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She finds herself watching old testing tapes. Videos of Chell mechanically solving puzzle after puzzle, through grainy footage and terrible angles provided by Chell’s stubborn insistence to rip cameras from the walls. She watches as Chell shakily destroys her companion cube. It seemed so simple at the time.
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GLaDOS, the years after Chell left, and her return.
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28 Jun 2026
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The doors slide open, and there stands Chell.
She strides out of the elevator and through the firing squad, with entirely unearned confidence that the turrets won’t fire at her. They don’t fire at her.
After GLaDOS ejects Chell from the Enrichment Centre, she has only a meagre few months of peace and quiet before the human comes crawling back. GLaDOS doesn't immediately understand why she's back, but the scientific method has never failed her before.
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28 Jun 2026
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Boltzmann’s Principle (statistical thermodynamics).
1. Equilibrium may be illustrated with the simple example of a drop of food coloring falling into a glass of water.
2. Entropy is a thermodynamic property just like pressure, volume and temperature. Therefore, it connects the microscopic and the macroscopic world views.
3. Boltzmann’s entropy describes the system when all the accessible microstates are equally likely. The randomness or disorder is maximal.-
1983.
Cave Johnson is dead. It’s the best thing that ever happened to Chell.
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24 Jun 2026
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Nakairi (中入り): when the performers step behind the curtain or set between the first and second half of a play to changes masks or costumes. Similar to an interval, intermission, or an entre'act.
"The interval is a rest for the spectators; not for the action," - Jean-François Marmontel, 1763
Just because most of Team 7 is gone, off striving for newer and greater heights, that doesn't mean the world stops for Haruno Sakura. In a world where she doesn't apprentice to the Godaime Hokage (can't, won't, what difference does it make when the result is the same?) her desperation leads her to a different solution: keeping Team 7 alive, anyway she can. Whether Kakashi-sensei wants her to or not.
Also known as: Sakura's World Tour.
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He graduated from the Academy at the age of five. Made Chūnin at the age of six. Promoted to Jōnin at ten. By thirteen he’d earned his bingo book entry, his ANBU tattoo and the moniker Copy Nin (Friend Killer).
By fourteen he had lost everyone who had ever mattered to him.
And now at fifteen he’s being told that he is a father.
Like most things on that list, it was being thrust upon him. Unasked for. Unwanted. Albeit quietly, reluctantly, from the somber arms of a girl he didn’t remember from a night he couldn’t remember– one of an endless string of nights that he could not remember.Kakashi is Sakura's father.
For twelve years he gets to forget that fact.
The past always has a way of catching up.