#mel portal

[bearionette]

Mel and Virgil doodle because I miss them

[cappycapital]

request—Doug Rattmann please

Characters in 3rd panel from left to right- Chell, Caroline, GLaD0S (human for some reason), Wheatley (normal), Cave Johnson, Mel Not a clue what compelled me to make this. Also I kinda just wanted an excuse to draw mel. Not enough mel fanart these days.

[melanodis]

someone says portal and it does some sleeper agent shit in my brain

[queam]

Mel

[archie-the-menace]

Last day of the college semester. Idk where I got the motivation for this.

But enjoy some lab rats and their emotional support cubes [🩷]

[catabolicdevil]

portal gun girlies for that pride month!!!!

[angstflavoured]

hey I love your portal art so so much! Do you think we could see some of the portal stories Mel cores? Like the rainbow and Virgil core?

Thank you !! :]]

Personally i did not care too much for PS:M 😭 so i wont be making content for it any time soon, but i thought itd be fun to draw these two again after so long and completely redesign them

[velvetrambles]

This is just the plot of the game right (Original)

[i-like-blue-eyed-robots]

Oops I doodled instead of sleeping. Cut-up parts below

[genericdragon]

I frickin love your art so much, especially your portal art!! I just wanna give your version of mel a kiss on the cheek!!

Thank you so much!!!!! A lil smoochie for her <3

[bearionette]

Doodled Mel and Virgil since I finished Portal Stories: Mel the other day! I love them

[cappycapital]

Back to portal posting, i love u mel and chell

[ozzanpa-wowzers]

mel talks, chell is a mute lunatic 🗣

[melanodis]

-cartoonishly grabs you with a big hand like a squeaky toy and plops you down- please give me your testing maintenance thoughts. It’s been 84 years, I was there when it was still being written and chapters were still coming out. I’m so infinitely curious on the retrospective perspective on this fanfiction.

articulating myself legibly on this is gonna be so difficult ohhhh my god. oh my god. okay . okay.

so I have read this before during my first portal phase which, granted, was in probably... 2017? 2018? some of 2019? no clue I don't like thinking about when i was 13 that was cringe as hellll. I still have all my fanart from middle school dawg... it destroyed me the first time and by god it destroyed me the 2nd time too but now this time I can actually sort of put my thoughts to paper.

obviously this is gonna have major spoilers so if you intend on reading it I don't recommend looking under here. or do i can't control you okay here we go this is gonna be scattered as fuckkk

First of all, love the entire premise. we never know what happened to Chell after the end of Portal 2, much less Mel, but whatever did we can assume it was probably a lot better than being stuck in a facility made up of machines that want you dead but also worse in the respect that ... well, you're alone now and have to fend for yourself. Remember how to be a human being. Finding food and water and shit with zero idea if you're the last person on earth or not. Imagine being starving and exhausted and probably on the brink of death with a diet of nothing but decades old canned goods and water that probably isn't good either. Then getting basically scruffed like a cat by a robot that drags you back down into the place you fought so hard to escape from, and thrown straight back into testing. Mocked and tormented by a cold, unfeeling machine you accidentally brought back to life to save your own.

The relationship Mel and Virgil have built is so…. vague. And i love it. Neither of them would say i love you and yet both of them would die for the other. Virgil HAS died for her. He defied GLaDOS probably at least 4 different times just to protect her, fully knowing a worse fate would await her if he stood idly by and did nothing at all. His ultimate flaw, and something that is touched upon often, is that he cares. He cares so much. No other personality construct seems to have the amount of empathy he holds for Mel, and it shows. I <3 yearning. I <3 never being able to act upon it.

Something else I think about is that Mel can't even scream. Cry. All you can do is croak and even that feels like it'll make you cough blood. i think she'd be so happy to get her voice back (I can't remember if it was reversible) so she can catch up on all the screaming and crying she missed. Curl up in a little ball for a bit. The grieving she had no time to do. - some of my favorite bits. i don't really have anything to say here they just make me insane

GLaDOS spoke in the voice of a god that had all the time in the world to spare and did not care for its meaning.

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"And you can't tell me it would be a sweet deal for the two of us to be knocking about in the after life like some kind of supernatural sitcom, because I don't think robots and humans walk in the same cosmic circles after the lights go out.”

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He struggled with lifting her off the ground, not knowing exactly how to pick a human up in a situation like this, but he had seen photos of grooms holding their brides a certain way so he tried for that as his best option.

hey man why are you just looking at wedding photos first of all

Had he been human like herself, there would be nothing barring her from holding him close and seeing what she could do about his vitals, but he wasn't. He was a machine. A highly advanced machine from an age she did not belong in.

The whole flashback sort of thing with Dr. Aadland destroying the GLaDOS prototype... I'm obsessed with the very idea of all the personality constructs being formerly human. What lives they lead, the relationships they may have had with each other before being converted to machines, their memories picked and chosen, deleted by hand to cultivate a new personality, a pale imitation of the real thing.

In spite of the life you've given I'm just another version of you And somehow I'd rather forget that, too

The person he was, the person responsible for not only building her chassis but involuntarily assisted in being a guinea pig for what they would do to Caroline. Her fate was sealed with his death and yet all she has is spite for him. I guess as some form of catharsis. They took your memories from you. They did a Boeing whistleblower level cover up. You will not be remembered, you will not be mourned. You are nothing, in death and what came after. I don't think Aadland really thought about saving her in particular when he decided to have a textbook crashout, more about the impact it would have on the world overall.

“Its sick. This is sick. Its all sick. There's going to be more like you. All over the world, even. Minds jammed into a compact disc. People are forced to dodge bullets and endure toxic waste and are hooked up to IVs filled with coffee. Its all insane. This place is just… insane. Why am I even here? What am I doing here?”

No matter how strong you think you are, anyone is a mere few nights of bad sleep or none at all from entering psychosis.

"I'm not him, and you really don't want me to be.”

They took away from him the facets of his personality that made him Dr. Aadland. And while we'll never really know exactly what kind of person he was from the little flashes we get, I like to think he was sort of an uptight asshole. Thinking he's better than everyone, getting exhausted with others that fail to understand the reaches of his vast intellect. Something that Virgil could never imagine being. All torn away from him, shoved into a robot with a mere fraction of his intelligence, and all the emotional instability. Possibly one of the greatest minds among them reduced to nothing but a mumbling slurring mess of machine that can barely remember its own name.

Hard drives don't actually delete data until the old data is written over. There's still fragments that can be painstakingly pieced together.

[archie-the-menace]

Hey! This is turning out pretty good! And nothing weird has happened in a bit!

FUUCK!

[carameyedansen]

you’ll never guess what im hyperfixated on (its portal)