okay, so. gonna give the obvious warnings here for: child murder/death, child abuse (mostly verbal + emotional/psychological from William, implied physical abuse from Andy, Cass, and Josh's dad), implied drugging, bullying, and implied racism. also implied transphobia. and repetition + occasional references to drinking and smoking.
so imagine, for a moment.
your name is Rory Andrews. everyone calls you Andrew or Andy, though, enough so that you respond to either of those. you're not sure Why people call you that; it's not your name. but hey, you don't really Care. it's just confusing, that's all.
everyone picks on you, your sister, and this one kid who cries a lot for some reason. you also hang out with other kids in your grade: this girl who constantly talks about dogs and plays in Freddy's arcade and offers to take you, your sister, and your friend rollerskating, a kid who likes playing baseball and talking about creepy stuff with your sister (who everyone treats weirdly for saying she's a girl, and you still don't understand why), and this other boy who spends a lot of time in the arcade at Freddy's who also plays baseball as a pitcher. they're all pretty nice, but you like hanging out with your sister and Teddy the most!!
you got kicked out of your last school for biting people that pissed you off, or who were mean to your sister. it also meant you and your siblings had to go live with your dad now. for some reason. Josh says it's your fault that you're all in this mess now, and Cassidy tells him to shut up. you've been threatened with being kicked out of this school too, because you've been getting into fights, but the good news is that bullies leave you alone now!!
well...you kinda had to stop so you wouldn't get kicked out again...and because Daddy told you to get your act together or he'd "make you get your act together." so you've quit doing it. at least where anyone would see.
your big brother's been hanging out with Teddy's big brother, Mike, and they've both been so mean to him!! just because he cries a lot when going to Freddy's and the diner!! sure, he got super scared of going to either of those places after Mr. Emily's daughter got killed, but you don't understand why he's so scared of the robots now. he used to only be creeped out by those things.
a lot of your classmates have been going missing this summer...correction, just for this month. Susie (the dog girl), Gabi and Jerry (the baseball players)...it scares you and Cassidy a little, you won't lie.
and then, in early July, just a few weeks before Teddy's birthday, you were all spending time at Fredbear's one evening, just an hour or two before closing. Josh and Mike were being assholes to Teddy. Again. so you went off to get them to stop, while Cass says she's going to go get more soda. eventually, you got a hold of your brother's cigarettes and made him and Mike have to chase you down the street, but not before you saw your sister following O'Hare away from the soda fountain. you think nothing of it.
not until you come back, finding Teddy hiding under the table and crying, and discovering that Cassidy is gone.
you and Josh look everywhere, and the more you look and the less you find, the more distressed you get. Why Is Cassidy Gone? Where Is Your Sister? Your Twin Sister?
why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why why?!
as your brother calls the police, and you try to console Teddy (who is inconsolable), you just hear your brother say, over and over again, "Dad is gonna fucking kill me."
you hardly do anything over the next few weeks, except draw some pictures for Teddy's birthday. apparently, your brother can't stop being an asshole, and he keeps bullying Teddy. you don't get what his problem is!!
Teddy's been crying a lot more, and he keeps saying stuff about his plushie talking to him. he says it sounds like Cassie's voice. she keeps saying "weird stuff."
and then his birthday comes around. you tried to get them to stop, to put Teddy down, to stop dragging him over to Fredbear, to stop, stop, STOP
and then Teddy got bit. he was in the hospital for three weeks.
due to how...Daddy reacted to what Josh did, you and him apparently had to be put in something called "foster care." like, yeah, you're Also pissed that Josh hurt Teddy really bad, but jeez.
you don't even understand why you can't just go stay with Mommy. you miss living with Mommy. but everyone keeps telling you that "she's too sad about Cassidy to be able to take care of you well." you can't blame her, you guess. you're still really sad about Cassidy, too.
the last time you saw Teddy was when you went trick-or-treating that Halloween together. he said his family was going to go to Fallfest. you weren't able to go.
you learned the next morning that there were some fires at Fallfest. a really bad one was at the Carousel. Teddy had been on the Carousel.
it was only around a week later when Mr. Afton, Teddy's dad, decided to take you in. not Josh (though you technically understand why, it still hurt to be separated from your brother). Mike...wasn't looking so good.
Teddy had told you that Mike was a lot nicer after The Big Bite. tried to help where he could. and you got to witness it firsthand.
Mr. Afton (technically "Dad" now? you just know him as Teddy's dad) starts giving you medicine to "help you sleep." it doesn't; it honestly helped do the exact opposite. you have horrifying nightmares, sometimes about the robots at Freddy's, sometimes about Cassidy and Teddy, sometimes other things.
and then Teddy's plushie talks to you. you hear Cassidy. you hear Teddy. you hear Mr. Emily's daughter.
Mr. Afton calls you crazy, and "jokes" about sending you to a therapist, or even an asylum. you don't find those jokes particularly funny.
Mike stands up for you. he lets you sleep in his bed some nights when you wake up from the nightmares. he lets you watch TV with him some nights.
Lizzie's really sad about her little brother. she doesn't like talking to you much, she thinks you're here to "replace" Teddy. you're starting to think that's why you're here, too.
in January of 1984, Cassidy told you where her body is. in the woods, buried in a box. you started running in the middle of the night, often while Mr. Afton was out drinking. that way he couldn't force you to take medicine. you'd search for as long as you could before it got too cold in your alligator onesie to keep looking. and yeah, Mr. Afton would get mad at you when you did this, but you didn't care.
you hate him. you absolutely HATE him
because what'd Cassidy ever do to him?! why he have to take her away from you?! what'd either of you do to deserve this?!
you figured out where she was in mid-February. you just started digging and digging and digging, hoping to find the box, to find her so you could get her justice.
you stayed out too late that night. Mr. Afton noticed.
the only thing you really remember after that was clawing at his arms and biting at his hands as he held you under the lake. and then not being able to breathe. you think you remember Mike's voice before it all went dark.
and sure. you got to be reunited with your sister, and with Teddy. and you found out what happened to the Others.
but you're stuck in a dark, dark room, unable to move, unable to get anyone's attention. you can only look through the cracks in the stage curtains. forced to watch the world go by.
and with seemingly no care that you're gone.
...i'd honestly be pretty damn pissed, too.
