Would like your elaboration on Mikecouch. There's like two people beliving in itat any given day and I Need yuor thoughts.
Anon it’s so interesting that you ask this because MikeCouch is actually one of my favorite FNAF theories involving Michael and I actually had a draft about this I was already working on before you sent in this ask but I was hesitant about sharing it because of how weirdly unpopular it is even though I think it has a very high chance of being true.
I’ll be splitting this conversation into 2 parts the first is why I think it’s true and why I like it because for me those two things aren’t necessarily always connected as I have both hated theories that have a very high likelihood of being true and liked theories that are almost certainly false it just so happens that I both like this theory and also think that it’s very likely
Why I think MikeCouch is true:
My argument for MikeCouch mostly hinges on the principle of Occam’s Razor which is that the simplest explanation is most often true. I think a lot of the problems with Midnight Motorist that allowed it to become so widely argued about is that people often over-complicate it and think it just has to be something different than the most obvious situation but like…y’all…I don’t really think Scott knows how to play 4D chess 😭. Sure he adds hints and things here and there but I don’t think it’s going to be something as convoluted having Midnight Motorist just be about some random family when every other 8-bit FNAF 6 minigame connects to something actually important in the lore. So I think the best way to figure out Midnight Motorist is to find the interpretation with the most amount of evidence.
Obviously, then, we have to operate under the assumption that the yellow guy is almost certainly William. Five laps at Freddy’s basically confirms this and like I alluded to before it makes no sense for this minigame to inexplicably be about some random family or even about Henry/Edwin when the Aftons are literally the main focus of the games (at least in the ScottGames era which is when Fnaf 6 takes place)
Now that we’re done with the Yellow Guy who are the Runaway and the Couch Person most likely to be?
The reason I think the character most likely to be the couch person is Michael because out of all of the theories for who the couch person could be, the theory that it’s Michael just has the most evidence whereas the evidence for the other theories is mostly just guesswork. Let’s look at the evidence for MikeCouch
1. The couch person looks very similar to Michael in terms of character design (grey shirt, tan skin) 2. Both characters text colors are a shade of grey
3. The couch person is pictured as watching TV which could allude to the Sister Location end of the night segments where Michael watched The Immortal and the Restless on his TV
4. This may just be my interpretation but it seems to me that the person on the couch in MM seems to be in some sort of “caretaker” or “babysitter” role to the runaway kid similar to how Michael was presumably often left alone to take care of CC during the FNAF 4 minigames
And then obviously, if Michael is the couch person this would leave CC as the only possible option for the runaway.
Oh by the way and for anyone thinking “but tumblr blog the-michaelverse! You’re using couch persons appearance as evidence while saying that yellow guy is William even though William doesn’t look anything like the yellow guy at all everyone knows that William’s signature color is purple not yellow”
William is, in fact, heavily associated with the color yellow. The games go out of its way to call attention to the yellow color of the SpringBonnie suit, which is heavily associated with William to the extent that he becomes one with it in his death. In fact, in the movies he’s referred to almost exclusively as the Yellow Rabbit. He is just as much associated with the color yellow as he is purple if not more.
But anyway I understand if you may be thinking that this isn’t much evidence at first glance but I would argue that it is much more evidence than any other explanation for who the couch person is.
There are a couple of other theories for who the couch person is but I’ll go through a couple of the most common to give you some idea of what I’m talking about (keep in mind I’m only using the theories that could still be true if the yellow guy is William)
The two most common theories I’ve seen for who the couch person is other than Michael are HenryCouch and MrsAftonCouch however neither of these have as much evidence as the clear parallels between Mike and the couch person. Allow me to elaborate:
1. HenryCouch: This may just come down to my personal interpretation of Henry’s character but this one has always seemed a little far-fetched to me because why on earth would Henry be at Williams house babysitting his kids during his own daughter’s birthday party????? Like, I understand he wasn’t the most attentive father but from every iteration we have of his character in the Games, Movies and Books it seems to me like he actually loves Charlie he just is kind of neglectful to her for the sake of his work so you’d think he’d be doing something more important than watching TV at his business partners house if he was skipping out on his daughters birthday to do it. Also if he’s too busy to watch his own child than what is he doing babysitting William’s kid? I guess it would make more sense if you think Midnight Motorist doesn’t take place the night Charlie died but I’m sorry but I find that very unlikely. The minigame is called “Later that Night” in the FNAF 6 code and that in addition to the similarities between it and the “Take Cake to the Children” in FNAF 2 (i.e. William’s purple car, the rain etc.) and the fact that the other minigames with lore importance in FNAF 6 (Fruity Maze and the Security Puppet) both depict important events in the timeline it doesn’t make sense to me that it could be just some random day. Regardless of anything I’ve said here, the fact that the couch person sprite resembles FNAF 4 Michael as well as the TV connection means that there is more evidence tying Michael to the couch person than Henry. The only connection I could think of to tie Henry to the couch person is the grey color of the couch person’s shirt potentially tying back to the grey man in FNAF World. But that would mean that the only evidence for this theory is another theory with very little evidence and I’m sorry but I just don’t believe that that’s very conclusive.
2. Mrs. Afton has never been directly mentioned in any other piece FNAF media so there’s nothing to tie her to the couch person. Sure you could say that it’s her but it’s not really something that you can prove one way or the other. At least it makes more sense for her to be there taking care of William’s (and presumably her) child but once again the resemblance between the couch person and Michael is just way more evidence than anything this theory could have
Pretty much all other theories are more of the same. None of them really have as much evidence as MikeCouch so my question is why do more people not believe in MikeCouch? Well, for some of them, I can probably guess why, it’s because they don’t want to.
One thing about me is I actually really enjoy watching FNAF theory videos. I know some people don’t because some FNAF theorists (not all but some) can get pretty opinionated with their theories and weirdly aggressive with people who don’t share their extremely inconsequential opinions on the lore of a video game series about haunted animatronics but when they’re normal and chill about it I actually really enjoy seeing other people’s interpretations of FNAF even if I don’t agree. And although maybe this is just me, one thing I’ve noticed is that throughout a lot of the videos I’ve watched about Midnight Motorist there’s been an underlying theme of people desperately trying to prove their theories as right for no other reason than that they don’t like the alternative. I’ve seen people utterly lose their minds over the prospect that Midnight Motorist was probably about the Aftons the whole time even though it’s been fairly obvious from the beginning in my opinion. It’s too simple a solution for them to get behind and because they prefer an alternate explanation, then AftonMM must be untrue. It’s the same thing with MikeRunaway, because they want Michael to be the runaway they will accept no other explanation.
Another thing is the death order problem. For some reason, FNAF fans are obsessed with finding out the correct answer for who died first in the timeline despite the answer not really mattering that much in my opinion. But people get really really mad about this to the point where it causes them to reject certain theories in favor of other ones that may have less evidence just because they want their view on the lore to be correct. It’s the same with Midnight Motorist. See the problem with Midnight Motorist to them is that it’s heavily implied to have taken place the night of Charlotte Emily’s death and if MikeCouch is true than the only person who could be the runaway is CC and that is unacceptable to them because, in their view of the timeline, CC dies before Charlotte. Any theory that implies CharlieFirst to be true has to be false because they’ve already decided that BVFirst is true. So they reject any possible theory that could dispute what, to them, is indisputable fact.
But it’s not only theory opinions that people treat as undisputed fact but character opinions as well. Because they’ve decided that Michael was just 100% a bully all of the time and wanted nothing to do with his brother ever at any point, then MikeCouch must be out of the question because it would be “Out of Character” or at least out of the character that they presume that he has. It’s the same thing with CCRunaway, arguably even more so because there’s this ridiculous notion that the runaway breaking his window and running away from his home while his abusive father was actively hunting him down to “make him pay” was an act of “delinquency” and ummmmm last I checked running away from a dangerous situation isn’t delinquency that’s like normal self-preservation I fear. What do you want him to do just stay and potentially get seriously hurt or whatever William was gonna do to him???? It’s equally ridiculous whether it was CC or Michael. The runaway didn’t break a window (in his own house mind you) because he was a vandal he broke it because he felt like he had no other option to escape his situation. It wasn’t an act of delinquency but of desperation. But since only a “delinquent” character can be the runaway it has to be Michael the no-good rapscallion rather than pure sweet innocent CC because anything else would just be “OOC”
Listen, for all my yapping about people refusing to believe in MikeCouch just because they don’t want to I honestly couldn’t care less. Because, truthfully, it doesn’t matter if you reject theories just because you don’t like them, in fact I do it all the time. It’s completely harmless and it really doesn’t matter because at the end of the day this is all just about forming your own personal opinions and theories about the timeline of a video game series that is not real. All you have to do is admit that that’s what you’re doing and not be a jerk to people who don’t have the same opinions as you. Don’t take your subjective interpretation about a piece of media and try to force people to believe it just because it’s what you personally believe and we’ll be fine. I really hope I don’t come off as someone who’s doing just that in this post. If you don’t like MikeCouch, or if you aren’t convinced by the evidence I just laid out, that’s completely fine. I don’t even believe that’s the only reason people don’t like it, I just mean some of them don’t like it for that reason. You are not obligated to believe any of this. You can believe whatever FNAF theories you want and that’s ok. Because truthfully? The reason I like it is actually kind of similar to the reasons people might not like it. I like it because it reinforces my personal interpretation of Michael.
I love MikeCouch because I love the juxtaposition between his behavior in the FNAF 4 minigames and his behavior in Midnight Motorist under MikeCouch. Confirming that he wasn’t always awful to his brother all the time adds a lot of complexity to their relationship that I can’t help but adore as a lover of nuance and moral ambiguity.
And if you disagree with the theory or with my interpretation of Michael or of his relationship with his brother? That’s totally fine. As long as they’re chill about it I really don’t care if people disagree with me, in fact I rather enjoy civil discussions and debate around differences in opinion over minor things like FNAF theories.