#bubba thinks

[twin-wxngs]

{Relationship chart for the smiling critters of the Twin Angel AU! Ever wondered what they all think of each other? Well here it is!}

@lucin-kun helped me make it after I put the list down! Go follow him please!

[itsbeesknees]

Things that are better than sex:

1. when a masked character does the head tilt thingy

[sesamebri]

thank god he’s stocked up on kickass AND bubblegum 

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Highschool Au Jumpscare💥💥💥

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Something that I've noticed ever since the Smiling Critters were introduced is that they can so easily be paired off into complementary duos, ones that are specifically designed to teach children fundamental lessons about life and self-care from two different angles. It's really interesting to me.

Like obviously you have Dogday and Catnap, with their sun/moon, dog/cat dichotomy, that stress how important it is to have fun and get things done during the day, but also that it's important to wind down, relax, and get a good night's sleep.

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Bubba Bubbaphant and Craftycorn were introduced as a duo in the Smiling Critter show's intro, and their dichotomy is quite obvious. They are basically the right and left sides of the brain personified. Bubba is the left side of the brain, logical, analytical, focused on math and science. Craftycorn is the right side of the brain, creative and imaginative, focused on the arts and self-expression. They represent learning and academia in all its forms, the different ways people engage with and understand the world.

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Hoppy Hopscotch and Kickin' Chicken form the sportsmanship duo. They are both portrayed as enjoying sports and the outdoors, but in different ways that highlight the different ways sports can be played and enjoyed and also what it entails to be successful at them. Hoppy Hopscotch may be loud and impatient, but she is also a team player, shown in her willingness to slow down her fast pace to make sure none of her friends are left behind. Kickin' Chicken, on the other hand, is laid-back, relaxed, and chill, the described "cool kid" of the group, but he's also described as having a ton of perseverance, more of a "slow and steady wins the race" type of person.

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This leaves Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy as the last pair. Fittingly, these two are all about how to meet the fundamental needs of yourself and others. Bobby teaches children how to nourish themselves emotionally through showing and receiving care from others, while Picky teaches them how good food is important to nourish the body and soul. Depriving oneself of either of these things only makes oneself and therefore everyone around one miserable, because those fundamental needs are no longer being met.

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Like fr, this is some pretty genius marketing right here. You have enough characters that every kid will have their favorite, but not so many that any would get lost in the shuffle, because the lessons each one of them would teach would be integral to the group as a whole. It really makes me that much sadder we saw basically nothing of the Smiling Critters during the game itself, because Mob Games struck gold with this concept, only to ultimately do nothing with it. :/

But I guess that's what fandom is for, eh?

[matchavtea]

idk what to caption anymore 

[critter-covenant]

Class is in session!

Idea inspired from this that I've been meaning to draw for the past few days

[moth-in-the-broth]

Summer time

[froagles]

Finished just in time!

Now is the time I inform you Hoppy was my favourite Critter before Baba (they’re still both my favourites) and I personally headcanon her as questioning, and may favour a certain pair for her too

Also if you were curious on a vague plot, Bobby put up the mistletoe (she decorated the place, she loves Christmas, to clarify she just did it to spread the love, she has no current intentions), Hoppy saw it and genuinely sat there to try and help herself figure some things out

[garzzum]

[twin-wxngs]

Meet the Cast

Part three: Smiling Critters

Experiment 1182: Bubba Bubbaphant

Subject Name: Lucas Roads

Gender: Male

Age: 43

Ability: Enhanced Intelligence, High Perception

Synopsis: The first of the Smiling Critter Project to be created after Dogday. Lucas was one of the older members of the workforce, but fell into a work related accident that heavily damaged his head. However, this was mitigated when he was turned into one of the eight Smiling Critters; Bubba Bubbaphant. He was given a highly adaptable and analytical mind, meant to be one of the school teachers while in Playcare. He taught the kids both Math and English, described as patient and friendly. Fast forward past the Hour of Joy and was forced into hiding, he sustained a head injury from a maddened Picky, who bit him in the head.

Experiment 1183: Hoppy Hopscotch

Subject Name: Janice Fischer

Gender: Female

Age: 38

Ability: Enhanced Speed and Mobility

Synopsis: Janice was always one of the more sporty one of the workers in Playtime Co. Specifically, she used to work in Playcare and always participated in the activities that kids did to get them to run and be active. However, when a work accident broke one of her legs, she was repurposed. After becoming Hoppy, things didn't change much. Rather, she became one of the main reasons the kids looked for something to do during recess. She became an amazing acrobat, capable of keeping the kids entertained and ready to move. After the Hour of Joy, she tried to escape the factory on her own. However, this only resulted in her badly damaging her legs.

Experiment 1184: Picky Piggy

Subject Name: Franklin Damille

Gender: Female

Age: 36

Ability: Enhanced Senses and Durability

Synopsis: Franklin, or rather, Frankie. She wasn't one of the workers you'd see typically walking around. She herself always worked in the cafeteria, and was always cooking for the other employees. Frequently, she looked to others with a smile. Sadly, during her work, her face was burned in a cooking accident while teaching someone else. This caused the workers to change her into Picky Piggy. With this, her five senses were enhanced. With her enhanced senses, most notably taste, she was able to cook more efficiently, resorting to making high quality dishes for the children in Playcare. Post Hour of Joy, she had been trying to keep herself from going berserk from not eating. She ended up trying to eat her friends, and in order to punish herself, she began to purposely starve herself, and asked the others to muzzle her.

Experiment 1185: Craftycorn

Subject Name: Isabelle Reese

Gender: Female

Age: 37

Ability: Enhanced Intelligence and Touch

Synopsis: Isabelle was a quiet, yet efficient worker in Playtime Co. Although she didn't particularly work with others, she always seemed to get work done and showed results. It was what you'd call a busy body attitude. That was until she broke one of her arms in an accident at work. Because of this, she was repurposed as Craftycorn. Although, with this came a surge of creativity that she didn't have before. Her sense of touch was extremely good, allowing to create the paintings she was now envisioning in her head, as she ran art classes for the kids in Playcare. During the hour of Joy however, she was seeing red as she impaled Bobby with her horn, and broke it off as an apology. Not before being given a ribbon by her as a sign of forgiveness, and being bitten by Picky.

Experiment 1186: Bobby Bearhug

Subject Name: Lana Flowers

Gender: Female

Age: 40

Ability: Enhanced Strength and Durability

Synopsis: Lana was always like a big sister to the other workers. Often a team player, she often got her assignments done efficiently due to her patient and welcoming atmosphere she brought to everyone she knew, always having some kind of flower in her hair. However, she suffered from a critical heart virus, which came back at the worst time. This time, it would kill her, but instead.. she was saved.. by becoming Bobby Bearhug. Now, she was acting a big, loving sister to the kids, often looking after them after a day of school in Home Sweet Home. Always one of the first the kids would look to if they needed something. After the hour of Joy, she was trying to help Crafty, who saw red and impaled her in the chest. She was able to survive, but was given Crafty's broken horn, who broke herself out of guilt.

Experiment 1187: Kickin Chicken

Subject Name: Cameron Diaz

Gender: Male

Age: 37

Ability: Gliding and Enhanced Speed

Synopsis: Cameron was a bit of a unique sort. When he first arrrived at the factory, he was actually quite sheepish. It was almost as if you could call him meek, and yet as time went on, he became more confident and open once he was given time. While he wasn't fond of leading roles, he stood out as a great team player, and often acted as a guide to newer workers. However an accident caused him to lose his leg, stunting his performance. Due to this, he became Kickin Chicken. With his gliding ability, he would use it as a way to entertain the kids, often playing with them outside whenever they weren't in school. He was the "coolest" as the kids would put it. Post Hour of Joy, he is currently looking after Crafty and Picky, despite Picky taking a bite out of his leg. He still cares about her deeply.

Experiment 1188: Catnap

Subject Name: Theodore Grambell

Gender: Male

Age: 35

Ability: Body Elasticity and flexibility, Red Smoke

Synopsis: Theodore was an electrician who worked and maintained the machines and power of the factory. It wasn't just him, but to him it was quite tiring. He would often say that the work was boring and that he didn't care, but his heart was there, hiding the smiles he had to share with the others. One day however, he had been electrocuted during a work accident, and was brought into emergency care. There, he had become Catnap. His ability to use Red Smoke was a thing only he can do. With it, he was seen as a gentle giant that helped the kids sleep at night. Post hour of Joy however, he was one of the main three who caused it. Eventually wounded by the prototype and defeated by the Twin Angels, causing him to get electrocuted a second time.

Experiment 1160: Dogday

Real Name: Samuel Lee

Gender: Male

Age: 36

Ability: Enhanced Strength and Durability, Red Smoke Immunity

Synopsis: Samuel Lee.. he was in fact a very normal human being. Seen as a bit of a leading type of individual, not by asserting he was a leader, but through his actions. He was constantly helping his teammates through projects, and actively helped his coworkers when they couldn't figure things out. He was essentially on his way to a promotion. However, a work accident had caused paralysis in the lower half of his body, which caused him to be the perfect subject to become the first of the Smiling Critters: Dogday. Sam acts mature and wise, often being seen as gentle and caring. At most times you'd see Dogday letting the children climb all over him. But he was a leader too, acting as Playcare's guardian. Post hour of Joy.. he was torn in half.. only to be helped by the Twins later on, and was able to get payback on Catnap.

[knifetomeatu]

the beard is real😭 he stole it off a dead guy💀

merry chrisman everyone!!💕

[hibapanem]

nah girls get a room

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Getting alittle silly…old doodles from a reboot au me n my husband r making 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

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Being honest, I think using Miss Delight and Ollie in this chapter instead of the Critters was a mistake. Dogday would have been a great candidate for the role Ollie filled. It would explain why he already knows us when we find him in the dungeon, why he calls us "Poppy's Angel," why he already seems to know what she's planning. It would also just be thematically appropriate, because of course he knows Playcare like the back of his hand, of course he would be the one to bring back the power, the light, in order to chase away Catnap's darkness. It would make the fact that we couldn't save him at the end of the Playhouse section that much more of a gut-punch, because he would have already saved us multiple times at that point and he would have felt like a friend.

As for the other Smiling Critters, a couple of them could already be dead, sure, but others could have been lurking in various buildings and locations within the Playcare. Bobby Bearhug and Picky Piggy could have been who we run into in Home Sweet Home, with Bobby languishing in the bedrooms that held the children she once loved so dearly, while Picky, who has gone insane from hunger, haunts the kitchens, desperately prowling for fresh meat. We could convince Bobby to help us, while evading Picky, lending a sense of true danger and urgency to the level that was lacking in the original, since we are never in any actual danger inside Home Sweet Home in that version outside of running into the red smoke without our gas mask.

Craftycorn and Bubba Bubbaphant could be who we run into in the school, or Bubba could possibly be found in the caverns or in one of the power rooms, giving us a key piece of equipment that we would need to progress or helping us with solving puzzles. Craftycorn could take the place of Miss Delight, with the same mechanics and everything, but instead of being insane with hunger like Miss Delight, she could be desperately seeking out new art supplies, since she has long since run out. Fresh blood makes great paint.

The antagonists in the Playhouse could still be the mini Critters, or it could possibly be Kickin' Chicken or Hoppy Hopscotch, who are trying to get your grabpack and take it for their own in order to escape. Whichever character isn't trying to steal your grabpack would be helping you play keep-away with it. Alternatively, Kickin Chicken and Bubba could already be dead (since their voice lines end in screaming in their cutouts), and Hoppy could be trying to help us get the power back on after Dogday's death (since her symbol is a lightning bolt). When Catnap finally makes his appearance, she could sacrifice herself to distract him, giving us key time to get away and set up our defenses with the batteries.

[semiweirdshipper]

Anyone else feel this?