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Horizontober day 22: Roar

He scream

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The Sobeck Family ⛛

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I feel we are very much deprived of base shenanigans

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today i am thinking about Talanah's mindset at the end of Zero Dawn...having just become the Sunhawk, the achievement of a single-minded goal she held for years...to influence positive societal change and to honor her family (not necessarily the same thing, but that's a separate post)...

...and being so willing to just let it go, ready to lay down her life for Aloy ("one of mine") on the Alight when she could have remained in Meridian, undoubtedly safer, like Ahsis would have

now that is noble and loyal sacrifice

EDIT: watching the scene in the remaster recently completely wrecked me btw

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this is what's on my mind every time I play Frozen Wilds

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What an excellent shot

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help

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I really enjoy the soft things, thank you @tjerra14

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Took longer than anticipated \\sweats

but finally! big kitty. Big fan of the neck heavy design (and the lowkey thin aah waist) next up will be Scrapper!

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❤️ Aloy/Talanah

because yes

scribbled this one on a very quick very unpolished whim. @notadrde, you asked for this one as well!

❤️ first kiss / realization

“Oh,” Talanah breathes when they finally break apart.

Is that a good thing, or a bad thing? Aloy can’t tell. Talanah’s eyes are wide and her pupils are glinted by the sunlight and her lips—her lips are still parted. That’s all her mind can fathom.

“Ah—yeah.” That’s one way to put it. The space between them resounds, echoing the sudden newness of mouth on mouth. Aloy cringes. Glances away. Her hands tremble against Talanah’s waist but don’t withdraw. There must be something else she can say—something that expresses how her heart is knocking hard in her chest, something for her cheeks set aflame—but all she can manage is: “Yeah.”

Somehow the lack of eloquence doesn’t send Talanah on the hunt for an escape. Quite the contrary, she frames Aloy’s face with her hands, urging eye contact. Her gaze is shimmering, high noon cast over rippling water. 

Her smile is—a little bit sad.

She says, “I’m so sorry.”

Aloy’s throat goes weak and sour. Regret. Optimistic assumptions and impulse proven foolish. There it is: the dread, the falling ax, the pale-shadowed urge to tear back and flee. 

And she would, if it wasn’t for Talanah’s thumbs sweeping along her cheekbones, her soft but desperate voice.

“Wait. No.” She reads the silent hurt in Aloy’s eyes and corrects herself, more flustered than Aloy’s ever known her to be. “Please. I meant…I’m sorry I never knew.”

Sunflares dazzle. Time lost. All the ways this could have gone, if. Regret, set in a different framing.

Aloy gets a breath. Feels herself turning towards one of Talanah’s hands. Mouth-corner nudges against the base of her palm as she admits, with the new benefit of self-aware truth, “I wasn’t very good at showing it.”

“Neither was I,” Talanah replies. 

Then she laughs, quietly. Aloy leans in without thinking. It’s the first motion of a bow, a grovel, a nod of long-coming recognition. 

One tiny motion and there’s almost no space between them for daylight.

Forward, forward.

Talanah’s hands slip slow and smooth to the crook of Aloy’s jaw, letting her fingers find her nape.

“I’d like to make up for it,” Talanah murmurs, backbone-throbbing, “if you’ll let me.”

Aloy answers without words, without any need for them.

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I cannot overstate how BADLY I need a small army of LEGOlanah’s.

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Spin this wheel first to get a Horizon character. It's composed of the adult mains, major side characters, and semi-major side characters--and some I find personally hilarious.

No other choices or nuance! Make your choice or perish! (but feel free to elaborate in the tags when you reblog!)

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Your Hand of Sun and Jewels

(Y’know…just thinking of holding hands and watching sunsets)

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Commission for @kelsochronicless! Hawk and Thrush relaxing by the river after a big hunt 😌💖

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST! REBLOG ONLY!

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Every time I boot up a Horizon game I think “nah, I won’t feel the existential pressure of this perfectly executed post-apocalypse this time. It’s fine!”

And then I see something like plainsong; a city built out of a satellite dish array that actually exists in New Mexico

And then I see a city built around a crumbling heliostat plant identical to the one in Nevada

And then the game tells me to go to the ruins of old Las Vegas

And then

And then

And then

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💘🏹 We are very excited to announce the projected release date for Focus on the Heart will be May 24, 2024! 🏹💘