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Lily love Braids explains everything. What really happened in chapter 5 and what exactly the prototype is planning next. Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that keeps growing like Lily's hair as long as you subscribe. Yes. Hi. Hello. It's me, Dan Cyber, former head editor. Tom's voice is completely gone. It's a LITTLE DEAD. IT'S GONE. SO, YOU HAVE me today, which boy howdy, what an exciting moment for you, for me, and you going to twitch.tv/dancyberlife.
I was told I can do a plug. I can still DO THE PLUG RIGHT NOW. I don't know about you, but I've had a hankering for some Poppyplaytime news. And by I, I mean Tom. Chapter 5 came out in February, but since then, it's been radio silence. No news whatsoever other than Mob is clearly hiring a buttload of people for the next chapter, which hopefully is a good thing. But rather than just sitting on his own butt and waiting for something new to show up, Tom spent the last few months diving back into the game to figure out some of the lingering questions he had after finishing the chapter while sitting on his butt. Things like, "Why did the prototype save us at the end of the chapter? Are the orphans still alive?
And what is the prototype planning to do next?" Well, loyal theorists, I'm here to report that Tom's found all of the answers to those questions. And it's all thanks to one character, one that he neglected to really talk about in our original run of theories, fan favorite Lily Love Braids. Today, I'm going to present three mini theories that snowball off each other to create one glorious video. So, get your hairbrushes ready, friends, because we're about to detangle the mysteries left behind in chapter 5. Theory number one, who made Lily? If you don't already know, Lily was one of the most entertaining and confusing parts of chapter 5. She came out of absolutely nowhere, first appearing in a teaser
trailer, after which everyone thought Roomie of K-pop Demon Hunters was making her Playtime Co- debut. Once we finally met Lily in all of her glory, people immediately fell in love with her and her uh, let's call it quirky personality. Our special guest is going to be thrilled. But what was most interesting about her is that she is one of the first toys we've ever gotten to see alive and well before the whole getting brains stuffed into a toy thing. God, I haven't missed this. During the chapter, we're introduced to Miss Gracie, a staff member of Playtime Co. that was involved in the bigger bodies experiment. Her job was simple. Make fun Miss Rachel style videos for the kids and toys.
Hey there all you lovely liies. Sounds pretty wholesome until you actually watch any of the tapes for more than a few seconds. Growing up is scary. Let's stay kids [screaming] forever. Repeat after me. I'm staying here forever. Lots and lots of copium. Naturally, the toys weren't too keen on her, what she did, and what she helped facilitate. So, when the hour of joy came around and the toys were going through the factory killing every employee they found, Miss Gracie was Target Numera Uno. But they had slightly different plans for her.
We're not going to hurt you, Miss Gracie. We have something very special plans for you. As you proceed through the chapter, we find audio recordings that one of them Well, just listen. Miss Gracie. Dear Miss Gracie, I have a first name. What was it? What are we talking about, Miss Gracie? Is this another lesson? The prototype and his followers turned Miss Gracie into Lily. We even find her own skeleton on the bed in her dollhouse with a huge hole in her head from where they took out her brain and put it into Lily. This, however, raised an eyebrow
or two in the community because during this chapter, we're shown something that seems to contradict this idea. You see, the prototype, he kind of sucks at making living toys. Experiment notes can be found in the study room, and it tells us about some of the prototypes early experimentations, all of which did not go so well. Quote, "Pus on the plush skin, bubbling, throat gurgled as he drew his first breath. Stitching unraveled, eyes wild, bone, meat, and blood oozed onto the table as he drew a second breath, a third, a fourth, a fifth. There was no six." Wow. Excuse me while I go vomit. Those poor kids. And we saw how his good friend Preston turned out. A mix mash of parts and a
complete look of horror in his eyes. However, when we look at Lily, she's pretty much a perfect specimen like any other bigger body. She's not gross or falling apart, at least physically. But it was made pretty clear that the prototype made her what she is. Even though she's considered his enemy, she seemed to get a pretty good deal on the body front. It didn't help that we also have notes from the Playtime Co-scientist talking about Lily's creation and the experiments happening in Sweet Street, Lily's home. So, what is going on in the How to Maintain Your Human VHS? If you paused on this screen, you could see words that are a little cut off, but they say this video is sponsored by whatnot. Wait, that can't
be right. And they're also helping us by giving away $1,000. Editor, did you put in the wrong tape again? You did? We'll get on it. I am so sorry. While they try to find the correct VHS, might as well tell you about the internet's number one live stream auction app, whatnot. With a ton of crazy categories to choose from, it really has something for everyone. Of course, I was immediately drawn to Pokémon cards, Magic the Gathering, and the electronics because duh. But they have sports cards, toys, Legos, Funko Pops, tools, coins, even food stuffs like candy, fish, and raw meat. Like I said, there is something for everyone. Well, almost anyone.
Sorry, no poppy gel or child-sized toys here. 106. Get out of here. The app is really easy to use, too. All you need to do is pick a category, select one of the live streams, and boom, you're in. From there, you could swipe to bid on items or chat with fellow bidders, and you could get some insane deals here. Tom and I managed to get a copy of Sonic 3 for 30 bucks. And because we needed something to play it on, we also swiped the Sega Genesis for 40 bucks. That's an insane deal. But as some of you will be aware, I'm also a bit of a chocolate fiend. So when we saw the candy category, we could not help ourselves. We got this giant box of 18 kingsize take five Reese's bars for only 24 bucks. Those are normally $3 each and
we got them for a buck 33. THAT'S MORE THAN HALF PRICE. LET'S GO. SO join me in finding some great deals by using my link in the description or scanning the QR code. If you do, you'll get $15 off your first purchase, which of course means I only spent $9 on those take five bars. What a steal. Plus, whatnot are offering the loyal theorists an even greater deal. Because if you follow Tom on whatnot, dappermrtom, you will automatically be entered to win $1,000 in whatnot credit. Just think of all the chocolate you can get with that. Better yet, coffee. Thanks again to Whatnot for sponsoring this video. All right, editors, have we found the right tape? Great. Thank you. So happy. I
swear I leave for like 1 year and everything is just Anyway, well, like I was saying, the words are a little cut off, but they say experiment 28 of class 2, 1997. The experiments the prototype was making was this new generation of toys, class 2, as opposed to the thousand numbers we're used to dealing with. But Lily clearly doesn't fit this category for a few reasons. Firstly, the date, 1997, is way too late to involve Lily. I brought this up earlier, but listen to the audio log of Lily speaking to herself after her transformation. My hands plastic. My face. I thought Oh, HOW EMBARRASSING.
I CAN'T believe I thought you were actually in the room, Miss Gracie. Egg on my face. Well, this recording is titled 96 isolation day 122. The first number obviously referring to the year 1996, a year before the class 2 experiments. However, this also confirms that Lily's surgery happened after all the Play Co scientists were already gone. If we count back 122 days from 1996, then the earliest she could have been transformed was September 1st, 1995, almost a month after the Hour of Joy. So, it definitely wasn't the scientist, but it wasn't part of class 2. Could it have been Harley? He is helping the prototype. You know, I'm still your best shot at cracking that secret.
Sadly, it's not him either, because in the experiment note, it mentions Harley coming to help by experiment 15 again in 1997, well after Lily was created. So the only person left is the prototype. But as we've established, Lily cannot be a part of his class 2 experiments. So then what's going on? Well, the answer comes from this document. Experiment 1468 proposal. Experiment 1468 is Lily. And here the Plos scientists are talking about how they're planning on making Lily's hair. It's stated August 6th, 1995. But it states the surgery to bring Lily to life was planned for August 20th, 1995. Obviously, this surgery didn't go down as planned, as only 2 days after this was written, 12 days
before the surgery was scheduled, the hour of joy happened. But the real takeaway from this is that the physical form of Lily was likely all ready to go before the prototype went on a rampage. This implication is also backed up by these X-rays we see of Catnap we got in the chapter 5 ARG. It's a little blurry and hard to read because of course it is. But with some squinting, you can make out some of the terms. On the bottom, I can make out a refillable gas storage container. Then on the text that points to his arms, it says scaffolding made from S AE 316L stainless steel.
Above that, it says intra esoph. Oh boy. Uh, editor, please put this on screen. Intra esophageal gas exchange. I hope I said that correctly. Then the arrow on the mouth says mouth covering. To make any bigger body, it would have taken months of research and development before a final surgery is even feasible. This is even referenced in the orientation notebook. If you go to the employee calendar at the end of the book on March 6th, you'll see Preston wrote scheduled labs for experiment 1467. That's the previous experiment number to Lily, meaning at minimum. They've been working on her body for 5 months.
Playtime Co. made as much of the body as they could before needing to involve the children being transferred. That's why Lily isn't counted as part of class 2. Her body was already created by Playtime Co. It already had everything it needed. The mix of biology and inorganic components, the correct mix of growth medium and negation formula. All the prototype needed to do was just use the systems and procedures that already existed and put Miss Graciey's brain into it. And boom, bingo bango. Lily love braids. Bingo. Bango. What are you talking about, Tom? After this point, he ran out of pre-made bodies, and that's
when he struggled as suddenly he had to do every part of the process himself, not just the brain transfer. Now, I will say, there is this very confusing document you can also find called observation log sweet, which discussed the adjustment of a toy after conversion. Believe me, this is their home, and toys surrounding them are actually their friends, which sounds like crazy old Lily. They smell like dead bodies. Well, that's not a nice thing to say, Candy. However, this is written by Jessica Newman, who is one of the scientists we saw killed in the buildup to chapter 5. So, this report has to be before the hour of joy, and likely means it's about a different toy, that Sweet Street was
just used as a rehabilitation facility for toys once they've first been transformed. It may seem obvious, but I have seen a lot of people bringing this up when they're talking about the topic. So, I wanted to make sure, or rather, Tom wanted to make sure I covered it. But after figuring this out, some of the evidence got Tom thinking about another mystery. And then he wrote two more mini theories. Theory number two, what happened to the orphans? This has been something that has plagued theorists since the release of chapter 5. We spent the last few chapters hearing from Poppy that they're sleeping, hidden down in the depths of Playtime Co., But when asked about it directly in chapter 5,
all we get was this response. There a better place. Now Tom talked about this line last time. The capitalization seems to be implying this better place is a name, a physical place, but it also felt like a play on the idea of death. When you tell someone they're in a better place, that would typically been taken to mean they're dead. But then we got this CG5 official music video which shows a shot of the children alive in the facility. So, there's been a lot of discussion about whether the orphans are alive and sleeping like Poppy believed and whether that's in this better place or was the play on words intentional and these kids have been long gone. During the last theory, Tom suggested it was the latter as during the CG5 song, the
prototype is then seen continuing the experiments, something we've already talked about him doing today, and for that he needs human test subjects. We also talked about how the prototype is lonely. In the experiment note, he says, "I won't be alone." So, he wants more orphans like him to become immortal like him. Now, I still think this is true, mostly because Tom told me, and I take his authority over anything else because he is the Bobby Playtime guy. I trust him with my life. That is my bro. Nothing has been released to prove Tom otherwise. But as he sat with it for a few months, he realized it's a little more complicated and nuanced than just he turned them into toys. In the same part of the note
where he says, "I won't be alone." He says that he's figured out how to keep these orphans turned toys alive. They walk and talk and everything, but he also claims he's no closer to the immortality he desires for them. They will all still die eventually. And according to Harley, you have no staff, virtually no test subjects. He goes on to ask for lab access. At the time, Tom thought this because that's where the orphans were, and so he could actually perform more experiments on live subjects. However, the orphans aren't in the labs. They're in the better place. And these experiments were on the orphans as it was. It's not like there were any other options down here. So, if he was running out, he was actually running out
of orphans. So, why ask for labs access? Because there's something else that exists in the labs that we only find at the end of the chapter. the data center. This is where we're actually reintroduced to Harley, a data backup version of him. Now, Harley has been a digital consciousness for a while, so finding a backup of him isn't the most surprising thing, but what is surprising is that we learn this isn't what this technology was supposed to be used for. A note from Harley to Leaf talks about Harley having a pet project alongside his work on the bigger bodies. It's a neural mapper that allows them to essentially record a subject's memory and store it. Not only that, if they had
enough proteins and lipids, they would be able to repeat this process as many times as they want. He brings this up because he doesn't feel like using the orphans is going to be sustainable long term. Eventually, they will run out. Huh, interesting. This isn't just about storing someone's memories in a computer like they did with him. When he's talking about lipids and proteins, he's talking about literally recreating physical brains that they can then put into toys. This is what is stored in the data center deep in the labs. And that is what Harley wants access to. He's back in the same situation as he was before. He's running out of subjects and so he needs access to the orphan's memory files so he can continue. But the
prototype refuses because he doesn't trust Harley with the orphans in any capacity, be they real or simply memory scans. However, that doesn't mean the prototype isn't using them. The prototype is running out of options. He started out using the adults like Preston in his experiments, but he notes in the X-rays that children have more plasticity, making them easier to work with and more likely to survive. But now it's been 10 years. If the toys are struggling to survive, there's no way the orphans aren't as well. So rather than let them die before he can figure out the answers to infinity, he scans their brains so he can continue to experiment on them, trying again and again to turn them into perfect toys
like him. That may also be why we see giant toys like Braraw eating growth medium. We thought it acted as a food supply for the toys, but maybe it was also a source of proteins and lipids that could be used to create more brains to transplant the memories of the children into the experiments again. I mean, why else show us this very distinct piece of information if nothing was going to come of it? Sure, the brain scan explains Harley still being alive, but the stuff about lipids and proteins and long-term sustainability feels too similar to the current issue to not be something important. And that, I think, actually helps us answer the final lingering mystery Tom had. Theory number
three, why save us? At the end of chapter 5, the prototype stabs us, as he's prone to do, but rather than letting us die, he picks us up and carries us over to a vat of poppy gel and dumps us in. The original purpose of this gel was to encourage cellular regeneration and tissue growth, which is what was then used to bring the experiments to life, forcing cells of their body to grow and fill the toy bodies, creating living creatures. However, the cellular growth also seems to work on us as we are pulled out of the vat and given a little shock from Giblets in experiment 814. And with that, we're back. Still injured. Note the red vignette and the heartbeat
sound. But we're alive when we shouldn't be. The poppy gel did its job. But then why would the prototype do this? He actively despises us. We ruined everything he was planning. And he also knows the power of the poppy gel. It's what brought him and Poppy to life, made them immortal, and is still using it to try and create more experiments today. So, he knew it would save us. Why cause himself more trouble in the upcoming chapters? because like I've been saying, he's running out of options and he's desperate. In the big climatic scene at Lily's tea party where we finally meet the prototype face to face, something happens. Something even the prototype didn't expect. He picks up Poppy by the
head once again going off on how they're so perfect, how they could be so much more, and that he will show her the truth and make her feel better. He smashes her little porcelain head. But look at his reaction. His head pulls back and shakes lightly, almost like he's in disbelief. He didn't expect Poppy to be able to shatter like that. She was Elliot's perfect creation. Both of them were supposed to be immortal. That's why he's going on this endeavor to begin with so that he won't be alone anymore. But this moment doesn't just shatter Poppy, it shatters that entire premise. The prototype already knew that he was running out of time. Time is precisely what we do not have.
But now he realized that Poppy isn't immortal. She can be broken. Which means he can also be broken. If he breaks or dies, he will never have gotten the better place he was promised. And neither will any of the orphans he promised it to, which is where we come in. This whole ordeal puts a massive speed up on the already tight timer the prototype had. And with that, he needs to find the solution for immortality fast. But nothing so far has been working. He's been working with brain scans and lab grown brains for a long time. But he's no closer to infinity. So when he realizes that neither he nor Poppy are infinite, he decides that desperate times call for desperate measures. What do you do in an experiment when something isn't working?
You change a variable. That variable is us. As I've mentioned, adults like us are not the ideal for any kind of experimentation. We don't have the plasticity, but in his experimentation notes, he says during experiment 8 that keeping something submerged makes it more pliable. He's getting us ready for experimentation to turn us into a toy to see if a flesh living subject with their original brain can help him find the secrets to immortality at last. He did say he was going to turn us into a wrongside outable. Shall we see what you look like? Wrong side. During the chapter 5 ARG, he said, "Each one is an example made. Each one a malcontent punish." Just as the toy surgery can be used to bless those he
deems worthy, it can also be used as a better, more effective way to punish those who stand against him. But why not kill two birds with one stone and punish us while also figuring out the secret to immortality while you're at it? though we won't be going down without a fight. Not just because that would make a really bad story, but because if you actually read what happens to humans that are subjected to this growth medium, there's a lot of weird stuff that can happen like hives, partial dislocation, or mixing of senses. But then there's the really weird stuff like heterotopic ocification, the abnormal growth of bone in areas it should not typically exist, such as muscles and tendons. or there's the non-biological
to biological grafting, i.e. non-alive things fusing to your body. We're going to become some kind of absolute monster, the likes of which even the prototype hasn't seen. I suspect Giblet and Poppy will spend most of the next chapter asking, "Are you all right? You don't look so good." I guess it's a good thing we can't see ourselves in THESE GAMES. BUT HEY, THAT'S just a theory. A game theory. Thanks for watching and I'll see you soon. World premiere on Game Theory.
