Huggy Wuggy

* Passive
* Hostile
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**Huggy Wuggy**, otherwise known as **Experiment 1170**, is a toy produced by Playtime Co., who makes his debut in *Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze*. As stated by Playtime Co., Huggy is one of their most successful products.

Huggy Wuggy was initially introduced in Chapter 1 as a statue in the Main Lobby of the factory. However, once the player restores power to the entire facility, Huggy mysteriously disappears. Throughout the chapter, Huggy makes occasional, brief appearances until he finally reveals himself and starts chasing the player during the intense Ventilation Chase sequence. Towards the end of the chapter, he is seen plummeting deep into the depths of the Playtime Co. Factory.

Experiment 1170 was endowed with obedient qualities, enabling the Playtime Co. staff to train Huggy to serve as a guardian for the factory during guest visits. However, these obedient traits became corrupted as the Prototype occasionally redirected Huggy's objectives. Before his highly anticipated debut, Huggy, following his training, was required to stand and patiently wait for the arrival of a human presence, specifically the player.

## Appearance

Huggy Wuggy is a tall, slender creature covered in thick, bright blue fur. His arms and legs are several feet in length and end in large yellow hands and feet. The hands have large Velcro straps on them, and the feet possess four digits including thumbs, though they are fused together and are unable to move individually (with the exception of the thumbs). His torso is stout and disproportionately small in comparison to his long limbs. His head is large and contains two large black, dilated eyes. On his face are oversized, bright red, cartoonish lips.

His monster counterpart remains largely the same, with the exception of his eyes being dilated bigger than intended, giving off a deranged and disturbing physique. Behind his lips is a maw of dozens of jagged needle-like teeth. Closer observation of Huggy's mouth shows a secondary set of jaws located near his throat, akin to that of a moray eel.

## Personality

Originally marketed as a toy intended solely for providing platonic love through hugging, Huggy Wuggy was designed to possess warm and appreciative qualities.

Meanwhile, his Bigger Bodies counterpart retained a similar purpose, serving as a guardian to children and only reacting aggressively when faced with hostility. This was exemplified in the disturbing RESTRICTED disappearance 06-18-1992.mp4, where Huggy went on a rampage upon being attacked with darts. He was known to be "obedient" as long as no aggression was directed towards him, which was explicitly stated in Log 08502. However, under the influence of the Prototype, Huggy transformed into a relentless, genocidal entity driven by his given objectives, lacking control and mercilessly killing anyone who stood in his way.

In *Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze*, Huggy strictly adheres to the objectives given by the Prototype. His task is to surveil and protect the Playtime Co. Factory, alerting others to the presence of any new intruders. Huggy takes a stealthy approach, stealthily stalking the player until finally confronting them with a lethal embrace.

In the Monster Tutorial for *Project: Playtime*, it is divulged that Huggy Wuggy plays a vital role as one of the selected toys assigned by the Prototype to provide sustenance to the smaller, more vulnerable experiments such as the Wuggies. These unfortunate creatures are fed with the remains of the Resource Extraction Specialists, employees hired by Leith Pierre, who have been sent into the monster-infested factory and its attractions in an ill-fated attempt to revive the Bigger Bodies Initiative.

## History

### Backstory

Huggy Wuggy was created in 1984 by Playtime Co., in which he became a roaring success and became one of the many signature toys of Playtime Co. A female counterpart was created in 1985, one year after Huggy's creation. In 1991, Playtime Co. started the Bigger Bodies Initiative, conducting numerous unethical and highly illegal experiments, one such example being Huggy Wuggy, who was known as Experiment 1170. His purpose was to function as part of the factory's security. On August 8th, 1995, he participated in the experiments' rampage against Playtime Co., killing many of the scientists and workers of the facility he was kept in. Huggy would go on to remain in the abandoned facility for the next decade until the eventual return of the player in 2005.

### Disappearance Incident

A restricted, edited tape explains an incident that occurred on June 18th, 1992. On that night, Experiment 1170 managed to escape the Playtime Co. factory through an open bay delivery door. Two staff members witnessed his swift escape and sounded the alarm, alerting the company to his escape. He travelled nearly a half-mile from the factory before a retrieval team was deployed. One employee, depicted as a male adult, was seen driving through the forest in an attempt to catch up with 1170 by driving to the railroad covering most of the land around the factory. He quickly stopped when he came across a creature wandering around in the forest. In an aggressive and swift manner, Huggy rammed himself straight into his car's windshield, frightening him and resulting in him attempting to shoot Huggy with tranquilizer darts. The man successfully shot Huggy, but died at his hands in the process.

After this attack, the security team began to block and surround 1170 at a railroad crossing. Catching up with Huggy, they successfully shot him with a tranquilizer dart in his left leg. Unfortunately, he escaped back into the forest. The security team then spread outwards using their increased search radius of four miles. However, their radios became unreliable as they were outside of effective zone.

An unknown security worker could be seen roaming the woods at 11:34 PM, encountering the fresh corpse of a deer. They then heard crunching and snaps before Huggy Wuggy appeared, staring down at them ominously. It is implied that this security worker was killed. More workers went missing, and it was confirmed that five were dead and six were still unaccounted for.

Four hours after the worker was attacked, their camera was seen still recording, as Huggy Wuggy can be heard shrieking in the woods. Seconds later, it is confirmed that Huggy was caught and brought back to the factory nearly four hours after his escape.

Leith Pierre wrote a document explaining how 1170 escaped the factory through the ventilation system, stating it was only blind luck that he was caught before being seen by anyone else. He concluded his document by saying that neither he nor the Innovation department were happy regarding what had happened that night. The VHS tape ends with Huggy Wuggy looking at the camera while standing in front of a suburban house, presumed to be his foster home. (This implies that the orphan soul inside Huggy was scared and wanted to return to a familiar location, though this theory hasn't been proven yet.)

### Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze

Huggy is first seen standing in his statue form in the Main Lobby. When the player's back is turned, Huggy will hold a key in his right hand but remain motionless. After taking the key and turning the power back on in the Power Room, the player returns to the Main Lobby, only to find that Huggy has disappeared.

Huggy goes on to stalk the player as they make their way through the facility. During this time, Huggy is briefly seen twice. The first time, his arm is seen sticking out of the door in the Make-A-Friend hallway after the Main Lobby. He is later seen in the Warehouse peeking from one of the vents when the player goes to the balcony a second time.

After the player manages to turn back on the toy-making machines and bypasses a door system using a toy made by the machines, Huggy reveals himself. Following the player into the facility's ventilation system, an intense chase ensues as Huggy attempts to catch and devour the player.

After managing to momentarily escape Huggy and landing on a brittle catwalk, the player pulls a crate onto the crumbling structure just as Huggy bursts from the vents, causing it to collapse. Though the player manages to land safely on another catwalk not far below, Huggy strikes the railing and proceeds to fall into the abyss on the facility, slamming into several pipelines and leaving behind dark red blood splatters.

### Chapter 2: Fly in a Web

Huggy does not make an appearance in this chapter, but is instead mentioned in the second tape discussing Experiment 1006, in which he was confirmed to be a different entity, as he went with the alias Experiment 1170 instead. He also is presumed to make a comeback later in the game, for inside the Water Treatment zone, a vent surrounded in blood and blue fur can be seen around a specific room.

### Chapter 3: Deep Sleep

Although it has never been confirmed, Huggy Wuggy has been teased numerous times to possibly make a return in *Chapter 3: Deep Sleep*. During a recent livestream where developers played with fans on *Project: Playtime*, a new render was created, featuring Huggy with a remastered model. The new model includes bloody features across his arms and mouth, which presumably indicates that he will return in this chapter with a bloody appearance, following his presumed death after the chase in the Conveyor Belt System, during *Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze*. The second gameplay trailer for Deep Sleep contains a distorted/nightmarish form of Huggy. It has yet to be confirmed if this is 1170 or just a hallucination from being exposed to the gas without the mask for too long.

A version of the Huggy Wuggy render excluding text.
## Abilities and Anatomy

While walking, Huggy has a stiff, yet rather lithe and oddly organic-looking gait. He is capable of breaking into incredible bursts of speed, using his long arms and legs to propel himself forward. While crawling through the vents after the player, Huggy is able to bend and contort his body to fit into tight spaces. Before the player drops the crate onto Huggy on the catwalk, he can be seen sprinting towards the player on all fours, much like an ape. Due to his sheer height of a whopping 18 feet tall, he possesses a size advantage against average humans. During the vent chase, Huggy is able to cut off and keep up with the player by navigating through the ventilation system.

In Log 08502, Huggy was briefly mentioned as Experiment 1170, and was dubbed the most optimal subject, as he possesses the ideal amount of intelligence and is obedient to the scientists working at the company.

## Trivia

* According to Micah Preciado, Huggy Wuggy was not actually inspired by any animal like a dog. Instead, he was unironically inspired by Sour Patch Kids.
* Huggy Wuggy's height stays inconsistent throughout chapters.
	+ During Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze; it was said that Huggy Wuggy was 17 feet, although after Chapter 2: Fly in a Web's release, it was said on Twitter that Huggy was 18 feet.
* In a trailer headshot close-up of Huggy, it seemed that behind his plastic "eyes" lie big shot, human-like eyes.
	+ However, this has been proven false, as it turns out the eyes assumed to have been viewed as a reflection of the floor.
* Huggy's lips and teeth move around when he attacks the player.
* Huggy is presumed an ex-human, as some writing in the Vent Chase says "This isn't my body."
	+ This, however, can be proven as false, as three different entities can be depicted talking to us throughout the Vent Chase via the conveyor walls.

* Huggy Wuggy is confirmed to be Kissy Missy's lover, based on her profile on the digital collectible website.
	+ “Better half” is a term for a spouse.
* An interesting fact to note is that one of the Huggy Wuggy toys in the Main Lobby seems to be sitting down with the front of the box broken or opened. This Huggy toy is seen with his eyes blacked out and a large grin showing his teeth.
* Huggy Wuggy is presumed to be the one who wrote the countless words within the walls during the Vent Chase.
	+ This is evident by the fact that some writing says "Starving" and "I'm so hungry." This is further proven by the fact that he seems to eat the player when he catches them.
		- This claim, however, can be false, as some of the writing is actually guiding the player through the vents instead of attempting to trick them.

## References

1. ↑ https://imgur.com/a/3wviSnz
2. ↑ https://discordapp.com/channels/916031007482851338/916031007482851341/1039709038444822648
3. ↑ https://discord.com/channels/916031007482851338/916031007482851341/939332622239301652
4. ↑ https://twitter.com/zaminationm/status/1528534614532403200?s=21&t=G2wsxLQNF\_Pjb23pwJG0wg