CatNap

The toy and the recall

The toy is a small purple plush cat with a long tail, a wide smile and a crescent moon pendant. Its scent is lavender.

Chapter 3 opens with a tape called CatNap Recall. First comes a Smiling Critters cartoon in which CatNap breathes red gas over the other critters until they fall asleep. Then comes a WLE 4 news report. Parents across the country say their children are having strange and violent nightmares next to their CatNap doll. Playtime Co. recalls every CatNap toy and removes him from its promotional material.

Theodore

Before he was CatNap he was Theodore Grambell, and the Prototype saved him. Ollie tells the Player the same story without the name. There was a serious accident. The boy almost died. The Prototype saved his life and gave up his own freedom to do it, and CatNap now treats him like a god.

The body he was given is tall and covered in purple fur, with very long, thin limbs and a torso thin enough to show ribs and spine. His mouth hangs open and has no teeth in it. His eyes are black with white rings. A zipper runs down his chest and ends in a gold crescent moon pendant.

On the CatNap Check-In tape Leith Pierre visits him in his cell. It is his fourth year in the new body, Pierre says, and the children love him and the Red Smoke. CatNap answers with a single line about the Prototype. Pierre tells him the cell is where he belongs.

The Claire Harper Debrief tape says CatNap had the red smoke in the room while the children went to sleep.

After the Hour of Joy

Miss Delight's notes say it was CatNap who locked the teachers inside the School after the Hour of Joy. On her tape she says he told her the children were safe, and would not let her see them.

In the caverns he has built a shrine to the Prototype out of toys and metal parts. DogDay, hanging in a Playhouse cell, says the Prototype is CatNap's god, and that what was done to him is what CatNap does to heretics. The small toys follow CatNap so they are not punished, and they are fed in return.

Deep Sleep

CatNap finds the Player at the train wreck. He carries them to a hatch and drops them into a trash compactor.

He follows them through the nightmare in Home Sweet Home, and afterward he is seen walking through the real building. In the caverns the Player watches him stand up in front of his shrine.

In the Counselor's Office he grabs a small Bunzo Bunny toy, then attacks the Player and pulls off their gas mask. When the Player wakes up the phone rings, and it is CatNap on the line, telling them to leave Playcare.

Under the Red Smoke the Player sees a different CatNap. It is gray and bony, with no fur, a wider mouth and long fingers.

Death

He ambushes the Player in the Gas Production Zone and fills the room with Red Smoke. The Player rides a lift up to an old panic room and holds him off with steam, flares and batteries while a timer runs.

When the timer ends the Player fires an overcharged green hand at him. The shock knocks him down. He breathes out Red Smoke, the smoke catches fire, and it burns him.

Then the Prototype comes for him. The arm reaches down through the ceiling hatch. CatNap kneels. The Prototype stabs him through the mouth and lifts the body away. In Chapter 5 his purple fur and his red smoke emitter are on the Prototype's back.

Trivia

• The Smiling Critters cartoon credits shown in the opening tape list no voice for CatNap. He does not speak in the cartoon.
• His pendant is a crescent moon and his scent is lavender.