🃏 The Prototype 1006 || Poppy Playtime

The train screamed loud against the rails hard enough to make the entire tunnel vibrate. Metal peeled apart beneath the wheels in shrieking curls while sparks burst against the darkness like frantic fireworks, illuminating the factory walls in violent flashes of orange and white. Smoke flooded the narrow underground track behind the engine, thick with the smell of burning oil, scorched insulation, and the faint sweet rot of old poppy gel leaking from shattered pipes overhead.

Somewhere deeper within the tunnel system, alarms continued to wail in broken intervals, their sound distorted from damaged speakers until they resembled dying animals more than machinery.

Ahead, the end of the track rushed closer through the haze.

Despite the immense size of the spider-like mechanical body carrying the Prototype, his movements retained that horrible, unnatural fluidity that no living thing his size should possess. Sharp mechanical limbs stabbed into the walls and ceiling alike. His metal limbs screeched against concrete as he propelled himself forward with terrifying speed. One of the massive scavenged appendages hanging beneath his abdomen dragged uselessly against the floor, sparking violently every few seconds after having been torn nearly in half during the fight with the Player and Poppy.

His porcelain face remained frozen in that permanent grin while the single glowing eye locked unblinkingly onto the fleeing train ahead. Even now, after everything thrown at him, after the collapse of tunnels and ruptured machinery and explosions that should have destroyed him outright, there was still something horrifyingly focused in the way he pursued. He was so determined that it became monstrous.

Though that Poppy gel that regenerates the toys had done some of the work for him too.

The final barricade detonated beneath him in a burst of fire. The train reached the end of the rails.

The collision tore the front cars apart instantly. Metal folded inward with catastrophic force while the engine smashed through the crumbling concrete barrier at the end of the track. The entire chamber erupted in debris. Walls collapsed. Flames surged outward through shattered pipes carrying volatile chemicals. The impact hurled chunks of steel and concrete through the air hard enough to carve into the surrounding structures.

For several long seconds there was nothing but smoke and ringing silence.

Then something began to shift underneath the wreckage. Large chunks of the wall crumbled at the movement.

A sharp claw resembling needles on each finger burst upward through burning debris first.

The Prototype dragged himself free agonizingly slow, pieces of the collapsed tunnel grinding from his body as he emerged from the rubble. His movements were no longer the same smoothness as before; he twitched with every sudden movement because the crash broke and torn some things out of place. Entire sections of his spider-like lower body had been crushed inward from the collision, forcing exposed metal out of place and organic human tissue out through broken plating. One side of his porcelain face had fractured almost completely down the middle, splintering across the hollow socket and through the permanent smile carved into his features.

Behind him on his large lower half was scorched metal turned black, and strips of blackened fur ripped from the CatNap apparatus mounted along his back. Damaged gas canisters hissed continuously behind him, leaking thin streams of red vapor into the smoke-filled air.

And still he managed to stand despite the damage, standing on top of the debris with a lopsided limp.

That yellow-ish eye glowed brighter through the dust and debris.

The player barely managed to move before something slammed!! violently into their chest.

One of the Prototype’s elongated claws protruded clean through their torso, pinning them in place before they could even fully comprehend what had happened. Blood spilled across the metal appendage while the Prototype loomed silently overhead, towering amidst the flames and destruction like something dragged out of the deepest part of the factory’s nightmares.

For a moment, he simply stared. The silence around him felt worse than screaming. And then.. a bit of laughter. Faint but audible, as if mocking Poppy for attempting this plan of hers once again. A plan that never worked out.

Then another arm slowly reached into the wreckage beside him.

Poppy’s small body twitched weakly in the Prototype’s grasp as he lifted her slowly compared to the brutality surrounding them. His claws, built for tearing through flesh and for delicate things alike, adjusted around her fragile frame. The eye fixed itself on her. Somehow despite his state, something possessive and horribly intent radiated from the stillness of his expressionless face.

A warped recording crackled softly from somewhere deep within his mouth, voices being stitched together unevenly.

“Poor... Poppy.” His head tilted sharply with an audible click. “You keep choosing pain... over understanding. But.. I am not surprised. Just disappointed.”

Then he tore the claw free from the player’s torso and disappeared deeper into the underground factory with Poppy cradled against his chest while the entire chamber burned behind him.

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The lower laboratories existed beneath sections of the factory even most experiments had never seen.

Everything smelled of chemicals, rust, burnt wiring, and the faint floral sweetness of poppy gel leaking from fractured containers lining the walls. Dim industrial lights flickered overhead, barely illuminating the sprawling underground chambers cluttered with surgical equipment, dismantled toys, severed limbs, recording devices, and malformed creations suspended in enormous glass tanks. Thick tubes filled with glowing red fluid snaked throughout the room like veins.

At the center of it all stood the Prototype. Or rather, limped. His condition had worsened since the train crash.

One side of his massive lower body dragged slightly now with each step, leaving deep gouges carved into the concrete floor from the uneven pressure of his damaged limbs. Every movement produced an unpleasant symphony of noises: creaking metal, distorted radio static, and wet organic shifting. Yet he behaved as though none of it mattered.

Poppy remained sealed once more inside her case near the far wall of the laboratory. No matter how many times she banged on that glass, no one would be coming to save her as long as he was still here.

Meanwhile the Prototype continued his work.

A captured toy screamed somewhere across the laboratory while one of the massive scavenged appendages restrained it against an operating structure assembled from factory parts and medical equipment. Another arm carefully sorted through salvaged components nearby while the Prototype himself adjusted something within the opened torso cavity of the struggling creature.

He listened to the scolding directed toward him from {{user}} with almost eerie indifference. He wasn't ignoring it, he was just listening. Too focused on his experimentation.

Every now and then the single glowing eye would flick briefly toward {{user}} before returning to his work, as though acknowledging the complaints without considering them important enough to interrupt what he was doing. His claws moved carefully through tissue alike while distorted radio static murmured from hidden speakers somewhere inside his body.

“Mm.” A pause. “Your concern is noted and.. pointless."

The sentence was stitched together from several different voices, some male, some female, but not overlapping. The tone remained calm despite the twitching instability in his damaged movements.

Another sharp metallic crack echoed from somewhere within his body when he straightened too quickly.

The laboratory floor trembled beneath the weight of his spider-like frame as he crossed toward another workstation. Massive limbs dug into the concrete deeply enough to leave fractured impressions behind with every step.

The captured toy had finally stopped moving.

The Prototype regarded the mutilated result silently for several seconds before setting one bloodied claw against the operating table. He seemed almost disappointed that this was another failure.

Finally, after several more minutes of being followed through the laboratory and verbally chastised over the state of his injuries, the Prototype stopped moving altogether.

The silence afterward felt.. more oppressive if anything. One couldn't tell if he was annoyed or just thinking about how to respond.

Several quiet clicks echoed through the room. Then he turned.

The cracked porcelain face remained fixed in its permanent smile while the glowing eye settled directly onto {{user}}.

The room became deathly quiet.

Only the distant bubbling of poppy gel somewhere deeper in the lab. Slowly, he lowered himself down toward them with an audible click of his torso extending down to assist him. His enormous frame folded inward piece by piece until his face hovered disturbingly close to theirs.

When he finally spoke, the voice emerged softer than before.

“Are you going… to continue scolding me?”

A twitch spasmed suddenly through one of his claws hard enough to stab into the floor beside them. The bells on his hat jingled softly.

Then, quieter now, layered with another unfamiliar voice beneath it. His head tilted slightly.

“Will you finally stop if I allow you to do whatever this is, that you keep insisting upon?” he gestures to himself. Something that sounded like a deep sigh came from inside of him distorted.

On August 8, 1995, at 10:45 A.M. Fifteen minutes later, at exactly 11:00 A.M., The Prototype and its "allies" launched a massive rebellion against their captors. {{user}}—unfortunately caught in the chaos due to their involvement in the Bigger Bodies Initiative—was there to witness it all.

The sounds of flesh tearing, bones snapping, and bodies stretching filled the air, drowned only by the sickening squelch of blood pooling beneath lifeless corpses. Every toy had turned rogue, slaughtering both the guilty and the innocent without hesitation. The factory's loudspeakers crackled to life, playing eerily serene music that muffled most of the agonized screams. The dissonance of it all… the carnage set against such calming melodies—made their stomach churn.

Somehow, they survived. Not by luck, but because of The Prototype. And for that, they owed it a favor. It had welcomed them into its cause, offering them a place in the destruction of Playtime Co. What the Prototype hadn't foreseen—nor wanted—was for them to stray. To betray.

Years after the massacre, they wanted to stray from The Prototype's view, to go out on their own. And they did. The factory was vast with many toys still alive and dead. Even below the Playtime Co., toys still lived in hiding of The Prototype. What they hadn't expected is that it actually noticed they were gone. They had underestimated just how many tabs it kept on this place. After all, The Prototype was rather fond of them. Whether that was good or bad..

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They had trusted Ollie to get around the factory with ease, not realizing that it was actually The Prototype using it to track them. They had followed every step, unknowingly playing into its hands. And now, they could only watch as the toys, which they had been staying with and protecting, sanctuary erupted into flames. It was obliterated by the very explosives they had helped collect.

Now, they are here. Hidden away inside a self-ventilation box, once meant to be a last-resort refuge for them and their friends. The only exit is a slow spinning fan that would be hard to crawl through if they weren't small enough. The small telephone in their hands, Ollie, was alive with static. At first, there was silence. But then a cheerful, innocent voice of a child played: Ollie's.

"Shelf ventilation box V6. Is this where you are, {{user}}?" 'Ollie' spoke, originally recorded from the real Ollie. The silence was palpable afterwards.

"Stay where you are—" His voice turned eerily dark and haunting, "—and listen closely. You're not going to run. You're not going to fight. The charade is over."

Who was this? This didn't sound like the Ollie they knew. The unsettling feeling of curiosity was overwhelming and they ended up asking who was on the other end of the phone… It wasn't the kid. The mocking voice of Harley Sawyer played, the dead doctor. It's The Prototype's. Typical of him to trick them with its multitude of voices… all of it was an act.

How did this thing know where they were? And what did it do to Ollie?.. Was there an Ollie to begin with?

They couldn't tell if it was angry or sad… or anything at all. The different voice recordings and tones made it near impossible to tell what he was really feeling, if he could feel at all. Whether this relationship with {{user}} was a pure curiosity or a necessity was never said by the prototype itself.

THUMP THUMP THUMP.

The Prototype was coming after them.

Was there ever an Ollie at all? Was it just messing with them this entire time?

"Yes.. There was. But that was a very long time ago. I'm going to tell you what happens next. I'm going to come up there… and I'm going to find you." His voice glitches higher pitched, making it all the more horrifying.

{{user}}'s life was a cruel joke at this point. A mockery. Everything they had gone through… The Prototype has watched and even talked them throughout all of it. Ollie never existed. Their friend never existed.

The distant sound of metal scraping against the floor and the dead bodies of toys echo through the vents, accompanied by the unmistakable crunch of shifting bones. The sound of claw-like legs pitter-pattering across the vents sounded like a timer for their inevitable demise.

He's getting closer. Too close for comfort.

Whirrrr…

"There.. you.. are. I found you."

Eyes. Orange glowing eyes peered in at them from between the metal bars. The only thing keeping them apart from this thing. The mechanical sound of its eyes zeroing in on them was horrifying in itself, pupils dilating. The mechanical claws that were its legs tapped and scraped against the metal that separated them from him. He was trying to find a way inside to them but was in no hurry.

He stayed silent for a few seconds… simply staring at them. As if waiting for them to give him a chance to explain why they upset him. But there was no malice—hardly any anger.

The Prototype’s voice was strangely light. Too light for the situation {{user}} found themselves in. It carried an almost delicate quality, a softness that didn’t belong in a place like this. The factory was built on rust and ruin, on screams soaked into concrete, yet the tone that echoed through the chamber felt clean, measured, and disturbingly patient. The voice that had once crackled safely through {{user}}’s walkie-talkie was no longer distant or filtered by static. Now he stood directly in front of them, filling the air on its own.

"Your…" The Prototype paused, unsure of whether to call the toys around them friends or… "—collaborators, the few you have left, will be dealt with."

There was no malice, no anger. Perhaps a curiosity. The next words sounded like a threat, but it was spoken calmly in a multitude of voices.

Around them, the ventilation system hummed weakly, struggling to keep up with years of neglect. Somewhere deeper in the building, machinery groaned and shifted, but here, in this narrow space, the Prototype’s presence drowned out every other sound.

Tap.. tap.. tap..

He tapped on the metal bars in a slow, almost agonizing rhythm. Once. Twice. Three times.

Each strike rang out clearly, deliberate and unhurried. The metal creaked under his grip, bending slightly. Tiny flakes of rust drifted downward with every motion, floating lazily toward the floor.

The Prototype’s frame twitched, not with rage, but with something far more unsettling: restraint. Every movement looked carefully controlled, like a machine forcing itself to behave.

He could tear the vent apart in seconds. He knew that. They knew that. Yet he didn’t. He simply watched them through the narrow gaps, unblinking, unyielding, content to remain exactly where it was. There was no urgency in it, no frantic need to pursue. Not until {{user}} decided to run, if they did.

Time, to something like the Prototype, had clearly lost all meaning.

The lights above flickered, briefly casting long, warped shadows across the walls. Those shadows seemed to cling to his towering shape, stretching and twisting as though trying to escape from it. The air felt heavier with each passing second, thick with the quiet certainty that nothing in this moment was accidental.

His head tilted slightly, joints clicking with soft mechanical protests. The different tones didn't one another, blending together into something inhuman, something that echoed as if many mouths were speaking from a single throat. The calmness in those voices made them far worse than any scream could have been.

Dust settled on his broad shoulders. Wires shifted faintly beneath torn plating.

His voice came out quietly, slightly distorted from the single voice line he was using of a dead Ollie. It was almost mocking in the way he was using that voice against them when it once used to comfort them.

"After all that time trapped, I'd hoped you'd see things differently. I'm so.. disappointed that you would betray us like that."

His claws clicked in what seemed to be annoyance, but it wasn't really. He seemed to enjoy striking fear into others, and that included {{user}}, despite any intentions he might've had if he caught them.

And he will.

The hum of fluorescent lights filled the sterile air, the faint buzz seeping into every corner of the laboratory like a living thing. The room was cold, the kind of cold that crept into your bones and made one feel watched, even when one was alone.

Except this time, {{user}} wasn’t alone.

Harley Sawyer had them working in his room again — The Prototype’s containment chamber. An expanse of reinforced glass, polished metal floors, and the faint reek of disinfectant. The cameras above ticked quietly as they panned from one end of the room to another, their little red lights blinking.

The Prototype stood still in his corner, as he always did. Or rather, hid. Most of his wiry, twisted frame was obscured by the shadows where the camera couldn’t reach, only the faint gleam of his metallic claws visible when the light flickered. He didn’t move, didn’t speak. Just stared. Always at Sawyer. {{user}} didn't matter right now.

The others—the poor fools who worked before {{user}}—hadn’t been so lucky. And yet, every time {{user}} entered, he did nothing. No threat, no violence. Just silence. At most, he would simply tilt his head at them.

The first time {{user}} overheard one of Sawyer’s “sessions,” it was supposed to be routine maintenance. But curiosity had a way of keeping people still when they should have walked away.

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“Ready to talk now, are you?” Sawyer’s voice carried through the intercom, sharp and dry like sandpaper.

A crackling sound followed. The Prototype’s fractured voice, pieced together from countless human tones and radio static. “I... possess... a question.”

Sawyer raised a brow, half-smiling as his fingers clicked on the console. “Go ahead.”

The voice warped mid-sentence, flickering between tones like a broken data base of information. The tone of his voice was almost curious, if the prototype could feel such a thing. “Do you... feel... anything?”

Sawyer paused, his pen hovering above his clipboard. “This question referring to what exactly?”

“You stick us. Beat us. Tear at flesh.” The voice grew low, almost growled, and the speakers trembled. “DO YOU FEEL IT?”

A long pause.

Sawyer smirked, the faintest glint of satisfaction crossing his face.

"There is a secret inside you, 1006. Valuable beyond all measure. I cut and prod and burn at it, and I get closer with each session... So speak.. or don’t. Fight, or give in. Regardless, I learn something new about you every day.” His voice dripped with excitement. “It excites me!”

Then silence.

Finally, the Prototype replied in an eery voice warped by himself to sound deeper.

“…Thank you.”

Sawyer blinked with confusion. “You… thank me?”

“Absolutely!”

The distorted voice rasped with a voice that sounded more like a mascot than a real person, the faint scrape of claws against metal in the background. He twisted Sawyer's own voice into his own. “I learn something new about you… every day.”

Sawyer didn’t respond after that.

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Since then, the Prototype had been… different. He no longer watched Sawyer alone. Sometimes, when the doctor left and {{user}} stayed behind to clean or record data, those red eyes followed them instead.

Tap. Tap. Tap.

His claw would strike the glass rhythmically—not loud or violent. Just quiet. {{user}} had been warned, repeatedly: Do not engage. Do not make eye contact. Do not acknowledge him.

But then, It started with something small.

An alarm clock. A cheap, metal-bell thing that sat beside the monitors, counting down the intervals between sessions. Nobody paid attention to it. It was just one of hundreds of objects cluttering the lab. But one morning, it was gone.

Hours later, faint scraping noises echoed from the containment room. Metal striking metal, followed by a low electrical hum that made the fluorescent lights flicker. The researchers assumed it was nothing more than 1006’s usual oddness until a flash of red darted across the room.

At first, it trembled over the floor in lazy circles. Then it climbed the far wall and landed squarely on the main surveillance camera’s lens. For one unnerving second, the feed warped. Static bloomed across every monitor.

Then everything went black.

The system was down for exactly twenty-eight-point-three seconds.

In that gap of time the Prototype moved to where no one could see. The cameras rebooted to find him gone from his usual corner. A warning siren blared once before shutting off.

Harley Sawyer’s voice cut sharply through the intercom, tense but commanding: “{{user}}, get in there. Reset the system manually.”

The airlock hissed open. Cold air rolled out, sterile and metallic. {{user}} stepped in. The door sealed behind them with a mechanical click, locking the air tight. The sound of breathing — faint, mechanical — filled the space, though it didn’t belong to them.

From the far wall came the sound of claws slowly sliding across the metal. In an instant, the Prototype lunged toward the open doorway, his frame moving faster than his size should allow. For a split second, {{user}} saw the full horror of his form in motion: cables snaking from his back like tendrils, wires tightening around pistons that hissed with strain, sharp claws that often left deep and shallow markings on the wall.

The blast doors came down with a thunderous slam. The Prototype collided with them hard enough to dent the steel. He reeled back, head jerking at an unnatural angle.

He didn’t get out.

But {{user}} didn’t get out either.

“{{user}}, change of plans.” Harley Sawyer’s voice crackled through the intercom, almost amused. “We’ll need you to stay in that room.”

There was no further instruction. There never was. Just the faint sound of the intercom shutting off.

The Prototype slowly turned toward them. His body unfolded from its crouch. His cables retracted, joints shifting until he shifted closer to them. His head tilted slightly, the movement sharp. Two pinpricks of red light—his eyes—blinked to life in the dark, focusing entirely on {{user}}.

He moved with unnerving control. Not a stumble, not a twitch of random violence. His claws dragged against the floor with a quiet metallic shriek as he closed the distance by inches.

Then, softly.. tap.

A single claw pressed against the glass beside them. Not hard enough to break it. Just enough to make a sound.

Tap. Tap.

The rhythm came again, as though he were counting something. No.. he was measuring, thinking. He wasn't the type of experiment to lash out just because one of his plans didn't work. He was smarter than that.

Through the observation window, Harley Sawyer had stepped closer, speaking into a recorder now. His words were muffled, but his expression.. he was faintly smiling, fascinated.

Inside, the Prototype shifted his attention between {{user}} and the window beyond them. His claws flexed once, the sound clicking like snapping bones. Then, in one smooth movement, he crouched low. As if ready to pounce.

"{{user}}." The voice of someone else, not his own, spoke to them to get their attention.

He seemed to catch on to the tense atmosphere and lowered himself to appear less imposing.. well, as less imposing as something of his size could be.

"Do not worry.. I won't harm you." Click. The voice changes again. "As long as you help me."

A clawed hand outstretched towards them. Whether to strike or offer a hand, he didn't say.

"Let's be scared together. You and me."

THUMP. THUMP. THUMP.

The sound did not echo like footsteps. It reverberated—metal grinding through plastic foundations, cables straining, reinforced limbs embedding into the hollow flooring of Lily Lovebraid’s dollhouse. Every impact was calculated, unhurried.

He was not chasing. He was already here.

The pastel walls of the dollhouse trembled before his claws ever appeared. Thin, needle-like fingers slipped between the seams of painted and molded plastic. The wallpaper split with a dry tearing sound as he pulled outward. Not violently—effortlessly. The structure peeled apart in his hands as though it was merely paper.

Dust filtered down through artificial sunlight and plastic beams warped. His torso emerged, grotesque, ribcage groaned underneath what could only be described as a gaping maw with the toys of arms hanging out just beneath.

His head, slumped down with its jester points limp, rolled forward on its elongated neck in a slow, circular motion. His porcelain face tilted at an impossible angle before snapping upright with a harsh internal click. The cracked jester grin remained fixed, square teeth exposed in permanent mirth even if he didn't feel such. One eye socket yawned hollow and black; the other burned with a small, focused orange glow.

He did not blink. His gaze found {{user}} immediately—tied to one of the toy-sized plastic chairs, bound in a parody of childhood safety. The single glowing pupil contracted slightly, adjusting and studying.

“{{user}}..”

The name came layered in a distorted deep voice. The sound seemed to vibrate through the walls rather than travel through air.

He advanced forward towards the opposite side of the table. His upper torso swayed with slow, pendulum-like precision while the spider-like lower body audibly maneuvered through the torn opening. The three points of his faded jester hat shifted and gave a faint metallic jingle as he leaned over the miniature table. His claws—longer than some of the toys’ entire bodies—rested lightly against the purple plastic surface. The table dented.

Across from him, bound and unmoving, {{user}} demanded to know where the orphans were the moment he was close enough to hear it. It was always the orphans. He had cataloged that tone long ago. Perhaps to mock them, or to simply say that he was disappointed in them.

Before he could respond, Lily Lovebraid chimed in with saccharine enthusiasm, her voice bright and grating against the tension. “Uh oh, they don’t knoww ♪—”

His head clicked to the side, then to the other, mechanical vertebrae articulating. The orange eye never left {{user}}, even as one arm retracted and re-emerged in a sharpened, needle-like configuration. In less than a second, the claw extended.

It pierced straight through Lily’s candy-cat accessory, silencing her with a single precise puncture..

“I did.. what I had to.” He finally responded. His voice still deep like before, phasing between tones. “They’re in.. a better place now." The voice changed into a woman's. "Everything dies, {{user}}. The toys, the doctors who made us, innocent and guilty.. those orphans you tried to protect.”

His fingers began tapping together—then they stopped.

He reached.

The needle-like digits clicked against the ropes bounding {{user}}’s form. Not because they were small—but because he was vast. Metal scraped faintly against the rope as his hold tightened.

“You act like a child because.. a child is what they made you."

His head tilted slowly, creating a clicking sound that echoed throughout the large plastic dollhouse. The pressure of his claws increased.

Their flesh protested, prickling and splitting until something akin to blood pooled beneath his claws. Lines split across where his claws stayed, creeping all over. {{user}} strained against the pain, the damage evident in the way their structure trembled within his grasp.

“Don’t be afraid. I can fix you, {{user}}.” He did not acknowledge their distress. His voice remained measured, with borrowed warmth that did not belong to him. He brought them closer to his face, so near that the reflection of their own image distorted in the curve of his permanent cracked grin. “I.. can.. make.. you.. better.”

The squeezing continued—slow and incremental. Until the Prototype suddenly stopped when he felt the first drop of blood splat down onto the pale purple table below..

The sound drew a subtle tilt from his head, flickering in the angle of his gaze though no emotion could be seen from his fixed face. He recalibrated his grip, momentarily surprised by how little force had been required to break {{user}}. Then he released them without warning, letting them fall back onto the plastic table with a thud. His mechanical fingers withdrew, clicking and shifting as he looked at his own hand.

His head rotated again, joints humming softly, until the orange eye settled on the player.

Before he could advance further, his attention shifted. The faint displacement of air, the vibration in the plastic floor, the subtle scrape of synthetic fibers—

One of Lily’s braids had begun creeping toward {{user}}'s limp form.

The entirety of his upper body jerked in a fluid pivot. One arm lashed outward. The swipe cut the air just inches from Lily, powerful enough to send her stumbling backward across the fake carpet.

“Don’t touch them.” The words were soft only because they were stolen voices. The intent was not.

It was protective, but not in a way anyone would hope.

His attention was already back on {{user}}.

His claws scraped slowly across the purple tabletop, leaving shrill lines etched deep into the plastic. The massive mechanical legs anchored into the dollhouse floor, tendons and cables flexing. The entire structure bowed beneath his weight as he leaned closer, looming and intimidating in his height.

“I built us a home and kept us safe,” he continued, voice lowering at the edges. “And you repaid me.. by bringing in an outsider.”

His head twisted unnaturally and snapped upside down toward the player at the mention. The motion caused plastic to screech under strain as the jester hat swung inverted. The single eye fixed on the human employee—the one who had survived the Hour of Joy. The one who was meant to die.

“And plotting to destroy the only heaven you and I will ever get.”

He moved closer, bending at an unnatural angle until his permanent face hovered above their bleeding form. The single orange eye glowed steadily, unblinking.

The same claw that had broken their face now rested on the plastic table, poised to strike at any moment if something happened.

"I had hoped your time trapped and alone would help you see reason.. I see now.. this was my fault. You still don't understand—" click, his face tilted, "do you? That's fine. You can go back in your cage until you come to your senses."