#xenian au

[themarginalartist]

Let’s see how Subject XB2’s situation is going…

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Margin… writing again? Crazy talk… It’s only been *checks notes* about 8 months since I last wrote a thing…

Anyway *chucks this at you and runs*

#my writing #hvrai au #xenian au #xenian shenanigans #brushing off my old tags damn

[3-inch-doodles]

this isn't art BUT im putting it here because i mainly post about my hlvrai-marvel(?) au here. so, enjoy!!

general stuff!!!

-THE CHARACTERS!-

(please note that no Science Team members are evil! i have assigned some with villain powers because villain powers are awesome, but none of them are actually bad. they've had their scrapes in the past, that's for sure, but they're a team!)

Gordon was given super strength, super senses, and the ability to climb walls by the resonance cascade. Despite this he uses a cane when he's not running around in the suit because wearing it for like a week straight, super strength or not, will strain your body real bad. His prosthetic is removable, and while it's the best Black Mesa could offer, he still prefers not to wear it at home when he's in civilian mode. It can change colors though so that's cool.

His webshooters are similar to the gmod physgun- a blue laser from his wrists that locks onto a target and he can swing it around. He can switch them into a "swinging mode" to be able to get around. I'm honestly not sure whether to give him web-webs or not, we'll see!

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Benrey is not and never has been human, obviously. I think of him as like.... sentient space goop? that can coalesce into a human shape. So if you cut off an arm or shot him the goop would just go back together. When he's injured enough (or just doesn't feel like being in a physical body for a while) he has to take a break to reassemble himself properly. This is when he "dies". He takes anywhere from a few hours to a week to show up again.

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Tommy has the abilities of the Spot!! Thanks to his heritage he can open short portals and sometimes freeze time in emergencies/when he has the energy, but he's not very good at it yet. His appearance is all black, and his "holes" are bright rainbow colors like Sweet Voice. Don't worry, he's still got his propeller hat!

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Dr Coomer uses mechanical arms like Doc Oc, although he's much friendlier about it. They look like metallic hands at the ends, which can alternatively be replaced with hands wearing boxing gloves or brass knuckles when he's in a fight.

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Bubby, Forzen, and Darnold have been a lot harder to find powers for. If you have any ideas, please let me know!! I'm not super familiar with Spider-Man villains and I want to do them justice.

-THE WORLD-

I wanted to combine the ideas of Half-Life 2 with Spider-Man stuff, so the Science Team currently lives in New York, where there are regular portal storms. The Xenian wildlife is hostile to the general population and Black Mesa hired them to work to take out the aliens. It's built more like Spider-Man Unlimited, where (broadly) villains have a common enemy with the heroes and as a result they fight that common enemy a lot more than they fight each other.

Black Mesa is sort of the Oscorp of this world, by the way.

As far as I'm planning the Combine doesn't become involved here because the series only uses Half-Life 1 as a setting. While I love the Combine, I don't think they'd be a good addition here.

#not art #hlvrai au #info post #i guess??? idk im just putting this out there to organize my thoughts and see what happens #it might go somewhere it might go nowhere idk yet #and this isn't everything there's more stuff that i just don't have at the front of my brain right now

[i-am-3mm3t]

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@that-one-poison-trainer

((ooc: Half Life 2 AU time let's gooooo!! Okay so a friend and I came up with this months ago(if you're reading this, hi friend!!) and basically it's just "Lol what if we made these guys' lives worse. For the funnies"

I'm gonna be continuing, assuming you know the storyline of Half Life and Half Life 2, and be warned there's a lot of death and destruction of both humans and Pokemon considering it's a post-apocalyptic wasteland of a world-

So Ingo and Emmet were kids during the 7-Hour War. They were 12. A week into their journey, and suddenly the world is screaming bloody murder and turning to a wasteland. They only had Litwick, Tynamo, and their two Klinks. Four Pokemon between the two of them, and all were so young. It was a miracle they survived, when 80% of humanity had not.

Well, Ingo and Emmet survived.

The Klinks' gears rusted. They were too loud to keep around, and with no way to clean them, the twins were forced to leave them behind. They cried for hours before that final goodbye, and not just because it was the last they would ever see of their Pokemon. They were the last thing the twins had of their Uncle Drayden. He had perished alongside little baby Iris in the 7-Hour War.

Litwick could not get her fill by feeding off of the twins and Tynamo, and what she did take left them slower, which was a danger they could not afford after the war. She took less and less, and her flame got smaller and smaller, despite Ingo's insistence that she eat as much as she can, he can take it, please keep yourself safe-

Tynamo was quick, but reckless. She too, ate far less than before, because all of them did. The food they had brought along would only last so long, so they had to ration it. She still tried her best. She rammed into and electrocuted enemies to give her boys time to escape, and she could afford to let them get far away because she could always speed after them.

Tynamo was not fast enough once, and only once. Her hit-and-run tactic succeeded, sure, but she was lethargic, and tired. She was sick. There were too many new things in the air that she could not fight. The claws that speared her were faster.

She never caught up to her Trainer.

After that, Litwick was nearly comatose from lack of food. She was desperate, but she wouldn't dare take more than a speck from her boys. Even if Emmet begged her to so he could stop crying. She was a liability, and she knew this well.

The next time the twins got attacked, she used all her strength to hold the enemy back so the boys could escape. She ate well once, and only once.

Ingo was silent after that.

If he had cried, the sound would have drawn everything around to kill him and his brother. So he stayed silent, choked back his grief, and focused his efforts on protecting Emmet.

The boys spent their 12th birthday with the candle and the baby eel they'd caught a week or two before, and with the duel gears they loved the moment they came out of the box, and they spent their 13th birthday with no one but themselves and an unforgiving world and a weak campfire.

They meet Elesa in the wild. Somehow, she also escaped, and she's a mere year older than them but that's enough for them to latch on hard to her and not let go. It's early enough in Combine rule that everything is too much of a mess to know what to do themselves, and they see someone almost the same age as them and become inseparable. They keep each other safe from Combine and Xenians while the world is trying to adjust.

Elesa was already being trained in self-defense and she teaches the twins what she can in their down time, and eventually even just these three kids become a force to be reckoned with, with how much they practice on each other. They manage to slip past getting caught more than once! The first time, Ingo finally broke out in tears the moment they were somewhere safe and sheltered. Their luck ran out, of course, and eventually they were brought into one of the cities, and they always hated the fact that they couldn't stay away. As adults, they're more aware that a life in the wild would've been far more dangerous than one in a city, but they still hate the slip-ups they made that got them caught for real.

As adults, the twins live mainly in City 17, and run the train station. They never cared to actually learn its official name, and just call it Gear Station as a tie to the dream they had as kids. These trains transport citizens, metrocops, Xenians, Combine, anyone. They are completely and entirely devoted to the upkeep of their station and will gladly support the Combine if that's what it takes.

... or so the Combine thinks.

In reality, Ingo and Emmet loathe the Combine, and make it expressly clear whenever no one on the Combine's side is around to hear. They're scarily good at acting like they love their new alien overlords, and often accidentally convince normal passengers and citizens, and then it leaves them alone and they immediately devolve into barely-suppressed rage.

"Goodbye, Mr. Metrocop! You can tell the Combine that everything is perfect and well here! All hail!" "..." "..." "..." "I think we can both agree that that was disgusting." "Very."

#half life #pokemon #half life 2 #hl #hl2 #pokemon emmet #pokemon ingo #ooc ask

[freemanyoufool]

“technically it’s very good but it elicits an emotion in me similar to the beginning of the wizard of oz” -- otter

Xenian Gordon and a bb Joshua because idk seemed fun

Xenian AU belongs to @themarginalartist

#hlvrai #HELLO MAIN TAG #xenian au #hlvrai au #gordos #joshua #body horror cw #my art #i did this to figure out how csp works and its. aight.

[blackmesaerd]

Gordon: Alright everything’s all set, now... To turn on the laser.

*He flicks the small switch watching the crystal glow slightly in response to the beam. A few seconds pass a a ringing note starts coming from the crystal.*

Gordon: ...Wow... It’s like it’s singing... Like... A call of some kind...

Benrey: Like... It’s calling for something? Some one?

*As they watch it the crystal sounds like it’s getting louder and louder.*

Benrey: Bro... That doesn’t sound right-

*Suddenly the lab is plunged into darkness, the crystal crackling with a strange green energy.*

Gordon: Shit! We should stop this thing!

*For the briefest of moments there is a portal that opens up, a chilling voice coming through for the lab to hear.*

*And just as quickly as it opened up, the portal closes.

The emergency lights come on.*

Gordon: W-well... I wasn’t expecting any of that... What was-

*He glances at the work station.*

Gordon: SHIT! The crystal is broken! Dammit!

*The crystal is broken into many pieces, none of which are large enough to attempt to do anything with the laser again.*

#bm:erd #part 5: experimental training #gordon.txt #benrey.txt #hlvrai #hlvrai au #xenian au #{{main tag time cause we got major arts}}

[dragonessfire]

Let’s finish with a bang. :)

#bmerd #my writing #evil ra au #blackmesaerd #xenian au #Cursed RAs AU

[thecryptidcat]

H, hi.. it me... The anon from last night... Here is the lad...

Bed head boy,, akfjf

Xenian gordon goes to @themarginalartist go check em out!

#my art #my artwork #hlvrai #hlvrai au #Xenian AU

[tappytabbyart]

Outfit meme

Been feeling some really bad art block recently so I decided to do an outfit meme or two. 

The outfit and character was chosen at random by a number generator for the first one.

The meme I used for teh first one. (If someone could point me in the direct of whoever made this meme so I can tag it. Would be amazing. )

Cursed tabby in C7

For the next 3 drawing I used a different meme and left it to a discord server to pick the outfit and the character they wanted. And this time I know who made the meme too!

credit: @3lizab3t​

RA Crown (dont have the emoji stuff on my laptop)  in A4. Character belongs to @queenofcats17​

Rowan (a character from the blog @blackmesaerd​ ) in A2

RA 0wl in A1. Character belongs to @burntowl​

#blackmesaerd #bmerd #drawing meme #RA crown #RA 0wl #RA Tabby #Rowan bmerd #Xenian au #myart #mypost #art blocks a little bitch that wont get me down yet #Cursed RAs Au

[mxartcat]

I obviously DID NOT make the background here, it’s a screenshot from Black Mesa. The demon thing however is my creation.

Xenian Skull

#my art #Grim Skull #Skrull #xenian au #bm:erd #💀 #black mesa

[queenofcats17]

Guess who’s writing stuff about @blackmesaerd and the RA they’ve created. 

It’s me. I’m writing stuff. 

The Discord and RA lore we’ve developed has given me ideas

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The Research Assistant colloquially known as Crown didn’t know a lot of things.

She didn’t know how she’d started working at Black Mesa. 

She didn’t know how to talk to people a lot of the time

She didn’t know a lot about science or biology, nor did she understand a lot of technical terms that her coworkers used.

She was pretty sure she wasn’t even qualified to be a scientist. 

But she’d thought she knew who she was. Now...She wasn’t so sure. 

Things had started changing after that first incident with the Xen crystal. 

First of all, they’d had been sucked into a power struggle between two incredibly powerful alien entities, both of whom threatened the safety of their friends. This had, naturally, made Crown’s anxiety skyrocket. 

She didn’t talk to new people very often, so being forced to talk to new people (neither of whom was human) and try to talk down an alien hivemind or the furious physical embodiment of an entire dimension while being overly emotional was definitely not her strong suit. Everyone in Black Mesa knew her. They knew what she was like, knew what to expect from her.

Xen and Voxis didn’t know her. They didn’t understand if she got overly emotional or blurted out the first thing that came into her mind without a thought for the consequences of those words. She’d definitely made things worse more than once when she’d just been trying to help or when she’d let her feelings overwhelm her. 

Her conspiracy theories definitely hadn’t helped either, but they weren’t really supposed to. The conspiracy theories were mostly just her fucking around. Before XG1 and XB2 had arrived, she’d listened to Barney talk about conspiracy theories for hours when he’d been stationed outside the lab. Maybe at one point she’d believed them, but they’d quickly just become a way for her to get the others around her to laugh. Maybe that was why they hadn’t believed her about XG1 being Gordon. None of her other “theories” had held water.

Come to think of it, they’d been the same age back when the kids had arrived that they were now. Perpetually 22, fresh out of college, eager and bright-eyed. Never growing older, never growing up. 

She’d never questioned it before this point. Never asked herself why none of them ever seemed to get any older or why they weren’t allowed to leave Black Mesa unsupervised. She’d never asked herself why she didn’t remember a time when she hadn’t been at Black Mesa. She’d never felt the need to.

Even after the first crystal mishap, when things had started to stir, she hadn’t questioned anything about her situation. Had she even been awake before that point? All her memories before then felt...fuzzy. Or as though she’d been watching a TV show. She could remember saying and doing things, but it felt like it hadn’t truly been her. Like she’d been nothing more than a passenger in her own body.

Now the Resonance Cascade had happened, leaving the facility literally in shambles while Xen creatures tried to attack them. And she and the others had realized they were part of a hivemind. Likely a failed one on Black Mesa’s part given how chaotic they could be. 

Part of her was terrified of this revelation. The only experience she had with a hivemind of any sort was Voxis, and she absolutely did not want to be in that situation. The idea of losing their free will and being trapped in their own mind terrified them more than they could possibly say. 

And yet...there was something comforting about knowing she was part of a bigger whole. Especially since the bigger whole wasn’t trying to exert its will on her and was full of people she liked being around. 

She felt like she was finally alive for the first time in her life. She could feel the comforting presence of the other RA’s in the back of her mind, even when she couldn’t see them. She wasn’t alone. She’d never been alone. They were there for her. They’d always been there for her.

Despite the danger, she couldn’t help but feel a tad giddy.

It was just a pity she was having this joyful realization during what was basically the apocalypse.

#blackmesaerd #fanfiction #xenian au

[travelingthemultiverse]

Rp is fun

#xenian au #bm:erd #bm:ERD discord

[themarginalartist]

Been a while since I did Xen

#marginaldoodles #xenian au #xen #xenian shenanigans #OC #OCs

[nakitengoku]

Hey, so, um, @themarginalartist has a fic called Xenian and I'm loving it so much! It's about Benrey actually knowing Gordon as kids and Gordon being in denial even when weird stuff starts going down. You should go check it out :D

#hlvrai #half life vr but the ai is self aware #xenian #benry hlvrai #Benrey #benry #gordon hlvrai #my art #quinn draws #im in love with this au #and the designs? *chef fingers* #UGH #Its just so good! #please! check it out! #can you believe that for the first pic i was looking directly at the reference image and STILL DREW HIS NOSE WRONG #I JUST DREW A HUMAN NOSE #anyway #ive been wanting to draw this gordon for so long im glad i got around to it #its just! the freckles! they get me everytime! #I JUST LOVE ALL GORDONS OKAY #HE IS WHAT PEAK PROFORMANCE IS #alien!benry #alien!gordon #monster forms #monsters #i cant draw galaxies im sorry #i tried my best

[vicquemarchive]

been thinkin a lot about a modern-day hl au where the combine invasion never happened and earth just be chillin with the xenian creachers. gordon comes back 20 years later and has to learn about social media and iphones and shit. imagine going from 2003 to 2023 in that circumstance. alyx has to teach him vine references so he fits in

[blackmesaerd]

Benrey: You got this Gordon!

Gordon: Gosh this is scary... Alright time to test.

*Gordon steps into the chamber. Benrey pauses, back straightening before following into the chamber, eyes glazing over. Gordon doesn’t notice him, making final preparations in the chamber.*

Gordon: Alright we’re good to go! Pushing the sample under where the laser will go.

Voxis: Excellent.

*They grin before they turn on the laser.*

Gordon: Wh- Wait! I’m still in here!

*Benrey and Gordon cover their ears as the crystal makes a piercing shriek that only they can hear.*

Gordon: Shit! Shit it’s so loud! Turn it off!

*There is a crackling and roar as the crystal turns green with energy before exploding violently, the walls shake and parts of the building crumble down. Emergency sirens fill the air. Gordon gets trapped under the debris.

The lights go out and sirens cease, plunging the facility into darkness and silence.

Everything is far too still...*

#bm:erd #part 12: not what we expected #hlvrai #hlvrai au #xenian au #gordon.txt #benrey.txt #voxis.txt

[dragonessfire]

RAs get up to things as is usual.

#bmerd #xenian au #evil ra au #my writing #blackmesaerd #Cursed RAs AU