There is an unpublished Portal 2 fanfiction from 2012 where Wheatley's background story was first explained, but it became forgotten and discarded some time after writing.Projectnewt and her boyfriend at A-kon 22 in 2011. Instead, the features of the original, as for personality cores in general, were mainly inserted into Wheatley's wheelchair design. While the original Wheatley is a ball, the human Wheatley has no round features at all. Wheatley has brown hair, blue eyes, a beauty mark on his right cheek and the left side of his chin, fuzzy black eyebrows, black-framed glasses, and has a little bit of stubble. When he obtains the power and authority to do whatever he wants, he's no longer shy to let out his frustrations. He wants to be helpful, yet often feels pushed aside by others. Wheatley is in every way like the character he represents. Portal 2 cover sketch with human Wheatley and human GlaDOS (2011). While looking for survivors, he stumbles upon Chell's room, which is where the original storyline of Portal 2 starts.ĭespite being a human being, getting attached to GlaDOS' body allowes him to control the facility and move his legs. He managed to construct something with help of old personality cores, making his own wheelchair the first and only successful creation he ever made. Since Wheatley is physically disabled, he had to put together a new wheelchair for himself, as his old one had been destroyed by the wreckage that had barely missed him. He tries to find some clarification on what happened, but only discovers that GlaDOS killed all scientists and was then destroyed by a test subject. He wakes up countless of years after putting himself to sleep ( Portal 2) and discovers the wreck that was once Aperture Science. Even so, he's considered to be the cause of all that happened in the original game. Though, Wheatley later explained to Chell this outcome wasn't his intention it just happened because he's 'not a very good' scientist or mechanic. His meddling with GlaDOS created her urge to kill and the entire facility quickly met with her neurotoxin, as made clear in Portal 1. He refused to leave Aperture and wanted to continue working for the company after the unforgiving Cave Johnson would've passed away. Wheatley never accepted his release and secretly put himself into a stasis pod after messing with the development of GlaDOS as an act of petty revenge. ~ Cave Johnson (canon quote from Portal 2) 'Beancounter said I couldn't fire a man just for being in a wheelchair. His extreme incompetence was not picked up on by his boss, since he was quick to blame an entire team over a mistake. While the original was created by Aperture Science human Wheatley was an employee, until he got fired by Cave Johnson for 'being in a wheelchair'.

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