#re; aloy. ( curious; willful; unstoppable )

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@nerdynanny (axel) said: “leave them to me, just go.”

        “i'm not going anywhere, okay?” aloy prepped her bow by knocking an arrow, rolling her shoulders. she was more than ready for whatever fight might lie ahead. “i can handle myself.” 

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        Aloy shakes her head as she starts down the rocky path, pausing after a few steps just to ensure Elisabet makes it over some of the more perilous stones. “Not always, but...as long as I can remember.” This part is a little complicated, but she knows that Elisabet will have to hear the story at some point. So, it may as well be now.

        “HADES received a transmission almost twenty years ago that made it and all the other subfunctions go rogue. GAIA made me—another you—as a last ditch way to try and stop HADES from destroying the world.” She sighs. “There were...complications. All the subordinate functions managed to escape before GAIA could self-destruct.”

        She pauses again to help Elisabet down a steep incline of stone. “That's when HEPHAESTUS started producing more and more hostile machines. Before, they would scatter when hunted. Over time, they got more aggressive. Now, they'll attack anyone who gets too close. Even the grazers.” She continues forward. “We have to get a hold of HEPHAESTUS again so GAIA can get a handle on the machines. Not to mention the Earth's biome.” Another pause. Then: “And it's the only way we'll stand a chance against NEMESIS.” 

Elisabet had a million and half more questions but she could appreciate that now was not the best time and that sort of thing would have to wait. Though she did allow herself a moment of awe that despite everything Ted Faro had done, namely sabotaging APOLLO, the new people of the world had managed to make do. It was truly wondrous, the ingenuity of human beings.

It was a shame, though, that Aloy appeared never to have had the opportunity to indulge in such things as music. The hero's burden as it were. At least there was something with which to relate to her. So many of her own years had been dedicated to fixing the world. What a marvelous job she'd done....

She took the offered knife, not as familiar with the tool so as to be particularly useful but enough not to stab herself with it. "Has it always been like this? Have the machines always been hostile to humans?" They weren't supposed to be that way.

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the thing about me is that i simply do not ship aloy with any of the friends she made prior to burning shores. in my mind, the first two games are about aloy learning how to build and embrace friendship and community; two foundational things she's had to live without, being an outcast all her life.

i think it's important that she's able to forge multiple strong platonic connections, even a family of sorts, before she starts exploring the complications of sex and romance. aloy loves her friends deeply, but she's not interested in any of them romantically or sexually. seyka is the first person she's ever felt that way about (though i do think there was some potential for a crush to form on vala, if she hadn't died).

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*shaking a bag of treats at the dash* psps write horizon characters.

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thinkin about. aloy as a multiclassing ranger and barbarian.

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        "I guess I didn't realize I'd need it." It wasn't a lie, exactly. Aloy typically assumed she could handle any injury herself because she'd always had to before now. Before the base, and her friends. It simply hadn't occurred to her to request help for something she'd always done alone. Clearing her throat, Aloy reached up to hold the rended skin together for him to sew. "It was a Clawstrider," she felt the need to explain. "I rolled to dodge a spray of acid and its tail caught me on the shoulder."

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Kotallo watched her until she finally agreed. He gave a small nod and stepped closer, eyes immediately looking over her wound.

"You should have asked for aid when you got back," the Tenakth stated quietly as he took the needle. Carefully placing a hand upon her shoulder around the wound whilst studying the cut to make sure of the best way to stitch it.

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like for a smol starter from aloy, which i may or may not steal from a meme. mutuals only, multis pls specify muse/s, etc!

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trying to decide what class aloy would be in a dnd/bg3 au is so hard bc i'm like maybe she's a fighter but also what if she's a cleric of gaia.

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"In my defense, I was left unsupervised." ↳ @vocesincaput (Kotallo) — memes / accepting!

        "I guess leaving you alone with Erend is functionally the same as leaving you unsupervised." Aloy eyes the empty tankards of ale on the table and imagines she knows a little bit about how it all happened. "I still don't know how you stumbled across that kind of data. I've been searching Old World ruins since I was a kid and never ran into this, uh..." She's not sure what to call it. "Animal art?"

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"Where you go, I go." ↳ @vocesincaput (Kotallo) — memes / accepting!

        "Careful, now," Aloy warns, a slight smile curling the corner of her mouth. "I might start to think you're going soft on me." Still, she feels a certain swell of fondness for the warrior at his declaration. She might never get used to having friends who are so willing to fight and die by her side. Aloy grasps Kotallo by his good shoulder and gives him a decisive nod. "I know. But I really am just going down to trade with the hunter. I won't be gone long."

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❛ I'm the one you've been looking for. ❜ ↳ @stormlit (Clara) — memes / accepting!

ㅤㅤ"Look, uh—no offense, but you can't be." Aloy shakes her head, holding up both hands in a shrug. "The person I'm looking for traces of was alive a thousand years ago." She taps her Focus just to confirm what she already suspects about this woman: No Focus, no Zenith shield. There's no way she can be the Clara Oswald who left a garbled message behind on a machine a whole millennia ago. It's just not possible. So Aloy brushes past her, eyes searching for the next point to grapple for her climb. There has to be more data up there to find.

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        Aloy stops searching for her next handhold long enough to give the woman another, more curious once-over. "You know about Elisabet Sobeck?" That's unusual from someone without a Focus or a shield, who's so clearly not a Quen either. "She's my—well, I'm her. Sort of." Aloy rubs at the back of her neck, hesitating. She always struggles to phrase this in a way she thinks will be understood, and she's not sure how much she should be telling this person, anyway. "She's like—an ancestor of mine. I guess." Not really, but she doesn't have to get into the technicalities of her unusual birth with a stranger.

        A pause as Aloy considers the woman a moment longer. She also knows about GAIA Prime. That can't be nothing. "I'm Aloy," she says, finally. "I'm looking for some data GAIA said would be here. She said it will help us capture and restore one of her rogue subfunctions." She watches the woman's face carefully for signs of understanding.

traces of. that's all any of them end up being in the end, isn't it? even the time travellers, even the doctor. clara's surprised anything survived that long in a world that has clearly lost its technology. ❝ clara oswin oswald, yeah. she worked on project zero dawn, so i hear. also hear she was desperate to find a way to stop the end of the world, stubborn as you, and, oh, extremely attractive. ❞ look, clara gets it, but this woman...looks like lis. is her, but isn't, somehow --- where's the doctor with explanations when you need them? if anyone's capable of understanding that there's more to this world than most of these tribes know, isn't it her?

she sighs and follows. ❝ oi, wait a minute. you look like elisabet sobeck. i don't reckon you are her, but...you know her, right? if you're looking for traces from a millennia ago in GAIA prime. that's more than most people. ❞

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spent like two hours today building a character sheet section for my carrd but only had the time/energy to fill it out for vasilisa, so hers is the only character page that currently has a character sheet. but i will probs be adding character sheets for snow white (dnd/neverafter) and aloy (dnd/bg3 au) soon, as i've been working on rolling them both up behind the scenes.

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@tossedcoin — aloy starter call / accepting!

        “Whoa, hang on. Just...slow down a little.” Aloy held up a hand in effort to calm the girl down. “Start from the beginning. What happened?”

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might work on aloy's dnd build today...............

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@eternaldark (eretria) — aloy starter call / accepting!

        “You're pretty good with that thing.” Aloy gestures to the weapon in the other girl's hand. “Took down that machine like it was already scrap.”