#aloy x talanah

[kelsochronicles]

Come closer…

[focusontheheart]

We are very happy to present to you: Focus on the Heart - A Visual Novel Fangame!

💘 A game made by fans, for fans.💘

Focus on the Heart is a CYOA-style Visual Novel fangame project featuring 8 characters for Aloy to romance! This game is the combined community efforts of 40+ fans, with unique art styles for every character route, narratives crafted with love, and smooches for all.

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💜Focus on the Heart is NOW AVAILABLE to download FOR FREE at the above link on itch.io! 💜FOR PC & MAC 💜Please follow the instructions HERE to download the game and unpack the files 💜You can watch the trailer HERE 💜If you want to tag our socials with your hype, please use #FOTHreact and #FOTHcharactername (i.e. #FOTHErend, #FOTHTalanah, etc.) for the respective routes to prevent spoilers for other players.

We wish you happy playing, and thank you very much for your support!! 💘

[foibles-fables]

commission created by the lovely and ridiculously-talented @plastic-pipes—a moment from one of my Hawk and Thrush fics (gray areas and expectations), brought to life.

I'm honored and beyond excited to show it off! The softness, the lighting, and the physicality are perfect. Thank you, Pipes, for this gorgeous piece! ❤️☀️🏹

[justshamie]

Sometimes Aloy just should kiss girls. Most of the time that is.

Hey pss @tjerra14 @foibles-fables

[spacedlexi]

i had the pleasure of working on the talanah path for focus on the heart 💗 youll have to give it a play if youd like to see the full res image for yourself :)

[missmrah]

Thank you @foibles-fables for commissioning these two incredible women!!! I have so much love for all the fierce Horizon ladies and all the people who care so much about them xx

[the-horizon-lounge3041]

Decided to hop onto the Horizon/Astrobot crossover train. Decided to do Harpy Aloy because the AU is done❤️😪

[maggierosestudio]

Hawk and Thrush - Korrasami Redraw of this scene.

Thanks to @foibles-fables for requesting this! She knows I can’t resist 🤣

[meg-noel-art]

Full version of the Good Ending Kiss for the Talanah Path of @focusontheheart

Thank you all so much for your warm support of the project! ❤️

[kashlat2]

My babies

[sadfransisko]

Hmmm... this reminds me of something...

They look like a married US midwestern couple tornado-watching on their front porch.

[kelsochronicles]

Loser has to pay the Lodge tab

[focusontheheart]

Follow Aloy on this new adventure, unlike any she's experienced before!

8 love interests await 7 different Aloys, with a plethora of side characters, 25+ backgrounds, 40+ original songs and 45+ full illustrations that feature in this adventure. Crafted by 30+ fans, this labor of love boasts over 20 different endings for you to explore and experience alongside Aloy.

Free to play Spring 2024 for PC and Mac!

[foibles-fables]

thinking once again about the delicious concept of Talanah having deeper and more numerous hang-ups about sex than Aloy would...

When it comes to the act itself, at least. We all know Aloy has a metric fuckton of interpersonal baggage to work through, and she's certainly gotten started on that. But I think, in an early established relationship with the two of them on equal ground communication-wise, she'd be way more clearheaded about the act of sex specifically.

The Nora are an incredibly sex-positive tribe, as long as it don't result in babies outside of a sanctioned mate blessing. They use contraceptives liberally ("my sister stopped taking her tea!") and same-sex couplings are accepted and not outside of the social norm. While the tribal leadership is a matriarchy specifically based on the merit of having progeny, the rest of their society is an egalitarian one.

Rost, as a devout Nora, would've felt the same way about sex. And he would have impressed these ideas upon Aloy--with frankness, with no nonsense or baggage (since there's no social backing for it)--in preparation for her to join the tribe after her Proving, as was his wish. I think any angst Aloy would have about sex would be connected to her heaps of internalized otherness rather than upbringing--but if that was settled beforehand, I don't think she'd feel shame about the act itself.

The Carja, on the other hand. lmao.

Unlike the Nora, we don't have a canon outline of their attitude toward sex specifically--however, one can infer that it would fall into the rest of their patriarchal societal structure. They're kinda Catholic-lite, if you will, but make it the Sun. Only a couple blips of ambient dialogue give reference to it and they're mostly played for idle laughs.

We know Talanah herself is a badass and hellbent on breaking social barriers--but I think it's also interesting to view her through the lens of also being a product of not only Carja society at large, but also a noble upbringing. I just think it's fascinating, character-wise, to think of her having no shame or trepidation about kicking down the door of the Lodge--but still having to fight internalized shame about sex, when it comes down to it. Obviously, that wouldn't be a part of her everyday behavior we've seen portrayed. But it's just so compelling to think about from a theoretical standpoint.

AND it ties pretty much directly into the Comphet Talanah Hypothesis. Shame about sex is one thing--shame about having and/or wanting to have sex with women is another thing entirely. To me, in-game evidence points to the idea that the Carja are at least somewhat tolerant of same-sex couples in the peasantry. But I do see it being viewed as very very very much against the grain for the upper class, because noble patriarchy. Not downright condemned as sinful in and of itself, but regarded and responded to with an extreme amount of otherness as one falls out of line re: their "rightful duty" to their Khane. For a noble who is gay, lots of repression, lots of internalized homophobia.

So consider Talanah. Already othered to the point of some pretty bitter social rejection, as we see in HZD. Why would she, as a noble with the ingrained upbringing that comes with it, want to embrace that part of herself and bring more otherness upon herself? If she's going to feel shame about sex and baggage about sexual relationships, wouldn't it just be easier to make herself take the path of least resistance and have it be with a man? Because at least that's what she's supposed to do. Right? And she barely even has the language for anything else. Even though she's never really done anything she's "supposed to do" before. Maybe it would just be better to do that, for once. But why does that feel so wrong? Why does it feel like she's going against herself? Why does the thought of being with a man actually make her recoil? That’s what she’s supposed to want, isn’t it? After everything why does this make her want to hide? Why can't she stop thinking about Aloy? Aloy's hands, Aloy's mouth? Why can't this one Sun-damned thing just be easy?

Just. Ough. I love that this concept puts another line of give and take into their developing relationship. Talanah helping Aloy come further out of her internalized isolation through shared experience--Aloy helping Talanah come out of her internalized sexual shame and homophobia thanks to her own lack of baggage surrounding the two.

I have so many moment-specific headcanons about all of this BUT this is already long enough so I'll just spare you and leave you with the meta. for now. (that's a threat)

[aloyxtilda]

New painting I did of Hawk and her Thrush!

A new commission piece I painted of Aloy and Talanah. And by request from many of you in this amazing community, I finally put up an art shop. You can order this painting and all my Horizon art prints from my shop at:

Help a starving artist out and get yourself a print! ❤🙏😌 As a plus Inprnt is having 15% off! 👍❤

It really helps specially with the cost of food today and the tough game industry that us game devs are facing right now. 🙏

Thank you to everyone in this community for being so supportive. I will keep feeding you Horizon art and more. 💪☺❤

[spacedlexi]

date nights