Absolutely Astrocious

Resident FNAF SB enthusiast

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Robots want to be pretty too!

The DCA may be dexterous, but I don't think he'd be good at makeup. Trying to do his eyeliner with a brush... who's gonna tell him

Here's the sketch upside down because I think it's cute, and an alternate coloring that I ditched because the palette was starting to bore me but I still thought it'd be nice to show. Idk

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Aye Aye Captain

Doodle of @vacantfields ' guys, Provolone and EpiPen. Based on that one ask.. something about pirates and corsets... Unfortunately, I am not immune.

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Earlier I wondered, "why don't I see any DCA mermaid designs where he's one person with two distinct phases?" Turns out it's because that's really difficult to design. So here's my attempt at a concept:

They're a jellyfish! Based on the fact that jellyfish can invert, but it's not great for them and either means something is wrong or will be wrong very soon.

I wanted to avoid any color-changing shenanigans, so nothing disappears, just gets covered up. For example, when in Sun Mode, the red tentacles cover the blue oral arms, so it looks sorta like red and yellow instead of blue and yellow.

I may or may not do something with these later, but feel free to draw them or build other designs off them idc.

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sun and moon r so freaking arorablee ragaaghhhh they got their cute lil pants and moons got his cute lil hat and sun has... eyes... and theyre so aodrableeee agree? agree!!

Agree!! I actually love their unblinking eyes, reminds me of a cat. The aware yet befuddled look is part of the charm <3

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Sleepy Moon!! Tried out some new brushes for him but had to stop halfway because it was draining my battery (??), so you get Color Explosion.

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Am I the only one who thinks their side profile is really cute

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Be free

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DCA Mermay day 11: Hook

Plus some more doodles!

My ugly son <3 I ended up really liking the Moon's Hat mer design, only changed it a bit to be more readable. I thought I was basing it off a nautilus, but I looked it up and nautili don't unfurl, so he's just a special little guy.

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The real mouth is sorta like the helicoprion shark!

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!! What an inspiring guy! I had fun reading some articles about him.

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ougghhh... headaches.. give that robot an ibuprofen

(Color practice with this sketchfab model)

Did these very late at night... not my favorite but I figured you'd want to see them anyway. Any maid dress is good maid dress, as someone must have said once

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Don't never buy no Tomadachi Life from the gas station bro

Assorted screenshots below:

Sometimes the glitching looks cool, and sometimes it doesn't. Tempted to draw the Sun scene

Jack n Dave are very recent additions, and there's already lots of Dayshift shenanigans on my island... they're married now btw.

I love making them say whatever I want !

Also look at my Freddy Mii, isn't he handsome? His lower jaw is a beard, so he looks good from exactly 1 (one) angle. And his forehead is devastating from all 360

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DCA Mermay day 11: Hook

Plus some more doodles!

My ugly son <3 I ended up really liking the Moon's Hat mer design, only changed it a bit to be more readable. I thought I was basing it off a nautilus, but I looked it up and nautili don't unfurl, so he's just a special little guy.

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If you listen you can hear it call...

This is for day 2, seashell! I've never drawn them as mermaids before, so I just tried out a few different animals, hence why every image's design is different. They are, in order: seahorse, Moon's hat, orca, lionfish.

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belieeeeve it or not. the whole 'dca used to be a theater bot and got reprogrammed for daycare work' thing isnt solid canon. its.. dubious. that factoid is pulled from the Tales From The Pizzaplex book series, which is its own continuity separate from the games. (an AU, essentially). same deal with the fnaf movies vs the games - not the same universe.

just looking at the game itself - with the theater's direct connection to the daycare and all the sun/moon theming within (and the dcas..... theatrics...) - theres nothing that suggests they dont still work there.

given that the other animatronics are both 'performers' who go up on stage, and 'attendants' for their respective themed areas.. it tracks that that dca is also preforming shows - likely for the younger target audience that'd be at the daycare.

***i personally do not mind what canons/fanons u pick and chose from to create ur own fanworks n such. mostly, id just like for people to consider the alternative? and maybe to see more dca works that have a still-preforming theater dca?

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Okay wait I have things to say about this!! I've actually wanted to talk about this for a while.

So, I've read all the Tales of the Pizzaplex books. Every single one. (Haven't finished combing through the interactive novels yet, but I plan to soon.) This idea about the DCA is from book #4 Submechanophobia, specifically the third story "Bobbiedots, Part 1," which I just reread to make this post. It's one of my favorites because it talks so much about the canon Pizzaplex. If you're curious, these 3 screenshots contain the entirety of the book's text about the DCA:

Yeah, they only get a little over two pages. (I omitted some text in between the passages; it's just half a page of Abe worrying about his own problems, and does not pertain to the Daycare whatsoever, so I cut it for readability.)

The thing that stood out to me about this particular book, even back when I was reading it for the first time, was how it contained a lot of really game-accurate descriptions. Like, one-to-one recreations of events and lore from the game, to the point where reading it after having played the game was a little jarring.

For instance, check out this segment about DJMM (the last image is sufficient, but you don't actually have to read any of them because I'll explain it anyway, I just like providing evidence):

This is pretty much an exact recreation of his presence in the game, from his duffle bag lore to his gameplay segment (which doesn't actually make much sense to be here, since it's implied that DJ's Bouncer Mode is catalyzed by the breakers freaking out while this event here is spontaneous, but whatever).

This and other sections of the book are written with a lot of confidence, especially considering a lot of elements can't be figured out just from casual observation.

For example, here it mentions the song "Fazer Blast Jam," which is the name of the OST playing in Fazer Blast. That's not casual player knowledge, since it's never directly told in-game. Of course, it's not difficult info to find either, but it does suggest a level of care for detail.

So it makes sense that, as a ghostwriter for a book about a game that she probably hadn't played, the writer was given a list of game and lore descriptions, specifically pertaining to the major areas and bosses in gameplay. (I also think she had the wiki pulled up, but I go over that later.) This includes the Daycare and the DCA!

With the same level of confidence she writes about the DCA, you'd think their segment was also ripped directly from the game. But as it stands, this is really the only lore description that isn't backed up by definite game evidence, which seems to discredit its validity. I believe I know the reason for this, though!

By now, I'm pretty sure we're all on the same page that Moon had more content planned, right? From a ton of unused animations, to his consistent buildup over the game with no payoff, to that endo area with Moon's face plastered everywhere, to whatever "Plan B" was supposed to be, we were at least meant to see a bit more of him than we ended up with. I assume that the DCA's history was supposed to be revealed later, likely from a duffle bag near Moon's boss fight like how the others' lore is revealed, but Moon's boss fight never got added, so neither did the lore message.

(It's also interesting to note that in the book, Moon does literally nothing except say one of his canon lines. We see nothing about how he acts. Maybe his appearance in the Daycare wasn't considered as influential or as important to describe. Makes sense: Gregory doesn't actually get to defeat Moon like he does the other animatronics, which is what I presume Moon's boss fight would lead to.)

With this context in mind, the fact that their lore wasn't included in the game itself doesn't necessarily mean that the author is making it up.

Actually, the thing that cements it for me is this line:

They're directly compared to Jekyll/Hyde. This probably doesn't ring any bells for you, but I've scoured for every semi-official scrap of the DCA I could find, and Steel Wool consistently describes the DCA as Jekyll/Hyde: it's in their quintessential idea of the character. It's how the executive producer Ray McCaffrey described them in his blurb on Steel Wool's website (the page was rewritten some time ago to no longer include this text, so here's a link to the archived version).

I could have sworn there was another instance of this, but it's not in the cookbook or FNAF:SB guidebook like I thought it was; I'll have to search through the other books later. (Edit: found it! It's how they're described in the FNAF Encyclopedia! And it's also how Kellen Goff, their VA, described them in an interview.)

Keep in mind that in 2022 when this book was published, the fandom was still split over whether the DCA was two different animatronics, at least from the posts I was seeing. Jekyll and Hyde are definitively NOT two different people (I've reread that book an infinite number of times, and I actually have a lot to say about it in relation to the DCA, but that's for another time). The DCA wiki page somehow doesn't even mention Jekyll/Hyde anywhere! The author most likely wrote from a fact sheet just like other ghostwriters for the FNAF series do.

There are certainly many aspects of this book that are not at all related to the game. The entire premise of this story is Abe secretly living in a huge high-end residential complex called the FazPlex tower, which is supposedly visible from inside the Pizzaplex, and his room is run by glitching AI personalities that we never hear about in canon. These concepts are relevant to the game's themes, but certainly don't appear in and are not canon to the game or lore itself.

However, note that all the actual lore stuff happens outside the established FNAF:SB setting, like the writer didn't want to manipulate anything canon to the game. It feels like the Pizzaplex and the Faztower are two completely separate worlds, one based exactly on the gameplay of FNAF:SB and one just vaguely relevant enough to sell another spinoff FNAF story. Sure, the book has a lot of things that are definitely not canon, but none of them in regards to the Pizzaplex; in fact, I doubt the author wrote anything that intentionally strayed from Steel Wool's guide sheet or the wiki.

This could leave room for the author to interpret the fact sheet, but the text is written so plainly that I think it's pretty one-to-one with what Steel Wool told her. It's too specific and pointless to be creative liberty, and I highly doubt it was a headcanon from the author or the wiki. With all the specific details about the Plex's layout, I'm pretty sure the author had images or the wiki pulled up while writing, but this wouldn't affect the DCA's lore; again, the book was published the year after FNAF:SB released, so it had likely begun writing a few months prior, and I don't think anybody online had even considered the idea of them being a theatre bot at that point—the most I saw was someone briefly mentioning the sun/moon-shaped masks above the theater entrance. I remember how uncertain the wiki was in the DCA fandom's days of infancy, like it was scared to make a non-canon claim since there was so little to work with in-game. It actually sites her for their current claims about the DCA being related to the theater, and even then it treats the idea dubiously.

From all of this, it feels pretty certain that Steel Wool designed the "DCA was a repurposed theater bot" thing to be canon, told the writer about it, and just neglected to explain it in the game, or maybe the book was a result of them realizing they forgot to explain the lore they made and trying to clear it up after the fact. Either way, the idea is clear.

But does that mean it actually is canon?

Well, that depends. The only thing it can really confirm is the fact that SW intended it to be, just like they intended DJMM's Bouncer Mode to be canon. The difference is that, since the DCA thing wasn't explicitly explained in the game, Steel Wool theoretically could have changed their mind about it at any time. I doubt it honestly, they have no discernable reason to, but you never know! It's more plausible now that Sun/Moon got more attention in HW2 and SotM.

Another factor is whether you value SW's vision of canon. They may have intended to include it, but they didn't, so it may be more satisfying to form your own conclusions based on the info we actually see in-game. I myself do this with Monty: SW consistently refers to Monty as solely "angry" and "jealous," which to me feels disrespectful to the complex setup and potential of his character. (I may write about this in the future, because there's a lot of symbolism with Bonnie that gets ignored, especially in RUIN, but that's another post for later.) In these cases, differing interpretations just feel better even if they're not "canon" by the writers' design.

TL,DR: I think maybe Steel Wool intended it to be canon, but they never really followed through, so whatever. Live your truth regardless.

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Fire username

Thanks bro

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What if I side quested with you, what if we braved dangerous waters and searched for treasure???

I would love nothing more than to brave treacherous seas, cross fantastical lands, and meet bewildering creatures alongside you, regardless of whatever treasure may or may not lie ahead! But if we do find treasure, since this side quest was initiated on my blog, I think it would be only fair to split it 60/40 in my favor.