Was in the shower and I just randomly remembered a frenrey au I made forever ago but literally never talked about.
Its whole concept was based vaguely around the idea of tulpas, and that Gordon made a version of Benrey in her head thatâs different from who Benrey actually is. It's a âhlvrai was a simulation of black mesaâ au and its the after to everything that happened in the simulation.
Basically, Gordon gets sent off to recover from the simulation and starts having nightmares about the more gory and violent parts of black mesa. She notices that Benrey is missing in all of these nightmares, even when she dreams about the boss fight. One night she finally sees Benrey and confronts him in the dream⊠andddd everything turns to shit. Typical feverish gmod dream bullshit. Problem is that when she wakes up, Benrey is sitting on the end of her bed⊠and then he isnât. And then heâs talking⊠but Gordon canât tell if his mouth is moving. Gordon!! Is hallucinating Benrey!! This really freaks Gordon out and she decides to blame it on a nonexistent fever she totally has. Only problem is that this whole âweird and real looking benrey in my apartmentâ situation doesnât go away, in fact it gets worse. A week later and Gordon is throwing plates at the motherfucker and screaming for him to fuck off. The Benrey sheâs hallucinating also seems to cement himself further into reality the more she interacts with him. The nightmares donât get any better either, Benrey is in them as well. But Gordon starts to note that there seems to be a difference between the two. The one in her apartment is cruel, catty, spiteful and uses all of its damn energy to piss Gordon off. The one in her dream is exactly the same, but dream Benrey is clumsy, idiotic, a little manic at times and most importantly really fucking funny. There's a clear difference in attitude between the two and it starts to fuck with Gordon's perception of who the "real" Benrey is.
The rest of the au starts to go into mindfuck territory, the tulpa benrey invades Gordonâs dreams and starts to shift into something entirely different. An amalgamation of Gordonâs worse thoughts, feelings and perceptions of benrey that has lost control and starts to effect both the dream and real world. Gordon literally has to retreat further back into her unconscious to escape it which results in her falling into a coma.
I don't have an idea on how this au would end,, its mostly just a collect of scenes that got stuck in head a while ago.
yes this is frenyuri cuz i said so (butch he/him benrey rahhhh)
dream benrey is the real benrey. don't ask how he got there. he dont even know. (prob some gmod addon or smth lmao)
tulpa benrey is fucking weirdddddd. somehow even weirder than the real benrey. his early design was gonna be based off uncanny mannequins (like from that one youtube vid) and later on his design ends up turning into a monster thing inspired by eels, horses, lizards, and other freaky animals that all probably look like they're dying (imagine shin godzilla but like. more eel... and more legs).
would there romance in this? i actually don't know. haven't decided. too focused on the horror stuff to consider (it still be gay tho).
i really love stuff about the horror of not knowing what's real or not and it feels real damn relevant in this day n age.
if i were to draw this anytime soon it would be super based off the vibes of weird shit on gmod (i mentioned gmod like a million times but whatever.)
just wanted to dump this out so i can think about it another day when im not super fixated on my hl ocs lmao.