Hence the "goth emo" part.
- The person claiming to be "Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven" (among the reviews, where "she" says "NEDS MOAR GOFFIKS. GTFO PREP") is a "prep poser", since Tara Gillespie uses the nickname "XXXbloddyrists666XXX".
- Alternatively, the fan fiction is a fight between Tara and Marrissa, Marrissa playing herself and Wheatley and Tara (who was taught the very basics of Portal 2 just to be able to write the fan fiction) playing GLaDOS (hence an alternative explanation why only GLaDOS favors being a goth emo and a strange dominance of the Marrissa/Wheatley pairing).
This was one of the reviews.
- Evidence for: (not mentioned above)
- There is the "evil spy" character, akin to Cave Jonson's clones.
- Evidence against:
- The Scout's best friend in CommanderBunneh's story is the Heavy and not the Sniper. The Sniper in said story is now the "class bulley".
- The school in CommanderBunneh's story is called "Fortress High" rather than "Portal High School".
- MarrissaTheWriter's story has no Announcer.
- However, both GLaDOS and the Announcer were voiced by the same person, so Principal GLaDOS may be considered the equivalent of the Announcer.
- Marrissa has officially responded to this WMG:AN SOME ON CALLED ANOON SAID I STOL THE STORY PLOT FROM A OTHER GUY THAT IS FALSE LYES AN SANDER! I DIDANT NO BOUT THE STORY UNTIL NOW BUT U CAN SEE ITS RONG!1 SNIPER AINT BULLAY AN THE PRINPALS NAME IS GLADOS NOT ANONCER OR WHAT EVER 1 U ARE JUST A FLAMER TROLL
This was originally on the main page:
- Recently, it has been discovered that many literary elements of both stories were plagarized from the works of another trollfic writer, Sue Mary, whose works predate It's My Life by a few months. Others have speculated that due to the similar tone and writing style of the stories, they might be the same person.
- What precisely tipped Telltale Fanfic Theater 3000 off was the words "inventioned", "seekwill" and "Homestared".
- Confirmed: Doombly (formerly known as Insane Guy of DOOM) has admitted to being both Sue Mary and Marrissa, and was able to confirm his claims.
This was one of the reviews as well.
- A story called Bring Your Daughter to Work Day runs on the same idea, but seems to suggest an alternate death of Marissa, with Wheatley trying out whether she can fly, and it turning out she couldn't.
- Interestingly, based off the above WMG, it seems this story was in fact written by MarrissaTheWriter behind her troll facade.
Her surname is a little beyond research failure on families (something on which research failure is virtually impossible, except maybe if the author was orphaned nearly at birth) and she was actually already married before GLaDOS started testing and made her forget all of her pre-Aperture life save for the name.
- As for the second marriage (with Wheatley/Harry), Marrissa didn't need to divorce with Mr. Roberts first, because in real world, being permanently stuck in a deadly lab, she would most likely be considered dead.
- Jossed; Roberts is actually Marrissa's middle name, since she was named after Robert Lutece, who, in this continuity, for some reason happens to be named "Marrissa Roberts Lettuce".
After Chell was let out, GLaDOS decided testing the jerk robots to be boring and brought her back, gave her amnesia and forced her to believe she was really "Marrissa Roberts". But the talk about Chell spread throughout Aperture, so GLaDOS planned a masquerade, first making the robot!Chell then a better bootyquaking!Chell. Believing Chell was a different person, "Marrissa" went back in time and told Gabe and Caroline to have two children, hence making a second Chell who stayed at the future and her body was quickly seized by GLaDOS, as the change of the past reversed the events after which GLaDOS died. Then this extra Chell was indirectly killed by "Marrissa", making the whole rigmarole essentially pointless.
- Reasons why this WMG is semi-plausible:
- It was repeatedly stated that Chell is the only human alive in the events of Portal 2, and the humans in storage were killed off during the week between the Portal 2 co-op campaign and Peer Review.
- In Portal 2, yes. In Marrissa lore (especially as the Hunger Games society is revealed), probably not.
- Marrissa knows that Wheatley was shot into space. The only intelligences who witnessed this event were Chell, GLaDOS, Wheatley, Space, Rick and Fact. Chell was let out, GLaDOS would remain tight-lipped about such an incident, Wheatley, Space and Rick are in space and from Fact's speeches it is impossible to derive anything about his past, hence, Marrissa could not have heard about the event, and must have been there (and Chell is the obvious candidate for her to replace).
- A commonly pointed out plot-hole in ITS MY LIFE! is that while Marrissa and Chell are both Caroline's daughters, Marrissa has speshul powers while Chell, having turned into a zombie, does not. The bioengineered Chell, featured before Marrissa went back to time, indeed does not have speshul powers. Chell v2, created when Marrissa told Gabe and Caroline to have two children, has them, and when she dies, no one really thinks of resurrecting her the way Wheatly and Oracle Torrent resurrected Marrissa because Idiot Ball and/or preferentialism to Marrissa.
- It was repeatedly stated that Chell is the only human alive in the events of Portal 2, and the humans in storage were killed off during the week between the Portal 2 co-op campaign and Peer Review.
Let's recap. First Guardians glow electrically, have no facial features, therefore can't inhale, therefore are immune to gases (yet are able to speak), are nearly omniscient (only when she faces her evil clone Marissa can't use her "super detective" power), and are able to teleport stuff out of nowhere, simultaneously explaining Marissa's "Green Lantern" power and how she was able to teleport everyone from Android Hell to Portal Labs.
- We have yet to see an FG using the electricity to kill/hurt someone directly...
GLaDOS' (murderous) reaction to hearing this story.
So that people don't start wondering why the name is the same as the class.
- Confirmed: his surname was also revealed, which would make his full name "Scott Parker".
- However his surname is only mentioned in Logic's edited version, so it might not be canon.
Upon first meeting the character, he first thought that she was hot and pretty, but not worth his heart as the baseball bat, and upon learning that their names are the same Wheatley started believing that the female is the impersonation of the baseball bat.
- Also, by extreme coincidence, Wheatley's schizophrenia led him to imagining that the baseball bat did everything Marrissa Roberts would do later. (Example: Scout using the baseball bat against Principal GLaDOS and Marrissa using the MEGA PAWNCH against the computer GLaDOS)
Her suit looks more like a Combine Elite Soldier's one, with one eye.
- Hell, Pyro might even be a Combine Elite. (The time the story takes place in is not really a problem, since time travel is really, really common in Marrissa's works.)
He used to be a teacher in Britain (Hogwarts is in Scotland) but he killed the principal (Dumbledore in The Half-Blood Prince) but it was not proved (hinting at a time at the end of The Half-Blood Prince / beginning of Deathly Hallows, which is Summer of 1997, just before GLaDOS was made) so he came to teach at Portal High School and changed his name (which still would be a dead giveaway for anyone from Potterverse, and explains why he dies shortly thereafter).
- Confirmed: Harry "Wheatly" and Jenny Weasley are later sent to kill Sanpe, but Wheatly is turned into a robo ball and Jenny falls in love with Solder.
- Yet there is still one thing:But, out of all the places he could’ve chosen to teach at, why Portal High School? WHY!?
- What if...
...and both wizards and Muggles exist in an environment that doesn't look suspicious to either, so while for Muggles Mr. Sanpe is teaching math for wizards he is teaching either Potions or Defence Against the Dark Arts.
- It also explains how a time travel exam exists in Portal High School: to wizards, time travel is no big deal and Ingineer happened to steal one of Time-Turners (or get one legitimately since he is The Smart Guy just like Hermione) and analyze it technologically.
- Jossed; HARRY POTTER AN THE KILL OF SNAPE only ever takes the POV of various wizards (Wheatly, Jenny Weasley, Gale Thunderpants), and to them Portal High School does not appear to be any different than to Muggles.
Marrissa, after finding The Half-World, also found out that the creator is a fan of Invader Zim, and hence has started writing the Zimverse into TEEN FORTRESS 2.
- She has responded to this:PS I NO YU BLOOGERS ARE MAKIN FUN OF MY STORY SO WASH OUT I ALSREADY PUT GAS IN THERE~!ITS NOT A CROSSVER ITS CALLED A CAMO! I NEEDED A GIRL TO BE DEMOANS GILRFRIEND AN THERE WASNT ANY IN PORTAL OR TEAM FORTRESS THEN I REMBERED THE BLOOG BOUT HAF WORLDS WAS LIKE INVADER ZEN SO I PUT GAS IN TO SEE HOW SHE LICKS SAYIN STUFF BOUT YUR CHARS LIKE HOW SHE SAID SCOT MOLEST/RAPED KATTY!
- The idea of using the Zimverse is hence jossed, but the another idea behind this, deliberate annoying of the MSTers (including The Half-World and Telltale Fanfic Theater 3000) by crossovers/cameos, remains.
- Also see Invader Zim: Born Again Christian and ITSMYLIFE Expanded Universe: while both are non-canon, both are Invader Zim trollfics that are related to Marrissa.
Mainly because I've seen them shipped beforehand.
- Woah, no. No. Have you got any respect for ASBusinessMagnet's continuity?
How else do you explain her fusing with GLaDOS? (Yes, "fusion" was the exact word that MarrissaTheWriter used.)
- Two years before Steven Universe even aired.
- (Ruby voice) Who cares?!
- From Caroline's side. Remember when Cave said, referring to Caroline, "She is a gem."? That was meant literally.
If we remember from Enchiridion Marrissa, only females can ever attain speshul powers, and yet in ITS MY LIFE!, Cave got them. This would be impossible... unless when Skepness Man said "females", he meant "DFAB people", and Cave was DFAB.
- But wait, don't people with speshul powers attain big squishy chests? Wow, being Cave must have really sucked.
- But he's twins with Gabe, and we know Gabe to be DMAB as he had a child with Caroline as legitimately as one could...
- Fraternal twins.
- Or a magic sword splitting, apparently.
- Fraternal twins.
- Confirmed in ITS MY LIFE ORIGINS: CAVE JONSON.
Post your guesses here.
- Riley Andorsen will prove to be the most perfect and capable Mary Sue ever crafted by MarrissaTheWriter, outperforming even Marrissa, Gloria, Wheatly and Chell Junor. There is a reason why she is narrating a story set in a continuity where these Mary Sues (other than Gloria, obviously) exist, rather than any of them.
- Eh. You can make the same argument for Scot in TEEN FORTRESS 2, and he doesn't seem to be all that capable or a chick magnet.
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