Investigation #2 - Happy Pappy

There are rumors of the Doting Dan Huggable Bear at Happy Pappy Emporium housing organs instead of stuffing.

Investigative Summary

There’s a number of children in Poppy Valley who have hugged Happy Pappy Emporium’s “Doting Dan” Teddy Bear and claimed to feel the pulse of a living creature.

During a school field trip to the Emporium that goes wrong, Zaire would be one of the unfortunate people to see what happens when the rumored Teddy Bear housing flesh makes his move.

Item of Interest

2.1 Wacky Wonderland

Although Jimsonweed Alternative High School is known for it’s poor treatment of students and terrible learning conditions, it is still obligated to uphold the bare minimum to remain in the school system. One of these obligations is at least one school field trip for the students a year. This year’s field trip selected random students to participate in a visit to the famous Happy Pappy Toy Emporium in Northern Poppy Valley.

Zaire Jackson was one of the chosen to go against their own volition.

2.2 Doting Dan

With the trip coming to an end, many of the Jimsonweed staff escorted and loaded the students back onto the school bus. However, many of the delinquent students did not get the message, as the bus left without them and the Emporium closed for the night. The students were abandoned and left to wander until the doors reopened in the morning.

Zaire took it upon herself to destroy a lot of the emporium’s inventory to relieve some anger. It was near the Doting Dan huggable stuffed bear that she found the most satisfying things to destroy, as many of the dolls had annoying voice lines and silencing them was very enjoyable to her.

After destroying all dolls in sight, she could still faintly hear one repeating the phrase “Love Me”, which was not a typical voice line added to the dolls.

2.3 Bear Hug

With the sudden sound of quickened stomps, the live-sized huggable Doting Dan leaps onto Zaire. Though it was once filled with soft stuffing, sharpened teeth and claws now protruded out of the body, ripping apart it’s own woven exterior. The bear’s distorted soundboard repeated the phrase “Love Me” endlessly while progressively getting more aggressive.

The bear continuously attempted to wrap itself around Zaire, clawing through her skin while adjusting it’s grip for a better hug. The more Zaire resisted the hug, the more the cuddly bear increased the sharpness of its teeth and speed of its movement.

2.4 Burning Passion

With Doting Dan’s strength increasing the more she resisted his hug, Zaire decided to cave in and hug the bear back. Though she was being shredded and crushed by the hug itself, the aggressive nature of Doting Dan seemed to die down as long as she held her arms around his body.

Although the problem was temporally solved, the position irritated her and she knew she wouldn’t be capable of holding it all night. She scanned the room and was able to spot a cabinet of Happy Pappy branded hairspray. While still holding on to Doting Dan, Zaire walked him over to the cabinet and used his head to smash through the case, taking that brief moment of separation to grab an aerosol can though the glass and combine it with a spare lighter to set Dan ablaze.

The flame engulfed Dan, exposing his fleshy interior and oversized heart as he struggled to move. With the last of his strength, the bear removed a hand-shaped neckless from its unburned pocket and lifted it towards Zaire. The bear’s final voice-line played “Thank you” as the rest of its body was charred.

Using the hand-shaped necklace and the additional ones found by other stranded students, the group was able to make it out of the building with 0 casualties.