Tag: aloy/nil

pikapeppa:

His hands cradle her neck. His thumbs stroke the fine lines of her jaw. Her lips are parted for him already, and he captures them without hesitation.

Red. Everything about her is red: her scarlet lips, her flushed cheeks, the flames of her hair… Nil had always loved the sanguine colour, but now as he wraps his fist in the hair at the nape of her neck, he realizes he is obsessed with it.         

– “Red”, on AO3

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@nsfwfrosch​ has done it again and torn me apart with the perfect beauty of this Aloy/Nil sketch! I can never get enough ❤️❤️

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pikapeppa:

Everyone’s saying that it’s just too good to believe
Calling me foolish for falling in your gravity
I got a word for that, and the word is jealousy
Wishing they were you and me

So fuck it if they don’t like us
‘Cause I think we’re fucking righteous
We’re out of our minds, we’re mindless
But we don’t mind it
Just telling the truth, ain’t nobody do it like us

– “Us” by Carlie Hanson

This beautiful piece of Aloy/Nil art is by the ever-talented @nsfwfrosch, who makes my world go round. Thank you SO MUCH ❤️

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Pikapeppa made a writing masterpost! (FINALLY?)

I had to try multiple times to do this before Tumblr would actually let me save my work but YAY I now have a masterpost of all my AO3 works, organized by ship and fandom! 

Here it is: List of Pika’s Works on AO3. 

Brief summary, as of December 2018:

  • Horizon Zero Dawn: Aloy x Nil, Aloy x Ikrie, Aloy x Spurflints Hunting Grounds Keeper
  • Dragon Age Inquisition: Solas x Elia Lavellan, Blackwall x Arya Lavellan, Abelas x Athera Lavellan, Cole x Lyanna Lavellan
  • Dragon Age II: Fenris x Rynne Hawke
  • Mass Effect: Reyes Vidal x Mara Ryder, Reyes Vidal x Aria T’Loak, Reyes Vidal & Keema Dohrgun (friendship fic)
  • Westworld (HBO): Hector Escaton x Armistice (crack fic PWP lol!)

I shall try and keep it updated whenever I add new fics or ships!

…and just because, here is a photo of my cat. 

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Aloy/Nil fluff: Fatal Encounters

Gift drabble for @ilikedetectives because she is wonderful and sweet and takes wonderful HZD photos and DESERVES ALL THE NILOY FLUFF.  (Pretend for the sake of this drabble that this is early in the relationship when Aloy is still in denial about how cute Nil is.)

Inspiration: Aloy and Nil’s matching facepaint. ❤️

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Nil placed his thumb gently on Aloy’s cheek. “Be still, now.”

Aloy swallowed hard at the touch of his thumb, then rolled her eyes belligerently as he brought the coal-tipped stylus toward her eye. “Remind me again why I’m letting you paint my face.”

He smirked, but didn’t speak until he’d finished the marks under her left eye. “It’s not about the look. It’s the fine art of intimidation. These marks will be the last things they see when their lives flash before their eyes.” He tilted his head and pursed his lips in a mocking expression of thought. “Perhaps one or two will get away, but let them flee. They’ll spread the tale of the Nora huntress with two pairs of eyes: one pair that brings life, and one pair that heralds death.”

She wrinkled her nose. “One pair that brings life? How do you figure?”

He shot her a slow smile. “How else would you explain the rush of joy that these fatal encounters bring?” he said. He carefully painted her right under-eye, then leaned back and studied her face. “Don’t deny the rush, Suntress. I live for these moments. I know you do too." 

She shook her head. "Nil, I told you – I don’t enjoy this.” She stood and headed toward the bandit camp before he could see the flushing of her cheeks. 

He caught up to her easily with his graceful lope. “And yet we continue to find each other,” he mused. “If it’s not the blissful scent of blood, there must be something else that draws you in.”

Her face grew even hotter at his purposefully bland tone of voice. She threw him a dirty look. “Be quiet,” she said firmly. “We’re getting close.”  She pulled her bow from her back and crouched in a nearby thatch of grass.

He drew his own bow and crouched beside her. “As you say, Suntress. Life and death, blood and breath: I follow your command.”

She bit back a smile as she notched an arrow in her bow. Nil might not be the most – well, reasonable – company to keep, but she could say this much for him: he was a good partner.

First Line Meme

Tagged by @thevikingwoman  – thanks lethallin! I did this a while back – see here – but I have written more since then!

Rules: post the first line of your last 10 fics, then tag 10 people!

1. It’s been almost a year since the Exalted Council, and almost a year since Arya lost her left arm.
Blackwall x Arya Lavellan // Hold Me Up, Tie Me Down (WIP – almost finished!)

2. “So,” Hawke said. She handed Fenris a glass of wine and plopped down beside him in front of the fireplace. “Sebastian has been leaning on you pretty hard lately, hasn’t he?”
Fenris x Rynne Hawke // Losing My Religion

3. Fenris had lost count of the number of times he’d walked away from Hawke.
Fenris x Rynne Hawke // Baby, Come Back And Fight With Me

4. Crumbs crumbling in her fingers. She offers the scone to me. “Would you like some?”
Solas x Elia Lavellan from Cole’s POV // Cole

5. When Fenris finally decided to open up to Hawke, he made sure that he was drunk.
Fenris x Rynne Hawke // Astia Valla Femundis

6. Hawke’s saunter was slow and casual as she led Fenris, Anders and Varric into the Blooming Rose. Once they reached the main room, she shifted her weight to one hip and folded her arms.
Fenris x Rynne Hawke // Always Smiling

7. A bright bark of laughter floats out of the bookshop.
Blackwall x Arya Lavellan // Her Perfumed Sanctuary

8. With all the care of a mother laying down a child, Hawke laid her cards on the table.
Fenris x Rynne Hawke // Gambling

9. “Come on, Chuckles, you should loosen up once in a while. Get your head out of your paints and your parchment. Consider it a team building exercise.”
Solas x Elia Lavellan // Stand Your Ground

10. A firm grip shook Nil’s shoulder, and he jolted at the rude awakening. 
Aloy x Nil // “No worries, we still have time.”

Anyone see any patterns in my first lines? I’m not really sure – I think I tend to try and deliver the reader into the middle of a scene instead of setting it up (line #6 is an exception to this), but otherwise there aren’t too many patterns that I can discern. Anyone else see anything?

Tagging forward to @apostatetabris @happywife416 @buttsonthebeach @ocean-in-my-rebel-soul @bronzeagelove @thealexmachina @ma-sulevin @sun-and-shadow-aloy and anyone else who would like to play because I am horrible and probably forgetting some people whose first lines would be really interesting to see. PLEASE, EVERYONE, JOIN ON IN.

OC Flirting Meme

tagged by @galadrieljones, @wardsarefunctioning and @chillyrose!

Elia Lavellan (romance: Solas)

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Elia is not much of a flirt. She expresses her interest (romantic or platonic) by listening carefully and asking thoughtful questions. For Solas specifically, if the Fade Kiss™ hadn’t happened, she would have eventually just told him she liked him with no guile whatsoever. 

Arya Lavellan (romance: Blackwall)

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Arya is my Smooth Operator™. She is an excellent flirt. She could charm the pants off of anyone. She uses all the tricks: subtle but sexy body language, coy facial expressions, subtle (or not-so-subtle) flattery, touching, you name it. In Blackwall’s case, ARYA USED FLIRTING AND IT WAS SUPER EFFECTIVE. He was dead in the water from her very first smile. 

Athera Lavellan (romance: Abelas)

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Athera is a sweet-natured goof. She cracks jokes like a fiend, but she gets flustered around people she has a crush on, especially when said person is a cranky ancient Sentinel. She’s the definition of adorkable.

Rynne Hawke (romance: Fenris)

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Hawke has no chill and no filter. Her approach to wooing Fenris is basically to proposition him so outrageously and so frequently that he’ll eventually give in. She’s joking half the time, though, of course! (Or is she?) She flirts with everyone this way. (But she means it with Fenris.) Wait, what?

Yes, she’s confused too. And so is Fenris.

Bonus: Nil (Horizon Zero Dawn)

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Obviously Nil isn’t my OC, but I’ve written so much about him that I kind of see him as one? Anyway, Nil essentially flirts by just flat-out telling Aloy that he likes her and why he likes her, often in his own special way that I like to call “bloody poetry” lol. He doesn’t play games because he doesn’t know how or see the purpose of them. Once they’re in an established relationship he flirts with Aloy/gets her attention when she’s busy by playfully teasing her.

Tagging forward to: @buttsonthebeach @alyssalenko @ocean-in-my-rebel-soul @apostatetabris @oops-gingermoment @mrscullensrutherford @sun-and-shadow-aloy @hellarcanine and anyone else who wants to share about their OCs!