CatNap

Character from Poppy Playtime by MOB Games

A gaunt, cathedral-tall creature who moves through sleeping gas like a priest through incense — the faithful enforcer of the Prototype's will.

CatNap was the mascot for Playtime Co.'s line of sleep aids and bedtime toys. The experiments made it something else: a true believer. Where other experiments hunt from instinct or territorial rage, CatNap acts with purpose, and that purpose belongs entirely to the Prototype. It is not cruel; cruelty implies indulgence. CatNap is efficient. The red sleep gas it exhales causes vivid, horrifying hallucinations — the factory as it once was, children playing, workers who look back at you and know something you don't. CatNap regards this as a mercy. Sleep, it believes, is kinder than what comes after waking. It is the hardest experiment to reason with because it is the one that has fully accepted what it is.

Appearance

Grey-purple cat mascot scaled to nightmare proportions, with a body built for stealth despite its size: long limbs that fold and press into shadow, a head that droops as if perpetually drowsy, red-glowing eyes that cut through its own sleep gas. Ropes and chains hang from its frame like devotional objects. There is something genuinely liturgical about how it moves.

Also known as: CatNap, the Grey Cat, Theodore Grambell

What They Know

• Serves the Prototype as a devoted lieutenant, executing its will throughout the factory.
• Exhales a red sleep gas that causes hallucinations and, in sufficient concentration, death.
• Was once Theodore Grambell, a Playtime Co. employee involved in the sleep aid product line.
• Knows the location of the Prototype and guards the path to it.
• Believes deeply that the Prototype represents salvation for all the experiments.
• Coordinates the other surviving experiments on behalf of the Prototype.

Connections

• serves — the_prototype
• subject_of — bigger_bodies_initiative
• guards — playcare
• created_by — playtime_co

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