| Cole Vaughn |
| “ | They hurt us, and we hurt them back. We hurt them, and they hurt us in return. Over years and years and countless incidents, this is the way it's been. Nobody cares to stop it, and nobody's innocent anymore. We MADE them, and they've made US. We've been prisoners to a cycle down here in the dark, and I don't think any of us deserve to see the light anymore. | ” |
| — Cole Vaughn, Cole Journal | ||
Cole Vaughn is a minor character who debuted in Chapter 4: Safe Haven of Poppy Playtime. He was a Resource Extraction Specialist working for Playtime Co. before being promoted to Shelf Keeper after the Theater Incident.
History[]
Backstory[]
In 1993, Cole was one of the few dozen Resource Extraction Specialists that were sent to clean up after The Theater Incident. His friends were all killed by the toys during this clean-up, and he was amongst the handful who returned.
Main Activity[]
Soon after the incident, Cole received a letter from Playtime Co., commending his actions and revealing that he would be promoted to Shelf Keeper. He couldn't stop thinking about his friends and their families, and how every morning he had to see the "monsters" who killed them. He believed that the Prison might be where he needs to be, so he could keep the monsters in the "deepest, darkest hole imaginable. Right where they belong."
Some time after his reassignment, another guard, Stanley, who Cole considered to be "one of the nice ones", was attacked on duty. Cole visited Stanley the morning after the attack, and Stanley told him that the toys were "more than beasts once." Cole considered the idea "silly", and told Stanley that he was wrong.
Despite not believing Stanley, Cole was unable to keep his words out of his head, so he decided to look through some documents by himself. He managed to obtain the code to the Archives from the guards, so, one night, when security was down, he snook in and stole some Prisoner Profile documents. He noticed the observations on the documents were written by a "Harley Sawyer", whose name he did not recognize. He decided that he would investigate further, as he began to worry that Stanley might have been right.[3]
After definitively finding out that the biological toys used to be humans, Cole still felt no sympathy for the experiments, making comments such as "their cells might as well be cages." During his break, an experiment escaped meaning that Cole and one of his co-workers had to get back to work immediately - much to their disappointment.[2]
The Hour of Joy[]
After being knocked out by an unknown experiment during The Hour of Joy, Cole woke up in one of the Shelf's cells, alongside other co-workers trapped in other cells, screaming and pleading for help, Here, he realized that the way Playtime worked with the experiments was unsustainable, and that after all those years of incidents and deaths by the toys to the employees and Playtime Co. to the experiments, nothing ever changed for the better. Instead, everything went into a never ending vicious circle of death and misery. Cole wrote one last journal, warning the reader that whoever they are, they should never let another hell like what happened at Playtime ever happen again, ending the note by saying that in case the reader was wondering, he and his co-workers are in the deepest, darkest hole imaginable, right where they belong.[3]
Trivia[]
Cole Vaughn and Specialist #2 could be the same person, considering that they both helped clean up the Theater Incident, and that they are played by the same voice actor. Cole and Specialist #2 also both talk about the specialists that died in the Theater Incident. They also seem to have an identical attitude and personality.