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Help me design Nightmare Catnap! 💜

She’ll be based off the existing one:

Obviously she can't be identical because this ☝️ is the BIGGER BODIES Catnap. For starters, my girl has short, stubby legs, which that thing… uhh… does not.

In Sugar Breath, her description reads like this:

“A skeleton cat, its fur utterly shed, bones and scars and bruises jabbed all around its papery skin. The creature’s spine shoved out of its back in sharp ridges. Its mouth gaped wide, wider than possible. Human faces bubbled and boiled within its skin. A sharp, angular moon pendant glinted in the sickly light.”

The faces boiling in her skin comes from the original concept for Nightmare Catnap, here:

I personally much prefer this version and want to create something similar to it.

How she works in Smaller Bodies is that, when someone is inflicted with fear and under the affects of poppy gas, they watch her fur peel off and shed, revealing the bones beneath.

She would also keep her jewellery. Here’s a very rough sketch:

So far:

No cheek fluff

Exposed ribs

Extremely sharp spine that extends to the tip of the tail

Earrings have changed (everything’s sharper, the heart is upside-down, the stud is a skull)

Her gentle 🌙 is now more of a jagged ‘C’

Ears are sharper, less fluffy

Claws are very long

Keep in mind that this sketch was hammered out in 10 minutes so obviously it’s missing a lot of details and overall looks very odd.

Ideas:

Exposed poppy gas tank in belly

⭐️ Please comment/reblog with any ideas! ⭐️

She’s showing up for the first time in Sugar Breath and I need her to be fabulous ✨

Here’s the plan!!!

Get idiots ready for the Toy Tour, reasonably hyped

Slam-dunk them onto the train

Introduce the nightmare critters - they’re forced to share a train carriage

Make the critters go “:0” as they’re given rooms while Dogday shits himself because he can’t sleep beside BigNap

Introduction to Ollie and the realisation they’ve turned into a dictator

Grand dinner night and the official announcement of the start of training

Slow realisation that the Toy Tour is rigorously controlled

Mass panic, leading to threats of Destroy-A-Toy

The Tour is now a concentration camp where anyone who objects is killed or threatened

Optional additional ideas:

Someone’s poisoned at the dinner party

Ollie teaches the other toys about things like racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia etc and they’re all horrified because these toys have never seen those concepts before (at least, not that they’re aware of)

Dogday makes friends with Infox, who is @thattiredgamer’s OC; Kather, who is @i-am-in-the-mind-fuck’s OC, and SourTail, who is @bazyboo13’s OC

Possibly a snippet or mention of the cult. You’re not meant to know Destroy-A-Toy’s being ruled by the kitty queen, but for those already in the know it would be great foreshadowing!

Teach the toys the Footloose dance because it would be really funny as a training exercise

The above are the things I gotta do forrrrr this series!

May be shabby now but I’ve got the plans! Stories take time! Especially since this is more an original fic instead of a what-if :)

qibs, ya forgot to post the new chapter here!!!!!

EEK!!!

True true true!!

Uhh… okay.

Miss Delight-centric fic is out!

Lore dump time!!!! 🍊📚✏️🚌

Introducing:

Trigger warnings:

Consistent theme of eating disorders and the fear of seeing or smelling food to avoid temptation

Vomiting

A panic attack

Briefly mentioned blood (only described once; indirect)

Brief reference to Ollie's suicide attempt from Smaller Bodies

Be careful! This fic heavily centres around Miss Delight’s eating disorder.

It’s an angst/comfort/fluff story and also introduces the rest of her sisters!

All Twelve Teachers

Miss Equal, the mathematics teacher

Miss Heart, the English teacher

Miss Odyssey, the history teacher

Miss Isles, the geography teacher

Miss Sugar, the Home Economics teacher

Miss Blush, the chemistry teacher

Miss Delight, the biology teacher

Miss Motion, the physics teacher

Miss Melody, the music teacher

Miss Cotton, the sewing teacher

Miss Brains, the psychology teacher

Miss Beauty, the art teacher

They have friend groups, too!

Equal, Blush, Delight and Motion

Melody and Motion; Brains and Beauty

Heart, Isles and Odyssey

Cotton, Melody, Heart and Delight

The names were brainstormed by me and my friend Ara, who you can find on my discord server! <3

Anyway, there’s the Delightful lore drop!

Next up, worldbuilding and an announcement…

✏️📄🍎

Happy Spooky Month! 🔮✨🪄

Here’s Celestial Witch Catnap! ✨

She wanted to be a goddess, but that wouldn’t be a dress up because she already is one! 💜

She’s based on the Royale High Whimsy Witch set with the Nightmare Witch hat!

May you have a wonderful spooky month! 💜✨🔮

So I’ve got my favourite chapter (Acid Splash) upcoming and it SHOULD be done but the thing is… it introduces my favourite character so I’m being perfectionists and hyper focusing on that

I’M NOT DEAD GUYS TRUST ME

I’ve got cover art for it and several documents explaining to myself how to do the character progression

I’m excited about my comfort character help

Them.

New tumblr header. :)

(Spoilers for Smaller Bodies; no spoilers for Destroy-A-Toy)

For anyone new to the AU, this is Queen Catnap, Dogday, Ollie and Theodore. Here’s a brief description of each one.

Queen Kitty was the first Catnap. Autistic and transgender, she was built with a knockout gas tank in her lungs. Her anger towards PlayCo mounted and she attacked them. She was sent to be killed but instead built a cult following with the other “destroyed” toys.

Dogday is the Smiling Critters’ leader who loves routine and pushes the entire orphanage forward each day. He believes Kitty was killed - he doesn’t know about the cult - and mourns her everyday through prayer and reciting loving memories. He’d get rather a shock when he finds out the truth.

Ollie Playtime is the company’s Security and Comms head. They also control medical supplies, file management and company censorship. They were taken from home and experimented on at 14, and now at 18, they’re using the experimentation blackmail to climb the company’s ranks and gain power.

Theodore Grambell is a tiny child adopted with the sole purpose of experimentation. He never played with the other kids or smiled like they did. For someone so young, he feels lost, empty. He was never given a chance to grow up. He may be sentenced to death soon but for what little life he had, he’s doing to make sure he’s remembered.

They’re my four favourite Smaller Bodies/Destroy-A-Toy characters :)

~🌘☀️🐬🌒~

I reached 150 followers recently!

Huge gracias to anyone following the AU. I’m so grateful to finally be confident enough to share my things <3

*writes 659 pages cutely*

Like to charge, reblog to cast

55 BOOKMARKS :0

According to the poll… you want a longer fic going to 1995.

Okay! Planning time! As of now, Smaller Bodies is 88k words. I’m gonna try to round it off to 100k, though this may a little hard because I still have to get Catnap… apprehended.

Then?

New series, same universe.

Destroy-A-Toy starts when the world ends.

My writing’s currently stunted because of Art Fight, but I’m still writing, just slower. Several people mentioned to me that Sugar Breath takes a different approach to the other stories, in which case, thanks! :D Most of it’s been told from Catnap’s POV, but I wanted to check out how the other Critters perceive her.

I might write one-shots to do with more Theo and Ollie because I love those two BUT. As MrMateusz says: TheoNap.

In no order, here’s my list of cryptic stuff to work on:

Get Smaller Bodies to 100k words

“And Then We All Fell (Silent)”

Pre-Hour of Joy

VERY depressed Dogday

Another cat and dog

Gender phone call + enby pook

SHE’S GRANTING US VISIONS!!

*sprays Theodore Grambell with water*

Umm why is he drawing Harley Sawyer getting his legs ripped off…?

Collect my friends’/fan’s OCs for reasons

Write the dramatic scenes to Edda Hayes music 👇

“Don’t need a knight to guard the cave, can’t count the dragons that I’ve slayed

You can give it all you’ve got

‘Cause love is running through my veins, this lion can’t be tamed

There’s fire in my blood

There’s fire in my blood…

BURN.”

…

And finally, let me just say…

Smaller Bodies is the 1991 half.

Destroy-A-Toy is 1995.

💜💛🔥

“I POSSESS A QUESTION, ONE ASKED OF MY PEOPLE. I AM BLESSED TO HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO LIFE SURROUNDED NOT BY HERETICAL HUMANS BUT BY THESE "SMALLER BODIES". THEY HAVE WELCOMED ME TO THEIR QUARTERS.”

There's a new toy on board! Introducing BigNap! (Unless a more eloquent name is suggested!)

Sarificed for research and condemned to an unsustainable body, Theodore Grambell's old body has melted away at the hands of Miss Delight and Harley Sawyer. His mind has been reignited in a different vessel - one twelve feet tall and with the power to tear a school bus in half.

But it's alright, because while BigNap may be vengeful and venomous, he's quite the dear little kitty to those dang Smaller Bodies in the Playcare.

So much so that he's introduced in the very first chapter of Destroy-A-Toy! It's underway!

Now, Bigger Bodies Catnap's question is:

(He asks because his debut is in the very first story for DAT and therefore his formatting must be worked out.)

How This Creature Works

Big Catnap, as colloquially named by the Critters, children and teachers of the Playcare, is the new-and-improved replacement for that old, faulty thing who cried too much. He is twelve feet tall and an absolute tank - if you ignore the protruding ribcage and ominous growling stomach.

Appearance

The same as the Catnap found in the original Poppy Playtime. Big Catnap is a large, scrawny creature with a protruding spinal chord and disconcerting slices of ribcage jutting from his paper-thin skin. His eyes are minuscule and set deep into mouth-like sockets. His fur is abyssal-dark felt soft to the touch.

Deep inside his throat, if one were to look, pipes could be found. Who knows what they produce?

Personality

Quiet, docile and allegedly "friend-shaped" (according to my friend Foxfire), this Catnap looks like he can kill you but is in fact a cinnamon roll. At least, to people he likes. Otherwise you can expect yourself to be on the plate.

BigNap is possessive over the Playcare children and loving towards toy experiments - but has a VERY strong hostility to humans. This is an issue because of the upcoming Toy Tour…

Theodore gasses the children not out of obligation but out of concern for their health and sleep.

Biology

A creature of this size requires LOTS of food. The problem is - he isn’t given the correct amount. Why drain resources for an experiment that may not survive anyway? As such, Big Catnap is constantly just one bite off from a full belly.

His tank possesses MUCH greater quantities of poppy gas - however, it’s watered down. The gas:

Takes up to 10 minutes to knock out children and 30 for adults

Does not leach oxygen

Works slowly but surely to lull the victim to sleep

This is NOT how Smaller Bodies Catnap works. Her smoke is quick-working and oppressive while this Catnap works much more as a calm, steady, peaceful lull to sleep.

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