why you should vote herobrine in every single Tumblr Sexyman poll
he's one of the originals: look, a lot of these upstarts are new to the party. they may be sexy and they may be men, but they lack legacy. not so with herobrine. herobrine's been around. he's been around before sans. he's been around before bill cipher. he's one of the original originals alongside the onceler himself. know your herstory etc etc
he fits more of the criteria: look. i love benrey, i love reigen arataka, i love raymond animalcrossing. but look me in the eyes and tell me: is there a significant portion of people who ship them with themselves? once upon a time that used to be a requirement. and guess who does fit that requirement? that's right. herobrine. i mean, yeah, there's also herosteve i guess, but i was there back in the mid-2010s! i know what i saw! even to this day people will make new herobrine variant ocs! and guess what! sometimes they smooch!
he's a trailblazer: i think quite possibly one of the few more influential video game creepypastas you could cite would be BEN Drowned, but with all my respects -- he does not have the advantage of being in one of the longest-living games of the decade. herobrine, meanwhile? herobrine comes from the same time as first-era MCYT, and no matter how you feel about the phrase "MCYT" as a whole, you should know that interpretive roleplay and storytelling in the confines of video games is very, very cool and very, very important. and the first villain of every 13-year-old's minecraft roleplay? if it wasn't herobrine, he almost certainly made an impact elsewhere.
he's been through a lot: if i had a nickel for every time i saw whitewashed herobrine i would probably be a millionaire. despite being blocks he gets drawn as a stereotypical muscleman (twig herobrines get a pass they have a je ne sais quoi about them). his alive half-brother is a total asshole. people hate him on instinct because some famous jackass or another happens to play the game he's originated from. he's gotten banned from minecraft at least 10 separate times. he doesn't deserve this. he's just really been through the ringer and he really deserves this win.
i love your other guys. i do. except one or two of them but i don't want those guys anywhere near my blog so i'm not naming those fuckers. but for the most part i love like 90% of them and if it were up to me they'd all be given titles for their individual contributions to sexymandom.
but c'mon, y'all, it's herobrine minecraft. someone changed four pixels on the original steve skin and made a complete and utter legend and we can't just let that go unaccoladed forever.
[ID: an image of Herobrine's skin at a 3/4ths angle facing right. /End ID.]
the universe loves you very much, be gay do minecraft and vote herobrine.
I said I wasn't gonna post older doodles but I think about my HLVRAI oc sometimes lmao. Her name switches between Miranda and Dr. Miranda so both just end up applying.
when the trailer for HL2VRAI first came out ppl were hoping for Mira to play alyx and while i dont really care who plays her, ive always wanted to animate something for the idea :)
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A black and white sketchy animatic.
Gordon looks down apologetically.
Gordon: "I-I dunno. I'll like, do something to make that up to y'all. Like, in real life-"
He looks up and smiles nervously.
Alyx shoves him. She has a bandana across her forehead, fingerless gloves, a short vest, and a ripped sleeveless hoodie. She grins deviously at him and pokes his chest.
Alyx: "Give me that flashlight! Drop it! Right now!"
She tries to yank the front panel off the HEV suit, shown through her vibrating rapidly as he fingers are curled under the plating. Benrey comes in from the left and puts a hand on Gordon's shoulder, staring at him. Benrey does not have a helmet and his shadow/hair covers half his head. He is wearing a jumpsuit and has a sparse mustache.
Benrey: "Yeah, give me everything you have.
Gordon bursts out laughing, causing Alyx and Benrey to fall back. Alyx grips the ladder next to them for balance. The camera zooms out to show they are in an alleyway with posters on the walls, the ladder, and a dumpster. Bubby is sitting on the dumpster.
Gordon puts his gun arm over his face like a facepalm and hands Benrey his crowbar.
Gordon: "Yes, sir!"
Gordon gives Alyx a pistol, which is shown through him 'holding' it out with his gun arm and a menu above them that shows his arsenal. He gives her the pistol, then a grenade.
Gordon: "Yes, sir!"
The grenade drops and explodes, resulting in an ear ringing sound effect. Bubby has his hands over his face and exclaims in pain. Coomer pokes his head out of the dumpster.
Gordon puts his head against the wall, bracing himself against it as Alyx laughs. Benrey is rubbing his eyes. There is an explosion mark between Alyx and Gordon, where the grenade dropped.
Cut to a little later. Alyx shoves Gordon to the ground.
Alyx: "Jump him! You got any change in your pockets?"
She looms over him then leans down, grinning and tauntingly cocking her head.
Alyx: "CHUMP? BITCH?"
An image of Pepe the Frog on the floor of a McDonalds, all his food spilled out pathetically with his eyes tearing up is shown- but edited so that it's wearing glasses and the HEV suit to resemble Gordon.
Gordon: "No-"
The Pepe image is gone, replaced with a drawing of Gordon on the ground, looking up as Alyx and Benrey's shadows come into view. His mouth is wobbly and he's got big wet pathetic eyes.
Alyx kicks Gordon while he lays down, Benrey smacks him with the crowbar. Laughing and hitting sound effects are heard.
The screen goes black for a second.
Alyx points forward, yelling with her hand on her hip.
Alyx: "HEY, GOON!"
It's shown that Alyx is speaking to Gordon, who has his arms dangling in front of him and looking up at Alyx wimpily. They are in a junkyard. Alyx jabs her thumb to the right.
Alyx: "Go find me some scrap!"
Gordon sulks off.
Gordon: "Yes, ma'am."
Alyx crosses her arms with a smug smile as Coomer laughs in the background.
Excuse me! Will the wings au ever get a fic??? I don't know if it'd ever been mentioned and I was curious since it's one of my favs
Ehfbwjdbjs?!! Wah! Thanks so very very much that makes me so happy to hear ;u;
As much as I would love for that to happen, I am not the best writer in the slightest haha.
It was meant to be a fic to start off though! With a completely different idea! But the longer I tried to plot it out, the more I got different Ideas for this current au and decided to scrap the first draft 😅
If anyone wants to make a fic of the wings au, you are more than free too! I would sob and cry immensely and cherish the fic to the ends of time as well lol!!
The original wings AU idea is under the cut if anyone is interested :)!
Its the basic plot of HLVRAI, except Benrey has always been a winged alien species.
In his more human form, he just (very very uncomfortably and at times painfully) keeps his wings under his uniform. Boss fight Benrey has a completely different form (spoilers for future wing au stuff I am still working on)
Fic would have started off a looong while after hlvrai, Benrey respawns in the middle of winter and wanders to Gordons house. Gordon finds him absolutely messed up (im a sucker for “benrey respawns with his final boss injuries and Gordon/science team has to help him heal” aus haha) and basically passing out in the snow, taking him in to help warm him up.
Gordon tends to Benreys wounds until he wakes and tries to keep him warm. Benrey begins complaining about being uncomfortable and needing to “stretch”, Gordon has no idea what in the world this means, but encourages Benrey to do so, mainly due to mostly forgiving Benrey and wanting to try to fix their relationship.
Wings reveal happens, Gordon tries to keep his calm but is also loosing his mind trying to comprehend that Benrey had this under his vest. The. Entire. Time.
Benreys wings are obviously very messed up. Gordon had a pet bird growing up who had issues preening itself, so he knows how to preen wings as well as a human could, so he helps Benrey fix up his wings. Gayness ensues :)
Posting something here before i forget to talk about it again.
I have been Having Thoughts about a possible HalfLife Vr and Animator vs Animation crossover.
Not like putting the characters in each other plotlines, but like. Gordon and Alan crossing paths online and forming a friendship over "my tiny friends in the computer are causing chaos, what do."
Got rambly, so
The AvA gang canonically live on the desktop, no programs needed, and some HLVRAI aus do the same for the Science Team. No concrete thoughts but loose idea, Gordon and Alan are discussing if it's a good idea to introduce them (will the stickfigures be alarmed by these realistic humanoids? Will the AI suffer another existential crisis when they meet living stick figures? Will they end up play fighting or anger fighting?) All the worry ends up being pointless bc the color gang, curious as cats, find the messages between the human duo and manage to make their way onto Gordon's computer. Chaos ensues, but luckily it's fun chaos.
Points that keep sticking in my brain
Benrey SweetVoice and Green singing notes. It sounds like the start of a great friendship at first, but Benrey doesn't really do tunes with his Voice. The pitch and color change with his mood, Green is actually singing.
Blue and Darnold, potions duo. Blue introduces Darnold to the Minecraft potion system, and soon enough the delighted AI is coming up with new noncanon potions like Blue does. He's not impressed with the flavor of straight netherwart, tho.
All of the stick gang ADORE Sunkist. She's the perfect dog!
Dr. Coomer really really wants to join in when he sees the color gang start scrapping with each other. Gordon desperately tries to tell him to tone it down so he doesn't actually hurt any of them. The punch-happy old scientist AI wants to be rowdy with their new friends. (Remember how in the Wanted episode of AvA, when Orange joined the spar, the rest stopped fighting each other to focus on him? The tables have turned, it takes all of them to take on Harold Coomer)
Last potential idea. I have no idea if i would actually write for it, but I'm lowkey indulging thoughts of AvA crossover with my AI Cores au. Bring the stick figures onto the physical plane so they can cause trouble and explore. And hug their dad
Gordon convincing Alan to get a vr setup, then inviting him to bring the color gang to a vr chat or gmod server so he can interact with his kids the gang on the same level, instead of them being the size of his hand. Meeting face to face like this puts a lot of things in perspective, for him and for the stickfigures.
Also I am zeroed in on the friendship between Gordon and Alan. Idk why, i just think they'd be good friends. In line with the previous point, Gordon teaching Alan the ins and outs of vr trickery. And again, the gang interacting with Alan as a person and not a hand/cursor or distant figure behind a screen. They get so curious, trailing after him to watch what he does. I'm not wording it quite right, I'll try again later.
Since your daring little act has gone pitifully stale, and not a single user bats an eye to bring it upon themselves to inquire about your series that dragged on for quite a while, I'll be of assistance to hopefully spark up the crowd. I DID enjoy being a part of this rollercoaster of a ride afterall. Though, quite dismayed I missed it's final stead.
If any you wish to share, what spiked your interests to finish this projects?
What were your initial plans? Did all of this still fit your vision, or not at all?
How was the creation of these characters been discussed? Who the heaven's unholy wrath are those other two we'd completely forgotten about?
How drastically were the characters changed from what you originally wanted them to be? Did you like these alterations or no?
How was the dreaded fire and brimstone that is dealing with the ungodly wrath of the lunatic anons, and their targeted negativity?
Do you think that the story presented is clear, or have you still left some doors open, mysteries still left unsolved, or lingering? Waiting to be sought out?
Now then, that's all that I can think of to get you started, dear. Have a nice day, delicious friend.
Ok- please don't eat me.
Q1
Uhm- I mean if I left it like that it would be bad to be left forgotten. ( also I'll be sure to have the whole story in the log soon dw.
Q2
Some of them did end somewhat How I wanted them to. And I'm honestly glad I stuck to my guns on these ones. But no- my original concept was dead on the ground as stated before.
Q3
I created them by discussing it with a person who was going to make my original designs ( Carrot Cake ). No not Designs. More like I made the original idea and then they gave me some feedback once we both knew we won't be able to continue this contact. Then came in Meranti and Ring Ring. Ring Ring was the one to ask me general questions while Meranti was the one doing the detective-like searches into my characters. In the end it was mostly my own belief and designer choices. ( I stole the idea of Carrots Fighting glove earrings idea.(With his permission of course) )
Q4
The two you forgot about and the thing Tommy kept bringing up in the Ending was L and 32. If I ever do an Epilogue you can bet I'll end this one off finally if not then assume they were fine ever after.
Q5
Oh very... VERY different. At first I thought I could make camo suits! Ha! Very funny. Tommy's designer was going to evolve with him but that was scrapped after I realized I was unable to draw his signature hat. G-Man was going to be more business than casual that he ended up with. Coomer was going to have a pattern shirt as well as normal coloring in the computer;( everyone else came after this designe ). Benrey was the same from the beginning to the end. Darnold was the same as well once I nailed down the style. Gordon I did not make as said and Barney and Boper were both made from a memory I had of them. ( Gnomes are drawn from a reference and The dogs are dog images but Sunkist is pixelated. )
Q6
It was fun to answer their chaos with my own. Though The Old Goat came out of nowhere. I made Bubby to fit the tale of the turtle yet he ended up not fitting anything in the end. Pushing him to be his own bad guy instead of following one path. The Internet Alcohol saga was also funny. I think it was a great time overall.
Q7
There is one mystery I know 100% no one solved yet. Though my description of the series in the previous ask was somewhat revealing. Also the L and 32 mystery was not solved at all, left to stay in place. Though I know some of you already know the ending anyway.
I don't know if you answered about hrv but if you continue are there some scrapped ideas that might not make it in?
Oh, sorry! I didn't see this because I've been moving.
HRV is finished as far as I'm concerned, but I have an entire document of scrapped bits and bobs that I never used, mostly because they explained away too much or risked jumping the shark. There were things like Benjamin Reyes being a bigger player in the final fight (and forcibly reinstalling Gordon's gun arm), Benrey eventually dropping all of his ridiculousness when Gordon figures out who he is (but it erased a lot of the comedy), and an entire scene of Benrey trying to explain how ancient he is by using Windows 98 as a point of comparison (while eating a can of soda like an apple, no less, and mangling his mouth).
I think the only part I'm a bit sad about not being able to include was Benrey shit talking Cheryl at the end because she doesn't get boss music and he did, therefore he is the far more important Big Bad. It was really funny to me, personally, but it didn't fit the tone I wanted to set with a mostly horror-centric story.
Since I finished the HLVRAI Witch’s House video, just wanted to share a few stuffs.
In all honesty, this was just something to do while waiting for the next part and I didn’t want to spoil Benrey’s Room outright.
Originally going in, all i had in mind was doing the eyes crying. But I couldn’t think of what else to do, I nearly scrapped the whole thing before picking it back up after ten minutes of sulking. hence my file names haha
The hand was deliberate calling back to Pistachi0′s original comic, particularly a panel from this spread. And of course Josh’s photo and Gordon’s passport was recreated to the best of my ability (just without the dark overlay used in the final).
If I still have time and maybe get some insider info (wink wink jk), would love to try doing this again for the future floors or scenarios if allowed to
THE SUGAR RUSH AU SOUNDS SO COOL...... share your au wisdom with the hlvrai tag...
HELLO ! sugar rush it is :-)
so i kinda turned sugar rush into my own thing so please bare with me
so. theres this speedrunner guy (aka gordon) he pretty much just. finds as many ways to break sugar rush and just get the best times. one day though he got a weird dm about a scrapped character from the game (benrey). the reason benrey was scrapped from the game is because he pretty much made the game UNPLAYABLE, corrupting not just all of the maps, but the entire game too. gordon freeman, being a cool guy he is, set out on a journey to actuallt beat a map with this benrey guy. hes successful, but now everything is fucked up. he physically cant chose any other character besides benrey. he tries to exit out of the game but again, its impossible. however, theres a bunch of new maps, but they're all super fucking hard, and if gordon wants to fix his game, he has to beat all of them ...
theres also a whole story about the actual game world but ill probably make a whole seperate post about that
ill defiantly be adding more to this au but thats all i have for now!
Oh, absolutely! Focusing on hlvrai, I've got two to talk about: the New Years fic and the Housesitter's Guide.
The first work I ever started was a goofy-ass story about Gordon logging into the game on New Years Day to find that the Science Team's New Years Eve party had gone off the rails with Darnold as the bartender, and now everyone was dealing with bonkers reality-warping hangover effects that only potions can give. I'd recount all of the effects, but while I know I got at least five pages out of the idea, I can't seem to find it anywhere in my folder. I know that Tommy's personal gravity had flipped like that one Calvin and Hobbes arc, so he was walking on the ceiling as he opened the door and invited Gordon inside. Benrey's Sweet Voice abilities were cranked into full gear to the point where any attempt to talk just launched a volley of fruity tennis balls out of his mouth. Bubby got body-swapped with Sunkist, who was just passed out on the couch and not enjoying being locked in an old guy body. It was beautiful, dumb crack, very much flavored like magic anon ask blogs from the days of yore.
I abandoned it for a couple reasons. One, it was a holiday fic that I didn't finish by January 2022. Two, the tone and plot weren't really up to my personal standards. Heck, there wasn't a plot at all, so I ran out of steam pretty quickly.
The second fic is one that I do still have the files for. I thought about writing a fic that was formatted as a housesitting manual that Gordon would give to someone if he needed to be out of town and wanted his computer to be supervised. It would have essentially given me a "series bible" for my Streamman continuity-- a reference guide to how Gordon would explain every part of the home program. However, while I like works in that sort of nonstandard format, it was just... really boring to write. It's much more fun to develop the world as I go and post bonus details on tumblr.
Also, since this was also an early work, I hadn't decided if Gordon knew Bubby and Coomer were a couple in this draft. I knew that they were together, but Gordon...
"[...Y]ou know how I am with these things, and after a certain amount of time I can’t ask without looking stupid. If you want, you can ask them yourself and tell me what they say. Please don’t tell them I don’t know. I know I can’t control whether you do or not. But they have enough things to make fun of me for, I promise."
Gordon's based on me. I have the worst relationship radar. I have watched people exchange deeply personal Valentine's Day gifts and said out loud that they have such a great friendship.