#horizon text posts

[hellcheercaine]

This is all Seyka ask for, really.

[galoogamelady]

Hey I saw you deleted most of your stuff off twitter. Just wanna check it isnt gone forever right?

Like it's on here ans insta right?

😞 because i love your art it's incredible and I'd hate for it to be lost because of a rat.

I didn't delete my account, but I deleted all my posts because while I don't expect to return there, I also don't want bots to take over my account or scammers impersonating me. I'm afraid those posts are gone for good, but pretty much all of the art I posted there was posted here too. This blog is my most complete "gallery" of everything I've posted online.

The only twitter exclusive shitpost I miss is that one Cyberpunk screenshot of the guy with the HUGE ass. But I did download my archive before nuking the account, so it should be here somewhere... Just haven't had the time to go through it all.

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

Quen scholars would pay any amount of shards for a Focus full of text posts and memes; who know what wisdom might be uncovered in the memes of the Ancestors?

Horizon Text Posts: Previous

[the-future-is-chrome]

i love how horizons was originally supposed to have only two protagonists but liko and roy ended up collecting two more gremlins to drag along. one of them was pulled out of their dark dusty dungeon and the other was probably found in a cardboard box on the side of the road

[onionowt]

I found funny comments on tiktok

[scraftyisthebest]

Liko's kindness and empathy are the core of her being and character, but I find the foil between her and especially Amethio to be interesting to think about. Liko is a hero and the protagonist, but her battling style has developed a more cunning and pragmatic edge that highlights a willingness to play dirty and manipulate and deceive others to gain the upper hand and win combined with a chaotic ruthlessness that stops at nothing to achieve victory. In other words, a battle style rooted in dishonor and tactics traditionally considered "evil", as well as a willingness to bend the rules to her favor. Amethio on the other hand was the first of the Explorers members Liko met, who are the antagonists, but Amethio has always firmly believed in the principles of fighting fair and attacking head-on, fighting honorably and playing by the rules.

Liko has battled Amethio and Sidian the most out of all of the Explorers, who are both defined by a strong code of honor and a nobility that is rooted in devotion to protecting their allies. Liko shares their noble spirit as her true strength shines when she fights for others, and her kindness and empathy make her someone who cares deeply for others. But while Amethio and Sidian fight honorably and fairly, playing by the rules, Liko takes on a more cunning, strategic, and ruthless battling style that incidentally takes more after Coral and Chalce. She has Coral's boldness and ruthlessness, stopping at nothing to achieve results combined with a willingness to bend the rules in her favor in order to do so, but she also has Chalce's calculating, pragmatic precision and crafty cunning that is predicated on studying her opponent, exploiting their weak spots, and predicting and outplaying them while retaliating with precision.

What this highlights about Liko is that her path to strength isn't in forgoing her kindness but rather pairing it with adaptability. Her kindness and empathy are her core traits, and they have always been both her greatest strength and greatest weakness. Early on her kindness and compassion were a weakness because she was inflexible in how she expressed it. She thought kindness meant bending over backwards and putting others' desires over her own even if it came at the expense of herself because she didn't want to hurt others. It came to a head when she threw in the towel against Wakaba back in Episode 20 where she did in fact unintentionally hurt her by throwing in the towel, because she felt disrespected. But she's learned (and is growing into it) that to make kindness a strength, she must learn to be flexible and adaptable, and that means sometimes doing things that outwardly appear mean and cruel, even if it's rooted in her compassion for others and desire to protect the people and Pokemon she loves. When she can go for the non-violent, compassionate way to solve a problem, she'll do it, like she did with the Vileplume in Episode 94. But when push comes to shove, she'll stop at nothing to take someone down, even if it appears harsh or cruel. Sometimes kindness must be expressed through ferocity, as contradictory as that sounds. Even in other situations she's not afraid to mince words and deliver the harsh truth, like when she angrily called out Coral and Sidian in Episode 95 and called out Uruto in Episode 96 over his insistence on going it alone. She may appear mean in those situations, but she knows what needs to be said and says it without restraint. She isn't afraid to put her foot down and be fierce and stern: sometimes, that is kindness.

Her pragmatism, cunning, and ruthlessness and ability to take on a crueler and fierce edge despite being a benevolent and noble person at heart seems paradoxical: a seemingly kind and benevolent person expressing traits that are seen as traditionally "evil". But it reflects a strong sense of adaptability. She may be kind, but she doesn't bow before the world, and that flexibility works to her advantage.

Then you look at other end: while Amethio and Sidian represent traditional values of honor in how they act, they are an ironic case where strict adherence to a traditional code of honor can become a liability rather than an asset. Amethio tended to lose a lot because he's so adamant in adhering to his sense of honor and fighting fair that he will never resort to underhanded and sneaky tactics to win, even if it would be more efficient for him to do so. It leads to his repeated failures, and eventually Spinel able to use his good nature and inclination to help even his adversaries against him to frame him. Sidian is a similar case where he fights honorably, and the liability of such a rigid mindset and adherence to traditional honor principles showed in his match with Tulip against Rika. He sacrificed his Garganacl and made it faint to protect Tulip's Espathra, even though it cost them the match, and Tulip and Rika both express dissatisfaction with him throwing in the towel, but he says he can't let his ally suffer just so he can win, and that a "disgraceful" victory is not a victory in his book. While honor may be an asset at times, rigid adherence to traditional honor principles can be a liability.

And then you have Coral, who's on the far other extreme. Liko's battling style is incidentally becoming more like hers, with the same chaotic ruthlessness and "take the opponent down no matter what" approach combined with a willingness to bend rules. But Coral's motives for her disregard for the rules are generally more selfish and rooted in personal desire for victory, using her battles as a means to let loose and show off how strong she is, and she does it so liberally that she does it in situations where she's actively punished for bending the rules rather than rewarded. She's seen as a liability by her allies because her recklessness ends up turning even her allies into collateral damage, even if she's efficient at getting the job done. It came to a head in her and Kofu's battle against Larry where Coral had Glalie use Self-Destruct: it worked, knocking both of Larry's Pokemon out, but because Kofu's Wugtrio became collateral damage and Coral's own Glalie fainted, Larry won by default, and Larry then coldly told her that her personal headcanon rules won't be accepted in real world society. Chalce hasn't shown much of herself so far, but she has the same pragmatic, calculating, and cunning battle style that Liko has taken on, though given her nature she hasn't really used it to claim victory at all costs, but rather to stall time until she manages to do something, because she's very much committed to performing her duties. Ie "I've got a job to do, and I can't let you get in my way". I'd still love to see her and Liko butt heads more directly (Meowscarada vs Medicham lgi).

It's interesting because aside from Liko being a foil to just about everyone on the opposing end it has strong implications for how Liko could end up growing into a formidable foe against Spinel. Spinel is someone who isn't particularly threatening on his own: his power comes from his reliance on using others for his own personal gain and manipulating other people to his advantage. Namely, he thrives on his understanding of peoples' characters and exploiting them. And his ability to exploit people and their characters is reliant on people being predictable and acting exactly how he thinks they will. That's how he's able to use both his enemies and his allies alike to his advantage. For better or worse, Amethio, Coral, Sidian, and Chalce are all so straightforward and honest that they're predictable. Well on Chalce's end, Spinel thinks she's predictable at least. Even Gibeon was a very predictable person. His schemes always worked because he's able to exploit a very predictable and rigid group of people. He took advantage of Amethio's good nature and inclination to help others, even adversaries, to frame him and eliminate him from the picture, combined with Gibeon's intolerance of perceived betrayal stemming from his bitterness over what happened 100 years ago. He regularly exploits Coral and Sidian's battle-loving tendencies to let them do the dirty work, as well as Chalce's intellectual pragmatism and non-emotional commitment to her assigned missions to add to it. His rise to power took advantage of the good press and reputation Exceed had built worldwide to make himself look like a good public figure, using the public trust Exceed had gained to make his schemes effective worldwide.

Even on the RVTs end most of the people there aren't very flexible. Friede is the closest who's come to being unpredictable, relying on intuition alone to win against Spinel's calculated strategy, but beyond that he's a pretty honest person. Roy and Dot are both very straightforward people as well: what you see is what you get with them. Even Uruto who's joined the kids now is a very headstrong and brash person, though he might be hiding some other side of him even if he's a good guy. But Liko's growing adaptability and flexibility both in battle and out of it will work to her advantage because it makes her uniquely suited to go against someone who thrives on exploitation and predictability of his targets. Spinel was able to exploit her kind nature early in the series by setting up a trap for her that he knew she'd fall for. But Liko as she is now and who she's on her way to being will end up becoming someone Spinel can't easily exploit. He won't be able to take advantage of her kind and compassionate nature because she's becoming the kind of person where her kindness does not preclude the ability to be fierce or her willingness to do cunning, ruthless, and underhanded tactics to achieve her aims, in addition to showing an angrier and crueler side that won't show any mercy to someone as despicable as him. That kind of flexibility where she's able to be a genuinely nice person but can flip to a meaner side in the flip of a dime is a kind of duality that can be a strength, as Liko's "darker" side will be something that can undoubtedly throw Spinel off guard because it will be completely antithetical to what Spinel would expect from someone like her.

[ena-the-eepy]

I got a papercut while drawing Spinel

I’m gonna make him pay for his crimes.

He shall be sacrificed like a lamb or smth idk the bibel

[dotdotdottiedot]

Pokemon is so inefficient

like fuck your charizard if you wanna defeat evil grandpa beat the shit out of him. He’s old as hell he’ll die within minutes

Pokemon horizons would be so much better if they beat the shit outta each other, I’m talking alien stage ruler of my heart shit beating here

fuck it, it’s the modern era make rotom guns. Or at least let your pokemon kill somebody

Like why would you aim for the tanked up shield dog when you could just shoot the owner with a fucking hyper beam

This is why I respect Ash Ketchum, he dabbled in beating the shit out of his enemies. Modern day Pokemon protagonists are just like “oh no what do we do?” “What’s going on?”

Like seriously magical monster things show up and yall forget how to kick ppl in the balls ITS SO EASY

[beetlerings]

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Can y’all pretty please send me drawinf requests for jrwi characters u wanna see , perghaps ones I’ve barely / never drawn before , sum niche blorbos

Looks at u with my big wet eyes and bats my eyelashes

[hellcheercaine]

Aloy is definitely full of love, when it comes to her friends, sister and Seyka.

[star3synth]

drawing more pokemon characters in my art style/ with my headcanons!

horizons/ sun and moon/ diamond and pearl edition! :)

headcanons i incorporated for dot:

- changed their hair slightly to be more open/ less near their face (partly on purpose and partly because of the pokemon anime curse of “i can never draw any of these characters’ hairstyles correctly lol”)

- gave them freckles because why not :]

- the nonbinary flag pin on their sweater i put there because i headcanon that dot is nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns. i vibe extremely hard with this headcanon because in my opinion dot gives off strong nonbinary vibes

- added other accessories such as the hairclips + gave them earrings for fun

headcanons i incorporated for dawn:

- i changed the clips in her hair to flower clips! i headcanon that she would have multiple sets of hairclips that she interchanges based on the outfit that she is wearing :]

- the “i can’t draw pokemon anime hairstyles correctly” curse struck again here but it’s less noticeable this time around lol

- added more accessories such as the smaller hairclips and the necklace that she is wearing

- i changed her skintone to be a bit more tan than in canon and gave her freckles, i incorporated these changes because i think they would make sense given that she does spend a lot of time outdoors

headcanons i incorporated for lillie:

- changed her hairstyle to be more wavy than it is in the canon series (guys look i changed a pokemon anime hairstyle entirely on purpose are you proud of me /j)

- i gave her an outfit that is more androgynous than her normal canon outfits because i headcanon that she would like wearing both masc and fem clothing

[horizon-forbidden-memes]

I'm so excited to play the entirely fan-made game Focus On The Heart! Congrats to all of the @focusontheheart team for working so hard on this game! To celebrate its upcoming release, here is some silliness (affectionate) with the eight eager love interests and the Savior of their hearts, Aloy.

Can't wait to see every character! Gotta woo them all!

[the-future-is-chrome]

all my favorite characters are literally just

neurodivergent teenage girl with trauma

neurodivergent teenage girl with trauma

spongebob :3

[robo-dino-puppy]

I'm alive (theoretically)! I'm almost ready to start putting things up on the armor gallery <- view in a desktop browser for best results pls

the consensus from this post seems to be to keep the sky portion which is fine with me, but last call if you want to make your opinion known! next question:

ok it's not super obvious when the pics are tumblr-sized, but any thoughts on if should I have the shield overlay not visible (left) or visible (right) on the shield-weaver? or both since there will be two images? no overlay with no headgear/visible with headgear maybe?

also I'd still love to find someone knowledgeable in current CSS/javascript/tumblr theme making (my CSS is many years out of date, I don't know js, and while I'm sure I could make a theme I simply don't have the spare brainpower to do it right now). the dropdown menus work on desktop but are iffy at best on mobile, and while I tried to make the theme* responsive to screen size changes, I'm sure it could be done better.

From what I understand of javascript (admittedly very little), a js dropdown menu would work much better on touchscreens - but if there's some sophisticated CSS that would also do the job I'd love to hear about it!

so if anyone wants to help me out in this area, I (and probably anyone who uses the armor gallery) would greatly appreciate it 🙏

*the theme I modified is like... ancient... and doesn't support NPF. which is not exactly a problem because before the old post editor went the way of the dinosaurs, I created *checks blog* 316 drafts in the old format. lol. lmao, even. I may not be good at planning but I AM good at hoarding! still, a theme that's up to current tumblr (and HTML/CSS) standards would be nice.

[chaoticgoodcrow]

Liko in a magician/ phantom thief outfit (sketch)! design inspiration below :3

[horizon-series-details]

“Savior of Meridian” is a track I had initially thought I wouldn’t have much to say about, as despite it being a little over 2.5 minutes long, it starts out incredibly similar to “Edge of the Sundom” from disc 2, due to it using the same melody from “City on the Mesa” from Zero Dawn as a leitmotif. However, I can say I was pleasantly surprised, as yes, it’s leitmotif heavy, but there’s still quite a bit to bring up.

First and foremost, this song is from disc 3 of the Forbidden West OST, and it plays while Aloy and Varl are talking to Blameless Marad. It’s only heard in Meridian, so players only have one chance to hear it in-game.. But onto the actual analysis.

As mentioned, it opens with the main melody from City on the Mesa, right at (0:05). It’s played by a string instrument in a lower octave, and played slowly as well to give off calmer vibes. At (0:16) we hear another string instrument begin to fade in as an accompaniment. As it’s only there for support, we only hear the second strings in the background. Things do take a turn at (0:57) , as instead of what they’ve been doing, they instead pull the melody from “The World on her Shoulders” from the ZD OST

This new melody starts to become the main focus past (1:00). At (1:17) we have a flute coming to add to the main melody. After a few seconds of silence, the leitmotif from Meridian comes back, with noticeably more synth in the background.

(2:01) makes it feel even more like part of “The World on her Shoulders was just dropped into this track, specifically due to the higher amounts of synth in the back. By (2:12) we do get some variation, as we hear a small counter melody. (2:19). By (2:25) though, we have a decrescendo, marking the end of the track by (2:35).