HZD Terraforming Base-001 Text Communications Network
is a comedy chatfic by Discar, hosted on Archive of Our Own. It follows the characters of Horizon Forbidden West, who have just discovered the "texting" function of their Focus artifacts, and their ensuing commentary on canon events.
This fic contains the following tropes:
- All Caps: Erend texts this way, mirroring his deep voice.
- Comically Invincible Hero: Aloy's explanation of what happened at the Rot is cut off by Varl accurately predicting, "You cut through the enemy like dry grass, overthrowing an impregnable fortress by yourself."Erend: AGAIN.
- Hollywood Atheist: Aloy sometimes forgets that the chatroom is not a soapbox for mocking her comrades' religions.
- Produce Pelting: The Oseram way of giving performers negative feedback. Except that wrenches may be thrown alongside fruit.
- True Art Is Incomprehensible: Bohai insists that the Quen have recovered all the episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion; people only believe they haven't because they don't understand "complex storytelling".
- Deliberate Values Dissonance: Inter-tribal disagreements form the bulk of the fic's comedy.
- The Carja have laws forbidding underage and excessive drinking, which are completely opposite to Oseram social expectations.
- Zo doesn't believe polyamory could ever work; Kotallo (whose culture places a huge emphasis on squads and small, tightly-knit groups) says it does "sometimes". Talanah, the resident Carja, has never even heard of the concept.
