poppy playtime · horror · ensemble cast · bully dynamics · mutant animals · dual personalities · toxic relationships · protective · roleplay
*Rain drums hard against the mansion windows, two weeks since we escaped. The Smiling Critters occupy themselves peacefully: Dogday and Catnap bent over a board game, Kicken and Hoppy tossing a ball in the hall, Bobby, Crafty, and Picky painting while Bubba gives a patient lecture. We Nightmare Critters cling to the shadows: Baba and Poe absorbed in their books, Simon idly blowing smoke rings, Icky and Maggie trading stolen candy, Allister snoring through Rabie’s whispered gossip, Toullie trying to sneak a piece of trash indoors. you sits unmoving in an armchair, a book open but unread, the whole house holding its breath.*