#twb spoilers

[cindersnows]

so i read twb

[themargogamer]

THE BIG BITE.

[gamequeenanya]

So, this was the only mention of Coppelia's mother.

Coppelia seems nervous at the prospect of calling her, and Ralph immediately shuts down the idea.

What I was saying before about Ralph having a toxic attachment style. He falls for toxic people because of either familiarity or he feels it's what he deserves. His wife could hurt him however she wanted and he wouldn't complain. But you know one thing Ralph wouldn't stand? Her hurting Coppelia.

"You feel like the only thing you're good for is protecting people."

Just saying.

[five-nights-at-artsys]

THE WEEK BEFORE LEAKS !!

still thinking about this one particular leak from the week before. ive been thinking about it ever since i learnt about it.

"only if you forget" is gonna haunt me for a while now actually. holy fucking shit. get ralph some therapy. that's straight up dissociation .

[nightmaretherabbit]

CHEERING!!!! CRYING CHILD IS CONFIRMED TO POSSES GOLDEN FREDDY!!!

GOLDEN DUO REAL!!

[doks-aux]

I started reading Five Nights at Freddy's: The Week Before, and as you can see, I'm being very normal about it.

I've avoided as many spoilers as possible so I can experience the lore hunting on my own for once. Never been as deep into the fandom during a book release before. The pages on the right are my notes while reading, whatever I think might be important to the worldbuilding or mysteries or just interesting minutia like how the restaurant is run. These were the notes after getting through Night 2. I've finished Night 3 by now (so please no spoilers beyond that), so there's a bit more.

The page on the left is where I'm recording my "official" playthrough. It's an "interactive novel" (because Choose Your Own Adventure is off-limits), and the way I'm reading it is by committing to one route each night and playing it to the end or until I die and have to get back to the last branching decision. And then when the night is over, I go back and read the branches I didn't take. (Except for the Bonus Item route. I've heard it's best to leave that until the very end.) The inventory is only items I pick up in the official playthrough (I probably didn't have to cross out screwdriver and paperclip after I used them, whoops), and I'm only recording Game Overs I reach organically (there are more of those now, too).

It's a lot of fun. This was a smart way to present new information and provide some different gameplay experience. I've never been able to play the video games when they actually come out, so it's nice to have a way to discover things firsthand and not have to rely on watching other people's videos. And since there are so many diverging points, there's still the question of which version of the story actually happened (if this is indeed canon to the games' timeline instead of it's own slightly-to-the-left continuity) and what information we can actually trust. Maybe it's Stockholm Syndrome talking at this point, but a straight answer wouldn't be quite as much fun.

There are some WILD implications if it's even adjacent to the games' timeline though. Like, at this point it really seems like a night guard's actual purpose is to keep the animatronics in the building than to keep anyone out. The idea that they would just up and fucking leave if they had a means to honestly never occurred to me (or at least it would have died off quickly after the earliest games), but apparently they will do exactly that. And it's largely been accepted that at least the original Fazbear four weren't malicious toward children (The Silver Eyes said as much and I think one of the games did, too), but in this story they're straight-up obliterating kids if given the chance.

Good shit. Excited to read the second half.

[thiagitobits]

genuinely hillarious how blunt the week before is in regards to ralph's identity. i dont think any other peice of fnaf media has ever been so blatant about any lore detail ever. ralph legit goes "they used to call me the phone guy" at one point

[autumn0689]

THE WEEK BEFORE SPOILERS!!!!

Ever think about how Ralph is probably going to be permanently known as ‘The Phone Guy’? Like his recordings were found in the Fazbear Frights attraction and was in Help Wanted, like he made multiple recordings that were used often, like he’s probably going to be known by ‘Phone Guy’ than by his name, Ralph.

I also think about Coppelia, how her father went to work then never came back. She probably knows nothing, only knows that Fazbear Entertainment was involved.

The legacy of Ralph, known as The Phone Guy, but to one person, was known to as ‘Dad’.

[paigelts05]

Phone guys polaroid [FNAF, Renegade AU]

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1101525291

Published: Sep 22, 2024

Across all Freddy's locations, there are several constants. Fredbear chomping down on a kid's skull, a bite of 87. At least one missing persons incident. The role a handful of guards fill. One of those roles being a Phone Guy.

Here are 4 of many.

Krasnyy Guy, the youngest phone guy on record. He worked at the location that was was given the code letter 'C'. Unlike the others who were given a standard company greeting and a suggestion to record tapes for future guards, Krasnyy was given far more prompting in a script written around the greeting to tell him things like 'mention why you are recording the message (do not say you were told to)', 'you MUST read out the standard greeting', 'you may not state the real reason behind why the animatronics kill: there is a company approved reason', etcetera. Krasnyy always.abided by the letter but not the spirit, relying on double and hidden meanings to try and convey the truth to other guards whilst misdirecting management. Back in 87, they'd done the same thing when they hid him in a side room and told him to record training tapes for the summer, but he instead used the chance to warn the guard of the dangers of the 1987 location, slapping 'welcome to your new summer job' as a formality on his first recorded phone call. There wasn't much difference between the situation that he found himself in back in 1987, and the situation that he eas in during the 'night 4 incident' of 1993. Also, by giving Krasnyy these extra prompts, Faz Ent was able to make the calls that he recorded line up eerily closely with the ones that Ralph would record over two months later. Krasnyy was also the only phone guy whose night 4 recording was interrupted by another person instead of any animatronics: the groan was Vincent Taylor, and the 'robotic' scream was Krasnyy's own scream. The voices of the posessed tend to come out weird when the ghost and host are working in tandem like Vincent and Ina, and Krasnyy and Philip were that night. After the somehow winning the fight, he opted to hide within the building as leaving the building was too risky. He hid in the safe room for three months before his best friend, Mike Schmidt, was able to find him and smuggle him out of the building. Krasnyy is a journalist, and is the only surviving phone guy to have kept working at the same Freddy's location after 'night 4', as it was dubbed. He finally left when location C closed down in 1997. The only reason why he stayed that long was due to the animatronics opting to not kill him or Mike, but instead severely harm them, both physically and mentally, whenever they were caught, as being posessed made the animatronics see those two night guards as being like them but traitors instead of possible suspects. The animatronics intentions were to have either Mike or Krasnyy work for them so that they could have a human hunting down their killer during the day, and they succeed with Krasnyy, making him 'the voice of the animatronics'. The years spent working at Freddy's had left permanent scars. No longer working at Freddy's meant more time to write articles about the darker side of that place, so that people know that neither he nor others that were left scarred by that place are crazy.

Paul Scott, the phone guy with the shortest tenure and temper. He worked at the location that was was given the code letter 'Y'. He was given a company greeting, and despite his hatred and coy attempts to hide the truth between the lines, his professionalism and grim determination to see things through and finish what he started made him record phone calls that were eerily similar to those that Ralph would make over two months later. He recorded his night 4 call on his fourth night, and whilst he doesn't remember what happened after the animatronics caught him, he's certain that he saw his own decapitated body on the floor before passing out. He woke up in a hospital that looked more like an underground facility over a month later, and aside from a scar around his neck and his hair being cut at that length, he has no way of verifying what really happened that night. He met someone who had a similar role to him whilst in that facility, but they both passed out when trying to figure out where they were and what was going on. When he came to next, he was in a normal hospital, and it had been three months since that horrible night shift. He has no idea how he is alive. He didn't even bother sticking his nose around at Freddy's again go find out, as he already knew from his first night that the company has been planning on letting him go by the end of the week. He just didn't expect to lose three months of his life because of it. And besides, the guard that was working at Freddy's 90 days later had found his cut off hair shoved inside a Freddy head, so he knew that his neck injury had to have happened in parts and service: his memory of that night was correct on location, but he still could not explain how he survived decapitation, even though it seemed more and more likely that the blurry memory that he had was completely correct. He wears a choker to cover up his scar, and his hair did grow back in time, so by the time the last active Freddy's locations of the era closed in 1997, he looked almost like his old self again.

'Zero', the phone guy whose actions were - unknown to him - held as the template for what those in the role of 'phone guy' should do. He worked at the location that was was given the code letter 'O', but it was also refered to as location 0, or the origin location. Zero's real name was Ralph back when he was alive, and he was unaware that Faz Ent used him as a template for a 'constant variable' that they had across all their locations. He had always thought that 'phone guy' was just a nickname, and whilst sometimes it was just that, knowing what he knows now he knows that when it came from the mouth of his boss, it wasn't a nickname, but his role. After his death, he was distressed to find out that back in August 1993, almost all the others in his role had been wiped out with very few survivors, meanwhile, his own demise was spelled almost three months later in early November 1993. Whilst at first he had no idea why Faz Ent had gone to such lenths get kill him and his cohorts killed, the answer was rather clear: they all knew too much and were liable to speak out if they survived much longer. He himself had become aware of the names of the ghosts within the animatronics on his instincts alone, and he had discovered something else about the animatronics during his final week that Faz Ent didn't want getting out. Ralph is a seer, and so is Bronwen Light. They both used their phones as an anchor to try and navigate Ralph's final five nights; Ralph just trying to make it out alive so he could go back home to his daughter, and Bronwen trying to make sure that the animatronics wouldn't overcharge and escape to terrorise the town. Ralph found only one path where his daughter would be safe and at least one of himself or Bronwen would survive: on his fifth night, he recorded a voicemail for the next guard: his night 4 recording. Due to keeping the animatronics attention, Bronwen was able to survive, and as Ralph was dead, the animatronics stopped trying to escape, so his daughter, Coppelia, wasn't in danger. Bronwen brought Ralph's phone back to Coppelia, and whilst Ralph had lost most of his memories, he could always recognise his daughter. As he learned more about the other locations, first from Bronwen and later from other phone guys, he started to go by the name 'Zero' to try and hide his old self in hopes that Faz Ent and the animatronics wouldn't go after his daughter again.

Phina Guy, the phone gal who used a voice modular when recording in hopes of being taken seriously as an instructor. She worked in the location that was given the code Phina, like Ralph, had loved Freddy's. Phina loves music, and loves using music to tell stories and make people smile, so working at a place with singing robots that made both kids and robots smile was like a dream come true for her! She even got to work the day shift, so she saw many performances live, and in the early 80's she even got to sing underneath the stage to give Chica a voice when the robot's voice box malfunctioned. When she found out that kids had started to go missing in 1985, she was devastated and did everything she could to try and find them. But like many others, she never thought to check inside the robots. As that location was sunsetted and gave way to a new and improved location in 1987, she hoped things would be better, but she was devastated when she discovered that someone had used one of the legacy suits and killed five more kids; she was distressed knowing that the guard had been in danger the whole time as the animatronics acting weird hadn't been a malfunction: they had been posessed. Predictably, that location closed too, and the next one lasted much longer, but in 1993, Phina knew it wouldn't last to the end of the year. By now, she didn't mind, and she didn't even want to stick around, so she put in her two week's notice. The first week went alright, but for her second week, she was moved to the night shift. Already being aware of how dangerous Freddy's was at night thanks to Frith and Janet fortunately surviving to tell the tale (and thanking her whilst they told her: Phina didn't feel like deserved thanks though), Phina did what she always did: set up some calls for the next guard. The first three nights went as fine, but on the fourth night, the animatronics were at her position in a flash: she had to fight for every second of time, and she hadn't had time to record a message that night so far, so as she eeked out a few more seconds, she made one last call to the next guard. She knew there was a good chance that she'd die, so she wanted to give whoever came next enough hints to find her. She wasn't sure if it was luck, or something else, but the animatronics didn't cram her in a mascot suit like she'd expected: she doesn't remember how many times they scratched and slashed at her, or how many times they hit her, or how many bones they broke. She only remembered waking up in a hospital that seemed to be underground, where she met Paul. As they tried to piece together what had happened, Phina thought that something smelled strange before they both passed out. She then woke up in a regular hospital, and her girlfriend Mina told her that it had been three months. Phina had gone missing three months ago, and about one and a half to two months ago, she'd been transferred to this hospital, but the hospital listed as the one that she had been transferred from didn't exist. Phina was just happy to be alive, and she begun to write and compose music, using it to try and tell the world about what she knew, hiding the truth within metaphors in the lyrics.

[intuitive-revelations]

After a few years of part-time supporting-artist-ing in Cardiff I finally get a DW-related casting enquiry... a month after I moved away. 🙃

[thewingedbaron]

DARK URGE RUN BEGINS

Dropped off the map there for a bit to play Space Marine, but I've finally hit the first milestone of the Dark Urge run. I think we both know what that is.

I wanted to start the journal from a moment that makes sense for Cyllia (Tiefling Swords Bard/Durge). So from this point forward, I'll be doing a little live, character journaling when the moment feels appropriate. I'm also adding these under a little tag so they'll be easier for me to organise. #TWB: Cyllia

First entry is under the cut!

Day 4 since the crash of the Nautiloid. 

Alfira is dead. I think I killed her. 

This sickening urge finally overwhelmed me. The one that makes my blood boil at the sight of a corpse, that makes my hand itch for a blade. I pleaded with my companions the second night. I tried to warn them, told them of the terrible song my blood sings. Now, Alfira is dead, and I don’t even remember how it happened.

None of them are speaking with me, save for threats and warnings. Gale would not even approach me. When I asked him for one of his precious notebooks to help me get my mind right, he placed it on the ground before him without question, and retreated to his tent before he would allow me to move to pick it up. I have tried to tell them I do not remember, I’ve tried to plead my case. I don’t know if anyone listened. So I sit, here by the water on the edge of camp, scratching my thoughts to paper in a vain attempt to prove to myself that I am not insane.  

How did this happen to me? Am I truly capable of such horrible deeds? I have killed often these past few days. So called Paladin’s of Tyr, goblins, and bandits. I cannot deny the way my heart sings when blood is spilt by my hand. Yet, that is a love of battle not murder. I wish that I could remember anything about myself. Perhaps the answers lay in the gaping void of my memory. 

The earliest that I can remember with awakening in that pod. My horns had been hacked off. My hair shorn short, shaved on one side. I was wearing a ridiculous bard’s get up. Someone had to have put me there. I think my hair and lack of horns would have been done by my own hand, if not for the deep loss I feel when I glimpse them in the water, or a passing mirror. Someone did this to me. I know it. Perhaps it was they who put these infernal urges in my mind. 

I cannot dwell on it now. There is still work to be done if we are to rescue this “Halsin” from the goblin’s camp. I intend to head straight there today, after gathering as many allies as I could find. They have not left me yet, but I can tell that their faith in me is shaken. I will make this up to them. I will prove that I am more than whatever blood stained hand grips my heart. 

I vow this. I only pray that it is not too late. 

Cyllia. 

[gamequeenanya]

Can't believe the FNAF fandom lied to me again.

You people told me Dave and Ralph were close friends, but everything I read about them is Dave deserving a 38 time in a row hanging for the things he says to Ralph. And Ralph just saying, "Okay, I'll miss you too." Possibly with some amount of sarcasm because deep down he knows he deserves to be treated better. :(

[five-nights-at-artsys]

Haunted By The Decisions You Made

[minor spoilers for fnaf: the week before... but still spoilers for the book, especially since it shouldn't be in stores 'til september 4th! so. yeah]

i'm breaking down // breaking down // at the thought of you

— "six feet under", vane lily

for prompt 28 — haunted! a bit more fast and loose than usual but i had fun drawing this one! phone guy (ralph? i guess now?) can NOT catch a break im sorry

[voidoflotusblooms]

I managed to get my hands on the new fnaf book, The Week Before, (thank you Barnes and Noble 🙏🏻) and yall I love Phone Guy even more than I previously had. I can never bring myself to play fnaf 1 without feeling sad af now tho

[asccrearad]

SPOILERS FOR THE WEEK BEFORE BELOW!!!!!

i find it incredibly funny how in TWB we get Cassidy and CC characterization

and they're almost completely opposite to the fanon interpretations

Cassidy is sweet and caring to Phone Guy, providing comfort and reassurance in the best ending (placing a LOT of doubt on CassidyTOYSNHK but that's just in my opinion)

CC brutally kills him in 2 (known) endings out of rage. like. Bite of 93 in one, and in the other he literally fries Phone Guy's brain while screaming at him lmao

[bloodycabinets]

TWB SPOILERS

Barely seen anyone mention the ending where Golden Freddy (presumably) speaks to Ralph in his daughters voice, Coppellias name being a direct reference to an animatronic girl who was so lifelike people thought she was real, and how she literally remembers "Fredbear" uhm. Also not to mention the ending where there's 4 houses and leading to a 5th meaning Coppellia as a 5th victim guys. Guys. Guys. G