Poppy Partridge

**Overview** Spoilers Gallery

Poppy as she appears in The Neighborhood Page

## Neighborhood Description

"Old scripts outlined that Poppy had lived with her family in a nest that had been tucked away in a tree hollow deep within the forest but that she would eventually outgrow to a staggering degree. She would move into an empty barn in Home, of which she would give a bird’s touch.

Poppy insisted she could fly in some iterations of her dialogue, most notably in her journey to Home, but there was no evidence of this through out the show's run. It is also not clear what kind of bird she is, as she has stated she is a “bit of a flamingo on her father’s side and a bit of a hen on her mother’s side.” She has also noted, “it’s hard to keep track of a family tree… A lot of birds fit in trees, you know.”

Poppy’s puppet is a walk around puppet that concept work noted had stood at around eight feet tall, but photographs surrounding her height have yet to be uncovered. Poppy was rarely seen outside of her barn, typically being visited by neighbors instead. Many of her segments focused on baking, (although she has been shown knitting) but she did not have a live-hand counterpart, so other puppets were often doing her work for her in various skits. Illustrations note that some possible assistants were Frank, Eddie, Howdy, and Sally. Within the context of the show, this was because she was too scared to use appliances."

## Physical Description

**Poppy** was one of the tallest Neighbors at around 7-8 feet  with a red, pear-shaped body, large orange feet, big multicolored wings, a long neck covered in rainbow ruffles, and a small, circular head with a rainbow mohawk of feathers. She had a sharp, yellow beak with a blue mouth and tongue, circular, hooded eyes with three long lashes each and yellow eyeshadow, and small eyebrows. She was often drawn wearing a colorful scarf rimmed with white lace.

## Personality

She was the most fretful of the neighbors, always worried about everything to the point that she never left her house. She found comfort on her home and didn't want to leave, preferring people to visit her instead and making Howdy bring her groceries to her place. However, she was very grateful about her friends and how much they cared for her.

She was not necessarily good at knitting, sewing and baking, but liked to do these activities and share them with others all the time. She was really sweet, kind, peaceful and gentle with her friends despite her nervous and fretful personality.

## Relationships

### Sally Starlet

Poppy and Sally were pretty close to one another, and Sally seemed to help Poppy be more confident about herself.

Sally sometimes tried for Poppy to participate in her plays and lose her fears, and always trusted Poppy best when it came to baking and cooking, finding Poppy's baked goods the best in the town. Poppy felt honored and flustered of being chosen and complimented by Sally, and was delighted to help her in anything she could, even trying to be brave enough to participate in scary plays or dangerous activities despite her fears, trying to please and make Sally happy instead.

Sally would go to Poppy's house personally to propose her being the star of her plays or ask for help, in return, Poppy didn't mind putting on silly costumes for Sally's plays. They trusted one another and Poppy felt comfortable enough to let Sally grab mail for her if she was busy at the time, Sally didn't mind doing this for Poppy either.

Sally playfully teased Poppy and was satisfied and amused about successfully making Poppy blush. Sally also thought Poppy was capable of doing great things with enough motivation, and Poppy trusted Sally enough to accept going out of her comfort zone with Sally's help. While Poppy was usually timid around everyone, she seemed more embarrassed around Sally, stuttering more than usual, but at the same time enjoying being with her.

### Frank Frankly

Frank visited Poppy often.  He also liked baking with her and helped Poppy in the kitchen, sharing pleasant conversations with one another while they baked. Since he was very organized and knew how to follow the recipe perfectly, Poppy was glad that Frank could help with her baked goods, trying new recipes together sometimes and having fun in the process.

He usually did the most dangerous things for her, like taking care of the oven , and in return she made sure he was safe and protected when handling such tasks, giving him two pairs or even three of oven mitts to make sure he didn't get hurt, worried about his safety. When she got a bit nervous or afraid, he tried to reassure her and make her feel more comfortable about the situation. He also had books about cooking, and used them to help Poppy with her recipes, flipping the pages for her.

### Howdy Pillar

Poppy was too afraid to leave her house, so instead of going to Howdy's Place, she had to call Howdy to come deliver everything personally to her home.  Howdy didn't mind this in the slightest, and he used this time to visit Poppy and have small conversations with her, trying to offer his help if she needed it.

Like with any neighbor, Howdy also advertised his products to Poppy, and Poppy often found herself reluctantly accepting all of them. Howdy didn't realize that Poppy did this out of courtesy. Poppy still appreciates him trying to help her and she was willing to give a try to the strange devices and products Howdy gave her, trusting him even if what he brought looked a bit too terrifying or complicated for her taste.

### Wally Darling

More remains to be seen of their interaction. Poppy invited Wally for tea parties and hosted him charitably, Wally helped Poppy during baking and knitting, not minding holding the yarn for her. The two seemed to partake on peaceful, soothing and calm activities together.

### Eddie Dear

As the mailman, Eddie was one of the only neighbors who saw Poppy daily because of his job, since she spent most of her time at home. Currently, little is known apart from them having a professional relationship and respecting one another.

## Trivia

* It was revealed that Poppy was a lesbian and transgender.
* Poppy was first conceptualized in March 2018.
* Her puppet was covered in feathers.
	+ At first she was going to live in a tree intead of a barn.  This was changed to be her childhood home instead.
* She was not any particular sort of bird. She was a mix of a hen, an ostrich, a lorikeet and more.
* Poppy actually couldn't fly.
* Poppy’s voice have been described as wavering and fretful, but still sweet much like her. It was compared with the voice of Aunt Bee with a southern accent.
* She was the best baker and cook in the town. The second best was Frank.
* Poppy knew how to play the vibraphone.
* She was similar to Big Bird from *Sesame Street*, being a large walk-around bird puppet with a kind soul. However, whereas Big Bird is very childlike, Poppy was more mature and pessimistic.
* She was the largest of her family, an assortment of very small and colorful birds.
* She didn't have clear what color she is.
* Poppy always stretched herself fully in her nest when she woke up, but she almost always hit her head on something.
* Her morning routine consisted of washing her face, puffing out her feathers, preening herself, polishing her beak and patting her eyelashes.
* When Sally practiced poetry and theatre out loud, Poppy always thought that she was actually talking to her and replied back.
* She was pretty good making fruit cake.
* Poppy's favorite food was a everything-seed muffin, which is actually just a clump of seeds shaped with a bit of bread to look like a muffin.
	+ She had a No Bake Recipe for them. It consisted on cramming all of the seeds into a cupcake wrapper, coat it in seeds and add more seeds.
	+ Her favorite type of cheesecake was "Lemon Meringue Cheesecake".
	+ Poppy's favorite type of coffee was a Cappuccino with steamed milk because it was cozy. Although she usually couldn't finish a whole cup.
* Her favorite color was green. All the favorite colors of every neighbor put next to each other forms a rainbow.
* She had her own holiday during Winter. It was the equivalent to Thanksgiving in our world.
* She requested a lot of product from Howdy, since she was really busy and needed materials. She usually gave her feathers, a cozy thought or something homemade in exchange for his products.
* Everyone felt flattered and happy when Wally asked them to pose for his drawings and be his models. Poppy was the most shy and worried when doing so, nervous when being stared at for so long and distressed about if she's posing right or standing still enough. Wally always tried to make her feel comfortable during these sessions.
* Poppy would have been the most inclined to help little birds and add a feeder outside her house. Her long neck would allow her to change the bird feeder outside of her window easily.
* If she had been handled a sword, she would have been too terrified of it to use it.
* She would have been afraid of slap bracelets.
* When dancing, she swayed very softly.
* Her favorite "song" was the rhythmic sound of the rain drops falling on her house.
* Clown has confirmed that Poppy and other Welcome Home characters are autistic, like himself.
	+ Poppy's stimming behaviour was flapping her wings and repeating thinks out loud because it helped her feel better when feeling very distressed. Other neurodivergent Neighbors copied the flapping from Poppy as well.
* Poppy was one of the neighbors that broke the fourth wall during the "Happy Haunting to Boo and Yours!" Storybook Record, talking directly to the Narrator and even offering a candy apple to them.
* If the Welcome Home puppets meet the Muppets, Clown thinks that Poppy would get along with Sweetums because he is clumsy but polite and kind, and both would knit together in their own way.
* If Clown had to compare Poppy with one of the Habiticians from *Smile for Me*, it would be Kamal.
* If she had been in the world of Splatoon, she wouldn't have participated in battles at all because of how kind and sweet she was.
* Clown has created a personal Welcome Home x Pokémon AU just for fun.
	+ In this AU, Poppy is a supermodel Pokémon Psychic-Type Gym-Leader, and Sally is her manager that brought her into popularity. Poppy doesn’t want this life and wants to be a baker instead. She finds battles scary, but she doesn't want to break Sally's dreams.
	+ She has several Slowpoke.
* Clown also described their own take in a Welcome Home x Alice in Wonderland AU. Poppy would be the one to take the role of the Mock Turtle in this universe, so sad and tearful, crying about her past as a turtle after being turned into a bird. Some parts of her past turtle shell could be found behind her feathers.
* In a funny scenario, if the neighbors played Among Us, Poppy would be the worst at being the imposter. She would be paranoid the whole time and too chicken to kill anyone, giving up way to easily and freaking out when people enter the same room alone together. She would be the one to push the emergency button the most.
* Clown placed familiarities between himself and his own characters. Clown made Poppy similarly filled with anxiety as themselves, and thinking about Poppy gives them comfort after an anxiety attack.

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