The Disorienting Lore of Five Nights at Freddy’s

[@Apollo_Speaks]

The editing, performance, scripting, absolute quality. Amazing work Kab!

[@Kabhaal]

Tysm bud, I ADORE yer vids, both how well they are written and the perform them. So that genuinely means alot!

[@pokemonracer5540]

When the books are incorporated, it becomes even darker because of the Remnant that powers the animatronics is mainly being based off of pure agony.

[@Kabhaal]

If/when we touch on Fnaf again, maybe we get @GhostySaige to read the books and delve deeper. Hrmmm

[@grimle]

@@Kabhaal best of luck to em

[@nadatosea_herefor_reason2785]

​@@Kabhaal Reading the crazy mpreg shit in the books will be wild for them.

[@scrapheap1000]

"Don't come at me, I am working with what I got" is the best anyone explaining the FNAF lore can do lol

[@nullsilver2327]

HeavenlyFather and russianbadger are the guys who would bite back at the animotronics while making fun of them

[@craiggivens4083]

Timelines of terror: Now, this is a series I can get invested into. Keep up the good work. Can't wait to see what you're going to cover next.

[@silentpaw]

Honestly, I think this may be one of my favorite FNaF lore videos, because of your reading and the humor you inject.

[@Kabhaal]

I'm deeply thankful for that, we really wanted to entertain everyone while making an easily digestible introduction to Fnaf lore.

[@Michaeljefferson9000]

Okay. The Springlock suits also had an animatronic mode. These parts could be mostly removed and pulled back to function as mascot suits, but that also made them incredibly dangerous. Compared to what we see later in the series, they were actually quite rudimentary. Mike, as a dumb teen, teases his brother for his fear of the animatronics (a fear likely inspired by seeing someone put on a suit, and misinterpreting it as them being eaten or something) and finally puts his head into the moving mouth of Fred Bear in animatronic mode. Bite of 83. William (known as the Purple Guy because his Atari style sprite is colored purple) is distraught, because Henry's product (as the major engineer of the two) caused his son's death. He misplaced the blame. Sometime later, the original location is shut down and the second location opens. Henry constructs the Puppet/Marionette (likely without William's influence, as the visuals of the Puppet lack much of Will's design philosophy) to basically be a themed security guard that would keep the kids safe. William, potentially after a night of drinking, spots Henry's daughter Charlotte locked outside and kills her in an act of revenge. This is _probably_ the start of his spiral. The details of her death are speculated, but unknown, and life goes on. William uses his own engineering prowess to design new animatronics to be rented out for parties, because after his killing spree started he noticed that the animatronics he hid the bodies in started taking on life of their own (as in, the spirits within granted life to the personalities assigned to the robots, instead of keeping their own). He hoped to capture and kill children to study this phenomenon, in the efforts to fulfill his promise of putting his son "back together." This, for a time, is his _primary_ motivation, but it should be remembered that he's still a serial killer that grew to enjoy the feeling of torment. At one event, the animatronic Circus Baby was performing for a room full of children. William, knowing how dangerous his machines were and wary of losing another child, repeatedly warned his daughter Elizabeth away from Baby. Elizabeth, however, loved baby so much that she stayed in the same room whenever the other children came and went, and when she was the only one left in the room, she approached Baby. Baby's programming kicked in, because they were alone, and an arm meant for containment shot out of her torso and killed Elizabeth, trapping her body inside. The only one that knew what happened was William, and in his grief, he shut down most operations of the company, decommissioning Circus Baby after her first and only time on-stage. But, of course, Elizabeth's spirit gave new life to Baby, and we see that this new consciousness still sees William as her father, even with Baby's personality. Some time later, it's unknown how long, William realizes that Baby still has Elizabeth's spirit inside, and directs his eldest son Mike (now an adult, and harboring guilt for what he did to his brother) to go and free Elizabeth from Baby's shell while William himself would go to dismantle the original animatronics that he stuffed his first round of victims into. Mike, who looks like his father, takes the role of a nighttime security guard and maintenance man, and tries to get into position to do something with Baby, all the while she and the other animatronics in the bunker (who may or may not have been possessed, but we're likely just comprised of living metal (an alloy made by melting down possessed metal, it's a can of worms by itself)) were trying to lure his still living body into the scooping room. This is just to get his preserved body in place so they could reject their casings, come together, and take over Mike's skin. They leave the facility, because under the cameras, they now look like Mike, and try to lead an inconspicuous life in his place. This only lasts until his body begins to rot, however, and his skin literally turns purple. After his body is useless to them, they evacuate and allow it to crumple to the ground. They then watch from the sewers as, to their surprise, Mike's spirit returns to his now empty body and reanimates it by sheer force of will. Mike resolves to go find his father and right the wrongs, burning down every Freddy's location he can in the hopes that fire will release the spirits trapped in the various suits. He continues his existence as a purple cyborg zombie. In the meantime, William is back in the second location dismantling the animatronics, hoping to take their possessed metal back and study it. Perhaps this study could produce a way to bring his children back. However, after all the animatronics are dismantled, the spirits within reawaken and manifest as ghosts that scare William into the back room where his old Springlock Bonnie suit is. The same suit he used to lure children and kill them. He puts on the suit in an effort to find comfort and confidence, but the leaky ceiling sets of the locks which spear through William, trapping him in the suit and killing him in a form of poetic justice. The spirits of the children, or most of them, move on, finding peace in his death. Or, so you might think. Because much like his son, William's spirit possessed his dead body and the incorporated animatronic parts, surviving in the boarded up back room for decades, rotting and becoming the monster known as Springtrap. The rest of the details were _more or less_ accurate to what we know for certain. Also I've been typing for a long time and don't feel like doing this anymore.

[@Sir_Saki]

This has been worth the wait and then some just from Kab's reactions to the DEEP FNAF lore lmao. Poor Ghostie's suffering has served its purpose

[@GingerAlePale]

Praise be the violet sign! This is a fantastic breakdown of the series.

[@thegreeninator1985]

Extra notes -the older brother was purple guys son & became a half roboto half corps -rumors indicate that the story starts in an actual circus way back -ai mr roboto, a program & robot that mimics the actions & personality of purple guy is the security breach guy So yeah.

[@talon842]

Fazbear Entertainment is like Ingen from the Jurassic Park movies. They keep failing, yet they still continue despite their actions results in many many deaths after each atempt.

[@Kabhaal]

RIGHT?!

[@unfortunatewitnessX]

Whoa! I didn't even pay attention to that specific part of the Jurassic Park lore! Ingen is the company who brought the dinosaurs 🦕 to life, right?

[@talon842]

@@unfortunatewitnessX Correct

[@eatenjaguarjaguareaten3367]

Fazbear entertainment building a new restaurant after there is yet another child murder at their previous one:

[@noddarkwolf]

i believe Afton did try to keep his Daughter from the animatronics but it was do to an oversight that she was left in the room on her own. also to explain the OG suits there part animatronic which is what malfunctioned causing it to attempt to return to an idol state with afton still inside (basicly power word Scrunch)

[@ChivalrousErik]

All hail our loremaster and cult leader. Bless us with your prevailing masterpiece. Your exploratory delving has left us all richer.

[@EclipseFangVT]

Mean mat right

[@PartyDemoness]

GHOSTY DID SO GOOD ON THIS SCRIPT.

[@SonofHax]

This is great, I would love to see more videos like this

[@ryzacobalion3622]

Kabhaal coming back after a while of radio silence and he comes with an amazing breakdown and xD hilarious reaction to the fnaf series. Looking forward to seeing more videos from you!

[@Kamapixel]

I absolutely adore the setup of this new series. I was kinda curious on how a FNAF lore video would go, being such a well mined idea at this point, but having Kab come at this from an outsiders perspective and have to understand it through the research/writing of Ghosty makes for some great funny moments. Can't wait for more to see where else this series goes.

[@Kabhaal]

We REALLY tried to nail a fun and different format, and we're so glad that carried through to you and so many others! Your in luck cause this is just the start of more horror dives!

[@PoBrien939]

Absolutely fantastic job Kab! Loved every single minute of it! Can't wait until we see more of these lore dissection videos!

[@TenOhki]

Kab, You and the team did a wonderful job. Great presentation, great editing and a great start to something big. I look forward to to whatever deep, dark hole your insidious interests and horrifying hobbies lead us down next.

[@DTux5249]

Funny purple man going over less-than-funny purple guy? Hey, I'm for it. Also, the old/new money showing the Canadian $2 bill killed me XD. Minor Bits for Context: 16:15 - The games actually made a point of Afton telling his daughter not to go near them. Problem: Children are stupid. His daughter snuck to see Baby, and got killed. 17:58 - It's generally assumed that Mike went out on his own to find his dad, discovering dad's secret lab facility in the process. Once he finds his "sister", he's backstabbed by her. Ennard scoops his innards out, can escape the facility using his meat suit as a disguise. Since the scooper is also a remnant injector (how Aftons been making the machines) Michael became immortal. Once Ennard left Mikes body, he was basically an immortal corpse filled with nothing but enmity for his father. Michael then goes on to try and exact revenge on Daddy for killing both of his siblings and then some. 20:28 - Yes and no. There are 2 "purple guys" in the series. Normally, it refers to Afton, as the games depicted him as an 8-bit shadowy figure (purple). But the games often also showed Mike, a literal purple rotting corpse, in 8-bit to act as a red herring. TLDR: Afton is Purple Guy, Mike is just a purple dude. 21:28 - This event on the timeline is a bit weird. Some people (The Game Theorists in particular) date it as taking place BEFORE Mike found that facility; framing it as Afton dismantling the animatronics to retrieve more remnant from their Exo-skeletons. Mike would then look for his father, discovering the hidden facility, and learning about what actually happened. Loved the video! Nice intro to the series and love the format.

[@joshuabrock4459]

Funny Purple Noodle Man going into lore dive? Lets GO!

[@Commander204]

Absolutely love the side commentary through all of this. xD

[@Kabhaal]

It's definitely my strong suit. When we had the idea to pair it with Ghosty's writing skills in a cold read format, it was like all the pieces just fell into place for what type of videos to make!

[@Gorbz]

You would think that the same two guys opening animatronic food joints every few years, which then have very suspicious disappearances are outbreaks of fire, would be enough to raise an eyebrow. But seemingly from this research, it is all happenjng in the same town. Are the inhabitants of this town constantly high as kites or something?

[@Jonesman64]

This was fun. Great vid!

[@Kherbellos]

I know no more about FnaF than before, but I am highly entertained. This is a great video! I am still crying from laughter.

[@RaiderJake26]

Kahbaal's laugh sounds so much like mark hamills early joker laugh. It's perfectly musical.

[@RestmorDread]

Great Video Kab, also love the name of the series "Timelines of Terror" an outstanding way to start a series.

[@vincentfrick6880]

This video was well done. The reading was done in a way that I believe someone not already in the spring rabbit hole can with effort follow. The humor was also welcome and I appreciate you giving GhostySage credits all throughout the script.

[@KaiboStudios]

6:40 And that right there, is the problem with this GOD. DAMN. SERIES.

[@nonamegiven202]

I been waiting for this since you first talked about on stream, and the wait was worth it.

[@MarkATorres1989]

Damn I'm hooked to this series now, the ending for this video. Chef's Kiss. Though yeah FNAF is just a crazy rabbit hole that I would never go in alone, thank you Kabhaal and Ghosty and everyone that have entered into the midsts of this adventure.

[@sp1ketheraptor582]

I actually found out about you from a quite video I watched yesterday it was the one where y'all rated creepypastas,I like your energy u seem entertaining,I'm subbing

[@purplelion1000]

I love lore videos like these, the effects and animations are amazing and your story telling is as excellent as ever if not better! What I found unique about this lore video is that you gave an outsider's view and critique of the lore, and that brought in a lot of humor to the otherwise very dark setting of the story. Many thanks to Ghosty too! Can't wait to watch the next one! 💜

[@factorem9327]

Kabhaal graces us with his presence once more.

[@VTuberTalk]

Stellar job, everyone! As someone who has never played a FNAF game and never looked into the lore, this was a very entertaining. Also, I didn't expect to finish the video with more questions about FNAF lore than when I started the video, but here we are.

[@LTrain4444]

Congrats on the first video!

[@Venitas1000]

this breakdown is appropriately convoluted.

[@theRx]

Good work Kab AND good work Ghostie!

[@loganinnis3117]

you forgot the DLC for security breach and help wanted 2 and the new game into the pit

[@tdog4344]

Great to see this Kab. Love your work

[@saltykatsudon]

Finally, Kabhaal content I can see while eating dinner.

[@65oh7]

I like the unown spelling out FIRE

[@rainbownotation]

This format is gold,gg Kab and crew! Can't wait for more of these to come out

[@blastshooter8791]

Amazing script and Video with great humor, we join alongside you on this ride to learn about one of the most confusing yet dark as f*ck series that has so many plot holes you could fit stars in-between them and I was learning the lore right alongside you there. I also never really clicked with the series before and even after learning the lore now with you.

[@GrimgardBullwork]

Mighty good watch, lookin' forward to more of this from ya Kabhaal!

[@Koji_Inc]

There's a clip out there of Redclaw realizing that FNAF books exist, and he just yells "Wait, there's LITERATURE?!". I gotta try and find it for a rewatch now that I have all this lore in my head. Fantastic video, Kab. You were cooking for months and you did NOT disappoint. Can't wait to see what's next! 👍

[@chiseledmedal2634]

FINALLY A KABHAAL YT VID

[@Kabhaal]

IT TOOK FOREVER. We just KEPT runnin into issue trying to get this done but the team pulled through in the end!

[@chiseledmedal2634]

@@Kabhaal mad respect to you and your team though

[@papounator8843]

I never agreed with the idea of William killing Charlie before his own kids die, because it just doesn't make any sense.

[@Lexadin]

Oh this is a pretty cool idea. Great to see Kab in full action again.

[@Slait486]

Kab and Ghosty did an amazing job, I liked the editing and the commentary a lot. 💜 FNAF's lore will always baffle me with some of the choices. This is probably the first lore vid I've watched since Markiplier played Custom Night, and honestly? Glad I waited. This was a fantastic run down.

[@Aequitas_RJ]

Good to see you, Khab. I was starting to get worried after such a long absence. Anyway, I'll get the coffee...

[@ZKtheMAN]

KABH IS BACK LET'S GOOOOOOOO

[@ShouOokami]

It's my favorite spooky guys! This looks great! I'm psyched for more!

[@undeadarmy08]

knew basically nothing about FNAF lore now I'm interested

[@doka-sp]

I love that you guys picked the DOOFIEST image you could for William every time you talk about him, thank you for that

[@Cappie-hd9lt]

Wonderful, great, 10/10, will watch again. In all seriousness this was a really good video. Very entertaining & informative, just enough there to make you want to jump down the rabbit hole yourself

[@Kabhaal]

Tysm, That's really what we were aiming for and I'm so glad it translated over.

[@YokoChanAdventures]

MORE!! This was fun!!

[@dontragedia4999]

Should do the Faith Trilogy next

[@Kabhaal]

Oh don't worry, we have a huge master list of horror topics to turn into new episodes of Timelines of Terror.

[@dontragedia4999]

@@Kabhaal good to know

[@guiltyspark7308]

Kab be like, “Welcome to another episode of Dude, I’m Not Scared!” 😂

[@brauni2558]

Finally! The purple Noodle Man is back! 👏👏👏

[@DemonDragon000]

Ghosty is sweet innocent baby...calling cassette tapes VCR tapes...

[@haro_yemon]

Choosing fnaf for a forst video was a bold choice, if you want to piece it together more there are going to be books involved. I wish you luck kab but mainly for ghostie if they are going to be doing the research.

[@robertthepunchwizard5964]

It has been eighty seven years since I have seen my favorite caffeinated hooded horror host

[@jacklover015]

Damn this was a doozy for y'all! But this video was worth it! I loved it!

[@cookedcandy3]

I think I have an origin of how the animatronics came to be, at least for FNAF 1 appearance-wise: The amusement park Delos files for bankruptcy after the horrors of 1973, resulting in many android "blanks" thrown into dumping grounds somewhere in the middle of Utah. Come the date of December 8th, 1989, a puppet-based variety theater show in New Zealand, Meet the Feebles, ends in utter death by the hands of an iconic cast member gone berserk, the corpses of the fallen taken away in the aftermath to parts unknown. Fast forward to the time when Will Afton and Henry Emily decide to enact their goal of establishing a pizzeria, with animatronics included. From a source unknown, they come across a shipping container buried 15 feet deep, filled with what look like endoskeletons, dated from the early 70s. After some trial and error with glitches and such, the endoskeletons are ready for their outer coverings. The problem? Neither man was skilled in making textiles. So, traveled they went to an undisclosed black market off the coast of Australia, stumbling across several bullet ridden pelts that, despite their condition, were seemingly repaired with some great effort. The two men, not hesitating any longer, decide to purchase the pelts, and finally began to modify them to be worn by the now-ready endoskeletons. Everything else afterwards is history.* *I really have no clue if FNAF, Westworld and Meet the Feebles are in the same universe to make this theory work, But Kabhaal, this timeline essay is a chef's kiss!!!

[@VME-Brad]

Really? you had to drag Meet the Feebles into this? The fact that I even know what that is still haunts me...

[@Commanderkoblad]

Amazing theory but let me give u some more things about mike,its confirmed that he is the fnaf 1 and 2 guard along with 3 and 4💀 so yeah u get what i mean he is the protagonist so... also i think that maybe circus baby's weird things started right after the mci 1983-1985 due to the fact that i think william has to still be in fazbear entertainment to licence this characters (don't get me wrong im just telling my ideas

[@Lerrae1908]

I love how many accents he cycles through lmao, going on a trip around the world with this speaker

[@Iwuznothere]

I don't blame ghosty not remembering everything in sequence when the series was made intentionally,y incomprehensible on purpose to fuel the industrial lore complex. People can't even agree on when and how Retcons occurred, much less how and why some books or films could be "canon" and others now aren't. And lets not forget the 10 years of outdated speculation still percolating and creating ad revue.

[@erasedoggO316]

A new king sits on the Frozen Throne

[@twizted_goblin]

the years are a bit off and the crying child I have never heard any name for that this is the first time I ever heard the name let alone a last name there were some theories but I was for theories it is interesting to see two people that have never even try five nights At Freddy's To do on lore video because I'm been there since 5 nights at Freddy's 3, It was just coming out when I got interested in it and now I have all the books I have seen a lot of videos about the lore While some moments don't feel right like I always hear did it I also know there is lots of lore that are more theories or are in the books and those are not fully canonon to the games. The only thing that I think is too bad is that this video has been seven months ago we don't get more videos like this about the lore about games I would love to see that I like what you have done here every part of this video even if I don't agree with some stuff

[@UltimaGuardianStatyx]

I mean if you wanna talk about companies staying in business, look at some of the stuff Nestle has gotten up to.

[@razeneko8596]

Thanks!

[@formless_chaos]

😂 loved the reactions to the lore. Pretty much everyones thinkin the same. I do agree you might touch on it again because of the dlc for the megaplex game. I am curious if ghosty will do the books too. Great video! Cannot wait for the other videos you got planned ❤

[@restlesssheep2453]

I am new to your content. Subscribed.

[@IAmTanker]

Let's go! Time to bring back childhood brainrot.

[@caucho6.6.86]

This weird thing still alive fuck yeaaaaaa

[@ancientnick]

its the big one boiz

[@logans2976]

Good to see you again. I hope you're doing well

[@zekenkurolyon]

Can we get a clip of khab going “magic is wierd”

[@emperor_derd]

I forgot this channel existed

[@diegoizaguirre3452]

Kab, I think you should talk to two esteemed gentalmen named phisnom and pastra

[@nhooj8882]

Yeah I mean, it's not the most coherent or probable series of events, this script, but the "most correct" version of events really isn't any less nonsensical most of the time. The biggest difference is I think that the intentionally murderous robots and murder didn't happen until after Evan died, killed accidentally by HENRY'S robot malfunctioning. This is why Afton kills Charlie, for revenge. Everything escalates from there when he discovers... idk, like the "dark magic stuff" with the puppet being possessed by Charlie's spirit.

[@Cogfather]

Commenting to feed the insatiable hunger of the algorithm ur ur ur ur ur ur or or ur ur ur

[@dragonarchive7443]

Commenting for the algorithm

[@eirl]

damn, FNAF got another one. welp. welcome to the club newbie. good analysis of ghosty sage theory Kabhaal.

[@Magnusmm88-wp4it]

The person who wrote your scripts did not do any research at all Instead, they skim through it.

[@gregpeck8]

Hello. I'm enjoying you content! I am in the middle of setting a vtuber movie channel. I've been having trouble with my arm tracking on my 3d avatar. What program are you using for tracking, if you don't mind me asking?

[@reddiz2182]

That was fun.

[@kreoto]

Yoo! It's finally out!

[@conradshtock3039]

hey, glad to see ya make another video. was worried you'd thrown in the towel and I hadn't heard.

[@Kabhaal]

Heck no! We just been in the content mines lookin for the right vein to tap into, and with Timelines of Terror we're got years worth of more video ideas.

[@conradshtock3039]

@@Kabhaal Lookin' forward to it, my Horrific Host of Haunted...dangit, got nothin' for 'videos'.

[@LairdeLampblack]

i like fnunny bear gaem

[@falsehope72]

Congrats on the first Terrible Timeline! Praise be the Violet Sign! All Hail the Goop Tuber!

[@cyberathegalvonicmechamorp7764]

Kab, I'm afraid ghost has it backwards. Afton kills the daughter because Henry's design killed his son

[@kevingluys3063]

You making more of these?

[@enigmaodell6806]

FNaF doesn’t have a story it has a collection of events which some intrepid people on the internet turn into a story.

[@tommytoon_stories]

Oooh yeah!

[@tempestashusky]

LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@santerisaatana2583]

Holy fuck he uploaded?

[@kstarcstarplays]

Lord help yal if ya decide to research the books. Good thing not ALL of them are canon... or canon adjacent. Though seeing yals video made me realize... how did places like banks or just people in general not look at all these Freddies places and go, "hey ain't that the company that had numerous X amount of kids missing? Let's bring lil bobby there for his birthday." guess Freddies got some good PR people lol.

[@IgnisAstrorum]

lets goooooo