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On the day GAIA dies and Hekarro witnesses AETHER's arrival to the Grove, he happens to find a Focus laying in the dirt beneath the Vision of Faraday. He keeps it as a reminder of his new duty, unaware of what it really is. Fourteen years later, Kotallo is adrift in his new role as Marshal and reeling from the loss of the life he thought he'd have. Hekarro gives him the Focus and promises that as long as Kotallo has it, he will never be alone. He is speaking, of course, metaphorically.
Enter Aloy: hungry for friendship, curious about the new signal that just showed up in the distant west, and entirely too impatient with how slowly Kotallo is processing the sudden appearance of a teenager in his ear who insists she's not the voice of the Ten.
(or - Aloy and Kotallo become long-distance pen pals years before the events of HZD or HFW.)
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1. GAIA
2. ErendThe world was planted and tended like a garden, Zo argues, pointing out the careful seeding of each biome they've passed through and the herds of machines still dutifully executing their terraforming maintenance processes a safe distance away from them.
Exactly! Erend argues back. The world is clockwork. Elisabet and her team made up all the pieces, and now every single one of us, human and machine and animal and even your beanweed snacks are little gears in a larger process to save the Earth!
I do not think my beanweed bites are active participants in the fate of the world, Zo replies blandly, but she cannot help but be amused nonetheless.
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LAURA: I love you too
LAURA: are you scared?SHELLY: Not anymore.
LAURA: you wanna go down singing?
LAURA: *swingingSHELLY: Ha ha
SHELLY: No let’s do it
SHELLY: Let’s go down singing
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be the silver lining (like sugar on the rim) by audenrain
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
15 Jul 2022
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Aloy finds it hard to say exactly what it began. She’d blamed it on unripe berries, the first time Kotallo shot her a wry smile across the war table, his face lit pale blue from the holographic interface, and she felt an unfamiliar twisting in her gut. She wouldn’t make the connection for weeks. But then, Rost had never given her any kind of talk, except to tell her once, stiffly, that if she started to bleed between her legs, not to be concerned unless it lasted more than a week. This had been on her eleventh birthday, delivered with a stack of bandages. He had never told her that a person’s smile might one day make her stomach churn.
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22 Aug 2024
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"It wasn’t so long ago that she had scorned Avad for making his feelings known with so much danger ahead and so much still to do. She had asked herself, scornful, how he could even think of such a thing at a time like this. And all the while the same indignity had been lying in wait for her. It was mortifying to think that she had always had this potential inside of her - that it had simply been biding its time for the worst possible moment to rear its terrible head."
came for the incredible summary, stayed for the spooky cauldron, the slow build of tension, the banter, the - OK, just all of it.
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“Your messenger that intercepted us yesterday could've been spared the errand to track us down.”
The Chief’s relaxed mood drops instantly. Aloy’s next words stick in her mouth as the sharp shift in energy turns her blood to ice.
“I sent no runners for Kotallo. Is he not with your squad?”
Her hand is already fumbling at her ear, fervently stacking hope against the dread building in her gut.
"Champion," Hekarro rises, gaze hardening. "Where is my Marshal?"
Kotallo wakes in a dangerous place, but he isn't alone. Aloy and Hekarro race to recover their boy.
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Little arrow, Rost would say when she voiced her frustrations with the tribe too loudly or too often, who never looks where she's pointed before she's loosed. One day you will look for the bow that drew you back, and I hope you remember us more fondly then, no matter your quarrel with us now.
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29 May 2024
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*points furiously at Character Study tag* this fic knows what's up