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What Do:
- Make one separate top-level comment for each character you're considering playing.
- Fill out the form below for each of them.
- Due to the nature of the game, characters must be firmly over 18 years old both physically and mentally.
- Browse other people's pitches, get excited about the prospects, comment to them to shoot the shit, spitball ideas, or just keysmash.
General tips for filling out the form:
Skills / Powers: List what your character can bring to the table to use in the cluster! this can be anything from karate to cooking to emotional vulnerability to a street drug connection.
Flaws: List any flaws you'd like to play around with, to make other characters endure or address.
Themes / Desires: List some general themes you want to explore; these can be as abstract or as specific as you want. for example: father issues, the concept of humanity as a whole and whether or not it's redeemable, self-improvement, learning to read, getting help through a more social or mature sensate cluster member to improve interpersonal relationship dynamics, killing some specific guy, dream-sharing a recurring nightmare, having a memory-share of x/y/z event in a character's past, either first-person or from a safe distance, and so on...
Canonpoints To AU: Any ideas for specific moments in your character's canon that you may want to play out — either to replay with exactly the same outcome, or to drastically change the events of your character's canon, the sky is the limit.
Anything Else?: Include anything noteworthy you think is worth mentioning, or just post a sexy gif to win everyone over.
Chell / Portal games
Date: 2025-10-18 06:23 am (UTC)Contact:
Character Name: Chell [Redacted]
Canon: Portal/Portal 2
Starting Canonpoint: Usually I play her post canon, but for this setting I think playing her trapped in the Aperture facility at the outset of the first game would be the way to go, ne?
Skills / Powers:
•STUBBORN: doesn't give up. Ever.
•INTELLIGENT: although she explicitly isn't the smartest of the Aperture test subjects, she's clearly very smart. She can write in binary when she's feeling bitchy. And solving all those test chambers requires a lot of smarts!
•ATHLETIC: flings herself through the air without fear and always lands on her feet. Granted, the Long Fall Boots help, but she's flippy on her own, too! Gotta have good reflexes to avoid all those turrets.
Flaws:
•STUBBORN: if she gets a goal in her mind she may pursue it past the point of rationality or safety.
•CONTRARIAN: related to her stubbornness, Chell is also inclined towards oppositional defiance. "Fuck you, make me" is her family crest, because she's her entire family. I have also never played Portal and not destroyed every security camera I see out of spite, so that's the vibe she's bringing to the function.
•CAPABLE OF REAL DUMB SHIT IF IT'S FUNNY OR NARRATIVELY NEEDED: following instructions from an obviously murderous computer? Sure! Maybe there'll be cake this time!
Themes & Desires:
•ISOLATION/LONELINESS: Chell is the only human being left alive in Aperture. She has no family; I headcanon that her parents died in an accident at Aperture and she went through the foster system, so when GLaDOS makes fun of her for being adopted it's sheer sadism. She's also physically mute (also headcanon), so even though she's hearing, she's spent most of her life pretty socially isolated. Through the course of the games, the only entity that never betrays her is the Companion Cube. I think this would make her connecting to a cluster particularly poignant!! Please let her connect with some people who will not try to incinerate her at any point!!
•DEHUMANIZATION: particularly in the first game, Chell is treated as a test subject. I think she internalizes this role to a certain extent -- like, yeah, the reason she always does the tests instead of trying to get out via alternate means is because the game is on rails, but I think it's interesting to play with the idea that she has trouble with being a person sometimes.
•TOXIC YURI: hi GLaDOS
Canonpoints To AU: admittedly it's been a minute since I canon reviewed but I think the whole of the games would be fun (read: horrifying and absurd) to experience with a cluster. Especially when she gets blown up and put back into stasis for years, and when she gets blown into space for a minute!
Anything Else?:
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