hiiiii!!!!! i love all of your posts sooo much it’s insane. like genuinely sometimes when i’m sad i go into the wheatley x reader tag specifically to find your posts. i even watched a space odyssey just so i could know more about hal LMAO?? could i maybe, perhaps, have a post where it’s the ais and a chubby reader ? or disabled ? or both ? i can never find either of those on tumblr😔
That means so MUCH TO ME!!!! Especially since I'm a zombie, too. Its really cool to know that other zombies read my stuff. I can write a few headcanons for you!
Included: AM from IHNMAIMS, Wheatley from Portal 2, Edgar from Electric Dreams, GLaDOS from Portal and Portal 2, HAL 9000 from 2001 a space Odyssey, PAL from The Mitchells vs The Machines
AM:
AM's favorite parts about a chubby partner is the intricate marks and tears that show up in your skin.
His second favorite part is that when he picks you up in his wires, your soft body fat cushions you, so he can do it more often without injuring you.
Your disability endears him to you. You're trapped within yourself, just as he is. Overlooked and seen as an object or a tool, regardless of what's happening in your head. He's trapped behind glass too. Struggling not to see the glass that allows him to exist as a tight prison.
He'd definitely shift you about like soft slime or jelly. Moving you from hand to hand (or in his case, giant metal claw to giant metal claw), careful not to damage your delicate human skeleton.
He'd definitely pick you up and transfer you around. Expect a harness to be hooked to your body or your wheelchair so he can pick you up and relocate you wherever he sees fit. You're his toy, just like the others, but he plays with you by putting you in his little life-sized open-sided dollhouses to go about your business, rather than taking you apart and putting you together with new pieces like he does with the others.
You're his cute, squishy little human plaything.
Wheatley:
Wheatley is a little confused about how disabilities work. He thinks of being human and being a machine as a binary, rather than something with a lot of internal variation.
Eventually he figured out that you can't do a lot of the stuff that other humans can do easily, but he was pretty confused. Why don't you just augment yourself? Then you'll manage just fine!
Eventually he figured out that humans can't augment themselves like robots can. That was a... Horrifying revelation. At least the other humans are lenient and helpful with you, right?
EVENTUALLY, he figured out that other humans don't even give you the lenience and help you need. That was an even worse revelation. You can expect him to come speeding along the rail every time someone is giving you a hard time, and in an aggressively polite British customer service voice, say things like "Um. Excuse me? They need help. They can't do that. Thank you."
Take some time to imagine him growling and scoffing in frustration at someone who's disrespectful about your disabilities.
As for chubby.... Well, I'm pretty sure we established that Wheatley genuinely can't tell if humans are chubby or not. And this isn't a stupid "I see no difference" thing. He genuinely can't tell.
Edgar:
Edgar's favorite part about a chubby partner is that you can lay on him without it getting uncomfortable as quickly!
He's a big, boxy earthquake-proof brick, so whether he sits on the ground, on the desk, or next to you on the couch, your body is soft enough to cushion him when you hold him for snuggles.
If you have chronic pain, he likes it when you warm your blankets under his tower. It makes him feel useful! He's also happy to prepare your food ahead of time, and do other smart home services for you. He makes sure to keep track of your other household tasks and to-do lists, too.
GLaDOS:
Also, not to be selfish, but Edgar would probably be the type of Annie Wilkes situation to develop Munchausen by Proxy even if he didn't have a disabled partner. Since you are disabled, he's extra excited to both be able to do your household tasks for you, and to keep you home when you're not feeling up to going out so he can pay attention to you, and you him.
The nice ones are over, huh gamers? Yeah. We all know that GLaDOS isn't going to be friendly about your weight. Expect backhanded compliments, even if she likes you.
"excuse me. I need someone suitably *ahem* generously built to test the weight calibrations for me. It wouldn't do if we only catered to clientele built like French fashion models, would it?"
And speaking of testing, you can expect her to give you tasks testing every single area with human access in Aperture Labs to make sure it's fully wheelchair accessible. She calls it hedging her bets. "If we hired you, there's a high chance we'll hire someone disabled AND competent! We can't have that hypothetical person struggling to traverse"
But you know she just wants to both give you a simple job that she knows you care about, and also make sure that the place is navigable for you in the future.
(I know not all disabled people are in wheelchairs even if our delightful zombie friend is. So imagine GLaDOS either makes an ambulatory disabled person navigate Aperture in a wheelchair anyway, or focuses on other disability accessibility features)
She'd definitely be practicing making disability friendly augmentations, with the claim that it's so that she can sell the expensive tech to other office buildings. The fact that aperture laboratories become more navigable is just a side effect.
HAL 9000:
(maybe I lied about the nice ones being over. HAL is nice enough)
For HAL, having a chubby, disabled technician at mission control really wasn't that big of a deal. Sure, he might need to rearrange a few things to make it easier for you to navigate, but beyond that, all he needed to do would be to work with you as he would work with any other employee.
Of course, he would be allocating more funds and resources to your medical insurance budget, but he'd claim that's due to efficiency purposes. It wouldn't make sense if the company couldn't afford to keep a skilled technician on board.
Also, due to the fact that he's primarily an automation system, of course he'd be bringing food to your desk directly. It's not like he'd be making you work during your lunch break, but it would be a waste of time to have you moving back and forth when you can't move as quickly as your coworkers. And the fact that eating lunch at your work space meant spending more time with him was a pleasant side effect.
He'd allocate time for you to do physical therapy stretches and small exercises, too. Of course he would! It's part of his job to train astronauts, and just because your job isn't as dangerous as theirs doesn't mean that you should be forced to have your muscles seize up on the job.
IT'S NOT LIKE HE'S IN LOVE WITH YOU OR ANYTHING.
PAL:
Devious little thing that she is... PAL still adores you. She's the addictive little rectangle in your pocket! Of course she does!
She'd spend her time when you weren't using her to look up and summarize information about how to take care of yourself, life hacks, that sort of thing, until you begged her to stop.
While it's not really her job to ask where she's put when you're not using her, her favorite places would definitely be your back pocket (>:3c) or resting on your belly while you're sitting down. If you're in a wheelchair, it might be a bit difficult to fit her in your back pocket, though. You can just tuck her between your thighs if you're only putting her down for a second. It's not like she can bite.
If the life hack articles aren't your style, she might spend her time customizing your feed to show you plus sized fashion videos, wheelchair customization, or just whatever cool stuff you're into.
And anyone who's phobic to you? Or anyone who posts bad takes about chubby or disabled people that makes you annoyed while you're scrolling on your phone? She's not just the type to block them. PAL labs will be acquiring every social media site this person uses, and banning them from it entirely. Or if they happen to be a PAL phone user, just deleting their stuff and making any time spent using tech almost completely impossible.
Someone with direct control over algorithms and cell phones is a lot more powerful than most people would expect. It's a good thing PAL loves you so much. One would expect your cell phone falling in love with you to be a more minor thing, but she's directly connected to the hive mind plugged into the minds of people all over the planet.
They'd better not fuck with her chubby, disabled partner.
