
r/PoppyPlaytime

A Possible Reason Harley Sawyer Targets 'Problem' Children
Now, 'targets' is a bit of a strong word given that we have two total examples. But you know what they say: Once is a coincidence, twice is a pattern. Also these represent 2 of the 3 (Rabie Baby being the third) confirmed cases I can recall where Harley himself singled out a specific kid to be turned into a toy instead of just submitting a list for the higher-ups to choose from (like with CatNap).
The cases in question are Quinn Navidson for Yarnaby and Kevin Barnes for Doey.
Quinn's 'problem' was that he pulled the heads off toys to mix-and-match them so he could make them prettier. Personally, I think that's not super odd behavior in a toy factory that makes Swapimals. He was probably inspired by CatBee or PJ Pug-a-Pillar to try and make his own! Sadly, Quinn's counselors (according to Harley, at least) did in fact consider this troublesome behavior.
Harley pulled out all the stops - though manipulating a lonely orphan when you're visibly an authority figure isn't exactly playing on hard mode - to con Quinn into doing a bit better at the GameStation so he could turn him into Yarnaby.
Kevin was even more explicitly 'troubled' than Quinn is, with the unnamed Scientist #4 outright calling him a 'problem child' when he raised (frankly fairly reasonable) objections to turning Kevin into one-third of Doey. Sadly for Kevin (but fortunately for whoever would have replaced him), Harley overruled #4 and used Kevin anyway.
But why? #4 speculated it was because of Kevin's high GameStation scores, but I found another explanation. It's buried inside the Red Maze from Chapter 4's Icepick ARG. Specifically this screen:
Harley thought he was merciful. Pair this with the line in the Sawyer's Secret tape where he rants that he "gave them purpose" and it all comes together. Visibly 'problematic' children would be the ones least likely to get adopted. And thus the ones most in need of 'saving'.
Harley explicitly viewed every subject as spared from the fate of becoming "another drooling automaton out in the world." But that's not the only issue problem children would experience. First, they'd be passed over, rejected by the only people with any hope of improving their lives even a small amount. Because they weren't enough. Because they were in some noticeable way, too flawed.
Sound familiar?
Of course the person who's still not over getting kicked out of the Young Geniuses program for his own personal problems would see himself as 'saving' others from that kind of rejection.
This is, of course, an incredibly deranged worldview. Children who aged out of Playcare without being adopted would probably be very sad that nobody adopted them, but the mutilated experiments are a lot sadder! Harley values purpose (becoming part of something great) over comfort (not being turned into a toy and used for slave labor). He seems to apply this principle to himself as well, snapping out of a pleasant memory because he has more important work (mad science) to do:
In conclusion, Harley targets problem children because he considers being sacrificed on the altar of Playtime's grand goals to be a genuinely better fate than rejection.
DLSS meme, but with my favourite PPlaytime characters
scary huggy wuggy trying to get me omg
scary huggy wuggy going to get me
So what the Fuck is Going on
So people are arguing about a gender on a certain character Poe for and im so fucking lost why are fighting about a Character's Gender who's Gender isn't even confirmed yet like what? i'm literally getting CraftyCorn Flashbacks, if you Don't know CraftyCorn was believed Non-Binary because they've Bio has no Pronouns and it was later when CraftyCorn was Confirmed Female that the Non-Binary and Male stuff put on the character stopped
Also to clarify something Poe's Pronouns are They/Them and those are a blanket pronoun usage it's used for so many gender identity so why is 90% of the Fandom saying Non-Binary is Cannon when No active person in Mob Entertainment has NOT clarified the Character's Gender
Also I'm Playing devil's advocate here I actually support the idea of Poe as Non-Binary AND I know it's not Cannon but still it baffles me that people are fighting about this it's so confusing
The Prototype is NOT a prototype
alright I know I'm gonna get a lot of hate, so bring it on. Firstly let's look at him for a second: a 26 foot tall jester spider. And yes, he's always been a six legged half baked character because he had these legs long before the hour of joy. There's nothing that says hes a prototype on him. if he was a prototype to bring poppy back who's only 1 foot at the very most, then his design should have looked like it. the mask was always his, always a jester, but he's a good design...just not a good design for a prototype. The Prototype looks bio mechanical so I'll take mechanical principles here: firstly if he's meant to be a prototype for poppy, then the design should have been 2 legged for testing how to make something at a small scale walk, not 6 spider legs that make me look short. Second if he was literally 1 digit away from poppy, then you shouldn't have needle fingers at this stage, finger tests are always before, and speaking of that, why's there only 1 human turned Prototype? When we Prototype we go through multiple designs, like this fits if it was about experiment 999 about in that spot because then they would make more prototypes refining it until they got to experiment 1007 (poppy I believe) and then what's the purpose of the hands he took? The "oh he's too weak" bullshit answer doesn't work here! It's not intimidation, only the long legs arm is used once, and why is it when we froze him he didn't reach for us with the long legs arm? The huggy and kissy arms are completely fucking useless and don't match previous arms.
So with 1006 if we take ACTUAL principles here, then he should only be 3-4 feet tall, not claw arms, face matching poppy nearly, and more. Not a 26 foot tall spider, that wouldn't make sense going form Goliath to little shit. And let's talk poppy for a sec, she mentioned being took apart and put together? Thats what I'm calling bullshit because the PROTOTYPE MODELS ARE LITERALLY MADE TO BE TORN APART! THATS THE ONLY REASON WE PROTOTYPE IN ANY DIVISION! like if he was 1006A I could understand it because then at about 1006B could be smaller, 4 legged, more humanoid fingered, and about 10 foot tall, then 1006C is basically 2 legs to fully get the leg concepts, after that 1006D should be 3-4 feet tall, 2 legged, normal armed, poppy like face. and let's talk design, a Prototype is never made to look good, all Prototype models are basically hollow skeletons, not hey here's a jester with a GOLD spine. Like seriously they had to have made multiple prototypes, there's no way 1006 was the only prototype because that's not how this works. and then somehow he was never found all that often? being stealthy? that's not how any of this works. you could say the lie of he's a jack in the box, but that actually makes his case mathematically worse because the size to body ratio means his box was 10 FEET TALL! so unless he broke himself off the box, and crawled around like Jackie did from FNAF secret of the mimic, I don't fucking buy his ass was sneaky because there is no stress marks on the gold parts that suggest he did. Unlike the rest of the fandom I don't give him the rule of cool, I give him the rule of get your shit together mob.
Next we get to those legs, let's talk. their supposed to be "built by him later on" cool...so where the fuck does the ribs come from on the front? where does a red front come from? why does the spider half have tendons on the legs while the arms are pure mechanical? where does the spider half begin to make sense he built it? why the fuck does he have a gold skeleton supporting his "tube" that connects him to the spider body? the movement there makes sense for a tube...but the logistics of tube to gold spine external make no sense if the tube could already support his 500-800 pound upper half...don't ask me how much math that took to get the answer to. and all of your arguments of he made it himself fall apart when you look at the torso, it's all symmetrical. why are all 6 legs identical then? if he built himself, then those legs should be mismatched. and why when he was planning the hour of joy did he STILL have those legs? minus the huggy, kissy, and mommy arms, he's still looks the exact damn same. don't care what material those legs are made of, but it would take a day to forge EACH legs parts per, not even adding on assembly time, how the fuck did he do that stealthily? let's go over the mechanical part of building a 26 foot spider then a 1 foot doll. it's mathematically not easy to make a bigger mechanical being.
Battlebots, let's look at something popular why the fuck not? I've met bloodsport, tombstone, and huge. They all prototype their new designs on the 1LB weight class, then the 3LB weight class. Wanna take a guess how heavy the final design is? 250LBS! If anything by using your logic here, that means poppy would be the Prototype to the prototype. I've done first robotics for 4 years of my life, when one of our teammates tried to go big prototype he costed us $25,000 and we instantly kicked him from the team, because his design was physically impossible and he would have kept going. We prototype at the small scale before building the full 115lbs bot. My literal mass of text isnt a feel good about 'oh poor ollie' it was HOW It makes no sense, and I don't mean with the consciousness because that's for a different time, it was about how he physically can't be a literal prototype because we know 814 was a rat killed and tried to bring back, that's a 200 gap I don't care about because we have no evidence that those 200 were mechanical. In fact if they figured it out with Ollie, then they should have made more prototypes to eventually make poppy. so if anyone now says he built his legs, give me the facts of how he built 6 identical legs with TENDONS on each leg, Plus did the whole world forget the tape they posted to their YouTube channel where he caught doctor newman? HES GOT THE LEGS! Look I don't care if it makes sense about orphan to monster, or the poppy gel, but I do care about that this literally can't be the prototype to poppy. If he's the Prototype to reanimating a soul, then it should have been specified in his name, and not just be called prototype. But because he's only called prototype, this implies he's the whole prototype. Like seriously, accept the prototype makes no sense, or that he's a fraud, because he makes ZERO sense.
Rank Monsters based on how OK/Mentally Stable they are
I realized something funny
Don't get me wrong, I love chapter 5 but OH MY GOD they really should have done a better job with the lighting, look at this!
Question of the day: What did the Prototype do to escape before starting The Hour of Joy?
Just a question to see how others either know about it or to wonder with one's own idea of what exactly may had led the chance for the Prototype to able of getting out before or during The Hour of Joy if not already been told of how he escaped.
Okay let get clear why those to much theories about bigger body dogday being make from a adult employer instead of a orphan ?
Name a song that made you make this face.
It doesn’t have to be related to ppt (however, it should)
You like my Boi
I made huggy as good as I possibly can in tomogaci life
Scariest chase in poppy playtime?
I think catnap bc he freaking stalks u in the whole game
Hold up...
...the first shot from the chapter 5's console port trailer mirrors the first shot of chapter 1's original trailer🥹
Guys should I be frightened?
Just don't ask how I got here ☠️
Sadness
I didn't have any motivation to improve the background, so here's some art of my ppt oc, Deluded Daisy.
*Her eyes are bloodshot because she's crying
Imagine how much PTSD the player has developed over the franchise
CH6 The Doctor
One of the things that i am 100% sure will take place in CH6 is Harley Sawyer will take us to do an experiment ourself wether it’s to revive huggy or to acquire the needed skill / power to defeat the prototype