history: I have a sister 6 years older than me who has the biggest collection of movies and books and video games and everything that I've ever seen and most of my interests come from her interest in them too, including valve games! I grew up watching her play left 4 dead and half-life and portal and I thought they were really cool, and eventually started playing these (and TF2) for myself. fun fact, I misremembered Gordon as being the name of a Left 4 Dead character for a lot of my childhood lmao. In TF2 I'm a medic main and in L4D I like francis, ellis, and coach! I installed half-life and half-life 2 for myself around my 16th birthday and got softlocked in the middle of both of them. my favorite character is barney my favorite creature is the bullsquid

anyway when I was 15, half life vr but the ai is self aware came out, and I liked it a lot it's a very good series. the characters are all very dear to me (I don't really have a favorite now but it used to be bubby. I have a keychain of him in his tube attached to my lanyard lol. I also have the benrey hoodie and plushie). was super active in the community for a while in 2020-2021 under the username chirallepton (and caramellsansen for a bit) made a lot of fan art...was part of a PMV collab...eek....I had everything made back then archived for a while (and deleted from tumblr), but I'm chill with it back out in the open. here's the majority of my old hlvrai art right here (ALL very low quality and screenshotted from instagram. PC exploded in 2022 and I lost all files):