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| “ | I took this job because I wanted to help change kids' lives for the better. Of course these procedures are far from ideal; I cried like a baby when I read them. But I started looking past the here and now, started looking down the road a bit. That's when it clicked. What your researchers can do down here will someday help a lot of people out there, including so so many kids. That's a bigger and better change than I could ever have hoped to make. That's a change I want to help make. | „ |
| ~ Stella's response to learning about the Bigger Bodies Initiative. |
Stella Greyber is a supporting antagonist in the Poppy Playtime franchise.
She was a higher-up at Playtime Co. and the Head of Playcare. She later decided to actively participate in the companies Bigger Bodies Initiative which resulted in various orphans being turned into toys with her justification being that it was for the greater good.
She is voiced by Nola Klop who also voiced V from Murder Drones.
Personality[]
Stella is represented as a bubbly, fun-loving and almost childlike individual. She joined Playtime Co. out of her belief that nobody ever truly grows up and Is engrossed in the notion that childhood feels eternal and that no one ever really feels like an adult. She wanted to help children have joyful childhoods and to reclaim the innocence she once had as a young child. This ambition allowed her to climb the corporate ladder and become a Higher-Up as the Head of Playcare.
Despite her warm and compassionate demeanor, she actively participated in the Bigger Bodies Initiative, as demonstrated by the Cross-Department and Employee Instructions, and was therefore aware of the company's brutal experimentation and mistreatment of Playcare's orphans. This reveals a much darker side to her, which paradoxically goes against the reason she joined Playtime Co. in the first place—to provide kids a happy childhood—as she is willing to allow orphans to be transformed into living toys in order to keep her job. She rationalizes this by believing the scientific breakthroughs in the initiative would save many more lives than those taken as.
Unlike Pierre (who is an amoral businessman) and Sawyer (who is an egotistical, ruthless scientist), she seems to show remorse for her actions. As shown when she seems apologetic due to being unable to help a couple, the Hartmann's, adopt an orphan named Jeremy due to Jeremy being used as a test subject. She was also shown to be horrified that Leith killed all the witnesses to the theater incident just to protect the company and questioned it what they did was necessary only for her to back down when Leith subtly threatened her. Despite being willing to take part in the experiments, she still cares about the kids and is upset at Sawyer for not caring about them.
Biography[]
While not much is known about Stella’s past she claims that during her childhood she loved playing with toys and for that reason she applied for a job at the Playtime Co toy factory. During her interview she weirdly talked about her obsession with youth and how no one truly feels like an adult. Despite her unorthodox behavior she was hired by the company. Sometime afterwards she would climb up the corporate latter and become the head of Playtime CO's onsite orphanage Playcare essentially one of the key higher-ups to the factory. At some point she would contacted by a couple called the Hartman's who wished to adopt a child named Jeremy. However when Stella was about to fill out the paperwork she saw that Jeremy was unavailable and was going through "testing" much to her confusion. The Hartmann's grew angry with Stella for not knowing about the situation or telling them to which she vehemently apologized. Eventually she would be told by the company CEO Leith Pierre about the dark truth: The Bigger Bodies Initiative where the orphans would be transformed into toys for the company to use as slaves. Stella was heartbroken about the truth but eventually began to believe that the project could do real good for humanity in the long run. She then actively participated in it having the orphans' cognitive and physical functions tested in the Game Station and even acted as the announcer for the activities. She would be tasked with sorting through the testing documents to determine which child was eligible for the initiative. She also supervised the introduction of Experiment 1188: CatNap's introduction as the guardian Playcare. In 1993 a horrific incident occurred at the Playtime Co theater which resulted in over sixty deaths. Any and witnesses to the incident had to be killed to protect the company's reputation and avoid legal repercussions. Stella was horrified at the incident and believed that killing those poor people was wrong but Leith told her they did what they "had to" which Stella reluctantly agrees. It is soon discovered that the culprit behind the incident was none other than the head of The Bigger Bodies Initiative; Dr. Harley Sawyer. Stella, Leith and the head of research Eddie M.N. Ritterman discuss the aftermath of the incident and begin to agree that Sawyer needed to be removed. Stella claims that Sawyer never listens to her when she tries to set limits with him regarding contact with the kids at Playcare much to her disturbance. However, Leith comes up with a solution and turns Sawyer into an experiment himself to use him as a slave and gain full control of him. In 1995, the experiments would grow tired of the abuse they suffered in the last half decade and the Prototype, the very first experiment would orchestrate the Hour of Joy, resulting in the deaths of almost every single worker in the factory, save for Leith Pierre and another couple unnamed employees. It's unknown if Stella was killed during the incident or not, leaving her fate as of now ambiguous.
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Trivia[]
- It's still unknown what happened to her, but she is implied to be one of the few staff members who either managed to survive The Hour of Joy and redeemed herself or died in said event.
- There is a theory that she is the identity of The Protagonist. This would explain why the player was welcomed back to Playcare in the nightmare sequence.
- However in Chapter 4, Harley Sawyer does not seem to recognize the player, having never seen them before. This implies that The Protagonist was a low-ranking employee.
- Stella speaks with a Dutch accent which is the natural speaking voice of her actor Nola Klop. With this in mind it's possible Stella may be of European descent.
- She was widely theorized to be Poppy Playtime in the present, given her desire to live forever and similar personality traits, along with both of them being voiced by Nola Klop. However it was contradicted by the fact that she was still around after Poppy was created. To further debunk this, an untitled VHS tape in Safe Haven reveals Poppy to be the daughter of Elliot Ludwig.
- A crudely made statue of her and Elliot were used as placeholders in a prototype build of the Playcare. Though, they had been scrapped in the final game.
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