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where i dump all the ideas for my FNAF AUs // main: @lunarlattice

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Rabbit Hole: After waking from a week as a passenger inside his own body, Michael seeks to pick up the pieces of his life and try to find out just why what happened to him happened. But when his Uncle Henry comes into the picture, they uncover the truth if what his father had been up to and together, resolve to fix it.

This one follows canon events but isn't necessarily lore-compliant. Cassidy and the Crying Child are the same entity, only the Classics (plus Fredbear, Springtrap and Circus Baby) are truly haunted with the others are either animated by remnant or the missing children's pain, William isn't an abusive father, etc. This is more me exploring the lore in a way I find interesting, not even what I believe is the true lore.

Inheritance: William Afton is dead and dead he will stay. Michael and his boyfriend Jeremy return to Hurricane and are forced to stay as Mike stands to inherit everything he ever owned. Unfortunately, one of the things William has left for his son is all of his secrets.

This one has a divergent point right before Sister Location happens, meaning only the events of Fnaf 4 and 2 have taken place. Intended to be lighter and more laidback than Rabbit Hole, this one is a bit more character-focused. While there's some groundwork from Rabbit Hole some things differ like CC and Cassidy being seperate, Ballora being possessed by Mrs. Afton, etc., it's a seperate AU.

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having brainrot thoughts about how to fit the fnaf movie events into my inheritance au

Vanessa is William's daughter he had outside his marriage (whether it was just before his marriage or it was an affair isn't terribly important to the narrative). Also to tie things together later, she grew up in Nebraska

This makes her and Michael (as well as Elizabeth and Evan) half-siblings though neither party finds out until after William passes. William purposely kept them away from each other.

William visited Vanessa during her childhood but it tapered off as she grew older. She also recalls he'd bring her stuff like toys or other little gifts (hint, hint, he didn't get any of these from a store)

The events of the movie are altered; largely the events of the climax dont happen and William isnt involved in the slightest

Mike is here too! He gets the job for the same reason from a different career counselor and the first three nights play out the same.

Vanessa has moved closer to Hurricane and since its in her jurisdiction, decides to go see the place for herself, see what was so great about it. Here she meets Mike, who she plays it off as she has legit reason to be there and he doesn't really care too much to question it.

He tells her about the animatronics and after the fort scene, they are able to more or less piece together the story with what they both know and what Abby has learned from the spirits. However, neither are able to guess who exactly the Yellow Rabbit is, with Vanessa erroneously assuming some employee used the suit without her father knowing (bc what child is going to assume their kind albeit absent parent is a murderer?)

(This also gives a connection between her and Michael, with both feeling like they should have known better)

Mike holds the job for the better part of a year with Vanessa visiting often and Abby coming with as much as she can. Because of this, the spirits begin to trust Mike and Vanessa to varying degrees. Vanessa also eventually moves in with Mike, helping take care of Abby and them generally being best friends (in my head, its more of a queerplatonic thing though realistically neither would use that word to describe it)

Fazbear Entertainment ruins everything, closing off the building, firing Mike and putting the animatronics into a significantly cheaper storage. Everyone is upset but without any idea of where they went, their hands are tied.

Vanessa gets a letter from her father after he passes, bidding her to go meet her half-brother Michael. From here, she learns the truth about William and more or less, forces him to let her help (her primary motivation is helping the spirits of the original MCI)

(i'd also love to have Mike and Abby involved but any scene with Mike and Michael would be. confusing.)

(Also having Vanessa grow up in Nebraska very neatly gives William reason to have killed Garrett. It was probably a kill outta opportunity though if something actually happened to Garrett's spirit, I haven't decided yet….I do have Funtime Freddy+Foxy without identites at the moment but neither are thematically satisfying. Maybe the Security Puppet as some sorta prototype William got a hold of?)

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lemme brush this blog off with an idea i had for inheritance (lots of ideas for that but this one first)

i think instead of charlie dying after evan, like in rabbit hole, its the other way around

william doesn't really mean to kill her and i imagine he was angry at henry for some reason and charlie ended up at the wrong place at the wrong time

(im thinking william has his weird Thing about henry here so lots of options)

he tells himself this was simply a lapse of judgement he will not repeat again...

...then evan's accident happens and here he has a nice little excuse to allow himself his darker impulses

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also jeremy would be the first protagonist of the vr fic which would have ultimately been two parts; jeremys side and vannys side

post-pizza sim, jeremy hears abt fazbear entertainment's new ventures and decides to investigate. he feels he owes it to michael to keep an eye on them. so he ends up landing a beta tester job bc no one kept records to suggest maybeee we shouldn't hire the guy whose parents sued us to death in 87

jeremy beta tests vr and encounters glitchtrap, believing him william. glitchtrap dances around the truth and tries to get jeremy to help him to no avail. eventually glitchtrap loses patience with jeremy, whos trying to figure out how to purge him, and tries to forcefully possess him. jeremy resists so glitchtrap decides to just kill him, taunting him that he was never william at all.

jeremy breaks free at the last second, ripping off the VR headset. however, glitchtrap somehow willed his bite of 87 scar back open which sends him to the hospital. hes quietly let go from fazent and hits a dead end.

at the end of vr, a few months later, he meets Logan who's looking for his cousin ness. logan tells him she was a beta tester and jeremy knows exactly what happened.

in security breach, he was to have come to the mall with logan in search of ness.

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so in hypothetical security breach fic i did kinda wanna include glammike bc i love the theory but i was a lil worried it would cheapen pizza sim a bit. but if i did, heres some thoughts

-freddy is possessed by michael after being down in the pizzaplex and coming across what barely counts as his remains (why was he down there? vanny was using the glamrocks as muscle)

-though its more of an attachment scenario, michael is attached to freddy and can exert his influence over him but doesn't rly feel comfortable doing so

-he would protect gregory anyways but his resemblance to cassidy would rly fuel his protectiveness (also through defending and helping gregory would he finally allow himself forgiveness for the bite of 83)

-michael is the reason freddy is not controlled by glitchtrap. Freddy intially malfunctions bc he sees vanny on the glass roof and michael's anger abt it disrupts his systems

-there would definitely be a tearful reunion between him and jeremy

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now vanny or should i say ness, vanessa and vanny

so in pizza sim, you'll be reintroduced to "ness" who was mentioned a whopping twice in old friends as logan aka phone dudes cousin . without going into it, she's a relatively minor character but functions as the sequel hook.

in vr, she gets a job as beta tester, hoping to get an in and set on solving the mysteries of freddys that truly hooked her on pizza sims conclusion. she meets glitchtrap who promises to help her if she helps him. she agrees and this culminates in her losing herself to his possession. in the conclusion of vr, it would be revealed she had disappeared after telling her cousin she was going to the craft store.

prior to sb, glitchtrap directs her to get a job at the pizzaplex under the fake name "vanessa". this is not only so he has access to the glamrocks but also to the ffps location, freddy fazbears pizza place underneath. he ultimately wants vanny to build him a new body so he can more or less "become" william, to the point he tells vanny to incorporate the few parts of scraptrap that remain

vanessa is glitchtrap pretending to be ness and very badly. his contempt for everyone else, especially children bleeds through, making vanessa an all around dislikable person.

vanny is glitchtrap more or less forcing ness to act as his disciple. he doesn't like to do the killing himself only bc he hopes he can shape her into a killer like him. she's not rly all there. at the beginning of sb, shes claimed 9 lives, some of which were therapists that were supposed to help her.

ness is still in there and shes scared. she just wants to go home and see her cousin again but, in an accidental parallel to michael, she is a passenger in her own body.

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first off our good buddy glitchtrap

in this he was absolutely not going to be william. steel wool and scott might wanna make pizza sim completely irrelevant but i will not. also theres smth at the end of the pizza sim fic which kind of renders that nonsensical

glitchtrap was intended to be a self-adapting ai enemy in the vr game. he'd "haunt" the game, becoming more aggressive as you progressed until the climatic final showdown in the games end. he was intentionally modeled after william (i couldn't remember if i was going to go with my plan of having william eventually be found out posthumously) and as a result either believes himself to be will or simply uses it as his identity

this idea ends up being too ambitious so fazent scraps him but its a poorly done job so he remains in the files. tape girl attempts to completely scrub him but fails. glitchtrap eventually meets vanny, who goes by ness typically, and uses her desire to know the truth behind the various mysteries of freddys to gain her trust and ultimately use her

at the end of the vr fic he would end up possessing her and completely shoving her normal personality down, instead creating "vanessa" and "vanny". more on that later

also the same framework that went into creating glitchtrap went into programming all the bots in the pizzaplex, allowing him easy access to them

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ok i dont think rabbit hole is gonna extend past pizza sim (though i am leaving in a hook for myself) so i think im gonna release the lore i did have for vr and sb

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so in inheritance, part of what michael does with the funtimes is he wants to remove the dangerous parts of them, which involves dummying out these features in their coding (he even makes a reference to not wanting to get disemboweled if baby’s claw went off). now jeremy in this au has been able to actually learn this stuff but hes one guy so henry starts looking for someone to assist them that wont ask questions

going through old employee records he starts calling up people if they could help him with “a personal project” (this might be a way to include scott the phone guy in this au too)

he comes across fritz (first name mighttt get changed) smith, who worked the final night shift at juniors and is notable for getting some of the clearest proof of the haunting. since she tinkered with the animatronics, she knew a bit of code work along with mechanic work and only built upon it in the years after.

when she’s contacted, she jumps RIGHT on this opportunity

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unfortunately…more fnaf au stuff

i got wild inspiration to draw my henry and figured hell, ill go ahead and draw my william design too

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also…alternatives

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And it was.

more fnaf au stuff! michael moves away from hurricane for a few years prior to sister location, telling his dad that hes convinced that the town is cursed and if he stays he will die.

when is the next time he comes back? sister location :)

all because william, for SOME reason, didn’t expect his murder robots to murder his son to death

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pro: ive wrote a lot for some of my fics which i havent been able to do

con: none of it i can immediately use

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ok so what i plan to write in these aus

Rabbit Hole Main Canon:

Lefty/Charlie Interlude/Pizza Sim Followup

One-shot abt Will and Lizzie meeting up again

Pizza Sim (+UCN oneshot that'll probably function as the epilogue)

if security breach is out by then, VR goes here

and here we’re playing security breach by ear

Rabbit Hole Side Stories:

(Possibly) Followup to the first Discord fic that ties up some stuff after Pizza Sim

The Bite of ‘83 or at least the immediate aftermath

The Bite of ‘87 and Mike’s reaction

Mike calls his mom before Pizza Sim

Very tiny one-shot of Mike telling his father he wants to move away

Rabbit Hole Miscellaneous:

(AU) Ms. Afton is at the house when Mike and Henry visit in “Picking up the Pieces”

(AU) Henry doesn’t lie to Logan and he’s brought into the plan

(AU/Crack Played Seriously) Mike gets caught in FNAF 1 but the animatronics are stopped by his...condition

Inheritance:

this one is just one big fic and will be posted after Rabbit Hole’s main canon or if i hit a point i cant move any further (i get to VR before Security Breach releases/Security Breach fic has to be postponed for whatever reason)

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also funny as hell inheritance was supposed to be a temporary name for that au but ive been calling it that so much in my head its just its name now

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rabbithole-au>purpleandmurder

url change so i can talk abt my other au too !

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‘The impassive expressions of his victims were the last thing William Afton ever saw.

At least, for a while.“

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Intended to be a scene from Father and Son but def vague enough to just be general FNAF art

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so other au ive been thinking about, we're going to tentatively call it the 'inheritance au' goes like this

will dies, just like that, and he doesn't come back

this leaves mike with everything he owns and as a result returns to hurricane to bury his father and essentially deal with everything

in the will however, his father leaves instructions where to find a journal that will "tell him everything"

reading what his father had done, mike resolves to try to make things right with the new tools at his disposal

some other lil titbits

mike doesnt get scooped in this. when he goes down into cbear, it isnt as a lowly technician but as the boss so he is much safer

mike and jeremy are again a thing but here theyre established for longer. after jeremy recovered, the two ran away together and as a result, have much better lives prior

ballora is possessed by mrs. afton. idk i just wanted to play with this idea bc it didnt fit into rabbit hole

yall get cassidy and evan in this both possessing fredbear. this one is to shake things up and i think theres some interesting dynamics that can be made between them

obv is very canon divergent and probably going to be less heavy than rabbit hole

i probs wont mess around with this au apart from posting on here until either i finish rabbit hole or i hit vr before security breach comes out (since I wanna wait for that)