3 pages of HLVRAI narrative doodles exploring a Benrey synesthesia headcanon:
Benrey watches Gordon having a breakdown and wailing incoherently, but his wails correlate with the pitch the colour orange has in Benrey's mind, which is also the colour he associates with laughter, and so he believes Gordon is laughing. That prompts him to go "yo, funny joke. what?", to which Tommy replies with a worried look, "I don't, this- I don't think Mr Freeman is laughing, Benrey-", which is overlapped by Dr Coomer similarly saying "I don't think he is laughing, Berry.". The orange sweet voice that Benrey had let slip while speaking pop in the moment of realisation.
Benrey telling Dr Coomer and Tommy, "bro, you gotta switch names. username update. colour's not right.". Above Dr Coomer and Tommy's heads are their name acronyms in the colours Benrey associates them with -- Dr Coomer's being yellow and orange, and Tommy's green, orange, yellow, and light blue. He then tells Gordon, "Feetman can keep his name though, 's green," which prompts Gordon to ask, "What's that supposed to mean?". Gordon's name is associated with the colours green and orange, like his HEV suit and glasses. Lastly, Benrey says to Bubby, "Bubby's cool too, i guess.". Bubby's name is associated with the colour periwinkle, which isn't too far from the blue he wears. Bubby responds with a satisfied, "Hell yes."
Gordon asks Tommy, "Wait, Tommy- Tommy," to which Tommy replies, "Yeah?", to which Gordon continues asking, "You can read sweet voice. So you can do that too? Hear colour and...names and...y'know what, I dunno. I'm not a psychiatrist or... whatever it is they-". Tommy cuts him off to confirm that yes, he can read sweet voice, but no he can't do the latter. He says, "No, I had to- to learn to read it from the- from scratch, Mr Freeman. But it wouldn't have been easier if I could. It would have been conf- it would have been worse." He continues to explain, "It's like- it's like if I- if we both imagined, uh, apples and mine were green but yours were red." Gordon tells him a regretful: "...you lost me, bud,", to which Dr Coomer responds, "Come now, Gordon! You must know what apples are. Everyone does!" and Bubby says, "Gordon, do you need to go back to kindergarten?"
Starting from my first few HLVRAI doodles and working my way down, so the first few I post are gonna look kinda wonky. Anyways, have my funny little Benrey chromesthesia comic-thing.
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