Crossovers with 'Star Wars' are surprisingly common, but they often feel like a mismatch. Throwing Aloy into a galaxy far, far away usually turns her into a generic force-sensitive, which misses the point of her character. She's a product of her specific, broken earth. The few that work for me are the ones that treat the Horizon world as a lost colony, maybe one that developed after a Star Destroyer crashed millennia ago. There's a WIP that explores that, with GAIA being an ancient droid intelligence. It's an interesting thought experiment, even if the prose is a bit rough.
The best sci-fi crossover I've read mixed Horizon with 'Nier: Automata'. The themes of machines, consciousness, and post-humanity fit together seamlessly. It wasn't just a versus story; it explored what GAIA and the androids from Nier would make of each other's worlds. That kind of thematic blending is way more rewarding than a simple character swap.
especially with other sci-fi series. A lot of folks seem to pair it with the 'Mass Effect' universe. The premise is almost too obvious, right? Aloy discovering Reaper tech or the Citadel species finding a world overrun by Faro machines. I found one a while back called 'Zero Dawn Effect' that tried to merge the timelines in a clever way, having the Protheans be connected to the Old Ones. It was a bit clunky in places, but the writer really understood the archaeological mystery vibe both settings share.
Some try to go the harder sci-fi route, crossing with things like 'The Expanse'. Those can be hit or miss for me. The tone is often too grim and political, losing Horizon's sense of wonder and discovery. I dropped one where Aloy was basically just a soldier on a spaceship. She needs the open world and the machines, not just another cockpit.
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All her life, Hope has been different. Her mother was captured by hunters who impregnated her then experimented on her while she was pregnant. It wasn’t until Hope shifted for the first time that she and others truly understood what the hunters had done. Hope is a true hybrid, embodying traits of both animals. Rather than having one dominant gene and one animal to shift into, Hope shifts into an animal that is part wolf and part bear. Because she’s different, Hope has always been bullied by other wolves.
Levi is the half-brother of Guardian Grace. He was a toddler when Grace confronted and killed their father in a battle of dominance. Thankfully, Grace and her mate, Eli, took Levi and his mother into their pack, where Levi has grown up.
Hope and Levi have naturally been drawn to each other as misfits within their pack. They’ve grown up as friends, but as they’ve gotten older, they’ve felt a different sort of relationship blossoming between them.
When Hope turns eighteen, she recognizes Levi as her mate. Levi is thrilled, having loved Hope for years. But Hope doesn’t feel worthy of Levi and refuses to accept him as her mate. He convinces her not to reject him, but when he pushes her too hard, Hope flees, leaving Levi destitute and desperate to find her.
Levi searches everywhere for Hope unable find her until help comes from an unexpected place. When he finally finds Hope again, can Levi convince her that she was meant for him? Will Hope be able to trust Levi with the secret that caused her to run in the first place? Can the two of them come together, two misfits, fitting together to make something perfect? Find out in this Guardians Spin-off.
In a world where hybrids are shunned, the fullbred wolves are trying everything to keep their bloodlines alive. So when Raine, the daughter of a powerful Alpha tattoos a man, and realises he's a vampire Hybrid, and she doesn't send him away, it sparks tension. What makes it worse is Raine his mate, no one else can sense it, because usually, Hybrids only ever have mates within their own world. Now, with two worlds crashing, no one knows where the end is going to be.
This is a book of shifter short stories. All of these stories came from readers asking me to write stories about animals they typically don't see as shifters.
The stories that are in this series are -
Welcome to the Jungle,
Undercover,
The Storm,
Prize Fighter,
The Doe's Stallion
The Biker Bunnies
The Luna's Two Mates
"I can still feel you, bonetta. Taste you. Smell you. I've been hard since you left, all through a training session and a meeting with my Royal Elite Warriors. You've gained the upper hand here, state your demands and don’t be so timid. I am at your beck and call. Use me however you desire."
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The moment I encountered Zion. I sensed a profound shift in the course of my existence. His mere presence ignited a storm of desire within me. He is my fated mate, and the bond we share is passionately intense no matter how hard I try to avoid it.
Amidst the swirling chaos that engulfs our world, a realization dawns upon me - I am no ordinary human. With each passing moment, as the relentless tide of destruction continues to crash at our feet, this truth becomes ever more apparent. I soon learn that the entire universe is questioning my very existence and the nature of my sorceress energy I now posess.
They tremble in my presence, and their trepidation is well-founded. Including Zion, his formidable elite of warriors and Light Oracles.
In a bleak future, the man with everything wants one more thing. Her.
Tiernan is a man with everything, and he’s not used to being denied what he wants. When he sees Madison from a distance, he makes the arrogant decision to take her. Her family needs her, but she has little choice except to become the Commander’s new companion, albeit reluctantly. Life in the hub of power isn’t what she expects, and neither is Tiernan. He’s dark and demanding, but there are flashes of tenderness that have her falling for the man she glimpses inside the cold and exacting commander of their territory. Which Teirnan is the real one—the tyrant or the tender lover? At first, it seems impossible that she could ever be happy with the man who forced her to give up her life, but feelings grow between them. Their relationship reaches a fragile new level that could deepen to something neither expected, if betrayal and treason don’t separate the lovers.
Madeleine Cross -one of the few humans immune to the deadly virus Zion- after an unfortunate turn of events such as the loss of her last remaining parental figure finds herself captured by a BloodHound, a genetically enhanced being, designed to identify and retrieve the last remaining Negatives.
She gets thrown into a sterile room to be subjected to various tests, under the pretext that her blood would be the key to develop an antidote against the deadly virus...
Warning: contains dark erotica themes such as non-consensual and/or violent sex
Enter at your own risk!
Archive of Our Own is pretty much the main hub these days. The tagging system makes it possible to drill down to exactly what you want – you can filter for specific pairings like Aloy/Erend or Aloy/Sylens, or focus on gen fics about Rost or the Carja. The quality tends to be higher because the tagging encourages writers to be specific, and there's a strong culture of constructive feedback. I've found some incredible post-canon world-building fics there that explore the fate of the subordinate functions.
Don't sleep on Fanfiction.net either, though. It feels like it has an older archive, with more fics from right when the game launched. The search is clunky, but sometimes you stumble on a complete novel-length story from 2017 that never got cross-posted. The comment sections on those older fics have a real time-capsule vibe, full of speculation before 'Horizon Forbidden West' came out.
SpaceBattles and Sufficient Velocity have niche pockets too, usually for more crunchy tech-focused crossovers or rationalist takes. I read one where Aloy's Focus interfaced with Tony Stark's tech that was surprisingly well-researched. It's a different flavor, less about shipping and more about systems and consequences.
Rost and Teersa as a quiet ship is surprisingly popular for a fandom centered on Aloy. You don't see much about it on the front pages of the usual places, but there's a dedicated corner of writers who love exploring what might have happened in the past, before the Proving. It’s a ship built on loss and shared grief, on raising this incredible girl together in the shadow of the mountain. It’s not flashy, but those fics can really hit you with a sense of what the Nora sacred land means, you know?
Of course, you have the Aloy ships. Aloy/Varl is classic Nora loyalty, lots of 'what if he survived' AUs that keep popping up. Avad is huge for the political drama and the 'outsider queen' fantasy. But honestly, I think Erend is the real backbone of the romance section. It’s the banter. The awkward, heartfelt friendship that could tip into something more just feels so natural for both of them. I skip anything that makes him too smooth, though; the charm is in his fumbling sincerity.
Recently I’ve seen a minor surge in Beta/Tilda van der Meer stuff, which is... complicated, to say the least. It’s dark and messy, exploring legacy and manipulation, and it’s definitely not for everyone. But the writers diving into it are doing some interesting character studies, even if the romance itself gives me the creeps. The fandom’s taste is definitely evolving past just the core game cast.