Okay this has been on my mind for quite a while and I decided to finally share it here but-
Am I the only one who thinks Bigger Body Dogday hated- wait no- RESENTED his role as the leader?
It's has been established time and time again that Dogday is the leader of the Smiling Critters. In his character description he is described as sunny, strong and a determined leader who the other critters seem to trust and believe he can always find a solution in any problem or challenge they have to face. And I imagine that's what the scientists and workers that knew and were apart of the Bigger Boddies initiative wanted from the bigger body Dogday and the other critters. To be EXACTLY like their cartoon counterparts.
We have learnt thru tapes and other information that we got that the workers at Playtime CO abused and mistreated the toys, and in my opinion I don't think Dogday was safe from them either. They could have also easily mistreated and abused him as well. I headcannon that him and Catnap had it the worst out of all the other Smiling Critters.
Like I mentioned, Dogday is the leader, so I feel like it's pretty easy to imagine and conclude that he was most likely the first Smiling Critter to be created. Since the other Smiling Critters weren't created yet, Dogday had to do basically every single job at Playcare and I doubt it was easy at all. But the employees pushed him to do his job and pressured him or they would threaten to harm her. so Dogday had no other choice but to do what they said. I also headcanon that Dogday did multiple jobs at Playcare, helping at the school, entertaining, playing and make sure the children were safe in the Playhouse, being a protector to them, a watch dog to be specific, a voice of reasoning, the sole care-taker and probably various other things. Dogday hardly had any time to himself or was even able to take care of himself at all. He probably didn't also have the time to priotize self-care, like eating healthy, showering or even sleeping properly. He always had to be on high guard and make sure everyone was safe and cared for, all the while the workers were mistreating him. Even after the other Smiling Critters were created, it still wasn't easy for Dogday. Now he suddenly had to take care of not only the children, but also the other Bigger Boddies and make sure they weren't harmed and weren't the target of the company's abuse. He might have taken most of the abuse or mistreatment from the workers just to make sure the others weren't hurt. He probably had multiple injuries that he had to hide away and fix up himself. This is also why I think Dogday's voice sounds so deep. One idea I have behind his voice box is that he originally had a voice similar to the cartoon version but he might have done something that the company deemed ''wrong'' and punished him. They legit took his mistake or whatever he has done so seriously to the point his music box got damaged. They tried their best to fix it but Dogday was left with the voice he has now. The workers had the audacity to get angry his voice made some of the kids frighten or trigger them because it was more echoey and loud.
A headcanon/theory I have seen a few make and is also one I had is that Dogday was one of the Counselor's. Well, I feel like if he did become one, everything became a lot harder and stressing. He was now considered a sort of 'higher' rank employee which was just an excuse to throw even more responsibility at him and shove it down his throat. Like even if he did have a job that was his main one or whatever, Dogday still had so many other jobs to deal with and take care of. On top of all that, there were also the scientists who were experimenting on him and studying him. He hated it. He is treated as one of the company's favorite toys and yet they put him thru so much stress and exhaustion.
Dogday does everything he can to make sure the children at Playcare are safe and taken care of. he would not allow the workers to try and harm them in any way imaginable. He would especially not allow them to try and turn them into mindless experiments like himself. He also tried to help the Smiling Critters the best he could and make sure they were also safe and weren't harmed at all. Often being the one who is taking the beating and or torment just to make sure his friends are safe.
Dogday never got time for himself and was forced to put everyone elses needs over his own. I also wanna throw in that if Dogday was a child, then he was most likely forced to mature really fast without the assistance of any older figure to help him navigate thru everything. Even if he was an adult, there was clearly a lot of pressure still pilled up on him.
Now, despite everything, despite the hell he was put thru, he still didn't agree regarding the The Hour Of Joy. I personally believe Dogday was originally on board with it, just so the experimenting and torture would stop. He thought that was going to be the plan. But when he learnt they were planning to harm the innocent, Dogday quickly went against it, joining Poppy and becoming a heretic. Bonus I headcanon that similar to how Catnap is Prototype's right paw man, or cat, Dogday was Poppy's right paw man or dog in this case-
I feel like around this time, he took his role as leader even more serious as he knew he had to help his fellow critters and all the other toys that were heretics no matter what. That includes making sure none of them starved, they were hiding away from any potential threats, tending to any of their possible injuries and etc. Again, he did not have time to himself and put his own needs aside and focused on everyone else. There is high likelyhood he starved himself just to make sure everyone else had enough to eat and probably also had many injuries like scars, bruises and etc. But he would pritoize everyone elses wellbeing instead of his own.
After losing his legs, being chained inside of a cell at the Playhouse, he tried to find a way to escape, but after everything he had endured and the torment he had felt, at this point, he just wanted to die. He just wanted it all to be over with. He didn't bother trying to escape or anything like that. he was way too exhausted and just wanted to meet his end. He didn't what his fate was, he just wanted to die, brutal or painless, it didn't matter. He had lost all hope and faith and knew that nothing would be better. He didn't even care what Catnap would try and do to him, he was willing to let the feline torture him all he wanted or whatever, he just would not care.
Small hope did come back to him when the Player returned and felt as if there was a chance of stopping everything. While he couldn't do much, the best he could do is give Angel advice and encourage them to keep going to stop the Prototype. In the end, he would meet his fate by having his organs eaten away by the Mini Smiling Critters and them using him as a body vessel. Meeting his end he knew was gonna come to him eventually.
