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ragingbookdragon · 9 months

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Being on Kotallo’s left side meant it was easier for her to take care of aspects that his left arm would’ve usually done for him. This time, it meant passing bowls of food to the next person and scooping the contents onto his plate while he held the bowl. She hadn’t explicitly told everyone that she was pre-world, but then again, the last thing she wanted was to have to explain cytogenesis to people that fought with bows and arrows. She still entertained them with stories of war from her time, under the guise of an old-world historian. It wasn’t until she was cutting a piece of meat from a bone for Kotallo that she heard the snickering around them.

In listening to one of Hekarro’s stories, she continually dropped her gaze to the bottom right, watching as Kotallo struggled to cut a chunk of meat off the boar bone he had on his plate. After a few moments, he let out a quiet grunt and set the knife down; she reached over then and put two fingers on the bone and with the other hand, cut the chunk of meat off. While she was at it, she continued cutting the meat off until the bone was free, and she set her knife down, smiling at him.

“Thank you,” he murmured with a soft smile of his own, but it quickly fell when snickering echoed from the other side of the room and she looked over, seeing a few Tenakth nodding in their direction and laughing.

Anger welled up inside her and she couldn’t help but see the shame rise on Kotallo’s face; it was all it took to light an already shortened fuse—she wasn’t dumb, she saw how Kotallo’s fellow soldiers treated him. She cleared her throat, speaking out calmly, “Please forgive me for my interruption, Chief Hekarro, but it seems we have a more important story going on.” Everyone fell silent and she glared the warriors down. “What seems to be so funny in the Chief’s story that you are laughing so much?”

The soldiers looked away.

“No, please,” she encouraged. “It’s obviously much more important than his.”

The others seemed to be ashamed of the weight of their people’s gaze, but one in particular scoffed. “None of us need a babysitter to feed us.”

She blinked, looking at Kotallo. “I’m not feeding him. Last I checked, he was perfectly capable of bringing food to his mouth.”

“And cutting his food up for him like he’s a child?” he shot back. “A useless warrior in more ways than one.”

Kotallo looked at the floor and muttered, “Leave it, it’s fine.”

“It’s not,” she retorted and rose from her seat. “I’ve held my tongue long enough here.” Pointing at the warrior, she condemned, “You should be ashamed of yourself.” Turning to the others, she added, “In fact, all should be ashamed of how you treat this man.”

“The Ten would’ve—”

“The Ten would’ve considered Kotallo an honorable warrior and held in high regard!” she pulled her armor off until she was in her underclothes, her usually hidden cybernetic arms and legs exposed. “I lost my limbs in battle and yet I was never treated so despicably by my fellow soldiers-in-arms. No one shunned me because I lost my arms and legs. I was lifted up with honor, with dignity, with brotherhood.”

They watched her limbs in shock as she walked towards the group.

“And when my limbs were built and re-attached, I went back into battle, leading my team once more. And they trusted me beyond a shadow of a doubt. You say the Ten wouldn’t care about a wounded warrior?” she glowered at them. “I am the Ten. I fought against the machines before the world went to hell. And we didn’t fucking treat our disabled men and women like dirt. We didn’t fucking think of them like broken weapons with no use. We treated them with respect. With dignity. They were heroes to us.”

She pointed at herself. “I have honor. I am still everything I was before I was maimed. And if you look at your fellow brother and sisters who are maimed like you do Kotallo? You don’t deserve to call yourself a descendant of the Ten. You’re a fucking poor excuse, and my people, my Ten, would be disappointed in your actions and treatment.”

Looking at the Tenakth around, she lifted her head and spoke with fervor. “You hold strength as the highest regard in your society, but you people don’t even know what that entails.” She gazed upon them with anger. “You are called to uplift your fellow man—maimed or not. You are called to support them in times of pain and turmoil. You do not turn your back on them and look upon them with shame.”

She glanced at Kotallo, a warmth in her eyes. “He is more worthy of being called a Ten than any man or woman here.”

Kotallo gaped at her, mouth slack, eyes wide, and silence filled the room as she pulled her clothes back on and sat down with him, pushing at his place. “Eat. Or it’ll get cold.”

Slowly, he closed his mouth and nodded, looking at his plate, and when she lifted her head and caught Hekarro’s eyes, a pride shown in them as he continued on with his story.

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cozy-possum · 10 months

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Summary: Kotallo/Aloy; Kotallo learns how to tell a war story

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#kotallo x aloy #aloy x kotallo #kotaloy #horizon #horizon imagine #horizon forbidden west imagine #hfw imagine #stattic #this was supposed to be fluff i mean it still kinda is

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boobaloof · 18 days

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Figured this was the best time to post this thing I made a year ago 🐶

#WATCHING THE LATEST EPISODE #went 'haha imagine horizon in this'#then i remembered #i did this already #horizon forbidden west #hfw #the crossover no one wanted #bluey #aloy #erend #aloy x erend #hfw aloy #hfw erend #horizon #horizon fanart #bandit has Erend vibes dont @ me #bab-art

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han-ban-bam · 5 months

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post-fight high five 🙌

#hfw #aloy hfw #hfw burrower #horizon forbidden west #hfw fanart #listen can u imagine having post fight prompts with companions #I would like to high five the machine otter please. Amongst others. Otter first.

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fantasy-girl974 · 7 months

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☀ New Dawn with you ☀

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nerd-artist · 10 months

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Did you know that First Forge water is steamy? We Ereloy do.

#sexy wet blorbos #ereloy #aloy x erend #erend x aloy #horizon forbidden west #aloy #erend #hfw aloy #hfw erend #hfw fanart #our imagination needs only a bit of steam

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the-horizon-lounge3041 · 7 months

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For the sake of spooky time🎃

How is there not inflatable Horizon machine costumes? I mean they are based on dinosaurs. Might draw this later😂

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #beyond the horizon #aloy #Halloween #inflatable #inflatable costumes #how does it not exsist #aloysobeck #beta hfw #betahorizon #beta sobeck #horizonfandom #funny #funny thought #imagine if they were real😂#horizon machines

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miraculousagentsofkrypton · 1 year

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Gotta be honest, one part of my love for Seyloy(?) is that I am also a huge fan of Aloy's dynamic with Alva, and this is the second best thing. Alva and Seyka are fairly different people, but rebellious and intelligent Quen women just fit the girl's type. Seyka is a like a mix of Alva and Talanah, and I am totally ok with that.

#she's got a little bit of ikrie too #I need more of them #i feel like they played just a little too hard into Aloy's attraction #and so we didn't get as many pure character moments as we could have #if that makes sense #you know what i mean?#like imagine them once they get really comfortable with each other #we just didn't get to see a ton of that #burning shores spoilers #burning shores #horizon games #horizon forbidden west #hfw #hzd #seyloy #seyka #horizon

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diviner-alva · 2 years

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She is learning and Kotallo is her test subject

#doubt he's complaining #quite the opposite #ugh damn those two #if they're at this stage in this game i imagine the next one #im going to faint on the spot #aloy #kotallo #kotaloy #aloy x kotallo #hfw #hfw spoilers #horizon forbidden west

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hzdtrees · 1 year

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Aloy, Burning Shores edition

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw photomode #hfw burning shores #aloy #hello yes i've finally finished the dlc #only took me a million years #mostly thanks to photomode #that i finished at all is due to the fact that i promised my gf to just play without taking pics for once #which admittedly i failed at because i still took some pics #but considerably less #23 over three full sessions of multiple hours each is a new record #usually it'd be five times that number or even more #i might take some more horus pics the next time i have a go at it #but frankly i was just too terrified to do much until the last stage of the fight #man did they capture the feeling of dread these thing are supposed to evoke well #and this was just one. piloted by a dude with the combined ego of five surgeons #not even fully operational #terrifying to imagine what they were like during the faro plague #when they were ai-operated and mass-producing machines like a capitalist's wet dream

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ragingbookdragon · 9 months

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The Soul's Tethers

Kotallo x Reader

Word Count: 1.1K Warnings: None

Author's Note: I FUCKING LOVE THIS MAN SO GODDAMN MUCH. -Thorne

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The Nora had come through the window of her shelter before she’d even realized what was happening, and it was only until the two were in the floor, split lips and busted eyebrows that the two understood that they weren’t each other’s enemy—especially when the horde of stalkers rushed down below the trees. They’d assisted the other in taking them out and when they were reveling in their spoils, she invited the Noran back up until the rain had stopped.

She handed the girl, Aloy, a bowl of stew and tossed a log into the fire, sitting down beside her. “You’re quite a ways from Noran lands, Aloy.”

Aloy huffed sardonically. “I tell myself that every day.” As she ate, she couldn’t help but gaze curiously at the woman. “What tribe do you belong to?”

“I was once a part of the Sky Clan, though I claim it no longer.” Her expression soured. “My uncle…he betrayed me.”

“Who’s your uncle?”

“Tekotteh.”

Aloy blinked and looked at the fire, muttering, “I feel bad for you.”

“I appreciate that,” she replied, sharpening her knife, gazing towards the sky. “He was different when I was a child and younger woman. But power changed him. He is no longer the man I once respected.”

“How…did he betray you?”

Her gaze turned almost sad as she answered, “I fell in love with one of the boys he was mentoring. We…grew up together and were always close. But as he got older, and stronger, my love grew, and my uncle saw that I was loyal to him more. He sent my love away to become a marshal for Hekarro.” Her hands moved absentmindedly along the metal. “I saw through Tekotteh’s reasoning. And when Tekotteh told me he was killed at the embassy, I spoke out against him. Called him a coward and a traitor to our people. He banished me for disloyalty to the clan.” She shifted, taking the empty bowl from Aloy. “I’ve been here ever since in grieving. Away from my people. On my own…it’s…comforting somehow.”

Aloy frowned. “I’m so sorry for your loss.” Her expression turned solemn. “I was there, y’know? At the embassy? I tried my best to get as many out as I could.” She sighed. “I wish I could’ve saved your lover. What was his name, if you don’t mind me asking?”

“Kotallo,” she said, a sad smile playing her lips. “His name was Kotallo.”

Aloy froze, not even blinking as the Tenakth continued to talk about him, then she blurted out, “Did you just say Kotallo?”

“I did?” her brows drew together. “Why?”

“Kotallo’s not—he’s—” Aloy shook her head. “Kotallo’s alive.”

Shock bled into her posture and face as she gaped at the Noran. “What?”

“Kotallo survived the Embassy Massacre. He’s still alive.”

“He—he is?” she started rising. “Can you take me to him? I—I want to see him. Please, Aloy, take me to Kotallo.”

Aloy was already grabbing her bow and spear, rising too. “Yeah, absolutely, c’mon.” she paused and looked back at her. “Tekotteh told you that Kotallo was killed?”

Anger drew along her, nostrils flaring in rage as she spat, “I’ll kill him.”

“Get in line.”

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She was quite baffled by the technology that Aloy’s base contained, but nevertheless, she was grateful for the new Focus, beginning to understand a little of the mission that the Noran had explained to her along the way. The companions that Aloy kept were pleasant enough, but she hadn’t yet seen Kotallo; it was only when Zo explained that the man had gone to hunt that she somewhat relaxed, sitting in the common room, waiting nervously for the man she hadn’t seen in almost two years.

Zo sat down beside her and handed her a cup. “Here, some tea for your nerves.”

“I’m not nervous,” she retorted, but took the cup anyway. “I’m fine.”

The Utaru smiled knowingly. “Drink.”

She did as Zo said and took a few sips, the warmth bleeding down her throat. “I haven’t seen Kotallo in almost two years. I…don’t know how to greet him.”

“Aloy said your uncle told you he had died.”

“I assume it was to somehow relieve me of my love and force me to marry someone else.”

“Yet you did not.”

She glared into the cup. “I saw through his manipulations when he sent Kotallo away to become a Marshal.”

“You never forgot.”

“And I will never forgive either,” she added, looking up when the door opened and a man’s voice she recognized so well echoed through.

“Erend, I do believe you owe me a drink because I in fact found not one, but two stags.”

The Oseram groaned and dropped his head on the table as the Tenakth warrior came around the corner, looking around the common room, but his eyes stopped on her.

She rose to her feet, hands pressed to her chest as her throat tightened, tears filling her eyes; she didn’t know what to say as he stepped in, his own eyes wide, mouth parted in shock.

“You—you’re here,” he breathed, and she nodded wordlessly, unable to fight the tears dropping down her cheeks.

“He told me you were killed at the embassy,” she managed through a clenched throat. “I didn’t want to believe it, but I—” she crossed the floor to him in slow steps, reaching up to touch his chest. “But you’re here…alive.” Her eyes dropped to his left arm, and he frowned.

“No, I did not die…but I did not walk away unscathed.” He looked back at her. “In my state…I do not know if you wish to be with me. I…am not as worthy a warrior as I once was.”

Her hands were soft against the roughness of his dried paint, cupping his face, thumbs brushing over his scars and cheekbones, pulling them until their foreheads touched. “My Kotallo,” she whispered, nuzzling their noses like traditional lovers did in their culture. “My tether.”

He tipped his head to the side. “There is someone worthy of you. Please, do not waste your love on me.”

“The only man worthy of my soul is you.” She pulled away enough to see into his eyes, wiping the tears that had grown in his. “You are my tether, Kotallo. My soul is yours. It always has been. It always will be. And no amount of limbs lost will ever change such.” She smiled through her tears. “I have missed you so, my tether.”

Kotallo let out a breath and shut his eyes, voice soft, but so strong as he replied, “And I have missed you, my soul.”

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cozy-possum · 11 months

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Summary: Aloy/Kotallo; Kotallo isn't surprised when Aloy leaves, when she returns however

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#aloy x kotallo #kotaloy #kotallo x aloy #aloy #aloy imagine #Kotallo imagine #kotallo #horizon imagine #horizon forbidden west #hfw #hfw imagine #horizon forbidden west imagine #stattic #this is technically a sequel to rains patter #i mean if you wanna be specific it can be #listen i just wanted to write some sappy stuff

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horizonslut · 1 year

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