Question about Portal's Chell (spoilers!)

[mionic]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

 

[zombiejoe]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

 

[zombiejoe]

How is that for intelligence at a young age? I'm 30 and can't solve one of those things.

Pretty awesome thing right there. But Chell wasn't super smart. Granted, she was a little smarter then others, but not super smart.

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

Wait... does it actually say which one was hers? I thought they were anonymous.

read this

[spoiler/]Players exploring the Aperture facility in Portal 2 can discover a presentation from the Bring Your Daughter to Work Day science fair signed with the name Chell. Several girls seem to have made potato batteries; none of them have rotted over the years, but Chell's potato has actually grown out of control, sprouting through the ceiling. One of the steps described in her experimental procedure is using a "special ingredient from Daddy's work." This strongly implies that Chell was the daughter of a male Aperture employee, was trapped in the facility during GLaDOS' takeover on Bring Your Daughter to Work Day, and spent her entire adolescence as one of GLaDOS' prisoners. Assuming Chell was of grade school age during the 1998 science fair (as evidenced by her vernacular on the poster board), this would put Chell in her late teens or early 20's during the events of the first Portal.[/spoiler]

Well that's interesting... maybe it's a metaphor

A metaphor for what?

 

[mionic]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

 

[Rewdalf]

Well, you know how a child's mind picks things up almost instantly?
The downside being they can't focus on one thing for too long, but I can believe that Chell's little girl mind was able to take the whole portal gun thing into stride...
Maybe she saw the whole thing as a huge game... (a bit of a stretch, eh?)

 

[Someone Depressing]

In Portal 2, while Chell's pissing around in the offices, she finds her old science-project - The Potato Battery. It looks pretty hi-tec, and, hey: If it could store the mind & personality of a mass-murderous former-human robot, I guess she was pretty smart at her age.

Now that I look back on it: Chell's Potato Battery'd went out of control and f*cking destroyed the offices. Her postet-note reads something about "using one of Daddy's ingredients" (or something). The other girl's batteries all were in-tact and didn't try to kill anyone - I'm not sure what was so "dangerous" about Daddy's "ingredient", but, whatever it was, it was... bad - very, very bad.

 

[Rockchimp69]

She also doesn't speak so

 

[zombiejoe]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

She wasn't made to be tested. She was just there by accident. Glados just tested her because she could, and later planned on killing her. So Apeture didn't plan to test her.

 

[LostCrusader]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

She is also solving the puzzles while having brain damage, so she must have been at least somewhat intelligent. As for her having the mind of a child, she can't talk so you can't get information that way. I think because she can't talk the only insight into her actual intelligence is her actions.

 

[zombiejoe]

In Portal 2, while Chell's pissing around in the offices, she finds her old science-project - The Potato Battery. It looks pretty hi-tec, and, hey: If it could store the mind & personality of a mass-murderous former-human robot, I guess she was pretty smart at her age.

Her project was the giant potato plant growing all over the place. She took something from her dad and then mixed it with her potato clock (or maybe it was just a potato)

I think your thinking about the potato hooked up to that blue shiny device

 

[Someone Depressing]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

She wasn't made to be tested. She was just there by accident. Glados just tested her because she could, and later planned on killing her. So Apeture didn't plan to test her.

Actually, they were going to test on her when she accidentaly fell into the cryo-bed as a kid. After GLaDOS's take-over, Chell was somewhere in the 14,000s in line of being tested. But Rattman moved her to #1, because he knew that she was arrogant and stubborn enough to keep trying untill she could kill GLaDOS. Or something like that.

 

[zombiejoe]

She doesn't need to be intelligent, and she didn't need to be a little girl, either. From what I can understand, she could have been any age, from five to fifteen, and as the child of an Aperture employee, she could have been very smart for her age. Either way, though, she doesn't need to be smart to handle a Aperture Science Dual Portal Gun. Just point and shoot.

But she needs to understand complicated puzzles, escape near death, and be called fat. Would this not be a bit much for a women with the mind of a child? Plus

[spoiler/] You can find her project in Portal 2, and she seemed pretty young judging by her work[/spoiler]
lol

She is also solving the puzzles while having brain damage, so she must have been at least somewhat intelligent. As for her having the mind of a child, she can't talk so you can't get information that way. I think because she can't talk the only insight into her actual intelligence is her actions.

I suppose that makes sense. I here action more fueled by determination then smarts, but I see what your saying.

 

[zombiejoe]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

She wasn't made to be tested. She was just there by accident. Glados just tested her because she could, and later planned on killing her. So Apeture didn't plan to test her.

Actually, they were going to test on her when she accidentaly fell into the cryo-bed as a kid. After GLaDOS's take-over, Chell was somewhere in the 14,000s in line of being tested. But Rattman moved her to #1, because he knew that she was arrogant and stubborn enough to keep trying untill she could kill GLaDOS. Or something like that.

Oh yes, I do know Rattman was the one who moved her to #1, but I don't know if she was put in the cryo bed by accident. I would imagine her father (seeing as how he is the only known scientist) put her in there to keep her safe from the poison. Then years later, Rattman moved her to #1, starting portal 1

(wow this is really complicated)

 

[Raineheart]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

Aperture might not, but GLaDOS would. Probably think its a perfect test subject to meld and mould, all of the "M's".

 

[zombiejoe]

Whats to say the begining of portal one was the first time she and glados had tested. maybe she woke as simply another day testing and glados had grown sick of her. in portal 2 glados boasts about how she can make an infintite number of tests and why would she kill chell if she could still test her? she had grown sick of chells lack of reaction and so tried to kill her but this presented an opportunity for chell.

my thoery is that chell has been testing with glados since she was a child (?-13 years old at the bring your duaghter to work day massacre) and that the begining of portal one was just a standard day for chell hence her total understanding and no reaction to the situaition.

this is probabluy riddled with flaws and bad spelling so forgive me but thats how i imagined it with what i knew

I could see that happening...except...

When portal 1 starts, Glados acts like this is there first time meeting. Also, in the comic, Rattman moved her to test subject #1, while before she was far down the list. That means he would have to wait years before Chell killed Glados (so confusing right?), and I think Rattman was surviving before then, so Chell would have grown.

 

[Someone Depressing]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

She wasn't made to be tested. She was just there by accident. Glados just tested her because she could, and later planned on killing her. So Apeture didn't plan to test her.

Actually, they were going to test on her when she accidentaly fell into the cryo-bed as a kid. After GLaDOS's take-over, Chell was somewhere in the 14,000s in line of being tested. But Rattman moved her to #1, because he knew that she was arrogant and stubborn enough to keep trying untill she could kill GLaDOS. Or something like that.

Oh yes, I do know Rattman was the one who moved her to #1, but I don't know if she was put in the cryo bed by accident. I would imagine her father (seeing as how he is the only known scientist) put her in there to keep her safe from the poison. Then years later, Rattman moved her to #1, starting portal 1

(wow this is really complicated)

It probaly was. It's not known if Rattman was Chell's dad - or if she even has a father/parents. Rattman's either her foster-faster (since, in her "Profile" it states that she's an orphan. Although, this is unknown - because her mother could be well alive 'n kicking by the events of the first game). But, if there was "poison" flooding the facility, how did Rattman survive? If he was dead, how did all that grafiti & all those cryptic messages get there?

I.. don't get this...

 

[Lieju]

Ok, so from we can tell about Chell
[spoiler/]She was a child brought into Aperture by her adopted parent(s) and glados sent out the nerotoxin, but Chell was able to survive in a pod for years until Ratman awoke her in Portal 1[/spoiler]

but wait, wouldn't that mean that Chell...

[spoiler/]has the intelligence of a little girl? If Chell was mostly alseep before portal 1 and at the end of portal 1, and she was trapped since she was a little girl, she should only have the mind of a little girl, and the body of a 20 something women. If this is true, how could she be able to solve those deadly traps with ease!?!?!?! Ratman says she wasn't the smartest of the people he could choose, so she isn't a hyper intelligent child.[/spoiler]

Can someone tell me if I'm not getting something?

Well, like it has been said before, she could have been a teenager. And we don't actually know if stuff happened to her between getting caught and the events of Portal 1.
And maybe she's just naturally good at that specific kind of problem-solving, and has good reflexes.
And she never speaks, so maybe she's a bit special. The Rain-man of Portal-puzzles.

Anyway, I don't think we know for sure she was adopted. GLaDOS makes fun of it, but whenever has GLaDOS been a trustworthy source?

 

[zombiejoe]

As her purpose is testing, would it not be best to have an average person?

She isn't an average person however. She never gives up and possibly has the brain of a small child.

but i just can´t imagine that aperture would use a woman with the brain of a child for testing...

She wasn't made to be tested. She was just there by accident. Glados just tested her because she could, and later planned on killing her. So Apeture didn't plan to test her.

Actually, they were going to test on her when she accidentaly fell into the cryo-bed as a kid. After GLaDOS's take-over, Chell was somewhere in the 14,000s in line of being tested. But Rattman moved her to #1, because he knew that she was arrogant and stubborn enough to keep trying untill she could kill GLaDOS. Or something like that.

Oh yes, I do know Rattman was the one who moved her to #1, but I don't know if she was put in the cryo bed by accident. I would imagine her father (seeing as how he is the only known scientist) put her in there to keep her safe from the poison. Then years later, Rattman moved her to #1, starting portal 1

(wow this is really complicated)

It probaly was. It's not known if Rattman was Chell's dad - or if she even has a father/parents. Rattman's either her foster-faster (since, in her "Profile" it states that she's an orphan. Although, this is unknown - because her mother could be well alive 'n kicking by the events of the first game). But, if there was "poison" flooding the facility, how did Rattman survive? If he was dead, how did all that grafiti & all those cryptic messages get there?

I.. don't get this...

Ok, let's see here.

I don't think Rattman is Chell's foster father (or whatever) because in the comic he never mentions anything about her being his daughter, and says to his imaginary cube (yes, he has an imaginary cube) he picked her because he had a hunch. How he survived the poison, I don't know, but he somehow did, becuase Glados did try to stop him over the years.

It's so crazy!

 

[zombiejoe]

Ok, so from we can tell about Chell
[spoiler/]She was a child brought into Aperture by her adopted parent(s) and glados sent out the nerotoxin, but Chell was able to survive in a pod for years until Ratman awoke her in Portal 1[/spoiler]

but wait, wouldn't that mean that Chell...

[spoiler/]has the intelligence of a little girl? If Chell was mostly alseep before portal 1 and at the end of portal 1, and she was trapped since she was a little girl, she should only have the mind of a little girl, and the body of a 20 something women. If this is true, how could she be able to solve those deadly traps with ease!?!?!?! Ratman says she wasn't the smartest of the people he could choose, so she isn't a hyper intelligent child.[/spoiler]

Can someone tell me if I'm not getting something?

Well, like it has been said before, she could have been a teenager. And we don't actually know if stuff happened to her between getting caught and the events of Portal 1.
And maybe she's just naturally good at that specific kind of problem-solving, and has good reflexes.
And she never speaks, so maybe she's a bit special. The Rain-man of Portal-puzzles.

Anyway, I don't think we know for sure she was adopted. GLaDOS makes fun of it, but whenever has GLaDOS been a trustworthy source?

I don't think she could be a teen, because if you look at her project in portal 2, it says she used "something from daddy's work" (or something along those lines), and a teen probably wouldn't say that...unless your theory about her being "special" is true.