What is the Prototype's Secret?

Ever since the release of Poppy Playtime Chapter 4, this is the question that everyone has been asking.

And after several weeks and many whiteboards later, I believe I finally cracked it.

Hello, Internet!

Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's been clawing at the prototype's door begging for law.

Let me out.

But today I say, no more!

I'm barging through like the juggernaut to reveal to all of you the answer to the biggest mystery of Poppy Playtime Chapter 4.

In our previous episodes, we've been putting the prototype under a microscope, looking at where their plans started and how it's going to end.

But the thing that I've yet to address is why?

Why is the prototype doing all of this?

I've actually teased at it a few times in previous episodes, because the game has, as usual, been purposefully coy about the whole thing, simply referring to it as the secrets.

You know I'm still your best shot at cracking that secret.

The trouble is, knowing there IS a secret isn't really satisfying in and of itself.

No, we theorists need to know what this secret is.

Otherwise, we have no way of knowing what the prototype's true goal is,

why he was willing to work with Harley again despite being infamously tortured by him, and why our

traitor sidekick puppy is so important to everything. Well, dear theorists, I can say that

after weeks and weeks of research, digging into part of the game, no one ever expected us to look at,

I believe I figured out exactly what the secret is. And it not only answers everything I've

already mentioned, but it also, for the third time, gives us an explanation for the prototype's

true identity. Fair warning though, this may be my most insane theory to date. Yes, even more than Shadow is a genie.

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