Thoughts about the toys & bigger bodies aging
Okay so, I've decided to ramble about this because I've been thinking about it and I want to post about some headcannons I have that are influenced by the aging thing.
So, I know that there is a bit of conflict between people about whether the toys age or if they're stuck as immortal kids and I decided to share my thoughts on their ability to age and my reasoning.
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Okay so, to start I don't think that its a clear cut everyone ages or everyone doesn't; I think that the majority of the bigger bodies (e.g. Mommy, Dogday, Doey) were made with the intention for them to continue to age mentally, this is because they were used as caretakers of a sort and it makes more sense to have them age in order to watch over the kids and be able to deal with issues that might come up. I think that they would have attempted to induce amnesia and condition the BBs to be their characters though, in order to control them as they grew; I do think this had varying results though, with it being effective on the critters, in-effective on Mommys hatred of adults(but otherwise effective) and in-effecting on Doey altogether.
I don't think this goes for every BB though! For characters like Bunzo, PJ and Yarnaby I don't think they were allowed to age and may have even regressed to a younger mentality from their transformations. It is much easier to train a terrified child to be a background character or pet than someone who grows and can understand how much more powerful they are than those around them. I also think a few of the BB critters may have stayed as children too, like Crafty and Hoppy, not to say that they were like 6 or something but they didn't age past when they were made.
For the mini toys I think that they were made to stay as children for the most part, other than a few abnormalities; but after they started to make so many of them, I think they started to select a few who would be medium toys/Carers (A bit bigger than the minis but nowhere near as big as the BBs) and they would allow them to age to their teens before stopping their aging; however they do it. These toys would then be used as caretakers to manage the mini toys so that playtime wouldn't need to hire people to do so instead. Kinda like how in the military they delegate command to a sergeant or whatever to keep order but everything has to go through higherups? Don't know if I'm explaining it well.
I think that this makes sense as an overall idea as well, because if you look through the chapters you'll notice that the younger kids (based on this) all flock to BBs that are able to age; Mommy with bunzo, pj and whoever else, Catnap with the feral minis, and Doey with safe haven. They all became the Parent/Leader/Oldest and so, in charge of the younger kids even if they weren't kind or caring. This is something that you can see in scared or lost kids, with them running to an adult for help, only due to their situation there isn't really anyone who can help like they need it (Doey being the exception as far as I can tell).
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Some people wont agree with this idea and that's fine but it is how I personally see it and my art stuff will be following this idea.
Gonna focus on Doey next and explain how he works in this... AU? I guess? There isn't anything that goes against cannon so... I don't know what to call it; but whatever, next up is the dough guy and the intricacies of him and how he works and how the doughboys in him work cos I wanna talk about them.
Oh and if anyone has any questions go ahead and ask! I don't mind and I'd love to ramble about this stuff!
