I love Smaller Bodies man
She’s an Allosaurus!!
Meet Shelly! 🐚🍂
Thank you, Dandy’s World, for giving me brainrot 😭
She’s part of what I’m going to fittingly call my Dino Shelly AU, in which Shelly is half-transformed and constantly in danger of slipping into the mindset of a Twisted. Her mutation has already broken her body and her mind may follow close behind.
This post is chunky so read more if you wish, or just enjoy my gal! :)
Now, in case you’re wondering why her bottom half is hidden, that’s because it looks like this:
(This is a slightly earlier design for her so some details are a lil different hehe)
So what happened to her?
(Warning: mentions of paralysis, mental illness and addiction)
No one remembered her during the panic timer and the doors banged shut without her
She was left to rot in the factory floor and was attacked by the roaming twisteds
Her spine was snapped and she became paralysed from the waist down
Unable to move and desperate to alleviate her pain somehow, she drank from the ichor machine she’d been backed up against
Ichor sated her hunger but also caused a serious addiction to the substance
Constant exposure to ichor caused her lower body to try and heal itself, but her mitosis was so confused it picked the wrong DNA
Dinosaurs go rawr 🦖🦖🦖🦖🦖
Shelly’s personality is still relatively the same, but thanks to her mutation, she has become much more primal and survival-minded, with her survival typically involving either ichor or Vee, who was the one to eventually rescue her. Shelly’s memory is also extremely poor and she is easily triggered by the sound of cracks or splinters.
(End of warning)
In this AU I think that the toons all get their life force from their trinket, which now multipurposes as the object the toons are based as :) eg. Glisten isn’t an actual mirror anymore but he’s decorated with glass
I don’t know if I’ll design any of the other toons with the same human style but I’m good with the cartoon aesthetic so, here’s half-toon Shelly :)
Damn you toxic Shellevision…
Still working this out but I think Vee is both the reason Shelly was left behind and the reason she was recovered at all. At the time, Vee was sort of dealing with a petty frustration over Shelly’s crush on her, and out of spite argued that no one should go back to check after the panic timer. And it took a lot of overnight existentialising and self-hate to change her mind.
“If you hadn’t been so stupid and bitter in the moment, her spine wouldn’t have broken.”
I think she would’ve either found Shelly or sought her out during a solo run, been crippled with guilt, and brought her back to mixed reactions.
Shelly doesn’t acknowledge Vee’s past dislike for her. She’s buried the memory.
Cause Vee came back for her, right?
So surely she loves her this time?
spoilers she changed her mind and now has to live with the guilt for the rest of her life
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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
I don’t know how to fix the untitled bit but ummm
Posting covers costs extra so ummmm time to make more originals
I have another two pack I want to post because I composed the soundtrack for a visual novel but I gotta ask the author for permission to use the novel icon
This stuff’s also available on Apple Music, though I don’t actually have it and therefore can’t use it/grab the link :(
They can be used for Instagram reels too!
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.)
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.
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?
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.
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.
I could write him in 😁 the tour hasn’t started yet
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Hey there, I’m Qibs! (she/her) Author of the Smaller Bodies Initiative and Destroy-A-Toy! Lovely to have ya here! 💜🫂
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