Where Are The Children? - Poppy Playtime Chapter 3 THEORY

where are the children in poppy playtime chapter 3. The question remains, what happened to the children in poppy playtime chapter 3. We do no see them in the hour of joy tape and we hear that they are safe... but are they?

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[RainbowsAurora]

What im thinking may have happened is the Prototype did save the kids at first, and things were fine for the most part, until food and resources started to run out and they started getting sick and dying. So by that point the Prototype did the only other thing as his disposal he could potentially do to "save" them, and tried to turn them into toys himself, becoming the thing he hated the most but for his own twisted justified reason. I like this idea because maybe Poppy KNOWS this and wants to free everyone from their suffering, and it would be nice to not have a "true" villian besides the humans who started this whole thing to begin with.

[andrewsanusi]

Actually I think the person Ms Delight talked to and said the children were safe but not with the employees wasn’t actually the prototype but Catnap although I wouldn’t be surprised he likely took the orphans to a secure area under the prototypes orders.

[milahjensen]

Wait so you guys thought the answers from the VHS were a different person? The subtitles literally say that it's Miss Delight mocking catnap's voice, therefore she is telling barb what happened in her conversation with catnap.

[TwilightFox]

Miss Delight was telling what happened between her and Catnap in the vhs. It was Catnap that locked Miss Delight, and her "sisters" in the school, and didn't open the door until only one remained.

[fatbrittalking]

maybe he’s just growing them like livestock, and when they’re fully grown feeding them to the toys. The tapes did say he’s quite intelligent.

[MEGaagv]

My main guess was that they are alive and now probably young teens or young adults, so they decide to write to MC(The Player who had a hand in the hour of joy, my main evidence of this when the reverse says "Your presence was demanded 10 years ago and you didn't show up. 8/8/1995 You were supposed to be here. Why weren't you here? You missed the meeting") to lure us in and save them, and mercy killed the bigger toys!

[gamerkingdom]

I feel that CHAPTER 4 will reveal what happened to the kids…..
And I fear the answer, will be very, DISTURBING.

[SamFromItalia]

From what I remember about the first chapter, it takes place 10 years after your coworkers disappeared aka 'the hour of joy', so IF the children are still alive then most of them would probably be young adults or teenagers, also if the brains of the toys still mature in the same way normal humans do then I'd assume that they would also be somewhere in that age range

[tolvajtamas]

For a few days now, i began seeing an interesting detail about the smiling critters, which could lead to some theories maybe. How many are there? 8 if you count Catnap, and 7 if you dont. Now 7 is an interesting number, cause 7 tends to imply the 7 deadly sins, but it can imply the 7 virtues as well. And if we look throught the 7 smiling critters, each can be paired up with one of the 7 virtues, mainly based on their character description. Catnap cant really be paired up with any of the virtues, which could explain his different role from the others. Im wondering if the number of smiling critters was intentional here, or just purely random.

[maqinor]

The prototype probably turned all the children into toys because so far the game didn't have any realistic human 3d model

[silentpie]

Dark theory: What if the prototype is continuing the bigger body experiment since it would make the kids bigger and still be a living food supply

[connormarchand]

Ironical most “Grey” characters are still pretty evil especially the Prototype did save the toys form the scientist and probably did save the kids but to undo all that he also killed the innocent ones left the toys he saved to fear him under his new management and probably has the kids somewhere where they’re robbed of the outside similar to Elliot and Playcare, Just because U have a right doesn’t mean you still can’t be wrong.

[AnonymousEnigma]

Here's what I think happened, the MC used to be an orphan who was raised alongside Maria Payne (Mommy Long Legs) & Theodore Campbell (Catnap) unlike them they were one of the few lucky ones who was adopted, they came back to work for Playtime co in order to help the orphans like how they were helped, they then realize the dark secrets of playtime Co and it's sickened them, they then came across the Prototype realizing that this was the imaginary friend that Theodore had, both of them then plan the hour of joy, that's why the MC wasn't there that's why they missed the meeting, he helped planned it all but the sad part is neither them nor I suspect the Prototype wanted this to go as far as it did, I think in the end originally the hour of Joy was supposed to cover the children's Escape but again everything went too far as it did.

[HRHMimiEucliffe]

Miss Delight talks to Catnap, not the Prototype and Catnap is the one who locked her and her sisters in the school, not the Prototype

[angelicafigueroa]

As far as we know only Catnap and the Prototype know where the children are
Ms Delight couldn't get a straight answer from Catnap (I guess Theo is still trying to protect them) because she knew that he knew she would try to kill them like the rest
Which by the way, who was Ms Delight recording that tape for, or who was she talking to in the tape.
We know Playtime records people at will all over the facility so was she just leaving an audio diary, talking to the prototype telling him that Catnap won't give her the location of the other children
Kissy and Poppy don't seem to have a clue where the kids are as her unused dialogue in chapter 1 said that everyone was killed, that there's no one left to save
My question is where is the prototype and why hasn't he stopped us before we got this far? He took mommy long legs' possibly reaching way past what's normal, he seems to be pretty sizable as he was large enough to take Catnap through the ceiling, if he can reach anywhere why not just kill us when we arrived?
Better yet why did he wait until the others started dying to collect them? What's he patching himself up to be

[FUGAAAAA-]

Well, two things...
Poppy said no matter what, innocent or guilty, the toys had killed EVERYONE. This is probably including the kids. And second, poppy said it what "senseless slaughter", which means the toys probably weren't aware who they killing, and just wanted food.

[andreaparham]

I doubt the kids are alive. They’ve been turning on each other for food a long time.

[Lordxzamasu]

They all probably starved to death if they were even kept alive so they might all just be dead especially after 10 years

[larissegaruti]

In my head the only logical option for the kids to be "alive" would be if the prototype converted them all in toys. That would explain why we have so many small toys broken around the factory

[Waterproofed]

I think the children are free and the toys were left locked away and forgotten about or overlooked posibly. The prototype is smart I don't think he is trying to escape I think he is trying to contain the violent big bodies