Aloy
| Character | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Aloy |
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| Relationships: | Rost - Father Figure |
| Fandom: | Horizon Zero Dawn, Genshin Impact |
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Aloy is the main protagonist in the Horizon video game series, starting with Horizon Zero Dawn in 2017.
On September 01, 2021, she was added to Genshin Impact as a playable character.
She is canonically sapphic, as revealed in the Horizon: Forbidden West DLC Burning Shores.
Canon
Aloy was cast out of the Nora tribe at birth, and was raised by the outcast Rost. She enters a competition after her coming of age to re-join the Nora tribe and wins, however the tribe is then suddenly attacked by cultists. The cultists have the ability to control the animal-machines of their world, and after Aloy learns about her mysterious birth decides to head off and save her people while looking for answers. She is able to turn the aggressive machines into friendly companions. With their help, Aloy is able to defeat the cultists and the evil machines, and discovers where she came from. In the end, she learns that she was a clone of an ancient human scientist named Dr. Sobeck.
In the Forbidden West DLC Burning Shores, Aloy is revealed to be canonically sapphic, as the player is able to choose to reciprocate the feelings of Seyka and kiss her.
She is canonically 5'6".[1]
Fandom
Fanon & Headcanons
After the release of the VR game Call of the Mountain, fans noticed Aloy looked to be very short, and for a short (haha) while she was referred to as smol. It was later pointed out that Aloy is canonically 5'6", meaning she's actually slightly above average height (depending on the metric used) for women in the US where the Horizon games take place, albeit in the future.
Queer Identity
Prior to being confirmed canonically queer, many fans headcanoned her as such. Bi appears to be relatively common, though lesbian headcanons also exist. Her being aroace also seems quite popular, as Aloy had had zero explicit moments of attraction towards anyone prior to Burning Shores, and none of the games have yet offered any romance options.
- Rose and Rosie, in their video HORIZON ZERO DAWN | Idiot Gameplay, dubbed her bi very soon after having started playing.
- Bisexual Aloy - (Uncommon) Ao3 Tag
The sapphic portion of the HZD fandom has a habit of shipping her with every woman she comes across, and many will multiship.
Relationships
Het appears to be the most common dynamic, followed by femslash. Her pairing up with Erend seems to be the most popular of the former, and her pairing up with Talanah seems to be the most popular of the latter.
She's somewhat a bit of a fandom bicycle, being shipped with many of the characters who so much as look at her. The fangame Focus on the Heart is an upcoming visual novel that allows Aloy to romance one of eight characters she is commonly shipped with.
Femslash
- Aloy/Talanah
- Aloy/Seyka (canonical)
- Aloy/Vanasha
- Aloy/Vala
- Aloy/Petra
- Aloy/Ikrie
- Aloy/Alva
Het
Crossovers
Gen
Common Tropes & Themes
- BAMF!Aloy - Aloy is known for being fairly badass, and this trope is common enough to have its own canonised tag.[2]
- Fandom Bicycle
Fanworks
Fanart
Gallery
Fan Art - Aloy Horizon Zero Dawn (Mar 2017) by rainwalker007, featuring Aloy with a Thunderjaw.
Fanfiction
- Hello, Friend. by Zaphyrus