#or that youd die first

[canonically47]

“gihun will become the new frontman” are you fucking stupid????????????

i saw an ACTUAL article saying he may become the new frontman?????? and that inho was trying to show him that the games are not that bad??????????? WHAT

do you people watch tv shows with your eyes closed and ears stuffed i dont understand it anymore. i dont. isnt it obvious that inho comes into the games to break gihuns morale? to show him the human nature?? NOT to show him the games '''''arent that bad'''''' (WHAT???????) but to show him that humans are FLAWED and GREEDY and TERRIBLE and that they ACTIVELY CHOOSE THE WORST OPTIONS, he wants to make a POINT and the point is NOT that the GAMES ARE GOOD (???????????????) but that HUMANITY IS BAD. is that NOT OBVIOUS?????

GIHUN BELIEVES IN HUMANITY AND INHO DOESNT. thats the FUCKING POINT of their CHARACTERS. THATS THE TAKEAWAY. HOW DO YOU NOT GET THAT???????

and dont get me started on the frontman theory???? HUUUUUH????????? oh my god i thought people calling sangwoo a villain was bad enough, THIS IS THE WORST THEORY EVER. again, HOW do you WATCH this SHOW???? AND THINK THIS???????

the purpose of gihuns character is that he is a person that seeks light in the darkest times even when it may seem stupid, that he CAME BACK to HELP people and TO BREAK THE SYSTEM. he left the games hungry for JUSTICE. compare him to inho (AS YOU SHOULD BECAUSE THATS. THE POINT) who PERPETUATES the system. who was hurt by the games and continued them to deal with his guilt in the worst possible way. does it look to you that gihun??? is heading down that path???? when the show constantly throws it in your face that they are supposed to be opposites and AGAIN. gihun believes in humanity and inho doesnt. thats why inho came back for worse and gihun for better. one wants to break, the other to fix.

how do you watch TWO SEASONS of gihuns INCREDIBLE CHARACTER and his morale and unbreakable, indomitable spirit and think “o yea i think he will give into his guilt and become bad guy haha” WHAT!!!! WHAT!!!!!!! WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

im so done w this nobody has any media literacy anymore. you made mouthwashing about good versus bad and ships when the whole fucking point was that people are not perfect and make mistakes and are morally grey - how anyone thinks of curly either as a perfect angel or terrible person i dont fucking get - and now you dont get squid game .....AGAIN. youd think in THREE YEARS youd learn but atp i have no more hope. oh my god. pick up a fucking book. learn to think critically. im so sick of this

[zarnzarn]

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athena, scowling as she gets bullied into marrying the people she pined over for the last 1000 years, suddenly realising something: wait a minute

odysseus: what?

athena, frozen: wait a damn minute you know what this gives me rights to do

penelope, also realising: oh fuck yes

odysseus: I don't like the sound of whatever's happening here what are you two fucking talking about?

athena, grabbing the marriage wine and tossing it back, then kissing her new wife and husband and handing penelope a spear as she picks up a mace: we'll be back shortly, you can start celebrations without us.

penelope: do u have anything that can start a fire

athena, pulling out an old contract and scanning it before throwing it over her shoulder: yes. are you scared of heights or can we fly.

penelope: fucking bring it I've waited years for this moment

zeus: where are they going

hermes, picking up the contract: they're going to... Ogygia? Oh fucking shit they're going to fucking kill Calypso- hey, hello, WAIT-

[xxplastic-cubexx]

if i wake up and dont find this fiend under my tree in his lil tube i WILL throw up

[puppppppppy]

Atla live action 😐

[nyatbinary-81]

okay. @evil-eyedlurker lets try this again since tumblr ate my last draft.

Part 1: Setting the Stage.

Before we begin, I'd like to recommend reading the book for yourself. There's a free copy here on archive.org. I'd also like to point to my previous post for some context if anyone reading this post is new here. You may also want to watch Dual Process Theory's take, as I agree with pretty much all of their arguments.

You have the appropriate context for this? Good.

Now then.

Within the logbook, there are three known writers: Red Pen, aka Michael Afton; Faded Text, aka Charlie Emily; and Altered Text, aka CC/Cassidy Afton.

There are also, however, three identifiable names: Mike, Cassidy, and Dave. Popular fanon will tell you that "Cassidy" is Faded, as well as being the Vengeful Spirit and the second Golden Freddy spirit. It will now also tell you that CC's name is Dave, previously mstaken to be Evan.

I am here to tell you that popular fanon is, as popular fanon tends to be, wildly off the mark.

As per my last post, I dismissed Cassidy as a little girl for two reasons: firstly, that she has no narrative significance before whenever the logbook takes place, and secondly, because Faded asks too many specific questions to be a stranger. The logbook came out after Pizzeria Sim, and introducing Cassidy as such an important character this late in the story is nonsensical.

But...my theory leaves out Dave. Who is Dave?

Put a pin in that for now. We'll get there. For now, let's talk about Michael Afton.

Part 2: Why?

In my last theory post, linked above, I asked a question that I found to be forgotten: why? Why does faded ask such specific questions? Why is there so much puppet symbolism? Why would CC know the name Cassidy? Why are there so many tidbits that never get mentioned?

I have some new ones today: Why is Mike here? Why are Charlie and Cassidy in his book? Why is the name Dave important?

For simplicity's sake, we'll start with why Charlie and CC are talking. Based on the imagery of the Puppet and birthdays on pages 31 and 98, as well as "The party was for you" (103), it's most likely to set up the Happiest Day, placing this before...whenever that happens. Before Pizzeria Sim, at least.

(Fig. 1: The Puppet/Happiest Day symbolism.)

So...if that's the goal, why is Mike important? Sure, he helps spell Cassidy's name, but only the last couple letters. And of all the available grids, "Dave" is spelt in the Foxy grid. The one animatronic that is associated with Mike.

(Fig. 2: Available grids.)

To me, this implies the name Dave is important for Michael to remember. But why?

...Why would Michael need to remember anything? Surely he remembers, right? I mean, he references the Nightmares and casual bongos and exotic butters and the Bite. Surely, surely that means he remembers!

(Fig. 3: Michael's references.)

Reread all his answers again, all throughout the book, knowing this takes place after Sister Location, during the time he's hunting down his father. Tell me what's missing. (Or you can trust me to tell you, I suppose.)

Mentions of his family, right?

In fact, he's not even the one to bring up the Bite. The logbook brings it up for him; he just responds to it.

Throughout the book, Mike is unresponsive and noncommittal. His doodles exist in the corners and margins, he rarely responds to either the book or Faded's questions directly, he even crosses out his own name. The only thing he repeatedly emphasizes throughtout the book is SURVIVAL. In all caps, SURVIVAL. CERTAIN DEATH.

(Fig. 4: Michael's scribblings as per the previous paragraph.)

Interestingly, he commonly writes about leaving leaving. Such as running away, locking up the animatronics, going on vacation, or dying. This directly contrasts his established desire to find his father, which implies he hasn't gotten that motivation yet.

Michael has been scooped by the time the Logbook happens. Michael, like most spirits, forgot. Forgot less than Cassidy and perhaps the MCI, for whatever reason, but forgot nonetheless.

And Charlie is here to help him remember, the same way she's helping Cassidy remember.

Specifically, she wants him to remember the name Dave, spelled out via the coordinates of the answered questions. The first one of which is answered by Michael, long before Cassidy says "I'm scared" as a potential alternate answer.

Part Three: Fandom Really Needs to Learn to Re-examine Fundamentals.

Take that pin out of "Who's Dave" and "Why is Dave important" from earlier, because it's time to answer those questions.

Okay. So, we've established a few things.

Dave is not one of the spirits in the logbook.

Charlie is pushing for Michael to remember the name Dave.

Michael has lost his memory, and has yet to gain the motive of finding his father.

If all of this is true, "Dave" must be connected to Michael's motivation: finding his father.

But we already know his name! William Afton, as established in...in......uh.........which game was it again? Sorry, hold on, let me just check my sources...*shuffling papers*...oh! Here we go! William Afton's name was established in the novels...and...and for the entirety of The Silver Eyes, he's referred to almost exclusively by his alias, Dave. To my knowledge, his first name is never confirmed in the games.

...What if we've been wrong in accepting that his name is William Afton? What if he is Dave, and it's not just an alias?

Allow me, once more, to set the scene.

Part Four: FNaF is a story. Let's treat it as such.

The date is [REDACTED], just after Michael's scooping. His corpse gets up without him, shambling around with metal for bones and vague remnants of children's souls for a pilot.

Michael himself is stuck in a security logbook; a paltry little thing given to him by his employers, like a twisted joke. He writes and crosses out his own name, and doodles in the margins for a bit.

Charlie, ever the attentive soul, joins him, bringing the Crying Child with her. Two brothers, one memory, or something like that. She begins gauging what he remembers: Does he know who he is? How he died?

Michael doesn't respond. He doesn't need to. It's not hard for Charlie to piece together what happened, especially given his shambling corpse ranting and raving about their revenge.

So, she begins to push Michael to remember his killer. She starts with the nightmares (do you have dreams), the first thing he did. She follows up with his resemblance to his father (what do you see), but Michael goes unresponsive, possibly catching on to her game. Ever the stubborn one, that. Instead, CC responds. So she switches gears, roping CC into helping her spell out both names by directing her questions to him, until Michael finally helps spell Cassidy.

Next to the wordsearch where Cassidy remembers is a mirror; one to reflect EVAD (spelled in CC answer order) into DAVE. Two brothers, one memory, as the saying doesn't go.

Michael's corpse lies cold and empty on the ground, Ennard having escaped into a gutter. He can't move on, not yet. There's only one option left for him now.

Michael looks into the mirror.

And his eyes open purple.

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also it would be really funny if davetrap had an alias in the games timeline and it was william/will miller THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT!

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Hmmm... Autodesanguination...

[fluffydragonchips]

🫵anything on any of ur ocs STAT !!

hi ^_^ !!!!

my lethal company oc Vermin exists mainly bc of artfight, i rlly wanted a lc character for ppl to draw!!

the thing they were based on got removed from the game 😭😭theyr just a generic spiky plant noww

[lunarmourning]

it's so funny when someone lies about you because people will be mean about what they heard and it's just like okay well that's not true but whatever .think what you wanna think bro

[shamemp3]

comic book characters will never escape oh my goddddd…someone snap me out of it

[anthophobicowl]

Payed for the deluxe edition of frostpunk 2 so I could play it early(never do that normally) and it's good but pretty different from the first one. Also if you've played the first def crank the difficulty up. I was playing on the second lv and didn't have any trouble until the very very end. And that was more just cause I didn't understand the voting mechanic cause I didn't really need it till the end.

[faaun]

whatever runs away they hang on to even harder ! a thread is enough !! the whole time i was insane they let me thrash around and threaten to rip their throat out with my teeth ans they said i want to be your friend anyway. i want to be your friend always !

[brokenpuns]

so i made a ptp sona and got a little attached…

[xxplastic-cubexx]

im going to lose my ufkcing mind

[virgincognito]

this is the third person to leave my dm on delivered but posting on their story…..

[tiercel]

Edibles are so scary cause every single time ive taken one its either done literally nothing or its made me so high i got sick and or had a religious experience

[todayisafridaynight]

I really couldnt live in a timeline where my college friend knew Im Normal bout sawashiro i really couldnt