No thoughts just this headcanon *cries*
Gregory post-awakening spending his years in solitude drawing/writing his memories out on post-it note cards as his consciousness slowly begins to return to him and as his atman slowly begins to awaken, but that’s only one of the activities he does.
His dreams are plagued by cryptic nightmares of names and words, figures and phrases showing him prophecies of the past and the futures that never were- sights he can’t describe, archaic and incomprehensible and vast with oversaturated and blinding colours and lights and flickering shades of darkness that always left him awake and screaming, sobbing in an ocean of endless tears and shaking like a quivering, wet kitten in the rain until dawn- whenever dawn was, not that he kept track of time or the days that passed by, save for the clock he could pull up occasionally on his GUI.
One day, he discovers a peculiar machine he hooks himself up to via opening his panels and exposing his circuitry, connecting himself to the machine via a wire and a plug. He finds himself staring at his own programming, and curiously makes small, barely noticeable adjustment after adjustment until memory of the nightmares are gone from his mind, and he breathes a bit easier- feels a bit better. Eventually, his hands stop shaking, and his mind is at rest.
He does not know why this new activity calms him so. Nevertheless, he finds himself continuing.
As Gregory remains living, hiding in solitude, he makes small changes and adjustments to his complex and initially impossible-to-understand matrices of code. Eventually, as he learns to speak and gains back his previous eloquency and terse manner of speech, he improves his text-to-speech processing, and with some work, makes his voicebox emit a frequency that sounds human again- like it used to, like he always wants it to forever be.
He makes countless of modifications to his programs- a screensaver program that seamlessly integrates with the manifestation of his consciousness into a metaphysical plane present inside his mind palace- it is flawed at first, plagued by nightmares and flashes of memories and glimpses into who he once was, what his past was once like: reuniting with the other fragment of his atman he was separated from during the brutal cycle of reincarnation fixes such things. Gregory knows that one day, even though he doesn’t know when or how, he will be at peace with himself- he will no longer be empty, broken- he will be whole again, remade, reborn.
Eventually, Gregory learns to interact with and even hack into other machines- either wirelessly or by touch, interfacing with technology and communication systems. He cannot break past the heavier layers of security protecting the Pizzaplex’s S.T.A.F.F. files ever since the security scare he caused by stealing a couple of the data contained within said files, but he learns to work his way up, progressing and growing and becoming more skilled with time and practice.
Then, when he gets trapped inside, he learns to hack and implement new features into his Fazwatch, connecting to the Pizzaplex’s network without establishing or making his presence known to Vanny and, with strenuous, continuous effort, maintaining a wireless connection with the Fazwatch and the security cameras for as long as he remains charged. He can also disable the security cameras later into the night for a short period of time (5 minutes maximum) to prevent Vanny from being able to predict his next location.
Soon enough, he wirelessly disables Vanny’s disruptors and established communications link with the S.T.A.F.F. bots to save Freddy from being disassembled. This, he learns, depletes a significant amount of battery, and they instantly have to rush into a charging station to get him to recover back to optimal condition.
“Yeah. NEVER doing that again.”
All in all, Gregory embracing his robotic side and taking up programming/software and hardware modification as a hobby- the Glamrock Animatronics + Vanessa, Freddy and the Daycare Attendant finding out about this and just encouraging him and supporting the hell out of him in general! </3
