Portal 2 discussion thread, now with PERPETUAL TESTING INITIATIVE

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GlaDOS was launched on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day. The brain could have been ripped years before when Cave died and the scientist forced her into taking the head of the company, against her wishes. This would orphan young Chell who could have grown up with an adopted family or otherwise next-of-kin.

Not sure about that last page in the Rat Man comic. GlaDOS could have set up a system for deciding whether to use people to test or to not or something.

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Wouldn't that mean Chell would had to come back to aperture science AFTER her parents were killed? It's possible but I don't see most children doing that... unless she was forced to and her adopted parents worked for Aperture...

The problem is that the file existed before Chell would have been an adult (maybe it's an oversight on the artist) meaning either the first or second time GLaDOS went crazy Chell, at one point, would have been an adult... which doesn't really make sense, because the time before those two incidents occurred is not that long (we can assume the data in her chart wasn't verified, as in, someone just knew her and marked her not to be tested considering she may very well be the bosses daughter) but that doesn't explain the picture.

There's always the pseudo science that chell died during the first incident, got cloned and grew up super fast to the point her data was recorded for the second incident (in the comic Chell got moved up the line for cloning by Ratman). But it's not exactly clear what the "rules" of clones are in that universe.