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''Happy Sun Daycare'' is a {{Creepypasta}} written by Chelsea.adams.524. The pasta centers around the titular daycare, which has been abandoned for several years. When the narrator, a reporter for an online news blog, decides to interview former employees and students that attended Happy Sun Daycare, he soon discovers some very dark secrets about it.
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''Happy Sun Daycare'' is a {{Creepypasta}} written by Chelsea.adams.524. The pasta centers around the titular daycare, which has been abandoned for several years. When the narrator, a reporter for an [[CurrentEventsBlog online news blog, blog]], decides to interview former employees and students that who attended Happy Sun Daycare, he soon discovers some very dark secrets about it.
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''Happy Sun Daycare'' is a {{Creepypasta}} written by Chelsea.adams.524. The pasta centers around the titular daycare, which has been abandoned for several years. When the narrator, a reporter for an online news blog, decides to interview former employees and students that attended Happy Sun Daycare, he soon discovers some very dark secrets about it.
Can be read [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Happy_Sun_Daycare here.]]
'''Note:''' Given that ''Happy Sun Daycare'' is a short story involving some big plot twists and even some of the trope names below can spoil these twists, it's recommended you avoid reading further if you don't want to be spoiled.
!Tropes associated with Happy Sun Daycare:
* AbandonedArea: The story centers around an abandoned daycare, which the narrator visits as part of their research.
* AdultsAreUseless: Not implicitly stated, but it's implied that the kids' parents never suspected anything was happening.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Mr. Smith has no idea that [[spoiler:he's the one who had been attacking all those children due to his Lycanthropy.]]
* AngryGuardDog: One is used by the daycare staff to terrorize unruly children. To make matters worse, it's actually [[spoiler:the janitor, who has no idea that he's a werewolf.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Mr. Smith is a nice guy. Too bad [[spoiler:he's also a werewolf.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. The only character who is given a physical description is the dog, who is stated to be rather ugly. However, [[spoiler:The dog is actually Mr. Smith, who has no idea he's a werewolf.]] Plus, the dog isn't evil, just frightened and acting out of instinct.
* CrustyCaretaker: Mr. Smith. Subverted in that he's actually a nice guy. However, the rest of the staff are terrified of him. They have good reason to fear him, though. Turns out his apparent narcolepsy is actually [[spoiler:lycanthropy]] and he has to take his aunt's herbal tea to keep from [[spoiler:transforming into a werewolf.]]
* DaycareNightmare: To say the daycare was ''not'' a good place for children would be an understatement. It's also implied not to be a very safe place for adults either [[spoiler:what with a werewolf on the loose and all.]]
* DownerEnding: Mr. Smith is still alive. In other words [[spoiler:there's still a werewolf on the loose.]] Even worse is that the daycare staff got away with all the terror they caused to the children. In addition, while none of the children were seriously injured or killed, some were bitten, so unless [[spoiler:lycanthropy]] does not spread through bites in this universe like it does in most media, several of the children were [[spoiler:cursed as well]]. At least Mr. Smith is a nice guy despite his [[spoiler:Lycanthropy]] and appears to be living a normal peaceful life.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The staff at a daycare taking children into a dark room, doing horrible things to them and telling them this is "punishment" for bad behaviour? With recent allegations of daycare staff abusing the children under their care, the parallels are obvious (and according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod, intentional).
* FangsAreEvil: The dog that terrorizes the children is said to have large sharp teeth.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are plenty of clues hidden throughout the story that lead up to TheReveal at the end.
** In a couple of instances, it's mentioned that traps were set each night. Now, why would anyone set traps unless they knew there was some sort of animal about? Also, it's indicated, though never explicitly stated, that the traps may be to keep something ''in'' rather than out.
** Scott mentions in his interview that the kids he saw exiting the "Grey Door Room" were clearly traumatized by something.
** During Alice's interview, she points out that the dog had "glowing yellow eyes".
** Perhaps the biggest clues before the reveal are during Mr. Smith's corresponding letters to the narrator. Funny how a man with apparent Narcolepsy and sleepwalking habits just conveniently happens to find himself in a room where a supposed vicious dog dwells when his aunt "runs out" of the herbal tea needed to keep his condition in check, isn't it? It's almost as if he's [[spoiler:a werewolf]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Mr. Smith tells the narrator that he got along fine with the students at the daycare. This makes the reveal that [[spoiler:he's a werewolf that was used to terrorize the children]] all the more horrifying.
* FromBadToWorse: Children with mysterious bites and scratches is bad enough. Then the narrator finds out about the "Gray Door Room" where misbehaving children are sent to be punished. He interviews one of the former students who says that she was attacked by a large ugly dog. And, at the end [[spoiler:the narrator finds out that the children were attacked by a werewolf.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: The first person the narrator interviews says that she heard what sounded like children screaming and the snarls of a dog. It's what causes him to want to investigate the daycare's past further.
* HumansAreBastards / HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler:It's no secret this is a really common theme in the [[Literature/SinceTheIncident author]]'s [[Fanfic/ABrightFlash stories]]. The staff of the daycare resorted to abusing and terrorizing unruly children in any way they saw fit and often threw them in the Grey Door Room to punish them if they stepped out of line, with a vicious dog inside it that would attack them and leave them wounded and traumatized. And it gets worse - turns out the dog was a werewolf who was formerly the daycare's janitor, Mr. Smith. He wasn't just used to punish the children, he and his lycanthropy were ''exploited against his will'' by the staff of the daycare. You'd think that the staff would understand his condition and try to help out even with the fact he's no longer a human being, but they instead resorted to imprisoning him in the Grey Door Room whenever he transformed - scared, alone and hungry in the darkness - without a sliver of empathy for him nor that of the children whom they left in the room. You wouldn't blame him for acting on instinct when with another scared child too, wouldn't you? It's also implied Mr. Smith is unaware of the harm he caused to the children as a werewolf, and there's the possibility that those children could have been infected from his bites and scratches. Imagine the amounts of guilt he would feel knowing he unintentionally harmed so many young people and possibly turned them into ''something else'' just because of a group of assholes.]]
* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: [[spoiler: The narrator finds a distinctive set of footprints in the dirt at the end of the story and concludes they are definitely from that of some sort of canine. He's then horrified when he realizes it was walking on two legs.]]
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: [[spoiler:Mr Smith doesn't notice when he changes into a werewolf. He assumes that it's narcolepsy.]]
* IronicName: The daycare was anything ''but'' happy and sunny.
* KarmaHoudini: Those of the Happy Sun Daycare staff who [[spoiler:punished these children by trapping them with a werewolf]] are never mentioned getting their comeuppance.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The dog [[spoiler: or rather, werewolf]] in the story does viciously attack the children, but its behavior is more out of animal instinct and fear than any sort of malevolent thought. [[spoiler: It's also indicated that [[HumansAreBastards the werewolf was oblivious to the fact it was exploited by the daycare's faculty as a form of brutally traumatizing discipline for the children attending it.]]]]
* NotUsingTheZWord: Not once is the word [[spoiler:werewolf]] ever mentioned in the story. The monster is always referred to as either a "dog" or "canine". {{Justified|Trope}} in that the narrator doesn't learn that the monster ''is'' anything more than a normal dog until the very last line of the story.
* ObliviouslyEvil: The dog that terrorizes the children in the story. It's actually [[spoiler:the janitor, who has no idea that he's a werewolf.]]
* OhCrap: The narrator's realization at the end that the daycare was harboring a [[spoiler:werewolf]] and not a dog to use to terrorize unruly children.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: From what is gathered, [[spoiler: werewolves in this universe behave more like real wolves as opposed to the always violent and malicious creatures in most depictions]]. They also don't need a [[spoiler: full moon to transform, instead passing out at random moments in a case similar to narcolepsy and transforming while doing so, which can even happen during the daytime]]. A special tea can be made to prevent [[spoiler: the transformation]].
* PrimalFear: Being attacked by a large vicious canine.
* RedHerring: It's suggested a few times in the story that the dog might just be a person in a costume. However, it's pretty clear throughout the story (even before TheReveal) that this certainly is not the case. The most obvious being that it would be very unlikely, if not outright impossible, for someone in a cheap costume to inflict the types of scratches and bites on the children.
* ReluctantMonster: Mr. Smith, who happens to be a nice guy who has no idea he's [[spoiler:a werewolf used to terrorize children. The attacks imply his behavior is more that of a confused wild animal rather than anything malicious]].
* TheReveal: The ending of the pasta reveals that the animal attacking the children wasn't a dog but a [[spoiler:werewolf.]]
-->[[spoiler:"Since when do dogs walk on two legs?"]]
* {{Room 101}}: The "Gray Door Room" which particularly ill-behaved children were sent as punishment.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The author stated that the story was written after seeing a report in the news about several staff at a daycare being arrested for physically punishing unruly children.
* ShoutOut: Mr. Smith's aunt makes him a bitter-tasting tea that keeps his narcolepsy ([[spoiler:actually his lycanthropy]]) in check, [[spoiler:similar to [[Literature/HarryPotter the Wolfsbane Potion]]]].
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Mr. Smith believes he has this habit due to him somehow waking up in the "Grey Door Room" at times. In reality [[spoiler:he's actually transformed into a werewolf at this point and mistakes this for being in a dream state.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Mr. Smith, due to him having Lycanthropy.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Played with. On the one hand, [[spoiler:Mr. Smith never mentioned he did any particular misdeeds when he was a teenager. On the other hand, he is a literal monster since he first became a werewolf during his teenage years.]]
* TragicMonster: The supposed dog is actually [[spoiler: Mr. Smith, who happens to be a werewolf, and his wolf form is an innocent wild animal that kept on being thrown into a pen with a scared child and panicking.]]
%%* TransformationCauses See TheUnreveal below.
* TheUnreveal: It's never stated how [[spoiler:Mr. Smith became a werewolf.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Mr. Smith [[spoiler:is a werewolf, and during his transformation, he is used to punish misbehaving children at the daycare]].
* WerewolfThemeNaming: [[spoiler:Possibly averted. The name "Mr. Smith" doesn't fit the trope, but the narrator uses fake names for everyone in the story to protect their privacy, so his real name still might]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:''"Since when do dogs walk on two legs?"'']]
* WouldHurtAChild: Several children were bitten or scratched by the "dog".
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Can be read [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Happy_Sun_Daycare here.]]
'''Note:''' Given that ''Happy Sun Daycare'' is a short story involving some big plot twists and even some of the trope names below can spoil these twists, it's recommended you avoid reading further if you don't want to be spoiled.
!Tropes associated with Happy Sun Daycare:
* AbandonedArea: The story centers around an abandoned daycare, which the narrator visits as part of their research.
* AdultsAreUseless: Not implicitly stated, but it's implied that the kids' parents never suspected anything was happening.
* AlternateIdentityAmnesia: Mr. Smith has no idea that [[spoiler:he's the one who had been attacking all those children due to his Lycanthropy.]]
* AngryGuardDog: One is used by the daycare staff to terrorize unruly children. To make matters worse, it's actually [[spoiler:the janitor, who has no idea that he's a werewolf.]]
* BadPowersGoodPeople: Mr. Smith is a nice guy. Too bad [[spoiler:he's also a werewolf.]]
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Subverted. The only character who is given a physical description is the dog, who is stated to be rather ugly. However, [[spoiler:The dog is actually Mr. Smith, who has no idea he's a werewolf.]] Plus, the dog isn't evil, just frightened and acting out of instinct.
* CrustyCaretaker: Mr. Smith. Subverted in that he's actually a nice guy. However, the rest of the staff are terrified of him. They have good reason to fear him, though. Turns out his apparent narcolepsy is actually [[spoiler:lycanthropy]] and he has to take his aunt's herbal tea to keep from [[spoiler:transforming into a werewolf.]]
* DaycareNightmare: To say the daycare was ''not'' a good place for children would be an understatement. It's also implied not to be a very safe place for adults either [[spoiler:what with a werewolf on the loose and all.]]
* DownerEnding: Mr. Smith is still alive. In other words [[spoiler:there's still a werewolf on the loose.]] Even worse is that the daycare staff got away with all the terror they caused to the children. In addition, while none of the children were seriously injured or killed, some were bitten, so unless [[spoiler:lycanthropy]] does not spread through bites in this universe like it does in most media, several of the children were [[spoiler:cursed as well]]. At least Mr. Smith is a nice guy despite his [[spoiler:Lycanthropy]] and appears to be living a normal peaceful life.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The staff at a daycare taking children into a dark room, doing horrible things to them and telling them this is "punishment" for bad behaviour? With recent allegations of daycare staff abusing the children under their care, the parallels are obvious (and according to [[invoked]]WordOfGod, intentional).
* FangsAreEvil: The dog that terrorizes the children is said to have large sharp teeth.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: There are plenty of clues hidden throughout the story that lead up to TheReveal at the end.
** In a couple of instances, it's mentioned that traps were set each night. Now, why would anyone set traps unless they knew there was some sort of animal about? Also, it's indicated, though never explicitly stated, that the traps may be to keep something ''in'' rather than out.
** Scott mentions in his interview that the kids he saw exiting the "Grey Door Room" were clearly traumatized by something.
** During Alice's interview, she points out that the dog had "glowing yellow eyes".
** Perhaps the biggest clues before the reveal are during Mr. Smith's corresponding letters to the narrator. Funny how a man with apparent Narcolepsy and sleepwalking habits just conveniently happens to find himself in a room where a supposed vicious dog dwells when his aunt "runs out" of the herbal tea needed to keep his condition in check, isn't it? It's almost as if he's [[spoiler:a werewolf]].
* FriendToAllChildren: Mr. Smith tells the narrator that he got along fine with the students at the daycare. This makes the reveal that [[spoiler:he's a werewolf that was used to terrorize the children]] all the more horrifying.
* FromBadToWorse: Children with mysterious bites and scratches is bad enough. Then the narrator finds out about the "Gray Door Room" where misbehaving children are sent to be punished. He interviews one of the former students who says that she was attacked by a large ugly dog. And, at the end [[spoiler:the narrator finds out that the children were attacked by a werewolf.]]
* HellIsThatNoise: The first person the narrator interviews says that she heard what sounded like children screaming and the snarls of a dog. It's what causes him to want to investigate the daycare's past further.
* HumansAreBastards / HumansAreTheRealMonsters: [[spoiler:It's no secret this is a really common theme in the [[Literature/SinceTheIncident author]]'s [[Fanfic/ABrightFlash stories]]. The staff of the daycare resorted to abusing and terrorizing unruly children in any way they saw fit and often threw them in the Grey Door Room to punish them if they stepped out of line, with a vicious dog inside it that would attack them and leave them wounded and traumatized. And it gets worse - turns out the dog was a werewolf who was formerly the daycare's janitor, Mr. Smith. He wasn't just used to punish the children, he and his lycanthropy were ''exploited against his will'' by the staff of the daycare. You'd think that the staff would understand his condition and try to help out even with the fact he's no longer a human being, but they instead resorted to imprisoning him in the Grey Door Room whenever he transformed - scared, alone and hungry in the darkness - without a sliver of empathy for him nor that of the children whom they left in the room. You wouldn't blame him for acting on instinct when with another scared child too, wouldn't you? It's also implied Mr. Smith is unaware of the harm he caused to the children as a werewolf, and there's the possibility that those children could have been infected from his bites and scratches. Imagine the amounts of guilt he would feel knowing he unintentionally harmed so many young people and possibly turned them into ''something else'' just because of a group of assholes.]]
* HumanToWerewolfFootprints: [[spoiler: The narrator finds a distinctive set of footprints in the dirt at the end of the story and concludes they are definitely from that of some sort of canine. He's then horrified when he realizes it was walking on two legs.]]
* InvoluntaryShapeshifter: [[spoiler:Mr Smith doesn't notice when he changes into a werewolf. He assumes that it's narcolepsy.]]
* IronicName: The daycare was anything ''but'' happy and sunny.
* KarmaHoudini: Those of the Happy Sun Daycare staff who [[spoiler:punished these children by trapping them with a werewolf]] are never mentioned getting their comeuppance.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The dog [[spoiler: or rather, werewolf]] in the story does viciously attack the children, but its behavior is more out of animal instinct and fear than any sort of malevolent thought. [[spoiler: It's also indicated that [[HumansAreBastards the werewolf was oblivious to the fact it was exploited by the daycare's faculty as a form of brutally traumatizing discipline for the children attending it.]]]]
* NotUsingTheZWord: Not once is the word [[spoiler:werewolf]] ever mentioned in the story. The monster is always referred to as either a "dog" or "canine". {{Justified|Trope}} in that the narrator doesn't learn that the monster ''is'' anything more than a normal dog until the very last line of the story.
* ObliviouslyEvil: The dog that terrorizes the children in the story. It's actually [[spoiler:the janitor, who has no idea that he's a werewolf.]]
* OhCrap: The narrator's realization at the end that the daycare was harboring a [[spoiler:werewolf]] and not a dog to use to terrorize unruly children.
* OurWerewolvesAreDifferent: From what is gathered, [[spoiler: werewolves in this universe behave more like real wolves as opposed to the always violent and malicious creatures in most depictions]]. They also don't need a [[spoiler: full moon to transform, instead passing out at random moments in a case similar to narcolepsy and transforming while doing so, which can even happen during the daytime]]. A special tea can be made to prevent [[spoiler: the transformation]].
* PrimalFear: Being attacked by a large vicious canine.
* RedHerring: It's suggested a few times in the story that the dog might just be a person in a costume. However, it's pretty clear throughout the story (even before TheReveal) that this certainly is not the case. The most obvious being that it would be very unlikely, if not outright impossible, for someone in a cheap costume to inflict the types of scratches and bites on the children.
* ReluctantMonster: Mr. Smith, who happens to be a nice guy who has no idea he's [[spoiler:a werewolf used to terrorize children. The attacks imply his behavior is more that of a confused wild animal rather than anything malicious]].
* TheReveal: The ending of the pasta reveals that the animal attacking the children wasn't a dog but a [[spoiler:werewolf.]]
-->[[spoiler:"Since when do dogs walk on two legs?"]]
* {{Room 101}}: The "Gray Door Room" which particularly ill-behaved children were sent as punishment.
* RippedFromTheHeadlines: The author stated that the story was written after seeing a report in the news about several staff at a daycare being arrested for physically punishing unruly children.
* ShoutOut: Mr. Smith's aunt makes him a bitter-tasting tea that keeps his narcolepsy ([[spoiler:actually his lycanthropy]]) in check, [[spoiler:similar to [[Literature/HarryPotter the Wolfsbane Potion]]]].
* {{Sleepwalking}}: Mr. Smith believes he has this habit due to him somehow waking up in the "Grey Door Room" at times. In reality [[spoiler:he's actually transformed into a werewolf at this point and mistakes this for being in a dream state.]]
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: [[spoiler:Mr. Smith, due to him having Lycanthropy.]]
* TeensAreMonsters: Played with. On the one hand, [[spoiler:Mr. Smith never mentioned he did any particular misdeeds when he was a teenager. On the other hand, he is a literal monster since he first became a werewolf during his teenage years.]]
* TragicMonster: The supposed dog is actually [[spoiler: Mr. Smith, who happens to be a werewolf, and his wolf form is an innocent wild animal that kept on being thrown into a pen with a scared child and panicking.]]
%%* TransformationCauses See TheUnreveal below.
* TheUnreveal: It's never stated how [[spoiler:Mr. Smith became a werewolf.]]
* UnwittingPawn: Mr. Smith [[spoiler:is a werewolf, and during his transformation, he is used to punish misbehaving children at the daycare]].
* WerewolfThemeNaming: [[spoiler:Possibly averted. The name "Mr. Smith" doesn't fit the trope, but the narrator uses fake names for everyone in the story to protect their privacy, so his real name still might]].
* WhamLine: [[spoiler:''"Since when do dogs walk on two legs?"'']]
* WouldHurtAChild: Several children were bitten or scratched by the "dog".
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