Theory: What if Benrey and Gordon WERE friends before HLVRAI, because that Gordon was just part of the code and Benrey was the only sentient thing in the game before Player Gordon/WayneGordon came in?
Salazzle Dazzle I’ll hit you with another whopper: What if the true premise that benrey begins asking for his passport and following him everywhere is that he suspected Gordon was acting differently, but didn’t want to bring it up so he wouldn’t be offensive until the whole I thought we were friends etc and memories stuff and benreys like “oh shit,,,,, , either he really changed or that’s not the Gordon I know, either way we aren’t friends anymore” Might not be solid? But definitely angsty
My heart just died reading this. It would fit so well into the story if that was the case. And Benrey knew he couldn’t save his Gordon after WayneGordon took over and probably did mess everything up with the experiment. Which we have to assume was possibly a normal procedure that never really went wrong, before the player joins at least. So he just lost his best friend and his entire world just got messed up by this imposter too.
Headcannon: Benry's AI has always been aware and able to break the game becomming hella bored as no one seemed to get his humor.... Then Gordon chuckled at his whole passport thing. Half of the insane shit Benrey does it just to get Gordon to laugh (and it works)..... And even became the bad guy because he thought that's what Gordon wanted....
@Darogan Heart my take on the series is that benrey just is chilling, maybe being a bit antagonizing and Gordon is just quite rude to him, sure toward the end he betrayed Gordon, but so did Bubby and Bubby only felt remorse when he got stuck back in his tube. Then at the very end benrey wasn't tryna be mean, and gordom just went to straight up shooting him. Honestly whole series Benreys just vibin and gordon can't handle that. And yeah you could say Benrey killed people so thats why he's a character who is pure evil, but bubby and dr. Coomer also killed alot of innocent people. So if the only true good characters are darnold and Tommy.
Love when Benrey is portrayed as the "idk what I'm doing here, but I'm sure having fun" kind of thing, fits him more than knowing that he has to be an eldritch demon(since that's actually what it was like for him, Scorpy had never played HL1 so for him, it was all strange and weird so he was amazed at just about everything)
Are you trying to make me ironically to unironically liking this ship? Because it's working But seriously, I can't wait to see the finish product. Your artstyle speaks for itself!! Keep it going!
This song is my jam and you’re gonna make me cry over chaotic fictional characters?? Keep up the phenomenal work, this is honestly so well made- Here’s wishing you the best in all of your future endeavors 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
WHAT whaT HUH I LOVE THIS SONG AND??? TH8S LOOKS SO GREAT SO FAR.. I LOV THAT U INCLUDED A TON OF SCENES WITH BENREY AND GORDON IM GONA SSCR I CANT WAIT .TO SEE THIS DONE
My heart beats so fast when watching this! "It's you, It's you, It's all for you!" I can't get it out of my head, I love it so much cuz it works extremely well with the finale act, when Gordon says to Benrey, "It's you, man!"
Fuck me man, that moment where benrey finally realizes that everything he did that were only jokes and poking fun for him, Gordon took as threats. You can see the moment his heart breaks when he realizes that Gordon actually hates him for real and its not a game anymore
I adore the zoom on the arcade cabinet with HEV suit Gordon walking by on screen!! It's a title card, it's recognizable, it's a transition, it's acts like a screen wipe-- All the art is wonderful, but I am positively enraptured by those few seconds!
This animatic lives rent free in my mind constantly. With how well done the expressions are, the scenes from Benry's POV, the soft sadness behind it all. I think about it daily
0:12 imagine: benrey and gordon go the adoption center and see you gordon: i want THAT one benrey: idk... shes kind of ugly gordon: benrey.... it's whats on the inside that counts they adopt you (if you dont know what this is from, bless your soul)
omfg i love this so much???? like actually the expressions are so good!! and i just,,, i just??? i cant express how excited i am to see the finished product
Found my way back to HLVRAI series and knew from the start that I needed to come back and find this video. Brilliant video, still gives me all the joy it did last time round :)
Not sure if I commented already but I’ve watched this so many times and I just!!!! Really love this!!!! Every part of it is lovely and I just!!!! mAN I love it!!!!!!
Okay so, im not sure if you read comments but. Just know this is the animatic I show to all my friends who get into hlvrai without fail. This is the animatic that everytime I think about it my chest buzzes with excitment and emotion. This is the animatic that I just can't help coming back to over and over. I have no idea what you've done but even through a wip you've just made me feel so many things seriously I have no idea how to express how much I a d o r e this , like christ chdjxhxjsh.
.... So i just got super attached to this, and have watched it easily twenty times in a row, and now have many ideas for a canon divergent fanfic for the ending battle because holy shit. Also I just rattled off like... five paragraphs to my friends in a discord chat about the recreation of the final battle and was half tempted to copy past them here, but I feel like it would take a few comments cause im so??? emotional over this??? like holy shit-
I remember seeing this like months ago and reading it and i just watched this again, and remembered this. Bout to reread an entire fic again but im so happy i found it again because it’s been sitting in the back of my skull
this randomly came back up in my recommendeds almost exactly 2 years to the date it was posted. still holds up as a really good animatic, always get a kick out of gordon/benrey interpretations, and seeing such a good animatic to one of my favorite covers is really fun
Goooood, I come back and watch this every now and then when I get back into hlvrai, and every time I have to watch it like ten times in a row and try not to cry every time 😭😭😭
I don't know how I feel about the fans shipping them but like ??? I love this??? It's just generally feelsy with a wholesome seeming end??? And I live your art style??? Help???
Your art is like kisses to my brain I have watched this like 5 times.... (also who’s cover is this because I am absolutely in love w how it works w the animation 🥺)
Theory: What if Benrey and Gordon WERE friends before HLVRAI, because that Gordon was just part of the code and Benrey was the only sentient thing in the game before Player Gordon/WayneGordon came in?
Salazzle Dazzle I’ll hit you with another whopper:
What if the true premise that benrey begins asking for his passport and following him everywhere is that he suspected Gordon was acting differently, but didn’t want to bring it up so he wouldn’t be offensive until the whole I thought we were friends etc and memories stuff and benreys like “oh shit,,,,, , either he really changed or that’s not the Gordon I know, either way we aren’t friends anymore”
Might not be solid? But definitely angsty
And all that random insane makes-no-sense stuff Benrey says were inside jokes perhaps, that His Gordon would know..?
Wow this comment thread just took HLVRAI to a whole new level......
And I love it.
@@Nizati "don't steal anything I have to follow you so he won't beat u up"
My heart just died reading this. It would fit so well into the story if that was the case. And Benrey knew he couldn’t save his Gordon after WayneGordon took over and probably did mess everything up with the experiment. Which we have to assume was possibly a normal procedure that never really went wrong, before the player joins at least. So he just lost his best friend and his entire world just got messed up by this imposter too.
Headcannon: Benry's AI has always been aware and able to break the game becomming hella bored as no one seemed to get his humor.... Then Gordon chuckled at his whole passport thing. Half of the insane shit Benrey does it just to get Gordon to laugh (and it works)..... And even became the bad guy because he thought that's what Gordon wanted....
This... this makes my bones hurt
didn’t know I needed BenreY in an MIT hoodie until now
feverentAcolyte AKA Gryf he stole it from Gordon LOL
@@Zlinky.4220 maybe he borrowed it from Gordon 👀
@@direwolffrost9220 oop
"Hey Gordon good job inserting that quarter and all, glad to see your M.I.T. education really pays for itself"
- Barney
BENREY HAS AN MIT HOODIE
He’s wearing Gordon’s hoodie aaaaaa
I love your interpretation of benry as more innocent than a lot of people make him out to be good job 👍
Darogan Heart maybe breen, perhaps?
We doesn’t wanna be baaaaad but he was forced to be baaaaad
the dude is both innocent and cursed at the same time, how does one just, embody that engery
@Darogan Heart my take on the series is that benrey just is chilling, maybe being a bit antagonizing and Gordon is just quite rude to him, sure toward the end he betrayed Gordon, but so did Bubby and Bubby only felt remorse when he got stuck back in his tube. Then at the very end benrey wasn't tryna be mean, and gordom just went to straight up shooting him. Honestly whole series Benreys just vibin and gordon can't handle that. And yeah you could say Benrey killed people so thats why he's a character who is pure evil, but bubby and dr. Coomer also killed alot of innocent people. So if the only true good characters are darnold and Tommy.
Jayaratne Batepola it’s been spelt as both throughout the series it’s never been canonized one way or the other
Love when Benrey is portrayed as the "idk what I'm doing here, but I'm sure having fun" kind of thing, fits him more than knowing that he has to be an eldritch demon(since that's actually what it was like for him, Scorpy had never played HL1 so for him, it was all strange and weird so he was amazed at just about everything)
Also btw, I'm very jealous of your style even if this is technically rough sketches, they still look amazing
Yeah, people seem to forget that this was all improvised. Scorpy probably never planned for Benry to become an eldritch demon
I just realized that Benrey is a god damn tsundere.
Are you trying to make me ironically to unironically liking this ship?
Because it's working
But seriously, I can't wait to see the finish product. Your artstyle speaks for itself!! Keep it going!
*_FRIEND_* - ship
This song is my jam and you’re gonna make me cry over chaotic fictional characters??
Keep up the phenomenal work, this is honestly so well made-
Here’s wishing you the best in all of your future endeavors
👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
GOD YES I VIBE SO HARD WITH THIS SONG SMEKDKSKDKD IT LOOKS GREAT SO FAR!!!!!
THE PAIN IN BENRY’s FACE KILLED ME. I wanna protect this innocent bean. Omg I’m dying I love this.
My will to live: restored
oh man this is so good! critical hit right in my feelings. also love that benrey's wearing an MIT sweatshirt (im guessing its not his?)
correct :>
This made me feel good in side. 😊😊😊
Omfg yes. Im glad somebody else had the exact same idea and more ambition.
WHAT whaT HUH I LOVE THIS SONG AND??? TH8S LOOKS SO GREAT SO FAR.. I LOV THAT U INCLUDED A TON OF SCENES WITH BENREY AND GORDON IM GONA SSCR I CANT WAIT .TO SEE THIS DONE
HES WEARING AN MIT HOODIE WHICH *HAS* TO BE GORDONS OMGGGG
My heart beats so fast when watching this! "It's you, It's you, It's all for you!" I can't get it out of my head, I love it so much cuz it works extremely well with the finale act, when Gordon says to Benrey, "It's you, man!"
aww the MIT hoodie. The expressions at 1:03 were spot-on with the mood of the music and hilarious :D
OH.. it is NOT FAIR how damn good your art is, oh my god.. IM IN LOVE... AHSDFGF ?? AAKGJTKRJKG
Fuck me man, that moment where benrey finally realizes that everything he did that were only jokes and poking fun for him, Gordon took as threats. You can see the moment his heart breaks when he realizes that Gordon actually hates him for real and its not a game anymore
I adore the zoom on the arcade cabinet with HEV suit Gordon walking by on screen!! It's a title card, it's recognizable, it's a transition, it's acts like a screen wipe-- All the art is wonderful, but I am positively enraptured by those few seconds!
This takes an amazing perspective on Benrey, and I love that
How????? Do you make??????? Benrey????????? Be absolute babie????????????????????? 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Okay okay okay I absolutely _adore_ the way you draw benery 🥺🥺
So,, pass it by me again, why is this very underrated? I don't see a justifying reason to that--
OK IM OBSESSED WITH THIS gkfhdkdjdksj i cant express how much i love this
This animatic lives rent free in my mind constantly. With how well done the expressions are, the scenes from Benry's POV, the soft sadness behind it all. I think about it daily
0:12
imagine: benrey and gordon go the adoption center and see you
gordon: i want THAT one
benrey: idk... shes kind of ugly
gordon: benrey.... it's whats on the inside that counts
they adopt you
(if you dont know what this is from, bless your soul)
OHHH MY GODDD .
i don't know what this is from but I L O S T MY FUCKING MIND OVER IT
god i don't even remember what this is from but i remember learning at one point and that's enough.
Gordon you have a goddamn son-
It would have been better if Benrey said “looks a bit shit”
omfg i love this so much???? like actually
the expressions are so good!! and i just,,,
i just??? i cant express how excited i am to see the finished product
Found my way back to HLVRAI series and knew from the start that I needed to come back and find this video. Brilliant video, still gives me all the joy it did last time round :)
YES, this is so amazing!! I love it so far.
Actually genuinely 10000% percent adorable thank u sm for this art
GOSH i think about this video all day every day i want this tattooed on my brain
Not sure if I commented already but I’ve watched this so many times and I just!!!! Really love this!!!! Every part of it is lovely and I just!!!! mAN I love it!!!!!!
Dawwww!! This was so cute!! I loved all the flashbacks to the bonding scenes they had. All the facial expressions were so good!!
I love this so much-
Because of this animatic i have listened to this song on loop for hours, and I don’t regret it.
Okay so, im not sure if you read comments but.
Just know this is the animatic I show to all my friends who get into hlvrai without fail.
This is the animatic that everytime I think about it my chest buzzes with excitment and emotion.
This is the animatic that I just can't help coming back to over and over.
I have no idea what you've done but even through a wip you've just made me feel so many things seriously I have no idea how to express how much I a d o r e this , like christ chdjxhxjsh.
I still think about this animatic
This video and one other have been watched on loop by me the past two weeks I love this so much!!
.... So i just got super attached to this, and have watched it easily twenty times in a row, and now have many ideas for a canon divergent fanfic for the ending battle because holy shit. Also I just rattled off like... five paragraphs to my friends in a discord chat about the recreation of the final battle and was half tempted to copy past them here, but I feel like it would take a few comments cause im so??? emotional over this??? like holy shit-
Oops wrote the thing: archiveofourown.org/works/25645348
I remember seeing this like months ago and reading it and i just watched this again, and remembered this. Bout to reread an entire fic again but im so happy i found it again because it’s been sitting in the back of my skull
Was the fic written btw? :D I'd be interested.
this randomly came back up in my recommendeds almost exactly 2 years to the date it was posted. still holds up as a really good animatic, always get a kick out of gordon/benrey interpretations, and seeing such a good animatic to one of my favorite covers is really fun
The way you draw Benrey makes him look much younger than Gordon and I love that!
this is lovely and perfect and very good. i LOVE how you handle visual storytelling, especially with the chorus montage segment.
hey. hey op. who gave u the right. im crying
than k you for this whole ass MEAL!!!!! your art looks so nice, especially for animatics, and from one artist to another: your hands look gorgeous.
I love this art style, the animator's drawing skill is on point.
AAAAADJFHSJS THIS IS SO GOOD-- it really makes me go 🥺💞
great work so far!! I'm excited for the finished product!! 💖
oh t h is,, it looks amazing so far!!
Goooood, I come back and watch this every now and then when I get back into hlvrai, and every time I have to watch it like ten times in a row and try not to cry every time 😭😭😭
I don't know how I feel about the fans shipping them but like ??? I love this??? It's just generally feelsy with a wholesome seeming end??? And I live your art style??? Help???
AUGH I LOVE THIS WHAT THE HELL-THIS IS GONNA MAKE ME CRY
Oh this looks so nice!! I love the way you line + the song is a mega bop
This is one of the top animatics I can't wait to show my friends once they finish the series
I think this is my favorite animatic ever
this evoked an emotional response its called im CRYING,,, THIS IS TOO GOOD
I really like this!! you did good, man!
hands... so good..... ;^;
I think about this video literally daily, I adore it
seeing benrey without that bit of shade at his eyes makes this a lil cursed
My brain's been repeating *oh my god oh my god oh my god* on loop for the past five minutes
1:06 Benrey used FLIRT.
I love this. I can’t say anything but I love this. Good job!
Oh god i love itttt
Im crying ;-;
Cant wait to finished!
Love itttttttnwodnspndoendoen
💛🖤💛🖤🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛🖤💛
this video makes me so happy i love ur art so muxh T__T 💚💚💚
OH MAN OH FUCK I LOVE THIS SO MUCH?? GOD DAMN,,,YOUR STYLE IS GIVING ME ALL THEM HAPPY CHEMICALS!! HELL YEAH!!
i care this so much this deserves so much more than 1k views i just..... omg i care this animatic....
When you realise benry really was just being a friend and messing around
*YES*
I don't care if this isn't entirely inaccurate this is adorable and sad and my day is saved
I AM GOING TO CRY THIS I LOVED JT
Okay like I just watched this 17 times and I love it so much w-
I like to think of this as an alternate ending where benrey realized what he was doing and became friends with gordon.
I love this interpretation of Benry. Very cute!!
STOPP UR GONNA MAKE ME. CRY THIS IS SO SWEET YET SAD
I’m crying bro this is beautiful
My heart- HHHHNNNNNNNNNNNNNNTHIS IS AMAZING
27 seconds in and im already crying excellent job my dude
AHH this is really good!!
stop making me cry its not fair this is too good
this is a brilliant idea, also, well drawn. overall, very tasty.
HOLY CRAP I LOVE THIS SO MUCH AAAAHHHHHH
Omg so cute😌 edit: now after rewatchk g this a bit past the 1 year anniversary of the series I'm crying and thisakes me sad now
oh i LOVE THIS so much, amazing work
RIGHT IN THE HEAARTTT THIS IS SO CUTE
THANKS A LOT. NOW BECAUSE OF THIS WHENEVER I LISTEN TO THIS SONG I CRY
in a. in a good way
This is heartbreaking. From Benry's perspective, Gordon was just constantly giving mixed signals.
This is amazing!!
oh fucking thanks i have to think about how soft and good this is for the rest of my life
he truly didn’t want to be bad
I'm not crying, you're crying
I don’t even go here but I am emotional oh my GOD. P.S. WONDERFUL song choice oh my god....
R.I.P passports.
this is so adorable i love it so much im gonna cryyy aaaa :')))))
I LOVE THIS SM BRH
It's So Nice Hlvrai 😊
THIS IS SO GOOD
benrey sadstuck moment
WHAT THE FRICK IM CRYING GOODBYE
Your art is like kisses to my brain I have watched this like 5 times.... (also who’s cover is this because I am absolutely in love w how it works w the animation 🥺)
everytime i watch this i cry . but I keep watching it