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We're getting closer and closer to release now, and we're excited to unveil a feature you'll find when you play!
Along the course of Aloy’s journey, you will have the chance to unlock full page, high definition illustrations of major or intimate moments in the path. Each route has six illustrations – but tread carefully, because your choices will determine whether or not you find and unlock them all! After unlocking, all discovered illustrations will be viewable in a Gallery accessed from the main menu.
Many of our illustrations were created by the artists on the FOTH team, including those from alternate teams jumping in to create for others. Some teams also had artists in the Horizon community create illustrations for their route with nothing but contextual clues and minimal spoilers for the scene. All artists have done phenomenally and we can’t wait for you to unlock each and every one!
#focus on the heart#foth#foth visual novel fangame#foth dating sim fangame#horizon forbidden west#foth: sneak peeks
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Been working our lil butts off over on @focusontheheart so I decided to make us a little serotonin boost in the form of sexy Santas.
Let me know in the comments who has the best drip 😅
BONUS
Aloy's reaction:
#aloy#kotallo#talanah khane padish#talanah#alva#drakka#nil#erend#seyka#horizon forbidden west#focus on the heart#my art#omg we are getting so close my dudes!!!!
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“We have to stop meeting like this, Thrush.”
Excited to preview my Talanah and Aloy sprites for @focusontheheart !
What will Aloy and Talanah get up to when they reunite after the events of Horizon Forbidden West? Stay tuned to find out, in a script by @foibles-fables and art by me!
#FOTH#focus on the heart#aloy#talanah khane padish#aloy x talanah#hawk and thrush#my art#horizon forbidden west#hfw#foth preview
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"We should do this more often."
I am excited to share the sprites of Erend and Aloy for @focusontheheart
These were a collaboration between @nerd-artist as colorist, @boobaloof who did Aloy's lineart, and myself for Erend's lineart.
What chaos are these two up to now?
#FOTH#focus on the heart#ereloy#aloy x erend#erend x aloy#aloy#erend vanguardsman#horizon forbidden west#hfw
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so excited to share the in-game sprites i've been hard at work on for @focusontheheart! if you pick the Nil route, these are just two variations of the paperdoll sprites you'll see!
(they're spreading misinformation on the internet or cyberbullying Nemesis or something idk)
#horizon forbidden west#hfw#niloy#aloy/nil#fanart#focus on the heart#months of hard work here people WOW
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speaking of focus on the heart, i’m SO excited for it! i really can’t wait to play talanah path, especially with you and meg behind it! but i really wish you were the one in charge of the scripts…i can’t help but be worried about lgbtq erasure. i’ve been so anxious about it being anti-lesbian since it was announced with men as love interests, especially since aloy is canonically attracted to WOMEN, but i’ve been afraid to send an ask to the tumblr because i can’t ask anonymously and i don’t want to be a target for a legitimate concern.
AAHHH I am so flattered you're excited for the game and and for the Talanah path! 💖💖💖🥹🥹🥹 Meg and I put a lot of care and heart and effort into it and we can't wait for you to play.
I also really appreciate you trusting me with your concerns about LGBTQ erasure in the game. I can assure you that no path, in any way, erases Aloy's queer identity or her attraction to women. (I've taken sneak peeks at all of the scripts...it was impossible not to, given all of the excitement!!!) The main starting guideline each path was given before we began scripting is that the events of Burning Shores--along with Aloy's feelings for Seyka and her attraction to women--are affirmed as canon, regardless of character route. :)
In FOTH, each romance route is self-contained (i.e., you choose your love interest at the beginning and go on an adventure with only them) and all of them address the events of Burning Shores in thoughtful, respectful, and positive ways. We wouldn't have it any other way! Many of our members at all levels--from the overall project leads to the writing/art teams for each character--are LGBTQ+ and are honored to be able to portray our now canonically queer Aloy in FOTH. 💖
Again, thank you SO much for sharing your excitement. Totally absolutely made my whole day. 💖💖 Stay tuned for a release date!!!!
#seriously going feral waiting for y’all to play#horizon forbidden west#horizon zero dawn#aloy#focus on the heart#foth
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“Well, if it isn’t the Flame of the Desert!”
Drakka is always up for some trouble whenever Aloy is around! What will they find this time in @focusontheheart? Find out in a script written by @cthu-boo, @mayalli, and myself!
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A smirky Kotallo for @focusontheheart
#his armor and tatts might be the death of me#am i out of my comfort zone?? yes#am i drawing him like a paper doll sans paint and armor?? yes#am i having a great time?? absolutely#kotallo#hfw#horizon forbidden west#kotaloy#focus on the heart#foth#my art
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"mithrun is the only real monsterfucker in dungeon meshi" is objectively the funniest bit you can get out of his everything, but in all seriousness i think his attraction to his love interest is deliberately overstated—and that makes sense, because romantic jealousy is a classic and digestible motive, which is explicitly what kabru was aiming for in condensing mithrun's backstory, and also because until chapter 94, mithrun wasn't willing to admit to the true nature of his desires.
but because romantic envy is both classic and digestible, it probably isn’t a unique enough or complicated enough desire to tempt a demon’s appetite. mithrun’s wish, as far as we can figure from kabru’s reduced retelling, was to have a life in which he had never become one of the canaries, and that carries like 3857 implications and desires within it. that’s delicious. his love interest acts as sort of a red herring to his motivation for making it, though. (side note: i'm saying "love interest" here because, keeping in mind that i barely speak japanese on a good day anymore, "想い人" is something i'd usually take as just kind of an old-fashioned and romantic way to refer to a lover, but in context i wonder if both the connotation of yearning and the vagueness are intentional, and i think this phrasing gets those aspects of it more effectively. anyway.)
mithrun considered his love interest to be untrustworthy. there was a minute where i thought that comment might be about a similar-looking elf (yugin, one of his squad members), but comparing the two…
the "sketchy" arrow is definitely referring to the elf we know as his love interest—the bangs go toward her right, she only has the one forehead ornament, and, most notably, her ears aren't notched.
every time she’s given a full-body depiction in his dungeon, she’s drawn as a chimera, with the body of a snake from the waist down. (side note: the “what if a dungeon has chimeras before reaching level 4?”/“then the dungeon lord is unstable” exchange just being mithrun grilling his past self alive is so funny. he’s so. but anyway) there are a couple things about this.
first, the snake part of the chimera appears to be modeled after some species of coral snake mimic
which, in the biology-for-fun manga, i… doubt is a coincidence, especially with the added context of the “untrustworthy” comment. the dungeon’s conjured illusion of mithrun’s love interest was a harmless copycat of a venomous original. for whatever reason, he felt this person was a threat and made up a "safe" version of her to be in a relationship with, and while it’s definitely possible to be attracted to or even love someone you find to be toxic and/or intimidating, when you take that into consideration alongside the configuration of her body, you get some interesting implications.
which brings us to our second point: if we assume that mithrun was not in fact fucking a snake, then sexual attraction, at least, was so far removed from his idea of a relationship with this person that he did not even bother to keep her dungeon copy human enough to maintain the illusion of the option of a sexual relationship. this is somewhat echoed in the depictions of their interactions, which also imply a frankly unexpected romantic distance. she kisses his cheek and he doesn't seem to react; she's at the edge of a narrow bed with only one set of pillows, on top of his blankets while he's underneath them.
the kiss is particularly interesting because it seems to contrast the text. kabru's narration tells us this was everything mithrun could have asked for, but mithrun is there looking unreadable to pensive, likely because this is right before the panel that makes it clear things in the dungeon are beginning to go wrong.
walking through this backwards for a minute, we have the physical barrier of his bedding and the spatial separation inherent in a bed made for one person, the emotional barrier of his mounting anxiety getting in the way of his ability to enjoy the affection he sought, and... the snake, which historically carries the connotation of temptation, yes, but also mistrust, barring physical intimacy. okay. ok. if a dungeon reflects the mentality of its lord, all of this might suggest that mithrun was not able to have any real desire for a relationship with this person. his unwillingness to be vulnerable or let another person in was insurmountable. but in that case, why was she such a focal point that she remained to the end, after his dungeon had stopped creating iterations of his friends to come and visit him? why would he get so upset over her meeting with his brother that he became lord of a dungeon about it?
well. mithrun's brother was also interested in her, probably genuinely. and mithrun had to win.
you have an older brother who your parents completely ignore, probably in part because he is chronically ill/disabled and almost definitely in part because he received a ton of recessive traits that resulted in rumors that he was an illegitimate child. you are aware, most likely because those same parents fucking told you, that you actually are an illegitimate child. but they keep you around because you had the good fortune of looking just like your mother. what can that possibly teach you but that you, like your brother, are disposable?
it's utterly unsurprising that mithrun, under these circumstances, developed a pathological need to be better than everyone around him. people don't keep you otherwise. i'd argue this is also why he says he looked down on everyone he knew while milsiril claims his dungeon reeked of feelings of inferiority—he sought out people's worst traits and prioritized them in his mind to protect his already extremely fragile sense of self-worth, and all the while he tried to be as likable and high-performing as he possibly could be. his parents disposed of him anyway, but even then he tried to keep up the performance. he was kind to everyone. he never once lost to a dungeon.
when he saw his "love interest" meeting up with his brother, what he saw was himself being replaced by a person his parents had always treated as worthless, and if that was what they thought of the child they'd kept, what value could anyone possibly see in the bastard they'd given away to die? mithrun and kabru tell the story like he wanted to win this unnamed elf's heart, but it was never about being with her. it was about cementing his worth, proving that he didn't deserve to be thrown away.
and so it's particularly cruel that his demon discarded him, too. but maybe it's also particularly gentle that, in the end, there was someone who refused to even consider giving up on him.
kui laid it out in three panels better than i could hope to.
yeah. it's love. you wanted to be loved, even when the only way you were able to understand it was through the desire to be wanted, and you wanted that so badly that the idea of being consumed felt like the promise of finally mattering to someone.
#dungeon meshi spoilers#mithrun#dungeon meshi#this has been rotating for a while but i wanted to check my evidence before getting into it thanks user angelspenance for posting that meme#half of this is just the text and the other half i'm sure has been said before but it's making my brain [radio static] so here this is#someone did for sure mention this but i do find it very cute that in his fucked up conjured world meant to portray his ideal reality#his teammates came to visit him. like part of the fantasy was then explicitly that they cared about him and were his friends. even though#he says he tried to see the worst in them.#hm it does feel important to note that i do also believe 100% in mithrun suicidality--his desire to be eaten does seem to focus a lot on#wanting it to be Over. wanting not to be left incomplete and empty anymore.#but that loops back around a bit to the hole in your heart that appears when you feel unloved. it's many things and the same thing at once#snakes#long post#severe problems#meshy
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the transition from the shaky, heartbreakingly soft ‘bye mum’ into the screaming of ‘ALL I HEAR ARE SCREAMS’ is destroying me rn
#epic the underworld saga#epic the musical#i keep findinh different things to focus on#and it keeps breaking my heart
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Follow Aloy on this new adventure, unlike any she's experienced before!
8 love interests await 7 different Aloys, with a plethora of side characters, 25+ backgrounds, 40+ original songs and 45+ full illustrations that feature in this adventure. Crafted by 30+ fans, this labor of love boasts over 20 different endings for you to explore and experience alongside Aloy.
Free to play Spring 2024 for PC and Mac!
#focus on the heart#foth#foth dating sim fangame#foth visual novel fangame#horizon forbidden west#foth: game trailer#video edit: nerdartist#music: meliko#aloy#aloy x alva#aloy x drakka#aloy x erend#aloy x kotallo#aloy x nil#aloy x petra#aloy x seyka#aloy x talanah
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"Commander."
"Marshal."
Super pumped to share the sprites for Kotallo's story for the @focusontheheart fan made visual novel!
I rocked up late with a coffee for this project, but the team helped me out so much and that allowed me to really travel at the speed of fandom to create these two dweebs!
Our story is written by the wonderful @fogsblue and the sweetest @mayalli!
#focus on the heart#FOTH#Aloy#Kotallo#Kotaloy#kotalloy#kotallo x aloy#aloy x kotallo#horizon#horizon forbidden west#my art
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avatrice doodle
#omg i ran out of time dsahdkjash I really wanted to draw something for valentines day but I need to focus on my commissions first#happy hearts day :)#avatrice
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My 2023 year in review is what I can share from @focusontheheart, so backgrounds pretty much 😅 I think I've grown a LOT this year! I've especially refined my style, technique, and rendering abilities. Excited for everyone to see the rest of my 2023 work with FOTH, especially my full illustrations!
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As someone who is very excited to play every single romantic option in FOTH and rejoice in bisexual/pan Aloy, thank you and the rest of the team for allowing a variety of ships to have fun and welcoming numerous identities of the LGBTQ+ community! Very excited to play this game and I praise you all for your hard work on a free fan game that will hopefully bring the Horizon community together to celebrate our red-headed savior who deserves countless kisses!
Glad to hear it!!! No matter your equally-valid queer headcanon for Aloy--lesbian, bi, pan, demi, ace--there is a ton of fun and emotion waiting for you in FOTH. 💖💖💖
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hey all! this is the drakka banner image i created for the upcoming @focusontheheart visual novel! had a lot of fun with his pose. working hard on the other assets and script now!
#focus on the heart#drakka#drakka hfw#horizon forbidden west#horizon fanart#mine*art#aloy x drakka#had to get as much ass and sideboob in there as possible because lbr it’s drakka
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