#AU: THE BENREY PARABLE

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doodooodooo dont mind me. just reposting old Benrey Parable stuff LOL. god i miss messing around w/ this au but eh

btw this is not gonna end up in frenrey or whatever kind of ship these guys hate eachother. genuinely.

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ASKING YOU ABOUT YOUR STANLEY PARABLE/HLVRAI CROSSOVER. ELABORATE PLEASE??

more under the cut :3

So the basic concept goeth thusly:

Post HLVRAI canon, Gordon ends up in the Parable somehow. Stanley immediately mentally adopts him, while the Narrator is like "Oh we can ABSOLUTELY NOT have GORDON FREEMAN here" (nod to tsp originally being a hl2 mod!) and basically tries to boot Gordon out the Parable. He resets, and now Benrey is here.

So already not fun for the Narrator (though much fun for stanley, who loves seeing the narrator distressed because stanley is a bastard). Wrangling Stanley is already a nightmare, and now he has two other guys, one of which is an alien who can just noclip, which is very frustrating.

However, there's another twist to this: the role of narrator keeps being shuffled around. Sometimes, the Narrator is not the narrator, it's instead Gordon. Sometimes it's Benrey. Sometimes Stanley. Sometimes there's one player and the other three are narrators, and sometimes two of them are narrators and the other two are players.

So basically: we have Gordon (argumentative as shit), Benrey (benrey), Stanley (very glad to be talking to someone aside from the british man), and the Narrator (his phucking story)

I'll explain the symbolism I put in their narrator designs. So:

The Narrator is Stanley's shadow. That shadow can stretch and grow, but at the end of the day, he's tied to Stanley. He literally cannot do anything without him- when Stanley stops moving (eg: not stanley ending), the Narrator can do nothing.

Stanley's narrator form is inspired by one of my favorite interpretations of Stanley- one where he didn't really use ASL or writing or anything, but instead communicated through drawings. So while Stanley has no visible form, he's present through little drawings.

Gordon's design is far simpler in my mind- his arc in this is realizing he's not fully human either, he's an AI who was completely shaped by the player. So when he's the narrator, his visible form is confined to screens. This also ties into a lot of themes of control.

Benrey's entire body shifts colors in accordance with his emotions, specifically Sweet Voice colors. The exception is the spot of pink on his chest, the hearts on his face, and his eyes. His chest glows pink always, as do the hearts on his face (showing that even though he is a fucking nightmare, at his core is love. Benrey loves, and he wants to be loved). His eyes don't shift color with his body, but they change with his emotions as well- blue when he's calmer/happier, yellow when he's stressed out. This is true even when he's not in Narrator form.

Benrey's narrator form is a very intentional parallel to the Narrator's. The Narrator is a shadow, and Benrey's literally glowing bright light. The Narrator's mouth can be seen, Benrey's can't. The Narrator is literally tied to Stanley, but Benrey's not tied to anyone. (To make the symbolism there blatant: the Narrator really wants to have control, which paradoxically leads him to have less control. Meanwhile Benrey doesn't care how much control he has, which paradoxically leads him to having more.)

Additionally: while everyone can be pulled out of their narrator forms into their normal forms, they can't do it on their own, it has to be their (for lack of a better term) game partner. Gordon is the only one who can get Benrey into his normal form. Stanley is the only one who can get the Narrator into his normal form. Vice versa.

So: that's the general stuff, and the Narrator designs. I have written down in Discord what I think their arcs would be, and how they all parallel each other. Gordon-Narrator and Stanley-Benrey are the biggest parallels, but Stanley and Gordon parallel each other as well (same with Benrey and the Narrator). I'll explain if asked and welcome ideas :3 But first I'm gonna pass the fuck out it's 18 FUCKING DEGREES FARENHEIT WHEN DID IT GET SO COLD

Anyway. Take this exchange I wrote when I first came up with the idea of this AU that's basically a script of how I thought I would write this (I didn't have it be post-canon beforehand, and I really should've had Gordon actually talk more, but I got enraptured by writing the Narrator he was so fun to write but also so anxiety inducing but also I am cringe yet I am free)

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Uhhhh fleshed out relationship chart for the tsp hlvrai parable crossover that I made at six in the morning. You get me I'll elaborate if asked

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We’ve got more family members now, Alice Angel is the adopted younger sister of Narrator and Glados because the yellow theme, and Roxanne Wolf is her wife (added by @beastly-ghastly-thing)(poor narrator, man is literally divorce and his cousins and younger sister are married lmao)

Also here is a list of oldest to youngest cuz why not?

Abby Palmer

Glados

Cecil Palmer

Benrey

The Narrator

Alice Angel

I love this au so much sjdvjsbsjsbs

This guy has the best (worst) au ever made, the fucked up family au. It includes Cecil Palmer, Abby Palmer (his sister), the Narrator from Stanley parable, Glados/Caroline from Portal, Benrey from HLVRAI and Archangel Gabriel from the Mandela Catalog.

Ok hear me out I know that sounds insane but this is tumblr what do you expect.

Now I know I forgot Abby in this but pretend she’s there okay? This is the best diagram I could make of this. Narrator and Glados are siblings because I say so (Glados is older), and everyone, except Gabe are cousins. They have taken over my mind tbh

Gabe thinks he’s smarter and better then the Night Vale Erkias so he gets frequently beat up by them, as you can see no one tries to stop them

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please tell me more about your au with benrey x gordon x barney

like I want to know how benrey and barney are specifically, i'm very curious

I am SO SO GLAD that you're asking about my lore/ship because I want to share more about my goobers and their universe!

Note: I do NOT know the entirety of Half-Life. I was making lore for my TSP (The Stanley Parable) universe which is a part of a multiverse. I watched HLVRAI by mistake when I mistook Benry for Barney and I just love HLVRAI and Benry that it’s hard not to put it in the lore.

About the Ship - GeeBees:

A proper love triangle where all three love, respect, and care for each other.

Gordon (he/him; FTM) is curious and everything about Benry fascinates him. Barney and Gordon are childhood friends and had become lovers after HL2 with Barney helping Gordon recover. Gordon would much prefer both his lovers safe and unhurt but understood that that'll happen once the Resistance finds a bigger base for shelter. Now, he stays at home taking care of himself and helping when needed, otherwise, he'd cuddle Benry and Barney when one or both are back home. He enjoys giving and receiving physical affection to his lovers and despises silence, so it's a blessing to have two lovers who make all the sounds they want around him. He was the reason why Benry sleeps between him and Barney after Benry warded off G-Man one night.

Benry is healing with Gordon and Barney for the better, he helps around with them and the Resistance base, and his affection is reciprocated and returned tenfold, it’s worse in a good way when Gordon and Barney proudly one-up Benry’s weirdness. He adores Gordon and is happy that he doesn't find him weird in a bad way and it does surprise him at first back at the simulation, but he grew to love his curious yet freaky nature of Gordon as he'd too learn new things about himself (like his true form(s), shapeshifting and purring). Barney and Benry just GET each other as they've experienced being left in the background and Barney could easily pick up Benry who is fine with being carried by hot people.

Barney had always been taking care of the two and making sure to not lose Gordon again, because of Benrey, Barney feels validated on his feelings and anxieties while also letting Benry help him around, though he does like to lightheartedly tease Benry. Barney and Gordon being childhood friends helped a lot on their relationship and meeting Benry somehow strengthened their bond as the duo became a trio. Benry and Gordon would pay Barney back for taking care of them by taking care of him too. Benry even helps by shapeshifting into Barney to take his place at Combine when Barney's unable to work. And when Barney's anxieties get to him, Benry can purr and sing some blue balls into his mouth to calm him.

More on the Giftverse AU and how GeeBees got along under "Keep Reading" cuz' this is too long ^^;

If you or anyone reading this has questions, reblog, comment/reply, DM, and even ASK me because I'd love to tell more! ^^

I have AUs for this ship, just to let you know ^^

What happened in this AU?

The interesting things that happened BEFORE that: 

Benrey and the Science Team (Tommy, Bubby, Dr. Coomer, Darnold, and Forzen) were put into a simulation that would later be HLVRAI.

Gordon and Barney are childhood friends who managed to stay in contact and meet again in Black Mesa.

After Black Mesa put Benrey and his Science Team in the simulation, they all were put into this sort of hibernation until a player arrived and dons the in-game HEV suit as “Gordon Freeman”. This happened 3 times, according to Benry, and the gameplay is different each time. Before being put in the simulation though, Benrey took and hid a master code of the simulation which lets him do whatever he wants with the map and story of the game. The first “player” (2010) was a guide who helped take the Science Team around the Black Mesa map, and Benry named them “Puter”. Sadly, Puter’s data and memory were erased to make way for the second player (2020) “Feetman” and started what we all know as “HLVRAI” and Benry changed the story and gameplay of the simulation because he thought it was boring.

The third player (2030), after the simulation erased the data and memory of the game model, is both Gordon and Barney who exchange because Gordon takes mandatory naps to recover from his PTSD and morphine rehab, and Benrey feels hope on leaving the simulation just to see them face-to-face.

After the events of ResCas and Gordon waking up from Stasis to Half-Life 2, Gordon gets together with Barney and maintains a platonic/sibling bond with Alyx, who then gets taken to Stasis by G-Man. Gordon HAS witnessed Eli dying, only to see him fine yet grieving Alyx’s disappearance (2020). That made Gordon DESPISE G-Man.

How GeeBees met?

Gordon and Barney reside together in the White Forest Resistance base. The apocalypse is nearing its end (2030), but Gordon and Barney are more happy about being a couple after so long. One day though, Gordon opened the door to G-Man who gave him an errand of the day: Play a game and retrieve something important, and as he appeared, he left suddenly. He also left a Playstation 2 console in a box by Gordon’s doorstep, and Barney helped Gordon set it up while unsure of what G-Man was planning. Along with the console was a VR set and a game CD with a blank cover and “Half-Life VR” written on the disc with black marker.

Gordon put on the game and the headset, he expected anything but a shitty yet semi-accurate environment that was the entrance of Black Mesa. Barney, who was behind Gordon and watching the TV screen, couldn’t believe it either. Gordon was starting to panic as he remembered all that happened during the day ResCas happened and Barney and Gordon were trying to figure out who was sick enough to make a game on the thing that started the apocalypse and what would they say to Eli and Issac. All their worries were halted after they heard a deadpan voice “hey. can i see your passport?”. And that’s when their lives changed for the better.

Long story short: Gordon and Barney take turns playing the game with Benry and the Science Team guiding them, Gordon’s worries about the game lessened when important events that had happened were changed into something more lighthearted. After playing the game (which Gordon and Barney didn’t want to do), Benrey managed to get him and the Science Team into Gordon and Barney’s shared phone before Gordon and Barney could figure out how to get them out of the digital space. 

After that, Benrey stays with Gordon and Barney while everyone else wants to live elsewhere around the base. It was tough for the Science Team to come to terms with the fact that they were no longer in a simulation and that the ResCas was an actual event (and also the fact that Benrey is meeting the ACTUAL infamous Gordon Freeman who he first heard from the researchers before he was put into the simulation) but in the end, they want to help the Resistance.

More does happen after, Issac adopts Bubby as his brother (Bubby being cloned from Issac), Tommy helps with retrieving Alyx and another OC of mine out of G-Man’s Stasis, and Benrey helps Barney by shapeshifting as him at Combine as well as getting to sleep between Gordon and Barney to keep G-Man away.

And this is practically fanon in my lore, but Giftverse! Gordon, Barney, and Benry get to meet their alternate AU versions of themselves.

Sorry this is too long, so here's Benry's "Gordon Freakman"

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Ok so like....I have this very important ongoing au that is sort of a gift for my friend (@otherworldlyoddities45) and sort of just me being quirky. It's a Half Life/HLVRAI actor au, but instead of the plot itself being acted out by the characters they are actually filming a movie series called The Divine Comedy: An Exploration of True Nature written by G' and Ga-men (our versions of G-man, G' is canon G-man and Ga-men is the HLVRAI G-man) for their special lil guys. Yeah. More stuff below the cut, and yes Evil G-man is the Hunt Down the Freeman G-man he is my skrunk ok ok

Actors: G', Ga-men, Evil G-man, Gordon Freeman, Gordon Feetman, Alyx Vance, Barney Calhoun, Adrian Sheppard, Eli Vance, Issac Kleiner, Russell, Wallace Breen, Arne Magnussen, Mitchell Sheppard, Benrey, Harold Coomer, Bubby, Tommy Coolatta, Darnold Pepper, Forzen Sheppard, Chell Director: The Narrator (yeah The Stanley Parable one)

Camera man: Stanley Parable, W.D. Gaster

Set Designers: Kuria (Ga-men's mother), The Supervisor (G's...parent figure thing)

Makeup and hair: Luciana (Ga-men's other mom), Lesley (Don't Hug Me I'm Scared)

Costumes: Lesley again, Doc Scratch (Homestuck)

Special Effects: The Collector (The Owl House), All G-men

Ok so this is the basic idea of the plot. Quick note all characters in the movies are based off the people who play them! It is also very camp and early sci-fi, the costumes are very over-the-top and the makeup is quite dramatic. Also uhh the planets are all kinda like in kid's shows where they are for one thing in particular because it's fun. Ok so both spirits, The Spirit of Knowledge (G') and The Spirit of Curiosity (Ga-men) wish to help this new universe they have. This universe is ran by the Spirit of Uncertainty (Evil G-man because he would be interesting as an opposing force hehe) who is...not a great guide.

Each Spirit chooses their group of adventurers, both starting with their Gordons. Both Gordons are just...normal guys, just like in canon. They are both given the title of The Focal Point, Freeman is just The Focal Point and Feetman is Focal Point (2). Freeman is focused on first as he begins to travel with Knowledge.

They meet The Guard (played by Barney). The Guard was set to watch something that is now long gone but he still has a loyalty to it so he never left. He lives on the Planet of the Princess's Heart. Gordon encourages him to come with, and he goes gladly. He admits to his loniless, and that he regrets staying so long in a way but he knew it was the best thing he could have done.

They then go to the Planet of Gears and meet The Tinkerer (Alyx), The Leader (Eli), and The Guide (Russell). Tinkerer looks to the stars, waiting for someone to come home as she builds machines and learns about the worlds outside hers from her father and Guide. Leader helps her, showing her how to map the stars and know what was coming. She jumps at the opportunity to go explore the world, and Leader goes as well. Guide stays behind, but makes sure to keep in touch.

The last person they meet that joins their group is The Crafter (Kleiner), who lives alone inside a glass planet. He was put there to experiment with teleportation after The Critic (Magunessen) and The Administrator (Breen) set him up to it. Administrator was told to do it by Uncertainty, but Critic was simply jealous of Crafter. It was made to be an impossible task as they equipment he was given had no chance of ever making him reach to the nearest planet. He actually does in the end, landing right onto the ship since it finally drew close enough for the teleportation technology to work.

The other Gordon also is exploring and meeting people, starting with The Gatekeeper (Benrey) who bars him from going any further for... obvious reasons, and joins to "keep an eye" on Gordon. He does make a promise that as long Gordon behaved that he could keep Gordon safe.

The next person they meet is The Researcher (Tommy) who lives alone in an expansive library with his dog and a mysterious father figure, who turns out just to be Curiosity. He has everything he could ever want except friends. Gordon and Gatekeeper get lost in the library, and Tommy shows them all the secret passages back to their ship. They offer to take him with them and he gladly goes with the two, hopeful and glad to make friends.

The next person they meet is The Robot (Coomer), a robotic servant left alone in a manor. He is pretty rusty and old, his mind slowly breaking down, and he tries to attack them at first. He doesn't want to hurt them, he just wants out of this prison. All three offer to take him with them, and he readily agrees. Curiosity renames him The Boxer.

They then meet The Spaceman (Bubby) who is stuck in his Space Ship and has been for years. The crew find out he is surrounded by prototypes of himself, and he's been using their parts to fix his ship as he had nothing else. Once they free him he demands to join them and they say yes.

There is also a little (hehe) opposing force being collected by Uncertainty, which consists of The Soldier (Adrian), The Hunter (Mitchell), The Marked (Forzen), The Brawler (Chell) and The Mixer (Darnold). Soldier and Marked both agreed to help Uncertainty because Hunter thought it was a good idea, and they had previously been in charge of protection of the denizens of the universe. Mixer stayed with Marked because they are very close and care for each other. Brawler is barely part of the team and leaves as soon as she stops enjoying her job.

Soldier ends up joining Knowledge's team since he can't deal with how childish Uncertainty acts and how horribly he runs things. He also hates being used like a toy. While he clashes a lot with the other members, he still find this better then the alternative. Hunter is the only one that really wants to help Uncertainty because he feels it gives him a purpose. He also wants to prove that he is just as good as his older brother, that he isn't just second fiddle. While he isn't dangerous to either group, he's persistent and fairly annoying.

Marked and Mixer are rarely seen without each other. Marked has separation anxiety and he can't stick too close to his brothers without them getting upset. Mixer eventually convinces him that this whole thing isn't worth it and they strike off on their own so they can be their own people. They do act as helpers towards Focal Point (2)'s team.

That's all I really have for now but comments and stuff are always welcome!!!

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ben and narrator gordon

(do not tag as ship.)

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gonna hop back onto the Adopt Me! Grind after this buuut i got around to making a proper ref for narrator gordon

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stanley parable vrai au but gordons the narrator and benreys of course the protag. benrey is human like in my hc's but instead of working at BM as a security guard he works a desk job. he still steals bm stuff to play along the "nonhuman" stuff (including the wowozela v2 etc but no final boss mech of himself. Good!)

one day he falls asleep on the job and wakes up to find the place utterly empty. every phone call leads to a "call back later!" and it seems like..everythings still working. like its on auto.

^ narrator gordon concept design. if ppl are interested i'll make the benrey one.

this isn't like. gonna end in frenrey btw they both hate eachother despite becoming "friends". i think he still uses "peeper puppies" and other names to just piss off benrey even more (< benreys kinda got his hands on documents that he wasn't supposed to have. lol)

he has a "solid" form aswell that looks like hes coming from the floor/wall/ceiling, its some weird tar-texture stuff that makes one instantly gain goosebumps. benreys still the big asshole he is here.

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first meeting turned sour.

character meets narrator.

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i wont hesitate to kill my heart and mind.

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shitty doodles of narrator gordon LMAO

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some more benrey parable aus. gordons arms can retract and appear from his hair since hes all shadow

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narrator gordon thingy for my benrey parable au. hes sooo funny but also. kinda fucked up. i heard he once made a room upside down for the shits and giggles.

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reworking many things of this au LOL