Voici my designs for the unfortunate little orphan fucks who got experimented on and turned into PickyPiggy and KickinChicken from the Smiling Critters
Do we fw the new artstyle btw?
In my AU, the children (pre-experimentation) shared basically no similarities to the Critter they would eventually become. However, they were chosen for a reason. The scientists at Playtime Co. chose a selected group of children that shared a core element shared with each individual Critter. For example, Kalvin, the little boy who would later on become Kickin, was demonstrated to have a very strong sense of bravery. He’d be the type to volunteer to go first for anything, even for something as child-appalling as vaccinations. This courage is what made them choose Kalvin to be the base of what would become the Bigger Bodies Initiative version of KickinChicken.
During the transformation process, scientists tortured and brainwashed the subjects until they forgot everything about their previous life (like their name, their hobbies, their core personalities), and brutally replace them with the traits of their designated Smiling Critter. The subject loses all sense of self, and is forced to act more aligned with their Bigger Body, meaning their personality and hobbies are not their own. And they basically get turned into the characters by force.
But that’s just in my AU :D