Genetic Lifeform and Disk Operating System

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Name Yume!
Personal Journal: Haven't got one.
Contact Info: AIM: IIMDYinker, YIM: yumegari_2, PLURK: memorylikeasieve

Character Name: GLaDOS
Character Series: first game second game
Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GLaDOS
Point in Canon: End of the second game. She's learnt a lot...and then deleted some of it.
Personality: GLaDOS is dryly witty, sarcastic, blunt to the point of being insulting, and not above lying, psychological manipulation, or physically trapping an individual within, say, a room or a building. Absolutely everything is a test, after all. She is dimly fascinated with humans and their abilities, yet chillingly pragmatic about their shortcomings. She acts superior, not because of any kind of complex but because she really IS superior--being a computer attached to a giant facility gives one very real power over others.

She's built for one reason, and that reason is science. The scientific method is her inernal clock. Not literally of course... at least, probably not. It's kind of a loop--hypothesis, test, analysis, conclusion, repeat--and is probably the baseline of all her processes, turning over and over. That her approach to science is, at best, cheerfully psychopathic, is only to be expected due to the close association that everything even remotely linked to Aperture Science has with its founder. The computer system was developed under his close supervision and then had the mind of his long-time personal assistant uploaded into it. Furthermore, she is quite literally driven to test in a superbly Pavlovian fashion--the successful completion of a test by a subject gives GLaDOS' mind a pleasure stimulation. Coupled with the programming and the likely loss of memory during the upload, this means testing is all she knows.

To say that GLaDOS is insane is a bit disingenuous: surely it is possible that Caroline's consciousness was driven to some kind of madness solely by having been uploaded into a computer which is entirely inorganic and possessed of senses humans can't even conceive of. An AI, however, no matter how sophisticated, is physically incapable of anything but horrible, horrible lucidity--what that simply means is that there is no comfort (for the test subjects) of delusion, hallucinations, or the possibility of mistake. Everything GLaDOS perceives is very real, every decision she makes is executed flawlessly. The system is perfect in every way... except that it's missing its Asimov Laws. A computer without these laws is clinical, unsympathetic, amoral, and completely driven by its directives.

Plans: I chose to app this character for two main reasons: 1) the Portal Series is part of the Half-Life continuity, so there's every chance she and her various accoutrements could arrive there due to Gordon's presence; and 2) the sheer diversity of the present cast with respect to their views regarding science made the idea of putting them through Aperture-style testing irresistible.

The Aperture facility appears oddly organic in the way it's constructed. Bits and pieces are generated, connected by seemingly living wires, servos, et cetera, pulled together as though growing into its final configuration. Thus, she really only needs to appear in some abandoned area outside of Sirocco with sufficient electricity and the wherewithal to convert the surrounding raw materials into a new testing facility. An abandoned factory, perhaps. Granted, it will be a lot smaller than the original Aperture grounds, but it will be large enough for the purposes of a good, solid dungeon run. Most likely she will have arrived at the same time as Gordon (or maybe a short time after) and has spent the intervening months literally pulling together a facility. If she ends up a recurring villain, the facility will continue to grow. At any rate, once she decides that the place is sufficient for testing, she will plant clues in the power grid or various networks that will lure people into the facility and from there it's testing fun for everyone.

Sample Entry: http://testrun-box.dreamwidth.org/49847.html