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| “ | My name is Harley Sawyer. I'm called "the Doctor." When I look at this company we've built, I do not feel proud. Declining profits, failed experiments, people are constantly seeing things they shouldn't. How is that anything less than complete failure on our part? It's pathetic. | „ |
| ~ Harley Sawyer in VHS 1. |
| “ | Giant toys. We can increase our workforce and simultaneously decrease the number of lawsuits and people on our payroll IF... the people we have working aren't people. | „ |
| ~ Harley Sawyer describing the Bigger Bodies Initiative. |
| “ | Mortality is the curse of the weak, the fire that incinerates the flesh. I strive to snuff that flame. Call me a monster, but I am simply a man who escaped incineration and embraced the infinite! | „ |
| ~ Harley Sawyer about his desire for immortality in the trailer for Phase 2: Incineration for Project: Playtime. |
Harley Sawyer, also known as the Doctor, is the overarching antagonist of the Poppy Playtime franchise.
He is a former high-ranking employee of Playtime CO. as well as the founder and leader of the Bigger Bodies Initiative, the catalyst that had led to the company's experiments revolving around orphaned children, as well as what led to the company's eventual downfall. Realising that the company was a failure, Sawyer tried to save it through his experiments, turning people of all ages into living toys that would serve Playtime.
He was voiced by Baldwin Williams Jr., who was uncredited for playing the Crooked Energy in Raising Dion.
Personality[]
Through his recording from the VHS tape, it can be inferred that Harley intends to replace all of the company's employees with "living toys" in the shape of their mascots in order to eliminate the need to pay employees or spend money on maintenance on the company's working conditions.
He also shows himself to be a very callous, power hungry and arrogant man, proposing to have orphaned children being turned into giant toys to work for the company endlessly, and disregards the well-being of his subordinates, caring only about the livelihood of the company, sacrificing even innocent lives in his endeavors.
Despite this he is extremely intelligent, cunning and manipulative, using Playcare into gathering children for his experiments and turning them into monstrous and hostile creatures to his work at the Bigger Bodies Initiative.
In his tape conversation with the Prototype in Chapter 3, Harley Sawyer shows an extreme admiration and interest in Experiment 1006, seeing discovering things about him as “exciting” while showing a deep disinterest about feeling remorse for any of his actions (including turning adults, children and possibly infants into Toys).
It's heavily implied that he incriminated his own boss and business partner, Elliot Ludwig about a dead child by putting a mutilated corpse into his office so he can possibly fire him and steal his authority on Playtime CO, which means, despite his long business relationship with Elliot, he never showed any care about him and his co-workers as he uses them as pawns.
Biography[]
Past[]
Sawyer was once one of Elliot Ludwig's most trusted employees, being his business partner. Some time during the late 1980s to the early 1990s, Sawyer had come up to the higher-ups at Playtime CO. to propose a solution to the ongoing problems surrounding the company, including the fact that employees were seeing things that they shouldn't, as well as many of the company's experiments starting to fail. As a result of both of these, the company was starting to fail due to declining profits. To remedy this, Sawyer proposed the idea to make giant toys, which would allow Playtime CO. to save money by having the sentient toys take the place of the employees, thanks to which they wouldn't have to worry about being sued or having to pay their employees.
According to Harley in another VHS tape, many employees had deemed the initiative to be an "impossibility", though he would eventually prove it a success following the creation of Boxy Boo, the first successful experiment. Following this, Harley assigned Boxy as a guardian in the factory to prevent others from discovering the truth about the initiative, fulfilling the creature's hankering for human flesh. He had also sent Boxy after Rowan Stoll to have him killed.
Leadership[]
After Sawyer had proposed the Big Body Initiative to Playtime, he started leading the company and had decided to dedicate an entire portion of the factory to testing orphans, which would be dubbed "the Game Room". In this room, a toy would be assigned to the orphan, and they'd be tested in three different minigames, each of which would test the orphan's intelligence, reaction time, and physical endurance. As the orphans played the games, their progress would be monitored and written down, and would then be sent over to Stella Greyber. If the orphan performed well, the scientists would then use poppy gas and electrical shocks to turn them into giant toys, though some of the other experiments were also created using other employees, some of which were forced into getting involved with despite their hesitancy.
Also under Sawyer's rule, Playtime Co. had created multiple experiments that would aid with different parts of the factory, with Huggy Wuggy serving as the factory's security, Mommy Long Legs serving as the Game Room's host, CatNap serving as Home Sweet Home's guardian as well as gassing kids to sleep so they could be taken and turned into toys, and Boxy Boo serving as a last-resort to getting rid of any employees that were aware of his initiative. In case any of the experiments had ever rebelled, Playtime CO. had placed Toy Parts inside of the Puzzle Pillars in order to continue building giant toys. Despite this, one of their experiments didn't want the Bigger Bodies Initiative to continue and consistently interfered with Sawyer's initiative, sabotaging the company's progress himself.
During his investigation and experimentation on the Prototype, Dr. Sawyer begins a conversation on him, where he indirectly admits he feels no regret for his mistreatment of the Toys. It's implied that the Prototype killed the Doctor afterwards, or that the latter has died via other means, as Leith Pierre states he is "out" during his meeting with CatNap.
Legacy[]
In the years following Sawyer taking control of the company, several of the experiments had began escaping from the company, including an incident on July 18th, 1992, where Huggy Wuggy had escaped through ventilation shafts and killed numerous security guards. On August 8th, 1995, the Prototype had made a massive rebellion that led to the deaths of many Playtime CO. employees and scientists, which forced many of the company's higher ups to flee the factory.
Initially after the incident, Leith Pierre had sent Resource Extraction Specialists to collect the Toy Parts found in the Puzzle Pillars, though the Prototype would send the Initiative's starving experiments after those that participated. Things had gotten so bad that Playtime CO. had stopped sending people back to the factory altogether. Meanwhile, the experiments that were left behind at the factory were left to starve, lacking a steady source of food. To survive, they started eating each other, and that's how some of them were able to survive to 2005, the year where the game takes place.
Quotes[]
| “ | And here you are. They said it was impossible, yet you, you... defied all odds. | „ |
| ~ Harley Sawyer upon seeing Boxy Boo. |
| “ | The first of many. Naturally. You have proven my Bigger Bodies Initiative a success. Many doors have opened today, thanks to you. Now - We need to start tailoring that appetite of yours to flesh. Where to start... | „ |
| ~ Harley Sawyer to Boxy Boo. |
| “ | It has been 3 months since 1188's procedure, and one month since his introduction to Playcare. I'm pleased to say he's taken to his tasks like a fish to water, meeting virtually every one of the objectives we set out for him. The initial procedure had its challenges, taking 4 hours longer than we had hoped, followed by a rather tumultuous adjustment period. Still, his mental test metrics were virtually unchanged from pre-op. Now that he's "on the job" as it were, we can say for certain that the outcome has been a resounding success, rivaling that of even 1170. |
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| ~ Sawyer's note in the Cross-Department Report. |
| “ | Ready to talk now, are you? The Prototype: I... possess... a question. Harley Sawyer: Go ahead... The Prototype: Do you... feel... anything? Harley Sawyer: This question referring to what exactly? The Prototype: You stick us. Beat us. Tear at flesh. Do you feel it? Harley Sawyer: There is a secret inside you, 1006. Valuable beyond all measure. I cut and prod and burn at it, and I get closer with each session... So speak, or don't. Fight, or give in. Regardless, I learn something new about you every day... It excites me! The Prototype: Thank you. Harley Sawyer: You... thank me? The Prototype: Absolutely! I learn something new about you every day. |
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| ~ Harley Sawyer to Prototype's inquiry about if he feels anything when he conduct his experiments. |
Trivia[]
- Is still unknown what happened to him, but many fans think that Harley Sawyer actually turned himself into one of the Toys and will appear in the future as an antagonist.
- Some fans have theorized that the Prototype and CatNap turned him into DogDay in Chapter 3 as a punishment. This is mostly due to both Dr. Sawyer and DogDay being voiced by Baldwin Williams Jr.
External Links[]
- Harley Sawyer on the Villains Wiki.
- Harley Sawyer on the Poppy Playtime Wiki.
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