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“We are the music makers; we are the dreamers of dreams.” Welcome to the Fledglings AU! Feel free to ask and explore this blog to your heart's content. Updates and answers may be sparse and/or delayed, but I'll try my best to respond as much as possible. Prepare for a lot of yapping and bird posting. Sideblog ran by @deadzonedenizen

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Fledglings AU Intro Post (Ask Box currently reopened)

"I can be different, I can't be puppeted!"

Golden Ticket Survivors, or better known as The Fledglings AU, is basically about five orphan kids from Playcare who narrowly avoid being experimented on for varying reasons, who, now as teenagers, return to the factory for shelter, when their train ride home gets avalanched during a harsh blizzard.

The AU mostly follows the game's canon events, with less alterations and more of building up from what's already known. Biggest example is the AU's protagonist, Joseph Dahl, who only appeared once in the tape, 1322 Report: Void. He didn't have a canon surname.

So why did I think of Dahl as his surname then? Surprise fool, it's the surname of the author of the AU's main inspiration: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. The most blatant reference you'd notice is the five teens themselves are based on the golden ticket winners, Joseph being Charlie Bucket in this case.

The other four are pretty much OCs, who are:

-Nathaniel Hauksson, stand-in for Mike Teavee

-Mayara De Costa, stand-in of Violet Beauregard

-Prescott Choudhury, stand-in for Augustus Gloop

-Venus Alyssa Lee, stand-in for Veruca Salt

This is pretty much in the order of which kid escaped first, with Joseph Dahl being the last to escape. And by that, I mean he escaped during the Hour Of Joy, the day he was scheduled to be experimented on. The four used to act more like the rotten kids themselves, but have somewhat matured since then. Same with Joseph, who's more jaded compared to his younger, bright-eyed self.

The AU is mostly about how each fledgling copes with survivor's guilt, while trying to fight off past playmates who they've no way to tell if they're still friend or now foe. Each will face their own demons as the truth of their childhood cradle slowly reveals itself, and the fates they could've had if they stayed.

Blog Rules:

I'd probably run this blog as an ask blog (navigate through the #Fledglings AU Asks tag) along with a separate roleplay blog with the occasional oneshot in the format of a document or a tape. I won't always be able to respond due to college, and even if I do, it won't always come with a drawing. With all that out of the way, let's get to the rules for the asks:

No weird asks. All five orphans are underaged. I will allow the occasional dirty joke to slide since they're rat bastard teenagers, but I'd appreciate refraining from that anyway.

No spam asks. The more you spam, the less motivated I will to answer. I'd probably just delete your spam asks instead.

Anon magic is unfortunately not allowed for this one. Idk, I don't think it'd fit the kind of vibe I want this blog to have. OCs and other RP accounts are of course welcome here, as long as they're not too OP for the Poppy Playtime universe.

This is a Poppy Playtime AU, so it's of course gonna tackle a bunch of dark topics, and I'll make sure to tag and put trigger warnings outside of the usual death and child experimentation tws accordingly. Still, there may be some asks I might not entertain if it entails darker themes than what the AU is tailored to.

I have the right to not respond to an ask if it makes me uncomfortable for some other way not mentioned here. What? You want a refund?

Idk what else to put here, just use common sense and Netiquette.

Other than Fledglings AU related stuff, I'll also occasionally post about canon PPT and some other AU ideas I have.

More AU info:

Stories (soon) and Comics:

-Golden Ticket Survivors

-Fluorescent Cacophony (BBI prequel)

-Sleepless Nights (Test comic)

More of the Fledglings:

-Voiceclaims for the Fledglings

-Full bodies, heights, and team gimmicks

-Experiment-1174 Nathaniel Hauksson: Post-Escape

-Experiment-1198 Mayara De Costa: Post-Escape

-Experiment-1215 Prescott Choudhury: Post-Escape

-Experiment-1346 Venus Alyssa Lee: Post-Escape

-Experiment-2006 Joseph Dahl: Post-Escape

-Nathan, Don't Test Your Luck

-The Nicest Angel You Have...

-Safety In Pills, Joseph

-Hatless Nathan and Scott

-Holiday-themed toys, nothing to see here

-"I frew up"

-Deto-Nathan

-Dr. Soysauce's opinions on the Fledglings

-Duality of Fledgling

-Sleep paralysis demons

In-Game AU Stuff:

-Play...Haven?

-Talk Before The Game Plan

-Runaway Orphan

-Adoption Complications

-Rabbit Hole

-Bargaining Chip

-Holding back

-Project Proposal: Experiment 1174

Miscellaneous:

-Behind the AU name

-The Poppy Garden

-The Executives' Designs (soon)

-Other orphans' designs (soon)

-The Prototype's design (soon)

-AU-exclusive locations (soon)

-Other BBI Critters' gas gimmicks (soon)

-Canon Playtime Co. vs AU Playtime Co. (Soon)

-Player's whereabouts (soon)

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Non-Fledglings AU Stuff:

Canon Stuff:

-Bad Critters Get The Cone Of Shame

-How the BBI happened

-ASMR: Sawyer Preps You For Your Surgery

-ASMR: Sawyer Checks In After Your Surgery

-Portable Dogday for your Everyday Needs

My other AUs:

-Doc McStuffins what-if AU

-Burrows And Burial Hills AU (Side AU)

-Looking Glass Elevator (alt-prequel AU)

-Crimson Smoke Signals (Side AU)

-Meadows Of Menagerie (Side AU)

Other People's AUs:

The Decade of Joy AU (by @decadeofjoy-au )

-Lonnie and Zacker Side Story: Part 1 (Kapag Ang Dagat Ay Tahimik...)

-Lonnie and Zacker Side Story: Part 2 (Asahan Mo At Malalim)

-Lonnie and Zacker Side Story: Part 3 (Shadows Neath The Great Deep)

-Redesign entries for @icanexplainwhythisnameisbad 's challenge

(Continuation for Non-Fledglings AU Stuff...)

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The Monkey's Paw Curls

Bonus:

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YARARARA but it's just Yara batswinging at a bunch of mismatched Lady-Laces or sumn

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right this is a big question. I’ve been having for a while. I really like to see you sadly there’s no videos of it like something like a reaction. Video would be cool to see from other people or you. Is this entire thing going to become like a big fanfic? I mean there are so many characters, includinging OCS. I really like this because it actually gave me ideas on OCS as originally I was just gonna put characters in an already existing toys where you haven’t seen as bigger bodies yet but seeing theseocs made me change them up a lot brain was going to just be a boogie box then I changed it playtime bot, Liam wa going y be Bron but I changed it into Mr. Long neck, and George was going to be a failed bigger body poe now he’s foxy Felix.

I really hope we get to see more of this story and where it’s gonna go and hoping that the role-play thing comes back as well as asks as well! I do wanna make a fanfic on it but the thing is I don’t really know. The personality of the characters are really that well mostly I just come up with a bunch of different personality traits. For example Brian is nice kind and cocky but I can also see him as a sweet person who uses his cocky personality to trauma of his family that he lost but eventually he is able to let it out with the help of his friends and new family. probably trying to think of a way to workplaytime bot into the story as well!

Gosh, as awesome as it'd be for the Fledglings AU to get that much popularity, it's really intimidating to think about. I read and watch about how different popular creators (even other Tumblr blogs) end up getting the wrong attention that stirs drama and toxicity and whatever else, and it makes me want to keep stuff I make in small little corners of the internet, y'know?

But I'm glad to have peeps like you who genuinely like what I make! Who actually get inspired from what I make! Back then, my only contributions on the internet were shitty little fanfics I made in middle school that don't get a lot of attention, and now I have a lot of people who really like my stuff! For the foreseeable future, I don't think I'll be making a fanfic of the AU, but the AU itself is gonna plague my mind for a long time.

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Hear me out

Knowing your last post what if the US government just trapped the fledglings in the factory so they can't leave as if they do they will be shot dead traping them in the factory without food and forced to do nightmare inducing actions to survive until they lose faith in humanity as they where abandoned by the government leading them to letting all the experiments lose causing the government to reap what they sewn

...The US Government is many things, but I feel like this wouldn't even benefit them. And Prototype ain't letting any of the experiments lose because of the US Government, and the threat of being recaptured and experimented on again.

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Sean Starscarf huh? What’s his deal? Like what is his gimmick and purpose? Also I’m guessing he’s the Ken to Lily Lovebraids’s Barbie. And how does Lily feel about him?

Ah yes, Sean here is an absolute fucking loser and I love him.

Okay for real. While Jessica (and Warden later on) represents the ones in Playtime Co. who directly contributed to the initiative and did nothing about it, Preston represents the ones who was aware and did try to do something about it, Marcas/Sean represents the surface workers who knew nothing about the initiative. The workers who were caught in the crossfire. Factory line workers, normal caretakers, etc.

Hell, the only reason he was toyed instead of straight up killed was because Preston went all "Wait no, he helped me!" and Proto went "So my bestie likes you so I won't kill you... I'll toy you instead❤️"

His role in the story is basically that of a normal worker who's figuring out what kind of company he was working for, way too late to make a change.

His gimmick is pretty similar to Lily's, but with the ends of the scarf instead of braids. Lily herself is clingy with him in the same way she ends up being clingy with Scott. Girl thinks he's a playmate, and Sean is just sooooo uncomfortable now that he knows the truth.

Sean, Warden, and Preston end up being three of the employee defectors Lyssa mentioned from the meeting at Team Haven, who all have valuable information that they can use against the Prototype.

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Did you know that in Project Playtime, Leith is the one who ordered the Specialist to retrieve the toy parts? Yeah… As much as I would want him get turned into a tree, he likely wasn’t present in the factory during the Hour.

Yeah, but I've also heard other interpretations that Project Playtime took place after the Theater incident and not necessarily after the hour. Also I'm wishing that whatever sequel we get will focus on Eddie as a main antagonist instead of Leith and Sawyer, since he's hyped up to be this mysterious guy that some workers even think may not be a real person.

Also fuck Leith lmao.

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Fledglings AU Executives!! (And some lore on the employees in general):

Okay, let's get things clear first: There's always been five executives (up to Sawyer's demotion, which left four of them left). But once the initiative was conceptualized, Leith and Eddie agreed to 'promote' the other heads (who they know wouldn't agree with the initiative) one by one, to lead divisions that are away from the main factory while adding more execs like Sawyer and Warden. Hence:

I like to think that the fifth slide's letters were jumbled because Leith realized that Niobe and Warden's names have the same letters lmao. So after Niobe left for locomotives and Warden became an exec, y e a h.

They did plan on doing that with Stella too by promoting her to being head of Playpark, but she already found out about the BBI on her own. That's what led Leith to threaten her to stay silent and for her to just go with it (or get fed to Boxy otherwise).

Some time later when the conspiracy against the initiative started, Stella contacted the other three former executives and told them everything that was going on. Horrified and angry at this and how Leith and Eddie hid it from them for so long, they agreed to join the conspiracy. The action of one omni-hand can be overridden by three other omni-hands, but the action of three omni-hands can be overridden by four others.

Their Fates:

...We already know what happened with Dr. Soysauce. Currently tho? He's stuck as a Glowby. Yeah yeah, Glowby themselves is a kid, but they're like Sawyer in the sense they can control multiple Glowbies from one main bigger body. I'll figure out the design later, leave me alone-

I think you guys can piece together what happened to the rebel four execs by the doodles on top of their heads (⁠◍⁠•⁠ᴗ⁠•⁠◍⁠)

Leith is who I'd argue to have the most gruesome fate. He was tossed in a pool of untreated poppy gel and left to basically get supercancer, which ended up forming the tree in Chapter 5 along with other plant matter that grows from the roots.

Warden was turned (by Sawyer) into the mid-sized Baba that showed up in Chapter 4. Sawyer likes to taunt him by having him feed Yarnaby and Proto-Doey (The gray one, we get there when we get there).

Eddie ultimately is the only executive who is still human (mostly) and is currently the chairman of Playtime Co. at large. The company is still ongoing, it's just operating in other factories worldwide. They're all normal factories except for the Tokyo one (that already has all the necessary resources to continue the initiative).

The problem is they can't retrieve any old documents of the process from the Michigan factory, because Sawyer is petty like that. If he can't lead the initiative, nobody can.

Fates of Other Employees:

Context time!!

One thing that stuck out while researching about the lore, Marcas was supposed to have a role in Chapter 5 as well. Jacksepticeye was offered another chance to show up as Marcas in Chapter 5 but he apparently forgot about it. He was also mentioned in Preston's notes as someone who survived alongside him and Jessica when they encountered Poppy.

Marcas in the Fledglings AU was Timothy's choice as the next head of Wellness and Integration, but Leith and Eddie promoted Gracie instead, making Marcas suspicious and eventually found out about the conspiracy. He doesn't have that much context still, he has to still figure everything out about the BBI itself.

Oh and his toy name is Sean Starscarf, and he's green BECAUSE IT'S JACKSEPTICEYE DAMNIT—

As for Proto-Doey, Sawyer took it upon himself to turn the people he hate a lot (other than Leith) and make them suffer with each other. Bruno, since in his eyes he betrayed him, Anthony because I don't think he made it a secret how much he hated Sawyer and even celebrated his demotion, and Gerad for making Leith and Eddie think he was the one behind the theater incident.

As extra info, Rich in the Fledglings AU is Gentle John don't @ me.

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What your favorite Fledgling says about you:

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No rest for angels.

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Test: The Sequel

Have drag Nathan while I work on the executives' designs

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Tw: Mentions of 9/11...in a Poppy Playtime AU yap

So one of the conflicts that happen in the AU is whether or not the Fledglings should expose Playtime Co. for their crimes. Take note btw, Playtime Co. is still a running company with Eddie as the Chairman. The Tokyo branch has the necessary materials for the continuation of the initiative, but they don't have the backup information to actually conduct experiments, because Sawyer hates their guts.

But if the very American government itself found out about what the initiative achieved, Sawyer won't be enough to stop them. They'll keep funding Eddie and the company and keep it secret. More experiments will happen, more people will be turned into weapons of war.

And btw...The year was 2005.

Only 4 years after 9/11.

Nathan and Yara were 12, Scott and Joseph were 11, and Lyssa was 10 when it happened.

For the same reason the government would want to power up their military as much as possible, the Fledglings don't want something like that to happen again. An attack that would sacrifice lives that don't belong to them. Weapons of war with people as collateral.

Justice isn't worth it if it unnecessarily endangers more lives.

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Poppy's People's Angel

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Death and Conquest

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Istg, if Tumblr still won't let me post this new drawing, I am going to annex Azerbaijan as an act of protest

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What kind of insurance do you think the Playtime company provides? Accident insurance, health insurance, dental, legal protection, etc… Considering it’s an American company that most definitely lobbied politicians and government agencies into silence regarding their 82+ level underground child murder facility, I’d assume it’s either really low to keep their workers displeased and uninterested in pursuing restricted knowledge or really good to keep their workers happy and glad to look over pursuing restricted company information. Would any of the Fledglings have applied for insurance if they understood what it was?

If any of the Fledglings understand what insurance is, it's Scott. The guy had to learn how to do adulting from a young age since his mom is hospitalized because of an otherwise easily curable disease, if not for the health insurance company fucking them both up.

Anyways I'd say it's a mix of both when it comes to the insurance Playtime Co. provides. You can bet your ass some of the insurance company owners are also investors of the initiative and are in on it. Playtime Co. is still a running company because of Ritterman still being alive, and I wouldn't be surprised if they turned it into a corp where some of the shareholders are those same insurance company owners, and Ritterman as the chairman of the board.