barney gordon reversal is so fuckin funny to me like you got this little brick shithouse, top of his class from cali working on portals with utmost care and is probbaly a keyboard monkey and postdoc at best and then you got this spaghetti thin, head and a half taller than everyone in his dept security guard from seattle anxiously shuffling around with half a can of flat beer in his tummy and yet he’s suplexed a whole person before. he wins arm wrestling every week, the man can run and hit a damn small target a whole MILE away and like.
thats so dope! like listen to me: i think gordon makes an excellent failed-medic-dropout-turned-depressed-security-guard and same with barney! oh fuck thats a whole au oh no
au shit’s swapped a lot where gordon’s a failed MIT graduate and Barney graduated top of his class as a nurse and black mesa’s a medical instituit with barney being a young, somewhat impressionable new nurse that accidentally sets off the catalyst to a zombie apocalypse. gman’s just a govt guy who wanted this to happen within the town and grabs barney off the street to personally congradulate him and keep him somewhere to “work on a stronger zombie strand” or some shit like that while gordon’s hauling ass as a 3rd in command at the human hideout.