#( but its just a sad robot trying to fix the daycare

[sunnymused]

"Rain, rain, go away, come again another day..." somewhere above them there's a pesky leak. It's threatening to get in the way of play time, and that's no good, so they've scrounged up a bucket from who knows where and spent the better part of the night watching it steadily fill. Now, where to put the water...?

[ellaspenfrosti]

Helped flesh out an OC and aided with backstory! Here’s an artwork for the OC, backstory summary, and a short oneshot!

OC belongs to @kitty-xart !

Backstory: Kitty was a hard working teen interested in robotics and engineering. To earn some money that they could put back for college and gain experience in their field of choice, they applied for an internship at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzaplex. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a position shadowing the maintenance personnel as promised. Rather, the company stuck them in the daycare as an assistant and to aid in check-in and check-out procedures and whatever else the daycare attendant might need. This was annoying, but there wasn’t much else they could do about it other than leave, and Kitty needed the money. Thankfully, Sundrop was always eager to talk and he and Moon shared as much as they were allowed to about how they were built, the intricacies of their coding, sent helpful articles on robotics, etc… Kitty had started to enjoy their time with the eccentric jester animatronic, and was sad when the internship was coming to a close. One night, they realized they didn’t have their wallet and that the last place it had been seen was in the Pizzaplex. Despite it being very late after hours, Kitty returned to the building with their employee badge and went searching for it. They found it resting in the security office, which was strange, as they hadn’t been in the security office that day and figured someone must have turned it in. Kitty went to grab it and leave, but stopped short at the sight of a shadow cast along the wall, hovering over with something held in its grip. Before Kitty could turn around, they felt a sharp pain in their back which repeated until they dropped to the floor.

When Kitty awoke, they were no longer a part of the living world. They were trapped in the Pizzaplex, a phantom desperately searching for answers.

Oneshot:

The silence of after hours was deafening.

Occasionally it would be broken by the sound of muffled crying in the distance, or the ‘clink’ of Moon’s hook as he hoisted himself through the Pizzaplex, patrolling for intruders. He’d already been showcasing the signs of rising aggression, even before their favorite intern disappeared. Though, Kitty’s disappearance certainly hadn’t helped matters. Staff had to listen to the nighttime attendants incessant muttering throughout the evenings. ‘Find them… friend… where…’

When staff attempted to intervene in Moon’s fervent search and tell him to get on with his usual patrols, they were reminded exactly why the daycare had been recently shut down.

One day, the mutterings abruptly stopped. Grateful as they were, it was also a bit alarming how suddenly it had happened. Freddy, who had seen the attendant passing with concerned eyes, asked about it one night, as Moon came to rest against the wall he had been crawling across.

“Are you alright, Moon?”

The blank stare of glowing LEDs within dark sockets was all he received, but he kept trying.

“I know you and Sun were devastated after Kitty went missing. I just… wanted to check how you were both doing.”

Moon’s chuckle was off, dark and bristling with anger. “Not… missing…”

Freddy frowned at this answer, but his words were hopeful. “Not missing? You mean- they’ve been found?!”

“Here… they’re here.” Before Freddy could ask further explanation, Moon was crawling back upwards and drawing himself away, deeper into the chasm of the empty Pizzaplex.

A specter watched the confused bear with sad eyes, before turning their gaze to the retreating nighttime attendant. Kitty drifted along after him. The anger and sadness that permeated their friend was suffocating, and Kitty wanted nothing more than to fix all the brokenness that had taken such a hostile grip of the building and it’s residents. They rested by the glitching animatronic, a ghostly hand on Moon’s shoulder.

“Don’t worry.” They said, soft as can be. “It’s okay. I’m here for you.”

The downward whir of gears shifting and the resigned posture of the moon animatronic was subtle, but it was enough to show that he heard.