Leith Pierre

Leith Pierre

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LEITH PIERRE
Leith Pierre’s slide in Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web".
Affiliation	Playtime Co. (Head of Innovation) Bigger Bodies Initiative (Participant)
Biographical information
Date of birth	Unknown
Place of birth	Unknown
Physical description
Status	Alive (Presumably)
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Appearances
Voiced by	Robin 'Xycron' Nelson
Appears In	Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze" (VHS) Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web" (VHS) Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep" (VHS) PROJECT: PLAYTIME Chapter 4 Icepick ARG
Debut	Chapter 1: A Tight Squeeze

“	Hi, my name is Leith Pierre, and I'm the Head of innovation here at the Playtime Co. toy factory. If you're seeing this, then you're trespassing!	”
— Leith Pierre

Leith Pierre, whose name is commonly misspelt as Laithe Pierre or Laith Pierre, is the Head of Innovation at Playtime Co. as well as the aparent successor of Elliot Ludwig as the Head of Playtime Co. He debuted in Chapter 1: "A Tight Squeeze" of Poppy Playtime and appeared in Chapter 2: "Fly in a Web" and Chapter 3: "Deep Sleep". He is the one responsible for the resource extraction missions that occur in PROJECT: PLAYTIME.

Personality

Leith Pierre comes across as an ingenious and proud man, one who is very dedicated to his work. Despite his position & pride, he is apparently easily startled, going so far as to enact a ban to prevent anyone from hiding behind doors to scare him. Due to his elevated position in the company, he is very much aware about the Bigger Bodies Initiative and its purpose, warning intruders about their security's wilder aspect and viewing Marcas Brickley's encounter with PJ Pug-a-Pillar as a "potential problem" to Playtime Co.'s secrecy.

As the head of Innovation at Playtime Co., Leith is not above mistreating his subordinates, speaking rudely to his employees and frequently threatening to fire them. One notable example is when he insulted Sharon for her poor management as a Boom Operator, going so far as to openly call her an idiot, adding on that idiots get removed from their posts. He also views employees in general as expendable and a waste of money, as seen when the Resource Extraction Specialists are caught by Huggy or when Maggie is taken by the Wuggies.

Not only is he very rude and abusive, he is also shown to be a merciless being; in the Incident Aftermath Tape, Stella's question of "Those poor... poor people. Did we really have to-" and Leith's response to it heavily implies he had witnesses murdered to prevent the truth from coming out, and the same tape reveals that he was not impartial to enacting violence upon people who were responsible for major screw-ups, threatening to choke the person responsible for an incident “until they stop squirming around.” It is even possible that he had Brickley killed or fired for his encounter with PJ Pug-a-Pillar and was the one that allowed Rowan Stoll's death.

Additionally, he is notably cruel and apathetic towards the experiments, treating them as inhuman monsters and disregarding their former humanity. He callously dismissed CatNap's optimism and hope that he would be saved by the Prototype, retorting that this prison is his home so he should get used to it.

Despite seemingly caring for the company, he is very greedy; in Project Playtime, his reaction to the capture of an extraction specialist is relief that it would be "one less pension to worry about", while Harley Sawyer in the Chapter 4 Icepick ARG mentions that further improvements to the procedure of resuscitating living toys would placate "Leith and his money men" by getting their money's worth from the project, implying Leith has mainly financial investments into the Bigger Bodies Initiative.

In the Orientation Notebook, it is mentioned that Leith attempted to carry on Elliot Ludwig's traditions and work once he began to amass more power in Playtime Co. This implies that he respected Elliot and his dreams and possibly explains why he is so dedicated to keeping the truth of living toys a secret, since this is what Elliot himself had heavily experimented upon. His respect seems to be very misguided and delusional, however, as it is unlikely Elliot ever would have approved of orphans being forcibly turned into toys.

Story

Leith gradually rose up through the ranks of Playtime Co. to become the Head of Innovation, one of the highest ranks within the company; as part of this role he appeared in several advertisements for Playtime Co. Merchandise.

On January 15th, 1990, he set up an interview with Harley Sawyer, offering him the position of "Head of Special Projects", which the latter accepted.

On March 21st, 1991, he interviewed Marcas Brickley about an event he witnessed, involving something that was "50 feet long with a thousand legs." Leith attempted to detract from this claim, subtly suggesting that Marcas may have witnessed a bunch of people walking together rather than a singular entity. However, Marcas is insistent that what he saw was not human. When Marcas denies having told anyone else of his encounter, Leith says he will just have security personnel skim through the cameras - an action Marcas protests at, saying that skimming would not get rid of the "monster" he saw. Leith loses his temper, berates him that Playtime Co. doesn't make monsters, and finally orders Marcas to get out of his sight.

In RESTRICTED disappearance, Leith documents the escape of Experiment 1170 via a vent system on June 18th, 1992, mystified at how this could occur without being detected. He attributes 1170's eventual recapture by two staff members to blind luck noting that, even then, achieving this cost the lives of several workers. He ends his report stating that the Innovation Department isn't happy, nor is he.

Leith is also present in the tutorial for Resource Extraction Specialists in Project: Playtime, alongside Sharon.

It is unknown if he is still alive during the time when Poppy Playtime took place.

Trivia

• Leith Pierre is one of the five highest ranked employees, all of whom knew about the experiments going on at Playtime Co., the others being Elliot Ludwig, Stella Greyber, Eddie M.N. Ritterman, and the Head of Production, theorized to be The Player.
• As Leith Pierre is mentioned in nearly every tape regarding Playtime Co., and also signs an important document in RESTRICTED disappearance, it can be presumed that his role as Head of Innovation is equivalent to the title of COO, or Chief Operating Officer. It could also be assumed that Leith is the true CEO of Playtime Co., as Ludwig was gone from the company by 1991.
  • The latter was confirmed in the Chapter 4 Icepick ARG, where, in Leith's letter to Harley Sawyer, he refers to himself as "the head of a successful toy business".
• Leith is also theorized to be The Player as he is confirmed to be alive in Project Playtime. Leith being the player would explain a line in Project Playtime, "It was your doing that made us" as Leith sought out Harley Sawyer to create something unethical that could help save the company and approved of Harley's Bigger Bodies Initiative idea.

Gallery

A poster of the rules at Playtime Co.'s toy factory (taken from the NFT card), mentioning Leith Pierre.