Im am adult irl so expect cursing at least. I'm also nonbinary irl (any pronouns because I don't care at this point, same goes with my self incert)
I am an introvert w/ anxiety btw, so seriously, if anyone wants to talk, feel free to say something/dm me! I don't mind talking via texts/messages, It's mostly just me being the one to do it first that my mind doesn't like to do at all.
This is just just a ramble blog mostly, but I'll accept asks too! (The ask box is open, and anon asks are accepted!)
I'll accept fanart ofc, just tag me (either account) in it so I can seee!!
Reblogs are appreciated!
DNI list (just in case) - Homophobes/Transphobes/LGBT+-phobes, P3do0s, Z00s, Pr0shippers, Racists/Xenophobes, Ableists
OC infos-
Fresh Toys (Fanmade PPT toy brand)
Silver and Berri
Silver Redesign!
Remmi
Blossom Opossum
Kiwi
/Srs post -
Basics of AU ("Familiar Faces AU")
Souls "ages" in the Familiar Faces AU!
Voice Claims!
Looooreeeee (at least a lil, as a treat)
Scare acting thingzzz (TW for uncanny stuff)
Ramble about stuff my S.I. would do
Second ramble about what my S.I. would do
Red Mist things
Add on for Red Mist info
Silver's undershirt (this was originallycanon but now its not, sorry yall despitehow funny itd be)
Coloring tattoos
Silver's eyesight
Friends from The Game Station
Silver's Life so far Timeline
"Silver's POV"/Familiar Faces AU of each chapter (aka long story posts) -
Warning: Long post, mentions of death, basic trauma, cheating, and spoilers in general for games stuff
• = Main event
° = Add on/more info
1984 -
• Silver is born
° Mother is Nicole Bowie, a prosthodontists (she only made the veneers and other fake teeth... including her own. Even made a tattoo on one of her own teeth) and psychologically college student with a LOVE for horror/creepy stuff... also tattoos despite the time (she was, and still is, a biker). Also is the youngest of 10 siblings (both her parents had marriages before each other; Nicole is their only child together). Had Silver at age 21.
° Father is Issac Sawyer, a butcher for a meat shop with a love of video games and other "nerdy" things. Youngest sibling of the Sawyer fam (Harley's the oldest, then Colt, then Isaac... Harley and Colt have the same dad, Issac doesn't but their mom is the same woman). Had Silver at age 20.
• Elliot Ludwig passed
° Silver has heard a lot about him though and has always addressed him as "Uncle Ludwig" since hes a close family friend... even if hes gone.
1985 -
• Basic baby things... except Silver could speak in full sentences before they turned 2... but refused to try to walk
° Real thing that happened to me irl btw, idk why baby me did that
• Found out the hard way that little Silver had pupaphobia (the fear of puppets), no one knows how or why. But found out it did NOT matter what kind of puppet it was, this baby would SCREAM no matter what it was
• on the OTHER END was literally drawn to anything that revolves around animals/dinosaurs (normal or anthropomorphic, didnt matter), starting up their main hyperfixation over animals/dinosaurs
• Found out that Silver has a VERY strong sense of smell and hearing (both traits from Nicole)... Silver can hear voices talking 4 rooms away (cant hear what their saying word for word, but can recognize voices) and can smell metal from blood even farther (also can smell rain before it comes)
1986 -
• Silver's parents officially got married
• Colt starts bringing Silver to the factory due to Silver's parents not able to afford any other babysitter/daycare and Colt being unable to NOT work
° Silver was 2 years old but luckily wasnt really a fussy baby, and Silver being able to speak and do basic ASL helped too
• Silver constantly stayed nearby Colt or any safe bigger body who was already near Colt at a safe distance.... or in specific situations was handed to Harley
° This is when Silver found out about the Prison area, gaining Silver's silent fear of that place due to the screams and pain of the place in whole
1987 -
• Started showing signs of anxiety and other mental health disabilities, didn't talk to peers as much but would occasionally talk to adults... but mostly talked to the Mascots (didnt matter if they could talk back or not), animals/pets or even normal toys... Silver was 3.
• Started to notice things around them were... wrong, but never said anything about it due to not understanding or even how to word it
• Started to be more "invisible" (more independent and quiet) to make everything easier on the already stressed and busy adults around them
° Over time this has transferred over to even talking with peers (usually talked over or full on ignored) to even how they move quietly on the balls of their feet automatically
• Acts... overall FAR older than their actual age partly due to being "invisible"
° Older as in this kid acted more like a 5 year old at the age of 3
• Silver's eyes randomly changed from blue to a very dark brown as well
° Another real thing that happened to me irl and we have 0 explanation for
1988 -
• Starts occasionally staying over at Harley's house (a cabin in a forest), 4 year old Silver LOVED it there.
• Started to be allowed to wander certain areas of the factory alone/with a mascot.
• Red Mist started to be made, and Harley found out Silver's odd immunity to it compared some to other children, so tests started to be done over time under his watch.
• Harley also noticed a couple of times when they were at his home how Silver would PURPOSELY watch nature documentaries, no matter how bloody or gorey they were... which caught his attention as he started to observe that
° Nothing was done but he found it interesting nonetheless since even adults he knew would be squeamish... then here's his 4 year old "neice" watching it with no problem or even flinching
• Semi unrelated but since the VA of Harley said this in that QnA they did... Yes, Harley had a cat (up to interpretation on what breed) and Silver adored that cat too (they've been caught multiple times cuddling and playing with that cat)
1989 -
• Started to really notice the weird looks other kids/some staff gave them
• The Meduim/Can see Ghost thing started up here, people started to view them as MORE weird so they went silent about it.
° Nicole (who Silver got it from) found out it kicked in already, and explained it in basic terms
• More and more tests were being done regarding Silver and the red mist under Harley's watch... Silver was just full on becoming immune to all sleepy effects it gives off but NOT with the nightmare/hallucinations.
° Also starts to slightly panic every time they see the color red due to hallucinations, their brain connected the color red to the mist. (Still slightly panics internally and tends to not wear/go near anything red often)
• Other kids started to notice how unusually pale they were, their "sharper" than average canines (minor genetic mutation, Harley and Issac has it too) and how they didnt like to be directly in the sun (astigmatism is the main reason why on that one), kids started falling Silver "The Vampire" and isolating them from games and general friend groups.
• Only a few kids talked to them. Mathew occasionally, Theo mostly, Kevin like once, Quinn when they're both around Harley, and a few others (including the soul of Daddy Longlegs but neither really are aware of it).
• Silver learned the existence of the Prototype thanks to Theo, and SAW slim views of it here and there
• Richard Lovitz (Rich) started to notice the bullying when passing by and tried to stop it
° It didnt stop for long, but Silver noticed and was always appreciative about it, especially as a 5 year old
1990 -
• Quinn and Rich went missing as Yarnaby and (Bigger Body) Dogday appeared. Silver silently peaced it together that thats probably them (especially since Dogday sounded a LOT like Rich, but ofc thats my headcanon/my AU thing) but never spoke out due to fear and not wanting to find out what happens if someone finds out.
• Silver silently got attached to Dogday and vice versa due to the realization but unsure on how else to thank him in their kid brain.
• Dogday started the nickname "Starlight" after noticing Silver staring at the night sky and at stars every time it started to get dark outside or there's a star projector.
• Yarnaby's split face thing always scared 6 year old Silver though.
• Silver met Pianosaurus at some point during this and bonded over music... or... well at least ONE of the Pianosaurus-es.
1991 -
• Game Station, Mommy LongLegs, and a bit later Daddy Longlegs were made (Daddy Longlegs and Silver practically were magnetized to each other though).
° Ik that Canonically Daddy Longlegs would've been made like a year or two after Mommy LongLegs, but I needed that connection there
• Really started to show that Silver struggled playing with kids actually around their age (beyond Theo) and stuck mostly to whichever mascot was around, even hiding behind them when other kids came too close.
° Quinn was one of the exceptions due to Harley, but they were usually the only kids in that case and would play together because of it.... but they got along despite their drastic differences but they never got too close as friends, more like the "Oh youre a kid too, let's just play together because we're the only kids here" kind of friendship kids sometimes have.
• Broke the record time in Statues at 7 years old, after Silver repeatedly breaking other's and even their own records (and having 0 fear of PJ in general)
• Harley started to made documented plans a couple of months later for Silver to be a bigger body and made the bigger body itself (Talon) and spending more time around Silver than before.
• The experiment was set to start in 1992... it never happened. Silver also never found out.
1992 -
• (In late May/Early June) Silver suddenly moved away and Colt gave Silver Berri before they left (8 years old)
• Silver's parents divorce soon after the move.
• Silver and Theo agreed to do a "pen pal" thing as a way to keep in touch, worksed for a while until Theo a few months later was turned into Catnap
° Silver never got a reply back or an explanation as what happened until much later...
° This also cuts off all immediate contact of all the REAL things happening in there since Colt and Harley wouldn't tell the kid what's really happening.
• (June 18th, so a week or so after Silver moved) Huggy Wuggy got out of the factory, heading straight twords the direction of Harley's house, he didn't make it and was recaptured before he could reach there.
° And given the fact Huggy can't talk (at least not a human language)... no one knows if he was trying to get Harley OR was trying to see if Silver was alright
1993 -
• Matthew, Kevin, and Jack become Doey.
• Harley becomes SCP-079(/j) soon after and told to family he became missing and is presumed dead to his family (Silver included)
• In Harley's will (which he made just in case something happened) his house went to Colt's name KNOWING Colt most likely wouldn't even go near the place... and he didnt
• Silver's pupaphobia went away at age 9... and now had a sudden interest in puppets, especially in the horror media side
• Silver also started theater acting
1994 -
• Nicole starts dating her future husband, Vincent (Silver's step dad), and moves in with his already existing 4 year old kid, Fern
• Issac starts dating behind Silver's back (they wouldn't care in reality he had no reason to really hide it)
1995 -
• Colt changes jobs to an actual electrical company, two weeks later the Hour of Joy happens (Silver was 11 years old, unaware of incident until much later)
° Yes, Colt WAS supposed to be there that day, but wasn't for that reason.
1996 -
• Silver's younger brother, Roscoe, is born via a short lived affair Vincent had
° Yes his ass was handed to him by Nicole once she found out- but they made it work in the end
• Silver LOST love of theater acting due to the director
° True story again, and a long one, but fr I still LOATHE that woman nearly a decade later
1997 -
• Silver's youngest sibling, Lydia is born
° Note: not even ONE of these siblings are 100% blood related to each other
1998 -
• Nicole talked Silver (14) into joining a haunted house her old friend ran... Silver
° Yes, surprise their MOM talked them into it lol
° Nicole also worked in Haunted Houses when she was 14 too, she knew Silver had an interest in the general horror genre and could act.
1999 -
• Nicole and Vincent get married, Silver was the "maid" of honor at 15 alongside a 9 year old Fern, Lydia (2) was the flower girl and Roscoe (3) was the ring barrier.
° Btw yes Nicole adopted Fern and Roscoe and absolutely sees them as her kids even if neither are biologically hers
2002 -
• Colt Sawyer passed from lung cancer and inherits Harley's house from him (Silver is 18)
• After a few months of grief and generally getting their shit together, Silver DOES move into the house and finds... some disturbing things inside and untouched
° Silver had to call multiple people to help fix and clean the place up before properly moving in
• Got a temporary job at a medical factory (which was actually normal), learned the basics of all factorys there.
• Switches Haunted Houses due to move (still is very friendly and talks to her old coworkers and boss occasionally)
2003 -
• Silver starts getting tattoos and piercings
° Nicole is supportive about it, Issac doesn't care since its Silver's choice
• Started working for a Crime Scene Cleaner company
° Silver can still get grossed about certain things... but overall got... mostly used to it honestly (but the sense of smell thing does NOT help)
2005 -
• Silver realizes Playtime Co is still standing and recently got into Urban Exploring...
• Also got a letter for Colt saying to come over, despite Colt being gone for 3 years now
• So they come back to try and explain that he passed... of course now being locked inside and the "Familiar Faces AU" starts (now 21 in age)
Yeah i changed a bit (and actually picked a more time period accurate outfit) but overall lore is the same, timeline (until the actual start of the Familiar Faces AU ofc) will be posted soon
anyways hi yall my Poppy playtime hyperfixation came back like a TRUCK for no reason. So uh... im redesigning and working a little more on Silver's lore (most stuff I've posted will be the same)
And I've actually am doing the math for once and making an accurate timeline on wtf happened within their life
Oh and they 4th chapter of Familiar Faces is being made again whenever I have time bc haunted house season and all... October is an incredibly busy time for me ok?
... I'm still working on the 4th chapter of my AU btw yall, but I just realized how terrifying it would be to see Silver atm (as anyone, toy or human)
Why?
Because you'd just see this
Context: Silver as Astigmatism so tends to at least put their head into shadows to... well, see properly (ofc that makes the glasses glare up to others when facing light and hard to see their actual eyes). And Catnap being... well, Catnap results in this
You'd absolutely see Silver first, then just... Catnap appears slightly out of litteral nowhere, probably scaring the shit out of anyone. (Despite everyone's thoughts, this is never planned by them. It just happens)
TWs: Near death experiences, general mentions of death... and decapitation of body parts (... of 2 characters btw, and im guessing yall know one of them already since this is chapter 3 but still.)
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Silver groaned slightly, pacing the small area of the front of the train as the tracks were switched from going to the front of the factory to going down… “Poppy, you bitch, what the hell did they do to you-” Silver groaned in frustration before looking at the yellow rabbit holding his cymbals in the corner, staring at them possibly from confusion or just spacing out. Silver was still frustrated but not at him, not even close to him. “Don't repeat that.” They said just in case he wasn't spacing out.
The train went on for… a while actually, Silver tried to figure out if there was a way to reverse it to switch tracks… Long story short, that answer was a no.
“Fuck… were going to the Playcare…” Silver mumbled as they tried to figure out everything.
“The… what?” Berri asked.
“Playcare; the orphanage.”
“... this place had a-”
“Orphanage yes, I'd visit occasionally as a kid… whenever Uncle Colt had to fix something down here… didn't quite understand what that place was as a kid, I just thought it was a big play area for parents to leave kids… like a daycare y'know? I didn't understand they stayed there unlike me.” Silver said, explaining as the train moved forwards… Silver looked out the window and paused, realizing they're going too fast downhill.
“oh shit- EVERYONE GET DOWN!!” they said as they tried to stop the train from the lever… making it derail and fall over while still sliding down.
Due to the sudden movement one of Bunzo’s cymbals came unhooked from the magnets and hit Silver in the head, successfully knocking them unconscious as they were already on the right door due to the derailing.
“Silver?!” “Star!!” Two voices came out before the train was stopped, finally… the only sign being red and saying the word ‘Playcare’ and pointing further down…
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Time skip bc Silver is unconscious, probably for a good 20-45 minutes to my guess on how long they're out.
Btw yes, everyone survived but did sustain some injuries; bruises and limping at the most shockingly, but Silver got the most damage (and they wouldn't have it any other way).
Mommy LongLegs was in the last cart and came out to help the injured via webs and cloth that Silver had in their bag that Berri got out (hesitantly bc... giant spider suddenly there would scare tf outta her)… after all the smaller toys were afraid of Mommy showing up out of nowhere while Mommy wanted to at least try to return the favor to Silver for letting her live and NOT be chopped up in a meat grinder-
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Silver groaned slightly as their eyes slowly opened… thinking, hoping even that all of what they just experienced was another lucid dream… again.
Yet, of course, it wasn't as Silver's arm was picked up and cloth gently wrapped around their right hand and muffled voices of an argument was nearby while their head throbbed in pain.
They were in… some kind of room, rather small for all of them frankly a door with no battery next to it… a few lights, a few boxes and bins… simple but small room.
Silver slowly opened their eyes, everything blurry since their glasses were taken off, so to them it was literally impossible to tell where they were exactly… but they could feel an elastic hand gently wrapping them and fur around them like a makeshift bed… a breathing blue and purple bed but still better than full on concrete floor.
“What the hell…?” Silver mumbled when coming back to earth
“Language.” A voice said in response, the same one patching them up.
“When the hell…?” Silver mumbled, quickly recognizing the same voice of the pink spider that tried to kill them like an hour ago
Silver's left hand absentmindedly tried to feel around for their glasses… Berri notices the moment the larger pink spider spoke as the argument stopped and Berri went over, grabbing and putting on Silver's glasses.
“What did Mommy just say-” The same, familiar voice of the giant spider that tried to kill Silver about an hour or two ago give or take said in slight annoyance.
“... guess that wasn't a dream.” Silver mumbled looking at everyone… PJ even moves a bit to lick Silver's hand, earning him a soft but slightly weak chuckle and a pet on the head as PJ was being a makeshift bed for them temporarily.
“... where are we…?” They asked.
“We moved from the train station to here-” Berri started, before being interrupted by a worried Bunzo who limped over “I'm so sorry Star! I didn't mean to! My cymbal fell off and-”
“Easy there bud, I'm not mad at you, take a breath.” Silver said after a moment to calm the rabbit, gently patting and ruffling his head, luckily they really weren't mad at him… They were all just in an actual train accident after all, they understood that the magnets just went off and that was a lucky shot.
“As I was saying…” Berri said as she gave an annoyed look at Bunzo before looking back at Silver. “We moved from the train to here… not sure where we are but… I don't think we're exactly alone…”
“Why…? Did you see a blue hand or something?” Silver asked, still recovering and coming back from unconsciousness, but was there enough to understand what was happening… that and in general they have a hard time getting up from places warm and fuzzy, which is exactly what PJ is at the moment.
“I'm up here.” A male voice said from above the ceiling tiles, making the majority of toys there jump in surprise… even PJ jumped as Silver felt the dog curl up as an attempt to protect Silver as they're down.
Silver paused before looking up… then fully processed that both of the bigger body spiders were there. “Wait… how did you two…? Both of you weren't on the train…”
“I saw the direction where Poppy decided to take you all and followed it… After the derailing, I brought you all here with help, of course” He replied to a nod to Mommy LongLegs The blue spider explained, mostly hidden in the shadows above beyond a hand, lifting up the tile slightly so he wasn't too muffled.
“Mommy was on the train too… in the last cart… Mommy snuck on after… Well, you already know what happened with the… thing.” The pink one explained, keeping it shorter, but enough for Silver to get the picture as she slightly gestured to her own cut up hand from the grinder she was nearly crushed in… that they both were nearly crushed in frankly.
"... how's your hand?" Silver asked after a moment... awkwardness was... still in the air between them... but also a silent mutual respect... it was... odd overall.
"... fine, " She replied, keeping it short... which... confused most of the others around, but none spoke up since they were all still, internally, scared of her.
Silver noddee before they slowly sat up with a little help from PJ movinghis body a bit. “Where's, ow fuck, Poppy now?
“We're unsure, I couldn't find her anywhere.” Daddy Longlegs said from above.
Soon enough a… phone could be heard ringing somewhere… “... eh…?” Silver mumbled before slowly trying to get up, Mommy LongLegs instinctively helping at least to get them on their feet as Silver grabbed the phone thing.
“Hello…?” They said into it, confused.
A voice came out the other end… sounded like an actual child. “Hey…! Hey! Can you hear me?”
Silver paused, glancing at everyone else. “Uh yeah… who is this?”
The child's voice ignored the question for now. “You all look kinda lost! I don’t want you all to die… so I'm gonna help you!”
“... wait, look? You can see us???” Silver said in confusion before looking up at the blue spider above them. “No one else is up here that I can see…” He said quietly.
Silver looked back at the phone. “Who are you, bud?” they asked, wanting an answer now as they looked for any cameras or… anything really
Again, the voice ignored that question for now. “Look at the tube thing on the back wall!” Soon, a battery came out of it. “You can use that battery to open the door!”
Silver glanced at everyone… they instantly didn't trust this voice at all despite the battery. “... thanks… I guess random … kid voice…”
They shook off any sleep before sighing. “... we should move…” They glanced at Mommy LongLegs “You going with Pa I'm guessing?” Silver asked, referring to Daddy Longlegs.
Mommy LongLegs only nodded once as Silver thought. “... do you two think you can take Bunzo and PJ at least to Playcare? We can all meet up there and figure out a way to get out from there.”
“One problem there, Star…” Daddy Longlegs said from above. “Catnap practically runs there now…”
Silver sighed. “Of course it can't be easy…” they mumbled before speaking “ok, let's still meet up there, keep low or uh… high in your cases, just in case and I'll figure out what to do… I don't know much about this… I'm guessing this is a Bigger Body version of Catnap right…?” Silver asked as they soon got an confirmation via the elastic blue hand’s thumbs up that stretched down slightly. “Ok noted… either way i don't know much about them… I'm guessing the red gas or whatever it was called was part of it though from the whole recall… so that's a whole problem…”
Silver thought and sighed.
Daddy Longlegs gently picked up PJ and put the caterpillar pug thing on his back. “Take it easy Silver… you just woke up from passing out.”
“I'll be fine, go guys go ahead.” Silver said as Bunzo hugged their leg as another apology for being the one to unintentionally knock them out, which Silver patted his head in response, accepting it since it was a genuine accident.
Soon enough Bunzo was grabbed by Mommy LongLegs as she followed her blue counterpart above the rafters to head to Playcare.
Silver sighed as Berri climbed onto them as Silver started moving.
“... i have a bad feeling about that kid…” Silver mumbled to Berri, who only paused as they put the battery in to open the door, revealing the now absolutely crashed train… even on fire. “Jesus fuck-”
The same child's voice rang out of the phone. “Woah! Did you do that!? I guess that's where you passed out!” Silver looked at the phone in hand with a mumble of “not intentionally…” as the child's voice kept talking over their mumble of a response.
“I know you're probably still mad at Poppy for not letting you escape… but she needs you! We need you! You are our mission! Together, we can save a lot of people, including you!” Silver… didn't trust this voice at all as they slowly walked towards where Playcare would be.
“Playcare is straight ahead, home of Catnap… one of The Smiling Critters. There used to be… eight of them? I think? Now it's just him, Playcare is his church, his hunting ground. Whatever he wants it to be…. You better get moving quickly… we'll keep in touch…”
The next words made Silver stop dead in theory tracks. “Oh! and by the way, my name is Ollie! Nice to meet you!” and with that the phone stopped.
Silver paused and looked at the phone. “Ollie…?” They mumbled quietly. “That's… not right…” Berri looked at Silver, confused.
“Do… you know them…?”
“... i knew and Ollie yes… from here… but… he would sound much older than this now…” Silver said, thinking. “... fuck…” they mumbled before continuing on, though alert now.
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Skipping that one puzzle, the Kickin cutout (which they did listen to), and the audio on the express to save time ✨️
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Silver sighed seeing the familiar, but decaying area. “Damn… this place is falling apart…” they mumbled as they looked at the window, slowly coming down as it went at a weird angle to stop, nearly making Silver fall over from it. “Oh shit-” they said as they caught themself.
They soon stepped off once it stopped, Berri partly in the slightly opened backpack, looking out of it. The phone rang again as Berri handed it over from the bag to Silver's hand. “thanks Berri.”
The same Child's voice came out. “pssst, it's me again, Ollie! Cool place, right?” Silver glanced around slightly at the state of this place now, slowly walking down the stairs. “The kids used to live here, now look at it… anyways… Do you see that statue in the middle of the room? Take the stairs to go under it, there's a really cool room in there that powers all of Playcare! I can give you a key down there.”
Silver took a breath before speaking, pressing the button on the side so their voice can be heard. “Hey, Ollie. I have a question for you…”
“Sure! What do you need to ask?” Ollie said as Silver looked at the phone.
“How old are you…?” Silver asked, their voice flat, which wasn't common especially to kids… but Silver knew something was up with this voice…. Which gave them no answer.
“... you should just go under the statue!” Ollie said, trying to remain the same chipper voice as before.
Silver slowly glanced around before looking slowly at a nearby camera, one of the ones in the fake Bron Statues nearby, they were everywhere around the main area, Silver looked at the closest one directly, staring at it blankly as even their eyes absentmindedly went blank, a habit they picked up from a side gig at a haunted house from over the years. “... you have access to the cameras, don't you?” Silver said.
“... You should really go under the statue…” Ollie said… The chipper facade ever so slightly broke into more of a warning, but keeping up the child voice, as Silver stared blankly at the cameras.
“... Just know that I don't trust you with a single inch of my being.” Silver replied back before hearing a distant noise coming from out of the toy store area, catching their attention as they moved to go into the underground area, going in to hide as they quietly shut the door, better there than being attacked.
Silver glanced around the familiar area… slowly walking and looking around at the faint memories that were still in their mind… going to the deposit area, opening the gate as the key went down. Silver slowly grabbed it.
The phone spoke up again, Ollie's voice being back to chipper like nothing happened, like he was hiding at their… mini conversation. “So you got the key… Now the question you're probably asking yourself is ‘Where does it go?’, well, head back out and you should find a door just to the left of the cable car you took down here.”
Silver looked at the phone, still not trusting this Ollie person… at all. For now they decided to look around this area, seeing unplugged stuff… and a few lockers hidden away. Silver paused before walking to one, gently wiping the dust and grime off of one… “Colt Sawyer” it said.
Silver was quickly hit with a melancholy feel as. “... Hi uncle Colt…” they softly said before slowly opening the locker to see a couple of his things he was never really able to get back… a bag of his supplies… an extra company work jacket including an extra prosthetic leg as Silver gently grabbed and cleared old cobwebs and dust off of… a faint chicken scratch writing on it of that same name. They also grabbed the jacket too, a pin on it having his name and his title as an electrician on it.
Berri peeked out of the bag to look at what Silver was holding. “Is… that a full on leg?”
“Yeah… Colt was an amputee; train accident when he was a kid… but it never really held him down though. Still the most upbeat and jolly man I've ever known. That man could challenge Santa Claus at who was more jolly.” They said back as they gently folded the jacket, handing it to Berri to put it in the bag, which she did in slight confusion.
Berri paused, thinking “was… Colt the man that gave…”
“You to me? Yes.” Silver finished the sentence before Berri could, but confirmed her suspicion
“That explains the limp…”
“Yeah he always had that… I think his prosthetic was always slightly shorter than it should be… Couldn't afford a new one so he just dealt with it.” Silver said as they started looking more to find a gas mask… they paused and grabbed it.
“... right, the red gas… I almost forgot about that issue…” Silver mumbled as they took the mask and checked. “Shit… no filter for it though." They looked in the locker, even moving some things around to find nothing. They sighed and put it back. “Useless without a filter…”
They checked what else was in the locker… nothing else really useful was in there. Silver paused, looking at the prosthetic leg, gently moving a thumb over the crudely scratched words before closing the locker and placing the leg gently against it. “It'll slow us down… but I'll be back for it.” Silver mumbled to themself before slowly walking out of the area, at first only opening it a sliver to check if the coast was clear… before going out fully to where this ‘Ollie’ person gave a key to… left of the cable cart.
As they walked, they tried to test something as they grabbed the phone thing. “Testing, testing… is there anyone there?”
Ollie, unsurprisingly, picked up “Yeah im-”
Silver interrupted instantly. “Anyone besides this guy? I wasn't kidding when I said I don't trust you…”
Soon… another voice perked up on the phone. “I'm here too, but why don't you trust Ollie?”
“Poppy? Where in the world did you go?! I went through a literal train wreck because of you! I probably have some kind of brain damage because of that too…” Silver said.
Silence soon came out… no response. “... Poppy?”
Silver sighed after more silence came out. “Oh for fucks sake…” they groaned, annoyed before walking through the door and letting one more message in to test if Poppy was listening or not still as they walked. “Mommy LongLegs isn't dead by the way.”
“... WAIT WHAT-”
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Incert walking (+ Poppy arguing with Silver for not actually killing Mommy LongLegs like she thought they did) and dealing with the red smoke thing bc… yeah, I'm not writing all of that. But just know at least when Ollie was telling them about moving the smoke from one side to another they looked around for an instruction manual at what that'd do before actually doing the puzzles… oh and they got the Grabpack upgrade too ofc!
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The power out… Silver was on their way to the statue area to get the key to go to this ‘Home Sweet Home’ area… “lovely… just lovely” Silver groaned as they walked out, being cautious. In the main area, they glanced up at the fake sky and clouds to see a familiar blue spider on one of the clouds. They perked up instantly at seeing him.
They grabbed the key around their neck and used the little bit of light there to signal where they were to him, making the spider look over and visibly follow their way under the statue.
Soon enough, after Silver went in, the door opened as Daddy Longlegs walked in... on all fours due to the low ceiling, which... wasn't creepy at all to see.
But soon a familiar yellow bunny hopped down from his back and hopped to Silver
"Hi Bunzo." Silver greeted and patted the bunny's head who's hugged their leg before hopping around slightly to explore... probably has a somewhat younger kid's soul in him from Silver's guess.
“What happened?” he asked as he squeezed himself into the room, keeping an eye on Bunzo exploring.
“Someone cut off the power when I was doing something… heading to the backup generator in Home Sweet Home now.” Silver replied as Berri peeked out of the bag.
The blue spider perked up in… Alarm if anything and sighed. “... Just… be safe… ok?”
Silver looked over and sarcastically replied “no, I'm gonna throw all caution to the wind and run in guns blazing- of course i'm going to be cautious and careful.”
“There's no need to be smart there.” He replied instantly, like a stern dad... which his character technically was.
They went over and grabbed the key before asking quietly. “By the way… do you know or knew an Ollie here?”
“Ollie? The only Ollie I knew was one of the orphans…”
Silver nodded, confirming their suspicion slightly while thinking more. “That's what I thought… but… am I insane thinking that, if he's still alive he'd be… older… or at least sound older in a way...? Or if he was a toy he just wouldn't remember his name?”
“... it's hit or miss, not many of us remember our human selves unless the doctors refer to us by those names, or we find files of ourselves… I personally haven't and I don't remember my original name.” Daddy Longlegs replied as Silver nodded slightly in response.
“Noted then… so 50/50…” Silver mumbled the last part in thought, before nodding ever so slightly. “... either way everyone can come in here, it seems safe in here at least despite it being kinda small for two of you guys… but stay alert, ok?”
Daddy Longlegs nodded slightly in response as Silver spoke “I'll come back in a bit, stay safe… and I'll do the same.” Silver said before going up to go to Home Sweet Home.
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Ik usually it's interpreted that in the game the player was knocked out and had the nightmare labyrinth dream… well… since of how I made the red mist work for Silver; that didn't happen to them (That labyrinth dream instead is given to Berri who was completely knocked out inside the backpack).
Nonetheless Silver slowly found out the lore that they didn't even know via news audio hallucinations playing that Silver had tucked away far, far in their memory… oh and hallucinations of Nightmare Huggy too (absolutely confusing tf out of a very real Catnap watching Silver as they run from… literally nothing and why tf Silver isnt knocked tf out already).
I guess technically, Silver would actually get this whole chapter done faster than the in-game player bc of that.
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Silver groaned and shook theory head, trying to snap out of the hallucinations as they walked… They managed to find a mask with a filter, which was good as they used that occasionally. Berri was… out. The red mist completely knocked out the small toy and Silver knew that as they moved silently, alert and silently having auditory hallucinations of old news broadcasts they long forgotten about Elliot Ludwig, plus their usual vision of shadows oh spirits walking pass tenfold currently as they keep… staring and moving quickly away or in one direction or another… but Silver pushed forwards nonetheless.
Silver carefully opened a door to a room, glancing around before being startled by Kissy Missy sitting on a bed looking at a photo. “Jesus you scared me…”
Kissy looked over slowly for a moment.
“... uh…are you a hallucination too or not…? I honestly can't tell right now…” Silver asked after a moment, at least being honest.
Kissy didn't reply as she looked back at the photo.
“... ok then… given you don't look like the huggy thing I dealt with earlier I'm guessing you're actually there…” Silver was… confused, but didn't want to push any bigger body. “Uh… just… take it easy ok…? Be careful of this mist… I'll probably see you later … Others are under the central statue if you wanna see them…” Silver said before moving on, letting Kissy be for now as they toy glanced up at Silver leaving the room.
After a bit of solving puzzles silently, which was unlike Silver normally… Silver noticed something… off… large, slowly footsteps above them…
Silver looked up, slowly as a… pink, almost rodent-like tail was peeking out. “ohhh that does not bode well…” Silver mumbled before the tail practically whipped up there, starting both whoever was up there and Silver as they moved back quickly… both of them stopped… silent like both sides were waiting for the other to make a move first…
The thing above very slowly moved to peek down as a familiar structure of a smiling critter base was there… but it was…. Different, one that even Silver had never seen before, white and this dirty pink… looking kinda like some kind of rodent… yet half of its body was… buried… badly… half of the body, and fur, was a burnt mess.
This… thing, obviously a bigger body, and Silver only stared at each other in confusion and alert on both ends, both sides freezing for… a while before the pink one slowly spoke, hesitant. “... are you alright…?” an oddly soft, motherly even, voice came out of it, catching Silver off guard.
“Uh… yeah… I can ask you the same…” Silver replied before asking. “... who are you…?” They asked after a moment.
“Just someone trying to get supplies for others…” The bigger body replied.
“... others…? Like other humans or… toys?”
“Toys… our safe space on a lower level…” The pink and white toy said, Silver nodded, keeping it in mind. “Fair enough…” Silver paused before thinking, something pinged in them to at least offer something to help… obviously these toys, many of which they are assuming being children, were going through actual hell after all… Silver grabbed their bag and pulled out a roll of clean-ish bandages. “Here… maybe this'll help… someone I guess.”
The… woman? Rat…? It was hard to tell what she was from this angle, but a tail came down slowly and took the roll gently from Silver's hands. “... thank you… supplies are running thin here… already risky that I'm here with that cat around any corner…”
“Fair enough… uh… by the way; The Main and the Game Station area is safer now… Long story on how I know that, but… there may be supplies there, I don't know.” Silver said
The rodent woman paused, slightly surprised but nodded. “. . . Thank you, what's your name?”
“Why exactly…?” Silver said, not fully sure to trust this… toy, even if she gave no bad intentions.
“So I can give the leader a heads up that you're a good one if you end up coming to the level Safe Haven is on.”
Silver paused, nodding slightly. “... Silver, but I'm also known around as Star or Starlight.”
“Ah… I've heard of you.” The toy said, making Silver raise an eyebrow.
“Many of the toys who remember you say good things about you… your uncle on the other hand… not so much-”
“Which uncle? Two of them worked here.” Silver asked.
“... Harley.” the pink toy said with… disdain in her voice, obviously she didn't like the man… and Silver silently couldn't judge her since even they as a small child didn't like to be around him…. They couldn't even imagine being around that workaholic all the time as a toy.
“Odd question… but do you know what his job was here…? Because I happened to inherit his house and… uh… found some…” Silver paused, trying to figure out how to word it in the… least concerning way possible, “concerning things in there, to say the least.”
The pink rodent toy sighed softly, looking around. “... it'll be better to hear about what he's done from a more… knowledgeable source in this case.”
“Oh god what the hell did he do???” Silver mumbled to themself.
“Heard that.” The toy said from above. “But… if you go to the prison area… you'll find out.”
“Priso- oh shit right I forgot there was a full on prison here-” Silver said, remembering how… scared of that place they were as a kid… always hearing the distant screaming and banging on walls… muffled screams, begging to be let out, to see their friends, to go home… It sent a silent shiver up their spine just thinking about it. “Im… guessing this… Safe Haven is on that floor…?”
“Yes… I'm sure we'll meet again there… I'll let the Doughman know you're a good one though; stay safe, Starlight.”
Silver nodded slightly, having… no clue what she meant by ‘the Doughman’, but nodding nonetheless as Silver waved a goodbye as they heard the footsteps above go away somewhere else… Silver thought for a moment, groaning slightly as they started to get a migraine as they went off to fix this damn generator.
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Yep, jumpscare Blossom is here! Yes both Blossom and Silver accidentally scared tf out of each other and had a freeze reaction lol.
Also yes, Blossom works with Doey/Safe Haven to get supplies from different levels since… well the level that Safe Haven is on is practically barren if supplies, and Blossom can easily go to different levels (not as easily as Doey but you get the point). Though because of… low supplies all around, she's not oftenly actually in Safe Haven herself because… well she's trying her best to get supplies.
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Silver took a breath as they stepped outside of the Home, looking around… before soon being tackled by a bigger pink furry toy. “WAIT WAIT FRIENDLY, FRIENDLY!!” Silver said instinctively before Kissy seemed to realize who she just tackled and backed off, letting Silver let out a sigh. They saw Kissy's hand clench slightly go to her chest, then moved in a circle. Silver knew… at least the basic ASL signs, so they knew it was an apology… or her attempt of doing that sign since of how her arm worked. “You're fine, just startled me a bit… red mist got you?”
Before Kissy could reply a familiar red haired doll ran over, probably hearing Silver yelling before pausing, seeing Silver sit up from the ground, shaking off some dust.
“I see Kissy found you.” Poppy said before remembering something as her behavior switched quickly to anger, “but YOU DIDN'T KILL MOMMY?!”
“To be fair you didn't even let me speak to explain what happened before putting me on the train.” Silver replied, which made Poppy groan.
“Where is she then?!” “I'm guessing with the others now.”
“... others?” Poppy puzzled as she slightly calmed down, definitely not completely calm but enough to not yell.
“Yeah, I've been trying to save as many of you guys as I can; have you seriously not noticed the giant caterpillar pug and the oversized yellow rabbit with cymbals when we got on the train???” Silver answered as they raised a hand towards the general direction above where the train crash was
Poppy only looked at them confused, calming down more. “But… how-”
“I have my ways, Poppy. Charisma and empathy can go a long way. I know you don't know me well since… well I wasn't oftenly around you as a child… but the only thing you should know is that i'm not heartless.” Silver said, “If there's a way for me to not kill, toy or not, I'll take it instantly. And with Mommy back there, I found a way to not kill her. That was on you to assume I did.”
Poppy went silent before a sigh left her, as well as her anger at Silver. Kissy picked up the doll and put her on her shoulder. “... you deserve an explanation for… everything though, so follow us.” She said as Kissy started walking, Silver followed as Berri was waking up in the bag in a panic, making Silver pause and get the strawberry spider out of the dark space and calm her down while following… which started to help after a few seconds as Berri was clung to Silver, who gently put a comforting hand on her back, they could feel the toy shaking in fear…
As Silver dealt with a scared Berri, Poppy comforted a tense Kissy, ironically… All of them were frankly tense… but if anyone, Kissy Missy had the best reason to be tense there… she may be dealing with side effects of that Red Mist after all.
They soon got to a breaker box as Poppy opened it and brought down an elevator, getting them all on Poppy spoke after an awkward second. “Listen… I'm not your enemy, but what's going on down here is bigger than all of us. If i knew you didn't kill Mommy LongLegs I would've never brought you down here-”
“But you did.” Silver replied before continuing on, as they gently touched the bandage one of the other toys put around their head earlier… slightly wet from assuming some blood that came out, but not a concerning amount.
“It's far too late now Poppy, I'm already down here, and we both know the only safe way back up is completely blocked now.”
Poppy stopped and just looked at Silver, she was aware their words were accurate… Kissy looked over and slowly patted Silver's head, probably trying to see the bandage. “... I’m fine Kissy, don't worry, just an accident that happened earlier.”
“... We still need help-” Poppy started
“And I will.” Silver said, Poppy stopped in surprise.
“I can't just let you all die down here, I'd feel too much guilt if I just left now… especially since there's even more somewhere… Safe Haven is what I heard its called?”
Poppy looked at them “how do you already know about …?”
“Ran into a pink… rodent thing earlier. A bigger body for sure, burn marks everywhere, smelled like Cherry Blossoms and ash… she was nice though, said she was getting supplies … said something about letting a… Doughman know I was a good one…? Whatever that meant…?”
Kissy perked up at the description alone… hopeful even.
“... Blossom is alive…?” Poppy said.
“Is that her name?” Silver asked as Kissy nodded to answer. “... well she's alive for sure, I gave her the heads up that the main and Game Station areas were now clear for her to get supplies from.”
“...but who's the… Doughman?”
Poppy thought before replying as the elevator stopped. “... an ally, I'm sure you'll meet him later.”
Silver nodded as they asked. “I'm guessing the Prototype is still around…?”
Poppy nodded slightly. “Unfortunately… I'm guessing you can tell they're part of this situation…” the gate opened as Poppy nodded to the red button there. “... do the honor?”
Silver walked over and pressed the button, turning on the electricity everywhere, and the lights.
They went back as Kissy was sitting down now in a corner, gently hugging herself.
“Yeah… I can tell… thought they were just… Theo's imaginary friend in the beginning.” Silver admitted.
“... how did you find out they were real?” Poppy asked, this time in genuine curiosity.
“I saw them… well, the hand part. Through a wall over there;” they nodded to one of the fake sky and clouds wall across them, where the mini playground was. “That was years ago obviously… but seeing that hand… like it was stalking me and the other kids around… set that confirmation in stone.” The elevator started going down… slow like before.
“... scared me to my core honestly…” They admitted before thinking silently to change the… heavy subject, glancing at the ground before deciding to ask Poppy something. “Hey uh… random question… but wasn't there an Ollie… like in the orphanage…?”
“... I don't not know-” Poppy said before Kissy nodded.
Silver looked at Kissy, since she answered. “That's what I thought… I could've sworn I played with a kid back then named Ollie… but… I can't remember his face at all…” Silver said, trying to remember.
“... then why don't you trust Ollie…?” Poppy asked.
Silver looked at her before replying, grabbing the walkie talkie from their bag. “... because Ollie was older, older than me at the time and I remember that, other kids here would pick on me for my friends usually being older than me. I remember that well. I may not remember his face, but I know in my gut that whoever is speaking to us on these things is not actually Ollie.”
“... but he's been nothing but truthful to me”
“Poppy, how does he have access to the cameras then? Why does whoever is on the other side avoid questions about themself? I heard them drop the act slightly earlier, didnt you hear it too? The less chipper attitude talking to me? Like they were caught off guard, how odd it was that they had access to this kind of thing? Have you never realized that Ollie can see us?” Silver said as they pointed towards the closest Bron statue camera, which was a good bit away, not able to angle to see them… at least what Silver can guess in this case.
Soon the elevator stopped at the ground as they got to the bottom. Poppy only looked at Silver in thought and confusion as they put down their arm from pointing. Kissy blinked and, at least from the minimal facial expressions she could make, seemed to realize how odd it was too… how… convenient Ollie had it compared to everyone else in this hell… Silver noticed the pink toy realizing but didn't mention it… but at least that was closure that Silver wasn't going insane.
Poppy looked to the side and looked back at Silver quickly “... Catnap is coming, you can't stay here… keep yourself safe…” Silver glanced around and nodded slightly as they got off the elevator. Once they got up Poppy and Kissy went back up… It was subtle, but Poppy refused to look at Silver… while Kissy did with that same look… Silver nodded slightly to Kissy, a mutual understanding at the topic they just addressed… until Silver flinched in surprise that loud ass ringing from the walkie talkie…
They rolled their eyes but picked it up as they heard Ollie ramble on… everything sounded… fake now from the voice…
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Skipping the whole talking and plugging in Home Sweet Home bc… its basic. But both the Longlegs, PJ, and Bunzo are under the statue safely, and Silver did quietly check up on them and if everyone was alright after Ollie started talking and took the key for the school.
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Silver opened the door and went down stairs of this… school. They've, shockingly, never have been in there, so had no clue what to expect… but faintly they could remember hearing something about someone named ‘Miss Delight’ or something along those lines
Ollie kept talking, mostly babbling to Silver, but one quite through static caught their attention before Ollie was cut off… “You won't be alone in there.”
Berri peeked out the bag before a pause. “... I remember this place…”
Silver looked over. “You do?... well at least one of us does-”
Soon enough the announcement system went on, scaring both Silver and Berri… seemingly an automated message, but they were so loud.
“This is Miss Delight speaking! Please excuse the interruption. Students, stay in your seat until the bell has rung! And no going in the halls without a hall pass!”
Silver glanced at Berri before she got an idea from the message and went out of the bag.
“Huh? Berri, what are you doing?” Silver asked as they followed the spider to a teacher's desk nearby.
“Getting a hall pass, if who's in here is Miss Delight we may be able to calm her or something with one… or two.” Berri explained as she opened a drawer, looking around before going to the next one.
Silver paused before nodding. “... actually that may work-” Silver listened as in the distance they heard… something moving… hard to tell what or who but it was something… but as soon as it started it just… stopped.
Silver glanced at Berri as she pulled out two old wooden sticks, handing one to Silver.
It was… old, but it very faintly had the words ‘hall pass’ on it.
Berri went back, closing the backpack as this time she stayed out of it to lead Silver instead.
Through puzzles Berri was leading and pointing where to go as she held the two hallways passes for now. The announcements came on again, this time… it definitely wasn't automated… “Wait… I remember you! Yes, I remember! I've seen you through the windows with the other kids! Oh… have you grown… I don't think we've properly met though!” After a moment she seemed to fully process that Silver was there there. “Wait… how are you… alive…? And here…?”
Silver was confused as they glanced around, lost for the most part as they listened to the unfamiliar voice.
The announcements went off as after every sentence there was a pause“Hm? Barb? Oh… Bard said you're looking for the kids.”
“I am not actually-” Silver said to no one
Miss Delight continued on, obviously not hearing Silver. “Catnap wouldn't like that you're here… You should leave, for your own safety.”
Silver paused at the message before glancing at Berri. “Wait… is Miss Delight an adult? Like when she… y’know?”
Berri nodded slightly in response as she looked around.
“... then she can be reasoned with slightly easier…” Silver said before they moved with an idea now as they moved forwards.
“Wait wait what are we doing???” Berri asked.
“What I’m doing, Berri. If Catnap refuses to come in here because of one person, and as an adult, I can try to talk to them, try to reason and we can gain another ally… one possibly stronger than what we're up against.” Silver said as they kept moving.
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Skipping a bit, but Silver and Berri did watch the tape and the other announcement from Miss Delight… but for once i had an idea for the cutout.
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Silver went up and pressed a button of the Miss Delight cutout. "Hello, students! Find my sisters and I to learn facts across a variety of subjects. Press my button to hear some facts on anatomy!"
Silver looked at it. “Are these morbid facts? Because I have some as well.” they pressed the button again.
"Did you know that there are sixty thousand miles of blood vessels in the human body? For comparison, the Earth around the equator is almost twenty-five thousand miles!” The cutout said.
Silver paused, that was… normal actually, so they pressed it again.
"The smallest bone in your body is the stapes in your ear. Still, damage it, and you risk losing your hearing!”
Again… normal actually… another press.
"Want to learn more about human organs? Pay close attention in class!”
“... huh… those were… normal, actually. That's a first for these…” Silver said.
“... wait, those are normal in your book???” Berri asked, concerned now.
“Yeah I thought she was going to mention mites that live in eyelashes or that if your head is chopped off you keep consciousness and stay alive for… like 20 seconds or something like that?”
“... Silver what the fuck-”
“Uncle Harley and my Mother were both silently into the disturbing things of life, of course I know disturbing things! What do you expect?”
Berri was… silently disturbed as they continued on… Why were there so many batteries in this place???
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Skipping a bit till the teacher shows up bc... yeah you don't wanna read nothing and I don't wanna write nothing
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Silver and Berri were startled at the generator nearly blowing up… but seeing the teacher's face all… wrong was more disturbing.
“Oh gods-” Silver started before seeing Miss Delight… stop, just… freeze… which absentmindedly made Silver do the same while facing the teacher.
Berri paused, looking at the two before realizing. “Ah great… you both do the same thing when scared.” She said before getting down and, at least ●trying● to calmly talk to the woman while being scared.
“Uh… Miss Delight…? We both got hall passes…?” She started.
Silver paused before breaking out of their own frozen state, shaking it off. They took a breath before going over slightly. “Listen… Well, I know what you're doing right now because I do the same thing. Two, I just want to talk with you, ma'am.”
Berri backed up and climbed on Silver with minor help as Silver continued. “Question is right now … is do you want to get out of here?”
… no response… but Miss Delight did try to suddenly swing at the two with her… pencil… mace…?
“Ok woah! No need for that-” Silver started before she moved, causing Silver to instinctively start running… failing to see that Miss Delight actually couldn't keep up and was limping quickly after them.
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Skip the puzzle and chase scene thing, but Silver the whole time was trying to talk sense into her.
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Silver ran as the gate closed… they looked over to see Miss Delight running after, trying to slide under but… the door shut onto her arm, making her cry in pain… as the force of the door cut her arm fully off.
“Holy shit-” Silver said as they went over to help the teacher woman against a stable wall… who was too in shock to stop them.
Berri quickly went in the bag, failing to find any bandages, “we don't have any left-" she said.
Silver paused before gently taking off the bandages around their own head from earliest to use… not the most sanitary yes but… it was needed as they wrapped the arm.
“Shit…” they said as they glanced at the decapitated arm… the pencil mace was next to the limp arm too… on the other side of the door.
“So uh… how much does it take to rip someone's arm off?” Silver asked, hoping to… at least ease the silence as they wrapped her… now nonexistent arm…
“3000-5000 newtons…” Miss Delight said instantly, without a second thought… even her teeth, of course taking most of her face now, moved as she talked, her eyes moved to look at Silver as well… blank… but… she wasn't trying to murder now at least.
Silver paused… not expecting that. “... I was joking but uh… I'll believe that answer.”
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Skipping a bit bc Silver is just wrapping Miss Delight up… and given how you exit the School…
Yeah Silver had to take Miss Delight with them through that… long story short, it wasn't fun for any of them. Because Miss Delight never actually taught Silver she had no clue what to talk about… and Silver just… not being social unless spoken to first led them to a standstill.
Btw they didn't listen to the Hoppy audio (rare ik) bc at least Silver wanted to get Miss Delight back to everyone else.
Btw yes Silver got the finger gun, but didn't mess with it at all until much later
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As Silver and the humanoid… toy? Was Miss Delight a toy? Who knows… nonetheless they walked… At some point, with Berri's help Miss Delight's sleeve was tied in a knot at the bottom of… well what's left of her right arm anyways.
Silver had their arm under Miss Delight to help her walk… since she's been limping that whole time… and only after that… incident that Silver noticed.
They both stopped seeing… a shrine… of some sort… the two looked at each other in mutual confusion… before Catnap went over and… prayed to it…? It was hard to tell… but Silver had to practically piggyback Miss Delight downwards soon after Catnap left
“Shit uh… do you know how to get out of here…?” Silver asked
“No… I don't know where we are currently.” Miss Delight admitted.
“Me and you both then…”
They soon got on solid ground… and started walking.
“Playhouse… Do you know your way out of there…?” Silver asked.
Miss Delight nodded in response. “Yes… but im… not exactly equipped to be in there alone now…”
Berri looked over with an idea. “... I can go with you, lead you to the others safely.”
Silver nodded. “That may work… hold on…” Silver went into a side pocket of the bag and pulled out a knife before handing it to Berri. “Just in case.”
Berri looked at the pocket knife before at Silver. “... how many knives do you have?”
“3, now go. I'll meet you two when I'm done in the Playhouse. Get the others to properly take care of the… lack of arm situation.”
Berri nodded before going onto Miss Delight's shoulders as they took a separate pathway
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Ngl I completely forgot you end up STRAIGHT into the Playhouse from the school area… so yeah we're losing two characters for my sanity
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Silver walked into a room… hearing a small giggle as a… small… smiling critter was crawling towards them.
Silver paused before instinctively dropping nearly to the ground and moving back towards it.
Why? Even Silver couldn't explain why their first instinct was that… but… it worked, as the small toy quickly freaked out and ran off making a scared noise.
Even Silver didn't process before getting up. “... they can be scared… noted…” they mumbled.
They started looking around, eventually finding a tape. They picked it up and put it in… a.. semi familiar voice came through… Leith Pierre… Silver remembered him… or more of his voice through phone calls on speaker… also a few of the previous tapes had him but still.
"Okay... this is... CatNap. Uhhh... experiment #1188… What's his real name again?" A pause… probably someone replying. “Ah! Okay. Heya Theo! How ya doin' bud? Normally, I'd have Dr. Sawyer do this but he's uhhh... out, let's say. So you got me until they find his replacement."
"First off: congrats! This is officially your 4th year in your new body. And you've made some real progress pal. I was told that when you and the other smiling critters, y'know, DogDay, PickyPiggy, yadda yadda yadda, were added into Playcare, that you weren't really getting along too well with the kids like everybody else was. But look at you now! The kids love ya, and that red smoke. I mean- That's fantastic isn't it?!"
A pause…
"Is his uh, voice thingy still broken-”
A new voice… raspy but practically a whisper. "The Prototype… will save us...”
Leith, assumingly got up and yelled at Catnap "Theo... Nobody's gonna save you. This prison is where you belong. We'll let you out here and there to go see the kids in Playcare, but your home is here. And as for 'The Prototype', his home is in the labs. THIS is your life now. Get used to it.”
Silver froze there after the tape, heart sunk to their stomach. “... that's… where he went…? That's Theo…?”
Silver whispered to themself… they didnt even realize that tears were coming out of their own eyes at this…
They looked at the now blank screen, so many emotions going through them… fear, anger, sadness… There were too many for Silver to be used to all at one time. “... what the hell did they do to everyone…? What did they do to my Uncle…? Fuck… what did he do to be part of this shit too!” They sat down for a bit, thinking through things themself
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Skipping that whole patchwork insane asylum room shit because even i don't know how to explain it… but just know… Silver actually never found out what the hand does, they just kept scaring away the tiny smiling critters by doing weird shit and chasing them… somehow working in their favor
Btw yes they listened to the Bobby Bearhug cutout after… that (they had an anxiety attack btw… they feel… relatively numb after those)
Imna just… skip to the most important part of the Playhouse area!
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As Silver walked they were soon stopped by smelling… vanilla… A familiar scent to them… but one they closely associated with… but the smell of iron was strong too, possibly from fresh blood, hard to say… “Dogday…?” They whispered out loud, shockingly getting a reply, a weak… “help… please…”
Silver quickly followed the noise and froze in shock and horror at the sight of a legless dog up in belts like some sort of messed up religious cross from some church… and alive nonetheless … It was a rare enough sight to see Silver in genuine horror… but an unstable one…. Hell, it even broke the numbness feeling in them from earlier. “Holy shit-”
“You're Poppy's angel-” Dogday started, before Silver cutted in, both from general stress, panic, and… we now shock.
“Starlight… it's me, Starlight… but what the hell happened?!” They said as they went up to the dog… even without legs he was around their height… Silver never actually processed how tall he was as a child… now they were mentally even witnessing him missing half of his normal height… there was so much blood… It overpowered the vanilla at the monent
“... Starlight….? I thought you-” Dogday started as Silver was trying to undo the belts, yet it was difficult to properly undo them from the angle he was tied up in, so instead Silver just tried to cut them off with a pocket knife they silently had, and as quickly as they could without hurting the vanilla scented dog. “I thought you were dead… or turned into one of us-”
Silver looked at him for a moment. “... what do you mean one of you…? Like a toy…? Why would I be a toy?”
Dogday looked back at them silently, not saying anything, as Silver cut off two belts of one arm as Dogday partly fell down… one arm free but raw being hoisted in the air. Silver went and tried to cut the belts off his other arm… successful after a minute. Though they both heard noises… of multiple things coming through the pipes, echoing…
“Star you need to go… now! Go without me! Survive!” Digsay said.
“And im not letting you die!” Silver replied instantly as they cut off the two
… yeah adrenaline was hitting Silver now since their palm was bleeding and they hadn't even noticed yet from cutting the belts. They quickly got Dogday on the back as Silver ran off, for once Silver didn't try to scare them… too many to scare off.
Smaller Smiling Critters started coming out if the vents as Silver bolted through the plastic tunnels which absolutely bruised the fuck out of their knees with Dogday on their back… and even he helped out getting away.
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Cutting out the whole Dogday Chase Scene through a McDonald's Play Place bc… well yeah. But just know that Silver brought Dogday back to their temporary “base” to the others, who were already helping one toy (?) with a missing limb
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“This place is actual hell-”
… yep, first words Silver said as they came back, gently setting a completely legless Dogday down somewhere.
“Oh my god-” Bunzo said as he limped over, still limping... and PJ went over to at least try to use his body to make Dogday more comfortable
“What happened?! And what is your luck with bringing back limbless toys?!” Daddy Longlegs said as he went over, Mommy LongLegs was finishing patching up Miss Delight as best she could… which wasn't bad at all actually, but she was alert too
“Long story but we need… something for him!” Silver said.
“I'll look around different areas for limbs.” Daddy Longlegs said as he moved out to look… possibly for spare body parts or something.
“Try the Toyshop, there may be something there!” Silver said.
Silver went over… to her uncle's prosthetic leg, knocked over but still next to the locker and back over. “I got one leg.” They said and set it down… apparently Dogday recognized it quickly as he spoke.
“But that's your uncle's-” the orange dog started before Silver spoke, still tense from all of this but… at least their head is on straight enough.
“He's dead, Dogday. But if he was alive he'd want someone in need to have it.” Silver said, cutting straight to the point of the bad news…
They set down the old prosthetic leg next to him “you're in need, Dogday. I have other things to remember him by.” They replied.
Dogday didn't argue… too weak after all.
She sighed before asking “Does anyone know how to sew?”
“... I do… but…” Miss Delight replied as she glanced at her arm.
“Right…” Silver sighed, overall just… stressed at this all happening at once.
“... rest.” Dogday said out of nowhere.
Silver looked over at him. “... I cant… not here… you all rest though… ill feel with the rest of this shit…”
Silver went back up and to the Councilor's Offices after getting the key.
“... their selflessness is going to kill them…” Berri said as she got up from helping Miss Delight to go help Dogday… silently, many of them there agreed…
“Just like Colt…” Dogday replied with a weak chuckle as he looked at the prosthetic leg. “... always liked that guy; glad to see someone got part of his personality in that family...”
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Skipping a bit in the office area! But they didn't watch all the videos and… were scared shitless by Catnap multiple times, and listened to Craftycorn cutout. Silver was attacked by Catnap in that one area in the Red Smoke btw, he did knock Silver out so, for once… yeah the Red smoke worked on Silver how its supposed to on people… and more
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“They're so loud… they're so loud…” Silver mumbled, hearing… screams… trying to cover their ears as their Walkie Talkie rang… Silver answered it after a moment as a new voice came through it… “Leave Playcare or I'm coming for you…”
Silver shivered slightly. “... I don't know if this is part of the red smoke hallucinations or not, but I'm literally lost now Theo! Also, rude way to say hi after all this time, damn!”
… the other end there was… a… snort…? Like a hold back of laughter… But before they could ask, the other end hung up.
“... did i just make him laugh with that-?” Silver mumbled before getting up slowly.
Eventually after some walking they foubd… files… of the orphans… Silver looked at them before going through… finding Ollie's file and pulling it out…
… It said he was deceased, that he didn't survive… whatever test was done on him…
Silver's blood ran… cold again as they stared at it for a bit, goosebumps on their arms, hairs raised… then put the file in their bag before going away.
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Ok skipping the rest of the office bc its a whole lotta nothing ngl. Same with the connecting the wires thing
Silver walked in, about to put the blue battery in before the door opened right next to them.
“Oh shit-” they started before seeing the purple cat. “Theo Theo! Its Star easy there-” They started before the gas started coming out. "Yep that's not working twice!"
“Oh double shit-!” They said before running to the elevator… and a creepy Catnap following up. “Oh gods…” they said as they went up…
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Also Silver did not use any flares… because they were aware before that the red mist was… well… explosive to fire. They weren't going to risk it.
Insert whole Catnap fight bc I refuse to write all that repetitive stuff… but just know that Silver IS tripping off of the gas while doing the whole puzzle/tower defense thing….
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Silver shot the hand at the powered thing as Catnap came down, knocking them over.
Seeing the Prototype's hand cone down then go narrow and towards Catnap, Silver quickly moved as they tackled Catnap to his side as the silver hand narrowly missed Catnap; instead only getting part of his face as the purple cat hissed in pain from that.
Catnap a hair away from them before Silver shit him with the hand to back off in pain… trying the red mist made it explode on him too… the door above opened…
But… due to quickly hitting a concrete wall the Silver hand, fingers like needles now bent and some even nearly broken due to the force of trying to get the cat… something above made a cry of… pain before it jolted up back where it came.
Silver stayed quiet as… it all went quiet…
Silver took a breath since they were… clear… and both alive.
Catnap slowly looked over at Silver… most likely a mix of… so many emotions running through him currently… but only one word came out through a deep, even hoarse voice from probably not talking in ages. “Why…?”
Silver looked over. “... because I didn't want you to die, Theo…” they glanced up at where the Prototype's hand came from and a shake of their head, “not like that… not making him stronger.”
Silence went through the two… awkward… but somewhat comfortable, familiar even, as Silver moved over carefully to look at his wounds… which, shockingly, Catnap tolerated as he slowly laid down on his side… tired himself.
Silver paused, looking at his new wound on his face gently. “... you are aware the Prototype was eventually going to kill you to make themself stronger… right?”
“... no…” The cat admitted after a long pause… but even he realized now that they were right… “... I'm so sorry…” he said… he sounded… exhausted… remorseful even…
“Hey… you're ok bud… you'll make up for it with the others… eventually.” Silver said as Catnap gently headbutted their torso and just… kept his head there… he was shaking… like he was trying not to break down right then and there. Silver sighed as they gently petted him… then realized something, and said it to lighten the mood, even if it's slightly. “... I kept my promise at least.”
The cat paused before weakly chuckling, his breathing unsteady… “... yeah… you came back for us…. All of us…”
TWs: Near death experiences, general mentions of death... and decapitation of body parts (... of 2 characters btw, and im guessing yall know one of them already since this is chapter 3 but still.)
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Silver groaned slightly, pacing the small area of the front of the train as the tracks were switched from going to the front of the factory to going down… “Poppy, you bitch, what the hell did they do to you-” Silver groaned in frustration before looking at the yellow rabbit holding his cymbals in the corner, staring at them possibly from confusion or just spacing out. Silver was still frustrated but not at him, not even close to him. “Don't repeat that.” They said just in case he wasn't spacing out.
The train went on for… a while actually, Silver tried to figure out if there was a way to reverse it to switch tracks… Long story short, that answer was a no.
“Fuck… were going to the Playcare…” Silver mumbled as they tried to figure out everything.
“The… what?” Berri asked.
“Playcare; the orphanage.”
“... this place had a-”
“Orphanage yes, I'd visit occasionally as a kid… whenever Uncle Colt had to fix something down here… didn't quite understand what that place was as a kid, I just thought it was a big play area for parents to leave kids… like a daycare y'know? I didn't understand they stayed there unlike me.” Silver said, explaining as the train moved forwards… Silver looked out the window and paused, realizing they're going too fast downhill.
“oh shit- EVERYONE GET DOWN!!” they said as they tried to stop the train from the lever… making it derail and fall over while still sliding down.
Due to the sudden movement one of Bunzo’s cymbals came unhooked from the magnets and hit Silver in the head, successfully knocking them unconscious as they were already on the right door due to the derailing.
“Silver?!” “Star!!” Two voices came out before the train was stopped, finally… the only sign being red and saying the word ‘Playcare’ and pointing further down…
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Time skip bc Silver is unconscious, probably for a good 20-45 minutes to my guess on how long they're out.
Btw yes, everyone survived but did sustain some injuries; bruises and limping at the most shockingly, but Silver got the most damage (and they wouldn't have it any other way).
Mommy LongLegs was in the last cart and came out to help the injured via webs and cloth that Silver had in their bag that Berri got out (hesitantly bc... giant spider suddenly there would scare tf outta her)… after all the smaller toys were afraid of Mommy showing up out of nowhere while Mommy wanted to at least try to return the favor to Silver for letting her live and NOT be chopped up in a meat grinder-
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Silver groaned slightly as their eyes slowly opened… thinking, hoping even that all of what they just experienced was another lucid dream… again.
Yet, of course, it wasn't as Silver's arm was picked up and cloth gently wrapped around their right hand and muffled voices of an argument was nearby while their head throbbed in pain.
They were in… some kind of room, rather small for all of them frankly a door with no battery next to it… a few lights, a few boxes and bins… simple but small room.
Silver slowly opened their eyes, everything blurry since their glasses were taken off, so to them it was literally impossible to tell where they were exactly… but they could feel an elastic hand gently wrapping them and fur around them like a makeshift bed… a breathing blue and purple bed but still better than full on concrete floor.
“What the hell…?” Silver mumbled when coming back to earth
“Language.” A voice said in response, the same one patching them up.
“When the hell…?” Silver mumbled, quickly recognizing the same voice of the pink spider that tried to kill them like an hour ago
Silver's left hand absentmindedly tried to feel around for their glasses… Berri notices the moment the larger pink spider spoke as the argument stopped and Berri went over, grabbing and putting on Silver's glasses.
“What did Mommy just say-” The same, familiar voice of the giant spider that tried to kill Silver about an hour or two ago give or take said in slight annoyance.
“... guess that wasn't a dream.” Silver mumbled looking at everyone… PJ even moves a bit to lick Silver's hand, earning him a soft but slightly weak chuckle and a pet on the head as PJ was being a makeshift bed for them temporarily.
“... where are we…?” They asked.
“We moved from the train station to here-” Berri started, before being interrupted by a worried Bunzo who limped over “I'm so sorry Star! I didn't mean to! My cymbal fell off and-”
“Easy there bud, I'm not mad at you, take a breath.” Silver said after a moment to calm the rabbit, gently patting and ruffling his head, luckily they really weren't mad at him… They were all just in an actual train accident after all, they understood that the magnets just went off and that was a lucky shot.
“As I was saying…” Berri said as she gave an annoyed look at Bunzo before looking back at Silver. “We moved from the train to here… not sure where we are but… I don't think we're exactly alone…”
“Why…? Did you see a blue hand or something?” Silver asked, still recovering and coming back from unconsciousness, but was there enough to understand what was happening… that and in general they have a hard time getting up from places warm and fuzzy, which is exactly what PJ is at the moment.
“I'm up here.” A male voice said from above the ceiling tiles, making the majority of toys there jump in surprise… even PJ jumped as Silver felt the dog curl up as an attempt to protect Silver as they're down.
Silver paused before looking up… then fully processed that both of the bigger body spiders were there. “Wait… how did you two…? Both of you weren't on the train…”
“I saw the direction where Poppy decided to take you all and followed it… After the derailing, I brought you all here with help, of course” He replied to a nod to Mommy LongLegs The blue spider explained, mostly hidden in the shadows above beyond a hand, lifting up the tile slightly so he wasn't too muffled.
“Mommy was on the train too… in the last cart… Mommy snuck on after… Well, you already know what happened with the… thing.” The pink one explained, keeping it shorter, but enough for Silver to get the picture as she slightly gestured to her own cut up hand from the grinder she was nearly crushed in… that they both were nearly crushed in frankly.
"... how's your hand?" Silver asked after a moment... awkwardness was... still in the air between them... but also a silent mutual respect... it was... odd overall.
"... fine, " She replied, keeping it short... which... confused most of the others around, but none spoke up since they were all still, internally, scared of her.
Silver noddee before they slowly sat up with a little help from PJ movinghis body a bit. “Where's, ow fuck, Poppy now?
“We're unsure, I couldn't find her anywhere.” Daddy Longlegs said from above.
Soon enough a… phone could be heard ringing somewhere… “... eh…?” Silver mumbled before slowly trying to get up, Mommy LongLegs instinctively helping at least to get them on their feet as Silver grabbed the phone thing.
“Hello…?” They said into it, confused.
A voice came out the other end… sounded like an actual child. “Hey…! Hey! Can you hear me?”
Silver paused, glancing at everyone else. “Uh yeah… who is this?”
The child's voice ignored the question for now. “You all look kinda lost! I don’t want you all to die… so I'm gonna help you!”
“... wait, look? You can see us???” Silver said in confusion before looking up at the blue spider above them. “No one else is up here that I can see…” He said quietly.
Silver looked back at the phone. “Who are you, bud?” they asked, wanting an answer now as they looked for any cameras or… anything really
Again, the voice ignored that question for now. “Look at the tube thing on the back wall!” Soon, a battery came out of it. “You can use that battery to open the door!”
Silver glanced at everyone… they instantly didn't trust this voice at all despite the battery. “... thanks… I guess random … kid voice…”
They shook off any sleep before sighing. “... we should move…” They glanced at Mommy LongLegs “You going with Pa I'm guessing?” Silver asked, referring to Daddy Longlegs.
Mommy LongLegs only nodded once as Silver thought. “... do you two think you can take Bunzo and PJ at least to Playcare? We can all meet up there and figure out a way to get out from there.”
“One problem there, Star…” Daddy Longlegs said from above. “Catnap practically runs there now…”
Silver sighed. “Of course it can't be easy…” they mumbled before speaking “ok, let's still meet up there, keep low or uh… high in your cases, just in case and I'll figure out what to do… I don't know much about this… I'm guessing this is a Bigger Body version of Catnap right…?” Silver asked as they soon got an confirmation via the elastic blue hand’s thumbs up that stretched down slightly. “Ok noted… either way i don't know much about them… I'm guessing the red gas or whatever it was called was part of it though from the whole recall… so that's a whole problem…”
Silver thought and sighed.
Daddy Longlegs gently picked up PJ and put the caterpillar pug thing on his back. “Take it easy Silver… you just woke up from passing out.”
“I'll be fine, go guys go ahead.” Silver said as Bunzo hugged their leg as another apology for being the one to unintentionally knock them out, which Silver patted his head in response, accepting it since it was a genuine accident.
Soon enough Bunzo was grabbed by Mommy LongLegs as she followed her blue counterpart above the rafters to head to Playcare.
Silver sighed as Berri climbed onto them as Silver started moving.
“... i have a bad feeling about that kid…” Silver mumbled to Berri, who only paused as they put the battery in to open the door, revealing the now absolutely crashed train… even on fire. “Jesus fuck-”
The same child's voice rang out of the phone. “Woah! Did you do that!? I guess that's where you passed out!” Silver looked at the phone in hand with a mumble of “not intentionally…” as the child's voice kept talking over their mumble of a response.
“I know you're probably still mad at Poppy for not letting you escape… but she needs you! We need you! You are our mission! Together, we can save a lot of people, including you!” Silver… didn't trust this voice at all as they slowly walked towards where Playcare would be.
“Playcare is straight ahead, home of Catnap… one of The Smiling Critters. There used to be… eight of them? I think? Now it's just him, Playcare is his church, his hunting ground. Whatever he wants it to be…. You better get moving quickly… we'll keep in touch…”
The next words made Silver stop dead in theory tracks. “Oh! and by the way, my name is Ollie! Nice to meet you!” and with that the phone stopped.
Silver paused and looked at the phone. “Ollie…?” They mumbled quietly. “That's… not right…” Berri looked at Silver, confused.
“Do… you know them…?”
“... i knew and Ollie yes… from here… but… he would sound much older than this now…” Silver said, thinking. “... fuck…” they mumbled before continuing on, though alert now.
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Skipping that one puzzle, the Kickin cutout (which they did listen to), and the audio on the express to save time ✨️
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Silver sighed seeing the familiar, but decaying area. “Damn… this place is falling apart…” they mumbled as they looked at the window, slowly coming down as it went at a weird angle to stop, nearly making Silver fall over from it. “Oh shit-” they said as they caught themself.
They soon stepped off once it stopped, Berri partly in the slightly opened backpack, looking out of it. The phone rang again as Berri handed it over from the bag to Silver's hand. “thanks Berri.”
The same Child's voice came out. “pssst, it's me again, Ollie! Cool place, right?” Silver glanced around slightly at the state of this place now, slowly walking down the stairs. “The kids used to live here, now look at it… anyways… Do you see that statue in the middle of the room? Take the stairs to go under it, there's a really cool room in there that powers all of Playcare! I can give you a key down there.”
Silver took a breath before speaking, pressing the button on the side so their voice can be heard. “Hey, Ollie. I have a question for you…”
“Sure! What do you need to ask?” Ollie said as Silver looked at the phone.
“How old are you…?” Silver asked, their voice flat, which wasn't common especially to kids… but Silver knew something was up with this voice…. Which gave them no answer.
“... you should just go under the statue!” Ollie said, trying to remain the same chipper voice as before.
Silver slowly glanced around before looking slowly at a nearby camera, one of the ones in the fake Bron Statues nearby, they were everywhere around the main area, Silver looked at the closest one directly, staring at it blankly as even their eyes absentmindedly went blank, a habit they picked up from a side gig at a haunted house from over the years. “... you have access to the cameras, don't you?” Silver said.
“... You should really go under the statue…” Ollie said… The chipper facade ever so slightly broke into more of a warning, but keeping up the child voice, as Silver stared blankly at the cameras.
“... Just know that I don't trust you with a single inch of my being.” Silver replied back before hearing a distant noise coming from out of the toy store area, catching their attention as they moved to go into the underground area, going in to hide as they quietly shut the door, better there than being attacked.
Silver glanced around the familiar area… slowly walking and looking around at the faint memories that were still in their mind… going to the deposit area, opening the gate as the key went down. Silver slowly grabbed it.
The phone spoke up again, Ollie's voice being back to chipper like nothing happened, like he was hiding at their… mini conversation. “So you got the key… Now the question you're probably asking yourself is ‘Where does it go?’, well, head back out and you should find a door just to the left of the cable car you took down here.”
Silver looked at the phone, still not trusting this Ollie person… at all. For now they decided to look around this area, seeing unplugged stuff… and a few lockers hidden away. Silver paused before walking to one, gently wiping the dust and grime off of one… “Colt Sawyer” it said.
Silver was quickly hit with a melancholy feel as. “... Hi uncle Colt…” they softly said before slowly opening the locker to see a couple of his things he was never really able to get back… a bag of his supplies… an extra company work jacket including an extra prosthetic leg as Silver gently grabbed and cleared old cobwebs and dust off of… a faint chicken scratch writing on it of that same name. They also grabbed the jacket too, a pin on it having his name and his title as an electrician on it.
Berri peeked out of the bag to look at what Silver was holding. “Is… that a full on leg?”
“Yeah… Colt was an amputee; train accident when he was a kid… but it never really held him down though. Still the most upbeat and jolly man I've ever known. That man could challenge Santa Claus at who was more jolly.” They said back as they gently folded the jacket, handing it to Berri to put it in the bag, which she did in slight confusion.
Berri paused, thinking “was… Colt the man that gave…”
“You to me? Yes.” Silver finished the sentence before Berri could, but confirmed her suspicion
“That explains the limp…”
“Yeah he always had that… I think his prosthetic was always slightly shorter than it should be… Couldn't afford a new one so he just dealt with it.” Silver said as they started looking more to find a gas mask… they paused and grabbed it.
“... right, the red gas… I almost forgot about that issue…” Silver mumbled as they took the mask and checked. “Shit… no filter for it though." They looked in the locker, even moving some things around to find nothing. They sighed and put it back. “Useless without a filter…”
They checked what else was in the locker… nothing else really useful was in there. Silver paused, looking at the prosthetic leg, gently moving a thumb over the crudely scratched words before closing the locker and placing the leg gently against it. “It'll slow us down… but I'll be back for it.” Silver mumbled to themself before slowly walking out of the area, at first only opening it a sliver to check if the coast was clear… before going out fully to where this ‘Ollie’ person gave a key to… left of the cable cart.
As they walked, they tried to test something as they grabbed the phone thing. “Testing, testing… is there anyone there?”
Ollie, unsurprisingly, picked up “Yeah im-”
Silver interrupted instantly. “Anyone besides this guy? I wasn't kidding when I said I don't trust you…”
Soon… another voice perked up on the phone. “I'm here too, but why don't you trust Ollie?”
“Poppy? Where in the world did you go?! I went through a literal train wreck because of you! I probably have some kind of brain damage because of that too…” Silver said.
Silence soon came out… no response. “... Poppy?”
Silver sighed after more silence came out. “Oh for fucks sake…” they groaned, annoyed before walking through the door and letting one more message in to test if Poppy was listening or not still as they walked. “Mommy LongLegs isn't dead by the way.”
“... WAIT WHAT-”
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Incert walking (+ Poppy arguing with Silver for not actually killing Mommy LongLegs like she thought they did) and dealing with the red smoke thing bc… yeah, I'm not writing all of that. But just know at least when Ollie was telling them about moving the smoke from one side to another they looked around for an instruction manual at what that'd do before actually doing the puzzles… oh and they got the Grabpack upgrade too ofc!
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The power out… Silver was on their way to the statue area to get the key to go to this ‘Home Sweet Home’ area… “lovely… just lovely” Silver groaned as they walked out, being cautious. In the main area, they glanced up at the fake sky and clouds to see a familiar blue spider on one of the clouds. They perked up instantly at seeing him.
They grabbed the key around their neck and used the little bit of light there to signal where they were to him, making the spider look over and visibly follow their way under the statue.
Soon enough, after Silver went in, the door opened as Daddy Longlegs walked in... on all fours due to the low ceiling, which... wasn't creepy at all to see.
But soon a familiar yellow bunny hopped down from his back and hopped to Silver
"Hi Bunzo." Silver greeted and patted the bunny's head who's hugged their leg before hopping around slightly to explore... probably has a somewhat younger kid's soul in him from Silver's guess.
“What happened?” he asked as he squeezed himself into the room, keeping an eye on Bunzo exploring.
“Someone cut off the power when I was doing something… heading to the backup generator in Home Sweet Home now.” Silver replied as Berri peeked out of the bag.
The blue spider perked up in… Alarm if anything and sighed. “... Just… be safe… ok?”
Silver looked over and sarcastically replied “no, I'm gonna throw all caution to the wind and run in guns blazing- of course i'm going to be cautious and careful.”
“There's no need to be smart there.” He replied instantly, like a stern dad... which his character technically was.
They went over and grabbed the key before asking quietly. “By the way… do you know or knew an Ollie here?”
“Ollie? The only Ollie I knew was one of the orphans…”
Silver nodded, confirming their suspicion slightly while thinking more. “That's what I thought… but… am I insane thinking that, if he's still alive he'd be… older… or at least sound older in a way...? Or if he was a toy he just wouldn't remember his name?”
“... it's hit or miss, not many of us remember our human selves unless the doctors refer to us by those names, or we find files of ourselves… I personally haven't and I don't remember my original name.” Daddy Longlegs replied as Silver nodded slightly in response.
“Noted then… so 50/50…” Silver mumbled the last part in thought, before nodding ever so slightly. “... either way everyone can come in here, it seems safe in here at least despite it being kinda small for two of you guys… but stay alert, ok?”
Daddy Longlegs nodded slightly in response as Silver spoke “I'll come back in a bit, stay safe… and I'll do the same.” Silver said before going up to go to Home Sweet Home.
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Ik usually it's interpreted that in the game the player was knocked out and had the nightmare labyrinth dream… well… since of how I made the red mist work for Silver; that didn't happen to them (That labyrinth dream instead is given to Berri who was completely knocked out inside the backpack).
Nonetheless Silver slowly found out the lore that they didn't even know via news audio hallucinations playing that Silver had tucked away far, far in their memory… oh and hallucinations of Nightmare Huggy too (absolutely confusing tf out of a very real Catnap watching Silver as they run from… literally nothing and why tf Silver isnt knocked tf out already).
I guess technically, Silver would actually get this whole chapter done faster than the in-game player bc of that.
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Silver groaned and shook theory head, trying to snap out of the hallucinations as they walked… They managed to find a mask with a filter, which was good as they used that occasionally. Berri was… out. The red mist completely knocked out the small toy and Silver knew that as they moved silently, alert and silently having auditory hallucinations of old news broadcasts they long forgotten about Elliot Ludwig, plus their usual vision of shadows oh spirits walking pass tenfold currently as they keep… staring and moving quickly away or in one direction or another… but Silver pushed forwards nonetheless.
Silver carefully opened a door to a room, glancing around before being startled by Kissy Missy sitting on a bed looking at a photo. “Jesus you scared me…”
Kissy looked over slowly for a moment.
“... uh…are you a hallucination too or not…? I honestly can't tell right now…” Silver asked after a moment, at least being honest.
Kissy didn't reply as she looked back at the photo.
“... ok then… given you don't look like the huggy thing I dealt with earlier I'm guessing you're actually there…” Silver was… confused, but didn't want to push any bigger body. “Uh… just… take it easy ok…? Be careful of this mist… I'll probably see you later … Others are under the central statue if you wanna see them…” Silver said before moving on, letting Kissy be for now as they toy glanced up at Silver leaving the room.
After a bit of solving puzzles silently, which was unlike Silver normally… Silver noticed something… off… large, slowly footsteps above them…
Silver looked up, slowly as a… pink, almost rodent-like tail was peeking out. “ohhh that does not bode well…” Silver mumbled before the tail practically whipped up there, starting both whoever was up there and Silver as they moved back quickly… both of them stopped… silent like both sides were waiting for the other to make a move first…
The thing above very slowly moved to peek down as a familiar structure of a smiling critter base was there… but it was…. Different, one that even Silver had never seen before, white and this dirty pink… looking kinda like some kind of rodent… yet half of its body was… buried… badly… half of the body, and fur, was a burnt mess.
This… thing, obviously a bigger body, and Silver only stared at each other in confusion and alert on both ends, both sides freezing for… a while before the pink one slowly spoke, hesitant. “... are you alright…?” an oddly soft, motherly even, voice came out of it, catching Silver off guard.
“Uh… yeah… I can ask you the same…” Silver replied before asking. “... who are you…?” They asked after a moment.
“Just someone trying to get supplies for others…” The bigger body replied.
“... others…? Like other humans or… toys?”
“Toys… our safe space on a lower level…” The pink and white toy said, Silver nodded, keeping it in mind. “Fair enough…” Silver paused before thinking, something pinged in them to at least offer something to help… obviously these toys, many of which they are assuming being children, were going through actual hell after all… Silver grabbed their bag and pulled out a roll of clean-ish bandages. “Here… maybe this'll help… someone I guess.”
The… woman? Rat…? It was hard to tell what she was from this angle, but a tail came down slowly and took the roll gently from Silver's hands. “... thank you… supplies are running thin here… already risky that I'm here with that cat around any corner…”
“Fair enough… uh… by the way; The Main and the Game Station area is safer now… Long story on how I know that, but… there may be supplies there, I don't know.” Silver said
The rodent woman paused, slightly surprised but nodded. “. . . Thank you, what's your name?”
“Why exactly…?” Silver said, not fully sure to trust this… toy, even if she gave no bad intentions.
“So I can give the leader a heads up that you're a good one if you end up coming to the level Safe Haven is on.”
Silver paused, nodding slightly. “... Silver, but I'm also known around as Star or Starlight.”
“Ah… I've heard of you.” The toy said, making Silver raise an eyebrow.
“Many of the toys who remember you say good things about you… your uncle on the other hand… not so much-”
“Which uncle? Two of them worked here.” Silver asked.
“... Harley.” the pink toy said with… disdain in her voice, obviously she didn't like the man… and Silver silently couldn't judge her since even they as a small child didn't like to be around him…. They couldn't even imagine being around that workaholic all the time as a toy.
“Odd question… but do you know what his job was here…? Because I happened to inherit his house and… uh… found some…” Silver paused, trying to figure out how to word it in the… least concerning way possible, “concerning things in there, to say the least.”
The pink rodent toy sighed softly, looking around. “... it'll be better to hear about what he's done from a more… knowledgeable source in this case.”
“Oh god what the hell did he do???” Silver mumbled to themself.
“Heard that.” The toy said from above. “But… if you go to the prison area… you'll find out.”
“Priso- oh shit right I forgot there was a full on prison here-” Silver said, remembering how… scared of that place they were as a kid… always hearing the distant screaming and banging on walls… muffled screams, begging to be let out, to see their friends, to go home… It sent a silent shiver up their spine just thinking about it. “Im… guessing this… Safe Haven is on that floor…?”
“Yes… I'm sure we'll meet again there… I'll let the Doughman know you're a good one though; stay safe, Starlight.”
Silver nodded slightly, having… no clue what she meant by ‘the Doughman’, but nodding nonetheless as Silver waved a goodbye as they heard the footsteps above go away somewhere else… Silver thought for a moment, groaning slightly as they started to get a migraine as they went off to fix this damn generator.
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Yep, jumpscare Blossom is here! Yes both Blossom and Silver accidentally scared tf out of each other and had a freeze reaction lol.
Also yes, Blossom works with Doey/Safe Haven to get supplies from different levels since… well the level that Safe Haven is on is practically barren if supplies, and Blossom can easily go to different levels (not as easily as Doey but you get the point). Though because of… low supplies all around, she's not oftenly actually in Safe Haven herself because… well she's trying her best to get supplies.
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Silver took a breath as they stepped outside of the Home, looking around… before soon being tackled by a bigger pink furry toy. “WAIT WAIT FRIENDLY, FRIENDLY!!” Silver said instinctively before Kissy seemed to realize who she just tackled and backed off, letting Silver let out a sigh. They saw Kissy's hand clench slightly go to her chest, then moved in a circle. Silver knew… at least the basic ASL signs, so they knew it was an apology… or her attempt of doing that sign since of how her arm worked. “You're fine, just startled me a bit… red mist got you?”
Before Kissy could reply a familiar red haired doll ran over, probably hearing Silver yelling before pausing, seeing Silver sit up from the ground, shaking off some dust.
“I see Kissy found you.” Poppy said before remembering something as her behavior switched quickly to anger, “but YOU DIDN'T KILL MOMMY?!”
“To be fair you didn't even let me speak to explain what happened before putting me on the train.” Silver replied, which made Poppy groan.
“Where is she then?!” “I'm guessing with the others now.”
“... others?” Poppy puzzled as she slightly calmed down, definitely not completely calm but enough to not yell.
“Yeah, I've been trying to save as many of you guys as I can; have you seriously not noticed the giant caterpillar pug and the oversized yellow rabbit with cymbals when we got on the train???” Silver answered as they raised a hand towards the general direction above where the train crash was
Poppy only looked at them confused, calming down more. “But… how-”
“I have my ways, Poppy. Charisma and empathy can go a long way. I know you don't know me well since… well I wasn't oftenly around you as a child… but the only thing you should know is that i'm not heartless.” Silver said, “If there's a way for me to not kill, toy or not, I'll take it instantly. And with Mommy back there, I found a way to not kill her. That was on you to assume I did.”
Poppy went silent before a sigh left her, as well as her anger at Silver. Kissy picked up the doll and put her on her shoulder. “... you deserve an explanation for… everything though, so follow us.” She said as Kissy started walking, Silver followed as Berri was waking up in the bag in a panic, making Silver pause and get the strawberry spider out of the dark space and calm her down while following… which started to help after a few seconds as Berri was clung to Silver, who gently put a comforting hand on her back, they could feel the toy shaking in fear…
As Silver dealt with a scared Berri, Poppy comforted a tense Kissy, ironically… All of them were frankly tense… but if anyone, Kissy Missy had the best reason to be tense there… she may be dealing with side effects of that Red Mist after all.
They soon got to a breaker box as Poppy opened it and brought down an elevator, getting them all on Poppy spoke after an awkward second. “Listen… I'm not your enemy, but what's going on down here is bigger than all of us. If i knew you didn't kill Mommy LongLegs I would've never brought you down here-”
“But you did.” Silver replied before continuing on, as they gently touched the bandage one of the other toys put around their head earlier… slightly wet from assuming some blood that came out, but not a concerning amount.
“It's far too late now Poppy, I'm already down here, and we both know the only safe way back up is completely blocked now.”
Poppy stopped and just looked at Silver, she was aware their words were accurate… Kissy looked over and slowly patted Silver's head, probably trying to see the bandage. “... I’m fine Kissy, don't worry, just an accident that happened earlier.”
“... We still need help-” Poppy started
“And I will.” Silver said, Poppy stopped in surprise.
“I can't just let you all die down here, I'd feel too much guilt if I just left now… especially since there's even more somewhere… Safe Haven is what I heard its called?”
Poppy looked at them “how do you already know about …?”
“Ran into a pink… rodent thing earlier. A bigger body for sure, burn marks everywhere, smelled like Cherry Blossoms and ash… she was nice though, said she was getting supplies … said something about letting a… Doughman know I was a good one…? Whatever that meant…?”
Kissy perked up at the description alone… hopeful even.
“... Blossom is alive…?” Poppy said.
“Is that her name?” Silver asked as Kissy nodded to answer. “... well she's alive for sure, I gave her the heads up that the main and Game Station areas were now clear for her to get supplies from.”
“...but who's the… Doughman?”
Poppy thought before replying as the elevator stopped. “... an ally, I'm sure you'll meet him later.”
Silver nodded as they asked. “I'm guessing the Prototype is still around…?”
Poppy nodded slightly. “Unfortunately… I'm guessing you can tell they're part of this situation…” the gate opened as Poppy nodded to the red button there. “... do the honor?”
Silver walked over and pressed the button, turning on the electricity everywhere, and the lights.
They went back as Kissy was sitting down now in a corner, gently hugging herself.
“Yeah… I can tell… thought they were just… Theo's imaginary friend in the beginning.” Silver admitted.
“... how did you find out they were real?” Poppy asked, this time in genuine curiosity.
“I saw them… well, the hand part. Through a wall over there;” they nodded to one of the fake sky and clouds wall across them, where the mini playground was. “That was years ago obviously… but seeing that hand… like it was stalking me and the other kids around… set that confirmation in stone.” The elevator started going down… slow like before.
“... scared me to my core honestly…” They admitted before thinking silently to change the… heavy subject, glancing at the ground before deciding to ask Poppy something. “Hey uh… random question… but wasn't there an Ollie… like in the orphanage…?”
“... I don't not know-” Poppy said before Kissy nodded.
Silver looked at Kissy, since she answered. “That's what I thought… I could've sworn I played with a kid back then named Ollie… but… I can't remember his face at all…” Silver said, trying to remember.
“... then why don't you trust Ollie…?” Poppy asked.
Silver looked at her before replying, grabbing the walkie talkie from their bag. “... because Ollie was older, older than me at the time and I remember that, other kids here would pick on me for my friends usually being older than me. I remember that well. I may not remember his face, but I know in my gut that whoever is speaking to us on these things is not actually Ollie.”
“... but he's been nothing but truthful to me”
“Poppy, how does he have access to the cameras then? Why does whoever is on the other side avoid questions about themself? I heard them drop the act slightly earlier, didnt you hear it too? The less chipper attitude talking to me? Like they were caught off guard, how odd it was that they had access to this kind of thing? Have you never realized that Ollie can see us?” Silver said as they pointed towards the closest Bron statue camera, which was a good bit away, not able to angle to see them… at least what Silver can guess in this case.
Soon the elevator stopped at the ground as they got to the bottom. Poppy only looked at Silver in thought and confusion as they put down their arm from pointing. Kissy blinked and, at least from the minimal facial expressions she could make, seemed to realize how odd it was too… how… convenient Ollie had it compared to everyone else in this hell… Silver noticed the pink toy realizing but didn't mention it… but at least that was closure that Silver wasn't going insane.
Poppy looked to the side and looked back at Silver quickly “... Catnap is coming, you can't stay here… keep yourself safe…” Silver glanced around and nodded slightly as they got off the elevator. Once they got up Poppy and Kissy went back up… It was subtle, but Poppy refused to look at Silver… while Kissy did with that same look… Silver nodded slightly to Kissy, a mutual understanding at the topic they just addressed… until Silver flinched in surprise that loud ass ringing from the walkie talkie…
They rolled their eyes but picked it up as they heard Ollie ramble on… everything sounded… fake now from the voice…
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Skipping the whole talking and plugging in Home Sweet Home bc… its basic. But both the Longlegs, PJ, and Bunzo are under the statue safely, and Silver did quietly check up on them and if everyone was alright after Ollie started talking and took the key for the school.
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Silver opened the door and went down stairs of this… school. They've, shockingly, never have been in there, so had no clue what to expect… but faintly they could remember hearing something about someone named ‘Miss Delight’ or something along those lines
Ollie kept talking, mostly babbling to Silver, but one quite through static caught their attention before Ollie was cut off… “You won't be alone in there.”
Berri peeked out the bag before a pause. “... I remember this place…”
Silver looked over. “You do?... well at least one of us does-”
Soon enough the announcement system went on, scaring both Silver and Berri… seemingly an automated message, but they were so loud.
“This is Miss Delight speaking! Please excuse the interruption. Students, stay in your seat until the bell has rung! And no going in the halls without a hall pass!”
Silver glanced at Berri before she got an idea from the message and went out of the bag.
“Huh? Berri, what are you doing?” Silver asked as they followed the spider to a teacher's desk nearby.
“Getting a hall pass, if who's in here is Miss Delight we may be able to calm her or something with one… or two.” Berri explained as she opened a drawer, looking around before going to the next one.
Silver paused before nodding. “... actually that may work-” Silver listened as in the distance they heard… something moving… hard to tell what or who but it was something… but as soon as it started it just… stopped.
Silver glanced at Berri as she pulled out two old wooden sticks, handing one to Silver.
It was… old, but it very faintly had the words ‘hall pass’ on it.
Berri went back, closing the backpack as this time she stayed out of it to lead Silver instead.
Through puzzles Berri was leading and pointing where to go as she held the two hallways passes for now. The announcements came on again, this time… it definitely wasn't automated… “Wait… I remember you! Yes, I remember! I've seen you through the windows with the other kids! Oh… have you grown… I don't think we've properly met though!” After a moment she seemed to fully process that Silver was there there. “Wait… how are you… alive…? And here…?”
Silver was confused as they glanced around, lost for the most part as they listened to the unfamiliar voice.
The announcements went off as after every sentence there was a pause“Hm? Barb? Oh… Bard said you're looking for the kids.”
“I am not actually-” Silver said to no one
Miss Delight continued on, obviously not hearing Silver. “Catnap wouldn't like that you're here… You should leave, for your own safety.”
Silver paused at the message before glancing at Berri. “Wait… is Miss Delight an adult? Like when she… y’know?”
Berri nodded slightly in response as she looked around.
“... then she can be reasoned with slightly easier…” Silver said before they moved with an idea now as they moved forwards.
“Wait wait what are we doing???” Berri asked.
“What I’m doing, Berri. If Catnap refuses to come in here because of one person, and as an adult, I can try to talk to them, try to reason and we can gain another ally… one possibly stronger than what we're up against.” Silver said as they kept moving.
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Skipping a bit, but Silver and Berri did watch the tape and the other announcement from Miss Delight… but for once i had an idea for the cutout.
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Silver went up and pressed a button of the Miss Delight cutout. "Hello, students! Find my sisters and I to learn facts across a variety of subjects. Press my button to hear some facts on anatomy!"
Silver looked at it. “Are these morbid facts? Because I have some as well.” they pressed the button again.
"Did you know that there are sixty thousand miles of blood vessels in the human body? For comparison, the Earth around the equator is almost twenty-five thousand miles!” The cutout said.
Silver paused, that was… normal actually, so they pressed it again.
"The smallest bone in your body is the stapes in your ear. Still, damage it, and you risk losing your hearing!”
Again… normal actually… another press.
"Want to learn more about human organs? Pay close attention in class!”
“... huh… those were… normal, actually. That's a first for these…” Silver said.
“... wait, those are normal in your book???” Berri asked, concerned now.
“Yeah I thought she was going to mention mites that live in eyelashes or that if your head is chopped off you keep consciousness and stay alive for… like 20 seconds or something like that?”
“... Silver what the fuck-”
“Uncle Harley and my Mother were both silently into the disturbing things of life, of course I know disturbing things! What do you expect?”
Berri was… silently disturbed as they continued on… Why were there so many batteries in this place???
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Skipping a bit till the teacher shows up bc... yeah you don't wanna read nothing and I don't wanna write nothing
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Silver and Berri were startled at the generator nearly blowing up… but seeing the teacher's face all… wrong was more disturbing.
“Oh gods-” Silver started before seeing Miss Delight… stop, just… freeze… which absentmindedly made Silver do the same while facing the teacher.
Berri paused, looking at the two before realizing. “Ah great… you both do the same thing when scared.” She said before getting down and, at least ●trying● to calmly talk to the woman while being scared.
“Uh… Miss Delight…? We both got hall passes…?” She started.
Silver paused before breaking out of their own frozen state, shaking it off. They took a breath before going over slightly. “Listen… Well, I know what you're doing right now because I do the same thing. Two, I just want to talk with you, ma'am.”
Berri backed up and climbed on Silver with minor help as Silver continued. “Question is right now … is do you want to get out of here?”
… no response… but Miss Delight did try to suddenly swing at the two with her… pencil… mace…?
“Ok woah! No need for that-” Silver started before she moved, causing Silver to instinctively start running… failing to see that Miss Delight actually couldn't keep up and was limping quickly after them.
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Skip the puzzle and chase scene thing, but Silver the whole time was trying to talk sense into her.
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Silver ran as the gate closed… they looked over to see Miss Delight running after, trying to slide under but… the door shut onto her arm, making her cry in pain… as the force of the door cut her arm fully off.
“Holy shit-” Silver said as they went over to help the teacher woman against a stable wall… who was too in shock to stop them.
Berri quickly went in the bag, failing to find any bandages, “we don't have any left-" she said.
Silver paused before gently taking off the bandages around their own head from earliest to use… not the most sanitary yes but… it was needed as they wrapped the arm.
“Shit…” they said as they glanced at the decapitated arm… the pencil mace was next to the limp arm too… on the other side of the door.
“So uh… how much does it take to rip someone's arm off?” Silver asked, hoping to… at least ease the silence as they wrapped her… now nonexistent arm…
“3000-5000 newtons…” Miss Delight said instantly, without a second thought… even her teeth, of course taking most of her face now, moved as she talked, her eyes moved to look at Silver as well… blank… but… she wasn't trying to murder now at least.
Silver paused… not expecting that. “... I was joking but uh… I'll believe that answer.”
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Skipping a bit bc Silver is just wrapping Miss Delight up… and given how you exit the School…
Yeah Silver had to take Miss Delight with them through that… long story short, it wasn't fun for any of them. Because Miss Delight never actually taught Silver she had no clue what to talk about… and Silver just… not being social unless spoken to first led them to a standstill.
Btw they didn't listen to the Hoppy audio (rare ik) bc at least Silver wanted to get Miss Delight back to everyone else.
Btw yes Silver got the finger gun, but didn't mess with it at all until much later
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As Silver and the humanoid… toy? Was Miss Delight a toy? Who knows… nonetheless they walked… At some point, with Berri's help Miss Delight's sleeve was tied in a knot at the bottom of… well what's left of her right arm anyways.
Silver had their arm under Miss Delight to help her walk… since she's been limping that whole time… and only after that… incident that Silver noticed.
They both stopped seeing… a shrine… of some sort… the two looked at each other in mutual confusion… before Catnap went over and… prayed to it…? It was hard to tell… but Silver had to practically piggyback Miss Delight downwards soon after Catnap left
“Shit uh… do you know how to get out of here…?” Silver asked
“No… I don't know where we are currently.” Miss Delight admitted.
“Me and you both then…”
They soon got on solid ground… and started walking.
“Playhouse… Do you know your way out of there…?” Silver asked.
Miss Delight nodded in response. “Yes… but im… not exactly equipped to be in there alone now…”
Berri looked over with an idea. “... I can go with you, lead you to the others safely.”
Silver nodded. “That may work… hold on…” Silver went into a side pocket of the bag and pulled out a knife before handing it to Berri. “Just in case.”
Berri looked at the pocket knife before at Silver. “... how many knives do you have?”
“3, now go. I'll meet you two when I'm done in the Playhouse. Get the others to properly take care of the… lack of arm situation.”
Berri nodded before going onto Miss Delight's shoulders as they took a separate pathway
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Ngl I completely forgot you end up STRAIGHT into the Playhouse from the school area… so yeah we're losing two characters for my sanity
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Silver walked into a room… hearing a small giggle as a… small… smiling critter was crawling towards them.
Silver paused before instinctively dropping nearly to the ground and moving back towards it.
Why? Even Silver couldn't explain why their first instinct was that… but… it worked, as the small toy quickly freaked out and ran off making a scared noise.
Even Silver didn't process before getting up. “... they can be scared… noted…” they mumbled.
They started looking around, eventually finding a tape. They picked it up and put it in… a.. semi familiar voice came through… Leith Pierre… Silver remembered him… or more of his voice through phone calls on speaker… also a few of the previous tapes had him but still.
"Okay... this is... CatNap. Uhhh... experiment #1188… What's his real name again?" A pause… probably someone replying. “Ah! Okay. Heya Theo! How ya doin' bud? Normally, I'd have Dr. Sawyer do this but he's uhhh... out, let's say. So you got me until they find his replacement."
"First off: congrats! This is officially your 4th year in your new body. And you've made some real progress pal. I was told that when you and the other smiling critters, y'know, DogDay, PickyPiggy, yadda yadda yadda, were added into Playcare, that you weren't really getting along too well with the kids like everybody else was. But look at you now! The kids love ya, and that red smoke. I mean- That's fantastic isn't it?!"
A pause…
"Is his uh, voice thingy still broken-”
A new voice… raspy but practically a whisper. "The Prototype… will save us...”
Leith, assumingly got up and yelled at Catnap "Theo... Nobody's gonna save you. This prison is where you belong. We'll let you out here and there to go see the kids in Playcare, but your home is here. And as for 'The Prototype', his home is in the labs. THIS is your life now. Get used to it.”
Silver froze there after the tape, heart sunk to their stomach. “... that's… where he went…? That's Theo…?”
Silver whispered to themself… they didnt even realize that tears were coming out of their own eyes at this…
They looked at the now blank screen, so many emotions going through them… fear, anger, sadness… There were too many for Silver to be used to all at one time. “... what the hell did they do to everyone…? What did they do to my Uncle…? Fuck… what did he do to be part of this shit too!” They sat down for a bit, thinking through things themself
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Skipping that whole patchwork insane asylum room shit because even i don't know how to explain it… but just know… Silver actually never found out what the hand does, they just kept scaring away the tiny smiling critters by doing weird shit and chasing them… somehow working in their favor
Btw yes they listened to the Bobby Bearhug cutout after… that (they had an anxiety attack btw… they feel… relatively numb after those)
Imna just… skip to the most important part of the Playhouse area!
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As Silver walked they were soon stopped by smelling… vanilla… A familiar scent to them… but one they closely associated with… but the smell of iron was strong too, possibly from fresh blood, hard to say… “Dogday…?” They whispered out loud, shockingly getting a reply, a weak… “help… please…”
Silver quickly followed the noise and froze in shock and horror at the sight of a legless dog up in belts like some sort of messed up religious cross from some church… and alive nonetheless … It was a rare enough sight to see Silver in genuine horror… but an unstable one…. Hell, it even broke the numbness feeling in them from earlier. “Holy shit-”
“You're Poppy's angel-” Dogday started, before Silver cutted in, both from general stress, panic, and… we now shock.
“Starlight… it's me, Starlight… but what the hell happened?!” They said as they went up to the dog… even without legs he was around their height… Silver never actually processed how tall he was as a child… now they were mentally even witnessing him missing half of his normal height… there was so much blood… It overpowered the vanilla at the monent
“... Starlight….? I thought you-” Dogday started as Silver was trying to undo the belts, yet it was difficult to properly undo them from the angle he was tied up in, so instead Silver just tried to cut them off with a pocket knife they silently had, and as quickly as they could without hurting the vanilla scented dog. “I thought you were dead… or turned into one of us-”
Silver looked at him for a moment. “... what do you mean one of you…? Like a toy…? Why would I be a toy?”
Dogday looked back at them silently, not saying anything, as Silver cut off two belts of one arm as Dogday partly fell down… one arm free but raw being hoisted in the air. Silver went and tried to cut the belts off his other arm… successful after a minute. Though they both heard noises… of multiple things coming through the pipes, echoing…
“Star you need to go… now! Go without me! Survive!” Digsay said.
“And im not letting you die!” Silver replied instantly as they cut off the two
… yeah adrenaline was hitting Silver now since their palm was bleeding and they hadn't even noticed yet from cutting the belts. They quickly got Dogday on the back as Silver ran off, for once Silver didn't try to scare them… too many to scare off.
Smaller Smiling Critters started coming out if the vents as Silver bolted through the plastic tunnels which absolutely bruised the fuck out of their knees with Dogday on their back… and even he helped out getting away.
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Cutting out the whole Dogday Chase Scene through a McDonald's Play Place bc… well yeah. But just know that Silver brought Dogday back to their temporary “base” to the others, who were already helping one toy (?) with a missing limb
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“This place is actual hell-”
… yep, first words Silver said as they came back, gently setting a completely legless Dogday down somewhere.
“Oh my god-” Bunzo said as he limped over, still limping... and PJ went over to at least try to use his body to make Dogday more comfortable
“What happened?! And what is your luck with bringing back limbless toys?!” Daddy Longlegs said as he went over, Mommy LongLegs was finishing patching up Miss Delight as best she could… which wasn't bad at all actually, but she was alert too
“Long story but we need… something for him!” Silver said.
“I'll look around different areas for limbs.” Daddy Longlegs said as he moved out to look… possibly for spare body parts or something.
“Try the Toyshop, there may be something there!” Silver said.
Silver went over… to her uncle's prosthetic leg, knocked over but still next to the locker and back over. “I got one leg.” They said and set it down… apparently Dogday recognized it quickly as he spoke.
“But that's your uncle's-” the orange dog started before Silver spoke, still tense from all of this but… at least their head is on straight enough.
“He's dead, Dogday. But if he was alive he'd want someone in need to have it.” Silver said, cutting straight to the point of the bad news…
They set down the old prosthetic leg next to him “you're in need, Dogday. I have other things to remember him by.” They replied.
Dogday didn't argue… too weak after all.
She sighed before asking “Does anyone know how to sew?”
“... I do… but…” Miss Delight replied as she glanced at her arm.
“Right…” Silver sighed, overall just… stressed at this all happening at once.
“... rest.” Dogday said out of nowhere.
Silver looked over at him. “... I cant… not here… you all rest though… ill feel with the rest of this shit…”
Silver went back up and to the Councilor's Offices after getting the key.
“... their selflessness is going to kill them…” Berri said as she got up from helping Miss Delight to go help Dogday… silently, many of them there agreed…
“Just like Colt…” Dogday replied with a weak chuckle as he looked at the prosthetic leg. “... always liked that guy; glad to see someone got part of his personality in that family...”
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Skipping a bit in the office area! But they didn't watch all the videos and… were scared shitless by Catnap multiple times, and listened to Craftycorn cutout. Silver was attacked by Catnap in that one area in the Red Smoke btw, he did knock Silver out so, for once… yeah the Red smoke worked on Silver how its supposed to on people… and more
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“They're so loud… they're so loud…” Silver mumbled, hearing… screams… trying to cover their ears as their Walkie Talkie rang… Silver answered it after a moment as a new voice came through it… “Leave Playcare or I'm coming for you…”
Silver shivered slightly. “... I don't know if this is part of the red smoke hallucinations or not, but I'm literally lost now Theo! Also, rude way to say hi after all this time, damn!”
… the other end there was… a… snort…? Like a hold back of laughter… But before they could ask, the other end hung up.
“... did i just make him laugh with that-?” Silver mumbled before getting up slowly.
Eventually after some walking they foubd… files… of the orphans… Silver looked at them before going through… finding Ollie's file and pulling it out…
… It said he was deceased, that he didn't survive… whatever test was done on him…
Silver's blood ran… cold again as they stared at it for a bit, goosebumps on their arms, hairs raised… then put the file in their bag before going away.
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Ok skipping the rest of the office bc its a whole lotta nothing ngl. Same with the connecting the wires thing
Silver walked in, about to put the blue battery in before the door opened right next to them.
“Oh shit-” they started before seeing the purple cat. “Theo Theo! Its Star easy there-” They started before the gas started coming out. "Yep that's not working twice!"
“Oh double shit-!” They said before running to the elevator… and a creepy Catnap following up. “Oh gods…” they said as they went up…
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Also Silver did not use any flares… because they were aware before that the red mist was… well… explosive to fire. They weren't going to risk it.
Insert whole Catnap fight bc I refuse to write all that repetitive stuff… but just know that Silver IS tripping off of the gas while doing the whole puzzle/tower defense thing….
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Silver shot the hand at the powered thing as Catnap came down, knocking them over.
Seeing the Prototype's hand cone down then go narrow and towards Catnap, Silver quickly moved as they tackled Catnap to his side as the silver hand narrowly missed Catnap; instead only getting part of his face as the purple cat hissed in pain from that.
Catnap a hair away from them before Silver shit him with the hand to back off in pain… trying the red mist made it explode on him too… the door above opened…
But… due to quickly hitting a concrete wall the Silver hand, fingers like needles now bent and some even nearly broken due to the force of trying to get the cat… something above made a cry of… pain before it jolted up back where it came.
Silver stayed quiet as… it all went quiet…
Silver took a breath since they were… clear… and both alive.
Catnap slowly looked over at Silver… most likely a mix of… so many emotions running through him currently… but only one word came out through a deep, even hoarse voice from probably not talking in ages. “Why…?”
Silver looked over. “... because I didn't want you to die, Theo…” they glanced up at where the Prototype's hand came from and a shake of their head, “not like that… not making him stronger.”
Silence went through the two… awkward… but somewhat comfortable, familiar even, as Silver moved over carefully to look at his wounds… which, shockingly, Catnap tolerated as he slowly laid down on his side… tired himself.
Silver paused, looking at his new wound on his face gently. “... you are aware the Prototype was eventually going to kill you to make themself stronger… right?”
“... no…” The cat admitted after a long pause… but even he realized now that they were right… “... I'm so sorry…” he said… he sounded… exhausted… remorseful even…
“Hey… you're ok bud… you'll make up for it with the others… eventually.” Silver said as Catnap gently headbutted their torso and just… kept his head there… he was shaking… like he was trying not to break down right then and there. Silver sighed as they gently petted him… then realized something, and said it to lighten the mood, even if it's slightly. “... I kept my promise at least.”
The cat paused before weakly chuckling, his breathing unsteady… “... yeah… you came back for us…. All of us…”
Happy late Easter for those who celebrate (i just do for candy)
Uhhh canon charater (+ some oc) headcanons with their souls mostly but there's some other stuff too
Tw for mentions of death + small spoilers for chapter 4
Cut bc long post
• Souls can act older (aka "aging") but they don't exactly age and can easily revert to their "original" ages. They're not technically adults nor children (since... well they're toys now. Toys aren't exactly adults or kids yk?)
(Doey during the explosion of Safe Haven being a very good example of this idea, as they literally revert that aging part and act as their "actual" ages under high stress or other causes... given that mostly Kevin and Jack are controlling the body at that point, but still you get the point)
• Huggy's soul has not been confirmed (i belive?), but i do think his soul is a child's
• Kissy on the other hand (also don't think her soul is confirmed?) But I think she at least has a pre-teen soul in her and has "aged" to be "older"
• Poppy would've aged actually (possibly even have cracks)... if she wasn't put in the glass box. Because she was imobile, only aged a bit but not by a lot (I personally believe her soul is ~12 from how she acts at least in chaper 2... before Mommy LongLegs snatched her 💀)
• both Daddy and Mommy LongLegs have "older" children souls (pre-teens/early teenager age), so old enough to know how to generally take care if younger kids but still be a kid themself, but their souls "aged" to be "adults" in a sense
• Baby LongLegs was... actually a baby/toddler soul (Playtime didn't do baby souls often since they wanted their bigger bodies to have actual interactions with kids, but... yeah, in some cases, they'd do it)
• Berri has a soul of a pre-teen/early teen in her (yet she hasn't exactly aged like the rest bc she literally has lived her toy life peacefully since she was given to Silver when they were younger... pre- Hour of Joy. She aged a little, but not nearly as much as say Kissy who practically acts like an adult most times)
• Kiwi has a soul of a ~10 year old and definitely aged a bit... at least they were old enough to learn how to protect themself, run away before more experiments happened, and try to help others...
• Blossom has a soul of a ex- worker who knew too much to just simply be "fired", shes... more tired and less cheerful than she used to be... but she'll try to be more cheerful to at least attempt to cheer others up. (Aka, Blossom is actually an adult! Surprise surprise)
• Dogday has an actual worker's soul in him (most likely did something to get him "fired"... same reasoning as Blossom's soul on why hes a dog now. I personally hc his soul is this Rich guy bc... they sound way too similar yk?)
• Adding onto Dogday, he was literally the first bigger body of the Smiling Critters to be made and introduced in Playcare (but over what has happened to him... he's become slightly "older", but it more seems like he mostly has just... lost hope in everything.)
(Blossom was made after Dogday and every other smiling critter, btw... She wasn't supposed to survive, but she did and got loose.)
• The other Bigger Body Smiling Critters are children, Bubba beong the second oldest (pre-teen)
• The Nightmare Critters DO have bigger bodies, but most, if not all, are deceased already due to starvation or other means... or were just never alive at all (aka a soul experiment was never actually put into the body since the Hour of Joy happened)
• Catnap if course has Theo, and he is confirmed to be ~8 i believe, but he's also the best example of the "aging" idea since he's... brutal to the Playcare and whoever is in it... even to older souls (Dogday)
• Doey, of course, has 3 souls in him... so 3 different ages: Jack being ~8, Kevin being in early pre-teens, Mathew being in early (possibly nearing mid) teens
• Harley was probably in his 30s or 40s to my guess, and tbh he's probably "aged" the least bc.... well, unlike literally all the examples here, he was already an adult, and nothing really happened to cause him to "age" anymore (... beyond forcefully switching bodies into a computer....nothing bad has really happened after that over a long period of time.) (SCP-079 wannabe/j)
• Silver actually does look alike to Harley (Silver's dad's genes took over on that one), because of this... a few small toys on Safe Haven (who remembers what Harley looked like anyways, which would only be a small percentage, but still), is... uneasy around Silver due to how similar they look despite being two very different people.
• Going along with above... Silver is actually unaware of how similar they really look and is confused at the small toys uneasiness around them despite, repeatedly, showing they're not a threat.
