[h0undeye]

hey, im umbreon but a lot of people just call me uc! i use any pronouns. this is primarily a half life sideblog but also includes hlvrai, the mindverse, gorgeous freeman, portal, and rtvs at the moment. if i deem it close enough to half life, its goin here

my tags should be pretty straightforward. art is tagged as #art, characters are tagged with their names (i.e dr magnusson is #arne magnusson), etc. any post that includes original content made by me will be tagged with #umbreonpost. if you need anything tagged (even something like a ship) don't be afraid to send me an ask or a message

my askbox is open 24/7 for art requests, chatting, literally anything! i can not understate how much i love interacting with people. never fear annoying or bugging me im so terribly extroverted

[uncannyumbreon]

ok ive noticed some confusion within the fandom, so im gonna clear it up. formatted with proper grammar so it's more readable

Who is Bennette?

Bennette is an interpretation of Benrey as a trans girl, which has been an extremely pervasive headcanon on HLVRAI Twitter for the last couple of months. Bennette's name comes from this clip

GORDON: Isn't this your passport?

BENREY: uhhh no. it says "bennette".

The modern, suddenly popular incarnation of this headcanon originated with a fanfic. I'm not actually sure what it is but I think it's this.

Why am I suddenly hearing so much about Bennette?

For his 30th birthday, Wayner AdioTV hid a box of signed Toblerones near the legendary Toblerone Cave of Point Lobos, San Francisco. The first person to find one, when jokingly asked what they'd do as the "new HLVRAI 2 author", responded that they'd declare Bennette to be real, invoking Wayne in the tweet.

Shockingly, Wayne made an incredibly rare social media appearance and responded "you were the first to find my treasure, and so it will be done". This endorsement of the Bennette headcanon is what got all the attention, leading to word of Bennette getting to our relatively insular part of the fandom.

This also lead to the biggest misconception about this whole situation-- no, WayneRadioTV did not actually canonize a headcanon because someone found a box of Toblerones. Before any of this happened, there was evidence that Wayne liked the idea of Bennette, to the point that, according to Baaulp (at 32:42 of this part of the HLVRAI Cast Commentary), "The only headcanon I've ever seen Wayne get excited about is Bennette." It's clear he's a fan and just took the opportunity of someone "declaring Bennette real" to nod his approval.

[uncannyumbreon]

regarding the new discord update: PLEASE send feedback. review the app. post about it online. tell discord its shit. that you dont want it. be loud and annoying about it. if you use twitter or something mention discord. talk talk talk about it! we dont fucking want this update, so dont stop talking about it

thank you @eeveelvl37 for the screenshots on how to navigate to the in-app feedback

[shrimpkidd]

a Joyful Season TO YOU !

[worldlydesiretemple]

half life full regret is just cishet hlvrai

[h0undeye]

controversial opinion. i cannot stand people woobifying wallace breen. that is a fascist. stop

[prettycoolducks]

She’s babysitting Lamarr...

[h0undeye]

beautiful idea: gordon freeman of hlvrai fame knows american sign language. this leads to him often, unintentionally, sneaking a few signs in when he gesticulates wildly while talking. i think it's a nice little callback to the popular idea of gordon freeman half life using asl

[h0undeye]

everyone liked this, so i'll elaborate on it

at first, signing while he spoke was intentional when he was first learning. it helped him memorize signs and get comfortable with the language. over time, this led to gordon just subconsciously sticking the motions of those signs to different words and phrases. so, even when he's not intentionally translating his speech to sign, a few movements sneak through

[h0undeye]

beautiful idea: gordon freeman of hlvrai fame knows american sign language. this leads to him often, unintentionally, sneaking a few signs in when he gesticulates wildly while talking. i think it's a nice little callback to the popular idea of gordon freeman half life using asl

[blacktobackmesa]

Gordon's allies and coworkers really do give this man who communicates with his hands a million things to carry and then comment on how he's not chatty. You try carrying on a conversation with a gravity gun in your mouth buddy

[blacktobackmesa]

Technically this post is about ASL but an interpretation of equal merit is that the one free man is Italian

[freakinglegs]

Someone told me Hlvrai in minecraft so y’all already know I had to

[catlokis-blog]

a lot of portal fans have recently shown how disrespectful they are to canonically mute characters as of the latest steam deck promotional art. chell is canonically, completely, mute - and an official drawing does not always mean a canon drawing.

the fact that so many people are thrilled to "finally" get official chell speaking art, despite it frequently being reiterated in the games that chell is completely mute (even if she wasnt explicitly in portal1, due to her recent brain damage in portal2 it has since been confirmed), really shows some ableism within the portal community

[loverboygordon]

au where gordon does do smth with his degree after the series and becomes a college professor, one day during one of his lectures he hears someone go "Sorry im late" turns around and its forzen,

[loverboygordon]

Very messy comic of this but, here

[portalfaecez]

Since some of y'all wanna make Chell white SOOOOOO bad.

[b0xbrained]

barney version of this because someone reminded me of it today

[angels-heap]

Despite my best efforts to avoid the main HL tags lately, I’ve still noticed a recent uptick in posts where people are like “it’s so tragic that Valve gets rid of beloved characters after spending so many games developing their close, special relationships with the protagonist” about Barney Fucking Calhoun and I just have to ask… did we play the same games???

He has less than 8 minutes of voice lines! He’s in like 3.5 scenes! He and Gordon have maybe 3 sentences of lore, and it’s fairly basic and boring lore!

Looking for a character with close, special relationship with the protagonist? Alyx Vance is right there!

[angels-heap]

I dunno what game this guy played, but it obviously wasn’t Half-Life 2.

Listen. As previously stated, there’s nothing wrong with liking Barney as a character. He has potential. What he does not have is depth. 

We know 3 facts about Barney’s past with Gordon: They worked in the same place, knew each other well enough for Barney to claim he owes Gordon a beer, and they raced in vents. That’s it. His “character” in most of his scenes is “snarky plot exposition.” That’s it. 

However, the player spends hours (days, in-universe) interacting with Alyx and learning about her backstory. We get to see her experience the full range of human emotions. Alyx is literally the deuteragonist of HL2 and the episodes. Get out of here with this “side character” bullshit.

[h0undeye]

What character interaction is your favorite in half life or hlvrai?

picking one for hlvrai is... hard, so i won't. for half life, i really enjoy the first game when you walk into work and get little remarks from other scientists and having the security guard at the front desk mention the servers being down. idk, im always such a sucker for hl1 interactions because they're so small but so good