#Coomer with Beard and Hair

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Coomer - Front Face with Beard and Hair, High Res, White (Template)

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[cataqu33rz]

They need more art together, but this is all I can give until further notice

[hlcevr-tech-support]

What happened in the dream?

Gordon was there but he had shaved off most of his beard and grown out his hair. He mumbles at me about something and then Coomer shows up but there’s something off about him and he tells Gordon something like “hitting where it hurts won’t make you feel better, you have to make it personal”

I’ve had this dream for a couple weeks now.

-Soupy

[werewolfoffeverswamp]

reposting this with updated designs!!

ID under the cut

[ID: Image is a collection of drawings of HLVRAI characters set against an ombre maroon background fading from light to dark. In the top left is Gordon, a round-faced, dark-skinned man with a short mustache and beard, fluffy, curly hair in a small ponytail, and square glasses. He is wearing the HEV suit. He is facing Benrey and frowning while squinting, looking at him with suspicion. Benrey is a pale-skinned human with fluffy, dark hair poking out from under a blue helmet that seems to cast a dark, opaque shadow over half of his face. He is smiling and looking at Gordon, with 6 bubbles of Sweet Voice in various sizes are coming from his grinning mouth, from light green to dark blue.. He is wearing a blue button-up shirt under a dark blue vest that matches his helmet. It looks like he has long hair under his helmet. In the top right is Bubby, a pale-skinned, old man with fluffy white hair on just the sides of his head. He is facing foward and slightly right. He is wearing half-moon glasses, and a lab coat over a green button-up shirt. He says, “What in the goddamn hell are you talking about?” It does not show who he is speaking to. Below Bubby is Dr. Coomer, a dark-skinned, old man with curly white hair that sticks out on the sides and top. He is facing forward and slightly left. He has a white mustache that is also curly. He is wearing a lab coat over a blue button-up shirt. He is smiling broadly and to the sides of his head, there are green triangles showing his excitement. Under Dr. Coomer slightly to the right, there is a small, round pigeon that appears to be sweating nervously. There are white sweat drops around its head. To the left of Dr. Coomer, in the middle of the page, there is a small, cartoon Gordon that is sweating nervously, blushing, and looking down. He is facing forward. On both sides of his head are white sweat drops. Under him, it says, “Sweats in bisexual”. Under this Gordon is Tommy, facing left and laughing. He is a pale young man with long brown hair sticking out under a striped red, yellow, and blue baseball cap with a propeller on it. The brim of the hat is blue. He is wearing a lab coat over a yellow button-up shirt. Next to his face are white lines showing laughter. Next to Tommy is another Gordon, larger than the rest, who is laughing heartily. On both sides of his face are white lines showing laughter. End ID]

[fiction70]

Due to popular demand, here is how I thought the science team looked like based on the ao3 fics I read! Additionally, I'll explain my reasoning behind their designs.

Gordon Freeman: For Gordon, I didn't really get much descriptions out of the fics I read. Just that there was an event where he'd lost an arm, had blonde hair, a small beard, green eyes, and glasses. I assumed he was a blonde for some reason, and when the H.E.V suit was mentioned, I thought it looked more like pajamas at first. Like slipping on a glove that's VERY protective.

Benrey: Benrey is what really drew me into the Fandom. I'd never seen such awful grammar used for a character before. And the way he spoke made me laugh countless of times. I knew his eyes were a bright yellow, and his body shaped varied based on fic-to-fic, so I just decided he was a large guy. My brain saw him as oddly pale (cuz alien) with fuzzy buzzcut-like brown hair and wears nothing but at-home clothes.

Bubby: You're gonna like this one. I thought Bubby and Benrey were RELATED. Either some familial connection or they just happened to both be aliens from Xen. Due to his aggressive nature and how well Benrey and Bubby seemed to get along in some fics, I assumed they were well acquainted with each other. The funniest part is, my mind saw HIM as a guard, and I remember imagining him being taller than Benrey, had even paler skin, pointy ears and black hair.

Tommy Coolatta: Tommy was apparently human and got along with Benrey well because he was acquainted with his Sweet Voice language. So, to me, someone who learned a whole language deserved a turtleneck and a lab coat. Tommy seemed to be very sweet, and for some reason, my brain thought he was blonde. I liked Tommy because he was always nice and gentle.

Dr. Coomer: There were very few fics I read that involved Dr. Coomer, which is sad because he's such an iconic character for this series. Because everyone referred to him as a Doctor, I also gave him a lab coat. I saw him in his mid-40s or early 50s and gave him some grey hair. I truly didn't know what this man looked like!

ADDITIONAL CHARACTERS (that I will draw soon):

Joshua: Joshua seemed to be Gordon's hypothetical son, yet this hypothetical son appeared to me as a black little boy that dressed in flannels and jean jackets and rapidly growing hair Gordon can't keep up with. Based on what ao3 gave me, I thought the relationship between everyone and Joshua was really sweet.

Sunkist: So, you know Ethan's dog? As in, CrankGamePlays Ethan? His dog Spencer? That's how I saw Sunkist. There weren't many fics involving her either, so I had no idea she was "the perfect dog." I actually thought she was a boy, too.

Darnold and G-Man: They never really appeared in fics, so by the time I read about them, I had already watched the series and knew what they looked like. Sorry about that.

This was a long post!! Please let me know what you think, and tell me if you'd like to see more!

[qhazomb]

a very silly crossover au that’s been living in my head rent-free for the past two days. hlvrai and wizard of oz, but in which gordon has seen the wizard of oz movie and is just “oh, what the hell” when he and his/benrey’s cat sony end up in the land of oz. (this takes place post-canon, and at a point where gordon and benrey have long since reconciled and are now officially dating. and have a perfect immortal cat that tommy made for them. named Sony PlayStation.)

now you’d think he’d be able to just instantly go home/wake up/whatever, having seen the movie and thus knowing the way home is to click the ruby slippers’ heels together. unfortunately for gordon, it’s not magic shoes this time! instead, he ends up receiving a pair of magical ruby earrings, and he has no fucking clue what would be the equiv of heel clicks for these things. so he still has to go on the trek to the emerald city. lucky him. also, like in the movie? all the important characters he meets in oz look like his friends and family (and, uh, forzen). tommy’s the good witch of the north, forzen’s the one who got squashed by his house (and who previously had the earrings), benrey’s the witch of the west (tho decidedly less “wicked” than the movie version- he just keeps following gordon through the whole quest and incessantly, if politely, asking to have the earrings. also when benrey’s introduced as the witch of the west, gordon’s like “Wait, shouldn’t you be like, a wizard instead of a witch?” “i don’t have a beard though.” “You don’t ha- what does that have to do with anything??” “gotta have an epic beard to be a wizard, duh. it’s the uhhh law. wizard law.” “Wizard law is very serious, Mr. Freeman!” “...Right. I’m sure it is.”) bubby’s the scarecrow, because i find the irony of the “perfect scientist with vast knowledge injected into his brain and also pyrokinesis powers” being the “brainless” highly flammable scarecrow funny. coomer’s the tinman, if only because of the whole cyborg thing. i actually at first had coomer and bubby’s roles reversed, with scarecrow!coomer’s reasoning being coomer’s glitchy brain in-canon, but like i said before, i like the irony of pyro bubby being the scarecrow more. :P darnold is the cowardly lion, because of course he is. when they first reach the woods lion!darnold lurks in, and darnold pounces out to try and spook them, gordon just deadpans “Hey Darnold.” to which a very confused lion!darnold who has never seen this man in his life just goes “...Uh. Hi? ...Hhhooowww did you...?” “Oh he’s been doing this all fucking day. He somehow already knew all our names, too.” “-which is sus as hell-” “-Shut the hell up, Benrey.” “maybe if you give me those earrings? please. thank you.” “For the last fucking time, NO.” “mean...” mr. coolatta is conman oz, who still hates benrey’s guts even tho benrey isn’t nearly as antagonistic as the movie’s witch was (it’s because benrey’s the only one who sees through his tricks... and keeps getting on his case about calling himself a wizard despite having no facial hair to speak of. VERY illegal. fake wizard). when they get to the emerald city and get an audience with “oz”, gordon wastes no time in just strolling up to the curtain and yanking that shit open. gordon wants to go HOME, to see his non oz-i-fied friends and family. this ‘wicked witch’ version of benrey constantly badgering him about his earrings is starting to make him think too much of his own benrey’s passport thing and he’d really like to not think anymore about that exceptionally shitty start to their relationship, thank you very much. (“yoooo there’s another me that’s dating you? niiiice. give me a high-five for me when you see me.” and then witch!benrey stops flirting with gordon cause he doesn’t wanna steal his own boyfriend from himself. he certainly wouldn’t want an alternate version of himself to steal HIS cute boyfriend, if he had one! that’d be like, so uncool, man.) i haven’t thought about what happens after that, or what all shenans would happen in place of wicked witch’s attacks (since witch!benrey is content to just follow gordon around and beg at him for the ruby earrings), but yeah. also of course benrey has skeleton minions still instead of flying monkeys. also also i first thought of having sunkist be in toto’s place, but i can’t see why gordon would have sunkist with him without tommy. so Sony PlayStation the cat is gordon’s “toto” instead. which i think still works, cause toto was a small black dog, and sony is a small black cat, so. (if they still first try to leave oz via hot air balloon, the reason gordon ends up missing the ride is because some emerald city citizen’s dog scares sony out of gordon’s arms and the balloon basket, and like hell gordon’s leaving without his and his boyfriend’s perfect cat (on the off-chance that this isn’t all just a dream like in the movie. which he still really hopes isn’t the case)). sunkist is still in this, though. instead of traveling via magic bubble, good witch tommy rides his giant magical flying dog to get around.

[bellygunnr]

a leader on losing control

"Does anyone have uh- a mirror? No, fuck me, where the hell are we going to get a mirror down here...?"

Gordon shakes his head as he admonishes himself, but regrets the loose motions as soon as pain throbs in his temples in time with his pulse. His hair, long since fallen from its tight ponytail, sticks to his face in sweaty clumps. The unexpected weight causes him to flinch, then flinch again as he struggles to get his bearings.

"No mirror here, Gordon! I don't think now is the time for personal hygiene, anyway," Dr. Coomer helpfully informs him. The old scientist is curled up beside him, his arms extended out from his torso, hands and wrists twisting in familiar stretches. "I may have something for your hair, though."

"That- that'd be nice," Gordon tries to say, but the words wheeze out, his lungs deflating like a pricked balloon. "Can you put it in for me? Can you do that? It's okay, if not. I just- I just really don't want to touch my hair- agh!"

Dr. Coomer used his strength (inhuman) to pull Gordon around, which led to a series of adrenal responses that varied in intensity and ended with Gordon shutting down, his mind withdrawing from his body and promptly outside of it. The HEV suit pinged, but it was faint, muffled, inconsequential. Some part of him knew that this was bad-- that this was his worst panic attack or dissociation or whatever the fuck, but he couldn't bring himself to care. Injuries sustained and repeated, rapid traumas had wore him down over the course of several hours, and this was the result. Men and women had died under his hand-- though he had fired none of the bullets, he was to blame. Any crime his little group committed became his sin to bear, too.

It was his inability to keep a cool head, he had concluded sometime long ago (but the Resonance Cascade was not so long ago). His temper and full body reactions led to a disjointed and chaotic dynamic between he and his-- his teammates. His group. His ragtag band of survivors. He met things he didn't understand with anger and incredulity-- with no space to sort it out, to understand, he grew worse, his mind forced to bend in uncomfortable angles to come to terms with a damnable reality. Perhaps, if he was built of sterner stuff, of better, more tempered mettle, the trek through Black Mesa would not be so horrible. But he wasn't, and this inferno was not reforging him into something better.

At the end of the day, he was only human.

And I can't even do that right, he thinks savagely, harshly reminded of what sent him spiraling in the first place-- gender dysphoria, brought on by his rapidly mounting stress. Between the hair and the strange curves and edges the HEV suit granted him, it had been too much to come to terms with. Rapid clawing and stroking of his beard, which he knew was there, dirty as it was, could not bring him back down from the irrationality because the orange gloves deadened his fine sense of touch. For all he knew, his beard had been razed off, and he was only bruising his face with the force of his desperation.

"Gordon!"

His name cuts through his thoughts like a knife. His vision sways as he tries to swing his eyes around, train on the wrinkled face hovering in front of him, but there's hands on his shoulders and he hates that more than anything. With a lurch, he slams his heavy body back against the wall, snarling when his head clocks cold steel.

It's enough to bring him back to awareness, though.

"I'm fine," he rasps, and that's weird. "Don't-- don't worry about it, man, I just- it's fine, sometimes you just gotta take a nap! I was taking a nap," he forces himself to ramble, throat scratchy, congested. "Yeah, fuck. Thanks for- for helping me with my hair, Dr. Coomer. I really 'precciate it," Gordon slurs.

Dr. Coomer stares at him, silent for once. There's an intelligent twinkling within his eyes, deep and considering, but thankfully nothing more is said. Silence settles down over them like a heavy blanket. It's thick and stifling, woolly, hot, but better than the alternative.

Gordon rests his head between his knees. There's nothing for him outside.

[benryphobic]

"Dr. Coomer," Gordon said, strained. "I think 'hotted women yanking on your willy' is the least of your problems. Look at you all!"

"I am looking! I'm so goddamn hot!" Bubby yelled from the bathroom, his strong voice making Gordon wince.

"Yeah, yeah, you all think you're the hot shit now, that's fine," Gordon waved away. "But it's really freaky that we're all getting younger!"

"Not at all, Gordon! " Dr. Coomer grinned at him. "Not for me, anyways." he said, eyeing Gordon's patchy mustache.

Gordon self consciously scrubbed at his beard, or lack of one. He'd nearly jumped out of his skin when he found his thick, neatly cut beard gone. He had worked so hard on that thing!

"The only thing I'm worried about is how many women will fall for me again." Coomer sighed. "With my good charm and looks, I'll get more proposals." He almost sounded sad about it. Gordon guffawed.

"I'll definitely get bitches on my dick," Bubby said behind him, and Gordon yelped. Bubby only grinned at him, slicking back his new salt and peppered hair. He had taken off his glasses, too, claiming not to need the cataracts anymore. Bastard.

"Jesus Christ." Gordon cursed. "Is anybody going to take this seriously. Can we at least LEAVE this fucking hotel! I don't want to turn into a-a, a fucking.." Gordon stopped, chewing on his lip in thought.

"A bitch baby?"

"A little teeny infant?"

"A zygote?" Tommy stepped in helpfully.

"Fucking. Sure. I don't want to stay here and turn into a zygote. Sure man. That's what I meant."

in a goomby mood. i want a fountain of youth goomby fic okay????

[benryphobic]

some thoughts about the Future (no combine)

Coomer Cane/Wheelchair moments. My mans is old, and still sharp! But he can't do what he used to, which he kinda hates. working on finding the fountain of youth

Bubby has no changes. After 25 years he looks and feels exactly the same

Tommy starts to gray and lose his hairline more. He refuses to bald tho, so he does the middle aged man hair loss sugery or whatever. i think itd be funny if he got botox too LMAO

gordon has a really bad back, as well as arthritis. and cataracts. gordon isnt even that old he was just cursed with a shit body. he also buzzed his hair, so no more ponytail

benry can look 26 forever but chooses to have some gray hairs to fit in (pepper and salt tho, not actual graying tho lol) steals joshua's glasses so he can look more old

joshua just looks like gordon without a beard. he dethrones gordon and coomer as The Jock, since he knows how to play a shitton of sports (courtesy of learning to box and swim when he was young, playing football in high school, and playing volleyball in college)

thinking about older josh and his big family....aheem heem