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Aloy ([personal profile] despitethenora) wrote2023-01-29 09:48 pm
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[Out of habit, her greeting starts with a sigh. Hey, for a long time the only person who called her was Sylens, and it really set a tone for phone conversations. Be glad it's just a sigh.]

What do you need?
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Re: DAY 106

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-20 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[She watches silently. A god machine silenced. A world saved. And yet Aloy still couldn't be allowed to rest. Not even just being here. She thinks some day she'll make it home, and there's more fighting.

She wants to hold Aloy. This is all just. So unfair.
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Seven years isn't long enough to establish a biome. The god-machine was mad.

[Gods. She's so tired. She reaches out, touches the spear. Rests her hand on it.

She should probably do something with it. Pull it out. Push it in further. But she'd said she wouldn't make any changes. She grips it firmly, knuckles going white, and closes her eyes, taking slow, deep breaths.
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I feel so stupid sometimes. I ask for such a major hint and I'm still not sure if I'm doing the right thing.

[She lets go, takes a step back, then eyes the mementos. Time to start accessing their icons, one by one.]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-21 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[That's such a mixture of feelings, and they manage to distract, somewhat, from her rage. Sympathy. Pity.

Talanah's beautiful. What does being her Thrush entail? Obviously nothing romantic, she's certain of that. But still...

Rost. The Nora. She's beginning to why Aloy's shaped the way she is. Rost has done so much for Aloy, and yet Tryse wishes she could reach through time and throttle the man. It's always a mistake to think barbarians are stupid, but...

And flying-

She should cast a flight spell on Aloy. She'd like that.

She's reaching for the frog when she triggers the crocodile by mistake. And she pauses, staring at it warily. That was... She was in Aloy's heart.
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GAIA. Is this thing usually such a strong presence?
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-21 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
[She shouldn't. She promised not to. Tryse turns her back and walks away.]

If you're not recognizing it as trauma, then it's probably a foreign element. Possibly introduced by Qhyone. Maybe when it became a taboo for her.

[She reaches the spear and gives it a firm tug, trying to pull it from HADES.]

There's only two I'll allow inside Aloy for such a long time. Claudine and myself. Airi can, in a less intimate fashion. But certainly no creation of the cult's.
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-22 01:42 am (UTC)(link)
[She closes her eyes for a moment.]

I was... I was using crude humor to vent frustration. Sorry.

[She strains, grunts, but... In this, it's less about physicality and more about mentality, isn't it? And mental strength, Tryse has in spades. If that matters here.

Still, it practically sends her sprawling when she manages to get the spear out. She huffs, picks up her beret, plops it back onto her head, and picks up the spear. She's ever really used one before, but how hard can it be? It's a staff with a pointy bit at one end.

She turns back to the shelves. Time to put down a plushie.
]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-22 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I'm still angry. And now there's this plush crocodile. I'd blown it off as a joke, and it seems to be... more.

I remember you, you little beast. You attacked me, too. Hwast cunte-draca.

[Yeah. Fuck it. She's stabbing the thing, or giving it the old college try at least.]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-22 02:21 am (UTC)(link)
[She's... got no clue what to do with that ring of light, really. Tryse reaches out, pauses, and... tries slapping it?

That's how technology works, right? Aloy slapped the record player, after all. Not that it worked.
]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-22 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
...

[Okay, but what if?

Her heart works on willpower and emotion. So did Claudine's. So can she just... Gather everything she has, focus it together, and slap it again? It's worth a shot. She spreads her legs, scowls in concentration, and raises her hand. Giving it a few seconds to focus, and for Aloy's heart to act however it's going to, she gives it a harder, firmer, more confident slap.
]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-22 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
[Fuck.

That probably wasn't what she wanted to happen.

Who was that? It wasn't Ted Faro, she would have recognized him from the previous holograms.

Was it a servant of HADES? Had the crocodile become representative of Aloy's fear of death?
]

GAIA? Status report.

[She's shaken now, uncertain, watching the timer. She'd been planning on sending a surge of willpower through the crocodile, try to incinerate it. But now-

What's she fucked up this time?
]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-22 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ah. She's removed Aloy's sense of mortality.

Wonderful. Excellent job, Tryse. 10/10, gold star.
]

Have I done anything right today?

[In the future. Contain it. Or observe it. She rubs her hands over her face and just leans against the shelf, sliding down it until she hits the floor. At least no one's here to see this and chide her over it. Stupid.]
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-23 12:09 am (UTC)(link)
Aloy takes insane risks already. I've seen her memory on how she lost that shielding of hers. An Aloy with no fear of death and even more confidence in her skills...

It's a dangerous combination. If there's a game tomorrow, it could get ugly.
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-23 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
...I've been afraid to.

When I think of the scavenger hunt, all I can see is how badly I failed everyone. I was so... so stupid. I thought that the events were just-

I wasn't there when they needed me. I was doing frivolous nonsense. Even if I couldn't have participated, I could have been there to offer kind words. Make them feel secure. Try to restrain them when it was getting to be too much.

Everything I've done afterwards has been an attempt to correct those mistakes. Keep them from happening again. But it never feels like enough. And now I have to come begging the people I care for for help to just... just to make me feel like I want to live again.

Because of that hunt. Because of what I didn't do.

I'm scared to find out more about it, GAIA. Is it really that important to see those memories?
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Re: Done

[personal profile] tryse 2023-07-23 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
I... Okay, yes. That's important. I've been operating for a while without a clear idea of what Aloy's capable of. If I'm going to guide her in a fight some day, I should know these things.

This mindset being free from fear of death? Or being aware of her own mortality?

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