Hawk and Thrush LET'S GO
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And though another wave of this pain sends Aloy nearly buckling, the fact that she can feel it now means she can unravel it. Decide what she needs to do. With another shuddering breath, Aloy takes appraisal.
For all the victory, she sure took a beating.
Battered and bloodied after the skirmish with Dervahl, Aloy finds herself in an unfamiliar position: out of supplies and needing to reach out for help. [a missing scene, in two parts] -
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“Tell me.” Aloy quirks an eyebrow, and instantly it becomes clear that she’s trying not to reveal one of those rare grins. Her mouth obeys, but she can’t stop her eyes from lighting up as their gazes catch. “Did you miss me?”
Some time later, Aloy shows up in Meridian after her latest journey: weeks and weeks in The Cut. Talanah is glad all of the wandering has brought her close again. -
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There's a certain, raw honesty that comes with facing the end of the world. My take on how Talanah and Aloy's story should have progressed post-Hunter's Lodge questline.
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In the coldness of the Moon, we accept there will be stillness, and death, and endings, until dawn comes once more; We do this because there are two halves of nature, Sun and Shadow, and to deny one is to deny the whole of things.
After Prince Itamen is delivered back to Holy Meridian, another defector from Sunfall arrives, bearing news of chaos descending during the old regime's most brutal ritual. When the upheaval's once-captive, now-pursued perpetrator is revealed, Sunhawk Talanah Khane Padish sets out to find her before they can -- to repay a debt and uphold an oath. But night wakes the phantoms of a past that's never truly laid to rest. Night brings so much newness. Night brings her back to Aloy despite the Nora, before the end of the world. -
collide (see what gets left over) by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
26 Mar 2021
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“So was it your plan to lead me into the Jewel to give me a spear-fighting lesson?” An impulsive addition, then—mostly jest, maybe a wispy hint of indignation: “Or to find a secluded spot and chide me about the way I hunt?”
Aloy notices a weakness in Talanah's repertoire and offers to help. -
can you get me off your mind? by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
12 Apr 2021
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She takes another drink and grimaces into the vessel’s rim as she listens to the tale being told. Tries to listen, rather, pushing hard against the rush in her ears and the thorny heat blooming on her cheeks. She hasn’t stopped trying yet, even though she’s slowly realizing she’d rather fight every last damned Glinthawk in the Sundom, all at once, in a flash of pouring rain, on a moonless night, with a broken bow and exactly four arrows to work with, than continue.
Talanah begins receiving letters from the Forbidden West. Aloy's throat burns every time she hears about them. -
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“You’re gonna sit her down, look her right in her pretty face, and say: Sunhawk, you’re the heat in my furnace, you’re the hammer in my ribs, I wanna melt down and blend with you like—”
Aloy has 1) consumed too much Scrappersap and 2) something to tell Talanah.
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learn to wear each other well by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
24 Aug 2021
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“I really can’t believe you have the audacity to shiver like this when you knew it would be freezing—and you chose to wear those stupid silks anyway.”
During their first shared trek to the Cut, Talanah is not dressed for the weather.
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This forceful, inglorious sort of loss is downright implausible. But, all recent implausible things considered, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise. Talanah frowns down at the Strike board, reluctant to utter the words of resignation, and wonders what in the Sun’s name she had expected.
Talanah distracts a world-weary Aloy with the game of Strike, and promptly regrets teaching her so well.
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The break is a grisly one, the healer had said. About as bad as a fracture can be, short of when the cracked bone pierces through the skin. But by the Sun’s warm beneficence, that particular agony was avoided—and the quick action of the Vanguardswoman who pressured and splinted the leg in the field ensured that the bone will fully mend.
A caveat, though, delivered with a knowing and apologetic wince: the bone will fully mend, if and only if it bears no weight for a time.
Aloy breaks her leg and handles it with the exact amount of patience and grace one would expect. Talanah is there to provide what she lacks. A fill for Horizontober 2021, Day 5 (Break).
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"Every Hawk has a fine weapon crafted for their new Thrush. Sure, the Lodge’s ranks are coming open now—but that doesn’t mean membership can’t still be a point of pride, and a mark of renown fairly earned.”
Talanah finally introduces Aloy to one of the oldest traditions of the Hunters Lodge. Aloy's mostly excited about a new spear. A fill for Horizontober 2021 Day 30 (Favorite Weapon).
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if you held yourself up to the light by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
29 Apr 2022
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Aloy finds her voice, and the ghosts rise to be beheld.
“Now I’m—going to share some data with you.”
It might have gone like this: truth and light in another buried place.
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we never go out of style by foibles_fables, Say_Anything
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
26 May 2022
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In one reality, two machine hunters come together to bring down the most dangerous of Thunderjaws. In another, a paleoanthropology graduate student and an outdoor recreation store manager meet at the gym. This is the story of the second.
A fan comic collaboration—scripted by foibles_fables, illustrated by Say_Anything.
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a love that won't sit still by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
30 Jul 2022
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“I’m glad you came back.” Quiet as the wind-rustle. So soft that she wonders if she said it at all.
Aloy has self-control on a hunt. Aloy has feelings for Talanah. There's bound to be a point where they meet.
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- Part 2 of to the hunt!
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gray areas and expectations by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
17 Oct 2022
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It feels too good tonight to let it end. It feels…safe, after an entire day of battle-thrill, of fighting side-by-side. Watching each other’s back like that is a kind of tenderness that Aloy understands—one that can be given and known without words to make it all complicated.
Turns out, so is this. And Aloy doesn’t want to stop.
Aloy lets herself get carried away, and ends up out of her depth.
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new constellations by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
01 Nov 2022
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Talanah smiles at her—such an easy, comfortable thing—and breaks the long crackling-ember silence.
“Looking at this?” She points at a dark freckle near the corner of her nose.
Aloy gets caught staring.
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- Part 3 of to the hunt!
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reel against your body's borders by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon: Forbidden West (Video Game)
17 Jan 2023
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It’s impossible not to notice when her skin is glowing, glistening like that, near enough for Aloy to reach out and touch. Makes her want to be even closer. And maybe that unnerves her, just a little. All the heat flares into triple, like she just swallowed a mouthful of the boiling sunlight.
A sweltering day in the Jewel turns an easy hunt into something more complicated.
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A small, selfish part of Aloy wishes she was awake. Time spent apart is busy and distracted on both ends, and brief Focus calls only take connection so far, no matter how earnestly they speak. Aloy missed her.
After everything, Aloy's purpose still takes her far from home. But she always comes back—sometimes very late at night.
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so i'll stay half away by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games), Horizon Zero Dawn (Comics)
16 Apr 2023
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In those final moments, there’s a small smile—all threaded loose, glinted by the high afternoon sunlight. She presses a bundle of arrows into your palm.
So you don’t run out again.
An empty quiver, a gift of arrows, and the heavy final moments before another parting.
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and when the earth is trembling on some new beginning (lover, be good to me) by foibles_fables
Fandoms: Horizon (Video Games)
27 Apr 2023
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This. Only this. Talanah wants, broken open and made wild.
In a perfect storm of intensity, Talanah admits something daunting to Aloy.
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"hahaha I sure hope this doesn't awaken anything in me" —Talanah, probably
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- Part 1 of passes the chain of love