Human Wheatley

**"Human Wheatley"** is the human Wheatley from Portal 2.

He exists in an alternate reality where everything else has stayed mostly the same, with the only other humanized Portal character being GlaDOS, though not an obligatory change.

He made his first online appearance in 2011 at Facebook, a month later on Deviantart, and originally had two designs. The first was a normal-looking person, the other mimicked his robot self, though still had some features of the first.

## Backstory

> "*Beancounter said I couldn't fire a man just for being in a wheelchair.
>  Did it anyway. Ramps are expensive.*"
> ― Cave Johnson (Portal 2)
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While the original Wheatley was created by Aperture Science; human Wheatley was an employee, until he got fired by Cave Johnson for "being in a wheelchair". His extreme incompetence was not picked up on, since Johnson was quick to blame an entire team over a mistake.

He refused to leave Aperture and secretly put himself into a stasis pod after messing with the development of GlaDOS as an act of petty revenge. He planned to continue working for the company after the unforgiving Cave Johnson would've passed away.

It was his meddling with GlaDOS that created her urge to kill, and the entire facility quickly met with her neurotoxin. Though, Wheatley would explain to Chell this outcome wasn't his intention; it just happened because he's "not a very good" scientist or mechanic.

He wakes up countless of years later after putting himself to sleep, and discovers the wreck that was once Aperture Science. 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.

Since Wheatley is physically disabled, he had to put together a new wheelchair for himself, as his old one had been destroyed by a piece of random wreckage that barely missed him. He constructed something with help of discarded personality cores, making his own wheelchair the first and only successful creation he's ever made. Besides moving around on the ground, it had the ability to attach itself to the ceiling railings and surpass most blockades.

While out looking for fellow survivors, he stumbles upon Chell's room, which is where the original storyline of Portal 2 starts.

When the two accidentally rebooted GlaDOS, Wheatley suggested to offer his body up and attach it to hers, which seemingly worked and enabled him to walk again. After gaining control the facility, though, he became arrogant and sinister.

## Personality

Wheatley is identical to the original.

He wants to be helpful, yet often feels pushed aside by others. When he obtains the power and authority to do whatever he wants, he's no longer shy to let out his frustrations.

## Appearance

Wheatley has brown hair, blue eyes, a beauty mark on his right cheek and the left side of his chin, messy black eyebrows, black-framed glasses, and has a little bit of stubble. He looks somewhere in his 30s.

While the original Wheatley is a ball, the human Wheatley has no round features at all. Instead, the features of the original, as for personality cores in general, were mainly inserted into Wheatley's wheelchair design.

## Trivia

* There is an unpublished Portal 2 fanfiction where Wheatley's backstory was first explained.
* Wheatley's appearance is based on Projectnewt's boyfriend, who cosplayed as Wheatley between 2011-2013, in an outfit designed by her.