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• What Remains by imontape

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

  • Not Rated
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • F/M
  • Complete Work

  24 May 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Gordon Freeman/Original Character(s)
  • Gordon Freeman
  • Gordon Freeman's Ex-Wife (Half-Life VR But the AI Is Self-Aware)
  • Tommy Coolatta
  • Background & Cameo Characters
  • Joshua Freeman
  • Dissociation
  • Paranoia
  • Schizophrenia
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Post-Murder Domesticity
  • Hallucinations
  • Unreliable Narrator
  • Implied/Referenced Domestic Violence
  • Necrophilia

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  1,192

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Kudos:

  5

  Hits:

  55

• Only When It’s Quiet by imontape

  Fandoms: Half-Life (Video Games)  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  22 Dec 2024

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Barney Calhoun/Gordon Freeman
  • Gordon Freemind/Barney Calhoun
  • Gordon Freeman
  • Gordon Freemind
  • Barney Calhoun
  • Background & Cameo Characters
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Freeman's Mind Series (Half-Life)
  • Crossover
  • Implied/Referenced Drug Use
  • Drug Withdrawal
  • Drug Addiction
  • Slow Burn
  • Homophobic Language
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Black Mesa (Half-Life)
  • Implied/Referenced Self-Harm
  • (Mind does not self harm or have an eating disorder)
  • Eventual Smut
  • Co-workers
  • Heavy Drinking
  • Drinking & Talking
  • Misunderstandings
  • Miscommunication
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • I Was Drunk When I Wrote This

  Summary

  Barney and Freemind navigate their friendship and not-so secret feelings for each other. Freemind is a druggie mentally ill asshole, and Barney is a fucked up mentally ill asshole (that’s trying his best!).

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  3,626

  Chapters:

  1/?

  Kudos:

  7

  Bookmarks:

  3

  Hits:

  161