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Self As A Construct by ChubsDeuce
Fandoms: Portal (Video Game), Aperture Tag (Video Game)
11 Jan 2025
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Nigel has tested enough humans in his timeframe of existence to know that they're unpredictable, but never could he have guessed what the sudden return of one could bring.
As truths unfold themselves and trouble keeps coming after them, Nigel begins to question his place in the world. He'd always been so sure of it, so certain about his role in the bigger picture.
But after everything that happened he begins to wonder if maybe there's more to existence than going in circles and following the program for all eternity.
[tags will be updated as the story progresses; no set posting schedule but I'm determined to see this fic finished eventually, even if it takes me years]
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22 Jan 2025
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It’s a Hail Mary more than anything, but Doug made his choice. With little to no plan, for that matter. But he couldn’t just leave him there. He deserved more than whatever She had planned. Now Wheatley finally has his first chance at redemption, but how can he properly navigate that when he can’t even navigate himself? Caught between the past and the present, it’s hard to know how to move forward. But they both have to try, right?
or: Post-Portal 2, two mentally unstable men have to escape Aperture together and learn a bit about being human along the way.
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19 Dec 2024
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WARNING: I am re-writing and completing this story all in one sitting, then this story will be fully updated with the entire new work. If you wish to save the current version/draft of the story, do so now
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11 Oct 2024
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When two stubborn women become roommates half way through college, it’s up to them to decide whether they make it through together, or fall apart at the seams.
Only time will tell if Chell will continue to fight for their blooming relationship, if Gladys will open up about her past, and if they’ll remain by each others sides even with a dark future looming over their heads.Bookmarked by TheAwkwardStar
23 Feb 2024
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Three years after Chell saves Wheatley from being launched into space, he means to help her escape the facility and shut down GLaDOS for good—but after finding a lost secret, hidden away within a condemned Test Shaft, is she really the only AI they need to be worried about? This is a story of redemption, adventure, and finding friendship in unexpected places.
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02 Feb 2024
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One year. One year since Wheatley was released from Aperture in the body of a human. One year since he was tortured for GLaDOS’s sick amusement. One year of living with his scars and guilt weighing on his every thought. He assumed the Lady had died from his actions, but when a new neighbor moves in he recognizes her. Torn between wanting to apologize and wanting to run, he must face his past and finally let the wounds he forgot heal.
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31 Jan 2024
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Chell fights her way through Aperture again, with help from mute!Wheatley and the Fact and Adventure Spheres. The turrets have formed an odd society, and Atlas and P-body lurk around every corner.
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- Part 1 of Second Chances
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23 Jan 2024
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(For Archival Purposes.)
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20 Jan 2024
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The Computer is Aperture Science, Incorporated's greatest achievement, and Doug Rattmann has been newly appointed to its programming team. All too soon he finds himself in too deep as he learns about its duties and the circumstances of its creation... and must decide what to do with that knowledge.
[AU in which the scientists managed to get GLaDOS under their control, as initially written in this Portal October prompt: https://archiveofourown.org/works/51348943]
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18 Jan 2024
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GLaDOS is stuck alone after Chell leaves the facility, so certain with her plan to unlock her new human test subjects. However, after an unexpected failure of Atlas and P-Body, she decides she has to resort to more extreme measures.
Jamie Boyer is one of the unlucky few who will be subjected to her game. And perhaps a familiar british core...
Nonetheless, we simply MUST get testing.
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17 Aug 2023
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After nearly dying on the surface, Chell returns to Aperture. She reluctantly places her trust in GLaDOS, but GLaDOS is playing the long game.
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19 Jun 2023
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(title change: formerly "long way down")
science dreams its dreams of knowledge- names it, pokes it with equations. the crucial thing is not fifty times whatever but how we got these notions: how many, how far, how long. -richard siken, still life with skulls and bacon
"I should let you go, just to keep you from destroying my facility any further. But I remembered something important." Her voice dropped into a dangerously low octave. "You're the last test subject I have left. Without you, I can't do Science."
GLaDOS doesn't release Chell after regaining the facility.
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- 7/?
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15 Jun 2023
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With Aperture’s financial situation spiraling out of control, Cave Johnson goes on the test track to demonstrate the portal device himself as a do-it-yourself PR stunt to win over investors and give Aperture the upper hand over Black Mesa. Caroline assists by monitoring his progress through the test chambers. But is everything as it seems?
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08 Jun 2023
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Mel finds herself trapped in Aperture once again, but this time while GLaDOS is back online and in charge. With the help of Virgil, the Maintenance Core, she must devise a way of escape before its too late, and the only way to go up...is to go down. { A sequel to the fan-mod, Portal Stories: Mel }
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30 May 2023
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It is 1996. Cave Johnson is long dead. The GLaDOS project is long shelved. As CEO, Caroline has been slowly but surely dragging Aperture Laboratories out of bankruptcy. When twelve-year-old Chell and her mother move into town, Chell finds herself planted in Aperture as a part of a larger Black Mesa plot. When she gets an opportunity to smuggle out blueprints for the coveted portal gun, Chell and her unlikely new friend Doug Rattmann learn just how far Caroline is willing to go to protect Aperture’s last secret.
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- Part 1 of Redemption
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- English
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- 188,274
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23 May 2023
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What if the responsibility for a living being, the likes of which you've been afraid of like fire all your life, suddenly falls on your head? Or the story of how Wheatley found a bird chick that had fallen out of the nest. The events take place in the universe of "Blue Sky" fic (by wafflestories), a few months later.
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18 May 2023
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Wheatley was sorry. He was sorry he had hurt the lady, he was sorry about his behavior, and he was sorry he was in space.
But being "sorry" isn't all there is to redemption.
After being brought back to Aperture by a certain malevolent AI, Wheatley finds that there are tests in this world harder to solve than any chamber he could construct. The test scrambles his processor, tears at his inner workings, and threatens to completely break him in every way possible.
But with the help of others--a mysterious construct and a former test subject--Wheatley begins to learn the true meaning of redemption, and the price of it.
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17 May 2023
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How to Recover after Losing your other Half by No_One_Special
Fandom Sam & Max (Comics), Sam & Max (Video Games)
27 Mar 2021
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28 Aug 2021
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One month after the events of Kingdom Hearts III, Aqua has reached out to the other Keyblade wielders to ask with finding her old armour and Keyblade. Stored in the basement of Radiant Garden's castle, a world that had become unfamiliar to Aqua as a decade has passed, she asked for help with retrieving it. Roxas offered to join her, the offer bearing the potential of an unlikely duo. Though they'd met a month prior, it was hard to deny how little they actually knew each other. Perhaps this would be a good chance to understand Roxas properly, Aqua would ponder as she stood in front of that massive castle.
"Atone and Repay" is a long-running, Roxas and Ventus-centric fanfiction that takes place after the events of Kingdom Hearts III. Be warned for story spoilers for KH3, Re:Mind, Union Cross, and even Dark Road.
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- 10/?
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25 Apr 2019
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Gaster loves his sons. He loves Sans, his budding young scientist, energetic, dedicated, and ready to change the world. He loves Papyrus, his sensible, supportive, caring boy who still makes sure all of them eat three square meals and get enough sleep. He loves them more than anything else in the world, and all he wants is for them to have the life they always deserved.
No matter what it t͚̫͔a̛̗̤͖̪͓̠̱͞ͅk̡̙̖̫̲̩͍͔̺̹̕e͓̤͘͜ş̪͍̺̗̕.
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- Part 1 of It's Raining
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- 52/52
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11 Jun 2017