#eleuthia

Chapters: 2/2 Fandom: Horizon (Video Games) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: ELEUTHIA & GAIA, ELEUTHIA & Aloy Characters: ELEUTHIA (Horizon), GAIA (Horizon), Aloy (Horizon) Additional Tags: Character Study, Motherhood, Grief/Mourning, Birth, Children, Machines, Machines treated like humans, I feel things for the subfunctions okay, Pre-Canon, fully inspired by hauntsjello fyi, Subfunctions, Canon Compliant, The Heart of the Nora Quest, Siblings, Family Dynamics Summary:

^ Making my way downtown up to the Ninmah Research Lab to investigate Eleuthia's signal, seeing the distant Scalding Spear tower...

^ Aloy, Erend and Varl peer down into the giant tunnel after Verbena gets killed by the Oseram's mysterious weapon...

^ Aloy courageously descends slowly into the depths of the tunnel with Varl in tow...

^ This thing reminded me of the human pods in The Matrix. Why does everything have to be intimidating and foreboding? 😅

^ We have our poor traumatized sister Beta at the Base finally. Their first interactions were painful and awkward, two beings that would be so similar but are so opposite in some ways and don't understand each other...💔😥

Inevitability

The signal is sent; the sub-functions flee; it is the same story as always. Even if the chapters are rewritten; some things must happen; but there’s room for improvement.

Each chapter follows some silly little what if.. thought I had and then actually decided to write, so enjoy?

Project Zero Dawn subfunctions holo-logos, and GAIA, marking Elisabet’s office.

Some of these zones aren’t accessible, so the logos are kinda hidden, but they’re all there. One of these isn’t the same size as the others :D

Minerva: As of now, it seem's Minerva's content to just sit back and wait for outside prompting to do anything. But as she continues to operate ungoverned, I imagine she'll start falling back on her primary function, which is to hack robots. What this would mean is anyone's guess.

Aether/Poseidon: I'm actually in agreement that their isn't really any way for either of these two to behave in a way that is both dysfunctional and doesn't go against their core programming.

Demeter: The trailer for Forbidden West seems to imply that Demeter is making nasty death plants, but it's been suggested that a rougue AI named Vast Silver may be to blame.

Artemis: On one hand, Artemis can't really seem to do anything because humans were supposed to help her make big animals. But there's no reason to believe that she couldn't do this autonomously.

Eleuthia: I recall there being tales told of strange pale children in masks wandering the Forbidden West

Apollo: Now on the surface, it seems unlikely that Apollo would be up to anything after Ted Faro deleted the majority of it's files. However I would like to point out this line of text from the data point "APOLLO Update"

Speaking of the heuristic curricula - they are performing well in testing, with children and adolescents demonstrating high levels of engagement with and trust in the Aristotle and Aspasia personae. Personally, I find them highly engaging - especially when they debate. I wish half my professors had been so entertaining.