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    It was random chance actually. A whim to visit the grave of someone they held dear turned into an opportunity to mend their hearts, and find some answers. And maybe, just maybe, find the family that Aloy and Beta have desperately wished for all their lives.

    Post Forbidden West, there will be spoilers if you read this.

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    14 Jun 2023

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    Another Elisabet lives AU through the events of Horizon Forbidden West and I add my humble cake to the buffet table. Excerpt:

    It was stupid, childish, to fear one woman's reaction to her existence. After all, Aloy had faced down men three times her size, deadly hunter-killers, and extinction-crazed AI's--what was meeting the woman she was based on compared to all that? But still, the fear of rejection was there. Setting aside her childish desires to avoid her own pain, Aloy was forced to recognize that she needed Elisabet. It was hard to admit, but Aloy was failing in her mission to restore GAIA. Elisabet might be the only person in the world that would know where to begin.

    In the end, it was this knowledge that leads Aloy to her decision. The world was more important than what Elisabet felt about a clone of herself.

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    05 Jun 2023

  3. Public Bookmark 96

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    In which GAIA's interests include hypothetical cryostasis as a hobby.

    After all, why not try cryogenic preservation at the end of the world? If it doesn't work, Elisabet dies anyways. If it does… then Elisabet deserves to see the world she saved.

    And Elisabet herself? Well... she's always wanted to meet Aloy.

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    24 May 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 81

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    “I’m Erend, captain of the King’s vanguard.”

    He paused.

    “You’re Aloy’s mother, aren’t you?”

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    Aloy saw the recordings, felt their grief over the death of their culture - the loss of their identity. Ted Faro had blown away the light meant to guide humanity through darkness - but she was willing to risk it all to take it back. To bring APOLLO back. It wasn't the first time that the world asked her for a miracle, but it bargained with a miracle of its own:

    This time - she didn't have to do it alone.

    [Elisabet Sobeck Lives, GAIA is recovering, Erend is done waiting around, and Aloy discovers a family she's never had before to help lift the weight of the world off her shoulders.]

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    23 May 2023

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    "Alright kid," she murmured as she snapped the focus on over her ear, "time to level the playing field a little."

    Elisabet had always been curious to a fault. Now was her chance to turn the tables on this stranger who seemed to know her life story, and to reflect on her new reality.

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    22 May 2023