Virgil

Virgil is a main character in Portal Stories: Mel. He aids the player throughout Aperture, and the game itself. He is voiced by Stig Sydtangen.

Meeting Mel

Virgil (VC321xb47) is a Maintenance Core who fell off his management rail and into the depths of Old Aperture, where he lay for a long time until Mel was reawakened. He pretended to be Cave Johnson, attempting to convince Mel nothing had changed, until he admitted Mel wasn't stupid enough to fall for that and revealed who he really was and what was really going on. Mel made her way up to the part where Virgil was and eventually found him.

Virgil's Testing Track

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Organic Complications

Virgil's plan worked: AEGIS was blind in the overgrown chambers and couldn't detect them. He noticed some debris blocking the elevator path and quickly activated the emergency brakes. He met up with you in an old surveillance room and proceeded to start hacking into the systems. He guessed passwords including "override", "admin", and "letmein". The password "admin" opened up a panel with a button, which he reacts in disbelief to when you push the button.

Confronting AEGIS

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Saying Goodbye

By the end of the journey, Virgil has changed quite a lot. He seems to be very sad to see Mel go, but still calls an elevator to the surface for her to escape. He admits he's not sure what's up there, but it must be better then what was down here in Aperture. He wishes Mel luck as the elevator arrives and watches it go up. Virgil's fate is left unknown.

Meet the Cores 2

During this fan-film made by Harry101UK, Virgil is shown to indeed be alive and is back at his old job, being a maintenance core. He shows off how he does his job by fixing the eye of a core, nicknamed "Glitchy". Glitchy is thankful until his lower handle falls off, and then he explodes. Virgil then states that that happens a lot.

Trivia

• If you let him stare long enough, Virgil actually can hack the computer screens in the beginning of Organic Complications.
• Virgil's eye is shaped like the 1970's Aperture logo.
• Virgil does a "pretty bad Cave Johnson impression".
• It is speculated that many players suspected Virgil to be like Wheatley, to betray the player somewhere in the game, but Virgil did no such thing.
• Virgil may be homosexual, or bisexual, as he appears to have an attraction to the Rainbow Core. He quickly declines this, however, claiming he was asking for the serial number of the Core for a "friend".