You know what bothers me about some of GameToons’ videos based on Poppy Playtime? The random “origin” stories that seems to butcher the lore from the canon game such as making some of the characters like Catnap regular animals with unnatural colors, being poorly mistreated by their siblings and unfavored by a neglectful or emotionally abusive parent while the other parent is forced to leave the behind despite wanting to save them.
CraftyCorn’s “origin” is the worst offence with a backstory that doesn’t make sense where she was actually a baby unicorn born into a family of normal horses, which doesn’t make any sense since unicorns are just mythical creatures and really don’t exist no matter how we want them to be real.
The one they did for Catnap is even more painful since it ruins his lore and connections with the Prototype since the canon game made it clear that the toy experiments were tragically orphaned children with no families to go home to and are robbed of their childhood, innocence, identities and lives.
And if you have seen the recent video about Lily Lovebraids having parents, they pretty much ignored her lore of previously being Gracie Green and the past video of Gracie became Lily as well as the brainwashing her into believing she had always been a toy by one of her own conditioning vidoes.
What the heck, GameToons? 😓
I personally don't mind that they write their own backstory for the characters but I do have a strong hatred towards "Abandoned at birth" videos cause THEY WERE ALREADY ESTABLISHED AS HUMANS IN PREVIOUS VIDEOS SO WHAT WAS THE POINT OF MAKING ANOTHER USELESS STORY? 😤 Especially since we could replace these episodes with much better ones with actual good plot (for Gametoons standard at least)
I want to start by saying that I don't actually care about canon lore ^^' It was Frite 2.0 and Gametoons that got me to like the game, not the game itself. So it's still not 100% compliant with the canon story, it's just so there's a more "coherent" timeline and I can put the characters that never got an appearance :]
Sometimes around the early 2000s BanBan's Kindergarten was officially open but Uthman Adams didn't get as much traction as he had hoped, but then he remembered his lost toys and hired a painter (Ophelia Barker) to decorate the facility. He also hired Weverly Mason, Sean Graday, Nathaniel Anne, etc.
(2010s) But unbeknownst to them Uthman has found an underground laboratory with blueprints about a special chemical called Givanium, he brought Sean to help him as the latter is a surgeon and is more experienced in the science field, Uthman hoped he could bring the mascots to life with the givanium. Sean became the first human subject and became Syringeon, he began to create the aliens to carry on the experimentation but none of them lived to the men's expectations so Uthman took matter into his own hands and turned himself into Banban.
Unfortunatly he didn't think of the consequences of becoming a monster without hiring a replacement for his role as principal, so he lied about the transformation being a costume. It was hard to buy it so he kept his distance with his employees and the parents. No long after his transformation his father Fadi tried to visit and reconnect with his estranged son, however he was horrified at the sight of Banban who reacted by knocking him out and turn him into Flumbo so he could start his new "family".
In this AU the reason why Flumbo and Banban have Hellish forms is due to Banban's miscalculating the formula which isn't help by their negative thoughts, one being filled with guilt that he's indirectly responsible for what his son has become while the other is filled with this constant feeling of not being good enough. If that makes sense.
But anyways Banban with the help of Syringeon turn his other employees into mascot, but they also experimented on tresspassers like Trevor Bailey (Tarta Bird/the guy from 'Banban's Sad Origin Story') and Billy Gale (Bittergiggle), aswell as his older sister Betty (Nabnableena).
Flash forward to 2016 when something went wrong on October 23rd where most mascots became agressive towards the visitors for unknown reasons, Stinger Flynn (Flynn Hurley) managed to save Timmy and Claire. Now it's up to Peter Smith (Timmy's father/the guy from Banbaleena's Sad Origin Story) and Charlotte Lawson (Claire's mother/the lady from 'Opila Bird's Sad Origin Story') to find their children with the help of Detective John (the guy from 'Garten Of Banban Origin Story'), on their way they discover this place's dark secrets.
Bonus, here's facts about this au I didn't know where to add:
- Bittergiggle is still a criminal but he's also a comedian, he used his crimes as punclines for his stand-ups.
- Syringeon and The Nanny (Nancy) are married, so are Flumbo and Brushista (Nicole)
- None of the mascots were made with children cause Banban has, obviously, weird morals where he refuses to hurt kids but will gladly turn an elephant into an off-brand Art from Monster University :]
- I'm not sure if I wanna add Sir Dadadoo :v
Also here's the other ships so you guys know what to expect:
- Banbaleena x BadBad
- Opila Bird x Tarta Bird
- Stinger Flynn x Jumbo Josh
- Slow Seline x Charlotte
- Nabnab x Nabnableena
- Sheriff Toadster x Bittergiggle
- Dr. Fluffypants x Tall Victor
- Smiley Miley x MagMargouillat (upcoming OC I had in mind for maybe over a year)
- John x Peter
The writing is all over the place cause I'm posting this at 7pm and my head hurt :') but anyways let me know what you guys think in the comments and if you have any question I'll try my best to answer them ^^'
How GameToons should have written Poppy Playtime Logic.
1: Make sure the series is more accurate and closer to the canon storyline.
2: Have both the Prototype and Baby Long Legs have their official design from the canon games throughout the entire seasons.
3: Have The Prototype reveal himself in Season 5 like in Chapter 5: Broken Things. Keep his appearance and true identity as Oliver Ludwig a mystery in Seasons 1-4.
4: Have all of the characters — most especially the Prototype! — similar to their canon counterparts personality-wise.
5: Make Lily Lovebraids have a one-sided crush on Player instead of the Prototype.
6: Have the characters’ backstories more reliable and true to the canon game like Catnap’s previous human self as Theodore Glambell.
7: Make sure that Catnap is entirely loyal to the Prototype and view him as a god like the game.
8: No random AU’s that don’t make sense or doesn’t have much to do with the main plot such as certain characters buying their own house or the characters leave the factory and wander around town despite the Prototype doesn’t want the toy experiments’ existence being exposed to any outsiders.
9: Use GameToons’ original design for the Prototype as an a faulty invention Dr. Harley Sawyer tried to use to overthrow the Prototype but was trashed. Or it could be used as a decoy antagonist the REAL Prototype used to test Player so the Prototype will be prepared for his fight with Player in future seasons.
10: Have Elliot Ludwig be a flawed but caring father, who tries his best to be a good parent to Ollie while balancing his work and secretly working in bringing Poppy back.
11: The following stories will be adapted out: “Lily Takes Over the Prototype”, “The Prototype Betrays Lily Lovebraids/The Prototype’s Revenge”, “Chapter 5, But the Roles are Reversed”, “The Prototype Goes Missing”, “The Prototype has a Twin Sister?!”, “The Prototype has a Baby”, “The Prototype’s Son Has. A Fan Club!”, “The Prototype Buys His Own House” and “The Prototype Gets Married?!”
12: The CEO, Protowife, Prototype Jr., Paradigm and the Hybrid will be adapted out.
13: Have The Prototype Gets a Fan Club rewritten into Player Gets a Fan Club with the Player as the protagonist being chased and terrorised by Lily Lovebraids, Trixie Twintails and Rosie Ribbons as his fan club.
14: Save the video, “Saved By The Prototype” for a Season 6 once the sixth chapter for the canon game is streamed later about next year.
15: Keep Poppy being Good All Along while still retaining her morally questionable plans to burn down the factory until she changes her mind like in the canon game.
16: Correct Poppy and Ollie’s status as older sister and younger brother and make sure there are stories that explores their sibling chemistry in some videos about them.
I personally love the non-canon stuffs and fanon backstories but your version is still cool 👍🏻
What if instead if GameToons has Lily Lovebraids develop a crush on Player instead of the Prototype? What if Player gets a fan club in the form of Lily Lovebraids, Trixie Twintails and Rosie Ribbons?
1: The opening will have Player fleeing from Lily while she tries to grab him with her braids before Trixie and Rosie introduces themselves and they all go after Player. While the dolls start fighting over him, Player uses his GrabPack to subdue them and throw them at a wall before making his escape, leaving them to regroup at Lily’s dollhouse to have a fan club meeting about how to capture Player.
2: Player, desperate to be rid of his unwanted fan club, would go to Catnap for help and advice given the Smiling Critter had his own experiences with crazily obsessive and toxic fangirls. Unfortunately, Catnap refuses due to having PTSD and excuses himself that the Prototype gave him the week off from doing his bidding, leaving Player to bang at the door, pleading before he turns to Baba Chops and Craftycorn, who unfortunately get captured by the dolls.
3: Player is forced to flee once again, trying to lose the dolls in the upper levels of Sweet Street. However the scene goes is all up to you, such as Player attempts to escape by accidentally breaks the supporting suspenders on the fake cloud he’s only, knocking himself out.
4: Player eventually wakes up to find himself held prisoner at Lily’s dollhouse, tied up in Rosie’s ribbon at a meet and greet stand where the dolls revealed they’re holding a fan convention for him. Suddenly, the Prototype arrives when he heard information about Lily and her friends have captured Player and is planning to destroy him until the trio insist on sparing Player so they could have him themselves while requesting autographs sighing.
5: After Player tricks the dolls to untie him, he attempts to escape, only for Lily to reveal her and the other dolls’ “fan project” and sic the “old Prototype” on Player, which suddenly backfires and starts t o briefly fight Protoype before he orders them to shut it down. Unfortunately, the duplicate destroys the remote, causing them to trio to flee and forcing Player and Prototype to call a truce and work together.
6: Maybe with the addition of Player distracting the duplicate, keep the part where the Prototype uses his quick thinking to tie the banner around the duplicate’s head to blindfold it before finishing it off for good. After the battle, the Prototype lets Player under the promise they’ll settle the score some other time. Maybe Player would not hold any hard feelings towards Lily and her friends, requesting the Prototype to go easy in them when punishing them.
7: The conversation between Protype and the Lovebraids Trio could do with some work, but the ending where he punishes them by giving them a timeout via trapping them in Lily’s locket bed with the broken duplicate set atop of it should stay the same.
Lily LoveBraids beat SmittenKitten, CatNap's and CraftyCorn's fans as Poppy Playtime Logic's worst character. I can't fucking stand this bitch anymore! Like I can like canon Lily LoveBraids without having any sympathy towards her but the Gametoons version makes me want to burn her stupid hair.
First of all she's a creep towards The Prototype and before you say "But in 'The Prototype becomes human' he's an adult" he doesn't change anything cause Gracie was around when Elliot adopted Ollie so that basically makes her a groomer if she likes The Prototype romantically (that's also the reason why Pr*t*S**y*r is pure garbage). I wish she was in love with Player or Harley instead of a traumatized stunt child, cause nearly all the toys are still children and I'm not hearing any shitty excuses.
Second of all she takes away the spotlight from Poppy, we could have had great siblings dynamic but NOOOO! She still stuck as a minor character despite the game BEING LITERALLY NAMED AFTER HER!
And I simply don't like her as a character overall, I like her design and her lore but I don't feel sorry for her, I only feel bad for the orphans and like a tiny bit for a few employees
Obviously you're free to like any version of Lily I don't care 🤷🏻♀️
Rambling about HellishExperiments 🩸💉 (BanBan x Xavier) cause I can. I'm talking about Gametoons.
Disclaimer 1: Before you guys say "But Xavier has a wife" or "Banban is dating Banbaleena" I'm just gonna say it here, Xavier killed Cheryl and Banbaleena is happier with BadBad :]
Disclaimer 2: I'm not trying to excuse or promote anything! I just want to explore their character psyche and how it could affect their relationship.
Starting with BanBan we know from his backstory that he was neglected throhought his life and didn't have any friends growing up, so obviously he'd have a hard time recognizing affection which explain his obliviousness towards Weverly's crush (he should have treated her better still). I do feel like he would more than likely crave attention and admiration from those around him but he simply wouldn't know the difference between platonic and romantic.
Despite his ruthlessness and cruelty towards others he did show that he can feel sympathy for people like Tall Victor or Zolphius, this could just be Gametoons being inconsistent but I don't really care. Being compared to his sister Betty growing up probably gave him a superiority complex and some self-esteem issues. (Sorry I wanted to add this bit Idk where)
Now with Xavier there's going to be more AU-related stuff since we never got an origin story. Xavier had a rather good childhood but did lose his parents after graduation which greatly affected him. He found his purpose in Playtime Co., being happy that we was putting smile on face and even based his first creation (Huggy Wuggy) on his best friend Huggard.
But then enter the 90s, the factory is hitting rock bottom which led to drastict measures to avoid going bankrupt (Bigger Bodies Initiative). Xavier was just as desperate, experimenting on others to create efficient toys, he also experimented on himself with the X virus, ignoring all the signs that he was negatively affecting his mind and body.
But then he had a son and wasn't around during the Hour of Joy, 10 years passed and he something pushed him to come back, around the same time as Player enter it, then they get brought to Mickey's universe. But being overwhelmed with guilt and remorse, Xavier doesn't stay and leave his son under the Huggard and Missy's care.
Now I can finally talk about how their dynamic work in my AU since their only interaction happened off-screen. They first met around Halloween when they and Red were brought by Mr Cheese (they both already knew Red). Red told BanBan that Xavier was now homeless and feeling bad Banban let him live in his Kindergarten in exchange of becoming his science partner. As days go by Xavier began to develop feelings for BanBan, he slowly started to see him as his new purpose in life. Those feelings are unfortunatly one-sided, BanBan does appreciate him as a partner and friend but doesn't realize that Xavier view him as something more. There's still a chance that BanBan could reciprocate them one day but for now Xavier keeps his love for himself.
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Sorry I'm not good with words despite the fact that I'm a English Literature Major student and wish to become a novelist :') Also I did mentioned that Xavier is an alcoholic, he is getting help but addiction aren't easy to leave. And yeah I didn't have enough to say about their relationship in detail for now :/
'I know she's still alive yet I mourn her. I mourn the person she used to be'
Back then Bella and Gracie were very close, with their sisters and adoptive father they were a happy family but then a fire took away their home and father. The five became homeless and tried to help eachothers out until Daisy was found by Xavier and offered them to work at Playtime Co. Daisy, Rose and Cosima were assigned at the warehouse, Bella became one of the nurses for Playcare and Gracie was in charge of conseiling. But then she got promoted as lead counselor in the Wellness & Integration and she changed, and that change put a strain on her relationship with her sisters, a strain that turned into a broken bridge that will never be fix. But Bluebella still hopes for the day her little sister will come back.
I got a little lazy on the 2nd photo and I'm a little tired now :/
Rezok and Captain take the place of Nene and Mitsuba in this scenario
I should clarify that I don't watch Toilet Bound Hanako San, I just found this extract on TV Tropes and thought that I fit my version of Rezok. And yeah I said "my version" because he little to no personality in canon besides a few lines of dialogue when he was possessed by Haze Shenron 🥲
So I personally imagine that Rezok is talented but can't be bothered to take things seriously, instead just trolling and teasing others. Also in this AU he and Froze are twins that ended up in the hotel as infants and were raised by Seek and Eyes (don't ask question). He's kind of an annoying and insensitive brat at times but he's not evil (Guiding Light made sure of that)
And also I rewritten the dialogue to fit the characters, this takes place after Captain escaped Seek:
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Captain: *sees Rezok looking at him* (Is that…Maybe it's just someone avatar who's really into Dragon Ball. Mmh I have a feeling this is just a kid, oh poor thing is probably terrified! He shouldn't be playing this scary game! It's a miracle he managed to escape Seek)
Rezok: Hey you.
Captain: Yes kid?
Rezok:…Pfft I never seen such a stupid hat before! Was that the cheapest option on the store? Did your imaginary friends dare you to were this ridiculous attire or what?! Jeez what's the fun of pranking players if I'm stuck with losers?
Captain: How dare you I'm not a loser! I am a leader with lots of skills and experiences! You got some nerves, insulting your elder! Where are your manners? Matter of fact where are your parents?
Rezok: You just met them.
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I know this is random but I don't care, I wanted to make something with Rezok cause he and Froze are were too underrated despite Froze being a main character :<
The scene is very likely OOC but in Rezok case it's on purpose cause here is his only lines of dialogue from the Victory Mission manga that got translated in English (https://mangadex.org/chapter/76bf8a21-84c2-475d-990d-a79228b413fa/6) What personality would you give him tho?
And third also, here's the extract for comparison: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/BitchInSheepsClothing (scrolls down to the video exemples)
And fourth also, Seek and Eyes gave them different names I just haven't figure out which name yet ^^'