Portal thoughts

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It's very funny how in Portal, both Chell and the co-op bots are player inserts somewhat, but when playing Chell, you restart from save when you die, whereas the bots just get reassembled, so that leads to the characters having very different competence levels.

GlaDOS should have tried offering ATLAS and P-Body a cake and/or $60 if she didn’t like their performance. She doesn't have to actually give them either. That said, they would have gone nuts if they’d gotten $60 of vouchers for the Aperture gift shop. Imagine P-body with a baseball cap that keeps falling off and ATLAS with an Aperture t-shirt with a hole cut in the middle to see through.

Chell is probably cisgender. We can conclude this because, if she were trans, Aperture would definitely know. There’s no way they didn't do a bunch of invasive medical tests for no good reason. If Aperture knew, GlaDOS would probably also know. GlaDOS tries to poke at whatever she thinks Chell might have as an insecurity, so there’s no way she wouldn’t say transphobic things to a trans Chell, regardless of her personal beliefs.

Chell is also probably not related to Caroline, Cave Johnson, or Doug Rattmann. If she was related to Caroline, GlaDOS would have probably had some thoughts about it at some point. If she was related to Doug, he would have felt bad about it during the tie-in comic. Also, if Cave Johnson probably sterilized himself with something at least as stupid as the Radiendocrinator. If he managed to produce a healthy child despite all that, he would probably never shut up about it.