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FNaF Theory: Candy Cadet DECIPHERED

Look, if you're here, you're probably familiar with Candy Cadet, so let's just recap the three stories he tells real quick.

These stories famously contain the underlying element of five things becoming one thing, which many believe applies to Molten Freddy, a combination of the original five MCI animatronics.

However, not all of these stories represent the same thing. There are too many differences. And in the Five Kittens story, no five things become one thing. There are five kittens, of course, but at no point to these kittens fuse into one kitten.

I think the story that fits the story of Molten Freddy best is...

The Five Keys

The most common answer to when William combines the five endoskeletons is when he inexplicably destroys Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy in the Follow Me mini-game.

This is because of Henry's line in the Insanity Ending, "He lured them back. Back to a familiar place, back with familiar tricks." Presumably the "familiar place" is the safe room where the kids originally died, and as of FFPS, saying "Follow Me" is the familiar trick that William used to lure them to said place.

And note that the Five Keys story begins by saying that the woman was "sealed in a small room." The safe room.

It's also the most similar because the five keys are melted together in a furnace, just like the five endoskeletons of the original MCI robots are melted together.

This also speaks to William's possible motivations in doing this: trying to save the children. It'd otherwise not be known why he's creating Molten Freddy, but is it possible that he's attempting to appease or release the spirits by bringing them all together?

Obviously it didn't work, but William doesn't necessarily know that. Even in The Fourth Closet, half the shit William does is just because he wants to see what'll happen.

Nevertheless, this story most closely (in my opinion) matches the theory that Follow Me was William creating Molten Freddy.

The Five Orphans

The five orphans are the five murdered children of June 26th, the burglar is the man who killed them, William Afton, and the kind man who brought them "toys and gladness" is the Puppet.

The toys specifically ties into the fact that the Puppet has always been associated with the Prize Counter and giving out toys, plushies, and gifts. FFPS itself doubles down on this, giving us even more information about the Puppet.

And the house that the Puppet brought all of the kids to is Freddy's. The Puppet kept them there, and kept them safe, as it was arguably built with security features in mind as well. During Give Gifts, Give Life, the Puppet does give gifts to the dead children.

The man murdering the five children is definitely reminiscent of William Afton killing on the night of June 26th, but the real question is who the "kind man" is supposed to be, and it could either be looked at as the Puppet, or Henry, but I think the Puppet fits better for the reasons I've just stated.

The other question is... what does it mean that the kind man stitched the bodies together and buried them in one coffin?

I definitely think "there was a knock at the door" implies that the stitched together bodies were knocking at the door, but it could also be interpreted as the police. If the police were knocking at the door because of this, then it definitely points more to Henry.

This could be representative of whatever the Puppet does to the kids in Give Gifts, Give Life, which I'm still not super sure about.

Which finally brings us to the one I'm least sure about:

The Five Kittens

(I'm just using this image because it's cool.)

This story does not contain the "Five things becoming one thing" element that these stories are known for. There are five things, kittens, but only one of them dies and gets stitched together.

My best guess was to think of groups of five where one is singled out.

Perhaps Cassidy, standing out as the most powerful of the missing children and the one that can't (or chooses not to) bind to her physical suit the way the others do. But all five kids were murdered presumably on the same night, and even if they weren't, Susie was "the first," if not the first victim of Afton then the first victim of the MCI, so it doesn't make sense for Cassidy to be the only one murdered by the snake.

My next thought was that the five children could be not the missing children of June 26th, but instead the five Afton/Emily kids: Charlie, Sammy, Michael, Elizabeth, and Michael's brother.

Under this analogy William and Henry would be the snake and the boy, and the random kid that William killed would be Charlie.

...except that doesn't work either. William didn't kill Charlie randomly, his own kids probably weren't in consideration to be murdered, Henry doesn't kill William afterwards in order to put Charlie back together, it's unclear what role the shoebox would play, and at no point does Henry ever think "Y'know what, I'll let William just do one horrible thing to see if that gets it out of his system." It's against his character.

This story is also not consistent with the idea that all three are representing the same thing: Molten Freddy, because all five kittens aren't combined into one mega-kitten.

UPDATE: The Five Kittens, Pt. 2

It's a couple days later. After talking this through with The Boys on Discord I've realized there's another interpretation: the story skips five nights because all five kittens, one per night, were eaten by the snake, and the boy stitched "the remains" (of all five) into one and put "the kitten" (the amalgamation of all five) into the shoebox.

Now, the language here is vague. I think these stories are mysterious enough ("That night, there was a knock at the door") to argue that things could've happened between the lines of the story that we have to figure out to discover its true meaning. The idea of there being this extra step doesn't debunk the theory for me.

And now, the picture becomes clear:

The five kittens are the missing kids, just like the other two stories.

The snake that eats them is William.

The boy is Henry, and he knows that William is potentially a danger, but risks working with him anyway, perhaps not necessarily willingly giving him a child to kill, but instead just letting him perform in the restaurant.

Henry feels guilty, so he takes the five children stitched together, i.e. Molten Freddy, and put it into the shoebox, i.e. the Box, i.e. the fake pizzeria from FFPS.

As seen in the Insanity Ending, Henry does feel guilty for unwillingly helping turn William into a monster, so it makes sense for him to be "full of regret" and try to put an end to the kittens' suffering.

I'm very confident in this interpretation.

And that, my friends, is Candy Cadet.

TL;DR - The Five Keys is Molten Freddy from William's perspective, The Five Orphans is Molten Freddy from the Puppet's perspective, The Five Kittens is Molten Freddy from Henry's perspective.

Love yourself, ~Spook

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