*SPOILERS* What happens to Chell after Portal 2?

[Alienslayer2406]

There's another thread like this but it's from 2012 and has been necro'd countless times, so I figured I start a new one. Also, I know this game is over ten years old at this point, but I'm still putting a spoiler warning in the title. This game is too good.

So Valve confirmed that Portal 2 takes place 50,000 years after the events of the original Portal, which took place around the same time of Half-Life 2. So, it's safe to assume that by the time Chell leaves Aperture, the Combine have already been defeated and forgotten. However, I highly doubt that humanity could survive for that long, so she's just as likely stepping into a post-humanity world, meaning there's no civilization for her to go back to.

What do you think?

[I_Don't_Do_Speedruns]

i dont think so, as GLAdos says "I didn't see the deer today, but i did see some humans."

[I_Don't_Do_Speedruns]

Hello?

[Alienslayer2406]

Originally posted by I_Don't_Do_Speedruns:

i dont think so, as GLAdos says "I didn't see the deer today, but i did see some humans."

I forgot that! I was playing some today, and just heard that line, lol.

[The Borderline]

I thought Portal 2 takes place in January 2021

[Alienslayer2406]

Originally posted by JustinG:

I thought Portal 2 takes place in January 2021

Maybe. I rarely go outside since the pandemic started. I may as well be in Aperture.

[Blue]

i've always had a headcanon/portal 3 idea where chell continued on a long journey trying to find other humans.

on her journey, she found several abandoned buildings with high-tech stuff in them left over from a former (and now long collapsed) post-combine human empire, which modified and improved-apon the combine technology for everyday human use. because of similarities between aperture and the combine, the technology she came across was familiar enough to her that she could use it for puzzles in the buildings (if this was made into an actual game anyways.)

at the end of her very long journey, she collapsed exhausted in the snow shortly outside of a small town, and people in the town noticed..but its ambiguous weather they were too late.

[Alienslayer2406]

Originally posted by Fennecai:

i've always had a headcanon/portal 3 idea where chell continued on a long journey trying to find other humans.

on her journey, she found several abandoned buildings with high-tech stuff in them left over from a former (and now long collapsed) post-combine human empire, which modified and improved-apon the combine technology for everyday human use. because of similarities between aperture and the combine, the technology she came across was familiar enough to her that she could use it for puzzles in the buildings (if this was made into an actual game anyways.)

at the end of her very long journey, she collapsed exhausted in the snow shortly outside of a small town, and people in the town noticed..but its ambiguous weather they were too late.

I could totally see that happening after the fall of the Combine.

A small town in the snow? Sound familiar.

[The Borderline]

It does but I’m thinking of something else

[Alienslayer2406]

Originally posted by JustinG:

It does but I’m thinking of something else

The only thing I can think of is that town the TF2 mercs where at in the Mann Vs. Machine trailer. Looking back, I've forgotten how cool that was.

[Blue]

Originally posted by Alienslayer2406:

Originally posted by JustinG:

It does but I’m thinking of something else

The only thing I can think of is that town the TF2 mercs where at in the Mann Vs. Machine trailer. Looking back, I've forgotten how cool that was.

well tbh that part in my headcanon was inspired by the ambiguous ending of "the giver" by lois lowry (not the movie, the book's version where the protagonist's fate is left fairly ambiguous)

[ScribScrab]

I'm assuming Glados runs tests on Atlas and P-body for the rest of existence.

[The Borderline]

Originally posted by Fennecai:

Originally posted by Alienslayer2406:

The only thing I can think of is that town the TF2 mercs where at in the Mann Vs. Machine trailer. Looking back, I've forgotten how cool that was.

well tbh that part in my headcanon was inspired by the ambiguous ending of "the giver" by lois lowry (not the movie, the book's version where the protagonist's fate is left fairly ambiguous)

Yes that"s what I was thinking of! (we are getting off-topic ;0 )

[Alienslayer2406]

Originally posted by Fennecai:

Originally posted by Alienslayer2406:

The only thing I can think of is that town the TF2 mercs where at in the Mann Vs. Machine trailer. Looking back, I've forgotten how cool that was.

well tbh that part in my headcanon was inspired by the ambiguous ending of "the giver" by lois lowry (not the movie, the book's version where the protagonist's fate is left fairly ambiguous)

Sounds like an interesting book, what's it about (preferably no spoilers)?

[Blue]

Originally posted by Alienslayer2406:

Originally posted by Fennecai:

well tbh that part in my headcanon was inspired by the ambiguous ending of "the giver" by lois lowry (not the movie, the book's version where the protagonist's fate is left fairly ambiguous)

Sounds like an interesting book, what's it about (preferably no spoilers)?

its about a dystopian world where emotions and memories of the past have been completely removed from people- everyone except for one, known as the giver, responsible for bearing all of the memories of the past. the protagonist is one day assigned to be the new "giver" who must bear the memories.

...thats the best blurb i knew how to write without spoiling anything important (other than the ending i guess....kindof...lol). that said though, this is one of those rare occasions where the movie actually was much better than the book (imo), so take your pick because they both carry the same powerful message. :)

[The Borderline]

Originally posted by Alienslayer2406:

Originally posted by Fennecai:

well tbh that part in my head canon was inspired by the ambiguous ending of "the giver" by Lois lowry (not the movie, the book's version where the protagonist's fate is left fairly ambiguous)

Sounds like an interesting book, what's it about (preferably no spoilers)?

Its about this Utopian community without pain. But when Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory, he realises that his perfect world isn't so perfect after all. (All in my own words)
It does contain graphic depictions of violence.