#combine grunt

[uusagh]

March of the pigs

[r0yal-guardian]

Anyways... uh... combine, amirite?

[ohnoitsz1m]

If ur still taking requests....a combine wallhammer being cute/silly? I love those big guys

Big fan of these thangs :] have a little sketchpage

[truthdawn]

woe half life oc be upon ye

his name is 4982 👍👍

[internetskiff]

(Screenshots of dialogue from this video since I don't own the equipment to play Alyx myself) Something I find so so interesting about Half Life Alyx's combine grunts is that they're not just humanized for the sake of adding more humor to enemy encounters. They're basically prototypes, and if you pause to pay attention to their idle chatter you may catch them updating their mental reprogramming in real time. Lower units are actively pressured by their superiors into basically wiping unneeded memories out of themselves as if it's garbage data. I'm wondering if Combine Soldiers feel any sort of fear when they go through this? Do they hold on to the remnants of humanity the Universal Union hadn't stripped away yet? Do they feel the urge to defect in these moments? How many of them acted on that urge? Unlike Half Life 2's Combine Units, a lot of these are still people, they have yet to be turned into mindless war machines - but they're getting there. A lot of them were probably fed an entirely different idea of what it'd be like to serve under the Union, and now the truth is staring them right in the face and demanding them to give up their memories. Home? Useless. Loved ones? Unneeded. We need to make room in that cranium of yours for more battle tactics, and these have got to go! [De-masked Combine Grunt up ahead, quite gory.] ... ... ... ...

I'm assuming a lot of these people were ex-metrocops, and this is the Universal Union's exact idea of "moving up the ladder". Imagine being told you're getting a promotion, and next thing you know you get fuckin' sedated on the spot, and once you wake you've had your skin grafted to a suit and your head entombed in armor plating, the eyes scooped out to make room for fancy new optics. They've already mutilated your body but now they're cordially asking for your consent to mutilate your mind aswell. Cognitive dissonance will not be tolerated. Update is live, acceptance is mandatory.

[muxeo]

I screenshot this a long time ago before my account got unfortunately suspended but anyways I laugh at revisit your bookmark posts just self insert hugging Mahiru Koizumi no offense to @kousaka-erena while combine grunt is sad and inhaling copium

[scopostims]

combine grunt (half life alyx) for 📺 anon :•]

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GIF 1: A light-skinned hand twisting a knob to adjust the air release of an oxygen tank.

GIF 2: A black gas mask being shown off to the camera.

GIF 3: A black prop gun with glowing blue accents, the parts shifting around to "open" the muzzle of the gun.

GIF 4: Someone in a white hazmat suit pulling on thick, red, cleaning gloves.

Image: A combine grunt from half life alyx.

GIF 5: A light-skinned person pulling on fingerless leather gloves with armor across the knuckles.

GIF 6: Slow motion footage of a rifle being shot, a spent shell casing and en-bloc clip flying out.

GIF 7: A full-head black mask based after the Nameless Ghouls from the band Ghost, with a gap over the nose and mouth area, goggles over the eyes, black cable tube coming out of the cheeks and around the back, and two small yellow horns on the forehead.

GIF 8: A view of an oxygen gauge, the needle rapidly turning towards empty.

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