#aloy/tilda

[mehoymalloy]

In case anyone's curious about the vibe of the upcoming Aloy/Tilda smut, this is it. (Though the second installment will have a bit of a different tone)

[wykart]

I've uploaded the first 2 chapters of the updated version of Against the Lightning here:

Decided to leave the old version up as it is. For an idea of how I managed to cut like 60k words out of the original 18 chapters, the first 2 chapters here cover chapters 1-5 of the old fic ://

[cybernecromancer365]

Memories - CH 3

New Chapter Here: AO3, FF. NET

Summary: Nemesis will be a challenge greater than any before it, something Aloy knows she’s not ready for. She tried to distance herself from Elisabet, become her own person, but with the weight of the world on her shoulders she needs more, and turns to one person for help—Tilda. Aloy’s intuition tells her Elisabet had a purpose for her, perhaps to walk in similar footsteps, and Aloy needs to know if she’s right. Trusting Tilda may be a risk, but she needs her—they need each other...perhaps more than they think.

(Short Summary: Tilda and Aloy go on a journey to recover Elisabet's knowledge)

Rating: T

Pairing: Aloy/Tilda, Tilda/Elisabet (Past)

[hattersarts]

tildoy my beloved

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

Sorry, Tilda! At a thousand years old, you're definitely too old to play with Lego Aloy!

[i-lavabean]

I forgot I had this and I am absolutely making it everyone’s problem

[kakko-jp]

Horizon High School!

I do love the WHOLE Gaia Gang!

[theartofloss]

I've got my own thoughts about the Burning Shores, but I don't think Aloy falling for someone is out of character, because they've been slowly building up to that moment in HFW:

This extremely awkward conversation with Avad, who is trying to court her (a reminder that people are romantically interested in her)

Zo and Varl's relationship - I personally don't think her reaction was necessarily jealousy, just her being confronted with the possibility of falling for someone for the first time (after years of living as an outcast)

Finding out about Elizabeth's past relationship with Tilda, and that she wasn't as untouchable as she thought her to be

And finally, her conversation with Talanah at Barren Light about first love (or crush) - all but predicting BS

She simply found a home with people that she loves and trusts, and now feels safe enough to open her heart for the first time.

[all-encompassing-hero]

One thing I love about the Horizon franchise is how both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West make it explicitly clear that while the current threat might be the machines and rouge AI threatening Aloy and her people, the true evil behind everything is and always has been capitalism and, to an extent, the One Percent.

[Spoiler warning for both Zero Dawn and Forbidden West]

Obviously, there's Ted Faro, a man who, through a combination of overinflated ego and massive incompetence, doomed the world twice over. First, accidentally, by designing war machines capable of consuming organic matter as fuel and programmed with code so complex, it took several hundred years to crack. And then, on purpose, by deleting thousands of years of human knowledge and history in some misguided attempt to help the future generations. A man who not only built the Torment Nexus from the book "Don't build the Torment Nexus" but then deleted all records of both his construction and the story from which it came so that future generations would not be able to learn from the mistakes of those who came before them.

Now, while the Zeniths are not as heavyhanded about the themes of the evils of capitalism compared to Ted Faro, they do still uphold that narrative. Remember that the Zenith crew was composed almost entirely of the rich and famous. Rich and famous who would rather save their own skins rather than try to help humanity in its final hours. When they managed to do the impossible and achieve immortality, what did they do with it? Squandered it by becoming lazy, only using it to essentially prolong their own pleasure. Some even became greedy enough to go beyond physical immortality, and when that greed caused the destruction of their home and threatened the new life that had begun on Earth, what did the remaining Zeniths do? Turned tail and ran. Because the only thing that matters to them is self preservation.

Tilda might actually be the worst of them. Because while the others may not care that they're in the wrong, Tilda is the only one who believes she is in the right. Tilda, the woman who was arguably the closest to Elizabet, who watched her choose to stay to help develop the Zero Dawn project rather than abandon Earth, who has been grieving that loss for over a thousand years, believed that, given a second chance, Elizabet would choose to abandon Earth. Tilda, who believed that she was doing the right thing even as she was attempting to force Aloy to abandon her people the same way she wanted Elizabet to abandon Earth. Tilda, who died believing that the woman she loved died a pointless death even after seeing the new world created by Zero Dawn.

The Horizon franchise is and always has been a story about technology. How technology can do so much good in the hands of the right people, but also so much evil in the hands of the wrong people. And it keeps telling us that the "wrong people" are the rich and greedy, the ones who only look out for themselves, the ones who would leave humanity to die if it meant saving themselves.

My biggest hope for Horizon 3 is that it continues this message. That it continues to show that technology can be used for good, but only when in the hands of people who have the best interest of others at heart rather than their own.

[padmerrie]

#mood

[mehoymalloy]

Mutually Assured Destruction

An Aloy/Tilda fic, and an alternative take on the kiss scene from Prometheus Bound.

[wykart]

After abandoning the original fic, I'm finally back with an updated version. It's all written, with 6 chapters out so far. I will be publishing the rest over the coming weeks!

Sticks and Stones Against the Lightning

[cybernecromancer365]

Memories- CH 2

New Chapter Here: AO3, FF. NET

Summary: Nemesis will be a challenge greater than any before it, something Aloy knows she’s not ready for. She tried to distance herself from Elisabet, become her own person, but with the weight of the world on her shoulders she needs more, and turns to one person for help—Tilda. Aloy’s intuition tells her Elisabet had a purpose for her, perhaps to walk in similar footsteps, and Aloy needs to know if she’s right. Trusting Tilda may be a risk, but she needs her—they need each other...perhaps more than they think.

(Short Summary: Tilda and Aloy go on a journey to recover Elisabet's knowledge)

Rating: T

Pairing: Aloy/Tilda, Tilda/Elisabet (Past)

[thisismylaststraw]

This is how Tilda and Sylens coming face to face for the first time went, right?

Yeah, totally.

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

All space billionaires get a free arrow to the face

[hattersarts]

some more tildoys.