Aloy didn’t have a lot time for romance throughout the breakneck occasions of Horizon Zero Dawn, however in the sequel to the post-apocalyptic open world RPG, referred to as Forbidden West, the heroine fashioned many shut bonds with different characters. Those relationships by no means went past the platonic degree, although. As of the Burning Shores DLC, which is presently obtainable completely on PlayStation 5 and set after the occasions of Forbidden West, that’s modified.
[Ed. note: This article contains spoilers for the Horizon series and the Burning Shores DLC.]
Multiple male characters have expressed romantic curiosity in Aloy in the previous, however she would at all times shoot them down. It did appear, nonetheless, as if the vestiges of a romance system was current in Forbidden West; in dialogue options with the Sun-King Avad early on in the sport, gamers may choose responses from Aloy that had a coronary heart image subsequent to them, just like how romance-specific dialogue is demarcated in BioWare video games like Dragon Age and Mass Effect. Selecting the center options by no means did result in a romance, although, which additional led followers and critics to invest that Aloy might be asexual.
Forbidden West additionally included one other trace in the storyline of Elisabet Sobeck, a scientist from the distant previous of whom Aloy is an actual genetic clone. Near the tip of Forbidden West, Aloy learns that Elizabet was a queer girl. Queerness has by no means been formally linked to a genetic marker in actual life (though many scientists have researched it), however the Horizon video games have at all times appeared to lean a bit bit in the direction of the magical on the subject of the intense similarities between Aloy and her foremother. The two are handled as basically the identical individual, simply in two totally different timelines. For that motive, many followers have assumed Aloy to be queer as effectively.
Burning Shores, the brand new DLC for Forbidden West, confirms Aloy’s sexuality with the introduction of a romance between the heroine and her feminine companion Seyka, who’s new to this new chapter. The full scene could be seen in the video under.
Aloy does have the choice to reject Seyka’s proposition, however even when she does so, that rejection doesn’t embrace any implication that Aloy is straight. Aloy’s dialogue responses to Seyka are: “Yes, I do,” “I’m not ready for this,” or “This is too much for me.”
If Aloy reciprocates Seyka’s emotions, the 2 share a kiss, however the DLC nonetheless ends with the characters parting methods. No matter what, the inclusion of this new character and her emotions for Aloy open up large alternatives for storytelling in future Horizon video games — together with extra romance with Seyka, or maybe different characters as effectively.
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