Pretty much the entire DSAF Timeline:
Before everything, i'd like to mention that like 80% of this was written by Reddit user TheSmallestSalad a year ago on the dsaf subreddit, however i added some details, contextualization and some unmentioned minor events, aswell as restructuring some paragraphs. Still, they did most of the work on this and they deserve the credit more than i do. Without any further ado:
20’s - Not much happens in the saga in the 20’s, but Henry Miller is born and grows up in this era under the eye of his father, Charles Miller. Henry is said to be ambitious.
11/xx/25 - Henry Miller is born in Portsmouth, Virginia.
30’s - Henry had to deliver papers growing up to get money for his lazy, alcoholic father. He liked to read the papers to keep up to date with the world.
40’s - Henry’s dad dies of liver failure and Henry gets the house to himself. He joins WWII as a mechanic and repair grunt, but as his potential was noticed, he began to design artillery for the allies. Henry became cynical as no matter what he did, people died. If he does his work, enemies die, but if he doesn’t, allies die. When the war ended, he struggled finding a job. The factory he worked at closed down and many were happy to see him go as his inhuman ideas took a toll on them. He used his scholarship to attend Dartmouth College. Henry meets Martha Jones who becomes his wife and they have a child named David Miller. This next part is an educated guess, because Doggo cut this part out of his Tumblr post explaining Henry’s life because it creeped him out. After the part he cut, Henry found out that the radio station of his car had two voices: one of a crying infant and one of a weeping woman. This implies that Martha and David died in the car, fusing their souls with it (Anything could have happened: Maybe Henry killed them. Maybe Martha murder-suicided, taking David with her). This is what he wrote his Master’s Thesis about. It was called “The Joy of Creation” and was about how metal has a life force and that intertwining it with flesh could create life that lasts forever. He was given an honorary doctorate, but was never able to recreate his studies, causing it to be revoked. He never stopped calling himself Doctor Henry Miller. His book was released to the public and he moved to South Carolina for a job opportunity, likely his circus.
10/xx/41 - Henry’s dad dies of liver failure caused by his alcohol addiction.
05/05/45 or 08/xx/45 - Peter Thomas Kennedy is born (maybe in Denver, Colorado). Peter’s date of birth differs between Dsaf (August xx) and Dialtown (May 5th). Not sure if this is a retcon or not.
xx/xx/45 William “Dave Miller” Afton is born in New York City. (he forgot his own birthday, but likes to think that it’s on Halloween).
50’s - Dave grows up homeless as an orphan, nobody wanting him because he was purple. He learned to play the trombone to perform for money. He found Dr. Miller’s Fantastical Circus and was taken under Henry’s wing. Many murders happen at the circus. The lion tamer is framed, arrested and executed and Dave performs for Henry’s circus until it closes down.
03/xx/51 - Jack Fitzgerald Kennedy is born (maybe in Denver, Colorado).
60’s - The last decade before the major events of the series takes place. Not a whole lot happens here, but we do know that Dee was born and Scott Cawthon started his fast food business in this time frame. The Kennedy parents also die in a car crash that happens sometime between 1968-1971.
Early 60’s - Scott Cawthon opens “Showbiz Pizza” in Utah, a pizzeria where the workers wear mascot costumes. Since this is a small business, they don’t have a budget for the robots yet.
06/23/67 - Dee Kennedy is born (maybe in Denver, Colorado).
70’s - Henry Miller and Dave Miller are active dayshift workers at Fredbear’s and Freddy’s during this time. Dave Miller is in charge of Fredbear’s and killing kids there, while Henry kills kids at Freddy’s to prevent them from overtaking Fredbear’s. The machine that turns people into phone guys is created with Fazbender entertainment consulting Henry Miller’s “The Joy of Creation”. Another major event of this decade is the deaths of Dee and Jack Kennedy, with Jack being revived by a non-literal entity known as “The Real Fredbear”.
xx/xx/70-73 - Bono, (Yes, the musician) buys Showbiz Pizza and Scott Cawthon rebrands it into Freddy Fazbender’s Pizza. (The name Freddybear was originally used. Freddy Fazbear was also an idea they had. Harry Fitzgerald also participated in naming Freddy after his time in the Vietnam War). With the money from being bought, they invest it on robot mascots and on springlock costumes.
xx/xx/70-73 - Harry Fitzgerald starts working as a dayguard at location #1 (Utah), which was where the original Showbiz Pizza was opened.
Summer/73 - Henry’s Joy_1 tape is recorded where he simply talks about his plans. He says death isn’t real and this is somewhat confirmed by the horde of ungrateful toddlers’ dialogue when asked if they can undo death. “How can we undo what does not exist”.
06/21/73 - Fredbear’s Family Diner opens and Henry sneakily kills two children. He also rigs the Spring Bonnie suit. On the opening night, William’s suit fails and he dies, but out of desperation and due to metal having a life force, his soul repossesses his body, leaving Henry happy that his theory is true. Shortly after, Henry puts the two children’s corpses inside of Spring Bonnie and Fredbear.
06/22/73 - Henry’s Joy_2 tape is recorded where he talks about William’s death.
06/23/73 (Henry’s perspective) - The lore cutscene between Henry and Dave play out where they talk about Freddy’s outcompeting them and Henry reveals to Dave that he severy injured a third kid, Dee Kennedy (who is still alive by the time Jack gets stuffed). Henry Miller forces William Afton to finish her off and her body is kept until he is done building the marionette to put her in. Jack goes to look for her and is left half-dead in Fredbear. Henry’s Will_Hnry_01 is recorded. It tells us that Henry is building the marionette to put Dee’s corpse in and that they plan to frame the murders on Jack Kennedy. Henry says that he plans on killing 5 kids at Freddy’s so that their reputation is better (it is unlikely that the location he killed the kids at was actually Freddy’s location #1 as it would’ve taken Henry ELEVEN years to kill the kids, so I imagine that’s a different incident. Maybe it was location #2 idk). Jack wakes up and then goes on the run.
06/23/73 (Jack’s perspective) - Jack puts on a fake mustache and was a night guard at Fredbear’s until he is killed by one of the robots and stuffed in Fredbear. Henry walks inside of the safe room and puts a child inside of Spring Bonnie (an barely-alive Dee, as shown in Blackjack’s flashback cutscene). on his way out, he notices Jack inside of Fredbear. Jack begs of Henry to help him. Henry laughs at him and leaves him there. The kid possesing Fredbear reveals that he killed Jack to force him to help them through the promise. The Real Fredbear, a non-literal entity, revives Jack Kennedy on the promise that Jack will free the souls of the kids that died at Fredbear’s (and eventually Freddy’s). Jack escapes to Peter’s house after this and explains that he did not kill Dee despite what the news says. Peter still blames Jack for her death and Jack lives on the run. He says he lived in a dumpster until the mid 80’s.
xx/xx/73 - Henry’s Joy3 tape is recorded. It shows Henry saying William is a good test subject. He says souls retain limited memories. The victims know who he is and try to kill him. He says the souls cannot speak, something we know is false. William gives Henry a way to measure how much memory is retained in a soul. Every month, Henry removes one of William’s organs or a portion of his brain, especially the frontal lobe. He slowly stops asking questions about the ethics of their work. He begins to leave William alone with the robots at night, being recorded. Sometimes William speaks to himself. He seems sentimental. Henry reassures that he will make the impossible possible.
xx/xx/73 - Henry’s Joy4 tape is recorded. Henry says that William is useless. He shows no rate of change even with more organs removed even without a heart. He tells William about his deceased son, David. William really wants to replace David so Henry can be his new dad. Henry says Dave is HIS monster. He does not want Dave bearing his or his son’s name. He says William can’t follow simple instructions, and is scared to leave his corpse even with shocks. Henry wants to abandon William under camera supervision to see how he grapples with abandonment. He goes on to kill other kids. He says they can’t gang up on him because they’re so spread out. He steals souls to build a machine that can take himself out of his dimension so that he may escape Dayshift at Freddy’s (i elaborated more on Henry’s being self-aware that he’s a fictional Character here).
xx/xx/73-80 - Henry’s found tape is recorded. It talks about the types of souls and how clear souls are weaker and are typically more simple, making most of them children. The dark souls tend to be from adults and their emotions make them powerful. He describes regret as being the most powerful emotion yet and the fact he knows about this specifically seems to imply that he has experimented on Blackjack before. If a soul contained enough regret, it could be able to engage in temporal manipulation, or timeline travel. This is due to its desire to turn back the clock.
xx/xx/73 - Scott Cawthon slips and dies. The Five Managers, Abel Brannigan, Joe Fawkes, Terrence Chapman, Everett Scott, and Harry Fitzgerald were deeply saddened by this. They consulted Henry Miller’s thesis, “The Joy of Creation” to help them figure out how to bring him back.
xx/xx/76 – The Five Managers create the “Scott Memorial Machine” or so Roger calls it. Scott is then turned into the very first phone guy. MDL 01_01; generation 0 of the phone guys. He was suffering in his undead state and was put down by the company. They began to experiment with AI to make phone guys just like Scott Cawthon. According to Roger, not many phones survived the phonification process.
(something that confuses me is that Roger said that the company spent 20 years trying to bring Scott back however the machine took 3 years to build between 1973-1976; if we go by that it implies that he died back in 1956. My headcanon is that Roger, being Roger, said that in the most confidently incorrect way possible because he didn’t know when the guy died).
02/xx/76 - Freddy Fazbender’s, Washington (#16) The “Freddy Urinal Blowtorch” Incident occurs here caused by Henry Miller, hospitalizing 17 people. (All Freddy’s restrooms have cameras because of this)
xx/xx/76 - At some point prior to 1977, Harry Fitzgerald is transferred from location #01 to location #14, Where he dies in a spring lock suit. He is then turned into Phone Guy MDL 14_01.
xx/xx/77 - Henry Miller leads 5 children into the saferoom in location #14 and kills them. Employee Steven Stevenson walks into the crime scene at 5:00PM and confronts Henry over it. Miller knocks out Steven and stuffs him into the Freddy animatronic. Steven wakes up and panics, this causes the springlocks to go off and he dies. He then becomes Phone Guy MDL 14_02 after being sent to the factory by MDL14_01.
xx/xx/78 - Location #47 (DSaF1) opens.
04/xx/78 - Freddy Fazbender’s, Kansas, (#52) closes after an incident where Bonnie’s AI somehow figured out how to make mustard gas.
09/xx/79 - Freddy Fazbender’s, New Mexico (#12) closes because of flaming robots as it was built on top of an oil rig (Oil Fire of ‘79).
80’s - Henry and Dave’s “Fredbear’s Family Diner” is bought out by Fazbender Entertainment. Jake Wilson also becomes a phone guy at some point in the 80’s. Peter becomes a phone guy as well. The Bite of ‘83 takes place and Henry is dragged to the void by Blackjack. DSaF and DSaF 2 also take place in this decade. This is really the decade Fazbender Entertainment prospered, but after late 1987, it really started to go downhill.
xx/xx/80-83 - Henry refuses to sell Fredbear’s Diner to Fazbear Entertainment so they create Golden Freddy as a means to antagonize him.
03/xx/82 - Freddy Fazbender’s, Montana, (#15) closes after a Pirate’s Cove incident involving canons during a show (cannons are banned from all Freddy’s locations).
03/13/82 - Henry Miller tries to lure 5 children into the saferoom, but employee Peter Thomas Kennedy (wearing the Rat as a suit) tries to stop him. Miller pushes him, triggering the springlocks. 2 of the kids get scared by Peter dying and run away, while the other 3 still follow Henry after witnessing this (dumbasses) and are killed. Phone Guy MDL 14_02 “Steven Stevenson” shows up to send Peter off to the factory to become a phone guy. 14_02 is likely transferred to location 47 (DSaF 1) after this because the restaurant probably closed. 14_02 writes location 47’s 39th log about the incident.
3/xx/82 - The Ratpack, Oregon, (#48) closes for unknown, probably rat related reasons (most likely the location Peter died at because Farfour is a rat, and 3 kids and 1 employee going missing would likely cause a place to shut down).
01/xx/83 Freddy Fazbender’s, Nebraska, (#53) closes because of a man in a Candy the Cat suit (possibly the one from DSaF 2) shot up the place, killing Abel Brannigan, a phone guy and one of the original 5 managers. This was Jake Wilson’s last location before (depending on your choices) being transferred to the DSaF 3 location (Harry also writes the company logs after Abel’s death).
xx/xx/83 - Fazbender Entertainment buys out Fredbear’s Family Diner from Dave Miller and Henry Miller. Dave creates Breadbear as a way to antagonize them. According to Dave in the DSaF 2 “An Ending”, Henry killed a lot of kids after Fazbender Entertainment bought them out.
06/24/83 - A possible time that The Bite of ‘83 took place (In DSaF 2, Peter says “Fredbear wasn’t even in Reno on June 24th!” Without saying what happened there). The bite of ‘83 is an event where a kid was bitten by (robotic) Fredbear at Fredbear’s Family Diner (presumably on purpose from Henry) as Dave Miller watches. Blackjack, Jack Kennedy’s stray soul, is angered by this and mauls Henry, dragging him into the Void in front of Dave. After this incident, The Real Fredbear won’t let people into the building. After this incident, (robotic) Fredbear is moved to location #47.
xx/xx/83 - Ronaldo Cuisine is first hired by Fazbender Entertainment.
xx/xx/83 - Jimbo Mopson is first hired by Fazbender Entertainment.
11/13/83 - Freddy Fazbender’s, Idaho, (#45) "Doggo Location" closes because of the 57 dogs barking and not stopping (all doggos have been banned as performers from now on) (Freddy’s is declared doggo free after this, despite not being true) (It is revealed from the 3rd games logs that Jeremy Fitzgerald (Jack’s fake name) designed the location).
11/13/83 - The 52nd log from location 45 shows the yellow phone guy in charge freaking out during the dogs barking at the location.
06/xx/84 - Freddy Fazbender’s, Utah, (#1) closes because someone lured 5 kids into the back room and killed them. Harry Fitzgerald is transferred to location #14 (Roger says this location closed after 1993, which is odd because the computer says it closed in 1984. It is most likely that the location simply reopened after 1987 which is when DSaF 2 takes place, so that both dates can be true. I believe this is also the location Project Save the Kiddins takes place in because Roger says it closed after 1993 which is exactly the year it takes place. Dave also mentions in one of the PSTK calls that the robots at the locations are possessed by kids he killed in the 80’s which would fit this location).
After 06/xx/84 and before DSaF 2 - Freddy Fazbender’s (#32) closes because someone drives a forklift into a wall. Harry Fitzgerald tries to file a complaint about it but Dave Miller spills gravy over it. Harry Fitzgerald is transferred to the Afton Robotics Warehouse.
xx/xx/85 - Matthew Virginia is first hired by Fazbender Entertainment.
06/06/85 - Scott “Hula-Hoop” Cawthon stops hula-hooping and dies during a Fazburger newsletter.
07/13/85 - Freddy Fazbender’s, Arizona (#13) closes because Dave Miller is fired the same day and as revenge throws the Arizona location’s Foxy the Pirate animatronic into the Grand Canyon (Arizona Incident). The 32nd log from the location, recorded a few days later, shows the location’s phone guy (John) complaining about employee Dave Miller and mourning Foxy. A few weeks later, John gets scrapped for throwing himself into the Grand Canyon several times in a attempt to reunite with Foxy.
07/15/85 – John writes a dramatic newsletter retell of the Arizona Incident.
07/xx/85 - Fazburger, California, (#54) closes because the Freddy animatronic made a burger that killed the health inspector (Spongebob reference). Fazburgers were no longer opened after this.
07/xx/85 - Fazburger, California, (#55) closes because a worker got an order wrong so a customer began screaming, causing the Bonnie animatronic to leave the stage and rip their head off. (The Bonnie animatronics are said to be problematic by the company note).
07/xx/85 - Fazburger, Nevada, (#56) closes because a night guard was stuffed into a large burger and proceeded to crawl out of it the next morning, naked, and in front of customers. (The company note mentions the Fazbender Entertainment will attempt to avoid this in the future).
09/xx/86 - Foxy’s House of Pleasure, Las Vegas, Nevada, (#69) closes because a customer named Jack Fitzgerald Kennedy performed public sex acts on Walt Grouse, a performer in a foxy stripper suit (The company note mentions that there are no locations #60-68). This is referred to as the “Yiffening of ‘86” by Peter in DSaF 2).
09/xx/86 - Walt Grouse is arrested for lewd conduct after performing public sex acts with Jeremy Fitzgerald (Jack’s fake alias) at Foxy’s House of Pleasure (this is what the ending to the minigame implies, with the orange man sprinting full-speed towards the Foxy stripper).
11/11/86 - Fazbender Entertainment makes anti-fire propaganda featuring Matthew Virginia and sends it in a newsletter (This newsletter and Jack’s dialogue about it implies that he burned a Freddy’s location down. Which one, I am not sure).
xx/xx/87 - Jack Fitzgerald Kennedy is first hired by Fazbender Entertainment (likely during DSaF 1).
06/23/87 - 06/27/87 – DSaF 1 takes place (location #47, Colorado). Steven Stevenson gets scrapped the weeks following the place closing down.
11/08/87 - 11/14/87 - a version of FNaF 2 takes place. We know Jack experienced FNaF 2 at some point because of various flipside dialogue, but we do not know when he did. The most likely possibility is that the DSaF version of FNaF 2 ocurred in the same dates that the original took place.
11/23/87 - 11/27/87 - DSaF 2 takes place location (#59, Bakersfield). The Bite of ’87 happens here but the victim and culprit vary on the ending. Peter Kennedy also dies afterwards but when is up to the route, either dying during the week, getting scrapped after the place shuts down or passing away from unmentioned causes sometime later alongside Caroline in the Perfect Ending.
11/29/87 - Fazbender Entertainment releases a newsletter talking about the Bite of ‘87. They also mention that due to a new government law, they are not allowed to make any new locations.
xx/xx/87 (an ending only, as this is the ending Fredbear dies in) - Dave starts constructing the Fazbunker under Fredbear’s Family Diner to spy on Jack. Some time after, Jack becomes a technician there and gets scooped. This is the DSaF equivalent of Sister Location, but it does not happen in any ending of DSaF 2 besides An Ending.
90’s-20’s - Roger becomes a phone guy. Dave becomes one of the higher ups at Fazbender’s as almost everyone else is gone and he creates the “Start Your Own Freddy Fazbender’s Kit 1993 Edition”. Project: Save the Kiddins and DSaF 3 take place and the Godred tapes are (possibly) recorded.
08/15/92 - Dave probably murdered someone or someones (The Start Your Own Freddy Fazbender’s Kit 1993 Edition’s second tape shows Dave in a spring Bonnie suit in front of a camera that shows that date while he’s talking about murdering people).
xx/xx/93 - Freddy’s is considered murder-free, although it is not guaranteed.
xx/xx/93 - The Start Your Own Freddy Fazbender’s Kit 1993 Edition is made.
xx/xx/93 (DSaF 2 endings where Dave doesn’t become Davetrap only) – ‘Project Save the Kiddins’ – the DSAF version of FNAF1 - takes place, explaining how Dave becomes Davetrap in DSaF 3 even if he didn’t in DSaF 2 with a parody of the "Afton gets springlocked" cutscene from FNAF as the ending to the game.
(I believe that a version of PSTK, probably even closer to the original FNaF 1, takes place in endings where Dave did become Davetrap, as Jack would likely still want to apply for a Freddy’s location. The only notable differences would be Dave not interrupting Phone Guy’s calls and him not being playable on nights 7 and 8).
xx/xx/93 - Bert Weintraub, likely a night guard, is arrested for trying to assault Freddy Fazbear.
xx/xx/93 - location 46’s 157th log is recorded by Jake Wilson and shows him freaking out about visions regarding his son.
xx/xx/93 - Freddy Fazbender’s, West Texas, (#49) closes because the management was not notified that all of the locations had to close.
Sometime either in the 90’s, 2000’s or 2010’s – Jake Wilson goes rogue, looking through Boise, Idaho for his son. He goes through Montana, Utah, and Colorado as the memories about his son flood back. He goes to Nebraska and searches for months. He finally finds his son in December, but sees himself as a monster so he leaves. A search party is created led by Harry, but is called off due to Harry’s pity for Jake.
(idk when this happens, Harry mentions that he went out shortly after writing the log so you would think it happened in 1993, but Jake makes it sound like it was a recent thing when you talk to him and a 10-ish year gap is super short considering Jason goes from a kid in the 80’s to a grown man with a wife, a daughter and several other relatives in that timespan. I think it would fit a lot more if Jake managed to shrug off the visions for a few years until it got to the point where they disturbed him enough to drive him mad and he couldn’t ignore them anymore, causing him to go rogue sometime in the 2000’s or 2010’s).
xx/xx/0x - (In the Godred files on the computer, there is a file named “FILE_ALPHA_01_0XX”. I have taken the “0XX” to be the year the file was made, although still quite possible untrue, especially since this file would’ve been made before Woodrow made his audio log). Godred is a demon disguised as a robot. He was not created like other robots (more info on him and his goal here, just you know it gets very cursed to say the least). Someone takes photos of Godred, some in a graveyard and takes notes about him. This person (presumably not actually Woodrow, as they talk about him in third person, puts them in a file. It shows that Godred is known to be hostile, he often shows up in graveyards, can snap human necks, and can become pregnant. Should this happen, [GENESIS-641-D] will also occur, whatever that means. The final thing this document states is that Godred has visited the finder of the note before and if he visits you again, you will be dragged into the night.
xx/xx/01 - LOG_OMEGA_01_O01 is recorded. It shows Woodrow, a mechanic and designer at Freddy’s before becoming a phone guy, talking about Godred. He talks about how worrisome Godred’s abilities are. He speaks of Godred visiting him once in his sleep and says that he created a spider robot named Music Man to keep him awake so that Godred does not visit again. He says that he hopes it will “buy him some time”, possibly to destroy Godred. It does not work and he is killed sometime after recording the log.
xx/xx/02 - LOG_OMEGA_01_O02 is recorded. It simply shows Music Man rebooting, scanning for Woodrow, finding that he is not on the premises and leaving to find a suitable nesting place so that he may lay his eggs to create more Music Men to keep more people awake, saving them from Godred.
Early 2023 - a version of FNaF 3 takes place (Please note that the year this happens is just a guess on my part as in the original saga, the game takes place 30 years after FNaF 1 which is 2023. In DSaF, it would also be 2023, but it’s never stated that it happened 30 years after Project: Save the Kiddins. It could take place any time after 1993 and before June of 2023).
06/01/23 - 10/31/23 - DSaF 3 (location #52, California) takes place.
10/31/23 (only after the good ending) - “DSaFTales: Nothing.” Takes place which is a story about what happens to Henry after the end of DSaF 3’s good ending that Direct Dogman wrote on Tumblr. It shows Henry reacting to being dead in a denying way and witnessing an event that happened between he and William before anything we’ve seen in the games so far. It ends with him seeing the eyes of something.
