Tuesday, 8 January 2013

The Fool- Wheatly; Character Bio

Basic statistics
name 
Aperture Science Intelligence Dampening Core 

alias 
Wheatly (Presumably given to him by himself)

height 
50cm high

weight
About the weight of a bowling ball
sex 
Male programming

Eye colour
Blue

hair colour 
No hair

glasses or contact lenses 
Neither, Wheatly simply has one big robotic eye

nationality
British

skin colour 
Worn out whit painted metal

shape of face
Round
Distinguishing features 
clothing 
Wheatly doesn't wear clothing

mannerisms 
Wheatly speaks in a very happy fast paced style of talking while in his core form, but then speaks with a very demanding and commanding style in the second half of the game and raising his voice becomes normal for him to do.

health 
Floating in space

habits 
Interrupting and coming up with very bad plans

hobbies 
UN-know 

favourite sayings 
Wheatly has no sayings that he commonly uses, he only talks commonly about the facility

voice 
Wheatly has a very strong west English accent 

walking style 
Wheatly can't walk on his own but constantly fidgets looking around while being held

disabilities 
Wheatly can't move anywhere without being carried when not on his management rail and when on his management rail and when in the robot body he can still only go to certain places. Wheatly is also not a strong thinker.


characters greatest flaw 
Wheatly's greatest flaw is either his inability to think things through properly due to design or his very weak mind being easily corrupted when presented with power.


characters best qualityWheatly (during the first half of the game) Is very loyal to the main character, quickly befriending her and always wanting to help her out and think of plans (despite them not being very full proof)

Social characteristics 
hometown 
Aperture Science laboratories (located in upper Michigan)

Current residents 
Space

occupation 
Intelligence Dampening Sphere,But who's current job see's him over-looking all the humans in the Extended Relaxation Center
income 
Wheatly doesn't earn pay or need it as he's a robot programmed to work at Aperture

talents skills 
Wheatly has a flash light attachment used to light dark areas and also fancies himself of a-bit of a hacker (but can't do it what-so-ever), he can also be plugged into walls to open doors and panels.

family status 
Wheatly doesn't have a family

character as a child 
Wheatly was made an adult but his early life saw him attached to GLaDOS as a way to make sure she couldn't create too smart an idea.

character as an adult
Present Wheatly is in charge of over-seeing the humans in permanent relaxation until he ends up following Chell and going mad with power.

Attributes and Attitude 
educational background 
Wheatly was programmed to be the "dumbest moron who ever lived" who's one sole purpose in life is to generate bad ideas and not think ahead.

intelligence level 
Again, Wheatly was programmed to be stupid and nothing else.

characters goals 
Wheatly wants to escape with the main protagonist in the beginning and then ends up simply wanting to test

self esteem 
Wheatly doesn't see how stupid he really is and actually thinks he's fairly cleaver but when told otherwise he gets very defensive.

confidence 
Wheatly is quite confident when not in the face of danger, but when danger is present he becomes very afraid and looses all confidence.

emotional stateWheatly is ruled by terrible logic and lives to make bad ideas that he thinks is good.
Emotional characteristics 
motivation 
Wheatly wants to escape with Chell but then he becomes insane and wants nothing more then to capture Chell for testing

happiness 
Wheatly is happiest when successfully helping Chell, in the second half he's most happy when a test is complete 

relationships 
Chell is Wheatly's only friend and GLaDOS his only enemy, The second half he see's them both as enemies.

fear 
Wheatly is scared of heights, doing anything his programmers told him not to do, GLaDOS and being killed.

introvert extrovert
Wheatly has a very extrovert personality often blurting out in-front of everyone how he feels and his views 

Spiritual characteristics
Wheatly is a robot programmed to only think about what he has been programmed to do, he doesn't believe in a faith because he's not programmed to.





Characters invol
vement in this story 
archetype 
The Fool 

Timeline 
-Wheatly was created and activated before the genocide of all the scientist by GLaDOS
-Wheatly was then fitted to GLaDOS to stop her from becoming too smart, it failed
-The scientist are all killed apart from Doug rattman and Wheatly hid in storage
-Wheatly was then brought out of storage by more robots and put in charge of attending to the sleeping humans
-Wheatly grew concerned about the state of the reactor and woke Chell to try and get them to both escape 

environment
Wheatly in the first part of the game is presented as a guide to Chell, knowing allot about the facility and not being afraid of any of it, however in the second half of the game when he is given complete control over the environment, it quickly turns him mad with power and corrupts him

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