Imagine if instead of the normal AMTSC, the recording hadn't happened around the same time that Darko had kidnapped the Quad Squad? What if he held them hostage for a little over a month before recording?? They couldn't escape Darko and instead of killing them and sending the message right away, he just broke them over time, both mentally and physically. Like, bringing them close to death before tending to their injuries and letting them rest up before it was time to torture them again. Mix that with my head canon of Darko tauntingly comforting his victims and oh my lord it sounds perfect. Then once they got to an awful enough state he'd send "the message" to Scott Cawthon instead of having them hostage then recording then it goes wrong.
I also feel like Darko would slowly start forgetting the names of his hostages and literally just start seeing them as the actual animatronics they represent and because he has sort of a hatred for FNAF he'd take his anger out on them, completely forgetting what he was keeping them hostage for. So by time the ransom video is being filmed, they have no fight left in them and there's remnants of the beaten and battered states Darko repeatedly caused.
you get what I mean??? it's late my brain is going silly Idk what I'm doing










