#Virgil is more than that

[nuttersincorporated]

Virgil is more than 'Wheatley, if he didn't betray you'

I wish some fans wouldn’t insist that Virgil is ‘Wheatley, if he didn’t betray you!’ They are two very different characters and reducing Virgil to that isn’t fair on either of them. It also makes a lot of Wheatley fans dislike Virgil on principle.

If Portal Stories: Mel was an official game that came out before Portal 2, nobody would call Wheatley, ‘Virgil, if he betrayed you!’ They would recognise them as the two distinct characters they are.

If PS:M came out first, it would have made Wheatley’s betrayal and character arc even more painful and impactful because we would have learned that there were AI’s in Aperture that we could trust. Virgil would also probably have around as many fans as Wheatley does because they wouldn’t be compared in the same way.

None of the other characters get this treatment. Grady isn’t ‘Glitchy if he thought he’d found his purpose.’ Nigel isn’t ‘the Narrator core, if he decided to talk directly to you, rather than just narrating from afar.’

Is it fun to wonder what Virgil and Wheatley would have done differently if they’d swapped places? Yes! I’ve done it myself (here and here). However, they are more than just a reflection of each other.

I have a love/hate relationship with Wheatley. He is an incredibly well written and complex villain, with so many personality flaws. He was always doomed to betray Chell and it will always hurt because I want him to make the right choice.

Wheatley says that he is sorry after everything is over. However, I honestly think, if Wheatley somehow made it back to Earth and got into a position of power, he would still lash out and make selfish choices. I wouldn’t want to hang out with Wheatley because I don’t believe he’s changed.

I just love Virgil. He is a good friend. You could spill the tea with him about anything and he’d enjoy chatting with you. He will go out of his way to help a friend because he has the emotional maturity and intelligence to consider other people’s wants and needs. Virgil has his flaws but is able to recognise them. I would love hanging out with him.

Out of the two, Virgil is defiantly my favourite. I want all his fans and his haters (mostly just Wheatly fans who hate him on principle) to recognise that he is more than just Wheatley, in a story that doesn’t make him betray you.

[bigfatbreak]

Birds of a Feather previous / next

[lycheeleeches]

orange logan? bonus points if he's yelling at one of the other sides for maximum angst potential.

Of course I love a good orange Logan

Such a shame you’re not the favorite

[gravedigg]

I felt compelled to revamp this piece a little cause it was ever so flat. I fussed with the background a bit, adjusted some of the levels, and added more freckles (always more freckles!) <3

[dragonairice]

They’re getting hats!!!

@thatsthat24

[hoardingpuffin]

Someone: Avians have natural physical prowess and a dance-like grace.

Various sounds of crashing, things clanging against each other and something heavily colliding with the floor.

Someone: Oh, hi Virgil.

[let-roman-bite-someone]

they boogie.

[southern--downpour]

WIRED

[sandersontheside]

the black t shirt you can sometimes see peeking out from under Roman’s tunic was stolen from Virgil send tweet

[radioactive-dazey]

Sanders Sides as things me and my friends have said, PT. 21

Virgil: Roman texted me. "Yknow what your room needs? Corner shelving. Everyone loves corner shelves." And I was like. Yeah. I would love some corner shelving. But, at the same time, was hit with the realization that I'm a 19 year old getting giddy at the prospect of corner shelves.

Logan: he's so right. I love corner shelves

Virgil: I know!!! Me too!

Logan: my corner shelves are so great. I want a third one. But I'm fresh out of corners.

Virgil: you get me. Our souls are intertwined on some deep cosmic level

Logan: because of corner shelves?

Virgil: because of a variety of things. But mostly the corner shelves

[buglaur]

two of my sims if they were in mysims

credits to centrixe the dodo on models-resource for the base models

[spoondoodles]

I blacked out and more Logince HS AU appeared on my canvas idk what happened (also ty @oatmeal-stans-the-trash-rat for some inspiration sorry it took so long to make a post about Them <3)

[kraeki]

He’s so cute here wtf

[hrokkall]

Angel in the airwaves

[gravedigg]

I bit God's hand and now he wont even feed me

This ones inspired by a picture of Mary holding Jesus but, since Virgil grew up in foster care and never knew his mother, there's no one there. Just the hollow space where someone should be.

It speaks to his relationship (and subsequent disconnection) with his heritage and culture as the orphaned child of immigrants and his difficult relationship with religion, having grown up religious but feeling betrayed and abandoned by god after his injury.

I wanted it to look like an old post card, it says return to sender but unfortunately they didn't leave a return address. It's probably just gonna sit at the post office until they throw it away. :-(

[loganslowdown4]

Do you-

F- my dang brain

Do you ever think about how when the sides are wearing their Halloween costumes from last year, they all have their core colours included somewhere—

Except for Patton—? 👀🧡

I mean he’s a cute lil punkin, but why that costume? WHY THAT COLOUR??

H elp me