#avad/kotallo

[chanihobbit]

Commissioned this wonderful art from the amazingly talented @kittleskittle and I‘m just over the moon at how wonderful this turned out!

Thank you so much for this! ❤️

Summary for the accompanying story Close to the Sun:

After the fight against the Zeniths, Kotallo follows Sun-King Avad’s invitation to travel to Meiridan and attend a second embassy. The events take a dark turn, when Kotallo and Avad find themselves in the midst of another coup attempt.

[meggannn]

avad excited to finally ditch the crown to join aloy and leave the sundom, arriving at her mysterious base for his first adventure just to be greeted by a glowing machine that immediately knows his name and entire history, his missing vanguard captain and missing sunhawk, a tenakth marshal from the clan that nearly jeopardized his embassy, the first utaru brave enough to fight the carja in the red raids, and a bizarre person from an advanced imperialist nation across the world all sitting in a lounge archiving apollo and blasting jackson five while aloy is in the corner playing space invaders with one hand and coding hephaestus with the other next to her apparent fucking twin and the asshole who founded the eclipse threat that kept his brother prisoner and nearly ended the world

[paintedlight1]

Visiting the Meridian Library ☀️

[steelart]

sketch dump of stuff i'm not going to finish but was fun to do anyway

a young kotallo during his squad years (a skinny lad until later in life, imo)

avad visual novel game concepts

shitpost sketches of kotallo dressed as an oseram

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

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

[han-ban-bam]

Part 2 or our multi part angst journey 🎉 the aftermath. part 1 is here so you can see how we ended up like this

music;

the world and all its lessons (part 2) - HZD

[amanitaknowsbest]

Kotallo: They keep plotting murder.

Erend: They're playing fuck, marry, kill.

Avad: I remember this, it's an Oseram game.

Erend: Ersa loved it, but -

Avad & Erend: She'd always pick kill.

Erend: Kind of surprised Aloy's chosen to kill everyone.

Nil: I'm not surprised, she's a smart woman, has her priorities straight.

Avad: ...

Erend: ...

Kotallo: ...

Varl's Ghost: ...

Avad: How did you get inside?

@montesvitae

[horizonedits]

But I never said the tribe wouldn't need you. The strength to stand alone, Aloy, is the strength to make a stand. To serve a purpose greater than yourself. That is the lesson you must learn, and remember it.

[bakedcrossaintt]

one of my fav ship tropes with Aloy is her taking [insert love interest] on a ride with her sunwing and they have to cling to her super tightly in order to not fall off lol

[hartlesshart]

wordsmith @zerodawnkitewalker crayon user @hartlesshart

[busybee217]

For the longest time I’ve only shipped Aloy with Erend but after playing a few hours of Horizon Forbidden West I really ship her with a lot of these characters. I hope for third game they take a page out of mass effect’s book & allow the player to chose their romantic partner. (or not at all cuz some people don’t want romance in their game) it would give me a reason to play the game over and over just to see the different options. 💕🫡

[thingsasbarcodes]

Horizon Forbidden West - All Cutscenes

[meggannn]

aloy in the slack channel: everyone should be added now and assignments have been sent for the month so refresh your inboxes and ask gaia if you have any issues

erend: Go team!!

talanah: @everyone anyone want to hunt an apex stormbird with me, meet me by the west exist in 5min, bring your own arrows

varl: aloy when are you updating your icons, yours and talanahs are still the default so i keep getting you both confused

avad: Hello Am I Using This Correctly? How Is The Weather Out West?

anonymous: If you continue to fill this message board with prattle, I shall install a virus into the network that restricts you all to five messages per day before all your focuses will crash. Consider yourselves appropriately warned and do not touch the lab door for the next twelve hours, as I have cultures growing and the lab must remain at a certain temperature.

aloy: Sylens I know you know how to use mute so shut up and leave if you don't like it

alva: Hi everyone, and hi Sylens, just to let you know, I don't want to be presumptuous or anything but the plural of "focuses" is actually foci! Quen scholars have debated this rigorously, and colloquially the Old Ones said focuses all the time, but grammatically I just thought you might want to know the more accurate word!

alva: ALSO I'm so glad we can chat here now, I'll upload you all some files here so we can learn and use some terms that the Ancestors used! TTYS!!! (talk to you soon)

beta: Aloy keeps forgetting to respond to my request for admin access formally so I've hacked her account and am assigning myself a fellow moderator of this chat just to tell everyone this is for WORK ONLY. I'll make several separate threads for any other idle chat or interests, but please keep it on topic here.

kotallo: Hello, everyone. Apologies for the message, I'd just like to test that this text-to-speech function works. Send. Oh I needn't say "send"? Thank you, GAIA.

[beta has created #off-topic]

[beta has created #events-and-schedules]

[beta has created #find-a-friend-(to-take-you-down-the-mountain)]

[beta has created #old-world-resources]

erend: can we have one for music too?

[beta has created #old-world-music]

seyka: Hi all, am I doing this right?

anonymous: Enough.

[anonymous has locked this thread]

[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!

[teethstainedred]

☀️ Horizon Zodiac Sun Signs ☀️ ♈♉♊♋♌♍♎♏♐♑♒♓ These are just my opinion/speculation aside from Aloy who is the only character with a known birthdate, but I hyper-fixated on this for a while.

[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