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* AmbiguousGender: Haze and Seal from ''“The Witch's Puppets”'' look very androgynous and use neutral pronouns. The flashbacks to their childhood imply they are female though.

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* AmbiguousGender: Haze and Seal from ''“The Witch's Puppets”'' look very androgynous and use neutral pronouns. The flashbacks to their childhood imply they are biologically female though.
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A {{Sequel}}, ''Living Playground: The Witch's Puppets'', was [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7597/ released]] on November 12th, 2018. Tony, Pablo, and Octavio are trapped in another dimension after a snail hunt goes wrong. While finding their way out, they meet two mysterious witches that might be behind this strange world.

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A {{Sequel}}, ''Living Playground: The Witch's Puppets'', was [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7597/ released]] on November 12th, 2018. Tony, Pablo, and Octavio are trapped in another dimension after a snail hunt goes wrong. While finding their way out, they meet two mysterious witches that might be behind the origins of this strange world.
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A {{Sequel}}, ''Living Playground: The Witch's Puppets'', was [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7597/ released]] on November 12th, 2018. Tony, Pablo, and Octavio are once again caught up in some truly strange events. Now, however, they are accompanied by two bizarre witches, Haze and Seal, whose origin and motivation are mysterious at first.

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A {{Sequel}}, ''Living Playground: The Witch's Puppets'', was [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7597/ released]] on November 12th, 2018. Tony, Pablo, and Octavio are once again caught up trapped in some truly strange events. Now, however, another dimension after a snail hunt goes wrong. While finding their way out, they are accompanied by meet two bizarre witches, Haze and Seal, whose origin and motivation are mysterious at first.
witches that might be behind this strange world.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seal epitomises this to a truly despicable degree, [[AmbiguousGender they]] act bubbly and cheerful but still laughed every time the playground children got into trouble. When Haze befriended more people than them in the witch school, Seal lied to Haze that said friends spoke bad things about them and framed said friends for what they did. However, everyone eventually find out the truth, and when Seal's charade fails to work on them again, they quickly drop the "sheep's clothing" part and just tries to kill the playground children and guilt-trip Haze again.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seal epitomises this to a truly despicable degree, [[AmbiguousGender they]] act bubbly and cheerful friendly but still laughed every time the playground children got into trouble. When Haze befriended more people than them in the witch school, Seal lied to Haze that said friends spoke bad things about them and framed said friends for what they did. However, everyone eventually find out the truth, and when Seal's charade fails to work on them again, they quickly drop the "sheep's clothing" part and just tries to kill the playground children and guilt-trip Haze again.

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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seal epitomises this to a truly despicable degree, [[AmbigousGender they]] act bubbly and cheerful but still laughed every time the playground children got into trouble. When Haze befriended more people than them in the witch school, Seal lied to Haze that said friends spoke bad things about them and framed said friends for what they did. However, everyone eventually find out the truth, and when Seal's charade fails to work on them again, they quickly drop the "sheep's clothing" part and just tries to kill the playground children and guilt-trip Haze again.

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** Don't befriend Haze unless you want to be on the receiving end of Seal's lies and gossips.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seal epitomises this to a truly despicable degree, [[AmbigousGender [[AmbiguousGender they]] act bubbly and cheerful but still laughed every time the playground children got into trouble. When Haze befriended more people than them in the witch school, Seal lied to Haze that said friends spoke bad things about them and framed said friends for what they did. However, everyone eventually find out the truth, and when Seal's charade fails to work on them again, they quickly drop the "sheep's clothing" part and just tries to kill the playground children and guilt-trip Haze again.


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* GreenEyedMonster: Seal wants to have Haze all for themself, so much that they're willing to lie and gossip so that Haze won't have more friends.


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* ShrinkingViolet: Haze is this towards Seal, to the point they go along with whatever Seal wants, on the excuse that they're childhood friends. It's only after Haze realizes how much of a toxic friend Seal is that Haze learns to stand up for themself.

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* AmbiguousGender: The sequel's witches, Haze and Seal.

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* AmbiguousGender: The sequel's witches, Haze and Seal.Seal from ''“The Witch's Puppets”'' look very androgynous and use neutral pronouns. The flashbacks to their childhood imply they are female though.



* BerserkButton: In ''“The Witch's Puppets”'' the playground children are quite still affected by the incident with the Owner in the first game, to the point they react badly if someone asks if they have parents.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Seal epitomises this to a truly despicable degree, [[AmbigousGender they]] act bubbly and cheerful but still laughed every time the playground children got into trouble. When Haze befriended more people than them in the witch school, Seal lied to Haze that said friends spoke bad things about them and framed said friends for what they did. However, everyone eventually find out the truth, and when Seal's charade fails to work on them again, they quickly drop the "sheep's clothing" part and just tries to kill the playground children and guilt-trip Haze again.



* DyingAsYourself: Played for drama and creepiness. If you reached a bad end and the children are caught by the Owner, [[spoiler: their bodies immediately turn back into playground equipment before dying. For some reason, in the “A Patient Mother” ending, Octavio maintains his human form even though his head was ripped off from his body by the Owner.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: The playground children after they find out that they’re the result of the Owner’s wish to have children and rejected them upon finding they were humanoid toys. Pablo has a full FreakOut and it takes Tony giving a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan at him.]]

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* DyingAsYourself: Played for drama FeatheredFiend: The evil geese in ''“The Witch's Puppets”''.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The story of “The Willful Child”, in which a girl dies of illness
and creepiness. If you reached a bad end and neglect because she didn’t live to her mother’s expectations. After she died, the children are caught by the Owner, corpse’s arms rose up out of her grave so her mother cut them up out of annoyance. [[spoiler: their bodies immediately turn back into That's because the Owner wants to kill the playground equipment before dying. For some reason, in the “A Patient Mother” ending, Octavio maintains his human form even though his head was ripped off from his body by the Owner.children, rejecting them as offsprings.]]
** In ''“The Witch's Puppets”'' there's the story of “Vasilisa the Selfish”, a tale about a girl with no empathy for her deceased mother who cares only about herself. [[spoiler: At the end of the game it's revealed Seal is a ManipulativeBitch and their parents are divorced.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: The playground children after they find out that they’re the result of the Owner’s wish to have children and rejected them upon finding they were humanoid toys. wish. Especially Pablo, who almost goes catatonic with despair.]]
* HiddenDepths:
Pablo has comes across as a full FreakOut brat with a big ego. But he's also the most affected by the Owner's rejection. Also, Octavio is more observant than it seems, quickly noticing Haze and it takes Tony giving Seal are no normal humans and that the latter is a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan at him.]]BitchInSheepsClothing.



* JackassGenie: [[spoiler: The witch, who apparently tricked the Owner. She wanted to have children, but what she got in the end was the playground children. Tony is quick to call her out on this, stating that it’s not the witch’s fault that things didn’t go how she wanted. And the witch had good intentions herself.]]
* {{Jerkass}}: The Owner. Not only she traps the playground children in her factory in order to kill them, but she rejects their mere existence [[spoiler:(even though they’re her children) simply because they’re not human.]] She’s also absolutely childish in insulting the children, threatening them, and expecting them to just take it. She is obviously insane.
** JerkassWoobie: In the end, she's simply a victim of the witch (who had good intentions, but failed because of her BlueAndOrangeMorality). [[spoiler: Having sentient humanoid toys as children sent her over the edge.]]

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* ItsAllMyFault: In ''“The Witch's Puppets”'', Haze constantly apologizes to the playground children for them being trapped in the witches's mindscape.
* JackassGenie: [[spoiler: The witch, who apparently tricked the Owner. She wanted to have children, but what she got in the end was the playground children. Tony is quick to call her out on this, stating that it’s not the witch’s fault that things didn’t go how she wanted. And the witch had good intentions herself.]]\n* {{Jerkass}}: The Owner. Not only she traps the playground children in her factory in order to kill them, but she rejects their mere existence [[spoiler:(even though they’re her children) simply because they’re not human.]] She’s also absolutely childish in insulting the children, threatening them, and expecting them to just take it. She is obviously insane.\n** JerkassWoobie: In the end, she's simply a victim of the witch (who had good intentions, but failed because of her BlueAndOrangeMorality). [[spoiler: Having sentient humanoid toys as children sent her over the edge.]]



* NiceGirl: Tony is the kindest of the playground children.



* OffingTheOffspring: The story of “The Willful Child”. A girl dies of illness and neglect, because she didn’t live to her mother’s expectations. After she died, the corpse’s arms rose up out of her grave. The mother decides to solve this by butchering the girl’s corpse.
** Also what [[spoiler:the Owner wants to do with the playground children. In the Bad Endings “Punishment” and “A Patient Mother” she succeeds.]]

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* OffingTheOffspring: The story of “The Willful Child”. A girl dies of illness and neglect, because she didn’t live to her mother’s expectations. After she died, [[spoiler:What the corpse’s arms rose up out of her grave. The mother decides to solve this by butchering the girl’s corpse.
** Also what [[spoiler:the
Owner wants to do with the playground children. In the Bad Endings bad endings “Punishment” and “A Patient Mother” she succeeds.]]


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* SmallNameBigEgo: Pablo.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Octavio accidentally sets the events of the game because he wanted to go snail hunting. It happens again in ''“The Witch's Puppets”''.
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The ''Living Playground'' series of [[FreewareGames freeware]] VideoGame/RPGMaker games is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.

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The ''Living Playground'' series of [[FreewareGames freeware]] VideoGame/RPGMaker UsefulNotes/RPGMaker games is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The game ends with the playground children going on another snail-hunt once again.]] Averted in the 2018 remake, when [[spoiler: Pablo calls out Octavio for this, saying that they've got enough adventure for one day.]]

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The game ends with the playground children going on another snail-hunt once again.]] Averted in the 2018 remake, when [[spoiler: Pablo calls out Octavio for this, saying that they've got enough adventure for one day.they're not in the mood to play after finding about their origins.]]



* HappilyAdopted: In ''The Witch's Puppets'' it's revealed that the playground children got adopted by a rich family. Sounds heartwarming after the AwfulTruth about their origins in the first game, right? [[YankTheDogsChain Then it's revealed that only Pablo got adopted]] and he's subjected to FantasticRacism for being an AnimateInanimateObject. They don't even call him by his name!



* {{Keet}}: In varying degrees.



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The playground children can transform into humans at will and are just as sentient as a human being, but they struggle to find their place in the world and among other humans due to the fact that they're not human.
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* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The playground children can transform into humans at will and are just as sentient as a human being, but they struggle to find their place in the world and among other humans due to the fact that they're not human.
* YankTheDogsChain: See HappilyAdopted above.
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The ''Living Playground'' series is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.

The first game of the saga was released in June 2014. The three children are exploring outside of an abandoned factory in a snail hunt game. Until they became trapped inside the factory. Now they must find a way to get out....finding the truth about their origins in the process.

* ''Living Playground'' (2014)
* ''Living Playground: The Witch's Puppets'' (on development)

You can get the English version of the game in the official page [[http://living-playground.tumblr.com/download here]].

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* AmbiguousGender: Haze and Seal.

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The ''Living Playground'' series of [[FreewareGames freeware]] VideoGame/RPGMaker games is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.

The first game of the saga game, ''Living Playground'' was released on [[UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer PC]] in June 2014. 2014, with the English version available [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7473/ here]] The three children siblings are exploring outside of an abandoned factory in a snail hunt game. Until they became trapped inside the factory. Now they must find a way to get out....finding the truth about their origins in the process.

* ''Living Playground'' (2014)
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A {{Sequel}}, ''Living Playground: The Witch's Puppets'' (on development)

You can get the English version of the game
Puppets'', was [[https://rpgmaker.net/games/7597/ released]] on November 12th, 2018. Tony, Pablo, and Octavio are once again caught up in the official page [[http://living-playground.tumblr.com/download here]].

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some truly strange events. Now, however, they are accompanied by two bizarre witches, Haze and Seal, whose origin and motivation are mysterious at first.

!!Living Playground
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* AmbiguousGender: The sequel's witches, Haze and Seal.



* YankTheDogsChain: See HappilyAdopted above.

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* YankTheDogsChain: See HappilyAdopted above.above.
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** The 2018 remake makes it so much worse. [[spoiler:After the Owner realized the children she wished for were just playground equipment in human form, she tried to dispose of them in the furnace. Fortunately they were saved by the factory workers.]]
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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The game ends with the playground children going on another snail-hunt once again.]]

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* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The game ends with the playground children going on another snail-hunt once again.]] Averted in the 2018 remake, when [[spoiler: Pablo calls out Octavio for this, saying that they've got enough adventure for one day.]]



* MultipleEndings:
** Punishment: If the kids don’t find out the truth about their origins, they encounter the Owner. [[spoiler: She tells them about how her toy factory went to the ruin because some three monsters ruined her life. When Tony agrees to help her in any way, the Owner responders that they are said monsters before crushing them.]]
** A Patient Mother: If Tony doesn’t reunite with Octavio and Pablo, she goes to see the Owner alone, [[spoiler: only for her to toss the mangled corpse of Octavio and revealing that Pablo died offscreen. The Owner then proceeds to destroy her.]]
** Mommy’s Little Monsters: If the kids are caught by the toy bycicle monster, it attacks Tony. [[spoiler: Of course, since she’s a slide, she doesn’t immediately die. They’re immediately caught by the bears and sent to the owner, who proceeds to mock them about how they’re not human before destroying them.]]
** The Miracle: [[spoiler: The kids stand up to the Owner, calling her out for abandoning them simply for being humanoid toys and not the normal family she wanted. In her anger, she proceeds to knock down Pablo and Octavio, leaving Tony on her own. With the help of the faeries, Tony throws the Owner into a furnace, killing her. While at first devastated upon killing their mother, the kids escape the factory with the help of Bunbun and the faeries. The story ends on a hopeful note by Tony, hoping that she and her brothers would be accepted and find a family someday.]]

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* MultipleEndings:
MultipleEndings: It has three bad endings and a good ending. The 2018 remake has only the true ending, with the other three being scrapped.
** Bad Ending 1 - Punishment: If the kids don’t find out the truth about their origins, they encounter the Owner. [[spoiler: She tells them about how her toy factory went to the ruin because some three monsters ruined her life. When Tony agrees to help her in any way, the Owner responders that they are said monsters before crushing them.]]
** Bad Ending 2 - A Patient Mother: If Tony doesn’t reunite with Octavio and Pablo, she goes to see the Owner alone, [[spoiler: only for her to toss the mangled corpse of Octavio and revealing that Pablo died offscreen. The Owner then proceeds to destroy her.]]
** Bad Ending 3 - Mommy’s Little Monsters: If the kids are caught by the toy bycicle monster, it attacks Tony. [[spoiler: Of course, since she’s a slide, she doesn’t immediately die. They’re immediately caught by the bears and sent to the owner, who proceeds to mock them about how they’re not human before destroying them.]]
** True Ending - The Miracle: [[spoiler: The kids stand up to the Owner, calling her out for abandoning them simply for being humanoid toys and not the normal family she wanted. In her anger, she proceeds to knock down Pablo and Octavio, leaving Tony on her own. With the help of the faeries, Tony throws the Owner into a furnace, killing her. While at first devastated upon killing their mother, the kids escape the factory with the help of Bunbun and the faeries. The story ends on a hopeful note by Tony, hoping that she and her brothers would be accepted and find a family someday.]]

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* OffingTheOffspring: The story of “The Willful Child”. A girl dies of illness and neglect, because she didn’t live to her mother’s expectative. After she died, the corpse’s arms rose up out of her grave. The mother decides to solve this by destroying the girl’s corpse.

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* OffingTheOffspring: The story of “The Willful Child”. A girl dies of illness and neglect, because she didn’t live to her mother’s expectative.expectations. After she died, the corpse’s arms rose up out of her grave. The mother decides to solve this by destroying butchering the girl’s corpse.



* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The playnground children can transform into humans at will and are just as sentient as a human being, but they struggle to find their place in the world and among other humans due to the fact that they're not human.

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** It's much worse in the 2018 remake. [[spoiler: the kids defeat the Owner and they decide to spare her and give her a second chance. She replies that she would rather be dead than having inhuman toys as children and commits suicide by throwing herself in the furnace.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: The playnground playground children can transform into humans at will and are just as sentient as a human being, but they struggle to find their place in the world and among other humans due to the fact that they're not human.
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* AnimateInanimateObject: Tony is a slide; Octavio is monkey bars while Pablo is a swing. They can also switch between human forms at will.

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* AnimateInanimateObject: Tony is a slide; Octavio is monkey bars while Pablo is a swing. They can also switch between human forms at will.will, making them something more like ''tsukumogamis''.
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* HappilyAdopted: In ''The Witch's Puppets'' it's revealed that the playground children got adopted by a rich family. Sounds heartwarming after the AwfulTruth about their origins in the first game, right? [[YankTheDogsChain Then it's revealed that only Pablo got adopted]] and he's subjected to FantasticRacism for being an AnimateInanimateObject. They don't even call him by his name!



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* AmbiguousGender: Haze and Seal.
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The ''Living Palyground'' series is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.

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The ''Living Palyground'' Playground'' series is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.
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The ''Living Palyground'' series is about the adventures of Tony, Octavio and Pablo, [[AnimateInanimateObject three living toys themselves, playground equipment which can take human form]]. It was created by Meaka.

The first game of the saga was released in June 2014. The three children are exploring outside of an abandoned factory in a snail hunt game. Until they became trapped inside the factory. Now they must find a way to get out....finding the truth about their origins in the process.

You can get the English version of the game in the official page [[http://living-playground.tumblr.com/download here]].

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!!VideoGame/LivingPlayground contains examples of:
* AnimateInanimateObject: Tony is a slide; Octavio is monkey bars while Pablo is a swing. They can also switch between human forms at will.
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler: The Owner.]]
* BearsAreBadNews: The advancing toy bears at the factory.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: [[spoiler: The Owner originally wanted a family and made a wish to a witch so her dream would come true. What she got in return were the playground children. She rejected them since they were not truly human and her negative feelings transformed the factory and herself into monsters.]]
*BookEnds: [[spoiler: The game ends with the playground children going on another snail-hunt once again.]]
*BrattyHalfPint: Pablo, possibly because he’s the youngest of the playground children.
*CloudCuckoolander: Octavio. He tries to be a reasonable CoolBigBro to his siblings, but he’s not respected at all and his immaturity doesn’t help.
* DyingAsYourself: Played for drama and creepiness. If you reached a bad end and the children are caught by the Owner, [[spoiler: their bodies immediately turn back into playground equipment before dying. For some reason, in the “A Patient Mother” ending, Octavio maintains his human form even though his head was ripped off from his body by the Owner.]]
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: The playground children after they find out that they’re the result of the Owner’s wish to have children and rejected them upon finding they were humanoid toys. Pablo has a full FreakOut and it takes Tony giving a GetAHoldOfYourselfMan at him.]]
* HypercompetentSidekick: Bunbun, the stuffed bunny who acts as a savepoint. Also, the four faeries can help you take down the Owner if you finish their quests.
*InsaneTrollLogic: When Octavio tries to come up with an idea of who took them inside the factory, he concludes they were abducted by another snail-hunting-enthusiast. Tony is not amused.
*JackassGenie: [[spoiler: The witch, who apparently tricked the Owner. She wanted to have children, but what she got in the end was the playground children. Tony is quick to call her out on this, stating that it’s not the witch’s fault that things didn’t go how she wanted. And the witch had good intentions herself.]]
*{{Jerkass}}: The Owner. Not only she traps the playground children in her factory in order to kill them, but she rejects their mere existence [[spoiler:(even though they’re her children) simply because they’re not human.]] She’s also absolutely childish in insulting the children, threatening them, and expecting them to just take it. She is obviously insane.
** JerkassWoobie: In the end, she's simply a victim of the witch (who had good intentions, but failed because of her BlueAndOrangeMorality). [[spoiler: Having sentient humanoid toys as children sent her over the edge.]]
*{{Keet}}: In varying degrees.
*MultipleEndings:
** Punishment: If the kids don’t find out the truth about their origins, they encounter the Owner. [[spoiler: She tells them about how her toy factory went to the ruin because some three monsters ruined her life. When Tony agrees to help her in any way, the Owner responders that they are said monsters before crushing them.]]
**A Patient Mother: If Tony doesn’t reunite with Octavio and Pablo, she goes to see the Owner alone, [[spoiler: only for her to toss the mangled corpse of Octavio and revealing that Pablo died offscreen. The Owner then proceeds to destroy her.]]
**Mommy’s Little Monsters: If the kids are caught by the toy bycicle monster, it attacks Tony. [[spoiler: Of course, since she’s a slide, she doesn’t immediately die. They’re immediately caught by the bears and sent to the owner, who proceeds to mock them about how they’re not human before destroying them.]]
** The Miracle: [[spoiler: The kids stand up to the Owner, calling her out for abandoning them simply for being humanoid toys and not the normal family she wanted. In her anger, she proceeds to knock down Pablo and Octavio, leaving Tony on her own. With the help of the faeries, Tony throws the Owner into a furnace, killing her. While at first devastated upon killing their mother, the kids escape the factory with the help of Bunbun and the faeries. The story ends on a hopeful note by Tony, hoping that she and her brothers would be accepted and find a family someday.]]
* NotBloodSiblings: ...in as much as this trope can apply to inanimate objects. The playground children are not really connected beyond being created at the same time, but they decided to be siblings anyway.
* OffingTheOffspring: The story of “The Willful Child”. A girl dies of illness and neglect, because she didn’t live to her mother’s expectative. After she died, the corpse’s arms rose up out of her grave. The mother decides to solve this by destroying the girl’s corpse.
** Also what [[spoiler:the Owner wants to do with the playground children. In the Bad Endings “Punishment” and “A Patient Mother” she succeeds.]]
* OnlySaneWoman: Tony usually fills this role, compared to BrattyHalfPint Pablo and CloudCuckoolander Octavio.
* SelfMadeOrphan: [[spoiler: In the True Ending, the playground children are forced to push the Owner into a furnace, killing her. Even though she rejected them, the kids are absolutely devastated about killing their mother, but they all agree that they did what they had to do.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman

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