Poppy Playtime Chapter 2 Catnap
Toni Jarels
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CatNap is a life-sized recreation of one of the characters from Playtime Co.'s "Smiling Critters" lineup. Originally an orphan from the company's Playcare orphanage, Theodore was experimented on as part of the Bigger Bodies Initiative after suffering a near-fatal accident, thus turning him into who he is today. CatNap is completely loyal to the Prototype due to him saving his life when he was still human, worshipping him like a god and killing the "heretics" who don't follow him.
As CatNap, he takes on a more distorted and monstrous version of the docile and cartoonish character he was based on. Retaining the toy's cat-like traits, such as triangular ears, a long tail, and a diamond-shaped nose, CatNap is also less anthropomorphic, walking on all fours (though he is perfectly able to stand on two limbs), having feline-like paws that don sharp black claws on each digit and purple fur covering all of his body. Similarly to Huggy Wuggy, his limbs are slender to an almost skeletal degree. His eyes are also pitch black with white irises and his mouth, like his toy counterpart, is kept in a perpetually wide grin. CatNap also wears a gold crescent moon-shaped charm on his collar, has loose black stitches on his limbs and has slight scarring on his right ear. It is also worth noting that CatNap has an emaciated and skeletal appearance as you can see his rib, vertebrae and joints in his limbs. It appears that this is his natural appearance as CatNap looked the same during the Hour of Joy, though he appeared to be missing the chips on his ear.
When the protagonist is hallucinating upon exposure to the red smoke, CatNap's appearance becomes much more monstrous and nightmarish. His fur is now colourless, with his moon charm turning silver. He becomes much more large and skeletal, having protruding vertebrae and hands with visible bones. His grin has now been elongated to an unnatural degree, extending all the way to his forearms.
As Theodore, he was a relatively average looking boy with light skin, curly, but well-kept hair and brown eyes. In the sole photograph shown of him, he is seen wearing a blue, flannel-patterned shirt. As the photo only depicts his upper body, it is unknown what the rest of his attire looked like.
As a human, Theodore was a kind but troubled orphan who lacked any friends or family, later on finding companionship in his only friend, the Prototype. The two would often spend time together, with Theodore cherishing him as a good companion and the Prototype likewise showing affection to him, even saving him after Theodore was electrocuted in a botched plan to help the orphans escape Playcare, sacrificing his freedom to get Theodore to safety.
However, this incident would soon cause Theodore to change for the worse upon becoming CatNap. While initially accepting of his purpose of guarding children and safeguarding Playcare, CatNap would soon be consumed by his admiration and gratefulness to the Prototype, becoming a fanatic to the experiment and heeding his every call. Becoming extremely fervent to the Prototype's commands, CatNap would ruthlessly slaughter all adults present in Playtime Co. and begin enforcing the worship of him, forcing all toys to join CatNap's cult to the Prototype or be killed. CatNap would also gain a violently sadistic personality, as shown by how he torments the protagonist throughout the chapter via numerous plots and eventually threatens the protagonist to leave or face his wrath.
Despite this, CatNap has shown to be not completely heartless. It's mentioned that he hid the surviving orphans of Playcare from the hostile toys during the Hour of Joy, showing a more humane and caring side of CatNap, though it's possible that he was merely following through with the Prototype's goals of safeguarding the children from Playtime Co. CatNap also seems to have a twisted sense of mercy as instead of killing them during his ambush, he grants the protagonist one last chance to leave Playcare, threatening their death otherwise. He's also shown to be extremely loyal, as he seemingly offers himself up as a sacrifice to the Prototype when defeated, showing that his devotion overshadowed CatNap's fear of death.
CatNap was made as part of Playtime CO.'s Smiling Critters line-up of toys. However, children who bought his toy started experiencing nightmares afterwards; this is because the toys dispelled poppy gas instead of the intended scented lavender essential oil. On top of this, there was a dark advertisement for the Smiling Critters line-up, where the titular characters are scared during the night and ask CatNap to put them to sleep; he releases a stream of red gas from his mouth that causes them to start laughing hysterically until they drop dead, before CatNap sits on the couch and stares at the camera. These two incidents caused CatNap to be recalled, a news report stating "Your children are not safe with CatNap". According to the tie-in Orientation Notebook, this incident was the beginning of the end for Playtime CO., with it only getting worse from here.
Meanwhile, the Bigger Bodies CatNap is seen in the game, which shows that he was an orphan named Theodore Grambell who lived in the Home Sweet Home orphanage at Playcare. The young boy was infamous to the facility's staff thanks to having an "imaginary friend" who convinced him to sabotage Playtime Co., and was later revealed to be the Prototype. One day, the Prototype would enlist Theodore's help to free Playcare's orphans by using an electrified green GrabPack hand to open a door. Unfortunately, due to his inability to understand the GrabPack's green hand, Theodore ended up being electrocuted, injuring him badly. While the Prototype had an easy way to freedom, he gave it up in exchange for rescuing the small child, bringing him to the scientists. Afterwards, Theodore would be transformed by the workers into CatNap, being able to breathe poppy gas to put the children at Playcare to sleep. Despite his horrifying appearance CatNap was apparently very friendly to the children and quite passive as well, with his only flaw noted being his fanatic devotion to the Prototype. Despite this, the Orientation Notebook revealed there was one incident where, in an escape attempt, he had slowly and brutally massacred six employees.
At some point, CatNap had a check-in with Leith Pierre, who congratulates him for spending 4 years in his new body. When CatNap says he and the other Toys will be saved by the Prototype, Leith states that no one will save him as Playcare is his new home, telling him to get used to his new life.
On August 8th, 1995, the Prototype orchestrated a massive rebellion - referred to as "The Hour of Joy" by the toys - at Playtime Co. The experiments, including CatNap, killed all of the employees of the factory, and took their bodies to the deepest parts of Playtime Co. to eat them in order to stay alive. After the Hour of Joy, Catnap locked the school's teachers inside the schoolhouse, knowing that, in their hunger, they would murder the children who had been hidden away and then they would all turn on one another. Waiting until all but one Miss Delight survived, he confronted her and struck a deal to report anything of interest to each other and to the Prototype. For the next ten years CatNap remained inside Playcare, torturing and killing any toys who were against the Prototype, the worst being fellow Smiling Critter DogDay, bisecting him at the waist and stringing him to the ceiling as punishment for being a "heretic".
Later, several plush versions of him stalk the protagonist in the Playhouse, but they are scared off when the protagonist shoots them away with the Flare Gun (Orange) Hand of their GrabPack. Upon arriving in a prisonlike area in the Playhouse, DogDay notices the protagonist and tells them that the Prototype is a god in CatNap's point of view, and he kills anyone who he deems heretics.
When the protagonist traverses the counselors' offices, they witness CatNap killing a miniature Bunzo Bunny, later on, CatNap appears from the shadows and knocks them out and destroys the gas mask they were using to protect themselves from his poppy gas, putting them in a flashback hallucination. After the protagonist regains consciousness, CatNap calls them over the phone, threatening to kill them if they do not leave Playcare.
After completing the gas production and going to put a new battery, CatNap emerges close by and fills the room with his poppy gas, causing the protagonist to begin hallucinating Catnap taking on a more nightmarish and demonic appearance, and chases The protagonist to the upper level. Upon arriving, the protagonist uses several mechanisms to hold CatNap off for 180 seconds (exactly three minutes) while a Green Hand outlet charges. When the outlet fully charges, the protagonist shoots their green hand to it, causing the hand to overcharge. CatNap then enters the room via a vent on the ceiling, intent on devouring the protagonist, but the protagonist shoots their overcharged green hand at him, electrocuting CatNap. When he breathes out red gas, the electricity causes the gas around him to ignite, setting him ablaze and burning his fur off. The Prototype's hand descends from the vent, apparently trying to help CatNap up. The latter goes to seemingly offer himself up as a sacrifice to the Prototype. The Prototype accepts the sacrifice and stabs CatNap through the face, killing him before dragging him away.
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