Hoppkins Loops

Hoppkins Loops, often shortened as just "Loops" is a fan villain made by La Coco for the videogame Poptropica.

"Loops! You don't need Lucky Charms for you are "Charming" enough as it is!"

## Interests

### Hobbies

Flirting with the player
Eating cereals and generic marshmallows for her TV and childhood fans

## Other

### Color Palette

White (fur/skin color)
Aqua (Eyes)
Vintage Green (headband)
Cream/Turquoise/Peach (Clothes)

## Appearance

She is a white rabbit featuring saturated light-blue eyes, pink eyelids, small rabbit teeth, and mild blush on her cheeks; she sports a band-aid above her rabbit nose. She also features a tricolored marshmallow as a tail and long, "loop" ears that normally hide her tail.

Her attire usually includes turquoise overalls, further featuring a pocket on the abdomen and an embroided text box above it which reads "milk". Underneath the overalls, she wears a cream-colored, long-sleeved sweater with cow-spots print; the spots are colored marroc maroon.

She also sports a turquoise head band, a light-green, polka-dotted bow on her head and bowtie; the bowtie also features a carrot adornment down the middle.

## Storyline and Roles

### Role on Cereal and Dairy Island

Born as a generic Poptropican who moved to Dairy Island, an island renown for housing a plethora of cows, she was hired by one of the enterprises to sell products to the milk-addicted townsfolk of the island.

Business at the island was rather competitive, the products ranging from chocomilk to powdered milk; however, the enterprise where Laura Hopkins -her name back then- worked at specialized in cereals. Despite their uniqueness in the market, the enterprise struggled to grow since the bovine Poptropicans preferred sweet products; this lead to their ace in the hole: marshmallow cereal.

With skyrocketing fame and the growing addiction children began to experience for the product, the enterprise sought to further expand to other islands for their own benefit; for this purpose alone, they decided upon a...questionable marketing tactic. They planned the design of a perfect mascot for months, one who would be a sight to behold for children and Poptropicans from other islands alike. The result? A bunny who sought after the so-called "Lucky Charms", interacting with children during their advertisements.

As more of their competitors closed their doors in defeat to their ambition, the powerful enterprise now looked for their muse to give form to their mascot; their sights quickly locked upon their new trainee: Laura. Kidnapped and drugged to submission, she was experimented on; marshmallows and blasting machinery disrupting and remaking her DNA. Upon dawnbreak, Hoppkins Loops presented herself to the masses, eager to show what she's got!

A patented mascot at launch, the TV advertisements quickly followed, reaching out like a plague to all islands that had any semblance of television. The advertisements features Loops about to eat a singular Lucky Charm from a bowl, but her attempt is frustrated by joyful children who would take the bowl away from her, cheerily chanting "Loops! You don't need Lucky Charms for you are "Charming" enough as it is!". A cheesy tagline for sure...yet one that Loops took personally. Why would these children prefer Lucky Charms over her if she was supposedly superior?

She spent most of the time locked within the enterprise, eating cereal and marshmallows, yet never laying a finger on any semblance of Lucky Charms. Aside from eating, she also spent her time by flirting with the employees to check out how "charming she was"...this often got her ignored. The enterprise had essentially ruined her life, leaving her as a glorified, talking rabbit...yet they treated her no better than an animal, if not beneath one.

One day, the number one enterprise in "Cereal & Dairy" mysteriously exploded during the dawn; coated in gasoline, the cereals were also lost to the fire. There was no trail of the mascot which lead the employees to speculate that she died inside considering that she was never allowed to go outside. This day marked the lives of many who were left jobless by the incident, limiting their options to leaving the island and starting anew. Many did that, the loss of the factory becoming a tainted part of their past which they would never bring up on their new homes.

However, not only did many lose their jobs, the townsfolk also got hit hard -if not harder- by the events. Not only did the cows no longer have a way to replenish their marshmallowed cereals, the closing of the competition limited their options tenfold. This only lead to war spearheaded by the children who craved sugar; their parents, falling into madness out of starvation, joined their offspring.

Lucky Charms were no longer a sugary commodity, instead being reduced to MREs. They fueled raiders and soldiers alike, kept families from starving, incited murder and invited death to the beholders...

The player will be presented at the entrancce of the island; at first sight, the place shows its beaty through a stellar sky, tinted pink, yellow and light blue. The player will be greeted by Loops who states that they must know her from the advertisements; as the player indicates the opposite, Loops quickly changes the topic to be straightforward: she asks the player to gather all Lucky Charm boxes of the island in order to share a wonderful, sugarcoated breakfast with the player. From there, the adventure begins.

The more the player progresses through the island, the more disturbing and sinister the ambience becomes. The beautiful backgrounds soon become tainted by the presence of Poptropican cows fighting an endless and violent war, most laying motionless as corpses or bleeding out as they fruitlessly try to crawl away from the raging battle; this incorporates into gameplay by providing an obstacle for the player must stay low and avoid various shootings in the island, the bullets singing their chants of war as they end the lives of anyone, and anything, unlucky enough to be on their path. Anytime the player finds Lucky Charm boxes, each being found in separate missions, Loops herself will appear to congratulate them, disappearing shortly after. It should be noted that each Lucky Charm box the player finds is often surrounded by increasing piles of corpses of those who tried to scurry away with them, only to be gunned down without any remorse.

Upon collecting the second-to-last Lucky Charm box, Loops will ask the player to visit her on the roof of the burnt down factory once the player finds the last box, also rewarding them with a kiss. It is speculated that, since the player is genuinely trying to help her, Loops develops a crush on them; this is further supported by the fact that she never received much love, or amicability for that matter, back when she was part of the enterprise.

During gameplay, the player will begin to understand that Loops was the only possible reason behind the explosion of the factory. Evidence is kept by a curious NPC, one who was driven mad and now whispers of shadow-infused conspiracies, funny how the madman is the only one who is not inherently hostile to the player or anybody else...while one would just leave the NPC to their ramblings, there is truth behind their words. They frantically mark that Loops had traveled to other islands, such as Dr. Hare's, to steal destructive weaponry and explosives alike to put an end to the folly that was the cereal factory.

Once the player collects the last Lucky Charm box, they will be chased down by a rallied mob who accuses them of stealing all of the Lucky Charms; thankfully, the mob seems to have run dry on ammunition, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous. This leads the player to the roof of the factory where they'll meet up with Loops.

She'll ask for all of the Lucky Charm boxes you've collected thus far and observe them closely once you hand them over...to immediately destroy them with her fists until they're nothing but ashes. Loops confesses that she was using the player to do the dangerous work for her, bringing the boxes to her so that she could destroy them, becoming the only "charming" entity left on the island.

However, to the surprise of the player, Loops held on to a singular Lucky Charm as she states that it wouldn't hurt to taste one of them for the first time in her life. This leads her to eat and savor it for all of its worth...and collapsing on the floor out of sheer disgust. As she agonizes on the floor, she crawls to the player and asks them if they find her "charming". The player's answer automatically defaults to not saying anything, enraging Loops who shoves the player from the roof down to the ashen depths below; she doesn't waste any time looking at the player fall, instead hopping on to a stationed zeppelin which proceeds to take her to another island posthaste.

Before the player can hit the cold floor, the townsfolk who were once the mob manage to catch them and keep them from being hurt. They apologize profusely, stating that they found out about Loops' plan thanks to the raving madman and due to listening to her confession she told the player. A cutscene is displayed shortly where we see the cows asking each other what to eat since there's nothing left but grass. The player explains that cows can indeed eat grass, prompting one of them to have a taste. The cow seems delighted, leading the other Poptropican cows to follow soon after, putting an end to the famine of the island.

## Trivia

* Once the island is completed, its name in the map will be crossed out, replaced with "Grass & Dairy Island".

* Loops keeps her crush on the player regardless of their gender; it is also confirmed that she is pansexual.

* She is a strand of hair away from acquiring diabetes due do her consumption of generic marshmallows throughout all of her life as a rabbit.

* Loops has never eaten carrots in her life; the carrot adornment in her bowtie was mostly a decoration by her designers meant to make her more "rabbit-like".

* As an injoke, she's coupled with Dr. Hare since both share a rabbit motif.

* Her name, "Loops", refers to her dropped ears; it is also a reference to the cereal brand "Froot Loops".

Drawn in normal Poptropica style
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Translation by Apollymom.