#i wish they'd really go into the mimics motivation- i get the feeling it'd probably be similar to this tbh

[summerlycoris]

One thing I got thinking about with the Mimic, and the crying child is well.

If the crying child IS called Dave (short for David, likely) in universe. It gives the Mimic motivation for deciding to cosplay Afton for a bit.

Like yeah it gets a good excuse to go ham and murder people. But it also gives him an excuse to try again with David. To not just be Davids friend, but Davids dad. By replacing William, he also gets to replace Edwin.

To get vengence on the man who let his best friend die senselessly, through neglect. And who tore into it, and blamed it for something it could not help.

To show him up- I can raise another boy named David. And I can do it better than you could.

Its two boys, one dad essentially.

At least. If the Mimic was capable of NOT mimicking the two shitty dads it knows of, and didn't immediately alienate 'David' away from itself, to the point it needed to possess him just so the boy wouldn't immediately flee back to his parents.

In the end, it can't help but continue the cycle that Edwin taught it. It never learnt any better.

And the tragic irony? Its not that the boy was incapable of forming attachments with a robot. Because Gregory grows to love Freddy- a robot who is capable of being a positive figure in his life.

If the Mimic hadn't been beholden to its own programming, it could have made another friend. That friend wouldn't have been David- either Afton or Murray. But it would've been Gregory.

And that would've been just as good.