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===Aloy===

You know how [[Exalted]] are good at everything they do, but they tend to be selfish loners who care more about their childhood angst than saving the world? Aloy is like that, except instead of being a reincarnation of someone awesome, she's a clone of someone awesome, a woman who was so brilliant that GAIA said, "You know, I can't envision an Earth that would not need you to save it. Go forth and stab a [[Metal Gear]] in the eye." And Aloy did, because fucking anything was better than staying home and pretending to mourn the kid who threw rocks at her.

Personality-wise, Aloy plays the bitter snarker to cover up how angry she is at humanity. She is intensely curious, which is why a game mechanic revolves around her climbing up moving sauropods to hack into their brains. At the age of 6, she took an iPhone (or "Focus") off of the dead guy who owned it, thereby adding infrared vision and Old One records to her already expert hunting skills. Like her prepper father, Aloy is most comfortable sleeping on the dirt and killing animals for dinner. Her nomadic lifestyle also prevents cults to her from springing up...or so she'd like to believe, anyway. So far she has usurped one werak chieftain, turned seven bandit camps into peaceful villages, rejected the affections of a Sun-King, saved the Carja capital, foiled about half a dozen plots to destabilize tribal relations, and somehow become the Nora's messiah. Yet her hero complex only grows, which is helpful when she stumbles upon the genre-mandated "save the world" plot. The second game winds up deconstructing her hero complex by way of the plot repeatedly hammering it into her skull that she can't do everything alone and needs to rely on her friends to help her.