Tightropes, Belay Lines, and Strings

Your name is Tommy Coolatta, and you’re not quite sure what to do about this- issue, you’ve noticed, with your friend. You’re used to not being understood, used to others underestimating your intelligence or maturity or ability to understand the world around you.The thing is though- you are good at understanding the world around you, even if the social scripts don’t make sense and expectations change from day to day, the physical rules are easy to catalog. The thing that you’ve begun to understand, watching Gordon and seeing how he interacts with the world outside of traumatic events- was already like this before Black Mesa. You think he might have always been like this.