♥•BOBBY BEARHUG•♥

Appearance

Bobby BearHug is an anthropomorphic bear with red fur, black eyes, a black nose, rounded ears, and padded paws. Her paws and upper snout are pink, similar to the inside of her ears. In line with other Smiling Critters, Bobby BearHug sports a perpetual wide toothless grin, her inner mouth shrouded in mysterious darkness, and she possesses a distinctive black zipper tracing down her center, with the zipper sporting a ruby-colored heart pendant. Bobby BearHug's cartoon appearance is roughly the same as her toy appearance, albeit with her zipper line removed, the addition of white pupils, and the zipper pendant now attached to a black necklace.

Personality

According to her character description, Bobby BearHug possesses warm and appreciative qualities, similar to how Huggy Wuggy was designed. She cares deeply about her friends and everything around her, and will presumably act as a peacemaker, sharing the same role with CraftyCorn, if a fight breaks out amidst the crew. However, Bobby can also be seen as naive, as she may care about someone who doesn't have her best intentions at heart. According to her cardboard cutout, she fears being abandoned, asking The Player if they are going to leave her. Like the other Smiling Critters, Bobby BearHug showcased an unnerving and maniacal personality when CatNap came to DogDay's house during their sleepover. When CatNap helped them fall asleep via The Red Smoke, Bobby showed signs of euphoria when inhaling the sleeping agent, laughing gleefully with the others until she passed out.

Backstory

Bobby BearHug was created as a member of the Smiling Critters toy line in 1989.[1] At some point, two statues of her that rotate when movement is detected were installed in Home Sweet Home, presumably to keep watch over the kids. The Bigger Bodies Initiative version of Bobby BearHug, dubbed Experiment 1186, was created in 1990[2] to interact with the children in Playcare.[5] However, there were issues in the process of her creation. Bobby showed a lack of awareness of her surroundings and did not respond to audio stimuli, indicating a distortion or total lack of sensory function. Bobby also could not speak, despite being able to move her mouth, and she could not keep her balance when she stood up. It was indicated that she would need to return to surgery to fix these issues.[3] Sometime after The Hour of Joy, Bobby BearHug was presumably killed (possibly by CatNap), as DogDay refers to himself as the "last" of the Smiling Critters.

Chapter 3:Deep Sleep

In Home Sweet Home, The Player found one of the batteries they needed in the first, fallen-over Bobby BearHug statue. In the second, still-operating statue, The Player either snuck up behind her by crouching, grabbing the battery from a distance, or running in circles around her eventually glitching the code to obtain the battery. In the Playhouse, The Player found hostile Bobby BearHug plushies with the rest of the Ruined Critters, who chased The Player. Using the GrabPack 2.0's orange hand, The Player shot flares at her to scare her away. (If Bobby BearHug got too close, she jumpscared them by lunging at their face.) Later, several versions of her crawled inside DogDay's exposed torso while one crawled into one of his eyes to control him and chase after The Player.