#horizonlore

Seer/Wraith is fun but tbh not a “jam” persay, but flattered you asked! Big Jams incoming~

(these are in no order whatsoever, I like some more than others, some barely qualified as a jam but you know, jam is jam)

-Mirage/Hound, Miragehound, is an OG fave of mine, I think I was (am?) one of the more prolific miragehound writers. Love them still. Like many, big factor is the seen/unseen aspect and that they each fill holes the other has. 

-Horizon/Bangalore, Horizonlore, came to me in S7 with help of my friend and is one of my more active ships I fuckin' love. Mary deserves love and so does GrumpyLore.

-Horizon/Bloodhound, Horizonhound, it’s good shit. Gay as fuck. Valid as hell. I have a very long fanfiction that is ALMOST done but I kinda had to abandon it a-while back. Might try and finish it up and publish it though it’d be out of date with the seasons we’re in lmao. 

-Crypto/Wraith, Cryptaith, this ship is like my main underground jam. I love it, I think it has a lot of potential and is a far “quieter” ship than a lot of the other ones. Two melancholy people trying their best to become themselves again who are also huge meganerds There is basically zero content for this besides a one-shot I made for it last I checked, which is personally a shame. But they live in my head rent free.

-Loba/Octane, Lobatane, this isn’t as big for me as it used to be but I find it fun, basically a crackship. The fact they canonly work together/are friends (lorebook) helped lmao. I like the opposites attract dynamic. And I like the idea of making fun of Loba for liking twinks. 

-Lifeline/Rampart, Rampline, lookit these lil’ lesbians. I love them. Soft. Chaotic. Dangerous. I think Lifeline needs someone a little chaotic like Octane but unlike Octane, Rampart is actually pretty chill off-field. I just feel they really match each other’s energy, just at different angles. 

-Wattson/Mirage, Wattage, my friend got me into this one. They both like puns. Massive dorks. Might have a rocky start but I think as they get into it they’d grow together. 

-Loba/Bangalore, Lobalore, I didn’t really like them until more recently. They’re my go-to “if they’re gonna actually put a canon relationship in Apex, this is the best one they could do”, and honestly I mostly like them in art and canon, but they are really fucking good. I think they have good chemistry, and obviously there is interest on Loba’s part, and this is my personal musing regarding canon, I think Bangalore is also interested, but not immediately. She has her brother to find; Loba has issues with Rev but she’s found him and exacted most of her revenge, so she’s ready to move on where Bangalore can’t yet. Once that changes, I think they could meld well. 

-Fuse/Bloodhound, Fusehound, yeah I’ve fallen down the same hill everyone else has. Truthfully I think BH just needs a friend, but like Lobalore they have really good chemistry because of this. Fuse pulls them out of their shell, BH makes him realize/confront that he has his own issues (ex. Maggie’s suicide) and I think they both like to party. 

You gay bitch. I’m in.

Bloodhound & Loba: Bloodhound has always liked Bangalore, they find her enthusiasm for firearms both useful and amusing, and they respect each other’s want for privacy in their personal lives. That said, there was always a sadness around her. When Loba got added to the equation she agreed that she worried about her, “because we have issues, but we also have hobbies.” It’s when they look in the firing range one day and catch Horizon kissing her, and see the lovestruck look on her face, that the two legends feel their friend will be alright.

Gibraltar: He’s been drinking buddies with Bangalore for years and always teased her about pretty girls that would walk by ‘cause she was like a teenager, just stuttering and blushing and immediately changing the subject. He was 99 percent sure if she ever tried to ask a girl out she’d faint before she finished saying “hi”. So going out to get drinks and finding Horizon and her arm in arm prompted shocked laughter, a great amount of teasing from him and Horizon to the point Bangalore buried her face in the bar, and a round of drinks on him.

Lifeline: Horizon seemed so intensely focused on her son she’s surprised when the woman mentions, casually, that she had a date that night. When she further elaborates that it’s Bangalore, she’s even more surprised since, in her mind, Bangalore is kind of an ass. Still, as weeks pass and Bangalore becomes less and less surly, she decides sometimes the perfect medicine for asshole is just a daily spoonful of sweetheart.

Pathfinder: After seeing friend Bangalore cry twice in one hour that one time, he is very happy that she has found someone so she maybe won’t have to do that again the next time someone digs into her intensely conflicted and emotional past!

Wraith: When she finds a small note apologizing for “maybe overstepping a boundary” from Bangalore in her dorm, the voices tell her something is up. At first, she thinks it’s an elaborate assassination attempt, and then she thinks Bang is just fucking with her, and then she realizes Bangalore’s been a lot happier lately, so there’s some kind of connection between that and this. Then she sees Bang leave an orchid with a bow on Horizon’s desk and realizes the connection. She concludes she and Bangalore can talk (and they do, and things are a lot less tense afterward).

Bangalore: Girl!!! Like me??? Girl!!! AHHHHHHH. Then she’s laying back in bed watching Horizon use one of her gravity pads to put Christmas lights along the rim of the ceiling and thanking God quietly in her head. It breaks her heart to think about what’ll happen when Horizon finally finds her way home, and when she hopefully finds her own, but if she’s learned anything over the years, it’s to treasure the sun before it sets.

Caustic: Raises eyebrows, nothing more. Bangalore is a competent teammate, and Horizon is an admirable scientific and intellectual equal, despite their disagreements on morality. Perhaps some interesting data changes will occur in the games with the partnership. Perhaps he’ll get more coffee. It has about the same pertinence in his life.

Mirage: He is super excited for Horizon, who visits the Paradise Lounge to talk sometimes (which he totally doesn’t spend fan-boying). She just seems so much more lively and bubbly than she already is and, well, damn, one of the Legendary Sad Sacks has to have something going for them other than a tragic backstory. He is surprised it’s Bangalore, though, cause he was pretty sure, like pretty-pretty? sure Loba had a thing for Mary, except maybe it was the new Valkyrie girl, or maybe Valkyrie had a thing for Loba and Loba had a thing for Bangalore? Wait, where was he going with this? Eh, he’ll just give Horizon a congratulatory beer and give Bang shit for it later ‘cause there was no way Horizon would let Bang coat his gym bag in prowler pheromones, right?...Right?

Octane: Lifeline tells him. He says, “yo, think getting laid will make Bang less of a tight ass?” He then recalls being thrown and waking up in the infirmary. Bangalore had been behind him the whole time. He was 100% correct, though.

Wattson: Horizon invited her over to do a dual experiment. She walked in when Bangalore was coming out of the shower, naked. She put two and two together and quizzed Horizon about all the little details while Bangalore made herself decent. She’d always known Bangalore as a little standoffish and anti-social, though sweet, so she excitedly congratulates her as well when she gets out. When their 1yr anniversary approaches, Bangalore asks if Wattson can help her make a little custom Nessie with a tiny star projector in it for Horizon and Wattson is only happy to oblige.

Crypto: He knew before everyone else because of his snooping through the Syndicate security camera detail, unwittingly seeing their first kiss almost in a camera blind spot in one of the corridors. He’s caught them hugging, kissing, and cuddling in various alcoves and corners and always quietly erases the footage for them, though says nothing. He’s just glad somebody on the dropship doesn’t hate their life.

Revenant: Didn’t know, didn’t care, vaguely threatened Horizon in front of Bangalore for funsies. He woke up in one of his other bodies a while later with an ache in his gut where she’d, apparently, severed one of his main sets of tubing. He tried to eviscerate her in the Games after that, but Horizon got him with a peacekeeper. He tried going for Horizon and suddenly there was Bangalore, and he was waking up in a new body again. He decided they weren’t worth it. Though he could have totally taken them on. Just didn’t want to.

Rampart: She gives Bangalore constant shit. Makes kissy faces, asks how her giiiiiiiirlfriend is doing in a sing-song voice, pokes her when Horizon is in sight, has sang the “Anita and Mary sittin’ in a tree” rhyme more than once, which usually makes Horizon laugh and Bang chase her. But she’s also usually the one Bangalore talks to casually about it the most, besides Loba, and thinks Horizon is good for her and, truthfully, that Bang is good for Horizon, too.

Horizon: It took her a while to admit the feelings to herself since her relationships have a history of not working out, and that she sort of had a time limit on how long she’d even be in this century. But the heart wants what it wants, and Horizon is a romantic at her core. Bangalore was initially extremely oblivious but once she said, “I like you darlin’, but I mean that in the gayest way possible” she got the memo and turned out to be a bit of a romantic herself. She feels like Bangalore keeps her grounded, out of her own head when it keeps running on the hamster wheel to nowhere. And even though the woman has like, 3 braincells some days, she loves her. One of her favorite things is when Bangalore sings in the shower, but she’s never told her that.

Fuse: He doesn’t know either very well, but he thinks they look good together. He and Horizon will go drinking sometimes, now it just involves Bangalore as well, and sometimes Gibraltar and Rampart if they tag along. But in general they’re not a couple of pikers* so they’re A-OK in his book.

Valkyrie: When they are all on a team together, she thinks it’s HILARIOUS to shout, “LET’S GO LESBIANS!” before charging another team or third-partying. Horizon and Bangalore also find it pretty funny, but neither has ever given Valkyrie the satisfaction.

Hey, love me some Horizon headcanons! My personal go-to’s for her are Horizonlore and Horizonhound, so I wrote aboooout the same number of headcanons for each of those. She has a lot of potential elsewhere though, too. :3

Horizonlore

-Bangalore is the definition of Oblivious Lesbian and Horizon is not fucking subtle.

-Well, she can be, but Bangalore really can’t take a hint, esp. before they’re officially a thing.

-They mostly started talking because neither of them had much of anywhere to go after the games, Horizon because she just kind of got there and Bangalore because she honestly lives a very quiet life and was curious about the new girl. (Loba might have encouraged her but Bangalore denies this)

-Bangalore finds it therapeutic to talk to Horizon because she feels like she actually listens and understands, especially since her scientific background had caused her to work with the IMC some.

-She also felt safe enough to talk to her how much she missed home. Even Loba would glance off to the side when she talked about it a little too much, but Horizon didn’t even flinch; in fact, they ended up commiserating about missing their families and goddamn was it nice.

-One time Horizon had lilacs on her desk, a gift from Wattson. Unbeknownst to her, Bangalore is slightly allergic to lilacs, which led to the discovery that she sneezes like a kitten. Funny enough, this is when Horizon first fell in love.

-Horizon blatantly told Bangalore she was beautiful and Bangalore’s dumb bitch ass said, “oh, wow uh, thank you that’s very sweet, you’re really pretty too”

-Horizon’s basically ohmygodshedumbbestillmyheart.jpg

-Literally just starts flirting with her all the time. Stops when she doesn’t get reciprocation but Loba tells her Bang really is just that oblivious.

-It took Horizon inviting her over “for coffee” and answering the door with her robe half undone for Bangalore to finally be like ooooohhh shiiiii –

-Anyway they totally U-Hauled it.  

-Turns out when she isn’t oblivious Bangalore is a pretty good flirt

-The Legends are split: one half is annoyed because they won’t stop flirting with each other at work, the other half ships it hard.

-Bangalore cooks so Horizon actually eats something besides an entire bag of baby carrots every day.

-Bangalore assumed Horizon wouldn’t be into spicey foods and therefore cooked stuff with a lot less seasoning until she saw her dump chili flakes on something. Now they’re trying hotter hot sauces every week to see what their limit is (they haven’t found it yet)

-Horizon discovered Bangalore can be a pretty silly person when she chills out. She especially likes hiding wherever she can manage to fit her six-foot tall ass and jumping out to scare her.

-Bangalore spends most of her time when she’s home reading in a moon chair by the window. When Horizon’s eternal optimism is at a low point, she’ll curl up in Bang’s lap and they’ll sit in silence for a while. It helps.

Horizonhound

-Unlike Bangalore Bloodhound is the opposite of oblivious; they are constantly hyper-aware of the fact that Horizon was sent by the Gods to torture their gay little heart with her presence.

-Horizon thinks Bloodhound is very sweet and doesn’t get why people talk about them being quiet all the time because they certainly like talking to her.

-Waitmaybetheylikeme.jpg

-It becomes more obvious to both of them over time that they’re into each other. Loba had to come in and tell them to just fucking go out already.

-Hound is kind of terrified. It’s not that they don’t like people seeing them, it’s that she could connect their face to “Bloodhound” and ruin their privacy that they value so much.

-Horizon honestly thinks it’s weird to go on a date with someone and hardly see any of their face, Hound went for a balaclava and sunglasses, but she can be patient, and she’s confident they’ll trust her soon enough.

-Her unyielding optimism melts some of Bloodhound’s colder exterior. They start being a little more talkative at the Games, a little more trusting. They do not take off their mask, but they will wear more casual, if still anonymous, clothing.

-When she does see their face, though, it’s the most wonderful feeling. Like winning the lottery or finally beating a level of a video game; she’d won their trust and it just meant so much to her.

-Bloodhound likes to just…be present. Always in a corner or off to the side, even while she’s working with arguably loud equipment.

-She kind of found them a little clingy in the beginning if she was being honest, but she chalked it up to just not being used to having someone just there. Now it’s a comforting presence.

-Okay Bloodhound is a little clingy though. They’re never going to stop their partner from doing what they want, and if told to go away they will, but they do like to at least be aware of what’s going on. They definitely check in just to see what’s up before dipping out again.

-Horizon found out they didn’t really drink tea and fuckin’ fixed that shit real quick.

-They had always preferred coffee, they liked the bitterness, but however Horizon made it was an exception. It was comforting.

-They are the hot-blooded one. Horizon clings to them like a koala in bed to leech the warmth.

-Horizon loves going on their hunting expeditions with them. It is nice just to spend time together, but the places they go also have the best stargazing.

-They aren’t a couple that argues a lot, or ever, really. They just kinda vibe and sometimes have “discussions”, but otherwise most of their issues are talked out or non-consequential; they’re both very easy going.

-They like to make flower crowns for each other on walks. Artur gets a flower crown necklace.

-Bloodhound is 100 percent down for being a second parent to Newton. When they told Horizon she cried, she was so happy.

birthday gif for lovely frend @translocatingbamboozler but also if anyone else here likes the gays