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Experiment-1188, better known as CatNap, is secondary antagonist of the 2021 indie horror game Poppy Playtime.
He is a life-sized Toy recreation of one of the members of Playtime CO.'s "Smiling Critters" series of toys. In reality, he is an orphan child named Theodore Grambell who has undying loyalty towards Experiment-1006, worshipping him like a god due to him not only saving his life when he was still human, but also causing the Hour of Joy that freed all the Toys from Playtime CO's abuse.
As CatNap, he takes on a more distorted version of the docile and cartoonish character he was based on. Retaining the toy’s cat-like traits, such as triangular ears, a long tail, and a diamond-shaped nose, CatNap is also less anthropomorphic, walking on all fours, having feline-esque paws that don sharp black claws on each digit and purple fur covering all of his body. Similarly to Huggy Wuggy, his limbs are slender to an almost skeletal degree. His eyes are also pitch black with white irises and his mouth, like his toy counterpart, is kept in a perpetually wide grin.
As Theodore, he was a relatively average looking boy with light skin, curly, but well-kept hair and brown eyes. In the sole photograph shown of him, he is seen wearing a black shirt. As the photo only depicts his upper body, it is unknown what the rest of his attire looked like.
Personality[]
Due to having only one voice line in the chapter, much of CatNap’s personality is shrouded in mystery. From what we know however, his demeanor is the antithesis to the docile and affable nature he was designed to have, viciously murdering the rest of the Smiling Critters for disliking the Prototype and yelling at the latter to leave before he kills them. Interestingly, CatNap’s bond with the Prototype still persists even after his transformation, worshiping him as a God and outright attacking and killing anyone who didn’t share his obsessed fanaticism towards it. This even goes to the point where one can say he willingly accepted his death by the literal hand of his "god".
Biography[]
Backstory[]
CatNap was made as part of Playtime CO.'s Smiling Critters line-up of toys. However, children who bought his toy started experiencing nightmares afterwards; this is because the toys dispelled poppy gas. On top of this, there was a dark advertisement for the Smiling Critters line-up, where the titular characters are scared during the night and ask CatNap to put them to sleep; he releases a stream of red gas from his mouth that causes them to start laughing hysterically until they drop dead, before CatNap sits on the couch and stares at the camera. These two incidents caused CatNap to be recalled, a news report stating "Your children are not safe with CatNap".
Meanwhile, the real CatNap is seen in the game, which shows that he was an orphan named Theodore Grambell who lived in the Home Sweet Home orphanage at Playcare. One day, Theodore, under the orders of the Prototype, opened a maintenance door in Playcare using a GrabPack. Unfortunately, due to his inability to understand the GrabPack's green hand, Theodore ended up being electrocuted, injuring him badly. While the Prototype had an easy way to freedom, he gave it up in exchange for rescuing the small child, bringing him to the scientists. Afterwards, Theodore would be transformed by the workers into CatNap, being able to breathe poppy gas to put the children at Playcare to sleep.
At some point, CatNap had a check-in with Leith Pierre, who congratulates him for spending 4 years in a new body. When CatNap says " The Prototype will save us", Leith clarifies him that no one will save him as Playcare is his new home and tells him to get used to his new life.
In August 8th, 1995, a massive rebellion, (called "The Hour of Joy" by the toys) happened at Playtime Co. The experiments, including CatNap, killed all of the employees of the factory, and took their bodies to the deepest parts of Playtime CO. to eat them in order to stay alive. After that, CatNap stayed inside Playcare, torturing and killing any toys who were against the Prototype, until the Player (an ex-employee who wasn't present during the massacre) returned to Playtime CO. 10 years later after the incident.
Chapter 3: Deep Sleep[]
CatNap is first seen carrying the Player's body, as the latter suffered a train crash at the end of Chapter 2, he throws them in a garbage chute to be crushed, but the Player escapes, getting to another part of Playtime CO. With the help of a person named Ollie over a phone, the Player gets into Playcare. CatNap then exhales a gas called "Red Smoke" and makes the Player hallucinate upon entering Home Sweet Home, after the nightmare, CatNap stalks the Player in the darkness, but the latter turns on the backup generator of Home Sweet Home and gets out.
Later, several plush versions of him stalk the Player in the Playhouse, but they are scared off when the Player shoots them away with a Flare-Gun Hand of their GrabPack. Upon arriving in a prison-like area in the Playhouse, DogDay notices the Player and tells them that the Prototype is a god in CatNap's point of view, and he kills anyone who deems heretics.
When the Player traverses the counselors' offices, CatNap appears and knocks them out, putting them in flashback hallucination. After the Player regains consciousness, CatNap calls them over the phone, threatening to kill them if they don't leave Playcare.
After completing the gas production and going to put a new battery, CatNap chases the Player into a security area while breathing out more red gas, upon arriving, the Player uses several mechanisms to hold CatNap away while an green hand outlet charges. When the outlet fully charges, the Player shoots their green hand to it, causing the hand to overcharge. CatNap then enters the room via a vent on the ceiling, but the Player shoots their overcharged green hand to him, electrocuting CatNap, he then breathes out red gas, but the electricity causes the gas around him to ignite, setting him ablaze and burning his fur off. The Prototype's hand appears on the vent, apparently trying to help CatNap, when the latter trustingly kneels before him, the Prototype pierces his claws inside CatNap's mouth, killing him, and taking his now-lifeless body away.
Gallery[]
Playtime Co. Artwork of CatNap.
CatNap's altar for the Prototype, presumably, made in his likeness.
with his cult.
Trivia[]
CatNap is the first Poppy Playtime main antagonist to not be defeated in a chase sequence, instead being defeated after being held off from the player for a specified amount of time.
CatNap is also the first main antagonist of Poppy Playtime to not be defeated by the player at all, being eliminated by The Prototype instead.
Some believe that instead of CatNap sacrificing himself to 1006, CatNap thought that his master would save him like he did long ago, only for 1006 to kill him so he can amass more parts.
Despite worshiping the Prototype, thus taking his orders as his life's mission making him eligible to kill the Resource Extraction Specialists, CatNap doesn't appear in the multiplayer prequel Project: Playtime.
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