SEEKER

OUTCAST. may contain SPOILERS.

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      — ❝ Wow, this island is more similar to the wilderness of my home than anything else on the main island... I guess just replace the ‘dinosaurs’ with robotic ones and we’re all set, ❞

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invitedeath·:

“ there’s few differences between man-made machines and monsters like this. the illusions this world creates, there is nothing natural about them. iron might be more truthful than the bone and blood of these creatures. “

     — ❝ Uh huh.... Right, ❞ what is this guy going on about?

     ❝ Regardless if you think they’re illusions or not... They can still hurt and potentially kill you. So, you know... It’s always good to be cautious, even if it ends up being a hologram or something, ❞

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      — ❝ I’ve been watching a lot of the animals here from afar and... ❞

      ❝ I’m surprised a lot of them are the size of the bigger machines back where I’m from... Some are even bigger! I wonder where they all came from...? ❞

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hopeled·:

   “ It’s a maze ran by fairies…I don’t know if it has walls, but wouldn’t the fairies stop you from, y’know. Cheating?”

     — ❝ Well, I mean... ❞

     ❝ Isn’t that only if you get caught? ❞

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rooksassassin·:

Call it intuition ( y’know, being an assassin and all ), but something told him he was being watched.

It started when he was walking down the streets of the ward he was in. At first, he thought it was just people staring at him because, let’s face it, his getup isn’t the usual wardrobe choice that people would wear, but as Jacob continued onward, he realized the eyes he felt were coming from somewhere else. Somewhere… above? Another assassin who had spotted him, perhaps?

That’s what he thought, until someone started throwing small pebbles at him! Not enough to hurt, mind you, but still enough to catch his attention. He allowed it to continue… Until finally one pebble was thrown to make him sigh out and finally scale the building where it was coming from.

     “Y’know the old saying.. Throw a pebble at me once, shame      on me. Throw a second pebble at me, shame on you. Yes,      that’s exactly the saying, you don’t need to fact check–”

And when he finally got on top of the building, Jacob almost fell right off of it once he saw who the mastermind behind the pebble throwing was.

     “… Allie?”

     — AS the brunet looks at her with surprise and a wide-eyed look, Aloy looks to him with familiarity... With fondness. While it seems like she hadn’t been gone for a while, it also feels as if she hasn’t seen Jacob in what feels like ages... And thus, she can only look at the assassin with the utmost affection reflected within her verdant hues, hands now folding together in front of her frame.

     ❝ I was wondering when you’d climb up here, ❞

     ❝ ... I missed you. ❞

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   “ I bet the crystal flower is really pretty….” a click of the tongue. “ Too bad you have to do the maze in pairs. “

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      — ❝ What kind of maze is it? I mean, if there’s walls you can just climb up them and jump from ledge to ledge until you get to the middle... ❞

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faepact·:

       it’s not difficult to catch the suspicion.  of course, this subject is the only one that allows Manako to lose her calm.  with a soothing smile she wears when treating the children who came to the Reach’s clinic, she tries her best to keep the conversation moving away. 

       ❝ Hmm, I didn’t craft my poncho myself, but a nice tailor where I worked did so for me.  I wish I was that talented. ❞  she finishes her pondering and folds her hands together happily.  

       ❝ That’s impressive, though!  Is Rost your friend? ❞

     — ❝ Really? You can learn! It’s really easy, ❞ Aloy is quick to tell the stranger, smiling all the while. It’s nice, she thinks, to be able to speak with others for once; for others to not look at her with scorn or try to hit her with rocks.

     ❝ And Rost is... Well, ❞

     ❝ He looks after me, ever since I was a baby. I’m surprised I haven’t seen him around yet, though, ❞

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faepact·:

       ❝ M-my … horns? ❞

       instantly, the Xaela’s hands fly to the sides of her head.  she digs her fingers under her hair above her horns, then pulls down her blue locks to cover those monstrosities.  her cheeks beam beet-red the entire time.  and once the horns are covered, she frantically checks her body with her hands to make sure her scales are covered and her tail is tucked away in her pants.  uncomfortable, but necessary.  she is a hyur: human.  she has to be. 

         ❝ Sorry, little one, ❞  Manako’s voice is soft,  ❝ I don’t know what you’re on about. ❞  please work.  ❝ B-but I can ask the same about your clothing, too.  Did you make it? ❞

     — QUIRKING a brow, Aloy tilts her head curiously as the stranger struggles to cover her so called ‘horns’. If she didn’t want them to be seen, why doesn’t she just take them off? Maybe... She can’t? But why would that be...?

     ❝ Uhhh, ❞

     ❝ Okay, ❞ she’s suspicious and it’s plain to see from her expression... But for now, the little girl lets it go... With the keyword being ‘for now’.

     ❝ And I did! Well... Rost helped me but I still made everything I wear! Is it the same for you, too? ❞

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@faepact​

      — ❝ Woooow! How did you make those? They look like antlers!! Did you get them from hunting? ❞ the youth points at the stranger’s horns, looking on with amazement. While it’s not odd for people within The Embrace to adorn their garments with various animal hides and the like... Never before has Aloy seen an animal that would possess such horns for the other girl to take. Normally she’d use her Focus to try and figure out what it is, but...

     Somehow, it only seems like her Focus works about five times a day... Which is quickly used up by how often Aloy scans everything around her.

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cutwarmth·:

Oh – oh, no. She was a really young girl, wasn’t she? Rui must have practically knocked her off her feet, and he definitely looked more than a little bit sheepish about that revelation. He really hadn’t meant to stumble back into anyone at all, but the fact that it was such a young girl…

“A-ah–”

For as shaky as his legs felt, Rui really didn’t feel like it was fair for him to keep sitting at her feet. He stumbled a bit but managed to push himself forward and up, which caused a terrible wave of coughs to rise in his chest.

“I should be alright, yes… I don’t really think I’d be difficult to carry, but it’s probably better if you don’t try…”

Ignore the fact that he had to wobble to the side a little bit to lean against the nearest building to try and keep himself standing for the time being. Rui looked absolutely exhausted already, but at least he wasn’t coughing for the time being. And… this was another child, right? She was even younger than he was, so while it wasn’t likely she understood any of this any better than he did…

“Can I ask something?”

“Have… you found anyone that you know, here? Um… like your parents, or anything.” Maybe it was overstepping his boundaries a little bit, but he really hoped she might have an answer. He’d had enough of feeling so lost and concerned already.

     — ❝ Alright... But if you get tired let me know! ❞ the redhead is quick to reassure the stranger despite his worries, puffing out her chest rather proudly. Though he doesn’t seem to be part of the Nora... Well, he’s still someone that isn’t shunned like she is and thus, Aloy tries to make a point of proving herself to him. 

     ❝ Anyone I know? Well, Rost is usually always making me follow him around... But I haven’t seen him here, ❞ the girl begins her answers, looking up in thought before offering a gasp.

     ❝ There’s parents here? Do you think my mother is here? I wonder what she looks like...! ❞ clearly caught up in the boy’s wording and not processing it correctly, Aloy is soon swept up in her thoughts. While she still intends to participate in the Proving... Maybe somehow she could meet her mother in this place instead?

     ❝ We should look! Maybe we’ll find yours, too? ❞

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      — ❝ I wonder where outside of The Embrace this is? Surely it can’t be a part of Mother’s Cradle, Heart or anything in that area! ❞ she sounds rather excited about that, actually.

      ❝ There’s no Watchers or anything like that around here either... Makes exploring a lot more safe!! ❞

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The longer he had to stay here, the less Rui liked it. Everything was loud, and he was lonely, and he was tired, and he was – honestly, kind of scared. He was much more used to a quieter life; to the sounds of children laughing as they played outside, but otherwise just the company of his parents and of books to keep himself occupied.

He wasn’t… used to this.

At least, somewhere along the way, Rui had learned that the big things were called cars (mostly through eavesdropping, something else he was used to doing to keep himself occupied), but that didn’t mean he liked them any more than he already had. That was to say… not at all. They were too noisy. And he had strange things on him; keys to something, and some kind of… thing that beeped at him from time to time and showed messages on the screen but he didn’t know what sort of number combination to put in to get it to… to – ‘unlock’.

It didn’t seem like that’s the lock the keys were for.

And the cars were still noisy, and he –

          – one of the cars drove by.

Rui was too close to the road, closer than he should have been, and while he was fine, he was certainly more than a little startled. As distracted as he’d been, and as overwhelmed by the noises, he hadn’t realized how close it was until it drove by. He stumbled back, and his legs gave way, and he fell backwards onto the ground with a start.

Right onto someone’s feet.

Rui tried to suppress the fit of coughs that threatened to overtake him just from him being knocked windless for a moment, staring up at them but not budging from his spot on the ground yet. He – didn’t trust his legs to hold him again.

“S… sorry,” he managed to stutter out after a moment. “I didn’t mean to bother you.”

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      — IT was very startling, to say the least; to suddenly be in a place unlike any place in The Embrace... Or anywhere really in the Sacred Lands. Where exactly is this, the girl wonders? Not only that, but where is Rost? Normally he is always following her around, scolding her left and right, but...

     Now he’s not here.

     Running about and constantly having her verdant hues look to and fro, Aloy meets her new surroundings with an air of excitement. It’s certainly new and perhaps a little scary... Yet at the same time, there’s a certain happiness to be away from her typical life as an outcast. She has noticed that people here... Well, look at her! And it is not a look of disgust but instead, of... Confusion, maybe?

     Any look besides the ones of hatred and anger she is used to are more than welcome, she thinks.

     Lost in her thoughts, the sudden sound of a horn (or perhaps that’s an alarm? It’s an unfamiliar noise to her) causes the redhead to whip her head around in the direction of the noise. As she does so, a strange contraption zooms off and instead, she is met with the face of a boy, who... Now falls down at her feet.

      ❝ Are you okay? ❞ comes the girl’s inquiry, offering the boy a quirk of her brow now.

      ❝ Can you stand? I can carry you! I’m small but I’m not weak! ❞

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feroxtigris​:

“You should try that weird abandoned city! Yesterday, or whatever it’s called! There’s lots of junk there, plus it’s super fun to explore!”

      — ❝ Yeah. Admittedly, that’s where my mind first wandered to... Though honestly, I’d like to be better prepared to even traverse that area. You never know what could happen, after all, ❞

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letscursefate·:

“That’s mean. I didn’t choose to be this.”

“And it’s twice mean when I’m trying to be helpful and honest~” Oh well, stealing wasn’t that difficult after all. 

     — ❝ Uh huh. Right, ❞

     ❝ Anyway, I’ve got junkyards to find so, ❞

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letscursefate·:

“I was once called oracle and high priest. I’m obviously right. As for them, well. One of them is called Zeed, he doesn’t have a nickname because his name’s so dumb so fits him well. The other one is Freckleface II.” 

“Maybe you can make use of them. It’s 200 Dust for this piece of wisdom”

     — ❝ Where I’m from, oracles and priests are usually wrong, ❞ she is quick to correct him, brows furrowing as he speaks. Why does she always attract this sort of company...?

     ❝ And I wouldn’t even give you one metal shard for that piece of ‘wisdom’, ❞

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letscursefate·:

“So I know two guys who are just walking junkyards. Does that count?” 

     — ❝ Count towards my search? No, ❞

     ❝ It does count towards how I view you or them depending on if your words are true or not, though. ❞