Could Elliot Ludwig Be The Prototype?

could Elliot lwig be the Prototype is it possible that lwig actually wasn't dead this entire time but instead found a way to live on through the Prototype it might sound farfetched at first but when I actually show you what I'm talking about you might be just as curious as me and this whole Theory hinges on one fact Elliot lwig is Poppy's Dad it's first hinted at in Chapter 2 but not somewhere that you expect in Chapter 2 Poppy says that she has the train code that leads out of the factory so we follow what she

says until she's taken by Mommy longlegs she takes the train code from Poppy and says that in order for us to get it back we'll have to go through three different mini gamess in the game station but after we beat all three of them successfully she crashed out and tried to kill us but we managed to make it into a room with a working grinder which kills her after this we free poppy but she is talking like an absolute psychopath she sound like she has something she wants to say but isn't saying it and then

she walks off we see that she's keeping her eyes on us almost as if she's intrigued by us and so once we make it to the train and enter the correct code we eventually make it to a crossroad but just before we're about to leave poppy switches the track on us and says that we're too perfect to lose and that we could help her with whatever plan she has but you saved me you're perfect Too Perfect to lose I'm sorry I can't let you leave I've never met anyone like you do you know how long

I've been stuck in that case well too long later in chapter 4 we figure out what her plan was but what I'm mainly focusing on is her dialogue in Chapter 2 in it she doesn't say anything that hints to her being Elliott's daughter but that's because it's the unused dialogue that I want to look at in the files fans managed to find what seemed to be an earlier version of the game with poppy saying different lines after switching the track on us but the most important line is that she says that she's the cause of

all of this you have so much potential I know you came to find the ones who had disappeared all those years ago but they're gone they've been gone for a long time terrible things have happened and I am the cause being able to exist as a doll it has killed so many people and you might be wondering how this means that Elliot is Poppy's father well if we look at the tape we find in his office we see a documentary which explains how Elliott made playtime Co so successful but in the documentary it quickly mentioned

that Elliot lost a family member who was very close to him now I'm not saying this to be rude but if Elliot's second cousin died they would not have mentioned it and so whoever Elliot had lost it must have been someone very dear to him and it doesn't seem to be his wife as they divorced due to his extremely work focused lifestyle and it probably wasn't one of his parents either as the language they used to describe his lost loved one wouldn't match in the 1960s an unfortunate family death had pushed Ludwig down to his

lowest but with so much ambition he rose back up and continued to fulfill his vision for the Playtime C Toy Factory Ludwick could never be content leaving a project UNF which leads me to believe it could have been one of Elliott's kids but more specifically an adopted daughter playtime Co is centered around children but also a huge portion of the factory is centered around orphans with play care probably costing hundreds of millions of dollars to build it's a huge Dome likee structure with smaller buildings inside of it like home site home the school and even

a gas production Zone to help the kids fall asleep and considering the fact that Elliot divorced his wife in 1930 while the poppy toy was made around 1950 poppy would at least be in her 20s by the time of her transplant but if she's Elliot's adopted daughter this would match the themes of Orphans being dear to playtime Co and it makes a little more sense for poppy as she would have been transplanted at a younger age by the way quick side note let's say poppy was was 10 years old when she was transplanted that would

make her around 65 years old now because if she was made around 1950 and we come back to the factory in 2005 she is old but none of this is concrete proof until we look at a chapter 4 tape named Untitled after doy crashes out and he chases us down some caves right before some rocks collapse you can reach past them and grab a tape that you can play after killing him in the tape we hear that Poppy is talking about the hour of Joy she knew it was coming but didn't necessarily know it would

be this bad and because she's so upset she says that if her dad were here he would know what to say and that when he used to run the place he always knew what to say it was awful so so awful I thought we were going to leave leave the factory not this Proto type says we can't leave not now not ever I hate him I hate him and I hate this place and I hate that he's right I wish you were here Dad when you were running this place you always knew what to say

I miss you now who is the only person who used to run a place yes you I'm talking to you who used to run the place thank you Elliot lwood but to push this Theory a bit further when we free poppy in chapter 1 we tried to leave in the beginning of chapter 2 but the way we came in is blocked off by a bunch of furniture however we managed to leave anyway through what seems to be a special door that leads to a room and guess whose office is right next to the special door

that leads into her room yes I'm talking directly to you thank you Elliot ludwick's but you might be thinking if poppy is Elliot ludwick's daughter then what does this have to do with Elliot Ludwick being the Prototype well that leads me to the phone call that we hear in the end of chapter 4 I know it wasn't just me who noticed that the Prototype was saying some pretty weird stuff to Poppy saying that it's always been about what they are he tells her to come home and even the bombs go off after she leaves your

collaborators the you you have left they will be dealt with what are you going to do with me I've got something special in mind I prepared it just for you and this one you will never want to leave no you've lied to me only because you've kept missing the point I Adit though I'm disappointed after all that time in your case I'd hoped you'd see things differently don't you understand it's always been about you and hary what we are that's not a truth that can be burnt away no not when it can mean so much

more please it's time to come home poy what's even more convincing is the fact that he threatened to kill both us and Kissy but only threaten poppy with being put back in another case so if the Prototype clearly wants to keep poppy alive but doesn't care about kissy's life then he doesn't care about poppy because she's an experiment but rather because of the relationship they have together or as he likes to say it what they are but if the Prototype is Elliot Ludwick then this would mean that he orchestrated the hour of joy and even

killed catnap wouldn't this contradict Elliot's character that we see sprinkled throughout the game well if we go back to chapter 3 during the hallucination sequence we hear a series of radios that all talk about a child's body that was found at Elliot Ludwig's house tragic news this morning as of 9:45 a.m. local authorities report that the body of a young boy has been found on the estate of the late aliot lwig an esteemed toy maker and originator of the Playtime company despite playtime's proclamation of ludwick's Innocence many believe his reclusive and mysterious nature displayed over

the previous decades W suspicion to this claim when questioned mwi's neighbors indicated that he would often return to his home in strange hours of the night and depart again before sunrise and if this is true which the game leads us to believe it is then Elliot wasn't necessarily the child loving man as most people remembered him which would then account for him killing catnap he's willing to kill others if he has a purpose for it which would also explain the hour of Joy because in it he kills all of the scientists who are experimenting on

the orphans but yet he kept the orphans alive in the labs and Poppy even tells us in Safe Haven that they're in some form of cryo sleep but even if those aren't contradictions then why does poppy say that she she hates the Prototype but she misses her dad in the Untitled tape well this has to do with how playtime Co experiments were made whenever an experiment was recently transplanted they go through what's called an adjustment period where they get used to their body and are inclined to commit violence at any given time and with the

Prototype being one of the first successful experiments hence the name the Prototype it's possible that if lwig was turned into a experiment he could have changed and became a whole new person being more self-centered and willing to commit violence as we see with the hour of joy and the killing of catnap and Poppy might even be aware of this which is why she makes the distinction between the Prototype and her real dad but what's even more interesting is that the prototype's arm isn't entirely mechanical if you look closely his forearm contains what seem to be

human bones now this isn't too much of a surprise as we know that all of the experiments contain human body parts but it does make the Prototype somewhat human since initially you might think that the Prototype is a purely digital creation similar to an AI but because he's an experiment and we see human parts on him he's more likely a fusion between the two he has mechanical Parts but he probably also has human organs that keep him alive and this would also make sense with the note we find in Elliot Ludwig's office where he's talking

about the uses of the poppy flower now we don't know for sure that it was Elliot who wrote this note but because we find it in his office and it was written a very long time ago it's very likely that he wrote it and in the notes it talks about experiments 814 a rat that Elliot tried to bring to life using the Cy flowers and so if he wrote about experiment 814 then it's possible that all the experiments between it and 10006 was their way of getting ready for transplanting Elliott but what gets even more

weird is that in a tape we hear of a conversation between Harley Sawyer and the Prototype the Prototype is talking about some kind of experiments that they're doing in the labs but you have no staff virtually no test subject it's hardly ideal conditions even when this place was fully operational we were beating our heads against this you can't expect to do it on your own so quickly the situation necessitates it be done quickly I'm just giving you the facts and the fact is we need more time or this isn't going to work and because Sawyer

says that they have virtually no test subjects but not zero test subjects it's possible that they're doing some form of experimenting with the orphans as we know that they were kept down in the labs so Elliot doing experiments on the orphans already doesn't match with what we know him as but again from the radios we hear in our hallucination in chapter 3 they could explain why he was experimenting on them and so all of this evidence points right to Elliot being the Prototype he may have changed a lot in personality with being more aggressive and

violent but he still keeps some of his other traits such as care for his daughter Poppy and if we look at the chapter 4 phone call through this lens then it makes a lot more sense with some of the things that he says he tells poppy that it's always been about what they are which in my opinion is referencing the fact that they were some of the first experiments and every experiment from then on stemmed from their success transplants but more importantly it's referencing the reason for their transplants the first being poppy where Elliot managed

to revive his daughter and although we don't exactly know why Elliot would be transplanted it was likely due to his old age and him seeking immortality but then the Prototype says that he thought poppy would have understood something by being in her case for such a long time which literally sounds exactly like a parents growing their child who would say I thought you would understand after I grounded you for two weeks but instead of grounding poppy literally got shoved into solitary confinement for probably years however if you're a mortal being locked in a case doesn't

necessarily mean anything but it does mean one thing if the experiments can live on forever we see that they still need food as doy being one of the most advanced experiments still needed to eat we see this with osaurus as he literally eats this dude in three bites and says this now that hit the spot I haven't eaten in weeks and so if poppy was trapped in her case for years as she suggests she would have been a rotten Corps by the time we found her but since the Prototype was the one who puts her

in there it's Poss possible that he was feeding her the entire time trying to keep her alive which would show that he does care about her but to put the nail in the coffin to seal the deal to absolutely and unequivocally show you that Elliot lwig is in fact the Prototype y'all just listen everyone get close lean in lean in okay okay we're good poppy should have died in the safe haven explosion she she should have went Kaboom in chapter 4 after after we fix the generator poppy tells us to go plant the explosives and

tells us to meet back at Safe Haven once we're done and we go plant the explosives but before we could make it back to Safe Haven the entire Place explodes and in the phone call the Prototype heavily suggests that it was him who planted the bombs so if poppy told us to meet back at Safe Haven suggesting that she'd be waiting for us there but yet she survived the explosion with the Prototype made could this mean that the Prototype somehow warned poppy that it was going to happen I mean the Prototype did warn poppy that

the hour of Joy was coming and so he could have easily warned her here as well further showing that the Prototype cares about Poppy's life and doesn't want her to die but instead wants her to understand something and although it seems that Poppy hates the Prototype because she literally tells us that we're going to blow up the entire Factory and including him it's possible that she's trying to get back at her dad for what he's done in orchestrating the hour of joy and also the experiments that he created including her but what do you guys

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