#hzd fic

[han-ban-bam]

Charity

She is Kotallo's service dog, and a very good pupper indeed.

From @myrrkva 's fic Before I Sleep - go read for modern AU goodness!!

#fic art #hfw fic #hzd fic #myrrkva #before i sleep fic

[every-raindrop77]

Writer’s game: first sentences!

Tagged by @poppypopp because @fogsblue didn’t know my tumblr (how shocking!)

Rules: post the first sentence of your last ten fics. If you haven’t written ten fics, share as many first-sentences as you have.

I have more than 10 fics, so I've filtered to completed on AO3 and worked back from there! 

1: All Dressed Up Fashav and Nil had cheered with their fellow Tenakth when news came that he was to return to the Sundom.

2: One for Sorrow, add Two for Joy “Are you the witch of the woods?”

3: A Bloom Amongst the Bloodshed There is a quiet, as dense and as thick as the deepest groves of the forest when the blood and the burn of the battle is spent.

4: Kisses, Cookies and a Very Merry Christmas Hekarro woke slowly, and stretched as best as he could, while the pleasant weight of his partner pressed him down into the couch.

5: Flowers in the Glade... The journey back across their lands had been gruelling, and Kotallo’s pre-occupation with the outlander had not gone unnoticed - all of the soldiers persistently teasing him - only for it to roll off of his back unnoticed half the time.

6: Heated Dreams Hekarro smiled contentedly, certain he was dreaming as he replayed the events of the day.

7: The Chief and His Champion It was almost inevitable, most would say - that when all was said and done Aloy would return to Memorial Grove and hope to make her life there.

8: Finding Fortune... It wasn’t long after Nemesis has been eliminated, that Aloy had brought Kotallo to the gauntlet runs - he’d been increasingly bored and restless after they’d eliminated the last of the rebel leaders.

9: This Old House Aloy hadn’t questioned her luck when the modest brick townhouse placed in a quiet suburb had arrived in her inbox on a quiet Saturday morning, the email blank with only the link and the subject line bolded with a red priority flag.

10: The Fall of Paradise Things had seemed so bright last year Ted thought absently, he had absolved himself of ending the world with a few quick commands from his consoles, watching through the holo-meeting as the Alphas slowly died in front of him and the Apollo protocol was relegated to a digital graveyard. 

I didn’t tag anyone - because I think they’ve all been tagged already :D

#writing tag #fic #hzd fic #fun

[poppypopp]

When Teb finds his soulmate during the Battle of the Alight, his life will never be the same.

The first part of a series of oneshots exploring the relationship between Teb and Nil, the unlikeliest of soulmates.

#i don't even know #Nil/Teb #Horizon rarepair #Horizon fic #hzd fic #hzd nil #hzd teb #they're so soft for each other tho #writing them was a delight

[polarolds]

the chokehold this fic has on me is so unreal @foibles-fables​

Please go read rest like you belong here because foibles’ writing is always a delight. 

Also here’s some silly bonus content I drew a year or so ago for their fic quench, (also a bANGER would highly recommend ✌️).

#not to be dramatic but this is my cornerstone talanaloy fic #it's about the yearning #horizon zero dawn #horizon forbidden west #hzd #hfw #aloy #talanah #talanah khane padish #horizon fanart #HZD fanart #erend vanguardsman #aloy x talanah #hawk and thrush

[wykart]

Against the Lightning

I've finally finished uploading this fic, which I've been writing on and off since around April last year... So glad it's over, and I had to draw something to commemorate it. Thanks to all who have read it and waited (very patiently) for its completion!

#like the fic itself this cover is messy and overworked. maybe that's just how i operate rip #horizon forbidden west #hfw #fanart #aloy #tilda van der meer #tildaloy #horizon zero dawn #hzd #digital art #my art #ao3 #fanfic #horizon

[mancatrex]

Just Nil Things

#horizon zero dawn #my art #horizon forbidden west #fanart #nil #hzd nil #hfw nil #hades au #hades fic illustration #fic illustration #painting

[quiche-draws]

Chapter 2 for "A Spirit's Flight" is up!

"The balmy weather of autumn had finally given way to winter chill, brought in from the cooling north seas. It blew over the peaks surrounding Valleymeet, cascading down its slopes and weaving its way through the Spiritlands’ dense forests below. Those living in the Embrace would experience its bite soon, but the many beasts of the wilder territories had already taken shelter from the coming season’s icy grip. Thus, game grew scarcer, as it always did every year, while evergreen trees boasted their viridescent leaves that would remain all throughout the heralding season..."

Drew up a scene to accompany the new chapter! You can check it out by clicking the link to my AO3 on my pinned post :D

PLEASE DO NOT REPOST! REBLOG ONLY!

#horizon forbidden west #hfw #wind weaver au #wind weaver #aloy #rost #a spirit's flight #qooky fic #qooky art #fan art #horizon zero dawn #hzd

[razieldjinn]

Rost CANONICALLY went to the forbidden west, were told this in zero dawn when Teersa finally tells us his story, WHY are there not more fics where that’s explored? Where people in the west know him? I would kill for that

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #Rost horizon #rost #aloy #forbidden west #hfw #hzd #zero dawn #fic recs #please #please give me fic recs

[meg-noel-art]

Had the honor of drawing Untalla and (hair down) Silga for @mehoymalloy and their fic which can be read here. Give it a look, it’s a wonderful and creative fic:

‘When the Darkness Comes’

#mehoymalloy #untalla #silga #hfw #horizon forbidden west #fanfic #commission #when the darkness comes #horizon fanfic #fic rec #my art #hzd #horizon zero dawn

[joyfuladorable]

< Prev Doodles | First Set of Doodles

Surprise, @redstringraven!! Guess who watched a playthrough of Horizon Forbidden West AND the DLC Burning Shores and Then proceeded to reread Pretend that I Never Left and draw Four More DOODLE PAGES!!!! To all the 2k3 Mikey fans out there, this is the fic for you!

#tmnt #tmnt 2003 #tmnt 2k3 #tmnt mikey #hzd aloy #hfw beta #should I tag Donnie and Erend and Varl and... Nah #my art #fic fanart #in which Mikey showcases all his badassery while becoming fast friends *cough*siblings*cough* with Aloy #correction: ALL 2k3 fans should read this #as I've stated before this fic does Not Need any prior knowledge of HZD #hzd fans who see this you might have a little more trouble reading this if you don't know anything about TMNT 2k3 lol #hey to all who know HFW do you think it's weird as hell that Beta didn't get new clothes??? #like Damn Aloy you have a whole walk in closet and a kitchen sink's worth of clothes and you don't share any of them with your sister???? #anyways fixing that lol #also can you tell I've slipped from trying to draw Aloy and the rest in 2k3 style to just doing whatever's most comfy for me #also ALSO Hannah if you're reading this Apologies if I've somehow predicted more of the Epilogue #my brain would Not Stop thinking about What IFs lmaooooo #anyways no matter how many times I reread PtINL I will Never be over how well it's written #nor will I ever be over Aloy and Mikey being found siblings and what a blessing it is on my entire soul #straight up could not stop thinking about PtINL while watching HFW #anyways anyways lol back to work on other stuff! #I've got less than a week left of vacation let's see how much I can get done *cracks knuckles*

[foibles-fables]

gray areas and expectations [hfw, aloy/talanah]

Post-Horizon Forbidden West, ~5.5K words, rated M, complete

I feels too good tonight to let it end. It feels…safe, after an entire day of battle-thrill, of fighting side-by-side. Watching each other’s back like that is a kind of tenderness that Aloy understands—one that can be given and known without words to make it all complicated. 

Turns out, so is this. And Aloy doesn’t want to stop.

Aloy lets herself get carried away, and ends up out of her depth.

See notes/tags and read the rest on AO3:

#horizon forbidden west #horizon zero dawn #hfw #hzd #horizon fic #aloy #talanah khane padish #aloy x talanah #aloy/talanah #hawk and thrush #foibles_fables

[every-raindrop77]

Tag Game

Tagged by @poppypopp, thank you!

1) How many works do you have on AO3? 63!

2) What’s your total AO3 word count? 334,970

3) What fandoms do you write for? Mostly Horizon Zero Dawn, I've dabbled in DND:HAT, Stardew Valley & The Magnus Archives and will likely indulge in BG3 when I finish my playthrough

4) What are your top 5 fics by kudos?

1 - Beckoning Death, Brushing Lips

2 - Illicit Lute-y

3 - Year One

4 - A knife in the sand, a punch in the heart

5 - Beads & Paint

5) Do you respond to comments? I try to, but a lot of the time I either reply in my head or cn't think of anything to say :'(

6) What is the fic you wrote with the angstiest ending? Fingerprints On the Soul, it was written for an angst night in Nilysium and still hurts my feelings to this day. Prompt fulfilled!

7) What’s the fic you wrote with the happiest ending? Every one of my Aloy/Hekarro Omegaverse series has a happy ending (hurhurhur) but the happiest is probably Finding Fortune, Racing with Fate because it was explicitly written to be nice to the blorbos.

8) Do you get hate on fics? Not really? There's a couple of comments that were borderline, but I just removed them.

9) Do you write smut? If so, what kind? In most, and a mixture of everything tbh - I just want people to have good time - though I'm not above making them wait for it!

10) Do you write crossovers? What’s the craziest one you’ve written? Lots of thoughts, and I enjoy reading them - but I've only ever written a Horizon/Pacific Rim oneshot.

11) Have you ever had a fic stolen? Nope!

12) Have you ever had a fic translated? Nobody told me if they did!

13) Have you ever co-written a fic before? I've co-written a one-shot with a great author who needed a hand with the smut portion of their work. It was really great to try and merge our styles!

14) What’s your all time favorite ship? I don't know that I could ever choose - Bones/booth were my OGs and I still love them. Current faves would be Nil/Fashav, Aloy/Hekarro and Astarion/Halsin in BG3

15) What’s a WIP you want to finish but doubt you ever will? Beads and Paint, my first every Kotaloy fic but I never really thought about where it was going when I started.

16) What are your writing strengths? I feel like I do well with description, and I'm very confident in my smut!

17) What are your writing weaknesses? For many years I fully avoided any dialogue ever, I've grown a huge amount in the last 2-3 years though so probably just my struggle to concentrate and put words to paper.

18) Thoughts on writing dialogue in another language in fic? I'm only comfortable embarassing myself in one language at a time :D

19) First fandom you wrote for? Maximum Ride, in a notebook I kept hidden in my bedside drawer. Max and Fang were pre-teen crack for my little shipping heart.

20) Favorite fic you’ve written? Probably Aporkalyptic or my two knife marriage fics in Horizonverse, nobody else rates them as highly, but I'll always be the first to laugh at my own jokes :')

And that's me done. I'm tagging @eclectus & @wandereringray No pressure though!

#tag game #hzd fic

[setokaibapetty]

5 + 1 Fic Friday Roundup: Is Anyone Going to Adopt that Kid?

Some adoption and/or found family stories.

Judgement and Justice (AO3) - "Hitoshi Shinsou is surrendered to foster care by his single mother at the age of five. At the age of six, he decides to run away with his 'villainous' foster brother. From there, we meet a runaway Todoroki with projection issues to rival a Trans Siberian Orchestra concert, a tired analyst in a questionable government organization trying to figure out just who needs to get fired and where, a panicking Pro Hero trying to locate his son, who wasn't supposed to be in foster care in the first place, and a very, very annoyed underground hero who's going to steal a child from SOME hero, one way or another."

Crash Into Me (AO3) - "Kara is cold and scared and her little baby cousin Kal-el won't stop wiggling, but they have no choice but to keep moving or the DEO, the government entity that captured them shortly after they crashed on this planet, will catch them and punish them for trying to escape. And then Leonard Snart and Mick Rory, driving by, very nearly crash into her life."

The Children of Ullia (AO3) - "In a time where Aloy accepted Ullia's offer to take her as a daughter, Ullia had already taken one child of the East to be her own. A young man she met in Sunstone Rock."

Proud Immortal Parent's Way (AO3) - "A story in which Shang Qinghua gets the chance to raise the protagonist from square one! This causes a lot of things that never made it to the final draft of PIDW! And now there was a bunch of family drama in the Mobei Clan and some drama with Huan Hua that he and Binghe got dropped into, but hey, at least he wasn't going to be a scum villain anymore. And the cute baby is a plus!"

dry as a bone (AO3) - "Din Djarin didn’t set out to build a clan, but the child cooed and whined and telekinetically shoved their way into his heart. A clan of two is more than enough to fill that old bounty hunter’s heart, even if the womp rat doesn’t exactly take up much space. Said womp rat isn’t the only kid with special abilities, though, and every child deserves a chance to grow up safe and loved."

Bonus: Dad Bane AU (AO3) - "When Cad Bane is rescued from an ambush by a small Twi'lek street urchin, he does not foresee how much their meeting will change his life."

#fic friday #fandom friday #fanfic rec #recs #fic rec #star wars #cad bane #the mandalorian #rey #baby yoda #shang qinghua #svsss #aloy despite the nora #nil horizon #ullia horizon #hzd #bnha #DC #Kara Danvers #leonard snart #Mick Rory #izuku midoriya #hitoshi shinsou #found family #adoption #ao3 #roundup #5 + 1 #fanfiction #archive of our own

[radioactivepeasant]

Fic Prompts: Snippet Monday

Some weeks ago, @sparguscityangel and I were discussing the world map in Jak 2, and it occurred to me that at least one character refers to the northeastern area of the main continent as The Wasteland as well as the island to the west. And in the Jak and Daxter franchise, plot holes are just writer worldbuilding opportunities. So we started tossing around the idea of there being two or three separate communities of Wastelanders, all in different environments, because "wasteland" doesn't automatically mean "desert". And we thought "maybe they're all loosely affiliated and the leaders of the clans meet up every once in a while". For context, my idea of the other clans was Longstump Clan, down where the swamp used to be in TPL, and Foothills Clan, which lives around what used to be the Spider Caves and the base of Snowy Mountain. All this then got incorporated into Adopted Dadmas au with a pinch of Spy Tess. (That bit comes tomorrow)

"Fine young gun you've got there, Wolf."

The chief of the Longstump settlement took a drag on his intricately carved pipe and nodded to where Jak was climbing up one of the old pillars to watch for Marauder activity below. The old man snorted as the boy turned an unnecessarily elaborate flip to make it to the top.

"What is he now, eighteen? Nineteen?"

"Sixteen, by count of his last physical," Damas answered, sparing the boy a glance. A faint smile tugged at his cheek. "Sixteen, impudent, and always climbing, that one."

Sal puffed out a smoky chuckle. "No wonder the Foothills band likes him."

He leaned back and shook out the soft hide vest and tunic common to the inland Wastelanders, rattling with wooden beads and Precursor metal. His hands were wrinkled, and his face creased; Sal was old enough to be Damas’s father, but his hair was the same deep teak it was in his youth, tied back in neat plaits.

"At the rate he's going, he'll have no trouble when it's time for his Proving," Sal observed.

"Hm."

The Proving. That was what the Wastelanders of Longstump called the trials to usher newcomers into their ranks: a three day test of strength against metalheads in the basin, with an amulet awarded for each day survived.

The Foothill Wastelanders called their test Running the Spire. Young warriors or outsiders wishing to join had to race up a dangerous trail on the border of the Marauder homelands, without being caught by Marauders or dangerous wildlife, and infiltrate Snowy Mountain to bring back a piece of Marauder armor.

By comparison, the Arena was a far more controlled environment, with more rules. There was a strange irony in that.

Damas couldn't have said why the swell of pride he felt was so overwhelmingly strong, but he didn't bother to hide it.

"Jak has already passed the first two trials of his Proving," he corrected the Longstump chief with a full smile.

"I predict that before winter, he will join the warriors' councils as an equal."

Sal took another puff of his pipe and shook his head in wonder. "Two amulets and he's sixteen. Shee-oo! You dune-wolves don't do anything by halves, do you? You must be so proud."

Damas looked up. "I am," he murmured, smiling.

From the top of the pillar, Jak seemed to feel his stare. He looked down and made a questioning face. Damas snorted and signed up at him, "No moncaw-business! I'm not stealing light eco from the temple if you fall down and break both your arms!"

Sal laughed out loud beside him. "Ah! I remember telling my daughters that all the time!"

Yvelle, matriarch of the Foothills Clan finally looked up from the trade agreements the three had been exchanging. "Sometimes you just have to let them learn the hard way," she offered.

Damas made a face. "Can't. He convinced an Oracle in Haven city to teach him how to battle-shift -- like the Sages used to in the history books -- and now half the time he just regenerates whatever damage he's done to himself. I tell you, if my hair wasn't already white..."

"Your boy is a War Sage?" Sal sputtered, choking on smoke.

Yvelle's eyes glittered with interest. "No wonder he's half done with his Proving already. Hey, if you need a break, just send him up to the Caves. We'll tire him out."

"In your dreams, Yvelle," Damas scoffed. "Get your own kid: Jak's mine!"

"Worth a shot," the woman joked. "But seriously, my Lurker Wastelanders are asking about taking back their ancestral city in Frosthold. Loooooot of Marauders up there. We could use a War Sage."

Damas leaned back and searched the sky for a moment before his eyes landed on the Day-Star. He frowned. "Let's deal with subverting the apocalypse first. Then we'll see how far I'm willing to let my boy travel unaccompanied."

Of course, Jak would likely have all three amulets by then, and thus be considered old enough to go where he wanted. But Damas wasn't fond of the idea. He'd lost one son, why tempt fate by letting another wander far from home without supervision?

#jak and daxter #fic prompts #writing prompts #snippet monday #adopted dadmas #wastelander ocs #jak and daxter ocs #Sal has four daughters in their twenties and thirties and he's very well versed in Teen Wastelander Nonsense #Yvelle has no children because she'd rather be Bad Influence Auntie to everyone #dadmas #king damas #damas has only recently adopted jak but he's absolutely going to make his peers think he raised jak from childhood #jak plays along because he's never had a dad before and he's loving it #part two to follow tuesday #during the whole meeting dax is having the time of his life ruling the cook tent with an iron fist #spot the Horizon Zero Dawn reference 😉 #the Longstump and Foothills Wastelanders have elements loosely inspired by the HZD Nora and Banuk #adopted dadmas au

[wykart]

Sticks and Stones Against the Lightning

#plugging my fic. based on the everything about me I needed to write this #hfw #horizon forbidden west #aloy #tilda van der meer #aloy/tilda #fanart #digital art #my art #hzd #hfw spoilers #it has a normal amount of eyeballs I think

[mancatrex]

If HADES won AU idea

#horizon zero dawn #fanart #my art #painting #varl #sona #erend #horizon forbidden west #HADES fic illustration #fic illustration #hzd varl #hfw varl #hzd erend #hfw erend #HZD HADES AU #HADES