I'm not sure if anyone else asked this before, but what if the gun arm wound heals? Does the arm re-open the wound or is it physically unable to heal due to the gun arm?
good question! the "arteries" (“gun tubes” sounds a bit too unserious, but they’re the blue lines in the drawing) that feed blood into the chamber for firing are valved/can open and close in place of a scab, so essentially the wound is always partially open but blocked by a mechanism within the barrel to regulate flow. the rest of the wound that isn’t feeding the arteries got cauterized by the heat of the gun – although, the arm closed around the arteries so the wound would need to be reopened if the gun was to be removed. hope that made at least a little sense!
+ bonus gordo :]
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is gord's gun arm bleeding blood or oil or something else??
saw a few tags asking about the goopy arm! so.
the gun fires bullets made of congealed blood (NOT finger/toenails but. its remnant of the hand so pretty close?). the gun uses an alternating clotting/thinning system to tease blood out of the partially-closed wound for firing. blood is also the gun's coolant/lubricant and will spill from the gun when the stump faces the ground. just. just lots of blood involved.
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Ough eating your hlvrai au I love it so much I love how you did the benrye
thanks! benrey loves how you did...the you
(also! i won't respond to tags but i read them all and i really appreciate all of the nice things you people have had to say! thanks a bunch :] )
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she christopher on my nolan til my dark knight rises
she hardy on my weinberg til i reach equilibrium
she anya on my taylor til i joy
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can we please be informed of your convoluted hlvrai plot ideas
here's the most basic rundown: benrey is an actual extraterrestrial from the very real alien dimension of xen who was orphaned as a baby and taken in by the black mesa research facility where he was then raised under scientific scrutiny to the best of the researchers’ abilities
(i dont think he got kidnapped by black mesa per se. it’s more like he got hellboy'd, if you’ve seen that lol. basically adoption out of obligation because they accidentally pulled a baby out of a hell portal).
because he lacked proper socialization with both his own species (no benny’s on earth) and humans (they didnt want him imprinting), the hlvrai simulation was attempting to teach him the merits of teamwork/friendship/being a good guy without putting any real humans in danger (ie. why coomer, bubby, and tommy are ais). the researchers facilitating his “social integration” thought simulations would be a good way to introduce him to earthly affairs and gauge his progress, so he was raised by games instead of people (arguably worse than him imprinting but go off). hlvrai was the first game/simulation with ai + an actual person participating.
gordon is the long-suffering black mesa employee accessing the simulation through vr and is meant to 1) add to the authenticity of the simulation and 2) be a moral guide for benrey (kinda like how jiminy cricket is pinnochio's conscience. second out of pocket media reference sorry i cant help it). needless to say, benrey does not become a "real boy" like pinocchio does at the end of the hlvrai run we see and will likely be needing many, many more runs before he's allowed to be "released into the wild". it’s hardly unexpected though, since his development was entirely consumed by gaming. he played hlvrai like a true gamer.
srry i know that was a lot haha i might do something about the bio of benrey's species though
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my freakman design
a lot of the decisions for this tie into my extremely convoluted headcanon about the events of hlvrai but i will spare you the details
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pinterest reference photography save me...save me pinterest...
i used a pen called g-pen for this (HALF-LIFE REFERENCE? HLVRAI? G-MAN? UNFORESEEN CONSEQUENCES PEN?)
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we are few... but we are strong 💪
brain short-circuited when it came to coloring and so i fumbled the show-accuracy bag
also im starting to think joe doesn't have an alien form because he's only half-grey but we're gonna pretend he does
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the yellow rabbit killer
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would you rather have infinite bacon but no games but games, games unlimited games but no games?
id rather go outside. where the clouds are weeping sunlight
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my dad got hit by a car once and he rolled over the hood like an action movie hero (result: bruises) but that car wasn't going 50mph and joe doesn't have the insulating fat of a midwestern father
anyway i tried to make joe look a bit bigger/lankier than the other greys because he's a hybrid but idk if that came across lol
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this file got corrupted halfway through the drawing and it was absolutely unsalvageable so i had to restart (i hate this stupid rabbit now)
it's a little unclear but he's doing bunny ears with his hand (one ear/finger flopping) and he's probably doing it at henry/yellow bear
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love (DID NOT) wins 😔
alan's acting in this whole sequence was really impressive imo
that final poem was slightly humorous (because of how pathetic it all was) but also the emotional aspect resonated with me like an orbital strike
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after the fiasco that was ep 6, he deserves cereal. or perhaps a saltine. ritz, maybe?
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wanted to throw my hat in the ring w/ benrey designs and ended up making two entirely different ones. i hated the first draft for being too 'marvin the martian' so i drained him of all whimsy in v2 (i kept the alien head baubles beneath the helmet)
also: bonus phone coomer
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