:) Hehe Im so glad somebody asked about this! I have a few more drawings for it in the works but I don’t mind talking about it! Ill ramble under the cut, itll be long (sorry in advance!)

Black Mesa Kindergarten itself, for starters, is a sketchy ass place. Like. Its known for somehow producing really successful STEM students for one reason or another and like there are some weird going-ons.

Its an incomprehensible mess of a school with a disembodied automated voice that speaks over the PA, a principal who seems to disappear and reappear at will, the student counselor who has a giant dog, a janitor who might be an alien, a chemistry teacher for some reason who wont stop setting shit on fire, a pe class taught by an old guy with funny lookin’ arms, and a totally normal guy whos just trying to get through the day so he can go home to his 8 year old son and eat pizza or something.

Gordon was a student there back in the day… He managed to get a good gig as a teacher :] He’s generally very good with kids, at guiding them and like he shows plenty of patience (for the kids at least) BUT he curses SO much. Like WAY too much for someone who spends so much time around 5 year olds. SO, he has a system. There is a CURSE JAR in his classroom. Every time he curses he puts a quarter in there and every quarter funds an end of the semester pizza party for the kids. He ends up using really elaborate fake curses like “FUUUUUngal infections” a lot.

They have a class lizard. Its name is Peeper. The kids accidentally call it Peepee so much. Gordon keeps getting in trouble for it. He’s trying so hard.

Tommy is the school counselor and he is so belovED by the school forreal. Sunkist is his lovely ESA / therapy dog and she wears a vest and everybody loves her and its wonderful. He likes helping the kids work through problems and he is good at providing comfort and getting the kids to talk in the first place… Sunkist really helps though, idk just having her around is Enough sometimes. Perfect Dog Thingzzz.

Coomer is the gym teacher and he is so STRONG and fun and cool !!! He is really weird, like SO weird, but he can benchpress the kids and they think its so cool, and his presence is comforting and he likes to be helpful and makes PE fun. He was around when GORDON was going to school there as a babie, so Gordon has the fondest memories of him and sees him as like. A father figure for sure.

Bubby is. Um. Ok, nobody knows why he is there or how he got hired. He’s a science teacher, Gordon thinks? He teaches chemistry, not because he was HIRED to, just because he wants to. Lots of things explode. Lots of things catch fire. The kids have no complaints, its always concentrated on him, Gordon has to really keep an eye on him for the most part HEJDHSJ

And then there is Benrey… Benrey is a janitor. I didnt make them a security guard specifically so Forzen could be one, which idK is maybe silly, but Benrey probably USED to be a security guard w Forzen and now. Isn’t. Its no big deal. They got this huuuge crush on Gordon (obviously) and will typically use any excuse to irritate him and be around him, even if it means interrupting his classes to empty out already empty trash buckets in the classroom…

They’re not like amazing with kids (they r awkward as hell around them), but the kids think they are so weird and cool. And…mm. There is something deeply wrong with them. They can’t quite put their fingers on it… Its probably no big deal.

For other less thought out things, Forzen is an aforementioned security guard, Darnold works in the cafeteria, and G-man is the principal. They have a rival school, Aperture Kindergarten. Joshua USED to go here, but he’s 8 presently so he is just in a regular school now. He is missed everyday… The science team is his extended family too :] He loves and misses them all dearly.