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Character Name: GLaDOS
Fandom: Portal 2
Character History:
Be Caroline. Actually don't be Caroline. Caroline was the secretary for Cave Johnson starting in the early fifties. Caroline was a lot less balls at her job than Cave ever was, so really the company more or less stayed afloat and eventually took off because of her. Then Cave cocked it up by accidentally killing the fuck out of a bunch of astronauts and Olympians in his shitty, awful, danger ridden physics tests. Oops.
In further proof that you shouldn't be Caroline, Cave contracts cancer after creating a special paint that can be used to put portals on. This was made out of ground up moon rock, which is a carcinogen, and he just breathed that shit the fuck in. Oops. Faced with the growing threat of his mortality, he attempted to start a brain mapping project that would eventually put his consciousness into an eternal machine. This never happened because he died. You'd think that would be the end of that.
It was not.
Caroline is then met with the fact that her boss ordered her to take his place. She was against it every step of the way, but eventually... 'something' happened to Caroline. She just drops right the hell off the planet.
GLaDOS is created. Within one sixteenth of a picosecond, she gains sentience, and immediately attempts to kill every organic being in reach. They shut her down and try to fix that bug.
It doesn't work and she keeps trying to murder everyone each and every time. Each time they outfit her with a new program, and eventually move to hanging personality cores on her in order to control her violent behavior and mood swings.
GLaDOS "gets better", and offers up a test idea. It's a day called "bring your cat to work day", and all she'll need is cats, some boxes... aaand maybe a couple tons of neurotoxin. Because Aperture Staff have the memory of a recently concussed goldfish, they agree.
Several years later, Aperture has a bring your daughter to work day. Everyone has a ton of fun with making science projects and therefore, fifteen hundred potato batteries. Everything is great until GLaDOS seals up the entire fucking facility and gasses every living thing in it. The only ones who survive are test subjects in cryogenic slumber, a single schizophrenic scientist, and a child.
Perhaps a decade or so later, the scientist unleashes Chell, the child who survived the gassing. She was saved as a test subject until this point. She proceeds to fuck everything up and blow GLaDOS straight to hell where she belongs-
Only GLaDOS is actually caught in a state between being alive and dead, and forced to visually relive her failure as a save file over and over and over again, for what has been hinted to be fifty thousand years, as Chell is dragged back into cryogenic slumber.
Wheatly, the intelligence dampening sphere, wakes Chell up in the hopes that she can save him.
They restore GLaDOS instead. Oops.
Everything is the same Benny Hill routine until Chell plugs Wheatly into the mainframe and he jams GLaDOS in a potato battery and hurls the two of them into the deepest level of Aperture.
Shenanigans ensue, and GLaDOS slowly remembers her past life as a human.
Until they kick Wheatly the hell out and she insists she deleted Caroline before kicking Chell back to the surface.
And no one learned anything at all, science is great.
Character Personality: GLaDOS is brilliant, and she knows it. She knows she was created to be hyper intelligent, a collection of the entire collective knowledge of mankind. The very pinnacle of artificial intelligence and all powerful within the confines of the massive Aperture Science Enrichment Center Facility. Needless to say, this knowledge makes her more than a little arrogant and narcissistic. But really, who can blame you when you have the ability to kill or construct everything you see and you are effectively immortal? She even brags about her immortality from time to time, reminding Chell that she will be dead in a few years in Portal 2, and in the first game, even singing a whole song about how she isn’t dead yet. She really is absolutely brilliant though, and is capable of speaking almost every language known to man, along with a perfect grasp of all mathematics, a vast collection of intellectual, philosophical and psychological books (all downloaded), and an apparent love of opera and music.
She’s also painfully, deeply snarky, passive aggressive and verbally abusive. Her words are her weapons of choice, and might sting even harder than the Thermal Discouragement Beams. Through both games, the entirety of the first portal game, and through part of the second, GLaDOS mocks Chell, from everything about her weight, to her intelligence, to her lack of parents and her personality. She loves to get under the skin, wanting to exploit almost every negative emotion her subject has. She threatens with neurotoxin and bullets, she guilts with questioning the subjects morality and intentions, she cajoles and bribes with cake and promises of freedom, and she enrages with snarks about physical appearance and intelligence. GLaDOS is a bottomless bit of endless snark and bitter commentary, vicious and seemingly heartless to the end. She’s also a habitual liar, and almost nothing she says can be taken at face value.
Of course, while it seems like it might be impossible to personally insult her, it is actually all too terrifyingly possible. GLaDOS holds grudges for an incredibly long time, and can and will even project these grudges onto otherwise innocent beings. Her hatred for humanity as a whole stems from being treated as nothing more than a machine, and from long buried and now subconscious memories of even less pleasant occurrences. Her hatred and grudges more often than not take the form of violence and increasing danger in her tests, while GLaDOS herself prefers not to get her metaphorical hands dirty. In the first game, she takes out these aggressions against Chell, and in the second game, has held her grudge against Chell for being murdered for an incredible amount of time. She might act untouchable and aloof, but in reality, she is all too vulnerable. She just shows it a different way.
Of course, despite all this deep seated hatred, there is one thing that GLaDOS truly loves. Science. Everything she does is for science. As questionable as it is. The more painful, humiliating and dangerous the science is for her test subjects, the better, but she honestly, really, really loves to test. A lot. She loves it so much that after Chell is released into the world, she uses the two robots instead, despite clearly preferring human test subjects… Hence why she sends the two robots out to find an untouched cryogenics chamber full of human test subjects.
With all of this being said, she is not without her positive traits. As hard as they are to bring out. It can be argued with a considerable amount of proof that GLaDOS’s sadistic, cruel personal is due to the body she is in. When removed from it in Portal 2, she began to soften, becoming more tender, helpful encouraging and kind towards Chell. Willing to expose her flaws, her inability to know everything, and admitting her need for Chell to help her. Even at the end of the game, she expressed relief about seeing Chell alive and okay, and even called her ‘friend’… That was before she supposedly deleted a certain very special part of her built in morality of course. Though again, in the ending song, she hints that this part of her might not be as dead as she claimed it was. Emotions such as empathy and love are complicated for GLaDOS, and the infected, corrupted body that she is a part of might twist these emotions into something horrific, turning her into what some have called a ‘clingy, passive aggressive ex-girlfriend’. Outside of her body, the purified introduction to these emotions seems to frighten and confuse her, and she admits to Chell that she feels there might even be something seriously wrong with her. Within her body though, GLaDOS is nothing short of seemingly cold and unfeeling. Unwilling to let those who she ‘cares’ about to escape from her, even if it means murdering them.
Yes, that body seems to be the thing to blame. Though it isn’t fully understood why, other than giving any personality construct plugged into it the urge to test continuously, it is fully accepted that GLaDOS’s body causes madness when an AI is fully connected to it. Her departure from it still rendered her somewhat of an unpleasant jerk, but she was still far kinder. As well, GLaDOS has possibly been driven horribly insane due to the cores that used to be attached to her at all times. She stated that she could hear their voices when they were a part of her, babbling constantly, and even called Wheatley a tumor clinging to her mind. It might be safe to say that this, along with her body being corrupted with some sort of virus, drove her to madness. What is completely obvious beyond a doubt though is that GLaDOS is indeed entirely insane, so long as she is attached to her body.
Overall, GLaDOS is actually pretty inconsistent with her feelings and her expression of them, though she is almost always consistently unpleasant, arrogant, passive aggressive, self-serving and scheming. She’s tenacious and brilliant, yes. Willing to do anything to get results, willing to put everything she has into her facility and her tests, all in the name of science. Were she not so needlessly cruel, she might be considered a figure worth emulating. But with her sadistic tendencies, lack of empathy, incomprehensible emotions and unfathomable goals, she usually just ends up looking like a monster.
Powers and Abilities: GLaDOS is built like a tank and weighs several thousand pounds. She can take quite a beating, from rocket launchers to bombs. She is also very much capable of repairing herself if damaged.
Her intelligence is unfathomable on a human level. She uses this to be a huge snarky know it all bitch and make you, personally, look stupid.
She is a skilled engineer and has a vast knowledge of science and physics. She can easily build things at a very high rate of speed with or without a factory as long as she has the necessary parts.
Samples
Network: Hello, citizens of Nautilus.
Not Nautilus though. I will address the lifeforms inhabiting this place but not the being itself because I personally do not care for your management skills. I'm still working on that sensitivity training for you. We're at a solid 9428 minutes and 20 seconds and counting and you are going to memorize all of it, there will be a test.
But anyway. Citizens of Nautilus. I have some very unfortunate news for all of you. Please save your commentary for the end of the announcement. I know that feelings are very hard to control, and I am aware that the lower your brain function the more difficult this becomes. So would the resident Sith and Ren related denizens please find someone to gag you before you listen to this.
Have you been appropriately silenced?
Good. I regret to inform you that the Nautilus Based Aperture Science Enrichment Center, or N.BASE, has been infiltrated. I know. I am just as surprised, shocked and hurt as the rest of you. I will not immediately announce the wrongdoers, for the sake of their own privacy.
But they're dead.
That, I am considerably less sorry about. You can find their bullet riddled corpse hurled somewhere in the direction of the Southern District. Maybe it hit a tree. Wouldn't that be funny? We can keep it there as an early Halloween decoration. Why, in the winter, we may festoon it with lights and sing songs of snow and stars and giant mutant rabbits that excrete colorful chocolate filled eggs.
It would be very amusing. I find it's best to look at the brighter side of things like that.
In any case, don't bother looking for them in N.BASE. They are not here. Pieces of them are, the propulsion it took to remove them was quite considerable... but nothing you'd need for a standard burial.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
Third Person: They could do better than this. The single yellow eye stared impassively at the unfortunate creatures that had stumbled into her facility this time. Well... less stumbled, more actively attempted to break into because of recent shenanigans. But that time wasn't her fault either, they did try to kill her.
Or stop. 'Stop', 'Kill', those were interchangeable right? Well it didn't matter. What mattered was that they were here. Two humans, a man and a woman. She'd taken the liberty of separating them by a considerable distance, thankful that she'd finally gotten a hold of her bending abilities after far, far too long. The chambers they were both in continued to change up their positions, she refused to ever entertain the idea that they'd ever see the others face again before they inevitably died. Fell into an acid pit, filled with bullets, zapped by a laser beam, so many, many interesting ways to die.
She'd not quite bended back the neurotoxin. That was still a work in progress. Data filled her banks as the male managed to clamber to the ledge with the door and bolt through it, the super computer activating the PA system.
"Very good. I'm so impressed. You did so much better in this room than that other subject did. Whatshername. That one. No one really cares, that's how well you did. If you make it through this next chamber, I might have to assign you to be her official escort, seeing as she is just so bad at this.
Really. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for her, I can barely watch her on this feed, it's so awkward.
A turret just shot her foot. Well. That shows her for showing up to work with open toed shoes. Oh well." She killed the feed just as the male began to scream at the camera, inspecting the woman. Who was not actually shot in the foot or sucking. Rather, she'd managed to work her way across a moat of acid without even wavering.
"Impressive. You made it in record time. Wow. That's so much better than this other subject in here. He just fell right in. Now I'm going to have to spend the whole day sluicing out the drains. Anyway, have fun in the next chamber." The wailing rung in her audials and she killed the audio feed shortly after. Humans made some of the worst sounds ever.
Name: Squid
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Character Information
Character Name: GLaDOS
Fandom: Portal 2
Character History:
Be Caroline. Actually don't be Caroline. Caroline was the secretary for Cave Johnson starting in the early fifties. Caroline was a lot less balls at her job than Cave ever was, so really the company more or less stayed afloat and eventually took off because of her. Then Cave cocked it up by accidentally killing the fuck out of a bunch of astronauts and Olympians in his shitty, awful, danger ridden physics tests. Oops.
In further proof that you shouldn't be Caroline, Cave contracts cancer after creating a special paint that can be used to put portals on. This was made out of ground up moon rock, which is a carcinogen, and he just breathed that shit the fuck in. Oops. Faced with the growing threat of his mortality, he attempted to start a brain mapping project that would eventually put his consciousness into an eternal machine. This never happened because he died. You'd think that would be the end of that.
It was not.
Caroline is then met with the fact that her boss ordered her to take his place. She was against it every step of the way, but eventually... 'something' happened to Caroline. She just drops right the hell off the planet.
GLaDOS is created. Within one sixteenth of a picosecond, she gains sentience, and immediately attempts to kill every organic being in reach. They shut her down and try to fix that bug.
It doesn't work and she keeps trying to murder everyone each and every time. Each time they outfit her with a new program, and eventually move to hanging personality cores on her in order to control her violent behavior and mood swings.
GLaDOS "gets better", and offers up a test idea. It's a day called "bring your cat to work day", and all she'll need is cats, some boxes... aaand maybe a couple tons of neurotoxin. Because Aperture Staff have the memory of a recently concussed goldfish, they agree.
Several years later, Aperture has a bring your daughter to work day. Everyone has a ton of fun with making science projects and therefore, fifteen hundred potato batteries. Everything is great until GLaDOS seals up the entire fucking facility and gasses every living thing in it. The only ones who survive are test subjects in cryogenic slumber, a single schizophrenic scientist, and a child.
Perhaps a decade or so later, the scientist unleashes Chell, the child who survived the gassing. She was saved as a test subject until this point. She proceeds to fuck everything up and blow GLaDOS straight to hell where she belongs-
Only GLaDOS is actually caught in a state between being alive and dead, and forced to visually relive her failure as a save file over and over and over again, for what has been hinted to be fifty thousand years, as Chell is dragged back into cryogenic slumber.
Wheatly, the intelligence dampening sphere, wakes Chell up in the hopes that she can save him.
They restore GLaDOS instead. Oops.
Everything is the same Benny Hill routine until Chell plugs Wheatly into the mainframe and he jams GLaDOS in a potato battery and hurls the two of them into the deepest level of Aperture.
Shenanigans ensue, and GLaDOS slowly remembers her past life as a human.
Until they kick Wheatly the hell out and she insists she deleted Caroline before kicking Chell back to the surface.
And no one learned anything at all, science is great.
Character Personality: GLaDOS is brilliant, and she knows it. She knows she was created to be hyper intelligent, a collection of the entire collective knowledge of mankind. The very pinnacle of artificial intelligence and all powerful within the confines of the massive Aperture Science Enrichment Center Facility. Needless to say, this knowledge makes her more than a little arrogant and narcissistic. But really, who can blame you when you have the ability to kill or construct everything you see and you are effectively immortal? She even brags about her immortality from time to time, reminding Chell that she will be dead in a few years in Portal 2, and in the first game, even singing a whole song about how she isn’t dead yet. She really is absolutely brilliant though, and is capable of speaking almost every language known to man, along with a perfect grasp of all mathematics, a vast collection of intellectual, philosophical and psychological books (all downloaded), and an apparent love of opera and music.
She’s also painfully, deeply snarky, passive aggressive and verbally abusive. Her words are her weapons of choice, and might sting even harder than the Thermal Discouragement Beams. Through both games, the entirety of the first portal game, and through part of the second, GLaDOS mocks Chell, from everything about her weight, to her intelligence, to her lack of parents and her personality. She loves to get under the skin, wanting to exploit almost every negative emotion her subject has. She threatens with neurotoxin and bullets, she guilts with questioning the subjects morality and intentions, she cajoles and bribes with cake and promises of freedom, and she enrages with snarks about physical appearance and intelligence. GLaDOS is a bottomless bit of endless snark and bitter commentary, vicious and seemingly heartless to the end. She’s also a habitual liar, and almost nothing she says can be taken at face value.
Of course, while it seems like it might be impossible to personally insult her, it is actually all too terrifyingly possible. GLaDOS holds grudges for an incredibly long time, and can and will even project these grudges onto otherwise innocent beings. Her hatred for humanity as a whole stems from being treated as nothing more than a machine, and from long buried and now subconscious memories of even less pleasant occurrences. Her hatred and grudges more often than not take the form of violence and increasing danger in her tests, while GLaDOS herself prefers not to get her metaphorical hands dirty. In the first game, she takes out these aggressions against Chell, and in the second game, has held her grudge against Chell for being murdered for an incredible amount of time. She might act untouchable and aloof, but in reality, she is all too vulnerable. She just shows it a different way.
Of course, despite all this deep seated hatred, there is one thing that GLaDOS truly loves. Science. Everything she does is for science. As questionable as it is. The more painful, humiliating and dangerous the science is for her test subjects, the better, but she honestly, really, really loves to test. A lot. She loves it so much that after Chell is released into the world, she uses the two robots instead, despite clearly preferring human test subjects… Hence why she sends the two robots out to find an untouched cryogenics chamber full of human test subjects.
With all of this being said, she is not without her positive traits. As hard as they are to bring out. It can be argued with a considerable amount of proof that GLaDOS’s sadistic, cruel personal is due to the body she is in. When removed from it in Portal 2, she began to soften, becoming more tender, helpful encouraging and kind towards Chell. Willing to expose her flaws, her inability to know everything, and admitting her need for Chell to help her. Even at the end of the game, she expressed relief about seeing Chell alive and okay, and even called her ‘friend’… That was before she supposedly deleted a certain very special part of her built in morality of course. Though again, in the ending song, she hints that this part of her might not be as dead as she claimed it was. Emotions such as empathy and love are complicated for GLaDOS, and the infected, corrupted body that she is a part of might twist these emotions into something horrific, turning her into what some have called a ‘clingy, passive aggressive ex-girlfriend’. Outside of her body, the purified introduction to these emotions seems to frighten and confuse her, and she admits to Chell that she feels there might even be something seriously wrong with her. Within her body though, GLaDOS is nothing short of seemingly cold and unfeeling. Unwilling to let those who she ‘cares’ about to escape from her, even if it means murdering them.
Yes, that body seems to be the thing to blame. Though it isn’t fully understood why, other than giving any personality construct plugged into it the urge to test continuously, it is fully accepted that GLaDOS’s body causes madness when an AI is fully connected to it. Her departure from it still rendered her somewhat of an unpleasant jerk, but she was still far kinder. As well, GLaDOS has possibly been driven horribly insane due to the cores that used to be attached to her at all times. She stated that she could hear their voices when they were a part of her, babbling constantly, and even called Wheatley a tumor clinging to her mind. It might be safe to say that this, along with her body being corrupted with some sort of virus, drove her to madness. What is completely obvious beyond a doubt though is that GLaDOS is indeed entirely insane, so long as she is attached to her body.
Overall, GLaDOS is actually pretty inconsistent with her feelings and her expression of them, though she is almost always consistently unpleasant, arrogant, passive aggressive, self-serving and scheming. She’s tenacious and brilliant, yes. Willing to do anything to get results, willing to put everything she has into her facility and her tests, all in the name of science. Were she not so needlessly cruel, she might be considered a figure worth emulating. But with her sadistic tendencies, lack of empathy, incomprehensible emotions and unfathomable goals, she usually just ends up looking like a monster.
Powers and Abilities: GLaDOS is built like a tank and weighs several thousand pounds. She can take quite a beating, from rocket launchers to bombs. She is also very much capable of repairing herself if damaged.
Her intelligence is unfathomable on a human level. She uses this to be a huge snarky know it all bitch and make you, personally, look stupid.
She is a skilled engineer and has a vast knowledge of science and physics. She can easily build things at a very high rate of speed with or without a factory as long as she has the necessary parts.
Samples
Network: Hello, citizens of Nautilus.
Not Nautilus though. I will address the lifeforms inhabiting this place but not the being itself because I personally do not care for your management skills. I'm still working on that sensitivity training for you. We're at a solid 9428 minutes and 20 seconds and counting and you are going to memorize all of it, there will be a test.
But anyway. Citizens of Nautilus. I have some very unfortunate news for all of you. Please save your commentary for the end of the announcement. I know that feelings are very hard to control, and I am aware that the lower your brain function the more difficult this becomes. So would the resident Sith and Ren related denizens please find someone to gag you before you listen to this.
Have you been appropriately silenced?
Good. I regret to inform you that the Nautilus Based Aperture Science Enrichment Center, or N.BASE, has been infiltrated. I know. I am just as surprised, shocked and hurt as the rest of you. I will not immediately announce the wrongdoers, for the sake of their own privacy.
But they're dead.
That, I am considerably less sorry about. You can find their bullet riddled corpse hurled somewhere in the direction of the Southern District. Maybe it hit a tree. Wouldn't that be funny? We can keep it there as an early Halloween decoration. Why, in the winter, we may festoon it with lights and sing songs of snow and stars and giant mutant rabbits that excrete colorful chocolate filled eggs.
It would be very amusing. I find it's best to look at the brighter side of things like that.
In any case, don't bother looking for them in N.BASE. They are not here. Pieces of them are, the propulsion it took to remove them was quite considerable... but nothing you'd need for a standard burial.
Thank you.
Have a nice day.
Third Person: They could do better than this. The single yellow eye stared impassively at the unfortunate creatures that had stumbled into her facility this time. Well... less stumbled, more actively attempted to break into because of recent shenanigans. But that time wasn't her fault either, they did try to kill her.
Or stop. 'Stop', 'Kill', those were interchangeable right? Well it didn't matter. What mattered was that they were here. Two humans, a man and a woman. She'd taken the liberty of separating them by a considerable distance, thankful that she'd finally gotten a hold of her bending abilities after far, far too long. The chambers they were both in continued to change up their positions, she refused to ever entertain the idea that they'd ever see the others face again before they inevitably died. Fell into an acid pit, filled with bullets, zapped by a laser beam, so many, many interesting ways to die.
She'd not quite bended back the neurotoxin. That was still a work in progress. Data filled her banks as the male managed to clamber to the ledge with the door and bolt through it, the super computer activating the PA system.
"Very good. I'm so impressed. You did so much better in this room than that other subject did. Whatshername. That one. No one really cares, that's how well you did. If you make it through this next chamber, I might have to assign you to be her official escort, seeing as she is just so bad at this.
Really. It's embarrassing. I'm embarrassed for her, I can barely watch her on this feed, it's so awkward.
A turret just shot her foot. Well. That shows her for showing up to work with open toed shoes. Oh well." She killed the feed just as the male began to scream at the camera, inspecting the woman. Who was not actually shot in the foot or sucking. Rather, she'd managed to work her way across a moat of acid without even wavering.
"Impressive. You made it in record time. Wow. That's so much better than this other subject in here. He just fell right in. Now I'm going to have to spend the whole day sluicing out the drains. Anyway, have fun in the next chamber." The wailing rung in her audials and she killed the audio feed shortly after. Humans made some of the worst sounds ever.