#hibernation gman

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Voice from the wasteland

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whats your au about? :0 any info?

so, assuming this is for the most recent stuff ive been posting--im not a hundred percent sure, but im gonna take this ask as a way to think thru it!

so. what i know for sure is that everyone, presumably, is small enough to do things like use mushrooms as umbrellas and acorns as hats and a single very small button to fasten their satchels and such. theres a specific kind of little people that i draw often with the ears and the tail and little paws? they are whatever that species is, which i need to think through...

i imagine they live in trees and bushes and under the dirt in deep tunnels under the earth, foraging for food. i also think itd be fun if, maybe, birds and mice were friends and possibly ways to travel a little faster, although they can already run very fast.

i Dont think this is like the borrowers though--while there are some similarities, the biology and way of life is quite different (???). for example, i think tommy lives in a hollowed out tree stump, and wanders around the woods between a variety of litte houses hollowed out of the earth. theres a dog (sunkist) who often jumps the fence of their home to visit tommy and eventually leaves completely to live in the woods!

gman lives high up in the tree branches, using old owl homes and is friends with a flock of crows that protect the woods.

benrey lives underground in a little pit of pebbles and rocks that occasionally gets overrun with rain water--during the rainy season they usually live either with the boomers or tommy, or stops up the entrance to their home and hibernates. they eat mushrooms a lot (this is in part due to the fact i associate them heavily with mushrooms now hdgdbdsg)

gordon i think Also wanders around the woods, using the same little homes tommy does. he does have a main place that he stays, partially buried under a rosemary bush. he raises a little mouse called joshua, and thankfully is on good enough terms with gman that the crows tend more towards protecting the two over eating them. gordon also has a prosthetic made by coomer out of scrap metals and wood, due to losing his arm to a Very bad experience with a cat

darnold lives near the forest stream, and also wanders often! he collects plants and seeds and makes potions with them--usually health and stuff, like a medic. he is also a big fan of soups and stews, and has a relatively (kind of) big pot he carries all his stuff in and straps to his back when travelling

i dont really know much about forzen? i think he also lives in a tree, nearer to the Big Peoples homes, and often hangs out with the cat that lives nearby. this is the same cat that took gordons arm, but forzen doesnt actually know that.

coomer lives in an area nearer to an old mine, dug out into moss covered stones and such. he collects stones and whatever scrap metal is around, and has a little furnace and metal working area--its Very dangerous to be around though due to how high the heat can be and how small everyone is. he makes a lot of needles and has figured out a number of different prosthetics.

bubby lives with coomer as well, but was raised by birds! some crows, the same ones gman is friends with. he Also helps with maintaining the furnace, and sews clothes with fibres made of dog fur and stuff i think? and some plants, although i need to do more research.

i think out of everyone, the boomers have the most stable living place--the mine is old and forgotten, and most people get fiercely attacked by crows when trying to enter the woods. theres Definitely some stuff i need to flesh out and this is all just thinking on the spot? i hope to draw more for it though hhsbshs. idk what exactly its About, since im mostly in a world building stage, but i suppose its just about their lives and stuff? thankyou for sending the ask though hsbshs!!

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headcanon for what happened to benrey after his boss fight in my ‘not a game au’ setting: the damage done to him by the science team was enough to kill him, but didn’t like, destroy his body, so he didn’t need to make a new one from scratch. just needed to regen that one. he'd be in a coma or hibernation state while it did. however, before he could actually start healing, gman yoinked him and stuck him in this kind of pocket dimension void he made, putting benrey in stasis and effectively halting his regen. a little over a month later, tommy manages to convince his dad to let benrey out. tommy misses his best friend :( of course, when benrey’s brought back out of the stasis void, he’s in just as bad shape as he was at the end of the boss fight. tommy keeps him in a guest room bed at his house while he regens. it takes benrey like a week to heal enough to actually wake back up. soon as he’s able to get up and around, gman kicks him out of his house because he’s a territorial bastard and just Does Not Like benrey. tommy manages to convince gordon to let benrey move in with him. he feels bad about using the whole “you kinda do owe me big time for saving your life multiple times, mr. freeman” thing to get gordon to comply.... but then feels less bad about it when gordon actually starts warming up to benrey :)

[shmorp-mcdurgen]

Due to it being December, I thought it would be the best time to introduce another au of mine; "Hibernation"

When the Combine took over Earth, rather than stripping it of it's resources, it began the process of terraforming the planet into a barren, ice-covered wasteland, basically bringing a second ice age, all in the hopes of killing off the life on earth and taking it for themselves.

Gordon Freeman is taken out of stasis, ten years after the resonance cascade, left to survive in one of the remaining cities protected from the harsh weather. Due to his fears and his guilty conscious over the events of Black Mesa, he went into hiding soon after, leaving his fate unknown to the resistance.

It is only until ten years later where on a reconnaissance mission, Alyx comes across a small abandoned military bunker on the outskirts of City 17, investigating only to find a disheveled, desensitized Gordon living there. He initially refuses to join the resistance, but after learning that some of his old friends at Black Mesa were still alive, he agrees.

Having given up his previous scientific background, Gordon has become a soldier, training for years in case he would finally get an opportunity to take down the Combine, suppressing his own fears, guilt, and trauma in favor of fighting for freedom. However, he still remained skeptical of the resistance, hesitating to see himself as its front-man until his existence was no longer hidden.

Still, despite his wish to keep up a stoic facade he had made for himself, he feels a presence over his shoulder, beckoning him into the wastelands of Earth to succumb to the frigid temperatures. He fears if he does not stop fighting, he will heed the call.

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Some refs/drawings of Gman in my au "Hibernation" because she's neat <3

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Portraits I made of my favorite eldritch business agents <3

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Why is she ourple?

Because it's her favorite color <3

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hibernation au

gordon: eli. <eli. there's a weird fucking woman outside>

eli: what?

gordon: <its death calling to me eli. It looks like a grandparent the fucking thing>

gman: *blinks*

Gordon pointing at her hoping Eli will respond so he knows he's not crazy and just imagining this weird woman

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People-Watching

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Do you mind?

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Hello.. star anon again. Sorry if I'm bothering you too much but.

What would happen if I hugged all the G-Mans.. and more specifically, slap Prohect G-Man while hugging him at the same time. I have 4 arms.. so I could both hug and slap him at the same time.

He honestly deserves a good slap to the face, even if you'd die afterwards-

Also, I dunno how much the gmen like physical contact whatsoever. I can see Hibernation au and Maybe Our Benefactors au gman liking hugs, but it depends for all of them. Like I doubt Benefactor would appreciate a hug from anyone aside from Alyx.