omg, hi Spook

"It's just media analysis bro, it won't make you gay." Comedian, improvver, FNaF theorist, gamer, not a wizard, Barry, he/him.

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Haven't used Tumblr in a while, but I'm back.

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Some random details about my FNaF AU because I feel like talking about it here

I have a FNaF AU called "Guarded" that I haven't spoken about here like, at all, so I'm gonna do that with random bullet points

The Bite Victim's name is Joseph (because stealing a name from Squimpus is more honorable to me than giving into the Evan myth)

Henry, Sammy, and Charlie are the "Parks" family, not the Emily family - Emily is Charlie's middle name. Yes I resisted the temptation to call her "Charlie Door" or "Charlotte E. Cheese"

William and Henry do have extremely gay moments thank you. Does that mean I'm going to let them be happy? You'll just have to read it and see.

Andrew is one of the characters of all time.

Michael, after the death of his brother due to his own bullying, goes from master prankster and general funnyman to having a really grim sense of humor that few other people find funny.

FNaF 2 doesn't happen. Jeremy Fitzgerald, the Mangle, and a certain event with those two characters does occur in 1987, but Freddy's is continuously open from the mid-60s to mid-90s, never closing and then reopening and then reclosing and rereopening because that doesn't need to happen.

Vanessa (last name Abney) is a night guard at the pizzeria in the '90s and her Vanny arc happens significantly earlier.

Sister Location is one of the games of all time.

The thirty-year gap between FNaF 1's events and FNaF 3's events was too boring so I've filled it with Sister Location, the Stitchline, the Pizzaplex, and hopefully some original stories.

The first story should be published by the end of Spring; I'm waiting for a review of it from my writing professor last semester.

All of this information is stuff I'm fine with people knowing going into the stories, but if I want to share more specific details on here I will most likely use spoiler tags as to give people the option.

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I HAD A LORE MOMENT LETS GO

(This is at least slightly incoherent but oh well gotta type the words before they flee my brain!)

FNAF 4 “Remember what you saw," could be because CC may have seen something pertaining to the saferoom/his dad/the dead children/etc which is why he's also afraid of the "core" fnaf cast (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy) as well as Fredbear.

To support this theory, we see in a cutscene he is locked (presumably by Michael) in the back room/saferoom, surrounded by spare parts.

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I actually had basically the same thought fairly recently. Nice.

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This post is fucking crashing my phone

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FNaF: Don't you remember what you saw? An Analysis of FNaF 4's Plushies

Unfortunately for us, the topic of what the Bite Victim could've "seen" depends on what the Fredbear plush is, so I can't simply discuss one without trying to convince you on the other.

Simply put, if the Fredbear plush is in the Bite Victim's imagination, then there's no proof he actually saw anything horrific, and thus he probably just saw something innocent and mistook it for a terrifying event that traumatized him. However, if the Fredbear plush is, say, a spirit, which is evidently omniscient and would have no reason to lie to the Bite Victim about the dangers of the restaurant, then it's clear the Bite Victim does have good reason to be afraid.

I am of the belief that the Bite Victim saw the MCI, and that the Fredbear plush is the Fredbear child, Cassidy.

First, let's talk about whether the plush's dialogue is in the kid's head, or if it's coming from a spirit of some kind. Unfortunately, the idea that it's imaginary is kind of unfalsifiable, isn't it? I mean, anything can be imagined. I can sit here and rattle off examples of things the plush does that it's unlikely the kid would imagine - and I will do that - but there's nothing that's impossible for a child's overactive paranoid imagination to come up with.

So instead of asking whether it's possible for the kid to imagine these things, I say we should ask, if Scott wanted to convey that this was not the kid's imagination, what could he have done?

The most famous thing that the Fredbear plush does that seems to be impossible for an imaginary friend is guess where the Foxy Bro is hiding. Now, his actual guess is just saying "Over there" after you've walked a predetermined number of footsteps, not like, "Behind the TV" or anything, so the line of dialogue can occur anywhere in the house. However, it's still a confident guess.

The other counterargument is that the Bite Victim could have simply known where his older brother was hiding, since they're brothers, and they're bound to know each other quite well. But then, why not tell the brother "Hey, I know you're behind the TV"? Why even walk over there in the first place? Why would it be a jumpscare if the character knew exactly what was going to happen?

Three days before the party, the Bite Victim is seen hiding under a table and crying, while the Fredbear plush is trying to convince him to get up and run towards the exit. All the kid wants to do is sit there and cry, and it takes a couple of attempts for the Fredbear plush to actually persuade the Bite Victim to get up and run towards the exit.

In this moment, it appears that the two are clearly separate entities, with separate wills, and separate personalities.

Then, in that same mini-game, the Bite Victim is forced to walk past two shadows on the wall, which he's afraid of.

The Fredbear plush's reaction to the shadows vs the Fredbear employee seems to indicate a more nuanced understanding than the Bite Victim has, or could reasonably imagine a separate entity to have. With the Fredbear employee, the Fredbear plush knows with certainty that he's a danger, more so than the Bite Victim seems to understand, and he needs to get away, NOW. But with the shadows, it's a different story - the Fredbear plush is empathetic to his fears, but doesn't share them. The Fredbear plush doesn't consider the shadows a danger as much as something that the Bite Victim needs to overcome for the sake of his own safety from the actual threat.

This is, to me, the biggest instance of them being separated.

Now, of course, all of these things can be imagined. The Bite Victim is mentally capable of imagining an imaginary friend plushie that predicts where the older brother is with a vague "Over there," that tells him he needs to be brave and leave the restaurant, and that doesn't share his fears of the shadows on the wall.

However, if Scott wanted to convey to us that this was more than just an imaginary friend, what exactly could he have done? Guessing where a character is hiding, having to convince our main character to do something that he doesn't want to, and not sharing the more paranoid of his fears definitely seems like the way to go to make it seem unlikely, but again, not impossible, because the main version of ImaginaryPlush is unfalsifiable.

But we can get closer.

The plushies as a whole play an integral part in FNaF 4.

They appear next to the Bite Victim as he dies, and disappear one by one as the beige-texted entity says their iconic speech. A speech that includes the line, "We are still your friends."

The only other time these plushies appear is in the beginning, when the Bite Victim says, of them, "These are my friends."

So it seems that when the entity I believe to be the Puppet says, "We are still your friends," the "we" is referring to the plushies, but more so than that, both times, they're not really talking about the plushies. The missing children were - and still are - the Bite Victim's friends. When the Bite Victim says "These are my friends," he's talking literally about how Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are possessed by his friends, who were wrongfully murdered in 1983.

This is relevant because it tells us that not only is the Fredbear plush representing the Fazbear Entertainment character Fredbear, but it's specifically representing Fredbear from FNaF 1.

The plushies as a group represent the FNaF 1 animatronics. There's Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Fredbear, but no Spring Bonnie, just like FNaF 1, Foxy is missing his head, (which could tie into him being "out of order" in FNaF 1,) and Fredbear can, well, teleport.

So these plushies are representing the specific animatronics that the missing children were stuffed into, and the children themselves.

Ergo, the Fredbear plush would represent Cassidy, as opposed to just being a vessel for any character to talk through who just so happens to look like Fredbear. This makes it extremely likely that the Fredbear plush is Cassidy, since it would be strange otherwise, especially if Cassidy were still alive.

The teleportation in particular is damning to me. Famously, in the first FNaF, Golden Freddy could teleport through doors. And the Fredbear plush seems to be able to do the same thing, moving from room to room and not always being in the same place in the different mini-games where you roam the house. Either there's a dozen of them hidden around town, or he's following you, and the other parallels between these plushies and the FNaF 1 animatronics support the teleportation theory at least being the intention in 4.

And if that's the case, and the Bite Victim is simply imagining that the Fredbear plush moves around, then doesn't that require him to be predicting the future? Predicting that Cassidy will teleport circa '93?

The fact that it can teleport is not only a hint towards it being Cassidy - and a weirdly-placed one if CassidyPlush isn't true - but it narrows out some options like Charlie. We've never seen any other ghost simply decide to inhabit a specific object to talk to a person, except arguably the Logbook, but that's... complicated.

In fact:

This helpful theory image created by Reddit user, uh, me, shows a pattern with Golden Freddy's appearance: he always looks like the current state the other robots are in, despite being a ghost.

When all the animatronics are in repair in FNaF 1, so is Fredbear, yet when the Fazbear band is withered and broken down in FNaF 2, so is Fredbear. And he even appears as a Funtime endoskeleton in SL. What's happening here is probably not that the physical Fredbear suit that Cassidy's body is stuffed into is actually in better condition in '93 than in '87. It's more likely that the Fredbear ghost has the ability to adapt to the state of the other animatronics.

And, thusly, it would make sense that if the Fredbear ghost were then to appear admits a bunch of plushies of those animatronics, he would (or at least could) appear as a plushie.

To summarize thus far:

Because of Foxy being "out of order," the lack of Spring Bonnie, and Fredbear's ability to teleport, the FNaF 4 plushies don't just represent the Fazbear Entertainment characters, but specifically the animatronics from FNaF 1.

Because of the "We are still your friends" / "These are my friends" connection, it is likely that the plushies represent other spirits, friends of the Bite Victim, i.e. the MCI kids.

Fredbear's ability to teleport is either something that the kid somehow predicts in 1983, or is a sign that it's an actual ghost, specifically Cassidy, using this ability we know she has.

And all of that makes this even more damning:

In the Logbook, Cassidy says "Does he still talk to you?" next to a picture of the Fredbear plush.

This page has been used by Team ImaginaryPlush in two major ways. First, the page outright asks Michael to write about if he had a stuffed animal he took with him everywhere, or an imaginary friend. But to me, this reads as a misdirect; Fazbear Entertainment has one idea of what happened, but Cassidy knows the truth.

Second, if Cassidy were the Fredbear plush, why would she need to ask? Well, it's a rhetorical question, as are most of the questions in the Logbook. "The party was for you" makes it clear she knows who she's talking to, and thus probably knows the answers to questions like "Do you have dreams?" or "Do you remember your name?"

Now, I haven't quite figured out the Logbook, but to me it's pretty clear this doesn't prove ImaginaryPlush.

However, it does know that Cassidy knew that the Fredbear plush spoke to the Bite Victim. There are two ways she could know this, one of which I think is the case:

She is the Fredbear plush.

She was alive and the Bite Victim's friend when the plush started speaking to him, and he told her about it.

I'll give you 72 hours to guess which one I think is true.

The problem with the second possibility is the evidence we discussed before that the plushies are at least metaphorically the Bite Victim's friends / the MCI victims, so... why would the Bite Victim have a toy that represents those friends if they're still alive? Hell, why would the line "We are still your friends?" even need to be said if the kids are all still alive? Just, "Even though you're dying, we're not going to stop being your friend?" That would be... strange, to say the least.

There's a number of other issues I take with MCI85, and the StitchlineGamers are going to be real angry with me for this entire post, but that's not what I want to discuss.

It sort of goes without saying that the plushies representing the missing children kind of implies they're already missing, and I've already provided a bunch of evidence that that's the case. So how would one of said children know about the plushies speaking to the Bite Victim if it weren't the one speaking itself?

Now that I've proven CassidyPlush to the best of my ability, let's switch back to what this post was supposed to be about: what the Bite Victim saw. Yeah, that's right, that entire explanation of Cassidy being the Fredbear plush was a side-tangent. We're doomed.

Given what we've already discussed, the answer is obvious: he saw the MCI, the June 26th incident, the murder of the spirits that call themselves his friends in the final cutscene represented by plushies.

This warning, "Don't you remember what you saw?" and "You know what will happen if he catches you," is real, and it's coming from a spirit who was murdered by an employee in a spring-lock costume. Truly, it isn't just a misunderstanding about something innocent he saw in the Shadows, since there would be no reason to lie.

Different theorists have used "process of elimination" on this topic to come to every individual conclusion, to a point where it sort of just depends on which order you eliminate the possibilities, but to me the fact that it prompted a fear of the spring-lock suits is what narrows it down the most. Charlie's death wouldn't have done that. And even something like a spring-lock failure wouldn't cause Cassidy to tell him it was genuinely something to worry about.

No. The Bite Victim saw the MCI. Now, the fact that he saw it at Freddy's let the bulk of the game takes place at Fredbear's may be a little weird of an assumption, but that's what FNaF 4 is all about.

I'll end on this note:

Why was the Bite Victim so scared to be in a back room?

We know he's extra scared because we have no control of him, he's screaming to be let out, he collapses in fear with no "Tomorrow is another day" to be heard, and this is the only time in the game he speaks beyond "These are my friends."

Whether there's actually a child stuffed into that spring-lock suit is a debate for another day, but could it be that the child is afraid to be locked in a back room, because the thing that he saw that scarred him happened in a back room?

Take care, ~Spook

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Rare Spook appearance

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I just want y'all to know that I wrote like 2/3rds of an AMAZING post on the Fredbear plush and then the hellsite deleted it for no reason. I literally hit "Ctrl+Z" once and it reduced the post to its first paragraph. It told me it saved drafts. It didn't. Redoing didn't work.

I hate.

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Being naked except for thigh highs being sexier than being naked is propaganda created by hentai artists because feet are harder to draw then socks

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I have returned to Tumblr. Huzzah.

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⚠️ SECURITY BREACH SPOILERS ⚠️

I just realized.

The bots representing the Afton Family.

This confirms MikeBro.

Michael is the worker bot on the side and Crying Child is the one missing it’s head.

This literally confirmed that Michael Afton is Foxy Brother

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Hard disagree from me. I mean, this is a good argument, but I think there's a lot more ambiguity here than "This literally confirms that Michael is the older brother."

Note that the server bot isn't a security guard, he's, y'know, a server. They're different jobs. Michael has only ever been a security guard and a technician, and there IS a security bot in the game that wasn't used here. You could argue whoever constructed this in-universe might not have access to a security bot, but that would be the game devs putting an arbitrary restriction on the character.

Honestly, the Foxy Bro wearing a red mask and the server bot wearing a red shirt and hat, in my opinion, is only as much of a stretch as speculating that this bot that has one job is secretly alluding to another character having another, unrelated job, simply because they're both jobs. Ergo, MikeBro confirmed.

Y'all MikeBro theorists are reaching for anything that'll confirm it. That's not gonna happen.

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Or maybe I can just have fun with theories? They don't need to be correct or accurate yknow, seeing as theyre just theories. I've theorized that there was actually a third brother and Mike isn't either CC or Foxybro. I knew it was wrong but I still enjoyed cooking it up.

Sorry you're so pressed that you reply to a post made back when security breach was just released? Like damn.

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I didn't realize I was doing anything to ruin your fun, and I apologize if I did. I also find this fun, in fact. That's why I responded to a post from January -- the fun part, for me, is analyzing the argument, even if you don't necessarily believe it anymore and even if it's old.

(Also, yeah, FNaF theory tumblr is kinda dead. I'm trying to revive it.)

Please forgive me, though, from mistaking you saying something is "literally confirmed" for you believing it's "correct or accurate." I can't imagine what could've given me the impression that this was an actual argument being made and not just something cooked up for fun. It's entirely my mistake.

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⚠️ SECURITY BREACH SPOILERS ⚠️

I just realized.

The bots representing the Afton Family.

This confirms MikeBro.

Michael is the worker bot on the side and Crying Child is the one missing it’s head.

This literally confirmed that Michael Afton is Foxy Brother

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Hard disagree from me. I mean, this is a good argument, but I think there's a lot more ambiguity here than "This literally confirms that Michael is the older brother."

Note that the server bot isn't a security guard, he's, y'know, a server. They're different jobs. Michael has only ever been a security guard and a technician, and there IS a security bot in the game that wasn't used here. You could argue whoever constructed this in-universe might not have access to a security bot, but that would be the game devs putting an arbitrary restriction on the character.

Honestly, the Foxy Bro wearing a red mask and the server bot wearing a red shirt and hat, in my opinion, is only as much of a stretch as speculating that this bot that has one job is secretly alluding to another character having another, unrelated job, simply because they're both jobs. Ergo, MikeBro confirmed.

Y'all MikeBro theorists are reaching for anything that'll confirm it. That's not gonna happen.

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The Shadows, Part 2: Charlie & Sammy

Let's start with the Puppet.

The Puppet and Shadow Freddy share an odd amount of similarities and connections throughout the series.

First, the Savethem and Follow Me mini-games have a very similar set-up: you start as Freddy, led around a map of the entire restaurant by an entity (the Puppet or Shadow Freddy) that takes you to a place you can't enter (the music box or the safe room), with the true ending to the mini-game being you getting ambushed by the Purple Guy.

And in these mini-games, the Puppet and Shadow Freddy share the same role, guiding the animatronics around.

Second, in FNaF 4, even though yes, the Halloween Update isn't canon, Nightmare (Shadow Freddy) and Nightmarionne (the Puppet) are variants of one another.

Third, in FFPS, there's two: Lefty is a black bear, almost reminiscent of Shadow Freddy, who contains the Puppet.

And at the start of the game, we see a mini-game that looks very much like Take Cake to the Children being interrupted by a black bear, also almost reminiscent of Shadow Freddy.

So it seems that the Puppet and Shadow Freddy are strangely connected characters, but Charlie (who does, in fact, possess the Puppet) being Shadow Freddy (or rather, Shadow Freddy being created via the agony of her death) doesn't really make sense.

For one, literally why would Charlie take that form? Her death had nothing to do with Fredbear.

And for two, there's no easy answer to who Shadow Bonnie is under this theory -- no one that matches the Puppet -- except...

Well, except Sammy.

But Sammy's nowhere in the games, right? And besides, the same problem persists -- why would Shadow Bonnie be the result of Sammy's death when Spring Bonnie has nothing to do with him?

My hypothesis: these two kids appear as Fredbear and Spring Bonnie because they're the two kids who died at Fredbear's Family Diner. One in Take Cake to the Children, and another in Stage 01.

After all, nothing really came of the Stage 01 kid in most people's theories, but it makes sense to tie this kid to Shadow Bonnie since Shadow Bonnie is associated with Stage 01 in his mini-game.

This theory would have to mean that Charlie died Fredbear's, not Freddy's, which isn't universally believed. But honestly, I think there's not really anything definitive on either side, so I'm okay with this being the case and have no problems with it.

If you have problems with that... uh... cope.

But the two deaths at Fredbear's manifesting as dark versions of the Fredbear's animatronics makes a little bit of sense... to me. At least.

But why specifically Sammy? Well, that part's just speculation, but under this theory this would've become true around the same time it became true (in Scott's mind) that Charlie was the Puppet, who was already connected to Shadow Freddy. As of FNaF 2 & 3, the Puppet was the result of Take Cake, and Shadow Bonnie was a result of Stage 01, but they weren't twins until FFPS.

After all, from the novels, we know that Charlie's spirit can be in one place, but the agony from her death, the grief, and sorrow that Henry felt after he lost her, gave life to something else: the third CharlieBot, the protagonist of the novels.

In fact, based on that, here's an alternate theory.

What if Shadow Freddy is, like I just speculated, the agony that resulted from Charlotte's death, but since Henry is the source of that agony, it manifests as Fredbear because Fredbear is who he always dressed up as in the restaurant?

...and what if Shadow Bonnie was the opposite: William's grief, over the loss of the Bite Victim.

After all, he must've grieved. Ballora's song in Sister Location heavily implies that he went through something very similar to Henry.

We'd still have all the Puppet / Shadow Freddy connections, since they did result from Charlotte's death, and we'd have the Bite of '83 as the source of Shadow Bonnie. It still all originated on Stage 01.

I'm still workshopping this theory. But I think the Henry / William / Fredbear / Spring Bonnie connections are something to look into if there's more evidence pointing to it in the future.

With that, that ends this part. Look forward to the next.

Love yourself, ~Spook

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The Shadows, Part 1: Why I Hate Them

Shadow Freddy and RWQFSFASXC (yes I have that memorized) also known as Shadow Bonnie are two mysterious animatronics, who first appeared in FNaF 2 and 3, and have since made occasional cameos in FNaF 4, FFPS, UCN, Help Wanted, and Special Delivery.

Although they're called "Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie," more lore-accurate names would be "Shadow Fredbear and Shadow Spring Bonnie," because of their ties to the golden spring-lock hybrid suits.

In FNaF 2, Shadow Freddy is identical to Golden Freddy, whose more lore-accurate name is Fredbear.

In FNaF 3, Shadow Bonnie appears on-stage next to the two golden suits in his dedicated mini-game.

In FNaF 4, "Nightmare" (actually Nightmare Shadow Freddy shown by the game files) is a darker copy, mechanically and physically, of Nightmare Fredbear, not Nightmare Freddy.

Finally, if the Shadows were based on classic Freddy and Bonnie, why would there not be a Shadow Chica and Shadow Foxy?

Clearly, these two ghostly animatronics are tied to the two golden animatronic/suit hybrids, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie.

But... how exactly?

Whenever I ask "what are the Shadows?" I get the frustrating answer that the Shadows are creatures that manifest from and feed on the agony caused by this series. But this answer is frustrating because that's not what I meant by the question. Not "what are they in their current state?" I meant to ask "Where did they come from? When is their point of origin?"

And it must be somewhere, right?

Eleanor from Fazbear Frights is a black, chaotic force that feeds on human suffering, and it's speculated by some that she comes from the collective agony of Afton and his victims, but there's not much evidence for that in the text. There's no stated origin.

So if you try to apply this to the games, it's tempting to say that the Shadows have no stated origin, but this would mean that the answer to "What are the Shadows?" only came during the Frights stories.

And look, the Frights stories were meant to fill in the blanks of the past, which means there must've been some blanks. There must, factually, be some aspects of the lore that weren't easy at all to figure out until the Frights books. But waiting this long for an answer to the Shadows? I'm not saying it's wrong, but I'm saying that if it's true, it sucks from a story perspective and I hate the Shadows.

What I am proposing is that "What are the Shadows?" couldn't be answered with the answer it currently has, but the question of who the Shadows are did have an answer. Because if neither question did then Scott would've repeatedly implemented these two characters into the games without giving them any semblance of meaning until the Frights books.

And once again it's not that I'm saying he couldn't have done that, I just find it hard to believe, and if it's true, I hate it.

So perhaps, in a sense, it fits with pre-established canon for the Frights books to establish that the Shadows come from particular deaths, but aren't necessarily spirits in the same way Golden Freddy is a spirit. What deaths are those?

Join me next time and I'll start discussing possibilities.

Love yourself, ~Spook

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Y'know what I haven't made in, like, forever? A FNaF Timeline

I feel like that'd be a good way to introduce myself to the Tumblr FNaF theory community properly, so you can all know what I believe goes in the timeline and where.

I don't know why Grim Foxy isn't used as the clickbait animatronic for more FNaF timeline thumbnails. He's great! Top 10 designs of the series.

Here's a basic outline:

Midnight Motorist (FFPS)

Training Tapes (FNaF 3)

The June 26th Incident (FNaF 1)

TCttC / SP (FNaF 2 / FFPS)

Give Gifts, Give Life (FNaF 2)

The Bite of '83 (FNaF 4)

Circus Baby's Pizza World

FNaF 2

Sister Location

FNaF 1

30 year gap

FNaF 3

FFPS / UCN

And that's all I'm covering since I don't really care about Help Wanted and if I could I'd remove Security Breach from canon.

Here's a closer examination of each of those items, what I vaguely think is happening there, and some other random neat details and theories that I think I can do justice in this kind of rapid-fire post.

Midnight Motorist

The first canonical event we ever see is William's drunken, abusive father returning home to find that William himself is gone.

Yes, the house in Midnight Motorist shares a lot of similarities to the Afton house we see in FNaF 4 and Sister Location, but I think that's merely to draw parallels between the two. For instance, if we learn that William had a brother that was anything like the older brother in FNaF 4, we can surmise that their relationship probably wasn't great.

And we know the mini-game most likely takes place in the UK because of the cars driving on the left side of the road in the main part of the mini-game.

But the first off-screen event of the timeline is implied by what William has run off to. It's not Jr's, since while it's not explicitly a bar, if we assume Midnight Motorist takes place at midnight, the place is still open then, so it's not a kid's restaurant.

No, instead, William runs off to this.

The Mysterious Mound, the random unmarked pile of dirt that the Yellow Fellow can stop off and visit.

Something's buried here. But what?

Well, I think it's a pet of some kind, and I think this because of one of the other Lorekeeper mini-games: Fruity Maze, essentially the sister mini-game to Midnight Motorist within the context of the actual tycoon segments, which shows evidence that William revived Susie's dog after it was run over.

Susie tragically lost a beloved pet to a speeding car, William acted sympathetically towards this, and we're also introduced to the fact that William's dad is a drunk driver and that William himself visited a random unmarked pile of dirt in the forest.

It's not that big of a stretch to say that William himself had a pet, and perhaps attempting to revive it was his first ever foray into remnant.

Perhaps the result of this revival experiment he performed as a child is the large footprint we see outside his window.

And what do we see, randomly, throughout Fruity Maze?

A yellow rabbit, popping out an an unmarked pile of dirt.

Meanwhile in America...

50 cents? Wasn't that weekly minimum wage back then?

This poster is either a very confusing throwback to the 1930s-1940s Steamboat Willie era of black-and-white animal characters, or it's an indication that Fredbear's Family Diner has been around much longer than 1982, where we previously speculated it to originate.

Which makes sense. It's a family diner, and it's Henry's family, so it was likely passed down to him, and he probably planned to pass the restaurant down to his kids before... y'know.

All five posters indicate that the history of Fredbear's Family Diner continued throughout the '80s, until eventually, William and Henry joined forces to create Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

Which soon leads us to...

Training Tapes (FNaF 3)

Head of Security, the Phone Guy, records training tapes for new employees to be able to use the specially-designed suits.

I'm going to be honest, I'm almost completely unsure of things like:

When each of the training tapes is made relative to the creation of the spring-locks, the MCI, and the creation of other characters.

Which animatronics came first: spring-locks or non-spring-locks.

Whether there was a time before Fredbear and Spring Bonnie took over Freddy's where Freddy was the central character.

But since I know the following few events happen during certain eras described in the tapes, I'm putting them here.

This Freddy's was opened from 1983 (based on HW's coins) to 1986 (speculative date) and featured pretty much most of the core events that led to Freddy's downfall.

And as established in a previous post, this Freddy's is the restaurant in FNaF 4, and these first couple tapes were at a time when Fredbear and Spring Bonnie were the face of the restaurant, and Freddy & his band were demoted to plushies, masks, and secondary characters in the Fredbear & Friends cartoon.

Until, tragically, an incident involving multiple and simultaneous spring-lock failures causes the company to retire the spring-locks.

Replacements are stated to be arriving soon, but the Phone Guy also says that the spring-lock suits are temporarily unsafe, and are being retired while they're being looked at by their technician, which would imply a re-introduction of the spring-lock suits that never comes, so it's unlikely the replacements ever came either.

Which once again brings us to...

The June 26th Incident (FNaF 1)

Whoever spell-checked these should've been fired.

On June 26th, 1983 during the late hours of operation at Freddy's, an employee (William Afton) lured five children into the safe room using the Spring Bonnie hybrid suit, and he stuffed them into the Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Fredbear animatronics.

While William was seen on-camera and was suspected of the crime, he couldn't be imprisoned because the entire thing happened off-camera and there wasn't enough evidence.

Yes, the newspaper says the suspect was "convicted," but Scott probably didn't know what that word meant seeing as he didn't know how to spell "surveliance" or "pizzaria" in his own game about looking at surveillance cameras in a pizzeria.

The Phone Guy refers to this incident on the fourth tape:

The fact that the Phone Guy needs to remind employees not to bring patrons into the safe room and not to wear the Spring Bonnie hybrid suit implies that someone did both.

Which means that the MCI must've happened after the spring-lock failure, and after the two golden suits were retired, which explains why the fifth child's body was never found inside the Fredbear suit: it had already been decommissioned.

As for why the missing child in Fredbear, Cassidy, has special powers... I couldn't tell you at the moment.

Fazbear Entertainment, in a panic to recover from this incident, sealed the safe rooms that the children were lured into to prevent William from striking this way again, and sealing the Spring Bonnie animatronic inside, preventing it from being used as evidence.

TCttC / SP (FNaF 2 / FFPS)

Facial recognition in 1987 makes perfect sense, but a puppet that doesn't destroy itself in the rain? Way above Freddy's standards.

As seen by the "Wanted" posters outside and the fact that the Puppet was made into a security measure, something dangerous already happened at Freddy's. There was clearly a crime before Charlotte was murdered, which only makes sense to be the MCI.

Based on the Take Cake to the Children mini-game, which is followed by the Puppet's jumpscare, the kid who dies possesses the Puppet. This is later confirmed by Henry "Cassette Man" Cheese in a speech where he refers to the Puppet has his daughter, Charlotte E. Cheese.

Since the only controversial part of this is when it happens relative to the MCI, there's not much else to say here. On the general timeline, there's reason to believe it happens in the fall of 1983, since that's when it happens in the novels and the MCI is the one that changes time frame, and the Fallfest of '83 is seen as a relevant date.

Give Gifts, Give Life (FNaF 2)

From the novels, a continuity where the Puppet is never stated to exist and the child who possesses it in the games has a different fate, the missing children still possess the core five animatronics. Thus, it's probable that whatever the Puppet's doing here, it isn't necessary for the children to possess the animatronics.

A reasonable guess is that what she's doing is an attempt at what happens in Happiest Day, because it's very similar imagery, with the main difference that Happiest Day is more clear that it isn't literal.

And that's what I think this is: nonliteral. The Puppet would have no motivation to hide the bodies, especially if it knew that it would result in the children's souls being trapped in the animatronics. If it didn't know that, it'd be a completely unreasonable decision, and if it did know, then the Puppet would be downright evil.

As for what it is, I'm not 100% sure, because, y'know, this is FNaF, but I know what it isn't, and that it doesn't mean the Puppet was first.

The Bite of '83 (FNaF 4)

Ever notice how those lights are shining in the wrong direction to be able to cast the shadows on the other screen? Now you do.

Michael Afton, a child who witnessed his father in a Spring Bonnie suit lure five children to the back room at Freddy's, is tragically put in the hospital after a prank gone wrong from his older brother.

I will not be elaborating as to why I think Michael is the younger brother, because it would take up 95% of this post.

Instead I'll be continuing my uncertainty about this part of the timeline. I do definitely believe that this is the Freddy's establishment and I definitely have good reason to believe that the MCI happens prior to this point in the timeline, but I haven't yet placed my finger on why Fredbear and Spring Bonnie are back. I meant what I said earlier about there probably not being replacement suits, ever, and "the suits were temporarily deemed unsafe and then replaced and then made permanently unsafe when another incident happened that wasn't mentioned in the tapes" was definitely not the intention of the tapes when they were written prior to FNaF 3's release.

Granted, I encountered this problem like two days ago so I'll definitely have a solution by then. This post is meant to be a rough timeline anyway, not a complete comprehensive solved timeline.

Anyways, uh, yeah, Michael dies. He flatlines. But luckily, his good friend Cassidy, who now possesses the Fredbear animatronic, speaks to him on his deathbed, taking the form of the plushie that spoke to him throughout the game, but in a distinctly different text color.

She tells him "We are still your friends," with "we" indicating the other missing children, not the other plushies like many assume.

And then she promises to put him back together.

Then, in FNaF World, throughout the intro and Clock Ending speeches we see "I will put you back together" speech again, with more added to it. If this is in fact the same speech being recited by the same entity to the same entity, then this is Cassidy talking to Michael and promising to put him back together while also giving him instructions on how to access FNaF 3's cake mini-games, which is a task later accomplished by the FNaF 3 guard.

Ergo we can conclude this is a promise to revive him. And that's exactly what happens.

Unfortunately we don't get to see how William and Elizabeth react to this revival, I bet it would've been very entertaining.

Circus Baby's Pizza World

From the graphic novel of The Fourth Closet, possibly the series at its most abstract.

When Michael was put into a coma, William obviously wanted to be there for his daughter, especially since their mother was probably gone by this point, and may have taken the older brother with her, considering we never see him again. I know what I said.

So, he started designing the Funtimes, a set of animatronics which would resemble the family members that were now gone - Funtime Freddy for Michael, Funtime Foxy for the older brother, and Ballora for the mother, and finally, Circus Baby, who would be Elizabeth's best friend, a gift just for her.

But then, in the wake of his son dying and coming back to life, William had two huge realizations:

Animatronics are kind of dangerous to be around kids.

Animatronics might provide a way to preserve souls.

So, wanting to further this hypothesis, even if it left a little blood on his hands, he transformed the Funtime animatronics into a series of murder robots designed to automatically harvest the agony of children from birthday parties, as we can see from their blueprints.

This, unfortunately, meant breaking his promise to Elizabeth.

Elizabeth couldn't handle this, and because she's a dumb bitch and doesn't have any redeeming qualities. She ends up wanting to see Circus Baby despite William's repeated warnings.

Why do I think this happened after the Bite Victim's death, instead of before, where most people place it?

Well, it simply makes more sense from William's perspective to be more protective of his children after the Bite of '83, as opposed to being super protective of Elizabeth, and then completely ignorant of Michael and his brother in FNaF 4.

Not to mention William is working at Freddy's in FNaF 4, so it would make a lot more sense if that was before he left to start his own restaurant, with... clowns.

Cancelled on Twitter due to donation leaks. Too soon?

The news excerpt from the infamous "Cancelled due to leaks" teaser tells us that the building was shut down due to gas leaks, and that a person witnessed all of the equipment from the building being taken out under tarps, and that the building was soon for sale.

But that's not the real reason it closed...

Circus Baby - originally a blue-eyed animatronic - consumed Elizabeth, leaving her with possessed green eyes for the rest of the series, and leaving William with only his son, and a rental facility filled with vengeful animatronics.

New-and-Improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (FNaF 2)

I don't have a funny remark for this picture I just really like this image of classic Freddy and I use it whenever possible.

The fourth and final newspaper clipping from FNaF 1 tells us that the restaurant is set to close by the end of that year, in spite of Fazbear Entertainment's repeated searches for a buyout.

FNaF 2 established that the restaurant in question was open twice, and it makes sense that all four newspapers would be from the first opening, as opposed to three being from the first opening and the fourth being from the second, especially when you look at it as the second game taking a sequel hook from the first.

After all, it was possible for the FNaF 2 restaurant to open in the first place, which meant the company had money. How would they spend "a small fortune" on the Toy animatronics if Fazbear Entertainment had just gone broke a couple years prior?

It was, after all, only in the second newspaper clipping where the restaurant was struggling to keep families returning to the pizzeria. So when they closed the first time, even if the last newspaper isn't in reference to it, it was at least in part because they couldn't keep the business afloat.

Ergo, someone must've bought them out.

And there's evidence that in FNaF 2, the other people in charge are none other than Afton Robotics.

The designs are changed to the friendly-faced rosy-cheeked plastic-esque versions of the robots, trademark Afton.

Foxy's design in particular is changed to Afton's version, white and pink instead of red and orange.

Most importantly, they're all hooked up to some kind of criminal database... kind of like the "CRMN_Inst" (criminal institute) that the Funtimes are connected to according to their maintenance schedule hidden in the Scottgames source code.

They're also the only two sets of robots with facial recognition systems at all, if that's worth mentioning.

But why would William want to own his rival's company?

We get our answer in the form of Savethem.

William Afton murders five children in this restaurant, but this isn't to further the research of remnant or simply to outlet his rage and get hide it from police; he leaves the bodies in plain sight. Out-of-view of the cameras, sure, but obvious to the customers.

These children don't go on to possess any animatronics, and their peace is never disturbed. They can't be "saved."

This is obviously a stunt to absolutely ruin the reputation of Freddy's, Henry's brand, because William wants to ruin Henry's life. William killed Henry's daughter, bought out his company, probably fucked his wife at some point, and is now running Fazbear Entertainment into the ground with this new obvious murder, possibly all in revenge for Henry making the Fredbear animatronic that killed his son.

Temporarily, of course.

FNaF 2 is all part of William's plan.

Which brings us to Jeremy's week.

"Even LESS money?!?!" -Elon Musk

As is generally accepted as canon by now, William is the first night guard at this restaurant, the one that gets moved to day shift, and the Savethem murder is committed during one of these day shifts, before the Phone Guy mentions the investigation to Jeremy.

Meaning Jeremy's week is quite eventful.

At the end of the week, Jeremy is moved to day shift for one last event: a birthday party, wherein he is told to "wear your uniform" and "stay close to the animatronics" two things that get Jeremy attacked by an animatronic in what would come to be known as the Bite of '87.

The attacker is most likely the Mangle, given her angle of attack would be perfect for removing the brain.

Then Fritz Smith works one night, is fired, and the game's done.

Which leads us to the second-most intense binary debate as to who Michael Afton is: Jeremy Fitzgerald, or Fritz Smith.

I think Michael is Jeremy.

Jeremy has dreams (as they're referred to in the files) between nights about the FNaF 1 restaurant, showing he clearly has a history with the company and isn't a random bystander.

It makes more sense for the protagonist of all six games to be one person than for one person to be five of the six main protagonists and then one secondary protagonist.

FNaF 4's teasers still connect the nightmares to the Bite of '87, and the evidence we're dreaming as the victim of the Bite of '87 still stands, it wasn't magically erased when Scott confirmed it wasn't what we were seeing in the mini-games. We're dreaming as Michael, therefore Michael is the Bite of '87 victim, Jeremy is also the Bite of '87 victim, therefore Michael is Jeremy.

The common counterarguments are:

Michael can't be the Bite of '87 victim because otherwise he wouldn't be able to have nightmares.

Fritz and Mike Schmidt are fired for the same reasons.

For the first point: do we really think Scott did that much research into the effects of lobotomies before making his silly horror game? Do we really think FNaF adheres to science?

For the second point: by this point, Scott wasn't planning to make any two protagonists the same person, at least it wasn't likely, so this probably was never intended as evidence for this. Besides, Fritz and Mike being fired for "tampering with the animatronics" is clearly in reference to what the player does, setting the animatronic AIs for the Custom Night challenges.

Ergo, them performing the same action is adequately explained by the player being in control of both characters when it was performed, in the same way it'd be ridiculous to argue that two GTA characters are the same because, while the player was controlling both, they were arrested for the same crime.

More importantly, Fritz is someone else: the Phone Guy.

The last we hear of who'll be replacing us is that the Phone Guy doesn't have anyone lined up, but he does plan on taking over the night shift when the restaurant reopens, so it's entirely possible that the Phone Guy took over, but Scott wanted to leave a little wiggle room for the sake of mystery.

And despite it being Fritz's first day on the job (not just with the company, mind you) he doesn't get a phone call instructing him on how to work as a nightguard.

Ergo, Jeremy is Michael, and Fritz is the Phone Guy.

Man, Scott got through a whole newspaper without making a typo... wait, nevermind, the first sentence uses the wrong "its." "--closing it is doors."

The New-and-Improved Freddy's is scrapped, the old robots are being kept in storage in case the old restaurant reopens, and the new ones are scrapped completely because of the Bite of '87.

Sister Location

Michael Afton, under his father's instruction, takes a job at the rental facility, Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rentals, and it doesn't go well. After working his five nights, he has his organs scooped out, and Ennard (the amalgamation of all four robots that desperately wanted to escape) crawls into him. He slowly rots over the course of a week before vomiting Ennard out.

It's here, it's there, it's everywhere!

Boy, that was a quick summary! That's because most of that is generally agreed upon and I don't feel the need to explain it; we're playing as Mike, Ennard is the other animatronics, yadda yadda.

But there's still one question left in Sister Location: who the hell is preventing the Sister Location animatronics from leaving?

What the hell at Afton Robotics is more powerful than William, the CEO, and would prevent him from simply moving the animatronics out of the facility because he's the boss?

My answer? HandUnit.

(or more accurately the series of automated systems within the facility that HandUnit is the voice of.)

It's my belief that everything runs on automation at CBE&R, and that something is watching the animatronics, but we're not told what, and that the animatronics have been trying to destroy or escape HandUnit, but have failed thus far.

It really isn't hard to believe given how sus HandUnit is as a character and how much he says things that directly oppose what Baby & the gang tell you, and just how much he encourages Michael to shock and torture the animatronics. He's in charge of all that.

HandUnit is the real villain of Sister Location, class dismissed.

...wait, no, come back, I'm not done yet--

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (FNaF 1 / Logbook)

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza reopens under its own management, on what very little budget they had after closing down in 1987. This time, though, Afton Robotics' main facility had killed almost all of its employees, and Afton himself really didn't do much to run the company, and Henry was either elsewhere at this point or was too depressed to want to come back, so I'm not sure who exactly is opening this restaurant up again, but it doesn't particularly matter.

Michael Afton once again works here -- as he would later state, his goal is to find his father.

He uses the name Mike Schmidt, which has a couple interpretations: (1) "Schmidt" could be his mother's maiden name, which would make sense if he were distancing himself from the Afton name, (2) "Mike Schmidt" could be a name that wasn't his real one but would still be one his father would recognize, or (3) "Schmidt" could simply be pulled out of his ass, but again, not super important.

What is important is that this is when he writes in the Logbook.

Cassidy -- Golden Freddy -- likely mistakes Michael for William, but when she realizes who he is, she helpfully leaves him clues in the Logbook to help him remember his past: that there was a party where he got bit and he died.

This is quite confusing to Michael.

But yeah, besides the Logbook taking place in 1993, there's nothing really for me to establish here. Mike just works a week at Freddy's, which he's done before. The End.

wait no that's not the end come back--

30 Year Gap

Scottgames: "You are crowding us." FNaFworld: "Be quiet." Scottgames: "You can't tell us what to do anymore." FNaFworld: "Yes, I can. You will do everything that I tell you to do." Scottgames: "We outnumber you." FNaFworld: "That doesn't matter, dummy." Scottgames: "We found a way to eject you." FNaFworld: "You would be lost without me." Scottgames: "Ha, ha! Say goodbye to our friend!" FNaFworld: "I can put myself back together."

Based on this "conversation" between Scottgames and FNaFworld's respective websites, Circus Baby and the rest of Ennard had a bit of a dispute, which is why Baby is separate later on.

In this conversation, FNaF World represents Baby and Scott Games represents the other Ennard animatronics, particularly Freddy.

In 1994, the most dangerous job in Hurricane Utah was furry.

After Freddy Fazbear's closes down one last time, William returns to the abandoned facility and destroys the four remaining animatronics. William encounters Molten Freddy -- Ennard sans Baby -- and captures it, performing experiments on it with remnant and using the abandoned safe room as a hideout.

He adds the five missing children's endoskeletons to it (or perhaps just four if Fredbear's is already in there) and thus the spirits of those children are now in Molten Freddy.

I'm not sure what William intended to accomplish with that, but he seems pretty firmly uncertain of what the hell he's doing when he experiments in The Fourth Closet, with only vague goals in mind, so I don't see that as anything near a character inconsistency.

Unfortunately, the spirits of the children are pretty damn angry that their spirits are now voiced by Kellen Goff (I'm kidding, of course, the kids are still angry about the murder) and they take revenge, forcing William into the Spring Bonnie suit, but in a panic, he trips the locks, and the endoskeleton parts completely impale him.

Even though Freddy's is closed, the remaining Freddy's higher-ups find out that the safe room was broken open, and they seal it up again, so that nothing remains of the legacy.

Meanwhile, Michael lives in the shadows and promises his father that one day, he will find him. Michael's motivation at this point is simply finding answers: what happened to him? Why is he still alive? Why did he survive the Bite of '83? And why did he survive Sister Location?

And most importantly... did William really kill those children?

So, to recap, at this point in the timeline, and for the next thirty years, we have Michael laying low as a corpse waiting for any sign of his father, William trapped in the safe room inside his musty old fursuit, and Baby and Molten Freddy crawling around in the sewer and the streets, likely gaining a reputation not unlike the Stitchwraith.

So... what breaks it? What ends this thirty year gap in the timeline? What, around 2023, ends this timeline stagnation?

Well, we could answer the opening of Fazbear's Fright, but then, whose idea was that? Look at the text of FNaF 3's trailer...

He will come back. He always does. We have a place for him.

This is in reference to the Purple Guy, obviously, and the "place for him" is Fazbear's Fright. The plan was to invite Springtrap into a building and set him on fire.

And the line is perfectly fitting for Henry.

No comment.

I'm not saying that the character of Henry was planned since FNaF 3 any more than the character of Charlie was planned since Take Cake, but the roles that those characters would later fill were planned, to the extent that FNaF 3 and its trailer established William as having an old nemesis, and Henry was simply an expansion of this concept.

So now the question is, why did Henry wait so long to enact revenge?

Here's one hypothesis... he was in prison. He was framed for the incident of June 26th, 1983. The novels say William was never caught due to a lack of video evidence, even though the first game says a suspect was caught. Earlier in this post I reconciled this by claiming it was later changed and/or that Scott didn't know what "convicted" meant, but is it also possible someone else took the fall?

Someone William would absolutely frame if he had the chance?

After all, the novels also tell us that Henry was suspected, though everyone who knew him knew he would never do it.

I'm not claiming this as 100% true. I'm like 60% sold on this theory and haven't really found any GOOD evidence yet that this is what Scott intended as of FFPS. But it makes complete sense as a story, as a revenge plot, and it gives a satisfying answer to this question.

The thirty year gap ends with FNaF 3, marking the third act of the original FNaF saga: Henry's comeback.

Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction (FNaF 3)

Based on this timeline, there must've been a confrontation at some point wherein a grizzled, vengeful, forty-years-in-prison Henry who recruits the Phone Dude, this chill, laid-back 21-year-old surfer bro, and oh my god I wish they had screen time together. I want to see that so bad. That should be a TFTPP story.

Anyway, with these two ragamuffins teamed up, they open the horror attraction at an amusement park, and they search the original Freddy Fazbear's Pizza for relics.

What they find initially are the original four animatronics... as empty shells, disconnected limbs, with no endoskeletons.

Because that's how they were left by the Purple Guy's rampage.

Then, a guy who helped design one of the buildings (probably Henry) tipped them off to the existence of the safe rooms, and when they checked, they found a real animatronic: Springtrap.

After five more nights, the building burns down, and as discussed in the last section, this was probably the work of Purple Guy's enemy, the one from the FNaF 3 trailer who would later become Henry. Especially considering the plot of FFPS.

Speaking of which...

Freddy Fauxbear's (Pizzeria Simulator)

So, turns out, Springtrap, the Puppet, Henry, and Michael all survived the fire of FNaF 3. Whoops. Honestly I'm fine with that, just as long as that doesn't happen again.

Honestly the only potential casualty in FNaF 3's fire could have been the Phone Dude... poor guy. So innocent.

Anyways, Henry pretends to open up a new Freddy Fazbear's location, knowing that his old friend William and the remnants of Ennard will show up. He also creates a new animatronic, Lefty, to deploy, search for, and integrate with the Puppet, to lead back to the restaurant so it can be with all the others.

The Puppet, Scraptrap, Scrap Baby, and Molten Freddy are, to Henry's knowledge, the only remains of remnant in the series, the only possessed materials that weren't burned in Fazbear's Fright, so all he has to do to put an end to this nightmare is lure all of them back to a restaurant and burn it to the ground with them inside.

Michael Afton also returns, which Henry doesn't expect. Michael, unlike Henry, knows that he contains remnant, and thus to end the horrors of Freddy's legacy once and for all, he allows himself to be sacrificed as well.

And that's where the original FNaF 1-6 timeline ends.

With Henry taking revenge and ending it all.

He definitely succeeded. There were no more games after that.

So, what did you think? How much of this did you agree with? Did you find this post easy to read? Let me know your thoughts.

Love yourself, ~Spook

[omghispook]

FNaF Theory: Candy Cadet DECIPHERED

Look, if you're here, you're probably familiar with Candy Cadet, so let's just recap the three stories he tells real quick.

These stories famously contain the underlying element of five things becoming one thing, which many believe applies to Molten Freddy, a combination of the original five MCI animatronics.

However, not all of these stories represent the same thing. There are too many differences. And in the Five Kittens story, no five things become one thing. There are five kittens, of course, but at no point to these kittens fuse into one kitten.

I think the story that fits the story of Molten Freddy best is...

The Five Keys

The most common answer to when William combines the five endoskeletons is when he inexplicably destroys Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy in the Follow Me mini-game.

This is because of Henry's line in the Insanity Ending, "He lured them back. Back to a familiar place, back with familiar tricks." Presumably the "familiar place" is the safe room where the kids originally died, and as of FFPS, saying "Follow Me" is the familiar trick that William used to lure them to said place.

And note that the Five Keys story begins by saying that the woman was "sealed in a small room." The safe room.

It's also the most similar because the five keys are melted together in a furnace, just like the five endoskeletons of the original MCI robots are melted together.

This also speaks to William's possible motivations in doing this: trying to save the children. It'd otherwise not be known why he's creating Molten Freddy, but is it possible that he's attempting to appease or release the spirits by bringing them all together?

Obviously it didn't work, but William doesn't necessarily know that. Even in The Fourth Closet, half the shit William does is just because he wants to see what'll happen.

Nevertheless, this story most closely (in my opinion) matches the theory that Follow Me was William creating Molten Freddy.

The Five Orphans

The five orphans are the five murdered children of June 26th, the burglar is the man who killed them, William Afton, and the kind man who brought them "toys and gladness" is the Puppet.

The toys specifically ties into the fact that the Puppet has always been associated with the Prize Counter and giving out toys, plushies, and gifts. FFPS itself doubles down on this, giving us even more information about the Puppet.

And the house that the Puppet brought all of the kids to is Freddy's. The Puppet kept them there, and kept them safe, as it was arguably built with security features in mind as well. During Give Gifts, Give Life, the Puppet does give gifts to the dead children.

The man murdering the five children is definitely reminiscent of William Afton killing on the night of June 26th, but the real question is who the "kind man" is supposed to be, and it could either be looked at as the Puppet, or Henry, but I think the Puppet fits better for the reasons I've just stated.

The other question is... what does it mean that the kind man stitched the bodies together and buried them in one coffin?

I definitely think "there was a knock at the door" implies that the stitched together bodies were knocking at the door, but it could also be interpreted as the police. If the police were knocking at the door because of this, then it definitely points more to Henry.

This could be representative of whatever the Puppet does to the kids in Give Gifts, Give Life, which I'm still not super sure about.

Which finally brings us to the one I'm least sure about:

The Five Kittens

(I'm just using this image because it's cool.)

This story does not contain the "Five things becoming one thing" element that these stories are known for. There are five things, kittens, but only one of them dies and gets stitched together.

My best guess was to think of groups of five where one is singled out.

Perhaps Cassidy, standing out as the most powerful of the missing children and the one that can't (or chooses not to) bind to her physical suit the way the others do. But all five kids were murdered presumably on the same night, and even if they weren't, Susie was "the first," if not the first victim of Afton then the first victim of the MCI, so it doesn't make sense for Cassidy to be the only one murdered by the snake.

My next thought was that the five children could be not the missing children of June 26th, but instead the five Afton/Emily kids: Charlie, Sammy, Michael, Elizabeth, and Michael's brother.

Under this analogy William and Henry would be the snake and the boy, and the random kid that William killed would be Charlie.

...except that doesn't work either. William didn't kill Charlie randomly, his own kids probably weren't in consideration to be murdered, Henry doesn't kill William afterwards in order to put Charlie back together, it's unclear what role the shoebox would play, and at no point does Henry ever think "Y'know what, I'll let William just do one horrible thing to see if that gets it out of his system." It's against his character.

This story is also not consistent with the idea that all three are representing the same thing: Molten Freddy, because all five kittens aren't combined into one mega-kitten.

UPDATE: The Five Kittens, Pt. 2

It's a couple days later. After talking this through with The Boys on Discord I've realized there's another interpretation: the story skips five nights because all five kittens, one per night, were eaten by the snake, and the boy stitched "the remains" (of all five) into one and put "the kitten" (the amalgamation of all five) into the shoebox.

Now, the language here is vague. I think these stories are mysterious enough ("That night, there was a knock at the door") to argue that things could've happened between the lines of the story that we have to figure out to discover its true meaning. The idea of there being this extra step doesn't debunk the theory for me.

And now, the picture becomes clear:

The five kittens are the missing kids, just like the other two stories.

The snake that eats them is William.

The boy is Henry, and he knows that William is potentially a danger, but risks working with him anyway, perhaps not necessarily willingly giving him a child to kill, but instead just letting him perform in the restaurant.

Henry feels guilty, so he takes the five children stitched together, i.e. Molten Freddy, and put it into the shoebox, i.e. the Box, i.e. the fake pizzeria from FFPS.

As seen in the Insanity Ending, Henry does feel guilty for unwillingly helping turn William into a monster, so it makes sense for him to be "full of regret" and try to put an end to the kittens' suffering.

I'm very confident in this interpretation.

And that, my friends, is Candy Cadet.

TL;DR - The Five Keys is Molten Freddy from William's perspective, The Five Orphans is Molten Freddy from the Puppet's perspective, The Five Kittens is Molten Freddy from Henry's perspective.

Love yourself, ~Spook

[omghispook]

Do you guys think there's any comedic potential in a bit with a sealable bag, like a Ziploc bag, that claims to "seal in freshness," but the freshness it seals in is like when a teacher tells you "don't be fresh with me," like, a teenager being sassy.

Before you answer do note that I have a bomb strapped to my chest.

[omghispook]

The Forgotten Theories of FNaF 2: Savethem's Hidden Bodies, the Phone Guy's Messages, and Fritz Smith

Now here's a theory that I haven't heard anyone talk about since about 2015, but boy do I think it's compelling.

The dead bodies of the Savethem victims seem strewn randomly about the restaurant without a care in the world, but that's not true. They're actually strategically placed so that they wouldn't be observable on the cameras that Jeremy monitors.

This is an image created by u/Rdy4Frdy on r/fivenightsatfreddys, posted in May of 2015.

As we can clearly see:

The first child is in a "weird dark corner" of one of the Party Rooms.

The second child is underneath the Main Hallway camera.

The third child is behind the Toy animatronics, on the ground where the camera is pointed too high to see it.

The fourth child is in Kids Cove once again in the shadows.

The fifth child is right next to the Puppet's box.

And because there is a theory that there is a sixth child in Savethem, I will mention that if it's something we can't see in the mini-game, we probably wouldn't be able to see it on the cameras, either.

It makes sense for William to kill this way, seeing as he's the night guard before Jeremy, and has access to the cameras, knowing where bodies would and wouldn't be visible.

So, why does this matter?

Well, a lot of theorists argued that the fact that these were hidden at all might suggest that while we're playing FNaF 2, during Jeremy's week, the bodies are still there. However, this one premise does not lead to this conclusion. It is entirely possible that William hid the bodies there purposefully, and we can see that purpose during the gameplay, but the bodies had been removed by then.

Except there's one detail that I think turns the tide, and it's another thing people never theorize about anymore.

The birthday decorations.

There's evidence that this restaurant isn't being maintained during the day. The "Happy Birthday" and "Let's Party" signs are kept up all week, and the floor in Party Room 2 is wet the entire time; clearly no one is cleaning this up.

There's no changes in what's on the cameras in FNaF 1, but there's no decorations that would require being changed, except maybe what's in Parts & Service, but really nothing at all.

So the next logical question is, is ANYONE ELSE even working here? Or is Jeremy working in a ghost town with corpses and old decor?

Let's look at the Phone Guy's increasing sense of urgency regarding the restaurant's investigation... backwards.

Hello, hello...uh...what on earth are you doing there? Uh, didn’t you get the memo? Uh, the place is closed down, at least for a while.

-Night 6

Um, hey, um, keep a close eye on things tonight, okay? Um, from what I understand, the building is on lockdown, uh, no one is allowed in or out, y'know, especially concerning any...previous employees. Um, when we get it all sorted out, we may move you to the day shift, a position just became...available. Uh, we don't have a replacement for your shift yet, but we're working on it.

-Night 5

Ok, so uh, just to update you, uh, there's been somewhat of an investigation going on. Uh, we may end up having to close for a few days... I don't know. I want to emphasize though that it's really just a precaution. Uh, Fazbear Entertainment denies any wrongdoing. These things happen sometimes. Um... It'll all get sorted out in a few days.

-Night 4

Oh, hey, before I go, uh, I wanted to ease your mind about any rumors you might have heard lately. You know how these local stories come and go and seldom mean anything. I can personally assure you that, whatever is going on out there, and however tragic it may be, has nothing to do with our establishment. It's just all rumor and speculation... People trying to make a buck.

-Night 3

My first conclusion upon making the bodies-decorations connection was that the restaurant was under investigation and possibly on lockdown the entire time, but the Phone Guy was only revealing a little bit at a time because of his own denial. But looking at these quotes, it's clear that the investigation progresses as it would if it were a new event, not as though someone's slowly being more and more honest about it.

There's also another contradictory oddity: the birthday party that the Phone Guy mentions, the one where the Bite of '87 happens.

If there were dead bodies strewn about the restaurant, do you really think they'd host one final birthday party?

No. You don't.

It's time to talk about another 2015-era FNaF 2 theory... the summer phone call oddity.

Hello and welcome to your new summer job at the New-and-Improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

The Phone Guy's first line in FNaF 2 (not counting the trailer) tells us that we're working a summer job, when the paycheck reads November. We're not outside the US, probably not outside Utah, as the dates on the check (11-12 followed by 11-13) tell us that it's MM-DD-YYYY, and the Phone Guy is American.

There is an out-of-universe explanation for this.

FNaF 1's very own Steam description makes this mistake, and there's reason to believe that FNaF 2 was simply ascending this obscure mistake into a canon intentional mistake, in a joke that went over way too many people's heads.

This reason is that they also refer to "Freddy" as "Freddybear," a name that also became a one-off line in FNaF 2: Fredbear's Family Diner.

So this detail doesn't go unexplained... however, that's not to say that Scott including this line didn't include a logical in-universe reason in the form of a theory with other evidence elsewhere in the game.

But I mean, the FNaF 2 phone calls can't be from a prior opening in the summer, because they work so nicely with the transfer between Jeremy and Fritz. The Phone Guy tells Jeremy they're working on finding a replacement, the Phone Guy says he'll take over the night shift when the restaurant reopens, and then Fritz takes over the next night, someone who, on their first day, doesn't get a phone call from the Phone Guy, presumably because they are the Phone Guy.

...unless... unless Night 7 happens before Night 1.

Hear me out.

"The restaurant opened twice" is kind of an overcomplication, and in reality, we're told by the Phone Guy that the restaurant will probably reopen again in the future.

The time between summer and November could be ninety days, because August is in the summer, and ninety days is the standard amount of time that the restaurant postpones investigation until all the evidence has been hidden away.

So, the restaurant opened in the summer, the first guard (William Afton) did his week, the second guard (the recipient of the Phone Guy's calls) did their week, and then the restaurant shut down after a birthday party wherein the day guard was bit.

When the restaurant reopened, Fritz Smith was the first to take the job in November, as the Phone Guy said he'd do.

Yes, it's Fritz's "first day on the job," but there's no evidence in FNaF 2 that the Phone Guy worked as a night guard prior to 1987. He's usually, to my best guess, the Head of Security.

Then we have Jeremy's week, wherein the birthday decorations from the birthday party that caused the Bite of '87 are still up, uncleaned, and there's possibly dead bodies... everywhere.

And here's the finisher: the reason the tapes are reused are because Fritz Smith, the Phone Guy, was fired before Night 1! He can't be the Phone Guy for Jeremy because he's already been canned!

I'm an invincible FNaF theorist, everything I say is infallible and everyone's beliefs bend to my will.

Alright here's why this theory doesn't actually make sense.

This would mean Jeremy Fitzgerald is not the Bite of '87 victim, and myself and many other theorists firmly believe he is.

Between Jeremy (Bonnie / Withered Bonnie,) Jeremy (the FNaF 2 night guard,) and Jeremy (the Silver Parasol employee,) all three Jeremies have something terrible happen to their face. This pattern is a pretty compelling reason for Jeremy to be the Bite of '87 victim.

Second, it still doesn't make sense for there to be a birthday party while there are currently bodies everywhere, and the Savethem murders definitely happen before the birthday that the Phone Guy mentions, no matter how you slice the timeline.

So, this theory doesn't make sense...

...yet.

This is still a work in progress and I'm still seeing how the pieces fit together, because I do think that there's something here, (at the very least an interesting headcanon,) but I'm going to need time to figure this out, and possibly some input from you guys.

Love yourself, ~Spook