#aloy about avad?

[tinderbox210]

Nil offering what Avad is looking for

[spaceguylewis]

Horizon: Zero Dawn (73/ꝏ) | REMASTERED On the Eclipse

[drolta]

I don’t ship Aloy with Avad but…I don’t not ship Aloy with Avad.

[rynliadon]

i really want to see seyka and talanah interact tbh. i think that aloy had a massive unrequited crush on talanah through zero dawn (and some of forbidden west!) and seyka would simply see the two of them talk to each other and Know and be insanely jealous. talanah and seyka would be best friends tho

like just PICTURE these interactions with me. seyka enthusiastically telling aloy about hunting machines with talanah and learning about the lodge. aloy being interested and referencing her time as a thrush. seyka getting pouty and playfully jealous. talanah has no idea any of this is going on while also being in the room.

[meridianpenthouseview]

Thank you so much for recording this because I had completely missed these when I played and these are just hilarious. The fact that they included Avad’s attendant giving him updates is just another piece of the amazing attention to detail and effort put into these games.

But the part about the statue has me cackling. Avad mentioned there were plans for a bigger, fancier statue that he vetoed, but it sounded like this was a one time conversation. But no, the sculptor is still actively hassling the Sun-King, the most powerful man in the Sundom, the person many Carja believe to be the incarnation of their god, in order to try to get more decoration on this statue. And the fact that Avad can look at this 20ft tall, solid stone statue of Aloy in this grand victory pose, smack dab in the center of one of the Carja’s most culturally significant sites, and describe it, in all earnestness, as modest… the Carja are so extra and I love it.

Additional Avad lines from the prologue!

Transcript of lines:

Carja Citizen: Shipments continue to arrive weekly from Cut-Cliffs. And another band of Oseram laborers have been hired to speed up reconstruction. Avad: Very good.

Avad: The monument's really coming along. Carja Citizen: Indeed. The sculptor has once again requested a number of embellishments: a gold headdress to catch the light of the sun... Greenshine for the eyes, and a life-size deathbringer for the base. Avad: That won't be necessary. It should be modest but formidable, like the woman it honors. Carja Citizen: Yes, your Radiance.

Carja Citizen: The Shah Taveer and Kho Veriv families have made generous donations to the Alight's reconstruction. Avad: Ah, of course. Buying their way back into the light of the Sun after their support of the Shadow Carja. (He's so done lol) Please arrange for a luncheon at the palace, so that the Crown may show its gratitude. Carja Citizen: Consider it done, your Luminance.

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

Inspired by @importantdestinydefendor's comments and agreement about a certain Horizon hugging gif healing us

[litlunacy]

Truly having the Disaster Bisexual Experience™ in HZD, I swear.

Like, got all the super badass confident competent hot women, obviously (Talanah, Petra, VANASHA). And almost every dude is falling over himself about Aloy, and it's hilarious, but most of them don't do it for me personally (Erend I love you but in a giant golden retriever puppy bff way. Avad just makes me sad. Go to therapy my dude pls.) Except for one.

THE FUCKING UNHINGED MURDERHOBO.

My guy. My dude. Why are you like this. I wanna study him under a microscope. Bite and thrash him like a chew toy. Shake him like a snowglobe.

I mean. I can't say I'm surprised this happened. I do have something of a history with freaky overdramatic bloodthirsty nutjobs (see: Astarion, FE Fates Niles [also super poetic about it with that smooth toned low voice], Demon Lord Ghirahim [tbh that cunty bastard was the start of it all. still best Zelda boss ever, absolute legend], and even Zevran counts to a certain extent). Also the silver-grey eyes got me from the drop (there is something so unsettlingly beautiful about silver eyes, I give them to a LOT of my OCs. Especially the freaky ones).

I diligently scoured the outskirts of every single fucking bandit camp just so I didn't miss him (and was very disappointed when he wasn't actually there for some) and giggled like some hysterical banshee at every unhinged overly poetic murderous thing that came out of his mouth (and Aloy's responses, my lord the change from 'totally baffled and concerned and grossed out' to 'resigned fond exasperation').

And then at the end his devastated sad face when I refused to duel him to death?!?! When he said Aloy broke his heart by not killing him??? My god. What the fuck. I'm concerned and intrigued and enamored.

[nerd-artist]

Horizon Rock Bands AU: Rock Breakers

The second (and maybe last?) band of the AU that’s been leaving no place for any other thoughts in my mind. Jem and the Holograms inspired. Ereloy implied 🧡✨

The band

The original leader of the group was Ersa, who started forming Rock Breakers with her brother Erend. However, after a tragedy left her unable to continue being part of the band, the Vanguard siblings decided that Erend should carry on with the group's formation. After what had happened, their mission was more critical than ever: to bring down Nemesis, its members, and their unfair musical dominance.

Avad, a wealthy representative with whom Ersa had a very close relationship, helped Erend in the search for other members who shared their common goal. That's how Varl, Kotallo, Drakka, and Nil joined the band, shaping the unique and diverse style that Rock Breakers is known for. Their blend of romantic and heavy sound has earned them a loyal fanbase, though, thanks to Nemesis' schemes, they've never managed to win The Proving. During the competition, they met Alpha Prime and came to the conclusion that both bands needed to support each other to defeat the evil group. Ersa became Alpha Prime's manager, ensuring that no one—not even they—would get in her little brother's way.

With Avad as their manager, Rock Breakers dominates their tour, which also serves as training for the competition. They don't have the help of any magical computers to make their shows unforgettable, but they pull it off with their creative use of fire and fireworks.

Character bios under the cut

Erend

A deep voice and deep feelings—no wonder Erend is the lead singer and main songwriter of Rock Breakers. He always performs accompanied by his guitar ‘Hammer’, though it’s rarely the same one at each show, as he gets so excited in playing ‘Weird Space Ball’ that he ends up smashing it against the stage. He started competing in music contests for the love of music, but a tragedy changed his purpose: his sister Ersa, with whom he was originally going to form the band, went deaf because of their former boss, Dervahl, who is now a member of the antagonist band Nemesis. Since then, he has devoted himself entirely to destroying that band, just as he smashes his guitars.

With this common goal, it’s no surprise that he’s gotten along well with Alpha Prime since meeting them, though that encounter didn’t just gain him allies—it also changed his heart forever, as he fell head over heels for Aloy the moment he saw her. Since then, nearly all his lyrics have been about her, though Aloy seems to be the only one who hasn’t noticed. He doesn’t hold out much hope that someone as capable and beautiful as her would be interested in him, even though the two minutes she promised him keep becoming longer and longer.

Varl

Varl met Erend at a comic con, and they instantly became friends. Coming from a strict upbringing where music had no place, he learned to play his bass, ‘Seeker,‘ in just a week, solely to join the band and experience the freedom of performing on stage. He’s always ready to carry out any plan that helps defeat Nemesis, even those that require sacrificing his own interests and beliefs. He fell for Zo, a member of Alpha Prime, the moment he met her, and unlike his friend, he did something about it—they´ve been together since, and they´re not subtle about it.

Kotallo

The unstoppable rhythm of his drum set, ‘Bulwark,‘ is unmistakable. Kotallo has been playing it his entire life, and not even the sudden loss of an arm has slowed him down—he continues to captivate the crowd with every beat. He was once a member of the band "The Ten," where he played alongside Regalla, until she defected to join Nemesis after getting Kotallo involved in a street fight that ultimately cost him his arm. Kotallo joined Rock Breakers to get a shot at revenge against his former bandmate and to prove that no matter how she tries to weaken him, he’ll always be a better musician and more honorable than her.

Drakka

He comes from barren lands, though that doesn’t reflect his character at all. Playful and cheeky, his personality shines through in his backing vocals and in the way he plays his ‘Yarra.‘ Every key he presses makes the crowd roar louder, and it ensures he’s never alone after a concert. But his purpose is more serious than it seems: to destroy the reputation of the companies owned by Nemesis members so they stop diverting water from his town for their own gain. Who says you can’t have fun while pursuing the greater good?

Nil

Little is known about his past, but it’s rumored that Nil is searching for redemption. His background is so enigmatic that even the other band members don’t quite remember how or when he became part of the group. Always mysterious, he used to cover his face during performances until he revealed it at the last concert, flashing that intense, mischievous gaze that drove the crowd wild. He found the perfect "Partner" in his guitar, which makes him stand out on stage with its unmistakable sound and with which he always puts on a good show.

Thank you for reading!!

If you want to know more about Alpha Prime, check this post.

Should I make one of these for Nemesis?

[gangrel-pride]

Considering Aloy is about as subtle about her feelings for Seyka as a derailing freight train, how long y’all think it’ll take Avad to notice?

[apricity-writes]

fic masterlist

cause i realized that even though this blog is called Apricity-Writes I never really talk about my writing on here

So here's the masterlist for all of my fics! I'll try my hardest to keep it up to date.

Aloy x Kotallo

Sleepless Nights - Teen - Completed

Letters to the Wind - Teen - Ongoing

Twisted Threads- Teen - Ongoing

The Sky on Fire - Teen - Completed

Time Enough - Mature - Ongoing

Focus, Aloy - Teen - One-shot

Love You Better - Mature - Ongoing

Time Like Grains of Sand - Teen - Ongoing

For All The Snow Around Us, You Sure Are Hot - Teen - Ongoing

Constellations Upon Her Skin - Mature - One-shot

Sparks of Light, Snow on the Wind - General - Ongoing

Get a Room! - General - One-shot

Pine Trees, and Other Images of Oblivious Idiots - Teen - Ongoing

Love Enough - An LYB Side Story - General - One-shot

Old Traditions - General - One-shot

Aloy x Avad

Suntouched - Mature - One-shot

Sunbound - Mature - One-shot

Aloy x Nil

The Name of Death - Mature - One-shot

The Song of Death - Mature - One-shot

The Touch of Death - Mature - One-shot

Aloy x Erend

Just Two Minutes - Teen - Completed

The Rost Dad Fics

She Who Sings of Fire and Vengeance - Teen - Completed

Hungry - Teen - One-shot

The Broken Spear - Mature - Ongoing

To Light, To Carry - General - One-shot

The Beta Fics

Nineteen - General - One-shot

Statistical Impossibility - General - One-shot

Mixed Ships

Apri's Drabbles - Teen - Ongoing

current ships include Aloy/Kotallo, Beta/Erend, Avad/Talanah

Love Her Silently - Teen - One-shot

unresolved Aloy x Seyka, unrequited Aloy x Kotallo

Your Favored - Teen - One-shot

Inatut × Kopilai (Frozen Wilds)

And that's it! That's all the fics!

[semperintrepida]

A few of you asked, so here's how I'd re-write the opening act to Horizon Forbidden West to give Aloy—and Elisabet Sobeck—the respect she deserves.

(Putting all 1600!!! words of this under a jump cut for spoiler reasons.)

My biggest beef with HFW is that it has a Sylens problem. Namely, keeping him five steps ahead of Aloy and having him lead her by the nose from place to place doesn't make him a better, more threatening villain. It makes Aloy look incompetent, and even worse, makes us question her exceptional nature. (If some guy can figure all this technology out, what's so special about Aloy?) I'll have more to say later about Aloy's exceptionalism as it's key (hee hee) to this entire story.

So here's how I'd fix what ails canon. Imagine an HFW that begins much like the original game, with Aloy (along with Varl) searching for the GAIA kernel at Far Zenith HQ, where she eventually discovers the Travis Tate logic bomb that deleted all the stolen copies of the kernel. Out of ideas, she and Varl travel to Meridian to consult with Blameless Marad, from whom she learns of the recent activation of the Spire. She investigates the burnt-out Horus core and realizes that whatever was left of HADES, it's been stolen by Sylens.

She climbs the Spire. At the top, she overrides the input jack and accesses the Spire's logs, which indicate that the Spire was recently used to relay a large quantity of data to a location unknown.

Back on the ground, Aloy asks Avad and Blameless Marad to have their scholars search the records of the Carja army taken during excursions in the Forbidden West for anything that might resemble a base or installation built by the Old Ones: every triangle door, every strange ruin. If Aloy has to look inside every cave in the West, she will do it.

While she waits, she catches up with her old friends in Meridian. Then, she has a conversation with Varl, where she admits her frustration with the search for GAIA proving difficult and fruitless so far. They talk about the hologram they saw at Zenith HQ, and Varl makes a remark about Travis Tate and his working relationship with Elisabet Sobeck, and how it seems they had a plan for everything.

This jogs something in Aloy's mind: how could Tate and Elisabet be confident in the work they produced if they didn't have a place to test it? A safe place. Thinking again of Sylens and how he stole HADES out from under her—and of his repeated attempts to hack into her Focus that she keeps having to block—she knows this place would have to be isolated and shielded from the rest of the world.

In a cutscene, we see her back at the top of the Spire, using the input jack to send it commands. As the Spire is connected to physical networks and it's also a wireless/radio transmitter, she uses it to scan the Forbidden West, looking for "empty spaces" in the network/wireless grid, gaps where a secret base might be found. The result is a set of three candidate coordinates, scattered in No Man's Land, the buffer between the Sundom and the Forbidden West.

But to get there, she'll have to get through the gate at Barren Light. A token from Avad will grant her the authority to pass through the gate, but she'll need to make peace with the Tenakth herself for permission to travel through their lands. Luckily for her, there's a diplomatic Embassy coming up. As in the original game, Aloy sneaks out late at night and leaves Varl behind.

Arriving at the Daunt, Aloy learns that there's trouble all over: machines infesting the valley, a work stoppage in Chainscrape, sabotage at Barren Light—and the Embassy is on hold until all of it is addressed.

Aloy begins clearing the valley of machines, and once she reaches Chainscrape, she runs into Petra, another old friend, and doesn't turn down an offer to catch up over a brew. This is how Aloy learns that Ulvund, the self-appointed "leader" of the Oseram workforce, is the one behind the work stoppage.

Time for a talk with the guy. Ulvund tries to bully Aloy around, but she's not going to let some pissant Oseram get in her way: he's going to blow the damn whistle if he doesn't want an arrow in his head. When he threatens her by calling his thugs to come closer, she tells him she'll put arrows in all their heads. Ulvund backs down, the whistle blows, and the work stoppage comes to an end. (The same sidequests are available as in the original game. If Aloy wants to bring him down further, she can do those quests as well.)

Once Aloy reaches Barren Light, she learns that the gate has been sabotaged. After a conversation with a Carja soldier falsely imprisoned for murder and some investigative legwork, Aloy discovers that the saboteurs are Eclipse cultists, who are operating out of a camp hidden somewhere in the Daunt. In a series of quests, Aloy uncovers their plans to attack the Embassy, discovers that they are following orders sent from somewhere to the west, and finally puts an end to their operation in the Daunt by destroying their camp. (In this fix-it, the Eclipse sidequest is elevated to a main quest and expanded.)

With the Eclipse and machine threats neutralized, the Embassy takes place as it does in the original game: Varl arrives just in time to join Aloy, they meet Fashav, Regalla attacks, the Embassy is annihilated.

But there's no time for grieving—or waiting for Varl's ankle to heal—as Aloy now has full access to No Man's Land and can proceed to the three candidate coordinates for the secret lab in any order.

Candidate 1 is a ruin but there's nothing of value to be found inside other than a few datapoints of lore.

Candidate 2 is a ruin near a Horus in the far north, where Aloy finds Sylens's abandoned workshop and the broken remnants of HADES trapped within the Horus's battered core. Sylens does not communicate directly to Aloy here; instead, she hacks into the ruin's surveillance system and watches a holo-log of his interrogation. Her conversation and eventual purging of HADES happen as they did in the original game. (All this quest does is provide more background lore as to what Sylens has been up to.)

Candidate 3 is the LATOPOLIS testing lab. The gene-locked door is not blocked by firegleam, and Aloy can enter easily. The rest of the LATOPOLIS sequence proceeds as in the original game—but without any involvement from Sylens. Aloy unlocks the storage container for the GAIA kernel and grabs a copy, only to be interrupted by the arrival of the Zeniths—and Beta the Sobeck clone—who were drawn to a stray radio signal that escaped from the lab during Aloy's explorations. (Perhaps the exterior shielding door gets jammed slightly open when the mechanism is operated for the first time in a thousand years.)

Now let's talk about Beta, and why her reveal is so crucial to HFW's story.

Until now, the Aloy we know is exceptional. Not only is she a world-class athlete and huntress, she's the clone of one of the greatest scientific minds humanity has ever produced and the one person left on earth who can activate the gene-locked doors and computer systems that require Alpha Prime access. She is the heroine of this story, the only one we trust to save the world. Aloy is the key.

Then Beta shows up. That's what we call an oh shit! moment. Now we have two keys in play—and Aloy is no longer as unique or exceptional as she once was.

If Aloy is the heart of Horizon, Beta is its soul. As much as the two clones have in common, and as much as one could argue that GAIA created Aloy to serve as a tool, Beta is that idea taken to the extreme: raised in isolation, taught only what was necessary to achieve the Zeniths' goals, she is the pure form of a genetic key. And the gap, the juxtaposition between Aloy and Beta is where this story gets interesting. Who is an Elisabet Sobeck clone beyond simply being a key?

That's the story lurking beneath the plot that I want to know more about.

(Regarding the firegleam igniter, Aloy learns the recipe to build one from the Oseram tinkerers Delah and Boomer. She can learn it in the Daunt during their first quest, or later in the desert during the second if she missed them the first time around.)

Aloy escapes from LATOPOLIS, nearly drowning when the effluent sweeps her into a nearby river. She manages to swim ashore, then loses consciousness.

Time passes in fever dreams of Rost and All Mother Mountain and other memories of the past, strange voices and hands, smears of yellow and green.

She awakens in an Utaru outpost, having been brought there by a party of Utaru foragers who found her on the riverbank. She's been delirious for a few days, and is injured badly enough that she'll have to stay longer. She doesn't get to shrug it off. The sun rises and sets, rises and sets, rises and sets, on and on until one day, when she's finally able to get up and move around a little, she hears a familiar voice: Varl, accompanied by Zo. He's finally found Aloy. And now it's time for Act 2 to begin.

[bakedcrossaintt]

Aloy and Avad

i'll prefice this rant by saying i haven't played Forbidden West yet so some of my interpretations of the characters may be off and my knowledge of canon events is limited.

That being sad, holy shit i am so sad about Avad and Aloy. I love them as a ship, i truly do, but i just absolutely cannot see Aloy being by his side and becoming the Sun Queen no matter how hard i try. And in turn i can't see Avad ever leaving the kingdom behind in order to be with Aloy. In my mind they're total star-crossed lovers, both really wanting to be together but their circumstances not allowing them. Aloy needs to be out in the wild, helping people all over the land, fighting and hunting and being free. She would hate being worshipped as royalty, being called "queen" and having to spend her days cooped up in a palace doing political paperwork. Similarly, Avad could never give up his place as king and leave the Carja to fend for themselves, at least not until Itamen is fully ready to take his place.

I have an insane amount of thoughts on this and so many angsty fanfic ideas. If anyone wants to listen to me rant about it OR possibly change my mind and tell me a way that they could be happy with each other, please let me know!

[ayaitch]

One of the things in the Horizon games that is a little tiresome to me is about all these Carja "good ones". Every time we meet a Carja (except for Nil, who is a whole other topic...), the narrative goes to lengths to assure us, the audience, that we should care about this Carja because they were "one of the good ones" during the Red Raids. This Carja wanted to stop things. This Carja opposed the Red Raids and senseless slaughter. This Carja always questioned things and strove to stop it all.

So that's great and all, and I appreciate having "good ones" right off the bat during awful, horrible times in a culture's history, but it's not very challenging. Show me why I should care about one of the "bad ones". Or someone who thought they were doing well by their culture, people, family, only to finally glimpse the big picture and realize how wrong they were and then try to change. Someone who snaps out of it, elbow-deep in blood (metaphrically?), and realizes something is off, thinks, 'Wtf am I doing, this isn't helping anyone.'

Even Avad, who usurped his bloodthirsty, tyrant father (and killed him, I don't want that to be taken away from Avad!) should have, at least up until a certain point, believed what his father was doing was right. It's how he was raised. It was the only lens by which he saw the world, especially considering the literal pillar upon which the Carja royal family resided. He had to be drinking from the same cup as his father (again, metaphorically) and so why wouldn't he believe up to a time, that they were doing what was right by their religion/culture. At some point, he had a Come-to-the-Sun moment (so to speak) and realized his father was a terrible, murdering person and worked against that, but what was that moment? He was already plotting against his father by the time he meets Ursa and helps her escape (if I recall correctly...).

Talanah's father and brother, prestigious and noble members of the Hunter's Lodge in Meridian, should have, at least at the beginning, been totally behind their Sun-King, who made it a point to justify more and more terrible things by claiming it for the best, that their people needed protection from this machine threat and degrading biosphere. I like the way the narrative handled them, but we were still presented with the idea that they were "good from the start."

Fashav too. "One of the good ones", who marched with the Red Raiders hoping to "mitigate" their atrocities. Which he failed at so why is he still considered a good one? Because intentions? There's a reason the adage is "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." (Don't get me wrong, I love Fashav, and wanted him to retire in comfort and accomplished lasting peace with laurels on his arms. He's such a compelling character as far as I'm concerned.)

Every Carja we meet that the narrative wants us to care about had figured out that the Mad Sun-King was awful and terrible before their hands got truly dirty, and were just trying to do their best from the inside to make change without creating waves and getting themselves executed (except Talanah's family, good on them).

So. I guess what I'm looking for in Horizon is an actual bad guy of the Carja who comes around before the end of the Red Raids. Someone too deep to see that they were wrong at first, but as soon as they did, made the needed change, and then did their very best to actively sabotage and undermine authority in every possible way. It's not that I don't like the Carja we meet in the game, it's just boring that they're always "one of the good ones" so we should care about what happens to them, instead of just having Aloy murder them on sight. Someone who did some things in the name of an unworthy institution and is now trying to come back from it and do the right thing.

Thinking about all this makes me wish we could have taken down those Shadow Carja in the Daunt at the beginning of HFW, because they're still nasty and awful (but still somehow good and peaceful types?????), but Aloy and Petra are all, 'aw, poor refugees...'. Like.... Pardon me? Weren't they were 100% supportive of the murdering, crazy Sun-King who tore apart both of their tribes and are anti-Avad who wants peace with everyone. What the hell is with that?

[chronically-ghosted]

✨get to know your moots!✨

thank you thank you thank you to @sp00kymulderr and @perotovar for the tags!

What's the origin of your blog title? from the song boogeyman by dead posey, it reflects my deep seated desire to be hunted like a prey animal by one of pedro's many competent characters and finally give my overactive anxiety a real fucking reason to panic.

OTP(s) + Shipname: Been a hot minute since I shipped anything other than me and whatever pedro's flavor of the week is, but looking at my ao3 tim rockford and shane morrisey (@perotovar what's their ship name), aloy/avad (horizon series), and father john pruitt and this pu$$y.

Favourite colour: tbd but dark green or purple

Favourite game: all time? horizon zero dawn. currently? fields of mistria - yall the brainrot is so real and deep and i need to spend every waking hour harvesting my crops or repairing bridges or giving every goddamn shiny stone to Balor in hopes that he'll fuck me in his wagon

Song stuck in your head: Stayed Gone from the Hazbin Hotel soundtrack (for all of you who thought i was mysterious i hope you appreciate me showing my whole ass for this)

Weirdest habit/trait? I need a fucking chapstick on my lips and lotion on my hands or i will explode. my husband legitimately has a stash of chapstick and lotion in his car and in the house in case of emergencies.

Hobbies: thinking about writing, videogames, watching youtube essays and getting fed up with it and going back to nebula like an abused housewife

If you work, what's your profession? project coordinator, but i'm going back to school to get my license as an LCP so i can counsel people with addictions and their families.

If you could have any job you wish, what would it be? "I don't particularly dream of having a job, I dream of not having to work." <- real talk from @sp00kymulderr so i'm just gonna leave that.

Something you're good at: escapism

Something you're bad at: getting work done when i'm anxious

Something you love: the picture my husband gave me of our wedding for my desk at work, HotWorx, Dieter Bravo, and that little heart-shaped patch in Pedro's beard.

Something you could talk about for hours off the cuff: how late-stage capitalism effectively ruined fandom, in conjunction with the pandemic allowing the normies to find fandom spaces.

Something you hate: when i forget crucial little details that make my life easier (like putting tweezers in my purse)

Something you collect: men's hearts weird and cozy baseball caps

Something you forget: my own fucking head if it wasn't attached to my body

What's your love language? acts of service

Favourite movie/show: rn Severance (i'm rewatching the first season with my husband and i'm catching all these little things and alsdjkfalsdkj we don't get tv with this much care any more) and movie rn is the 2018 Suspiria (cuz it was the first one I thought of)

Favourite food: chicken and white bean soup

Favourite animal: my dog specifically

What were you like as a child? overconfident, a reader, dramatic

Favourite subject at school? english always and forever, but i did take an economics class in college that i thoroughly enjoyed

Least favorite subject? Maths <- once again, gideon with the correct answer

What's your best character trait? i think therapy can fix everyone because people are fundamentally good

What's your worst character trait? i think therapy can fix everyone because people are fundamentally good

If you could change any detail of your day right now what would it be? brought my fucking tweezers in my purse

If you could travel in time who would you like to meet? this might sound signal-virtue-y but Rosa Parks. What she and the rest of the NAACP did for community-building and protests is something that has been lost in time. we lost our unions and our local chapters of these social organizations and now we are more lonely than ever AND we are fucking powerless to fight back against an increasingly fascist government. (i think the isolation epidemic in this era is one topic i could yell about forever about too)

Recommend one of your favourite fanfics (spread the love!): going through old favorites:

making out to pablo honey by @mothandpidgeon

An End to Drought by @almostfoxglove

lotus-eaten postcard by @harehart (hope i tagged the right person bc i originally found it on ao3)

Forgot to tag!: @almostfoxglove @jolapeno @tinytinymenace @penvisions @quinnnfabrgay-writes

[auntie-coagulant]

Latest Fanfics: a little writer meme

Rules: post the beginning lines of your most recent 10 published fanfics, then attempt to tag 10 people!

Thanks for the tag @pikapeppa - been running a little low on confidence and enthusiasm lately and this stirred it up 💖

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'Quiet is a Curse' ('The Pitt', gen, Robby character study, rated T)

There are a few constants working in medicine: You never say the q-word. Nothing ever happens when you're ready and waiting for it. Everything stops eventually - be it bleeding or the worst shift of your career.

2. Right Foot in the Roses (Left Foot on a Landmine) ('Horizon: Forbidden West', Kotallo/Fashav, rated M)

Fashav enters Hekarro's quarters at ease only to freeze at the sight of the scroll in his chief's hands.

3. Bandage Up the Trenches ('Horizon', Erend/Avad, rated E):

Of all the faces Erend expects to see in Hidden Ember, Garduf Ealdorman's is certainly not amongst them.

4. The Lady With the Lamp ('Horizon Zero Dawn', Tom Paech/Charles Ronson, rated M):

"A little something to take the edge off?"

5. Better Than Fiction ('Horizon: Forbidden West', Aloy/Kotallo/Hekarro, rated T)

It's the scrolls on his pillow that tell him Aloy is back, rather than the woman herself.

6. A War-Chief's Work (Horizon Zero Dawn, gen, Sona character study, rated T)

Sona's life has always been a study in contrasts - hard and soft, mother and warrior, merciless War-Chief and the one who pressed kisses to scraped knees and feverish foreheads.

7. Where's Your Sense of Romance? (Horizon, Nil/Balahn, cracky giftfic, rated E)

It should probably concern Balahn that his body's response to waking with the cold kiss of steel at his throat is the sharp thrill of arousal.

8. The Finest of Oseram Engineering (Horizon, Aloy/Erend/Petra, mentioned past Aloy/Avad, rated E)

There's something intensely vulnerable about not being able to see Petra as her calluses set fire to his skin, soothing strokes along his spine in devastating contrast to the incendiary press of her fingers inside of him.

9. Symbiosis (Horizon Zero Dawn, Travis/Elisabet, rated M)

Travis tends to divide his life into 'befores' and 'afters': the Before when he was a good little god-fearing church boy, then the After - kicked out of seminary for getting caught with a cock in his mouth. Before Idiot Army, before Project MOCKINGBIRD, before months of looking over his shoulder waiting for a black bag and the prospect of getting intimately, painfully acquainted with Sterling-Malkeet's idea of justice.

10. Brothers, Suns (Horizon Zero Dawn, Avad watching Kadaman's execution, rated M):

Avad's knuckles are white, bloodless where they grip the rail - where he stands, as ordered

Tagging (but zero pressure 💖) @mayalli @area-fiftyone

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The Harpy and The Hawk

Chapter 11

The Wedding

It was sunset, nighttime was about to cover the sky, Carja, Oseram, Nora, and Harpies all gathered at the spire to attend Aloy and Talanah’s wedding. “ You look nervous Talavad” Marad chuckled. “ Nervous?….about what?!” He laughed back. “ Oh my little hatchling is getting married…*sniff*” Lis sniffed, “ It’s okay Lis, just breathe” Gaia said as she handed her tissues. A glass cling was heard, the wedding was about to start.

Beta walked ahead, throwing flowers and feathers on the aisle. Talanah beamed at the little one and admiring how cute she is as a flower girl. She looked up and saw her love.

Aloy had a white dress and a white flower in her hair, she began to walk down the aisle, making her way to the altar. When the got there, it was silent, the Sun King cleared his throat and then spoke.

“ Friends, Family, Citizens, and Harpies. We are gathered here today to celebrate the end of our war with the winged woman. And we are also here to celebrate Sunhawk Talanah Khane Padish and Aloy Sobeck’s marriage” he spoke. “ Talanah? Do you take Aloy Sobeck to be your mate?” He asked. “ I do” Talanah said.

“ And Aloy, do you take Talanah Khane Padish to be your mate?” He asked. Aloy teared up and spoke “I do” Aloy uttered.

“ I may now pronounce you, Hawk and Harpy” The Sun King said.

Aloy spread her wings and kissed Talanah, the crowd clapped and Lis was doing her best to not uncontrollably cry her eyes out. Beta hugged Lis and Gaia hugged the two. Talavad hugged Avad, Varl and Erend cheered…and Varl saw a beautiful Harpy with tree green wings, “ Oooooooo looks like there’s another wedding coming” Erend teased Varl. “ OH…You…Shut up!” Varl said blushing as he playfully shoved Erend. Aloy and Talanah nuzzled their foreheads together and Aloy took off into the sky with Talanah to have another romantic flight.

“ This is Meridian, it’s considered a great city with the best food, ruler, spices, the best part about it, is it is peaceful. Now that the war between the Harpies is over, we can now live in peace. Now the only pests we have are rats….great!”

The End

Well, that was the Harpy and the Hawk, hope you enjoyed!