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lets-try-some-writing · 1 year

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Hi there! I really love your vast universe of headcanons, so I have a request :b

How would each Bot (TFP) react to the game Five Nights at Freddy's? Because, like, if you think about it, Cybertronians kinda ARE animatronics😂 . So would that make them more scared, or less scared? Also, I just wanna see how they'd all react to getting jumpscared.

Oooh! Interesting little concept! I love doing the bots reactions to things like this! Although admittedly I don't know how all the mechanics for FNAF work despite knowing a lot of lore, so yeah, this could end up amazing or crap.

Five Nights at Freddy's

The children regularly played video games, it was nothing new to the team. They were the ones who got Bumblebee and Smokescreen hooked after all. Most of the time the children played pretty tame games, often a shooter or racing game of sorts, nothing to be concerned about. However one Friday night after school Rafael brought a new video game to base to share.

It seemed normal at first to the team who were watching from the corners of their optics as they worked. It seemed to be a horror game, one where there was a hidden enemy. And that perked the interest of the team who slowly gathered around to watch as Rafael played the game he called Five Nights at Freddy's.

At first everything seemed relatively normal to the team. From what they gathered there was a hidden monster trying to hunt down the player character to do something awful like suck out their spark or something. The team didn't fully get it, but they watched nonetheless and in increasing horror as the enemies were revealed to be what the human children called "animatronics".

Ratchet: That has to be at least third degree frame deterioration! And look at all those exposed components! How in Primus's name are those poor mecha still functioning??!

Optimus: Are they perhaps spark eaters? Or ghouls?

Arcee: They could be beastformers gone rogue. I've heard of a few cases like that.

Bulkhead: No way. Those have to be techno-organics. How else would they function without spark chambers?

Wheeljack: Nah, they have to be triplechangers. Look at all those excess transformation seams.

Ultra Magnus: Ridiculous. Whatever those things are, they are obviously tortured mecha who have been set up in some sick bloodsport.

Bumblebee: Is this some type of gladiatorial game then? There's no way the player character would be in this situation unless forced.

Smokescreen: Those mecha aren't acting all that rationally. If they really wanted to kill the player character they should have just swarmed. Seems like rookie behavior to me.

Arcee: So sayeth the rookie.

The team were filled with endless questions upon seeing the enemies in the game. And so at Miko and Rafael's behest, every bot was convinced to sit down and give the game a try. It went about as well as one might expect.

Ratchet, wanting to know what the frag the animatronics were all about, sat down first. He was very methodical and dutifully spent time looking over all the mechanics and game controls. He then took every in game night slow, meeting every animatronic and stopping them in their tracks before they could jump-scare him. However his slow and methodical approach backfired during the last night when the stakes got higher and in the end he did get caught. His first response was to leap back with his blade extended and ready to fight back. He was no stranger to battle and he was certain he could take on a beaten and mad mech. He was not afraid, merely battle-ready.

Of course Ratchet made valiant attempts to beat the game. And once he did, he refused to shut up about how simple it was and how ridiculous the animatronics were. He made it a point to try and prove that the animatronics were not akin to Cybertronians in any way, and not a spark stopped him since none wanted to admit just how off the whole thing felt.

Optimus went next just to prove a point and to figure out the lore of the game to understand the animatronics better. He was far less interested in the gameplay and more invested in the story above all else. This led him to get jump scared a handful of times, all of which he didn't even flinch at. But most of his time was spent picking apart the story and quickly finding himself far more in fear of the plot than the machines involved. The souls of children being trapped in the frames of decrepit machines and stuck unable to even control themselves properly... it was horrible.

Once he finished the game, he didn't touch it again. He didn't want to. It hurt his spark to see such innocents beings subjected to what was in his mind, unlawful spark transfers, shadow play, and a degree of slave coding. He ended up refusing to even speak on the game, it brought back bad memories. Where Ratchet tried to walk off the poor feelings associated with the game by disproving it, Optimus just didn't want to even think about it.

The children noticed both these behaviors and tried not to bring up the game around the team leader and medic since it was obvious both were not pleased.

Ultra Magnus refused to play after watching Optimus and Ratchet go through it. He had similar thoughts about the game and viewed it as being made in poor taste as it made a mockery of the suffering of those who the council harmed. And while he did realize the humans who made the game couldn't have known about the pain of those on Cybertron, he still wasn't fond of it. He personally saw the whole thing as disrespectful to the fallen and those who were lost to plague and the cruelties of the caste system. And while perhaps a bit of a far fetched connection, the appearance of the animatronics... he couldn't handle it, not after the Cybonic plague.

Wheeljack and Bulkhead took it better than their superior officers and even enjoyed the game. They opted not to think too hard on the deeper implications of the story and instead had fun poking around with game mechanics. Wheeljack tried to see how he could break the game, often trying to outsmart the game AI and cheat his way through just to prove that he could. Bulkhead didn't play much and more often than not just cheered Wheeljack on, but both always startled during jump-scares simply because it reminded them both of scraplets and the shapeshifters on Cybertron.

For them it was like the old sparkling stories of scraplets coming to eat them alive had become reality. And while they knew it was a silly human game, they both found a degree of entertainment in facing a knockoff version of their sparklinghood fears.

Wheeljack: *getting jump-scared* HOLY SCRAP!

Bulkhead: FRAGGING PLASMA PIT JACKIE!

Wheeljack: That was FANTASTIC! I've got to figure out how that little beasty caught me!

Ratchet: How in the Allspark do you two find enjoyment in this bloodsport?!

Bumblebee and Smokescreen found the deeper implications of the game too dark to consider so instead they took to trying to speedrun the game as best as they could. However considering speedrunning a survival game is a rather difficult feat, they instead made it a game to see who could avoid the most jump-scares. Smokescreen almost always screamed like a little girl whenever he got jump-scared, even throwing his remote at the T.V once. Bumblebee never outwardly screamed, but he did almost crush his remote when he got startled once too many times.

They got invested to the point of trying to get every achievement possible. Together with the children, Bumblebee and Smokescreen spent one long night beating the whole game through a use of tricks, training, and even the odd online tutorial. They were dead tired come morning, but they "won" so they spent the day sleep deprived but pleased with themselves. They received nothing but disappointed looks from the older members of the team. Although Bulkhead and Wheeljack did offer smiles and thumbs up at their efforts.

Arcee for her part wasn't interested in the game after watching the differing reactions from others on the team. She too had seen too much of old Cybertron to ignore the game's implication. So while she didn't play, she most certainly watched and made it a habit to comment on everyone else's playing styles. Wheeljack and Bulkhead received most of her mockery, especially when they cursed in fear loud enough for the whole base to hear. For Bumblebee and Smokescreen she just tried to scare them when they were most focused just to watch them flip out.

It brought her a degree of sick joy to watch her companions flail because of a game. The children for their part found the situation amusing and somewhat concerning. All in all, it was obvious who could handle video games and who could not.

#maccadam #transformers #transformers prime #team prime #tfp kids #optimus prime #ratchet #arcee #ultra magnus #bulkhead #wheeljack #smokescreen #bumblebee #the team are torn between wanting to be horrified but also liking the game #honestly can't blame them #it would be like watching something straight out of the dark parts of history be mocked in a video game

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cartoonus-maximus · 3 years

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My thoughts, notes, and theory noodles on "Fazbear Frights #5: Bunny Call" ...

This was a weird volume. Lots of William/Springtrap, a healthy dose of Cassidy/Vengeful Spirit shenanigans, and some meta commentary. And hey! I got another epilogue! So that was exciting.

Also, I just want to point out... Ralpho, our little bunny friend on the cover here? Yeah, according to the text, he's like 7 feet tall or something. (Bruno Madrigal may not have a seven foot frame, but this weirdo bunny bugger does, holy jeez!)

Spoilers under the cut.

"Bunny Call"

- a man named Bob MacKenzie is heading to a camp resort with his wife (Wanda) and their three kids. Bob works as an architect, and is knowledgeable about landscaping, and used to be a football player in high school.

- Wanda was a cheerleader in high school; she is now an extremely fashion-forward woman, and Bob thinks she's super sexy

- their kids are Cindy, their 3 y/o daughter with freckles, a winning smile, and auburn (red) hair in two pigtails; 7 y/o son Aaron, who also has freckles, auburn hair, and a generally happy disposition; and their oldest, 10 y/o son Tyler, who has dark hair and a lanky, athletic build, who is a bit moody and likes to set himself apart from his siblings.

- Wanda and daughter Cindy sing about the sunshine during the car ride. The boys join in, but Bob refuses to join his family for their spontaneous Family Singalong.

- "Bob might be driving, but he had no control. Not really. ... Was control really an illusion?"

- Bob is frustrated because he feels like all of his time and energy is dedicated to his job, his wife, and his kids, and that he doesn't have time or energy for himself anymore. (Hey man, you wanted to get married and start a family, so don't start whining about it now. It's fair to feel that way, but that's when you need to *make* some time for yourself, not vaguely whine about the lifestyle you chose.) (But I also understand his pov, as he seems to be very introverted and he needs a certain amount of alone time to function, but his wife, who thinks the whole family should be together and engaging with each other all the time, won't let him have any alone time.)

- Bob likes fishing, and he doesn't mind taking Tyler on fishing trips with him

- the family is going to a camp resort, called "Etenia." Everything in and around the resort is named something from various Native American languages, even though none of the tribes live in the area or have any connection to the camp. (This sounds painfully accurate to many North American resorts, tbh.)

- "One woman's heaven was another man's hell."

- Wanda sucks as a wife, tbh. She doesn't care that her husband needs alone time (at this point, it's pretty clear that they've had that discussion, probably multiple times, and she just doesn't give a rat's), she intentionally winds the kids up and gets them super hyper to the point where Bob can't handle them and then refuses to help him, and she just... generally expects Bob to be the only adult? She expects him to do all the work for their family, from big things (like his job) to little things (like unloading luggage from the car) and ignores his need for assistance, ignoring him and putting on lipgloss when he says anything about it.

- Bob is so frustrated, he considers driving away without his wife and kids

- "Bob *loved* his family vehemently, but here lately, he'd been *liking* them less and less."

- Bob goes to the main lodge of the resort to sign his family up for the assorted activities they want to do. There, the employee asks if he wants to sign up for a "bunny call," which is, apparently, a morning wake-up call for the family. She explains that the resort mascot, a man-sized rabbit named Ralpho (which Bob can't tell if it's a person in a costume or an animatronic) will enter their cabin to wake them up in the morning, screaming and banging cymbals and "spinning his head around." (That is a terrifying image, good lord!) The employee describes it as a "nasty prank they play on the children, terrifying them on their first day at the camp," and she seems to think traumatizing kids on purpose is normal and hilarious.

- "How had Bob missed the rabbit before when he'd looked around? It was like missing an anaconda in a pen full of puppies!"

- Bob is in such a foul mood with his family that he agrees to the morning Bunny Call, thinking it will be marginally funny

- (Worth noting: the employees are purposefully advertising their services for this cruel prank to the most unhappy and disgruntled member of each family they can find.)

- the family's cabin has a trapdoor in the floor, which leads to a little crawl space.

- (Wanda is a bossy bitch, and if I hear much more out of her, *I'm* going to divorce her on Bob's behalf!)

- little Cindy gets her face painted by a clown at the camp picnic, while the boys Tyler and Aaron play swordfight, hitting at each other with sticks

- "Tyler was like his mom - he didn't dwell on what he couldn't change... he just moved on to the next possibility around the corner!"

- little Cindy falls asleep in Bob's arms, and he relaxes, just holding his daughter and reminding him how much he really loves his family, and how he doesn't actually regret any of his life choices. (which is just a really sweet moment) He suddenly remembers about signing them up for a visit from Ralpho, and regrets his desire to play such a cruel prank on his wife and kids.

- "However put upon [Bob] felt about this trip, taking it out on [Wanda and the kids] wasn't justice at all. It was selfish, and childish!"

- Bob is woken up during the night, right before 12 AM, a guilty dream about Ralpho the Rabbit setting him into a panic

- "Still the same Bob, or was it? This Bob looked a little feral. This Bob looked like he'd made a deal with the devil. Had he?" (This is just Bob's inner monologue when he looks at himself in the mirror, feeling guilty about the cruel trick he signed his family up for.)

- Despite his guilt, Bob thoroughly convinces himself that the Bunny Call will be fine. His kids will be a little scared, and his wife will be annoyed, but that's fine. Even so, he still doesn't sleep well, and lays in bed fitfully for most of the duration of 12 AM to 6 AM. As the time gets closer, Bob decides that he doesn't want to play this prank on his family, and gets up to see about calling off the Bunny Call.

- Out in the wee hours of the morning, Bob meets Philip, another dad who signed his family up for the Bunny Call in a moment of frustration and is now regretting it. Philip is smoking a cigarette and playing with his lighter, flicking it on and off in his frustration. (It's mentioned here that Philip has blue eyes, and that he looks sinister in the dim light, but Bob can see enough of him to know that the other man looks normal in the daytime.) The two men talk, and Philip remarks that his own father wasn't a good dad, and now he's afraid he's become just like him. Neither father knows quite what to do, and they both feel like their snap decisions caused them to fail their wives and kids.

- Returning to his cabin, Bob watches over his sleeping family until 5 AM rolls around. He almost screams when there's a knock at the door, Ralpho standing on the other side. Stammering, Bob politely explains to the rabbit mascot that they won't be needing a Bunny Call after all, apologizing (to the person he assumes is wearing the costume) for taking up their time. Ralpho nods, then turns around and leaves.

- Minutes later, Ralpho returns, trying to break into the cabin. Bob begins physically fighting the rabbit, hitting at the rabbit and trying to forcefully keep the thing away from his family. Ralpho's behavior is strange and erratic, and the rabbit bleeds when injured, making it clear that is isn't an animatronic or a person in a costume. Bob genuinely fears for his family's safety, and combats the monster appropriately.

- Ralpho tries to get in first through the front door of the cabin, then each of the three windows, and then, finally, the trapdoor in the floor. Just as Ralpho goes to try a fourth window, 6 AM comes, and Ralpho vanishes, replaced by pleasant sunlight and Bob's family waking up, safe and content.

- Seeing the aftermath of Bob's frantic battle during the night, Wanda and the kids are confused and worried. Tyler and Aaron are very concerned when their father just silently hugs the two of them first thing in the morning, then whispers to his sons how much he loves them. Wanda is confused by Bob's behavior when her husband rushes to her and hugs her, repeating over and over that he loves her, before spinning her and dancing in place with her. Cindy is less puzzled, being only a toddler, and just excited to be suddenly scooped up and hugged by her father.

- "Cindy Lee, my buzzy honeybee!"

- Wanda admits that she feels something is wrong, but she doesn't know what. She also had strange dreams.

- Going out for the day, Bob idly thinks that the landscape looks almost like a cartoon, and that it feels too colorful and cheerful to be real. He doesn't mind, and is just happy to spend time with his family.

- The camp's breakfast is interrupted by the camp's owner, Evan, who has a few announcements to make. The first announcement Evan has is to apologize for the lack of Bunny Calls that morning, explaining that the camp counselor who does them (in the Ralpho costume) overslept.

- Realizing that he experienced something other than a Bunny Call, Bob freezes in horror, and stares off into space. .... And that's where the story ends.

- I guess the implication here is that Bob may have actually fought off some otherworldly beast that wanted to harm his family? Either that or his guilty conscience generated the worst waking nightmare experience ever.

- Everything about Philip, a random character who shows up very briefly, made me confused. Like, we're told that he has blue eyes, looks creepy, carries a big flashlight with him at all times apparently, plays with a lighter out of stress, and says that his dad "got lost" and became a bad dad after his mom died, and worries that he's becoming "like his father." Everything about him made my brain scream "Michael????" but I think he's just a random dude, and I don't think his presence actually means anything.

- In much the same way, my theory brain wants to connect Bob and his family to the Afton family somehow. Like, there's a father, a mother (who likes singing and dancing and makeup), two sons (one of whom is older and moody and looks like his dad), and a daughter (with red pigtails like Circus Baby, no less), and a rabbit monster that terrorizes them. On the surface, they sound vaguely Afton-like, but that's about where all similarities end.

- On a more meta note, I also wonder if Bob and his family were meant to represent Scott himself and his own family, since I know Scott has said before that he's experienced night terrors where he thought his own creations (especially OG Bonnie) were in his house, hunting down him and his family.

- I think "Bunny Call" is a little like "1:35 AM" and "Dance With Me," in that it focuses heavily on themes of parenthood. This one specifically focuses on fatherhood, and features a lot of dads who are very tired and disgruntled but, at the end of the day, love their families and would never genuinely wish harm upon them. But where "1:35 AM" does so in attempt to remind us that the Ella doll is/represents someone's daughter (Henry's daughter, based on the original novel trilogy) and "Dance With Me" does it to try to tell us that Ballora represents someone's mother (most likely the mother of the Afton family), "Bunny Call" doesn't have that pull to any existing character. We can connect the Ella doll to Charlie/the Marionette, and we know who Ballora is, but Ralpho isn't a character we've seen before. We've seen rabbit monsters, so we could relate him to any of those (William/Springtrap, Bonnie, Vanny, etc.) but it's not such a clear connection.

- If I had to guess what "Bunny Call" is actually about, I'd say it's about Scott's night terrors, and has zero connection to any of the in-world lore.

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"In the Flesh"

- Now we're introduced to Matt, an adult man and video game developer. (Possibly named after MatPat, the Game Theorist himself, but definitely inspired by Scott's experience)

- Currently, Matt is working for a game company, working on a game of theirs called "Springtrap's Revenge." It's the newest installment in the "Five Nights at Freddy's" game series, and is a VR game. Specifically, Matt is in charge of creating the AI of Springtrap for the game, making the pseudo-intelligent computer program for the villain's character. (It sounds like something akin to the real-life FNAF VR game, "Help Wanted.")

- The Springtrap character dredges up memories from Matt's childhood, where he was terrified by an adult mall worker in a particularly bad Easter bunny costume. He thinks Springtrap is "nightmare fuel," and he's proud of how effectively scary his creation is.

- Matt's inner monologue compares Springtrap to classic horror characters Dracula and Hannibal Lecter. He means it in a "I want this character to become a horror icon that people will resonate with and remember for years to come" way, but I thought it was funny since PJ Heywood (the voice of William Afton/Springtrap in the games) said that part of the voice is actually inspired by the Mads Mikkelson version of Hannibal Lecter. (Also it's theorized that Vlad, the Dracula-esque character in "the Immortal and the Restless" shorts is meant to represent William/Springtrap, so there's that, too.)

- Matt wants his character to become an immortal horror icon. (Hmmm... immortal, you say?) He's watched a lot of classic, popular horror movies, and he wants Springtrap to be the kind of slasher killer that kills just for the love of it, like killing is an artistic form of self expression.

- "He wanted [Springtrap] to open your jugular with the same sort of joy as a kid opening a birthday present."

- This whole project has been very frustrating, with a lot of ups and downs, and Matt has been channeling all of his personal stress and anger and rage into Springtrap, treating the AI rabbit monster like his personal anger repository. (Which I love, because I've had this headcanon for awhile that Glitchtrap in the Steel Wool games isn't William's actual spirit, but rather a rogue computer program that contains a lot of William's knowledge and goals. So this game developer funneling all of his thoughts and feelings into the AI he's working on is very much in that same vein.)

- The main portion of the game that Matt's been working on is a maze game, where Springtrap hunts the player through the maze. Springtrap doesn't just follow the player around - he wanders the maze himself, searching for the player just as much as the player is searching for the exit. When Springtrap and the player meet, Springtrap lunges at the player, slashing them in the face with a large knife. Springtrap is shown cutting off the player avatar's ear for a kill trophy, just as the "GAME OVER" screen lights up.

- Another kill animation is of Springtrap killing the player by straight up using his metal jaws to bite the player's face clean off, hungrily licking the blood off his lips afterwards.

- Matt is incapable of beating the Springtrap game, even though he made the game himself. It's a big source of frustration to him, and he angrily smashes a coffee mug and then snaps aggressively at one of his coworkers when she checks to make sure he's okay.

- "Matt was starting to feel like the video game developer version of Dr. Frankenstein."

- Frustrated with losing his own game so many times, Matt sets it up to play on an endless loop all night, then leaves the office, forcing the Springtrap AI to wander the empty halls for hours on end, a punishment for killing Matt so many times. (You know... the AI just doing what it was programmed to do? Because it's a computer program?)

- "Sometimes, Matt felt like life was a game he couldn't win."

- Matt was a sucky husband to his wife. There's a lot said to showcase how sucky a husband he is to this poor woman, but I'm going to just leave it at this: he. SUCKS. Thankfully for her, Matt's wife divorced him after only a year of marriage, and Matt funnels his anger at her for leaving him into Springtrap.

- Matt currently lives in an apartment with his male friend, Jason (who shares a name with another member of team Game Theorist). Jason is also a gamer, and is very interested in seeing the finished product of "Springtrap's Revenge."

- Matt and Jason sit around in their apartment during the evening, watching "Rain of Stones." (lol, bootleg "Game of Thrones")

- Matt returns to working on his game the next morning, only to discover that his Springtrap AI has, somehow, gotten stuck in a loop of cloning itself and self destructing. A second Springtrap was created, and apparently killed the original one. Then, a third one spawned into existance, and killed the second one. Not only has this cycle repeated itself over and over, but the AI has been using the experiences of killing itself to get even more proficient at killing, and can now kill it's victim with an amazing speed, and in increasingly violent ways that Matt didn't originally program into it. (The Springtrap AI has apparently graduated from "knife slash" and "stabbing" all the way up to things like "disemboweling," which startles Matt.)

- "[The Springtrap AI] couldn't really destroy himself in the game, of course. He would always respawn." (He always comes back!)

- When Matt re-enters the game, he is unnerved to see that he can't immediately find Springtrap. Painfully discovering that his creation has died and respawned so many times that it's now glitched beyond repair, Matt tries to delete the damaged AI, intending to reprogram it again from scratch, but he is unable to scrub the glitched rabbit from the program.

- He restarts the game, hoping that the action might reboot the AI's system, and this time he is greeted by Springtrap: the rabbit character is lying dead on the ground, a victim of a disemboweling. He leans closer to study the character avatar, and is suddenly grabbed by the rabbit, a sharp pain hitting him.

- Jason sets Matt up on a blind date that evening, and Matt is colossal jerk to his date from the start. He and his blind date go on a double date with Jason and Jason's date, and Matt spends the entire time snubbing his date and trying to flirt with Jason's date, who clearly doesn't appreciate his advances. (I cannot explain how horribly obnoxious this man is during this sequence. He's such a self-entitled jerk.)

- Matt wakes up the next morning feeling weirdly nauseas, and soon finds himself over the kitchen sink, vomiting. He continues to throw up throughout the day, but still goes to work, determined to fix this game he's working on before the release date.

- Giving up on scrubbing or repairing the old Springtrap AI, Matt decides to put in a new one without scrubbing away any of the previous glitches. He decides the new Springtrap will be much more basic, and will simply follow the player through the maze in the style of a Pacman ghost.

- Unknown to Matt, a young man named Gene hacks into Matt's company computers, downloading an early copy of "Springtrap's Revenge" (before Matt can program a new Springtrap). Gene begins playing through the maze game, and is confused when he doesn't see Springtrap anywhere, or any other FNAF characters. Finally, he finds the disemboweled Springtrap avatar, and wonders what sort of plot the game has that involves the killer animatronic dead on the ground at the beginning of the game.

- Gene searches through the game code, trying to figure out what this new FNAF game is about. He sees a file labeled "IT'S_A_BOY.exe," and isn't sure what that means.

- Matt goes on a Tinder date that night. During dinner, Matt feels like he's starving, and keeps shoveling more and more food into his mouth.

- Matt orders rare steak, and is pleased when it arrives, pinkish-purple meat sitting in a pool of it's own blood. He has the urge to pick up the bloody meat and start tearing off pieces with his teeth, and he eventually does, and ends up happily gnawing on the T-bone and growling lowly like an animal. His date is more than a little startled, and makes up an excuse to leave the date with him as soon as possible. Unperturbed, Matt just eats the rest of her food as soon as she's gone.

- Later, Matt sees himself in the mirror, seeing how bloated his stomach looks.

- The next morning, Matt runs from his bed to the bathroom, vomiting up everything. His stomach still feels large. Any and all scents make him nauseous.

- One of Matt's coworkers expresses concern for his apparent illness later in the morning, and remarks that he looks a little jaundiced (yellow-tinted skin, something that can occur from certain deaths or select diseases).

- The game's beta test players explore the finished game (now with the new Springtrap AI that Matt slapped together at the last minute) and have some mixed reviews. They like the game overall, but question why the titular character was programmed so sloppily. Matt experiences a sudden mood swing, and lashes out angrily at the project supervisor, taking the reviews to heart.

- Matt has an extreme craving for junk food, and stuffs his face at a burger joint on the drive home.

- Jason has finally had enough of Matt's jerkish behavior, and is packing his things to move out when Matt arrives home. Hit by another mood swing, Matt begs Jason to stay, saddened and afraid of being left completely alone, but Jason ignores him, leaving anyway. Alone in the apartment, Matt actually cries to himself.

- ... Matt is pregnant, in case you couldn't tell. The pregnancy is unnatural, presumably caused by his own feelings of narcissism and disdain for everyone else given a physical form as the Springtrap AI. He's becoming hormonal, subject to mood swings he doesn't know how to contain. He's putting on substantial weight fast, and his body goes back and forth between morning sickness and an uncontrollable hunger.

- Matt feels a strange bump on his head, and wonders if he hit himself on the head sometime recently and just forgot about it. (This is called out as an important thing, but is never brought up again after this.)

- It's implied that Matt's physical appearance is changing to look like Springtrap, but it's never expressly stated. I think the bump on his head was maybe meant to be where a rabbit ear could be growing??? Unsure. That's just my best guess as to what it was originally going to be.

- Gearing up for another Tinder date the following evening, Matt finds that none of his pants fit. His belly is so big, he can't fit his pants over it, and his shirts are stretched too tightly around it. His skin is now more pronouncedly yellow-tinted, and his hair is strangely thinning.

- Predictably, he is horrible to this date, too. Literally, the first thing he thinks when he sees her is that she's fat (i.e., ugly, according to him), even though the text tells us she's pretty and has shiny hair and has a beautiful smile.

- Obviously frustrated by Matt's rudeness, his date points out how genuinely bad *he* looks, and has a good laugh at his expense when his shirt buttons suddenly pop off, his shirt stretched too far to stay on. Embarrassed, Matt is forced to run shamefully back to his car.

- Matt is contemplating his sudden weight gain the next day when he feels movement inside his stomach. It feels like something is inside him, beating against his insides, trying to get out. (The baby is kicking! 0.0 )

- Pain courses through him, and he starts trying to think of ways to get this unknown thing out of his body. His gaze lands on a set of kitchen knives on the counter, and he begins seriously considering cutting himself open to let this thing out. Not thinking any further than that, he grabs the biggest knife from the block, lays down, and begins disemboweling himself. (Like the Springtrap avatar in the game??? Did that one cut himself open, too???) (Also, like... don't give yourself a C-section. I don't think I need to say that, but I feel compelled to.)

- A small Springtrap the size of a newborn infant jumps out from Matt's sliced open stomach, jumping up to stand on the kitchen counter. (Immediate Plushtrap vibes.) Unlike it's video game counterpart, this little Springtrap resembles a fully biological creature, and has no machine parts to it.

- The newborn Springtrap sits down beside Matt, holding Matt's head in it's lap, and begins affectionately stroking Matt's hair and addressing him as "Daddy."

- Sometime later, Jason calls the cops after he comes back to collect the rest of his things and found Matt, cut open and dead on the kitchen floor. The officer Jason talks to sees a bit of green fuzz, like the fake fur from a stuffed animal, on the floor near Matt's body, but neither he nor Jason know what it could be from.

- ... Is it weird that I like the image of the newborn Springtrap comforting Matt as he dies? It's such a weirdly loving image, man...

- So this story obviously relates to the game "FNAF VR: Help Wanted" in some way. It's about a game developer that's working on a FNAF VR game, comes into contact with an iteration of Springtrap, and ends up bringing a new version of Springtrap into the world, this one smarter, stronger, and deadlier. It's something akin to Tape Girl (from "Help Wanted") encountering the Anomaly/Glitchtrap, presumably getting possessed by him, and ultimately causing the creation of Vanny. (It's not a perfect parallel, but the situation has a few of the same beats.)

- It makes me think that, since this book came out in 2020, that this story could have been trying to suggest that either Vanny or Glitchtrap was going to be the new and improved version of William (harder, better, faster, and stronger!), much like how, in this story, each new Springtrap is better and more deadly than the last. I don't know that this is the intended purpose of the story, but I think it's a possibility.

- Also, once again, a William/Springtrap story with themes of parenthood!

- I feel like the heart of this story is just some of Scott's feelings about his franchise, as told through the lense of a short horror story. Like, he feels as though he created a game, which was originally fairly simple and straightforward, but then the game (and it's resulting franchise) took on a life of its own -- it gained a very creative fanbase, full of theorists and artists and other game developers, who took the franchise and put their own ideas and emotions into it, making arguably better versions of it. (And the fact that he named the main character, however awful of a person he may be, after one of the YouTubers that has such a strong relationship with FNAF... feels pretty on the nose.)

- The story, to me, carries a very literal "death of the author" vibe, and it makes me think that it could have been Scott's way of saying "Hey! I made this thing, but you guys have made stranger, sillier, scarier, *better* versions of it, and I think that's pretty cool! I made the code, but you're the ones who really brought it to life." Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but that's what it seems like to me.

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"The Man in Room 1280"

- A middle-aged priest named Arthur goes to visit Heracles Hospital, which is both named for the Greek hero (Herakles, aka Hercules) and guarded by a statue of Cerberus. Arthur meets and speaks with a new nurse name Mia, and they both find it odd that a hospital is guarded by the guard dog of the underworld.

- The hospital is old, and was recently bought by a wealthy man who had the entire inside renovated. With the renovations, the hospital now has all the necessary rooms and equipment to care for its patients, while the outside of the building was left largely untouched, leaving it a great stone building with old style windows and statuary, and the walls and floors inside decorated to match the exterior; the inside is described as resembling a "by-gone era," with "crisp white walls" and "black and white tile floors."

- "The result was a sort of time whiplash, where cutting edge technology shared space with crystal chandeliers and wrought iron scrollwork." (Uuuhhh... did you mean 'the ideal way to decorate???')

- Arthur is a priest, but specifically he visits hospitals to speak with and comfort dying patients. When Mia asks about his job, he describes himself as a "traveling companion" for those who are about to leave this world, and says that he tries to take away or lessen any fear of death that the patients may have.

- The angry, creepy head nurse of the hospice ward leads Arthur to a room where a special patient resides. She explains that the patient has been here for years (she pointedly doesn't tell him how many), and that the state has finally taken the man off life support. When pressed, she says that he doesn't have a family. She then explains that, even though the old man is no longer on life support, he won't die, which seems to anger her more than anything else.

- The special patient is kept in room 1280, a room far away from the rest of the patients, and there's a strange darkness over his room. Upon entering the room, the first thing Arthur notices is the smell: the patient smells like a strange, horrible combination of burning flesh, melted plastic, and molten steel. The air feels acidic, and brings tears to Arthur's eyes. The patient's body is in such bad shape, that Arthur can't even fathom how the man is still alive.

- Arthur turns to the head nurse, who tells him that they don't know who the patient is, or what his name is. Again, no family, and no one else has any idea. She says they took a DNA sample, but it didn't match anything in any system they tried.

- The head nurse points to a machine that the patient is hooked up to, explaining that it shows a readout of REM sleep cycles... and also shows that the man is suffering constant, horrific nightmares, based on his brain activity. She seems pleased with this knowledge.

- The patient is more corpse then man, with outer skin mostly burned away, organs and bones exposed in horrific ways, and most of his face gone, leaving the man with nothing more than open holes where eyes and a nose should be.

- When Arthur enters the room, he feels a strange presence, like something trying to bore a hole through him. It makes him feel cold.

- The head nurse shows Arthur another machine, displaying the patient's brain activity. She points at things and tells him that there are two separate brain waves showing on the hospital machines, explaining that she and the other nurses believe there are two entities inside the patient's body, tormenting each other and vying for control. She tries to convince Arthur that the man in room 1280 is pure evil, and is undeserving of compassion, while Arthur tries to explain to her that his job is simply to care for people, not to judge them.

- Mia has her lunch break downstairs, reading a thriller novel and eating the sandwich lunch her boyfriend packed for her. (Which I just think is a cute image.)

- Arthur sits beside the man's hospital bed for most of the afternoon. He notes that, when he speaks, although the man doesn't move or visibly react, one of the machines he's hooked to does, letting Arthur know that the man can hear and understand him.

- Tentatively, Arthur takes the man's hand, and is surprised when the bony hand grasps him back. To his surprise, the man raises a single finger, and starts moving it, writing letters of the English alphabet in the air. Getting out his notebook and pen, Arthur follows the finger's movements, copying down "F-A-Z-B-E-N-T-E-R-D-I" and eventually tries to read it as "Fazbenterdiscenter." With help from one of the nurses, Arthur deciphers this to be shorthand for "Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center."

- Arthur starts trying to guess what this place means to the man, but all of his guesses get no reaction. Finally, he gets a reaction from the question "Is this a place you want to go?"

- When one of the nurses suggests that the only place the man should go is Hell, all of the machines hooked into the man start to go off, making a cacophony of noise in reaction to her comment.

- The nurses are fearful of the man in room 1280, and refuse to help Arthur very much. They don't actually know who the man is, but they believe him to be the embodiment of evil, which I would agree with (given that it seems the man may be a stand-in for William Afton), if it wasn't for their reasoning. Literally, the nurses here believe that the man is the embodiment of evil *solely because the machines pick up two brainwaves off of him.* That's it, that's their entire basis for their assumptions. Which seems really ignorant and needlessly cruel, both to me the audience member and to Arthur, the main character of this story.

- Arthur speaks to an administrator's assistant who works for the hospital, trying to find a way to transport the man in room 1280 to this Fazbear Entertainment distribution center that he wishes to go to. (The assistant's name is Pete, making this the second time we've seen that name used.)

- Arthur runs into nurse Mia on his way to return home, and the two discuss how the day went for each of them. They talk for a bit, starting to contemplate the concepts of good and evil and whether people can really be either good or evil, but their conversation is cut short by the arrival of Mia's boyfriend to pick her up.

- Mia does her rounds in the hospice wing the next day, tending to patients and their families. Her rounds end at the last occupied room, room 1200, and she wonders why no patients are kept beyond this point. Looking down the hall, Mia thinks she sees a shadow enter the storage room, and goes to investigate, and ends up overhearing the other nurses planning to kill the man in room 1280. The nurses insist that it isn't murder, because they don't consider the man a human being at all, and they consider this a crusade against evil.

- While Mia tries to decide what to do about this murder plot, she sees a little boy exit the storage room. It's a boy that she saw in the wing the previous day, apparently, and every time she sees him she is filled with a strange sense of fear and dread. The boy has curly black hair and rosy cheeks, a toothy grin, and wears a plastic alligator mask that covers the top half of his face. The boy catches Mia's eyes, grins and winks at her, and then turns and runs down the hall. (It's clear to the audience that this boy is Andrew, one of the child spirits who features in the ongoing story in the epilogues.)

- A few days later, the head nurse (Nurse Ackerman) has acquired what she thinks is enough morphine to kill the man in room 1280. She's researched the Fazbear Entertainment distribution center, trying to learn herself why the man would want to go there, and, after seeing the creepy toys and party décor that comes out of the place, she comes to the conclusion that the company itself is evil, and that no good could possibly come of allowing the evil that is the man in room 1280 to join with the evil that is Fazbear Entertainment.

- Head nurse Ackerman goes to kill the man in 1280 via morphine overdose, but is interrupted by a disembodied child's voice giggling. She doesn't find the source of the sound, but feels cold all over, even though the room around her gets mysteriously hotter, and feels nothing but fear and dread when she hears the giggling repeat.

- 2 vials of morphine do nothing to the man, and, as she reaches for the third vial, she comes face to face with the source of the giggle. It's a little boy (the same boy that Mia saw out in the hall), and seeing him shocks and scares the head nurse so much that she crumples to the floor. The sight of him unsettles her, filling her with an intense fear that she doesn't understand. Seeing him also fills her with sadness and agony, and forces her to remember her own son, who died from an illness as a child. A shadow then runs through the room, and destroys all the remaining vials of morphine, shattering them all on the floor. (Just a shadow, not a shadow attached to a person.)

- The nurses discuss the little boy that the head nurse saw, and it is revealed that doctors, nurses, orderlies, and even patients have seen the boy in various parts of the hospital before. Everyone finds him unsettling to encounter, but always assume he's just a family member visiting a patient or something. This is the first time anyone has seen him and connecting him with the room 1280 and the patient inside.

- The second nurse, Nurse Thomas, goes to smother the man in 1280 with a pillow. As she holds the pillow over the man's face, the pillow begins to fill with blood and a sickly green fluid. Just as the man starts to flatline, a shadow runs through the room, ripping the pillow from her hands and tearing it apart midair, covering her with the mixture of blood and green liquid. The man's heart rate returns to normal. (She is then apparently home sick for days after this.)

- This nurse didn't hear any giggling, or see a little boy. She literally only sees a shadow dart through the room. The nurses decide that this shadow thing must be a demon, or some other evil entity, and that it is the source of evil in room 1280.

- Arthur has been visiting room 1280 daily for the past 5 days.

- Sightings of the little boy have escalated in number recently, and the hospital employees are realizing that the boy doesn't belong to anyone here, staff or patient alike. The police are called to find the boy and figure out where he belongs, but none of the officers ever see the boy. No one has been able to touch or speak to the boy, and now rumors are spreading that the boy is a ghost.

- Arthur and Mia meet for a friendly lunch out on the hospital lawn, sharing some sandwiches that Mia's boyfriend made for them. Arthur complains that he's been talking with the hospital administrators, trying to get permission to arrange transport for the man in room 1280, but no one will cooperate with his request. Mia tells Arthur about the little boy, since Arthur hasn't seen him yet. She considers telling him about overhearing the murder plot, but decides not to, not wanting to get either of them in trouble with the other nurses.

- Our final nurse, Nurse Colton, plans to do her part to try killing the man in room 1280, taking into account that some outside force will try to stop her. She spots the little boy running into the storage room, but chooses not to stop to think about him.

- Nurse Colton sets up an array of candles on the floor of room 1280, telling any shadows listening that they are not welcome in here anymore. (This is something I've seen people do online when they want to either communicate with spirits or cleanse an area. I'm not sure of its effectiveness, and I don't know what it's called.)

- Approaching the bed, the nurse injects a syringe of air into the man's IV, planning to kill him by giving him an aneurism. The shadow rushes through, ignoring her circle of protection, and grabs the syringe from her, plunging it into her neck. When she pulls it out, the syringe is once again taken from her, but this time is dropped and broken on the floor. An explosion of hot air extinguishes the candles and then breaks all of the candles. She hears a giggle outside the room, and rushes out the door, where she runs into Nurse Mia. Mia is standing frozen in fear out in the hall, and points off in a direction, saying that she just saw the little boy run past.

- The two nurses agree that the little boy is... something other than a little boy. Whether ghost or demon, they don't say.

- Nurse Colton agrees to tell Mia about the mystery of room 1280, leading her into the room. Now that she's in the room, she comes to same conclusion as the other nurses - there is an evil here that must be destroyed.

- Priest Arthur has finally gotten permission to take the man in 1280 to a Fazbear Entertainment distribution center.

- As Arthur arrives at the hospital one day, he finally sees the little boy for the first time. The boy is on the outside of the hospital, peeking out at Arthur from behind the statue of Cerberus. When Arthur looks again, he doesn't see anything.

- Now agreeing with the other nurses, Mia tells Arthur that he can't move the man in 1280. She tells him that taking the man where he wants to go will only result in catastrophe. When Arthur presses her, she admits that she doesn't know why she feels this way, but she feels it so strongly she can't imagine it's anything other than the truth. Undeterred, Arthur bids her goodbye and returns to his mission.

- Arthur has the man bundled up and put into a wheelchair, then loaded up into a church van that Arthur will drive. Arriving at the Fazbear buildings, Arthur wonders why he has never noticed them before. The buildings are white and red in color, and are shaped in such a way that he thinks they look like children's playing blocks. The buildings are all old, and in a severe state of disrepair.

- When Arthur is trying to figure out which part of the loading yard he should take the man to, the man surprises him by suddenly raising a bony hand and pointing toward the biggest of the scattered buildings, which appears the be the main entrance/office of the place.

- There are Fazbear employees loading a shipping truck with unmarked boxes. (So we know the company is still in operation, at this point.)

- Arthur wheels the man into the building, where they are surrounded by warehouse shelves of boxes containing animatronic parts, costumes, toys, and other merchandise. Employees drive forklifts through the warehouse, or load the boxes onto conveyer belts to be transported between loading docks.

- Arthur's thoughts on the Fazbear character designs: "Despite their cheery appearance, Arthur couldn't be sure that they were intended to be friendly."

- The man suddenly begin convulsing, shaking so violently that his bones break in places and blood flies out from him. Arthur is understandably horrified. Ultimately, the man just bursts like a popped balloon, exploding in his seat, covering Arthur and the entire area around them with blackened blood and a sticky tar-like substance. In the man's absence, Arthur sees something that his brain can only translate as a "portal opening to Hell itself."

- Hearing a child's footsteps behind him, Arthur tries to find the source. There are child-sized footprints in the man's blood, leading away from his corpse, and Arthur wonders what exactly he has unleashed.

- What we'll learn in the epilogue/s is that the little boy is a dead child named Andrew, who died at the hands of the man who becomes the patient in room 1280 (William Afton). I believe, after his death, Andrew attached himself to the man, and has been haunting the man ever since, keeping him alive so as to torment him even longer. When they enter the Fazbear warehouse, the man's body falls apart, and both the man's spirit and Andrew's spirit leave to find other vessels. We know Andrew ends up possessing Fetch, our monstrous little robo dog friend from "Fetch," with no memories of who he is and with no control over his mechanical vessel. When Dr. Talbert removes the battery pack from fetch and attaches it to the Stitchwraith, Andrew's spirit is transferred into the Stitchwraith.

- Since Andrew's spirit ends up in Fetch for a bit, it's interesting that he's briefly associated with Cerberus in this story. (Monster dogs for the win!)

- ... I don't know where the man's spirit goes. I'm basing all this off of the two epilogues I've actually listened to (Books 3 and 5) and some stuff MatPat has mentioned about them, so I'm working with limited information at this time.

- As far as any potential lore implications go... I mean, this was literally a story about Cassidy attaching her spirit to William, and the two tormenting each for a very long period of time. It's been so long (since last I've seen my son) since they started, no one remembers or recognizes our William stand-in character, and our Cassidy stand-in character, Andrew, literally doesn't remember why he hates this man so much; he just has a vague idea that the man might have hurt him in the past.

- But, since the story is about Cassidy and William battling each other on the astral plane... I guess you could say that 'the Man in Room 1280' is just Ultimate Custom Night from the pov of people who have no idea what the hell is going on.

- Andrew 🤝 Glamrock Monty -> angry rage-filled alligator noises

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"Book 5 Epilogue"

- Detective Larson is studying the photos of the Phineas Talbert crime scene. Looking at one specific photo, depicting a strange combination of junk parts, Larson has finally realized what the Stitchwraith is -- a doll's head on a metal robot endoskeleton, hiding inside a large trenchcoat, powered by the battery of a robot dog from Fazbear Entertainment.

- Larson is connecting dots in his theory: the Stitchwraith is connected somehow to the Fetch dog, and the Fetch dog is connected somehow to the "Freddy Murders," as he refers to them. This means that Larson's current case, the apparent murder of a scientist (Dr. Talbert), could be connected to an old cold case, the Freddy Murders.

- The Freddy Murders, apparently, was an unsolved case of arson, with the fire being possibly caused by one of the founders of Fazbear Entertainment. (Henry! What are you doing in the epilogues, old friend?)

- A (homeless man, I think?) named Grimm has been forced away from his previous hideout by the Stitchwraith. He sets up in a spot across town, but sees the Stitchwraith again, the monster dragging a large bag somewhere. Grimm follows the monster to see what it's up to, and follows it into Dr. Talbert's old factory.

- In the Stitchwraith's bag is the Ella doll.

- The Stitchwraith is haunted and powered by the spirits of two little boys named Jake and Andrew. Andrew is full of pain and anger, and admits to having infected several Fazbear toys with his feelings, causing the robotic toys to act out in terrible ways (this includes the Ella doll from "1:35 AM" and the Fetch dog from "Fetch," among others). Jake, on the other hand, is innocent and full of genuine love and compassion, and he's been using their shared Stitchwraith body to walk around at night, collecting the infected toys and bringing them back to Talbert's lab.

- Although a spirit, Jake only came into consciousness inside the Stitchwraith after the monster had killed Dr. Phineas Talbert and, apparently, stolen one of the scientist's trenchcoats. Jake has no memory of anything before then.

- "Jake hadn't done anything wrong. Why did he have to be the one to fix Andrew's mess? Wasn't he a good boy? Didn't he deserve to have some fun?"

- Something sparks a memory in Jake's mind, and he remembers a day of fun spent with his dad. The memory makes him happy, and he tries to focus, trying to remember more. He is interrupted by Andrew, who asks about the flowers that litter Dr. Talbert's lab, knowing that Jake has been tending to them.

- As Jake's memory unfolds, depicting a pleasant afternoon with his father at a baseball game, he loses grip on his place in the Stitchwraith. He realizes that, if he lets go of the Stitchwraith, his spirit can enter this memory of one of the happiest days he experienced, and will stay in that happy place forever.

- Sensing that his friend is leaving him, Andrew panics, and begins calling out to Jake. Jake realizes that no one has ever cared for Andrew before, and, if he leaves his friend, no one ever will again. He refuses to leave Andrew alone, and forcefully erases his own memory, choosing to stay here with Andew instead.

- (Bby Crying Child stand-in has the opportunity to rest, to move on, to go on to his Happiest Day Ending, but he refuses to take it because he doesn't want to leave Cassidy stand-in alone... ;-; BRB, I need to go cry.)

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Time for the best boy, Nightmare Fredbear, to shine!! ~~~ NIGHTMARE FREDBEAR Aliases: Fredbear, Younger Brother/Traitor (Nightmare), Loser/Weakling (Nightmare Gang), Freddybear/Darling (Baby) and Fatso (Springtrap) Animatronic Model: Nightmare, Hallucinogenic, Bear Programmed Gender: Male Programmed Age: 39 Affiliations: Nightmare Gang (former), Fredbear’s Diner (former), The Outcasts (current) Occupation: Co-Head of the Nightmare Gang (former), Head performer at Fredbear’s Diner (former), member and “brawler” of the Outcasts (current). Personality: Originally programmed to become a sadistic, cold and violent clone the Nightmare Gang accept, Fredbear’s more friendly and gentle nature proved that the programming on him failed. He does show similarities however, like their loudness, toughness and aggressiveness, but shows a contrasting personality as a whole. He’s more willing to give others more chances, more willing to protect them at all costs and willing to fight for what he believes is right. On the other hand, he loses his temper easily and easily finds discomfort in some of the other’s ideas and actions. Additionally, due to a huge lack of love in his lifetime, Fredbear is very possessive over the people he loves and can get kinda jealous. This, along with the fact that he falls victim to love easily, can be shown with his relationship with Baby over time. As for his combat skills without his abilities, his physical strength and know-how with hand-to-hand combat make him the crew’s best brawler. However, he is slow in speed and short in jumping height due to his heaviness. He also isn’t skilled with most weapons, as he often opts to using his powers or fists. Nightmare Gang Powers: Due to his high rank in the Nightmare hierarchy, he possesses multiple abilities (which will be explained in a later post,,,). He has the average powers of a normal gang member, such as invisibility and the ability to appear and disappear in front of humans at will, but possesses his own powers, the main one being telekinesis. He can lift most things, but he has a tough time lifting people up and heavier objects. Overuse of his power results in nausea and tiredness; the same thing goes for his invisibility powers. Backstory: He was built by the Nightmare Gang, a group of evil doers who want to terrorise humanity, by Nightmare as his little brother so he could become the next heir of the Gang. His construction was successful, but his programming didn’t go as planned, as he wasn’t like them personality-wise; he wasn’t as mean as them, and was way more emotional than them. They thought that pressure would mould him into one of them, but Nightmare went a bit easier on him, because of their brotherhood, but was still very rough towards him. One day, Fredbear was given the task of terrorising one child, which he reluctantly agreed to. At nightfall, he couldn’t be bothered to go and scare this child, nor did he want to as he saw it as pathetic, so he sat down and ate while watching TV. Halfway through his meal, he’s met with a scared face by the right corridor, the scared face of the FNAF 4 Crying Child, who I’m gonna call Kevin. He lets him sit with him after explaining to him multiple times that he wasn’t evil, and eventually found out of how he was being bullied by his older brother, teased by his sister and neglected by his dad. Fredbear felt something that he never felt before after he heard this: empathy. He decided to look after Kevin, pretending to terrorise him but in reality playing and having fun with him as they grew a father and son-like friendship. Once finding out of the construction of a diner, he decided to disguise himself as a more friendly-looking animatronic there to see Kevin during the daytime, and would eventually meet Spring Bonnie, a golden yellow rabbit who he quickly became pals with. This lasted a good few months, and during this time, he would also go with Kevin to another restaurant - Circus Baby’s Pizza World - where he meets the Funtimes and Baby, who sees him as a good person and friend unlike most of the others. However, when Fredbear felt like everything was going great, it all went downhill very quickly.. Nightmare eventually found out about Fredbear’s lies and was furious that he befriended “Earth Scum”. He formulated a plan to get back at Fredbear, which was that he would possess Fredbear during one of his performances at the Diner, and cause the Bite of ‘87. Nightmare Fredbear was panicking as Kevin was forced into his mouth, and was so shocked when his jaw closed on its own, biting down forcefully on his head. Holding his lifeless body in his arms, the grief, guilt and shock made him reveal his true form to the horrified crowds and a shocked Spring Bonnie, before running away to hide. He took Kevin’s body to the ER, left him with horrified medics, and ran away to the Nightmare Gang’s hideout in tears. Upon arriving, Nightmare explained what he did, and released his wrath onto him, expressing how angry he was at his lies and how he stooped so low to befriend a child, a regular robot and a Funtime. Nightmare Fredbear expressed his melancholic fury at Nightmare, screaming on how he loved Kevin as a son figure and friend, and how he will pay for what he did. Nightmare disregarded this and, decided that he still had a price to pay for his betrayal; as a result, he started to beat him up badly, removing Fredbear’s right eye in the process. He was kicked out onto the streets and banished from the Nightmare Gang forever. Fredbear roamed the darkened streets in tears and oil-like blood, not knowing where to go, except Kevin’s house. Walking in there and remembering all the fun they had broke his metal heart. He knew he couldn’t stay there for long, but as he was wondering the house he found a peculiar thing, an elevator. Unable to think straight due to grief, crying and oil loss, he mindlessly stepped inside and went down, passing out halfway there. Upon waking up, he finds himself bandaged and lying on a stage. He was then approached by a familiar figure: Baby, though he didn’t recognise her at first, as she had a massive upgrade. Fredbear explained his distress about what happened to him and how he’s a monster, as Baby consoled him. She also let him stay, as he had nowhere else to go. He stayed there a while, mainly hanging out in Baby’s auditorium, and really got to know Baby, consoling her after she accidentally killed Elizabeth Afton. Once again, Fredbear started feeling things about Baby similar to how he felt about Kevin, but they were different; he felt a lot happier, more warmer and had a faster “heart rate”. He soon realised that he had a crush on Baby, but he tried to brush it off as much as he could, as he didn’t think animatronics should date as that seems weird. But all the same, he couldn’t help feel that way... Not long after he came to this conclusion, Baby formulated a plan to escape the underground facility, as she hated everything about it. She scooped all the Funtimes and herself so they could become part of Ennard, and then scoop “Eggs Benedict” to take control of his body. Nightmare Fredbear couldn’t do much than just watch as this unraveled, as he couldn’t be scooped and because he didn’t like the idea of this plan, but he was told to join them but become invisible. After the plan’s failure, they found their way back to the Sister Location via the sewers and once reconstructed, everyone began voicing their anger at Baby for the failure, to which she tried defending herself saying that she didn’t know that would happen. Fredbear stepped in and calmed everyone down, agreeing to both sides of the argument but telling them to just chill out. A couple of days later, the company came down to dismantle the animatronics properly, and reprogram them, as their escape attempt proved them to be “defective”. Only Fredbear and Baby escaped, as Ennard and Ballora convinced them to leave as they held off the company men. The pair of them ran far away, at first seeking refuge in an abandoned hut, but relocating not that long after and stumbling upon Fazbear’s Fright, an old Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria converted into a horror house. They sneak in but are confronted by the Phantoms of old animatronics and the only real animatronic, Springtrap, who Fredbear recognised at once as Spring Bonnie, but decayed and with someone’s corpse inside him. Springtrap recognised Fredbear too, and wasn’t really happy to see him, as he was still mad that he lied about who he was. Nonetheless, he convinced him to let him and Baby stay, and there they stayed. There they also met two other animatronics who became guests to the horror attraction, Freddy and Toy Freddy. Relationships Nightmare: The pair of them are brothers, Nightmare being the oldest, and they originally had a neutral relationship. Nightmare would often tease Fredbear about his imperfections and get a bit angry at his reluctance to follow the Nightmare Gang code. Fredbear would get annoyed at his constant mockery and would often respond with a scoff. After the Bite of ‘87, the brothers’ hatred for each other sizzled up to their boiling point and they now detest each other. Nightmare Gang: none of them really got along with Fredbear, because of how different he was. Fredbear didn’t care, as he never liked any of them. The only one he’d remotely have a decent conversation with is Plushtrap, in his opinion. He also hates Nightmarionne the most, as she likes to bully him often. The Funtimes: They don’t really trust him a lot because of him being a Nightmare animatronic, especially Funtime Foxy. Ennard and Ballora are more willing to give him a chance, and are on neutral terms with him. Funtime Freddy and Bon Bon are horrified of him, and cower behind Funtime Foxy whenever he’s in the room. Fredbear doesn’t really mind, because he knows he can’t help it, but he’s trying to prove to them that he’s a good guy. Circus Baby: when they first met, she was wary about him, but upon finding out that he’s not like the other Nightmares, she decided to give him a chance, eventually becoming friends with him. She was the one who found Fredbear passed out and wounded in the elevator and was the one who fixed him up, distressed over his broken state. She deeply cares for him, and feels emphatic whenever he’s upset. Fredbear enjoys her company and empathy, eventually developing a crush on her. She also develops one later, but the pair of them try to disregard it, as they think animatronics dating is weird. Freddy Fazbear: The pair of them are on very friendly terms, because Freddy respects how he coped with the past events and how he dealt with them. Fredbear appreciates this and thinks of him as a good person, but is irritated by his constant disputes with Springtrap. Toy Freddy: Toy Freddy was scared of him at first, but after learning about his backstory, he feels sympathetic to him and tries to be kind to him, even if his wilder nature annoys him. He appreciates his kindness, and vows to protect him, as he believes Toy Freddy’s not much of a fighter. Springtrap: The pair of them used to be best friends during the Fredbear’s Diner days, but after the Bite of ‘87, they drifted apart until they reunited in Fazbear’s Fright. They’re not as close as before anymore, but are on neutral terms. Fredbear also really wants to mend his friendship with Springtrap, but Springtrap seems disinterested. ~~~ My boy is finished!! Time for the final Outcast Member!!

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