I could do something so horrific and funny
So, for my biology class I am supposed to write a short "day in the life" story about DNA.
The first half problem is, I've been playing portal 2 and watching games like Poppy Playtime and the Stanley Parable. For some strange reason, I find Portal (specifically Portal 2 multiplayer) extremely inspiring in the way that no matter how many times you fail, you get back up (put back together by the reassembly machine) and continue your mission no matter how demeaning, rude, or sarcastic GLaDOS is to you (and you even have fun doing it despite the bleak circumstances). And I find The Stanely Parable incredibly thought provoking and an amazing story about the monotony that life can be if you always live up to the expectations of society by living a "normal" life.
These pieces of info are important for later.
As for the second half of the problem, do you know what happens to DNA during the cell cycle???
It's in a double helix right? Well that helix is untwisted and zipped apart/torn in two by an enzyme called Helicase. DNA gets ripped. in. half. and I am supposed to turn this into a short "day in the life" story for a school assignment without making my teacher and classmates worry about my mental health?
Anyway, DNA is then held apart from itself by SSB proteins. (It is prevented from reuniting with its other half, the love of its life. They are never to be together again)
Then it gets bits and pieces of RNA and other stuff added to it that will be turned into a new DNA strand. (It is turned into a host for the fragments that will become a clone replacement of its past lover)
This happens to each DNA strand (our main character DNA strand here is forced to watch their former partner go through the same horrific process)
And then each identical DNA helix is taken and put into separate cells when the cell replicates. (Not only does our DNA strand get ripped from their lover and given a clone replacement while being forced to watch their previous other half go through it too, they are then sent to completely different buildings where this will likely happen to them again unless they die before it can take place)
And it has this happen while coding for all sorts of functions and genes (managing an office?)
And to top it all off, this is its fate. Its destiny. This life is inevitable for DNA. This is what it was made to do, and it has no say in the matter nor any means of doing anything else with its life because it quite literally doesn't have any other function.
To tie this into Portal 2 multiplayer and the Stanley Parable:
The constant getting destroyed and rebuilt that DNA goes through is reminiscent of the way Atlas and Peabody get destroyed and reassembled during testing
And the way DNA goes through the exact same thing every single day of its life reminds me of the way Stanley's entire job was to press buttons when told to and we have no idea how long he did that before the story in the game took place. At least I don't know how long it was. The existentialism from the Stanley Parable is similar to the existentialism from DNA replication.
Or maybe none of this is connected and I'm actually insane. One can never know.
I still have to write a semi normal story about a day in the life of DNA and I have no idea how I'm going to do it...
Trying to avoid this. It's not going to be easy...









