#Portal Secret Santa

[sophios-draws]

@portal-secret-santa gift for @wildyfoe! a comic set after glados saves chell. enjoy!

[owlbaron]

To @unwarrantedrabbit, Happy Holidays! And here's your @portal-secret-santa

This is GLaDOS interacting with the chief engineer (and Rattmann) a few days after she was built, hope you like it, even thought it's a bit dark :]

[the-dangerous-mute-lunatic]

From me to @owlbaron , Happy Holidays and enjoy your @portal-secret-santa !! I hope you like this little snippet into Chell and Wheatley exploring the many spots through Aperture, like a Rattman den. It was a lot of fun to work on this one!

(Also added a timelapse of the whole piece below the read more!)

[portal-secret-santa]

We here at PSS are proud to announce the return of the Portal Secret Santa event for the 2024 winter holiday season! The application is now open to the general public. You may submit applications anytime between now and Sunday, November 17th, 2024. Please don’t procrastinate on getting them in, because the form will shut off at 12 am on the 18th and you’ll no longer be able to participate.

And now, a quick Q&A.

Q: What is Portal Secret Santa?

A: Portal Secret Santa is a holiday gift-giving event that takes place within the Portal community. You’re randomly assigned to make a gift for someone else who wants to participate, and in return, someone is randomly assigned to make a gift for you. So it’s kinda like a chain of Portal gift-giving. And any Portal fan, regardless of how old or new you are to the fandom, is welcome to participate.

Q: What kinds of gifts does this event require?

A: Anything you can make. It could be a drawing/painting, a fic, a song, a sculpture, a plush, whatever. The only restriction is that it’s gotta be something YOU made, which means no AI generated content or otherwise anything not made directly by you. Knowing that you put your very own time and effort into the gift is part of what makes it special for the recipient.

Q: When will I know who I’m making a present for?

A: It all depends on how fast we can work out pairings. Ideally we should have the prompts out within a few days of the application closing.

Q: When and how do we give our gifts?

A: Gifts will be exchanged starting on December 24th up until January 1st. See the full FAQ for complete details.

If you have any further questions, please check out our FAQ!

[livnimbe]

Happy Hollidays! @you-say-that-so-often ! I'm your secret Santa! You asked for a Chell and Wheatley reconciliation reconciliation and I made a small comic! I hope you like it and have a merry Christmas!

@portal-secret-santa

[did-you-reboot]

Hey @tracfone here’s a lil @portal-secret-santa drawing for you! pls you enjoy chell and GLaDOS having a holiday blanket fort time

I haven’t done portal anything in years and haven’t drawn much lately so my fingies and brain were a lil uncooperative BUT I HOPE YOU LIKE IT

This post is queued since I’ll be traveling on the 24th, and hopefully I didn’t heck it up lol

[aibhse]

Happy holidays, @hb-art-portal, here’s your @portal-secret-santa gift!! I hope you like this drawing of Cave and Caroline in old Aperture. Just don’t pay too much attention to Caroline’s reflection…

[xebecdav]

I was able to pinch-hit for @dipworld-dippa ‘s secret santa! Honestly the idea of Chell and Wheatley not waking GLaDOS up and just escaping out of aperture was a really sweet idea, so this was fun to draw.

@portal-secret-santa

[stellarrev-artblog]

The little killing machines grew up to be bigger, feathery killing machines. They also help to feel less lonely.

@portal-secret-santa posting from my art blog (main is @stellar-revolution )

Happy holidays @cassandra-isms !! Hope you enjoy!

[distorted-smile]

@citraniumscience Happy birthda—… wait, no. Happy Christmas! I hope you have a wonderful day and new year!! I also hope you enjoy this— it took awhile, haha. Glad that I got it done before the day. I hc Chell as being mute and P Body and Atlas don’t exactly speak…so just… suspend disbelief—

Unfortunately the quality went down from page to page due to some burnout. The words are also placed strangely due to me drawing the speech bubbles first (don’t do that). A big thank you to @sm01-sis for helping me with the flat colours on the second and third page, it helped a lot!

God bless.

For a less blurry version I put it into a google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PF9hWpWUbKpCXxzqJSjcMJIBhhx3bzkP?usp=sharing

@portal-secret-santa

[hb-but-portal]

This is my (slightly late) @portal-secret-santa submission! Merry Christmas @nuttersincorporated!

The prompt was: "In the final fight with Wheatley in Portal 2, Wheatley tells Chell that she wasn’t the first human he woke up. There were five others before her. Wheatley thinks they all died but he also thought Chell might have died near the start too.

I’d love something exploring what happened to one or more of the people Wheatley woke before Chell. What happened to them? Was Doug Rattmann one of them?"

--

So I decided to play around with the idea for a bit (that's why it took so long, I really liked the prompt) and ended up with this!

(tap the image for a clearer view)

Achilles Heel

[wiezumbeispiel]

You and I

Hi @petracourtjester! I was your @portal-secret-santa this year

Admittedly, i did alter the prompt a bit….i guess it’s a bit of both of the ones you gave me: chell and glados in old aperture, but also with a side dish of that contemplation, haha

Happy holidays! As usual, you may want to zoom in for optimal reading

[volcanicflowers]

Drawing things for the Portal Secret Santa recipients still unaccounted for. This is for @flynndesdelca who wanted something about Chell realizing how musical of a place Aperture Science is! I like to think she'd join in on the music and hang out.

[portal-secret-santa]

We here at PSS are proud to announce the return of the Portal Secret Santa event for the 2023 winter holiday season! The application is now open to the general public. You may submit applications anytime between now and Sunday, November 19th, 2023. Please don’t procrastinate on getting them in, because the form will shut off at 12 am on the 20th and you’ll no longer be able to participate.

And now, a quick Q&A.

Q: What is Portal Secret Santa?

A: Portal Secret Santa is a holiday gift-giving event that takes place within the Portal community. You’re randomly assigned to make a gift for someone else who wants to participate, and in return, someone is randomly assigned to make a gift for you. So it’s kinda like a chain of Portal gift-giving. And any Portal fan, regardless of how old or new you are to the fandom, is welcome to participate.

Q: What kinds of gifts does this event require?

A: Anything you can make. It could be a drawing/painting, a fic, a song, a sculpture, a plush, whatever. The only restriction is that it’s gotta be something YOU made, which means no AI generated content or otherwise anything not made directly by you. Knowing that you put your very own time and effort into the gift is part of what makes it special for the recipient. c:

Q: When will I know who I’m making a present for?

A: It all depends on how fast we can work out pairings. Ideally we should have the prompts out within a few days of the application closing.

Q: When and how do we give our gifts?

A: Gifts will be exchanged starting on December 24th up until January 1st. See the full FAQ for complete details.

If you have any further questions, please check out our FAQ!

[wildyfoe]

Sorry for the wait @pennamepersona but I was your @portal-secret-santa!!! I loved the idea of giving the oracle turret some attention so I hope you enjoy this drawing of Chell listening closely to some revelations

[rubye402]

Happy Holidays to everyone! Huge shout out to @portal-secret-santa as always for being EXTREMELY patient with me as I fail to get my prompts again this year (We figured out WHY and shouldn't have problems anymore, but WOW it took a bit to figure it out.)

Anyways. My person is @radioproto ! A fellow Wheatley enjoyer! Sorry if this is too non specific, I looked through the blog but still had NO idea what to do aside from just an X Reader. I mean, I did include Fact just so you technically had both in one present...? So hopefully a present for you and the rest of the fellow Wheat kissers is good enough!

Also, here's an AO3 version!

Mistletoe Mayhap (Wheatley X GN!Reader)

Note: Does NOT include "Y/N" or talking for Reader, with minimal responses or descriptions for the sake of immersion.

Word Count: 1,213

“Sorry- You want to hang up a MISSILE?” Wheatley gawked. Well, as much as a core could, anyways. Fact sighed, optics pinching shut with a small clink of metal.

“MistleTOE, Wheatley. The plant?” He opened the lower plate, barely looking up to meet the blue optic of the fellow core.

“Plant? Mate, we have an entire tree! Threw lights and small little trinkets all over its branches, PLUS that star thing on top. Spacey was EXTREMELY excited on that one. WOULD NOT stop talking about it so I'm FAIRLY certain-” Wheatley paused when he heard one of the claws the cores were using to decorate picking up something, and Fact held up a plant book of some kind, page turned to a small bushel of plants. Two words stood out in the center of the page, indicating what the said plants were. "Holly" and "Mistletoe."

“These.” Fact spoke up.

“Ah.” Wheatley squinted, trying to stretch his optic slightly to see. He read the description of Mistletoe. “OK… "Scientifically called" blah blah blah… "More commonly called Mistletoe… Poisonous plant when consumed," that's grim for… "A holiday staple?" Really? "Traditionally hung up from the ceiling, and when two people are under it…"” Wheatley suddenly wheeled back on his railing, immediately feeling like his processor was heating up, and his fans whirred to life to cool him down.

“I figured you would like an excuse.” Fact set the book back and closed it as he just rolled his eye.

“An excuse for wot?”

“Kissing a certain test subject. You know who.” Fact looked over at Wheatley as he said that. The fans kicked up another notch. “I figured that if you weren't going to say something, out of whatever fears you have, that it would give you an excuse if they didn't reciprocate. Play it off as just a traditional thing and cut your losses.”

“Wh- Hey! Do you SERIOUSLY think they're going to reject me?!” Wheatley defended. Then thought about it a moment longer, handles faltering as he clarified. “...Would they actually, you think?”

“I never said that.” Fact glanced over as he grabbed a plant, assumedly the one in question, and handed it over to Wheatley. Doing so in an underhanded motion just so he didn't hold it above him and Wheatley. “I'm entirely neutral to whether or not you two work out, I was merely offering a way for you to try to find out if they DO like you, that gives you an easy out if they DON'T.”

“...Huh.” Was all Wheatley could muster. He looked at the plant… Then slid off on his railing to find somewhere to hang it.

It wasn't a big party. It was only two other cores, the two testing robots, GLaDOS, the companion cube as a VIP, and both Fact and Wheatley. Oh, but mostly some turrets facing away from the door and "talking" amongst themselves, and someone thankfully had the foresight to mark out where they'd not only be put, but where their eyesight ended. That was for the last guest. 

A certain test subject that had to equally watch their steps around the turrets, much like P-Body and Atlas, who were currently dancing to the holiday tunes newly coded into the radio, curtsy of GLaDOS, much like the fruitcake on the table. It was just a fake decoration since nobody could eat, but it was decoration for any other human Christmas party too, so it was fine.

Wheatley watched as they entered from his corner of the room. It was one end of the table that had the fake fruitcake, that wasn't near any of the turrets, GLaDOS was on the other end, and most importantly, had the mistletoe hanging on the ceiling above him. He just flexed his handle up and down as he nervously waited for them. Mercifully, it didn't take long for them to walk over to talk to him.

“Oh-Oh! Ello! Happy holidays, luv.” Wheatley's smile was obvious through his voice as he spoke. They regarded him with a grin and nod. “So uh, this might take you for a shock, you'll wanna hear this. Me and Fact over there, yeah? Pink optic guy? Decorated this whole space! By ourselves. Managed to set everything up! Well uh, not the fruitcake though. SHE did that one, not sure why though THAT'S decoration...” The test subject still looked around the room and did some small claps for him. “Hm-? Oh! Thank you! Glad you seem to like it then. That 's all… Accurate and things. Being honest, cards on the table, Fact definitely manages to gather up how to decorate this place properly like humans very well. Nicely done, all in a good day's work on his part. And-And myself of course. Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I DO want to give myself SOME credit, y'know?”

Then they glanced up, spotting the plant. Here it goes…

“What's uh- What's that you spot?” Wheatley looked up, feigning surprise as best he could. “Ooooohhh… Look at that! That's that mistletoe thing, yeah? Isn't that rather-”

“...Wheatley, that's Holly.” Fact piped up, rolling over to them.

“Wot?” Wheatley turned to him.

“Holly has the pointed leaves and red berries. MISTLETOE has smooth leaves and white berries.”

“...Ah. I- hm. I seem to have gotten my plants mixed up.” He glanced over at the tester muffling a laugh. “Not! Y'know ENTIRELY my fault. I read up on this FAIRLY well, and in everything I saw they seemed PRET-TY sure the thing was spiky and-and RED. Very BRIGHT shade of red, might I add.”

“Fact: That is a bold face lie-”

“And here's a fact: YOU handed that plant to me.” He growled out.

“I thought the ONE BOOK I showed you said it was Holly.”

“There were TWO ENTRIES in the middle! How was I supposed to know which one was what?!”

“It DESCRIBED what the plant looked like!”

“Well! That's…! Good to know!” Wheatley huffed. Fact just groaned and rolled away.

“...So uh. Egg on my face, I guess. Yeah… Yeah I hung it up. Caught red handed, so to speak. Red handled, for me and my case I guess?” Wheatley dryly laughed, fans whirring more obviously as he lowered his railing down to them. “I uh… I guess what I was trying to do is… Not exactly a secret anymore. I uh, wouldn't exactly BLAME you if-if you don't want to. Especially seeing as it's not ACTUALLY mistletoe- Ah!”

Wheatley paused as the bottom panel of his optic got a kiss pressed up against it.

Oh. Oh they were anyways.

Wheatley took care that he actually stayed quiet. Kisses meant no talking, right? So he just, gently shut his eye, pressing his optic into it, to reciprocate as best he could. 

When it ended, he felt the world around him almost melting away as he just focused on them.

“Oh WOW. So uh. So that's a kiss. Yeah, I can see why humans like it so much, feels nice, makes you all warm. In a good way. VERY very good way. Not complaining one bit about that. In fact uh. Could I have another?”

With their nod, Wheatley shut his eye, and felt a now familiar press into said optic.