#TDOJ Rock-a-bye Rupert(DeadZoneDenizen)

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Three more toys today!

Human name: Foster Plumage

Toy name: Rock-a-bye Rupert

Age (when first made into a toy): 11

Height: 6'11

Role: Caretaker (for baby orphans specifically)

Personality: Can be the most vulgar guy in the room with the humor of an angry kid in a Call of Duty chat room, but immediately turns the other way around when around children and even scold you for being vulgar around them (despite his own sense of humor). That's the sheer contrast between On-duty Rupert and Break room Rupert.

Backstory: Foster was the Caleb of the Pre-HOJ era, though slightly more aggressive. He was Playcare's local edgy eleven year old with the humor of a 4chan user, who had this sort of same problem that Maury has where he tends to let words slip. Combine those two factors together, and you get a kid that got sent to detention a lot.

Another thing about him is his tendency to get overstimulated by sound. Due to studies about autism not being the best at the time, the Playcare attendants weren't able to put two and two together. And because of his sound problem and his room's close proximity to Home Sweet Home's nursery, that proved to be...really annoying for him.

It wasn't rare for him to storm into the nursery in the middle of the night and yell at the nursery attendants about how they're not doing it right. Then Foster would somehow calm the babies down in an instant, somehow immediately being able to tell if they need milk, a diaper change, or to be held, like ot was a sixth sense.

Then he was selected, became a bigger body, yadda yadda. Instead of participating in the HOJ himself, Rupert was one of the toys that helped hide the orphans away from the incident under the Prototype's orders. Post-HOJ, he's the caretaker in charge of the orphans ranging from newborns to toddler, up until they're old enough for preschool. He's usually the one that looks after Stella Long Legs whenever her memories kick back in and Mommy doesn't want to deal with her.

Extra info: Rupert actually feels bad for Stella. He once found the VHS tape of Leith threatening Stella to stay quiet about the BBI, or else she'd be fed to Boxy. Which Rupert can tell that's the case, since Boxy's music can be heard in the background. Rupert doesn't really like Boxy that much because of this, since he never made any attempt at clearing Stella's name to the heads. Especially Mommy, who Rupert considers to be unreasonable with how she treats Stella during her episodes. Even then, Rupert keeps quiet about it, not looking forward to having his limbs broken by the Prototype for the sin of having empathy.

Weaknesses: Bones are easy to break since they're hollow like a real bird's, can be momentarily stunned by loud noise, easy to track by following his stray feathers.

Strengths: Wings are actually functional, and can also double as hands (the drawing doesn't do his wingspan justice), beak is sharp enough to stab through plastic.

Human name: Kieran Walken

Toy name: Spyro-crylic

Age (when first made into a toy): 14

Height: 5'8

Role: Other (interior designer)

Personality: A toy dedicated to his craft, who really doesn't like being disturbed in the middle of his work. Other than that, he's pretty much the toy version of an online commentary Youtuber, the likes of Saberspark and such.

Backstory: Kieran was the type of kid whose thoughts were louder than his words. He had (and still has) this habit of aggressively monologuing in his mind, but would look absolutely silent and timid on the outside. He tends not to make too much attempt at socializing with his peers, since whenever his inner monologues become outer monologues, he tends to steer said peers away with whatever obscure topic is in his head that day.

But then he one day decided he could maybe spruce his room up, after asking for permission from the Playcare attendants of course. It wasn't mainly him that did the painting (being an attendant instead), but the attendant did notice his unexpected talent for painting murals of different toys on the walls. Word spread, and suddenly all the other kids want Kieran to paint their favorite toys on their walls too. That was when he started to get along with them more.

Blah blah blah, selection process, BBI procedure, HOJ—

And now Spyro's the toy in charge of redecoration. Mainly redecorating any new orphan's rooms, and repainting the hallways whenever needed (especially when cleaning supplies aren't enough to get rid of any blood stains). During his work, he tends to be highly irritable, hyperfocused on the art having to be perfect. Prototype forbid you touch any wet paint, or he will freak out.

Extra info: the way the actual Spyro-crylic toys work, they're basically teeny mechanical snails with shells that you can fill in with paint. Then you turn the buggers on and watch them walk on a sheet of paper while leaving a paint trail. BBI Spyro paints in the same way, pretty much. Except instead of paper, he crawls through the walls he's painting.

Weaknesses: Slow (he's a snail), also easy to track if his shell still has paint inside, not that durable

Strengths: can walk on walls and ceilings, adjustable field of vision, eyes can extend and grab stuff

Human name: Cressida Clearwing

Toy name: Nurse Mariposa

Age (when first made into a toy): 7

Height: 5'10

Role: Medic

Personality: A peppy but also gossipy nurse, who tends to always catch onto the newest gossip first, and sometimes accidentally spill the tea on her patients. She's also caring, but in a stubborn way. And by that, I mean she's the type to scold someone else for overexerting their energy for the sake of work or something, or for forcing themselves to skip recovery.

Backstory: Cressida was known as the kid who was incapable of keeping secrets, which caused others to steer away from her, making her feel lonely. That was until she was befriended by another orphan, a popular girl who would only use her to help spread false rumors about other kids. Cressida wasn't aware of what the girl was doing, and only did after the popular girl was adopted.

Feeling betrayed, she started focusing all her anger at the game station tests, unexpectedly causing her game scores to skyrocket. She gets selected, toyed, yeah.

After her adjustment, testing, and conditioning period, Mariposa's purpose is to make the kids trust the doctors and scientists more while being evaluated by them. All the while she assists them the entire time. Her tendency to gossip was used against her, hammering the belief that nobody wants a tattletale to keep her quiet about the BBI around the kids. And since Mariposa was a seven year old, it...worked.

Post-HOJ, she serves as one of the medics at the factory's medic wing, though she also tends to any injured orphans. Despite her tendency to gossip, she's trained herself to stay quiet about any potentially sensitive information about a toy or orphan's medical history. Unlike her sisters though, she'd rather tend to the injured than help with the actual experimenting at the lower levels.

Extra info: To explain the mentioned stuff above: Just like Miss Delight, Mariposa had her own lookalike sisters who assisted different scientists. However, the others are either dead, or assisting with experimenting on the experiments at the lower levels. Mariposa also has a show called Boo-boo Bugs, with her as the main character going around and fixing up other bug characters, and teaching kids morals about bug facts and helping them better deal with any bug phobias by showing them they're not so bad (Carmen would say otherwise lmao)

Weaknesses: Wings are somewhat brittle and sensitive (has nerves), not very agile, poor reaction time.

Strengths: Wings are capable of flight, antennae helps her detect someone's presence even if they're hidden, very light footsteps that barely make a sound.

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