#Valve Au

[manicpumpkindreamgirl]

Tf2 zombie apocalypse concept I had for Scout and Sniper. I changed their outfits a bit but I wanted to stay true to the original looks

[ohnoitsz1m]

Woag more Barney studies

[astrogriffinart]

Demoram

[blue-inferno]

Sometimes, all you need is a hug!

Wheatley tries to lash out his anger towards Chell, to which she simply responds with a calm hug....Now feeling a bit silly he, just sighs in defeat...knowing his plans to belittle, Chell wont be easy!

Just a little wholesome piece with my human Wheatley and Chell 😊

[quotidianish]

A little Aang for these troubling times

[cookiqueen13]

Portal Drawings! Wanted to make humanization/android versions of Glados and Wheatley.

[ratwithhands]

Technically a recolour but I finished the piece! I'm a little sad about having to change Ingo's design and colour for the prompt but all things considered he came out pretty good! He also came out pretty fast, just about under 10 total hours. Here's the lineart for him, this took about 6 hours on its own!

This makes 2 submas AUs I've snuck into my VisArts project so far :)

[idkplzhalp]

Hi guys, here's a long nerdy ramble about my Caroline Portal 2 x Miss Pauling TF2 au/headcanons because I've had thoughts about them for years and TF2 comic 7 awakened it in me again to expand on it further. (This is huge I'm so sorry but I gotta keep my title of biggest CaroPauling shipper and I need to spread my truths). I tried to jam as many facts/reasoning as I could into it because I am Portal lore queen and canon info is so important to me to incorporate.

To start this, both are a bit queercoded (GLaDOS subtext of liking Chell + Pauling lesbian confirmation/subtext) therefore it's nice because they absolutely would get along, relate to each other, and being established as queer makes them fit like puzzle pieces together in my head.

(^ I think Valve artists should keep drawing Caroline so I can continue editing their comic versions together, lol, this is all I got)

I think Pauling after comic 7 should go to work at Aperture Science (since presumably she drops the australium down a trench and is living her life, based on the turkey she sends for the Christmas party- shes made the choice to stop Admins cycle and not be cruel like her) and now lives with Caroline as they run Aperture together being sapphics in loveeee. Also we know Pauling is still unmarried then because she keeps the Ms. term instead of Mrs. on the little card from the turkey (also it's the same last name, obviously). Therefore. Cue Caroline entering the scene, because she's not married either (at least not to Cave).

They could've met during the time of TF2 in 1968 because of the Wheatley Ap-Sap, so maybe they met and got along and then Pauling later remembered Aperture after dumping the australium and was like "Hey this is close enough to working for the Administrator". Like maybe after dumping it, she was left wandering a bit trying to find a place to live and sees a billboard for Aperture which motivates her to go there. She could work as an assistant/bodyguard to Caroline, especially in Caroline's time as CEO, or be taught by her how to work in the lab.

When Cave dies, Pauling could be sad because she knows Caroline could've had similar attachments to him that Pauling did for Admin. So she's A) trying to comfort Caroline while she mourns and B) reliving her own grief from Admin. Maybe trying to convince Caroline to break her own cycle of how Aperture is run or work with her to stop GLaDOS..

If Caroline still gets uploaded to GLaDOS, then have Pauling either A) put in stasis and then later during the co-op tests where they free the humans, GLaDOS tests her and is like "WAIT my wife,,, a woman who wont kill me,, I want her" and now Pauling gets to hang out in GLaDOS' chamber while they test other people, B) keeps the australium to protect it and uses that to live forever alongside GLaDOS, or C) is uploaded into a core, it could be the core in The Lab core calibration game that's late and ran to get to the slingshot test since Pauling and that core share a voice actress (Ashly Burch)! It could be that she has less in-depth functions because we know when a person is uploaded to a smaller computer, they don't retain all their memories or full functionality unless they are then switched to a larger mainframe like GLaDOS/CaveDOS (ex: Cave in Aperture Desk Job, unless we want Lego Dimensions Cave core or Cave cube to count too, which contradicts this). So we could make things tragic and have Pauling not remember anything from her human life/GLaDOS could be unsatisfied because we know she more often has romantic feelings for humans (Chell or if including Lego Dimensions then Batman (from the Jonathan Coulton interview on the end song)) and they're now trying to fix it so they fit together again. Maybe GLaDOS gives Pauling GLaDOS' old mainframe seen in co-op mode.

Though Pauling would have to deal with the personality shift from Caroline to GLaDOS and maybe is scared of her because it reminds her of Admin, although GLaDOS wouldn't be as abusive to her and maybe it adds something because of how almost in love/obsessed Pauling was with Admin (trying to stay with her for so long/thinking Admin isn't that bad/trailing her no matter what). It could be complex because Pauling is fighting memories of past trauma with Admin while trying to maintain her relationship with GLaDOS. Maybe Pauling could bring out Caroline's personality more? Pauling is also a bit like Chell (ex: very determined fighter) therefore I'm just gonna say that's GLaDOS' type aha.

Back to the human versions now. Because Pauling got a first name reveal, Flo, we could have Caroline take on her last name, since we don't know Caroline's last name already. Lesbian marriage solving a name crisis 💀. Caroline Pauling doesn't sound that bad!

I think these two would just work really well together since they've had similar experiences and could support eachother/understand eachother like they haven't had before. To me they're both neurodivergant so I feel they could bond over their interests/teach eachother cool stuff. Like Caroline teaches Pauling science and Pauling teaches her about weaponry. Also they could do the activities that Pauling listed doing with friends "skating, look at gun catalogs". Because of that I used to headcanon that Pauling rollerskates and Caroline ice-skates so they do those together. Also Gargoyles and Gravel! They'd dress up as a wizard and witch together when playing or something haha. Also the assistants clipboard of the year conference Pauling goes to with Bidwell, she could go with Caroline and Greg and they all fight over office supplies as they should be. Maybe Caroline teaches Pauling how to bake!

I think working at Aperture, Caroline either wasn't able to defend herself verbally or wasn't listened to, not really being considered or appreciated by the other employees. She's considered modest so I think she was likely conditioned to not appreciate what she did. She's brilliant and incredibly intelligent but being a woman in that position during that time, she was probably ignored by anyone who wasn't Cave a lot. So I'd like to think if she wasn't being listened to and Cave wasn't around, Pauling could swoop in and tell those people off since she's really blunt and will tell things how it is (like in the tough break update when the guy flirted with her and she told him to leave because she was getting people killed for money), and is now a scary guard dog privilege to Caroline, even if Pauling is still a tiny anxious woman and Caroline can probably fend for herself lol.

Uhhhhh and heck, let's send Cave's other assistant Greg to go help Bidwell and Reddy in running Mann Co. That could be really funny to see, I feel they'd all get along. They're slightly more rational than Hale so I think it would be interesting to see what they do with this insane company!

Okay I'm done now, pls tag me in any CaroPauling posts you see because I'm saving them all to my phone to look at them lovingly, I have a collection lol <3.

[springy-bubbles]

Heya guys, please watch this and spread the word

[blimeypip]

when the cake is a lie but you get no humanity from it

[baba-fazrabbit]

portal 2 swap au (my magnum opus)

Chell -> GLaDOS GLaDOS -> Wheatley Wheatley -> Chell

okay basically: Chell switches with GLaDOS because.. duh. But I think it would be really interesting.. GLaDOS as a character is known for her dialogue and comments but Chell is known for a lack of dialogue at all. Giving her the role of GLaDOS would make a more intimidating robot.. maybe speaking through text on screens or sumn.. (They could still have the appearance of a human.. maybe a coorpse.. scaaary :ghost:) GLaDOS switching with Wheatley seems kind of stupid but think about it.. They're literally polar opposites (intelligence-wise) So I think in this AU GLaDOS would be more of a comedic character, akin to Wheatley (duh..) But maybe instead of escaping the facility she'd want to like explore it and take control just because she thinks everything is so pretty and beautiful and wants to know what its like?? dunno how to phrase it Wheatley and Chell is kind of obvious. Instead of the player's role being Chell, the quiet one.. They're Wheatley, the loud one who aggrivates the Chell of this AU because he talks so much, he would also intentionally disobey commands given by GLaDOS or Chell.. GLaDOS and Wheatley would still be robots, with Wheatley having a body similar to P-Body (no clue what the names would be pls help)

As for old aperture... uumm. I think Rattman and Cave could switch and Caroline would just be "Michelle" as a shortening of Chell and when Chell realizes that she goes through the whole thing.

Cave could've gotten Rattman's place because maybe Cave did something stupid (too stupid) and everyone kicked him out and replaced him with the next hardest working employee, being Rattman!

I think storywise Chapter 1 would be GLaDOS looking for androids (Wheatley) that are still living?? and GLaDOS sees it as an opprotunity so she sends Wheatley into the facility with the idea that he won't get detected by Chell because he is an AI.

please oh please comment ideas and repost or something idunno

[mags2theythem]

@shrimperini

[prismsongonly]

A random Portal Au I made back in 2021 where Chell not only can talk, but often says things she shouldn't. It's a lot to explain so take this as a grain of salt for now.

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[astrogriffinart]

Sniparoo

[blue-inferno]

NO TEXT VERSION

PORTAL AU : Part 1: Wheatley and his upbringing

So here is some info and facts on the first part of my AU!

*Wheatley in this image is just turning 11 years old, and was being told by his father that a massive incident happened in GLaDOS' chamber. He would return as soon as he could but was never seen or heard of again.*

(Please click on image/open in new tab for better quality)

[crossfalconx5]

Quick look at what I’ve been cooking!

This is a small little AU I’ve been developing for a couple days that is still a big WIP! I’ve got a lot of ideas that I’m working to iron out and more content will be coming soon! If this seems something your interested in be sure to keep updated and hey, maybe drop some ideas in my ask box (may do some concepts for the Glados and gman swaps in my next sketch batch, for now enjoy some main character action!)