Here’s something that had been sitting in my notes for a while :
Mermaid AU but it’s only headcanons i can’t draw…
AU where Aperture is an illegal aquarium and their robots are mermaids
GLaDOS is a Giant Moray Eel (Gymnothorax javanicus). I like that Eels are poisonous.
Moray eels are known to be territorial and aggressive and they’re one of the biggest species of eels! Also, have you seen an eel not from the side?
I like the idea of mermaid! GLaDOS being really big and long like she is in the game. And she does move like a snake. Like her aquarium is huge running around the facility because she’s just long and long.
Wheatley is a Slender-spined porcupine fish (Diodon nicthemerus) (they’re really cute). Like the name indicates it’s in the Tetraodontiformes order… meaning they have… Tetrodotoxin! Give it up for the bitch who makes links between things and no one gets it! It’s a neurotoxin. Most Tetraodontiformes produce it (even if some non fishes species do too).
Also porcupines swim in school and i find it fitting for Wheatley. A lot of puffers are solitary and i can’t see this little goober do that (don’t mention the other half of the game it wasn’t him).
But THE one porcupine fish trait is how they puff to defend themselves! The one thing that doesn’t fit is that they’re smart. They recognise humans and act like puppy. Wheatley would definitely puff up at the slight scare.
Did you know we sent the first fish to space in 1973? It was the Mummichog fish! However, I think the Zebra fish (Danio rerio) would fit Space Core better. And we send this ones in space too! They’re small tropical fishes. And they’re pretty. Mummichogs are grey that’s kinda boring.
The Anger Core is a Piranha. Pygocentrus nattereri probably. That’s it.
P-Body is a Cock-Eyed Squid (Histioteuthis bonnelli) and ATLAS is a Southern Blue-Ringed Octopus (Hapalochlaena maculosa). First, Cephalopods are really smart and they can do little tricks and for two testing bots it’s perfect. Squids are longer and octopuses are bigger soooo (actually not always but bear with me) I also think they should just be little mollusks swimming around GLaDOS. Everyone are little merpeople but those two. Also they don’t talk so.
Rick would be a Pacific Spiny Dogfish (Squalus sukleyi) which is a shark. I think they’re neat little guys!
The Ego core would definitely be a pink betta fish.
The Fact sphere would be a Mauve Stinger (Pelagia noctiluca) which fact! Is not a fish. It’s a jellyfish. Idk why the english found it fitting to name them fish when they don’t even have bones? I know jelly is for the mesoglea but fish?
The curiosity core is a yellow seahorse (Hippocampus kuda). i don't have explanations anymore i just feel it you get me?
The morality core is a pictus catfish (Pimelodus pictus). haha because Glados killed everyone during bring your cat to work day even with the morality core attached. Also, they're cute little guys no?
The intelligence core is a bluespotted lagoon ray (taeniura lymma)
I’m too lazy to make any of the other lol
