Here I share my theories, talk about theories i dislike, debunk theories, and give my opinions on the lore as a whole.
I created Elizabeth Afton and wrote the FNAF lore before Scott Cawthon stole from me so please take everything I say here as 100% canon fact!!
BYI please know that I am heavily critical of FNAF theories and popular theorists. My opinions are solely my own and I don't subscribe to any popular theories that don't have solid evidence!
The FNAF fandom has a really big problem with age (aka I HATE your age "headcanons")
"its just my au!" "it's a headcanon!" "it's just a theory" "the characters ages aren't confirmed!"
These are all things I've heard when criticizing the VERY common age headcanons/theories for the child FNAF characters. And honestly, these excuses are TIRED. Has anyone in this fandom ever interacted with a kid? Been a kid? Hell have you even HEARD OF a child?
There is genuinely no way any of you can look at the mci, Charlie, Elizabeth, or CC and imagine that these kids are even near the age of 10. So why is EVERYONE headcanoning them as MIDDLE SCHOOLERS???
I get it. Child development is hard to understand. But there is genuinely no way that you people believe a 13yo Cassidy would believe that the guy in the Chuck E Cheese suit is the real Chuck. PLEASE be serious. A middle school aged child would know for a fact that William Afton is not Springbonnie, he's an employee in a suit. A MIDDLE SCHOOL AGED CHILD WOULDN'T EVEN WANT TO BE IN FREDDY'S BECAUSE IT'S FOR KIDSSSSS. There's a reason Mike and his friends are such bullies. THEY are the middle schoolers come onnn.
And before you are like "well how am I supposed to know these kids ages? It's not stated. What if my theory is that they were 13-14?" First of all, the ages for the victims have been stated a million times over.
Silver Eyes Trilogy places Charlie at 3 and Elizabeth at 5.
Into the pit states that the MCI are YOUNGER than 10yo Oswald. In the novelization of the fnaf movie, it is once again stated that they are younger than Abby, another 10yo.
In the Silver Eyes trilogy it is stated that Michael Brooks is about 7 and all the other MCI are close in age to him.
SO WHY IS EVERY HEADCANON THAT THEY ARE 10-14????
Why is Elizabeth so constantly stated to be 11 in artworks (to the point people think its canon) when she is stated to be 5 in her only canon appearance? Scott went the extra mile to put Mangle (a toy for toddlers) in her room if Fnaf 4!! Mangle is literally in a baby room in AR in reference to Elizabeth’s room come onnnn.
Even in the Ticket to Fun kit, the child Afton fails to kill is 8!!! It has been routinely shown that the age of Afton's victims range from 3-9 in multiple continuities. Why would it suddenly be different in the games? Every time Afton has been met with a 10yo or older (Fnaf movie, Into the pit, Silver Eyes) the child has been able to instantly tell that he isn't to be trusted.
And please don't get me started on Michael. No 16yo is going to be bullying a 6-9yo child 🤦🏾♀️ Mike is the most obvious Middle School/Freshmen child and yet artists act like he's pushing 20 for some reason. The character he's a parallel to in the frights books is literally 14.
The ages of these kids is so clear based on how they act and the repeated evidence, yet for some strange reason the fandom is obsessed with aging them up. Why? Is it so Afton seems like less of an evil person? Is it because you don't understand how children mature? Or is it because you want to put them in more mature situations in your fanworks and sexualizing 16yo Jeremike feels more moral than acknowledging that those kids just hit double digits?
Either way you annoy me anddd everytime I see these characters with weird ass nonsensical ages I roll my eyes. Hope one day the fandom fixes issue because it's suchhh a pet peeve of mine holy.
