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1. The Way It Should Be by Bunebulae

   Fandoms: Horizon: Zero Dawn (Video Game)  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M, Multi
   • Complete Work

   31 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Aloy/Erend (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
   • Ereloy - Relationship
   • Aloy (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
   • Erend (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
   • Avad (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
   • Nil (Horizon: Zero Dawn)
   • only mentions of Nil don't get to see him
   • Petra appears for like 5 mins
   • Slow Burn
   • Adventure & Romance
   • Post-Canon
   • Mild Language
   • Mild Sexual Content
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • first game
   • Pre-Game: Horizon Forbidden West
   • Post-Game: Horizon: Zero Dawn
   • non-canon
   • Grief/Mourning
   • Some Humor
   • some giggles
   • some fun
   • Eventual Sex

   Summary

   Machines have a pattern way of behaving. People Don't. Aloy finds this out the hard way.

   Slowest of slow burns because I like to write people being painfully oblivious of their own and each other's feelings. Eventual explicit happenings, but it's not the main focus. Mostly Aloy and Erend goofing off with each other b/c im a sap.
   please note this was written before HFW released
   

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   42,575

   Chapters:

   15/15

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