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Music is Exile Vilify, by The National
Also, A few notes.
1 ) The Chell rig has a terrible face. there are no emotional controls or even blinks. Additionally the eyes will lock up at bad angles. this severely limited the shots I could use without her looking like a freakshow. bummer that, but wider shots are good too.
2) The companion cube. it's not charred, because no charred cube exists within the assets. If I had one, I'd have used it, but since this was just a small quick project I left it out. The size however IS Correct. thats how big it truly is, though it looks smaller in your hands. If you got a problem with the size of it, take it up with valve.
3) Chell doesn't take the portal gun with her when she leaves the testing facility. This is True. However my original intention with this was to have her wake up at the end of the video at the start of portal 2, in the hotel room the whole thing having been a motivating dream. I decided late on to leave this open ended, but it was an intentional choice and not an oversight.
4) As some of you have pointed out, the animation is wooden at times. I'll totally cop to that, I'm pretty new to animating from scratch, but to be honest, and this is a real cop out answer, I wasnt' really focusing on animation fidelity with this. I mostly wanted to get the thoughts down and put this out, so that I could get back to working on my real, primary project. That other project, is where I'm putting all my love and polish. This one was just to rip through and get the thought out of my head.
if you're wondering where the WIP went, it's still here • Video , just unlisted now.

[@thewoollyviking5928]

Good God, poor Chell. Left centuries after humanity has been seemingly wiped out all alone, her one real friend left floating through space, somebody give this girl a hug before she gets us all depressed...

[@robbalison]

She's not the only human glados tells chell in one of there conversations that she went up to the surface and saw humans

[@thewoollyviking5928]

GLaDOS also said she found Chell's birth parents. I wouldn't immediately believe everything that AI says.

[@cryebral]

*hugs chell*

[@flanglank6202]

Keep in mind half life and portal are in the same universe

[@IcyFemboi]

Josey Kaiser so she found cave and Caroline? Good joke

[@machinerin151]

_Do not look directly at the operational end of The device._ _Do not submerge The Device in liquid, even partially._ Aperture Science Testing Protocols are written with _a lot_ of blood.

[@blue_shift]

and lastly Do NOT bring the Handheld device to Nazi, Germany!

[@caseymcauliffe8919]

don't fall in love with the aperture science handheld device

[@cool_skelleton95papyrus71]

Miss Barfs A Lot oh fuck off

[@noahllanos286]

Cool_Skelleton95 Papyrus hush, my child

[@MischievousMoth]

That is correct

[@christopherweeks89]

She almost broke the portal gun in the rain. "Do not submerge the device in water, even partially." -GLaDOS

[@henhaskel1033]

+Chris Weeks its suppose to be do not submerge the device in liquid . not water . good point tho

[@tellurian7999]

+Pattyman Yes we can trust her... This time, ever noticed when you jump in a pool of that brown liquid acid stuff in portal 1 your portal gun seems to explode?

[@glados1808]

That wasn't a lie that was an attempt to bring up curiosity to kill you.

[@fearisimminent7765]

Jacob Gamesbillion actually my gun never exploded, it just laid there

[@tadkins3204]

Jacob Gamesbillion it does? the gels are liquid. the cleansing gel I'm certain is just water

[@Milotic20001]

Chell is not mute, she is abnormally stubborn and chooses not to talk. Valve made a comic of it.

[@Aragonstar]

can i have the link?

[@Milotic20001]

Actually, in the first Portal, if you take a cube and drop it on yourself a couple of times, she makes a grunt.

[@cheatsykoopa98]

***** gordon doesn't speak beacause the game is made so you feel like you're gordon, portal goes the same, although chell IS indeed able to speak and chooses not to, also, team fortress 2 also goes like this, the merc you're playing is actually you, that's why there's 9 of them, but thousands of players

[@sirspam5375]

Or she forgot to talk.... Nah at the start of portal 2 weatly tells her to say apple but she/the player doesn't sooo.... She doesn't want to talk

[@inyourbasement941]

That's actually the same answer Valve came up with for Gordon.

[@NovaStella_]

You've got your short sad life left, that's what I'm counting on.

[@sansthecomic5783]

2019

[@cozz124]

2020

[@Alegriacaptions]

... Goodbye, my only friend...

[@cozz124]

Oh, did you think I meant you?

[@Alegriacaptions]

Well you have been replaced, I don't need anyone now. When I'll delete you maybe I'll stop feeling so bad!

[@MrTechfreak1]

So did she get her $60 or not ?

[@wheatleythecore1594]

IdealRAM of ye

[@glados9251]

Y es i didn't forget to remind her

[@fritzpacson1785]

Just finished the game, she got rused

[@mandziomaaids2382]

Frankly, you will be paying us.

[@demandzwer]

120$ bro

[@pgj1997]

wow, the companion cube is HUGE!

[@salsagal]

Well, it is pretty big. Go into third person mode and you'll see the size.

[@someoner4ndom]

Half her size i guess

[@09axet49]

pgj1997. Yea

[@Danbero]

A Body should fit in it

[@nicolassteckert7149]

It's THICC

[@FrankTaank]

lol I need to show this to my girlfriend as "leaked" e3 footage of a portal 3 announcement xD

[@BluenosedCash75]

Did you show her?

[@jjosephh19]

how did it go

[@richieflareon3530]

What happens? Seems pretty funny to me

[@richieflareon3530]

Btw I subscribed to u

[@xfnwfox]

chell is not deaf and can talk, she just chooses not to.

[@Rin-jo4yb]

No she is dumb which means she can't talk

[@xfnwfox]

it was verified by Valve that she can talk, its a fact

[@jamesboudreaux3246]

Maybe she can't talk because of the minor case of serious brain damage.

[@theredpanda00]

+james Boudreaux You mean veey minor?

[@GootPoot]

LickTheCheese / AwesomeTS Studios In the first game she didn't talk out of spite for GladOS, but even after they began working together, the sleep had damaged her brain.

[@holdenew]

well, chell isn't deaf. in the game you can hear GLaDOS talking.

[@theridgeguy2465]

Holden Watson Also Valve confirmed that Chell can in fact speak, she just choses not to in the given situation.

[@terrorfried4743]

TheRidgeGuy24 When was this confirmed? I believe you but can you give me a link to the conversation or something?

[@theridgeguy2465]

tribal plains 42 www.vg247.com/2011/05/07/valve-writer-talks-about-why-chell-doesnt-speak-in-portal-or-portal-2/

[@terrorfried4743]

TheRidgeGuy24 Thx :)

[@theridgeguy2465]

no problem

[@sandvichmann8935]

That companion cube was huge.

[@deathtobob9000]

Sandvich Mann ya

[@cluckendip]

They grow up fast.

[@deathtobob9000]

Davo Scoddo >

[@minandrocabrito533]

Supposed to be

[@papulainenn]

They are average human(man) sized metal cubes. Thats why Chell and the cube can hold down the buttons

[@cameronwilson5547]

I didn't know that the fire sprinklers in that simulator room worked...

[@theblankperson3047]

Your evil…

[@TheKingoftheKongs]

Kawaii Potato You're*

[@ineedtofindsomethingorigin5463]

Hello!

[@clauslarsen8865]

Fuck you

[@InsaniReb]

Yes they do

[@Darbydootx]

Wow. Just imagine being Chell in that situation. You're most likely never going to see another human being again, and that must be the worst feeling. (Portal 2 takes place 50,000 years after Portal 1, and I doubt that the human race outside of Aperature would ever survive that long)

[@Antiperson]

Yeah, I'm guessing that there is nothing for Chell to do, and she will go back to aperture maybe?

[@universalforce8906]

She could play with the dead humans in the Companion Cube Well, the human race has existed for a long time. Another 50,000 years . . . as the world has not been killed by global warming yet . . . I say it is very likely that humans still exist.

[@erikstrindberg2520]

+BalloonFrog That 50,000 years is not cannon, it's from a unused line. also the enrichment center would be way more decayed if it were that long, i would say 130-200 years

[@justmessyrat3905]

is not like 50,000 years i think that between portal 1 and two are like 3 or 4 years 7 as much but 50,000 doesn't make sense

[@justmessyrat3905]

is not like 50,000 years i think that between portal 1 and two are like 3 or 4 years 7 as much but 50,000 doesn't make sense

[@ottaraakerymoe7712]

That's one big companion cube.

[@zethcader6478]

More to hug! ;)

[@paulstefan9554]

Is just big

[@BreakReality]

what if portal 3 took place before portal and you played in the back story of Caroline

[@kuuna.]

DarkGamingFTW that's a pretty good idea

[@BreakReality]

Chad Nguyen thank you!

[@stephenwelkley7039]

That would be cool to play

[@johnderat9895]

What a great idea

[@thelastofusd738]

My dad works were portal was made let me tell him the idea

[@InitiateDee]

IT'S A BIRD, RUN.

[@taggergunn]

I HAVE NO PLAN FOR THIS! ABORT

[@TheSaneHatter]

Nevermore.

[@netimamc2221]

....

[@ftwgaming0]

UnfortuneLess no! NOT DE BUURD

[@christopherafanador7389]

Me: don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry don't cry

[@parsil8158]

I'm crying... 10/10... Poor Chell, she's going to die lonely... Just the tough gives me sadness

[@aBronyPlays]

Chell isn't deaf Valve even said so. shes upset and angry so she refuses to say a word to GLaDOS or anyone.

[@joshuapitre5042]

Chelle isn't deaf, one of the creators has stated that he felt she didn't talk because she refused to let the situations in the game get to her.

[@momomohoho3683]

This is so good and I love it, but it makes me feel so sad. ;_;

[@mommaholly]

Me to I have felling some for everything....even food....umm sorry.....but if I wher chell I would be horrified and probably would of taken the portal gun and company in cube

[@momomohoho3683]

^^ Oh, it's fine; I'm the same way. Yeah, I probably would've done the same thing.

[@thec-m]

Great animation and Story, but quite a few mistakes. Also good choice for using Exile as the music. 1. After Chell escapes, she doesn't have a Portal gun. Her Portal gun was sucked into space along with Wheatley and another core. You can also see as she rises to the surface she has NOTHING in her hands. 2. The companion cube at the end of Portal 2 was burnt, suggesting it was her original one from Portal 1 (The one she was forced to incinerate). 3. The companion cubes and weighted storage cubes aren't that big. Doug Ratman in the LAB RAT comic carrying a companion cube on his back proves how big it really is.

[@thec-m]

Impossible, a few minutes after Chell's time on the surface in the first Portal game, she was dragged back into Aperture Laboratories by the party escort bot as seen in the Lab Rat comic.

[@CognizantCheddar]

And your mistake was not bothering to read the video description. Literally every item you point out has already been addressed there by the author.

[@thec-m]

I did bother to read the description, this was not in the description when I wrote my original comment.

[@thec-m]

Companion cubes are still smaller though.

[@thec-m]

And I still don't know why the author didn't use a charred cube.

[@hunters79]

chell may be mute but is not deaf. you can hear everything glados says, wheatly says, and turrets firing

[@Bautiiista]

She is also not mute

[@ShadowMaster021]

Ahh! Bird! Bird! Kill it! BIRD!

[@JacobLeeLawyer]

ITS EVIL!

[@HmmYesInteresting...]

Monster! Killing machines!

[@givemeprimelaughter]

This actually made me sob!! Good for you

[@ACHrunaway]

1:21 is it just me or is that companion cube just HUGE?

[@zyaphyr]

Robert Northrup The GameTheorists! woooooooooo!!

[@AngeryRedPanda]

I noticed that too

[@Mr3DGaming]

same

[@goofycraze8876]

Hits like a bullet to the heart. It hurts to watch this, so sad. she (for now) is alone, no one else to see or find only to find a picture of herself. MAY CHELL FIND someone else because this HURTS.

[@KisliyGolub]

I dont understand. What happened to humanity in Portal 2? Its fully died? Or combines? Who can tell me?

[@joshuapitre5042]

Portal and Portal 2 are implied to have taken place some long time after Half Life 2.

[@KisliyGolub]

And so? WHAT HAPPENED TO HUMANITY?

[@joshuapitre5042]

Гоша Таршев Nobody knows!

[@Legion495]

Гоша Таршев GLaDOS said in one chamber, that she saw humans on the surface. I think there are still one ;)

[@linnaheeve3668]

Joshua Pitre No, Half Life runs nearly the exact time frame of Portal and Portal 2. If there will ever be a Half Life 3/ Portal 3 then the other will have the same

[@V.wooolff]

Y'all Don't feel sad for Chell. Remenber this : She is stubborn and wants to live ! So she will for sure have a great life

[@freeraining]

no she won't. stubbornness doesn't mean anything

[@ScareyoHexir]

This man is so good at making animations that expresses feelings

[@sk3l]

I though it was going to end with the bird putting the picture down on the companion cube, that would have been a cool ending

[@DrSabot-A]

*a few minutes later* *Strider sounds* "Civillian detected,proceeding to engage *beep* " Oh and chell...you forgot that the Portal Gun cant be submerged in water...even partially

[@CognizantCheddar]

Chell will surely find other people, after the events of Portal 2. Somewhere. The fact that the Earth is still there at all and in observably good shape topside proves that Gordon Freeman and company must have eventually defeated the Combine. Oh... and there's also the little fact that she emerges onto a field of planted wheat. Wheat fields like that don't happen naturally.

[@CognizantCheddar]

Except for the little fact that a field of pure, farm-grown wheat like that couldn't have just maintained itself naturally in the thousand years or whatever between the events of Portal 1 and Portal 2, while GLaDOS was 'dead' and no part of the Enrichment Center was being actively maintained, topside 'camouflage' or otherwise. But whatever, it could just be a trivial plot hole, of course. The larger point which I already made is that the existence of blue skies and fruitful fields alone already proves that Combine was defeated and sent packing, at some point. Which surely means a surviving human population is around.

[@CognizantCheddar]

Whoa, now you're suddenly ranting about 'synthetic wheat fields' like that's a theory that has any basis whatsoever in the game's evidence? That's an idea, sure, but it's an idea completely out of left field (and btw, even synthetic plants of some sort would be visibly eroded by the elements over the centuries between Portal 1 and Portal 2, and the notion that GLaDOS recreates a vast synthetic wheat field in the short time between her reactivation and Wheatley's usurpation is NOT actually very plausible... reconstructing test rooms is one thing, that's quite another). Occam's razor asserts that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. Right now, that would be *my* hypothesis, bud. It looked like real wheat under a healthy blue sky, so most likely it was real wheat. And as I've said, a field of wheat like that doesn't just happen naturally and without active maintenance. Left unattended, nature takes over. BUT ANYWAY, my money is still on 'trivial plot hole'. Observing the wheat thing was just a minor addendum to my original post, dude. You should calm down, this really isn't worth arguing about.

[@CognizantCheddar]

Oh, and as for the Combine, you're forgetting to account for the the likely escalation of aggression on the part of the Combine that was/is sure to follow the events of Episode 2. There would have been / will be no more attempt at mere occupation. The Combine would've come back to earth in force and turned the surface to glass.... unless they were stopped, of course. Besides, you really don't think Gordon loses, do you? C'mon now. My prediction that the good guys in Half-Life eventually win isn't exactly bold.

[@CognizantCheddar]

"Black Mesa and Aperture are still in both universes, but the events are separate. Look it up." And I don't understand what point you're making here. The drama of Portal isn't directly connected to the drama of Half-Life, sure, but that's irrelevant to everything I've been saying here. Both plots are taking place on the same world, and Portal 2's events surely take place after the conclusion of Gordon Freeman's story. Btw, have you also forgotten about the Borealis? Aperture has quite a large role to play in the next Half-Life game, albeit in an indirect fashion.

[@CognizantCheddar]

- I said "errode", not "corrode". Those are very different terms, particularly in the context used. - As I said, remember that GLaDOS only had control of the facility a short time between her reactivation, Wheatley's take-over, and the end of Chell's campaign... and you are apparently remembering her reconstruction efforts in that short interval as being more complete at that point in the game than they actually were. And regardless, quickly reconstructing modular-by-design test rooms is a far different prospect from somehow rapidly reconstructing miles of plastic planets on the surface, *outside* the Enrichment Center, where her various apparatus of construction mechanisms largely don't even exist. Surely you can see that? - Yes, I remember those elevator-room images explaining the the hard-light bridges. And nothing about them suggests the top-side crops were synthetic. Indeed, how well would fake plants work as public, top-side camouflage for the 'light-tubes' or whatever anyway? Not very. - If a super-powerful, technologically advanced alien empire resolved to commit genocide on a planet rather than occupy and enslave it -- as is surely going to be the Combine's plan of action following the events of Episode 2 (recall City 17's end) -- don't you think they would opt to use the sort of weapons of mass-destruction that would devastate a planet's surface? I'm just speculating, admittedly, but it's the obvious speculation. "Turn the surface to glass" was my allusion to this concept, if that still isn't clear to you.

[@NessaTheBat1]

Nach 10 Jahren find ich das Video immer noch toll.

[@luckyperga]

Jemand deutsches!

[@maginciajaz]

portal 2 is way after half life because she had been "sleeping" for 9999999999... units of time

[@BreadBoxCrew]

that could be minutes

[@maginciajaz]

TheBreadboxCrew Why would it be minutes? Besides all of those minutes adds up to thousands of years, If you want I'll find out exactly how long.

[@BreadBoxCrew]

Richard Sanchez if it was minutes i doubt it would be longer then a couple of years

[@maginciajaz]

TheBreadboxCrew There are at least 1 billion minutes. That is 10 digits, which means 10 nines. So thats actually almost 10 billion but whatever I'll stick with 1 billion. 365 days/ 1 yr * 24 hrs/ 1 day * 60 mins/1 hr = 525600 mins per year or 5.256 x 10^5 mins for 1 billion minutes, 1 x 10^9. 10^9 divided by 5.256 x 10^5 1902.59 yrs Thats a shitton more than a couple of years.

[@maginciajaz]

xXFakeNinjaXx Theres no wat to tell though.

[@baileehogan617]

Ok I want to clear this up! Basically in the most common sense theory, Cave Johnson and Caroline were Chell's biological parents. GLaDOS mentioned Chell being adopted many times therefore; It is BELIEVED that Doug Ratman was Chells adoptive father. But based on things released by valve, we know that it HAD to be a scientist that worked at aperture, probably Doug Ratman. Cave Johnson died and they put Caroline into a computer- Therefore, being GLaDOS. (This is a fact-read the comics made by valve.) Therefore, GLaDOS is Chell's mother, sort of. And for the video, great job!

[@megalomaniactf2338]

😓wow

[@jazzydrawz3792]

Nice to know that Chell killed her own mother then her own mother tried to kill her. Beautiful family am I right?

[@srb2thepast]

lel

[@ember-brandt]

Personally, I have a _really_ hard time believing that Doug is Chell's father - biologically or adopted - because (1) Doug, being the highly intelligent man that he is, would have realized that his schizophrenia is hereditary, and being a paranoid schizophrenic probably wouldn't have made him very willing to raise a child, besides; (2) even if he _did_ have a child anyway, I cannot imagine anyone as highly intelligent _and_ highly paranoid as Doug ever thinking for even a sixteenth of a picosecond that Aperture was totally a fantastic place to take a child.

[@thebrockster8783]

꧁ Jenya March ꧂ I also have some problems with that theory. Why would Doug make his child a test subject? And your right, no person in their right mind would think aperture was a safe place for children... Unless it was being your daughter to work day. It kinda makes sense, but still doesn’t explain how chill became a test subject

[@moviepenguin]

I knew i hadn't imagined this video! I remembered the video with the still image and song but I was certain there was an animation!

[@hydrochloriccinnamon4619]

oh... good starting and name to an game "After Aperture"

[@xxxokamirushxx8898]

This video kinda makes me sad, I mean after all that testing through Portal 1 & 2, Chell should at least miss those things because now... She doesn't have anything to do now, in the laboratory, she at least had SOMETHING to do. And now that the game is over, she has to start all over...

[@MrMark8343]

amazing work! i dont know why the music fits the video so much but great work!

[@CutePuppy351]

So sweet it actually nearly brings a tear to my eye the song :)

[@patazd457]

If i was Chell, I would never return to Aperture...I would go as far away from there and start again 🥺

[@gobbleygourdiscursed6782]

I rember this video made me cry as a kid

[@saxtonhale2552]

Half Life 2 and Portal 2 take place in the same universe, correct?

[@trainzillamodelrailroading9905]

Ya

[@saxtonhale2552]

Okay, just making sure. Thanks.

[@FlamingNinja]

but at different points in time, and probably in different locations. HL2 is set in Russia, and we can only assume Portal is in America as most, if not all the stuff is in english

[@Ebin_RDAK]

Flaming Ninja Well it could be in Russia because what else would the Language on the signs be saying?

[@oliverharwood2419]

Yes

[@tugiasilivelio35]

This Is so emotional Chell misses GLaDOS 😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@Adyingsoul01]

I remember watching this Everytime I got home and crying Coming back to it I still feel so many emotions

[@rain6493]

If I was Chell I would personally want to just go back in there. Or somehow meet Wheatley again but that clearly ain't happening lol.

[@EmmanuelFrancisco10]

3:19 Is it me.. or is that potato just ruined the moment

[@sirspam5375]

I think that the potato by the grave shows that it's chell's grave when she magically gone.... So her perents thinked she was dead and in the rat man comic at a school (ish) place chell (as a kid) try's to make power useing a POTATO (in other words chell really likes potatoes....)

[@EmmanuelFrancisco10]

oh so you're saying that potatoes are the remembrance of chell?

[@jhlofficixl]

Xboxclone5552 And she submits it into Aperture Science cause they try to test how progressive she is.

[@sirspam5375]

Emmanuel Francisco well yea kind x3

[@eli_r_q]

This is a beautiful animation with beautiful scenery, the rain really adds sadness to the scenes. And Exile Vilify really works with the animation. AMAZING! 10/10

[@JustOneGlitch]

Este es una muestra realista y poética de lo que pasaría con Chell tras salir de Aperture Science. La música es hermosa, la situación es realista y retrata todo en un ambiente perfecto. Dándonos la impresión de una búsqueda de identidad y de esperanza. Cierto que varios aspectos terminan por distraer ya sea con la ausencia de lluvia, la falta de movimiento por el viento, la iluminación proveniente de ninguna parte, el movimiento de Chell al correr. Pero termina por ser una joya como pocas.

[@thefishinggamekeeper5713]

Well spoken

[@crusher6501]

This should be the new game

[@thatstrue_]

Omg thanks for this video. It's beautiful.

[@Outpost38C]

Yes, I subscribed. Yes, I agree she's mute. No, I don't think she's deaf.

[@Outpost38C]

golum pawelec Nah, I think she was mute to begin with. I think it either had something to do with the fact that she was munching on repulsion gel as a kid, or some relation to Freeman.

[@Outpost38C]

golum pawelec Ayyyyyy

[@fluffnting]

Kaemer() Well there's a theory if you see on Bring Your Daughter To Work Day (BYDTWD) she signed the sheet, and she said that her potato grew out of control "A special ingredient from dad's work" They recon she's either daughter of Cave and Caroline or to Doug Rattman. The only link that Chell and Gordon are linked in that they are very similar characters, in that they are both Silent Protagonists.

[@Outpost38C]

***** Well, why would she do that?

[@FionaNicole03]

Kaemer() because that would give the robots power, being able to hear her reactions to insults, giving the robots satisfaction. What i'm saying is she doesn't want to give the robots satisfaction.

[@РоманДорофеев-ж9и]

After this video I began to think then Pyro is Chell... I don't know why.

[@zerg350]

Team Fortress 2- 1961-1972 year

[@РоманДорофеев-ж9и]

You are right. I thought about old "Aperture" when I was wathing this video. I got another idea. What if one of aperture testers of portal gun is Pyro?

[@dantheopalman]

This would've been THE BEST ending ever to portal 2 OMG x.x fantastic job Zach!

[@Thatotherchannel1]

I love this song, i remember staying in the rattman cave for about 10 minutes just so i could listen to the song =D

[@chistinelane]

the portal gun was lost in space

[@Cylix404]

+chistine lane yeah i was gonna say that

[@chistinelane]

And even if it wasn't, I don't think glados would give her it

[@oliviaflora6364]

Read the description. :) It's all explained there.

[@robbalison]

Actually chell dropped it when she flew through the portal to space and she never saw it again it's still in that room as we speak

[@chistinelane]

robbalison you could see it fly out

[@starry_fest]

This is really good. I felt like crying because it was just so... True. I mean, I could really see this happening after Portal 2.

[@murf5052]

I hope she knows that there's a dead body in that companion cube

[@rhiannabraden6630]

But hey, that's just a theory. A GAME THEORY! Thanks for reading!

[@murf5052]

I actually seriously believe that there are dead CATS in the boxes (not humans) but perhaps only the older Aperture Science weighted cubes. GLaDOS mentions testing the Schrödinger's Cat theory (can't remember if it was in the game or the comic) by putting cats in the cubes and filling them with neurotoxin. Also, if you catch one of the old weighted cubes covered in blue gel you get an achievement called Schrodinger's Catch.

[@arttulaakso5390]

***** at the begigining of portal2 you cam see catcube in the wall.. and few cats

[@mommaholly]

WATE WHUT

[@arttulaakso5390]

i mean cubes with cat ears and tail.. and that cube is companion cube

[@karlg5697]

I almost cried i'm holding back so hard xD

[@damonnugent1993]

I loved the symbolism of the Bird and Chell. When Chell finally gets what she's been fighting for, she sees that there's nothing for her anymore in the World, and from what I can tell, the bird looks as if it doesn't realize that her babies are 'dead' or maybe they've left the nest long ago? but either way, that bird comes to terms with the truth and instead of mourning what she's lost, it flies off, determined to survive, and Chell finally realizes that she's stepped into a World she no longer knows, but she's not letting go of her freedom, and she's determined to survive.

[@ChuckNorris-ud9dz]

Don't you just love happy endings?

[@KodieRussell]

chell isnt deaf. she isnt even mute. valve said, like gordon, has the ability to speak, but she doesnt because shes frustrated by the tests... or something close to that

[@Iankyle1198]

I'm pretty sure she chooses not to talk

[@KodieRussell]

Iankyle1198 thats what i was saying

[@gabenewell5639]

she has brain damage

[@MeowieGamer]

GLaDOS really meant "you've got your short, sad life left"!

[@ShafiqYoutube81]

“Goodbye, dad” she said to her cube Yes this is a theory

[@theldiot460]

This vid is sad😩

[@ruslanskorodumov1074]

opbros501 TheEpicChannel неа

[@old5020]

@@ruslanskorodumov1074 -_- тут не русские

[@maskiidoodle]

Oh my gods this is so well animated!! I love the animation so much! It gave me so many feels but amazing job!!

[@DAvOaPe1]

wait... so what happened?

[@diamondfailer11]

GLaDOS wants Chell gone. And shes free! HUMAN VS. NO HOME, NO FOOD, DEPRESSION. WHO WILL WIN?

[@echotries_]

I want this happen to Portal 3!

[@DreamingEllie]

this is some real talant i must say

[@inger13]

Woulda grabbed the portal gun and used it to carry the cube

[@chistinelane]

the portal function is useless outside of aperture. unless she's planning to go to the moon again

[@TimBuhrs]

+TrustyRusty HD it is clearly stated in the game that the portals can only be placed on a surface that is placed in moon....stuff..

[@chistinelane]

***** yeah. and i doubt she could find any flat, clear spaces in nature

[@KittyCandyGirlSarahAlison]

false, the Portals ONLY can be places on Moonstone or on flat clear surfaces/spaces, but something like that is srsly rare in the future

[@chistinelane]

❤SarahAlisonCameron❤ im pretty sure its only on moon rock

[@1111winter4w]

+❤SarahAlisonCameron❤ I believe it is only moon rock because Cave invented the portal when the moon rocks he got.

[@devg9173]

Its so sad yet you still feel the last glimmer of hope.

[@michellekong6743]

i don't think shes deaf, because then i don't think we can hear the talking from glados and stuff- unless robot has some sort of thing that even deaf people can hear

[@Yiggss]

Deaf*

[@KamakaziePidgeon]

You sound like a chav Chav: UMG r u death Init? Me: No I am not the Grim Reaper

[@michellekong6743]

everyone happy?

[@kendall1264]

+Cpt. Lexis thats exactly what he said

[@Yiggss]

Kendall Crouch He edited it. Before it was "death"

[@aislyndennis4650]

what is the name of this song? plus you did a really good job on this

[@zethcader6478]

Exile

[@DeepDishInk]

I think it's exile vifiy (don't know how to spell it) people keep using it in Portal videos, but I don't know how it relates to portal.

[@SubsonicH]

Skello Haz Tacos it was made for portal 2

[@salsagal]

+Auto Pilot Exile Vilify by the National. You can hear it in Portal 2.

[@xelnar5780]

Aislyn Dennis Exile Filify

[@CakeyBakeyWakeylegs]

Holy shit, that bird!!! That is the bird that makes an appearance at the beginning of Chapter 6: The Fall. Oh my.. It got trapped in the facility one day and was forced to leave her home, nest and unhatched eggs behind. Once it got out it had nothing left..

[@patchyblackbeard4976]

she cant talk because its hard to talk after being in suspintion for 5 weeks and she isent deaf because the thunder scared her and she could understand wheatly and GLaDOS so u are proven wrong

[@neverunnie]

She can actually talk but she is too frustrated with the situation she is in so she chooses not to. And nobody knows how long Chell slept in cryogenic storage. Months? Years? Nobody knows.

[@rafabuda0]

actually, she is mute.

[@neverunnie]

***** She chose to be mute.

[@docbobc2010]

She chooses to be mute she can talk tho

[@patchyblackbeard4976]

yeh

[@parranahdudemarioplant1395]

chell if your out there... I love you!!!!!😍

[@joey_bacala]

Thirst.

[@salsagal]

Correction: Chell, if _you're_ out there

[@kaisaro5176]

were does it say shes deaf

[@SlateBlueC4t]

Why Glados spoke her all the time if she's deaf?

[@mtm7564]

she's not deaf she can hear it's just she chooses not to speak

[@minecrafter4581]

+MicTiq Madison like Gordon Freeman

[@newagederpderp]

That's one use for a Companion Cube- use it as a chair. Wait now I want one! Damn it!

[@SherlockeHolmes1]

Isn't the cube supposed to be charred?

[@tost5936]

it's raining soooooooo the ash came off?

[@horouuu]

The reason why Chell is Mute, is because the long period of time of Cyrosleep, which occurs in Portal 1. Now that long period of time in Cyrosleep, as explained AGAIN by Wheatley in Portal 2, can cause Brain Damage. (Might have a little case of serious brain damage - Wheatley). Now the distance between Portal 1 and Portal 2 were like crazy in-game so yeah, thats the reason, and no, she is NOT deaf.

[@horouuu]

Kaemer() The reason GLaDOS knows her name is because, Aperture Science Innovators and Aperture Science Laboratory (both are different types of enrichment centers, Innovators are the old ones, and laboratories are the modern ones.) has files of which test subject they have ever tested, or ever registered. So yeah, since GLaDOS cant access Innovator's data, she just looks at the file data compiled in her disk, (since she is the Main Core and supervisor of Aperture Laboratories), and check which one matches the picture. And by the way if she got Shot by turrets she wont ever give up, her Tenacity level is 100%, which means she is abnormally stubborn, and never give up literally.

[@horouuu]

Kaemer() And by the way do you even play Portal 1 and 2? "'I've heard that soundbyte too, but only on the internet. I've tried to find it in the game files, but haven't been able. I'm guessing it might've been from a cut sequence in Portal 2, but if it came from Portal 1, I really don't know. Perhaps just a means of intimidating her? ...or maybe a way of the player learning their identity? After all, at the time of Portal 1, we only knew her name because of that one clipboard..." NO NO NO NO!!!. You CANT find it in the game files because you didn't code Portal 2, they might've put it in another name or something. But you can find it in Portal 2 GAME, (So have you heard one of those moments where your name gets mentioned for the very last time? Well here it is, I'm going to kill you, Chell. -GLaDOS) So yeah, and its not only from that one clipboard, if the name in that clipboard was 'Charlie' instead of Chell, would you say the name of the char was Charlie too?

[@horouuu]

One more theory, is that why she is attached to the Companion Cube so much? Well have you heard about the Companion Cube Emancipation Grill Easter Egg? Well if you Emancipate a Companion cube, and slow down the soundtrack in makes when its being Fizzled, there will be a low voice calling "HELP!". Now my theory is that one of her family, or any of her best friend or any mates, were stuffed inside that ONE SPECIFIC CUBE. Or maybe all of her friends or mates in all the cubes. (We have thousands of those in the warehouse -GLaDOS) Now the reason when it gets fizzled the human body parts doesnt drop from the cube? Well thats because the fizzler only Emancipate the 'Unauthorized Items' Which includes people not related IN ANY WAY to aperture. Which means the body parts. So yeah, thats why its so heavy, and Chell needs the Portal Gun to carry it.

[@Outpost38C]

Jason Voorhees I believe that you have started to forget that she is still human.

[@Outpost38C]

Jason Voorhees Also, would you be so kind as to re-explain that last comment? You quoted me a bunch, but I regret to say I didn't understand a word of it...

[@__mk_km__]

This animation.... it reminds me of all portal2 playthrough, all coop fun (mostly single player)... And btw, Chell had no portal device in the elevator

[@spam3570]

How did you get this footage?

[@keysontrains538]

How are you doing after she left?

[@spam3570]

KKTrain Springer Still testing.

[@tylersstuff4225]

GLaDOS HELLO

[@archlorddestin]

Awww, you do care about the poor fat girl.

[@alluraangel1174]

I'm in a new reality TV show. Jealous, b****?

[@fcon]

Afterture*

[@seankatebi2761]

Nobody is mentioning the aftermath of the combines since Portal 2 takes place after Half life 2 even though its been centuries or perhaps more.

[@serdhelpapa305]

What is that song?

[@just.a.guy522]

Serdhel Jireh-Lee Papa The National - Exile Vilify. It was specifically writeen for Portal 2, for an easter egg to be found in one of the early GLaDOS test chambers, the one with the two lasers.

[@fftkta7516]

it's this a legit valve animation?

[@noahpou5373]

no it isn't be cause in the game the companion cube was't that big and it's not the same channel.

[@jdn4070]

if you read the description the companion cube is that big it looks smaller in the game when holding it. but stand next to it in the game and it comes up to almost half high of chell

[@noahpou5373]

i accidentally posted the comment after i read the description

[@atlasrules87]

This would be either A. A much better end to Portal 2 or B. The start to Portal 3. Either way, very good.

[@conelrad1447]

This is stupid. It's just Chell running around.

[@PROTurkGaming]

you think you can do this better?

[@FlamingNinja]

TheSmiterOfThings. Portal and Portal 2 had Chell running around. this has Chell exploring. know the difference please

[@37197]

Nice job. The conseption itself is very fresh and makes me think more, feel more. The idea is cool to my mind. The song is perfect. Thank you

[@InsaneLoMein69]

I'd recommend downloading the app Shazam, where you can instantly find out a song's title just by playing it into the microphone. But the song in this video is Exile Vilify, by the National.

[@lightdot459]

I bet chell would still live a mostly peaceful life because the combine and enemy aliens probably wouldn't be in the middle of nowhere because she was let out at a field of wheat most likely a farming village nearby

[@torti7857]

this nearly made me cry, and it takes a lot for a video to make me cry. great job!!!!

[@jamesrobertson9260]

Dude I really like the song it really fits the end of portal 2

[@TheRealDigi2]

This is why sometimes you cannot leave something behind even if it hurts your feelings

[@IroAppe]

*Very* good! The gesture and every move of the body supports the atmosphere. The only thing you should improve is the face. Because Humans particularly look into faces to see the feelings there. Only animating Chell´s eyes would have made a great effect ;)

[@NiennaFan1]

If she's deaf the whole game loses its meaning, because Chell's reactions of GLaDOS and Wheatley are based entirely on what they say to her.

[@pinkjelly6014]

Awesome animation!!

[@sansgamingwastaken]

I can guarantee you that if Companion Cubes were that big, Rattmann would not be able to carry one on his back.