Poppy Playtime

Boxy Boo is a bright, colorful tumbler toy. The main body is a light blue square box with golden shapes decorating each side: a star in front, a heart in the back, and two side lids with a single circle on each. A wind-up mechanism is located above the right lid. His arms protrude from the side lids, his legs protrude from the bottom of the box, and his head emerges from the top lid, which has a red lid with a yellow bottom attached to the back edge. His head is cube-shaped, and the fur on his arms, head, and legs is red. He has claws on his hands and feet, as well as curved, sharp teeth. His limbs are made of dark red metal springs, allowing him to extend them a great distance. His hands are unusually shaped: two toes on each side and two more on top, and his feet are rectangular, with three claws on each.
Boxy Boo, the toy character, is depicted as cheerful and energetic, but a bit clumsy, as evident in his various cutouts. He seems to dislike tasks that require a lot of physical effort, especially when performed alone, and such activities quickly tire him. Like all the "Big Bodies" toys, he is voracious and cruel, capable of devouring a person whole or even individual body parts. Despite his hunger, he also displays some patience, biding his time, hiding in his box, and attacking when least expected.
Experiment 1160, Boxy Boo, was the first successfully created monster as part of the Big Bodies Initiative and the first experiment to not consider the subject's size. Its purpose was to eliminate all low-level employees who knew about the initiative. Experiment 1160 was known for its cunning behavior and insatiable appetite, which extended to human flesh thanks to Harley Sawyer's modifications. This monster is a swift hunter, possessing speed and agility. Its elastic limbs allow it to leap high and far to reach its destination.

Huggy Waggie is a toy created and released by Playtime Co. in 1984. Like many other Playtime Co. characters, he was the prototype for a giant organism as part of the Bigger Bodies Initiative. This organism was created in 1990 under the designation Experiment 1170. The experiment served as a security guard at Playtime Co. and was often seen standing motionless in the factory lobby, raising his right arm in a gesture the company called the "Welcome Wave." Huggy Waggie was designed to hug children in need of affection and was depicted in warm colors.
Mommy Long Legs - In January 1991, an orphan named Marie Payne was selected as Experiment 1222, "Mommy Long Legs," to participate in the "Big Bodies" experiment. Despite her aggressive behavior toward faculty and staff, she showed maternal care for the other experiments, earning her the title of play station host. There, she became incredibly popular among the orphans, so much so that Playtime Co. created a toy like her and released it. She bends, stretches, and bends just the way you want! This little toy is so fun, you'll want to keep her close at all times.
Kissy Missy - known as Experiment 1172. Kissy Missy has exactly the same characteristics as Huggy Waggy, but she has pink fur, eyelashes, and a blue bow around her neck. Otherwise, Huggy and Kissy are identical and interchangeable during production. Kissy Missy is supposed to kiss children, so it's safe to assume her toy form represents love and kindness. In November 1990, a larger-than-life version of Kissy Missy, designated Experiment 1172, was created to calm Huggy Waggy, who often became aggressive in stressful situations.

The Pianosaurus enclosure is where the Pianosaurus devours the corpses of its test subjects. The upper portion of the enclosure has a metal floor, a gray wall, and three doors on each side: two gray and one yellow. There's a switchboard, a control panel, several black-and-yellow checkered stripes, two barricades, and, most importantly, a blue-edged observation window with a gray door inside. Below the window is a large area with blue metal walls below and a blue stripe in the middle of the gray walls above the metal wall. Cameras are installed throughout, and the floor is littered with shards of glass and pools of blood. On the left side is a red gate, similar to the one in the Prison.
Interrogation room – this is where communication experiments were conducted, monitored by scientists. The interrogation rooms have corridors with overhead pipes and several doors on the sides that lead into the interrogation rooms themselves. The first straight corridor is blocked by a shelf of boxes. The rooms have a partition with spy mirrors. On the side where the interrogators were located, there were wooden tables and chairs, as well as various objects such as documents and handcuffs. On the other side, where the experiments were conducted, there are rails leading to metal gates, and in some rooms, there is a yellow cart.
The Sewer System - This location contains several tunnels that can be used to access other parts of the massive Playtime Co. factory. This is a series of underground tunnels outside the Vault. This appears to be the sewer system for Playtime Co.'s sublevel -3.
Sewage treatment plant - in the center of the room is a large pool of green, dirty water, crossed by a bridge. The pool is surrounded by a fence, and inside lies the corpse of an employee. The room contains various mechanisms, such as control panels, gearboxes, and what appears to be a boiler.

Underground Labs: Located under the Prison, this is the lowest level in the factory. This location has the most advanced security system in the entire Playtime Co. factory and is the main center where the company's scientists conducted experiments. The laboratories have various experimental rooms where surgical instruments and operating tables are stored. This place is decorated in a brutal style, but at the same time resembles the façade of an outdoor playground, there are also sun loungers. In the R&D department, the Playtime Co. logo hangs on the wall and signage leading to different doors, behind which are the various sections of the laboratories, as well as the switchboard room. In the center of the room there are four offices. There is also a Biodiversity Lab – this facility is part of the R&D sector, where experiments were carried out to modify and grow organic, plant or mixed biological materials such as poppy gel, amenity facilities – and is part of the R&D sector, where Playtime Co.'s main resources, such as high-voltage power lines, heating/ventilation, cooling and water treatment systems, were housed and maintained. Engineering - This room is a wing of the Research and Development sector where Playtime Co., equipment and systems, testing and training were designed, tested and maintained (This place is part of the Laboratories, where test subjects were subjected to psychological influence after being turned into experimental samples, brainwashed and told that they were always toys), resuscitation (part of the Laboratories, where the bodies of test subjects, used in combination with poppy gel were combined to create biological organisms modeled after toys produced by Playtime Co. as part of the Big Bodies Initiative)

Toy Graveyard - This area is located in the caves outside the prison and is full of dead toys. Nearby is a station that was used to transport toys to the prison. This area, located in a cave system beneath a kindergarten, was originally just a large cave filled with construction equipment and machinery used by Warrenbach Construction as a construction site for the prison. Over the next 10 years, during and after the "Hour of Joy," the cave became one of several places where dead toys were collected and stored for others to eat.
The Containment Zone is where experiments were conducted in isolation, analyzed, and likely interrogated by scientists. Inside the Containment Zone is a large, open room with a central column mounted with various security cameras. Several observation decks, numbered 1 through 7, surround the room, with glass walls separating the chambers where the experiments were conducted.
Shelving Room - This room was once used by Playtime to store merchandise on numerous shelves. The storage room features three rows of shelves holding various items, including wooden pallets, boxes, and some dough milking supplies. On the right side of the room, next to an air duct, is a passage that zigzags toward the center, where the main hallway is located. This main row contains a corridor leading to a yellow door, behind which lies the archive room. Various items, such as crates, are scattered throughout this corridor. Just above and before the corridor begins, there is a small platform with several barrels and crates bearing the Warrenbach Construction symbol and a large air duct with a yellow border.
The archive room—Playtime once stored its documents here. It's an office space with three hallways separated by walls. The left and right hallways have railings, some closed, others open, with shelves for storing document folders.

"This is a very special part of the Playtime factory, built specifically for orphans adopted by the company as part of our care for poor, disadvantaged children. There are several attractions here, and they offer enough entertainment to make you forget about the world around you. Mummy Long Legs is their guide here, making sure everyone is safe and having a great time!"
This area was built by Warrenbach Construction, and it was here that the orphans from Playtime Co. played mini-games that tested their abilities in preparation for becoming toys. The play station is located underground and lacks natural light, which raised concerns in the official request form, in which the company requested the addition of artificial windows to prevent psychological distress. The play station features several play areas where children can play while waiting for the next mini-game to begin. The areas are incredibly bright, dominated by red, yellow, and blue. Most of the structures feature a playground with slides, steep stairs, and carousels. In the far center of the area, beneath the Game Station logo, a huge train can be seen. A control room with innovative technology, surveillance cameras, and more is located on the ceiling of the play station.
At the suggestion of the Larger Body Initiative, Playtime Co. commissioned Warrenbach Construction to build a play station, though the latter was unaware of the company's true intentions. The seemingly innocuous minigames at the station were in fact designed to test the orphans' specific abilities, with the goal of subsequently transforming them into toys with the necessary physical characteristics to perform their job functions. The children were accompanied by Mommy Longlegs, who waited for a pre-recorded Stella Graber to play over the intercom before leading them to the next minigame.

Seeking to make children happy, Elliott founded the American toy company Playtime Co. in 1930. He devoted every free minute to designing and creating toys, often working overtime. Despite his personal life suffering greatly, Elliott continued to realize his vision for the company. For 20 years, Playtime struggled to find its feet until Poppy Playtime was released in 1950. This new toy was modeled after his own daughter, Poppy. Apparently, Mr. Ludwig adopted her shortly after birth, and she was only one year old at the time of the toy's release. In the 1960s, Ludwig created the Young Geniuses program, which recruited talented children to help advance science into the future and find answers to unanswered questions. In 1976, he announced the opening of Playcare (Playtime Co.'s own orphanage on the factory grounds) and expressed the hope that it would enrich all who came there, as life without smiles and joy was meaningless. He himself adopted one of the orphans, a boy named Oliver. Oliver was to be used in an experiment to create a "Prototype," a test specimen for the next experiment—a living doll named Poppy Playtime, created from the body parts of Elliot's daughter, who had already died. After the Poppy experiment was created, Elliot placed the doll in a room just a few steps from his office at the factory. Elliot Ludwig died in 1989.
Elliot apparently had a deep affection for love, happiness, joy, and smiles, especially when it came to children. Elliot himself said, "There is nothing sweeter to my soul than to see a child smile." There is reason to believe he secretly harbored evil intentions and was the one who turned his adopted son, Oliver, into the Prototype. He did so out of pure grief, wanting to find a way to breathe life into an inanimate object so he could bring his daughter to life as a doll.

In 1990, a young orphan named Theodore Grambell was selected as Experiment 1188, the "Large Bodies" experiment for CatNap. During the Hour of Joy on August 8, 1995, CatNap, like many other experiments, attacked the company's employees, killing countless workers. Following the uprising, CatNap remained in the Kindergarten until his return.
CatNap resembles a feline creature covered in purple fur. He has black pupils surrounded by white irises and a feline nose. His mouth is always open, toothless, and resembles a bottomless void. His paws have four toes, each armed with sharp black claws, and his limbs are extremely long and appear loosely knit at the joints. His disproportionately small, emaciated torso reveals a ribcage, pelvic bones, and spine. A black lightning bolt runs across his chest, with a golden crescent-shaped pendant.
The larger-bodied version of CatNap is utterly devoted to the Prototype, tirelessly worshiping it as a god and urging others to embrace the concept of the Hour of Joy. This unwavering devotion is evident in how CatNap treats "heretics": those who oppose or attempt to oppose the Prototype face dire consequences. CatNap also exhibits some traits common to real cats, such as territoriality.
CatNap can exhale a sedative gas, dubbed "Red Smoke," at will, thanks to a Red Smoke-filled delivery device attached to the back of his esophagus. When inhaled, the gas causes anyone nearby to hallucinate and lose consciousness. Thanks to his feline anatomy, CatNap moves on all fours and can reach incredible speeds. His feline physiology allows for enhanced agility, and his elongated limbs give him a significant height advantage over most of his prey.

This place was Playtime Co.'s underground shelter on company property, housing orphans being tested at the game station. Playcare's main mascots were the Smileys—a group of brightly colored animals with huge smiles that were popular during the company's heyday. After the "Hour of Joy," Playcare became CatNap's home and territory, where he worshiped the Prototype.
Playcare is an underground space in Playtime Co. Upon entering, you'll see a staircase leading up to a red carpet, small trees with red, yellow, and blue flowers, red and yellow streetlights with yellow bulbs, and red, blue, and yellow flowerbeds. At the top of the dome is a giant artificial skylight. The interior of the enormous dome is painted blue, with clouds and trees painted on it, and when the lights go out, painted stars appear on the inside of the dome. Artificial clouds hang from the ceiling, and the grass is covered with rocks, flowers, yellow tables, blue chairs, and tall trees. Playcare has five main locations in different areas: a psychologist's office, a toy store, Home Sweet Home, a school, a playhouse, and a duck pond. There's a playground next to the school.
In 1976, Elliot Ludwig founded the Playcare, Playtime Co. daycare, located on a company property built by Warrenbach Construction. Sometime around 1989 or later, Smiling Critter statues and informational plaques about each character appeared on the grounds. When the Bigger Bodies initiative was introduced and Ludwig retired, orphans began to be used as test subjects for experiments, although it is unknown whether Ludwig initially had malicious intent in creating the orphanage. The daycare operated for many years. Some children were adopted, while others were selected for the Bigger Bodies program. During Joy Hour, all the daycare staff were killed by toys, while the children were spared and taken to the Lab.

Leith Pierre - An Immoral and Arrogant Businessman. Leith Pierre was the head of innovation at Playtime Co. and the late Elliot Ludwig's successor as the company's chairman. He was actively involved in the "Big Bodies" initiative. In the public eye, Leith Pierre is portrayed as an inventive and proud man, dedicated to his craft and striving to bring joy to children around the world, just like his predecessor and clear idol, Elliot Ludwig. However, this is only a facade: in reality, Leith is a cruel and ruthless leader who doesn't hesitate to verbally abuse his employees and kill them if they become a burden, and who rules the company with an iron fist. Dead
Stella Graber joined Playtime.Co at an unknown time and eventually rose to leadership positions, becoming the play station manager and head of Playcare. Through these positions, she learned about the child experiments at the factory. A very friendly and cheerful woman, unlike the other managers, she regrets her participation in the experiments and doesn't display the same enthusiasm and pride as Harley and Leith. She justifies this by saying that, in her opinion, the scientific breakthroughs within the Initiative will save far more lives than those sacrificed. Dead
Edward "Eddie" M.N. Ritterman, the enigmatic and reclusive head of Playtime Co.'s research department, is known for his reclusiveness and is responsible for ensuring the shady dealings of Playtime Co. and management remain secret. Despite his professionalism and composure, Ritterman can be icy and ruthless. Dead
Gracie Greene was the lead consultant in the Wellness and Integration Department. Gracie usually appeared cheerful and upbeat, but this was just a facade concealing her true goal: brainwashing children before and after surgery to perceive their new bodies as toys, including renouncing their humanity in favor of toy characters. She also became upset and irritated when children or toys misbehaved. Deceased.

"Giant toys! We can increase our workforce and reduce lawsuits and workforce at the same time if the people who work for us are not human." - Harley Sawyer
The Larger Body Initiative, also known as the Initiative or the IBI, was the driving force behind Playtime Co.'s human experimentation. Proposed by Harley Sawyer to address declining profits, the Larger Body Initiative involved illegal and unethical human experimentation, primarily on orphans from a daycare center. After Playstation scientists selected an orphan for the Larger Body Project, they were euthanized at Playcare using "Red Smoke" and then transported to the lab along with a toy body, which would become their new body after surgery. Although the Initiative's true goal was to save Playtime from bankruptcy and lawsuits, many scientists believed their research, if perfected, would help eradicate death and achieve immortality. This was their motivation.
Before the Bigger Bodies Initiative, Elliot Ludwig secretly experimented on animals in an attempt to resurrect Poppy Ludwig. However, over time, it became clear that animal experiments were ineffective, and the idea of ​​using humans emerged. Oliver, Elliot's adopted son, was the first successful human experiment, created by Elliot as a prototype for another experiment—1007, also known as "Poppy Playtime," who, upon her creation, seemed perfect.
Following Elliot's death in 1989 and the discovery of Prototype and Poppy in 1990, Leith Pierre hired Harley Sawyer, a neurosurgeon board-certified by the American Association of Neurological Surgeons, to assist with experiments.

The company's abbreviated name is Playtime Co. It is an American toy company founded in 1930 by Elliot Ludwig. Despite a family tragedy in the 1960s that severely damaged Ludwig's life, he continued to grow Playtime Co. The company hired such professionals as Edward M.N. Ritterman as head of research, Leith Pierre as head of innovation, Jimmy Roth as marketing director, and many others. By the 1960s, the company and its toys had achieved worldwide fame and remained at the peak of their popularity until the 1990s, when they began a gradual decline, marked by protracted lawsuits and revelations. The catalyst for the company's demise was the August 8, 1995, incident in which countless employees, orphans, and tourists disappeared without a trace at Playtime Co.'s main toy factory in Michigan. This led to the company's final closure. However, the company had other branches around the world, but their current status is unknown. In the following years, until the early 2000s, the Michigan factory gradually fell into oblivion, and authorities stopped monitoring its entrance.
Playtime Co. secretly experimented with its toys and eventually tried to revive a dead rat using poppy seeds. The experiment failed, but its director decided that something larger than a rat would produce better results. This conclusion later helped found the Bigger Bodies Initiative. According to numerous documents, orphans adopted by Playtime Co. were biologically transformed into toys. After implementing the Bigger Bodies initiative, Playtime Co. began using toys to its advantage, making them perform various tasks.
Playtime Co. was not above killing its employees and workers to hide secrets or get rid of undesirables.

In the 1970s, Playtime Co. was involved in a wildlife conservation campaign. To raise awareness and support for the campaign, Playtime created and launched the Yarnaby toy.
Yarnaby is a lion-like creature with a mane and most of its pelt composed entirely of multicolored yarn. It has no tail. Its muzzle and limbs are amber, with a black stripe running vertically down its muzzle, and its three-toed paws are slightly reddish. Its round head bears two large, cartoonish white eyes with dilated black irises and small white pupils. Its face is grinning widely, with three triangular fangs protruding asymmetrically from its lower lip, giving it a goofy appearance. Its face splits in half, revealing a large, open mouth hollowed out from inside its head, giving it a crazed and frightening appearance.
Experiment 1166, his "Bigger Bodies" initiative, involves Quinn Navidson, a young orphan manipulated by Dr. Harley Sawyer, aka "The Doctor," into exerting more effort on the game station. The plan worked. His final dossier stated that he was surprisingly docile and impressionable, and did not attack any of the scientists. He was noted to be obedient and loyal to several scientists, including Harley Sawyer, who took advantage of this to befriend Yarnaby and make him psychologically dependent on him. After Sawyer's disappearance, Yarnaby remained grief-stricken and despairing over his separation from his master until the Hour of Joy, when they were reunited and Yarnaby became one of Sawyer's many followers.
Yarnaby is quite strong, with a build comparable to that of a lion. He is also quite fast and agile. His mouth can open vertically, revealing two rows of sharp teeth and a strange, small inner mouth. He can walk silently, even when running. He has retractable claws, presumably made of steel.
He only obeys Harley and listens to him

Cunning, cruel, intelligent, and sadistic, Harley Sawyer was the head of special projects at Playtime Co. and the initiator of the "Big Bodies" program. In 1990, he proposed the initiative to company management as a way to cut costs by replacing employees with giant organisms modeled after many of the company's characters, thereby reducing the risk of lawsuits and allowing Sawyer to pursue his own scientific research. Sawyer was convinced that the company's 1006th experiment, "Prototype," held a priceless secret and was determined to uncover it. After Leith Pierre betrayed him due to his repeated failures, Sawyer became a source of ideas and knowledge for Playtime Co. scientists. In 1995, Sawyer survived the "Hour of Joy," a revolt at a Playtime Co. toy factory in which countless employees and visitors died due to the company's numerous experiments, and leveraged the event to gain power. Afterward, he formed an uneasy alliance with "Prototype" to uncover a secret essential to the latter's projects. He gained control of the prison with the Almighty Hand and used his loyal creations to maintain his power. After becoming Experiment 1354, he was reduced to organs (lungs, liver, and a giant brain), which were stored and maintained in life-support centers scattered throughout the prison. When he watches television, an eye surrounded by static appears on the screen. The Doctor can also control mechanical vessels in the room housing his brain.
Dr. Harley Sawyer, commonly referred to simply as "The Doctor," was the initiator of the Large Bodies project and a former student of Elliot Ludwig. Ruthless, selfish, and utterly amoral, he orchestrated systematic experiments on hundreds of people to forge his elusive "golden path," but ultimately became a victim of similar experiments himself.

Poppy: "Down here... It's unlike anything you've seen above. It doesn't try to hide what it is. It's hell, and the company wanted it that way..."
Built by Warrenbach Construction, the "Prison" was located beneath Playcare; its existence was known only to Playtime Co. employees with appropriate clearance, and no one spoke of it. It was designed to securely contain unruly "Large Body" Initiatives, presumably until they had recovered from procedures or were ready to replace the factory workers. Construction of the "Prison" began after the 1993 incident. Individual cells within the facility are movable, meaning experiments can be conducted in different units with minimal risk to employees. After the "Hour of Joy," the Doctor took control of this area using the "Omniscient Hand." The "Prison" consists of two floors with 36 cells, 18 on each floor, and nine cells on the right and left sides, numbered only on the upper floors. Shaped like a safe, they typically contain a bed, a closet, and a toilet, with the walls, ceiling, and floor lined with fabric. The floors are separated by bars, and in the corners there are barred doors connecting the upper and lower floors. At the end of the corridor is a control room with a computer, several panels, and televisions, and at the other end is an exit leading to the prison's lobby, with a gate resembling a safe door. The lobby contains a large space connecting the other blocks: West, Northwest, North, Northeast, and East. On the wall between the East and West blocks is a huge prison symbol. Below the symbol is a control panel with several hand scanners and a keycard reader. Behind the panel is a corridor with four offices.

The Badlands are a series of caves outside the prison, providing the easiest way to enter the Doctor's territory. The Badlands are almost entirely composed of various caves. Dozens of wires run along the floor, connected to various devices such as power switches, regular switches, and handheld scanners. Numerous other mechanisms can be found throughout the Badlands. One section of the location features several large ventilation shafts that Yarnaby can use to quickly travel to different locations. Additionally, the No Man's Land contains numerous small rooms.
The secondary lab is a complex maze of operating rooms filled with red smoke and the bodies of failed experiments. The secondary lab consists of multiple operating rooms, each equipped with operating tables and air filters. The main operating room also contains five computer monitors and a keyboard for entering a special code. All of these small rooms are connected by a maze filled with red smoke, hence the need for air filters. This maze contains various corpses of deceased toys, all of which were deemed defective but still bear the plaques with their experiment numbers.
The Containment Area is a large room filled with cages housing several experiments involving creatures of the night. The Containment Area is a maze of cages that were presumably once used for experiments. Ironically, 10 years after the factories closed, many small toys can still be seen in these cages. The cages can be partially opened using switches located throughout the area. Many of them require batteries to activate, so there are battery slots in the walls.

The Doctor's Quarters - This location is located next to the prison, and it is where Harley Sawyer's brain resides. It was from there that he controlled everything with the Almighty Hand. The Doctor's Quarters begins with a corridor, the walls of which are covered with numerous computer monitors controlled by the Doctor. The corridor leads to a large, open room with a black and white checkered floor, in the center of which is the Doctor's brain. This life-support system is surrounded by dozens of computer monitors. Beyond it is a balcony, accessible via two staircases located to the left and right of the room. This balcony can be accessed from Sawyer's office with a key. This main room is connected to a separate area on the lower floor by several wires that connect the Doctor's main life-support system to various terminals below. These terminals are located in a small, dark room, which serves as a kind of center of an ominous labyrinth. This maze-like area is lightless, and it contains all the Doctor's bodies, as well as various sockets with batteries.
The Cable Car is a cable car line that connects the Doctor's HQ and the Vault across No Man's Land. During the cable car ride, you can see various cave systems. There's not much else to say about these places.
The entrance to the laboratories, also known as Laboratory 4, provides access to the laboratories and the poppy cultivation area. The entrance is a long, wide corridor with a single path down the middle. On either side of the path, two long rows of poppies grow in large flowerbeds. At the end of the corridor is a door leading to the laboratory.

The prototype is a tall cyborg constructed from a combination of mechanical and organic components. Its upper body is a humanoid torso reminiscent of a jester, with a cracked porcelain face frozen in a wide, unnatural, square-toothed grin. One eye socket is dark and empty, while the other contains a small, glowing yellow mechanical pupil. It wears a worn, three-pointed jester's hat with bells, a red bow, and a tattered blue coat with faded gold trim. Its torso is slender and elongated, with a faintly glowing core located within its abdominal cavity. Within its torso is an elongated organic spine, which, unlike a normal spine, lacks the spinous and transverse processes, giving it an unusually simplified anatomical structure. Long skeletal arms hang from his sides, ending in sharp, articulated claws with human-like radius and ulna bones, each with small metal spikes on the second and third joints of each of his four fingers, excluding the thumbs. His lower body merges with a massive, spider-like body composed of six multi-jointed metal legs assembled from factory parts, with human muscles, tendons, and ligaments serving as support cables, and sharp feet with a perfect 45-degree angle at the tips.
The prototype is a bitter and vengeful man who, despite his abuse of power, evokes sympathy. He had a legitimate reason for his actions: he was in prison and wanted to save orphans from experiments. He claimed to have killed them out of pity, because he didn't want them to suffer. The prototype demonstrates a penchant for using psychological tactics in confrontations with both enemies and allies. He is obsessed with Poppy and wants her to side with him. The prototype believes the two of them have the potential to become something more because of who they truly are.

In 1993, Project: Dowie was developed as part of the Large Bodies initiative. Dubbed Experiment 1322, this experiment was designed to perform multiple tasks simultaneously. Dowie was supposedly created from three different children for this purpose: the natural leader Matthew Hallard, the temperamental Kevin Barnes, and the energetic Jack Ayers. After the "Hour of Joy," Dowie and his friends, who had opposed the "Prototype," set out to find refuge. Led by Poppy Playtime, the toys remained safe and survived. One day, Poppy mysteriously disappeared, leaving no trace. As a result, Dowie became the toys' leader, their protector, and their guardian. They all decided to remain in "The Vault," a converted shelter outside the Doctor's sphere of influence.
Dowie is a plump creature made of multicolored clay. His head and most of his body are light blue, he has a simple face on a relatively thin neck, and he wears a dark blue bowler hat. His long arms thicken toward the forearms, with his left hand orange and his right yellow. His forearms end in four-fingered hands, each finger short and plump. His legs are short, with red feet. He has no facial features, save for a line marking his mouth and holes in his head that represent eyes. Perhaps Dowie's most unique feature is his "tattoo": yellow, orange, and red clay on his stomach forms a pattern of three curved arms extending toward the center of his belly.
Dowie is friendly and quite playful, but can be serious when needed, and along with Poppy, he serves as the leader of the Sanctuary group. A beacon of hope for the survivors, Dowie is brave and willing to offer help to those in need, as long as they don't pose a threat to him and his friends.
Made of clay and a dough-like substance, it can take on various shapes and fit easily into tight spaces. Its polymorphic physiology makes it extremely strong, flexible, and virtually invulnerable.

Poppy - "I remember every moment. It lasted so long... So agonizingly long. They tried to hide... to run... to do anything to stay alive... I remember them screaming, 'What's happening?'... 'Why is this happening?'... 'What are these things?' (sobs) A senseless slaughter, that's all. They killed everyone. Guilty, innocent, it didn't matter. All that death... didn't fix anything. And then, when it was all over, they dragged those corpses down below, where no one would ever find them. And they... ate the bodies... to survive. A prototype must die. For this. For everything."
The "Hour of Joy" is an incident that occurred at the Playtime Co. factory and led to its final closure on August 8th, 1995. This incident was a mass riot triggered by experiments. This event was planned and orchestrated by the Prototype, who sought brutal revenge against Playtime Co. As a result, a massacre occurred throughout the factory, with both guilty and innocent victims. This incident led to the collapse of Playtime Co. and forced the company to close, thus destroying Elliot Ludwig's legacy. The player did not report to work during this event. Additionally, around this time, the Prototype, for unknown reasons, took the orphans from Playcare to its "Laboratory" base and kept them there until it killed or experimented on them.
The prototype dubbed this uprising "Hour of Joy," along with all the other toys, most of which remained in their original locations. After the event, the corpses of all the fallen employees were dragged to the deepest parts of the complex so the toys could feed on them and thus survive.

Dowie - "We dedicated our lives to protecting these toys, and they... saved us in many ways."
The Vault is a place controlled by Dowie and serves to protect the remaining passive, friendly toys from the dangers that lurked at the Playtime Co. factory. Powered by its own generator, it was independent of the Doctor. The Vault consists of several smaller areas. The main section serves as the hub and contains numerous objects: cardboard cutouts, soccer nets, tents, makeshift beds, and much more. The walls are covered with murals painted by the Vault's inhabitants. There's a generator room, which houses the local generator and is connected to the main hub by a mechanical door. There's also a memorial room with a shrine, candles, and numerous photographs of children. The Vault also has a fully equipped bathroom. Finally, there's the infirmary, a long corridor lined with various hospital beds. Adjacent to the infirmary is another room filled with dozens of various objects. After the "Hour of Joy" in 1995, Poppy Playtime teamed up with Dodge to protect all the passive toys from the threat of Prototype and the other crazed toys. The toys took refuge in "The Vault." Powered by its own power grid, this area was safe from Prototype's new "ally," the Doctor, who had taken control of much of the Prison after the event. But sometime later, Poppy, the toys' leader, left the group and was locked in her case by Prototype, with Dodge taking command.

Poppy was one of Playtime Co.'s very first toys and held the record for the company's most popular toy for 34 consecutive years. Created by Elliot Ludwig in the likeness of his own daughter, Poppy Ludwig, Poppy was eventually created as an experimental version of Poppy, number 1007, as one of many experiments leading up to the Large Body Initiative. This version of Poppy was created from body parts of Elliot Ludwig's deceased daughter, Poppy. She was created immediately after the Prototype, which was created as a test subject to see if Poppy could be brought back to life. After Elliot Ludwig's death, Poppy remained in the factory, where she was discovered after the Prototype escaped from captivity and Theodore Grambell died from electrocution. After the Large Body Initiative began, scientists subjected her to experiments and research operations to better understand how she functions. Poppy encountered Prototype directly at some point before the "Hour of Joy." Although she didn't share his goals and beliefs, she was led to believe he planned to help all the toys escape the factory, and so she kept his plans a secret. After witnessing the aftermath of this event, Prototype visited Poppy and explained that the toys would be unable to leave the factory, not now, not ever, due to the high risk of being captured and subjected to further experimentation if discovered. Poppy teamed up with Dowie and his allies, and together they tried to find a safe place to hide, eventually finding the Vault. She directed them where to go and what to do, acting as their leader, until one day she mysteriously disappeared. Unbeknownst to the others, Poppy had escaped due to the immense pressure she was experiencing and had taken refuge in her old room. Because she insisted on freeing the orphans, Prototype locked Poppy in her case, which had once been her home. During her imprisonment, she devised a plan to destroy Prototypev.

Poppy is a small porcelain doll with white skin. She has curly red hair, braided into pigtails with blue bows, and a large fringe down the center of her forehead. Poppy has thin black eyebrows, long black eyelashes, large blue eyes, a small nose, freckles, red cheeks, red lips, and a string down her back. After the train crash, a small crack appeared on her right cheek. She wears a blue dress with white frills, a long skirt and sleeves, blue bows and ribbons, long white stockings, and black high-heeled shoes. With each chapter, her eyes become increasingly bloodshot, likely due to the trauma and stress caused by the Prototype's actions.
In the commercials, Poppy is portrayed as outgoing, open, graceful, and elegant. She takes great care of her appearance and always wants to look her best. Poppy is also very polite: she politely asks her owner to clean her shoes and comb her hair. As a living doll, Poppy, while generally retaining her personality, behaves differently from her commercialized image. Despite her outwardly pleasant and sociable personality, Poppy hides something throughout the series, as many of her actions are questionable, and she sometimes displays selfishness. Furthermore, she frequently displays signs of deep psychological trauma from her experiences and, throughout the series, demonstrates an inability to cope with trauma and stress, most likely due to her young age and traumatic experiences. Poppy's behavior gradually changes: from joyful and happy to frightened, disoriented, and confused.
As an experiment, Poppy, given her small size, can easily crawl through air vents to navigate the factory. This allows her to follow others with relative ease. She is skilled in operating machinery. As with the "Large Bodies" experiments, Poppy contains some organic components. Poppy, like the Prototype, is immortal, not requiring food or water to survive.