Below this is what my braiN has been clinging to for the pAsT tWO moNtHS-
I've written a whoLe other dOc abt Willy's relationships with the women in his life, so this is kind of a stARter pack of that-
Anyway, what you're abt to read is an unhiNged version of myself who got her hands on woRds- : )
Okay, I've been working on this idea for quite a while, and still refining on it, but like-
I genuinely love the concept that Chica's initial creator was a woman ( or Fiona, basically ), and after William got his hands on most things from Edwin's little company, most of her puppets became Afton's.
Tho, Aftom created the remaining animatronics, just stole the concept of the endoskeleton Edwin had aimed to work on in the future, expanded on it, and built the original group. So, while the characters were his idea ( Freddy, Bonnie and Foxy ), the blueprint for the skeleton was Edwin's.
Henry did NOT know. William was a shady businessman and only showed up with the final animatronics once he was done. He also was more pestered into building Chica as a last-minute addition to the band bcuz Henry's daughter seemed quite foNd of her character, and Henry himself wanted to do something with the concept to honor the memory of Fiona ( basically she was a friend of his from college ). William had no emotional affiliations, but he liked being performative, aaand plus, on a subconscious level, it'd give him a chance to confront with an old demon in his life who claimed he was possessed and tormented him — aka his mother. 90% of her personality was programmed after that old hag-
William is no pityful, relatable villain. He's a fucking narcissist, and his mother was right about him in that he was bizarre. He taxidermied her pet dog after drowning it in water to "cleanse its soul", believed he was some god that could create and take life, so .. yeah.
Anyone would believe he was possessed.
As a result, his relationship with her was cursed, as with every other relationship with a woman that came after, even his own daughter that was very clearly a performative act to prove he was a good father. Then Chica took the brunt of all of his maternal hatred bcuz everyone else he'd driven away by then.
I actually have this tHiNg written from 2 months ago that put the whole thing into better perspective:
"Afton has mommy issues that he thinks have long lost their importance, but it gave him a blueprint. He always possessed a god complex that doesn't let anyone be above him, but with women, it's just a tad more obvious. Because he paints them all in that same light. Be it his wife and daughter, or be it a young animatronic bird with no knowledge of the world besides the fact she's a performer on the stage. Softness and kindness are all just a façade to conceal the monster that lays underneath. Nothing else to them.
He kills both Henry's daughter and Susie out of the hatred for them being too emotional and manipulative. His own daughter dies due to his negligence. And now ... now it's Chica that falls into that stereotype, and he built her, so she falls into it to a T.
And he hates her. He hates her so much. He loves predicting her next move. When she'd stop faking the softness to bring forth that core, manipulative monster from underneath. When she'd show her selfish side to prove to him that she'd use everyone to her advantage, then leave them hanging in the midst of their own problems. He built her stereotypically feminine in his eyes, and he made sure to program her to be every last thing that his mother was, just to give himself an instrument for hate. He systematically ruins whatever relationship she manages to maintain with the others, by proving one way or another that she's a fake.
He's drilled it into her head that no matter what, someone will see through her façade of sweetness, figure out she's a fake, and ultimately, she'll be on her own. Her primary fear of isolation sparks from here, and it gets worse with time as he tries to prove it over and over and over again, that she's a façade.
She can't talk to him normally. He's either too cold and distant and outright ignores her, or blows up at her for being too much.
He shouts at her a lot. The smallest mistake and Afton goes haywire. She's incredibly sensitive to his inflections, and later on, everyone else's. The smallest prick of sharpness gets her to flinch. She begins to dread any conversation to be had with him, because you never know when he flips.
He built her hollow, basically. Just something programmed to fulfill the purpose of that one missing factor from his life that he wants to destroy. That he wants to have the mental satisfaction of answering back to. He calls her fake, a liar, selfish, a vermin of her kind. A pathetic creature he knows will hurt everyone in the end.
The irony is, in his attempt to create the perfect replica of his mother, he turns out exactly like her, and Chica .. the exact opposite.
The base is there. The soft and caring act of hers. It never falters more than just hatred for a certain bear at the start. But gradually, even that chips away. It never shifts from that, never falls into manipulation or hurt. In fact, Afton's constant nagging has petrified her so much, she shrinks her opinion out of the question, completely. Because any opinion is hurt. Any opinion can be the reason she's proven a liar. A fake.
And, it's not that she doesn't care and is just showing it outwardly. No. She really does care, a little too much. Which drives the desperation further because if she didn't care, she'd just be selfishly clinging to them. She does, and that makes her cling, but also to the point where it's less useless than anything.
She becomes the quiet therapist friend. Listens to the others despite completely falling apart herself. She lets them talk, rant, even shout sometimes, just to remain of use, of help so they don't perceive her as a fake. It's not always foolproof — Foxy certainly believes she's doing too much to remain relevant, because nobody can be this actively caring all the time. He does exactly what she's afraid of, and, that drives this rift between them that never gets sorted. Bonnie's no different, and Freddy .. Freddy's the only one who sees all that struggle for what it is, because he knows Afton all too well.
She's way more observant of the others' emotions and problems than she should be. Always keeps a lookout for something that might be disturbing them. Setting them off. Any small weakness that could be used against them, just to try and fit herself closer to that problem than they would to keep them from the discomfort. She doesn't talk about her own issues and fears until it gets worse to a point someone notices.
And, in the all of this, the fear of isolation just festers and rots. Around midway of the withered phase, she can't stay in a room on her own for longer than a few seconds, then it's a spiral downward and an immediate search for someone to stick with. The worst part is, Afton's conditioned her to be so petrified of the idea of being perceived as selfish that she has tried, more than a few times to force herself away from everyone, just to avoid making them feel too burdened by her presence, despite the fact that it destroys her mentally. Temporary isolation is better than being left on her own forever, after all. It's not- :")
She avoids getting involved in situations where she'd be yelled at. Avoids arguments as a whole. She can't stand them, can't stand all the shouting, all the aggression and spite in someone's voice when they're arguing. Too sensitive to let those things remain irrelevant. Shouting's the one way to drill into her that she's everything she's ever tried to avoid being, and too much of it does break her."
That is a 9-page doc, by the way. There is a lot more that I wrote in the middle of the frickin' night or smthn-
