Toys

"Those creatures are nothing but ersatz of life..."

- Carmine Toys (玩弄物, Ganrōbutsu lit. Plaything) are a species of artificial beings created by the Meyer Industries using the LBCC. They exclusively appear in the Present Verse and are rather underrepresented in the stories with only two notable characters, namely S-2703 and to some extent Eclipse.

Toys are the result of extended studies led by Yuni Rhodes, trying to use the LBCC as an element that can be molded over a real physical body, making maximum use of its properties to create strong, simple-minded creatures that obey orders diligently and are able to make themselves helpful to their makers. All of them are programmed to serve upon creation, but cannot be mass-produced due to the difficulty to come by important amounts of LBCC and a fresh base, as effectively, no substitutes can be used for the living bodies. Toys are named after their production date, being given a letter for the year and a four-digit number for the day and month. Their appearance may greatly vary depending on various factors, but they are generally based on the individual they were molded over (usually a plagued animal), with all of them having a rather suggestive body on top of displaying the shine that is so particular to objects that have been in contact with the LBCC.

Toys do not need to eat or sleep and can function at full strength without being interrupted for several days if asked of them, but will eventually need a form of maintenance that is done through sitting them in a specific machine for a few hours, during which they do not function. Toys also have an expiration date that can be measured somewhat precisely at the moment they are made, one that is usually slightly over a decade, date at which the base body dies, thus cutting all function from inside of them.

(Interesting beings, are they not? Take a look at another species from the Sunflower Fields?)