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I’ve been playing Horizon Zero Dawn and I can’t stop imagining Lexa, raised by Gustus, as a motherless outcast who saves Clarke, great-granddaughter of a High Matriarch, when they are just kids. Years later, when they’re both 18, they meet again and it’s Clarke who saves Lexa. But Lexa is injured so Clarke has to take care of her, and she does so over several days and keeps it secret from everyone, as it’s a crime to talk to outcasts. Lexa gets better and Clarke, who’s been training to be a healer like her mother, starts going on little errands for medicinal herbs and such and taking the chance to spend some time with Lexa.

Their friendship develops into romance (*cough* it already was) but one day Bellamy – a jackass that one day threw a stone at Lexa and got pissed that Lexa threw it back at his hand preventing from throwing another – finds them (in a non-compromising position) and sells them out. Clarke and Lexa are called before the High Matriarchs and remind them that Lexa is soon to run the Proving in order to be readmitted into Nora and become a Brave. However, the High Matriarchs up the stakes – Clarke’s crime will only be forgiven if Lexa wins the Proving and asks for it. Clarke starts complaining, because she knows that Lexa wanted to ask about her origins, but Lexa is quick to accept. Later, she tells Clarke that the past can only be a lesson for a future that one looks forward to.

Anyway, Lexa wins the Proving and she asks for Clarke’s crime to be forgiven. Later, in secret, Clarke’s great-grandmother tells Lexa the truth about her mother – a Death-Seeker who crossed the Nora border with Gustus to save her and kill the people that had murdered everyone in their village. Gustus survived long enough to cross the border back into the Sacred Lands, unlike Lexa’s mother, with a baby Lexa in his arms. Abby saved him and the Matriarchs decided to make him an oucast 

on the condition he told no one that he was made an exception – and that he raise Lexa in the Embrace as though she was his own.