#hlvrai gods au

[voomity]

“Oh shit an employee”

“We’re totally getting kicked out.”

“Nah nah nah i got this”

“What do y-“

[crossfalconx5]

“ I put in this weird headset, then… “

——————— more of this stupid au(s?) and yes, expect more.

(once again inspired by a post by @quackkryak )

[melonsharks]

HAVE YOU HEARD THE NEWS? All Fools On Deck by DiagonalCrosswalks dropped its last chapter recently!

Agh, what a fantastic fic! It was so fun to watch someone interpret my silly little ramblings about silly pirates into such a wonderfully written comedy/adventure/romance epic. Everything was tied together SO well, and it really hit home that which is most important to me in aus like this: the science team! is! a family! AND BENREY IS PART OF IT! Anyways, if you haven’t read it yet, go do that!! Its amazing!!

[voidsickness]

GORDON FREEMAN SHOWDOWN!!!

gordon freeman. you know him. you love him. but which gordon is the ULTIMATE FREEMAN? i wracked my brain for every popular gordon freeman related au i could think of and this is the result. brackets and links to the polls will be under the cut. if any of the creators wish to have their gordon/au removed, please let me know.

SIDE ONE

freeman [hlvrv] vs. swap [hlvrv]

doc [hlvrv] vs. kittle [hlvrv]

freeman's mind vs. gordon freeman [hlvrai]

gorgeous freeman vs. gordon freeman [half-life]

SIDE TWO

loverboy [hlvrv] vs. gordon freeman [vry2k]

gordon freeman [ccy2k] vs. gordon freeman [hlvrc]

gordon freeman [toon!hlvrai] vs. gordon freeman [swap!au @ sweetmugs]

captain gordon freeman [pirate!au @ melonsharks] vs. gordon freeman [the-xen-project]

[pistachi0art]

Some hlvrai artist way back when made a howls moving castle au w/ Gordo and Ben and I’m feeling all sorts of ways thinking of Gordo breaking down and yelling that he’s never once been beautiful in his entire life :(( LIKE

[hlvrai-parable-au]

THE NARRATOR WOULD ABSOLUTELY ARGUE WITH GORDON ABOUT IT AND STANLEY WOULD DROP A TAKE THATS SO WILD ITD SHUT THEM BOTH UP. Like I'm imagining one of the few times stanley signs, it's to sign "Chuck E Cheese is a Casino for children" and then walks away

HELPPPPP HE WOULD FUCKING DO THAT. Gordon and the Narrator immediately unite in trying to argue that that's fucking stupid and Benrey is egging both of them on by being the most annoying ever and none of them notice what ending Stanley's going for until the whole facility explodes

[h0undeye]

spice up your highschool aus by making them lollipop chainsaw aus instead

obviously theres gonna be some narrative changes. like i feel like tommys reason for being a villain should be something really miniscule and petty, since this is hlvrai after all. like benrey steals his beyblade collection and so Obviously the next logical step is to bring about the apocalypse. this is what happens when gman raises a teenager i guess. also bubby isnt,,,, weird about benrey like morikawa was about juliet

elizabeth starling is dr coomers famed ex wife

i think all the dark purveyors and zombies will just stay as they are since uhh mm im lazy

i think darnold and forzen would be rescue classmates btw

[sapphiresartblog]

Can I interest you in a vaguely thought out hlvrai fairytale au in these trying times?

[deedjre]

i didn't feel like fixing up the shading or adding any other glows or anything after finishing so it's not AS good as it could be, but whatever. here's a redraw for the second anniversary of my hlvrai au :)

[blackmesa-researcher]

Fucked up HLVRAI/Half Life mermaid au idea

Black Mesa knows about mermaids/sirens. They also eventually figure out how to make them. However, the mermaids they make aren't based off of any real existing fish. They figured out how to pick and choose traits and make some pretty awful abominations that are a mix of different fish species just because they can even if it is unethical as hell and many test subjects die.

To do these experiments, they pick disposable employees like security guards, or scientists who fuck up enough and won't be missed. They bring them in in the guise of a promotion, then they make their own fucked up mermaids. "Volunteers" are also accepted when it's either do this or Black Mesa makes sure you and your remains are never found.

They then keep them in a big tank, Sea World style because fuck them both.

Their goal with this project is to study mermaids but also be able to send one of their own down into the ocean to possibly mingle with a school and learn more information.

You could probably guess that this would fuck them up pretty bad mentally. :)

But yeah, take the AU where you will uwu

[kraviolis]

i love u guys ty for being so patient w me while i sort everything out even tho i know so many of u want to see more from the AU i made!! i just gotta wait for this gluten to get outta my system and for my body to get used to my anxiety meds and hopefully i can make more art :-)

[hlvraik]

Oh shit. Follow me on this one. So, last anon proposed that Xen wildlife sees children as companions and worth protecting rather than food or threats. And we know that Gordon’s back to normal before they go for the big bad boss battle where Benrey loses control to the forces of Xen, right? But you know what else happens in the final boss fight? Unpredictable time travel.

Here’s my pitch. Gordon gets back from getting his passport in the past, taking the portal that Paradox Coomer made for him. But spacetime is already pretty jacked right now, and once he’s back on Xen— did Benrey get bigger? No, that’s not right. But he’s stopped fighting them and seems to be trying to protect them now, that’s good. But— hang on, why is everyone ELSE— they’re not Benrey size by any means, but they’re taller than him now—?

“Ah, fuck,” mutters k!Gordon.

And just as he thought that it couldn't get any weirder

How can he even begin to explain? What does he even say? Where does he even start?

But most importantly...

What now?

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[a-substantial-trash-pile]

lilac to rose means my affection grows

gordon is ranting about how he thinks the mechanics of sburb are dumb. also he he changed his Page outfit because when he first Ascended, he was wondering why his legs were so cold. then he looked down and was like “nope.” benrey was sad to see the old outfit go. :’( we don’t talk about the original Bard god tier outfit.

i may not be into homestuck anymore but i still do enjoy the concept of god tiers! i was inspired thanks to @melonsharks‘s good good hlvrai homestuck post. i used this god tier analysis by dahniwitchoflight to figure out what i wanted to slap on benry and gordon. 

my personal god tiers for the main hlvrai cast and my very brief/flimsy justifications for choosing them:

Gordon: Page of Blood (he’s the leader, the protag! even though he might not be the best at it or even want the role in the first place) Benrey: Bard of Void (doesn’t give a shit 99% of the time and is full of mystery and secrets! what exactly are they? why are they like this?) Tommy: Witch of Life (he created sunkist, defying the laws of nature, and he’s super powerful and badass) Bubby: Prince of Breath (they want to get out!! out of the tube! out of black mesa! xe wants to go to space!!) Coomer: Mage of Light (cursed with knowledge of being in a video game and suffers from it) G-Man: Seer of Space (he deals with dimension shenanigans)

[holdyourbreathfornow]

Chapters: 1/17 Fandom: Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware (Web Series) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence Relationships: Gordon Freeman & John Freeman, Gordon Freeman & Ivan Freeman, John Freeman & Ivan Freeman, More to be added - Relationship Characters: Gordon Freeman, John Freeman (Half Life: Full Life Consequences), Ivan Freeman, Other Character Tags to Be Added, minor OCs Additional Tags: Alternate Universe, High Fantasy AU, Alternate Universe - Beauty and the Beast Fusion, More tags to be added Summary:

Gordon Freeman, a blacksmith who works with his brother and his uncle in the town of Black Mesa, is more than happy to spend his days working the forge and scaring off that asshole trying to marry his brother.

There are events far more complex than that waiting for him down the road, however.

A Beauty and the Beast fusion!

~

This is finally finished!  Literally been working on this thing for ten months, and now that it’s done I’m so excited to share it!  Hope y’all like it!!!

[checkadii]

dude. dude hear me out

archivist!gordon

IM SOO HEARING YOU OUT + im also assuming you mean hlvrai gordon and not. og gordon. im having so much thoughts regardless

okay Not a game au. it would be so fuckig funny if eye tendencies got stronger after rescas. he just starts knowing shit, starts actively seeking out more information, the science team is making more detour than usual because he just keeps staring off into space at random spots (hes knowing and or analyzing sctuff around him). everything about the xen invasion and rescas falls into place for him so fast

the science team feel more watched and its both alarming and comforting (uncomfortable when trying to sleep). everytime he asks a question and someone answers him without their usual bullshit there is a lengthy pause. it gets a bit annoying at points once gordon figures out he can Ask because he makes use of the archivist power to get straight answers more nd more and its ticking off some of them. maybe. maybe idk?? he asks scientists they pass for their stories, every time they go for a few hours without a statement he becomes noticeably more agitated

do you think he would . avoid getting his arm cut off. would the eye help him with that. would it not. just to push him further away from sanity and himself

ourghrgh ... he Becomes in xen.... make him the final boss /j

AND GAME AU!

OKAY SO LIKE>.? god Archivist slash Archive makes so much sense here actually

the AI Gordon Freeman has been trapped in this constant state of, well, archiving gameplays and save files, all iterations and updates and mods and tweaks done to the game, unable to break out of the loop Jon Sims Nightmare style. the only time he could do anything of his own will is just . a handful of moments during credits . then its back to archiving, sorting out game files and assets and maintaining his archive like a good archivist. the science team are forced to relive the game over and over. this works w og gordon too tbh

okay i have an essay to cram bye

[xenodogartz]

was inspired by this post to design some hlvrai warrior cats!! i'm honestly shocked it took me 2 years to make a warriors au for it, i love making warriors aus...

some basic info below the cut!

sooo my general idea (it's pretty hazy right now. forgive me) for this au is that songfoot (benrey), nectarbrook (darnold), goldenberry (tommy), galeheart (coomer), scorchtail (bubby), and snakestar (gman) are all from the same clan... i'm between plain ol' thunderclan or a custom clan called mesaclan. i'm probably gonna go with thunderclan because i don't wanna bother with making other clans and lore and stuff LOL. there's some kind of threat outside of the clans that's affecting the environment a la the beavers in arc 4. it's something that starclan definitely caused, whether deliberately or accidentally, i dunno. main point is that snakestar sends songfoot, nectarbrook, goldenberry, galeheart, and scorchtail off on a journey to track down the problem and take care of it. while they're gone, the external threat kills snakestar and he spends all his time being a textbook unhelpful and cryptic starclan cat who just kind of makes things worse. as per a snakestar prophecy, the gang picks up gordon along the way, a kittypet whose owners abandoned her and she's been mostly unsuccessfully fending for herself since. oh and frostpaw (forzen) is part of bloodclan. bloodclan tries and fails to kill the gang, despite frostpaw's best efforts (he kidnapped goldenberry's bird friend, sunny).

some lil character facts and such:

gordon is an ex kittypet. she had a very very cozy and spoiled life up until her twolegs got evicted or something and tossed her out onto the streets. she wasn't out there long before the clan cats found her, and thank god for that, because she sucks at being a survivalist. she is fairly smart though, bringing a fresh perspective and problem solving skills to the group. she is consistently freaked the fuck out by clan cat culture, and the clan cats have fun gaslighting her about it. the only cat who doesn't play along with that is goldenberry, mostly because he doesn't really think its that funny. gordon picks up survival skills from the clan cats fairly quickly, but they still call her soft all the time. classic clan cat anti-kittypet prejudice.

songfoot is the warrior code's biggest fan. not because he really fully believes in its utility, mostly because he loves bossing people around. you can find him stalking around thunderclan camp looking out for anyone doing minor infractions. god forbid you take too much fresh kill from the pile, you'll never hear the end of it. he can't really do much about it though, because snakestar finds him vaguely offputting. his signature stare doesn't help much. his fellow warriors generally like him despite all his strange quirks. songfoot has some kind of starclan-given power a la The Three... my thought is that his vocalizations have supernatural mind-altering properties. it's kinda like sweet voice, but a hiss can make others mad, a purr can make others calm, a screech can stun them, etc. without fail. he's vaguely aware of this power, and he doesn't really use it for things starclan would like him to. he kinda does his own thing.

he's a fairly competent hunter and fighter, but he's generally physically non-confrontational. during battle, he prefers to slink along in the shadows and wait to strike.

during the journey, he loves following gordon along. initially it's because of his deeply embedded distrust of kittypets, but he realizes pretty quickly that he's interested in her in a different sense, one that really frustrates and confuses him... a warrior shouldn't wanna be mates with a kittypet. that's so beyond wrong. he's gotta do everything he can to annoy gordon into leaving the group so he doesn't have to confront his feelings about her (one of these tactics involves him insisting on calling her "gordie," saying it sounds much more suitable for a kittypet). unfortunately for the both of them, that doesn't work. what's worse-- his powers don't seem to work on her for whatever reason. they continue to butt heads for far too long before either of them opens up about how they actually feel. (it takes gordon far longer to admit to herself that she's feeling that way than it does for songfoot, but eventually it clicks for her.)

("song" comes from sweet voice, and "foot" comes from... y'know. but i imagine the in-universe explanation is that he spends a lot of time padding around and watching people. the name from the post that inspired this one-- sweetsong-- is perfect but i didn't wanna copy it. i really like the name songfoot though, i think it's really cute.)

nectarbrook is thunderclan's beloved medicine cat. sweet and silly, she has an affinity for collecting and mixing herbs to create new tinctures. they don't always work exactly how she wants them to, but they never have strictly negative effects, so... not too bad! she spends most of her time on the journey trying and failing to be a mediator, and cowering in fear while everyone else does the scary (and often stupid) work. she's got an intelligence to rival gordon's, and she's one of the only cats gordon fully gets along with.

("nectar" is about the closest warrior cats prefix to "soda," and "brook" just kinda sounds nice as a suffix to nectar. it's another liquid-related word too.)

frostpaw is a bloodclan apprentice. he's well beyond apprentice age, but he's pretty incompetent at warrior duties and such, so it's taking him a while. he just wants to graduate.

i imagine he used to be a cushy kittypet with dreams of being one of those cool cat gang members he sees outside every now and again. he's way in over his head.

("frost" comes from forzen. obviously. i initially envisioned him as a warrior named frostjaw. i don't know why i chose that suffix other than it sounding nice. but then i remembered the "i just wanna graduate" thing, and thought it would be funny to make him an apprentice.)

goldenberry is a highly skilled warrior and one of snakestar's kits. he has a very unassuming demeanor, often appearing clumsy or head-in-the-clouds, but he's one of thunderclan's most precise and deadly fighters. his long windclan-like limbs allow for quick movement. like his father, he strikes like a snake. despite his prowess, he doesn't like fighting at all, and he would much rather hang around camp with his friend songfoot and take care of menial tasks like an apprentice or test out new herb tinctures for nectarbrook. he's very helpful and kind, if not a bit blunt. before snakestar died, he had goldenberry in mind as the next deputy as soon as galeheart finally kicked the bucket. he only didn't make him the deputy in the first place because he was an apprentice at the time.

("golden" comes from tommy's signature yellow, as well as his father's perception of him as highly important. "berry" comes from his general sillyness and his affinity for nectarbrook's various little treats.)

galeheart is a gregarious senior warrior and thunderclan's beloved deputy. despite his small stature, he's incredibly strong and overzealous. he loves his clan to death and he loves fighting even more, often dragging everyone into unnecessary squabbles just for the thrill of it. his loud, booming voice commands everyone's attention. he's quite old and really should be in the elders' den at this point, but his love for the warrior life keeps him going despite it all, and he's still in great shape. snakestar isn't quite so satisfied with galeheart's behavior, but there's not much he can do about that, given everyone else loves galeheart to bits. snakestar partially send him on that journey in hopes he would die already, but he has an unwavering spirit and he can and will outlive snakestar.

galeheart and gordon get along for the most part, but gordon is a little scared of him.

("gale" comes from coomer's general energy. he is a strong gust of wind to me. it also brings to mind the color white, which... is what galeheart is! "heart" also comes from his Vibes, mostly his fighting spirit.)

scorchtail is yet another old coot who should be getting ticks picked off of him by apprentices, but his stubbornness keeps him in his warrior position. he's not even particularly good at being a warrior-- he's cowardly and his battle strategy can best be described as the real life version of button-mashing. still, he's far too prideful to retire to the elders' den. he tends to follow galeheart around, since they grew up together and share similar positions in the clan. he's very antagonistic towards gordon, even moreso than songfoot. he has a special hatred of kittypets, seeing their lifestyle as an embarrassment.

("scorch" comes from bubby's association with fire as well as his sassy disposition, and "tail" comes from the tip of his tail looking burnt.)

snakestar is a starclan cat who was previously thunderclan's leader. he's generally cold and and analytical, and not much of a fighter, preferring to make others do his bidding. this behavior carried over very well to starclan, where he spends all his time being appropriately cryptic and unhelpful. he holds a lot of love for his one son, goldenberry, who he's always watching over. he doesn't care much for his other previous clanmates. he visits gordon in her dreams often to tell her vague things about her "part to play" and how important she is and all that. he arbitrarily decided that she was the subject of a prophecy, for the most part. i like to think starclan just makes shit up for fun. i think maybe one of his ancestors visited gordon when she was a kitten and made some kind of deal with her. i dunno. i'm in the very early stages of this au.

("snake" comes from gman's general vibes, but it's also an allusion to snakes in mythology [particularly abrahamic myth] being sleazy dealmakers with ill intent. before he was a leader, his suffix was "sight," alluding to his tendency to sit back and watch rather than run into battle.)

thanks for reading my long-ass ramblings, if you did! :-P idk if i'll actually do anything with any of this, but it's fun to think about...