Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores DLC – Aloy is Gay and That’s Okay
The conclusion to Guerrilla Games’ Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores confirmed, for me, a suspicion I’ve always had about Aloy, the fiery-haired protagonist of the series. In her final conversation with Seyka, a person she’s grown to know over the course of several days and extraordinary ordeals, the pair kiss. It’s a beautiful moment that captures the spark of love and pang that accompanies it when the two people involved now have to spend months, maybe years, away from each other before they can live a life together and fully realize their feelings for one another.
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Aloy is a complicated character, an orphan outcast by her tribe from birth. She’s lost the closest thing she had to a parent and now considers the ancient memory of the human she’s a clone of to be the only real family she has. Despite this, Aloy is kind, always tries to protect those in danger, and only has the best interests of the entire planet at heart. She’s on a mission to save the world and still manages to have some compassion for the people living in it, even though many of them shun her at first or just try to kill her. She’s her own person and needs no one. At least, that’s what we thought.
Light spoilers ahead for the Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores DLC story.
Aloy meets Seyka at the start of the Burning Shores DLC. From the very first second they lay eyes on each other, they’re complimenting the way the other fights, their knowledge of old-world technology, and their climbing prowess. Aloy is a master of machines, and Seyka a master of the sea, but both have a shared obsession with technology from the world that came before theirs. Over the course of the
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