Alyx Vance
Alyx Vance is a fictional character from Valve's Half-Life video game series. She is introduced as a non-playable, supporting character in Half-Life 2 (2004), accompanying the player's character, Gordon Freeman, throughout much of the game. She subsequently appears in a similar capacity in Half-Life 2: Episode One (2006) and Episode Two (2007), and as the titular protagonist of the VR game Half-Life: Alyx (2020).
| Alyx Vance | |
|---|---|
| Half-Life character | |
Alyx as she appears in Half-Life 2 | |
| First appearance | Half-Life 2 (2004) |
| Designed by | Dhabih Eng |
| Voiced by | Merle Dandridge Ozioma Akagha (Half-Life: Alyx) |
| Motion capture | Jamil Mullen |
Alyx is portrayed as a young woman in her mid-twenties of Afro-Asian descent, and is a prominent figure in the human resistance against the rule of the alien empire called the Combine and their human representative, Dr. Wallace Breen. She is the daughter of resistance leader Dr. Eli Vance, and becomes a close friend and ally of Gordon. She received highly positive reviews from critics.