#good GOD the outfits in HZD are so great but SO MANY DETAILS ugh

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Anyone care to explain to me why I keep shoveling absurd projects off on myself, like this Mass Effect/Horizon Zero Dawn crossover? X’D

Featuring: Shepard: Carja soldier, highly respected and often called to advise Sun-King Hackett along with fellow soldier Anderson on military matters. Kaidan: Banuk Shaman. I like the idea of HZD's more spiritual roles as stand ins for biotics. Garrus: Outcast Nora Brave. Originally got a temporary shunning when he was found helping and talking to outcasts, but called bullshit and decided to just up and leave the sacred lands. Eventually wound up in Meridian where he joined the hunters lodge. Liara: Nora. Daughter of High Matriarch Benezia with an 'unhealthy' interest in old world ruins that eventually gets her exiled. Tali: Oseram tinkerer and one of the very best. Travels to Meridian to expand her knowledge base and look for inspiration for new and crazier contraptions.

Also featuring: Joker: some sort of very irreverent (probably apostate) sun-priest, highly educated and very snarky, son of a noble family pawned off on the priesthood thanks to a birth defect that left him with a twisted leg which forces him to use a cane. Wrex: Oseram freebooter in charge of his own crew of mercs. Vega: Oseram guard. Lives in one of those Oseram frontier towns protecting the miners and citizens. EDI: Metal world AI they find in a ruin. Legion: Strange new form of humanoid machine spotted in the wilds but mostly written off as a wild hunter’s tale. Ashley: Nora huntress, can track and kill just about anything, lol. TIM and Cerberus: this AUs equivalent of the shadow carja

I have more thoughts about this au, maybe i’ll share them later if people seem interested XD