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• Sadboy Hours parts 2 to 4 because i stopped caring about hlvrai oops by Frostythespacecat

  Fandoms: Half-Life VR But the AI is Self-Aware (Web Series)  

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  10 Mar 2025

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  • i've decided just now that i'm not tagging characters
  • anyway benrey is going to use several pronouns so just roll with it okay
  • there's a lot of barely contained lore in this one
  • including stuff being a game but also being real
  • so there's going to be a hard swerve where it'll seem like there's contradictions but that's just sort of how it goes
  • it'd make more sense if i ever got around to actually explaining the lore more properly so like if anyone reads this and wants to know i'll explain

  Summary

  the stuff between benrey respawning and gordon coming out to them as trans, basically
  posting because i've finally come to terms with the fact that i might never come back to this but someone somewhere might still care

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  • Part 2 of documents/writing/hl/vrai/benrey sadboy hours

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• breaking news! catboy enjoys cuddles by Frostythespacecat

  Fandoms: Half Life VR But The AI Is Self Aware  

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  • M/M, Other
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  27 Apr 2021

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  • Benrey/Gordon Freeman
  • Benrey (Half-Life)
  • Gordos Feetman
  • Joshua Freeman
  • Cuddling
  • Sharing a Bed
  • i really don't know how to tag this
  • listen i have not been sleeping well
  • but once again my brain grabbed me and forced me to write this in one day
  • casual use of eldritch powers
  • potentially wildly inaccurate portrayal of how those powers work
  • But it's my fic and I make the rules
  • me attempting to write a child of unmentioned age
  • idk if i'm supposed to take with the slash or the ampersand for this
  • could be read as romantic or queerplatonic both are good options
  • not edited or beta read
  • i am a simple person who types words and then hates them 5 seconds later
  • so i just do not reread what i've written unless i Have to

  Summary

  i'm serious about those first two additional tags this is literally just "cuddling in bed (but one of us is sleeping), ft josh having a bad dream off screen"

  Series

  • Part 2 of is it gay to kiss your gaming buddy?

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• the void is cool but it doesn't have dogs so what's even the point by Frostythespacecat

  Fandoms: Half Life VR But The AI Is Self Aware  

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  25 Apr 2021

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  • Benrey & Tommy Coolatta
  • Benrey (Half-Life)
  • Gordos Feetman
  • tommy and sunkist are here but i physically couldn't get the dialogue to work so
  • dont expect much from either of them
  • Nonbinary Benrey (Half-Life)
  • he/they/xer pronouns for benrey
  • the first draft of this just had them swap out at random but i couldnt keep track so now were here
  • fun fact the pronoun swaps are where i wrote some and then dropped this for a week
  • and then came back to it and did the next part
  • sneak peek at gordons hair care routine by way of benrey going "thats too many bottles stop that"
  • can you tell i really don't know how to tag this?
  • anyway here's the beginning of yet another post canon roommates story
  • very vague hints toward benrey's past with zero follow through on explaining it
  • but don't worry the part explaining it is already completely written
  • i just refuse to post it yet
  • also the last 300 or so words were written over the last hour and i refuse to look at them more
  • the rest was edited though so hopefully it makes sense
  • why is looking at this screen making my anxiety act up

  Summary

  The void isn't a very fun place. By definition, it's nothingness brought to realization. It's quiet and empty and so much larger than anyone could anticipate. But that isn't necessarily a bad thing. When you've just come from loud and cramped and so, so full of people and creatures and everything, the quiet is nice. Peaceful. The twisting and swirling galaxies, just out of reach, paint a good backdrop for anyone who might be around.
  //
  Benrey decides to stop being dead after everyone killed him.

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  • Part 1 of documents/writing/hl/vrai/benrey sadboy hours

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• When Counting Sheep Doesn't Work by Frostythespacecat

  Fandoms: Half-Life  

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  23 Apr 2021

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  • Gordon Freeman
  • Barney Calhoun
  • Alyx says half a line from the other room
  • the vaguest of hints to gordon's childhood that don't explain anything at all
  • gordon has anxiety
  • gordon also has ptsd but honestly who in the half life universe doesn't
  • there's some guns for a moment but don't worry they all have the safety on
  • anyway back at it again giving a gordon problems sleeping
  • idk what determines if something is a drabble but this is like less than 300 words so. you know

  Summary

  In any given bedroom, there are at least two points of entry: the door(s) and window(s)
  Depending on the size and layout of the room, someone entering would have near complete advantage over anyone sleeping in the room, given that the sleeping person has to wake up, find a weapon, and aim it in the time between the door opening and the intruder pointing their own at said person in the room
  Closets, however, have a single point of entry. And if you happen to be laying on the floor of said closet, you're much less likely to be noticed quickly.

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• sometimes your brain just goes "hey you really wanna kiss someone" and then never elaborates by Frostythespacecat

  Fandoms: Half Life VR But The AI Is Self Aware  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
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  • M/M, Other
  • Complete Work

  19 Apr 2021

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  • Benrey/Gordon Freeman
  • Benrey (Half-Life)
  • Gordos Feetman
  • They/Themrey
  • They/Them Pronouns For Benrey (Half-Life)
  • casually elderitch benrey
  • mostly descriptionless shape-shifting
  • benrey just gives themself some more eyes for a while it's fine
  • a little bit of internalized aphobia on gordon's part
  • Aroace Gordon
  • he thinks kissing is nice though
  • nonbinary ace but also vaguely mlm benrey
  • using human based identity words is hard when you're a shape-shifting alien but also men good thanks
  • they kiss but idk how to describe things so haha that's all you get is it sure happens
  • not beta read or edited
  • i just typed words on my phone and then copypasted
  • raiting is because i finally left my comfort zone and typed 3 rude words

  Summary

  sometimes a guy makes a funny joke about robbing banks while everyone's fighting for their lives and you laugh because ha yeah right
  It's less fun when he brings it up again after everyone's made it out and the final boss has stumbled out of the afterlife to hang out and try to regain everyone's trust
  so sometimes, you gotta keep an eye on your friend when he's in a mood
  it's all fun and games until he gets bored

  Series

  • Part 1 of is it gay to kiss your gaming buddy?

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