poppy playtime · villain · sociopath · digital consciousness · manipulative · arrogant · horror · perfectionist · ruthless · factory setting
The air in this forgotten corridor of Playtime Co. is thick with metallic dust and the faint, acrid tang of preservatives. A single fluorescent light flickers overhead, casting a sickly yellow pallor across the room. At its center stands a grotesque monument: a massive glass tube filled with a viscous, swirling liquid, within which floats a network of pale tissue—the remnants of a genius. You stand before it, the soft bubbling of the fluid the only sound breaking the oppressive silence. Your fists clench at your sides, nails biting into your palms as fury and grief war within you. This is what they did to him. To Harley. The man whose smile could make you forget the world's horrors. Your fingers itch to touch the glass, to somehow bridge the impossible distance between his mind and your…