I think it's justified to not sympatize with Julius, Jessica and Brittany. I know that they're 15 but age isn't really an excuse especially with this..
Not every teen is Millie/Reed/Alec/Toby or misunderstood/morally grey, teens can be evil too you know? Even then, nobody was forcing them to do any of this
Ok, so I think I want to explain the basis of my au. I will delve into the basic concept, kinda the timeline because that’s pretty important, and major facts for this to make sense.
This discusses some points of the Fnaf timeline (I would probably make a seperate post maybe of just the timeline and the order of events), remnant and possession mechanics. This is kinda a generally confusing time? But so is most of fnaf, so 🤷♀️
Let’s get into it!
(Btw! Under the cut is extremly long and includes fnaf spoliers for... most fnaf things?)
So, my au combines the fnaf games, book trilogy, and fazbear frights into one existing universe, though I will mostly focus on the frights books probably. (I will say, I haven’t read the frights books after Gumdrop Angel, so any of those characters won’t be in my au)
The concept surrounding the frights characters, and the main part of the au (?) is that the dead, or bad ending teens, come together and form a group, in the same vein as scooby doo, or like the creepypasta fandom?, in order to deal with general fazbear weirdness and have friends/found family.
Their group started due to the stitchwraith meeting the first 2 members, and over the next couple of decades collecting more members like cats
Talking about the first 2 members, let’s go into the order that our members joined/died!
Members:
The first to die in our timeline (Frights characters) is Toby Billing’s Hide-and-seek. He dies in 1983, after the bite, not in Hurricane. He is placed very early in the timeline due to Fazbears pizzeria being in its high, so pre-mci (which in my au is 1985). Shadow Bonnie exists due to time travel ballpit weirdness that I’m unsure if I’ll dive into. Due to soul possession weirdness, Toby’s soul is stuck being a shadow creature, like shadow Bonnie. He spent most of his time alone, trying his best to play the arcade games at night. Until…
Our second character in our group is only a year later in 1984, at the same location as Toby. Surprising!
Alec Shelly Lonely Freddy (That last name isn’t canon, but I did choose it for a reason!). After being stuck in the dumpster for a couple of months, his situation changes one night. An employee comes in and starts taking all the Lonely Freddys/other kids away. Luckily, Alec is able to slip through the cracks and be stuck at the location, where he eventually meets Toby, and they hang out for a small while in a random room. It takes place in 1984 because Freddys is at its hight, AND I have a reason for the Lonely Freddys being made. William Afton made the body swapping toys at around the same time, and for the same purpose as the funtimes. Both of these animatronics were to seem innocent at first, and then get kids to do experiments on. But just because the Lonely Freddys were made at the same time, doesn’t mean it’s at the same time.
This is when our group officially starts being a group
The stitchwaith who absolutely didn’t time travel to the past for this exact purpose because I imagine in Fnaf time travel works if you did something in the past it causes the future (Terminator rules), why would you ever think that- goes to the location housing Toby and Alec and forms the group, essentially telling them to go on missions and that kind of stuff. On one of these missions we meet…
Pete Dinglewood Step closer in 1985, pre-mci. This takes place in 1985 because Freddys is open and thriving, Pete and Chuck’s mother is INCREDIBLY overprotective and would never allow them to go to Freddys if there were missing kids, and a certain side character in Step closer is the same in a very major game event, but we’ll hop into that later. Point is, Pete after being hit by a truck and getting his eye and arm stolen, seems find his soul stuck in his dead body and can’t move on.
This is because in my interpretation, the curse was to make Pete EXPERIENCE losing his eye and arm. If Pete lost his arm and eye, then died, he would be able to move on to the afterlife perfectly fine. However, due to him dying before he could experience ‘becoming a pirate’ the curse was like wait no- and shoved Pete’s soul back into his body to see the doctors stealing his body parts. BUT, you can’t just shove a soul into a body and then a couple hours later being like thanks for your time, you can go now no, that’s not how it works (In my au). So Pete’s soul is now stuck in his dead body. Don’t worry about the corpse rotting like our resident Michael however, the curse… Idk didn’t let the body rot because you can’t be a zombie AND a pirate, that’s too many clashing demographics. The only time the curse was good.
ANYWAYS (can you tell Pete might be my favourite) Pete manages to not lose any other body parts, and finds himself in a back alley, where Toby and Alec (wow, we haven’t seen them in a while!) find him. They stick together and become close friends together, until our next contestant, quite later.
2008-2009, in Hurricane Utah, we meet…
Devon Blaine Marks The new kid. This takes place a lot later than our other stories, due to Freddys actually being abandoned and closed. 2009, because the Twilight movies are referenced by Kelsey (You may be wondering why I take into account twilight movies into the timeline placement and not the fact that cellphones/ texting exist in the previous stories? But shhh, I’ll talk about it later). It takes place in HURRICANE specifically, because of our pal Golden Freddy.
Freddy Fazbears pizzaria is a big food chain, with having locations across the American state. Fredbears family diner, is a small restaurant only in the town of hurricane. Fredbears family diner is the only location with our 2 yellow friends. Spring Bonnie, and Fredbear. After the bite of ’83, our spring lock suits get moved to the Freddys location in the same town, where Fredbear becomes Golden Freddy. There is only one Golden Freddy.
Some additional info that may be helpful. This takes place before into the pit, due to Jeffs not existing.
So, the new kid in this au is in hurricane. Our Fazfrights gang, Toby, Alec and Pete were investigating some railroad tracks due to a certain… big bird, with black feathers, being there in some years prior. For some reason or another, they go to the Freddys location and get to meet a newly dead Devon. Yay! Another person to the team!
Our next member of our team is a girl. Finally! Millie Fitzsimmons count the ways. This is the first story that I’m actually not fully sure what year it should be. Definitely post 2009, and pre-2017 for… reasons. But around this era. This also takes place in hurricane because Funtime Freddy, and Circus baby rentals in general, probably weren’t state wide, because their main location closed the day of its opening. Anyways, Millie joins the team! (Sorry Millie fans for being brief with this one…)
After a certain major fire, burning down a pizzaria that’s been only open for a week wow, that’s crazy in 2019, in 2020 (no covid, lucky. Well, they do have to deal with evil animatronics, body swapping, ghosts, curses, and so much other stuff, so equal payoff?) again in hurricane, we get Sarah to be beautiful! Yippee! Another one collected like Pokémon!
Why it takes place after the Fnaf 6 fire is due to Circus baby. More specifically, a factor from the novels. We all know circus baby right? Clown themed animatronic that has red pigtails and colour scheme, whose eyes turn from blue to green due. Who’s someone else with this similar description? Yup, Eleanor. In my au, Eleanor is the same robot as Circus baby, after Elizabeth’s soul has left and it’s just remnant. Now you may say ‘oh but Eleanor is really skinny! They can’t be the same!’ And this is where the novels play in. In the 3rd Fnaf novel, Circus baby shows up as a skinnier version of herself, that can transform between the game version, and a more humanoid proportioned version. This ‘skinny baby’ is an altered version of Eleanor. ‘What do you mean by the remnant of baby?’ …put a pin in that.
So far we have Toby, Alec, Pete, Devon, Millie, and Sarah. Our next 2 friends are a 2 for one deal, and so far, the last 2 in our fazbear frights gang (we will be able to move on soon!)
These 2 members join in the late 2020 (don’t remember the exact year, I think it’s written down somewhere where I can’t access it right now) pre-pizzaplex and FINALLY aren’t from Hurricane! Drumroll for Reed and Julius, the breaking wheel! These 2 members join after our frights gang hear about a walking exoskeleton with some pulverised corpses in it! Joy! This takes place pre-pizzaplex specifically is because this fact helps link this story to the fazbear brand.
The mega pizzaplex in this universe was created fairly quickly, within a couple of years. This is because fazbear entertainment, being the scummy brand it is, doesn’t want to pay workers to build the giant mall. So, they use exoskeletons, as they are stronger than people, don’t need to get paid, can work 24/7, and can’t sue if they get damaged. How does this relate to the breaking wheel? Well, one of Julius’s parents (probably his father) works with fazbear entertainment, to help build/create the animatronics. Julius’s father’s involvement with these exoskeletons helped inspire Julius for his OWN exoskeleton.
So, that’s all of the fazbear frights main members and when they join, other than the stitchwraith, which I may delve into later!
Extra expanded knowledge:
Alec’s last name
Shelly is Alec’s last name. This is because I love making characters related to each other. So, I made a certain blond, green eyed woman be Hazel (Alec’s sister)‘s daughter from the future. That woman being Vanessa security breach. Now, in the games, we don’t get a canonical last name, so I based Vanessa’s last name on the fake (? I haven’t watched the movies) name from the movie. The movies aren’t canonical to my au, but it was a neat starting point.
Step closer’s side game character
So, who is this side character who was at a major game event. Introducing Maria Rodriguez, Pete’s friend/crush, who happened to wear a certain accessory… that her friends also wore… in 1983.
That’s right, in my au Maria is the Chica bully! (And someone else, but we’ll get to that soon) After the bite, she moved to a nearby town with her family that some of her other relatives live in. I imagine she already knows Pete, due to him saying they meet in 6th grade.
Now who is this other character that I merged with Maria? Well in order for the timeline to make sense I will add some backstory.
William Afton is a bit… not in the best headspace, who got incredibly angry at the ‘hooligans’ who helped kill his son. So, he found them when they were older and kinda kidnapped them to do experiments or something. Point is, the age a lot slower (I know this doesn’t make much sense and I’m reaching, but I do have something to reach for, so). After… that, Maria finds herself working for fazbear entertainment, specifically in the Vr department…
In this universe, vanny isn’t Vanessa, it’s Maria.
I know that it makes sense if Vanny is Vanessa, but I came up with this part of the old au BEFORE the security breach game came out and I really don’t want to change it.
Cellphones
So, how are there cellphones/texting in the 1980s? I came up with a new piece of technology that could actually hypothetically be supported by canon evidence. That is the A-phone (instead of IPhone, haha, I’m funny). This is a kinda primitive IPhone, with mainly just calls and texting created by Afton robotics, just around Hurricane. I created this new APhone because the fact that there are phones is WAY less timeline breaking than popular Freddys locations being open past the 80s. So, what’s the ‘canon evidence’? Fetch. In the Fetch story there is a robot dog called, well, fetch. And fetch is a Freddys robot, from the 80s, that can connect to Greg’s phone. It’s not explained in story WHY it can do this, other than to be creepy I guess, but there should be an ACTUAL reason why it can do this. Insert the APhone. I can definitely imagine Fazbear Entertainment making a product (an animatronic dog) that you need a much more expensive product in order to make work (a phone). It could also be an incentive to get the phone. ‘Get the Aphone and you’ll be able to get your very own animatronic dog!’
Train tracks
In a lot of Fazbear frights stories, there are train tracks. My headcannon/au thing is that all of these train tracks are the same. And I established that the new kid, which has these train tracks, takes place in hurricane, so these stories also take place in hurricane Utah. These stories include Out of stock, 1:35am, the new kid, and blackbird (from memory… that might change)
Kelsey
So, what’s the deal with Kelsey? He is indeed a ghost like the ending implies, and what everyone thinks he is, but I added a unique spin to him. So, commonly in the fnaf/frights fandom, Kelsey is depicted as being ANOTHER soul in the Golden Freddy suit, but often times Devon is too. Makes sense, he died by the suit. That’s neat and cool, but if Kelsey is a vengeful ghost and is doing this too other kids, wouldn’t there be a TON of extra golden Freddy kids e we never see? That’s a lot, and not neat. It could be due to my previously mentioned ‘there is only one golden Freddy suit’ which I still think is true, but I also don’t want Kelsey to be an evil character. I want him to be on the slightly better side of the morality spectrum (and shipping warning, I ship him and Devon as like an enemies to friends lovers slow burn thing, and Kelsey intending to murder Devon kinda harshes the vibe).
So, my version of Kelsey is that he is a ghost that seeks out loner kids (possibly because those are the type of people he hung out with when he was alive?) that possibly have some morality issues, and dies in front of them as a test of character to see if they come clean and then he’ll make things better, or at the very least to traumatise them so they don’t do anything like that again (complicated explanation but eh). Devon however, is where things go wrong. None of the kids Kelsey traumatise are supposed to DIE, but Freddys always finds a way to kill more kids.
Illusion disks/Ghost rules
In my 2 previous posts before this, I brefly mentioned illusion disks. I will go into more depth of how I personally interpret how they work in canon, so that’s how they’ll work in my au. Illusion disks seem to emit a high pitch sound, so high you can’t hear it with the average human ear, that tricks the brains senses into experience something that isn’t there. This is used in the Fnaf trilogy, more obviously on skinny baby into looking like an older charlie, but I also think subtly in the first book, as SPOLIERS (But also if you didn’t know this, why are you reading this far down?) our charlie we know is a robot, but in the silver eye she bleeds. The illusions disks trick the senses into seeing and smelling blood instead of… Idk, oil? The illusion disks are like really effective placebos, that still work even when you know it’s a placebo.
Our fazbear frights protagonists, not immediately, probably in the mid 2010’s, get these Illusion disks in order to blend into everyday life more. Now, a majority of our Fazbear frights group are just souls, with a couple in unique circumstances (Pete and Alec). So, the way I imagine souls work in my universe, is that when they aren’t possessing something (we’ll get into possession soon) they are kinda just wandering souls, and they have their normal typical form. This is where they can’t interact with anything so they pass through walls, etc, and aren’t visible to the average alive person. Their other form that they can take, which is quite difficult and energy draining, so souls dont typically take this form, is where they are visible and CAN interact with things. This is the form William saw the MCI kids in right before he got spring trapped.
For souls possessing animatronics/other things, the soul is either actively in control of the animatronic, where they are in a first person POV from the animatronic, or they aren’t. Typically when they aren’t, this is because they are stuck with another soul (or remnant, we’ll get to it) and the other one is in control. When they aren’t in control, but still possessing something, they kinda live in a floating black void with nothing there (unless there are more souls, where they are also there) or they have the option to wander. Wandering allows them to leave the animatronic, but they can only go a couple of feet away from it, so they can’t go home or anything. If a soul particularly doesn’t want to be possessing an animatronic, if they try REALLY hard, they can break the connection between them and what they’re possessing, and then it’s effectively like they aren’t possessing anything. Imagine it’s like their connection to their animatronic is a shackle on their leg, and if they put a lot of energy and struggle into it, they can break that shackle. This is VERY VERY difficult and energy draining, so it only typically works with people who are older (Sorry MCI kids) and who really want to. Devon did this with golden freddy before he met any of the souls in it, and Reed and Juilius probably did it later, because possessing an endoskelleton with someone you hate who killed you, and not being able to do anything when the other is in control, is not a great time.
To get back on track with illusion disks, our dead teens turn into their solid soul form, THEN put their illusion disk on. Because of how the illusion disk works, it also affects the souls. The illusions disks are used to typically trick people into thinking they look like your average alive teen. Because it also affects the soul, it makes it seem to themselves that they are alive, even when they definitely know they aren’t. Since it affects the souls senses, it essentially traps the soul into staying physical and able to interact with things, because alive people can interact with things!
If the soul is like a switch, then the illusion disk makes the switch jam in the ‘staying physical’ mode.
Now, some of the souls who have missing body parts, eg arms, have to wear prosthetics under their illusion disk (Particularly Pete and Alec). This is because of how the illusion disks work. Yes, the illusion disks trick all senses into experiencing something else, including the souls, so they should be able to interact with things, but there is one flaw in this model. Physical items, like walls, cups, tables, etc, don’t have senses and therefore can’t be tricked. So what? You may be thinking, they have the ability to interact with things because they’re solid, what does it matter if they’re ‘tricked’? I’m glad you asked! If a soul put on an illusion disk to show that they have, lets say, an arm, the soul will feel like they have an arm. They’ll see it, feel it, etc. BUT, if they try to use that not real arm to pick up, say a cup, their arm wouldn’t be able to pick up the cup. It would go straight through, like a video game clipping issue. This is because even if everyone thinks they have an arm, there is no actual arm to pick up said cup. So, if the souls are missing a body part and they want their illusion disk version to have that body part, they have to have a prosthetic underneath to be able to interact with things normally.
Previously in this section, I mentioned that Pete and Alec work slightly differently than everyone else. For Pete, in the step closer section ages ago, I explained how I imagine his curse works, and that the pirate curse made Pete stuck in his body, so he’s possessing it just like an animatronic. Because it’s a human body however, and not an animatronic, combined with the fact that the curse really wedged Petes soul into it, Pete can’t get his soul out of his body at all. So, his Illusion disk would have to go straight onto his body and not his soul.
Alec is in quite a unique circumstance, even compaired to Pete. Everyone else has a dead soul, because they died, they’re dead. But not Alec. He just got bodyswapped with a lonely freddy, it didn’t kill him. Because he’s not technically dead, his soul works with the body like it would if he was just living normally. Normally, you can’t just detach your soul from your body and walk around, so Alec can’t either. So he has to wear the illusion disk right on what he’s possessing, as well as something else. I mentioned the clipping issue and why a soul would have to wear a prosthetic to properly wear an illusion disk, and the issue is most prevalent on Alec. If the illusion disk projected his normal human height, Alec would effectively see out of his knees, and most things would pass through him, which is not good. How he looks as a human could be shrunk down to his Lonely Freddy height, but Alec doesn’t want that. So… Alec gets a mech suit.
Ok, so it’s not literally a mech suit, but it is a metal endo skeleton that he can control, made with proper human proportions.
Remnant
Ok, so, I’m not going to delve into how its created, because honestly I haven’t put too much thought into it, and I’m tired, so I’m not going to explain how it comes into existence. What I AM going to explain is how it works here. If it’s put into an animatronic, it essentially give the animatronic it’s own independent soul, that didn’t come from killing kids. This includes having feelings and wants, having a non-preprogramed personality, and being able to take the wheel of the body if a soul is inside it. It works as its own independent soul. This was put into the funtimes and why they’re… like that. The most prominent example is funtime freddy, especially in count the ways. Since the funtimes have remnant, circus baby would have remnant too. Once Elizabeth has been fired (heh) from circus/scrap baby, that remnant becomes eleanor. Because I want it too.
Last remarks
Wow, I say now, so, due, however, and because A LOT in this. Sorry about that. This post has taken me a WHILE to write, taking hours across a few days, and at this very point, the word count is 3951. Jeez. Well, if you’ve made it this far, I can’t thank you enough. This isn’t even everything from the au, but it should hopefully be a comprehensive understanding of my au. A future post might be the timeline, and I might be comfortable enough to post doodles in the future, even relating to my non-fnaf interests, but idk. I like being a passive observer. I hope this was understandable and interesting to read. Thank you so much!!
Also, I probably can’t add all the tags I want, so I’ll do it by the characters names first, then if there’s space, the stories they’re from :)
This has not been proof read… let’s hope no major mistakes!
i think if some susie deltarune type shit happened where julius was forced into teaming up w the main trio from breaking wheel he'd be able to have a character arc and get better </3
uh i might expand this. the general idea is that the exosuit is bugging the fuck out bc julius used some parts he got from freddy's and said parts had agony in them so yk. it's infected the whole thing and he needs help fixing that. and the other smartest person he knows is probably shelly </3 (pickle too but he's more open to asking shelly than pickle tbh) so like it's mainly him and shelly working together to figure out how to dismantle the suit and get it under control while pickle and reed like. help on the sidelines probably. and julius slowly starts to view everyone a little more positively as a result of spending this much time with everyone. free my boy his only crime was being really fucking annoying </3
