The player was best friends with the child that became Huggy Wuggy, Mary, and Theo.
Fate came in as an employee, adopted the player, and they never saw their friends after that day. Years later, Mommy, Huggy and Catnap have a new mission: reunite with the player and prevent them from leaving again.
EMERGENCY NOTICE- 4/8/91
From: Stella Greyber
To: Harvey Sawyer, Leith Pierre
Marie Payne is currently under watch due to the effects of Red Smoke inhalation on the 5th, a common problem when it comes to her. While she was under, one of the doctors noticed something strange about a friendship bracelet she was wearing.
There was a camera on the bracelet, hidden inside one of the charms.
According to some of the orphans, Marie as well as several other children, including Theodore Grambell and REDACTED, received friendship bracelets from REDACTED, adopted in 1988 by Employee REDACTED, before they left PlayCare. According to what they heard from Marie, REDACTED was given the charms on the bracelet from Employee REDACTED, shortly before they quit.
I'm not sure why there were cameras in the friendship bracelet or if all of them have cameras. We cannot get Theodore's bracelet and the location of REDACTED's bracelet is unknwn. This feels like a security concern to me, both for the privacy of the children and for the company. Didn't Employee REDACTED leave in a hurry?
I hope we can get to the bottom of this and that it was a simple mistake.
-_-
Response to EMERGENCY NOTICE- 4/8/91
From: Leith Pierre
To: Stella Greyber, Harvey Sawyer
I would suggest playing it safe and getting rid of Employee REDACTED, but we have no idea where they are. I suggested that we make a case for them kidnapping REDACTED, but Sharon says that's not possible. If that camera was gathering info about the Initiative, than there's a good chance we're screwed.
-_-
Response to EMERGENCY NOTICE- 4/8/91
From: Harvey Sawyer
To: Leith Pierre
Is there any known connection between Mr. Stoll and Employee REDACTED? If Mr. Stoll has any unsavory videos, we can spin whatever we need to cut down any case he's making.
I would prefer to feed him to Boxy-Boo, just in case.
In Poppy Playtime, the first we get is a VHS tape of a vintage poppy commercial with a hidden message and a letter that tells the player to go back to their old job Playtime Co to investigate what happened there.
If you read the letter, you'll notice that there are a few grammar errors. Many fans believe that a child or a toy possessed by a child wrote this letter. I think I remember somebody saying it was Poppy, but it can't be the Poppy that we know because she was locked in the case and appears to be in a deep sleep.
However, one thing that I do wanna bring up is how we know that this was a child or a toy being possessed by a child. How are we 100% sure that this isn't an adult or a teen. Just because there are grammar errors.
There is subtle evidence that the kids may have survived the hour of joy and are hiding underground. The first evidence we see is when the hour of joy was happening, it's heavily implied that the toys were influenced by 1006, aka the prototype to attack and kill any employee they come across. Doesn't matter whether or not they knew. In the surveillance camera, we see a bunch of Miss Delights chasing a man in a room.
During the school area, the player collects a bunch of papers that tell them how somebody locked the door and they were trapped in there. The Miss Delight that we encountered was one who survived because she ate the other Miss Delight. It's revealed that it was catnap who locked her in.
The reasoning was that she and the other Miss Delights wouldn't attack and kill the children. According to Ollie, Catnap treats the prototype like a good and even one VHS tape when Leith Pierre checks up on Catnap/Theo Gamble. Catnap says the prototype will save them. If anyone is going to obey the prototype, it's going to be Catnap.
There's a poster where it appears to mommy long legs hugging huggy wuggy and 3 children. In the corner, there appears to be a message. It says, "Everyone must do their part. Any child between the ages of 2 months and 16 years is eligible for entry into the playtime Co foster and adoptive care initiative."
This is likely this is the age that the kids/babies/teens are suitable to be adopted. However, since we know that the game station was used to see which kid is suitable for their compatible bigger body toys. The game musical memory appears to be testing the children based on their ability to remember. Musical memory is suitable for kids at the age of 7 to adulthood. We can also see the same with the other games. So, when a kid turns 7, they start the testing.
The reason why this is important is because Mommy Long Legs is located in the game station. In the transfer forms, it says that Mommy Long Legs is hostile towards the staff but is motherly and protective towards the experiments. Many believe the experiments are toys themselves. However, if you win a game and find the exit. You hear noises. It's mommy long legs killing Bunzo Bunny and the little wuggies. If she's so protective of the experiments, then why is she hostile towards them? Because the experiments are actually what I believe they call the children. In the transfer form, it's revealed that Mommy Long Legs is possessed by a little girl named Marie Payne. Marie and one of the caretakers Patty Hall have a mother/daughter relationship. While the toys appeared to not remember when they were human. It's appears they at least remember the lessons. Marie Payne, aka mommy long legs, is motherly towards the other experiments, aka the children, because she would've had remembering of motherly love.
The reason why is important is because it shows that the toys never wanted to harm the children since the children did nothing to them. You see, in one video, we hear that a long-time employee, Thomas Clarke, volunteers to have his subconscious be moved into a toy. After it was finished and he was put in the storage unit where he is attacked by the other toys because they sense something off.
The prototype may have influenced them to do these awful things, but when it comes to their knowledge about who should be trusted, that's all on them. It appears that there are subtle evidence of them not murdering the children and maybe hiding somewhere deeper underground. It is like that one of the kids, which is probably teens or adults, wrote the letter to the player. They may have done copies just in case. How they manage to get it to the outside world is up to be debate, but it's likely a toy is helping them.
This theory contains spoilers for Poppy Playtime Chapter 3. Buckle up, this post is not short. tw for mentions of abuse, many mentions of Christianity/Catholicism and its teachings, enforced religious (specifically Christianity) doctrine, mentions of fictional torture/punishment and inhumane experiments
I’ve seen a few people noticing Catnap/Theodore Grambell was…religious in his devotion to the Prototype, and asking why he’s like this. There’s some hints and pieces to put together that puzzle
1. Catnap uses many words/phrases associated with Christianity (and pretty much all of its branched off religions) to refer to the Prototype and what he means to him. Such as:
• “Salvation”- which means liberation/given freedom from suffering, sin, and evil (referring to the experiments being done on the children by the scientists) This word is used 114 times in the Old Testament of the Bible
• “Rejoice in Him” - Luke 1:47: “and my spirit rejoices in God my savior”
• “my somniferous flock” - referring to Jesus, the son of God, being a shepherd of sheep and also his disciples (yes this does imply Catnap sees himself as a higher being, but only after he is turned into Catnap)
2. Having a shrine to the Prototype, and holding his hands up in prayer/worship to him, like a priest or pastor (or now that I look at it, like Jesus is depicted in many statues)
3. Punishing “heretics” like Dogday, who don’t believe in Catnap’s belief that the Prototype is their savior (this honestly even resembles crucifixion {a punishment used against criminals in the time of the origins of Christianity} with Dogday being held up in a ✝️-like position)
But again, why does he do this? Theodore Grambell seems like a normal child up until then.
We gotta look at the location of Playtime Co.
Now, we haven’t yet been given an exact location, but in a poster in one of the prior chapters it says the Midwest, referring to the Midwestern region in America
doing a few google searches, I found this
Catholic churches, and (I’m assuming the orphanages they hosted) run on donations, and that’s why they are not taxed by the states that they’re in. Oftentimes these orphanages had extremely poor conditions because of low funding and in turn high rates of abuse and even death of the children.
Playtime Co. could’ve bought out countless Catholic orphanages with “donations” to the churches they’re connected to. This would’ve been extremely easy with the lack of regulations and the power of money
There aren’t anymore traditional orphanages in the states today, but 300 is not a number to scoff at. And I’m aware that orphanages in the USA were all closed by 1960, but Poppy was created in 1950. I believe that MOB Entertainment got wonky with the timeline for storytelling purposes because creating Living Sentient Toys in 1950 does not align with real life technological advancements.
What I’m getting at is: I believe Theodore Grambell and other orphans were bought from Catholic orphanages (not all of them of course, just a good chunk of the orphans). Either that, or Theodore was an orphan attending a Catholic school, who was then bought out by Playtime Co.
Think about it, at first, the Playcare must’ve been like heaven to little Theo, especially in comparison to the possible abuse he experienced due to being raised in a Catholic orphanage. Everything is colorful. The adults are so nice and caring, unlike those mean and strict nuns. There’s even toys who can talk and interact with them! All of their needs are provided for, and there’s even dedicated areas to play and have fun!
but then Theo probably starts to see the cracks in this oasis, this heaven:
• Playcare is literally underground and the children are not allowed to go outside
• Anytime one of the children experiences something horrific or abnormal because of a feature of Playcare/Playtime Co. (like Marie Payne who become Mommy Longlegs, or the mentioned “Kevin” in the third tape found in Ch.3) they’re never seen again
• The orphans being said “selected” by the doctors, instead of saying that they were adopted, in I believe the 4th tape
And definitely a lot of other signs I haven’t mentioned, because there must’ve been much more than just what’s been listed.
So Theo starts to get a little wary of what’s around him, a little less trusting of the adults who have been taking care of him and his fellow orphans. This place becomes a little less like heaven and a little more false.
but then he meets a friend!!!!
{insert the picture Theo drew of the Prototype under his bed, because I’m on mobile and have already hit the limit of 10 pictures per mobile post}
A friend that only interacts with him. A friend that is only seen by him, only heard by him, that disappears whenever anyone else comes around. A friend that people don’t believe is real. A friend that sees and hears everything. A friend that gives him little missions because that friend has deemed him worthy of them.
Do you know who that friend sounds like?
God. Or one of the angels sent by God.
THEN on one of these missions, Theodore accidentally gets hurt. He’s electrocuted and close to dying, but his friend who was watching over him saves him from death.
And even after Theo almost dies, he stills tries his hardest to complete these missions give to him by his friend. Because why wouldn’t he? This friend is so special. This friend saved his life because Theo almost died trying to complete the mission he gave him. This friend who is so knowing to the point of being “divine”. This friend who is so similar to the “God” that the nuns he spent his early days with talked about nonstop, he has to be Him.
This leads to Theo being found out and taken as a test subject himself, and subsequently being turned into Catnap; which meant going through horrific and painful experiments. Theo may interpret this as “punishment from following the words and teachings of his God” (definitely an equivalent of Jesus being tortured before his death on the cross), so he might consider himself a bit of a martyr.
Now Theo is no longer a little human boy. Theo is Catnap, and Catnap is much more powerful than humans. He became Catnap because he followed what his Lord told him to do. He was reborn as Catnap because he was such a devoted follower, and now he can complete his Lord’s work even better than he could as a human (literally paralleling Jesus being resurrected).
If we want to get even deeper into this theory and the Christianity parallels, look at Theo’s age and when Catnap was created. It says on the wiki that he was born in the 1980s, and he’s 7 at the time he’s introduced to Playtime Co, which means the year is now 1987. Catnap is made in 1990. That’s 3 years. Jesus after he was beaten, tortured, crucified, and killed, was sealed in a cave. It took 3 days for Jesus to resurrect.
So yeah, Theo was a kid from a Catholic orphanage that was bought out by Playtime Co., who was indoctrinated into Catholicism because he was taught it at such a young age. He’s freed from a hell of an orphanage, to be brought to a false heaven, which leads him to meet his God. That’s why Catnap acts the way he does.
Kiss&hug 🩷💙 : Kissy Missy (Melissa "Missy" Kissinger) x Huggy Wuggy (Huggard Wugson). Besides Bobby Bearhug, CatNap and Poppy they also adopted Amethyst (oc), Lime, Lemon, Rose, Iris (Mini Huggies) and Thierry (Xavier's son)
SpiderParents 🕷🩷💙 : Mommy Long Legs (Marie "Molly" Payne) x Daddy Long Legs (John Clerck). Sissy Long Legs (Cindy) is part of the family along side Brother Long Legs/GT Baby Long Legs (Carlson) and canon Baby Long Legs (Jasper)
JokingFlower 🦕 🌼 : Bron (Thomas Clarke) x Daisy Green. They adopted Bunzo Bunny (Buddy) and Baby Bunzo (Kazi), Buddy is 15 years and got the job to pay his top surgery
MusicBox 💛❤️ : Boxy Boo (Bobbi Turner) x Box She Boo (Barbara "Barbie" Rutter). Roxy, Soxy and Paul are their children rather than Boxy Boo's younger sibling figures
LoveHoney : 💚🍯 : Love Bug (Liliana "Lili" Bianca Payne) x Lilly the Frog (Pamela Hunnie). Molly and Cathy took the news of becoming stepsisters suprisingly well
CandyBee 🍬🐝 : Candy Cat (Candace Caisley) x Cat-Bee (Catherine "Cathy" Beatrice Hunnie). Besides Molly McMoo and Frowny Fox they also adopted Clever Claws (Leo), Jolly Jaws (Sunny), Silly Shelly (Darell) and Jerry Giraffe (Edric)
LoveMic 💜🎤 : Lovey Dovey (Lovina "Lovey" Dove Kissinger) x Billy Beagle. They have a baby daughter named Holly
FlowerCat 🌸🐈 : Amethyst "Amy" Wugson x Sylvester "Sly" Catt. Amy was originally named Lilac because I thought that was the color I'll get if I mix up Huggy and Kissy's color (Gametoons version) but I was mistaken and found a flower named Amethyst. Amy is genderqueer (any pronouns)
AcidicMusic 🍋🎵 : Lemon Wugson x Melody Radeville. Radeville because her greatuncle is Mortimer Radeville
LimeSpot 💚🖤 : Lime Wugson x Bucky Blackspot. He has two other brother Barry and Barty. Lime is demi-girl (she/they)
PenMill 🖤💜 : Penelope "Penny" Blackspot x Melinda "Millie" Radeville. Penny is genderfluid (any pronouns)
Got inspired by everyone sharing their amazing mc’s from @disenchantedif and figured I’d share a few of mine!
Verity Park
Species: Sorcerer
Route: Viktor/Theo poly
Fun facts:
- she got her nose pierced on a dare from Theo. Ten solid minutes of Viktor attempting to talk them through why doing this at home was a bad idea later, it was done
- she is that drunk girl in the bathroom giving solid life advice and providing tissues & a shoulder to cry on. She’s been the demise of a few relationships after helping someone realize that they deserve more
- she was a ballet baby. Do not cross. You think you’re safe until you face the (unlikely) wrath of a woman who grew up knowing how to survive pointe shoes and work them easily
Outfit Inspo:
Jacqueline Payne
Species: Nephilim
Route: Lucia/Cameron poly
Fun Facts:
- she’s a strong swimmer, and an even better diver. She’s got a scary precision to almost everything she does
- immediately after her and Lucis first kiss (bitter ex lovers back to lovers y’all), she thanked her. She was so flustered after doing that that she decided to cap it off with an honest to god handshake like she was entering a job interview
- after they begin dating, she’ll occasionally stalk out stan Twitter (or whatever equivalent) just to find the especially complimentary (or downright hilarious) tweets there about Cam. Any “I want them so bad” is likely to be followed by a “same”
Outfit Inspo:
Hayden Dalton
Species: Banshee
Route: Charlie/Avery poly
Fun Facts:
- they knit for the people they love. They have an excellent eye for design of that sort, and the patterns are soothing. Their entire friend group has a knitted item from them- Theo and Vik the most. Luci got one too- one they made as a thank you. They didn’t have the heart to take it back.
- they ate an entire bucket of popcorn through Carrie once, so they’re most often cuddling whoever gets scared by horror movies because it is definitely not them
- they appreciate a good weighted blanket to be sure, but a fluffy rug is the way to go for them. If you’ve ever seen a cat kneading, it’s exactly like that. They’ll be laying there at 2 in the morning just. Vibing.
Outfit Inspo:
Savannah Asturias
Species: Cambion
Route: Harlow/Wraith poly
Fun Facts:
- she is a dirty fighter in snowball fights. She’d pout her way into convincing Harlow and Wraith that something needs to be checked out just to turn her relentless stack of snowballs on them
- she’s an excellent chef. It’s a hobby that turned into a skill. She raids Harlow’s closet before she begins cooking because cozy
- she’s the one most people go to to get bailed out of situations. She’s extremely tactful when it comes to disarming the situation, and comfortable with making a few assholes uncomfortable if it helps to get the situation over with
ok but seriously. my dream amrev blunt rotation is Theo burr, William Hamilton, James Madison, Charles Adams, lafayette and maybe John Payne Todd. fuck it, put dolley in there too and her magical diplomatic snuffbox. this might be too many people for one blunt
I feel like Dolley is too much of cokehead to feel anything from weed. James would die after one puff. Theo takes one hit and starts writing poetry about Antigone and Polynieces or some shit. Challz, Billy and John probably have a threesome or something idk.