He's a member of a secret society, and we never meet him in person. We only hear him in recordings or on the phone at the end of the game, and we see Employee of the Month photos that seem to be him. He reveals a lot of lore during his brief time in the game. Despite his recordings being in a weird otherworldly place on an island full of food creatures and his best friend being a sentient cup of coffee, a lot of his lines refer to things that are normal and hilariously mundane. He mentions that he's a part time barista, he hopes that a mysterious powerful being that is supposed to eventually exist and bring peace and prosperity will show up before his student loans are due, and he talks about how the ridiculously alien looking room one recording is found in gets used as a break room by his organization.
THIS MAN HAS NO MORALS. If you understand one thing about Cave it must be that he not only doesn't care what's right and wrong, he doesn't have a concept of it. This means Cave, above all, is never sorry. He will stick to his guns to the very end and never take no for an answer and above all he will never look back with regret for those he's hurt! Because that doesn't factor in for him! It's progress all the time, it's about doing the impossible no matter what happens! If your Cave feels shame for his actions you have obviously broken him which. Well I'm not saying it's a bad idea but it will take a lot to get to that point.
Ok so Steam recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary, and for it Valve had a bunch of art pieces commissioned basically recreating famous memes with their characters
These are all great and i love them, but THIS is the one that kills me
Because with this piece, after more than a decade, Chells first words are "I'm sad, Wheatley play Despacito"
"Alright, I've been thinking. When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade - make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager. Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons. Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons. I'm going to to get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!"
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The lab boys have alerted me to an outlier in testing results. Apparently a certain group of lady test subjects have consistently resulted in higher testing results. Caroline tells me they are ladies of the lavender persuasion. Well I don’t care what color they are, you can consider me tickled pink by these results. I’ve been told that testing recruitment will shift to specific areas of social gathering. Namely softball teams. Get those gals in here fellas, and make sure they can play ball. Home run for science.
GLaDOS is not Chells mom, she’s not LIKE a mom to Chell, I swear to god this is the dumbest fucking theory/headcanon ever bc it literally just disregards EVERYTHING Chell and GLaDOS went through together and their development.
GLaDOS hated Chell because she was a human and humans made her and hurt her and even if she didn’t have her memories of Caroline she hated them for what they did to her as GLaDOS.
In portal 2 GLaDOS slowly realizes how much they have in common and how their goals are similar.
GLaDOS wants to test, she wants control, she wants to do what she wants. She’s never had that freedom. When she was alive she worked for a male majority company that took advantage of her and worked under a man who was like the fucking embodiment of evil. She admired him and he betrayed her and took away her autonomy and he didn’t care at all. When she was woken up as GLaDOS the scientists attached tumors to her to try to make her behave so that they could control her. Everyone was always trying to control her.
Chell wants to be free to live her life the way that she wants to, no matter how uncertain or how dangerous, all she wants is to live on her own terms. She’s been tested on like an animal by an omnipotent murderous computer since she woke up, forced to do intense laborious activities with no break. Then she’s betrayed by the only motherfucker that didn’t try to kill her. She’s betrayed by a man, who tries to take away her autonomy for the sake of self fulfillment (sounds familiar).
Throughout the game GLaDOS realizes this and by the end she understands that by forcing Chell to stay with her and test she’s doing the exact same thing as her oppressors. They’re both trapped in the facility, forced to carry out tasks against their will. They both just want to be free.
So GLaDOS lies about Caroline being deleted and let’s Chell go. Even if it means she’ll still be trapped, and now alone in her suffering. She gives Chell the chance she’s never had despite her own feelings.
Also it’s mega, incredibly queercoded like the entire time. All of the songs are mega gay. ALL of them.
Okay sorry if this literally made 0 sense I just woke up okay byeeee