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I never was very good, I haven't been so good by ImNotEvenHere47
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
20 Jan 2026
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...And he does not know if it was Payakan’s banishment— a part of him, torn away– that tips the scale in his heart or if it was his father's words that broke him but either way he is certain
of his decision to die and sink into it again. To return his borrowed energy.Lo’ak will pull the trigger and shoot himself through the head and by the time the hour has passed, the water lapping at his knees now will have claimed him and he will be free of this.
(Or: Lo'ak doesn't throw away the gun that night, but manages to survive his shot against all odds. Everyone comes to know what he did. How will his parents react to it? How will Lo'ak feel, having failed his attempt? And is there a way to heal after such an occurrence- not just his body, but his mind, soul and relationship with his father?
I have a ton of painful feelings and hurt / comfort planned. I've loved all the fics on this so far... and here it is my way!)
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01 Jan 2026
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Born of Me (The Space Between Intention and Impact) by WillieTheNerd
Fandoms: Avatar (Cameron Movies)
19 Feb 2026
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Lo’ak’s eyes lift. “Promise?”
Jake lifts his pinky. “Pinky promise.”
Lo’ak’s smaller pinky wraps around it, serious as anything.
“See?” Jake says softly. “That’s another thing others can’t do—but we can. And pinky promises never break.”
Lo’ak nods solemnly. “Ever?”
Jake squeezes his finger gently. “Ever.”
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Jake Sully loves his son. He just doesn’t always understand him.
Told primarily through Jake’s POV before, during, and after The Way of Water, this fic explores Lo’ak’s childhood, rebellion, and the cost of silence, carrying its consequences forward into Fire and Ash, where love, guilt, and survival are anything but simple.
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26 Dec 2025
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“I didn’t know where else to go.”
Nil has never been quick to anger. But with Aloy unconscious on his chest, and with the mounting realisation that the battle wounds on her body are not from a machine, anger begins to burn at his concern like a flame on cloth, and Nil greets it like an old friend.
When a severely injured Aloy arrives in the desert, Nil’s demons fight to win.
Or, “I didn’t know where else to go” meets “Who did this to you?” and other juicy tropes.
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06 Jul 2025
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“What are you thinking about?”
Blinking slowly, he refocused on her face, meeting her curious eyes. They had never stayed together after their bloody reunions, and as such he had never been forced to speak with her at length. Much to his surprise, her question didn’t bother him as much as it usually would; she didn’t strike him to be like normal people who were often uncomfortable with silence. They’d traveled with hardly a word passed between them to this point, so he felt the huntress had earned her question.
“You,” he answered simply. In the dim firelight, he could vaguely make out a change in her complexion, and he tilted his head slightly in interest.
**On Hiatus While I Hyperfocus on other Stuff**
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04 Jul 2025
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Aloy contemplated the wholly depressing thought that she’d filled in Sylens’ absence with Nil’s commentary, and somehow managed not to lose her footing and fall to her death in the process.
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23 Jun 2025
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The Held Breath, The Loosed Arrow by retrowhatever
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)
14 Sep 2022
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Aloy is surprisingly pleased to discover Nil has come to join the Battle for Meridian, and they share a quiet moment or two away from the bustle of the city.
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- Part 1 of Niloy Prompt Fics
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10 Jun 2025
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Aloy makes her way out of the desert and into the jungle of the Forbidden West - only to find herself overtaken by a heat unlike anything she's ever felt. When Nil finds her, suffering from the same odd fever, what happens next is something neither of them have any control over. Even if it does bring to the surface the feelings they've both been hiding.
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- Part 5 of Niloy Oneshots
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09 Jun 2025
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Nil, of all people, serves as the remarkable constant in Aloy's otherwise turbulent existence.
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02 Jun 2025
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In the aftermath of a battle, adrenaline coursing in her veins, Aloy makes an important decision about herself... And about her relationship to the man who she's been fighting alongside to clear bandits from the Sundom.
Alternately: Whatever you've done with your life, at least your first time wasn't with a murderous Carja war criminal.
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- Part 1 of Sunrise
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01 Jun 2025
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The four times that Nil kisses Aloy, and the one time she kisses him.
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31 May 2025
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Nil's mental meanderings concerning the flame-haired Nora, and an awakening to what it means to grow as a person.
Companion piece to Strangeness and Charm.
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- Part 2 of The Shadow and the Flame
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12 May 2025
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A Mountain Hymnal by Vana_s_Talem
Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game), Horizon Forbidden West - Fandom
23 Sep 2022
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What a beautiful end to a morning. Life follows death. And death follows them both. She creates art with her bow and spear, spilling bright and bloody life into the air. She creates art with her body, quivering songs of pleasure and dirt smeared on pale thighs.
His Huntress makes art of the world.
- The first entry to a character study series through the lens of how, why and what makes our blorbos horny. About Aloy.
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- Part 1 of Aloy Fucks Across the Horizon
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08 May 2025
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08 May 2025
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Righteous fury crosses her face, an indignation he can nearly taste, hot and addicting on his tongue. He wonders what she will look like as a woman grown, a huntress unleashed upon Carja soldiers, flame and blood at her back.
An exploration of Niloy with slight canon divergence
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- Part 1 of In A State of Broken Hope
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07 May 2025
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Nil proposes a duel to the death.
Aloy has a different idea.
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- Part 3 of Bladed Teeth and Arrow Points
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06 May 2025
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There's a duel, and then there's the end of the world.
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- Part 1 of Niloy Oneshots
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04 May 2025
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Nil finds Aloy after Meridian and asks to travel with her. Meanwhile, Aloy gets more than she bargains for.
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- Part 2 of Niloy Oneshots
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04 May 2025
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Before he was Nil, he was the Sundom's Arrow. A weapon to be fired. A tool devoid of humanity. Devoid of anything but deadly purpose. But what does a weapon do when the world changes? When being a tool for another's crusade is no longer enough? When battle itself cannot mask the nothingness inside?
From the mad sun-king's final days to his return to the forbidden west, Nil journeys, hoping to find a new purpose, and if not that, kinship with someone just like him.
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04 May 2025
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Janeva tells him that the room is used for “temporary relocations,” that the violent and the bloodthirsty go in and come out docile, one way or another- that man is not supposed to exist so long in the dark.
They say this as they stand at the threshold of the cell as he stands in the middle of the space, straining his eyes to see as much as he can with the light that floods in from the hallway and the open door. The warden’s voice brings his attention back to them.
He tilts his head at them and asks if this is a temporary relocation.
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A coda for how Nil got his name.
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29 Apr 2025
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One last foray as Marshal before he heads home for good. Fashav could ignore this. Corpses on the road were nothing new in No Man’s Land. He could continue on to the embassy. But, something about the dance in the dirt, those wounds, seemed eerily familiar. Carja familiar. He owed it to Hekarro to look into this murder mystery before it got out of hand.
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20 Apr 2025