Ronald Turvey

Ronald Turvey invented the Cuddlesome toys in the 1980s as part of a perverse plan he meant to set in motion, further perverted by alien intervention.

Mocked and teased, "Tipsy Turvey", grew to hate the other young adults around him, all the more so after the "murder" of his favorite teddy bear "Mr. Cuddles". He invented a cute novelty toy, the Cuddlesomes, with artificial intelligence and the ability to spread a virus which would only kill adults, but not children. In jail for un-related charges, an alien called the Tinghus, which sounded in Turvey's mind like the voice of Mr. Cuddles, linked with him telepathically and used his negative emotions to grow until, after his release, when Turvey no longer took the psychiatric drugs given him, it acquired physical form.

From their home base in the Pleasure Palace (located in an abandoned factory for making Cuddlesome toys), Turvey and the Tinghus worked together, the latter having a parasitic telepathic relationship with him so that the Human's death would mean his own. When it set about replacing the old Mark I Cuddlesomes with Mark II's and started a campaign of destruction against Turvey's originals, he felt that he must stop it. Not out of concern for adult humans and rather because he cared so much about his original Cuddlesome toys, Turvey decided to end his own life as to destroy the Tinghus. (BFA: Cuddlesome)