FNAF | My theory on Crying Child's real name

[@sebblespebbles]

No way you solved it two months before hyper droid

[@limegreenlive7813]

@@sebblespebbles Welp, I'm more glad to see someone elsd support the theory. Hope it makes more light to the community!

[@outerpaceiscool]

Congrats on being one of the first KZbinrs to propose this

[@Takejiro24]

Got linked to this video by Reddit about HyperDroid's video. Great to see this theory has around for a while. Hopefully, your video and the theory get more traction. 👍

[@NotEncrypted]

This theory was awesome and the one I will now be believing about the identity of the crying child. I just watched that viral theory about his name being Cassidy, but parts of it didn't really click for me. This, however, makes perfect sense in my opinion!

[@Kevin_YT1133]

wait i realised something, william appleton is a bri'ish guy right? if mike and elizabeth is also bri'ish, that means C.C has to be bri'ish as well! if im not wrong, Vengeful spirit has the american accent. even tho C.C never spoke a single voiceline, its still a possibility he speaks like his family. BAD ENGLISH BROWJDJAODISFIAOWKFIEW anyways, thats just a theory but what are your thoughts tho? edit: i edited "british" into "bri'ish" cuz i thought it would be funny XD

[@henry80721]

@@Kevin_YT1133good idea never thought about that but that makes perfect sense

[@NotEncrypted]

@@Kevin_YT1133 wait hold up why are you right tho you're so smart ;--;

[@forthecommonwealth1]

@@Kevin_YT1133 Fun theory, but they aren't British. They're American (most likely), PJ Heywood (actor of William and Michael) said he was just talking like he thought they did, there was no actual consensus there.

[@iLikeWater-w6p]

Honestly, it feels like the games itself are trying to erase the crying child. He got an entire game, yet at the most, he just feels like he exists for motivation and trauma of other characters. He isn't mentioned again except for possibly in the survival logbook (although very likely) and a brief easter egg in security breach. I would go as far as to say that fnaf wouldnt change much, if at all, without him.

[@BudgetAthena]

It's one of the most obnoxious and also most common writing tropes - a character given very little development who is victimized as an inciting event for other characters. To be fair to FNaF, though, its method of storytelling doesn't give it as much room, especially since Crying Child isn't the sole point of the narrative, or even the only mystery that needs to be hinted at/paralleled via each new game or other piece of media in the franchise.

[@Handlelesswithme]

Or maybe Mike victim exist and motivation was never implied

[@iLikeWater-w6p]

@@Handlelesswithme honestly, it's pretty easy to disprove Mike victim, but it's fine if you believe it

[@Handlelesswithme]

@@iLikeWater-w6p it is pretty easy to disprove Foxybro being Mike too

[@iLikeWater-w6p]

@@Handlelesswithme in that case, the crying child and Foxy bro could damn well be completely unrelated to the Aftons

[@aranas-uv6pd]

Don’t worry fam I’ll remember you got David Afton 1st

[@bubbleshock14]

There is one thing in the survival log book thats always bothered me, and this theory works perfectly with it! On the page after the wordsearch with Cassidy's name in it, there is a picture of a mirror with the question 'what do you see?' This is further evidence that the crying child needs to reflect to find himself, hence evad becomes Dave.

[@limegreenlive7813]

The mirror really strengthen this method to get Dave. Good find!

[@1IteleportedBread]

Well thought out theory, great job!

[@luluu0101]

really explaining, definitely worth considering and looking into the books for other daves or davids

[@limegreenlive7813]

Here we go. Subscribe. If the sound is low, turn up your volume

[@zenonmario3582]

Don't worry about the sound quality, I have trouble with it as well. Also, this Theory was amazing and had me bouncing for joy, I love it when Theories make me have an "ah-ha!" moment and yours sure did!

[@DeskFanMan87]

Honestly super solid, the best answer for the code I’ve seen so far. Glad ya were on my FYP 👍👍

[@kartes197]

Great edit, I like it a lot!

[@Gamez-Portal]

My name is Evan and I was honestly happy to hear that C.C’s name was Evan and me and C.C are honestly alike but if it’s Dave like from the book that’s okay 🫤

[@MysteriousUserVR]

Evan, Chris, Cassidy, and now Dave are all names of the C.C.

[@strangerel_xo]

@@MysteriousUserVRNorman too 😭🙏

[@Kevin_YT1133]

@@MysteriousUserVR CANON FULL NAME!!!: Evan 'Garret Dave Nave Norman Sammy Andrew Toby Oswald Frank Cassidy Hank Donald James Wally Cody Obama Gary Edward Steve Zack Zach Larry Barry Joe Connor Andy' Afton

[@Kevin_YT1133]

its a joke, pls don't come for me ;-;

[@minraxbeasimp1976]

Genuinely speaking I’m here now because of another video, it genuinely feels like they’re trying to erase the crying child. Like his story, doesn’t matter what he does doesn’t matter. It’s sad because I can’t really disprove this.

[@homeworksdone2378]

But that's just a theeeeeeorrryyyy.... A GAME THEORY!

[@menasmenace]

This theory, I believe the most for a couple reasons. Firstly, the Aftons all have..pretty classic, proper names with William, Michael and Elisabeth. Having CC be Evan never made much sense to me because it felt…like the odd one out. Too modern. David however very much fits in that bunch. Secondly, I’m not going to speak on the theory of whether Gregory is some other Form of CC, but you can’t deny he has a similarly classic name that can be shortened. Third, whether or not the books are canon or not, the name has been used a few times across the different medias and that’s enough of a red flag to me to indicate the name is important. And finally, the issue of the logbook. Arguably the logbooks biggest secret was Golden Freddy’s name, and there was never a cut and dry answer for that when there should be. The explanation in this video makes a lot of sense because it matches all the questions together to get the clear letters, and actually, wasn’t there a picture of a mirror literally on the next page of the book? it’s telling you to reflect to get the name. Great video, can’t wait to see some more theories!

[@limegreenlive7813]

@@menasmenace Indeed there is a mirror in the book, thus we can reflect the name from Evad to Dave. Good find!

[@ХристинаДенева-щ1л]

You deserve more.

[@LuisLicona-n2m]

good for you at least I'm not the only one who knows this!

[@exarquazowexa7247]

You're the second KZbinr to talk about this theory. But the firs to state it believing in it. You perhaps should have been more confident when naming your video and more daring to make it clickbait so it could reach more. But i do think that HyperDroid understood and analyzed more evn tho you arroved to the same conclusion as he went as far as to fully understand how the puzzlemaker intended for the puzzle to be seen and resolved. Good continuation May Allah guide us all and may He increase us in knowledge and success.

[@jackbelk]

я здесь благодаря GiBi's Horror Homestead's видео. я хочу, чтобы ваше видео набрало много просмотров, и люди узнали одного из создателей этой теории. отличное видео, и отличная теория! кажется, это одна из немногих теорий, с которым сразу соглашаешься и веришь им на 99%

[@Trontotario]

It’s Garrett, doesn’t matter if the movies and games are in a seperate continuity, we got the name William and Henry from the books so how could that possibly disprove Garrett. Garrett is the only offical naming we have in media, if Abby is an anagram for baby or a nickname for Elizabeth just like how we have an actual Mike and Michael in the movies then wth is Garrett supposed to reference if it’s not his name?

[@hlindstrom]

Cool. Well done.

[@Sakura0o2]

Kudos, great theory! I think it might be the truth.

[@Invalidcookie-bv4cx]

Would be nice if we had more evidence to support this. It's a valid theory.

[@Wolfie15]

gtlive needs to see this lol

[@olavaakre5657]

yay i am your 150th subscriber

[@iGotBulletproof-Insomnia]

I guess my only question is, if the names Michael, Jeremy, Susie, etc, have been used and reused throughout the game/movie/books, do we have more than one occurrence of Dave/Evan? I'd be more willing to support this theory if the name has more than the one mention. Otherwise, I think it's solid logic.

[@SCP-469]

Reusing counts for non connected characters So movie mike is out cause he’s actually connected to Michael he’s not just a random guy Jeremiah counts Every Susie is connected so it’s not really being reused

[@limegreenlive7813]

@iGotBulletproof-Insomnia, The name can even be found in "Tales from the pizzaplex 6-nexie", where we meet Edwin Murray who has a son named David but it's hard to draw a parallell between them and William and BV, hence why I decided to leave them out from this "theory-video". Dave (in this case David) also appears in one of the drawings in the FNaF movie.These are the drawings that we can spot in the opening scene of the movie. But in this case we don't know much about it and who it is refferring to 😶‍🌫️

[@christianplays5318]

Evan is reused various times throughout the books specifically, it’s used to describe a fellow student of Jessica and Britney in the third story of Fazbear’s Frights #10: Together Forever, a camp director in Fazbear Frights #5: Bunny Call, the father of Jake in the second story of Fazbear’s Frights #6: The Real Jake, a bandmate of Joel D’Agostino’s in the second story of Fazbear Frights #11: Kids at Play, and in the third story of Tales from The Pizzaplex #4 titled Bobbiedots, Part 1. Dave is reused several times as well, obviously it’s William’s undercover name in The Silver Eyes, along with this it appears in the second story of Fazbear Frights #6: The Real Jake twice, to refer to both a father and son named Dave, the third story of Fazbear Frights #7: He Told Me Everything to refer to the father of Chris Watson, Dave appears once Tales From the Pizzaplex #1: Frailty, in Tales From the Pizzaplex #1: Lally’s Game David appears in it which can be considered twice in the same book if you’d prefer to consider Dave and David as one name, if you’d prefer Davis as short for Dave, it also appears a third time in Tales From the Pizzaplex #1: Under Construction, Davis appears again in Tales from The Pizzaplex #3: Somniphobia, and the name of the son of Edwin Murray is David in Tales from the Pizzaplex #6: The Mimic, also the name of a random customer in the movie, and funnily enough the name of the text-to-speech voice for the Staffbots (very likely not to mean anything, but it’s funny.)

[@Bazzybaz]

Nice theory :)

[@Greenvillesgoldenyear]

i call him how zapper calls him but good vid

[@shacharlem4424]

I heard it's possible the crying child's name is Cassidy. Here's the theory: kzbin.info/www/bejne/barOdaWPhaaeodksi=hG1D4ugjGkTaae1E

[@molamola9723]

Cassidy fits much better as the fifth mci victim, the theory you shared just wipes out mci victim 5 and is just a bad theory. Cassidy as the mci victim and Dave as the crying child just fits so much cleaner.

[@shacharlem4424]

You can tell that to dual process theory@@molamola9723. I only shared their theory. Just saying, Cassidy is, believe it or not, a gender neutral name. Also in case you didn't watch the whole thing, according to them, there were only four missing children. "Cassidy" (crying child) was just pushed in so William could frame Henry.

[@christianplays5318]

⁠​⁠@@shacharlem4424​​⁠While yes, Cassidy is indeed a gender neutral name, it is much more common within girls, as can be evidenced by the fact that, according to analytics, 1 out of every 2,729 baby girls are named Cassidy while 1 out of every 43,271 baby boys are named Cassidy. It’s much more common among girls even if it is a gender neutral name. According to MyNameStats.com, “The SSA data also shows that Cassidy is used as a girl’s name 94% of the time.” It was also the 99th most popular name for American girls in. According to Name Playground, “Cassidy is mostly a girls’ name, but it is used for boys 2.85% of the time. Population in top 1000: 41,615 (2.85% male, 97.15% female)” under source on the site, it states that this information comes from: “the USA Social Security Administration Top 1000 Baby Name Data.” Its first time in the top 1000 for girls was 1981, while its first time in the top 1000 for boys was 1983, its last year in the top 1000 for boys was 1992, while with girls it was 2006 or at least according to the website that is the earliest year they have data for. The highest percentage of boys ever according to the website with the name was 0.010% in 1984 while the highest percentage of girls with the name ever was 0.240% in 1999. The highest rank it reached for boys was the top 666 in 1984 while it reached the top 99 for girls in 1999. While none of this data goes before the 1980’s, it can be easily assumed Cassidy is female-dominant although it is gender neutral. My final source that I found while researching is Everything Birthday, according to the site, “Cassidy is predominantly a girls name, with 94.43% of Cassidys being girls and 5.57% being boys. In the United States there have been a total of 3,460 males named Cassidy, and 58,609 females given the name.” Along with this, it has never been expressly stated whether or not Cassidy in the games is male or female, so by your gender neutral evidence there is no true reason to make the Crying Child Cassidy if there is already a separate character possibility. One of the evidence points from the channel is that you find “Cassidy” from edited text and you put it in the word search which contains edited text. This is blatantly false, the name in the word search was not previously spelled out, you have to find coordinates inside of the logbook in order to locate the name. If the name was formed by edited text and didn’t require you to look for coordinates, I would completely agree. However, that is not the case. They then state that what The Crying Child is saying is “It’s me Cassidy. Who are you? What’s your name?” As an answer to “What do you see?” In the mirror. I don’t believe that people state their name when asked what they see in the mirror, that also means that the faded text refused to answer the edited text’s question of “What is your name?” Which would not make sense. It would make sense if the statement was “It’s me, who are you? What’s your name?” By which the faded text soul responded by placing coordinates to be located by the reader (or Mike, as it appears) as an answer to the question. Another evidence point (that is random and very questionable) is that William claimed his son was apart of the incident and so there weren’t truly 5 missing kids but only 4. This would imply that no one ever knew that his son was comatose from a FredBear head bite and canonically flatlined. You cannot flatline if you were taken out of the hospital, put into a springlock suit, and ripped into shreds. Which, by the way, we have never seen a springlock suit completely destroy and grind a body, not even in the books, so how would the Crying Child’s body fit inside of the box as they claim? Another claim is that somehow, because Lefty, the animatronic, is the puppet trapped inside of a bear animatronic and is named after the only left eye it has that just so happens to be yellow, it is the second soul inside of Golden Freddy and is the reason why Golden Freddy in the FNAF 3 bad ending has both eyes lit. The claim is that it is the left eye. There is no evidence in support of or against this because it is just completely ridiculous. We see The Puppet very visibly in the same game that Lefty is in be implied to be possessed by Charlie. How would Charlie possess both Golden Freddy and The Puppet? That makes no sense. The Crying Child is NOT named Evan, and they’re right about that. However, they are wrong in that Cassidy is the name of the character. My final evidence point is actually the several scrapped movie scripts that Scott created. One was titled the “Cassidy” script, it was stated that it spans between several different times and point of views in the canon universe and was meant to explain the whole story. Scott further explains he scrapped the script due to it seeming like a glorified lore book than a movie, stating it would have satisfied major fans but wasn’t good for the less story invested fans and wouldn’t have been a good movie. The script is titled the “Cassidy” script, and it spans different times if it takes on different points of views and varies in times in the story line, Cassidy can’t have been the Crying Child, it wouldn’t make sense to name the script after them if they aren’t at least a primary character. The script that got made into a movie was titled as the “Mike Script” and Mike Schmidt was the main character. If Cassidy was the first character to die in the script, the script would not be named after them. It would be incredibly unusual. I think the people behind the theory seem amazing and very intelligent, but I am almost guaranteeing you with 99.99% certainty that the theory is incorrect. The other 00.01% is the fact that FNAF is never 100% about anything. People obsess with making the Crying Child a more lore valuable character due to him only appearing once in any game and so that leads to “Michael is a robot of The Crying Child,” “William used remnant to revive the Crying Child and his name was Michael and his role was to be Michael,” “Gregory is the robot reincarnation of The Crying Child,” “Gregory is William’s remnant reincarnation of The Crying Child,” and “Cassidy is the Crying Child.” While I really do wish Dual Process Theory the best of luck with the rest of their videos and believe they are great theorists, I can’t say that their theory is right out of pity just because it’s their first ever video.

[@elioridacow]

Nope! That is not possible at all

[@shacharlem4424]

Y'know something @@elioridacow? I think that at this point, it may be best to let FNAF theories rest and just wait for its (hopefully) eventual ending.

[@VersesEditz]

one of my mods is named david

[@Dightmare]

To be honest yes I do Believe that David is probably his name no doubt but not in the way you believe it in my mind I believe that William did not really like David Because he wanted another girl instead of another Boy and Mrs Afton died giving birth to David but that's besides the point But I do believe that David has to be the name of the Crying child thank you for putting this video out there God bless

[@EvanBradley-kx3pg]

My Name Is Evan...

[@Rafael_alves-pereira]

I think his name is Chris

[@gnat4543]

Garret

[@__ocean_arts__]

Movies and games are different. There is a lot different between the games and movies.

[@irfan-6506]

bro, remove that intro lmao

[@okididntaskbozo218]

great theory but I saw Dual Process Theory's video and I personally think Cassidy is the real name of crying child

[@TheBitchCameBackAgain]

It doesn't add up, because Cassidy is the vengeful spirit of missing children. But believe what you want.

[@okididntaskbozo218]

@MetallicRainOutside the other part of the theory is that Michael is the vengeful spirit and that crying child was the fifth child in missing children's incident, I recommend watching it because they can explain it much better than I can

[@elioridacow]

@@okididntaskbozo218 That doesn't work because Crying Child died in the bite of 83 NOT by William and William killing his own son isn't possible Why? Because if William did that then everyone would know it was him which is probably why he doesn't just kill Michael until after FNAF 3

[@whocaresaboutthename6850]

DualProcessTheory is pure garbage

[@okididntaskbozo218]

@@whocaresaboutthename6850 you make a theory that makes sense since you know it so much, Mr. John Five nights

[@MangoeYT50317]

I'm pretty sure his name is Evan...

[@greeblingg]

real

[@drlolzsilllyz]

@@greeblingg not conformed plus its a bad theory the end was just knit picking

[@drlolzsilllyz]

not conformed plus its a bad theory the end was just knit picking

[@christianplays5318]

@@drlolzsilllyzBro, do you have to repeat the same comment twice? No offense but like…you don’t have to reply to someone with the same comment you already commented, in the very least reword it. It makes you come off petty if you just repeat the same thing. Again, no intent to offend, just a recommendation.

[@Songocraft]

Him: not comf-​@@christianplays5318

[@Ghostgirl-p8x]

Cry child name is Evan or chispor

[@elioridacow]

It's 100% not Chris it never was Chris!

[@L31As_AC0UST1CP4WZ]

I also thought it was Christopher 💀

[@elioridacow]

@@L31As_AC0UST1CP4WZ How in the world did anyone actually think it was Chris, There has never been a character with the name Chris So someone tell me how did you get the idea that Chris was his name?

[@L31As_AC0UST1CP4WZ]

@@elioridacow I was a gacha kid-

[@fnaffan32457]

a couple days ago game theory actually said cassidy was his name, this is aged like milk

[@sebblespebbles]

???