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xthescarletbitch · 2 days

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i’m not crying. you’re crying.

#aloy #aloy sobeck #aloy despite the nora #horizon #horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy horizon #aloy horizon forbidden west #aloy hfw #horizon aloy #horizon forbidden west aloy #hfw aloy #aloy caps #queue #beta #beta sobeck #hfw beta #sobeck sisters

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hartlesshart · 1 year

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Convoy - transporting precious cargo

#horizon forbidden west #beta #aloy #aloy despite the nora #horizon machines #horizon zero dawn #clawstrider #behemoth #charger #bristleback #nora tracker #sunwing #horizon fanart #this took way too long #machines are hard #machine overrides #sobeck sisters

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the-horizon-lounge3041 · 1 month

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Messy but fun doodles

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pikapeppa · 11 months

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Beta in the Horizon Forbidden West artbook

I think @renmeover requested any Beta info from the artbook? So here it is! The art of Aloy and Beta just has me 😭❤❤❤

So sorry for taking so long to reply!! I only just really cracked the book open again a couple of days ago!

#SISTERS #beta #aloy & beta #beta horizon #sobeck sisters #hfw #horizon forbidden west #also tumblr ate your ask i genuinely don't know what happened to it #DUMBLR STRIKES AGAIN 💀

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giulytheflash · 5 months

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Simply the Sobeck sisters.

#horizon forbidden west #aloy #hfw #hfw beta #sobeck sisters #hfw aloy #beta hfw #aloy horizon #beta horizon #aloy hfw #aloy despite the nora #beta despite the zeniths #horizon aloy #hfwedit #horizon beta #aloy sobeck

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isan0rt · 6 months

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I’ve been listening to the Horizon soundtrack again and man, the two different versions of In the Flood kill me. Specifically, having the main version be Aloy’s anxieties about not living up to Elizabet’s example and expectations, but Lovisa’s version be Beta’s view of Aloy and feeling she isn’t living up to Aloy’s example and expectations, is so fucking compelling. It says so much about them as people, and it also is really the first time we get a direct viewpoint of Aloy from a different first person POV, and how much she is to Beta as Elizabet is to her.

So I’m gonna talk about their songs.

Aloy's version of the song is straightforward.

"Am I the one to hold // this crown of ash and salt? // Their kindness calls to me. I have to block it out." All through Zero Dawn, she was seeking belonging and identity, but she can't afford to seek kindness now. She is the heir to Elizabet's legacy, the legacy that is falling apart in her hands. She has to ignore it, she has to be more than human.

"My voice has grown so somber // these words don't seem like mine // but the iron won't subside // no matter what I try." Aloy feels she is losing herself - there is nothing but the mission. She feels like she is getting nowhere and it is shredding her psyche.

"Am I raindrops in the flood? [...]If I falter, if I fall // the wave inside my soul // carries all I know // Who can take my hand in the flood?" She can't tell if she's making any difference, but the world is on her shoulders. She can't see how anyone can help her. She is on her own - and if she fails, everyone on Earth dies. The pressure is crushing her, but she has to stand strong anyway.

"A voice calls me forth // through darkness unknown // my heart with silence burns through solemnness and bone // the edge beyond the shore // this weight of wood and rot // I long to reach the other // to find the path we lost." I think it's significant that the only voice Aloy is hearing at this point in the game (the opening credits) is her own voice - the same voice as Elizabet's. She is letting herself be subsumed into the identity of Elizabet, and it is crushing her ability to see anything in the world but the death and darkness.

The refrain repeats here, except that the lyrics change from "If I falter, if I fall" to "If I'm broken, if I'm torn-" Aloy is faltering, she can't carry this alone, she’s tearing herself apart, but she can't afford to break. She is desperate for someone to take her hand, but can't imagine who could possibly bear the burden that feels like hers alone.

All very straightforward - terrible, anxious, crushing, but straightforward. She is worried about her mission, and she has the weight of the world on her shoulders. She is barely thinking of herself as an individual anymore. This song is a desperate cry for help, from someone who doesn't believe help is coming for her. She feels like she is alone, and always has been.

But Beta. Beta has a very different, much more complicated theme to her version of the song.

"My hands are full of flowers // my ears are full of songs." Right off the bat, we get such a loaded, complicated line. For the first time in her life, Beta is seeing life. The base is as sterile as the Odyssey was, but Zo has filled it with plants and music, specifically for the reason that the sterility felt unnatural to her. Beta flees these things into the barren server room, but they are still there, all around where she’s hidden herself. At the same time, I think this line foreshadows Varl's death - the flowers and songs of a gravesinger, the loss of the first person to treat her like a human being and not a machine.

"My heart has had enough // I'd rather just be wrong. I listen when you talk // your words all make sense // but underneath it all // I hear where we are going with this." Where Aloy's version is just crying out into the silence, Beta's is addressing someone specific, someone capable of speaking to her. This feels so clearly about Aloy's frustrations with her - how many times did Aloy come try to cajole her into being brave, like Aloy? She's tired of it. She's used to being told she's stupid and wrong anyway. She'd rather Aloy just be mad, because;

"I am raindrops in the flood // I am emptiness." Beta does not feel significant. She is certain she's as useless as raindrops in a flood; there is no question as in Aloy's version. She is a tool. She has always been a tool. And yet...

"I am hope. I am lonely in a crowd // but when you hear me // you'll be near me// stay with me in the flood." Even though Beta still thinks of herself as helpless, Aloy inspires her to feel differently. She is so conflicted about it. She's emptiness, but she is hope, too - she is Elizabet's legacy, too. But more importantly, when Aloy is near her, hears her, then maybe...

"In dreams I never left // I had courage like the beast // My eyes they never fled // my arms would always reach." These are some of the clearest lines to illustrate this is Beta speaking, and not Aloy. She dreams of having courage, but implies that the idea of being able to keep her eyes high and forward is just a dream. She knows she is timid and scared, as a person. Her feelings of weakness continue here.

"You've hardened with your words // maybe fear is armor too // my voice is not that strong // when hurricanes come running from you." Aloy scares her. Aloy is so different from her - Beta's voice is weak and trembling, Aloy's so fierce even hurricanes flee her - but something about that inspires Beta, too. Beta feels stronger by exposure to Aloy, even though Aloy kind of scares her. And she looks up to Aloy, despite her fear;

“The little child inside // is jealous of your strength // The way you hold your head // When everything's aflame-" This is another clue this is Beta speaking - Aloy does not speak of Elizabet in the present tense. She is always asking what Elizabet would have done. Beta is seeing what Aloy does do, right now - she holds her head up even in the most dire of circumstances. Beta cannot see Aloy's fear and desperation, that Aloy only expresses within her own head in her own version of this song.

"Your back is straight as you walk away // Straighter than an oak in a storm // Only I remain // Should I have bent, been reshaped in your image? // Is that what you want?" Beta can only see how Aloy is different from her - strong, fierce, aggressive, yelling at her to be stronger. To be more courageous. To be more like Aloy thinks she should be - Aloy pushing her own feelings of trying and failing to be like Elizabet onto Beta. But Beta can't see that Aloy is angry at herself; she can only see the ways she's inadequate, the ways Aloy gets frustrated and walks away from her. Of course she wonders if Aloy just wants Beta to be another her.

And yet, the refrain repeats here, three times as opposed to Aloy's two. No matter how much she feels Aloy doesn't want her the way she is...she is inspired anyway. She wants Aloy to hear her, stay by her. Because when Aloy is there...maybe Beta can stand up through the flood.

Beta is the one who can take Aloy’s hand. Aloy does not have to be alone - and as much as she is falling apart inside from the pressure, none of that is obvious to Beta. Beta can only see her as the same inspiring figure Aloy imagines Elizabet to be - but unlike Elizabet, Aloy is here, real and alive, someone who can actually have feelings about Beta, be proud of and love Beta. Aloy is to Beta what Aloy has always needed from Elizabet - and Beta helps Aloy realize that what matters is not what Elizabet would have thought of her, but what Rost did think of her. Beta looks at Aloy and sees the person Rost made her, and is inspired by her. She can live in the here and now, and they can stay with each other, and endure the flood together.

#horizon forbidden west #HFW #Aloy #hfw beta #sobeck sisters #beta sobeck

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hellcheercaine · 6 months

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Gaia gang + Reductress headlines

(Beta pic is taken from Babyzone?)

#horizon forbidden west #hfw kotallo #hfw alva #hfw aloy #hfw beta #aloy sobeck #beta sobeck #sobeck sisters #hfw varl #hfw zo #hfw erend #erend vanguardsman #gaia gang #tw anxiety #horizon text posts #hellcheercaine #mine #horizon memes

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robo-dino-puppy · 6 months

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horizontober 2023 | 31: future

#horizontober2023 #horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy #beta #GAIA #sobeck sisters #the sobecks are the future of horizon's world and there's no getting around that #i'm excited to see beta in the next game and how she grows #and i'm very happy that aloy has family now - not just beta‚ but everyone else as well #i couldn't photomode my initial reaction to this prompt (i mean i probably could have but it would have been just a bunch of cutscene shots #and that didn't feel very creative to me)#so this is what i came up with #actually the second shot i already had and wanted to use and it's just a cutscene shot *anyway* lol #but i did my real work on the first one #i hate dealing with the base lighting #it can be great in some places and awful in others - like where beta stands D:#oops this is day 31 not 30 lmao

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rubinator · 1 year

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Aloy discovers the joys of sisterhod.

#aloy #beta hfw #hfw beta #sobeck sisters #horizon forbidden west

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xthescarletbitch · 2 months

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aloy and beta <3

#aloy #aloy sobeck #aloy despite the nora #horizon #horizon forbidden west #hfw #aloy horizon #aloy horizon forbidden west #aloy hfw #horizon aloy #horizon forbidden west aloy #hfw aloy #aloy caps #queue #beta #beta sobeck #hfw beta #sobeck sisters

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hartlesshart · 6 months

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#aloy #seyka #beta #horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #burning shores #seyloy #sobeck sisters #horizon fanart #aloy x seyka #seyloymonth #seyloymonth2023 #herskyhersea23 #beta stole the camera

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the-horizon-lounge3041 · 2 months

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Traveling🎒, also I get the feeling Beta wouldn’t want to walk long distances (mainly because she hasn’t done it before so therefore her stamina is low)

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rileydrawesandwrites · 11 months

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Sometimes Beta just adopts things. This time it's FroYo the Frostclaw. (thanks to @/robinpixels for the Beta design).

If you see any imperfections, no you didn't. I've spent way too much time on this silly piece and now I'm calling it done.

#horizon forbidden west #aloy sobeck #beta sobeck #sobeck sisters #froyo the frostclaw #machine tamer beta #gremlin beta #yes they gave him ears #they saw it in a holo #happy pride

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melikochan · 1 year

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#4 with aloy and beta?

"I don't understand why I need to do this, Aloy," Beta complained. She was hot, and sweaty, and, and dirty, and this was just... not her idea of fun.

Aloy looked at her with that critical—even judgmental—gaze, and explained again, slowly, "because we live in a dangerous world. If you can't fight, we need to find other ways for you to defend yourself."

Beta clutched her spear closer, heavy in her arms with the weight of solid wood and the override mounted to the shaft, torn from the carcass of a FAS-ACA3 Scarab—sorry—Corrupter. Beta had watched Aloy scavenge and attach the part with expert efficiency, then copy over all of her overrides. They had walked for an hour after, and Beta could feel a blister forming on the ball of her foot. All just to find this herd of Chargers they now crouched behind, obscured by what Beta thought was some rather sparse shrubbery.

"I still don't see why this is necessary," Beta wheedled, but Aloy gave no quarter.

"You need to be able to override machines, Beta, either to fight for you or help you run."

"I'd prefer just to stay out of danger, back at the Base..."

Aloy shook her head. "We need to be prepared. Anything could go wrong."

"That's reassuring..."

"Just override the Charger, Beta. Please?"

Beta scoffed, turning to the herd. A quick scan of her Focus helped her identify and tag each machine, so she could keep track of where each machine was at all times. Didn't want to end up with a bad surprise. She scanned the surrounding area as well, just in case, but the only other activity her Focus picked up was a fox scurrying about in the distance, and a bird awkwardly waddling over a boulder. Beta crept forward a step.

“I’ll stay right here, okay?” Aloy whispered, and Beta shot back a tight nod over her shoulder.

Deep breath. She could do this.

The closest Charger had its head down in the grass, converting the organic matter into Blaze. An important job, much more useful for the terraforming system than the so called "hunter-killers" HEPHAESTUS deployed to...discourage tampering. At least she would just be overriding the machine, not killing it.

Beta was within feet of the machine when suddenly, it raised its head, as if sensing her presence. She froze, adrenaline coursing through her veins and making her limbs tingle. Of course Aloy had shown her some basic spear moves, just in case, but she'd never had to test those skills. She was almost about to turn tail and flee when the Charger shook its head, then ducked back down to the grass.

Beta could have collapsed, she was so relieved.

"Now's your chance," Aloy hissed behind her.

Steeling herself, Beta crept forward. Overriding seemed simple enough—the Corrupter's override module would kick in on impact and take care of the process for her—but suddenly the idea of jabbing the Charger with a long piece of wood seemed...ill-advised.

But she couldn't back down, not with Aloy behind her. She had to prove to her sister that she was capable. She squared her shoulders, adjusted her staff so it felt less awkward in her hands, and stuck the module end into the hind-quarters of the machine.

The override took over as blue light pulsed across the Charger, primitive nanotechnology in the machine becoming slaved to her personal Focus network. Glowing tendrils spread across the machine like mycelium.

Beta contained her whoop of enthusiasm, not wanting to alert the other machines, but her blood surged with excitement. So caught up in the thrill of the moment, she almost fell over in surprise when Aloy silently appeared next to her, then crept forward to override her own mount.

Aloy quietly led both of their Chargers out of the herd, Beta trailing behind, nervous about alerting the others. Once they were safely hidden, her sister helped her awkwardly up onto the mount, Beta struggling to pull herself up and over.

"Race you back to the Base?" Aloy joked, mounting her Charger with effortless ease.

Beta scowled. "You just want to see me land in the dirt, don't you?"

Aloy smirked. "Maybe you'll learn to hang on tighter."

With a huff, Beta stuck out her tongue, and then kicked her mount forward into a run, nearly charging into Aloy. Her sister yelped in surprise and raced after her, laughter echoing as they galloped back towards home.

#thank you!!#unbeta'd #sobeck sisters #horizon forbidden west #hfw #prompts

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kelsochronicles · 5 months

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Slowly chipping away at the first long term project I’ve done in ages. Learning about story boarding has been fun and an immense challenge creatively. Concepts need simplified and I’ve had to redraw panels when dialogue doesn’t match and vice versa.

#horizon fanart #horizon #horizon forbidden west #beyond the horizon #Aloy #beta #beta and Aloy #sobeck sisters #my wips #my art

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hellcheercaine · 6 months

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Open for business for the right cause

#horizon forbidden west #horizon burning shores #hfw aloy #hfw beta #sobeck sisters #Aloy Despite the OSHA Violation #hellcheercaine #mine

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