#what im putting down is a slightly non originalist reading of the plot of portal which is trying to nudge things in a direction that makes
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see i get what you're putting down and it is a perfectly satisfying interpretation of the characters, but i just think that itd be far funnier if chell did not think about sucking her own dick Precisely because of the spite she feels. like. as i stated earlier imagine if She Is Too Busy Hating To Think About Cock. i think that both works within the character and is Really fucking funny. and then when faced with this chill moment where she probably isnt As Busy Hating, in old aperture, she realises and does it in the most contrived fucking complex setup built together way possible. im picturing something involved stacking up office furniture to create the sorts of portal angles to be able to do it. And because the characters do not have perfect knowledge of eachother in particular because chell does not fucking speak glados might interpret this as an act of fucking psychological warfare in the sense that she has spent however long trying to get this woman to suck herself off and at the moment she Does not want her to do that she contrives some strange fucking setup. i will concede that this idea does fuck with the bonding the two are supposed to be doing in old aperture because if she reads this as im putting it down, as a kind of adding insult to injury then that might not work as well as it does in the game, derailing the Chell sucks her own dick timeline too much from the flow of the actual plot and creating Issues.
re the portal glados self suck post: i think that glados would really really really want chell to suck her own dick but chell'd be too busy Hating to notice or even have the idea of sucking her own dick and would simply regard the increasingly contrived portal enabled self sucking setups as some really complex puzzles while glados internally becomes progressively more and more derranged not knowing whether this is a performance built speciffically to Piss Her Off or if its chell geniuenly not realising that this is a thing one could do. this comes to a head (pun intended) in old aperture where chell with potatOS on the portal gun, as she currently is far less busy Hating realises she can suckk her own dick and manages to contrive a complex setup in the least good for it place possible, making glados shortcircuit out of a combination of anger and arousal after presenting this woman with a row of ideal spots for autofellation for the last several hours and her having Not used them. this counts as a form of edging.
i like a lot of this but i gotta say i think you’re mischaracterising Chell here; Chell’s main motivation in any of her actions is spite, and she is anything but unaware. may i revise: she would become aware pretty quickly from GLaDOS’ dialogue & contraptions what she was trying to get out of this. GLaDOS is competent, but she’s not subtle. Chell would do it when she thought GLaDOS was still shorted out after fizzling out as a potato from thinking too hard. but maybe she’d wake up half way. OR she really just trusts Potato GLaDOS enough to let her guard down enough to fuck herself in front of her.
#fuck it im tagging this as my art discussion tag i have thought sufficiently hard about it to deserve it#patricia's unsolicited art ramblings#also crucially i think your interpretation lines up a little more closely with how chell is canonically supposed to be read#what im putting down is a slightly non originalist reading of the plot of portal which is trying to nudge things in a direction that makes#them a little bit more funny to me.#its like the What if chell is actually deaf the whole time and just really good at working from context Interpretation of portal#which isnt the most narratively satisfying or particularly fitting with canon but is really fucking funny#also you dont even know how fuckign fun this is to do. i love putting out the analytical big guns to something utterly fucking stupid#but treating it fully seriously. its the best shit ever#and really good on my Had portal autism since i was six or 7 years old brain#oh yeah edit: i realised you might be sifficiently old that the sentence I Had Portal Autism Since I Was Six might be able to kill you#rest assured i am old enough to be interacting with you
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