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Just decided to suffer a bit for fun and try to make a canon version of Prototype 1006 from Poppy Playtime Chapter 5.

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Okay so I have my issues with Chapter Five - lots of them - but one thing I am emotional about now is CatNap's shrine.

It looks nothing like the fucking Prototype.

It doesn't have six legs, but Prototype does.

It doesn't have a primarily metal body, but Prototype does.

It has one weird arm sticking out at a strange angle, while Prototype has two arms in the usual places.

The employee skeleton sticking out of the shrine is tiny compared to the rest of CatNap's model, whereas Prototype's "human" torso is is fairly proportionate to the rest of him.

The only "additions" to Prototype's canon design are the arms of Mommy, Huggy and Kissy - none of which would have been part of him when CatNap built that thing. So all the random toys stacked on and around the shrine have no equivalent on Prototype's actual body.

And yet. Prototype-as-Ollie speaks oddly well of the shrine. He cheerfully asks whether the player saw it, and tells us that CatNap made it for the Prototype. He emphasises its scariness - although he insists that the real Prototype is scarier - and gives the impression that it's a fairly good likeness. He never disparages the shrine or implies that it's not very good, even though he's absolutely seen his own reflection, and the damn thing looks nothing like him.

But. CatNap worked hard on that. He had to ferry so many bodies to that spot. Arrange them just so. Put together the metal stand it's all built on. He specifically finds a little hat for the skeleton - not the right kind of little hat, but a little hat nonetheless. And from what we see of CatNap, art is an interest he's had all his life - he was drawing pictures of himself with Prototype, possibly as gifts for Prototype, even before his procedure. A statue is a new medium for him, and it's creatively - if not well - made.

And. The implication there is pride. Prototype is bigging up CatNap's work because it's CatNap's. He knows it's shit, but it was made for him, so he's putting it on the metaphorical fridge with a big colourful magnet.