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Age: 32
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Character: Gordon Freeman
Age: 23
Canon: Half-Life series
Canon Point: Just after ep. 2

Background:

Gordon's wiki Entry

Half-Life's Storyline
Summary: One day Gordon unknowingly participates in an experiment that ends the world as he knows it. Monsters start popping out of nowhere from another world and marines come in to close the facility down and everyone in it... with bullets. Gordon winds up fighting to fix the problem and escape, but he finds out that something Big and Ugly has taken the oppertunity to invade from the other world. He travels there and hunts the thing down with no guarentee of returning home. About that time, he realizes that the experiment wasn't completely an accident, and the "Man" responsible has him tucked under the space-time continuum for twenty years or so.

Half-Life 2's Storyline
Summary: Gordon is returned the world he fought so hard to un-screw-up, only to find it re-screwed-up by yet another invading alien force known as the Combine. Gordon's lab buddies from twenty years, namely two by the name of Eli Vance and Issac Kleiner, are now the leaders of the resistance force against the Combine. Gordon's efforts back at Black Mesa, and subsequent mysterious disappearance, had turned him into a kind of messianic figure. This is just one tool he uses to eventually wrench the combine from their seat of power, Eli is captured, and Gordon and Eli's daughter Alyx infiltrate the Combine Citadel to save him. The long fight finally culminates in the destruction of a massive Dark Energy reactor at the top of the Combine Citadel.

Half-Life 2 ep. 1's Storyline
Summary: Dealing with the fallout of the reactor's destruction, and knowing that the citadel's core could go critical and destroy the city at any moment, Gordon, Alyx, and the members of the resistance have to evacuate before it all goes up in an explosion of exotic particles and death.

Half-Life 2 ep. 2's Storyline
Summary: After said explosion, the massive influx of energy and the shift of fluid tension between worlds causes a massive portal storm over the ruins of the Citadel, causing more random portals to form and random things to teleport in just like the first time back at Black Mesa. Gordon, Alyx, Eli and Issac try to stop the portal storm through the launch of a satellite array from a remote outpost known at White Forest. They succeed, but shortly afterward, and just after Eli calls him "son" for the first time, the combine attack and Eli is horribly killed. The power behind his emotions was more than enough to send him to a place like the world of Empatheas.

Personality:

It's ironic that Gordon Freeman is arguably the grandsire of the modern cinematic FPS protagonist, because his personality is not what one would expect in a genre soaked in bullets and testosterone. With a doctorate in theoretical physics, one of the youngest to be awarded one through MIT, he sees himself as a scientist first and foremost.

He was always an order of magnitude more intelligent than those around him, even as a child, and that made articulating his thoughts a little difficult. He would constantly talk over other people's heads, and take two leaps in logic where others would only take one and he couldn't understand why no one could keep up with him. This made him frustrated as a child and downright aggressive as a teenager, but adulthood finally tempered it into a quiet awkward sarcasm that is easily steamrolled by chattier characters around him. It's not as though he never speaks, mind, and judging from the stream-of-consciousness babble from the crystal, the still waters run deep (and possibly a little irradiated.)

Gordon works (and fights) smarter, not harder. He consistently looks for a easier solution "outside the box" and lets his environment do the work for him. Furthermore he does have a mischievous streak: he was known for pranks and shenanigans back at Black Mesa, and they're the kind of pranks that can only happen from someone with an extensive knowledge of electromagnetics and too much free time on their hands.

Gordon is highly analytical, thinking of almost anything in terms of strategy. He's an impulsive problem-solver, to the point where people have had to physically pull him away from a problem he couldn't figure out.

Being as he is a theoretical physicist, he's one of the few hard scientists that can get away with saying "why not" to match everyone else's "why." If something flies in the face of his conventional science studies--someone busts out some "magic" for instance, or he finds himself in conversation with a ghost or spirit--he just considers there's some avenue of the sciences that explains it that they haven't figured out yet. This mindset was an essential survival tactic out in New Mexico and in City 17; if he had been a chemist, he would've lost his mind a LONG time ago.

Lastly he's surprisingly active, for someone of the lab-coated persuasion. Even before the "accident" He was an avid hiker and a sprinter in college. Being in such good shape was a reason that he was chosen for the HEV suit training program in the first place.

Abilities:

High intelligence: Gordon's training as a scientist and his quick, analytical mind make him an excellent tactician. This impulse was only reinforced when he was thrown up against the impossible odds the Combine stacked against him. He tends to let the laws of physics do the work for him, whether it's rigging up a drinking bird desk toy to do his programming for the day, or using a suspended car to squash a crowd of encroaching zombies.

Weapons and weaponization: Gordon has an uncanny tendency to be able to pick up any ranged weapon and use it with little or no instruction. His aim is good, although not perfect. Furthermore, he can also use contraptions and gizmos that weren't originally meant to be weapons to devastating effect. This applies to everything from crowbars, to advanced laser machinery, to automobiles. This isn't through malicious intent; He just has a tendency to find the most violent possible use for things, and it gave him an advantage against the hordes of creatures, soldiers, offworld aliens and zombies that have all tried to kill him in one way or another.

HEV suit: Gordon's trademark orange-and-grey hazard suit has been with him since the Black Mesa incident, and if it weren't for it he would have died a hundred times over. The suit primarily is meant to protect against impacts, punctures and radiation, and provides minor augmentations to speed and strength to offset its weight on the average reedy scientists' body. His current Mark IV version has a built-in geiger counter, a weapons selection system that can provide any of a LARGE number of items and weapons at his fingertips, and an onboard medical system that can set bones, stem bleeding, and provide painkillers and antitoxin.

Alignment: Thras

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