Aloy (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mountaindaughter) wrote2019-05-04 10:59 pm
mountaindaughter) wrote2019-05-04 10:59 pm
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Player: Famine
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Age: 32
Current Characters: Future Trunks
fighting4afutureCharacter: Aloy
Age: 19
Canon: Horizon: Zero Dawn
Canon Point: After defeating HADES (main game) and rescuing CYAN (Frozen Wilds DLC), and after journeying west to find Elisabet (ending scene)
Background: Wiki link
Personality:
-Elisabet Sobeck to Gaia, describing what she would want from her child.
True to the above, Aloy is intelligent, curious, and stubborn as all heck. She's constantly analyzing the world around her, trying to understand everything about it. She wants to--is excited to--learn and will throw herself headlong into everything she does. Her entire life up to this point has been a quest to figure out her history, everything she's done, all the skills she's mastered, have been to the one specific end of finding out who her mother is.
The emphasis on her mother is because the Nora are a matriarchal society. Without a mother, Aloy was an outcast from birth, shunned by the rest of the tribe with the exception of her mentor and father figure, Rost, who was also an outcast. Generally speaking, outcasts are not allowed to speak to one another or a member of the tribe in good standing. Because of this, Aloy is a bit...socially awkward. She's not incredibly comfortable in large groups of people, speaks her mind with no filter, and is very sarcastic and blunt. She also talks to herself on a regular basis. She wants to belong to the group, she is compassionate and helps people where she can, but it also often comes with a side of smart remark.
As an outsider, Aloy has little respect for rules and traditions that don't make sense to her. She doesn't do things because 'that's the way they're done', she only does what makes sense to her. This casts more than a bit of friction between her and people in authority. If they're understandable to her, she gets along fine--treats them like an equal, but listens to the advice they give. If someone tries to lord it over her just because, she will not tolerate it. She also doesn't like being put on a pedestal herself, her reaction to being called 'the anointed' by her tribe is to put everyone on blast for their hypocrisy in bowing before her now, ignoring the past where she was shunned and mistreated for being motherless. She believes in leadership by merit, not by circumstances of birth, and she's really not cowed by or afraid of anyone.
Behind all of her bravery and sarcasm, Aloy is still a little bothered by the revelations of who exactly (or what, exactly) her mother was. She might say that she doesn't care, but finding out that she's a clone, that her mother was a machine--or a thousand year dead woman depending on how you look at it--shook a lot of foundations for her, making her question for a while if she was really any more than a machine herself. She took up a quest to find Elisabet's resting place after defeating HADES, and is starting to emotionally recover from that journey. Part of what bothers her about it is that, despite not respecting all the Nora's traditions, she did definitely internalize the emphasis on who your mother is, and that relationship determining your belonging. Even after knowing that Elisabet lived a thousand years ago, she still hoped to find her alive somehow.
After using the Master Override to defeat HADES, Aloy left Meridian, but didn't feel like she was at home in Nora lands either, so she journeyed north to the Cut--part of Banuk land. There, she encountered Aratak and Ourea, Banuk siblings and co-leaders of their group, and CYAN, another artificial intelligence that survived the destruction of the Earth. Finding a way to release CYAN from the control of one of GAIA's rogue subfunctions, HEPHASTUS the machine designer/builder, became her new mission. Seeing the loving (if complicated) relationship between Aratak and Ourea inspired her to find Elisabet's resting place, and speaking with CYAN has given her the drive to learn all she can to rebuild GAIA and see the Zero Dawn project to its completion.
Abilities:
- Genius level intelligence
Aloy is the clone of one of the most intelligent and driven women of the 21st century. She can intuit how to work technology that's considered godlike by her kin and has been able to do so from a young age, even without an advanced education--she also intuitively figures out things like 'the earth is round' that's not general knowledge (Sylens assumes she thinks the earth is flat, she says 'bitch it casts a round shadow'). She also has a steel trap memory, having memorized medicinal plants, machine parts, hunting paths, etc.
- High physical strength and endurance
Aloy is very strong, an adept free-climber and runner, and a strong fighter and hunter - she can climb basically anything from buildings to mountains without any safety gear. (What is safety...) She's also quick on her feet, able to dodge quickly charging machines and people and retaliate with one of her many weapons quickly.
- Weapon mastery
Highly skilled with a bow and arrow, spear, sling, and various other kinds of weapons. In game, she will have a bow and arrows (a Shadow Hunter Bow, her spear, and a sling with her ammo pouches for each full.
- Survivalist
She's a master hunter and tracker with and without her Focus. (It does help though.) She's also good at gathering food and finding shelter.
- Focus
The device Aloy always wears is called a Focus, it's a high-tech device that can scan its surroundings, displaying information in a 'heads up' hologram format that she can see when enabled. It can also scan people, buildings, and devices. It's capable of communicating with other Focuses and interacting with technology designed to work with it.
Alignment:
Daimonia. A lot of her life has been defined by the grief of not knowing who her mother was--then realizing that she never would, then losing a bunch of people, then realizing that the world got entirely turbofucked and might never recover and a lot of what her 'mother' worked for was lost, but joy at the fact that it worked and that life can recover--even if it's not the same as it was before.
Other:
I'll have a permissions post for dealing with being scanned by her Focus. For those who don't wish to be scanned/who haven't responded, it will record an error. It can't be used for communication with anything other than other Focuses.
General Sample:
TDM link
Emotion Sample:
[Alright, there were a lot of people here. Too many people. She'd been shocked and awed by the size of Meridian, but Verens was so much more.
Overwhelmingly so.
All she wanted was to slip into the forest she'd been raised in, felt most comfortable in, where the only sounds were those of singing insects and the wind through the grass.
She barely noticed her immediate surroundings responding to that wish, the anxiety and need for safety, long red-tufted grass growing rapidly up through the cobblestones around her. The same sort of grass that Rost had taught her to hide in when she was young.]