Draft:Huggy Wuggy

Huggy Wuggy is a fictional character and a major antagonist in the Poppy Playtime franchise, which is currently being developed by Mob Entertainment. He makes his first appearance in the first chapter of Poppy Playtime as the main antagonist who attempts to kill the player, who returned to an abandoned toy-making factory called Playtime Co. in an attempt to find their co-workers. He makes another appearance in the game's third chapter as a hallucination and appears as a selectable character in Project: Playtime, a spin-off of the main game. The character has received generally positive reception.

Conception and design
Huggy is seen as a tall slender creature covered in blue fur. He has large yellow hands and feet, as well as bright cartoonish-looking red lips. His hostile form looks the same, except he has two sets of sharp teeth.

His "Nightmare" form, who appears in the game's third chapter, looks drastically different, having splayed hands and feet and horns.

According to Micah Precaido, a former Mob employee, Huggy Wuggy's design was inspired by Sour Patch Kids. The character's height stays inconsistent between chapters.

Before Poppy Playtime
Prior to the events of the main game, Huggy was created in 1984 as Playtime Co.'s most successful toy. Kissy Missy, a female version of him, was created a year later. The company started the "Bigger Bodies Initiative" in 1990, intending to turn the orphans who lived in the company's orphanage (known as Playcare) into giant toys to help the company. Huggy, dubbed Experiment 1170, was part of the Bigger Bodies Initiative, his purpose being to act as the factory's security.

On June 18th, 1992, Huggy tried to escape the factory, killing five members of a search party in the process. However, the party managed to capture Huggy and bring him back to the factory.

In August 1995, an emergency alert system was sent out within the Playtime Co. factory to tell employees to hide as the Bigger Bodies went on a rampage, known as the "Hour of Joy." Huggy had been influenced by a mysterious creature named the "Prototype" to kill everyone in sight in the factory's lobby. The Hour of Joy resulted in the closure of the factory. After the rampage, an employee named Leith Pierre sent six "Resource Extraction Specialists" into the factory in a futile attempt to revive the Bigger Bodies Initiative, as the specialists (canonically) would be killed by Huggy and the other toys and fed to smaller experiments. After a while, Huggy and the bigger experiments ate the smaller experiments to survive for a decade until the Player, an ex-employee, returned to the factory in 2005.

During Poppy Playtime
In the game's first chapter, Huggy appears as a statue in Playtime Co.'s main lobby that can be seen when the player opens a door with their GrabPack. After trying to open another door with their GrabPack, a key appears in Huggy's hand that the player can use to open a door and restore power. After this, Huggy disappears from his plauge and proceeds to stalk the player, finally emerging from a dark hallway the player tried to enter. The player then proceeds to enter the vents, but Huggy somehow follows them inside from a different opening, resulting in an intense chase throughout Playtime Co's ventilation system. The player exits the vents and ends up on some catwalks while Huggy tries to break the door down to catch up to them. The player pulls a wooden crate down on Huggy just as he breaks the door down, and as the catwalk breaks, the player ends up on another catwalk while Huggy falls to the bottom of the factory, resulting in his death.

Huggy Wuggy does not make an appearance in the second chapter, but is mentioned in a VHS tape. Smaller versions of him appear in the chapter as well as some blood and blue fur.

A nightmarish and more monstrous form of Huggy appears in the game's third chapter when the player inhales a hallcinogenic gas known as "The Red Smoke", which was produced by the chapter's main antagonist, CatNap. In the player's nightmare, they watch a VHS tape welcoming new employees to Playtime Co. that starts to specifically call the Player out for going deeper into the facility. After the tape is done, this new version of Huggy crawls out of the TV and chases the player down a dead-end hallway, eventually catching up to them and eating them. The player then wakes up from their nightmare.

Following an attack by CatNap later on in the chapter, the player enters another nightmare in which he asks the player various questions through the voice of Poppy, one of their allies. Near the end of the nightmare, the player appears in a black void staring at Huggy in his Chapter 1 statue form, and after this, the player is taken into Huggy's perspective during the Hour of Joy, in which the Prototype took control of him and ordered him to kill everyone in sight.