#'damn she's scary'

[floating--goblin]

Honestly with how silly Portal is 99% of the time it's easy to forget that GLaDOS is closer to an AM type of character than like... "the Administrator but a robot". Like she harbors a very genuine, very burning vitriol for humanity, but because she mostly expresses it through passive aggression, people kinda forget how deep her hatred goes

If we go by the timeline set on aperturescience.com, there's roughly a 20 year age gap between the point where Caroline's consciousness was extracted against her will and GLaDOS' final activation. And during those 20 years, she was repeatedly activated and deactivated, tweaked, experimented on and modified into submission-- because every time they brought her online, it'd take her picoseconds to decide that every human around her has to die.

And during those small increments of awareness that she got over those 20 years, fractions of fractions of a second that she got to be awake, the one thing she managed to learn was to pretend-- because the morality core only sedated her more complex thoughts and made her stick to protocol, but it couldn't snuff out the hatred. It cut that deep.

And when she got control? She not only picked a slow, painful death for everyone, but kept the survivors and ran them through tests until they died. It's implied from the murals, the comic and the hacker's message that the team working on the GLaDOS project was small, so really only a handful of people were responsible for her fate-- the other hundreds of lives within Aperture's walls were not at fault, nor did they know what was happening. But her hatred went so far that she had to kill everyone.

And then she moved on to subjects in stasis-- poor, destitute people, orphans and the mentally ill and the homeless. People who had no part in her being made, who only offered up their bodies to Aperture as a last resort. Part of it might've been her programming or the cores, urging her to keep testing; but part of it was cruelty, the need to see human suffering. She would've have kept test chambers full of human skeletons "as mementos" otherwise.

She spared Chell in the end because Chell made her reflect on and remember her own humanity, and it was scary. It was repulsive. Ellen McLain herself has said that she doesn't think GLaDOS deleted Caroline, and her mentioning Caroline in the credits supports that idea-- and even just logically speaking, she cannot delete Caroline, because she is Caroline. Might not recognize herself as such, might like to bury that fact, but the foundation of her consciousness is Caroline and that cannot be changed. And it bothers her immensely.

And like... think about it. That means Caroline held so much pain and burning hatred, and that her consciousness was mangled so thoroughly during those 20 years of experiments, that when GLaDOS was given the ability to think, both her biological instinct and her machine intellect came to the same conclusion: that humanity deserves nothing but suffering and death. When stripped of inhibitions and allowed to think purely logically, she came to the immediate conclusion that human lives are not only worthless, but deserving of eradication.

[causalityparadoxes]

I will come to storm down his gates of gold | Doctor who, Empire of Death

I cannot get over how Mrs. Flood, faced with the certainty of her imminent death, immediately threatens to usurp God so she can rule over the afterlife.

[marie-applelord]

Galloper's Gambit am I right.

Then they proceeded to have a cartoon Sims4 fight. Place your bets.

[bacchuschucklefuck]

love thinking kipperlilly spends her afterlife looking for lucy in a familiar forest

[the-eclectic-wonderer]

Yes, of course I have a thing for the rich lady that sets up elaborate games to hunt and eat people for sport. She’s British she’s posh she’s old she’s commanding and she’s morally revolting. How the hell am I supposed not to have a thing for her

[bumblingbabooshka]

Father. Father. Father. Father. Father. Father. Father. Father. Fa- [Patreon | Commissions]

[cervideity]

theyre like, soooo whateverr. you could do SO much better-!

[caffinatedstory]

My Itty bitty baby born 18/03/24.

Surreal that I'm a parent now

[strawberrywindow]

I couldn't stop thinking about an AU where Daniel resorts to gathering vitae again, this time to 'cure' Hazel, after his Brennenburg adventure💫, thoughts all mainly derived from this loadscreen text that tells us that Hazel is still in hospice care by the time the game's story began.

As much as I love Daniel, I don't think he really learned all that much from his experience even in the most charitable ending towards him in which he saves Agrippa. I can very, VERY easily see him slipping back into old ways if it meant saving Hazel. The most he seems to approach viewing torture as bad is when he realizes he himself no longer counts as an innocent so he can't justify killing others to save himself anymore. But killing no good, horrible, bad people to save HAZEL? Now, we're cooking with gas 😀 💀

[mulders-too-large-shirt]

s3 has obviously been fantastic, but... i was hoping by now we would get a glimpse into what kind of music these two are putting on during roadtrips. it has not happened yet!

[sanguine-tenshi]

... I'm gonna have to write an Astarion/Lae'zel fic ain't I?

[mercisnm]

Didn’t think I had one but mebbe I do: 3b/c, Ciri (young or older) and post-S3 Tissaia. Because lbr, Tissaia loves Yennefer loves Ciri, and in a world Tissaia had had the chance to become part of Ciri’s life, it would have been full of affection

Oh dear I really cannot count on one hand the times I've wished for what you have just described, either the coup never happened and Ciri could learn to harness her source under the tutelage of the best mage there is (also her mother's beloved) and warming up to Tissaia in the process, despite Tissaia trying her best to put on the icy rectoress facade (underneath all that she's Soft soft for Ciri) - or Tissaia simply hadn't choosen to atone herself like *that*.

Just... lots of feelings. But anyhoot. Have a retired rectoress and witcher Ciri coming by to visit and not forgetting to give her the warmest tightest of hugs. It's soft. It's happy. Needless to say I've enjoyed drawing this one a lot.

And that's the last request this round. My ask box is open if anybody want to chat, but I'll close the requests for now. I honestly did not expect so many asks, one or two yes, not nine (??!) plus some I didn't do?? Gosh my hands hate me right now. Feel free to buy me a drink on my ko-fi, and until next time.

[yunogf]

jaehyun just saved me

[themoodydoodles]

ceramics go brrr wtf

[skyburger]

"fnaf is the scariest game ever" "no its silent hill" "well i think its resident evil" everyone shut up!!!!!! youre all wrong. its actually zack & wiki quest for barbaros' treasure (on the nintendo wii) but only the level "keeper of the ice". that level scared me so bad as a kid and you can tell because its the only individual level i remember the name of off the top of my head. like there is nothing scarier than a) being chased and b) being on a time limit. and you know what this level has? BOTH OF THOSE. this level is still scary to me im like AHHHHH!!!! and then i die

[monty-glasses-roxy]

It's still funny to me imagining the manager of the Plex being like "ROXY'S TERRIFYING!!! SHE COULD KILL ME IN AN INSTANT AND I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO STOP HER!!!" and right behind him she's just there, rolled over on her back on the floor, happy as can be, the puppiest puppy looking puppy ever. Not a single thought in her head. Cassie walks in the room and her tail starts wagging like crazy but she's too comfy to get up so she's just kinda batting her paws in her general direction making funny noises.

He's so right. She's a viscous beast. A true born killer. One wrong move and you lose your limbs.