Cindy the Caterpillar

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🌷Cindy🌷

She/Her ꕤ Caterpillar animatronic ꕤ Museum guide

**Cindy the Caterpillar** is an anthropomorphic caterpillar animatronic who was originally made for Evening Green’s Nature Center & Museum as a guide for visitors who were willing to spend some cash. The owner’s friends, Melissa and Trevor, made her, but unbeknownst to them, Trevor had dabbled in a bit of the occult in order to create the “perfect AI". This caused her to become almost completely sentient, which caused her owners to trap her in the nature center’s storage shed out of pure fear. However, years later, after a wildfire ravaged the nature center and the park it inhabited, Cindy was released back into the world. Driven mad both because of her isolation and her demonic origins, the animatronic can now be found terrorizing nearby towns in her quest to become her “true butterfly self”.

## Background Information

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* Themes of hunger and physical metamorphosis/wanting to grow up.
* Made for a small nature reserve/park that had a nature center/museum. Cindy was to be placed in said nature center and act like a sort of teacher, traveling through the exhibits and spouting off facts about flower and bugs. As she was expensive to maintain and the owners could only afford one Cindy to be made, guests had to pay $20 for her to walk with them (admission to the park and such is free). She was rather popular despite the fee, however, due to the kids loving her and her unique facts and stories that don’t appear in the exhibits themselves.
* Programmed to act like a young, yet very knowledgeable and smart, child in order to connect with kids better.
* She can see you. Her eyes are cameras and the little slot on her “stomach” is where pictures come out, that feature was implanted so families can have their picture taken at the beginning of their experience as a keepsake they can take home later.
* The material she’s made out of is weather/water resistant.
	+ Not fire resistant.
* The people who made her was a couple who were good friends with the owner of the nature center: Melissa and Trevor. Melissa designed and painted Cindy while Trevor built her and made her A.I.
	+ The story takes place in the early 2000’s so A.I isn’t super advanced. However, Trevor wanted only the best for his friends so he worked day and night to make the most complicated A.I that he could. He didn’t do it alone, though.
		- Demons. Trevor got help from demons
* After a few months of operation, Cindy suddenly seemed to develop a mind of her own. She began acting as if she was a sentient creature and even trying the eat. The owners tried to get in contact with their friends but they had strangely left town. Cindy only got worse as she began to ask why she “hadn’t grown into a butterfly yet” and attempting and eat food despite her mouth not being able to open.
* The owners freaked out and turned her off before tossing her into storage. Of course, she didn’t stay off for long but she was trapped under a mountain of junk so she couldn’t do anything for awhile.
* All mentions of Cindy was wiped from the nature center and when visitors asked about her absence they just said that she had been damaged beyond repair after an accident (or that she had “gone off on an adventure” to children).
* For years she stayed in the storage shed out in the back of the reserve until a fire started and burned everything to the ground. However before the fire, Cindy became more hungry and yearned even more for adulthood. She wanted to fly and become beautiful…
	+ Her A.I isn’t aware that that her body isn’t organic/that it’s just an animatronic so she thinks she’s an actual magical caterpillar of some kind.
* The final straw was when everything burned down and her body was warped and melted, years of being alone and brooding drove her insane and now that her body wasn’t “able to grow up anymore” she resorted to hunting down a “new body” so that she could turn it into the butterfly of her dreams and possess it.
	+ Btw she has demon powers lolz she unlocked them after she snapped. They were basically something that was hidden away and could only show up when Cindy was in great distress
* Basically she began eating people and kidnapping those who she thought was “pretty” and turning them into horrific flesh creatures because she apparently sucks at making butterflies. She either kills and eats these ”failed bodies” or lets them roam free because she doesn’t care.
	+ Covered in blood and rotting meat because, once again, she doesn’t understand that her body isn’t physical so her victims just kinda rot in her machinery. Kinda gross ngl

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