*touching your fandom-related tattoos* promise youll stop for me 🥺
hate being shy at my grown ass age
"tlt is so hard to read bc it hates you" tlt loves you which is why it so strongly believes in your intellectual capabilities
Tbf i think Guerrilla has been wanting to do that with aloy for some time now, Talanah was def going to be a initial choice for romance, Aloy MOST DEF had something with Ikrie in Frozen wilds, very alike what we got with burning shores tbh, and thats not to mention the flirty scenes with characters like Vanasha and Petra, Seyka was the culmination of all that, cant wait to see the many choices of love interest Aloy will for sure have in the next game lmao, bring all the ladies
meeting Kiriona is just like: that's our girl but she's wrong but it IS her but also what the FUCK. what happened to her, what happened to her before the series even started, what new horrors has she endured?
meeting Kiriona is understanding that these sharp edges ARE our Gideon; she was always made of knives but before NtN we were holding her by the hilt and this is the first time we get the blade. all her rage and pain and trauma, amplified 10,000 times by the way her losses - loss of harrow, loss of the parents that existed only as a fantasy, loss of the idea that revenge could ever sate her, loss of any autonomy, loss of her own damn life - keep accumulating with no respite. no end in sight. it is uncomfortable and distressing and upsetting and that is the point. anyway. wrapping her in a blanket as we speak!!!
The Owl House team really said "what if these girls all got a little bit more butch when they're older?" and honestly, I respect that