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The Game Theorists’

Ultimate TimeLine

Original Videos:
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Chapter 1: Foundations Of
Freddy’s

Chapter 2: The Afton Era

Chapter 3: Post-Purple Guy


Chapter #1:
Foundations
Of Freddy’s
1930s – The Great Depression. People are in
dire need of entertainment, especially in
Utah, one of the states hit hardest with
the 4th highest unemployment rate in the
nation [HISTORYTOGO.UTAH.GOV].
As people travelled looking for work there
was one thing that was able to lift their
spirits, a roadside attraction called
Fredbear’s Singin’ Show.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Old Poster
(2021 – Steel Wool Games)

Ads were everywhere, featuring an animated


bear drawn in the popular pie-eyed style of
cartoon characters at the time. He
resembled characters like Mickey Mouse,
Felix The Cat, Betty Boop. It said
immediately that Fredbear’s was a place
where you could bring the whole family to
enjoy. For 50¢($9 today) you can get food
and entertainment as you watched the
trained real bear perform on stage. These
types of attractions would normally be in
large traveling circuses Barnum & Bailey
where tickets cost $1($18 today) and that
was without food. Fredbear’s was a smaller
show like the Von Bros. or the Robbins
Bros. where tickets only cost a mere 50¢.
Watching the bear perform on stage brought
a glimmer of joy to lots of people, at a
time where so much was wrong with the
world. Fredbear’s would go on for years,
bringing joy to many travelers looking for
a quick meal, but it left a permanent
impression on a young William Afton.
The bear could dance, he could sing. For
years William had dreamed of recreating
that moment of bringing a musical bear to
life, but how? William was smart and had a
mind for business but wasn’t the most
creative, how could he bring a singing
dancing bear to life? The best William
could do was using rudimentary costumes.
William was inspired by the works of Walt
Disney, who throughout the 50s and 60s was
pioneering the use of mascot suits
throughout his theme park
[DISNEY.FANDOM.COM]. The big innovation:
suits with 5 fingers, which allowed the
performers wearing the suits to use their
arms and hands to interact with the guests,
as opposed to the older models where the
arms would hang limply by their sides.

Walt Disney Land Parks &


Resorts
Mickey & Minnie Mouse
Mascot Costumes
(1962 - 1978 – Walt Disney)

With a simple mascot suit William would be


able to realize his childhood dream, he
would be able to bring Fredbear to life. To
appeal to kids and for copyright reasons,
he changed Fredbear from a realistic brown
animal to a cartoonish yellow bear with a
purple hat and bowtie. But feeling like one
character wasn’t enough, he added another
friend, a yellow rabbit with a purple vest
and matching tie named Bonnie The Bunny.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Old Posters
(2021 – Steel Wool Games)
While Fredbear was certainly William’s
first love, Bonnie was extra special
because that was his creation. Created from
scratch William’s hand sewn costumes were
rough with seams and stiches clearly
visible but it was the best he could do.

Five Nights at Freddy’s VR:


Help Wanted
Glitchtrap
(2019 – Steel Wool Games)

It was just enough. Bonnie and Fredbear


would perform to small but enthusiastic
crowds. Finally William was able to deliver
fantasy and fun to all the kids, delighting
and inspiring them the same way he had been
delighted and inspired so many years ago.
Things could’ve ended here. This could have
been the end to William’s story, it could
have been perfect. Had it not been for one
thing: other people saw what he was doing,
the success of it all and they wanted in.
Enter Chica’s Party World, a rival
restaurant featuring performing animal
characters. William’s idea! Only they did
it better. It hurt the prideful William
Afton to admit it, but this restaurant was
able to do what he always wanted to do:
make the animals actually come to life.
All the performers were animatronic robots,
simple metal skeletons powered by battery
packs but all of them able to freely tur
and talk and dance on their own, no human
required. It was like magic. Magic that
came from the mind of brilliant creator
Henry Emily.

Five Nights at Freddy’s


Official Character
Encyclopaedia
Henry Emily Page 216
(2023 – Scott Cawthon)
In some way Henry had been able to harness
the power of life itself. William admired
him but was jealous as well, but he also
looked upon this man with awe [Five Nights
at Freddy’s #1: The Silver Eyes].
In Chica’s Party World was a small cabaret
stage featuring an elephant magician, on
the other: a hippo known to ramble on and
on. On the main stage was a rocking band of
characters featuring a yellow chicken thing
with a southern drawl named Chica, hacked
by a band of other country themed
characters including a pig with a banjo, an
upbeat frog from the local swimming hole,
and a brown bear with a heavy southern
accent...

Five Nights at Freddy’s


Thank You! Teaser
Withered Chica
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)

Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizzeria Simulator
Mediocre Melodies
(2017 – Scott
Cawthon)
Wait! A bear! But bears were William’s
animals! Why not a cow or a horse or
something that fits the country theme?
Why’d it have to be a bear? And to add
insult to injury, they had the nerve to
call him Nedd Bear, a direct copy of
William’s Fredbear.
Afton’s jealous admiration soon turned to
hardened bitterness, a bitterness that
would only grow as people chose Chica’s
Party World over Fredbear’s. William just
couldn’t compete with the appeal of the
robots. Eventually William’s restaurant
would go bankrupt only to be bailed out by
of course: Henry Emily. Another insult,
another humiliation that William wouldn’t
soon forget.
1979 [Five Nights at Freddy’s #1: The
Silver Eyes] – Despite being bitter Afton
couldn’t deny that what came next was a
period of massive success and expansion.
With the two franchises now merged into
one, it was the best of both worlds.
Afton’s ideas and Henry’s robotic
expertise. The two men decided to launch
under a new name: Fredbear’s Family Diner,
a pizza chain that would include a mix of
humans in performing suits and on-stage
animatronics. They decided to stick with
Fredbear as the main headliner considering
he was more recognizable as a brand and was
the original. William appreciated that.
This new restaurant would also see a mix of
characters as the two franchises merged
into one with Pig Patch and Happy Frog
performing alongside Fredbear and Bonnie.
As part of this one big Fredbear family,
they even got official merch that released
ranging from masks to magnets.
Five Nights at
Freddy’s 3
Happiest Day
Minigame
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Crappy Mr. Hippo Fridge Magnet
(2021 – Steel Wool Games)
Not all characters were winners. The
reactions to some were just mediocre, so
they faded to dumpsters and retro budget
tech stores of lost nostalgia waiting for
their chance to return if a headliner went
out of commission. Others however, fare
much better, like a new pirate fox and a
blue guitar playing variant of the yellow
Bonnie The Bunny. Ultimately, the franchise
would get so big it would spawn a cartoon
show Fredbear & Friends.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s 4
Pre-Night Minigame
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)

Business was booming. Fredbear and Bonnie’s


popularity would be so strong that they
would be able to support the Fredbear’s
Family Diner franchise all on their own
while also spinning off a new sister
location dedicated to their friends.
1983 – Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza launches.

Five Nights at Freddy’s VR:


Help Wanted
Faz Coin
(2019 – Steel Wool Games)

Chica The Chicken, Bonnie The ‘Blue’ Bunny,


Foxy The Pirate Fox, and the headliner a
brown Freddy Fazbear all star in this spin-
off restaurant.
Business was good and Afton was happy.
Mostly. It did bother him that his own
creation the yellow Bonnie The Bunny, was
passed over for inclusion in the TV show.
The ONLY character to get ignored but other
than that things were going smoothly. Afton
had a wife, two sons, a daughter. He had a
thriving business and best of all, he was
able to learn the craft of robotics from
the man he both loved and hated: Henry.
Together they were constantly pushing the
limits of what these characters could do.
Because it was easy, new characters
introduced would be given a simple hand
sewn suit with five fingers that any
performer could wear. Eventually, Henry
would design one of his signature
animatronics for that character, utilizing
a divided mouth with either a hinged or
sliding jaw design.

Game Theory: FNAF,


The Origins Of EVIL
(2022 – The Game
Theorists)

This was the first generation of


animatronics. But why stop there? Afton had
big ideas. What if the animatronics weren’t
just locked to the stage but could freely
roam the restaurant and interact with the
kids? What if his mascot suits could become
animatronics? What if you could use more
than just rigid metallic skeletons? Why not
experiment with tubes and wires that would
give the animatronics fluidity and
flexibility while still providing
structure? The possibilities for this
technology were endless!
William had fallen in love with robotics.
He had started with a dream of bringing one
singing bear to life but with robots he had
stumbled across the tools that gave him the
ability to control life itself. And thanks
to Henry he was practically speed running
his way to a degree. While William wouldn’t
admit it out loud, one other thing that
kept pushing him forward was the desire to
beat his former rival. To prove himself
smarter and more capable. To surpass the
man that everyone else considered to be a
visionary genius.

But pride cometh before the fall.

And tragedy was about to strike.

End of
Chapter #1
Chapter #2:
The Afton Era
1983 – Business was booming. With two whole
franchises running: Fredbear’s Family Diner
and the newly opened Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizza. Together, William and Henry were
able to take the hybrid suit idea and make
it a reality. They called their new
invention the Springlock Suit. It was
fittingly enough, a symbolism of the
partnership between the two men, a human
suit as designed by William that could
become a freestanding Henry-style robot.

Five Nights at Freddy’s


Official Character
Encyclopaedia
Spring Bonnie
(2023 – Scott Cawthon)

Because the tech was new with kinks still


needed to be worked out, the rollout was
limited, restricted only to Fredbear’s
Family Diner.
All of this meant William was busier than
ever. He didn’t have time to be a full-time
parent. So he designed a nanny cam system
where cameras and speakers were hidden
throughout the neighbourhood as well as in
his youngest son’s favourite toy, Psychic
Friend Fredbear. Sorry. Plushie Fredbear.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 4


Fredbear Plushie
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)

But since cameras weren’t enough to raise a


kid, he also left childcare duties to his
eldest son, Michael.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 4


Crying Child (Left)
Michael Afton (Right)
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
There was just one problem. Michael was far
from the best babysitter. He constantly
tormented his younger brother by jump-
scarring him with a foxy mask and leaving
him behind.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s 4
Pre-Night Minigames
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)

William watched all this from his security


cameras. Kids would be kids. Tomorrow was
another day, after all. Except Michael’s
torment didn’t stop. Bitter, angry thoughts
would run through his mind. Why did he have
to take care of this crybaby all the time?
It just wasn’t fair. It was time that he
got even with his brother by playing the
ultimate prank. A prank that just so
happened to be on this Crying Child’s
birthday.
He and his friends would his scared little
brother and make him do the thing that he
was terrified of doing, gettig close to the
animatronics. That would be embarrassing
for the kid that was such an embarrassment
to him. His brother squirmed, screamed,
kicked and fought. But just as they putting
the small squirming boy up to Fredbear’s
lips, the mouth snapped shut. The sensitive
spring locks inside the body had been
triggered by the boy’s movements and tears,
and they’d immediately clamped down. The
wriggling stopped and the boy went limp.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s 4
The Bite Of ‘83
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)
But it was just a prank. It was meant to be
funny. The boy was taken to hospital and
was immediately an I.V. Flowers and pills
filled the nightstand next to his hospital
bed, but the damage was too severe. He
couldn’t recover. As the younger brother’s
consciousness began to fase, he could hear
Michael’s last words, a small and flimsy
apology. But his father William’s, through
the Fredbear plush, were a firm and
committed promise to a dying son. “You’re
Broken. I will put you back together.”

Five Nights at Freddy’s


4
Night 6 Ending Cutscene
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
This would not be the end. No matter what.
William’s son would live again. It would
just take time. Time that he just didn’t
have right now. His young son’s heart
flatlined as the boy faded into the inky
unknown of the afterlife.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, changes
started happening around the restaurants.
Kids were now required to wear security
wristbands to prevent anyone from getting
outside without parental permission. Any
kid who approached the exit without
permission would have to answer to the
Security Puppet, a marionette on strings
that could fly around on rails across the
restaurant to stop kids in their tracks.

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator


Security Puppet Minigame (Left)
Security Puppet Animatronic (Right)
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
It was William’s idea, inspired by Michael
constantly leaving the restaurant without
his brother. In the wake of Fredbear’s
springlock failure, all the hybrid suits
were getting retired, locked away at the
nearby Freddy Fazbear location.
After learning of an unfortunate incident at the
sister location involving multiple and simultaneous
springlock failures, the company has deemed the
suits temporarily unfit for employees. Safety is
top priority at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, which is
why the classic suits are being retired to an
appropriate location while being looked at by our
technicians.
– Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s 3, Night 4)
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
It was yet another tough pill to swallow
after all the hard that he and Henry had
put into them. William would eventually
bury his son’s body in a remote location
out in the woods right alongside his drive
into and out of work everyday.

Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizzeria Simulator
Midnight Motorist
Minigame
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
The death of the little boy sent the Afton
family spiraling. William’s wife, crippled
with grief, was so distraught that all she
could do was sit and watch TV.
Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizzeria Simulator
Midnight Motorist
Minigame
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)

But his son Michael was far worse,


complaining of seeing hallucinations of a
golden bear standing ouside of his window.
The boy was so wracked with guilt that he
was convinced that he was being haunted by
the ghost of his brother, stuck inside the
suit that took hs life. The suit’s three
toed feet digging into the wet earth. The
words ‘IT’S ME’ ringing throgh Michael’s
ears. Some nights Michael would even go so
far as to break out of his room to check
the gravesite and ensure that his brother
was still there.
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria
Simulator
Midnight Motorist Minigame
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
As for William himself? He disappeared into
his work and his drinks. Jr’s, the local
bar, wasn’t far from his son’s gravesite.
He found himself going there more and more
frequently, spending longer and longer
amounts of time there. The bar gave him a
place to think, to remember, to relfect and
stew on how Henry had stolen his idea for
an animale themed restaurant, how they’d
cut his character out of the cartoon when
everyone else was there, how Henry had
humiliated him by buying him out of
bankruptcy. And now? Now there was a son.
Henry had taken his son from him, the
robotic part was the one that failed after
all. William ordered one more drink, but it
was one too many. The bar turned him out
and told him to go home.

Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizzeria Simulator
Midnight Motorist
Minigame
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
But William didn’t go home. Drunk and
angry, he raced back to the restaurant to
give Henry a piece of his mind, only to
find someone else waiting. Henry’s
daughter, Charlie (Charlotte), locked
outside of the building, bullies laughing
at her through the window.

Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizzeria Simulator
Security Puppet
Minigame
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)

Fine, some other problem to fix. But then


Afton got an idea. A beautifully awful
idea. This was his chance to get back at
the man that had humiliated him all those
years ago. Henry had killed his business,
and now Henry’s robotic suit had killed his
son. It was time for William to do some
killing of his own. Let Henry feel what
it’s like to have something you love get
ripped away. While parties continued inside
the walls of the pizzeria, William attacked
Charlie in the backalley, and it felt good.
He felt free. The years of resentment and
bitterness trapped in his heart finally
released in a moment of pre, napologetic
evil. He would make Henry hurt like he
hurts! And in that moment, William became a
killer. He dropped Charlie’s lifeless body
and drove home, forced to confront his
family problems later that night, appalled,
but also a little excited by what he had
just done.

(Left) Five Nights at Freddy’s 2


Give Cake Minigame
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
(Right) Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator
Security Puppet Minigame
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
Charlie’s death would remain on the books
as a random act of violence. And though
Henry had his suspicions about William,
there was no physical evidence, nothing
that could link him back to the crime.
In the weeks that followed Fredbear’s
Family Diner would close for good [Five
Nights at Freddy’s #1: The Silver Eyes].
Two high profile deaths around the
restaruant with two grieving owners in such
a short period of time, was just too much
bad press to handle. Besides, Freddy
Fazbear’s was still open and it was the
newer restaurant ayway. All the equipment
for the diner, including the old yellow
suits and secuirty puppet, would get
retired to that location, and there they
would sit for two uneventful years.
The rest of 1983/84 were sent quietly
grieving. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and the
new cast of characters were a hit, the
tragic memories of their yellow
predecessors quickly faded. William kept a
low profile and buried himself in work and
research, quickly reaching Henry’s level of
engineering and even surpassing him. And
while Henry had slowed down to drieve,
Afton kept going. Even starting his own
company: Afton Robotics, for all those
projects that were a little bt too
experimental for the regular operations of
the pizzeria.
The first of these experimental projects
was a serect workshop under his house, a
veritable bunker, which allowed him to work
while still monitoring his kids via hidden
security cameras. 1 9 8 3. A passcode that
served as a constant reminder of why the
cameras were so important, why he was down
there in the first place.
Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Sister
Location
Private Room
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)

This was all to fulfill the promise that he


made to his son right? “I will put you back
together.” This was for him. All for him,
right?
But cameras weren’t enough. He needed to
solve the runaway Michael problem. He had
to keep him in the house. He couldn’t have
another one of his kids wind up dead inside
of an animatronic suit, so why not run a
little experiment on Michael? All this work
with Henry had gotten Afton to start
learning more about life, robots, the human
mind, and what a fallible machine we as
humans were. Our reaity, so easy to
manipulate with a few sensory deceptions.
Deceptions like sound. With just a few
sounds he had discovered that he could
alter a person’s vision.

(Left)Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location


Power Module
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
(Right) Five Nights at Freddy’s: The Twisted Ones
Graphic Novel
Sound Illusion Disc
(2021 – Scott Cawthon)
He could transform blank, smooth plastic
robots into lumbering, twisted nightmares.
Nightmares far scarier than he could create
with actual materials, they would appear
organic, rotting, putrid, terrifying. These
would be his means of keeping his son
Michael in the house where he belonged. Was
it extreme? Maybe. But then again this was
the boy who had killed his son. He would
make him sorry.
And so Michael wold grow up not only
dealing with the memories of his own guilt,
the hospital room, the pills, the flowers,
the death of his brother, but also facing
literal nightmares, illusions created by
sound. Michael would never forget these
either. Years later as a security guard, he
would still draw pictures of them inside of
his logbook.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Survival


Logbook
Nightmare Fredbear Illustration by
Mike Page 41
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)

All of these extra projects meant that


William’s home life suffered even more. He
was an absent father and a nonexistent
hisband, leaving his wife cold and alone.
Why do you hide inside your walls, when there is music in my halls?
All I see is an empty room.
no more joy; an empty tomb.

Ballora’s Song (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location)


(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Despite her repeated demands that he leave
his office and engage with the family,
William refused time and time again,
leaving her no choice but to leave.
And through it all, there was one lingering
feeling. William wasn’t done. He had gotten
a tast of what it felt like to be
unleashed, what it felt like to be free.
Charlie’s murder had unlocked something in
him, and he wanted more.
June 26th 1985 [Fazbear Frights #1: Into
The Pit] – putting on the golden Bonnie
suit, William lured children one by one to
the back room of the pizzeria when no one
was looking.

Five Nights at Freddy’s


Newspaper Clipping
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)

At first, Afton was cautiuos. He would lure


them with promises of cake and cookies
[Five Nights at Freddy’s: Ultimate Guide].
He told them their dog had died [Freddy
Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator/ Five Nights
at Freddy’s #3: The Fourth Closet]. He
would ask for help with hoework. Susie was
the first. You never truly forget your
first.
I was the first. I have seen everything.
- Withered Chica (Ultimate Custom Night)
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)
But where to hide the bodies? He couldn’t
sneak out, someone would see him. He had to
hide them in place where they would never
be found and where they would never leave
the pizzeria. They had to be stuffed.
Stuffed inside of the animatronic suits. No
one maintianed those things anyway, except
for him. And so Susie would go into Chica,
Fritz, Jeremy and Gabriel would come next.

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria


Simulator
Lorekeeper Ending Screen
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)

But it was easy. It was too easy. And with


each life he snuffed out, his lies got
bigger: Their house was burning, they’re
just being kidnapped [Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Ultimate Guide]. Until the last
one, where all pretense were off. He had
let himself get violent. Too violent.
I’ll just wait for him after school, throw a bag
over his head, hit him with a shovel and drag him
into the back of my car!
- High School Toy Chica Cutscene (Ultimate Custom
Night)
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)
The body of Cassidy was far more bloody and
broken than any of the others. Hed’d let
himself go too far. That one, that one he
shouldn’t have killed. With no more active
aniatronics left, he shoved the body into
the one suit that remained backstage. The
ong forgotten yellow Fredbear, now broken
and dicoloured with age. Broken, like
Cassidy was, like his son was broken.
Newspapers reported on the disappearances,
naming the whole event the Missing
Childen’s Incident. Police would even
charge William with the crime after
security footage showed the golden mascot
suit luring kids to the back room.
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Newspaper Clipping
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
But they couldn’t convict him. They had no
bodies, and his face was obscured by the
suit. What evidence the police had was
circumstantial at best, and so William
walked away a free man.
But Henry knew the truth. In these murders
he saw his daughter Charlie all over agin.
So Henry kicked William out of the company
and shuttered the doors to the old
pizzeria. Henry would keep the franchise
quiet for two years. This would not happen
again. This COULD NOT happen again! How
could he protect the kids? Finally, he
developed a solution. He would implement an
even more extreme security system in the
form of new animatronics, TOY animatronics,
inspired by the toys they had been selling
years ago.
Five Nights at Freddy’s 2
Toy Bonnie (Left)
Toy Freddy (Middle)
Toy Chica (Right)
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
But these animatronics were special. They
were a new breed of robots with facial
recognition abilities.
But most importantly, they’re all tied into some
kind of criminal database, so they can detect a
predator a mile away.
– Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Night 1)
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
All the original animatronics, now withered
with age, were moved to the new location.
With a plan in place it was time to try
once more.
1987 – The New & Improved Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizza opens, making headlines in local
newspapers.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2

Help Wanted Clipping

(2014 – Scott Cawthon)

These headlines just so happened to attract


the attention of William Afton. Freddy’s
was back? And without him? That was his
idea! His character! Henry was, yet again,
trying to cut him out of the picture. No.
As long as these restaurants stayed open,
William would always come back. Then he
noticed the phone number to apply. $100.50
a week! To apply call! Afton would go back.
Not as an owner or co-founder, but as a
daytime security guard. The one place they
would not suspect him to be.
And there it was, buried in the back of the
Parts and Services room mixed in with the
old, withered animatronics was the golden
rabbit. With the yellow security badge
still on his chest, he use his crank to
pull open the spring locks. It was time for
Bonnie to give an encore performance.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2


Purple Guy/William Afton
sprite in SAVE THEM Minigame
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)

Someone used one of the suits. We had a spare in


the back, a yellow one. Someone used it… now none
of them are acting right.
– Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Night 6)
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
Um, from what I understand the building is on
lockdown, uh… no one is allowed in or out, y’know.
Especially concerning any… previous employees.
Um, when we get it all sorted out we may move you
to the day shift. A position just became…
available.
– Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, Night 5)
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
Five more kids.
Afton didn’t know what felt better, getting
back into the suit aft two long years of
waiting or knowing how devastating this
would be to Henry the next morning. He
didn’t even try to hide his crime this
time, just meant more blood on Henry’s
hands. He’d failed to protect the kids
again.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2


SAVE THEM Minigame
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)

The restaurant had only been open for a few


weeks, but William was sure that this would
get the place closed.
Good. If he couldn’t have Freddy’s, no one
would. Whenever a new pizzeria opened, he
would be there. But as he sat in his
bunker, something started to linger in his
mind. He had seen something… strange. The
old withered animatronics, they had been
wandering around the building, spurred on
by the Puppet. It was almost like those old
robots were trying to save the kids. SAVE
THEM? They can’t. But still, how were they
moving? It was almost like they had been
given life somehow. Did he have something
to do with that?
The following day, the news reported a
security guard being bitten by one of the
animatronics during the day sift. An event
known as The Bite of ’87.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 2


Night 6 Ending Newspaper
Clipping
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during
the day too, but then there was The Bite of ’87.
Yeah. I-It’s amazing that the human body can live
without the frontal lobe, you know?
- Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s, Night 1)
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)
Was the bite meant for… him? Afton’s
curiosity was now stronger than his
bloodlust. He had to learn more. But how?
There was no way he’d ever be able to get
inside another Freddy’s Pizzeria. Heck!
There was no way that Freddy’s would ever
open again. He needed to create something
new, something brand new. He needed to
create his own pizzeria.
Due to the massive success and even more-so the
unfortunate closing of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, it
was clear that the stage was set – no pun intended
– for another contender in children’s
entertainment.
- Hand Unit (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Night 1)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Circus Baby’s Pizza World. This would be
where William could continue his work. No
longer just murdering but experimenting. He
needed more kids, and he needed them alive.
And knowing that he couldn’t show his face
on the restaurant floor, he needed a way of
remotely capturing his victims and
preserving them for his work. With that
goal in mind, he designed a new breed of
animatronics, their endoskeletons were
fluid and flexible. He equipped them with
sound lures that could mimic voices. They
could isolate children, they could
incapacitate and contain them with zero
direct input from him.

Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location


Funtime Animatronics’ Blueprints
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
It was brilliant. He was brilliant! Far
beyond the simple bars and wires of Henry’s
designs. And the characters he chose were
uniquely his. His new roster wasn’t going
to be tainted by Henry’s disgusting
barnyard bird. Instead, it was back to his
characters, his creations, Freddy, Bonnie,
Foxy. As well as two special ones: The
first, Ballora, represented the woman who
left him. Now she would never leave him
again. The second, the titular Baby, was
designed with his baby in mind, Elizabeth,
his youngest child.
Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Sister
Location
Elizabeth Afton
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)

She would always be daddy’s little girl,


the one that listened to him, the one that
obeyed. Until the day she didn’t.
Daddy, why won’t you let me play with her?
She’s so pretty and shiny. Didn’t you make her just
for me?
Elizabeth Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, In between Nights)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
The day before Circus Baby’s Pizza World
opened, Elizabeth disobeyed. She didn’t
listen. Left alone with Baby she got too
close. The animatronic ripped in half and
swallowed her whole. A scared and confused
child fading into eternal darkness.
Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Sister
Location
Cupcake Minigame
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)

By the time William had found her, it was


too late. Elizabeth was gone. He
immediately cancelled the of Circus Baby’s
under the guise of a gas leak.
Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Sister
Location
Cancelled Teaser
(Brightened)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
But wait. As he sat at the foot of the
stage, William noticed that something had
changed about Baby. She had been built with
blue eyes but now her eye colour had
changed from blue to emerald green. The
same colour of Elizabeth’s eyes. Was she in
there?

Game Theory: The


KILLER'S Promise
(2016 – The Game
Theorists)

Could this be connected to the free moving


animatronics he had seen at Freddy’s? He
had to know more! His morning turned to
excitement. He had to return to where it
all started.
1993 [Unused Fazfacts – Five Nights at
Freddy’s AR: Special Delivery] – Pathetic.
This place was pathetic. Henry had clearly
tried to reopen one final time with those
old original animatronics from so long ago.
But the damage that William had caused to
the brand was permanent. The animatronics
stank of death, they hadn’t been cleaned in
decades. But even if they had, nothing
could wash away the stink of murder that
haunted these halls.
One night, then another, then another.
William repeatedly snuck into the old
broken restaurant to lure the living
animatronics to him, one by one dismantling
them, robbing them of their endoskeletons.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3


Night 5 Ending Minigame
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)

The metal had to be the secret. It had to


contain the remnants of life itself. But he
had to know for sure. Leaping out of a room
that was invisible to the animatronics’
programming, he dragged the oversized
robotic skeletons back to his underground
workshop, back to where Circus Baby watched
on with glowing, curious eyes, eyes that
somehow felt alive.
Not knowing what else to do, William melted
the robotic parts down. Five animatronic
endo-skeletons reduced to one silvery
puddle of goo [Candy Cadet Stories – Freddy
Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator]. Could he
transfer this living metal to his own
creations? He had to try. He picked up a
syringe and filled it with the molten metal
and injected the goo into Funtime Freddy’s
twisted wiry endo-skeleton [Five Nights at
Freddy’s #3: The Fourth Closet]. Suddenly
the coils came to life. Like snakes
writhing in a pile what had once been cold,
lifeless metal moved and jolted on its own.
He’d done it! He had unlocked the secret to
life itself. Except something was clearly
wrong.
The movements were erratic. They were
violent, angry. Baby didn’t act this way.
She had been calm, collected. This was
clearly something else. Something mindless
and frantic. Perhaps by mixing the souls
and then portioning them out, he had
created an incomplete beast. He would need
to keep testing to truly understand it. He
needed more of this remnant.
As he searched the old pizzeria one more
time for any remaining scraps of metal, the
ghosts attacked. His past victims come to
collect their due, all led by Cassidy.
The five lined up and blocked the door and
Afton’s mind reeled.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3


Night 5 Ending Minigame
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)

The scientific implications of this were


incredible! Ghosts! Real ghosts that he
could see all standing against him. But
what could they do? What couldn’t they do?
He panicked as Cassidy approached. How do
you stop something that’s already dead?
Maybe with the thing that resulted in their
death in the first place. He would get into
a suit like old times, he would regain hi
power over them just like the day they
died. He was the genius! He was the one in
the suit! He was the one in char―

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3


Night 5 Ending Minigame
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
The springlocks snapped into place. Maybe
it was his frantic movements. Maybe it was
the leaky, abandoned restaurant. Maybe it
was just fate coming to collect its due. He
didn’t know. The only thing he did know was
that his brain was suddenly filled searing
white-hot pain as hundreds of metallic pins
and gears stabbed into his body from all
sides. All he could do was collapse, blood
slowly oozing out of the suit and pooling
onto the floor around him.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3


Night 5 Ending Minigame
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)

It couldn’t end like this. It wouldn’t end


like this! His work was unfinished. Unable
to move, his only option was to survive, to
live, to keep living.
It took days lying in his own blood but
eventually someone found him, a security
guard, making a normal report. When he saw
the animatronics torn apart in the middle
of the floor, it caused him to file an
immediate report of a break in, an owner
would have to come in and claim the damage.
And who else would it be other than Henry
Emily. Hope jumped in William’s heart.
Henry would see him, they were partners
after all. He would be the one to help save
him, to get him out of this suit, to
relieve him from his tremendous pain.
Henry entered the secret room. His eyes
fell on Afton, sitting there in the pool of
red, and Henry saying nothing turned and
walked away.
Uh, this is just to inform all employees, that due
to budget restrictions the previously mentioned
safe rooms are being sealed at most locations.
Including this one. Work crews will be here most
of the day today constructing a false wall over
the old door face. Nothing is being taken out
beforehand, so if you left anything inside, then
it’s your own fault. Management also requests that
this room not be mentioned to family, friends, or
insurance representatives.
- Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy’s 3, Night 6)
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
And so there Afton would sit, hanging on
for 30 years, tapped behind the walls with
an iron will that refused to die.
------------------------------------------
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William still wasn’t back. Weird. Michael
knew that his father had to sometimes
travel for work, often times disappearing
for days on end. But usually there was some
sort of notice, a phone call, a post-it,
something. It’s not like Michael and his
father were close. Far from it. But as a
household of two suffering men coping with
yeas of tragedy and loss, there was at
least some element of communication between
the two of them. They were united by a name
and a shared pain.
This time though, things felt different.
William had left nothing. His absence was
longer. There were no check ins, no
updates. Just silence. Something had
happened. If there was one thing Michael
knew about his father, it was that he had
contingencies, safety checks, backup plans.
His father was a careful and guarded man.
He held his cards close to his chest and
such. William had prepared him in the event
that something like this ever happened.
Normally, his father kept his home office
locked, but in the event of an unexpected,
prolonged absence, Michael had been
instructed to enter his father’s office and
look behind an empty set of shelves mounted
in the corner of the room [Fazbear Frights
#4: Step Closer/Coming Home].
Rolling his eyes, Michael entered the
office. He never fully understood how
William was able to spend so many hours of
his days locked up in here. There was just
nothing to do. Most of this place was
empty. Michael dragged himself over to the
shelf in the corner, expecting to find an
emergency contact list, a family safety
deposit box. But what he actually found
there was completely unexpected.
Father… It’s me, Michael.
I did it. I found it.
It was right where you said it would be.
- Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Custom Night Ending Cutscene)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
The shelf swung open and revealed a giant
industrial elevator. One that led straight
down into an underground bunker.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Sister Location
Elevator
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
But that was impossible. Hidden inside his
childhood home was a secret entrance to an
enormous underground science lair? It
didn’t make any sense. And yet here it was,
mapped directly underneath the floor plan
of the house that he’d grown up in, lost
his brother in, been tortured in. Michael
thought that he’d known his father: a
prideful, sad, angry man with petty,
everyday problems. But clearly he’d been
living with a stranger this entire time.
His father had secrets.
Suddenly, the days of William being locked
inside of his office made sense. He’d been
here the entire time. Where was here
though? Was this Circus Baby’s
Entertainment & Rentals? The Circus Baby
restaurant always did seem to be a deeply
personal project for William, a failure of
his that cut unusually deep, especially
after that first location had to be closed
prematurely due to gas leaks. After that
day, William really did seem to change, to
lose himself even more in his work.
Clearly, the entrance Michael had found was
some sort of secret back way into the
facility, one that required crawling
through vents to navigate.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Sister Location
Vents
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)

William had been working here, but in


secret. Why?
And that’s when Michael found her, at the
end of the facility: Circus Baby, his
father’s pride and joy. Except something
was different about her. She wasn’t like
the others. The way she talked, the stories
she told. This wasn’t just a robot. She was
alive somehow. And not only was she alive,
but she also felt familiar.
There is something bad, inside of me. I’m broken. I
can’t be fixed.
Will you help me?
- Circus Baby (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Night 5)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Was this his sister? William’s baby girl?
But how? Why? What was this place? He dug
around some old files and found blueprints
outlining the features of these
animatronics. Storage containers, voice
mimicking, parental tacking. And was that a
child in Freddy’s stomach?

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Sister Location
Funtime Freddy Blueprint
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)

Was his father collecting and experimenting


on kids? Were all the rumors he’d heard
throughout his past actually true? That the
animatronics came to life at night, that
there were murders done in all the
pizerias, that his father had somehow been
the prime suspect in all of it? Suddenly,
Michael’s mind flashed back to his
persistent nightmares throughot his
childhood. Had he been experimented on too?
Tears stung in his eyes as anger, fear and
cunfusion filled his body, his father’s
secrets were pouring out. William wasn’t
just a lame, overworked father. He was a
monster! Toying with life itself.
Suddenly, everything clicked, he
frantically looked around the room,
blinking human heads on poles, staring back
at him.
Green eyes: his sister. Blue eyes: his
brother. Closed eyes: his mom.

(Left) Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location


Human Heads (In Primary Control Module)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
(Right) Five Nights at Freddy’s Official Character
Encyclopaedia
Human Heads Page 201
(2023 – Scott Cawthon)
All just staring, expectantly. These were
meant to be human. William was working down
here trying to make believable humans,
literally rebuilding the family that they
had both lost. The small little girl robots
with their British accents roaming the
hallways of this underground suddenly took
on a whole new context.

Hello in there~
Is it the same person?
- Bidybabs (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Night 2)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)

Were those meant to be his siter? A


replacement for her? A clone? Was William
building clones of his siter? They seemed
to know him, after all, to react to his
presence.
They were all there.
They didn’t recognize me at first, but then, they
thought I was you…
- Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Custom Night Ending Cutscene)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
He always did seem to have a bit of a
resemblance to his father.

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria


Simulator
Secret Alleyway Poster
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)

Michael’s mind reeled as the reality of his


world crumbled to dust. No, no. He had to
get them out of there. If Circus Baby
really was his sister. Heck, if any of
these… things were human, souls, whatever
remnant of the humans that they once were,
they needed to be rescued.
They always put us back inside.
There’s no-where for us to hide here.
- Circus Baby (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Night 5)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Led by the voice of Circus Baby he marched
through the now empty halls of the Funtime
Auditorium. He would lead them, he would
protect them. And finally he would be able
to forgive himself for the killing of his
brother so many years-
You are in The Scooping Room now.
The Scooper only hurts for a moment.
- Circus Baby (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Night 5)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Scooper? That violent extraction arm?
Michael had seen that one in the pile of
blueprints, something about heat rendering
the magical silver metal useless.

(Left) Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location


Scooping Room
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
(Right) Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator
Scooper Blueprint
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
In reality, prior to getting himself spring
locked and put behind the wall, William’s
methods had become increasingly
sophisticated, with a mechanized arm that
could infuse new bodies with a soul.
William could finally give and take away
life. The only thing he needed were the
bodies. But William wasn’t the only one
looking for bodies, as Michael was about to
learn.
But if we looked like you, then we could hide. If
we looked like you, then we would have somewhere
to go.
- Circus Baby (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Night 5)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Michael was going to be the hero to help
these animatronics all right, he was going
to help the haunted tubes and wires of
these animatronics escape, just not in the
way that he anticipated. His sister had
lied to him. Another game of pretend. The
scooper ploughed forward, digging its
extraction arm into his body. As he heard
his bones ripping through his flesh,
Michael blacked out.
But something is wrong with me, I should be dead.
But I’m not.
- Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Custom Night Ending Cutscene)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
For the next several months Michael’s life
was not his own. He was forced to comply
with the tangle of wires and spirits that
lived inside of him. His body felt like an
overfilled balloon, begging to burst as day
by day, week by week, his flesh began to
sag and discolour. He was a walking,
talking, rotting corpse. Alive, but wishing
he weren’t. He was a puppet, a waling
shell. And while he did his best to conceal
his fate, there was only so much a man
filled with robot spaghetti could do. The
entity in his innards would eventually
leave, but by that point, the damage had
been done. His decaying flesh stank,
turning him into a literal purple guy.
(Previous Page, Bottom) Five Nights at Freddy’s:
Sister Location
Michael Afton Custom Night Cutscenes
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
But still, even with no bones, even with
rotting purple flesh and begging to die,
Michael continued to live. That silvery
metal remnant injected by the scooper meant
that he couldn’t die. His anger also
refused to die. What he had seen down there
in his sister’s location had rocked him to
his core. His father had killed and
captured dozens. His experiments had killed
his sister and then tortured him throughout
all his childhood, he was actively trying
to build human replicants. He didn’t know
where his father was, but Michael knew that
he was out there somewhere.
I’ve been living in shadows.
There is only one thing left for me to do now.
I’m going to come find you.
- Michael Afton (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location, Custom Night Ending Cutscene)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Michael had to correct for the sins of his
father. He had to make things right.
Michael would burn Fazbear Entertainment to
the ground. I mean, what else could you do
when your skin was permanently purple?
Michael’s strategy was simple, he would
apply for night security guard positions at
the old defunct pizzeria locations. That
way, no one ever had to see him or smell
him during his shift. And all these old,
shuttered locations did need guards.
Teenage vandals and squatters were always
looking to get inside these abandoned
buildings [Five Nights at Freddy’s #1: The
Silver Eyes]. And yet no one ever really
wanted to work an overnight graveyard shift
unless they were practically out of
options.
Enter Mike.
One by one, he would take on the job of
security guard, changing his name each time
to ensure that no one was able to follow
his paper trail. Once inside, he could
tamper with the animatronics and figure out
how the worked, writing about his
experiences in his security log book. While
there he would listen to the old tapes
where upper management awkwardly welcomed
the new recruits to their summer jobs. Even
though he was working there nowhere near
the summer months.

Five Nights at Freddy’s


Night 5 Paycheck
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)

He heard the gory details of his father’s


franchise from the outsiders looking in,
confused and afraid about what was
happening in the walls around them.
Sometimes he would see his brother in the
form of the Golden Freddy suit. “IT’S ME”
appearing on the walls around him.
Five Nights at Freddy’s
Cam 4A IT’S ME Easter
Egg
(2014 – Scott Cawthon)

Except now there was something else there.


He was no longer alone. Another angrier
presence was also in the suit. As if two
spirits were forced to share the same body.
And Golden Freddy would attack him now, it
was aggressive. Its vengeance wanted to
lash out at anyone with the Afton name,
anyone who wore a security guard outfit.
Over time, Mike worked his way through the
old restaurants. The original pizzeria, the
bigger, better Freddy Fazbear’s. he spent
weeks there looking for clues as to his
father’s whereabouts. And each time at the
end of each shift, he would set the
location on fire. Remnant can’t survive
high temperatures after all [S.C.U.P
Blueprints – See page 58]. So burning away
whatever spirit laden animatronics that
still existed inside seemed like a winning
strategy.
All this revisiting his past, though, was
causing the nightmares to begin again.
Hallucinations that brought him back to his
childhood. The guilt of killing his
brother. His dreams were oddly mixed with
the shrill phone calls of the security
guards. But it would all be worth it in the
end. The goal was to eventually, eventually
stumble across the one location, the one
job that would finally reunite him with his
father [Fazbear Frights #8: Gumdrop Angel].
Little did Mike know that that day would
come sooner than he expected.
2023 – An advertisement came across Mike’s
TV: Fazbear Frights, a new horror
attraction inspired by the awful rimes that
occurred around Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza so
many years ago. It made Mike sick, people
looking to make a quick buck off the
tragedy of others, off his own family. This
wasn’t a joke or entertainment. Regardless,
he had to be part of it. If the team were
combing through his family’s history, they
might stumble across something that could
be useful. And if his father were truly
alive as he suspected, there would be o way
that he wouldn’t show up here. Maybe
finally, finally, this could be the final
chapter in his family’s marathon of
tragedy.
Mike applied for the job and was
immediately handed the keys. Years of doing
this had taught him that security guards
rarely received thorough security checks.
They also liked how creepy Mike looked.
They thought it was a costume, on theme for
the job. What little they knew.
Hey hey, glad you came back for another night! I promise, it’ll
be a lot more interesting this time!
- Phone Dude (Five Nights at Freddy’s 3, Night 1)
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
For weeks there was nothing. But just as
Mike had considered giving up, he received
the call that he’d been waiting for years.
But I have an even better surprise for you, and
you’re not gonna believe this! We found one. A real
one.
- Phone Dude (Five Nights at Freddy’s 3, Night 1)
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
Could this finally be him?
Sure enough, there he was. William inside
his iconic Golden Bonnie springlock suit.
Only now it was green and decaying with
age.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3


Springtrap
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
And there they were. A small family of
broken men finally reunited. It’s been a
long time, dad.
Mike had always struggled with the phantoms
of his past haunting him. But now all the
animatronics he’d encountered over the past
months hopping from pizzeria to pizzeria
suddenly sprang to life, their burned faces
haunting him as he tried to keep track of
his father on the cameras.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s 3
The Phantom
Animatronics
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)
It would seem that William’s mere presence
had put the spirits on high alert.
Ultimately, they were harmless, more
annoying than anything else. But there was
one that felt different from the others.
One that was more than just a mere phantom.
The Security Puppet. If he looked at the
cameras at just the right moment, he could
see it floating there through the halls. He
could even see its reflection in the water
pooled on the ground.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s 3
The Puppet at Cam
08
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)

It would seem like he wasn’t the only one


on a mission. While he was dealing with
Springtrap, Michael assumed that this one
was likely dealing with the spirits of this
place, finally setting them to rest.
“Hopefully, this means a happier day for
all of us.” Mike thought to himself.
And in that moment he felt the air around
him release, like pressure being let out of
a bottle. The building sighed, as if five
spirits had finally been allowed to move
on. He had the sense that his brother was
apart of them. He rigged the wiring inside
the building to misfire, and the dry,
desiccated walls erupted in flames.
It is finished.
Except, it was not.
Somehow, through sheer force of will Afton
remained.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s 3
IT BURNS!
Newspaper Clipping
(Brightened)
(2015 – Scott
Cawthon)

William had survived. And Mike would need


to find a new way of finishing of his
father. Luckily, the solution would present
itself later that year. Not from Mike, but
from another victim that had been left in
his father’s wake.
We’re talking about becoming a Fazbear
Entertainment franchisee.
That’s right! Restaurant ownership and management.
Something almost anyone can do with a limited
degree of success.
YOU are now the face of the newly rebranded Freddy
Fazbear’s pizza!
- Tutorial Unit (Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria
Simulator, Opening Cutscene)
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
Fazbear Entertainment as a brand had been
closed for years. William had been stuck in
a suit in a wall. The only person who
legally could bring the franchise back was
Henry, but he’d largely pulled out of the
franchise around the time of his father’s
disappearance. Something was up. Surely
this had to be some kind of trick, right?
Mike, doing what he did best, applied for a
franchise and immediately got the job.
There was just one thing out of the
ordinary. Paragraph Four.
If you are playing this tape, that means that not
only have you been checking outside at the end of
every shift, as you were instructed to do, but also
that you have found something that meets the
criteria of your special obligations under
Paragraph Four.
- Cassette Man/Henry Emily (Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizzeria Simulator, First Salvage Minigame)
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
No employment contract he’d ever signed
required him to keep special lookout for
independently moving animatronics outside
the restaurant. Now, he knew something was
up here. Henry was luring them all back.
Rather than trying to go to them, like Mike
had done for years, Henry was doing the
opposite. He was putting them all under the
same roof. He was finishing them off for
good. Mike knew this wasn’t meant to be a
restaurant. It was meant to be a prison. A
containment vessel. A locked box meant to
trap them all in so they could finally end
the madness.
It took a few nights, but eventually
everyone was there. His father, the Puppet,
the robot spaghetti that had once violated
his body, and his sister now hopelessly
devoted to serve the man that had once
gotten her killed. It was time. Mike had
been instructed to seal the doors and
leave, but while he locked everything down,
he didn’t move on. If this was truly meant
to be the end, if the remnant needed to be
washed away, he needed to be a part of
that.
This is where your story ends.
And to you, my brave volunteer, who somehow found
this job listing, not intended for you. Although
there was a way out planned for you, I have a
feeling that’s not what you want. I have a feeling
that you are right where you want to be.
And to you monsters trapped in the corridors, be
still, and give up your spirits. They don’t belong
to you.
For most of you, I believe there is peace, and
perhaps more, waiting for you after the smoke
clears.
Although for one of you, the darkest pit of hell
has opened to swallow you whole, so don’t keep the
devil waiting, old friend.
- Cassette Man/Henry (Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria
Simulator, Opening Cutscene)
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
And with that, it was over.
The Afton legacy died with all of them
trapped inside of a literal box.

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria


Simulator
Building Map on Monitor
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)

As the flames danced around the office,


Mike for the first time in decades, was
happy.
But William wasn’t gone yet.
Although the darkest pit of hell was open
and waiting for him, something or someone
wouldn’t allow him to move on. Instead, he
found himself locked in moments from his
past: the pizzeria, his son’s room, is
underground bunker. It was as if his
brain’s neurons were all firing at once,
overloaded, mixing and matching all his
biggest fears. Regrets, failures.
Ultimate Custom Night
All Office Variants
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)
What was this place?
How did he get here?
He called out into the silence.
Mike!
Help!
- William Afton (Ultimate Custom Night, Old Man
Consequences Minigame
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)
Then they started coming.
Without warning, animatronics both new and
old began to jump out at him, bite him, rip
him limb from limb. The pain was
immeasurable. Make it stop. Make it stop!
William, for the first time, longed for
death. An end to this torture. Just as it
felt like he couldn’t take it anymore,
everything was quiet again. It was as if
the world had been reset. There was a brief
moment of quiet. And then the onslaught
began again. Dozens of faces from his past,
all focused on him, a waking nightmare from
which he couldn’t escape. More pain! More
ripping! It was his ow personal hell. But
why? Why couldn’t he just die?
And then he saw them.
A group of characters he never thought he’d
see again. Those janky stolen characters
that had started everything, The Mediocre
Melodies. It had all started to go wrong
once they showed up, once Henry had made
them. But mixed in with their obnoxious
Southern drawls, William heard something
else. It was barely a whisper, but he could
just make out the words.
(Overlapping child’s voice) He tried to release you. He tried to
release us. But I’m not gonna let that happen. I will hold you
here. I will keep you here. No matter how many times, they burn
us.
- Orville Elephant (Ultimate Custom Night)
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)
That voice. He knew that voice. But from
where?
Greetings from the fire, and from the one you
should not have killed.
- Jack O’ Chica (Ultimate Custom Night)
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)
The one he shouldn’t have killed. William
thought back. He’d done a lot of awful
things, but there was always the one that
stood out. Not Charlie, his drunken act of
revenge. Not Susie, his first true murder.
No. Instead, it was the one that he had
lost control with. The one that he had
broken beyond repair for no good reason
other than because he could. The one that
he’d stuffed inside the Golden Bear that
his partner used to wear. Cassidy. They
were back. And now they were trying to
punish him, to make him suffer like he’d
made them suffer. It was almost like
William and Cassidy’s souls had been locked
together, fused by a collective rage and
spite, each refusing to move on [Fazbear
Frights #5: Bunny Call/The Man In Room
1280].
But while Cassidy was so focused on taking
revenge, they actually did the one thing
that would be the downfall for so many
others. They kept William alive. Even
though the fire should have destroyed the
remnant that was coursing through his
being, Cassidy kept William breathing,
paving the way for his escape.
William’s will was so strong, his soul so
powerful, that he managed to put a part of
himself inside the circuitry that housed
the Springlocked suit.
And there his consciousness lay, inside a
single circuit board, waiting. Waiting for
someone to find him and set him free.
A person that no one would suspect.

End of
Chapter #2
Chapter #3:
Post-purple
guy
Fazbear Entertainment was dead.
There is no need for you to return to work next
week as Fazbear Entertainment is no longer a
corporate entity.
- Tutorial Unit (Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria
Simulator, Opening Cutscene)
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
All debts had been paid, all assets
redistributed, the company was outright
dissolved. Even the memories of the horrors
that had happened there started to fade
away in the public consciousness. The
people were gone, too. William was dead.
Henry was gone. A whole generation of young
Emily’s and Afton’s had lost their lives to
the horrors of the pizzeria, all of them
collateral damage to the man in the bunny
suit. Everyone the company had ever touched
was dead and gone.
Well, all except one.
Pay your child support, you deadbeat!
I'm keeping the diamond ring.
I also set the house on fire!
- Clara (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister Location,
The Immortal and the Restless)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Clara Afton.
She’d been there in the early days, back
when things with William were good. They’d
had the perfect home, a thriving business,
the ideal family. But shortly after their
youngest son died, things started to
change. William had become distant, lost in
his work, obsessive. She had watched him
change from this irritatingly brilliant man
that she had fallen in love with turn to a
drunken monster struggling to hold himself
together, and despite her trying to reach
out to him in those desperate days, he was
just too far gone.
Why do you hide inside your walls, when there is
music in my halls? All I see is an empty room.
no more joy; an empty tomb.
Ballora’s Song (Five Nights at Freddy’s: Sister
Location)
(2016 – Scott Cawthon)
Admit it.
You wanted to let me in.
- Ballora (Ultimate Custom Night)
(2018 – Scott Cawthon)

For her sake she had to leave the


relationship. And from there she largely
faded into obscurity. A mystery from
William’s past, a footnote in his history.
That was fine for her. She wanted to leave
that part of her life behind. She’d tried
to move forward, never wanting to hear the
name Freddy Fazbear again. A time defined
by mistakes and broken promises. But then
the paperwork started to arrive.
As Fazbear Entertainment began to close as
a corporate entity suddenly, her mail was
flooded with notifications, requests,
obligations. She had been there since the
beginning, helping William in the early
days of his business, and now as a
shareholder and sole living member of the
Afton family, all copyrights and trademarks
of both Afton Robotics and Fazbear
Entertainment passed on to her. Memories of
this past life that she had long left
behind.
Looking at the blueprints, the contracts,
the memos, she felt old wounds begin to
reopen. The regrets of a happy family that
had been torn away from her. William had
always been brilliant. That’s what
attracted her to him in the first place.
But he’d also been too blinded by obsession
and pride. He was too jealous, too petty,
too unable to actually see a bigger
picture.
But now, holding the paperwork that
contained decades of heartbreak and trauma,
she realized, it was her turn. She was
holding the power. This was her chance. And
one thought resonated in her head. “I will
put them back together. I will put them all
back together.” She would be the one to
rebuild this family, to rebuild the pieces
of that shattered life, to reclaim the kids
that Fazbear had stolen from her. But how?
Looking at William’s work now laid out
before her, she knew that he had been on to
something. Collecting remnant, robotic
humanoids, digital conscience transference.
The pieces were all in place. They were
just scattered, fragmented. It was almost
like there were too many ideas going in too
many different directions. It was such an
important idea that she reiterated that
point to herself. THERE WERE TOO MANY IDEAS
GOING IN TOO MANY DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS.
That said there had to be a way to save it
all. She just needed to put it all back
together. But how?
To rebuild her family, she would first need
to rebuild the franchise that had stolen
them away from her. With ownership over the
characters, their licenses, the technology
patents and the Fazbear name, she converted
the corporation back to an LLC, a structure
for smaller businesses that are usually
family owned.

Game Theory: FNAF, You’re


Going To Hate This (FNAF
Security Breach)
(2022 – The Game
Theorists)
The irony was fitting.
From there she would need remnant and lots
of it. Remnant was the key. Clearly, in the
years of his life, William had been using
Circus Baby’s Entertainment & Rentals as a
remnant farm, sending robots to kids
birthday parties in the hopes of nabbing
bits of the stuff here and there. But
clearly it wasn’t enough. He had, what,
like four, maybe five animatronics going
out every week? No, it was a decent idea.
But to get the remnant they required, it
needed scale. Dozens, hundreds of
animatronics all out there, all gathering
remnant from unsuspecting customers. But to
do that would require help, something
William would never ask for.
William had kept everything in-house. His
obsession with control limited him. Clara,
though, she wasn’t nearly that precious. A
plan like this required partners, people
outside of Fazbear to do the heavy lifting.
So she contacted a midsize delivery company
DLZ Shipping Solutions to help build
replicas of all the original animatronics
[Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special
Delivery]. And with meal delivery apps
being all the rage, why not an animatronic
delivery service? Order one to celebrate
your birthday, your Halloween party. How
about a 4th of July picnic? Well invite
Liberty Chica and 4th of July Freddy on
over. She would make sure that they made
skins for every occasion. Chocolate
Bonnie’s for Easter, Shamrock Freddy’s for
St Patrick’s Day, Dia de los Muertos
Chica’s and thus the Fazbear Funtime
Service was born.
(Previous Page - From left to right)
Liberty Chica
4th of July Freddy
Chocolate Bonnie
Shamrock Freddy
Dia de los Muertos/Catrina (Day of the Dead) Toy
Chica
(2020 – Illumix)

That’s Right!
With the Fazbear Funtime Service you’ll never be
alone again.
You’ll always have someone watching your back!
- Mark (Five Nights at Freddy’s AR: Special
Delivery, Opening Cutscene)
(2020 – Illumix)

Was it ridiculous? Absolutely. Was it a


sellout? No doubt. It was exactly the sort
of thing that William would have hated, but
it needed to be done to get enough remnant.
Normally, the novelty of ordering an
animatronic wore off after like what? One,
maybe two times, but with new skins for new
holidays. Suddenly you had yourself an
animatronic perfect for every occasion. It
would keep people hooked. It would keep
them ordering the latest and greatest that
Fazbear Entertainment, LLC had to offer and
all the while they’d be collecting and
returning the remnant back to her. In a
word, it was brilliant. There was just one
problem with it.
No one trusted the Fazbear name; the
company’s brand was still mud in the public
eye. No one would want to hire animatronics
from the restaurant franchise known for
murdering children. Nothing kills a party
quite like the threat of death, you know?
So she needed to find a way to discredit
the stories that had come before. She
needed to win back the public’s affections,
reactivate some nostalgia for the spooky
stories of their childhoods. She needed a
game. Multiple games in fact.
They lied to us. They lied to all of us. They
told us that the whole point of this VR game was
to undo the bad PR done by a rogue indie game
developer. But that's not true at all!
Those indie games were designed to conceal and
make light of what happened. This isn't just an
attempt to rebrand. It's an elaborate cover-up.
- Tape Girl (Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help
Wanted, Tape #13)
(2019 – Steel Wool Studios)
Struggling game developers were a dime a
dozen online, most working on their magnum
opus between shifts at the Dollar General.
So she found one, Steve [Tales From the
Pizzaplex #2: Happs/Help Wanted]. Just
picked him out of obscurity. The right mix
of desperate and doofus willing to say and
do anything for a couple extra bucks. And
he fell right in line as expected,
delivering stupid little things with dumb
generic names like Mangle’s Quest, Balloon
Boy’s Air Adventure, Five Nights at
Freddy’s.

Five Nights at Freddy’s 3


Mangle’s Quest Minigame (Left)
BB’s Air Adventure Minigame (Right)
(2015 – Scott Cawthon)
Bad gameplay with even worse graphics. But
hey, they got the job done. People were
suddenly talking about the clues inside of
these things, searching for the hidden
lore. They were actively making jokes about
dead kids at pizzerias. Her husband’s
twisted history of serial murder had
suddenly been reduced to a mere Nancy Drew
mystery to be solved. The plan had worked.
Freddy Fazbear was suddenly more popular
than ever.
Things were going shockingly well. Clara’s
takeover and reboot of the franchise was
full and complete. Suddenly infused with
cash, she built the largest, most ambitious
project yet: The Mega Pizzaplex. William
had always been so visionary, but always
thought so small scale. He was careful to a
fault. Not her though, she knew that this
latest project needed to be big. It needed
to be flashy. It needed to be a place for
children, a place that got people talking
and checking out the latest in Fazbear
products.
So with a steady supply of remnant flowing
in, it was finally time.
The stage was set.
It was time to get to her real goal,
literally rebuilding a family.
-------------------------------------------
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March 2035 – The first was obvious, the
Crying Child, her little boy, the one that
was the first to get ripped away from her.
She’d seen down in his bunker that William
had gotten veery close to replicating
artificial humans using animatronic
technology. And so that’s exactly what she
would do. Rebuild her boy from the ground
up using robotic parts, his shaggy brown
hair, his favourite striped shirt, even
down to the little details that no one
would notice like the Band-Aid on his left
knee [FNaF Character Encyclopedia: The
Crying Child, Page 210].
William’s research had even found ways of
making animatronics that could bleed and
process food, making them virtually
indistinguishable from a typical human
[Five Nights at Freddy’s #1: The Silver
Eyes]. He would never have any idea of what
he actually was unless he was explicitly
told. The only things that could possibly
ruin the illusion were any overrides to his
internal systems. If something were to say,
interfere with the cameras that he had in
his eyes, or cause some sort of a core
reboot to his hard drive or X-ray his
metallic bones. Then yeah, he would be
exposed. But otherwise, to the outside
world, he was just your typical normal
human boy.
Clara worked down in the bowels of the
Pizzaplex, giving him life. But it was one
thing to build him, it was another to help
him remember his identity. He died so
young, so early in their history that there
was no preserved memories for him, no
documentation that you could just download
into his digital brain. So bit by bit, she
trained him, forcing him to remember who he
was. In a corner of the room, she even made
a makeshift dinner table, a reminder of
their happier days. The family recreated:
two brothers, a sister, a father, and the
mother at the head of the table. The one in
charge, the one in command, the one
bringing all of this to fruition.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Staff Bot Table in Post-
it note room
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

But this progress was admittedly slower


than she would have liked. At first, he
could only communicate through simple ones
and zeros, then rudimentary drawings and
crude letters.
Game Theory: FNAF, The
Clue That ALMOST Solves
Everything! (FNAF
Security Breach)
(2022 – The Game
Theorists)
But bit by bit, images of his past life
started to come through, balloons, colours,
houses, bears and faces, birthday parties,
all for me.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Post-it note textures
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)
Gregory was alive.
Five Nights at Freddy’s:
Security Breach
Gregory
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

As the robot boy embraced her she felt a


warmth that she hadn’t felt in decades.
This. This was the joy that she’d been
working towards. This was what it was all
for. Her son, back in her arms again. The
plan was working. She had to keep going.
Next was William. If the family was truly
going to be put together, she would need
him. And she knew exactly where he was. In
the ruins of that old Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizza Place where Henry had trapped him. In
fact, that’s specifically why she insisted
on building the Pizzaplex there over the
sinkhole; it’s the best place to hide what
her true intentions were with the entire
operation.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza
Place
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

Digging through the wreckage, she found


him. He was right where she though he’d be.
Seeing the putrid shell of the Springtrap
suit, though, was not something she was
prepared for. The rotting corpse of William
Afton was disgusting. Scorched flesh fused
into the fur lining, hollow black sockets
where eyes once were, a smell hat reeked of
burned carbon and bloody iron. He was no
longer flesh, he was just the tangled
sinews of a creature that was once called
human. How far had this brilliant man had
fallen.
It was clear that her work was cut out for
her on this one.
Five Nights at Freddy’s:
Security Breach
Burntrap
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

Afton was practically lifeless.


The man may not have been able to die, but
it was about as close as you could come.
And his body would need a lot of
reconstruction, replacement arms and
endoskeleton reinforcements were the top
priority, maybe pulled from their new line
of Glamrock animatronics.
Game Theory: FNAF, Is
Golden Freddy REALLY In
Security Breach (FNAF
Security Breach)
(2022 – The Game
Theorists)
She’d have to see if they had any spare
Bonnie parts lying around that they could
steal. In the meantime, though, she threw
the husk that was once her husband into a
life support pod infused with aerosolized
remnant to help keep him stable.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Burntrap Recharge
Station
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

But more important than recovering his body


was recovering his mind. In his current
state, he was comatose, an empty shell.
Severe brain damage starts at temperatures
over 180oF (42oC). And years of repeated
fires had burned his brain to goo. Gone was
the brilliant, frustrating mind that had
drawn her to him in the first place. But
she had a plan.
Unlike her darling boy Gregory, Afton had
found ways to record his consciousness.
Fundamentally, the brain is only a series
of electrical connections, after all. So
why couldn’t you replicate that in the form
of a standard circuit board? In essence,
you could create a digital consciousness.
And one thing she knew about William, he
was nothing if not cautious. A planner,
someone who had backup plans to his backup
plans. And sure enough, there it was.
Buried in piles of old animatronic CPU’s, a
record of Afton himself. But she needed
someone to test it.
Someone was definitely here during the night. It
had to have been the client. I mean, they sent
us that stuff in the first place with no
explanation. Told us to scan it. Said it would
expedite the process so we wouldn't need to
program any path finding ourselves.
- Tape Girl (Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help
Wanted, Tape #5)
(2019 – Steel Wool Studios)
Unlike the other games that she’d paid to
have made in the past, this one had a
different purpose. This wasn’t about PR, it
was about getting William back up and
running, spreading his virus to the masses.
You acknowledge that Fazbear Entertainment is not
responsible for accidental digital consciousness
transfer, real world manifestations of digital
characters.
- Hand Unit (Five Nights at Freddy’s VR: Help
Wanted, Intro)
(2019 – Steel Wool Studios)
She hired a new developer, Silver Parasol
Games, to scan the boards and bring her
husband into the system. And because of the
immersive nature of VR, William’s
consciousness would be able to merge with
the player, giving him a new bod, a new
agency. There was just one complication.
Afton’s hold wasn’t as powerful as she had
hoped. He wasn’t able to gain complete
control.
The first trial run, Jeremy, was so
desperate to escape from his grasp that he
sliced his own face off with a paper
shredder [FNaF VR: Help Wanted – Tape #9].
Messy. Afton’s followers were reluctant to
say the least. But it was the second
attempt that looked like it had the
potential to kill two birds with one stone.
Enter, Vanessa.
Five Nights at Freddy’s:
Security Breach
Vanessa
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

Mrs. Afton wanted a surrogate daughter. Her


darling Elizabeth would have been a young
woman at this point if she had lived. Clara
wanted someone who wasn’t Elizabeth, but
could be just liker her. Could she have
just rebuilt her like Gregory? Sure. But
she decided against it because she wanted
an actual human mother-daughter connection.
Well, that. And it would be redundant,
narratively unsatisfying to have two robot
kids in the same family. What could she
say? William had put a lot of tools on the
table for her to use and she was planning
on using them all. Plus Elizabeth had
always been so loyal to Daddy. It was time
to give her a second chance, a true choice.
And Vanessa seemed to be the perfect
candidate to fill the role.
(Therapist) Your dad’s name was Bill?
Your dad didn’t play it fair, did he? He used to
make your mom look bad in court.
He manipulated you.
I know your mom (STATIC) after she lost the
custody case.
(Vanessa) I was supposed to be a good girl.
- Therapist/Vanessa (Five Nights at Freddy’s:
Security Breach, Retro CD 3-7140)
(2021 – Steel Wool Studios)
Vanessa started as a QA tester at Silver
Parasol Games, the VR game development
company that was part of her plan to bring
back William. But more importantly, Vanessa
checked all the correct boxes. Right age,
blond, green eyes, with a fondness for
flowers and the outdoors. In many ways, it
was her daughter all over again. Except it
wasn’t just looks and personality. What
really mattered was Vanessa’s mind:
underconfident, coming from a broken home,
motherless, able to be manipulated.
Yes.
She would do nicely.
She would be the one to save dear old
Daddy, just as the real Elizabeth would
have wanted.
I will make you proud, daddy.
- Scrap Baby (Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria
Simulator, Ending)
(2017 – Scott Cawthon)
While testing the VR game, William’s
digital consciousness merged with Vanessa.
Oh, sure, she fought, fragmenting Afton’s
code into a series of tapes hidden across
the game, trying to do web searches to
regain control of her life [FNaF AR:
Special Delivery, Emails]. But it wasn’t
enough. She was weaker than Jeremy. She was
a thrall that, despite occasional moments
of lucidity, had to obey. And with Vanessa,
it was a two for one deal. She was getting
her daughter back while also bringing her
husband one step closer to reactivation.
She just had to make sure that Vanessa was
headed the right way.
The reborn Gregory was an expert hacker
[Tales From the Pizzaplex #5: The
Bobbiedots Conclusion/GGY]. Part of the
benefits of being an Afton and a robot. So
Clara had him keeping tabs on Vanessa,
hacking into her emails and trailing her
therapy sessions to ensure the future
Elizabeth was falling in line. If any of
the therapists started to ask too many
questions, they were promptly… dismissed
from their positions.
And while Gregory kept tabs on Vanessa’s
personal life, Mrs. Afton made sure to
clear a path for her professionally. With
Silver Parasol’s collapse at the hands of
the anomaly, she then had the possessed
Vanessa bring the contaminated circuit
boards to DLZ Shipping and the Fazbear
Funtime Service [FNaF AR: Special Delivery,
Emails].
More glitches, more remnant, more Afton.
But it was her last move that was the best.
In a true masterpiece of poetry, she
brought Vanessa over to be Chief Security
Officer at the Pizzaplex, a true family
tradition to don the hat and badge. And all
it took was a recommendation from the top
as well as some emails marked for deletion.
(Previous Page) Five Nights at Freddy’s: Security
Breach
Marked For Deletion Duffle Bag Message
(2021 – Steel Wool Studios)
Sure, Vanessa didn’t relevant experience
for the job, but when it comes directly
from the CEO, does it really matter?
Husband, son, daughter.
A corpse, a robot, a human.
All that was left was Michael. Poor
troubled Michael. The boy that killed her
youngest, the one that would spend years
trying to make his guilty conscience right
again.

Game Theory: FNAF, BURN


Them All (Ultimate
Timeline)
(2022 – The Game
Theorists)

A self-professed protector. While she knew


she needed him to complete the family,
something told her the problem had already
solved itself. Something had shifted when
using Glamrock Freddy to excavate the
buried pizza place.
I have been here before.
I found myself for the first time when I cleared
the path.
I have changed. My friends are here.
But I can protect you.
I AM NOT ME.
- Glamrock Freddy (Five Nights at Freddy’s:
Security Breach)
(2021 – Steel Wool Studios)
Maybe it was the remnant that had coursed
through Michael’s veins. Maybe it was the
spirit of Michael living on as a protector.
But he was there, somewhere inside of
Glamrock Freddy. She could feel it. And
just like that, she’d won. She’d done it!
Sure there were still some kinks to work
out. Some final brainwashing of Vanessa,
some rehabilitation to William. But they
were there, finally. All together again
under one roof.
The Afton’s reunited.
A happy ending.
And that’s how it could have ended.
That’s how it should have ended.
Had it not been for a few unanticipated
developments.
For one, something was just wrong with the
Pizzaplex, almost as if the entire building
was haunted, possessed. Puppet plushies
hiding on ceilings, behind crates, places
that had no earthly way of belonging. Staff
bots with greasy tears down their eyes,
acting like they were being puppeteers by
some sort of nightmare. Even their sounds
had the echo of nightmares long passed.

Five Nights at Freddy’s:


Security Breach
Nightmarionne S.T.A.F.F.
Bots
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

It was as though a guardian spirit of the


past refused to move on. As long as her
husband was around, it too would linger.
Only now, it wasn’t just in one body, but
it was in the essence of the building
itself. Clara has seen stories of houses
built on burial grounds getting possessed
by angry spirits, but she’d never assumed
that it could be real. Then again, in a
world of living spirit metal and mind
controlling glitches, who was she to be so
judgmental? The whole thing was ridiculous.
Why would this be the line that she refused
to cross? After all, the Pizzaplex was
built over the burial ground of angry
spirits. But it was the power cords that
finally convinced her that something was
wrong.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Security
Breach
El Chip’s Power Cords
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)

Suddenly, these cords were stiped black and


white, like the Security Puppet from
generations ago. The very foundations of
the place, the materails and wires that
constituted it, were rebelling against her.
Against the Aftons. Against the quest to
bring them all together again. And it was
being helped by something else. Something
slithering through the building. Maybe they
were connected, she couldn’t be sure. But a
blob of living wires could be heard oozing
through the walls, stealing pieces and
parts of the old animatronics showcased in
Rockstar Row.
Game Theory: FNAF, The
Final Security Breach
Mystery SOLVED!
(2022 – The Game
Theorists)

Clara could only assume that it was a


byproduct of all the remnant they’d been
collecting. From Afton’s testing she knew
that both light and dark remnant existed
[FNaF: The Ultimate Guide]. One of postive
emotions. And the other created from
anguish, anger, agony. Perhaps this… This
thing was an amalgamtion of all the darkest
parts of the pizzeria’s history, a
collection of the hatred still housed
inside these defunct endoskeletons and
exosuits.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Security
Breach
The Blob
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)
As long as it was left alone, it seemed to
be harmless. But if any Afton outside of
Michael got too close, it would lash out
wildly. Even young Gregory, looking to
punish the family that had been complicit
in its horrible creation. Little did she
know, though, that Gregory should have been
her biggest concern. That bringing the
family together would have some unforeseen
consequneces.
Gregory was normally the goodest of boys.
Clara had literaly built him that way. But
lately, he’d been disappearing more and
more often, disobeying her orders…
requests. She knew that he loved playing on
the arcade machines once the Pizzaplex
closed. Being so good as to top the
leaderboard on pratically all of them.

Five Nights at
Freddy’s: Security
Breach
High Score Screens
(2021 – Steel Wool
Studios)
But lately he was nowhere to be found. She
suspected his absence had to do with
Glamrock Freddy’s failed performance the
other night when he malfunctioned live on
stage. Almost as though the core
programming of Freddy responded to seeing
this rebuilt small boy. Almost like it
awakended something inside of him. She’d
have to make sure that Vanessa was on the
lookout for him, but she’d soon come to
learn that Vanessa wasn’t enough. Whether
it was the influence of the nightmare
puppet or a reawakened hatred of
animatronics seeded deep in Gregory’s code,
something had caused him to rebel, to rip
apart each animatronic in the Pizzaplex.
Bit by bit, this boy was tearing down the
empire that Clara had so painstakingl
built, freeing Vanessa from her mind
control, destroying the remains of Afon in
the basement, setting Glamrock Freddy
loose.
As her carefully created world crumbled
around her one more time, she began to plot
her revenge.
She would have to bring them all…
To RUIN.
THE END
At least until the RUIN DLC comes out and possibly disproves all of
this.

😊😊

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