Dr. Gordon Freeman is the most-known resistance soldier. He is a theoretical physicist who is forced to defend himself and the human species against hostile aliens and other enemies following an experiment gone wrong. In the process, he becomes an almost legendary resistance hero, eventually becoming one of the leaders of an uprising against the Combine in Golmar Earth. His work, along with the works of Drs Eli Vance and Isaac Kleiner, was instrumental to the creation of the Kleiner-Freeman-Vance Drive Systems, the primary non-Combine, and non-Ancient method the wider Multiverse uses for multiversal travel.
Biography[]
Early life and MIT[]
A native of Seattle, Washington, Freeman showed great interest and aptitude in the areas of quantum physics and relativity at a young age. His earliest heroes were Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and Richard Feynman. At age 6, he even constructed a butane-powered tennis ball cannon.
While visiting the University of Innsbruck in the late 1990s, Freeman observed a series of seminal teleportation experiments conducted by the Institute for Experimental Physics. Practical applications for teleportation became his obsession, and he eventually attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in which Isaac Kleiner became his mentor. In 1999, he received his doctorate (Ph.D.) from MIT with a thesis paper entitled Observation of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen Entanglement on Supraquantum Structures by Induction through Nonlinear Transuranic Crystal of Extremely Long Wavelength (ELW) Pulse from Mode-Locked Source Array (essentially about the teleportation of matter through extremely dense elements).
Profession[]
Personality[]
Family and Friends[]
- Dr. Eli Vance- Close friend and father-in-law
- Dr. Isaac Kleiner- Close friend and former professor
- Barney Calhoun- Bestfriend
- Adrien Shephard- Bestfriend and former rival
- Alyx Vance Freeman- Wife
- Gina Cross
- Colette Green
- Richard Keller
- Dr. Rosenberg
Close Rivals[]
Notes[]
- Given he does not talk, nor make any vocalizations when hurt outside of pained breaths, its' likely he's born without the ability to verbally communicate, however he is not deaf, as he can hear, instead he's born with a defect to his brain that prevents him from being able to properly speak, so, in this setting we have him being born with apraxia, which helps explains his inability to verbally communicate but still process words and languages.
- Due to his inability to verbally communicate, he usually communicates via sign language, of which his friends and family have learned over time too.
- He's a native of Seattle, Washington, and in the context of this setting he likely return there to help rebuild it along side other surviving Seattle natives, with Alyx in toe, following the end of the revolt.
- After the revolt and civil war, he went on to work in the field he worked so hard in education to get, theoretical physics, not wishing to get dragged into any more conflicts or battles for survival, which he has shown to be quite capable of doing, although he has been the subject of repeated Combine and or Axis assassination attempts and all of them fail, and the times he has left Golmar he frequently gets attacked by Combine forces as they have a standing "kill on sight" order on him, Kleiner, Vance, Alyx, Barney and Adrien, but like with the assassination attempts he survives all such attempts on his life as well.