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Thoughts on Batman Arkham Origins
Main Story
Opening is nice
Black Mask before Jason? That's interesting
Killer Croc helping Black Mask was a surprise
I don't think Roman threatening Waylon is good idea
It feels like Roman's normal voice is higher and he tries to make it deeper when intimidating people
Well at least Batman didn't let Croc die
I'm going to add some new characters
Also Bane wasn't originally in Gotham?
Of course, it was Nigma behind the towers, it's funny that Batman guessed his name
Can Batman stop choking people?
Gotta admit Electrocutioner has a style.
Aight nevermind that was hilariously lame lmao
Tracey is kinda cute
Yo Candy đź‘€
Falcone wanting his son back is somehow heartwarming
Hi Slade, didn't see you since Teen Titans
His fight actually looks interesting, the wacking is kinda funny
Love how confused he is by Batman
Penguin is a sleaz in this version
Anarky is like "We live in society"; nice voice though
No one's believes Roman is dead but its a nice mystery;
Ooh, first time he heard of the Joker
I find it cool that Anarky was impressed Batman saved those places; didn't expect him to be called a kid, how old is he?
The thing is, he is right in what he is saying, but it's the way he wants to solve these problems it the issue
Him wanting Batman to mentor him my heart! Baby, no, please just learn from your mistakes
Batman was right to beat these cops
Hey Barbara! Interestingly, Jim didn't like Batman at the beginning
When it was said there was piece of white clothing I knew it was Roman
Ok didn't expect the guy to force a Roman hand in killing his girlfriend, that was evil
The way that Joker is once again the main villain should be annoying, especially with the premise they set up, but I think they did it in a good way; it's honesty cool since it's the first time Batman had heard of him
The Mad Hatters bunnies đź’€
The fucking sir bit lol, I would love to annoy him; his reason for controlling people is very interesting
Of course he fucking choked him
Wonderland looks cool
"Drained a bit of that willpower of yours" He just went through a fucking door, calm down
He really traumatized her huh?
The girl is laughing, definitely Joker gas
Wait, that's Joker in costume?! Holy shit he is amazing voice acting
And he just beat the shit out of the Roman!
(Since it was Joker from the beginning I can't use it for characterization? )
Is Shiva with Al Ghoul?
Of course Roman has heart problems because of his anger lol
He looks kinda nice tied up
FOR FUCK SAKE BRUCE STOP BEATING THE SHIT OUT OF LYING MAN
Copperhead scared the shit out of me
Ok that was torture, Batman wanted to torture a guy. BTAS would be so angry at his other self
Wait, is her venom is like a fear toxin?
Alfred's speech was sad.
The guilt goes hard in this
The problem with Deadshot is apparently dude is an imposter? I don't know how to characterize him.
Never mind, he wasn't in the game long enough.
Joker still doing BM impression is hot
Electrocutioner just playing a video game, dude really is asking to die
The guy who voices Joker does an excellent job, why were people complaining about him?
Yep expected it
Firefly looks cool
Bane is badass
Batman was allowed to beat Jokers ass
The Bane pose is seriously iconic
Of course Joker laughs when falling to death
Joker not understanding why Batman saved is very nice
Joker to Blackgate? That's gonna be interesting
Wait it's Harley?! But they meet in Arkham
The imagination is seriously weird but fits
Joker saying Batman changed his life is… interesting
Oh, his Red Hood backstory
Oh it's pretty gay not gonna lie
Wait, she thought he was talking about her while he was talking about Batman lmao
Alfred is trying to be a good father, fuck off Bruce
The Nigmas passwords are amazing
The cop just going 'Yup' kills me
Bane knowing who Batman is a nice twist
I get why Gordon doesn't trust Batman but he is helping with bombs, come on man
Aww they started to like each other
Alfred use the shotgun
I know he won't die because he is in other games but it's sad seeing Bruce actually be desperate
Looks like gloves were a good idea
"Don't drink and drive, you'll kill someone " "Yeah yeah what are you in for?" "Manslaughter " that got a chuckle out of me
He already has Harley around his finger, don't like how they changed how they met but at least her voice isn't so annoying
Why the fuck does Joker wants to die so badly?
"Maybe you shouldn't move?" Shoots them; Good job Jim!
Gordon is a good man
And that's how he earned respect from Jim, good job Bat; also it's nice for him to ask for help where the fuck did go in the future?
I love how Gordon just fucking hits sniper with a bat
It's fun; although Barbara should have looked up to her dad and just have Bat as inspiration for her suit but eh
Are they teasing Suicide Squad?
Initiation DLC
It's nice seeing what League was like and what they teached but it just fighting, boring.
Cold, Cold Heart
Now THIS, this is what I'm talking about
Love the opening, the speech was so fake
Didn't expected Penguin to mix
The fact that Bruce actually has respect for Ferris will make learning the truth pretty fun
The new suit looks goofy
Lmao the callback to future roof dropping with the Diller
The realization in Bat voice when he finds out what happened, perfect
Why did Freeze freeze Nora in her dress? She looks beautiful but it doesn't seem practical
She looks beautiful
Overall
Enjoyed it, might actually be my favorite game (and since I know few plot points from Knight it might stay that way).
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My Benrey Backstory
Okay, so I thought I might as well lay it all out. Be careful about reading this, because it will contain some DARK DARK shit. Just for that I’ll put a chance for you to opt out without seeing it.Â
Still reading? Okay :D
It started when Benrey was what could be considered an infant on Xen. He didn’t look nearly as humanoid as he does when he grew older, and his hair was much more like thick black fur. He looked kind of like a mutated rodent/bug, with several hundred eyes across his fur. He had lived a rather.. adequet existence. He was still alive, purely due to instinct, but had no parents like a normal kid does. He had to learn things by himself. Is it friendly looking? No? Run. While it was similar to a animals way of thinking of things, it was far closer to how a human child would decide things.
Needless to say it wasn’t hard for the scientists to catch him, considering his way of processing threats. Humans aren’t nearly as threatening looking as the creatures on Xen. Maybe he would’ve been lucky if he wasn’t so trusting..
The first about five years of his life were spent mostly in complete isolation. They had started to catch on to his abilities, and had still not completely figured out how to stop him from doing things such as escaping by no-clipping. They still hadn’t figured out the extent of his regen either, so thankfully he wasn’t harmed AS much as he would be later on. He was still experimented on, though. During this time he met Bubby and Tommy for the first time. Tommy was ten years old, and was excited to see another young child. The more Benrey was around Tommy and the other scientists, the more he changed his appearance to be more humanoid.Â
Would it not be for Tommy, he probably would’ve gotten taught not to use his sweet voice due to the way the scientists treated it. Tommy trusted Benrey, so much so that he wasn’t scared when Benrey used the sweet voice on him and he quickly realized that it was harmless and convinced the scientists to be lieniant and to let him use his sweet voice without being punished. Tommy really made things better for him, as much as he could. He’d talk to him, give him gifts, and try to make him feel as comfortable as possible. But he was still a ten year old, so he could only do so much...
During the first few years, Benrey tried to initiate hugs a lot or hold the scientists hands like any normal kid but they always jolted back like they got electrocuted. The only time they would touch him was for experiments, and not without gloves and or medical suits on. Tommy gave him all the hugs he could, but he only visited for a few hours a couple of days a week. Eventually Benrey stopped trying, and it led to him being severly touch starved as an adult.Â
He learned how to talk from the multiplayer video games Tommy gave him, and that was also how he learned to read. The scientists had no intention of teaching him anything, since he wasn’t human they didn’t deem it necessary. As he grew older, the testing got more severe. They would drug his food to analyze the effects it had on him every week, sometimes multiple times a week. This happened so often that after several months he stopped eating at all, and wouldn’t explain why. Even to Tommy.
During this he had been breaking out to see Gordon and play around, but he was eventually caught and they restricted his powers so he couldn’t leave. After this, also came the pain treatments.Â
They did everything you can think of pain wise: holding him under water until he almost blacked out, locking him in hot and cold environments until he passed out, shot him, and cut off his arms; they even performed vivisections on him without anesthesia. He screamed his lungs out for the first few times, until they figured out a chemical that would prevent him from speaking during the surgery. That way, he couldn’t make noise- but he could still feel everything that was happening. They had to put a muzzle on him or else the sweetvoice would get in the way. He sobbed almost constantly the entire procedure, and for hours afterwards. They never took care of the wounds they inflicted, so his clothes were always covered in blood. His room was covered in dry blood stains, and whenever he came back from the surgeries he’d throw himself onto his bed and sob until he fell unconscious. Otherwise, he never slept. When he used to sleep, they would drug and hurt him or move him somewhere different and he’d wake up strapped to a table with a muzzle on.Â
This happened for years. By then he was a teenager and had adapted to his cruel treatment. He went emotionally numb and after years of being called a monster, he started to believe it and accept it as the truth. His regen was incredibly sharp due to the constant injuries he had, but that came to an end when G-Man offered him his freedom for the agreement that he would do as he says or else be returned to his life of being a test subject.
Things got better, for a while. And then the Resonance Cascade happened. When he first saw Gordon he recognized him, even if he had transitioned by then and was now a guy, which is why he annoyed him. But he hadn’t yet had any plans until after the explosion. Much like with Gordon, G-Man had periodic meetings with Benrey instructing him what to do. He layed out his plan to Benrey: he needed to play the bad guy, lead Gordon through black mesa so he could finish the “game”, be the “final boss” in Xen and die. Of course this wasn’t G-Mans only goal: he was setting Benrey up to be assumed dead so that after Xen he could be recaptured and put back into testing without Tommy interfering.Â
Benrey came up with the military thing on his own. He thought it would come off as villian-y enough to be excused by G-Man, but honestly he was worried about Gordon and thought that if he was taken by the military he would be away from black mesa and he wouldn’t have to hurt him as the big boss. This, obviously, went horribly wrong. He got slightly defensive about the arm thing, though. He didn’t think it was THAT big of a deal, because he thought Gordon could regrow his limbs like he could. Tommy had to explain him that no, he couldn’t, and that arm was gone forever and Benrey felt AWFUL afterwards. As time went on he just kept doing more and more messed up shit until Gordon hated him by the end. It stung, but he knew it was better for them to hate him so they could kill him easier.
But.. they didn’t. Somehow, through his nonsensical ramblings Gordon got some string of coherence. He knew there was so much more to Benrey, there had to be, and it didn’t help that Benrey wouldn’t shoot at them and seemed to recall such fond memories with him. Gordon connected the dots as to who Benrey was, and the fact that he used to know him, and by that point Benrey was one shot away from a game over. The battle had died down drastically, and he assumed he was going to be dead. It was the only reason he was willing to tell the truth: he thought it didn’t matter, as he was going to die anyways.Â
When the cave started falling apart Gordon Niceman couldn’t stand to leave him to be crushed on an alien planet. SURE, he was a dick who got his arm cut off and insulted him regularly but he still was his sort of friend! Plus Tommy would be sad.Â
(because he was in denial: benrey definitely fucked up, dude. His actions were shitty, even if considering his situation they were understandable. Just- wanna clarify, he definitely not escaping blame here. He definitely was a shit head, because of the whole “doesn’t give a shit, I’m a petty asshole” thing.)Â
When Gordon eventually got this information out of him, once they were living together and all that, a lot of what Benrey did made much more sense. It was heartbreaking to hear that he had such a fucked up childhood. He definitely tried to be more understanding with Benrey, and explain why he was mad knowing Benrey never had any logical discipline. Probably why he’s so childish.
Oh, and it also made Gordon much more physically affectionate. If those bastards thought he was too dangerous to touch, it was their loss. Benrey is a great cuddler.
#hlvrai#hlvrai bubby#bubby#tommy coolatta#g man hlvrai#hlvrai gman#gordon freeman#frenrey#benrey#benry#hlvrai benrey#resonance cascade#tw torture#tw pain#tw blood#tw like a lot of bad shit#vivisection#hlvrai headcanon#gordon is gay and won't admit it
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