Catrina Toy Chica is a Day of the Dead-inspired variant of Toy Chica in FNaF AR: Special Delivery. Her design is heavily influenced by traditional Mexican Día de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) aesthetics, combining Toy Chica’s usual look with decorative motifs. Catrina Toy Chica represents the blending of festivity with the eerie, bringing both beauty and danger to the player’s experience, especially with the added challenge of her game-altering mechanic.
Physical Appearance
Catrina Toy Chica is a stunning and vibrant version of the original Toy Chica, but with a skeletal and floral design that gives her a hauntingly festive feel. Her look is a tribute to traditional calavera (skull) face paint, which is used during the Día de los Muertos celebrations.
- Sugar Skull Face: Catrina Toy Chica’s face is painted in an intricate sugar skull design, featuring bright, floral patterns and decorative markings that emphasize her eyes, cheeks, and mouth. The design combines reds, yellows, blues, and greens, making her appearance both colorful and haunting. Her eyes glow with an intense light, piercing through the colorful patterns, giving her a more menacing vibe despite the festive look.
- Floral Crown and Dress: Atop her head, she wears a crown of vibrant marigold flowers, symbolizing the connection to the Day of the Dead. The flowers glow faintly, adding an ethereal touch to her design. Her body is adorned with floral patterns as well, wrapping around her torso and arms like vines. Instead of her usual bib that reads “Let’s Party!”, it now features the phrase “Vamos a Celebrar!” (Spanish for “Let’s Celebrate!”), surrounded by skeletal designs and more floral accents.
- Skeleton Body Details: Portions of her animatronic body are painted to resemble exposed bones, especially on her arms, legs, and chest. These painted bone details enhance the skeletal theme associated with the Day of the Dead, giving her a ghostly, almost reanimated look. Her endoskeleton parts are highlighted in white and black, blending mechanical and human-like skeletal features.
- Festive Colors: While the base of Toy Chica’s animatronic body remains the same, Catrina Toy Chica is colored with bright hues of red, yellow, and blue to match the festive and respectful tones of Día de los Muertos. These colors are vivid and create an intense contrast with the eerie skeletal markings.
Mechanic
Catrina Toy Chica’s mechanic adds a new layer of challenge by introducing performance issues into the game, forcing players to be strategic about using their tools and managing in-game lag.
- Framerate Drop Mechanic: Catrina Toy Chica has a unique ability to cause temporary framerate drops whenever the player uses the Controlled Shock function, either in the Office or on Floor 4. This means that every time you utilize the shock to neutralize other animatronics or environmental threats, the game will experience a drop in performance, making it more difficult to react to further events.
- Lag Duration and Difficulty: The length of the framerate drop depends on Catrina Toy Chica’s AI level. The higher her AI, the longer the game will lag, creating a greater challenge for players. As her AI increases, the periods of lag can become increasingly frustrating, forcing the player to be more deliberate about when and how often they use the controlled shock. The lag can make it difficult to see and interact with the environment, thus increasing the risk of making mistakes or missing vital cues.
- Timing and Strategy: Players must carefully manage when to use the Controlled Shock, as the drop in framerate can impede their ability to react to other animatronics or hazards. In more hectic moments, using the shock can be risky as the game will become temporarily sluggish, leaving the player vulnerable to attacks from other animatronics or environmental dangers. Choosing when to shock and when to wait is crucial, especially as the night progresses and threats become more frequent.