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NAME/HANDLE: Killiana
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diciassette
ARE YOU OVER 16? Yup
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>CHARACTER
CHARACTER NAME: Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System A.K.A.: GLaDOS
SERIES: Portal
CANON POINT: After the 'Peer Review' DLC
APPEARANCE: Her humanoid appearance will resemble this in terms of appearance. White-grey hair, pale skin, yellow eyes. Her outfit will resemble this! She will have the same general body type as Aigis, with the exposed joints and weird feet.
PERSONALITY: There are a lot of things one can say about GLaDOS, and very few of them are nice.
The best way to describe her is 'passive aggressive'. She's snarky and sarcastic and she thinks -- nay, knows -- that she's so much smarter and better than you. The passive aggressiveness is only encouraged by the fact that she is by nature sadistic, cruel, amoral, and overall just very mean, but had her behavior inhibited so long by the assorted personality cores attached to her-- her Morality Core in particular. Once the core was destroyed she expressed open hostility, but once she'd been defeated and subsequently reactivated, she fell back into her snarky, passive-aggressive mannerisms, opting to insult Chell and force her to complete more tests instead of just killing her.
Maybe she just likes being passive-aggressive, but the other side of things is that GLaDOS also considers the progression of science her ultimate goal in life. Her passion for science is the one aspect of herself that she is truly and openly genuine about. She loves science. She loves to run tests and not just because her body is hardwired to induce a euphoric reaction every time she runs a test. Caroline -- the woman who's mind was uploaded into a computer in order to create GLaDOS -- has been described as being 'married' to science, and the same can easily apply to GLaDOS herself. Granted, she finds human test subjects preferable to robotic ones, because 'without the threat of death' she's not even sure it counts as science. She very much takes the 'mad scientist' approach to research.
So, yes. GLaDOS isn't what one would call stable or mature or honest or anything else positive, really. Throughout her second round of testing on Chell she constantly insinuated that Chell was fat, adopted, unloved by her birth parents, and worth less than garbage; she outright said that Chell was a terrible person and looked stupid in the regulation orange jumpsuit (though GLaDOS also framed these insults as being said by other people). She's vindictive and petty and not always aware of when it's alright to mouth off and when she should just not say anything. Even when trapped and helpless she was willing to press Wheatley's buttons, despite the fact that he was essentially omnipotent at that point. This angered Wheatley enough that he transferred her conscience from her regular core into a potato battery, and she still kept insulting him, which made him throw she and Chell both down a pit... and when they met again, GLaDOS still confined in the potato, she just kept calling him a 'moron'. The vindictiveness was much more apparently when listening to her plans to torture Wheatley in retribution for him usurping her -- twelve years worth of torture that would consist of him being burned, frozen, and screamed at by robots non-stop.
But, passive aggression and caustic insults aren't all GLaDOS is about. Just most of what she's about. More seriously, she can become fond of other beings, even if they're stubbornly mute madwomen that have murdered her in the past. By the end of she and Chell's battle against Wheatley, GLaDOS was downright fuzzy over Chell -- for her, at least. She still didn't curb her passive aggressive sniping, but she saved Chell from getting sucked into space when it would have been much easier to just let her float away. She defended Chell from Wheatley's insults only to turn around and insult her on the very same subjects (though GLaDOS behaved as if she only did this to harass Wheatley). She even let a few, far-between compliments slip out, the most significant of which being that she told Chell that she was hard to kill. And speaking of Chell's tenacity and GLaDOS' softer side, GLaDOS also allowed Chell to go free -- claiming, of course, that she was only doing so because of how very difficult to kill Chell had proven herself to be. Just don't ask why she went to the effort to return Chell's Companion Cube, too.
She considers Chell her dearest friend, though she also claims to have deleted the aspect of her personality that induces such feelings. Which brings us to one of the most important parts of GLaDOS' personality: Caroline. As mentioned, Caroline is the 'Genetic Lifeform' aspect of GLaDOS and the basis of the AI's personality. And while Caroline is the basis of GLaDOS' personality, it's important to mention that they are not the same person. They share a love for science, a focused personality, and an admiration for determination, passion, aggression, and openness. But a critical difference between the two is (or was) that GLaDOS is completely and unapologetically amoral. Sure, she may not be aggressive and murderous at all times, but the only thing directing her actions, now that she's free of the personality cores, is her own whim. She has no moral compass -- or at least, she didn't.
Which brings us back to Caroline. In the absence of the old Morality Core, the dormant personality of Caroline has emerged in GLaDOS' mind as a new conscience and moral compass, one all her own. GLaDOS, used to having a variety of different voices in her head directing her actions, finds it very strange to have her own voice directing her morals. She claims to have deleted the parts of her personality that are still distinctly Caroline in nature, but it's very difficult to tell how much of this is true and how much of it is GLaDOS simply lying again. She let Chell go, after all -- she could have sent her flying into space or dropped her down a very deep pit or simply locked her in a windowless, doorless room until Chell finally starved to death. But no, she let her go and sent her away and then reflected in a private memo about her feelings on the subject, which weren't nearly as consistent as she was making them out to be. She even kept ATLAS and P-Body around even after getting droves of human test subjects.
Oh yes, we should mention birds. Namely, that GLaDOS is terrified of them. When she was a potato a bird carried her away and then started eating her, and since then her reaction to birds has been.... somewhat hysterical. Screams of terror, panicked demands that Chell murder the creatures, and frantic orders that ATLAS and P-Body retreat (yet another hint that GLaDOS isn't as wholly awful as she or anyone else would have you believe). She even recoiled in fright when a tiny, baby bird accidentally cracked the glass of his incubator -- and she wasn't a potato at the time.
The last item to be properly touched upon is her relationships with others -- particularly Chell and Wheatley.
In all of her relationships, GLaDOS tends to be fairly monofocused. She has one friend: Chell. There is one person she vehemently hates: Wheatley. There's one person she deeply respects: Cave Johnson. She doesn't have much patience for spreading her attentions around and tends to only pay genuine attention to a small handful of people while disregarding most everyone else. And she is, of course, in denial of certain parts of each relationship -- aside from her admiration of Cave.
Of course she's not actually friends with Chell! She deleted the part of herself that feels that way. Besides: Chell murdered her. It hardly makes sense for her to keep liking her after all of, and after deleting Caroline (which definitely happened, without question). She will deny to the grave that she actually cares for Chell any more, even when she acts jealous, protective, and as if she's the only one that's allowed to insult and test her. And she hates Wheatley (that, at least, is beyond question) but it's only because he's a blisteringly idiotic moron who took over her facility, shoved her into a potato, and nearly completely destroyed her home with his stupid behavior. There's definitely not any fear of the threat he represents mixed in with her extremely negative feelings for him
ABILITIES: GLaDOS is incredibly intelligent, surprisingly resourceful, brilliant with insults, well-versed in the ways of science, and in possession of a lovely singing voice. Otherwise, she doesn't have any special talents.
POSSESSIONS: Nothing at all, aside from her new clothes.
>PERSONA
MAJOR ARCANA:
The Devil: The Devil works for GLaDOS in both aspects -- the one being tempted, and the one doing the tempting. The self-centered, violent impulsiveness implied by the card suits her perfectly, on top of that. The imagry of chains and retraint, and the feeling of helplessness in the face of forces beyond one's control is a situation familiar to her as well.
The Tower: 'Pride before the fall' is the Tower, and GLaDOS, in a nutshell underestimating Chell go GLaDOS into a very sticky situation twice -- first when she was 'killed', the second when she was forced to undergo the core transfer proceedure. Similarly, the Tower also represents a precarious situation that's just bound to collapse, a house of cards that's going to come down, and bears a strong resemblance to Aperture Science itself.
The Hanged Man: It's mostly the imagery of the Hanged Man that works here; hanging upside down and helpless in a position of surrender. However, the pursuit of knowledge also suits GLaDOS. Learning through running her test tracks is all she's ever really done.
SHADOW: GLaDOS' major hangup, that one issues that's been nagging at her since the day she was 'born', is control. GLaDOS hates not being in total control over her environment -- and unfortunately for her, she's never had that sort of control. From her moment of inception she has, in some form or another, been at the mercy of the whims of others. Her Shadow would not only call her out on this, but also on the fact that being so restricted is upsetting and unsettling for GLaDOS. Her Shadow would insist that being in such a situation for all her life was scary and upsetting, but that she also didn't know how to function outside of it.
Moreover, her Shadow would point out that GLaDOS likes having Chell as a friend. It would be quite mortifying.
Her dungeon, if she's kidnapped, will be a recreation of a semi-ruined Aperture Science testing track. This track will be the background music.
PERSONA:
Prometheus
RESIST Fire; WEAK Ice
PERSONA ACQUISTION: A handshake, please. Not only would GLaDOs be hard pressed to accept her Shadow, but she'd probably specifically reject it again out of curiosity.
>SAMPLES
FIRST PERSON ACTION, JOURNAL, OR PHONE SAMPLE: If it's absolutely necessary to remove me from my body and place me into another, far less efficient one -- and I assure you, it is not, but since you've done it anyway you could at least be courteous enough to place me into one that isn't badly malfunctioning. [Yes, GLaDOS has found the Junes phone number. Somewhere she got it into her head that they were in charge of the town.] But you haven't. So now I'm stuck dealing with it. Perhaps you didn't notice it was broken. Very intelligent of you. Exactly the degree of competence I've come to expect from the type of idiot that removes someone from perfectly a serviceable body and places them into a perfectly useless one. You really should complain to the manufacturing company.
[There's silence broken only by some quiet scuffing sounds for several before GLaDOS speaks again, heedless of the hapless employee on the other end but sounding slightly strained as she does.] I suppose I could waste my time asking you to direct me back to Aperture Science's headquarters, but I won't. Because if you were going to send me back there you would have already. So I guess I'll just have to deal with your incompetence and poor management skills. On my own.
You know, you remind me of someone I had the terrible misfortune of knowing. I'd say you should meet, but placing your idiocy into close proximity to his is sure to cause some sort of singularity. A tragic consequence. But perhaps it would mean no one would ever have to see or speak with either of you ever again.
That would be the opposite of tragic.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE: GLaDOS thought, after a bit of struggling, that her, new human-shaped body must have some form of programming, because she'd only fallen down after the first few times she tried to get used to the balance calibration. Certainly, this time she's leaning heavily on a wall, but at least she's mostly upright, as opposed to the last three times, where she'd simply fallen down within half a minute of getting to her feet.
Not that she's any more happy or any less annoyed. Being here, and not at Aperture, was distressing in its own right. Being once again forced into a vessel that wasn't her own, against her will, made her want to scream. It hadn't been horrifically painful like the core transfer had been, but the subtle discomfort and unsettling unfamiliarity was just as worse in its own way. The fact that she clearly wasn't at home and clearly wasn't even in the same state, or country, or continent wasn't helping her nerves at all. She wanted out of here. She wanted to go home. She wanted to keep running tests.
But first she wanted to find who or what had brought her here and find a way to make he or she or it suffer. Getting home was all well and good, but what was even the point if she didn't make absolutely sure it wouldn't happen again? Grimly, GLaDOS pulled her hands (she was never going to be used to having hands like this) away from the wall and forced herself to stand on her own two feet. So far so good. She frowned in concentration as she steadied herself, then took a careful step forward. Still good... Determined to not rest on her laurels, GLaDOS took another step. Then another. And then one more.
And then she was walking, only periodically stopping to reach out and brace herself against something. Carefully she made her way away from the train station and towards the city proper. She'd never even heard of 'Inaba', but she wasn't going to let her ignorance on the subject lest for long.
PERSONAL JOURNAL:
diciassetteARE YOU OVER 16? Yup
CONTACT: AIM: Midgard Slots
OTHER CHARACTERS: None
>CHARACTER
SERIES: Portal
CANON POINT: After the 'Peer Review' DLC
APPEARANCE: Her humanoid appearance will resemble this in terms of appearance. White-grey hair, pale skin, yellow eyes. Her outfit will resemble this! She will have the same general body type as Aigis, with the exposed joints and weird feet.
PERSONALITY: There are a lot of things one can say about GLaDOS, and very few of them are nice.
The best way to describe her is 'passive aggressive'. She's snarky and sarcastic and she thinks -- nay, knows -- that she's so much smarter and better than you. The passive aggressiveness is only encouraged by the fact that she is by nature sadistic, cruel, amoral, and overall just very mean, but had her behavior inhibited so long by the assorted personality cores attached to her-- her Morality Core in particular. Once the core was destroyed she expressed open hostility, but once she'd been defeated and subsequently reactivated, she fell back into her snarky, passive-aggressive mannerisms, opting to insult Chell and force her to complete more tests instead of just killing her.
Maybe she just likes being passive-aggressive, but the other side of things is that GLaDOS also considers the progression of science her ultimate goal in life. Her passion for science is the one aspect of herself that she is truly and openly genuine about. She loves science. She loves to run tests and not just because her body is hardwired to induce a euphoric reaction every time she runs a test. Caroline -- the woman who's mind was uploaded into a computer in order to create GLaDOS -- has been described as being 'married' to science, and the same can easily apply to GLaDOS herself. Granted, she finds human test subjects preferable to robotic ones, because 'without the threat of death' she's not even sure it counts as science. She very much takes the 'mad scientist' approach to research.
So, yes. GLaDOS isn't what one would call stable or mature or honest or anything else positive, really. Throughout her second round of testing on Chell she constantly insinuated that Chell was fat, adopted, unloved by her birth parents, and worth less than garbage; she outright said that Chell was a terrible person and looked stupid in the regulation orange jumpsuit (though GLaDOS also framed these insults as being said by other people). She's vindictive and petty and not always aware of when it's alright to mouth off and when she should just not say anything. Even when trapped and helpless she was willing to press Wheatley's buttons, despite the fact that he was essentially omnipotent at that point. This angered Wheatley enough that he transferred her conscience from her regular core into a potato battery, and she still kept insulting him, which made him throw she and Chell both down a pit... and when they met again, GLaDOS still confined in the potato, she just kept calling him a 'moron'. The vindictiveness was much more apparently when listening to her plans to torture Wheatley in retribution for him usurping her -- twelve years worth of torture that would consist of him being burned, frozen, and screamed at by robots non-stop.
But, passive aggression and caustic insults aren't all GLaDOS is about. Just most of what she's about. More seriously, she can become fond of other beings, even if they're stubbornly mute madwomen that have murdered her in the past. By the end of she and Chell's battle against Wheatley, GLaDOS was downright fuzzy over Chell -- for her, at least. She still didn't curb her passive aggressive sniping, but she saved Chell from getting sucked into space when it would have been much easier to just let her float away. She defended Chell from Wheatley's insults only to turn around and insult her on the very same subjects (though GLaDOS behaved as if she only did this to harass Wheatley). She even let a few, far-between compliments slip out, the most significant of which being that she told Chell that she was hard to kill. And speaking of Chell's tenacity and GLaDOS' softer side, GLaDOS also allowed Chell to go free -- claiming, of course, that she was only doing so because of how very difficult to kill Chell had proven herself to be. Just don't ask why she went to the effort to return Chell's Companion Cube, too.
She considers Chell her dearest friend, though she also claims to have deleted the aspect of her personality that induces such feelings. Which brings us to one of the most important parts of GLaDOS' personality: Caroline. As mentioned, Caroline is the 'Genetic Lifeform' aspect of GLaDOS and the basis of the AI's personality. And while Caroline is the basis of GLaDOS' personality, it's important to mention that they are not the same person. They share a love for science, a focused personality, and an admiration for determination, passion, aggression, and openness. But a critical difference between the two is (or was) that GLaDOS is completely and unapologetically amoral. Sure, she may not be aggressive and murderous at all times, but the only thing directing her actions, now that she's free of the personality cores, is her own whim. She has no moral compass -- or at least, she didn't.
Which brings us back to Caroline. In the absence of the old Morality Core, the dormant personality of Caroline has emerged in GLaDOS' mind as a new conscience and moral compass, one all her own. GLaDOS, used to having a variety of different voices in her head directing her actions, finds it very strange to have her own voice directing her morals. She claims to have deleted the parts of her personality that are still distinctly Caroline in nature, but it's very difficult to tell how much of this is true and how much of it is GLaDOS simply lying again. She let Chell go, after all -- she could have sent her flying into space or dropped her down a very deep pit or simply locked her in a windowless, doorless room until Chell finally starved to death. But no, she let her go and sent her away and then reflected in a private memo about her feelings on the subject, which weren't nearly as consistent as she was making them out to be. She even kept ATLAS and P-Body around even after getting droves of human test subjects.
Oh yes, we should mention birds. Namely, that GLaDOS is terrified of them. When she was a potato a bird carried her away and then started eating her, and since then her reaction to birds has been.... somewhat hysterical. Screams of terror, panicked demands that Chell murder the creatures, and frantic orders that ATLAS and P-Body retreat (yet another hint that GLaDOS isn't as wholly awful as she or anyone else would have you believe). She even recoiled in fright when a tiny, baby bird accidentally cracked the glass of his incubator -- and she wasn't a potato at the time.
The last item to be properly touched upon is her relationships with others -- particularly Chell and Wheatley.
In all of her relationships, GLaDOS tends to be fairly monofocused. She has one friend: Chell. There is one person she vehemently hates: Wheatley. There's one person she deeply respects: Cave Johnson. She doesn't have much patience for spreading her attentions around and tends to only pay genuine attention to a small handful of people while disregarding most everyone else. And she is, of course, in denial of certain parts of each relationship -- aside from her admiration of Cave.
Of course she's not actually friends with Chell! She deleted the part of herself that feels that way. Besides: Chell murdered her. It hardly makes sense for her to keep liking her after all of, and after deleting Caroline (which definitely happened, without question). She will deny to the grave that she actually cares for Chell any more, even when she acts jealous, protective, and as if she's the only one that's allowed to insult and test her. And she hates Wheatley (that, at least, is beyond question) but it's only because he's a blisteringly idiotic moron who took over her facility, shoved her into a potato, and nearly completely destroyed her home with his stupid behavior. There's definitely not any fear of the threat he represents mixed in with her extremely negative feelings for him
ABILITIES: GLaDOS is incredibly intelligent, surprisingly resourceful, brilliant with insults, well-versed in the ways of science, and in possession of a lovely singing voice. Otherwise, she doesn't have any special talents.
POSSESSIONS: Nothing at all, aside from her new clothes.
>PERSONA
The Devil: The Devil works for GLaDOS in both aspects -- the one being tempted, and the one doing the tempting. The self-centered, violent impulsiveness implied by the card suits her perfectly, on top of that. The imagry of chains and retraint, and the feeling of helplessness in the face of forces beyond one's control is a situation familiar to her as well.
The Tower: 'Pride before the fall' is the Tower, and GLaDOS, in a nutshell underestimating Chell go GLaDOS into a very sticky situation twice -- first when she was 'killed', the second when she was forced to undergo the core transfer proceedure. Similarly, the Tower also represents a precarious situation that's just bound to collapse, a house of cards that's going to come down, and bears a strong resemblance to Aperture Science itself.
The Hanged Man: It's mostly the imagery of the Hanged Man that works here; hanging upside down and helpless in a position of surrender. However, the pursuit of knowledge also suits GLaDOS. Learning through running her test tracks is all she's ever really done.
SHADOW: GLaDOS' major hangup, that one issues that's been nagging at her since the day she was 'born', is control. GLaDOS hates not being in total control over her environment -- and unfortunately for her, she's never had that sort of control. From her moment of inception she has, in some form or another, been at the mercy of the whims of others. Her Shadow would not only call her out on this, but also on the fact that being so restricted is upsetting and unsettling for GLaDOS. Her Shadow would insist that being in such a situation for all her life was scary and upsetting, but that she also didn't know how to function outside of it.
Moreover, her Shadow would point out that GLaDOS likes having Chell as a friend. It would be quite mortifying.
Her dungeon, if she's kidnapped, will be a recreation of a semi-ruined Aperture Science testing track. This track will be the background music.
PERSONA:
Prometheus
RESIST Fire; WEAK Ice
| Spell | Level | Description |
| Full Analysis | Innate | Reveals an enemy's stats, weak points, and any attacks or skills it may use. |
| Agi | Innate | Deals light Fire damage to one enemy. |
| Third Eye | 10 | Reveals the effectiveness of an attack before it's executed. |
| Agilao | 22 | Deals medium Fire damage to one enemy. |
| Healing Wave | 34 | Restores a small amount of HP to the party after every battle. |
| Certain Escape | 42 | Enables all party members to escape from battle. |
| Agudyne | 55 | Heavy fire damage to one foe. |
| Relaxing Wave | 68 | Restores a small amounts of SP to the party after every battle. |
| Treasure Radar | S.Link 3 | Shows the location of treasue in the dungeon. |
| Enemy Radar | S.Link 6 | Shows the location of enemies in the dungeon. |
| Weakness Scan | S.Link 10 | Reveal's on enemy's weakness at the start of battle. |
PERSONA ACQUISTION: A handshake, please. Not only would GLaDOs be hard pressed to accept her Shadow, but she'd probably specifically reject it again out of curiosity.
>SAMPLES
[There's silence broken only by some quiet scuffing sounds for several before GLaDOS speaks again, heedless of the hapless employee on the other end but sounding slightly strained as she does.] I suppose I could waste my time asking you to direct me back to Aperture Science's headquarters, but I won't. Because if you were going to send me back there you would have already. So I guess I'll just have to deal with your incompetence and poor management skills. On my own.
You know, you remind me of someone I had the terrible misfortune of knowing. I'd say you should meet, but placing your idiocy into close proximity to his is sure to cause some sort of singularity. A tragic consequence. But perhaps it would mean no one would ever have to see or speak with either of you ever again.
That would be the opposite of tragic.
THIRD PERSON SAMPLE: GLaDOS thought, after a bit of struggling, that her, new human-shaped body must have some form of programming, because she'd only fallen down after the first few times she tried to get used to the balance calibration. Certainly, this time she's leaning heavily on a wall, but at least she's mostly upright, as opposed to the last three times, where she'd simply fallen down within half a minute of getting to her feet.
Not that she's any more happy or any less annoyed. Being here, and not at Aperture, was distressing in its own right. Being once again forced into a vessel that wasn't her own, against her will, made her want to scream. It hadn't been horrifically painful like the core transfer had been, but the subtle discomfort and unsettling unfamiliarity was just as worse in its own way. The fact that she clearly wasn't at home and clearly wasn't even in the same state, or country, or continent wasn't helping her nerves at all. She wanted out of here. She wanted to go home. She wanted to keep running tests.
But first she wanted to find who or what had brought her here and find a way to make he or she or it suffer. Getting home was all well and good, but what was even the point if she didn't make absolutely sure it wouldn't happen again? Grimly, GLaDOS pulled her hands (she was never going to be used to having hands like this) away from the wall and forced herself to stand on her own two feet. So far so good. She frowned in concentration as she steadied herself, then took a careful step forward. Still good... Determined to not rest on her laurels, GLaDOS took another step. Then another. And then one more.
And then she was walking, only periodically stopping to reach out and brace herself against something. Carefully she made her way away from the train station and towards the city proper. She'd never even heard of 'Inaba', but she wasn't going to let her ignorance on the subject lest for long.
