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freeshephoun · 2 years ago
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"gearbox expansions arent canon they dont line up with the first game" you are so wrong. it makes me mad how wrong you are.
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spacefighter413 · 8 months ago
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i like the interpretation that she was expecting to see this legendary hero, but when she first saw him he was lying on the ground beaten up and That was when she started falling in love with him
19 year old Alyx Vance grew up hearing stories of the legendary physicist Gordon Freeman who killed a bunch of aliens and military before disappearing and went “THAT is the guy I want as my boyfriend” and I love her for it
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shmorp-mcdurgen · 1 year ago
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Whatever dude
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traceyc-uk · 17 days ago
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Pride Week: similar to this post a doodle dump of Nfy x Chris @diana-bluewolf
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bembwashere · 8 months ago
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Guess who actually played and finished Half-Life 2 for the first time! Oh my god it was so good. I was planning to get through HL1 first but I think I got softlocked, I didn't wanna start a new save or go back and I get motion sick because of the damn camera. Also since HL2 was for free, I decided to do that instead <3 I haven't played the episodes yet but man. It's so good you guys should play it. I've purposefully avoided watching play-throughs and its worth it. Anyways, hope you like this little MS paint doodle dump.
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girl-named-matty · 8 months ago
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The things I'd do for this man tbh...
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freeshephoun · 1 year ago
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ypu gget it you get it so much ough THIS!! shephard has never done anything special. why would gman be looking at him? he didnt like fall out of line in any way hes just rhis average guy. why did gman save adrian and kept watch over him? and when shephard defused the bomb.. he directly. managed to interfere with gmans plans. instead of gman interfering with shephards path it was the other way around. so gman had to step out of line and correct it. he couldnt let his plan fail because of this random fucking guy. but for gman he couldnt have been jsut some guy. gman mustve known like something otherwise he wouldnt have taken a liking for adrian in the very beginning. why would he even be at the us military? to recruit possible good fighters? I doubt it. he takes whoever fits in his plans. but adrian didnt fit in his plan like that. because without gman he would have died. and gmans employer werent interested in adrian. adrian impressed gman tho and he saw the man important. also the line
"But there is still the lingering matter of witnesses. I admit I have a fascination with those who adapt and survive against all odds. They rather remind me of myself."
shephwrd as witness wouldnt be a problem. he wouldve died in the explosion so thst cant be the reason. also adapt and survive against all odds? reminding him of himself? that quote never leaves my mind. he sees something of himself in shephard which is so fascinating to me and fun to think aboit.
I think part of what makes Adrian Shephard being eternally stuck in limbo so tragic, is how he's so genuinely resourceful that even the Gman was taken aback. By all accounts an ordinary man, with no special powers or incredible attributes, but an ordinary man who proved such a threat to the overarching plan of two elder gods that he had to be contained. Adrian Shephard has proven to be the hardest being to kill across three dimensions, but he's been all but forgotten to the world he helped save. We may never see him again, despite all he achieved, all we saw him through. It's criminal, downright wrong.
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francescamagali · 2 years ago
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savingsallow · 1 month ago
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freeshephoun · 2 years ago
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please please please tell your adrian headcanons im so curious!!!!! and also maybe gordon and barney if you like :]
oh boy this is gonna be a lot. apologies for any misstypes in advance!!
click to read my thoughts on the 3
okay ffirst off shephard! shes tfem which is why i will be using she/her for her. also ahes filipino-american. shephard is autistic and mute and struggles to understand the people around her sometimes. it makes her upset when she doesnt.
its a reason why she is better with aliens. they dont work like humans do and it is easier for her to connect with them even when they dont speak the same language. and the bond she has especially with spore launcher is indescribable.
spore launcher (or spore for short) is a creature she found in the black mesa facility. its an alien that, when you feed it something, it can spit it out and it works basically like a grenade launcher. at first shephard had no idea what to do with that thing. he gave it a little pat on the head and it chirped and since then theyve been best friends. you can not tear them apart.
shephard has a lot of little cat scrstches feom spores spikey exterior aswell as some acid burns here and there. it comes free with having an alien friend/pet.
Shephard also managed to get spore into stasis. everything else was taken but she could keep spore. also coming to stasis ive got some thoughts on it.
while gordon was basically in a coma in stasis, Shephard wasnt. she didnt even have a choice what to do. she was just taken and detained. and since she was detained, gman didnt put her to sleep. shephard has been in that osprey for all this time. awake. if it werent for spore she would've probably gone insane.
being in stasis also fucked up her feeling of like everything. ypu dont get tired, exhausted, hungry or thirsty. you cant even feel pain or die.
(cw sensitive topic, bit similar to sh) in an attempt to feel anything she sometimes did some stupid shit. mostly punching or slamming her body against walls or purposefully touching spores acid. that reeeeally fucked up her perception of pain and her tolerance and it still shows afterwards. (cw end)
outside of stasis she still struggles with the perception of pain. it is pretty dangerous and she basically relies on gordon or barney to tell her hey you got fucked up bad we should get you first aid.
and sometimes when she sees it she spirals down into this specific feeling where everything feels like stasis again. when was the last time she ate? why does it feel so alone again why is it so quiet? why is akl she can hear her own mind?
shes going thru it🔥🔥
jumping a bit shephard doesnt like physical touch. shes very sensitive to it and gets overwhelemed by too much physical touch. her lovd languages are acts of service. she isnt good at comforting someone or showing her care for someone so openly. its more that she guards you when around you. makes sure youre safe. you need a moment of alone time? she will make sure no one bothers you.
my friend wrote a scene that describes it perfectly so ill quote it: "In the distance, the parade could be heard. At the entrance of the alleyway, Shephard seemed to stand guard, occasionally looking back at them as the parade passed by."
for tthe other 2 and their love languages: barney is the physical affection guy. giving and receiving. hes also good at comforting people just by being there. gordon on the other hand is good with giving words of affirmation. its his love language. and on the receiving is quality time (shephard too i forgot to mention)
they are very dear 2 me.
also their fighting styles. ive thought of it before and how it differs. gordon thinks, finds an answer that works and then executes it. shephard thinks a little but she mostly just acts on instinct. and barney? hes jus tlike yeah no thinking is for nerds watch me solo this guy. hes silly like that
my friend (again) made smthg that portrays this very well: "Gordon would calculate the triangulation before he threw a grenade over a wall. Shephard would stand on a box so she could throw it over the wall without hassle. Barney would just lob it and pray"
gordon is a very sarcastic man. barney understands his saecasm oerfectly but shephard struggles to do so which is why gordon avoids sarcasm around her.
shep and barney on occasions have their 5 minutes. kind of like zoomies. it usually ends in chaos because they tried something stupid again. which is why gordon rarely allows them in his lab. actually never. but barney will still come down when it gets late and gordon hasnt even been up to eat something and basically force gordon to stop for the day.
how? he just scoops gordon up and carries him out. batney is a security guard who survived the resonance cascade, the 7 hour war, manages to get through as underciver civil service despite the hard security measures of fhe combine aswell as fighting agains the combine and staying alive for all these years. that man is strong.
he wwouldnt mamage to carry both gordon and shephard though. thats what shep does. she carries them both with one arm.
this also reminds me shephard needs a routine. she can not do without one. you will see her follow the military training camp routine eeveryday. if she doesnt do it it messes up her whole day.
also wwhile i will draw them a lot probably in their hl clothes and not hl2 clothes, if thes would have ever met its definitely in hl2 or after. i jsut dont like drawing barneys combine outfit thats why.
Shephard was thrown into the hl2 universe by gman. maybe ill even incorporate return 2 ravenholm im this if i ever elaborate on that more. she builds up her own wa yof living there. the camera drones dont manage ti actually detect her due to her gas mask. they detect humans by having a face and if they don't? thats not a human then. she doesnt know that though.
she made herself st home in an outpost outside of city 17. it used to belong to the residtance but got raided by thr combine and has since then become abandoned. at ome point shephard manages to boot up the equipment there. she gains access to a lot of old information that was stored in this outpost.
the resistance of cours enotices shit wait an old outpost was activated again whats going on there. they send a group of people to investigate but urrm uh yeah didnt work out. shephard had a little ace up her sleeve (spore and her acid). but eith that they hope to confirm it is at least not the combine because they have never used that alien species as it completely ceased to exist after the black mesa incident.
im not too sure abt thid though the way this goes might change very well depending om what i feel like.
anyway uuh sheohard goes into the city to restock some supplies. she has some good connections at this point and has heard from the resistance. and well when she goes there to restock she meets barney.
this is btw like a place where they help out citizens who are struggling, often wanted by the combine. they live off donations, mostly coming from the resistance themself.
when barney sees shephard, this guy in a fucking military uniform hes just like. boy you coming with me now. and drags her to the resistance thingy there.
or something like that. not too sure about that at all. again might change however i feel like it
also i definetly forgot a ton of things but ive been writing this for 1 1/2 hours now. if you want to know more about specific things feel free 2 aks i LOVE sharing my freeshephoun thoughts with people
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also as a treat here i drew them as the power piff girls once
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crianpy · 1 year ago
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this has opened up a lot of new possiblities
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shmorp-mcdurgen · 1 year ago
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gee wiz, it sure is cool that Gordon survived the resonance cascade, I sure hope he's doing well
Finally decided to give Gordon a ref for my au Aftermath (which i've talked about here. Once.)
Also bonus:
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bynetime · 2 years ago
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More alyxposting, idc if it flops I’m looking for the two other Alyx stans in existence…..where are you guys please I’m so lonely
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girl-named-matty · 5 months ago
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BESTIES!!
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angels-heap · 6 months ago
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PSA to teenagers on the internet: You should try to be a little less afraid of adults in general (unless they are actively engaging in harmful or inappropriate behavior) and a little more afraid of those 18-21-year-olds who are trying to convince you that all adults are evil predators except them.
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blue-shadows-in-the-night · 2 months ago
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hi i'm gonna talk about the half life HEV suits for a while because i have many thoughts
I like how the differences between both HEV Suits, the MkIV and the MkV, are not just aesthetic.
The MkIV looks heavier and bulkier and like it has more armor plating, whereas the MkV looks lighter, more agile and easier to move in.
Here is a text wall of my explanations and thoughts: -1: In practice, the MkV allows you to move considerably faster. This is represented through the Sprint function it provides. In all the HL games that use the original gldsource engine, all the HEV Suit wearers move at the exact same speed with and without it, meaning that despite the fact that they all literally ZOOM RIGHT THROUGH RIDICULOUSLY FAST, their speed is not in any way affected by the suit itself. In HL2, Gordon moves at the exact same speed with and without the suit, but can ONLY use the Sprint when he has the suit ON. It could be argued that the MkIV has better mobility since all characters can technically sprint indefinitely while wearing it, but I consider this argument invalidated by the facts that the characters can still sprint indefinitely without the suit, and that moving slower is something you can do completely unassisted whereas moving faster is not. It could also be argued that the MkIV is the better one due to the fact you can attach a Long Jump Module to it. I think this argument is also invalidated by the fact that similarly long jumps can be performed by jumping while sprinting with the MkV without the need for extra addons, being able to do this right out the box. So for all intents and purposes, the MkV has in fact more mobility.
-2: The MkIV's aforementioned armor plating does actually play a role, represented through it having an extra layer of protection that the MkV lacks entirely. These layers of protection are Damage Negation, and Damage Absorption. The MkIV has both of them, while the MkV only has the latter, albeit a stronger version of it. Let me explain: If you take 10 damage, the MkIV will get it reduced by 40% through Damage Negation leaving it at 6, then that 6 will be further reduced via Damage Absorption by 66%, making it so the suit's energy takes a hit of 4, while you yourself only take a hit of 2. Meanwhile, the MkV lacks the Damage Negation layer and uses a better form of Damage Absorption, which has a strength of 80% instead of 66%. This means that if you were to take 10 damage, the MkV would still make it so you yourself only take 2, but the suit's energy would take a hit of 8. Something to keep in mind however, is that the MkIV is offset by the fact that despite having all that plating and extra layer of protection, both suits will provide NO protection whatsoever if they have no energy, meaning that the Damage Negation part is not because of the suit itself being flat out bulletproof but rather by how its systems in their powered state handle any damage it sustains. Also, it could be argued that the MkIV is better due to it having a helmet, which can be seen on the dead scientists in full HEV suit that you can find in some parts of the games. Unfortunately this argument is invalidated by the fact that there is no way to prove if the helmet makes any difference, as none of the characters we play as wears said helmet. All in all, we can conclude that this effectively means that the MkIV is just as effective at reducing damage than the MkV, yet more efficient. (btw the source for these numbers is the half life wiki and some personal experiments i ran with headcrabs in both games)
-3: The MkV is possibly increasing Gordon's physical strength, as represented by his handling of the Gravity Gun. Alyx is shown to be capable of fending off and taking down Civil Protection officers, headcrab zombies and augmented Combine soldiers (and zombines) using nothing but her physical strength and fighting skills. Yet she has considerable difficulty handling the Gravity Gun due to its bulk and, as mentioned by her, the kick the gun has when fired. Yet Gordon uses it seemingly with no difficulty whatsoever, even in its super powered state which can pull off huge machinery from walls and violently chuck it away. Meanwhile, the MkIV wearing Gordon is knocked back by the fully charged shot of the Gauss Gun. I can't rightfully elaborate on this one as I lack enough physics knowledge to establish this as a fact, but something tells me that if MkV Suit Gordon were to use the Gauss Gun he wouldn't suffer as much of a kick as he did with the MkIV.
So, my closing thoughts on each suit:
I'd say that the MkIV was designed leaning more into the protective aspect of it since everyone wearing it was expected to not only handle hazardous things like radioactive or toxic chemicals/materials but also participate in physical combat against unknown creatures and even possibly other humans, seeing as the armor Adrian Shephard wears is speculated to be a derivative of the HEV suit. High energy efficiency was an important design choice as well, since there was no way to be sure that the suit would always have a suitable source of energy available or how long would the suit go without said source being available.
As for the MkV, Kleiner did somehow get from the USA to wherever City 17 is located all the way up in Europe, seeing how broken the world is now that the Combine have taken over, so he must have realized that the bulkier MkIV was not agile enough to deal with this new environment, and managed to increase mobility in a way that could even make it so the Long Jump Module is no longer necessary while maintaining the same level of protection at the cost of greatly reduced efficiency. In his eyes however, this sacrifice was probably a trivial one, for he managed to adapt the suit itself to the Combine's sources of energy. Said sources of energy are everywhere now, because the Combine are everywhere now. Gordon will most likely never run out of ways to power his suit up.
Personally, my heart will always be with the MkIV.
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