Glamos

By MrL0LZ

• May 26, 2012




Age: 50,002

Gender: Male

Species: Non-Pony

Personality: GLaMOS is amoral and rather sadistic. He has a clear sense of humor, but an extremely dry, bitter, and sarcastic one; his jokes are usually dark, morbid, or outright cruel. He seems to enjoy making manipulative comments that frighten the subject or undermine their self-esteem, but does not usually express open malice. Instead, he makes snide insinuations, or disingenuously presents her insults as mere statements of objective fact; Hecan be described as "passive-aggressive." GLaMOS lies frequently, especially about his own emotional state, often claiming to be pleased or merely disappointed when he is clearly alarmed or enraged. He usually portrays herself as an innocent victim, no matter how obviously cruel his own actions have been. Although it is often unclear whether there is any real point to her experiments, he seems to be motivated by a sincere passion for science, which he regards as his fundamental goal in life.

Backstory: GLaMOS was a creation of Aperture Science, a personality core designed exactly to be fitted as a central computer mainframe. The project began under the oversight of Cave Johnson over the company, and was an attempt to create a fully functional, advanced artificial intelligence which was originally intended to be occupied by Johnson as one of his attempts to cheat death. After it became apparent to Johnson that he may die of a deadly disease before development on GLaMOS would be completed, Johnson motioned for the personality core to be based on Alexandrite Pierce instead.<br />After a decade's worth of hard work, GLaMOS was officially activated, as part of one of the many events during the company's "Bring Your Daughter to Work" day. Since he was able to take control of half of the facility's features, GLaMOS began killing most of its inhabitants by flooding the Enrichment Center with neurotoxin. However, only few if not only one of the staff such as Doug Rattpony had survived his attacks.