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The Battle of the Alight is over. Back at Gaia Prime Aloy stumbles upon something hidden.
By a stroke of luck, new possibilities arise with someone long dead. Dreams might become real, but Aloy will find that nothing is ever easy, and sometimes the things she's dreamed about, might not survive reality.
A story that is somewhat left of canon. Follows events of the second game, but with a lot of added things and drama.
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Aloy never asked to be shunned, ridiculed and outcast her entire life. Nor did she ask to be the Anointed of the Nora, the Champion of the Tenakth, the Savior of Meridian, Chieftan of the Banuk, or to have a task bigger than life itself put onto her shoulders.
All Aloy ever wanted… was her mother.
She still wants her mother, even though she knows Elisabet has been dead for over a thousand years.
But what if, somehow, the world finally granted her a boon? A miracle at sunrise on the horizon.
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Aloy touches down in Scalding Spear for supplies—but really, she’s searching for something quieter than the world asking her to be a savior. Something human. Someone steady.
She doesn’t expect Drakka to meet her with a smirk, a warm meal, and a vulture that hates everyone except him.
It’s just dinner. Just a break. Just a night.
But the heat between them lingers longer than the firelight.
And some goodbyes are just pauses waiting for a reason to come back.Series
- Part 1 of Building Starlight
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They say the Tenakth drink blood
Aloy's got a set of fangs hidden behind thin-pressed lips and three carefully sealed bottles in her packs that say they're not the only ones who do so.
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Becoming a vampire is grounds enough to become an outcast from the Nora, or be killed by the hands of the Carja. Aloy, who was born a vampire, has been told her entire life that she is something to be feared, something to be hated.But as she makes her way to the Forbidden West, she also comes to learn that the ways of Nora and Carja do not stretch to all tribes, and that in others' eyes... she is not a monster at all.
In fact, here among these people that she now calls friends, Aloy finds that in these steady hands, she is loved.
The question lies in if she will truly let herself be loved - or if all she knows is to bite the hand that bleeds.
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After Nemesis, Aloy tells herself that love is a risk she can't afford.
Unfortunately, neither her nor Kotallo are quite as over the relationship as they'd like the other to believe.
(Updates every other Sunday)
((Hopefully))Series
- Part 1 of Love You Better Universe
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As Elisabet - Threads of Time by Zelk
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games), Horizon Zero Dawn (Comics)
28 Aug 2025
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After the events of Project Echo, a mysterious temporal anomaly swaps the lives of two extraordinary women: Aloy and Elisabet Sobeck. Aloy, now inhabiting the life and body of a 20-year-old Elisabet Sobeck, must navigate the pressures of preparing the world for the impending Faro Plague, armed only with her knowledge of the future—but without the personal history that shaped Elisabet. Meanwhile, Elisabet finds herself in Aloy’s post-Nemesis body, age 21, but she stayed asleep?
Aloy’s personal life becomes even more complicated as Seyka, her devoted partner, struggles to connect with Aloy’s consciousness trapped in Elisabet’s past. Together, they must find a way to help “Sobeck-Aloy” survive the post-apocalyptic reality, while maintaining the delicate balance of relationships, technology, and knowledge that could determine the fate of humanity.
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You can read this even if you haven't read the Project:Echo
It's like a whole new world in this part. just eventual SEYLOYSeries
- Part 4 of Project Protocol
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"Query, you have nightmares now do you not?"
Aloy looked over at the floating tiny CYAN that projected through her focus, and nodded her head."Yeah... These days I have the same nightmare again and again. But it wasn't always like that."
Aloy looked up to the night sky and moved her left hand up as if she was running her fingers through the stars."When I was a child, I would have dreams of climbing on top of a Stormbird. I flew so far away that the matriarchs and everybody else felt like ants. The only person I wanted to take with me was Rost."
Cyan responded with a gentle flicker of what the huntress only assumed at this point was joy, which brought a smile to her face. The AI responded, flying as high as the focus projection would allow into the palm of Aloy's hand."Perhaps, once GAIA is reinstated, she can craft you a personal flying companion."
"Maybe, CYAN... Maybe."-
This fanfiction re-writes post Zero Dawn and all of Forbidden West to include or fix things that I felt like were missed opportunities.
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Project Echo by Zelk
Fandoms: Horizon Zero Dawn (Comics), Aloy & Elisabet Sobeck - Fandom, Horizon (Video Games)
20 Aug 2025
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In the aftermath of battling the blight and battling Regalla’s rebellion, Aloy remains restless. With the Far Zenith threat finished, she dives deeper into the forgotten ruins of the Old World, seeking answers the ancients may have left behind.
While investigating a hidden facility buried near Elisabet Sobeck's long-abandoned ranch in the mountains, Aloy stumbles upon something that changes everything—an untouched Cradle facility, sealed away and unregistered by GAIA or any known databanks. Within it lies a preserved pod… containing the unmistakable form of Elisabet Sobeck herself.
A clone?
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- Part 1 of Project Protocol
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Since the battle with the Zeniths, Aloy has been trying to deal with her guilt and questioning everything. What’s the point of it all now that she has fulfilled her purpose? She’s done her part. She's been a good little clone. Now what?
Meanwhile, Erend has sworn off drinking and is seriously considering Avad’s offer to return to Meridian. After all, distance might be the only way to get over someone. But when a twist of fate leads him and Aloy into a game of truth or dare, he can't help but wonder if he'll get out of that cave with his heart in one piece.
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How does Aloy gather the emotional strength to keep fighting to save the world? As the events of Horizon Forbidden West unfold, Aloy meets someone who helps her cope with the weight of her heavy burden. This story takes place during the Forbidden West main game questline and ends before Aloy begins Burning Shores. I've taken some liberties with the time it takes to travel back and forth across the map. Since this is a video game where the protagonist can fast travel, and fiction to boot, I hope you'll roll with it. This is my first fan fiction. I hope you enjoy it. Feedback is appreciated!
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Ereloy Week 2025 - Day 6: Peaceful Pause.
Time dilated in that strange way it does when all is coming to an end. A second stretched out to minutes, to days, and Aloy, with nothing but her aches, her traitorous body and her heavy heart, could do nothing but rage on the unfairness of it all.
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When an attack on a Machine caravan goes awry, Aloy takes shelter in the one place she'll always be safe - Erend's arms. -
A Light That Never Goes Out by twinkiestar
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Games)
04 Jun 2025
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In a world filled with killer machines, intelligence is useful, but it won’t keep a hunter-killer from slitting your throat.
In a world without family, without home, a person needs to find a new purpose. A new reason to keep going.
Three years post-Zenith battle, NEMESIS is no longer a threat, and Aloy and Beta are two lost sisters looking for family, belonging, and love. Maybe someday they’ll admit it to themselves.
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While travelling to the coast in search of Omega Clearance, Aloy is ambushed by Specters guarding the path. After defeating them, she unexpectedly collapses. Upon waking, she discovers she has been transformed—the dormant nanites left behind by the fallen Specters have irrevocably reshaped her into something akin to the Zeniths. Now immortal and clad in a sleek, nanite-forged suit fused to her very skin, she gains the ability to manifest weapons at will. But as she struggles to understand what has happened to her, a terrifying truth begins to unfold—this transformation was no accident.
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🎵 HORIZON, the musical: "RETURN TO MERIDIAN" - or a feeble attempt at fanfiction by LordPetit
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
06 Feb 2025
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[CONTEXT: Post-HFW]
A new threat looms over Meridian. Aloy heads back to Carja territory, determined to avert disaster.
“She made out below her the flaming silhouette of characteristic rocky mountains, bathed in the sun’s last rays.
The glow of the sunset reflected off the water in a million sparkling stars she saw dancing before her eyes, like so many shards of fire and metal.”
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RETURN TO MERIDIAN – or a feeble attempt at fanfiction – by LordPetit
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
06 Feb 2025
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[CONTEXT: Post-HFW]
A new threat looms over Meridian. Aloy heads back to Carja territory, determined to avert disaster.
“She made out below her the flaming silhouette of characteristic rocky mountains, bathed in the sun’s last rays.
The glow of the sunset reflected off the water in a million sparkling stars she saw dancing before her eyes, like so many shards of fire and metal.”
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🎵 HORIZON, la comédie musicale: "RETURN TO MERIDIAN" -ou une piètre tentative de fanfic- by LordPetit
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
30 Jan 2025
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[CONTEXTE : Post-HFW]
Une menace pèse à nouveau sur Méridian ; Aloy retourne en territoire Carja pour tenter d’éviter le pire.
“Elle distingua au-dessous d’elle la silhouette flamboyante de montagnes rocheuses caractéristiques, baignées par les derniers rayons du soleil.
La lueur du couchant se reflétait dans l’eau en un million d’étoiles scintillantes, qu’elle voyait tournoyer devant ses yeux comme autant d’éclats de feu et de métal.”
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RETURN TO MERIDIAN – ou une piètre tentative de fanfic – by LordPetit
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
30 Jan 2025
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[CONTEXTE : Post-HFW]
Une menace pèse à nouveau sur Méridian ; Aloy retourne en territoire Carja pour tenter d’éviter le pire.
“Elle distingua au-dessous d’elle la silhouette flamboyante de montagnes rocheuses caractéristiques, baignées par les derniers rayons du soleil.
La lueur du couchant se reflétait dans l’eau en un million d’étoiles scintillantes, qu’elle voyait tournoyer devant ses yeux comme autant d’éclats de feu et de métal.”
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In the aftermath of the Burning Shores, Aloy returns to the Base with Beta to work on what’s next. In between teaching her sister how to fend for herself and searching for new leads to combat the impending threat from the stars, Aloy is thrown for a loop when she receives news that Seyka is moving in — permanently.
A story about sisterly bonding, loss, and what it means to find love.
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The Call of Adventure by Sky1anders
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Zero Dawn (Comics)
30 Dec 2024
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After running out of leads on GAIA backups after the Zenith launch facility, Aloy and Varl join Talanah and her thrush Milu on a hunt in Jewel near the Eclipse's former base only to discover a Zero Dawn facility with not only a new lead but also two of the Alphas sealed into cryostasis; Elisabet Sobeck and Ayomide Okilo.
The ensuring adventure leads the Gaia Gang into the Forbidden West to track down a Gaia backup and the AI’s subordinate functions uncovering mysteries of the past and present and contending with threats such as the Tenakth civil war and one from beyond the stars.
This story is my take of the story of Horizon: Forbidden West, one of my favourite games of all time.
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- Part 1 of TCoA AU