| “ | I see the real Quinn Navidson... And believe me this: I want the same prettier world you see. | ” |
| — Harley Sawyer to Quinn, Archive 5b00 Transcript | ||
Quinn Navidson was an orphan test subject who would be reanimated into Yarnaby as part of the Bigger Bodies Initiative. His name was first mentioned in the Assessment Forms (M. Lata/H. Sawyer) documents as part of the Chapter 4 Icepick ARG.
Personality[]
Based on a document from the Chapter 4 Icepick ARG, Quinn was presumably a troubled and possibly shy orphan who was believed to purposely hold himself back so people would have lesser expectations of him. Quinn was open to putting in more effort with good convincing as proven when he agreed to try harder when reattempting the Game Station's tests after having a talk with Harley Sawyer. In a desire to make things "prettier", Quinn would cut off the heads of his toys replacing them with other toys' heads, attracting the concern of his counselors.
History[]
Backstory[]
Quinn Navidson was an orphan at Playcare who his counselors felt quite concerned about, mainly due to his habit of ripping off toys' heads and switching them out for each other. He was assigned to become a Bigger Bodies version of Yarnaby.
Game Station[]
In one of his first known trials at the Game Station, he performed averagely at Musical Memory, making some mistakes here and there. In Wack-a-Wuggy, he performed slightly worse - displaying slow reaction times and often missing targets. Finally in Statues, he reached the end of the course in a regular amount of time but got lost once. His overall score for all the Game Station tests was 8/15.[3]
Upon realizing that Quinn was holding himself back and not performing as well as he could, Harley Sawyer took to having a conversation with the boy to manipulate him into trying harder so he could be a more successful experiment in the future. Sawyer told Quinn that there was nothing wrong with his peculiar behavior, simply believing that he saw the world a little differently to others. After convincing Quinn that he was smart and capable, he asked the boy to give it his all in his next trial at the Game Station, to which Quinn agreed.[4]
Transformation[]
Sawyer personally spectated Quinn's next trial, noting that in Musical Memory, the child made no real attempt to complete the game. His performance in the next game, Wack-a-Wuggy, was quite the turn around however as Quinn did marginally better in this minigame then the last time he had played it, although he did bite the heads off of some of the toys used for the game. Quinn's performance in the last game, Statues, was completely flawless, even though he did hide in the foam pit for a while after completing it.[3] This all led to him becoming the Yarnaby experiment in August 1990.[1]
Theorizing[]
It's possible that Quinn saw Harley Sawyer as a kind of father figure since Harley was the only one who managed to convince him to do his best in the exams to impress the Doctor. Also, the Archive 5b00 Transcript suggests that Quinn already had a lot of contact with Harley, in addition to the fact that he was the only person Quinn vented to, although it was clear that Harley was only interested in the boy to use him as a experiment to transform him into a Bigger Bodies version of Yarnaby.
Trivia[]
- Quinn's name means "wise", "sense", or "reason" in Irish. It could also mean "chief", "council", or "wisdom".
- This could connect with the fact that he acted that way because if he wasn't chosen for an experiment in Playtime Co., he would stay alive.
- However, it is clearly explicit that the orphans were unaware of the experiments being carried out at Playtime, so Quinn was probably acting that way because he wanted to remain a recluse so he could make things look "prettier" in his eyes.
- This could connect with the fact that he acted that way because if he wasn't chosen for an experiment in Playtime Co., he would stay alive.
- Quinn shares the same last name as the Navidson family from the unusual novel House of Leaves.