I've been thinking about the latest Game Theory video and there's this absolute insistence everyone seems to have that Edwin designed every character that Fiona didn't walk on screen and loudly announce she made herself, (and they even say this about the ones she DID say she made herself??) so I've decided to make a post on who actually made each character using logic and in-game evidence. I'm going to look at every single character I can find in Secret of the Mimic, both important and unimportant for a total of about 44 characters so this may take a while.
Lets start with the obvious. Freddy and Bonnie. Since the release of the game, we can't really be sure who designed who here, but the Murray's more than likely had nothing to do with them. Edwin's dad has clearly had dealings with Fazbear before, but again, I find it very unlikely that it wasn't Henry, William or whoever else we haven't met from Fazbear Ent that designed the Freddy and Bonnie characters. The MCM was commissioned to create the springlock suits for them and that's probably as far as that goes, or is at least all we've really been told about it so far.
Chica, Mr Cupcake, Mrs Burger, Mrs Shake and Mr Chicken were all of course, Fiona's design. This was clearly a project she worked hard on too given the amount of stuff there is for Chica's Party World hanging around everywhere. We know Fiona definitely designed them because of this mail log you can find in the warehouse.
It doesn't get a whole lot more explicit than that! Fiona designed Chica and her lil guys. Case closed on that one.
Next up is Roxy, and by extension, the rest of the pirate puppet crew, minus Captain Cobalt who we'll come back to in a minute. The puppet crew is originally entirely made up of hand puppets and includes the characters Foxy, Roxy, Bawson, Kit and Renard. While we can't be sure they were all made at the same time, we do know that at least Roxy was made specifically as a gift for David on his first birthday. We also know Edwin doesn't understand kids at all as we get to watch him make David cry with her puppet during that birthday reel, but anyway. This means at least Roxy would have been made in the year 1970, alongside the White Tiger doll.
We can assume from the birthday reel, and the fact that Fiona was a well known puppeteer who also made her own puppets, that the rest of the puppet crew were also made by Fiona as well. We learn this about her in two audio recordings, both of which being outside the showrooms. One is in an office to the right that tells us how Edwin and Fiona first met, and the other being behind executive access on the Mr Helpful there that shows how Edwin proposed. If I had to guess, I'd say the puppets were all made for David's birthday, be it his first or otherwise, but we can't really know that for sure.
What we do know for sure, is that Foxy was originally a hand puppet as well, as this very puppet is a collectible located in the Storytime Showroom. We currently have no evidence to suggest he's any older than that hand puppet, so unless Fiona made only the Foxy puppet specifically for Fazbear or some other company, I'd say it's safe to assume she made the original Foxy character as well. She could have been commissioned to design him, but I find this unlikely given how the puppets were a gift to David, and also because of what the Foxy puppet in the theatre show now looks like. More on this in a moment.
The final member of the puppet crew, is Captain Cobalt, a (presumably) second generation springlock suit of a bulldog that honestly looks more like a lion. The Captain suit is clearly used in the theatre shows and demos regularly, and the issues with water causing springlock failures appears to have potentially been fixed at some point by Edwin. But who designed the actual character?
I don't think we have enough information to really tell for certain, however, we do still have something to work with here. His design is pretty complicated, with a lot more details than anyone else in the crew, and is pretty unique when you compare him to all the other characters we see in the MCM. His blueprints that are scattered around the MCM are also the only ones without any MCM branding on them, and instead, have a vague signature in place of it, as you can see here.
I've heard @idsfantasy (sorry for the tag) has said this could be Henry's signature, and honestly, I see it. Whoever's signature it is though, this is not an MCM blueprint, leading me to believe that while Fiona clearly runs the theatre shows (as you hear in the audio log where she refers to one of the performers as one of her performers not one of the performers), she didn't create this specific character. Just all the other ones.
She could very much still have a had a hand in the design though! I think based on what we know for certain about the theatre, how closely Edwin has worked with at least Henry before and how Foxy has clearly become part of the four core Fazbear animatronics before Murray's went under, that Fazbear probably collaborated with Murray's on the theatre project.
Remember, everything seen in the MCM is available for purchase and or lease. Foxy could very easily have been purchased or leased by Fazbear for the restaurant project and used in the puppet shows as marketing. Which would also help explain why Foxy is a much more structurally complex puppet compared to the others. If he's going to represent Fazbear, they're going to want him to stand out. They're going to want him to have a more recognisable design that's unique to him and him alone.
With this in mind, while Fiona created the original Foxy character, Fazbear likely influenced his second puppet design, and while Fazbear (probably Henry?) worked with Edwin to design and build the Captain Cobalt springlock suit, Fiona would likely have influenced the character design as she runs the theatre he would be appearing in. So, I'd say Captain Cobalt was more of a collaboration than any one person's design.
The only other theatre character is Rocktopus, who also appears in various other places around the MCM, including the Welcome Show. The Welcome Show, only has one other character associated with Fazbear at this point in the timeline in it, with that character being Monty. More on him later, but this leads me to believe Rocktopus is probably also an MCM original with some influence from Fazbear for use in the theatre. As pretty much everyone else in the theatre was designed by Fiona, I would assume the same can be said for Rocktopus and the various other underwater characters we see on cutouts throughout the show.
Adding onto that idea of a collaboration, lets look at one of the other canines of the MCM, and probably one of the characters we know next to nothing about, Bub. Bub has a springlock suit in the R&D restaurant area beneath the main building, and the design we see there definitely shares some similarities with Captain Cobalt.
Obviously, they both have to be big enough and bulky enough to fit a human inside of them, but that's not really unique to them. They both have the very short muzzle you'd expect in bulldogs and similar breeds, and little ears that bend in the middle to make them look floppy. Bub however, is a much simpler design than Captain Cobalt, wearing just a collar with a nametag instead of a fullblown costume.
The only information we have about Bub outside of this, is what we hear in the Storytime Ending where one of the possible options for the story includes a puppy. I think it's safe to assume this is Bub and not someone else, since the other character options are all ones we find in the prototype restaurant in R&D, though she does look fairly different when you compare pictures of the two. We don't yet know how she fits into the character roster yet, just that she was replaced by either Chica or Foxy in the project, but I wouldn't be surprised if she and Captain Cobalt were at all related.
So with no real evidence to go on, I'd say either Bub was another character Fazbear leased from Murrays, was the basis for Captain Cobalt's design, or she and possibly the Captain too were from another, smaller company that Fazbear bought out before Chica's Party World and the MCM. In conclusion, Bub's creator? Remains to be seen.
Following on with another character that shares a similar design to Bub, we have Birthday Puppy. This may or may not be that guy's actual name, but we don't have another one to use so that's what we're going with.
Now, I'm not just saying all the brown dogs in this game are similar because they're all brown dogs with floppy ears or whatever. Here's an image of Bub from the Storytime Ending and Birthday Puppy side by side.
Yeah, the similarities aren't quite as strong as they were between Bub and Captain Cobalt, but honestly, this tapestry feels like an inbetween of Bub's springlock design and Birthday Puppy to me. They both have the big floppy ears and the longer snout, but Birthday Puppy's features are much more exaggerated.
If we decide this makes them similar enough to potentially be related to each other somewhere down the line, then they could also have the same designer. The posters for Birthday Puppy have a drastically different artsyle compared to anything we see anywhere else though, and there is an order form for the Birthday Puppy costume that has been filled out by "Best Birthday Co." so while it is unlikey they're from the same designer or even the same company at some point, it is still possible. Even if only a little bit.
Birthday Puppy is probably a character that was designed by Best Birthday Co. who commissioned the costumes and animatronics from Murrays. They are still a very prominent character though, so the design may have come from the earlier days of Murrays before Edwin was in charge, or could have been a collaboration with someone from Murrays in the past or present too. We really don't know a lot about them, so there's not much to go off here.
Speaking of not much to go off, lets go for the last two canines on the list, Sharpay and that black poodle on that one cardboard cutout. We know nothing about that poodle on the cutout and they aren't really associated with anyone obvious, so I'll hazard a guess and say they may be related to Sharpay or some other company and characters we don't know about yet. We do have a little more to go on for Sharpay though!
Sharpay has an order form for six costumes that was filled out by a company called Sharpay's Salon. We also see her multiple times on a poster, a cardboard cutout, a collectible plushie and in Moon.exe. This makes me think she might be a little more important in future games, but that's not what we're here for today. I would say she's been around for a while, with her poster looking a little older and her having more variety in artstyles. I'm guessing Sharpay's Salon was a prominent client of Murray's from before Edwin took over, meaning her creator is probably someone we don't know yet.
Adding to that theory, there's this sketch found in Edwin's hidden workshop.
Given the timeline of events in the game, it wouldn't be possible for Sharpay to have only been created at the time the order form was filled out as M1 would have been made sometime after David's third birthday, but before his fifth when he gets his shitty playground. This puts M1's creation somewhere in 1974 at the absolute latest, making it at least a year before Sharpay's order form was filled out in 1975. Sharpay would also have to have existed long enough for Edwin to be familiar enough with her to sketch her like this. He could have used any character for this sketch, but he used Sharpay. I'm guessing since this page of sketches is clearly focused on the M1 endoskeleton, Sharpay just happened to be the first character he thought of while he was working, so either Sharpay is fresh in his mind as a new character, or he's overly familiar with her because she's been around so long. Either could apply here, but I feel it's probably the latter.
However, like I said, she has more variety in her artsyles, so I'd say it's also likely the modern Murrays we've actually seen have been involved in the final design we see in game. The order form says they want her to have a cute collar and we don't see a collar on the older looking poster, so that may have been a later edition to her design made around the time the order form was filled out in 1975. So while her original creator is unknown, I'd say it's likely someone at Murray's added the collar, and since at the point of the order form, Edwin is probably focused on building M1, the collar probably wasn't his addition, but someone else that works for the MCM's instead.
The order forms also tell us a little about some of the other characters in the game, like Hedgehog Hudgie, Swing Bee, the Mycellium Men and Jest.
Let's start with Hedgehog Hudgie. The order form for him was filled out by a company called Hudgies in 1974. He has a Halloween mask for a collectible and appears on various signs around construction areas which leads me to believe he's probably a bit older than that though, especially since he's also on official signs in the retail showroom. The last piece of information we have on his origin is the Hudgies bar we can find scattered around the MCM that interestingly, has no MCM branding on it.
As that's all we know, I'd say he's probably an MCM original character that was commissioned by the Hudgies company. I mean, if Murrays created the mascot of a popular snack then it makes sense they'd have him on official signage as if he were their character, whilst still clearly belonging to a different company all together. I can't say for sure if this was a collaboration between the MCM and Hudgies, but I'm guessing if it was, then the MCM logo would probably be on the Hudgies packaging somewhere, which it doesn't seem to be.
Other than that? He could be anyone's design really, though I'm inclined to believe he might be Fiona's as he's seen alongside Lasso Pig on the sign in the retail showroom. That could mean nothing though. If it's not her, then it could be anyone really, there's not a whole lot to go off here.
Swing Bee is a surprisingly interesting one here. The order form was filled out by Happy Bee Inc. and the poster and honey bottle definitely suggest that Swing Bee is definitely not a Murray's character. However, Swing Bee's Bobbles is a food that exists in this game and it just so happens to have the MCM branding on the back of it.
My guess, is that Swing Bee was made by Happy Bee Inc. and they commissioned the MCM for the costumes and had the MCM manufacture the Swing Bee's Bobbles. They definitely seem like they've been around a while too, so I'm guessing they're a long term client from before Edwin took over the MCM. It makes sense too, because I just don't think they'd have had a lot of time to build enough trust with the MCM from the costume commissions to then design, test, and manufacture the Swing Bee's Bobbles before Edwin goes all in on the Fazbear project. He literally speedran this company into the ground and it takes time to get new food products onto the market, ya know?
So anyway, Swing Bee was created by Happy Bee Inc. who potentially had design help from the old Murrays, so we can probably assume the same is true for the other Happy Bee Inc. characters. That means the ladybird variant of Swing Bee and Carter Caterpillar are all most likely influenced by the old Murrays, but not created by the old Murrays.
Now we get to Jest and the Mycellium Men. Jest has a pretty solid connection to both Fiona and Edwin, so we can pretty safely assume he wasn't made by anyone else. Fiona and David are voice actors in the Jest Cereal advert and in the return letters where a customer complains that the electric hand buzzer that came with the cereal paralyzed their dog, we see it's addressed to Mr. Murray specifically. Factoring in how all of Edwin's inventions that aren't the Clean-O-Vac are all being returned and complained about, with all of them doing too much of whatever it is they're supposed to be doing, I think it's clear that Fiona and Edwin both worked together on this one.
Fiona more than likely designed Jest, while Edwin created the prank toys that came with the cereal. Who came up with the cereal thing? We don't know. I would guess Fiona, but we really don't know who's running the food side of any of this. The order form was filled out by "Internal" too which probably means the costumes were ordered by whoever is running that side of the business. They were filled out in 1976 though so it definitely wasn't anyone we know ordering them, but whatever, we're here to work out who made Jest and we've done that already so moving on!
The Mycellium Men are seemingly a similar situation on the surface. The order form was filled out in 1973, the year after Fiona died. This doesn't mean she couldn't have had a role in their creation, as the order form for the costumes was only filled out in May, meaning it'd only really been about seven months since her death. Given how they're very obviously an Edwin invention and David is used in the advert, this project was probably supposed to be just like the Jest Cereal project where all three of the Murrays were involved somehow, and Fiona unfortunately died before she could see that happen.
To add to that idea, the Mycellium Men are not only absolutely everywhere, but they also seem to have a special display dedicated to them in the admin wing. They're the only ones I've seen to have their own dedicated display like this and right next to it, there's a cabinet with a whole shelf dedicated to them with four different trophies with them. One of them is clearly the "Most Valued Customer" one you get in the Big Top Showroom, but the others are different. The Mycellium Men could have won awards, which gives them all the more reason to be displayed like this, but if they were also the last thing Edwin and Fiona made together, wouldn't that make this all the more important?
The reason they can't have been made after Fiona's death, and thereby, not have been created by her, is because the Mycellium Men dolls are highly likely to have been used by M1 to learn how to mimic Fiona, something that could not have happened if she were dead before they were made. So, given the order dates and the fact Fiona isn't in the advert when she's in every other MCM advert we've seen, I'm pretty sure Fiona designed these characters, while Edwin invented the technology behind them, and this was the last project the two ever worked on together.
Since I mentioned the trophy we get from the Big Top Showroom, lets do him next! There's virtually nothing relating to Fiona in the Big Top Showroom. Mrs Helpful is right outside in a ticket booth, but out of order and there's a lone Mystic Hippo poster, but other than that? I don't think Fiona really had much to do with Big Top's creation. He also just so happens to have a lot of the hallmarks we'd expect from an Edwin design, in that his design was very much a question of could Edwin do it, rather than should Edwin do it.
Big Top is very mechanical looking, very industrial and very unique in design compared to all the other, usually cute and cuddly mascots you see everywhere else outside of the showrooms. He's a ticket booth, that also holds advertisment boards and his arms can be turned into swings for some reason. A ticket booth that is also capable of turning into a swing ride is a cool idea, but not necessarily as good in practice as you'd might think, a trait we usually associate with Edwin's creations. Edwin's character, Mr Helpful, also runs the entire showroom, being the voice of every carnival game available, further deepening Big Top's connection to him.
While I believe his carnival is probably Fall Fest, I don't think that's really relevant to who his creator is here. Pretty much everything about him is all Edwin, and while Fiona would probably have a little influence, I don't think you could really consider her a big part of his creation. This is Edwin's brain child for sure.
Sticking to the big antagonists of the game, let's go to the first one. Jackie. We don't know shit about Jackie's origins. Given she's in the Birthday Showroom and Mrs Helpful is in the top of a birthday cake very similar to one of David's birthday cakes though, I'd say she definitely has something to do with Fiona. However, the ability to make her arms that long is probably Edwin's engineering again. I also don't think she really fits in with the rest of Fiona's characters so I'm gonna go out on a limb and say she was largely also an Edwin brain child, but with heavier influence from Fiona than Big Top had.
But you do get the Rainy Day Boot needed to get past Jackie in Moon.exe from the Rodeo Roxy carnival game, which is the only carnival game to be run by Mrs Helpful instead of Mr Helpful. So ya know, maybe Fiona had more influence over Jackie's creation than it would seem at a glance. Going purely based on her design though? She aligns herself pretty nicely with Edwin's other characters, and the added detail that Edwin missed two of David's birthday's could explain why he's not more present in the Birthday Showroom. That might be a little bit of a stretch though
Lastly for the big antagonists, you have Nurse Dollie. We know Edwin built her but did he design her? Yeah probably. Strangely, aside from Chica, all the major threats in this game seem to be Edwin's creations specifically which is really interesting in its own way. If we look at Big Top, Nurse Dollie and Jackie as though they were designed by the same person, it definitely would make a lot of sense too. It seems as though Edwin likes his more humanoid designs while Fiona tends to go for the animal designs.
It's also a little hard to tell when exactly Nurse Dollie was built, so it's still possible that Fiona had some influence, but Edwin is very proud of his doll hospital idea in his little monologue and she has so many design similarities with Big Top (the track, etc.) and Jackie (the split face, etc.) that I find it hard to believe Nurse Dollie wasn't largely his own creation. We also don't see anything Fiona related in the Doll Hospital at all, Nurse Dollie only seems to be associated with Edwin.
You could also say that given the poor working conditions of the Doll Hospital and the incinerator, that Fiona probably was dead by the time of it's creation. She's shown to be the one to bring the concerns of the staff to Edwin in several audio logs and she clearly objects to them being at risk, as seen by her reaction to Vic, her performer, almost getting caught in a springlock failure. If Fiona was still around, it stands to reason that she wouldn't allow for poor old Patrick to be locked in the Doll Hospital on a 115 hour shift. Or for ya know. Employees to be locked in an incinerator room until there's enough scrap to fill the chutes to let them out?
That would obviously leave her completely unable to influence Dollie's design in any way. It was already unlikely she was involved in this project, but her being dead makes it impossible so I'd say Nurse Dollie is a very solid Edwin design.
So who does that leave us? Well, I mentioned the White Tiger doll earlier, so lets get him out of the way nice and quick.
Yeah, it doesn't explicitly say that Fiona made it, but given the context, I don't think it needs to. Fiona is known for making her gifts for David herself, like with the hand puppets and while she probably didn't make the blocks that spell his name, David's ball is covered in MCM logos. We also know that there was - and possibly still is - a woodshop in the tunnels at some point. Which tunnels? I dunno, but we also see wooden objects that look to have been carved recently in the house and other such places, so it wouldn't be out of the question if MCM also made the blocks too.
So, with this in mind, wouldn't it be a little bit weird if this very important birthday present was shop bought? Or made by someone other than Fiona? And if you look at the screenshot again, you'll see the White Tiger doll is obtained in Chica's Party Room. The room with the only antagonist in the MCM section of Moon.exe that happens to be made by Fiona. It just makes logical sense here to assume she did in fact, make David the White Tiger doll.
Next let's talk about the lion, the crow and the elephant costumes we see at the end of Ruin and throughout Secret of the Mimic. To my knowledge, we don't see any kind of sketches or concept art or blueprints or anything for these guys really. We do see the lion and the elephant in a few Dollie images, but I don't believe we ever see the bird character anywhere. Aside from the elephant, the lion and the crow are pretty rare to encounter and I believe you can only actually do so in the Story Time Showroom, but I could be wrong about that.
If I'm right though, that would mean these two in particular have a connection to Edwin, through Night Light being used to represent him in Moon.exe and with David, as that's where his little hideout is and the ending where we see David's room is literally called, the Story Time ending. People have said the lion has a sports jacket on despite Edwin specifically saying he's never going to make anything relating to sports events and we don't really know anyone else that has any particularly strong opinions on sports.
That being said, I think the fact the lion is clearly meant to represent some kind of sporty character and is visually represented most in the recycling centre, suggests that this guy is probably from his dad's era of the MCM. We see even less of the bird character, but both are present in both the Story Time Showroom and the main house, as well as clearly being important enough to show up in Ruin. The bird's costume does show up in the workshop area where we put Captain Cobalt together, so whoever she's meant to represent is probably relevant to the theatre somehow too.
I would like to theorise that maybe the lion and the bird are representative of Edwin's parents, like how Mr and Mrs Helpful are representative of him and Fiona, but obviously we have pretty much nothing to go on here. These two are probably only hanging around (quite literally in most cases) on the off chance they're of some future use. They're probably the company's oldest characters that have faded into obscurity.
Unlike the elephant who's fucking everywhere. Now, obviously we don't know much about that guy either, but what we do know, is that it's likely one of the characters that got stolen by Stan and turned into Orville the Elephant. Thing is, those stolen characters weren't just MCM characters, they were Fiona's specifically. So, if the elephant is as old or of a similar age to the lion and the crow, I would assume this means Fiona redesigned it into what we see in Secret of the Mimic. If Fiona did create the elephant character, then why is it being grouped together with two characters that she seems to have absolutely no connection to?
This isn't something I think we have enough information on to answer unfortunately. If Fiona actually created the whole trio as well, that would kind of explain why the crow is right by where Captain Cobalt is put together as she runs the theatre. The heads of each of these characters are also present on the wall of the theatre but they might also be outside the showrooms too so that may not mean much. The lion being in the recycling centre could also suggest that Edwin was hoping to recycle the lion character as he presumably did with the elephant who also appears there, but that doesn't narrow things down all that much.
The only thing I'm sure of here, is that Edwin didn't make them. None of them fit his usual style of character design and none of them have any connection to him that isn't just Edwin not liking sports. The bird of course, could have been bought by another company or something, but then, wouldn't we see something to indicate that? Who knows...
Another character with fuck all to go off? Lyrical Lemur. We know nothing about that guy. I'm gonna guess Fiona made it though. Why? Well, there's an entire music room in the main house and it's name is Lyrical Lemur. It fits her usual mascot character design choices, and we really don't have anything else to go off here.
The same can be said about the Space Monkey we see on cutouts in the Story Time Showroom. We have even less to go off here, but given we see wooden toys of rocketships around the MCM, I would guess Space Monkey is related to those. Being in the Story Time Showroom could relate it to Fiona, but it also just as much relates it to Edwin, so we really can't say either way here. Again, we have very little to go off.
You know who we do have something to go off of though? Mr and Mrs Helpful! These were an invention that were presumably named on the day Edwin and Fiona first met, when Fiona tries to help him name his recording invention and the best Edwin can come up with is "helpful". These are the most puppet-like animatronics we see, but given they're animatronics and not actual puppets, I'd say they're probably Edwin's design. Both of them have the bow tie imagery most associated with Edwin, and Fiona honestly seems pretty fed up with these things, something I don't think she'd be feeling if she were to have made them.
The two of them have various different costumes that Fiona may have had a hand in, but the overall creation of these characters? It was all Edwin. Given these are clearly linked to the day they first met, I'd bet the reason they're like hand puppets is because Edwin based them off of Fiona's creations, and maybe it was her puppets that inspired him to make this invention of his into characters that represented them in the first place. He may have even made them like puppets to further the idea that they themselves are talking through these characters, and ya know what? He may have even made them like puppets just to impress her. Very sweet of him honestly.
On a not so sweet note, we have Night Light, also known as Sleepy Moon. This thing was clearly created by the MCM, given the branding on the blueprints, and is used to represent Edwin in Moon.exe, but... yeah I've no idea who actually made him. He's clearly the main attraction of the Story Time Showroom, so maybe it was Fiona? It would be interesting if M1 chose a character Fiona made to represent Edwin in a game like that.
He could of course, be from the older MCM eras, but we don't have much to suggest that. He could be one of Edwin's creations, which would tie into the fact all the other showroom animatronics were his creations too. It would make sense in that kind of context and David clearly seems to have liked him so having a little hideaway in Night Light's showroom would also make a lot of sense.
Ultimately though? We have pretty much no information on this guy. His origins are purely speculative. I think it's probably Edwin, but it would be interesting if it was Fiona. Well, Edwin's character falling through the floor of the Story Time Showroom and obliterating Fiona's puppet theatre would also be pretty interesting, but Fiona's only showroom character being destroyed after her death is cool too. Either work really.
Speaking of Fiona's showroom characters, Lasso Pig from the Welcome Show is most definitely one of them. Once again, Stan very clearly stole this character and turned it into Pig Patch, and he's specifically stated to have taken Fiona's character designs, meaning every character he stole? Was hers. And to be fair, there's probably not a lot of character sketches hanging around that weren't hers, so it's not like he's got a lot of options here.
This pig is also associated with the seal with all the different moustaches, and the goose/duck thing we see all over the place. All three of them are in the Welcome Show and have been made into playground rockers that can be seen at the beginning of the game when you're trying to find a way into the building. Interestingly, the only other character to get playground equipment like this is the grey elephant who has a bunch of slides, but anyway!
This suggests to me that these are a little group of probably filler characters, with Lasso Pig probably having something to do with Rodeo Roxy, the seal maybe being relevant to Rocktopus and the various other underwater characters we see cutouts for, and the duck... could be relevant to anyone really. That's a pretty generic guy right there. The jester hat would probably put it in the Story Time or Birthday Showrooms though. If not there, then it may be related to the Jest character, who we've already established as being Fiona's design.
So, if Fiona made Lasso Pig, it stands to reason the other two characters in this group were also made by her.
Following this logic, we reach the final group of characters in this long as fuck post, and the very reason I got thinking about all of this in the first place! Monty and his lil jugband!
Monty, Hippo and the two little frogs are almost always seen together, with the only exception I've seen being this one welcome poster here:
This is the only time we see these three - to my knowledge anyway - without Monty also being included, which says to me that either Monty was removed from the band at some point, or added to it. This might not be the case of course, but bear with me.
These three members of the band are three of the character designs stolen by Stan to make Mr Hippo and Happy Frog for the Mediocre Melodies. That means we know for certain that these characters were all made by Fiona. This is the easy part.
Monty, is a bit more complicated. He clearly fits in with the band, and like I said, that poster is the only time you ever see him not being included in it. I said a little while ago to remember that everything in the MCM is for sale or lease, so lets think about that for a second.
Now, we know Monty is associated with Fazbear. We don't know if he was bought or if he was leased, but I would guess he was leased for at least a little while. I mean, William and Henry were deliberately pushing the MCM to bankruptcy so leasing Monty would be a hell of a lot cheaper in the long run if they're going to own him eventually anyway. Plus, late payments on the lease can help make Edwin's money problems worse, so that's an added bonus right there.
Monty has definitely been present in Fazbear for a good while now as well. The Fazbear parade float has him as the star character, but we only ever really see him being separate to Freddy and Bonnie, a bit like how Chica, Foxy and Bub are. So if Monty isn't an MCM character, I'd say he's been bought out from another company like Chica and Foxy were. However, I'm pretty sure he's an MCM original so moving on.
Clearly, Monty is very much a well known Fazbear character or they wouldn't have a parade float for him or have a springlock suit made for him. He was probably replaced by Foxy, another character that was bought from or leased from the MCM before it collapsed, or Chica who was bought out from another company. We know from an audio log that Edwin's dad didn't trust Fazbear Entertainment, so it's probably safe to assume he wasn't doing much business with them at the time of his death and his son taking over the business.
So, if Monty wasn't from the previous era of MCM characters, he must be from the modern era, meaning he was either an Edwin or a Fiona creation. We've already established that Edwin prefers more humanoid characters while Fiona tends to prefer animals. She designed all the other members of the Jugband and most, if not all of the characters involved in the welcome show alongside him. His blueprints are seen all over the place, often times pretty close by to Hippo's and he shows up in Moon.exe twice, once as the water game collectible, and then again as an actual alligator.
Coincidentally, you also have to kill that alligator with soup you get in the Chica's Party World vacuum cup. So... I'm guessing he was replaced by Chica rather than Foxy? Or perhaps Chica's Party World ran Monty's former company out of business? Who's to say?
Regardless, this doesn't really effect who made this guy. That person was Fiona. He is only ever associated with Fazbear, Fiona and Fiona's Jugband characters. Every time we see him outside of that prototype pizzeria, he's surrounded by Fiona and her influence.
Game Theory said he was associated with Edwin but that association is entirely limited to the fact he built the springlock suit. That's it. By this logic, we can say he's represented by Bub or Captain Cobalt, but we don't because it's pretty obvious he's not. He's more likely to be represented by someone actually relevant to him, like Music Man or Moon. Honestly, I can see him being represented by Freddy easier than I can see him being represented by Monty because of the bowtie association. Edwin did not make Monty. Fiona did.
When Edwin said Fiona was the heart and soul of the company, he was not joking. It is her voice telling you how to fix those lifts. It was her that was trying to keep the staff alive and happy. It was her that kept that company from sinking under Edwin's inspired impulses. And it was her that made the characters that live on under Fabzear's corporate thumb.
So to get back on the topic of who created what characters, Edwin created Jackie, Big Top and Nurse Dollie, along with possibly Night Light as well. He and Fiona made the Mycellium Men and Jest together. Fiona had a hand in almost every other character in the MCM catalogue.
It's like Edwin said! She's the heart and soul of the company! And in more ways than one it seems!
