#william afton abuse

[unicattylt]

Me when afton comes back for a quadrillionth time in a row in the next fnaf game:

”Let it die, Let it die, let it shriel up and die" - O’mare from that one crappy dr seuss movie"

[gamerphobe]

i know we all love michael afton, and like i get it, i love him too, but sometimes it really feels like the fnaf fandom cares sooo much about sadboy michael being the saddest boy of all time that they pretend other characters had better lives just so michael seems sadder by comparison

objectively i think elizabeth and the crying child get the worst of this, but especially elizabeth. theres this persistent idea that elizabeth was williams favorite and beautiful angel and he loved and doted on her so much while poor poor mike got nothing. so often i see the dynamic put forward that william was physically abusive but only towards michael. which is ridiculous for a lot of reasons, but especially because we only see william get physical with any of his kids once, and its when he hits elizabeth in the silver eyes.

obviously, the silver eyes is a different continuity. whatever. its still canon, so the things it tells us about the general world and characters still applies. and it outright shows william as an abusive and neglectful father to His Daughter. and EVEN if you want to completely disregard the books, william obviously didnt “love” elizabeth enough in the games to not want to electrocute and experiment on her when he 100% knew she was possessing circus baby. elizabeth was a means to an end to him the same way michael was. he didnt even love her enough to properly keep an eye on her even though he knew she wanted to see a robot that would kill her. if william cared about elizabeth half as much as people pretend he does she would still be alive, because he wouldve put half a mind towards keeping her safe

+ cc is in a similar boat. william had a million chances to be a decent father and try to step in between cc and michael before things went too far. the bite happened at ccs birthday party, literally all william had to do was show up to his own sons birthday and he could have stepped in but he didnt. like, we all know william was using the fredbear plush to keep an eye on cc, so theres no doubt he knew the kid was being bullied. and not only does he do nothing about it, he also 1) actively feeds into ccs fears about the animatronics 2) still makes him go to the establishment housing the animatronics hes terrified of

and the way william talks about them. “you are broken” “i will put you back together” like william views his kids as objects. broken things he can fix. these are not words said by a loving parent

and its not even just the aftons! henry is no where near as horrible as william is—i Am Not suggesting henry was abusive—but he also wasnt a great dad! building a robot to watch your daughter instead of watching your daughter yourself does not make you a good parent! henry loves charlotte, but the emilys were not some perfect family with no issues.

obviouslyyy michael suffered a ton and was a victim no one is saying he wasnt but i promiseee that does not have to come at the cost of pretending no one else was a victim too. things are just as if not more interesting if you acknowlede other characters guys i promise i promise

[lightningchu-the-mega-raichu]

Comic about Michael and William based off this comic by @/CattoonXD:

TW FOR CHILD ABUSE

I love Mike, I do, I promise I draw nice things happening to him sometimes

REBLOGS > LIKES

[thebekashow]

discovered the invert colour of "purple" is green.. sooo

a personal fuck you from the afton kids, to their dad.

[crumbleclub]

michael: do i really have trauma, though?

jeremy: dude. your dad is literally a serial killer

michael: yeah, but he didn't serial kill me

[asktheremnantsaskblog]

Sorry if this has been asked and I know now is kind of a bad time...

But is William aware of people nicknaming him Peepaw?

@nessteadart

(You pissed him off, Mike)

[lets-ignore-that]

"I just want"

a comic about evans view on things

[triple-pupil]

So this lovely video has convinced me that Elizabeth, Indeed, isn't a pampered brat.

She went through abuse and neglect just as much as her siblings.

The detail of her voice suggesting how she fears talking up to her father breaks me and I love it.

[thefawnfallacy]

So, glad we all agree that Michael had a crush on William to the point where he acted out for his attention. It didn’t matter if it was bad attention — his father was going to hit him anyway, he may as well get something out of it too.

[nightmaretherabbitsideblog1]

#11

(January 19th 1982)

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[mintiesummer]

Michael when his dad makes him horribly uncomfortable

[lexyscross]

Can I talk to you guys about the Aftons? I've been dying to talk to y'all about the Aftons ALL DAY! 😩

Headcanon: William's nicknames for Vanessa were "Little Bunny" and (of course) "Vanny."

[npdfavs]

William Afton / Dave Miller from FNAF: The Silver Eyes has NPD! ( implied )

[fazgoo-connoiseur-1987]

IDK i try to to patholagise Bill's childhood cus im not a psyche guy and I want all of his actions to be, unequivically, his own BUT i just connected the dots in my head of him being neglected as a child and Charlie also being neglected and him stepping in as a parental figure for her and now im super upset. OK.

[send-me-a-puffalope]

Thinking about Vanessa and Cassidy being the Afton siblings (twins?) in the movies. Both loathing their father but can’t help but mirror his behavior.

Vanessa threatening to shoot Mike when she’s terrified, Cassidy putting Abby in danger to lure his father back to the restaurant. To make themselves look bigger, they imitate the man that made them feel small through violence.

[emathyst9]

I'm nice so I'm sharing it here too because I finally remembered one of my headcanons I haven't posted

Yes William's a killer yes he likes to hurt people but. What if his love language was patching up the wounds of someone he cares about

Like he will stop everything and rush over to bandage the wound and make sure he knows exactly what he needs to do to take care of it

And try to internalize his panic for their well being, but William also wants to feel that he controls their fate a bit because he's the one stepping in to help

He's the good guy for doing that when he could have just been ignorant right? He couldn't prevent the injury but he can fix it, that makes him a better person, right?

I totally based this off that one angst Willry writing I've talked about here but um yeah

Like when he's not the one to hurt his kids, he'll try to fix them up

And if anything happens to Henry he'll tend to him right away too

It's cathartic for him to do this and he almost likes taking care of someone's wounds as much as he does inflicting them

Almost, that is (I love giving him duality sorry not sorry)