the aftermath of the final act boss battle
benrey again!! it took me a bit of time to finish this cause for some reason i had a hard time feeling satisfied with it but! i think im pretty proud of the final result
also thank you guys so so much for all the notes on the last post im so so grateful ❤️❤️
here’s the first sketch!
me and my wife if we were animated creatures
CANDY KINGDOM PRIDE PARADE?
Love them
i am on the verge of fuckung tears ACTUALLY
“Thank you for taking care of me, Max.“ “Sam, don’t…” “No, really. I wasn’t me anymore. And I never would have wanted to force you to–" “Oh, shut up about that. Nobody forced me to do anything. I’d lug you around for centuries if I had to. We’re partners, right?”
fanart or… i guess a fan comic of my favorite sam and max fic “Together Forever” ive wanted to make something for it for over a month, and i could never decide what scenes to portray so it spiraled into me spending three days on this! if you havent read it before, please check it out!!
sure, being a rebel acting as a metrocop was awful, but it was your life for years and years. eventually the brutality and violence became apart of the routine… and then suddenly you’re free from that routine.
i’m inclined to believe that barney was thankful for what gordon did, but it had to be beyond stressful to see the life you’d built up crumble that easily. no more safety nets, no more extra rations, no way to inform your friends of raids. his role in the rebellion, and specific use to them was gone.
on the subject… the rebellion probably was a quiet, underground affair pre gordon returning (which fascinates me in a lot of ways that are beyond the scope of this post) and barney as a character seems to be okay with this sort of flow. that’s not to discredit him, the man can very clearly hold his own, but blue-shift is basically “escape black mesa without anyone noticing” simulator, and his role as a spy is in a very similar ballpark to that. i don’t know if he ever intended to be a, ‘public figure’, but gordon sort of forced him in a position where he had to be.
there was no possible return to ‘normal’ life or society for barney because of gordon,
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thinking about barney having to give up his privilege of blending in w/ the combine in episode 1