Gareth Freeman

Name Gareth Freeman
Gender Male (human mix, same dimension)
Homeworld Aperture Labs
Class Junior
Nut not
Totem none (Violet and Gordon Freeman parents)
Smarts 6
Bod/Feet 6
RWP 4
Luck 6
Drive 5
Looks 3
Cool 4
Bonk 6
Powers Telepathy (almost like he's talking!)
Teleportation (dimensiongate)
Teleportation (speed bursts, exhausting)
Telekinesis (grabbity gun!)
Clusters Pummel Anything With Anything Else +2
Physics Is His Bitch +2
Skills Always On Target +3
Enjoys High-Level Banter With PhDs +3
Weaponize Everything +2
Knacks Dad's Crowbar Is Always Accurate +3
Drives Damn Near Any Vehicle +3
Suddenly, Grandfather Intervenes! +2
1 Hyperdimensional Calculus / M. Vale
2 Theoretical Physics / Freeman
3 Speech / Pointman (omg, hilarity - neither of them actually talks out loud)
4 Driving Manual Shift / Krueger
5 Excavation and Tunneling / Stonefist ( like crawling through air ducts!)
6 Paintball / Axemurderer
7 Multiplanar History / Prescott
8 Universal Sign Language / Poddie
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The raw irony of having Keenan Lane being Gordon Freeman's son's 'other grandfather' is something that Gareth takes in stride, a lot easier than his own father does. Gordon is ... shall we say, less than thrilled whenever Lane decides to show up in his son's life, but there is literally nothing he can do about it. After all, Nach'lih kallah-vahh protects his family. Even if that family was one he hadn't intended to start. Sometimes it's clear that Lane comes along purely to mess with Gordon's mind.

In the long run, Gareth seems to enjoy the interaction as a break in the normal schedule of events if anything.

Because Gareth enjoys both the physical challenges of life in the post-apocalyptic world of his parents (since in fact both Purple and Gordon are from the same universe and only spending time on Twoarth to attend or teach at Carramba) as well as the intellectual pursuits that Twoarth can offer, his time is spent moving between the two worlds freely. Of all the Clonegirls' kids, Gareth has perhaps mastered the dimensional travel of his grandsire the quickest. Whether it's because he has an innate understanding of those dimensions, or he's capable of constructing technology capable of doing the same, who knows. Lane doesn't care - the results are what he's interested in.

The results - that Gareth may become the 'free man' of some other world in the future - are obvious. Gareth is at his heart a scientist, but in his body also rests a warrior. Rests? Hardly. His mother is quite proud of him, being able to weaponize items and use the territory tactically. She has a trust in her son that he'll do what's right, even if that means he's taken away from their world for extended periods of time.