think I do all day while you're at work? I sit on the sofa all day and type on my laptop. You're lucky I love you or I wouldn't have taken a break from training so early."
Your bow was resting comfortably in the corner of the living room, just collecting dust after you put it aside as soon as you started to show.
You'd probably have gone on for a bit longer with your bow but it made Alexia antsy so you stopped and just continued with your interviews and writing so she would stop breaking out in hives every time you left her to go train.
Alexia spent most of her time with you on a good day but now that you were making a family together, she was adamant about staying with you until she absolutely has to. She stayed in bed for as long as possible in the morning and she didn't hang behind at training to speak with her teammates.
If the team wanted to go out together, she either bowed out or changed the get-together to your shared house so she could hold your hand and rest her head on your shoulder.
"Names?" You asked one evening as you rested on the sofa with Alexia massaging your swollen feet.
"Whatever you want," She replied," I don't mind."
"You must have some opinion, Ale," You said," Don't tell me you have no ideas."
"You're carrying them," Alexia said," You have all the power here, amor. I'm just happy that I'm the one you chose to take along for this ride."
"You're so sappy," You said with a fond eye roll," You have no opinions? What about middle names?"
Alexia's face got a little red and she couldn't meet your eyes for a moment. "I'd like for one to be Elisabet, after Mama."
"Good idea," You said," And for the other one?"
"I was thinking either Alba or MarĂa but I don't know if I want either of them to get a bigger head than they already have."
"I think if Alba's head gets any bigger then it might roll off her neck," You joked and finally got a little smile out of your wife.
"What about you?" She asked," You asked about names. You must have some in mind."
You stared at the picture of your most recent ultrasound, tracing over each of your babies.
"Baby A could be Elena," You said," Baby B...Maybe Maya."
"I like them," Alexia replied," Elena and Maya Putellas-l/n."
"Maya Elisabet," You smiled," And Elena...Well, you'll just have to decide which one you'd prefer to inflate the ego of."
"Elena MarĂa but Alba can be godmother."
Maya and Elena came into the world two days after an El ClĂĄsico win for Barcelona. Two little crying babies that fit easily in your arms rounded out a perfect week for you and Alexia.
"Perfect girls," Alexia said as she admired them before looking over at you in pure contentment," My three perfect girls."
#woso x reader#alexia putellas x reader#alexia putellas#woso community#woso fanfics#woso imagine#woso
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Mama Putellas (Alexia Putellas x Reader )
Warnings: â ď¸dislocated kneeâ ď¸
A/N: From a request
Prompt: Reader gets injured during an important game, but the head coach doesnât let Alexia leave the field. So Alexiaâs mother whos in the stands goes with the reader. I had to rewrite all this because it didnât damn save. Sorry if there are any typos. I was too tired to correct it.
You had gone viral a few times. Once, for scoring a bicycle kick from halfway through the opposing teams half, and another time for a pretty emotional speech you gave about feminism and mental health. What you never though you would go viral for, was for hammering your knee back into place with your bare fist in the middle of a game.
You were so excited for your 50 cap, starting once again the game for Barca. You were getting the honour of captaining the squad today, in recognition of you joining the 50 club. Your girlfriend, Alexia, couldnât have been prouder.
You let out the team proudly and then did your captain duties. Coin toss, shaking hands.
The game started off strong, you, Mapi, and Lucy dominating the defensive line. Keira and Alexia was absolutely owning the midfield, and eventually, in the 17th minute, Keira scored a beautiful header from a cross by your girlfriend. You congratulated the young midfielder, and then high fived and hugged your girlfriend.
After the kick off, the ball somehow stayed in Real Madrids half for the next ten minutes. That is until their striker got a breakaway. You ran after her, trying to reach her. And you did. You bodied her off the ball and kicked it away, but due to her momentum, she ran into you anyways, sending you flying to the ground. Your body rolled over your head in a somersault fashion. But when you landed on your knee, you knew something was wrong. You looked at your knee from your sitting position to see your knee socket was completely popped out and sticking out the side.
You had always liked order, you were tidy and liked things to be where they belong. So seeing your knee like this⌠your only instinct was to fix it.
"Y/n, whatâs goin-" Mapi started saying to you. "Holy shit." She breathed when she saw your knee. But you were already busy using your palm and hammering it into place. "Oh my god! Y/n! Stop!" Lucy yelled, seeing what you were doing. You ignored her and balled your hand into a fist before hitting it again.
Your scream filled Camp Nou, sending shivers to the spine of 99,700 people.
Your knee was back into place though, and so you let your body fall backwards, keeping a hold on your knee. "Baby," Alexia breathed, kneeling beside you and brushing a strand of hair out of your face. "Lexi- holy shit Lex." You panted, looking into her eyes. "That was crazy." Alexia said, trying to distract you. "Yeah crazy fucking stupid." You said.
The medics were there next, kneeling beside you. They told Alexia to go see Jonatan. The spaniard looked over to see the whole team drinking water, and Lucy vigorously re-enacting how you had hammered your knee back into place.
Alexia obeyed, and walked over to Jonatan. "I need to go with her." Alexia told him. "No way. Iâm sorry but weâre 30 minutes in and this team needs you." Jonatan told Alexia. "Y/n is part of this team. And she needs me." Alexia argued.
The head coach gave the spaniard a look, telling her not to argue. So she did the next best thing.
Alexia ran the length of the field, ending up behind the opposing teams net. She knew her mother was sitting front row, having been so happy to see you get your 100 cap. You and Elisabet were close, even though she spoke little english, and you, little spanish, you made it work.
Alexia was quick to explain to her mother the situation, and sooner than she knew it, Alexia had waved away a security guard that had told her Eli wasnât aloud on the field, and then they were jogging towards the bench hand in hand. "Wait here, mama." Alexia said in spanish, leaving her with Lucy who had decided to show Elisabet exactly how you had hammered your knee into place. Your national team teammate was proud of you, needless to say.
Camp Nou erupted in cheers as you got lifted up on a stretcher. Your shirt was over your face and you were crying lightly. The pain was horrific. When Alexia reached you, she held your hand in hers. "I canât go with you baby. Jonatan wonât let me. But my mothers there, and she will go with you." Alexia told you, gently pulling your shirt down to cover your stomach again. "Okay." You said quietly, not being able to think of anything but the pain. "Youâre so fierce mi amor, so fierce." She said to you.
Soon enough, Alexiaâs hand was replaced with her mothers hand. The medical team carried you into the tunnel, and then outside where an ambulance was waiting. The paramedics loaded you into the back and helped Elisabet settle in.
The drive there was relatively silent other than the sirens. Elisabet didnât say much, her english being broken, but she smiled at you in a way that you werenât familiar with. In a motherly way.
When you got to the hospital, everything was a blur. You were hooked up on pain meds and brought to surgery right away. The surgeons were talking to you as you dozed off, telling you how you were the bravest, but craziest person ever for doing what you did. You dozed off giggling, with a smile on your face. You knew that no matter what, youâd have Alexia.
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"Y/n?" A voice said gently.
Your eyes fluttered open to see Alexia sitting beside you, along with Mapi, Lucy, and Keira. They were all smiling at you but looked worried. "Is it bad?" You groaned, sitting up. "No! Well itâs not good. But itâs not bad bad. Youâll be back stronger than ever." Alexia said to you, the rest of the group nodding in agreement.
"People are going crazy for you, y/n." Keira said. She pulled out her phone and went on Tik Tok to the barclays womenâs page. There, was a video of you hammering your knee into place with the audio "did somebody say, slay."
"Who chose the audio?" You giggled tiredly. "The admin I guess." Mapi laughed. "Yeah the part where I scream in pain and fall backwards is especially sexy." You joked. Alexia laughed, brushing your hair with her fingers. "Weâll give you guys a minute." Lucy said, ushering her own girlfriend out of the room. Mapi stood up and your forehead, always having been a sister to you.
"I was so fucking worried that whole game." Alexia told you as the girls walked out. "I know baby. Iâm sorry- wait. The game. What was the score?" You asked, knowing loosing would have been really bad. "Itâs okay. It was 3-1. Close call." Alexia reassured you.
You nodded and moved over to the side, leaving room for Alexis in the bed. She slipped off her shoes and snuggled up with you. Kissing your temple repeatedly. "Shh my love, iâm okay." You giggled as she kissed down your neck. "Youâll be okay when iâm done kissing you."
#woso fic#woso imagine#woso x reader#woso#woso community#alexia putellas#mapi leon#keira walsh#lucy bronze#barca femeni
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if you asked me which character HFW did the dirtiest and absolutely massacred the most, you might be very surprised at my answer
itâs elisabet sobeck
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I have the vaguest beginnings of an idea for a fic based on the show For All Mankind because Margo Madison is one of THE characters, but currently it's just vibes and like three lines long so I'd say that counds LOL
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What is something you recently felt proud of in regard to your writing (finished a fic, actually planned for once, etc)?
Ohhhhh I get like maniacally excited when I think of something that makes all the Pieces Fit Together LOL, so like--not the most recent chapter of scorched earth (which is a kind-of sequel to an unreasonably long fic from many years ago), but the chapter before that, I was like crawling up the walls of my room with how excited I was about how well my plot pieces both in this and some stuff I drew on from the previous fic fit together I was absolutely ecstatic LOL. I think that counts as pride in an insane way LOL it's like wow I am a genius actually *ten seconds later she can't figure out how to write one (1) sentence correctly*
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I had to go on a bit of a deep dive LOL because I couldn't remember what I had already shared from my wips and I don't have that much time to write these days so usually it's either *insanely writes the whole thing in one sitting* or *remains a wip for several years* lol, so please have this snippet from an extremely sane fan fiction about Horizon Zero Dawn/Horizon Forbidden West, and please know that because most of the fic is currently in the form of messy lowercase vibes, microsoft word has seen fit to correct Tilda's name to tilde approximately 99% of the time.
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In the end, Tilda wants to endure in spite of everything else. Sheâd happily take that genetic modification tech Far Zenith is cooking up and live for a thousand years while everything withers and dies around her. Elisabet doesnât want to live that way. Losing and losing and losing. Sheâs lsot enough.
Tilda would have viewed her choice as some sort of noble, heroic self-sacrifice. Itâs not. It is profoundly selfish.
Elisabet has spent the last few years facing an impossible problem.  Fielding every complication, overcoming every obstacle. She barely remembers who she was before this all startedâwhat she did, what she liked. She did do things, right? She did like things?
Now, if she solves this one final, fatal problemâŚshe gets to be done.
In her final moments sheâs afraid. She doesnât want to die. But then again, havenât they all been living on borrowed time since Zero Day? What was the point of it all? Isnât it better to just die along with the world? Rather than waiting around in the wake of its utter devastation? Waiting around in the barren wasteland where the world used to be?
She wishes Tilda were here.
What was that old song she liked?
goodbye, little yellow bird, Iâd rather brave the cold on a leafless tree than a prisoner be in a cage of gold.
#personal#exciting tag for writing things#aaahhhh the one downside to this is that i'm like đĽşđĽşđĽş i love my fic ideas i wish i had the time to work on them#not enough hours in day or brain cells in head
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I thought for a long time about what a New Yearâs party would look like in the most expensive company in the world... and I couldnât come up with anything better :,)
But I was definitely convinced that despite such different directions of their work and absolutely opposite decisions, there were completely friendly relations between Elisabet and Allora. As far as this was possible within the framework of their not too close communication.
Although after Sobek left FAS and thousands of lawsuits from Ted, it became extremely difficult for them to be friends. And Alloraâs work was never perceived by Elisabet as something good.
p.s. no new art yet, but I slightly corrected the old one and now I present it to you!! :)
#art#horizon forbidden west#horizon zero dawn#original art#hfw#hzd#oc art#original character#far zenith#elisabet sobeck#Faro Automated Solutions
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i absolutely adored ingmar bergmanâs persona (1966). the film is about honesty and artifice in identity; an actress apparently chooses to stop speaking in order to stop playing roles and disseminating falsehoods about who she really isâonly for the nurse caring for her to become so obsessed with her that their identities and roles begin to merge and shift out of their control. like many films about the blurring of role and identity, this film takes on both media in different forms and womanhood as something intrinsically artificial. first the role of the artist, then the role of the wife and mother are âunmaskedâ as a mask devoid of passion or compassion, no matter how much the person behind that mask wishes for this not to be the case. but the element of the film that sets it apart from other films dealing with this topic, the part that i most deeply enjoyed, is that the film not only works to strip away the constructed artifice of identity by having elisabet vogler (all but) never speak, but works to do the same to the medium of film itself. the film resists typical narrative editing, and at several points it cuts away from the narrative completely to show a series of apparently unrelated clips montaged together in a surreal, associative way almost reminiscent of the early work of luis buĂąuel. just like in the case of a personâs identity, a film performs a narrative for its audience, but, even though the audience demands a clear, continuing story, such a story is not intrinsic to either a person or a film. even so, even when nothing is presented but wordless silence or a still photograph or three unrelated clips in a row, the audience will wrestle a narrative out of it, truth and willingness regardless. persona (1966) is a beautifully constructed argument and exploration of identity, and it is easily my favorite of ingmar bergmanâs films and highly deserving of the acclaim critics have given it
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Also 12, 15 and 25 for Aloy
For my tied-for-favorite ginger avenger, Aloy (I'm sorry, if you put me in a room with both Aloy and Cal Kestis I would a) faint and b) try to figure out how best to have everybody touching at the same time):
12. What's a headcanon you have for this character? Elisabet Sobeck picked out some hardiness and fast-healing genetic mods for her saved DNA and that's why Aloy is stronger and has more endurance than other folks around her.
15. What's your favorite ship for this character? (Doesn't matter if it's canon or not.) I really love Aloy and Seyka (of course I chose the heart option for them), and I wanted an option to get with Petra or Avad, but I think my favorite ship is Aloy/Kotallo. I love the way they interact, how their relationship went from being absolute zero to grudging admiration to loyal. Also they look fine together. Has nothing to do with the amazing performance by both voice actors, nope, nothing at all.
25. What was your first impression of this character? How about now? I'll admit when I first saw HZD stuff I wasn't sure what to make of Aloy. She seemed too perfect and a bit cultural-appropriate-y. But the idea of robot dinosaurs reeled me in (and the game was so pretty), and sure, there's a bit of OP to Aloy, but the game is fun to play and the story is so freaking detailed and interesting and thought provoking--and you get to take down giant dino-robots, which is so immensely satisfying. So yes, now I love Aloy fiercely. Aside: Hubs asked me recently which "ginger with Noshir Dalal-voiced companion would I most want to be" and I had to honestly say I couldn't choose. Between Jedi Survivor and Horizon Forbidden West I've logged over 500 hours of gameplay. Both games let me fall into their world and become something different. Don't make me choose.
#asked and answered#jedi survivor#horizon zero dawn#horizon forbidden west#my headcanons aren't very interesting
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Teenager Elisabet, getting her PhD.
Teenager Elisabet, being a teaching assistant.
Teenager Elisabet, surviving on absolutely zero sleep, three shots of espresso with a can of Red Bull as she revises and writes her thesis for the third time.
Teenager Elisabet, giving her dissertation to a board of well known people who would later work with her on during the Clawback Era.
Teenager Elisabet coming home for the holidays and helping out on the ranch and video calling people.
INTERN ELISABET BUT SHEâS NOT OVERWORKED BECAUSE CHILD LABOR LAWS ARE A THING.
GUEST SPEAKER ELISABET IN A SNAZZY OUTFIT AND A GIANT, JITTERY CUP OF COFFEE TALKING TO COLLEGE STUDENTS HER AGE.
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Tagged by @banukaihelpme to do this picrew!!! :D (sorry I took so long to get to it but here I am!)
Tagging @wildcard-rumi, @yushandholder @daz4i, @almightyrozenidiot, @nicxan, @meep-m33p, and @soliscital just some friends who I know have lovely OCs :D Hope it's okay to tag but absolutely no pressure to do it if you don't feel like it!!!! And if you're not tagged but you see this and wanna do it feel free to tag me as your tagger!
From left to right:
Horizon Zero Dawn/Forbidden West
Artekai (he/him), self-proclaimed Chosen One, best (and most annoying) archer in the Cut, and Aloy's long-suffering comedic relief sidekick!
Fross (we use he/him for him but he doesn't really care), Artekai's boyfriend, lowkey yandere damsel-in-distress, and fourteenth secret Zenith. You know how it is.
Dailah (she/her), Carja noblewoman with her sights set on the stars and experiments that defy the will of the Sun! One day she will make a huge scientific breakthrough and show them all â¤ď¸
Bartenak (he/him), Artekai's adoptive older brother who's trying so hard to be cool but he's actually really sad and feels overlooked :'( Doomed by the narrative.
Tess (she/her), Fross's bio mom and Elisabet's in-law. A repressed lesbian in a comphet marriage, who always wanted to pursue a science career. Doomed by the narrative.
Raesh/Raeki (they/he/she), high ranking Eclipse kestrel and Artekai's self-proclaimed archnemesis! (if you've never heard Artekai say a word about her... yes, exactly lol)
Persona 5 Royal
Kaito Maruki (he/him), Takuto's fifteen year old son, thirteenth(???) secret Phantom Thief, and basically just Artekai's P5R AU self â¤ď¸ I would've given him his signature high ponytail but this is the first picrew I've seen with ombre hair options so I had to go with that lol.
Fandomless
J (they/them), Vampire who's obsessed with Christianity aesthetically, like in a cultural appropriation way. Yes they kill vampire hunters but are otherwise chill and dopey but isolated.
Jane (she/her), People pleaser girlboss with tons of expectations on her shoulders, a competitive, perfectionist streak, and a hidden cynical, perhaps even self-serving side.
#oc tag#oc: artekai#oc: fross#oc: dailah#oc: bartenak#oc: tess meijer#oc: rae#kaito maruki#oc: j#tagged for me#image#undescribed#deni's stuff
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"Aloy had wondered how GAIA learned to love Elisabet, developed that utter and absolute faith in her, or if it had been programmed into her to love her creator the way all children seemed to love their mothers - by default.
Sheâd never thought to ask âfrom whom.â "
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Ok, so I finally finished Burning Shores and I have several thoughts
Below the cut because I'm sure many people haven't played and I don't want to spoil anything!
I liked the DLC! I had a lot of fun. I thought the setting was really interesting, I liked the new characters and the storyline definitely drew me in and I fucking LOVE the new mount (PSA you can take it to the main map and go underwater in the expanse of ocean that you can't swim through. There is nothing interesting down there and it pops up the warning that the current is too strong, but you can swim through it no problem.)
Yes I'm sad there was no Kotallo. It's fine, I wasn't expecting him, and we only saw Sylens and Alva so the other GAIA gang wasn't there either. I am extra disappointed that we can't go talk to him more!!! But I think that it's cool that Kotallo traveling to the sundom for the new embassy is canon now. I think lots of fics put forth the idea that Kotallo would act as a diplomat for the Tenakth to the Carja in Fashav's place. Cool that it's canon now.
I chose to kiss Seyka. Normally I pick the brain options but if I'm given an opportunity to kiss a girl in games I do it! Now, I haven't had the time to process everything well enough to pick apart the romantic story line (was it rushed? was there enough lead up to it? did it make sense?) but I do think Seyka is a good match for Aloy- the whole "I broke my tribe's rules and used technology I wasn't supposed to to help me accomplish an important personal goal" is very reminiscent of Aloy using a focus despite Rost insisting that it was dangerous.
Yes I still ship Aloy with some people who are not women. The devs have not said and nothing in the game has confirmed that Aloy (or Elisabet or Beta) is a lesbian. I myself am a bisexual woman and I am a big stickler about bi erasure. I also headcanon Kotallo as Bi. and plenty of other characters for that matter. The main thing that FW and Burning Shores confirmed for me is that Aloy (and Elisabet, and presumably Beta since they have the same DNA) is queer and I absolutely love it. More queer women leads in video games!!!
The fucking villian. Oh my god. I know I just talked about being bi but goddamnit they cast SAM WITWER as the villian??? I literally have never been so disgusted by a character I was attracted to. I've had a thing for Sam Witwer for like 13 years back when he was on Being Human. I got his autograph at a con and have it displayed in a DnD book that he contributed to. I didn't even realize it was Sam Witwer until I walked into that room with his face plastered all over the walls. Before that we only heard his recorded voice and saw holograms of him-and that never looks or sounds exactly like the character. But I walked by that first photo on the left when you walk in and I literally yelled out "SAM WITWER?" listen I could go into it more as to why i'm horrified by his character but I am a Sam Witwer fan so I can and will appreciate his performance.
Walter Londra is disgusting and I literally yelled "GROSS" out loud with the way he looked at Seyka's sister. I'm so glad Seyka was like "ABSOLUTELY NOT" and put a stop to it because if I had to watch one more second I might have puked.
I liked the theme park. Dinos are fun.
I play on story mode so maybe this is because I'm on the easiest setting, but I was able to walk on and in the lava and only go caught on fire once I was like waist deep in it. that was weird.
I would like significantly more underwater content with the Waterwing. I absolutely love it an I was just going up and down into the sky and into the water. extremely cool and I just want more underwater stuff to do with it.
There was an NPC with vitiligo which I thought was neat.
I almost cried at the end of Gildun's little side quest. And when Aloy gave him a focus I just thought it was so sweet!
I kind of felt bad for Evelyn Day? I know everyone had it bad, lots of people ended their lives before the Faro Plague hit them, and I know she cheated on her husband with his best friend which is kind of a dick move. but that last recording was very sad.
SYLENS đđđ I know I probably feel more attached to him knowing that Lance Riddick has passed away. But the end there, Aloy was SO MEAN to him! I was like "NO ALOY! He isn't doing this to prove he is the smartest!!! He decided to stay when he saw the friendships you formed! You showed him that there is value in human connection and that maybe there is a little hope when people work together!" I think she saw the good in him in the end but she was so snarky about it!
I probably have more thoughts but that's enough for now. I'm not very interested in an discourse about the devs offering a love interest or if the story of the dlc was good or whatever. I had fun, I can't wait for Horizon 3, and I still love Kotallo and ship him with Aloy but I'll be just as happy if we end up with Seyka or another WLW ship in the end for Aloy. The end. Please enjoy the queue that I just filled for you!
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