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Boom, bang, done, finally. FINALLY.

Ft. Android Riley, human Nigel.

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I started this in January and I'm literally never going to finish it lmao

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CATCH ME!! CATCH ME!! 🥺🤣

Wheatley catches himself!!

And bonus bts speedpaint! (Apologies for the flipped section 🥺)

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Chelley 5.20|14:00

We danced again and again

Art by @keroxwho

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been collecting posts that remind me vaguely of him. aadland specifically

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..I could not help myself

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Hello portal community. today I offer you Grady

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IM CRYING I JUST REMEMBERED I MADE THIS cause this one dude almost 2 years ago said I drew mel like a chad and Yknow what hellll yeaaah‼️‼️‼️‼️

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I love my wife

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Silly little guys being the platonic partners they are 🎀 i wish more ppl drew fanart of em they be kinda underrated

Also Rick thing i drew a month ago or smth anyway love that yeehaw pardner man

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Quick grady doodle..

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blinking at u autistically . may I order one virgil ^_^ ? /nf

Comin right up :D

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funny guy

robot of the day 16/31

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Ok ok..I DREW HIM

Full Under Cut

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Finally finished up some proper refs for my favorite guyyyy. And some stranger slipped in for the last image, don't know who that fellow is

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There are plenty of differences between the two main characters of Portal (aside from the player character, Chell). For example, GLaDOS is snide, cunning, and self-assured, while Wheatley is cowardly, expressive, and insecure.

The difference I’d like to dive into today is that while GLaDOS is passive and actively aggressively insulting the player character, and to some extent, so is Wheatley after being put in the chassis — Wheatley is very encouraging.

It’s strange, in a place like Aperture, for anything to be encouraging. I first assumed that Wheatley was using this encouragement to try to manipulate the player character. However a few particular lines stuck out to me on a second playthrough. “The both of you… Well done.” He doesn’t just congratulate the player character for giving him the high he’s craving, he compliments GLaDOS. The ‘person’ he’s been actively terrified of the entire game. The one who crushed him and he’s hated. Still, he verbally rewards her. And when she literally can’t do anything at that, because she’s A, a potato, and B, unable to help Chell in any way during the tests as evidenced by the “Thanks! All we had to do is pull the lever.” “What? No, you had to push the b— AAAGH!” lines, which is to say that GLaDOS can’t even offer hints of how to solve the tests.

Now, why does any of this matter, other than being an interesting foil to GLaDOS?

Because I can’t see any reason why they would program him with this. If his original purpose was to overload GLaDOS with an endless stream of ideas, as we’re told, then his encouragement wouldn’t really be a part of that. Technically, I suppose he could encourage her in order to reward ‘good behavior’ like not killing everyone in the facility, but given that she still actively tries to hurt him after he’s complimented her, and just her general personality, I’m not sure anyone would reasonably think that would work and go so far as to waste extra time coding that into Wheatley.

No, I think Wheatley learned it on his own. When Wheatley first takes over the chassis, he’s happy. I’d argue he doesn’t even have ill intent when he forces Chell to stay, or even when he calls her selfish. He’s more enjoying the rush of power he’s feeling at being in control of the entire facility, and he’s let it get to his head. But he seems regretful when he realizes the elevator is going to fall, and later, when he sees Chell again he seems to treat her in a friendly manner, like he still thinks nothing has changed in their relationship. But then GLaDOS calls him a moron. He reacts violently, with a streak of anger we haven’t seen thus far in the story. It’s so shocking that it’s almost out of character, and is collectively agreed upon to be a trauma response given how suddenly and explosively he responds to the insult. He clearly doesn’t like hearing about his purpose of being an intelligence dampening sphere, turning his back and trying to cover up GLaDOS’ words with “I’m not listening!” and he’s also clearly aware of it.

Most of Wheatley’s reactions to his trauma are not the pretty ones. He’s selfish, he’s anxious, he’s helpless, he lashes out when his delicate ego is bruised. However, I do think his penchant for kind words is an active choice, maybe one made so long ago that it’s become second nature, and he forgets about that choice the longer he’s exposed to testing in the chassis. But I think after a life of being told he’s stupid, and seeing even the other AI judge him as he fails at job after job, he decided to be almost aggressively positive. “Let me in! No, no. Too aggressive. Hello there!”

When he could get irritated with the player character “Go on. It’s alright.” “Floor. I’m on the floor. Needing you to pick me up.” He doesn’t. Even when he’s in the chassis, waiting to get that hit of the drug, he starts out polite. “Do it again. Please.” The please is added as an afterthought, after a couple of seconds, adding to the idea that it’s something Wheatley does on purpose. Again, it’s why I at first thought it was a part of him trying to get the player character to do what he wants, but with further analysis it makes more sense to be in line with a decision to be encouraging, when all anyone else has ever done to him is be unkind.

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I was SO inspired to sketch more Chub-ley and Chell, so I did! And he is alot shorter too, so he gets all the forehead kisses he needs!!

Hhhhhh! 🥺😭☺️