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Welcome to our entry for the 2022 Horizon Big Bang: False Negative! Written in fic form by Tesseract (abalidoth) with the accompanying comic adaptation by Ro (robinpixels) and following Beta, Alva and Federa as they seek to restart LEVIATHAN.

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:'3c hehe, another Spurious Correlations doodly from the False Negative production period <3

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most self indulgent crossover of my life = The Gender Ever

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stardust and snapdragon

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been hanging onto these a while, but here's the behind-the-scenes design/concept work for @horizonfalsenegative's Federa tan Foster!

she has a lot of fun design lore to her, and now i'm quite attached <3

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'modern'!bedera, send tweet!

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

We’re thrilled to share our contribution to @horizonbigbang​ 2022, False Negative!

The fic is by @abalidoth and the comics and titlecards are by @robinpixels. We’re both super proud of it so I hope you take a look! Comments, kudos, and reblogs all greatly appreciated.

Chapters:

10 (with 10 comic chapters)

Fandom:

Horizon: Zero Dawn

Rating:

Teen And Up Audiences

Relationships:

Alva/Beta/Federa from Horizon: Forbidden West (and every pairing contained in that triad), Aloy & Beta

Additional Tags:

Adventure, Romance, Trans Female Character, Nonbinary Character, trans Federa, nonbinary Beta, Trans Mentorship, Worldbuilding, this is our get-along road trip, rivals to allies to lovers, Happy Ending, Includes illustrations and comics, Autistic Beta, lots of cute machine characters, machine tamer beta

Summary:

Beta accompanies Alva and Aloy to Quen lands to reactivate Leviathan. As if dealing with Aloy's departure, hostile Quen, learning to override machines, and inscrutable pre-Plague technology wasn't enough, she has to hide her affection for Alva and cope with meeting Federa. But when an unexpected change in Quen politics threatens to shatter everything, Beta and Federa must join forces to save Alva, Leviathan and the Quen. Will their alliance remain temporary, or grow into something deeper?

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A little extra: The Focus screens found in the fic.

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