Toffee (Colossal Wonders)

## Toffee

* Monster
* Toy

## Overview

**Toffee** is a toy produced by an early branch of Playtime Co. before it launched as an official company. They were produced in the early 1800s as a test product, and were later used in the series of experiments conducted by the company over a hundred years later. Toffee as a toy was never released to the public.

## Appearance

### Toy

As a toy, Toffee was nothing exceptional. It played the role of a typical clothed ragdoll designed especially for young children. In terms of construct, Toffee has dust brown, velvety fur which makes up its body, and it wears an earth-brown cloak with a star pinning it in place. It has two large, stitched-on eyes and a small nose in the middle. There are stitches running along the front and back of the toy, and it has two floppy ears hanging down from the side of its head.

### Monster

Their monster counterpart, however, is definitely more animal-like and active as opposed to the toy. With extended limbs and an anthropomorphic body shape, Toffee retains their bunny-like features. Their fur remains a dusty brown, just barely fading into a pale white as the fur touches their pads. Their ears are lengthier in comparison to their toy counterpart, and they have large, red eyes. They wear a night-black hoodie with a cresent moon above where their heart would be, and they also have a necklace around their neck almost resembling the pin on the toy. A large halo hovers above their head, dim and lightless until Toffee feels powerful emotions. They wear long, yellow pants and have raven-like wings that on their back.

## Personality

Toffee is mischivous, harboring the personality of a cruel child whose fantasies are a little too dark for their age. Toffee uses a knife as a primary weapon, but it is used more for threats than for anything else. But they are often interested in the little things and could be deemed an adventurer, as they travel from place to place, committing the various sights into their loosely-engraved memory. As their form of a bunny suggests, Toffee is not one for physical violence outside of weapons. Instead, they may be regarded as softspoken and rational, only jumping into action once it is needed. But Toffee can also be seen as a complete lunatic at certain times, much more when they are seen talking to themselves. They often degrade themselves, posing as a creature with self-esteem issues, which shows that they are much more than just a toy.

## History

Not much is known about Toffee's human self apart from the fact that they used to take on the name "Careen." As a young child, Careen had accidentally crossed into the makeshift labratory set up by the early toy-makers of her day. Careen had taken up a more enthusiastic personality, and an overall playful one despite her teen age. Mistaken for one of the 'subjects,' she was drastically murderd in the process, only for her soul to be transferred into the bod of a toy.

The experiment remained dormant for almost a century before coming to life unexpectedly one day. Now as Toffee, the bunny found that they had virtually no memories, and had no idea of their past life. At first lively and kind, they slowly hardened at the dangers that the world threw at them. Their glowing, scarlet eyes were enough for them to be regarded a monster. Toffee utilized weapons as a form of protection, and learned how to put themself back together whenever they were torn. After all, their velveteen fur was very delicate but coarse.

One day, Toffee stumbled upon an old trailer, which they believed was an old lab. There were multiple things that brought them to this conclusion, such as the shattered test tubes on marble countertops and diagrams that showed human experiments like themself. Each time they returned to this location, they found themself growing increasingly violent, but they are unsure why they feel compelled to hurt. At least, compelled to hurt those who were like the people who had taken their life.

It was on another occasion that Toffee was lingering in the junkyard. They met two people, one a child, the other an adult. Against their free will, they lunged for the older of the two, murdering them on the spot. Shaking and close to breaking out in tears, the bunny had turned to the younger of them, who fled in utter terror. Toffee felt a stab of horror as they realized their actions, and they eventually fled from the junk-laden area.

Eventually, Toffee settled to housing themself in an abandoned apartment, where they could not hurt anyone. They felt broken, and wanted to contain themself in any way possible before anything more horrendous were to go down. Where exactly Toffee is now is still currently unknown, but perhaps the bunny will resurface along with the other life-filled toys who had come alongside them.

## Trivia

* Toffee classifies as non-binary and utilizes they/them pronouns.
* Toffee's design is loosely based on a real toy.
* Backstory concepts originate from MatPat's Poppy Playtime theory.