The Prototype

Oliver

Before he was an experiment he was Oliver, called Ollie, the adopted son of Elliot Ludwig. He was made into the Prototype as a precursor to Poppy.

The Chapter 5 cassette Elliot & The Prototype has the two of them talking after the change. Ludwig still calls him Oliver. Oliver's answer is that the work was never about him. It was about Poppy.

Experiment 1006

Log 08502 is the record of how close he came to getting out. He took apart the digital alarm clock in his room, built a laser pointer from it and used it to blind the security camera for 28.3 seconds. He hid in a blind spot and went for the door when a specialist opened it. A second specialist locked the door remotely with the first one still inside, and one person died. The log calls him more intelligent than any other test subject and willing to use violence, and it asks for more suppression treatments.

Log 24459, a black tape outside the Safe Room, is Harley Sawyer logging a session with him. The Prototype asks whether Sawyer feels anything about what he does to the experiments. Sawyer says there is a secret inside 1006, and that he learns something new about him every day. The Prototype thanks him, and then repeats the line back in Sawyer's own voice.

The Final Log tape in Chapter 1 is a scientist's last entry about him. It says 1006 can coordinate and cooperate with others of his type, that he is still missing, and that the events of that day are tied to him. Screams and pounding are heard, and the log is cut off.

The Hour of Joy

On August 8, 1995 he led the experiments in the massacre of the Playtime Co. staff. On the tape 'Warden Office 8/8/1995' the Doctor gives 1006 the credit for the uprising.

Afterward he told the toys they could never leave the factory, and that the bodies were the only food. Poppy says so on the 'Untitled Tape'. Writing on the walls outside her room says the Prototype has saved the ones who wrote it.

He kept the Doctor at arm's length. On the tape 'Time' he tells him that his suggestions have failed and that time is what they do not have. He refuses him access to the Labs and reminds him that being useful is the only reason he was kept alive.

The hand

Until Chapter 5 the games show only a thin metal hand with needle-like fingers. When Mommy Long Legs is crushed in Chapter 2, it reaches from under a half closed door and drags her upper body away. Her last words are that he will make her part of him.

Poppy explains him in Chapter 3. Huggy Wuggy, Mommy Long Legs and the others did not act alone. She calls them disciples of the original, the Prototype, and says he is the one who trapped her in her case. CatNap goes further. He treats the Prototype as his god and has built him a shrine of toys and metal parts in the caverns. DogDay says he and the other Smiling Critters tried to fight the Prototype's control, and he says it hanging in a cell, cut in half.

At the end of the second Red Smoke dream the Player stands in the lobby during the alarm and sees the hand reaching down toward them. The real one arrives after CatNap is burned. The arm comes through the ceiling hatch of the Safe Room and holds out its hand. CatNap kneels. It stabs him through the mouth and lifts the body up through the hatch.

Ollie

Through Chapter 3 and most of Chapter 4 a child's voice on the phone, Ollie, guides the Player. It is him.

He is close by for all of Chapter 4. Six large metal legs search the corridor outside Safe Haven while Poppy, Kissy and the Player hide. A note called 'Reconnaissance Report: 01.10.05' says he has been getting past the traps, and that he stood outside the door tapping on the wall.

After Doey dies, the phone rings in Shelf Ventilation Block B6 and Ollie's voice becomes the Prototype's. He says he knows everything. There was an Ollie, a very long time ago. He has prepared something for Poppy that she will never want to leave.

As Ollie he had talked the Player into rigging the Safe Haven generator. Now he says he took the explosives from the Foundation and put them to good use. He tells Poppy it is time to come home. When she runs, the charges under the floor go off, and the ground drops out from under the Player and Kissy Missy.

Broken Things

Chapter 5 shows him in full. He is tall, with a cracked porcelain jester face on a thin upper body. Below that is a spider-like machine that walks on jointed metal legs built from factory parts. The arms he carries were taken from Mommy Long Legs, Kissy Missy and Huggy Wuggy, and CatNap's purple fur and red smoke emitter are on his back.

He hunts the Player through the Labs. On one of his visits Chum Chompkins hides the Player inside his mouth.

Lily Lovebraids invites him to her tea party as the special guest. He tells Poppy the orphans are in a Better Place, and she takes it to mean they are dead. He cracks her porcelain head and knocks Lily aside, which frees Kissy Missy. Kissy attacks him, and he leaves.

Near the tram he impales Huggy Wuggy and Kissy Missy. He chases the Player along the tram and survives the crash. Then he stabs the Player, puts them in a vat of Poppy Gel and takes Poppy away.

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