MatPat

She was his entire world, and within moments, it was all taken away from him.

So, he decided that he wasn't going to lose his family again.

He was going to dedicate the rest of his life to bringing her back.

He was going to use the science of embryology to do it.

Just like he'd used it to make the original Poppy dolls.

The trouble was, that plan was going to require time.

research, and most importantly, money.

So, Playtime Co.

developed new toys, like Bron the Dinosaur and Boxy Boog, to continue to bring in money from the next generation of kids.

They weren't nearly as successful as Poppy, but beggars can't be choosers.

More employees were also brought in on the back end, like Mr. Eddie Ritterman and Mr. Leaf Pierre, to support the business side of things, so that he could focus on his new initiative, the Young Geniuses Program, a program where young people would be brought into Playtime Co.

headquarters as an apprenticeship of sorts.

He wanted the best and brightest young minds to tackle the universe's most unanswerable questions.

And what is more unanswerable than death itself?

Her father sounded so proud as he told her stories of him and his new team of WizKids, how they performed hundreds of experiments, all with the goal of her revival.

using lab rats to test their theories about how the poppies that resided in the scent of her new body's hair were somehow the key to all of it.

Although, there were times he got sad while retelling these stories, usually whenever he remembered a young man by the name of Harley Sawyer.

He was incredibly smart, but unfortunately he had a bit of a temper and an utter lack of

of humility, which led her father to make the difficult decision to let him go.

Her father had hoped that this would be a learning moment for him, that he would go on to become a better person the more he experienced the wonders of humanity.