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When hunter-killer machines begin attacking the Memorial Grove, Aloy returns there to lend her aid. She arrives on the night of the blaze moon, a Tenakth ceremony that sweeps her up in it before she realizes it's happening. Suddenly suitors are seeking her out around every corner until she and Kotallo stumble into an...unorthodox solution.
That might cause more problems than it solves.
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- Part 1 of Paint and Fire
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18 Mar 2023
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It starts with a sparring match. The ring of metal on metal, the pounding of her blood in her ears and sweat stinging her eyes, mud on her knees. It starts with the two of them, breathless and flushed, tucked away in a secluded corner of the Grove, wondering when a sparring match became something else.
Or: Aloy experiences a sexual awakening, Kotallo offers therapeutic sparring, Erend earns his "World's Best Big Brother" badge, and Beta discovers an old-world musical tradition called "AC/DC".
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- Part 1 of Tension and Release
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04 Nov 2022
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Aloy is a wayward, yet devoted Nora Priestess training in the twin arts of love and war. Her curious and often restless nature forces the High Matriarchs to send her far into the west. Aloy’s faith waivers when she meets the stoic Marshal Kotallo and she begins to question her usefulness to the All-Mother.
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- Part 1 of Astarte
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02 Nov 2022
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Direct sequel to Night of the Dancing Flame.
A year after the destruction of the Nemesis threat, Aloy returns to the Memorial Grove on the night of another blaze moon. When someone unexpected wields Fire's Wail during the ceremony, she notices the Chief Hekarro himself is more affected than anyone else in the tribe.
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- Part 2 of Paint and Fire
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17 Oct 2022
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Irony must be a driving factor in Aloy's life; AETHER is meant to stabilize the air, but to get it she has to partner with a cold vortex of a man that quite obviously hates her company. The feeling is painfully mutual. Kotallo has been denied death, and cannot see his task of escorting an outlander in a doomed mission as anything other than an insult. The commonalities between them are barely enough to fill the surface of a coin and they'll surely kill each other before they even make it to the Bulwark.
Or, perhaps, they are both sides of it--alike and unable to realize it for the line separating them. Perhaps, instead of killing each other, they'll be able to work together after all.
OR a switching POV fic in which I catalog all the FEELS of our two favorite broody stabbers as they journey through the game.
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06 Oct 2022