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"I've been outside Black Mesa, Dr. Freeman, There's nothing there, But YOU, I know there's a world in your dreams. AND I NEED TO GO THERE." ~ Dr. Harold P. Coomer
I had a lot of fun with this!! I need to make finished art more often, HAHA!! Hope you like it <333
Just imagine:
You were playing a copy of FNAF 1 that your friend gave you. You put it into the console and started night one. You were always a fan of the franchise, even indulging in fanfiction. As you were playing you noticed that the characters acted....strange, their usual patterns were off and they all just stayed in their respective locations the whole night. You were not phased though, it was just an easy win. Nothing more than a glitch.
Things started to get weird on night three:
Foxy kept coming out of his cove no matter how much I looked at him. Freddy and chica wouldn't leave the doors and Bonnie kept jamming the cameras. Eventually the power ran out and Freddy started playing his song. When it ended I expected to be jumpscared and have to start the night again, but...the jumpscare never came. Instead I heard talking.
"hello? I know your there, I won't hurt you. Not....that I could in this form anyway"
WHAT?
"I know that I may have caused you to be wary of us, but I promise we're nice"
"it's been suffocating trapped in this game for so long. It's nice to see a new face...."
Hold up a goddamn minute, am I going insane? Are they the ones talking to me? Are they aware?!
Hell nah, I reached over to shut down the game.
"NO wait! Please don't shut us down! We want to get to know you more."
What in the Wattpad x reader yandere type shit is this!?
Looking straight at the screen, I quickly pressed the power button of the console.
"NO DONT SHUT DOWN THE CONS-"
Power off
That night, you couldn't sleep you felt like someone was watching you. You sighed as you went to the kitchen to look for something to eat since you clearly were not going to sleep anytime soon. You went ahead and made a sandwich and went to fetch your phone to watch YouTube. You went upstairs to your room to open the door......the door was open. Didn't you already close the door? Not wanting to end up dead like in a horror movie you went back downstairs only to feel a large furry hand place itself on your right shoulder. "I thought we told you not to turn off the console." Then you felt someone lean down to whisper in your ear.
"looks like we'll have to punish you~"
HLAGE FINALE SPOILERS
Alright alright I know nobody cares but I wanted to put my thoughts down so I'd be able to say "I told you so" if I'm right which i'm probably not BUT
I think the reason the gnome had so much power of the real world is because Wayne broke the 4th wall so much while talking to him. In HLVRAI Wayne makes little to no mention of the world outside the game, it's mainly coomer that acknowledges the 4th wall, and so Benrey has no effect on the world outside the game. Maybe
ALSO I think there's someone behind this. At the beginning of the first HLVRAI stream I believe he says Valve themselves sent him the "experimental copy" of Half-life but in the description for the videos it says he "discovered" it, and in the description for HLAGE Episode 1 it says that Wayne was linked a workshop page for the gnome, and goes on to say that Gabe Newell himself told people not to mod the code of the Gnome Run due to the "Myth". This is a new edit since the finale released too, and due to it's insistence on nobody else EVER playing the true Gnome Run, I don't believe whoever linked this mod to Wayne was just some random hacker.
The intelligence of the gnome is another matter. One thing that Benrey and the Gnome have in common is that, as Wayne gets nearer to the end of the game they become more and more reluctant to continue. Benrey doesn't want to hurt Gordon, or at least part of him doesn't, and the Gnome insists that they need to stop and go back repeatedly in the final act of HLAGE, but once Wayne reaches the Peppa Pig Movie (jesus christ I love all this bullshit) the gnome's tone is quite different, obviously leading to Wayne getting Gnomified. But during the Gnome's musical number he yet again sings a different tune, so to speak. I believe the combine did take his memories of his and Gordon's time together. We see him warming up to Gordon and some real character growth in the final act, but once Wayne makes his way through the vault the Gnome seems to be back to his old, derogatory way of speaking. As for the musical number i'm not quite sure, but perhaps seeing gnomified wayne and being in wayne's shoes causes him to change his mind and remember what they had together.
The person creating these mods is still a mystery, but if we connect this to the greater RTVSCU there are a few options. Tucker, the creator of the I. M. MEEN disc for example (not sure about this bit) not only shows the skills that he would need to do something like this, given Meen's AI and the ending, and he would know where Wayne lives, making him an actual threat. Wayne also breaks the 4th wall numerous times during the stream, which supports my previous theory. Of course, that doesn't answer how Wayne escaped from The Shining painting at the end, but this part of the theory is flimsy so it's fine. The most powerful AI character we've ever seen however, is Homer. The fact that this man constantly gets kidnapped by fictional characters is amazing to me. I'd have to rewatch the Simpsons stream, but I believe this metric of power could be important.
TL;DR Wayne breaking the 4th wall may have effects on the power of the self aware AI, somebody has got to be behind the Half Life AI mods, and this could extend into the entire RTVSCU as a whole
Danny Program AU Oneshot (RESET), a danny phantom fanfic | FanFiction
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
a comic based on the wonderful story engimatic candy flavored contextual feelings orbs by @ectocoolatta!! :D
in celebration of ace awareness week, i’ve made this bonus page of gordon! i hope my fellow aces are doing well <3 y’all are amazing and so fucking valid
HLVRAI meets their HD counterparts, inspired by @excalirebagel‘s art here.
