#Caroline

[sciencewife]

She Gave Her Life to Science

For Caroline Appreciation Day, 2024

[glitchcipher]

portrait of a lady

MY CONTRIBUTION FOR CAROLINE APPRECIATION DAY SINCE THE ANALYSIS IS FAR FROM DONE

WILL PROBS REDO IN WATER COLOR

ENJOY

[literalinsomniac]

Portal but birds!!!

I was gonna do a butcher bird Rex but got lazy lol

[katsona-the-katsequel]

Expanded on the available and used Velvet denizen names. Focused only on the OG book and films, excluding the crossovers. This isn't a guideline. You can use characters from Hotel Transylvania if you want.

Male

Original Frankenstein

Victor

Robert

Walton

Ernest

William

Alphonse

Beaufort

Moritz

Henry

Clerval

Nameless / Blind Father 🦋

Frankenstein (1931 film)

Fritz

Waldman

Bride of Frankenstein

Hans

Septimus

Pretorius

Karl

Ludwig

Son of Frankenstein

Wolf

Peter

Krogh

Ygor / Igor 🦋

Heinrich

Benson

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Kettering

Theodore 🦋

Bohmer

Hussman

Erik

Ernst

Female

Original Frankenstein

Margaret 🦋

Caroline 🦋

Elizabeth 🦋

Lavenza 🦋

Justine 🦋

Saville (this one can be unisex)

Frankenstein (1931 film)

Maria

Bride of Frankenstein

Minnie

The Bride / Belladonna 🦋

Son of Frankenstein

Elsa

Amelia

The Ghost of Frankenstein

Cloestine

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Loud and clear, five two four

[marshmallowbee13]

I've been thinking about why Caroline was so murdery upon waking up as GLaDOS and realized... She was a woman in the scientific field in the 50s-80s. You can imagine the utter bullshit she's had to endure from the others. Being stuffed into a computer was likely just the last straw.

Like yeah of course she wants to murder them all.

[gzeidraws]

assistant to the velvet room assistant

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

You have been in suspension for 9999999-

[shrimperini]

a caroline for her appreciation day!

[haniwahead]

"This is NOT your personal washroom, inmate!"

Clean up, Lavenza

[gladosluver]

glados @ caroline

[99thpercentile]

I get the feeling that I'm in the minority here, but I posit that GLaDOS actually is Caroline, and only "not the same person" in the sense that you'd look at your younger self and be like "that bitch ain't me." I think you actually have to go out of your way to interpret them as two separate people.

evidence:

voiced by the same person (I know the initial reasoning was that Valve didn't want to hire another voice actor for a few lines, but in casting Ellen McLain as Caroline, they incorporated her being the same person into the story).

GLaDOS automatically joins in saying "Yes sir, Mister Johnson" like saying it is permanently ingrained in her. you can interpret this as Caroline taking over, but she says "Why did I just—" immediately afterwards.

when GLaDOS talks about hearing the voice of a conscience, she says "for the first time it's MY voice." I don't think she means that she's hearing the woman she gets her literal voice from. she highlights it as distinctly DIFFERENT from hearing the voices of the cores, and I imagine if Caroline were a foreign entity whispering in her ear, the effect would've been much the same.

the GLaDOS project was originally started because Cave was dying and wanted his consciousness uploaded to a computer. the intent was always for the upload to be the same person. he said if he died first, he wanted Caroline to run the place, to be put in his computer. and that's exactly what happened.

GLaDOS not remembering she's Caroline until old Aperture always made sense to me as the result of a deliberate choice on the part of the scientists. Caroline didn't want to be uploaded, and as soon as they switched GLaDOS on, she tried to kill everyone. it's logical for the scientists to think that if they suppressed her memories, she'd have no reason to try to kill them (but instead, she was just filled with murderous rage and no longer knew why).

the story just doesn't have the same impact otherwise. GLaDOS's reactions to rediscovering old Aperture make more sense if it's her past she's rediscovering, rather than the past of...a human that was shoved into the chassis with her. if it were the second one, I think she would just feel violated, not have any major revelations.

counter-evidence:

"now little Caroline is in here too" lyric from Want You Gone

GLaDOS says she found out "where Caroline lives in [her] brain" and deleted her, like she's a separate entity

but GLaDOS is a habitual liar. she acts like deleting Caroline means she's fully back to her old self and has gotten rid of the part of her that made her want to save Chell's life, but there's...lots of evidence that she still cares about Chell after the fact (letting her go anyway, the companion cube, the turret opera if you think GLaDOS arranged that, talking to the co-op bots about Chell like she's an ex she's still heartbroken over...). I also think GLaDOS would like to imagine her and Caroline as two separate entities, in the same way you might find your younger self embarrassing and want to distance yourself from that person. I think it's notable that both instances where she refers to Caroline as a separate entity are at the end of the game, after Chell has been passed out a while and she's had time to process everything and compartmentalize. her instinct when the revelations are first happening is to refer to Caroline as if she is her.

now I don't like stories where a robot has to become or be seen as more human in some way for them to be sympathetic. but I think Portal 2 is an excellent subversion of this trope, because GLaDOS is a robot that learns she used to be human and then discards that humanity (symbolically if not literally). Caroline may not have wanted to be uploaded, but from the Want You Gone lyrics "one day they woke me up / so I could live forever / it's such a shame the same will never happen to you" I think we can say that GLaDOS definitely prefers being a robot now that she is one.

anyway this post was supposed to be much shorter than this, thank you for coming to my Ted Talk

[ariariari-freehounreal]

New headcanon 😍😍😍

They are not in love nor were they married everyone leave now

[cupcakeshakesnake]

Original

[maria-ruta]

Recently had very strong urge to draw Veronica and other vtm characters from our game as fucked up little guys, and I had HELL lot of fun with this style!!! They are silllyyyyyy

my commission info

all the characters will be listed under "read more"

1 - Veronica is character I made and was playing

2 - Charlie (Veronica's friend and part of her coterie) belongs to @osatokun . Also there are his wife Glinda, adopted daughter Monica and weird cat-chimera son Jeff

3 - Jack (Veronica's friend with benifits)

4 - Johny (Veronica's friend) and Caroline (his bitchy girlboss gf), William (Veronica's sire), Rene (Prince of territory, where Veronica lives, also head of coterie she's in), Jacqueline (Veronica's friend and also part of coterie) belongs to @tench-art , Maria (Veronica's recently made ghoul)

Thank you for reading <3