The Most Important FNAF Characters

This is a video on the FNAF characters that have the most influence on the story, lore, and overall games and series. There are way more characters in the series that aren't in this video but I picked out the ones that are most important to Five Nights at Freddy's.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
0:55 - William Afton
5:59 - Michael Afton
6:47 - "The Crying Child"
8:18 - Elizabeth Afton
9:54 - Henry Emily
10:38 - Charlotte Emily
12:04 - Cassidy
13:08 - Vanny
14:59 - Outro
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[@serpentlord1312]

16:15 I like to think William wore the suit so that he could scare the ghost children off and remind them of the night they where murdered since he did used that suit to kill them and considering he was in a life or death situation he likely wasn’t thinking straight and just completely forgot about the spring locks inside the suit.

[@Th3Badd3st]

yeah, scaring them would be the most reasonable explanation. The idea of scaring ghosts just sound funny to me lol

[@thebrickbulbasaur7628]

I’m pretty sure what happened is that they still trusted spring Bonnie, as they had forgotten what had happened, like in the books

[@lavenderlavender3952]

Plus I think that Afton didn't really give a fuck about the danger of the suit? In the Phone Guy tapes from fnaf 3, he puts out the memo that these suits are not to be worn for any reason. In the next night's tape, Phone Guy has to reiterate that these suits are dangerous and are not to be worn, as it has apparantly been moved and presumably worn, most likely by William out to do some kid-killing or whatever else he does. That combined with the fact that the apparantly vengeful spirits of the children you murdered popping up around you probably takes up most of your attention

[@TroublingGem40]

@@Th3Badd3st but you gotta remember that he was terrified of the ghosts, and scaring them off was his first idea. A stupid one, but the first one.

[@kingofgames2903]

@@Th3Badd3st the ghost children did stop chasing him when he put on the suit

[@izzyq9200]

The idea I have with Wiliam running into the suit is simply that, he used the spring bonnie suit to lure and kill these kids, the visual of the suit could maybe scare or trigger a traumatic response from the kids. Thats what I get out of it anyway

[@RedhoodBeyond]

That does sound about right

[@ayshinobi6990]

Or probably just not thinking rationally due to fear.

[@izzyq9200]

@@ayshinobi6990 idk I could see it but that's kinda undermining the like f***ed up mastermind this guy has been for the entire plot.

[@ayshinobi6990]

@@izzyq9200 I see your point,but come on,what would you do if you saw 5 ghost children trying to haunt you? Would you be calm and collected or freak out with pure adrenaline in your veins? That kinda shit isn't normal,in William's case atleast.

[@izzyq9200]

@@ayshinobi6990 I mean William was messing with remnant and all that junk. Sure he'd be startled but it seems unrealistic and uncharacteristic for him to be so irrational out of the blue. Though both of our perspectives are nothing but theory so only scott has the real answers lol

[@wbl_unlimited]

The more I learn about the lore, the more I feel like I feel like the story should have ended at Pizzeria Simulator, with UCN as an epilogue.

[@tobiaswerner4418]

They need to make more money from the franchise

[@benduzled]

@@tobiaswerner4418 better to end it when the storys calls for it rather then money

[@tobiaswerner4418]

@@benduzled I think you misunderstood. I think they shouldve ended the story with ffps

[@benduzled]

nothing past ucn should happen cannonicly

[@BeeBeeloved]

Ye i kind of aggre with you Security breach has a lot of unanswered questions One of them that bothers me a lot is Who created SB animatronics? And did henry, charlie, elizabeth and mike survive the fire? ( I'm sorry, if they have answers already, but i live under a rock )

[@darkflame2415]

Fun fact: the song in Ultimate Custom Night's menu is called "Eisoptrophobia", the fear of looking at yourself in the mirror. That's why both Springtrap and Scraptrap are in UCN.

[@scarlett4417]

istg the attention to detail in these games is just insane

[@vypGMD]

@@scarlett4417 both insane and so cluttered lol

[@rangopistacho6928]

facinating what they have become has a whole new meaning now

[@g._lxx]

dang that’s a cool detail

[@wesleydvt]

i don’t think it has anything to do with springtrap and scraptrap being in the game. i think it’s because william is being forced to face all the pain and suffering and fear he’s caused, and having it all mirrored back onto him. so it’s like a metaphor

[@silversliver9939]

micheal is assumed to be the protag of SL because henry in his speech says to the protag "i had a way out planned for you but im assuming thats not what you want" which makes no sense if the protag is just a guy who wanted to own a pizzeria

[@lavenderlavender3952]

Nah, in this economy? He'd be better off burning to death than trying to bounce back after that.

[@jezze419]

Also scraptraps voice lines after killing you imply he knows the player

[@lavenderlavender3952]

There's also the fact that at the end of Sister Location 10/20 mode he tells "father", "I'm going to come find you" which is essentially the plot of the next game if you take it that way.

[@scythemare9471]

@@lavenderlavender3952 no, that would be Fnafs 1-3 (2 being the custom night)

[@eye502]

@@scythemare9471 uh SL?

[@shrekky-sama9761]

I have a theory. Seeing as remnant is what gives life to the animatronics, I think the reason Elizabeth didn't fully possess baby is because she didn't have enough emotion to make the remnant to possess her. She was Will's daughter. She obviously isn't gonna like him after the stunts he pulled and realizing that he's a killer, but he is her dad at the end of the day. It's hard to get over that fact. She doesn't hate him enough to possess the animatronic and try to hunt him down. She has no seething rage like the others, and doesn't wanna kill her father.

[@coreycorley3536]

i agree. She just died because of William's creation and even in ffps you can hear her say she'll make her dad proud which doesn't really sound like anything baby would say. or maybe baby and Elizabeth are one in the same at this point.

[@ZentoBrinebg]

on top of that William explicitly warned her not to temper with Baby, so she'd assume he cared for her at least enough to not want her dead

[@snqoqo]

+she died very young and still probably has enough hope in her to love her father

[@justinechaine5679]

"but he's her dad at the end of the day" not sure I would say something like that. I'm not the kind who would accept my father doing something so horrible. Like someone else said though, she's very young and was probably still attached to William.

[@JG_Wentworth]

@@coreycorley3536 After likely over 30 years of being sentient but dead and stuck within an animatronic, as well as knowing what her father did, makes sense her fragile, young mind would crack after all that time

[@Sydney_Angelyt]

William Afton is the definition of: “You can’t kill me! I’m already dead inside!”

[@enzo-polis]

literally

[@aqua6014]

literally

[@aaronthereal]

literally

[@aqua6014]

literally

[@Skibidy_rizzler_]

Literaly

[@joveliet9188]

Michael is the protagonist of fnaf 1, 2, and 3 because in the sl custum night cuisine he says "they thought I was you, they didn't recognize me at first." Which makes sense that the animatronics might think Mike is they're killer and attack him. Also because every nightguard gets fired for "odor" which would happen to a walking rotting corpse. And Mike goes to every location to find his father until the third game where he tries to undo what he did by burning him.

[@lefthand4605]

i would say 1, 3, SL, and 6. Jeremy Fitzgerald is the nightguard for the fnaf 2 location. Michael takes on the role as Mike because Fazbear Entertainment wouldn't hire someone related to William.

[@VictoryReviews]

Jeremy Fitzgerald is the protagonist of FNAF 2 and he gets he brain chomped on

[@skylerwarren7300]

I like to think that mike was on the 10/20 mode night

[@legoboy7107]

@@lefthand4605 But then we could say that Fritz Smith in Night 7 of FNAF2 was Mike under an alias. Jeremy is definitely a different person though, he doesn't even get fired.

[@captaintabby9178]

But then youve gotta wonder why they kill phone guy

[@000coolkid9]

I agree with everything, but one thing I would add is probably ennard/molten Freddy

[@oyungogdfrust4136]

ennard is not an important character its just the sister location animatronics

[@BasementDweller_]

@@oyungogdfrust4136 well you see what was left of Ennard became Molten Freddy and they seem to be part of The Blob in Security Breach.

[@bobherobrine3415]

I like to think that funtime Freddy is just the absolute

[@oyungogdfrust4136]

@@BasementDweller_ the blob is every animatronic other than William

[@Cruddy129]

@@BasementDweller_ Makes me question why the game seems to be more inspired from the book series when instead taking many elements from the original story?

[@knoxschyuler5716]

3:00 I always thought he went into the suit, because he killed them with it. I thought he got in it because the children would still be frightened of him in that suit, and he could use it to escape the building. He really only did it to laugh at him being alive and gloating at their fear. But thats of course assuming a bunch, even still, its clear he did so because he thought it would make the children stop for some reason, and thats all i can think of. That or to not allow them to take over a suit.

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

Same, its the only possible explanation

[@quack0i991]

isn't it weird how none of the "most important characters" in fnaf lore are freddy fazbear

[@Cruddy129]

Because no one sees him as a main character nor as the main antagonist anymore Its always gotta be the afton family or random associates of the afton family Freddy and the gang are now nothing more than scapegoats for the name

[@sptflcrw8583]

Golden Freddy.

[@Roberto-hj2yb]

@@Cruddy129 tbh Golden Freddy is more important in the lore than Freddy

[@herobrinegreek9493]

Eh its mainly because him and the others are the victims, the main thing they do is torturing William and accidentaly drive him into becoming Springtrap. Given life by the Puppet and being basically leaded by Golden Freddy makes them "less important", they are not as vengeful as Cassidy or as protective as Charlotte.

[@darthasthma7953]

2:44 he jumped in because that was the suit he wore when he killed them, so he tried to scare off the spirits. Then the water dripped in while he was celebrating being safe because the children’s spirits didn’t want to go near him out of fear.

[@brandonwelsh5090]

My theory as to how Glitch Trap/Circus Baby works is that the possession is more of a merge between the spirit and the programmed behaviour if the animatronics, this is why Spring Trap can be lured away with children's laughter, the puppet is kept at bay with the music box and possessed animatronics are fine during the day, the animatronic programming is overriding the spirit's control. Circus Baby is designed to capture and scoop children so that programmed behaviour merges with Elizabeth's personality. So the conscious is merged with the programming, logically if you copy the programming you copy the conscious, so William is still burning in hell/being tortured by Cassidy in UCN but a copy of him is running wild in Help Wanted.

[@joaoedu1965]

Just to clarify, we know we play as Michael in FFPS because Henry says that there was a way out of the fire planned for us but he feels that's not what we want (because we're already way too involved). We also know we play as William in UCN because the Animatronics refer to us killing people. Also there's a high chance we play as Michael in Fnaf 4, since in the survival logbook (that's owned by Michael) there's a drawing of nightmare and in the fazbear frights books there's also some evidence that points towards that but I don't remember right now what It is.

[@completlynormalhypernova666]

Also in 1, 2 (after Jeremy switches to day), 3, SL

[@blazeprominence3287]

@alister Freddy Fazbear Pizaa Simulator (Fnaf 6)

[@femalegays]

that's strong evidence, but sadly, that doesn't mean we know it for sure. it'd be like saying we "know" micheal is mike from fnaf1 cause of "mike" and cause of the "it's me" lines (cause who else would the animatronics reach out to like that).

[@sandwich1143]

@@completlynormalhypernova666 Jeremy doesn't switch to day he is the bite of 87' victim

[@joaoedu1965]

@alister Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

[@mike-ns6sw]

2:38 The reason why he went into the suit is because the suit made him feel powerful and strong It was his main thing that he used to kill the kids with and get away with So ofc it'll make him feel empowered whenever he's inside it So when he started panicking he jumped in it You can even see him laughing like if he's got the upper hand

[@Migixkem]

He did went in the suit to scare the children and remind their deaths. He also laughed as you can see in the animation proving the point of him trying to strike fear in the spirit of the children

[@Juustoboi3]

And then the karma hit him like a truck

[@codymay2870]

7:18 But the spring locks in the suit are not compressed at this point. Nobody is inside the suit. It is in animatronic mode meaning the spring locks have no tension on them. It is more likely that the mouth opened and closed on its own while in animatronic mode and it closed on Evan’s head after being placed in Fredbear’s mouth. The servos were likely having trouble compressing onto the skull and the skull finally split, allowing the jaw to close.

[@cerberuspsycho]

Then the blood or tears seeped in, stopping the animatronic completely.

[@oofedultra]

it was the tears lol

[@JackieJKENVtuber]

2:38 This is actually pretty simple to explain if you have read the novels - although the children may have seen an adult (namely William) as their killer, they remember Springbonnie as their friend. They cannot remember the moment of their death, because it's a blurry memory, so they won't try anything against him in that form. William knows this in the books, and it's actually one of the creepier moments in The Silver Eyes that is better explained in The Fourth Closet 4:20 The Springbonnie we see in Help Wanted is intentional and used in the final stage. Since William's soul is in the game, he can use any asset to incorporate, and so he reuses that Springbonnie model. We know the Springbonnie character is not just what he uses to kill children, but also a comfort character he uses, hence why he decided to use that one model out of all the other ones. He could have, in theory, posessed a Freddy model or a model for Plush Baby, but he decided that Springbonnie was the one he was most comfortable using as his avatar 8:14 Crying Child is the protagonist of the FNaF 4 minigames, Mike is the protagonist of the FNaF 4 gameplay - we know this because of Nightmare Fredbear's appearence in the Survival Logbook 8:36 Contrary to the other animatronics in the FNaF fanchise, Baby and the other Funtime animatronics have advanced AI with what can only be described as a conscience. Just as explained in The Fourth Closet, Baby is posessed by Elizabeth Afton, but the fact that the robot itself had memories before being posessed makes her relationship with the AI different. Circus Baby's AI, still made with anger and reprogrammed by Afton to kill, corrupts Elizabeth's soul. Yes, she can speak as the AI, but the memories may not sound as hers. She can also speak as Elizabeth, and those memories will also not be fully hers. It's a real brain teaser if you've got the time to look into it. 11:08 Charlie's death is outside Fredbear's Family Diner in 1983. The Missing Children's Incident is in 26th of June of 1985 13:13 We actually don't know if Vanny is Tape Girl, although she probably is not - FNaF VR's Halloween DLC would have one believe that the player is Vanny, and that contradicts the idea of her being Tape Girl, since she is from the previous development team, but then again, what do I know? That could just be the last day of testing before sending to the next team

[@ThiccFurryBoi34]

So wait micheal the older brother saw those illusions of Evan the crying child ok so William made the nightmares with illusion discs and watch his son but then Michael becomes the next experiment so William uses a organic robot hybrid or another powerful illusion nightmare and torture his son and maybe even use the jackos nightmarione and nightmare bb to torture him more and that got in the book making all of it cannon

[@JackieJKENVtuber]

@@ThiccFurryBoi34 ...what? We know the Nightmare animatronics to have probably been illusions, yes, but we know Mike's ones to have actually been dreams he had near the time he became a security guard in FNaF 1 or later (later as in Sister Location, for example), confirmed by the logbook.

[@ThiccFurryBoi34]

@@JackieJKENVtuber yeah but we don’t ever see who plays fnaf 4 we assume it was evan due to the 1st person view making him so small so he had to see both the characters and the dlc ones or it was retconned for both outside from that where did micheal see the nightmares

[@JackieJKENVtuber]

@@ThiccFurryBoi34 I mean, Sister Location confirmed that the FNaF 4 gameplay locations were being monitored, so.... Maybe the crying child (whose name is not confirmed) did get to be the player of FNaF 4 and Michael simply started having nightmares with Nightmare Fredbear after that somehow? I don't know, but thanks for reminding me of those details

[@ThiccFurryBoi34]

@@JackieJKENVtuber it’s evan man security log book confirmed that Also your welcome but it’s messed up thinking William built an entire underground location under his house to test his son with his experiments wished we saw more blue prints in fnaf sister location of the nightmares who knows maybe their is a nightmare factory place that wake up and attack evan

[@benpretend_]

I always just figured he went in the suit cause he thought he was safe- and the laughing was maybe a “You can’t get me” laugh. But who knows! :)

[@connorcaddy5661]

16:15 the reason why William got into the suit is because when he's wearing the suit the animatronics think he's one of them and don't try to kill him, so he got in the suit in an attempt to trick them into thinking he's a friend

[@PUTRiDLegacy]

William be flat out stupid then

[@someadamguy386]

@humanity is a joke to our ancestors did it do him any good?

[@onedumbgamer9672]

Of course Elizabeth fully possess circus baby, in SL she explains that she's incredibly good at "pretending". She lies a lot in the game when you realize the connotation of that line and one of those lies is pretending to be circus baby herself and not Elizabeth

[@Sunnysuns140]

Charlie doesn't really get a lot of spotlight in the fandom but she's really a great character

[@Smoloompaloompa]

For the first segment, i believe the reason William went into his suit is because the children saw spring bonnie as their friend, he must have been thinking the ghosts were trying to hurt him because he was seen as an adult, which the ghosts were hostile to, William knew the ghosts weren't hostile to Spring bonnie though, so if he was Spring Bonnie and not an adult. Then he would be safe from the ghosts.

[@Smoloompaloompa]

The fourth closet novel would help in this idea because we get to see that the children really do see spring bonnie as their friend.

[@glitterfish2]

I'd just like to clear something up about your mentioning of the springlocks and how they killed Evan (Crying Child - his name is implied to be Evan in multiple sources) at 7:02. The springlocks "going off" did NOT kill Evan. Springlocks are locks powered by springs tightened by twisting them and locking them into place. These locks hold back animatronic parts attached to them to the edges of the suit, making enough room for a person to climb inside and wear. Fredbear, at this point, was already in animatronic mode and on stage performing, therefore the springlocks were not tightened. There is no way one of them could have released to end up damaging him, much less crushing his head. Fredbear's mouth moving up and down is what killed him. Hope this clears some stuff up - it's a common misconception.

[@fenetronicsequisde128]

Yea but there is no way an animatronics mouth moving could do that mutch damage to the Child, the animatronic having a malfucntion Cuz of the tears out of criying Child maybe reseted the mouth placement making It close violently thus killing the Child

[@ryanhernandez8324]

Cite your Evan sources please

[@dakota6050]

But since the child was in his head, blocking him from moving his mouth up and down, they thought it was in suit mode and part of the mouth was moved back for a human, then cc was crying and it sprang back into place again

[@glitterfish2]

@@dakota6050 that WOULD make sense, but Phone Guy in FNAF 3’s recordings specifically instructs you on how to turn an animatronic from animatronic to suit mode. It’s done manually with a hand crank on every individual springlock. They cannot shift automatically.

[@glitterfish2]

@@ryanhernandez8324 1. In the Survival Logbook, the name Evan can be found in a certain box where you need to fill in letters. Putting numbers in found on certain pages can lead to the letters E V A N being found. This isn’t all that complete though, and it seems that we’ve found the answer, and just need to work backwards to find the solution. Watch Gametheory’s video from about year ago, they go over it better. 2. In the Fazbear Frights book The Real Jake, the protagonist Jake has a father named Evan. This father is described to have a brother named Michael, who speaks in an odd voice and is described to almost act like a robot sometimes. The book also says this is his only living family, in a universe where Elizabeth and William are both present in spirit form. And from Security Breach, we can infer that Mrs. Afton took her own life after she lost the supposed custody battle for all 3 kids. If this isn’t directly telling us that Michael’s brother’s name is Evan, then I don’t know what is.

[@saltgenerator69]

The reason I think william afton went into the spring bonnie suit when confronted by the spirits is that it was like a comfort thing. The thing he felt the most powerful, and therfore safe in.

[@evie3244]

My best guess as to why Afton went into the spring trap suit would probably be 1. a panic response - i mean to be fair, if the souls of the kids you murdered were chasing you around, youd probably be pretty panicked. probably also explains why he wouldnt have thought about the spring locks 2. he mightve felt more powerful/ able in the suit? - i would probably feel a bit stronger in a bulky animatronic suit 3. maybe the costume wouldve scared the kids - since he was in that when he killed them, he may have thought that he could scare them into obedience/ not killing him - anyways those are my thoughts on that :)

[@ketomine.]

i feel like he went in the suit to taunt and possibly scare the children away, because that suit was (presumably) the last thing they saw before dying.

[@splatzone9168]

We can tell that Michael is the protag for FNAF pizzeria simulator because of all of the illustrative cutscenes that contain a purple character covered in bandages who has to wear a mask to hide his face (also I'm pretty sure the odor comment comes back on pink slips but I can't remember it clearly).

[@bravecylinder93]

I feel like Afton put on the Springbonnie suit during the confrontation with his victims, to assert his dominance. He probably thought it would be demoralizing for the children to see their killer back in the suit that he killed them in those many years ago.

[@cade3699]

I think the reason aftons soul made it into Help Wanted was because the development team scanned old animatronic motherboards that’s controlled movement so they could more accurately create the movements for the game.

[@zyxw7732]

2:43 Maybe he thought it would scare them away since it's the suit he wore when he killed them, or like he's somewhat powerful than them without their animatronic vessels.?

[@Arbo_47]

16:15 I started thinking about this after you brought it up, and I have come up with an answer that I personally think explains it. William obviously knew the spirits could posses the animatronics, that's presumably the whole reason he was at the old location in the first place. My guess is that he feared for his life, and thought that if he climbed in the suit then he would possess it if he died. He laughs because he knows that if he's correct then no matter what happens he'll live on in some way. He was right, but I think that in his panic he forgot about the springlocks in the suit

[@MajoradeMayhem]

It's unclear why Afton went in the suit. But we can see he goes from terrified to confident wearing it. It's "his" suit that he wore to commit the murders, when he felt at his most powerful. He might also have been hoping to scare the ghosts away by assuming the form of the thing that murdered them.

[@pixlv6384]

Well, my headcanon is that William panicked and just went in the suit as a desperation, hoping it would scare the spirit's away because that's what he wore when killing them

[@Crystal_959]

Just a couple notes / clarifications from someone who’s been around the block William being the protagonist of UCN is basically confirmed through the Frights, where pretty much the exact same thing happens to him, but we see it from an outside perspective. Not as a literal hell, but as a nightmare induced by Golden Freddy. The game calls itself a nightmare multiple times anyway. The roster was chosen by fans, it doesn’t really matter Michael being the protagonist of Pizzeria Simulator is implied by pretty much every single character other than Lefty speaking as if they know you personally. William speaks as if you should be able to recognize him, Baby speaks as if she recognizes you and that “it feels like home”, Molten Freddy says stuff like “together again,” and Henry speaks as if you specifically being there was a fortunate coincidence. The crying child’s death wasn’t directly caused by springlocks. The springlocks were already released, since Fredbear was in animatronic mode. The Golden Freddy theory is bunk. Everything treats him like 1 entity, and the logbook doesn’t even support it. Whenever souls share a body, they can communicate directly, they don’t need a book or something. Everything Golden Freddy does has to do with just Cassidy anyway. Baby is possessed by Elizabeth, she just also had memories from Baby’s point of view. Possessing a robot gets real funky when that robot also has artificial intelligence and memory storage. Michael is the protagonist of FNaF 1 and 4’s nights as well. In the survival logbook (which is centered around FNaF 1) “Mike” makes several references to the events of Sister Location, and he draws Nightmare Fredbear in response to a prompt about recent dreams. This also fits with how the gameplay mirrors FNaF 1’s, you can hear phone guy’s call in the background, and the nightmares continue after the child dies. Though that also implies FNaF 1 is after SL which still creates problems. Vanny wasn’t the tape girl, she’s the one we play as. If Vanny knew what the tapes said and that they were legit, she wouldn’t put them together. I do wish Phone Guy got something. At the very least a name. Pretty much every other prominent human character has a name, except him

[@wuttatota148]

If crying child isn't also in golden freddy then how do you explain the happiest day minigame where the crying child finally gets to spend his birthday and in that minigame he has the golden freddy mask? Also, the books aren't canon but they heavily parallel what happens in the games, and in the book, golden freddy has two souls inside. Finally, golden freddy's infamous line "It's me" wouldn't make sense if it's just Cassidy there since most of the games, we play as Michael. Why would Cassidy say "It's me" to Michael? Cassidy doesn't know him. I believe it's crying child telling Michael "It's me" your brother

[@Crystal_959]

@@wuttatota148 that’s not the crying child. The crying child didn’t even exist as a character yet. And Scott has said his only retcon before FFPS was small and unnoticeable. Aka, not an entire character’s identity. Who Golden Freddy is has stayed the same since the beginning. Not really. Only Andrew parallels Golden Freddy. Jake doesn’t. And the Golden Freddy-ish things Andrew does all happened _before_ he became part of the Stitchwraith Multiple characters used It’s Me in multiple places in FNaF 1 and 2. It was never exclusive to that situation. It was just creepy. There were no plans for any sort of character dynamics back then. It didn’t have any meaning then, and it hasn’t gained any since. Hence why it got dropped almost entirely after FNaF 2 (save for the Special Delivery trailer where it is completely unrelated to Golden Freddy or Michael)

[@wuttatota148]

@@Crystal_959 What do you mean it's not the crying child? Please watch that again cause it's clearly him since he's the birthday boy in the happiest day minigame, and he's the one who got bitten at his own birthday party. The table set-up and the color of the balloons present between the bite of '83 and the happiest day minigame are even the same

[@Crystal_959]

@@wuttatota148 he didn’t exist when FNaF 3 was made. It’s confirmed no major characters or events prior to Pizzeria Simulator’s release were retconned.

[@wuttatota148]

@@Crystal_959 What? It's normal for fnaf to jump timelines. The happiest day minigame being in fnaf 3 and the bite of '83 being in fnaf 4 doesn't mean they happen in that order. A lot of times, the minigames are flashbacks from the past, like the circus baby minigame depicting how Elizabeth was killed. That was in fnaf 5 but that doesn't mean the stuff in fnaf 1-4 happened before that The fnaf 3 minigame, happiest birthday is how the souls of the dead got freed cause of the puppet recreating the birthday party of the crying child which happens in 1983 as we can see in the fnaf 4 minigame. Please i beg of you to watch the bite of '83 and happiest day minigame and see the parallels. The number of tables are the same, the set-up is the same, even the balloon colors are the same

[@jor4114]

Man. Seeing Vanny in this list didn't age too well.

[@soggyfroggy7291]

2:35 Afton went into the suit hoping to scare the spirits.

[@soopnoudle]

Some theories are that he put the suit on cause Spring Bonny was his favorite and it calmed him down, he felt powerful when he had it on, it triggered the ghosts' PTSD, or that he wore it in a vain to have on some sort of armor and protection. I like to believe it's a mix of some of these. Also, looking forward to the video on all the animatronics!

[@jimmyneutron5755]

Afton went in the suit because he wanted to make the spirits think they were one of them. That’s why he did it in the books.

[@patatopeeler3005]

2:58 my personal belief is that because childrens were killed while he was in spring bonnie suit, he might have think that childrens will be scared so they wont be able to harm him.

[@Competitive_Bid_]

Micheal is also “Mike Schmidt” in the first game and is also commonly believed to be “Fritz Smith” in FNAF 2 and the unnamed Guard in FNAF 3. As well as the person you play as during the nightly gameplay sections in FNAF 4.

[@darthasthma7953]

5:39 he’s haunted by all of the spirits he troubled. Also it makes sense he would be haunted by past versions of himself.

[@darkflame2415]

Eisoptrophobia is the name of UCN's menu theme It is also the fear of looking at yourself in a mirror

[@ignitedmotion5807]

2:55 my personal theory is with everything we know about remnant and aftons ties to it, probably knew that he wasn't going to make it out of that room alive and so purposely got himself springlocked to be infused with agony and tadah he's back. This is mainly tied together for me by a faintly noticeable smile that may or may not be there when he runs to the suit.

[@lucashampton6269]

I like to think that Afton dismantled the old animatronics to get the metallic parts from them to make remnant. Remnant seems to be made from molten metal, strong human emotions, and organic bits from humans. If he could get that Remnant, he could use it to make more animatronics designed to kill more kids, or to try and use it to bring back his dead son and daughter. Remember, he lost not only Elizabeth, his daughter, to Baby but he lost his son to Fredbear. I think he ran to his suit because he figured if he uses that, it will scare the spirits. Think about it, those kids got killed by Afton in his Bonnie suit. If they saw that sight again, it would awaken their fears again. It was a survival instinct thing. But, it ended up being his own demise-ish. All he had to rely on at that point was Michael. Who I'm not entirely convinced is a good guy out to right the wrongs his father perpetrated. If we take the distorted screaming from UCN as gospel, it seems like Mike might still possibly be seen in a positive light by his dad. There's also what Mike says at the end of SL. He followed his dad's instructions. Said he was going to come find him. I'm just not entirely convinced that Mike is wholly good after all. Maybe he was trying to help his dad but got duped by Henry. Maybe he was just doing it for selfish reasons, as in he wanted to get pay back for what helping his dad cost him. Getting scooped and filled with Ennard and such.

[@Roberto-hj2yb]

U made some pretty good points but don’t forget what Michael tried to do in the ending of FNAF 3, he tried to bruh down the building and kill Springtrap but he failed unfortunately, I don’t really think Michael forgive William for all the destruction he caused

[@justanice6269]

Also don't forget he also screamed Henry means he also have positive light fir henry but those two traitor makes him go suffer In ucn

[@Mr.Shikishima]

Theory: William wore the springbonnie suit because he thought the spirits would be scared of the suit he used to murder them

[@ark_awaits3367]

That's always what I thought

[@sams-hx7hm]

I know I'm a bit late to this, but I imagine that at 5:57 you mention that Scraptrap and Springtrap are in UCN, despite the confirmation that William Afton is the protagonist of UCN, though I think about it this way. There's severial variations of the animatronics in UCN, meaning Cassidy can have different variations of souls in that purgatory, why not use it to their advantage to further torture William? So, Cassidy allows Springtrap and Scraptrap to attack William also, just to remind him of the pain he had in his previous life, reminding him that his pain will never end. He may have suffered before, but that suffering will be never-ending. It's also hinted at by one of Orville Elephant's death dialogues that "I will keep you here, no matter how many times they burn us", hence why William is still alive in the Afton ending of Security Breach, because Cassidy believes death is too good for him. Sorry for writing a novel there, just wanted to try and explain that as best as I can.

[@zj9554]

10:37 i love the semi improvised nature of your videos, this genuinely made me laugh out loud

[@squib2118]

michael afton is the protagonist in fnaf 3 as well, and there’s a high chance in fnaf 1 too

[@idealab5289]

I like Squimpus' explanation that Will simply isn't that good at thinking on his feet. Maybe climbing into the suit would've scared the the kids, since he wore it when he killed them Michael being the FFPS protagonist makes tons of sense. It isn't really tying up loose ends if a Michael zombie is still wandering around. Additionally, Henry saying that we are right where we want to be would fit so that Michael makes sure William goes down for good I believe Elizabeth possesses Baby as her monologue in the FFPS gets cut off by Henry and he says "I'm sorry to interrupt you Elizabeth" I think Charlotte was killed at either the original Freddy Fazbear's or at the FNAF 2 location Just my two cents on various things Are we sure Cassidy is the vengeful spirit and not Evan? Evan wasn't really killed by William but Cassidy being the vengeful spirit kinda conflicts with him moving on in the FNAF 3 good ending

[@nekogamer2508]

Also Evan could find out his father encouraged his brother to bully him which is the main cause of his death while his brother is redeaming himself believes that ya my brother isn't soley responsible and his Michael did say he would put Evan back together

[@tatermaniac9319]

i think the one that moved on in happiest day is the bite victim, since the happiest day represents the birthday party he never got (since he died before his party). so in happiest day 4 of the missing children moved on along with the bite victim, but charlie (the puppet) and cassidy stayed behind so they could try to get rid of william

[@walmartiancheese4922]

@@nekogamer2508 ???

[@ams2627]

I don’t think the fnaf 3 good ending is concrete, if golden Freddy/Cassidy is keeping William alive she is most likely unintentionally keeping everyone else active aswell

[@opinionhaver5910]

The FNAF 3 ritual failed because the vengeful spirit refused to let go.

[@zemer1406]

2:56 , I think afton wore the suit because it was the one used to lure the children to kill them, so they would be afraid of him

[@MasySlz]

The reason William Afton dismantled the animatronic was because he was trying to take the remenant from the children’s souls.

[@red-fy8si]

Very underrated channel just found it but everything is so well put together in youre videos

[@blueischiii1575]

7:07 I dont think it was the springlocks that killed killed the crying child because springlocks are only released whenever the animatronic is in mascot mode.

[@syweb2]

2:41 People don't often make rational decisions when panicking. Maybe his fear-addled mind hoped that the spirits wouldn't recognize him once he put the suit on, or that they somehow wouldn't be able to reach him through it. That "laughter" may have also just been panting in relief, or laughter caused by fear-induced delirium. 4:22 Maybe because he's sentimental about the time when it was just him in a silly suit murdering people, though that may be a stretch. 5:04 Plus, he has a purple car, much like the one shown in Take Cake To The Children. 7:24 Why would the springlocks be active when it's in _animatronic mode,_ though? Isn't their whole point to be holding the endoskeleton back in when in suit mode?

[@fricc3824]

the reason there are non-canon characters are in a canon game (UCN) is because its his personal hell so he suffers from everything that he's ever caused even if it wasn't in reality so characters like nightmarionne and other characters that are considered non-canon show up to torment william because he caused them to manifest in some way

[@medicgaming101]

Isnt Michael Afton the guard in fnaf1? Being stuffed into an empty freddy fazbear and every jumpscare tends to gnaw your face

[@technoplex395]

Who remembers nightmare from fnaf4 I haven't hear enyone mention it's name for years

[@Nothing-dk1xh]

nightmare

[@buklau837]

nightmare

[@Marchingvenusaur]

I always thought Elizabeth’s death caused Baby to gain sapience as the animatronic realized what it had done. (and was able to because of Afton’s engineering) but I don’t know much since I haven’t played a FNAF game since like 2017.

[@yatosensei6078]

2:55 About the suit thing, he probably went into it thinking that the spirits would be scared of him because of the fact he used the exact same suit to kill them.

[@fuckityfuckfuckfuck846]

I believe all springsuits are really sensitive. So simply laughing hard can cause the springlocks to unlock. If I remember correctly, the springlocks function similarly to a mouse trap. You set a sensitive pin in the suit, it holds the springs in the suit back. The springs are there to connect to a Exo-Skeleton. I assume he jumped in the suit because he thought the ghost would think he's just an animatronic. Or he viewed the suit as a shield.

[@mightbeapersonmaybe8379]

I think its more that the suit would be in extreme disrepair as its been in that backroom for presumably years given the decay of the rest of rhe restaurant and rhe water leaking into the room.

[@ark_awaits3367]

I always thought he thought it would scare the souls because that was the suit he wore to kill them

[@vikanitealt6229]

Afton was trying to hide from the spirits because they remembered how he looked and was looking for him

[@CR7isthegoat111]

9:06 Elizabeth does possess baby as when she said she was on stage once she is referring to when she got scooped into baby, they were on stage

[@AlastorsFavorite]

I have known the fnaf lore since like forever but its changed a lot and I like learning more things about the lore! It’s so interesting and cool

[@SuperStar-ss1pn]

12:22 I like to think it's either cassidy is the name of the games ver of the crying child Cassidy afton

[@thebrickbulbasaur7628]

Why would Cassidy be an Afton?

[@blewfish1]

I reckon that william put the suit on because it is in a way a suit of armour, and maybe he thought that it would protect him from some random bullshit idk.

[@abcyoungboy8777]

Just found this channel tonight and I’m instantly hooked. Keep up the good work 👍

[@mia95808]

explaing why he wore the suit, he probably wanted to feel some sort of power over the children since the suit held dark memories for them. basically wanting to scare them off, but the plan totally being back fired

[@thevoidcritter]

I always thought that either 3 or 4 should have been where the series ended, but if Scott absolutely insisted on continuing, then Pizzeria Sim was a decent conclusion with Ultimate Custom Night being like an epilogue/bonus game. Security Breach meanwhile is just...can I just ignore it, please.

[@kuukanz]

I totally agree. Ucn should've and very well could've been the last game and it was a nice epilogue sort of thing to see William finally being punished

[@magnus88mm49]

The reason why you went into the suit is to trick them into thinking that he is their friend. and not her enemy if you read the books they are tricked into thinking that springbonnie is their friend, even though that William Afton is there killer and he is in the suit.

[@Powsifu]

The reason why William climbs into the spring Bonnie suit was to scar off the children hoping they would get PTSD and leave him alone, you can even see him laughing after getting into the suit until it backfired on him.

[@ellarasei4404]

I do think Elizabeth is possessing Circus Baby but her personality is melded with Circus Baby. Henry in his (glorious) FNAF 6 speech, he refers to Circus Baby as Elizabeth and remarks "if you even remember your name" Her, and the other possessed animatronics by proxy, has been dead and haunting the robots for so long, they've forgotten everything else and remember only their hatred for William and what he looked like (Elizabeth is exempt from this. She's probably angry that her dad indirectly killed her)

[@Angry5Man]

13:44 this aged well

[@lindinle]

7:17 everyone gets this wrong. The tears didnt make fredbear bite him. You need to wind the springlocks into suit mode for the springlocks to be of any harm. Its how william died!!!! This is just the jaw motor of the animatronic.

[@henryboianimations4869]

No, it definitely is the tears. The suit still malfunctions even if it’s in animatronic mode.

[@lindinle]

@@henryboianimations4869 tear on a circuit board does not a spinglock failure make. That we can agree yes?

[@lindinle]

@@henryboianimations4869 cuz the common insinuation is that the springlocks snapped on the boy. Thats like saying "they slammed the shut door on his head."

[@chr87]

In the novels it is explained how william afton uses springbonnie's suit to prevent the animatronics from attacking him, since the children's souls attack any adult mistaking him for william, but they think springbonnie is their friend, that's why william laughs when he puts on the suit in fnaf 3, thinking he managed to fool the souls and get away with it, only to die seconds later.

[@thebrokenolive5213]

5:50, in UCNi think the reason scrap and spring trap are in the game is because its him remembering what it was like to live as them.

[@mamabriel7701]

8:16 It's actually not that obvious, as I believe in a theory that says that fnaf 4's gameplay takes place in fnaf 1, and how the crying child died in 83 and fnaf 1 takes place in 93 the only option is for Mike to be the protagonist of fnaf 4. I know I know you want the evidence of this theory so I'll list it: I don't remember if it's just the first night or if the rest also has it, but there is a background noise in fnaf 4 which is the call of the first night of fnaf 1, there are also several similarities between the games, two doors, foxy attacks in stages and Freddy hides in the shadows, and the strongest evidence is that the survival logbook has a page asking you to describe your RECENT nightmares and on this page you can see it drawn in extreme detail, nightmare fredbear and as we know, the book belongs to Mike and is from fnaf 1, since the book talks a lot about fnaf 1, so I believe that the protagonist of fnaf 4 is Michael Afton

[@Kk-om2km]

I do believe it

[@lantcm613]

8:52 I mean, Elizabeth technically WAS on stage once, she wasn’t on it for very long, but she was on it.

[@ghoststil]

Okay I’m sure people have answered this before BUT: William got into the suit because he wanted to scare the children because that’s what he wore when he lured them away to their deaths It makes sense that William is the main character of UCN because it’s basically everything he has caused coming to get him. The forms of himself are basically showing him what it felt like when other people died because of him, showed in a lot of voice lines. Micheal is the main character in FFPS because when Henry burns the whole place down he says something like “and to the night guard, I have left you a way to get out but I would expect that you wouldn’t want to leave” implying that the character is known to be connected to the mess of everyone else caught in the cross fires (lol fires literally) of the canon end of the game. PHEW there we go!

[@wet0wl]

I think Elizabeth and Baby kinda fused personality and memory which is why she remembers the stage but also says “I will make you proud daddy” at the end of pizzeria simulator.

[@Delirex_Furry]

Micheal is also a protagonist of fnaf 1 but he changed his name.

[@drewhaynes1874]

spoiler alert vanessa and Vanny where shown to be two different people, one ending she was on the roof gregory looked confused at vanny unmasked, ad two another ending vanny was freed and wore normal clothes letting Gregory go free. if they were the same person, why would she bring normal clothes to work while wearing her security uniform

[@darkflame2415]

That's just symbolical

[@ggplaying6624]

It’s her spirit on the roof

[@hondaaccord1399]

I think Afton climbed into his Spring Bonny suit because he thought the children's souls might be tricked by him being in the suit, like how the animatronics are tricked by you wearing a Freddy head.

[@kirbyfazendoummoonwalk9214]

1:46 i always believe he was trying to Scare the spirits away by beign in the suit

[@ethan1969]

I actually saw a really interesting theory from MatPat which I think is very plausible. He said that William dismantled the animatronics in FNAF3 so he could meld them all down and extract their remnant to discover the secret of their immortality. And if that sounds weird, it is, but it’s exactly what he does in the third book The Fourth Closet. Like, the exact same thing. And also that could possibly be what the Candy Cadet stories are referencing. The 5 original animatronics, melted down and stuck together.

[@Dr.spider1983]

Cassidy is not the vengeful spirit. The vengeful spirit is a boy. (I can explain further but I don't want to so just ask me questions if you are confused)

[@Th3Badd3st]

Well, the vengeful spirit is Golden Freddy and Cassidy is Golden Freddy, and Golden Freddy - the character - is a "male character". Cassidy is also a unisex name, so I don't see how you can really make that argument. The only way Cassidy could not be the vengeful spirit is if the vengeful spirit isn't Golden Freddy but that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense since the only ending to UCN is the Golden Freddy cut scene. You say you don't wanna explain further, and I don't really care to hear it, so luckily we're on the same page.😂

[@Th3Badd3st]

@The_BlondeGuy but William didn't technically kill him so the phrase "the one you shouldn't have killed" wouldnt technically apply. But I can see what you mean, anything's possible in this fucking franchise.

[@NeonSwordsManFangattack]

That Vengeful Spirit is 100% Cassidy. It'd make 0 sense for William's own child to want to torment him eternally when he was the only one trying to help him before he died. Also, the Vengeful Spirit was given a female's voice and Cassidy is already confirmed to be a girl, so connect the dots

[@draforgg5594]

I'd like to think that the reason why William put on the suit is that, out of desperation and potential fear of death, he tried to fool the children once again. Since that's all he really knows of what to do. But this time, the children were very well aware of things, and just stood there. Waited as they knew what came after.

[@galaxygamers9303]

YES PLEASE make a video about who possesses each animatronic it will be SO helpful

[@Pearl_diver]

It’s about drive

[@wilsongoodfellow8113]

I feel like you should have mentioned Jeremy, even though we don't have a lot of information, he is the victim of the bite of '87

[@wildwolff]

outro, my favourite character

[@bunbell5329]

I feel like William Afton went into the suit to temporarily stop the ghost children from being able to possess and use it themselves. We’ve seen before that whilst the suits are in a “safe mode” sort of setting and can be worn as a suit rather than animatronic, that the ghost(s) possessing it kinda go to the peripheral of the suit and are unable to manipulate/move/control the suit. So at least whilst he was in there they could POTENTIALLY possess it, but not control it and over power him Idk though massive guess

[@noahcurby800]

6:25 he isn’t possessed by Enard, he’s brought back to life by baby.

[@coomalala]

Damn bro i subbed to you when you when you only had 600 subs. glad to see you grow so fast!

[@cartilover69]

Great vid my boi!

[@rebblepebble1857]

Here's why William goes into the springlock suit in the fnaf 3 minigame: It's actually explained in the silver eyes that the children don't remember anything after they were lured into the back room. So as far as they know, springbonnie is their friend, which is why they don't attack him in the book when he's in he suit. In the game he probably thought it would have worked but y'know, OOPS.

[@Hero_Of_Time241]

The bad ending is the one that always goes through The happiest day: *WHAT ABOUT ME*

[@mikelanimations138]

This channel is underrated

[@Dead_Pegasus]

I think one of the main reasons why Elizabeth's spirit kind of takes a backseat is because it's implied that Elizabeth is the youngest afton and her death was very sudden, so maybe she was so confused as to what happened that her spirit pretty much went comatose leaving CB's AI to take center stage and only occasionally access Elizabeth's memories. This also supported based on the fact that the only intelligent animatronics we see are ones who had drawn out deaths being Springtrap, Evan, and Charlie. The rest seem to act out of instinct.

[@enderanime9378]

the reason he gets in the suit is to try to scare the childrens spirits away and thats why he laughs cuz imagine if somone lets say shot you and almost killed you in a knight costume you then went after them but they got into that suit it would have a physocological effect and the reason he didnt just not cuz of the water he fogot about mouister in his panic

[@Very_Silly_Individual]

Like someone said earlier. I think he went into the suit to feel powerful. Like "look, I'm the guy who killed you all. You can't touch me. " He also probably felt very confident in himself when he wore that suit. I mean, he committed terrible atrocities in the suit and got away with it every time. That's bound to build confidence in a serial killer. Oh, and yeah. He probably wasn't thinking about the whole leaky ceiling thing. Due to the circumstance. Its a classic example of how even the smartest amongst us can be ended by hubris.