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Talanah spotlight for Sunhawk September! May the Sun light your way, beloved birdie!

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I fear I may have a type in fictional men and it is ALARMINGLY obvious

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shhh let my husband sleep he's tired <3

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their stage actors are cute <3 (ref photo under cut)

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they did not have to give nil a little tooth gap...but they did...and WHY 🧐 was the design/narrative team for hfw like nah he's gotta be even CUTER?? I have so many questions guerrilla, what the fuck

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Horizon: Forbidden West (2022)

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“i won’t bore you with the details”

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Seeing Nil with his beautiful treasure trail, and hairy arms has given me some great new headcanons for Carja beauty standards:

• That it is culturally expected throughout the Sundom that men shave all their body hair

• This practice started well before the Derangement amongst noblemen and Kestrels

• However during the Red Raids, it was made law by the Mad King… an insidious propaganda to instill an “othering” of tribes

• It was also a punishable offense in the military if you were caught sporting a hairy chest/legs/arms

• Nora/Tenakth/Oseram/Banuk were “savage”, “boorish” and “bestial” because they did not shave

• After the Liberation, this practice lingered on due to continued xenophobia amongst the Carja towards other tribes

Nil, when we meet him in HZD, still very much partakes in these Carja beauty practicies despite being ostracized and feared by his peers - ostensibly an outsider.

His journey to the Forbidden West, and assimilation into the Tenakth is incredibly liberating for him, as he not only begins to let his body hair grow, but he also shaves off his Carja styled facial hair, and covers his tattoos.

He is able to embrace his “otherness”, both on a physical and mental level, and find solace and kin. Which is possibly another reason why he doesn’t have the same bloodlust/sociopathic tendencies that came across in HZD.

IMO he doesn’t undergo transformation as much as he has an amazing catharsis.

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"The threat of every turn, each well-placed strike, the arrow that grazes the skin? It’s a dance that holds death close, at the perfect distance. Repeatable and therefore perpetual."

Some super-quick portraits of the Racer Squad, for fic purposes! From top to bottom: Josekk, Attah, Elottak, Haxx, Wikkoh, Pekka, and -- last but NEVER least -- Red Teeth.

(Helmet off beneath the cut - just in case anyone hasn't finished the races yet!)

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Men covered in blood y’know what I mean??

( I cant believe I was able to make this, Im pretty proud of myself rn!)

(Also I wont post this anywhere else bc theres people that think im pretty normal out there lmao)

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Nil.

He was my crush in HZD.

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so excited to share the in-game sprites i've been hard at work on for @focusontheheart! if you pick the Nil route, these are just two variations of the paperdoll sprites you'll see!

(they're spreading misinformation on the internet or cyberbullying Nemesis or something idk)

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Niloy November Day 21: Reputation

Nil footage from @kittleskittle, HZD from @ladyverena Horizon Zero Dawn (2017) | Horizon Forbidden West (2022)

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An assortment of memes for a delightful niloy fic im reading by @poppypopp

Last but not least

Aloy throughout the entire fic