I think I could talk about a lot of things...I am a Biology major so there is a lot there, there are lots of books I really like, youtube channels and bands that are not well known where I live, but of course I am going to talk about Five Nights at Freddys....Oh FNAF I have a love and hate relationship with FNAF. I love FNAF I love the story that it tries to tell, this odd story of good and evil specially the first three games.
(Somewhat graphic content, mention of murder and violence against children)
Well for those who don't know Five Nights at Freddy's is a videogame series, it currently has 11 different main game, a shit ton of books 33 maybe ( I haven't read them) and 1 official movie, and maybe a sequel to said movie on the way. I first had contact with the series through Markplier in 2016 when he started to play the fifth game FNAF Sister Location, and then I just went back and started watching him play all the previous games and loved it as a teen (well I was around 18 actually), but in all honesty I, oddly, didn't grow up online, like until I was 17 youtube was this search engine like google, but for videos, I went on it to find tutorials for things like fixing the time on my digital watch, but that is another story.
Well some might say 11 games, 33 books is a little much... and I agree that is my problem with FNAF, honestly it had so many opportunities to just end, but (and this is just my opinion) money talks louder, it always does, and I think after a while specially after the sixth game (FNAF: Pizzaria Simulator) Scott Cawthon just got greedy, he couldn't just let it rest, which ironically is one on the themes of the games, idk why if he was afraid a new franchise would just not be as popular, that it would be gutted and compared endelessly to FNAF,and that might be true, still. I am getting ahead of myself...
...For those of you who don't know Five Nights at Freddy's is are games where you work as a security guard at a defunct and shutdown restaurant a la Chuck E Cheese, with animatronic robots that are constantly trying to kill you, the games specially the first three are simple, you check the cameras, shut doors and keep the "evil" animatronics away for a length time (in game from midnight to 6 a.m.) without running out of power. Simple, maybe a little boring for some, the allure for FNAF, at least for me never came from the complexity of the game play, it came from the mystery of this place, the horrors it held, obviously the fan and why the hell would the guy keep going back to be paid 120 bucks for a week of work? the creepy drawings on the walls etc. And FNAF tries to tell a story, the first story it tells is the tale of five children that went missing in the pizzeria, never to be seen again, well it turns out the owner of the place William Afton was a serial killer, that dressed in a funny bunny costume would lure the kids to a backroom and kill them, for some reason, and to dispose of the bodies he stuffed them into the animatronic robots of the pizzaria, and somehow, it was the 80's but still, you the security guard are the Serial killer's son (Michel) who are supposedly looking for their father after he went missing, a while after the pizzeria closed down (yes because even after 11 games and 33 books this franchise has managed to not answer many, many questions at this point the whole thing is so convoluted that it is actually impossible to do this without running into contradictory evidence) and because you look so much like William the animatronics are hostile towards you.
I could go game by game, but I think this would get too long...it will already be very long.. (Most of this is my take on it, it isn't necessarily the most accurate theory on this)
essentially you have William Afton, a genius engineer? entrepreneur that wants to make a restaurant franchise with animatronic mascots, so you pair up with Henry Emily to make this happen you open a Family Dinner... Fredbear's Family Diner and they did everything was semi-fine, William got to kill kids and make money except Henry is maybe getting suspicious he even built a robot to "protect"his daughter The Security Puppet and William gets a little pissed and as mean kids lock Charlie (Henry's Daughter) outside the restaurant William finds and kills her on an alley next to it as the security Puppet struggles to get outside, she is dying on the floor as the robot manages to open the door and he lays next to her allowing her soul to possess him. Thus "The Puppet" is born, William's oldest son Michel, who is a little moron teenager puts his youngest son in the mouth of Fredbear in a "It's just a Prank Bro" moment the robot bites down leaving the kid comatose... That and the possession of the puppet drive William to start experimenting with the kids he kills, stuffing them in the robots trying to bind the two together and trying to create this thing called remnant that might bring his son back or make himself immortal (there is evidence for both) he even changes the design of the animatronics to make them do the killing, until one day, your precious daughter (the middle child, Elizabeth), the one you kept away from the animatronics at all costs, gets killed by one of them and goes on to possess "Baby".
And the FNAF timeline sucks, but one thing is sure, the Restaurants and Pizzerias are not doing great, and one day William goes in at night and the ghosts of the kids he killed chase him around the Pizzaria, and either knowing he would die and with the hope of possessing the suit or in a weird hope of finding safety and maybe scaring the kids away he goes inside the suit he used to kill them unfortunately the suit doubled as a animatronic free roaming robot and the bolts and locks that kept the whole skeletal structure tucked away were flimsy to say the least and the fail crushing William Afton to death inside the suit, so he dies. A while later the company has the employees close off those backrooms in all locations and William gets trapped there.
Not long after the place that has been the center a few controversies close down, and Michel William's only remaining live son goes looking for his missing dad, posing as a security guard… Well after two games Michael finds his dad, see there is this horror attraction that opens some years after all the Freddy's locations close down, a Haunted House of sorts that focused on all the tragedies surrounding the place, and once again Machel still looking for his daddy dearest goes there and finds Spring Trap (William) a rotten corpse inside a animatronic suit. Michel sets the place a blaze and runs off but William always comes back, and in a post credit scene is seen rising from the ashes. Now Honestly in the timeline I don't know if sister location (the fifth game come before or after the third game, I will assume it comes before)
So we jump to michael A teenager traumatized for the murder of his younger brother who's dad goes missing a few years later, I think at first he goes after William genuinely trying to find his dad and bring him home…however whilst doing so he finds the truth about his dad and that and starts to try and stop him, one day he stumbles upon this mysterious facility that is under their house maybe, not sure. There he finds these animatronics, one of which seems to be his long lost sister, well see they as usual are not so nice and Baby tricks Michael into trusting her, she is his sister after all right?! well see they are either souls or AI that are tired of being trapped underground, so the kill Michael and take over his body, removing his skeleton and putting their now fused endoskeleton inside Michael's skin, and they are finally free, except that does not last long cause well with Michael dead, his body starts to rot, and soon they are forced to leave it behind, Elizabeth in some sort of regret leaves this amalgamation and begs for her brothers soul to not die and thus we have an undead purple guy walking around ( not to be mistaken with William Afton that was often depicted wearing purple, because of course he was) well, the animatronics that include the souls of Elizabeth, the five kids killed by william and I haven't forgotten her charlie are now living in the sewers? Of course, sure.
See this hole time Charlie AKA The Puppet has been fighting against William trying to keep him from killing and trying to save the souls of the five dead kids, to get them to rest in peace ( I think Foxy and the Puppet are my favorite characters), to move on, but one of the kids won't let them, the vengeful spirit, the one William should not have killed refuses to rest while, he wants to torture William for eternity (supposedly). So Henry trying to put a final stop to all this madness brings them all back together by opening a new Freddy's location, luring them all in, and it works and he set the whole place on fire with everyone inside makes this beautiful speech about how thing have to end:
"You have all been called here.
Into a labyrinth of sounds and smells, misdirection and misfortune.
A labyrinth with no exit, a maze with no prize.
You don't even realize that you are trapped.
Your lust of blood has driven you in endless circles.
Chasing the cries of children in some unseen chamber.
Always seeming so near, yet somehow out of reach.
But, you will never find them, none of you will
.
This is where your story ends
And to you, my brave volunteer.
Who somehow found this job listing not intended for you.
Although, there was a way out planned for you,
I have a feeling that's not what you want.
I have a feeling that you are right where you want to be.
I am remaining as well. I am nearby.
This place will not be remembered.
And the memory of everything that started this.
Can finally begin to fade away.
As the agony of every tragedy should.
And to you monsters trapped in the corridors.
Be still, and give up your spirits.
They don't belong to you.
For most of you,
I believe there is peace and perhaps more
Waiting for you after the smoke clears.
Although, for one of you.
The darkest pit of Hell has opened to swallow you whole.
So, don't keep the Devil waiting, old friend."
It's a awesome speech and love it it almost brought me to tears the first time I heard it, perfect ending…but it's not the end this was the sixth game at least 5 more came after and at first I thought maybe it's a new story in the same universe, I can live with that, but no much like the Vengeful spirit won't let the kids rest Scott won't let this franchise die, and everything after this to me has been well kind of shit. I mean Scott even sold the franchise to Steel Wool Studios for the last three games,
FNAF could have ended so many times, and like William it always comes back, seriously how many times are they going to set that guy on fire before they realize it doesn't work… and all the ret-cons to change the story, are there one or two spirits inside golden freddy? honestly it got tiring and I just took "Old man Consequence's" advice and left the demon to his demons, and sort of gave up on the franchise ( I mean time travel ball pit…fazzgoo) it's too much it stopped being enjoyable, so I left didn't read the books. I saw the movie and if you don't think too much about it it's good, I was emotional at the end when they played the Living tombstone's song, and when I saw Matpat, It was great, and a shame Mark couldn't be a part of it.
I love the story and the idea of solving the mystery but sadly it got to a point where you just have to let it go.
Well thanks if you made it to the end of this 3 page long monologue.
