#bad parent william

[metamatronic]

Firstly, I love your au! Your art is amazing, and the premise lives rent-free in my head

Question: When after the fazbear frights fire when Mike added Will to the list of ghost-robot roommates, how did Liz and CC react to seeing their dad after three decades?

I assume probably tear-fueled reunion mixed with a lot of questions

Like, I assume Will figured out what happened to Liz from context clues (ghosts possess robots=Liz is circus baby), but Liz definitely didn't know what happened to Will (esp bc not even Mike knew about him being springtrap in your au) so she would probably be surprised to see her dad back as a robot bunny with a corpse in it

Well, This Is Awkward (pt. 1) {next}

It’s funny—As much as Michael complains that Lizzie was spoiled rotten as a kid, he’s a pretty bad enabler. Of course, he’s not above letting her dig herself into a hole, especially in front of their father.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

i think Vanessa Afton deserves a Henry Emily in the movie franchise to be the found family father she needs to heal.

[appleciders]

BAD SISTERS + trios

[garlicbreadbrendon]

Y’all I’m so fucking obsessed with Bad Parenting, like I have the song stuck in my head and I wanna listen to it on repeat, I wanna make a Metalocalypse Bad Parenting au where Toki is Ron and Pickles, Skwisgaar, and Murderface are the other dead children. I just love it so fucking much

[slaughterlocked]

from here. ! / @feardrummed

THAT’S THE LAST THING HE WANTS.  THE IDEA OF OLLIE TALKING TO THE KID IS NAUSEATING.  William almost physically shudders,  wants to recoil from his daughter  –  manages to restrain himself,  JUST,  by the skin of his teeth.  “ Don’t be absolutely ridiculous, ”  he hisses,  and if possible he’s paled further,  “ do you want to give that poor woman an aneurysm ? ”

He has to think on his feet;  staring at his child,  who is only one small action away from uncovering his crimes,  William rushes to the door ahead of her,  slams it shut.  Has to ignore the mention of Evan,  because Christ,  that’s almost pushing him over the edge,  almost,  and he’s not quite ready to associate the kids that die here with Evan.  Evan is different.  Evan is . . .  his. 

“ Look, ”  he says,  and other than a sense of urgency and stress,  does well to conceal how rattled he is,  “ I understand you want to help.  I do.  But - ”

William searches,  internally scrambling for an excuse.  “ You will break that woman’s heart.  Do you understand ?  You remember how your mother was,  after . . . after  Evan -  ”  It’s her mother he invokes,  but none of them have been the same since Evan’s death.  William especially.  “ No matter what you tell her,  any news she gets will devastate her. ”  His voice softens; good,  he’s got something to justify his panic,  “ and the last thing I want is for you to get involved in something as upsetting as a missing person’s case.  It could ruin your life,  Olivia.  Ollie. ”  Making an effort for once.  “ Do you understand me ? ”

[femboy-springbonnie]

every interpretation of art is correct and valid until you say henry emily did nothing wrong

[imobsessed123]

I’m sorry but media where the whole story was just to make the character come to terms with their or another characters death emotionally shatters me wdym they were dead the whole time and every sweet interaction was just a figment of the MC’s imagination used as a coping mechanism until they finally came to terms with it

[poiboi133]

Evan was always William and Annette’s (Mrs. Afton) favorite.

So whenever Sammy or even Robyn (Mrs. Emily) pranked him or even physically intervened when Michael was bullying Evan..

They couldn’t give less of a shit

[runelocked]

🌟 feardrummed!

WHAT DOES MY MUSE THINK OF YOURS? / ALWAYS ACCEPTING!

He names a star for Ollie, years later, when he’s alone. Actually calls it Ollie: gives her that, if only because he finds it moderately amusing to imagine the look on her face if she ever found out. And because the name Olivia rings a little hollow now — reminds him of pink sparkly dresses hung in the back of wardrobes, untouched and collecting dust; of half - finished designs for a drummer animatronic, abandoned; of the uncomfortable fear she could pull out of him by stumbling home late, his questions and demands to know her whereabouts left unanswered. Thinking of Olivia feels like something of a murdered daughter — at least Ollie had only run away.

So he names a star Ollie. On one of those ridiculous knock - off websites that looked like it hadn’t been updated since the early 2000s, half - sure he was going to be scammed out of $20. He isn’t. That makes it worse somehow. Does it on a random day in January when he’s feeling extra nostalgic, sitting curled up on the couch in a blanket he tells everyone his eldest daughter bought him: she’s the only child he still admits to having. Other employees in the Pizzaplex enquire politely about his life: William James Attik rolls his eyes and chuckles, I have a daughter. A drummer. She ran away when she was sixteen to join a band. Haven’t seen her since.

Ollie is a relatable story. Gets him some sympathy, some sighs and knowing nods from other parents. Kids are all the same, they tell him, give her time. She’ll come back. She’s the only one he can really talk about with any truth — can’t exactly say I had three other children who are living dead in metal suits or worse thanks to me, not unless he wants to be heavily medicated for the rest of his life. Which . . . might not be the end of the world, he’s realizing, since recovering some sanity. Maybe that would have helped.

So yeah. Star named Ollie. Or maybe not a star. Maybe a planet ? Or space dust ? He hadn’t read the website closely enough. Just thought it would be a good way to prove to others that he does love her: which he does. He’d burn down the fucking world for her. Maybe he was always a little more concerned with burning than he was with just quietly sitting with her, father to daughter. A star or a planet or space dust. He changes the story slightly every time when he tells a new person, and they’re always suitably touched and saddened. You never know, they tell him, patting his back awkwardly, she might come back.

William’s reply is always the same. Sustaining this narrative. A bleak little smile, a surprisingly self - deprecating chuckle. I think we’re both better off apart, he says, and it’s the most honest thing he can say about his daughter at this point. Not an apology or admission of wrongdoing. But a little nod, not enough, to the past. Ollie is a run away, William can spin his narrative about his imperfect daughter to anyone he can get to listen. Better off apart.

William goes stargazing sometimes. This is not a public display. He hikes up the hill twenty - five minutes from his house, always pauses to recover halfway up because Christ, he’s not as young as he used to be. Sets up an expensive telescope, methodically studies the sky like he’s not stupidly, ridiculously, naively searching for the star planet space dust. Ollie. Never finds it. Wouldn’t fucking recognise it if he did. The part of the sky he’s bought for her is not visible from this world, clearly. Funny. He’d have burnt down that world for her, though that doesn’t matter any more. Wonders one day in October if she’d maybe have preferred stargazing to his grandiose displays of affection. If she’d ever looked up at the sky at night and wondered why her dad couldn’t show paternal love like a normal human being. The Aftons aren’t normal, he’d always said with an air of pride, but the same words ring hollow and guilty in his head now. You’ll get used to it, Olivia.

That same October night he fails again to find Ollie in the sky and smashes the telescope into smithereens. Takes part of it, puts it in a glass jar. Pretends it’s part of a star. Planet. Space dust. Puts it in his bedroom at his window - ledge, which has the only framed photo of Ollie. A younger photo from the 70s. She’s on his shoulders, looking at him like he’s the world. Wearing a prototype Spring - Bonnie arm. He’s laughing at the camera with enough happiness to light a home.

Your daughter might come back one day, people tell him when they hear his crafted little narrative, sympathy rife in their eyes, and he always shakes his head. But he returns to their family home on her birthday every year just in case, and is always glad she never does.

[birthofvcnus]

finally getting around to watching RE: Welcome To Raccoon City and i’m what? 20 minutes in? and i already hate it

[slaughterlocked]

"don't ask me! do it yourself."

" BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH SHIT ON MY PLATE, DO I ? " William's response is gritted out through bared teeth, and a vein throbs on his forehead. Stereotypical, he thinks, and that angers him more, because Michael is always acting like William is the fucked up one. Like William is wrong, somehow, or evil, or cruel: as if Michael couldn't avoid his father's anger just by being better. William whirls around now, eyes flashing, shoulders rising with tension that his doctor has already told him, sympathetically, to work on. It'll kill him, if Michael doesn't watch out: and that's exactly when William sags, and repeats his thoughts out loud: "You're killing me, Michael. Do you realize that ? How much I do for you ? " The question is double - bladed. There is no right answer that can save his son. " How much I do for this fucking family ? Christ, I ask you to take Liz to dance practice, the one thing I ask of you, and you're too lazy to even consider it. Do I have to do everything myself? "

[thetimelordbatgirl]

Okay, royals have one pro in the UK right now: its got all of us playing Cluedo right now with Kate's location and what her hospital visit was really about, with William being prime suspect.

[spring-lxcked]

thinking abt the whole michael-as-william's-favorite-kid pre-bite thing again and i think i finally pinned it down

i've mentioned it a million times but he generally sees a lot of himself in michael, and not just appearance-wise. michael is his oldest son, mini-me and that makes him both the favorite and the one who can most easily "fail" william.

i don't know how to explain that michael's attitude @ william as he gets older both pisses william off and reinforces the idea that they're the same.

elizabeth is the second favorite for also having stuff in common with william but ( at least by default / with my portrayal ) she favors elise in both appearance and personality just enough that william resents it. no, he's not self-aware enough to realize this. it doesn't necessarily show via affection, but through other means. literally his only redeeming factor as a parent is that he is capable of affection pre-bite ( and, rarely, post-bite )

( william isn't necessarily mentally ranking his kids to be clear LMAO. he's the type to be like "i don't play favorites" and then he lets michael get away with literally anything so long as it doesn't annoy / anger him. also wanna reiterate a la the last post: being his favorite is a bad thing. literally just being his kid is a bad thing, i'm not implying that one of the kids had it "easier" because i dislike that sentiment )

incredibly incredibly incredibly unpopular opinion but evan is the least favorite and i've always known this abt my william but it's such an uncommon headcanon fdhfkasdhalhf. he is, at least overall, nothing like william. his need for comfort is fine until it's not. like, william will coddle him as the youngest but in the end, he won't put in the necessary effort ( sometimes on purpose because he's "so busy," sometimes because he's obtuse ). at some point he wants evan to just "get over it" and he doesn't hide it well.

the bite obviously complicated everything, so that's a whole other story. something something william thinks his son is violent just like him ( positive to him lmao ) VS michael is traumatized VS william would never have bulllied / harmed his own sister VS michael killed his son ETC ETC ETC. normal family dynamic. where's that edit i made oh right

[vanweezer]

"i always get that feeling that whenever everyone gives something hype or likes the same thing im probably gonna think its bullshit" rip trevor moore you wouldve hated the everything

[runelocked]

[ fucked up afton family thoughts number 1!!! william always celebrated michael’s birthday — but only ever in the diner. even when the diner shut down, william had a spare set of keys, opened it back up just for his oldest son’s special day. it was the place he killed evan, after all: in his mind, it’s the perfect place to remind michael that even on his birthday he has blood on his hands. ]

[itsmemichael]

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