Living Toys and a Goddess, Producing a Film Together: Living Toy Universe, #2

By John Rhymer

Gyhena, the Goddess of Death of a universe where toys come to life when humans aren't around, summons a lot of toys to recreate a 1995 film. Although her full power is enough to destroy the universe half again, even she has trouble during production. The approximate word count is 16,500.

• Language: English
• Publisher: John Rhymer
• Release date: Mar 26, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224907632

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Chapter 1: The Big Setup

Gyhena, a Greater Child of Vividaren (her role being a goddess of death) assigned to a universe where toys were alive when humans weren’t around, decided that she wanted to remake a 1995 movie that was the debut feature film for Mixar, an animation studio that later became a division of Dipney. Dipney also helped make the movie and it was the world’s first full-length feature film rendered in nothing but CGI. Most supernatural beings in that universe knew toys were alive, so she did too. Even around someone that knew their true nature, instinct told living toys to be inanimate when humans were aware of their presence. No toy questioned that instinct.

In the past, Gyhena had used her powers to create a perfect Gleam BuzzBeer toy for herself. His helmet could retract all the way into his torso (and it could be opened and closed with the same purple button on the right side of his helmet; it closed with enough force that it would hurt to have a finger caught in it), the three chest bars on the right side of his chest each activated two different phrases that they alternated between (so there were six total), a button that activated a light up laser pointer, a wrist communicator that could flip open, a button opposite the chest bars that opened and closed his wings with enough force to tear through duct tape as if it was wet tissue (the wings clipped into each other), ball joints on his shoulders, wrists, elbows, legs, knees, and feet, a bendable black waist, a karate chop action triggered by a purple button on his back (that would interfere with the wings if it wasn’t for her powers), and black rubber cups on his shoulder joints so his arms could be pulled to either side.

Gyhena also had a film accurate box shaped like a rocket that her Gleam could teleport into with a pressure plate in front of where it was kept. To exit it, all he had to do was wish to leave it.

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Once he learned of Gyhena’s plan to recreate the movie, Gleam said, Master, do you want me to act in your recreation of the movie?

You don’t know how to act, so... combined with how you’d have to be damaged, I’d rather that not happen. I’ll search for toys to fill many of the roles in the movie. Custom toys won’t be included because while some of them are more accurate to the movie, I’m not going for accuracy.

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The two were in Nebja, the plane where Greater Children of Vividaran resided. She summoned eight of her divine servants, all of whom answered to her and her alone, that could shape shift into a humanoid or animal form and said to all of them, I’m going to recreate Mixar’s debut film from 1995. All of you are going to play the human characters and animals. Many of you will have multiple roles, but I’ll make sure to cast you in such a way that two of your roles are never in the same shot.

They each got certain roles, and while she only needed as many of them as there were human and animal characters in a single shot, she decided it would be best to make each role only go to one of her servants.

She warped the area in her domain to mimic all of the settings of that movie, and added a hidden cinema room where she would borrow two specific DVD prints of the movie owned by mortals, project it to her actors, then use it as reference for her recreation. She felt ambitious and wanted to put her finished product in a file format that allowed her to simulate the menu of the 2005 DVD, which was the earlier of the two prints she borrowed. She also decided that she would have multiple languages, so she borrowed the 2010 Gru-Ray print, as that also had a language option that had an audio description so that people who had impaired sight could still enjoy the movie. To make hers even better, Gyhena planned to add a blurb on a text file and a bonus file to simulate the bonus disc in the 2005 set.

First, she needed a Taterman because he was the first toy shown in the movie. While there were licensed toys quite accurate to the character in the movie, with a more accurate nose shape than the oval shaped nose that ones not made for the movie used, Gyhena decided it would be funny to use one that was not based on the one from the movie. Due to that desire, she found the toy that would suit the role through a telepathic conversation.

The Taterman she chose had a plastic potato body with a molded curve around where the mouth should have gone. That was an older mold for the potato body. Newer ones had an extra