#that's why i draw jack and davetrap together so much

[pumpkinpatchreblogs]

I need to draw Jack and Dave with springlock scars sometime....

[feralreason]

The Dehumanisation of Dave Miller

So, I was RPing as Henry Miller and had an internal dialogue comment of Henry musing about how William Afton was not a person. My RP partner, @plushmenace , had put in the tags of their reply basically asking "what is Henry's definition of a person"?

So! I'm finally here to explain my reasoning behind writing him that way. :') And as a bonus, this’ll also explain why I write Dave with abysmal self esteem and body image too wahoo. :’)))

Talk of abuse and trauma + DSAF spoilers under the cut.

First off, Henry literally says so before the ending fight.

Now, you have been kind of lead to accept and probably think "Well in this series, William Afton *is* a literal Purple Guy so of course he's not a human."

But... Henry isn’t either? For the sake of this essay, I'll refer to the "brightly hued people with black scleras and white glowing irises and pitch black maws" as "Amazing Technicolour Void Produce People™" or ATVPPs.

Henry acts like William is this huge freak while basically being the same as him, just pink instead of purple.

But here's the thing: like with most of what Henry says and does, what if this is on purpose?

First off, William may be self conscious about his appearance:

For starters, William blames the fact that he's an ourple ATVPP for why he was never adopted.

Which is possible for sure. However, from what we see in the series? Nobody seems to really care or mind William's appearance.

Except for Henry (who hates William and is an abusive POS towards him), and depending on player choice, Jack (who is just Henry 2: the Sequel also��depending on player choice).

Further backing up that this is a sore spot for him, he gets pretty upset when Jack reminds him of it (despite commenting and joking about it often himself).

Example 1:

Example 2:

Secondly, from how he acts, Henry probably used this as part of his abuse towards William:

I find the first reaction pretty telling tbh. Usually when picking an antagonistic dialogue option, Dave’s response will be anger and telling you to fuck off (closer to the second example). Yet in the first one? He tears up and just meekly points out with a stutter that he’s hurt.

( Also important to note too: from the second conversation, we can see that in this universe, “human” refers to “fully sentient, emotionally and intelligently complex beings with free will” (or however you want to word or spin it). Which would def include ATVPPs. Certainly makes what Henry says above even worse lol.)

Next up, something I’ve referenced before because bo y I think it’s one of the most well written parts of the series tbh -- meeting Davetrap in the third game.

Considering it’s been established that Davetrap is the “feral” half of Dave’s soul; the part that is bitter, angry, and can’t let go of things, I think his dialogue can be very insightful into his character.

Anyway, you can have this exchange:

He is clearly hurt by that term, pleading with Jack not to say it and taking on a cowering stance– turned away with his hands up defensively— and then reinstating that he’s “still a person”.

And guess who else refers to him as a monster?

This lines up with how passive we see him around Henry (the fight at the end of DSAF 3, the flashbacks in DSAF 2), so I think it’s easy to put two and two together and say Henry belittled him for his appearance, and that bringing it up makes him regress to how he was around him.

And again, in DSAF? This is apparently not anything that weird. I could be also be looking too much into it (but hey, death of the author bby), yeah, but the fact that nobody knows that Dave = William Afton kind of means being a purple ATVPP isn’t *that* unique in this world.

One thing I find interesting on that point is this exchange. Dave claims "kids loved drawing him because they were fascinated with him". Jack challenges that...

And then Dave basically shifts the conversation to, "Well they like me because I'm not scary and weird like you lol!" Even though he's joking, he does switch from making it about "what's inside".

I definitely think he may be making light of things to cope considering that he makes this quip in DSAF 2 which is definitely meant to be a joke and... yeeeaaah...

Anyway, some more examples of how Henry talks about William in a dehumanising way:

Furthermore, Henry has every reason to do this. From what we can see in the short story and some of William's dialogue, he seems to often belittle William to create co-dependency.

Ex: "Everyone is trying to hurt you, and you're weak, so you need to stay with me and do what I say so I can 'protect' you."

However, since the dialogue in the Void is him speaking his mind honestly, and combined with the tapes,... I'd argue it's completely possible he really may have literally not seen William as person. My guess is because of William being, you know, a weird form of undead. Maybe he started out demeaning him to easily control William, and began to sincerely believe it over time. Henry could also just suck like that.

And finally, William... kind of admits it himself in the bad ending, just like how Henry does in the good.

As I've pointed out before, he says Jack was the only person– he excludes Henry despite, in this route, still adoring the man.

... At least that's what I think! Wahoo!

[tangerinetomypurple-ask-blog]

Second Headcanon post: Dave Miller|William Afton (From the “A Scheme of my Design”AU)

Headcanon about Dave’s appearence:

-Dave has silver grey eyes(as William does in the FNAF books), his hair are straight and dark purple in color, he keeps them short so that they don’t end up stuck in the springlocks of the springlock suit he used to have to wore. He is quite pale, in fact he is so pale that his sking could almost look as if it is paper white. He as well as Jack has quite a lot of scars due to some springlocks failures that he managed to survive, in a way.

-He is taller than most of his co-workers(and love to taunt the Phone Guys of most locations he worked at, with it), he seems rather slim, but don’t let that fool you he is quite strong even if his appearences could make you think otherwise.

Headcanons about Dave’s personality and behaviour:

-Dave’s personality is much more similar to the one that William has in the books respect of that of DSaF Dave, he still mantain some of DSaF Dave qualities, though.

-Dave is a genius and a quite impressive engineer, though he is kind of the creative genius so he tends to get easly distract by his own ideas, to complete most of his robots manually so he usually draws the blueprints and let someone else build the robots for him.

-He is a talented entrepreneur, and his silver tongue has got him more funds than what he dreamed to ever have for making his dream real. He founded the Afton Robotics and brought the company from nothingness to being known in all the world, thanks to his revolutionary projects and technologies.

-Dave don’t like Henry Miller very much, to be honest he pretty much hates him. He was, in his youth, tricked and used by the Pink Man and now he resent him so much that he has promised himself that one day he will get that man (but only by name) out of hell so he could send him there again with his own hands. There is basically no-one who Dave hates the most than Henry Miller.

-His dislike of the Phone Guy is in the most part dued to the fact that they don’t follow strictly enough (for him at least) the protocols that he wrote for them. And to add at that he is more than a little creeped out by the fact that they have phones for heads. He actually suggested the thing to the Fazbear Entertainment inc’s CEO as a joke, never thought they could have actually do it.

-Dave can seem one of the most carefree guys, one could meet, he is not actually that carefree or as honest as some (Phone Guys mostly) thinks he is. But he loves to wear that mask as he feel almost relaxing the fact that he has not to hide a lot of his true self when he acts as ‘carefree Dave’.

-He is almost fearless, seeing that he is already dead and now immortal and so has not to worry about human’s fragilities anymore. Though ghosts still scare him, because they are untouchable and he can’t defend himself from them for this reason.

-He is a very possessive, obsessive man in almost every aspect of his life.

-He is a very light sleeper and he’s a little insomniac, he usually has to take some sleeping pills to actually fall asleep and to sleep for more than one or two hours at night.

-Dave had a family of his own(such as William in the FNAF lore) but he lost it, and don’t usually like to talk about them. (He loved his family and his children were the light of his life… now whenever he thinks about them he can only see blood and hear screams)

Headcanons about Dave’s relationship with Jack:

-He is obsessed with Jack(even more than how much he is in canon DSaF lore)

-He told Jack his real name and a bit of his personal story because he trusts him with al the heart he doesn’t have anymore but still feels. As such he now knows that Old Sport’s real name is: Jack Kennedy. He still don’t know why that name feels almost as if he knew it before.

-Dave loves his Old Sport and is certain of it but still he has not done any move because he thinks that Jack don’t feel the same and he don’t want to ruin that beautiful close friendship they have.

-He feels like he could kill anyone Jack’s told him to kill, and to protect him he would arrive as far as in slash, kill and disembowel anything that would disturb, or be foolish enoguh to hurt, his Old Sport.

Headcanons about DaveTrap:

-Dave was forced into the faulty springlock suit by Marionette and the other souls of the children that he and Jack killed. His death was slow and painful and he actually begged the ghosts to snap his neck or bash his head so he could not feel anything anymore.

-Even after his death and possession of the suit he can still feel pain, and in thirty years it hasn’t lessened his grip by nothing.

-Due to his immortality he is still pretty much ‘alive’ inside the suit, and his body keeps healing non-stop around the metal bits embedded in his flesh that rips open every times he does something even as little as breathe.

-Even if he is actually alive, his always bleeding, always reopening wounds have attracted a fair amounts of kinds of bugs to him. He can feel their little armored feet thrashing and moving inside his own flesh and feel their little clawed mouth chew bits of him. He will never admit it but this is something he wouldn’t wish to anyone else to bear, and sometimes he wishes to just die so he could stop feeling and hearing all of those disgusting little creatures.

-Dave has become increasingly more aggressive as time passed with him still caged in that springlock ‘iron maiden’ of his.

-During the time he passed trapped in the safe Room, he started imagining things that he would have done has soon as he was freed from there. His ‘daydreams’ usually revolved around Jack coming to rescue him and than they living an immortal life together.

-He is now deathly afraid of maggots, after he almost lost one of his eyes to them. He still screams even if he saw a glimps of a white twisting, pulsating thing that is even only barely similar to a maggot.

(That’s all I got for now… wow it got really dark and sad in the end. Hope none of you is afraid of bugs(I actually am so it’s a lot harder for me to even  imagine how Dave feel in such situations without feeling sick myself… but well atleast the feelings to withness such thing are a lot easier to write…))