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| “ | I was so scared she'd put me back in that case. But you saved me. You are perfect. Too perfect to lose. I'm sorry. I can't let you leave. *music starts playing* I've never met anyone like you. Hmhm. Do you know how long I've been stuck in that case? Well, too long... I had so much time to think and reflect. Time to figure out exactly what I would do when free. We'll set things right. Terrible things have happened, but I know that whatever I need you to do, you're capable. | „ |
| ~ Poppy stating that she's needs the Intruder's help. |
| “ | Listen... I'm not your enemy, but I can't just let you leave. What's happening down here is bigger than all of us. And I need you... so we can get revenge on those monsters who've tortured you... who've tortured us. They didn't act alone. They're disciples of the original: the Prototype. | „ |
| ~ Poppy telling the Intruder why she couldn't let them leave. |
| “ | It was awful... So so awful... I didn't want... This w-wasn't what I... I thought we were gonna leave. Leave the factory. Not this... A-all those people... [Deep breath] Prototype says we can't leave. Not now. Not ever...I hate him. I hate him, and I hate this place. And I hate that he's... Right. He explained everything. and he's right. We can't leave. It's too risky. What they did to us...we can't let it happen to us or anyone ever again. Doesn't make me feel better about the bodies, though. what he was saying about them. I know there's not really another option. the toys' will starve otherwise, they'll die. But it's still disgusting. I wish you were here, Dad. I could really use one of your talks right about now. You'd know what to say. When you were running this place, you always knew what to say... I miss you. | „ |
| ~ A secret tape in chapter 4. with Poppy expressing her disgust and horror about The Hour of Joy, The Prototype, and the human corpses being used as food and also revealing herself as Elliot Ludwig's daughter. |
Poppy Ludwig, better known as Poppy Playtime, is the titular deuteragonist of the horror franchise of the same name.
Poppy Playtime was the first doll created in the year 1950 by Playtime Co's founder Elliot Ludwig who modeled and named her after his beloved daughter.
However, after the original Poppy died in the 1960s, Elliot transferred her soul into a Poppy doll effectively bringing her back to life. Following Elliot's death, the company came under the control of Leith Pierre and Harley Sawyer who made various experiments like Poppy and used them as slaves.
She then witnessed the Prototype orchestrate The Hour of Joy on August 8, 1995, where her fellow experiments rebelled against Playtime Co. and killed almost all it's employees. The Prototype locked her away in a glass case until she was freed by the Intruder in 2005. Now, Poppy and the Intruder have teamed up to take down the Prototype once and for all.
She is voiced by the singer Nola Klop, who also voiced V in Murder Drones.
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Appearance[]
While her human appearance is unknown, Poppy, as a toy, is a petite doll with chalk-white skin which resembles pale skin, freckles and rosy cheeks. She has long red curly hair tied into double pigtails, held up with a pair of blue ribbons. She wears a large, flouncy powder blue dress with long frilly sleeves adorned with numerous bows, frills, and bustles, and a pair of black Mary Janes. She also wears red lipstick. She has a pair of thin, black eyebrows, and a pair of uncannily realistic-looking blue eyes framed by long lashes. Following the train crash in chapter two she appears to have a crack on her right cheek.
Personality[]
Poppy is a bubbly, outgoing, kind, and benevolent toy in stark contrast to her more malicious fellow experiments. She happily helps the Intruder on their journey through the factory and gives them tips on how to survive and the inner workings of the place. This shows her to be highly intelligent and resourceful. She also can be childish and sarcastic at times getting upset when the intruder doesn't follow her claiming it "makes her sad" in a playful manner and telling the Intruder to follow her while she's "still a doll". She is also quite empathetic towards her comrades understanding that Playcare brings back bad memories for Kissy Missy (presumably due to being one of the orphans transformed into toys). She also decided to go back and rescue Kissy and told the Intruder to continue without her as she was not willing to risk their plan.
However despite her happy-go-lucky front, Poppy is a character who carries a lot of demons. She is traumatized by the events of the Hour of Joy and the Prototype's actions of killing every employee including the innocent ones. This is in stark contrast to the other experiments who were indifferent and or reveled to deaths of humans even if they were not responsible for their torment. For this reason she has a hatred towards the Prototype for his horrific actions and all the pain he has caused to the point she will stop at nothing to take him down. Although she has a hatred for the Prototype and even his followers, it's implied she does acknowledge that the experiments and her did have it bad, while she does allow it to cloud her judgment, she still acknowledges that their actions were wrong. Her hatred towards the Prototype is so immense that she has become somewhat of an extremist. She prevented the Intruder from leaving the factory insisting she needed their help. However, she insisted that it was necessary as they need to end the end the Prototype by any means available, she even goes on record to state escaping would have been pointless as the Prototype would have killed the Intruder before they could. She also deeply cares for her allies as she rushed to help Kissy Missy when she was attacked, she also had respect for Ollie due to his efforts to help them. It's possible she also may have cared for DogDay as well as he implies they were mutual acquaintances due to the fact they both tried to resist the Prototype.
In chapter four it’s revealed that she suffers from extreme trauma due to being experimented on by the scientists. She even outright admitted that she hated them for what they did to her (much like the other experiments did). She even began to fear that the pain she was feeling was numbing her. It’s even revealed that she was complicit with the events of The Hour of Joy. However, she never had any malevolent intentions in it and did not desire to kill anyone. She had assumed the Prototype planned on helping them escape the facility which is why she was so horrified with what he had done. It’s also implied that her moral compass and nature was a result of her father/creator Elliot Ludwig who taught her these values. However for as redeeming as she is, she was shown to be cowardly where abandoned both Kissy and the Intruder as soon as she found out the Prototype was coming for them after her plan failed as she feared being put back in her case. However, she did apologize to them before doing so showing she still cared for them.
Biography[]
Origins[]
Poppy Ludwig was born on March, 7 1949 and was the daughter of Playtime Co's founder and esteemed toy maker Elliot Ludwig. Around a year after her birth Elliot got the idea to make a doll modelled and named after his daughter. Thus in 1950, Poppy Playtimewas created. Poppy was a porcelain doll meant to simulate a real girl as she had not only the ability to talk but respond as well. Sometime in the 1960s the orginal Poppy died, & was brought back to life as a Poppy doll through unknown means and resided in a rather comfy room that simulated a home. The room in question had a direct route to Elliot's office so he could visit her whenever he wanted. Sometime in the 1990s, Elliot passed away and the company fell under the control of Leith Pierre and Harley Sawyer. Sawyer presumably had his scientists experiment on Poppy to discover the origin of how she came to be alive. They would remove several of her organs and parts to examine them and put them back in when they were done. These actions caused Poppy both psychological and physical pain. Eventually Sawyer and Pierre would work together to make more experiments by transforming orphaned children into toys to use as slaves to save the company money. One of these experiments (1006) known as the Prototype would grow tired of this abuse and staged a rebellion known as the Hour of Joy with Poppy being complicit in the events. Poppy assumed they were going to leave the factory but the experiments would instead kill each and every employee at Playtime even those who were innocent. Poppy was forced to watch the entire thing in horror. For refusing agree with him the Prototype locked Poppy away inside the glass case in her room where she would remain for years to come.
Poppy Playtime[]
Somehow, Poppy or someone else managed to get into contact with one of the few surviving employees of the Hour of Joy. A letter was sent instructing them to return to the factory to find their co-workers. After an encounter with Huggy Wuggy the Intruder finds and free's Poppy from her case. Poppy then decides to help the Intruder escape the factory as a thank you for freeing her. She claims that there is a train that leads towards the exit and she has to code to access it. The two end up near a large hole in the floor and Poppy tries to reassure the Intruder to trust her but before she can finish her sentence she is captured by a toy named Mommy Long Legs. Mommy takes Poppy hostage and gags her. However she agrees to not only release Poppy but give the Intruder the train code if they can beat all three of her games in the Game Station. Once the games are done. Mommy insists the Intruder cheated and attempts to kill them. However, Mommy ends up getting stuck in a grinder and dies as a result. The Intruder then free's Poppy and she seems rather happy that Mommy is dead. She gives them the train code and allows the Intruder to leave. However at the last minute she diverts the tracks and goes back on her word. She explains that she is impressed by the Intruder given how they were able to kill Mommy against all odds. She then tells them that she still needs their help to "set things right". Suddenly however, the train goes out of control and ends up crashing at the entrance to Playcare, Playtime Co's abandoned orphanage.
After the intruder is able to survive the crash they are greeted by a phone call from someone named Ollie. Ollie reveals he is an ally of Poppy and insists that she meant no harm but she still needs their help. Soon enough when the Intruder is exploring Playcare they are attacked by Kissy Missy. Before, Kissy can kill them Poppy stops her and insists they are an ally. Poppy claims that she is not the Intruder's enemy but she could not let them leave. She needs their help to stop the Prototype once and for all. Since the Intruder managed to kill both Huggy and Mommy they are the only ones capable of helping her. She then explains that the toys in the facility are all disciples of the Prototype who now rules Playtime Co. with an iron fist. Poppy explains that if the Intruder had tried to leave the Prototype would have killed them regardless. Poppy then reveals that the Prototype has one final minion they need to defeat; CatNap whom is his most loyal follower. With him out of the way they can make it to the Prototype. Soon after, the Intruder is forced to fight CatNap and Poppy gives them instructions on how to beat him. Once CatNap is killed, Poppy decides to reveal to the Intruder the truth. She plays a tape that depicts the Hour of Joy where all the Intruders co-workers were murdered ten years ago. She explains that she was forced to listen to the whole thing horror and was locked away by the Prototype. Poppy needs the Intruder's help to kill the Prototype once and for all and avenge his victims. Poppy and the Intruder then get on a lift which takes them deeper into the factory. Kissy Missy activates the lift and Poppy tells her they will come back for her. However on the way down Kissy Missy is attacked by something. Poppy desperately tries to return to the surface to save her but it's too late and the hatch closes.
Poppy is unwilling to leave Kissy behind however and instructs the Intruder to go in without her as she needs them to carry out the next phase of their plan. She also reveals that they have allies down in the lower levels who can help. Later on when the Intruder is on their way to reach the Safe Haven they are stopped by Poppy and an injured Kissy who hide to avoid detection from the Prototype. They reach the Safe Haven where it’s revealed that it’s a place for all the surviving toys stay to hide from the Prototype. It’s led by Doey the Doughman who is an old friend of Poppy. However he is hesitant to work with her again because she left years prior without telling them. Despite this they allow them in and patch up Kissy’s wounds. Poppy reveals that her ultimate plan is to use the flammable red smoke and some explosives to destroy the foundation of the factory which will destroy Playtime Co. and the Prototype to end the torment and destruction. She also claims that the orphans were not killed during the Hour of Joy but the Prototype put them to sleep and keeps them in his home in the labs. Soon enough, Poppy instructs the Intruder to find the Omni-hand to fix Safe Haven’s generator but it’s being guarded by Harley Sawyer whom is now known as Experiment 1354: The Doctor. After killing the Doctor, gaining the Omni hand and fixing the generator the Prototype soon descends and Poppy asks the Intruder to plant the explosives as quickly as possible while Doey distracts him. However, The Prototype anticipated this plan and put the explosives in Safe Haven at the last minute killing all of the toys living there. Doey attempts to kill the Intruder in retaliation but the Intruder is forced to kill him instead. Soon enough the Intruder meets back up with Poppy and the latter is enraged at them for killing Doey. However, Ollie soon talks to them over the phone and reveals that he was the Prototype all along and was manipulating Poppy. The Prototype plans to kill Poppy’s remaining allies and take her back. Poppy, fearing the Prototype will lock her back inside her case, cowardly runs off leaving Kissy and the Intruder behind. Soon enough the Prototype uses the remaing explosives to destroy the shelf block they are hiding in causing the Intruder to fall to the labs below and Kissy to lose her arm trying to save them.
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Trivia[]
- Porcelain dolls were very popular as pretend-and-make-believe toys for young girls in the 90s. Coincidentally, if Poppy was indeed made from porcelain, it would likely make her one of the most popular toys of Playtime Co.
- Although Poppy is revealed to be the Intruder's ally in Chapter 2, it is theorized that she has ulterior motives which could lead to her becoming a villain (which turns out to be 100% false). However she may need the Intruder's help to defeat the Prototype and end its reign of terror. It turns out to be false since Ollie is revealed to be The Prototype in disguise.
- The latter theory was proven correct as in Chapter 3, it is revealed that she also wants to extract revenge against the Prototype for torturing her and other innocent victims in the factory.
- Despite this, the official MOB music video Sleep Well appears to depict Poppy interacting with the Prototype though later scenes depict her with an expression of horror and regret, attempting to stop the events of the Hour of Joy. This could imply that Poppy once agreed with the Prototype's plan to free the toys but once she saw the carnage this plan brought, she immediately rebelled against him. This is confirmed in Chapter 4 where it’s revealed Poppy assumed that the experiments were going to leave the factory, not kill everyone.
- A secret tape in Chapter 4 reveals that she is Elliot Ludwig's daughter. It was also revealed in the Poppy Playtime x Fortnite collab that Poppy was inspired and named after Elliot's daughter.
- It's unknown if Poppy's mother is Elliot's ex-wife Molly as Molly and Elliot divorced in 1930, ninteen years before Poppy was born.
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