#android!wheatley

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Portal (Video Game) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Wheatley (Portal)/Reader Characters: Wheatley (Portal), GN!Reader - Character, Gender-Neutral Reader - Character, Reader Additional Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, References to Depression, Fluff, Domestic Fluff, Android!Wheatley, Kind of Human!Wheatley, Aka Wheatley has a body, First Kiss Summary:

Enjoy this story of a real Chell and real Wheatley, during school days.

As you may recall, the woman Chell is based off of is a lovely woman named Alicia Glidewell. Well, I met her at a wedding for a family member, aaaaand... turns out she's my cousin. And I only found out AFTER I fell in love with portal and it's lore. So, I look quite a bit like Chell, and I'm related to the real Chell. On top of that, I've always had a natural talent for solving abstract brain puzzles. During middleschool, I wore my dark brown hair in a ponytail everyday too!

Now, there was this nerdy blonde guy from Bristol, England, who went to the same middleschool as me. He came across the water to attend my school in America, during the same time I was there. We both became friends and got along well, and I don't know about his thoughts on it, but we always had this lowkey passive-agressive competition going, with who was the more intelligent one.

He talked a lot, sounded like a know-it-all, and I teased him playfully for it. He would say I'm square, and I would say that he was an octagon, if I were a square. He would always be like "aCTUALLY, the *rambles on*-" in his English accent and correct me every time I would discuss something by him, and it was always annoying because I felt like I didn't know as much as he did. In reality, he put me in awe at how much he seemed to know. I felt like he really did know more than me... but, I really enjoyed talking to him regardless.

Looking back, he was what everyone expects Wheatley to look like if he were human. Blonde hair, blue eyes, glasses, a quirky complexion, slender tall lanky frame, dorky smile, and a Bristol english accent. And the funny thing is, he's from the same region in England that Stephen Merchant was from (the voice actor of Wheatley), so he had the same vocal inflections as the character.

So, here we have two real kids, barely teens, that are friends. Constantly showing one another up in knowledge and useless facts on what's what. One, a relative of real Chell with a simmilar resemblance, who has a knack for puzzles and mind games. The other, an ideal image of Wheatley in human form, who happens to have the same type of accent, and talkative "I'm a genius" personality. The girl would listen to his ramblings in silence, and the boy would take a little too much pleasure in sounding like the clever one. Adorably awkward, he was. Just like Chell and Wheatley.

And the ironic punchline, is that I got an award at the end of the year, for recieving the highest grade point average in the entire prestigious school's history. When I found out the news, I mentally went "HA! TAKE THAT, *his name*! Wow... I can't believe I was the smarter one... all this time he was showing me up and making me feel stupid in our little contests, only for him to not get the award (that I didn't even know was a thing until they made it for me), and me to get it?" I remember telling my mother that I was suprised he didn't get the award, and I did. And, I wondered why. He ended up congradulating me... and turns out he got average grades this whole time. My mom said: "Well, its clear that he wasn't as smart as he sounded." (And if THAT'S not the most Wheatley explaining statement ever...) Just like Chell outsmarted Wheatley, I had always been the smarter one.

After that, we went separate ways and carried on. We both graduated from different schools, and he went back to college in England. Last night, I remembered him and looked him up, and turns out he currently has a bachelors in engineering and mathematics. HE DESIGNS AND CODES MACHINES. Ironic, isn't it? And me? I'm pursuing a career as a published author, while studying psychology and deception. I'm 20, he's 21.

I always had a crush on Wheatley as a character... I adored his personality. But the real kicker is, it took me growing up to realize that I had the real Wheatley already... and, I was his real Chell. This moment in my life is like a Portal Chelley AU, during school days. I think its really cool that it actually happened.

I recently tried to reach back out to him, because I couldn't stop thinking about him and our little childhood rivalry/friendship. Maybe we can recconect and keep challenging eachother, maybe we can become closer than before. Who knows... maybe we can become more.

Suddenly Wheatley!