Aloy didn’t have a lot time for love throughout the breakneck occasions of Horizon Zero Daybreak, however within the sequel to the post-apocalyptic open world RPG, referred to as Forbidden West, the heroine fashioned many shut bonds with different characters. These relationships by no means went past the platonic stage, although. As of the Burning Shores DLC, which is at present out there solely 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.]
A number of male characters have expressed romantic curiosity in Aloy prior to now, however she would at all times shoot them down. It did appear, nevertheless, as if the vestiges of a romance system was current in Forbidden West; in dialogue choices with the Solar-King Avad early on within the sport, gamers may choose responses from Aloy that had a coronary heart image subsequent to them, much like how romance-specific dialogue is demarcated in BioWare video games like Dragon Age and Mass Impact. Deciding on the guts choices by no means did result in a romance, although, which additional led followers and critics to take a position that Aloy might be asexual.
Forbidden West additionally included one other trace within the storyline of Elisabet Sobeck, a scientist from the distant previous of whom Aloy is a precise genetic clone. Close to the tip of Forbidden West, Aloy learns that Elizabet was a queer lady. 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 little bit bit in the direction of the magical in the case of the intense similarities between Aloy and her foremother. The 2 are handled as primarily the identical particular person, simply in two totally different timelines. For that purpose, 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 complete scene will be considered within the video beneath.
Aloy does have the choice to reject Seyka’s proposition, however even when she does so, that rejection doesn’t embody any implication that Aloy is straight. Aloy’s dialogue responses to Seyka are: “Sure, I do,” “I’m not prepared for this,” or “That is an excessive amount of for me.”
If Aloy reciprocates Seyka’s emotions, the 2 share a kiss, however the DLC nonetheless ends with the characters parting methods. It doesn’t matter what, the inclusion of this new character and her emotions for Aloy open up enormous alternatives for storytelling in future Horizon video games — together with extra romance with Seyka, or maybe different characters as effectively.
