Mangle walked in a week into meeting the subject with a small tube of bubbles. The subject glanced up from the cot. “‘Angul? New toy?” it asked.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ2I6GCzBvz
“Sort of,” Mangle said, uncapping the bubble solution and pulling out the wand. “I wanted to show you something.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFtZfOvB0uq
It watched with rapt attention as Mangle gently blew on the wand. Bubbles came flowing out, rainbows caught in each and every one. It was enamored. “What’re those?” it asked in excitement.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrgc6xlxU3
“They’re called bubbles,” Mangle explained. They’re made with soap, when it’s moved really quickly and a pocket of air fills it.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJYKteL8xE
“Bubbles make rai’bow!” it exclaimed. “‘Angul make more bubbles?”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5MBgkxYZ4o
Mangle smiled and blew more out. It ran around to touch them, the bubbles pooping in her hands. It pouted. “Bubbles go!” it said morosely, “Where? Why?”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOlryE2SQBz
“The bubbles are popping, because they don’t handle being touched very well,” Mangle explained. “A lot of the time people like popping bubbles before they hit the ground.” A hand-eye coordination test.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzFg4j4RVjB
It nodded and put her hands out, as anticipated taking Mangle’s words as a challenge. Mangle blew some bubbles in its direction, and the subject dashed about to pop them. This continued until the bottle was drained and the subject was a heap on the floor, laughing hysterically. Mangle sat back at the desk, nodding. “Hand-eye coordination is as can be expected, then. Want another bottle for yourself?”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPICmhgoOWH
It nodded. Mangle pulled it out and said, “Be careful not to get it in your eyes…”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdVfKQzKXrA
It tore the cap off and some of the bubble mix landed right in its eyes. There was a brief second of silence, before it screamed, “My eyes! My eyes!” over and over and over.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdcctjp7CuE
Mangle instinctively rushed it to the bathroom and ran cool water over its eyes. It was crying from the pain, but Mangle just stoically stood there and rinsed out its eyes. When it was done whimpering, Mangle took it out from underneath the running water of the sink. “Better?” they asked.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaRFnfFEbIO
It nodded. “‘Ankoo, ‘Angul.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjGOEWohWpv
Mangle shrugged it off. “Think nothing of it.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTMJBpjtTyN
To their surprise, it wasn’t just a phrase: they meant it. How odd.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCaGtO5DqvL
“Now, It, this is what is called a potty. This is where grown-ups and older kids pee and poop. They listen to their body, and when they get pressure in their stomach, they know they have to go, and they come here to get rid of it. You just sit on it and then use it like you would a diaper, understand so far?” Mangle was teaching the subject the finer points of toilet training. Specifically, why people used a toilet over a diaper, besides because it was yucky.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAKJoBqlKvq
It nodded at Mangle’s speech. “Unders’and, ‘Angul.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3XaRcGefH6
When you’re done going potty, you wipe where the pee and poop come from with toilet paper, which is basically not cold not wet wipes. You put it in the potty with your pee and poop, and then you push down on this lever,” Mangle demonstrated. “And everything gets taken away.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCdglxZIOu5
“No more messy diapers,” It sighed in relief.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmZKr9EUowM
Mangle nodded. “That’s right, It. No more messy diapers. Not if you listen to your body and then tell me when you need to go.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnPo1i1hT1i
It nodded. “I will, ‘Angul,” It promised.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZgwl5z2iXC
Now that I’ll believe when I see it, Mangle thought to themself. Outwardly they said, “Thank you, It.”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdDsUTvlOw1
It nodded, then frowned. It lifted its hands up. “Lift up?”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0l2JCaBADf
Mangle took off its diaper and put it on the toilet. It sat there and Mangle turned away, uncomfortable. They heard It peeing and when the noise stopped, a small voice asked, “Toilet paper, right?”689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdponXOYA8K
Mangle nodded and handed it over. It wiped itself and slid off the seat. “Can’t reach the lever,” It said.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFXN9mYFxcm
They flushed for It, and both of them went to wash their hands after Mangle put the diaper back on the subject. This was going to take a while.689Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjjiQipVxQI
