#hfw story

[robinpixels]

did a lil doodle for hfw's anniversary!! this series will always tug on my found family heartstrings 💖

#hzd #hfw #horizon forbidden west #varl #aloy #beta #beta hfw #i may have my qualms w hfw's story #but this series overall often feels like home for me #and i cherish what it's brought me as much as i can #love yall!!! #my art

[robo-dino-puppy]

red teeth

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #red teeth #nil #the *eyes* in this game #you zoom in real close and there's even like a little bit of moisture 'pooling' at the bottom of the eyeball #(guerrilla pls spend as much time on the story for h3 as you did on the details for hfw) #hfw nil #hfw npcs

[padmerrie]

THE SNARK

i’m obsessed with the different sides of kotallo’s personality and how he opens himself up to aloy and the gaia gang over the course of the game.  as you get to know him, he’s also getting reacquainted with who he was before he lost his arm.  heck, maybe even before he became a marshall.  it’s just really satisfying to see the changes in him when he truly allows himself to start healing, both physically and emotionally.  in short, I LOVE HIM.   

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #kotallo #padmerrie plays horizon #out of all the companions he had the best character development both in terms of story and pacing #i'd even argue that it was better than aloy's

[anaugust]

It was supposed to be a quick doodle so I'm not the proudest of this one but it's cute so I'm posting it

#I'm making fan art of cute sapphics in love because it's easy #it's cute and pleasant to draw #but I'm not very romantic and neither I'm a fan of love stories #aloy #seyka #seyloy #hfw #horizon forbidden west #burning shores

[miraculousagentsofkrypton]

Aloy acting like a nervous wreck around her first crush is exactly how I pictured her. I love that they went that direction because it fleshes out her character. It makes her feel more real when she's this larger than life hero who also stumbles over her words around a girl. Who isn't sure she's ready and gets overwhelmed at all the new and complicated relationships she's had to deal with for the first time in her life. Who has all these new feelings that she doesn't know what to do with or how to handle.

Seyka may not be the perfect person for her, who knows, Aloy certainly doesn't, but that's not how feelings work. You don't just automatically know if a person will be your endgame, but you know how they make you feel. And I really liked seeing that in Burning Shores.

#do have to agree with everyone whos mad its ps5 exclusive tho #got really frustrated with the YouTube vids not talking to who I wanted them too #but i love this story too much to not watch #horizon burning shores #burning shores spoilers #burning shores #hzd #hfw #hfw spoilers #horizon forbidden west #horizon games #seyka #seyloy #aloy #aloy x seyka

[the-horizon-lounge3041]

A Special Request

Told by Elisabet Sobeck

My life is flashing before my eyes, I can’t think straight, my heart is pounding, my body is shaking, I can’t breathe steady as I get off my goodbye to my Zero Dawn allies call. This…this was it….the world was about to end…I…I’m keeping my fingers crossed that Gaia has everything thing ready to repair the biosphere. As I wait in my childhood home I think of everything….my mother, Tilda, Ted, everyone who was on board with project Zero Dawn….and Gaia…probably one of the things I’m most proud of and thankful that she learned to feel.

I sit still thinking about her all while looking at my old family photos of me and my mom on the farm together….suddenly I hear echoes in my mind. “You often tell stories of your mother…but you are childless.” Gaias voice echoed. “I never had time…guess it was.. for the best” I replied. I don’t know what got into me but I started crying, I really wish it didn’t have to come to the apocalypse for me to get upset about never having my own offspring. I found my self repeating what I told Gaia.

“I guess I would’ve wanted…her…to be..curious. And willful…unstoppable even…but with enough compassion to…..heal the world…just a little bit.”

I shed many tears after saying that, thinking of what my little baby girl would’ve been like, what it would’ve been like to hold her…to take care of her…to be there for her when she needed me. I sat in silence for a while, then a thought hit me, I immediately called Gaia and was about to ask her something I never thought I’d ask.

“Greetings Elisabet. Are you all right? Everything is set in place for your plan..” Gaia spoke, I replied that I was fine and I have a massive favor to ask her, this might be a lot to ask but I have a special request.

“Oh! And what might that be?” Gaia hummed gently.

I took a deep breath and spoke.

“I want you…to give birth to my daughter using the Eleuthia 9 cradle that will rebirth the human race….I know it sounds crazy but…I never had time to embrace motherhood as I wanted to years ago…I…I just want to give my daughter whoever she may be in the future a life and a chance… and if she finds this message…I want to tell her: I love you…and I am your mother.”

Gaia gently smiled and agreed, she already had my DNA sampled and she told me that she was already planning and recreating her creator in some way, and I told her that I want her to be her own person not just a complete redo of me…she is her own person and will make her own choices, I know I unfortunately won’t be there to guide you little girl…but Gaia will once you find her, and when you do I hope you find this message as well….

I thanked Gaia and fell asleep…for the last time ever probably…

I love you little girl, and I can’t wait for you to see the world when you are born.

Dr. E. Sobeck’s suit: initiating cryogenic sleep….

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #beyond the horizon #aloy #aloysobeck #elisabet sobeck #Elisabet and Aloy #Gaia #aloy despite the nora #hfw #beta sobeck #beta #hfw aloy #aloy horizon #aloy and elisabet #elisabet x tilda #tilda van der meer #ted faro #writing #art #artcommunity #story #storyart #drawing #cute #sweet #what if #headcanon #horizon fandom #horizon fanart

[dreamer-oriented-express-1]

New poll...for anyone who comes across it!😊

#random polls #tumblr polls #favorite characters #cal kestis #star wars jedi survivor #silco #arcane silco #dagan gera #jedi survivor #aloy #hfw aloy #loki #marvel #loki series #feyd rautha #dune part 2 #michael langdon #american horror story #john wick #john wick fandom #thank you #please vote

[fantasy-girl974]

~ Cozy Morning ~ Fanfic by @grexigone / Co-Creator: me

Grexi once again wrote a wonderful soft fic based on my art, AND I'M DED... ONCE AGAIN 💖✨

Go read it people if you want to have some wonderful and lovely Soft in your day, especially Kotaloy 😌💕

#kotaloy #aloy x kotallo #kotallo x aloy #kotallo #aloy #Grexi! thank you again for your reference pic! 💕 #it was totally them 😌 #fun fact : I almost forgot his tattoos here 😂 #AND GO READ HER SOFT BEAUTIFUL STORY YOU GUYS #I'VE MELTED MYSELF #hfw #horizon forbidden west #art #artists on tumblr #my art #myart #fanart #illustration #digital art #mature #fantasygirl974 art

[rodoboo]

Just me projecting my LOVE for sawtooths onto Aloy...I want them as a perma-mount damnit!

#hfw #aloy #beta hfw #sawtooth #hzd #my art #comic #give me buck toothed acne aloy and beta or give me death. end of story

[aloytalanaheverywhere]

“The seemingly endless night filled with confusion, battles, rage and red, so much red, had just begun its eerie bleed into the early dawn hours, skies becoming soft. As the team rested in well deserved slumber, or tended to each others’ wounds, allowed a chance to recover, Aloy stared listlessly at the campfire, anxiety gnawing something awful in her gut. She knew it wouldn’t abate until every member of her crew had returned from the fight that may as well have been a machine slaughter of the tribes.

It was quiet, almost deafeningly so, only sounds emanating from the crackle coming from the burning wood, the occasional spark snapping loudly in the peace, or a pained groan carried above in the chilly breeze. And then a small crunch came from behind her, quiet, growing, rhythmic and heavy. Aloy’s head shot up, hand instinctively landing over her bow’s riser, before stilling.

Stepping into the smokey vicinity, shadowed but washed in hazy lilac glow, the hunched form was unmistakable even before the warm glow of campfire cast over her weary expression. Brilliant turquoise Carja silk was still visible, a distinguishing enough feature on its own, but unnecessary to determine by familiar eyes. Such beautiful silks were also dyed dark with complimentary red; unnecessary as well.

Aloy shot up from her seat, reaching the Carja woman in brief bounds, hardly giving the huntress time to stand, let alone brace her tired body to absorb Aloy’s colliding force. Strong arms wrapped around her, squeezing breathtakingly tight, freckled face burrowing into the dirt-ridden skin of her neck and inhaling deeply. Relief washed over her at the sight, the feel, the scent, dousing her in a wave of chill water, prickling Aloy’s skin in response.

The lump in her throat, born out of hours filled with worry, bobbed uncomfortably and threatened to be breathed to life as a sob. But she fought back, stifled the tears which were welled and ready to spill. She had seen the wound, still fresh and angry, bleeding, dripping. She had seen the battered fatigue in the Sunhawk’s face. Aloy had to be strong. She could never reveal how weak she had felt all night not knowing if she’d see all of her friends again after that fight; if she’d see Talanah again.

But when she felt a hand lazily reach to her shoulders, threading through her unruly hair, holding, squeezing, anchoring them both with her last bit of strength before tiredly falling into Aloy’s supportive arms, Aloy let herself completely fall apart then too.”

idk the narrative idea came up as i was working on the drawing. if anyone wants to continue it and make it longer, go for it. just lemme know :) and yay i gotta digital art pad! fanart here we come

#my art #aloy x talanah #hawk n thrush #hfw #aloy/talanah #talanah khane padish #fanart with a story #sweet angst

[legionofpotatoes]

been playing bits and pieces of horizon forbidden west! game's pretty as hell

#horizon forbidden west #photo mode #my edits #yannow. it got me thinking too. the npc fidelity in this game is off the fucking shits. never seen anything like it #even ​secondary dialogues are leaving all the competition in the dust. it's an insane level of work #major burnout red flags for sure. but also maybe talking about engines as specialized tools instead of ubiquitous ones isn;t so bad? #i mean there's definitely trends. ramming down RPGs down frostbite's throat has never worked well #while decima is tearing up the open worlds and tech fidelity quotas like nbd even on prev gen #is it really about implementation at this point #maybe some engines just. work best for certain types of hard goals. and choosing that right is what matters #i pkayed this after ragnarok and that game looks embarassing next to hfw. and I'm not even saying it flippantly. I stand by what i've said #shorter games less scope lower fidelity etc. for healthier dev teams. but this can be a scalability tell tale? maybe using something #like decima can mean an easier time for a standard EA dev cycle *without* hitting these insane fidelity goals. just thinking out loud #cause forever salty about frostbite. probably wrong but hey! I am on a blogging website famous for its phobia of deeper contexts #or maybe playing as aloy gave me that stupid self confidence juice #the way she bulldozes into delicate foreign policies with nothing but her ego and hutzpah really proves that whiteness is alive and well #in whatever variant of post-post-apocalypse this story is set into. they better interrogate her issues cause otherwise this plot will like #fizzle out under the weight of her self-righteousness lmao

[robo-dino-puppy]

racers by the campfire

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #elottak #pekka #i was able to plop aloy down right between them and it looks like they're listening to a story or something :D #hfw npcs #hfw racers #hfw gauntlet runs #chromatichorizon

[spearxwind]

Im playing Horizon Forbidden West for the first time and as soon as a i saw the slitherfang i thought of your blog lol (its so cool i love the robot designs in this game)

YESSSS SLITHERFANGS MY FUCKING AMOR!!!!! MY BELOVEDS!!!! MI VIDA!!!

Super glad they remind you of my blog... truly I am doing things right. Big ass robot snake house (my blog) with bigass robot snake (my guy)

#i didnt enjoy the story of this game as much as i liked the story of the first one #but damn if the designs of the robots dont slap super fucking hard #hzd #hfw #ask #anon

[anaugust]

#I forgot about this already #I made this during my lunch break #“lunch” lol #I don't eat lunches tbh but that's a different story #zoloy #zo #aloy #hfw #horizon forbidden west #hzd #horizon zero dawn #aloy despite the nora

[silverlombaxwitch]

Happy Horizon FW anniversary!!!!!

2 more months till the DLC!! Woohoo very excited!! ✨✨

#Looking back I drastically changed my art style... #Also woahh this game is so cool the graphics the representation the story the CHARACTERS!!! #AUGHHH #Might replay hfw soon when dlc drops #Horizon forbidden west #Horizon zero dawn #Hfw #Hzd #Aloy #Horizon aloy #Aloy Sobeck #Hfw Aloy #my art #fanart #silverlombaxwitch

[padmerrie]

It’s bad enough I had to watch Varl die in the most undignified and shallow way ever, but then I have to sit through 30 minutes of Tilda talking about art and Elisabet and space???  All over breakfast????  I’m sorry, but where was the option for Aloy to flip over the table?

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #varl #aloy #padmerrie plays horizon #OH! and let’s not forget the tour through the art gallery #bc that’s exactly what i want to do after watching my bff get murdered #>_< #yep i'm back on this #i finished the game last week (finally!) and now that it's done i'm left to dwell on my thoughts #as someone who LOVED hfw the info dumping through dialogue was out of control #hfw didn’t have the slow burn reveals like hzd #*except for Faro's Tomb which was PERFECTION #the writing was a lot less nuanced overall and there were definitely some questionable narrative choices #there are things i can overlook but the third act of the main story really rattled my trust in the writers…. #:/