Aloy didn’t have a lot time for love in the course of the breakneck occasions of Horizon Zero Daybreak, however within the sequel to the post-apocalyptic open world RPG, known as Forbidden West, the heroine fashioned many shut bonds with different characters. These relationships by no means went past the platonic degree, although. As of the Burning Shores DLC, which is at present 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.]
A number of male characters have expressed romantic curiosity in Aloy prior to now, however she would all the time shoot them down. It did appear, nonetheless, 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 might 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 invest that Aloy could possibly 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 an actual 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 all the time appeared to lean slightly bit in the direction of the magical in relation to the acute similarities between Aloy and her foremother. The 2 are handled as basically the identical individual, simply in two completely different timelines. For that cause, many followers have assumed Aloy to be queer as nicely.
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 total scene may be seen within the video under.
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 nicely.
