#swap!benrey

[sweetmugs]

what? who are you people?

#wip #doodles #swap!hlvrai #swap!gordon #swap!benrey #swap!darnold #hlvrai #hlvrai au

[wilsonphiggs]

half life but the AI is self aware (but benrey is the protagonist)

idc I will love swap AUs til the day I die

#hlvrai benrey #hlvrai #hlvrai fanart #hlvrai swap au #benrey #hlvrai benry #announcer’s announcements (drawings)

[ladylunora]

i turned my “imagine if instead of benrey being the only character on the science team to not be a scientist was the other way around with him being the only scientist in a group full of guards” shitpost doodle into an actual au… i call it “HLVRAI job swap au”

also i won’t go over every scenario on this au (you can ask me if you want tho) (also aside from these characters everyone else stays the same, jefferem and josh were scientists tho aaaaand gman does swap jobs too but i won’t reveal anything yet you’re gonna have to wait for me to make more doodles of this au) because its still pretty much the same as hlvrai but they swap jobs but if you wanna know how the res cas happens i wrote it bellow

gordon’s a regular security guard doing his job guarding the test chamber, and this scientist benrey is the one who’s gonna do the test experiment in the test chamber… he shows up without the hev suit to do it though just his lab coat, and gordon follows him insisting that he has to put on the hev suit, and benrey just tells him he’ll be fine because that he is not human and he definitely knows what he’s doing and “dude you don’t even have a passport and you’re wearing an orange shirt you’re the one suspicious”, gordon tries to tell him he spilled coffee that morning on his blue shirt and “wait passport?? WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT WE DON’T EVEN NEED OUR PASSPORTS- DOCTOR BENREY YOU CAN’T GO IN THERE WITHOUT THE SUIT” when they get there gordon calls reinforcements (bubby, coomer and tommy) to help him with this fucking guy but they assume benrey knows what he’s doing, anyways gordon and benrey get into an argument while benrey is trying to do the experiment, they both end up pushing the cart too fast fucking the whole thing up and the resonance cascade happens

#hlvrai #half life vr self aware ai #gordon feetman #benrey #tommy coolatta #dr coomer #bubby #hlvrai forzen #darnold pepper #this probably has a lot of typos #hlvrai job swap au

[artwithatlas]

New game! Guess what’s wrong with me from this image alone

#artwithatlas #pizza tower #steven universe #homestuck #hlvrai #be more chill #hamilton the musical #mlp:fim #undertale #deltarune #underswap #swap!sans #benrey #lars barriga #Jeremy heere #jevil #spamton #discord mlp #pizzahead #fake peppino #marquis de lafayette #the lego batman movie #tlbm joker #gamzee makara #tavros nitram #mallek adalov #zebruh codakk #gravity falls #bill cipher #hiveswap

[dimonds456-but-only-hlvrai]

Gift for @dilfgmancoolatta's fic, (Un)Forgettable. This fic continues to hurt me and plague my thoughts, lol.

Come read it here! It's a swap AU done REALLY well.

#hlvrai #hlvrai au #swap au #hlvrai swap au #(un)forgettable #fanfic #benrey #benry #gordon feetman #gordon martinis freeman #frenrey #dimond speaks #dimonds art

[qhazomb]

well the HLVRAI fandom seems to be coming out of hibernation, and i see other people reposting/reblogging their older fan stuff, so i figured i might as well, too.

in which Gordon and Benry swap bodies and neither of them enjoy it. shenanigans ensue. and body horror. and Benry vogue-ing while in Gordon's body. among other things. what kind of things? just read and find out!

#hlvrai #half life vr but the ai is self aware #nhlvrai #gordon feetman #benry #benrey #hlvrai au #body swap #fanfic #ao3 fanfic

[cupids-cringe]

silly guy board

#lovebugs letters #my art #shitpost #hlvrai #hlvrv #jonmartin #y2kvr #gordon b #benrey #hlvrv swap #hlvrv malcom #simon petrikov #spamton

[winterjackal]

how to hug an alien: a guide

#swap frenrey sorreeyyy #benrey hlvrai #benry hlvrai #gordos feetman #gordon freeman hlvrai #swap au #frenrey #hlvrai #half life vr but the ai is self aware #art

[egglandart]

(GIF)

I know I live in a video game. And I know Benrey’s name isn’t really Benrey.

But I… I killed him, and the game bugged out… The save file couldn’t be accessed…

#tw blo0d #tw flashing #hlvrv #hlvrai #gordon feetman #half life vr but the ai is self aware #benrey #hlvrv swap #hlvrai swap au #hlvrv neo #neo bushnell #hlvrv neo bushnell #swap gordon #hlvrv swap gordon

[rainbyte]

Rotating them like a marshmallow in a microwave

#byte's bites #hlvrai #swap au #I think Benrey would get along really well with everyone but he'd still be kind of distant like in canon #Like everyone assumes he's absolutely fine during all of the game cause he's like ':)' mr joke funny man! ben man #But is he really? #Idk silly man #benrey #gordon feetman

[dimonds456-art]

unforgettable eyes

@dilfgmancoolatta

#unforgettable #hlvrai #hlvrai au #frenrey #gordon freeman #gordon feetman #benrey #benry #hlvrai swap au #swap au #benrey autismcreatureeyes' gordon all the time <3

[sweetmugs]

this is mainly for archival purposes, incase my computer dies at some point lmao

but i did draw them! all of em! so they get to be posted

(btw, this does NOT mean im going to start swap!hlvrai again, but i am currently kinda hype focusing on and off it at the moment, so you get some arts)

#myart #doodle #swap!hlvrai #hlvrai #half life vr but the ai is self aware #hlvrai gordon #hlvrai benrey #hlvrai tommy #hlvrai bubby #hlvrai dr coomer #hlvrai forzen #hlvrai darnold #hlvrai gman #hlvrai fanart #barney calhoun #he's also in this au im sorry all half life fans #its been so long since ive tagged things #dont think i like it lmao

[wilsonphiggs]

benrey slop ft. swap AU again

(for context the one where he’s holding his face is based on that one clip with gordon holding benrey’s face like “I KNOW I’M NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN HERE I KNOW”)

#hlvrai #hlvrai benrey #benrey #hlvrai benry #hlvrai gordon #hlvrai fanart #frenrey #announcer’s announcements (drawings) #hlvrai swap au

[ladylunora]

job swap au frenrey

#hlvrai #half life vr self aware ai #gordon feetman #benrey #hlvrai job swap au #frenrey

[year2000electronics]

EVERY CHARACTER I DRAW KEEPS GETTING ACCUSED AS EMO BY STRANGERS ON THE INTERNET. THEYRE NOT EMO YOU STUPID ASSHOLES. I JUST ACCIDENTALLY GIVE EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER I DRAW PERPETUAL DARK CIRCLES BECAUSE I HAVE THOSE AND I LIKE TO SEE THEM!!!!!

#moth flies #WHAT IS MAKING PEOPLE THINK THIS. #ITS LITERALLY JUST THE EYES. #I DONT GIVE THEM MAKEUP. #I DONT GIVE THEM THE EMO BANG.... MOST OF THE TIME... #LIKE ITS BEEN SWAP BENREY AND PAUL TGWDLM #THOSE GUY SARE NORMAL!!!

[hlvrfreakyfriday]

(( so i've decided to repost the Freaky Friday fic here on the blog, to have one other place to read it besides just ao3. here we go! ))

HLVRFF: Chapter 1

It all happened so fast, Benry didn't even detect what was going on until after the fact. And by then, it was too late for him to do anything about it.

Being an eldritch horror from the cosmic void, Benrey had a lot of real fun abilities at his disposal. One of those being the ability to 'astral project' as he'd heard humans call it. He never really used this one too much, though. Until he moved in with Gordon, that is. He'd found that slipping out of his own body to go hang out in Gordon's dreams was a pretty sick way to pass the time at night, when nothing else was keeping his attention successfully. Or when he was feeling lonely. Being the only one in your friend group who doesn't need to sleep at night kind of sucks sometimes.

Gordon was… a little unnerved by the brain-intrusions at first. But he never told Benry to fuck off with that shit, as the night time chats with the entity were much, MUCH preferred over all his PTSD night terrors. Dreams never kicked in right whenever Benry was there, including the bad ones, so it was a win-win situation, really. However, if a dream was already in the middle of happening when Benry jumped in, the dream didn't just automatically stop.

He never thought much about it until tonight.

Benry wasn't really feeling in the mood for any video games, so he decided he'd go see what ol' Feetman was up to in dream land. He got himself laid out nice and comfy in his bed, slipped out of his body and into Gordon's.

And soon came to very much regret it.

Gordon was having a nightmare about Xen, looked like. From his vantage point, he could see the man fleeing for his life from something. He didn't see what, but whatever it was, it had the poor guy scared absolutely shitless. Benry could feel all the horrible emotions Gordon was having while sharing a headspace with him, and yeah, no, this was not cool. He needed to calm Gordon down, show him he was just dreaming. If he could get him in a more lucid state, the nightmare would be easy to knock away.

Dream-Xen wasn't set up the same way as the real deal was- but thankfully Benry was able to just clip through everything just like the real one, which allowed him to cut Gordon off as the human frantically made his way through the winding tunnels.

When Gordon rounded the corner and came face to face with Benry, the human let out a strained shriek, and looked like he was about to book it back towards whatever he was fleeing from before. Whu..? Oh, shit, right. Benry was playing the bad guy when they were all on Xen, so of course Gordon wouldn't be very happy to see him, even if he wasn't at the same giant size he was back then.

…Wait.

Benry was the main threat to Gordon and the Science Team when they were on Xen.

So… did that mean…

As if to answer Benry's unspoken question, a massive, pale hand came phasing through the roof of the cave, one of its sharp black talons nearly impaling Gordon as it did. Gordon fell to the cave floor and looked on in horror as the monstrous owner of the hand brought their face into view.

Gordon wasn't having a nightmare about Xen. He was having a nightmare about Benry.

The alien's heart dropped like a fucking rock at the realization. Dream-Benry raised his fist, looking like he was getting ready to crush Gordon, and that's when real-Benry shoved down the sanguine and shadow building up in his throat and dove towards the human. He grabbed Gordon, and then sunk them both down into the floor, escaping into another chamber. Gordon thrashed in his grip, desperate to get away, but Benry held firm, and flipped the man around to face him.

"dude, dude, you gotta- you gotta calm down. that thing- that's not me, you're dreaming-" Benry tried to explain, but Gordon wasn't fucking listening, he just kept screaming at him to let go and get away and-

They were both silenced when the sole of a giant combat boot came down hard directly on top of them.

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Benry's whole form jolts as he returns to a more corporeal state of being. God, fuck. Dying was never fun, even in dreams. He lets out a heavy sigh and blinks- wait. His eyes are open? Why is it so fuckin' dark, then? He looks around the room, and does see… a faint light, shining in the corner of the room. Focusing on that light, his eyes begin to adjust a bit more to the dark. It's then he realizes that everything is blurry? He moves to push himself up into a sitting position- oh holy fuck he feels so tired and heavy and weak. What the shit. He brings a hand up to his head to rub at his eyes… and finds that his cheeks are a lot less bony than he remembers. Benry blindly gropes at his face some more, and feels what is very clearly a scruffy beard that he very much did not have before.

"yo what-" he says aloud, cutting himself off instantly when he hears himself speaking with Gordon's voice.

That's… new.

And would explain why he can't see shit all. Benry carefully feels over for where he knows Gordon's bedside nightstand is, and turns on the lamp once he finds the switch, to back up the little light from what he now realizes is Gordon's night light. Okay okay, no longer dark, but still blurry as hell. Squinting at the nightstand, he makes out the general shape of Gordon's glasses, and gingerly picks them up and places them on his face. Ah, there we go, blessed with sight once again. Albeit still pretty fucking shitty sight. This isn't how Gordon's eyes are ALL the time, is it? No, no, can't be. That'd be messed up. His sight, and all of his other senses come to think, are probably just all discombobulated from being forced into the wrong body. Yeah. Totally. He just needs to give it a minute.

Suddenly, a scream rings out in the house, in a voice that Benry recognizes as his own.

Oh shit, Gordon.

Welp, 'giving it a minute' is now officially off the table.

Benry quickly hops out of bed (ignoring the foreign ache in his-Gordon's? legs) and bolts towards the door. It's here that he makes yet another discovery.

His usual powers didn't carry over with him into Gordon's body, apparently, as when he tries to clip through the door because it's faster than opening it, he just fuckin' slams right into the damn thing. He groans, both in pain (so much pain…) and embarrassment, before opening the door like a normal human person and books it down the hall to his bedroom.

Flinging the door open and flicking on the light switch, he's met with a very concerning sight.

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Gordon lurches up into a sitting position, reflexively throwing his arms up, as if to hold off the massive boot that was trying to squash him like a bug. It was just a dream, he thinks as he realizes that he's not dead or on Xen. Doesn't do anything to calm his residual panic, though. His heart is still going a mile a minute and… and that's not right. His heart isn't beating right.

His brain finally catches up with the rest of him, and he realizes that he's in an entirely different room than he was when he went to sleep. It's Benry's room from the looks of it, but… it's not right, either. Why is the lighting so weird. The light's not even on, but he can see, he can see SO clearly and- the colours. They're all so much more vibrant, and there's ones he doesn't even recognize. He can't even think how to DESCRIBE them, what the fuck.

Ignore that for right now, Gordon, you gotta calm down, he thinks to himself. Closing his eyes, he reaches a hand up to run his fingers through his hair. Doing such has often helped him ground himself during anxiety and panic. But instead of feeling his long, soft hair, he feels a knit beanie. He does not wear knit beanies. His roommate wears knit beanies. His roommate whose room he inexplicably woke up in just now.

Gordon's eyes snap open and he looks at his hands.

They are not his hands.

"What the fuck," he utters, barely above a whisper, in what is definitely Benry's voice.

No. No? No. No! This isn't happening. This is NOT fucking HAPPENING. He's still dreaming, CLEARLY he's still dreaming! He just needs to wake up. C'mon, Gordon, you can do it. Wake up. Wake up, Gordon. Wake UP, Gordon. WAKE UP, GORDON-

A scream rips out of his throat, as he feels something else in his borrowed body rip.

#half life vr but the ai is self aware #half life vr but it's freaky friday #hlvrai #hlvrai fic #benry #benrey #gordon feetman #body swap #fic repost