Project Marigold

Project Marigold is an upcoming fanfiction series made by Mimosa N. It follows the story of 12 year old Pallas as she stumbles deep into Aperture Science. She meets those who live there, and finds out about a threat that is linked to multiple cases of missing cores, and the disappearance of Pallas's brothers.

The fanfiction is slowly being planned out.

Under construction.

Premise
"After ending up deep in the facility, young Pallas decides to explore its bits to find a way back up to her home. However, she ends up meeting many friends and foes, and discovers a threat that is connected to a case where many droids above have gone missing- including her little brothers."

(under construction)

Project Marigold
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Project Marigold 2
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Project Marigold 3
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Project Marigold: The World of Coryn
A "biography" focusing on Coryn's life as a slave until his eventual escape and many other things he's gotten into.

Project Marigold: Lost Stories of Aperture
A prequel to the Project Marigold saga. It is a collection of stories following the major characters.

Characters

 * Pallas - The main protagonist. She is a future testing robot described to look like a blue version of her mother with no markings.
 * Coryn - The deuteragonist of the series. He is Pallas's little brother and a former slave of the TFC until Coriander and another core named Ia helped him escape.
 * Coriander - A large winged robot cat who is Coryn's companion. She was captured by The TFC but built a strong friendship with Coryn and they managed to escape.

The Outsiders
The Outsiders are a group of droids that are rivaling against the TFC. Their goal is to stop them from taking over the facility, even though they are not on GLaDOS's side either.


 * Rosalina Marigold - Leader of The Outsiders.
 * Ken - (Real name: Kenneth Black) He is the "engineer" of The Outsiders. He is really the Blacksmithing Core and uses this ability to make weapons for the robot cats of the Outsiders.
 * Esmerlina - A weaponized giant corvine; she is the Outsiders' "pet".
 * Rolly - A formerly defective turret who guards the entrance of The Outsiders.
 * Claudia - a robot cat that assists the Outsiders in gathering interesting things.
 * Zuri - a robot cat that is Claudia's best friend.
 * Many other cores and turrets

The Band
The Band is a group of cores that were rejected by GLaDOS who seek to rob and raid any resident or place for their own personal needs and for trading purposes. They also paint themselves with different colors and wear stolen items. They also sell their own things too.


 * Primus "The Protagonist" - A grey-eyed core who believes the whole world is a story and he's the main character. He is the current leader although he and Envy are fighting for leadership.
 * Envy - A black core with a reddish-orange eye. He is meant to be jealous of everyone and likes to steal.
 * Art Core - A white core with a green eye. She loves to draw pictures and spray paint graffiti.
 * Basil - Coryn's twin brother. He looks almost identical to his father except he has three fingers and his antenna is placed on the left of his back. He was a slave that served Chaos in giving the Boss access to more places in Aperture, but managed to escape and currently resides in the Band. He used to wear a necklace with a basil leaf, but lost it when he was kidnapped. He wears a blue bandanna on his head.

The TFC
The Followers of Cave Johnson are a faction of droids, led by a mysterious robocat named Tyrion. They are located somewhere in 90s Aperture and they almost worship Aperture's founder Cave Johnson. They also want to take over the facility for a reason that remains a mystery.


 * Tyrion - A secretive robocat who is the leader of the faction. He is the main antagonist.
 * Mori - She is the death core who was once an assassin and hitman. She is also Ken's sister.
 * Chaos - He is the chaos core with a great knowledge of hacking. He is the main reason why The Boss is slowly conquering Aperture. He may be a good hacker but he is not as great as the Hacker Core.
 * Orlando - An orange core who's Mori's acquaintance. He was originally the Ambiguous Personality Core.
 * Sin - The commander of the TFC's army of robocats
 * Aquila - A male corvine. Brother to Esmerlina and Ebony.
 * Ebony - A female corvine. Sister to Aquila and Esmerlina.
 * Tons of other cores, androids, and turrets.

Other

 * Atlas (Blue)
 * P-body (Orange)
 * GLaDOS -
 * James Marigold † (Mentioned) - Brother of Rosalina Marigold. He was the mediator core.
 * Haxor - Haxor is the hacker core. He is the greatest hacker in Aperture but he is on a neutral alignment and doesn't want to cause trouble unless it's necessary.
 * GLaDOS's crows.
 * Ia - Ia is the wanderer core. She is a white and red core who wanders off a lot and gets into situations.
 * Maverick - a rogue robot cat that also roams the facility

Trivia

 * Project Marigold was originally called "The [REDACTED] Trilogy".
 * The storyline has been changed multiple times. At first it started out as simply just Atlas and P-body fighting with Mori and Orlando which resulted in Coryn's kidnapping. Basil also did not exist.
 * Project Marigold's main inspirations were Koerenn's Experience N7, Portal: The Underground, A World Beyond, Felidae, Guardians of Ga'Hoole, AzureHowl, The Stolen Hope (and its reboot), various songs, and various Portal 2 concept ideas.