The Midnight Motorist Family is Not Who You Think
I noticed a pattern when looking at the depictions of the Missing Children in the FNAF games.
FFPS starts this trend with introducing Charlie and Susie, then we see how Gabriel was stuffed during the first ending of Help Wanted, and we might be heading in the direction of seeing Jeremy's story with HW2, and I'm sure Cassidy's will be the last. These depictions actually follow the order that the children were killed, according to their gravestones, except for one. What about Fritz?
Unlike the other children, there isn't much of an illusion to him alone outside of the MCI as a whole, while each individual child is getting their own focus. Now, this might seem like a stretch at first, but hear me out.
What if the family in Midnight Motorist was the family of Fritz?
Let's start from the beginning. Charlie and Susie both get their own minigames in FFPS, but then we assume Midnight Motorist is a complete shift from that and somehow portrays the Aftons for some reason, which breaks the theme of the "tying up loose ends" Scott was going for, and it breaks the formula of the stories of the MCI. But this isn't the only time we see a family like the one in Midnight Motorist with a parent who was mistaken for William Afton.
I the Fazbear Frights story Find Player Two, there's a man named Emmett Tucker, who is described as looming creepily inside of Freddy's arcade when Aimee and Mary Jo are going to play there, which happens to be the same day Mary Jo disappeared and was never found, leading Aimee to suspect that Emmett was responsible for her disappearance. He tells her that he wasn’t responsible for the kidnapping, and he was there because he was looking for his daughter, who used to go to Freddy’s, and he was trying to find her because he lost custody of her in his divorce.
Now, that might sound coincidental, but who else has been shown to be a not great father of a child who is implied to run off to Freddy’s, and also has a connection to a child kidnapping case? Specifically, Emmett was released from prison and maintains his innocence, which could imply that he was arrested for the MCI and was released years later after he was proven innocent. That would make sense as to why the car in Midnight Motorist is purple, it’s tying a link between the man and William, and how he was mistaken for being the killer.
In both the novel series and Fazbear Frights, the person originally suspected of the MCI was a father whose own child seemed to be a victim. In the novels it was Henry, and in FF it was Emmett.
Now, let’s set the stage here. After Susie was kidnapped, Fritz is the next victim. He’s got an abusive father who is difficult to live with, even when his other unidentified family member tries to calm the dad’s temper. Fritz has a history of running off to Freddy’s and that’s why his dad doesn’t question it when the window is broken. Whether the child willingly followed the Yellow Rabbit when he came, or he was trying to escape the pizzeria and the rabbit came after him is unclear, but Fritz is taken that night.
The name for the minigame in the files seems like it’s taking place after the death of Charlie, with the rain pouring down and the title “Later That Night”, but I suggest that it’s actually later the same day Susie was kidnapped. And from there, we get our tie in to the newspaper from FNAF 1, where one of the kidnappings was said to be a case of two children taken at the same time. This day is our one case of two, with both children being taken not at the same exact time, but the same exact day.
And there you have it, the solution to Midnight Motorist. I’m curious to hear what people think about this theory.
