#but there's four employees

[junuve]

Actually.... have I ever talked about how I think Wheatley is basically the perfect synthesis of what an average Aperture employee was?? Because he was created in Aperture, he'd likely be a reflection of their entire work culture (....moreso than the gimmicky cores we meet in portal/tie-in games). Like the scientists responsible for making him really put all their hatred of their workplace/that-annoying-coworker-they-dislike into him.

He's sooorta miserable but Fine, mostly. A tad paranoid. Kinda classist/ableist (he disparages Manual Laborers in his dialogue and like... everything he says to chell is just so Bad lmao). he's TERRIFIED of GLaDOS but still belittles her. He laughs at the turrets dying in a shredder then realizes how messed up that is and backpedals (also backpedals on his smelly humans bit, but i'll be fair and say he deserves to hate humans as much as GLaDOS does). He breaks the nanomachines' work and then has the audacity to threaten to file a lawsuit against THEM for a Hate Crime?? (which is so so funny for so many reasons but I DIGRESS) Like I don't ascribe to him being a former human employee, but also I can clearly imagine working at Aperture and talking to Wheatley by the water cooler and he's That Moderately Unpleasant Guy who is juuust adequate enough to not be fired but never Exceptional enough to promote, but most importantly, he's not clever enough to actually do anything about his shitty situation in the company. He only fucks up a little less than what is allotted. He's got charisma! Fun for a chat sometimes! But he makes ppl feel bad when they talk to him. He's not the WORST, but he for sure isn't the best. It'd be easy to convince him to commit a crime in the name of Science. (He wouldn't sell your soul for a single corn chip, he'd only sell it for a whole bag.)

Wheatley is THE Aperture employee. And this all tracks because literally what could be a worse decision than continuing to work at Aperture Science?

#portal #portal 2 #wheatley #p2 wheatley #portal wheatley #out of like the four or five aperture employees we see in canon... wheatley fits in perfectly #i love how mediocre he was created to be. thats why im obsessed. science team rly told on themselves with that one!! #thanks for coming to my tumblr where i analyze Wheatley apparently idk what this is #im not smart enough to analyze GLaDOS deeply so im here pondering the Orb #ok im done rambling bye

[itsdefinitely]

what if boy jerry was turned into an andriod call that bot jerry. am i right

#boy jerry #definite's ted talks #definitely something #im thinkign aboit him but in thw qay where i cant form coherent sentences. theres something wrong with the way he is #his existence is a plight to me. hes like a bug. can i put him in a terrarium i promise i'll feed him and water him and walk him #and squash him and kill him sometimes. for enrichment #i need to draw him inneed to draw him i need to draw him #shitty phone doodles incoming #emdroid universe & bot jerry is there & he marries girl jeri and theyre happy #stoner boy jerry. call that pot jerry #toy zone employee boy jerry call that toy jerry #i dont tthink sitting still for four hours was a good idea

[koukaaa-descent]

the antithesis of hate

(This is not necessarily connected to the art,, I've just had this in my drafts for a while and. Well.)

Monsoon was scorched by the blaze of the star, fragile skin blackening, sparse blues burning away beneath the heat of it. Indigo, suddenly impulsive, wrapped his arms around it. The poor thing is so much larger now—it’s nearly impossible to wrap his arms all the way around its body.

“You need to live,” he says, finding something awfully wet in his voice beneath the star’s hissing fires. Monsoon rattles, a series of short chirps interspersed with sharp clicks. It sounded almost familiar to the coo of a pigeon. Because of either mimicry or familiarity, its arms wrap around him as well, reciprocating such a familiar touch in spite of the pain each movement brought. Claws settle against the fabric of his uniform, never piercing the thick material.

“You need to live,” Indigo forces out, heartbroken for a reason he could not possibly discern. A terrible sense of hopelessness pervaded his senses. Heat began to char his suit, vicious flame devouring all it touched. He fought back the heat in his eyes caused not by pain but rather something else.

Monsoon would sprint through a field filled with eyeless dogs if Indigo had been the one to say that it was safe. That was the problem with creatures so beautifully intelligent yet so loyal—loyalty could bring about suicide for the sake of another. Intelligence would grant it the ability to know that and do whatever it was anyway.

They’re running out of time. They’ve always been running out of time. Indigo’s just glad that they got to spend their short lives together. He squeezes Monsoon as tight as he can, wondering where his tiny, inquisitive little dove had gone. A Bracken grew so impossibly quickly that those days had begun and ended in a mere moment of time. But... what a truly wonderful moment it was.

Fire engulfs the star, shrieking a demand unto the universe itself. Monsoon keens in pain, wrapping itself around his body with what little it can move. Loyal to the point of suicide.

In an awfully short moment, wrapped in his oldest companion's arms, Indigo finally puts a name to that foreign emotion. Love.

Light sears his sclerae through the tinted visor. With a raspy, thin whistle, Monsoon frays beneath it and scatters away into ash that utterly blinds Indigo to the world beyond. Very suddenly, the searing pain does not mean anything. Nothing at all.

The star billows into existence as it finally implodes, roaring past them—the impossibly tiny things that they both were in the face of it.

The last thing that Indigo ever sees. The first thing that he dares to regret.

#lethal company #lethal company bracken #lethal company employee #lethal company oc #oc monsoon #oc indigo #art is not necessarily related to the short story in the cut below #trying my hand at actual lineart #i was listening to pangolin-404's buddy playlist the entire time iwwas drawing this #i Cried four timrs drawing this #im donenfor #the story im making for these 2 is . really evil #doomed friendship slash parenthood #smiling emoji. i am in excruciating pain

[imagionary]

Outside expansion work

#And not too long later Alton released his plan to Spruce that he was gonna blow that whole safety hazard up with a shit ton of tnt #and that everyone had 4 hours to get out of the area before he detonated it #the place was a mess and bulldozer was not giving enough time for the worker and skelecogs to build this place correctly #even Steel thought the place needed to be leveled there were so many problems with it #None of the sentient employees out there had been sleeping more than an hour a night for four months #and have also been drunk nearly the entire time too depending on who it was ((working conditions sucked out there yikes!)) #so bye bye conglomerate expansion sight there is nothing but a huge crater there now #toontown corporate clash #ttcc #toontown: corporate clash #imagionary rambles #ttcc au #chip revvington #chainsaw consultant #william boar #derrickman #bulldozer #toontown oc #ttcc oc #alcohol

[meganechan05]

You know I can't pass up the opportunity to redesign Maple for the alternate timeline! [Transcript at the end]

Alt!Maple stayed in N'kosopa rather than moving back to Gokkan considering the state of the planet after God's Wrath. This causes them to be more N'kosopan with their delinquent behavior being more open than how reserved they are in the main timeline. They also have scars and is partially blind in their left eye after an accident as a teen while working. Their glasses are mostly for aesthetic purposes and OG!Maple tends to be shy. Alt!Maple isn't so they find no need for the glasses.

As for their crush on Rita, it's something they try to bury. They're not exactly fond of Alt!Rita being flirtatious, but they're just as flustered around the Gokkan King. The only reason why the two even see each other is because Maple still takes jobs in other countries so visiting Gokkan is always on the table. But they're a total tsundere so they would curse Rita out if they take the flirting too far.

Transcript

Alt!Rita: *holding Alt!Maple's chin so they can turn to them* Why hello, little moth ♥︎

Alt!Maple: Don't fcking touch me

Alt!Rita: Ara ♥︎ How cruel ♥︎

Alt!Rita: Should I punish you? ♥︎

Alt!Maple: Fck. Off.

*In Alt!Maple's head*

Alt!Maple: ShugodsShugodsShugods- FCK, THEY'RE SO HOT!!! WHY ARE THEY SO FCKING CLOSE?!?!

*OG!Maple watching from afar*

Maple: Holy Papinton ( 〃▽〃) (would)

#How Other!Chikyuu works is very up in the air and most of my interpretations are based on the very short clips with the four Kings #Alt!Maple would 100% curse out OG!Rita out of habit but hate themself for it bc it's not the Rita that always teases them #Rita would question the timeline that made their loyal employee hate them and use such cilorful language 😂 #Meanwhile OG!Maple turns into a puddle from Alt!Rita's flirting but will question how their icey king became such a playboy #Alt!Rita would find OG!Maple adorable and tease Alt!Maple with trading the two which earns curses from Alt!Maple #OG!Rita would whack them with their Calibur before taking Maple home bc no one takes their little sibling figure #kingohger #king ohger #ohsama sentai kingohger #rita kaniska #rita kanisuka #kingoh doodles #maple campa #kingoh oc #alt!rita #alt!maple

[it-takes-four]

To me all of them are equally traumatized

That's a valid opinion lol. Trauma comes in many forms, as can attest this helpful listing I did of them

And those who are not will soon be

#it takes four #it takes four au #answered ask #doug houser #chell portal #teddy the ex employee #batim henry #dark deception doug #dark deception #batim #portal #poppy playtime #oc #cw angst #trauma cw #indie games #protagonists get all the fun don't they- #character analysis #scanner

[alexis-royce]

#Tsushi just said #‘ah yes employee number four two shut up Alexis’ #‘ #The Stanley Parable

[moeblob]

OCs discussing what I saw when leaving work (and now I have to go BACK to work for a night shift so I sadly won’t be doing fanart when I get home after 8pm).

Me: Google, is it illegal to use four spots for one car while parking? Google: did you mean ‘is it illegal to use two spots while parking?’ Me: I absolutely did not mean that, those are very different numbers thank you.

#My characters #lmao gonna reblog this to my side blog later with an addition but like yeah i won't force that on you too #mind you i work at a restaurant near a restaurant and the employee spots are behind the building which shares spots with the hotel #located right behind the shops #so you have employees AND hotel guests trying to cram into the spots back there #AND YOU TAKE FOUR SPOTS FOR ONE TRUCK?

[irkedisaac]

still seething about cyberpunk2077 btw. not because of glitches and delayed development early on but because the actual gameplay grates so wildly with the soul of its source material. just. getting a police scanner so you can go be a fuckin snitch vigilante or w/e. more than a third of the activities you can do involve working for or aiding cops. v would have an absolutely dogshit personal repuation, the class traitor. forget saving themself from the relic, people are gonna draw fucking lots to see who gets to tie their intestines in a bow.

#the game would have been better if regina jones were any other fuckin character #i would have been able to enjoy it a lot more if so much of it weren't built on copaganda #but yknow #i guess a 7 year development cycle wasn't enough time to find out that directly serving police institutions isnt punk #hrhrhrbrhrhshhfb #im mad and hungry and dont want to get out of bed #and also i want to hit four cdpr employees over the head with a mallet - they can pick which four

[batgeance]

god bruce fucking hates talking to wayne execs and financial advisors

#i cannot stress enough that he is a terrible businessman right now #he wants nothing to do with wayne co he wants nothing to do with anyone who 'works for him' #he wants the batman. he wants gotham. he wants 'justice' which he THINKS he can get simply by being the batman #i always think about his conversation with selina #where she literally clocks his privilege and calls him on it #because he turns his scope too wide thinking he's got the details in frame #when in fact he's got no idea #his relationship with his brother is beginning to help but only barely right now #had they the chance i think selina COULD have influence on him but that ain't happening LMAO #so right now as i have said too many times before. he's got bat glasses on #bruce needs to be on that one show #where the rich boss works as the part time employee for a week or whatever #it's always so funny to me how he claims gotham as his #and how well he knows the city (because he does know the city) #and yet he doesn't know SHIT. not REALLY. #like pack it up white savior complex get a real job DAMN #one day......one day he will become Bruce Wayne. #but right now he's just bruce. and he's barely that. he's barely the batman!!!! it'll be his four year anniversary coming up actually #of being the bat :o) #how cute........pathetic little guy

[turochamp]

ime people who show dogs in the ring are invariably best described as "kooky"

#the scottie wagon which is a large wagon i wheel my four identical perfect scottie dogs around in #as a pet store employee i could also describe them as “high maitenence” #but i wont bc most of the time theyre very sweet to me.

[koukaaa-descent]

Ajhsajzu Ik her design is quite default (except colors and high boots yeah)

But I hope you'll enjoy drawing her 👉👈

driven mad with visions because I am tired ,, I decided to color entirely with one of the water paint tools which. Was a mistake in hindsight but I think it looks okay. I may or may not have taken small liberties with the yellow. the image on the right was there for emotional support while I tried to figure out how the water paint tool worked . I hjope it's alright 😵‍💫

#she was a delight to figure out (i had to glance at the reference four times every 5 seconds because of the straps) #i really really like the design though #the yellow and purple itches my brain #lethal company #NOT MY OC #dunf13 oc; RAGE #i like drawing masked but drawing wmployees is kind of like throwing a cinderblock at my head (in a good way) #lethal company employee #i might redraw this once i've napped #because i am Dissatisfied with the watercoloring... #it looks good Now. BUT later i am gonna be clawing at my walls over it . there is 90% chancd this will be redrawn #RAAHHHH #seriously though her design itches my brain 10/10 #note to self beating thumper to death #i am not clarifying what the last tag means

[mexicocitywildwings]

it’s probably good i’m moving soon because my social tolerance is getting utterly wrecked

#i’m training four new employees & my brother & his buddy decided to show up #what if i exploded & died

[it-takes-four]

@giaanofdarkness

They don't need to get any closer than this

#answered ask #it takes four #it takes four au #doug houser #chell portal #teddy the ex employee #batim henry #batim #bendy and the ink machine #bendy and the dark revival #batdr #audrey batdr #bendy #little eyes are spying... spying something... familiar~ #dark deception characters

[scattered-winter]

hey gang I found some books at work called I am number four that look pretty good should I get them

#theyll be for dirt cheap since im an employee.....and i AM a huge fan of characters with numbers for names..... #winter speaks #i am number four #<- to hopefully hit target audience

[sluttyten]

Customers are in such a pissy mood today like what the fuck

#chill out people damn #like me and my coworkers were just talking about how we genuinely have faster service here than like our local McDonald’s and chick fil a #which are legit fast food but when we’re making your food fresh to order and get it to you in less than four minutes you’re gonna give me a #shitty attitude? I mean yeah the lady that we were complaining about to kick off the conversation her order was taking longer bc one of our #employees loses her head if there’s more than 3 things on our screens #but also this fucking lady is a doordasher so it’s not like it even her food actually