my wifething @schizo-sapphic is selfshipping with GLaDOS and it's reawaken my awful terrible complexes about wheatley..... i NEED to hurt him SO BAD

more about their dynamic under the cut

so. gary ends up inside aperature completely on accident! probably stumbled inside it looking for food, and then found himself in a world almost completely devoid of any visceral, living creatures for it to eat... disappointing. :[

as you might imagine, this makes gary pretty damn frustrated! he's only getting hungrier the longer he's trapped inside aperature, so he figures his best bet is to make himself look like a test subject for the chance to be put into stasis (which would at least insure he lives longer). this works at first! until wheatley wakes it up, of course. annoying, adorable, useless wheatley.... and he's.. exactly gary's type in prey... psychologically, of course. it's not like gary would actually get much from trying to eat him, but when you're hungry enough even your frienemies start to look like food! he can't help it! (at least that's what it tells wheatley when it bullies him lmao)

I’ve had this idea in my head for a while; and I’m still extremely surprised that I’m the only person I’ve seen thus far to do vessels stridulating. Come on HK fandom, these are bugs! If they can’t talk normally, let them stridulate instead! XD