Obese Alyx Vance

Alyx Vance is the deuteragonist of Half-Life 2 and its Episodes and the titular protagonist of Half-Life: Alyx. A young woman in her mid-twenties, she is a prominent figure in the Resistance campaign against the rule of the Combine.

As a young child, Alyx lived in the dormitories within the confines of the Black Mesa Research Facility along with her father Eli and her mother Azian, while Eli was working at the Sector C Test Labs. When the Black Mesa Incident occurred, Eli managed to escape along with Alyx and a family picture, while Azian was killed in the incident. During the course of the incident, the G-Man was instrumental in rescuing Alyx, despite the objections of unnamed naysayers. Alyx was apparently too young to remember this (she does not recognize the G-Man when meeting him as an adult), and although Eli witnessed it, he never shared the story with her.

Alyx was raised by Eli in the world controlled by the Combine, likely at Black Mesa East much of the time. During this time, Alyx was also on good terms with Isaac Kleiner, referring to him as "Uncle Kleiner" in an affectionate portrait she once offered him. During Alyx's childhood, Eli used scrap metal to create Dog, a sentient robot designed to protect her, making him physically powerful, intelligent and with an in-built sixth sense so that he could always know Alyx's whereabouts. Although the initial model was a mere meter high, Alyx added new parts to Dog over time, making him a towering 2.5 meters high at the time of Half-Life 2.

As Alyx reached adulthood, she began working with the Resistance, as one of the core members of the City 17 branch. At the age of 19, she performed reconnaissance missions, and was friends with Russell and Olga. By the age of 24, she was assisting Kleiner and Barney Calhoun in helping citizens escape the city to Black Mesa East through the old Canals, as well as helping Kleiner, her father and Judith Mossman establish a teleport connection between Black Mesa East and Kleiner's Lab. She is working with this at the time of Half-Life 2.

5 years before the events of Half-Life 2, Alyx was "hired" by the G-Man and placed in stasis. It's currently unknown what happened to her between the events of Half-Life Alyx and the events of Half-Life 2.

Alyx is one of the most important characters in Half-Life 2, as she helps Gordon Freeman more frequently and directly than most other characters. Her first appearance is in the first chapter of the game, Point Insertion, in a scene where Gordon has been intercepted by Civil Protection units while he is still an unarmed civilian, due to a miscount detection. Alyx rushes in the room and takes down the CPs by herself (although this is not explicitly shown on-screen). Subsequently, she escorts Gordon to Kleiner's Lab, there they meet up with Barney and Kleiner. After Gordon puts on his HEV suit, they enter the teleport room to be teleported to Eli Vance's lab in Black Mesa East.

However, the two unintentionally part ways after Kleiner's teleportation device malfunctions, forcing Gordon to continue through City 17 on his own.

When Gordon finally arrives in Black Mesa East, he is welcomed by Alyx and her father. Later, she gives Gordon the Gravity Gun and demonstrates its use. Alyx is also shown having a heated argument with Dr. Judith Mossman, a hostility that appears justified as Mossman is revealed a traitor in the chapter Entanglement, where Gordon helps Alyx search Nova Prospekt for her captured father.

In the chapter Anticitizen One, she fights alongside Gordon through a section of City 17 during the armed uprising, but they are again separated when Alyx is kidnapped by Overwatch Soldiers while scouting an escape route from a rooftop vantage point. They are reunited later in the chapter Dark Energy, when Gordon reaches Breen's office in the Citadel. There she provides indirect assistance to Gordon during the final confrontation with Dr. Breen in the Citadel's dark fusion reactor. Alyx also seems to have made peace with Dr. Mossman after seeing her turn on Dr. Breen and release Gordon Freeman, Eli and Alyx herself from their imprisonment.

In the ending scene of Half-Life 2, Alyx is with Gordon at the time of the Dark Energy explosion. While the G-Man saves Gordon from the enormous blast, Alyx is apparently left behind, frozen in time with one arm shielding her eyes.

Alyx manages to survive, being rescued by Vortigaunts, who also frees Gordon from the influence of his "employer," the G-Man; after being teleported away at the foot of the Citadel and briefly revisiting it to postpone the destruction of the Citadel Core, Alyx and Gordon stick together for most of Episode One, finally getting to the exit from City 17 and jumping on the last Resistance train wagon heading out of the City just as the Citadel explodes.

Alyx appears in Episode Two throughout the game, and is almost always with Gordon. She once again rescues Gordon at the beginning of the game by using the Gravity Gun to free him from the remains of their crashed train, which fell off a bridge that was destroyed because of the Citadel explosion at the end of Episode One.

After making a first communication with White Forest, a large Resistance base, she is severely injured by a Hunter, but Gordon and a Vortigaunt manage to steal Antlion extract and use it to save her. During the process of reviving her, the G-Man reappears and informs Gordon that the reason Alyx remained alive during the events of Half-Life 2 and its expansions is because he "plucked" her from Black Mesa before the Resonance Cascade destroyed the facility, ignoring the orders from his superiors - that she was a mere child and of no practical use. He tells Gordon to escort her to White Forest safely, telling Alyx to relay the words "prepare for unforeseen consequences" to her father. She then accompanies Gordon on their journey to get to White Forest. Throughout the journey, she helps Gordon at many points, by providing sniping support for him using a mounted Combine sniper rifle as he makes his way through a Zombie-infested industrial complex to get to the Muscle Car or by using her gun on enemies while he is driving.

At the end of the game, her father Eli is killed by an Advisor before she and Gordon get into a chopper to go looking for Dr. Mossman. While she and Gordon watch, helpless, pinned down onto the walls by the Advisor's psionic powers, Dog jumps through the roof and attacks the Advisor before it can do the same thing to Alyx and Gordon, severely injuring it causing both Advisors to flee. Alyx cries over Eli's body as Gordon passes out and the credits roll.

Alyx serves as the protagonist of Half-Life: Alyx, set five years before the events of Half-Life 2 and its episodes. While doing reconnaissance for the Resistance, Eli Vance stumbles upon information about a supposed Combine superweapon. When both Vances are captured by the Combine, a Resistance mechanic named Russell breaks Alyx out of captivity in order to rescue him. Along the way, Alyx meets an eccentric Vortigaunt who warns her that her father is fated to die in the future, and she vows to do whatever she can to prevent this.

After rescuing Eli with the help of the Vortigaunt, she heads off to a Combine ship called the Vault said to contain the superweapon. However, they soon learn the Vault actually serves as the prison for a powerful individual who survived the Black Mesa Incident. Assuming this person is Gordon Freeman, Alyx manages to make her way into the Vault and release the prisoner, only to encounter the G-Man. In exchange for his release the G-Man offers her his services, and she requests that he remove the Combine from the Earth. The G-Man declines the request as it would be against the wishes of his "employers" but instead shows her a request she doesn't even know she wants: he transports Alyx to White Forest base moments after Eli's death and rewinds time to offer her the chance to kill the Advisor before it can kill Eli. Desperate to rescue her father, Alyx takes the offer and saves him, but learns this was a test to prove she is just as useful as Gordon Freeman, whom the G-Man notes is unwilling or unable to fulfill his services. Alyx pleads with the G-Man to send her home, but he simply replies that she misunderstands her situation before leaving her in stasis.

Alyx's actions ultimately result in Eli's survival, but she is taken out the timeline by the G-Man, Eli vows revenge on the G-Man Before Dog appears and give a handed a crowbar to Eli, Whom passed it to Gordon, before telling him that they got a work to do.

Alyx has brown, short hair with streaks of red (a reminiscence of her original fully red hair), a headband, green eyes and a light olive skin complexion. She wears worn-out clothes, as most of the Half-Life 2 characters: a brown leather jacket with the right sleeve attached to the rest with duct tape, jeans and brown work boots, with a grey hooded sweater bearing the Black Mesa logo, with the words "Black Mesa" under it. She has black fingerless rappelling gloves and a tensor bandage around her right hand (it is unknown if it is for the looks or if she was previously hurt). She also wears a green belt where her gun and EMP Tool are attached. Around her neck is a little box-like jewel, made out of wood or metal, which apparently belonged to her mother, according to the Vance family picture. A birthmark can also be seen at the stem of her neck. At the beginning of Episode One, she gains a small scar above her right eyebrow, presumably inflicted at the end of Half-Life 2 and having been dug "out of the rubble." During Episode Two, her jacket is damaged when the Hunter wounds her, also staining her undershirt with blood. As a result of blood loss, Alyx's skin shows discoloration.

Alyx is a skilled hacker: she is able to operate and manipulate Combine-based objects such as turrets with the help of her gear, and also wields an EMP Tool used to perform a variety of tasks.

She also "put together" the Shorepoint Scout Car with her father Eli, and helped Kleiner "resurrect" his teleport.

She is also very proficient with a pistol, and hand-to-hand combat, as she single-handedly defeats six Civil Protection officers who almost capture Gordon during his escape from the tenement block at the start of Half-Life 2, and helps fight alongside Gordon briefly during the chapters Entanglement and Anticitizen One in Half-Life 2. In Episode One, Alyx accompanies Gordon for most of the game and demonstrates additional fighting skills previously unseen, using a shotgun and kicking and kneeing off Zombies when they get too close. she is also fairly skilled with the use of Sniper Rifles as seen during episodes 1 and 2, where she provides cover for Gordon using Overwatch Sniper Rifles. In Half-Life: Alyx, she can fight with Russell's pistol, a shotgun, a Combine Pulse SMG, as well as grenades and Xen Grenades. She can also use the Gravity Gloves offensively by manipulating electric energy harvested from Vortigaunts. Her ability to cut a wide swath through the Combine's forces and breach the Vault, not to mention the G-Man's subsequent interest in her as Gordon's replacement, suggests that Alyx is equally capable and prodigious in combat as is Gordon.

Despite Alyx's friendly nature, she shows some hostility towards Dr. Mossman because of Mossman's somewhat patronizing attitude towards her, as well as Mossman's interest in her father. At the end of Half-Life 2, this hostility has seemingly vanished, when Dr. Mossman helps to free Alyx and her father from the clutches of Dr. Breen.

Alyx is also a rather cheerful, optimistic person, showing some sense of humour. This is evidenced by the jokes she makes about various events. For instance, she playfully mocks Gordon's silence at the start of Half-Life 2, telling him "Man of few words, aren't you?" Another example can be experienced in the chapter Lowlife of Episode One, where she and Gordon navigate a series of Zombie-infested tunnels. During lulls in combat she imitates a Zombie growl to scare the player, then will laugh and say "Gotcha!" when they find out it is her. She also attempts another "joke" shortly after when entering a Combine troop train. She spots a dead Overwatch Soldier with a Headcrab over its head and tries to lighten the situation, by naming it a "Zombine."

Alyx is also a very sensitive person, giving some heart and realism to the series. She does not believe her eyes when she sees the state of the Citadel inside, is affected by the Stalkers' fate and behavior at the start of the Episode One chapter Lowlife, and cries over the loss of her father at the end of Episode Two. When she meets the G-Man she is initially unimpressed by his uncanny demeanor until she is shown a vision of her father's death and immediately takes the chance to change the future. She is afraid of the dark and of poison headcrabs.

As someone who has lived on Earth under the Combine's rule from a very young age, Alyx has limited knowledge of past human history and of life before the Combine. She doesn't know who Mozart was, or what cattle, pigs, and turkeys are (meaning they are animals which are extinct as of her time).

Although Alyx was a child at the time of the Black Mesa Incident (at which point Gordon was 27 years old), Gordon's almost twenty years long stasis after Half-Life has more or less erased any age gap between the two.

This Alyx Vance comes from an alternate version of Earth. This Earth is essentially no different, except for the Black Mesa disaster, the portal storms, and the resulting Seven-Hour War, where the Combine ultimately took over Earth and established their dictatorship.

But there are key differences: the events of Half-Life Alyx are simplified, while the events of Half-Life 2 and Episodes haven't yet happened. But the most important difference is that the Combine produce a lot of tasty but high-calorie food, which is also genetically altered. While there aren't many well-fed people, if anyone can afford it, they're likely to be obese.

For example, Alyx Vance herself, at 24, has managed to bulk up to 165 kg. Thanks to her hacking skills and other technical knowledge, she can always indulge in any high-calorie treat. Things got to the point where she had a falling out with her father, Eli Vance, and now lives separately outside of East Black Mesa.

Alyx Vance is now very obese; her usual attire of jeans, a zip-up sweatshirt, and a jacket are too small. But somehow, they still hold up on her flabby body. It's especially surprising that her jeans can still be buttoned at her waist.

Alyx Vance has also become very lazy and even somewhat sleepy, but even so, she can somehow manage to be "active" (if her hobbling and frequent shortness of breath, along with rest periods like leaning against a wall, can be called active), especially if it's to eat well and help the resistance in the war against the Combine.

Alyx Vance's body is an example of what would happen if a 24-year-old woman allowed herself to gain a lot of weight. Her stomach is already separating into folds, her butt and hips barely fit into her jeans, her previously small breasts have become quite noticeable, and her bingo wings and arms are clearly visible under her tight jacket sleeves. And then there's her chubby face, double chin, and thick cheeks.

Besides the obvious, Alyx Vance doesn't remember Gordon Freeman, but she knows the story of his exploits at Black Mesa and how he became a hero.

But most importantly, even so, Alyx Vance is still a positive and kind girl. Yes, she's lazy and tired, but she'll still try to help those in need. She admits to having a weight problem, but eventually jokes about having big bones and the like. She's accepted that she's fat. And maybe she even likes it.