#also the way things in zero dawn snowballed was insane

[arcane-strangeness]

whats your is one thing that you feel strongly about a fandom/media you like that no one else gets?

Aloy, from the Horizon video game series (Zero Dawn, Forbidden West) is a rat, in the way that she's constantly weaseling her way into spaces she isn't supposed to be in and causing problems on purpose. whether that's clambering around the vents in the GAIA base, climbing absurdly high buildings with zero regard for safety (much to Alva's concern, in the Leviathan quest), or brute forcing her way through social interactions (so many questions, she needs to know everything always all of the time), the outcast lifestyle definitely had a lasting impact on her lmao

she is not the voice of reason among her friends, she is the voice of "i'll do it till it's done even if it kills me" much to the concern of EVERYONE around her. someone make this girl take a break because giving her one is not gonna be enough for her to take it. she fought what was essentially a god to her, fell 30-50 feet into water below, swam a decent ways away while being shot at by essentially alien laser guns, was sucked underwater by a current, bashed into several things, thrown off a cliff face in a waterfall, bashed around some more, knocked unconscious, and still tried to get up walk around and keep going a day after the fact. the only reason she seems like a somewhat rational person is because everyone else on the goddamn planet has lost their minds. i love her <3

#horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #i feel like i see no one talk about the first half of this post. why is she like that lmao #poor aloy her problems only get bigger. she solves one and suddenly the entire planet is doomed by another big thing. this happened twice. #genuinely love aloy as a character though she takes no shit from anyone #gives no fucks about anything unimportant to her #and lets absolutely nothing stop her #horizon forbidden west spoilers #also the way things in zero dawn snowballed was insane #she is NINETEEN lemme remind you #my posts #my analysis #thank you for the ask anon i am so bored :D #was gonna make a post about this anyways sometime thanks for the opportunity