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The Prototype, aka Experiment 1006, is a mechanical-organic entity, supposedly being the very first and most dangerous project ever worked on at Playtime Co. who salvages parts from different other toys that he uses to enhance himself.

Biology

The Prototype is an elevated, semi-humanoid figure having needle-fingered hands and six long arachnid-like, heavy-duty plated metal legs; whose mostly dressed as a jester with a blood-curdling smile and has only one eye. He's also enhanced himself a bit and therefore has obtained three more arms; previously belonging to Mommy Long Legs, Huggy Wuggy and Kissy Missy, plus CatNap's spine which is attached to his back. He also enable to speak using a mixture of radio and recordings.

History

Origins

Much of the Prototype's origins are unknown but what is known except that he was the eldest child of the founder of Playtime Co., Elliot Ludwig (though whether if he was ether born into the family or adopted is unknown), and that his real name is Oliver, sometimes nicknamed "Ollie". Under unknown circumstances, he was converted into a "toy" through organic and mechanical parts by Playtime Co. at an unknown point of time prior to the Bigger Bodies Initiative (sometime before or during 1989), before every other known Toy thus far. He was designed as an example of a primary and idealistic vessel that the company attempted to create, presumably being the first and only successful experiment of an unknown scientific field, possibly the same field as Poppy Playtime. The Prototype was also stated to be an outlier with their other experiments, as he was stated to not require food for survival, which employees, primarily Dr. Harley Sawyer and his science team, enjoyed perceiving (even though he does have a fully functional digestive system). Despite that, some staff feared the Prototype and wanted him destroyed, which Dr. Sawyer forbids, as the Prototype is said to show a new trait of himself during every session, and he is also stated to be highly intelligent and clever, making him an interesting figure to examine. After the test of creating the Prototype proved successful, the Prototype was put into his containment cell in the Labs as Playtime Co. began moving forward with the Bigger Bodies Initiative.

In 1989, after when the Prototype escaped confinement and hid inside Playcare, recruiting a troubled orphan named Theodore Grambell to his cause. He frequently encouraged the young boy to sabotage Playtime Co., but to no avail. Their friendship became notorious among the staff, who at first believed that the boy's "friend" was imaginary. One day, the Prototype tried to make Theodore free him and the other toys using a GrabPack 2.0, but the inexperienced child accidentally electrocuted himself. Despite having the opportunity to continue his plans, the Prototype instead brought the wounded boy to Thomas Clarke's office, the latter spotting him before he was recaptured by Security. Two years later, 1006 reunited with Theodore Grambell, who had now become CatNap. During their time together, CatNap followed the Prototype around "like a lost puppy," as stated by Leith Pierre, with 1006 ignoring him.

During a session, an unnamed scientist recounted an incident that involved the Prototype; while confined in his chamber and being monitored at all times, he crafted a laser pointer from his digital alarm clock and other components in his room before firing it at the security camera and disabling it for 28.3 seconds. He then hid in a blind spot away from surveillance, forcing a surveillance specialist to come into the Prototype's room to confirm his apparent "absence." However, upon entering the room, she realized that the Prototype is hiding. When the latter attempted to escape his confinement, the door was immediately re-locked by another surveillance specialist. Now trapped in the room, the previous specialist was then killed by the Prototype, as the Scientist callously claimed that "one casualty occurred."

During a session with Harley Sawyer, the Prototype questioned him if he and any employees feel remorse for "sticking, beating, and tearing at the flesh" of the experiments. However, Dr. Sawyer managed to cleverly retort back by challenging the Prototype before pointing out on how he continues to uncover new aspects about him during each session. The Prototype thanks Sawyer before sarcastically mocking him in the latter's own voice that he too learned something about the latter every day, not accepting Sawyer dodging his question.

At some point, the Prototype decided to create a disguise named Ollie, and mimicking a child's voice to have it more convincing. He used it with Poppy to gain her trust.A tape seen in Chapter 4 showed an interaction with the two, with Ollie calling Poppy and asking why she was crying. At first, she didn't want to talk about it, but then she talked about the scientists experimenting on her and how much it's affecting her, saying how she hates them and hates their leader, Harley Sawyer, and ending with Ollie comforting her, saying that he's here. This would cause the Prototype to continue using his Ollie disguise, likely made by the Prototype to begin planning something against the scientists and the whole facility to get revenge for how they mistreated Poppy and every other toy.

The Toy Experiments were getting fed up with the mistreatment, being experimented on and the abuse that Playtime's Scientists have subjected them to. The Prototype told the experiments, including Poppy, that things were going to change and they will have their freedom. Poppy believed that they would simply leave the factory, but she didn't know that the Prototype had other plans about it. On August 8th, 1995, at 11 AM, The Prototype revealed that the plan was not leaving the factory: It was a mass murdering rebellion. He ordered all the toy monsters that sided with him, including Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs, CatNap, Boxy Boo, Miss Delight and her sisters, the Mini Smiling Critters and Mini Huggies that sided with him, as well some employees that felt remorse for the experimentation such as Preston Willard and Stella Greyber (although by manipulation), to begin killing every adult in sight. Kissy Missy only briefly participated in it out of anxiety and self-defense, and instead returned to the same spot she's at. They began their killing sprees, murdering hundreds of people in the entire factory indiscriminately, both guilty and innocent, and both employee and visitor. After it was done, he took all the orphans into the Labs in the very depths of the factory and placed them to sleep and had the experiments also drag all the bodies of the murdered humans down there as well to be used as food. The murderous event was remembered and named The Hour of Joy by the Toy Experiments.

His actions left Poppy horrified and traumatized, and hated him for what he has done, but the Prototype told her that they could never leave the factory, as he likely pointed out that if the outside world finds out about them, there will be the risk of the experiments starting all over again or worse, be killed off by the government authorities, as they can never let it happen to anyone else ever again. She still hated him, but she knew he was right about that, but this didn't stop her from turning against the Prototype, and she began to rally any other experiments that also opposed him to escape from him and made a shelter in the prison complex, calling it Safe Haven. During that time, The Prototype and his allies would make numerous attempts to break in. In the meantime, The Prototype would continue using his Ollie persona to continue talking with Poppy and maintain her trust with him and continue watching her and knowing of her plans.

After the Hour of Joy, the Prototype discovered and met Harley Sawyer again, now the Doctor, only to see that he was also betrayed by Playtime Co. and turned into an experiment, watching over the prison area. Instead of killing him and being done with it, the Prototype decided to make him an ally, seeing that he's more useful to him now that he's alive. A tape in Chapter 4 shows an argument between them about solutions from the Doctor that weren't working, with The Prototype re-questioning sparing the Doctor. The Doctor suggested that they need more time or give him access to the labs, but the Prototype refused, telling him to stay put in the prison. The Doctor points out that they still need more time and tells the Prototype that he can't do it all on his own, saying that he's the Prototype's "best shot". The Prototype decided to wait more and get more options, but told the Doctor not to stall or anything worse (i.e. betraying The Prototype) and reminded him that his usefulness is the only reason that's keeping him alive, lest he's stripped for meat and spare parts.

Despite the factory being taken over, Leith Pierre, who survived and escaped the factory along with Sharon and a few others when the experiments rebelled, began sending in Resource Extraction Specialists to go into the facility and retrieve more resources and experiments. The Prototype would learn of the intruders and Johnny and Maggie, and sent in Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs and Boxy Boo to deal with them and feed them to the other toys. However, the Toys got the upper hand and killed all of the Resource Extraction Specialists, and forced both Leith and Playtime Co. into stopping sending in more specialists, permanently closing down the Bigger Bodies initiative for good and leaving Leith and the few remaining survivors with nothing to do. After The Hour of Joy incident, Playtime Co. has been left with no other options but to permanently close its own doors, thus ending the legacy of Elliot Ludwig and his hopes and dreams were shattered forever.

Eventually, the experiments' food supply began to dwindle, and this caused the experiments to starve and begin turning on and devouring each other to satisfy their hunger. The Prototype would learn that Poppy left Safe Haven for unknown reasons, possibly by using his Ollie persona to trick Poppy into telling him what she's doing. He started tracking her down. Eventually, he successfully cornered and captured her and imprisoned her in a case in a dollhouse room that's directly down a hall from Elliot Ludwig's office. He also likely told the experiments still loyal to him to not let anyone near her and capture her again if she gets out and to not let any harm come to her. He likely told Huggy Wuggy to patrol the main lobby and kill any intruder who enters the factory.

Poppy Playtime

Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze

Experiment-1006 is mentioned in the death screens, where the protagonist is asked how they think of him. A huge claw mark with the word "WONDERFUL" can be seen on the wall in the breaker room when the protagonist goes to turn on the power in the lobby.

The Prototype is then mentioned in a VHS tape in the factory. In it, the Scientist explains how the Prototype is missing and directly responsible for the trouble happening in the factory but explains that he will not harm the research. Screams and Huggy Wuggy's roar are heard in the background, and the tape ends abruptly, implying that Huggy Wuggy killed the scientist. As the tape plays, the Prototype's hand appears on the screen before the tape ends.

Chapter 2: Fly In A Web

At the end of the chapter, Mommy Long Legs begs the protagonist not to kill her, fearing she'll join "him". After she dies, a large and skinny metal needle hand belonging to Experiment 1006 grabs her remains and drags them into the darkness.

Experiment-1006 is later mentioned in a VHS once again. In it, he is described as being very intelligent but also very destructive. He is even stated to have made a laser to disable the cameras and escape. This ended in the casualty of an employee. Experiment-1006 is mentioned once again in the death screens, where they said that he was loose, which led to the emergency lockdown, as it was mentioned in what happened in the first Experiment-1006 tape.

Chapter 3: Deep Sleep

Experiment-1006 directly appeared in a VHS showing one of his sessions with Harley Sawyer. According to the scientist, the Prototype had been silent in all previous sessions, but this time, he asked him whether he could feel all the pain he inflicted on the toys with his experiments and later taunted him about how he learns new things about him with each session, just as Sawyer does with him. According to "Ollie", following the Prototype's saving of CatNap/Theodore at that time, the latter started worshiping him as a god and savior to all the toys imprisoned in Playtime, forcing other toys to join his cult and even building a shrine to the Prototype in the caves surrounding Playcare, the underground orphanage built by Playtime Co.

When CatNap is set ablaze and has his fur burnt off by the protagonist, the Prototype's hand appears through a vent above his dying follower before stabbing his claw through CatNap's mouth, killing him. He then takes the cat's now-lifeless body away for his failure to take out the protagonist. Soon after that, it is also revealed by another VHS tape and by Poppy Playtime on how Experiment-1006 orchestrated the toys' breakout and ordered the massacre of the entire Playtime Co. staff, including innocent visitors, in what came to be known as the "Hour of Joy," eventually leading Playtime Co. to permanently close its doors. As the protagonist and Poppy were descending down to the prison via a lift, Kissy Missy was suddenly attacked by an unknown entity (presumably the Prototype himself).

Chapter 4: Safe Haven

As the player makes their way to the Safe Haven, they are pulled into a tight corner by Poppy Playtime and Kissy Missy, who is now burnt, covered in scars, and is wearing a cast. Poppy shushes the protagonist as the shadow of the Prototype's crab-like legs appears from the corner, searching for the protagonist. After a couple of seconds, the Prototype walks away.

After the protagonist finally kills the Doctor (with the Prototype possibly grafting the Doctor's remains onto his body off-screen), he returns to the Safe Haven to repair their generator with the Omni-Hand. The Prototype arrives at the Safe Haven and is kept at bay by Doey the Doughman. After the generator was repaired, the Prototype is nowhere to be found alongside Doey. When the protagonist successfully planted the explosives at the foundation of the factory, the Prototype sneaked into the foundation and relocated the explosives by the Safe Haven, killing all of the toys that were inside. Doey falsely blamed the protagonist for the death of the toys and attempted to kill them in revenge, only for the player to kill him in self-defence, with Doey apologizing in his final moments for letting his anger control him.

After the battle, the protagonist finds a vent and crawls inside, leading to a shelf ventilation block where Poppy Playtime and Kissy Missy are taking refuge. Poppy tries to call Ollie but to no avail. But when Ollie finally calls Poppy back, he tells Poppy where exactly the three are hiding and tells them to stay where they are and listen closely as Ollie's voice changes before revealing himself to be the Prototype. When Poppy asks if there was ever an Ollie, the Prototype tells her that there was, but it was a long time ago, suggesting either that Ollie was his name before he became an experiment or an identity he stole, and he also revealed that he was the one who placed Poppy in her case. Poppy then furiously lashes out at The Prototype for lying to her all this time, with The Prototype responding that she kept missing the point.

He proceeds to taunt the group about their failures, threatens Poppy with being put in a new and improved case, one that will never be unlocked and one that she will never escape from, before telling her that it's time to come home. Overwhelmed by the revelation, her failures and her trauma of being in the case, Poppy tearfully decides to flee and abandons the Player with Kissy Missy in the ventilation. The Prototype gloats about this outcome, leaving the protagonist and the injured Kissy at his mercy, and he blows up the bottom of the vent block with an explosive. Kissy grabs the protagonist as well as the vent and tries to hold on to them, but her arm is torn off, and the protagonist falls into a chasm that leads deeper into the factory, where they discovered the facility's top-secret laboratories, where the Prototype and a furious Huggy are waiting.

Chapter 5: Broken Things

Lily captured Poppy, Kissy and the player thus leaves them tied up around a table for tea time with the Prototype, who reveals his full visage at this point. The situation escalates into a fight when the villain reveals to her that he has already experimented on all the orphans she was supposed to save, causing her to be distraught and furious at him, seeing how truly evil he is. After the Prototype squeezes Poppy’s head too hard, her porcelain skin is cracked. Along with losing her right eye she loses some hair, and the muscle and bone on the right half of her skull is exposed, and then Kissy attacked him afterwards. As Huggy Wuggy finally has the protagonist at his mercy, his attention is drawn to Kissy Missy, who tries to calm him down. Just as she is about to succeed, Prototype mortally wounds Huggy by stabbing him from behind as punishment for disobeying him too many times. Kissy knew that Huggy was their friend, until then the Prototype killed her.

The Prototype was absolutely relentless. Nothing the player threw at him slowed him down for long, and he was even fast enough to keep up with the train on foot. The Prototype capturing Poppy and mortally wounding the protagonist who barely survived after being dunked into a barrel of Poppy Gel but luckily, is saved by Giblet afterwards. The only hope the good guys have is to rely on a backup in which case turned out to be none other than the Doctor himself whose still alive.

Notes

• Originally, "Experiment 1-0-0-6" was at first believed to be Huggy Wuggy.