#but like seriously pearl’s alien plant base mixed with gem and impulse’s fantasy style builds really reminds me of hzd for some reason

[ender1821]

my mind: man the soup group’s base really has some horizon zero dawn vibes if you think about it…wait…

me: oh. oh no.

so…i might have some soup group horizon zero dawn au thoughts…whoops

Gem

i can 100% see her being the Aloy/protagonist in this au

she’s the first one to find a focus from exploring caves left behind, later on, she gets modified headwear resembling antlers from hunting down her first grazer (the deer-like robots), which hides her focus, courtesy of Impulse

she gets outcast from her tribe for the same reasons as Aloy in the game, so basically for magically popping out of nowhere from a machine

Pearl

here’s the thing, i also had ideas for her as Aloy, but more for the machine taming (…and abandonment issues/j) aspect

she’s been abandoned and thrown out to the wild to fend for herself, leading her to finding some ancient structure ruins, in which she gets a focus and components for building the machine-overriding staff

she names the first machine she overrides, a watcher, Tilly <3

Impulse gifts her a shieldwing (basically a glider, but im thinking in this au it could be modified more to look like an elytra/moth wings)

Impulse

he’s the Rost (DONT WORRY HE DOESNT DIE ILL MAKE SURE OF IT)

he houses the two outcasts after having Gem handed to him from the tribe and finding Pearl in the wilds during a trade run

he’s more of a tinkerer though, and he uses the machine parts gathered by the other two/from trading with other wanderers to make his own contraptions and weaponry…to varying levels of success

those are like the bare bone ideas i have for now since this whole concept just popped up outta nowhere and i had to put this down somewhere, i might brainstorm the actual tribes in this (im thinking all the hermitcraft/hermitcraft adjacent smps could be the different tribes?), as well as other characters and details

for now though, this is just soup group saving the world from robot apocalypse in my head, because them >>>>>