Human Wheatley

Human Wheatley is a humanized version of Wheatley from Portal 2, created by VampireMeerkat.

He exists in an alternate reality where everything else has mostly stayed the same. The only other humanized character is GlaDOS, though this change isn't necessary to make the story work.

He made his first online appearance in 2011 at Facebook, a month later on Deviantart, and originally had two different designs. The first mimicked his robot self, the other was a normal-looking person.

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Background Story
While the original was created by Aperture Science; human Wheatley was an employee, until he got fired by Cave Johnson for "being in a wheelchair". His extreme incompetence was not picked up on by his boss, since he was quick to blame an entire team over a mistake.

"Beancounter said I couldn't fire a man just for being in a wheelchair. Did it anyway. Ramps are expensive." ~ Cave Johnson (canon quote from Portal 2)

Wheatley never accepted his release and secretly put himself into a stasis pod after messing with the development of GlaDOS as an act of petty revenge. He refused to leave Aperture and wanted to continue working for the company after the unforgiving Cave Johnson would've passed away.

His meddling with GlaDOS created her urge to kill and the entire facility quickly met with her neurotoxin, as made clear in Portal 1. Though, Wheatley later explained to Chell this outcome wasn't his intention; it just happened because he's "not a very good" scientist or mechanic. Even so, he's considered to be the cause of all that happened in the original game.

He wakes up countless of years after putting himself to sleep (Portal 2) and discovers the wreck that was once Aperture Science. He tries to find some clarification on what happened, but only discovers that GlaDOS killed all scientists and was then destroyed by a test subject. Since Wheatley is physically disabled, he had to put together a new wheelchair for himself, as his old one had been destroyed by the wreckage that had barely missed him. He managed to construct something with help of old personality cores, making his own wheelchair the first and only successful creation he ever made. While looking for survivors, he stumbles upon Chell's room, which is where the original storyline of Portal 2 starts.

Despite being a human being, getting attached to GlaDOS' body allowes him to control the facility and move his legs.

Personality
Wheatley is in every way like the character he represents.

He wants to be helpful, yet often feels pushed aside by others. When he obtains the power and authority to do whatever he wants, he's no longer shy to let out his frustrations.

Appearance
Wheatley has brown hair, blue eyes, a beauty mark on his right cheek and the left side of his chin, fuzzy black eyebrows, black-framed glasses, and has a little bit of stubble. He looks somewhere in his 30s.

While the original Wheatley is a ball, the human Wheatley has no round features at all. Instead, the features of the original, as for personality cores in general, were mainly inserted into Wheatley's wheelchair design.

Trivia

 * There is an unpublished Portal 2 fanfiction from 2012 where Wheatley's background story was first explained, but it became forgotten and discarded some time after writing;
 * In the story, he wanted romantic attention from Chell after gaining power.
 * Wheatley's appearance is based on Projectnewt's boyfriend, who cosplayed as Wheatley back between 2011-2013, using her design.