#will be thinking about the fnaf4 until the end of time thank you

[demi-pixellated]

Tomorrow,

and tomorrow,

a n d t o m o r r o w--------------

[faelienqueen]

No. Just no.

(A repost of a post that I made on my main blog)

I have listened to a lot of YouTube theorists about FNAF (mostly matpat). And I love them. And I love Scott. But I have come to the conclusion that I don’t like the end result of this story. I love FNAF as a whole, but.... there are things that don’t feel complete.

I personally like the idea that mat had about mike being crying child. Given the evidence, I think it makes sense and is very interesting. But this leaves a glaring hole in the narrative.

I personally like the idea that mat had about mike being crying child. Given the evidence, I think it makes sense and is very interesting. But this leaves a glaring hole in the narrative.

And then the conclusion was drawn that Golden Freddy was Cassidy. Just... one of the random kids that got killed. Comparatively insignificant. Not that a child being dead isn’t horrible. I just mean it’s narratively underwhelming. And in a game focused so hard on trying to tie up loose ends, why would it leave something like a whole chunk of the main family just randomly forgotten? The mom, who had absolutely no screen time, was given an ending, but not the main antagonist of the FNAF4 minigame? That sounds weird.

So it’s time for my own theory.

I want to say that I am not saying that what I previously said was not Scott’s intended story. I’m also not saying that it is. I don’t know. I don’t know Scott. I’m not in his head. Matpat could be on point, he could be totally wrong. I’m not arguining against the validity of the story, more about how unsatisfying it is for me personally.

I think big brother is Golden Freddy. I will also hazard to guess that his name is Cassidy. Why not? He was never given a name.

Think about it. If Mike isn’t Goldie, who’s the only other person seen associated with the Fredbear animatronic? Big brother. He was the one who shoved his little brother’s head into the death trap on his birthday.

I think that he accidentally killed his brother. And then their dad was PIIIIIISSED. Understandably so. I mean, one of his kids killed his other kid. And Elizabeth was most likely already dead, and it’s possible that his wife was too (I have a theory that she committed suicide from grief, but that’s a story for another day). So it’s an understatement that Willy was on edge. So I think he punished the older brother. And that punishment went too far. Maybe he couldn’t even see this child as his anymore after what had happened.

Big brother died and I think his soul, unsure of where to go, went to the source of his guilt. He hadn’t meant to kill his brother. Maybe he even thought he deserved what he got. So he stayed there, immobile.

That would explain the notes “it’s me.”

Why would some rando kid be saying that to mike? Maybe they were friends?

Or maybe it’s his brother trying to contact him.

It even makes sense with UCN. If Goldie is the one keeping Willy there, doesn’t it make more sense for the one holding him in his own personal hell to be his own son rather than, again, a random kid named Cassidy?

He was killed for killing his brother ON ACCIDENT. And he was just a kid. He felt guilty about it. He thought he deserved what he got. And then he saw his dad, the man who dealt his punishment, walking around killing kids for years. It would be insultingly hypocritical. He was betrayed by his own dad because of an accident. And why did he care so much more about mike than him? His dad was fully willing to kill him, but he worked until the day he died to revive his little brother? What made him so special?

He would see himself as “the one you should not have killed.” His death was different from the others. He was the only child in this body count that we know of to be killed out of rage and vengeance rather than bloodlust and science. He was the one killed for hypocritical reasons. UCN was a message to his dad.

“You killed me when you were doing THIS? You and I both know I’m not the one who deserved to die.”

This could be wrong. I haven’t done a shit tonof research. But this version of the story just feels more complete to me. The family feels more complete to me. I’d be interested to see what other people think :)

Thanks for listening.

[themanglc]

what made you write the backstories to each fnaf character the way you did?

Uh, each of them? Let me put this under a cut, because I’m gonna ramble a bit.

Mangle

Honestly, since Jenny’s was the first, I kept everything relatively vague with regards to her life and times, only getting more specific as I pondered more on it. If I ever reboot Mangle, I’ll probably rewrite the human portion of her backstory to accommodate what I’d ended up writing later after a lot of thought, as well as delving more into her pawn shop verse because that really brings things out for her.

The one big thing I had in mind for her concept was the fact she wanted to be like Toy Foxy--a hero type. The second big thing was the fact that she’d grow to be apathetic as Mangle, but certain muses can bring that fire out of her pretty easily.

Not only that, but the only thing mentioned about Felicity was that she disappeared while on the search for Jenny herself. The Sister Location verse was actually supposed to be a reversal in which Jenny searches for Felicity instead of the other way around, but it’s never been used, so I may drop that verse eventually.

I’d been out as a lesbian for a few months, too, and already telling myself that I needed to embrace that more--so making Jenny a lesbian was just the natural conclusion.

Spring Bonnie

Springbon was actually the SECOND FNAF muse I’d considered picking up, but the third one to actually get a block made. Tbh I fell for him when I saw him in FNAF World, like dang, cutie.

Springbon’s backstory in his profile is sorely lacking, and tbh I may just drop Nightmare Springbon and Nightspring, or else just keep Nightmare Springbon as a side-verse. Either way, I wanted to make things very straightforward like the games, and tbh Fredspring was the first ship in FNAF that I fell for like a damn sap.

Plushtrap

Plush was actually trickier to figure things out for. Still is, actually, what with him being a dick who enjoys scaring kids in between protecting them.

My initial notes for him connected him to the Puppet’s “birth”, and then he was passed from owner to owner until he reached the FNAF4 girl who owns him. He was also supposed to originally be apathetic re: the Nightmares and the Purple Guy, but then it somehow turned into him being like “fuck your shit, stop”.

His profile narrowed down his number of owners to two--a boy and his cousin--as well as giving him a more firm stance against the ones who messed with kids. I think Plush has more development thanks to FNAFWMD than anything else!

Bonnie

I feel like Malachi is EXTREMELY underdeveloped, but then again, he initially started with the one-liner of “sorta ditzy but well-meaning bun”, with his Withered counterpart receiving “is a bit meaner, but still kinda ditzy--’my fucking face is gone’, but stays in the fucking room”.

( Of course, I don’t really tend to play human guys, so I devoted more time into the non-human variations. I do plan on remedying that tho. )

Nightmare Bonnie

I put Nightmare Bonnie in here b/c this would eventually lead me to make Nightmare in the first place--namely, the fragments of the murdered children’s souls bit. I wanted to make N. Bonnie similar to his counterpart except with the addition of some other traits, and then realized that, well...

( *coughs* Scott, we still don’t know what exactly the Nightmares are. *cough* )

Foxy

Lauren was basically a foray into something I’d experienced for a good portion of my life--that is, the Uranus Effect. It’s a nickname for that feeling one gets ( as a butch lesbian ) of being both a man and a woman, without encroaching on things that may not be accurate for me to describe those feelings ( like dysphoria, being bigender, etc. ).

( To me, anyway. )

Ironically, one of the things that led me to making Foxy was FNAFuckboy’s, but I really enjoy where it led to. Lauren’s probably one of my fave FNAF humans, and I may kinda ship her with Felicity a bit.

Baby ( technically an OC ok )

Cheryl was basically me taking some foregone conclusions--that is, Afton’s apparent favoritism of her in Sister Location, despite being evil enough to send Michael down into a place filled with murderous animatronics--and then running with them.

However, I also felt like she’d be someone who wouldn’t know about dear ol’ dad’s child-murdering, and being around robots for so long, she’d eventually pick up making them.

Ballora

By this point, a lot of Jenny’s backstory had expanded and basically paved the way for Felicity to begin making her own path. While Jenny’s life had been detrimental through ableism, though, it felt more fitting to ruin Felicity’s life with homophobia instead--if only because Felicity managed to avoid murderstuffing.

She tends to reflect a lot about Jenny, being the active to Jenny’s passive, the homicidal killer because that’s what she wants to Jenny’s killing because she needs something to feel alive.

@mechaniicalinstiinct accidentally helped me connect dots to Felicity and Elphaba, while chatting with @stayuptildawn led to me writing meta based on Greek myth. Oops.

Lolbit, Blackrabbit

Not yet. But sooner or later.