Jack Ayers

Jack Ayers

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Jack Ayers
Full Name	Jack Ayers
Aliases	Jackie (by Susan) Doey the Doughman (experiment name) 1322A (experiment number)
Relatives	Susan Ayers † (mother) George Ayers † (father)
Affiliation	Playtime Co.
Biographical Information
Date of birth	1980s
Date of Procedure	1993
Date of death	January 22, 1993 2005 (as Doey)
Place of death	Doey Production Facility Mining Pit (as Doey)
Cause of death	Fell into a vat of dough. Crushed by machine (as Doey).
Descriptive Information
Status	Deceased (reanimated as Doey the Doughman alongside with Kevin Barnes and Matthew Hallard)
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Appearances
Role	Minor character
Played by	Nicholas Rose
Appears In	Chapter 4 Icepick ARG Chapter 4: Safe Haven Miscellaneous Content
Debut	Chapter 4 Icepick ARG (indirectly mentioned) Chapter 4: Safe Haven (reveal)

“	Dear Mr. and Mrs. Ayers, we can give him back to you. Your son Jack can live.	”
— A Cryptic Letter

Jack Ayers was a child who appeared in the opening video of Chapter 4: Safe Haven. As shown in said video, on December 25, 1992, during Christmas, Jack received a toy of Doey the Doughman and an invitation for a visit of the Playtime Co. factory. During his visit on January 22, 1993, he fell into one of the vat machines that created the dough for the toys of Doey the Doughman. He would later become one of the three kids turned into Experiment 1322.

Appearance

Jack is shown to be a young child with short brown hair and brown eyes.

Personality

Jack was an enthusiastic boy, as proven when he opened his Christmas present and was excited to see that it was a toy of Doey the Doughman, not noticing the card that came with the present. He was also curious and mischievous, as he wandered away from his parents during their visit to Playtime Co..

He also keeps the happy, innocent spirit of a child even after getting fused into Doey the Doughman, as moments of him in a cheerful and playful tone are shown.

Yet, as Doey, he also displays grief for the loss of his friends and missing his family, which is also his other major emotion - sadness.

History

Backstory

Jack was the son of Susan and George Ayers. On December 25, 1992, during Christmas, Jack was opening his presents while his mother recorded him with a video camera and the opening song of the Smiling Critters cartoon was playing in the background. Jack opened one of his presents and got excited to see that it was a Doey the Doughman toy, the toy that he wanted. His mother told him that the present also had a card and to open it, so Jack opened the card and he discovered that it was an invitation to a tour to Playtime Co., much to his happiness.

Factory Tour

On January 22, 1993, Jack and his parents went to Playtime Co. for a tour of the factory. At the Doey Production Facility, Jack went away from his parents and the tour group and looked at the huge vats of dough. Jack's mother, who was recording everything with the family video camera, told him not to go far away and stay with her, but Jack wasn't paying attention to her and his father told his mother that he wasn't listening at all. Jack stared at the vats of dough, when suddenly, he fell off the catwalk and barely managed to grab onto the railing, Jack's parents and the group panicked and Jack's mother tried to grab him, but Jack slipped and he fell inside the vat of dough, which ended up causing his death. The tour guide, Brendan, told the employees to turn off the machines and said someone should turn off the Ayers' video camera.

Experimentation

Around March 1993, Jack was chosen, along with Kevin Barnes and Matthew Hallard, to become a Doey the Doughman Bigger Body. After some time as Doey, Jack's parents visited him under the assumption that their son was "back". However, they were unaware that Doey was made up of two other kids with conflicting personalities. This resulted in Doey noticing Susan and George Ayers, but because of these conflicting personalities, Doey was very unstable and hostile when interacting with them. Kevin's personality soon took over, leading to Doey attacking and killing both parents, assuming they were scientists or "gentle voices" who lied about treating Doey nicely. When Jack's personality took over Doey, he broke down in tears over the deaths of his parents.

As Doey, Jack represents his playful, childish and innocent side as during his first encounter with The Player, he jokes around about how eating Pianosaurus filled his appetite after he killed the toy. He sometimes giggles a lot in excitement, refers to the Player as a "pal", and acts playful around The Player as he guides them to the Safe Haven.

However, once the Prototype appears, Jack's personality is replaced by Matthew's mature one as he directs those around him; his personality resurfaces briefly when he greets the Player again in Safe Haven and giggles. When Doey meets the Player in the pipe-filled room and he gets hit by the Liquid Nitrogen trap, Jack screams out in pain and refers to Harley Sawyer as "the big mean doctor". When Safe Haven is destroyed, Jack sobs hysterically about the horrible situation, referring to the Safe Haven residents as "his friends" (counter to how Matthew refers to them as his family).

During Doey's rampage against the Player, Jack's personality would later lead Doey to wail “Mommy, Daddy, I just want to go home!" and wishing to play, after his transformation into a monstrous creature. In Doey's final moments, him and Matthew would remorsefully apologize to the Player, for Kevin trying to kill them, with Jack sobbing in repentance to the Player.

Trivia

• The incident of Jack was teased earlier in the Chapter 4 Icepick ARG with Incident Report: Brendan.
• He is the only confirmed kid that became an experiment who wasn't an orphan living in Playcare.