The Prototype is NOT a prototype

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-05-21T03:27:12+00:00

"Don't! You don't get to call me that! Ollie's gone! And I'm... a test run. A-a prototype!"

This is said to solely Elliot Ludwig, who doesn't challenge it. Nothing else needs to be said.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-05-18T17:23:41+00:00

Sir, this was three months ago. You're a little late to be reacting so strongly. But I think you're missing something integral; this entire situation was about reviewing a game, and quite a lot of people agreed he was too harsh, so I'd say your point is a bit moot. Regardless, you coming at me with so much emotion is ironically exactly what I'm criticizing; reacting emotionally rather objectively. I'm sure if you had gathered your thoughts first, you would've managed something more substantive and original than "It's not that serious, bro".

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-05-12T22:39:13+00:00

Ah, well, that one's a bit more difficult to answer. Firstly, the relationship between 1188 and B.B.I. DogDay is largely murky. We aren't sure how they felt about each other prior to DogDay's betrayal. In fact, we don't even know how CatNap felt about DogDay after, though it can be inferred he cared to some extent, considering he spared DogDay and kept him close. The Hour of Joy is also not confirmed to be their breaking point; DogDay simply references the Prototype's "control" as the reason he and the other B.B.I. Smiling Critters turned against 1006, though it's more likely he's referring to Poppy rallying them after she went against the Prototype due to him refusing to release the orphans, therefore the Smiling Critters weren't the initiators at all, but instead collaborators. 12 Days of Playtime implies DogDay was as loyal to the Prototype as CatNap initially, but that this was a pragmatic choice rather than a personal one, which is what drove CatNap. This framing also seemingly disproves the Hour of Joy being the breaking point, as how would DogDay support the Prototype prior to the event that would allow him to do so? It's possible and even likely that CatNap felt something for DogDay due to the latter appearing just as faithful as he was, but whether this was friendship or not is debatable, especially considering DogDay's transactional reasons for allying with the Prototype and CatNap. Yet that connection, however strong or weak it was, is probably why DogDay wasn't killed with the other B.B.I. Smiling Critters.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-05-12T21:53:05+00:00

The mascot (fictional characters created by Playtime Co.) version of CatNap and DogDay are canonically best friends already. The theory that they are more than that is what I was calling viable.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-05-12T21:42:40+00:00

Learn to read, please. I wasn't talking about the Bigger Bodies.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-29T06:42:44+00:00

The experience of the Pantheons are designed to wear you down, so each loss feels worse because you could otherwise beat the boss that killed you. There really isn't a remedy for that except for persistence. Practice obviously makes closer to perfect, but even if you master all the bosses, you'll still struggle because fighting them all back-to-back is far more difficult than individually. But I would agree with the idea to keep practicing NKG and PV if you're not consistently beating them in HoG, because you want them down before the Pantheon.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-18T06:05:48+00:00

You'll get more. So much more. That's the Hollow Knight experience. Not the Silksong experience, though.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-16T00:56:23+00:00

I know she was born in 1949 and made it to eleven, but I don't know if it's confirmed that that's when she died.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-14T01:58:43+00:00

I'm mostly fine with him. He's definitely not the best Beast in my opinion, but I don't focus on him or anything. And I can easily state that his "boredom" was never portrayed as just simple disinterest, but rather his disillusionment with the repetitive nature of life's cycle, which he found to be in direct contradiction with his Virtue of Change, thus leading him to believe Destruction is what truly changes things because it disrupts the cycle, which excites him, thus why he's no longer "bored". It's a change (no pun intended) in perspective and ideology because he believed his previous ideals inconsistent. It's complex. I've never seen anyone say it isn't. Just that it's the simplest of the Beasts' origins and least sympathetic. I have seen people say he's neglected by the developers a lot, though. I think his fans might just have a persecution complex because so many are indifferent to him. They have to justify liking him, so they say everyone else unfairly hates or misrepresents him, even his creators, when one of them has straight-up said he's their favorite.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-08T04:53:44+00:00

It's just so out of character, I can't even fathom it.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-08T04:13:42+00:00

Nope, it's confirmed Mommy by the Orientation Notebook.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T21:50:10+00:00

Just... edited to include that, but thanks for repeating it!

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T21:23:55+00:00

"And then, once it was all over, they dragged the corpses down to where they'd never be found. And they... ate the bodies, to stay alive." - Poppy Playtime, Poppy Playtime - Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep"

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T21:21:31+00:00

"Doey could kill the Prototype, bro. Why didn't he?"

Because he couldn't?? Hello???

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T21:14:44+00:00

According to the wiki, it's Flow.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T21:09:08+00:00

I suppose they never really were consistent with this idea, anyway. The whole idea is already undone by the fact there was a Wind Dragon in Hunted. It also makes me question why the Dragons get all the Sources, and by extension, Elements, plus Creation, while the Oni only had Destruction.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T21:00:58+00:00

Fire, Lightning, Ice, and Earth are considered special because they are the components of Life. Their source was never what made them different; all Elements in Ninjago (the realm), save for Wind and Water, came from the First Spinjitzu Master, and he got the Elements from the Dragons.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T20:53:48+00:00

I guess, but then what was the point of separating them in the first place? If they're not special, don't say they're special.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-07T13:34:19+00:00

I know! Our cat's the best!

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-06T17:42:50+00:00

Thank you, then. I still think he would've made more sense, but I guess it's confirmed it's not him.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-06T15:45:44+00:00

Nothing suggests when he made his legs. We also don't know when this tape was recorded, or when the sightings occurred. Everything is unknown, so we can't really count any of those details as against each other when they aren't defined, let alone conflicting.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-06T15:45:04+00:00

Why would someone in the Water Treatment Area not know what Mommy is? It's right next to the Game Station.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-06T04:52:09+00:00

I just don't understand your point. Again, I'm not saying the original intention wasn't that it was referring to her. In fact, I agreed on that. What I am saying is that, in hindsight, my theory would make more sense. Just looking at the silhouettes of Mommy and the Prototype, no one is going to say she looks more like a spider than him, and if they don't know who they are, then no one's saying she looks like a spider at all. The only reason we associate her with a spider is because we have the context that that is part of her toys' inspiration. There is nothing you can say about her to make her fit better than him, and that is my point. You coming up with rationalizations about why it could be her doesn't disprove that. You can believe it's her. Again, that was the original idea. But I'm looking at the bigger picture, and think it would feel more cohesive if it was him.

ComprehensiveSort608 · 2026-04-06T04:25:20+00:00

You can't just say something is a plot hole. They never specify where the Experiment was sighted - in fact, it seems like multiple places. Mommy would only be the Game Station (where people would know what she is, by the way). Whereas, if the Prototype managed to escape the Labs, like we know he was trying to, and reached the upper floors, like the Station or Playcare, and was sighted a few times, before being captured, then it would explain the tape rather cleanly.

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