#hfw seyka

[brammariek]

some Seyka smooches in landscape and portrait for all your Seyka smooches need

#horizon forbidden west #horizon burning shores #aloy x seyka #hfw seyka #Seloy

[hoot-hoot07]

Wings of Fire x Horizon!!

Here they are! The Gaia Gang as wof dragons! I had a lot of fun with these

Sorry if the text on them is hard to read, feel free to ask for what any of them say

And as a bonus, here’s Seyka!

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #aloy #hfw aloy #hfw beta #varl #hfw varl #erend vanguardsman #hfw erend #hfw zo #kotallo #hfw kotallo #hfw alva #sylens #hfw sylens #seyka #hfw seyka #wings of fire #wof

[aloyxseyka]

I absolutely adore this love struck scene of Aloy and Seyka at Pangea Park:

Seyka: “I’m glad you’re here, Aloy. I don’t know what I would have done without you.”

Aloy: “There’s nowhere else I’d wanna be.”

#aloy and seyka #aloy horizon #aloy x seyka #horizon #horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #seyka #seyloy #lgbtq #aloy seyka #horizon forbidden west aloy #burning shores #hfw seyka #hfw aloy #aloy #aloyxseyka

[sabeedraws]

the mortifying ordeal of being cared for (by a pretty girl)

(also the mortifying ordeal of drawing armour and not knowing how to control detail)

#aloy #seyka #seyloy #horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #hfw aloy #aloy despite the nora #horizon fanart #hfw burning shores #hzd #hfw #hfw seyka #burning shores #hfwbs #hfw bs #aloy x seyka #videogames fanart #videogames #hzd fanart #sabeedraws

[mattaytchtaylor]

Horizon Forbidden West is such an incredible game. I can't stop thinking about it.

#Aloy #Aloy Sobeck #hfw aloy #Seyka #hfw seyka #aloy x seyka #seyloy #Horizon Forbidden West #hfw #Burning Shores #my art #fan art #fan poster #guerrilla games #waterwing #machine #shieldwing

[moonmarooned]

I felt inspired

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #aloy #hfw #hzd #aloy horizon #yeah #seykaloy #hfw seyka #aloy x seyka

[pymsanz]

Horizon Forbidden West : Burning Shores At Pangea Park

#horizon forbidden west #burning shores #hfw spoilers #seyloy #hfwedit #Aloy #hfw seyka #hfw aloy #aloy x seyka #playstation5 #hfw burning shores #hfw bs #gifsedit

[missmrah]

Thank you @zuri-silva for this super fun commission! 

I haven’t been able to play Burning Shores yet because until very recently I didn’t own a PS5 to play it on. Obviously certain spoilers have been totally unavoidable, but it’s just made me even more excited to play the dlc! I’m already halfway in love with Seyka simply because she has such a fabulous design, and I can’t wait to draw more of her xx

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw burning shores #aloy #hfw seyka #aloy x seyka #wlw #missmrah commissions

[silentstrike]

POV: Burning Shores is getting gayer and gayer

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw aloy #seyloy #hfw burning shores #burning shores #burning shores spoilers #hfw:bs #hfw burning shores spoilers #hfw seyka #aloy x seyka

[defaultjane-official]

#horizon forbidden west #tilda van der meer #aloy #hfw seyka #horizon forbidden west spoilers #jane's horizon edits

[giulytheflash]

A set of sweetness branded Seyloy

#horizon forbidden west #aloy #seyloy #aloy x seyka #horizon aloy #hfwedit #seyka #hfw seyka #aloy despite the nora #hfw aloy #hfw #horizon burning shores #hfw burning shores

[valerierowan]

Erend, drunk: Aloy, why does Seyka call you babygirl?

Talanah, enjoying herself immensely: Yeah Aloy, why does she?

Aloy, mortified: How about we stop talking for a little bit.

Kotallo, completely serious: I had wondered that myself.

Alva, totally ecstatic: Wait, WHAT!?

Zo, meaning well: Come you guys, it’s her first crush, leave her alone.

Sylens, seething with contempt for all of them: …I’m leaving.

Beta, trying to stay on task: Guys could we maybe pay attention to what Gaia’s saying?

Gaia, causing drama on purpose: Oh no, I want to talk about this now.

#horizon #horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw aloy #hfw erend #hfw zo #hfw kotallo #hfw talanah #hfw beta #hfw burning shores #hfw alva #hfw seyka #hfw Sylens #hfw Gaia #seyloy #yes I accidentally deleted my first version of this post #i’m new to tumblr

[kestrelgreys]

I just think that Aloy and Seyka really do deserve to take their hair down and relax in soft clothes.

#seyloy #seyka #aloy #seyka x aloy #horizon forbidden west burning shores #hfw burning shores #hfw seyka #horizon forbidden west #i just really have a lot of feelings about them okay #t h e m

[aloyxseyka]

Look at that cute smug! Aloy totally thrusted that sunwing foward on purpose 😉😏

#i cant do this #aloy and seyka #aloy horizon #horizon #horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #aloy seyka #hfw aloy #hfw seyka #lgbtq #horizon photomode #aloy x seyka #aloy despite the nora #aloy #aloy sobeck #hzd aloy #horizon forbidden west aloy #seyka #seyloy #cutest shit ever

[nico-demons]

I am experiencing brainrot!!

Them <3

#seyloy #aloy x Seyka #THE lesbians of all time #horizon burning shores #burning shores #hfw seyka #aloy #hfw #my art

[xamiipholia]

Since it’s been a year since Burning Shores came out, some thoughts on Seyka:

TL;DR: Great character, really happy with her as a love interest for Aloy. They do some really interesting things with her that I never really see addressed so I wanted to talk about them.

She is tangibly shown to be much more of a match for Aloy through gameplay. Compared to other npcs, she solves things faster, does more damage, is a much more formidable melee combatant, faster climber - she even has a fucking Valor Surge using her Focus that does pretty significant tear damage to large machines like Slaughterspines. Environmental storytelling- Seyka’s skiff has at least 2-3 Tiderippers’ worth of parts, meaning she’s been out on her own killing the things to build boat motors, and she has some ambient dialogue that strongly suggests she’s fought and killed Slaugterspines before. Is some of this npc tech advancements in Burning Shores? Maybe, but it feels intentional. 

Seyka has a natural probing curiosity about the old world that for the most part Aloy’s other companions didn’t have without some significant hand-holding from Aloy to get them started, and some of her close friend (but not base team) characters just don’t have at all. I don’t mean this as a moral judgement, everyone is different and has different strengths and priorities , but it’s absolutely critical that a partner for Aloy have that kind of curiosity - it’s such a big part of her character. While she lives in this new world, she’s never going to be entirely a part of it. Like she says, she finds belonging in individuals, and not really the tribes. I don’t really see Aloy settling down in Meridian or Mother’s Heart. She needs to have a life of exploration and discovery and Seyka seems cut from that cloth too, whether she was always that way or being marooned gave her a fresh perspective.

Seyka did risk death using the focus and decided to do it anyway- in Rheng’s notes he calls for capital punishment for her. The threat is never *too* present but honestly I think that’s a broader critique of the series and pretty consistent with the writing of conflicts in Horizon. I agree they could have played up the dramatic tension a bit, but this is a person who weighed the risk of a military execution by a totalitarian state and immediately decided it was worth it to save her sister and others. I think Aloy can intimately relate, given what she went through for Beta.

Even though it’s a DLC, she has a TON of screen time, probably comparable to Kotallo in HFW, and Horizon does SO much storytelling through gameplay and ambient dialogue. I think she’s given a LOT of narrative space to breathe. She’s also has her own musical cues and leitmotifs that do a ton of foreshadowing work through the DLC - in terms of musical cues and framing she’s very associated with the acoustic guitar, and the flute melody in ‘Her Sky, Her Sea’ has for Aloy and Seyka the same function that ‘It Can’t Last’ does for Ellie and Dina in TLOU2 - next time you play Burning Shores, listen for it. That and the guitar cues from ‘The Idea of Home’ and ‘For His Entertainment’ do a lot of emotional work. It’s great stuff.

Okay and lastly- YMMV on this one - I’ve def talked about it with friends before but I don’t think I’ve said it on Tumblr. I’m a firm believer that meta narratives and the way that stories are situated and created in our own world matter and that art deserves to be taken seriously and dissected. I love Horizon, but it, and Aloy as a protagonist, are absolutely drenched in white savior and colonial storytelling tropes. Every time I play Frozen Wilds, all I can think of is Jack Sparrow going “and then they made me their chief”. There’s a lot of iffy stuff in the games, as much as I absolutely love them. We’ll have to see how H3 goes, but Burning Shores is MUCH better about this and honestly Seyka is a huge part of it. The story centers itself on a queer woman of color who is pretty tangibly presented as Aloy’s equal with her own strengths and weaknesses throughout the story and takes the lead just as often if not more than Aloy does, which I find really refreshing. It doesn’t entirely fix Aloy’s white savior issues but I think it’s a really good move for the narrative that continues the themes found in HFW about community and connection.

Horizon Zero Dawn: The Frozen Wilds (2017)

#Seyka #horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #horizon #horizon zero dawn #guerrilla games #hzd #horizon burning shores #hfw seyka #horizon critical #The musical leitmotifs are gooooood shit #It was one of the things that really hooked me with the dlc because Horizon had never done that for a character relationship before #Also the last point is not a personal attack #I like lots of vaguely problematic things