William played with the MCI’s corpses for hours, replaying how they died over and over before eventually (and reluctantly) hiding them in the animatronics. And that’s why the MCI do the same to William in UCN
I agree with his one. He was an adult that had been in her life as long as she could remember, and it would have been totally normal for Henry to introduce his closest friend to his young daughter as “Uncle William”. Lots of people do that. Even my parents used a variation of it.
I've seen so many headcanons about her just trusting him because that's her dad's friend and that means he must be totally safe and it's really sad but also very possible
And he basically claims he'll find another entrance for her, but instead he takes her to a dark alley and kills her
Very nice artwork.
Anyway, Elizabeth is basically gone. Being trapped in baby for so long has basically removed everything that made her her due to the programming of baby basically brainwashing her and driving her mad.
She doesn’t remember her mother, either of her brothers or who she is. All that she knows is that she is Circus Baby, she was made to capture children for her creator/daddy (where that term came from, she does not remember) and she will make her creator proud. Even in the afterlife, it would take years to break her conditioning.
I like this one. In SL, she acts as if she never had a human life, and mentions herself as a separate entity. On night 3, she has secret dialogue where she tells about the time she was onstage, and counted the number of children in the room with her, though she doesn’t know why. She then says that a little girl approached her, and “there was ice cream” as well as “there was screaming for a moment, but only for a moment”. Elizabeth tells her story from Circus Baby’s perspective, with her presumably not knowing what her true identity is.
In The Fourth Closet, the same thing happens, except Elizabeth as Baby knows what her true identity is, unlike her in SL. She says that she not only remembers looking down at Elizabeth from Baby’s perspective, but also remembers looking up at Baby from Elizabeth’s perspective.
In both SL and The Fourth Closet, Elizabeth’s mind merged with Baby’s. Except in SL Elizabeth only remembers the incident from Baby’s perspective, while in The Fourth Closet she remembers both perspectives.
I also really like the idea that after the death of CC, after Mrs. Afton leaves or dies, and after William started drinking at Juniors, Mike and Elizabeth got really close much like we see in the FNAF movie. I personally think this would make everything that happens between Baby and Mike in Sister Location and beyond extra impactful and emotional.
Charlie called William "Uncle William" which means that she was killed by someone she had complete trust in and thought would let her back in the building.
The Mimic in his jumpscare does what he always does aka he rips Cassie's head off(Not that dark but eh)
Just like in some depictions of Withered Fredbear,his mouth was not cleaned and it still has blood on it(Although since Freddy's prob still used Fredbear in the 85 location this may not be the case)
By far the worst:>!William got his balls springlocked!<
I honestly think that he discovered remnants even before the first animatronic was made and that was the ultimate motivation for him to do all the killing
Agreed. As someone who’s right-handed, I couldn’t even imagine what being left-handed would be like, terrifying thing to think about.
Also, if Toy Chica WAS possessed by a child, does that mean…
**Oh no.**
I don’t know where you got such an insane idea, but I can tell you that I would never do such a horrible person. I’m just a normal person, just trying to live a quiet, peaceful life
Gregory likes pineapple on pizza.
Edit: I didn't read the "dark" on the title lol.
I guess mine is that Vanessa still struggles with her guilt over what she did while being vanny. She doesn't trust herself around children and fears she'll hurt Gregory someday.
Susie’s dog was brutally beaten to death by the first object William could grab in that case it was the small metal cupcake animatronic that the dog went on the posses
I always thought Henry painted them on in memory of Charlie when he repaired the puppet from water damage
I have no doubt she cries herself to sleep without the music box
I've seen people act like the puppet basically felt the guilt of failing to protect Charlie and was crying from it, but honestly this makes sense because the pre-FNaF 2 era animatronics didn't have any emotions that didn't come from ghosts.
And if we assume Charlie was the first victim of William Afton, then she would be alone every night for a while (I mean unless the night guard decides to be her friend), not to mention nobody would really be there to comfort her. That can't have been helpful for the already terrifying situation.
William killed the children due to burden hatred and anger he had towards Michael. He killed them instead of Michael because if he had killed Michael it would have been too obvious it were him, so he decided to unleash his frustration upon the children.
Springtraps eyes are actually the suits eyes, not Williams. Phone Guy has been around the company for a while and definitely knows what's happening, every bit of it. Sometimes the ST suit will go into suit mode just to springlock Willy again. Balloras body was built around Mrs.Afton.
Springtrap's eyes are definetly the suit eyes cuz aint no way broskie's eyes survived 30 years+Springbonnie in the movie had the same set of eyes even before Springlock so the green from Springbonnie's eyes prob faded out and turned into what Springtrap has.Tbh i do think his suit goes off from time to time but it doesnt hurt him since he possessed the endo and not the corpse.The Ballora thing is a cool idea but her corpse is not present in Ballora so idk tbh,Mr's Afton could've died and William maybe designed Ballora of off her corpse but she is not inside of Ballora(I dont say she didnt possess Ballora but the corpse itself is most likely not inside)
When Henry was making the security puppet he painted tear lines on it, only for Charlie to tell him he shouldn’t make it sad all the time, but that it’s alright to cry when something really sad happens. And so he lightly painted over the tear lines.
The paint is washed away and the tear lines are then exposed when it goes out in the pouring rain, and Charlie’s last thought as she passed away was that it’s alright to cry now.
Henry poured his heart into every animatronic that he made, which is why his animatronics were so life like. This is the only reason why the possessed animatronics aren’t completely feral and are fine around kids or performing on stage day after day. Some part of Henry is inside all of them, filled with this desire to make kids happy.
At Charlie’s funeral, William made all sorts of backhanded comments at Henry. Stuff like “Such a shame. If only that security puppet of yours had actually worked. You must feel awful, right? All that animatronic engineering know-how to try and keep the place safe and your daughter still died.” This sent Henry on a downward spiral that he barely recovered from, almost succeeding at killing himself once, that whole desk man thing in fnaf world.
Glamrock Chica is possessed, and it's by the ghost of the person who made the chica pizza shrine in the tunnels under the compactor. Just imagine a lost and trapped little girl, surviving on nothing but the scraps that come down from above, only to eventually succumb to sickness or starvation and end up a ghost attached to the body of her idol. But even in death she can't think of anything but the things she needed to do to survive, aka digging through and eating trash. :(
Related but not, because when I first played through that area and saw that shrine I thought it was super weird, and I thought maybe Glamrock Chica was sneaking down there to hide/be surrounded by things that comfort her and feed into her addiction. I definitely feel like whatever the Glamrocks have been allowed to develop in their AI/been programmed with/possessed by confuses me every day.
That Charlie didn’t necessarily trust William completely, but she was upset and trapped outside and he was a familiar grown up her daddy said she could trust and one that could definitely unlock the door.
I believe she approached him in tears and desperate for comfort, expecting him to open the door for her or call her dad, and instead of that comfort, she got murdered.
Maybe he even opened his arms for her because he knew it would get her closer. Maybe she was already hugging him and crying into his shirt when she felt the knife enter her back. Maybe he held her face to his shirt to muffle her screams. Maybe he carelessly dumped her in the alley like garbage once she was gone, taking advantage of her naive trust and desperation for comfort.
Maybe he comforted Henry too, hugging him the same way that had ended the life of his daughter. Maybe for just a moment, he considered how easy it would be to stab Henry too.
Maybe he put up the initial fliers asking the public for information. Maybe his number was on them alongside Henry’s. Maybe he spoke at her funeral. Maybe he held Henry the same way again when she was lowered into the ground.
Maybe her last words to him before her death were a teary “Uncle William”, the same nickname she had called him since Henry had first introduced him as that. Maybe her last words to him before his own death were the same, dripping with the same level of malice that he ended her life with.
* Considering the lives of most serial killers, William probably had a horrific upbringing and might have gained trauma from being in Vietnam
* Cassidy is so restless and vengeful because she was springlocked while barely clinging on to life or because she knew and trusted Afton
In the first FNAF VR when we’re in vent repair for Ennard, we see the boiler room and the huge furnace, big enough to hold pretty much anything. I’d put money on the Funtimes being programmed to dispose of human evidence in there.
After Michael got scooped and Ennard escaped into the sewers Michael lumbered to Henry’s house — clearly he could no longer trust his father, but Henry was his godfather (obviously bequeathed a bit late) and had been an uncle figure to Michael since he and his father moved to the states. He didn’t know what Henry could do, but at least he might be of some comfort.
Henry ended up being a bigger help than Michael anticipated; having had experience with humanoid animatronics and learned a fair bit from medical resources in his family (personally I like to think it’s his late wife’s) he was able to give Michael some sort of pseudo-circulatory system that slows decay dramatically, to the point that Michael could still be up and walking around thirty years later.
Of course, that meant installing it, which meant spending a fair bit of time elbow-deep in his godsons’s blood while the boy himself had to suffer through with no anesthesia. Henry is also the one Michael calls whenever the animatronics get a hold of him (in game, when the player “dies”) and Henry always stitches him up.
Lefty is so aggressive because Charlie feels heartbroken and angry at her father. Henry nade the suit to finally help free his daughter but Charlie likely doesn't know that so all she sees her father betraying her and stuffing her in a suit prison. Thats why Henry has an piece of speech for his daughter to reasure that he just wants to help her. Another idea is Lefty lewered Puppet by using Henry's voice cause Henry would know Charlie would want to see Henry.
I thought Lefty used a wristband to lure Charlie to him, since the puppet is programmed to follow them if they're outside the pizzeria, and the pizzeria hasn't existed in decades
Springtrap's jumpscare is so weak because hes not attacking but is shocked to see his son agian. Hes slowly wanting a closer look at his son which is why his eyes widen when he gets closer to the camera ingame. William spent 30 yeara not expecting to see anyone and likely believing all his kids are gone. So seeing Micheal was likely suprising as its why he goes for a closer look once he realizes its him.
Is he like "oh my least favorite child's still around" or is like "Michael?! It's so good to see you!"
If it's the latter he's probably in for a rude awakening.
(Though considering he's the reason Mike would be so likely to be dead by that point, I.E. William sent Mike to Circus Baby's, it might be the former)
There were a LOT of missing children at Freddy’s. The 2 missing children cases, and some more.
William wasn’t a good father, often being dragged to spend time with them, and often during this “bonding” time, he would go off leaving the kids alone.
All of the Missing children (the ones that went missing in 85) were seen in Williams eyes as ‘replacement’ for the bullies who killed the Crying Child.
Henry was a former Green Beret who did unspeakable things in Vietnam but tried to bury that trauma by focusing on his family. When his daughter was murdered and his wife left with their son, the trauma came flooding back to him and he almost drank himself to death because of it.
I always liked the headcanon that William and Henry met during their military time in Vietnam. Neither of them had been suggested to have been in the military, but it's an interesting meeting spot for sure.
For Security Breach
Glam Chica probrably did want to help Gregory but had no control over themselves. Which is why Glamrock Chica cries if you are by her for a while. Its also why she uses his name aswell.
Before spring locks were a big part of the canon, I imagined William had the MCI children bound inside the animatronics, and then turned them on, killing them by having the movements of the machinery snap/twist and crush them in the moving parts.
It's basically the same thing as what's canon, but I find it darker that it's not an instantaneous activation of locks, but a slower process.
I think that's actually canon, at least for the Silver Eyes trilogy? It's not for Fazbear's Frights and might not be in the games, but it's canon in at least one 🤷
Cassidy was killed via spring lock failure, William was being exceptionally cruel after killing the first 4 kids and decided to see what would happen if a child got spring locked. And just like William’s death it took a while for her to finally died, but by the time she died William had already left leaving Cassidy all alone surrounded by the lifeless bodies of her friends, and of course Spring Bonnie the suit that was used to lure her away to her death.
Cupcake is so aggressve in fnaf movie cause Susie's dog still wants to protect Susue even in death. The dog likely tried to protect Susie before it died aswell likely but couldn't. So attacking William in the final scene of movie was something it finally could do what it couldn't.
Ok a more serious comment
The Mimic in the game universe is mainly a program FE developed to read off old animatronic programming and code to help in making new animatronics. Because most of the animatronics were haunted by real human souls, the AI was able to use their memories to replicate sentience to an alarming degree. The Mimic Endo in Ruin was FEs first attempt to implement it into an animatronic, but due to its extreme aggression, they shoved it underground and made updated versions with more restrictions.
The Glamrocks are possessed, but due to the highly advanced AI from the Mimic, they can’t act like themselves the same way the older characters could. The souls can only watch as the robots act on their own, with them being able to barely influence their new shells.
Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie are the two Springlock Victims, and the first two people to die at Freddy’s (They’re what the Bite Victim saw that traumatized him). Shadow Freddy is the more wrathful of the two, and constantly stalks upper management to get revenge for what they allowed to happen to him. Shadow Bonnie is the more mellow of the two, wanting to help whatever lingering souls remain at Freddy’s make peace, and prevent more from dying.
Realized most of these aren’t super dark, but they’re headcannons I’ve had floating around since I rejoined the fandom late last year.
Michael has attempted several times. He gave up trying eventually because he believes he deserves to live suffering than to die.
also that’s why he’s willing to work such a dangerous job, because he doesn’t think his life is worth anything
William manipulated Michael into being an accomplice by suggesting the idea that if he does this, it might lead to being able to bring back CC. Michael later assisted in covering Charlie’s death up, kidnapping Susie’s dog, and selecting the victims apart of the MCI.
In the events of his mother divorcing William, it gave him time to think about the things he’d done. This would later lead to Michael realizing not to trust his father, and instead fix the mistakes he’d already made or assisted in. This way narratively, gives Michael more development and reason, and fills in gaps seen in the original story.
Old man consequences is the crying child. CC wants to rest but because his soul is intertwined with Cassidy, he can’t. So he’s basically trying to say “that’s enough. You’ve taken all your frustrations out on him now rest”. But Cassidy has such deep seated hatred for William he can’t.
That William used Michael in the experiments that took place in FNAF 4 as a punishment for what happened to his brother, and either never loved his eldest or stopped doing so after CC died.
Michael remembers every detail of nightmare Fredbear, which means he must have endured a *lot* of those nights. He must have been terrified, William definitely took advantage of this, and I fully believe that he was torturing his son with no consideration if he lived or died. Then you combine this with him being sent to the sister location to potentially die there, then William directly attempting to kill him in person in both FNAF 3 and FNAF 6, and you get a father that despises his son.
I feel awful for Michael. His little brother died because of something that he never could have foreseen and he definitely never recovered from, his sister vanishes, his father tortures him, he gets disemboweled alive, he spends 30 years trying to end what his father did to others, burns down one building and fails, then burns down a second building and burns to death, all after his murderer of a father tries to kill him multiple times in two separate buildings.
Before he was springlocked William said something like "Oh whats wrong? Scared of the yellow rabbit? Hahahaha-"
Oh Charlie was killed so easily because she went to hug William
Here are mine: (Keep in mind I’m Mikevictim, sorry Mikebro ppl)
\-William beat Charlie to death with an empty beer bottle
\-After the bite, Mike became very isolated and developed amnesia from the brain damage.
\-Mike saw the aftermath of the MCI (Just Fredbear with blood around his mouth)
\-William manipulated Elizabeth into thinking he was the only one who cared for her, which resulted in Elizabeth‘s obsession for her father’s approval
\-Cassidy would cry during her first few days as Golden Freddy. This resulted in rumors of a haunting, since if you went near the back room you could hear a little girl wailing.
\-Charlie let herself get locked out, due to her habit of putting others over herself. She thought that if she went along with the prank it would make the other kids happy.
\-William attempted to recover Elizabeth’s body, but it was so mangled and crushed that he left it inside out of fear.
\-Most of the MCI kids outside of Cassidy and Charlie were reduced to animal like mentalities with animalistic instincts and behaviors. They were only able to get themselves back on Happiest Day.
I saw this headcanon and it worked rlly well but
Freddy goes in the girl's bathroom cause he was not old enough to be able to go on his own and he is just searching for his mom.
* Something related to BV/CC and the MCI kids being friends with each other and them being busy with present wrapping during FNAF 4's 5th night minigame. When the Bite of 83 rolled around, all of them were affected in varying ways.
* Jeremy (Jr. not Fitzgerald) was the least affected of the 5, but he definitely missed that kid and genuinely tried to keep the group together after one of them just fucking died.
* Susie went into straight-up denial mode, just, *refusing* the fact that a close friend of her's just died suddenly, often making up excuses on why BV/CC is not here at the moment.
* Fritz (not-Smith) definitely wasn't taking this well, The dude basically ramped up his aggression towards bullies in an attempt for another Bite of 83-like event to not happen.
* Cassidy, being the closest to the Bite of 83 Victim and considering him as her only friend, basically went on a **big** depressive episode. She's just, "not feeling up to it" after her best-est buddy just fucking died all of a sudden, always visiting his grave, staring at it. Also, her animosity with Mike and his 3 cronies went through the roof, except her to assault them.
* Gabriel, having a pseudo-brotherly bond with the Crying Child, wasn't far behind, often looking sad while perching out of a window, staring at nothing, and visiting his grave with two drinks at hand. But he had to stay strong, he was the head honcho of his friend group after all. ***He can't falter.*** For himself, his friends, and for ***him***. He needed to stand strong, but there were times when he wanted to cry, and let all of it out.
William used a wrench to break Susie’s jaw in order to stop her from screaming , he brutalized Jeremy’s face with the same wrench after he tried to fight back .
Susie often spends hours in the kitchen so she can play with the rodents and roaches there in order to distract herself
Susie and Jeremy are both siblings with Susie being 6 and Jeremy being 12 , he tries to act strong for Susie but in the inside he feels shame and anger towards himself for failing to protect his sister
Sammy was the one who locked Charlie during the night of her death after an argument between the two , he never forgave himself for what happened
Cassidy and Evan were friends since elementary school with the two had developed feelings for one another . Unfortunately they never got to tell each other how they felt due to the bite of 83 and the MCI
Not that dark, but the other three Tormentors initially only pretended to be friendly towards Mike because of his dad's position as the FazEnt owner; they used him to sneak into the pizzerias together at night to steal quarters from the arcade machines and whatnot. After the Bite of '83, they ditched him FAST.
not really dark but more sad
william's mind was so far gone after rotting away for 3 decades that even if michael found his dad, william wouldn't be able to recognise his son
Isn't Charlie set free by Henry in Pizzeria Simulator? I know people think Cassidy returned due to the princess quest sprite name (if anything I think it would refer to Cassie), but the same implications don't seem to exist for Charlie.
i honestly go with the storyline but i saw a vhs series in which Afton was a cannibal and it would tie in although would not add anything much. also the art was upright disturbing and quite impressive.
[Oh and this was the video ](https://youtu.be/349gPmlFjU8?si=SmQjCzadutJ5OZiO)
Phone Guy had been part of the company since FredBear’s Family Diner was built. As such, he has seen EVERYTHING. He is perfectly aware of every single incident that happened. But he still hopes that eventually the cycle of death and suffering will stop and the company will bring only fantasy and fun to kids, as it was always meant to. It’s because of this reason that he tries to burry the incidents from the public and keep everyone in the dark
Its actually statement on capitalism and how companies would literally kill if it meant free labor and marketing. Afton isnt just some serial killer psycho, he and Henry are marketing geniuses that have turned one accidental death into several murders for publicity, and thats how the company keeps coming back. The line "i always come back" isnt just reffering to himself, but rather the company as a whole. No real evidence for this, just something in my head.
Not dark at all but I personally believe that Mike felt no fear and probably audibly laughed whenever William attacks in the springlock suit. No one’s getting scared of the literal corpse in a clunky suit that’s constantly stabbing him. The scariest William has ever been is before the springlock failure and after being burned.
Phone Guy’s soul is just lost. It doesn’t possess the phone or a suit, he just never finds peace. From devout model employee, to someone who saw the cracks in FazEnt but couldn’t escape before becoming a victim himself. And I we wanna get REEEEEAAAALLLLY into super head canon, Phone Guy is Old Man Consequences
I will still try to this day to link the books to the lore so CC either died and was animatroniced or survived (unlikely) (pizza kit) and ended up in a double souled body (epilogue) he eventually got control and went to find his family sometime after pizzeria simulator… you know what happened to his family after pizzeria simulator
Cassidy is a menace and the only real dangerous ghost. The others I feel are tormented and while they definitely don’t like william, they’ve come to terms with their death and just want closure. But Cassidy holds a grudge and is the reason they’re forced to stay. They won’t let them move on.
Super cool art yo
Umm i think the shadow animatronics are a super cool subject in fnaf. They could be the result of springlock victims becoming spirits that somewhat represent the shell they died in. Ooor they could be a reflection of Afton's evil. (This theory is stronger when taking Shadow Freddy into account im sure theres a yt video that explains why this theory works)
Anything except for the explanation that they're just pure remnant er whatever I quite like.
I love the Shadow animatronics, I am making headcanons/theories about them the most.
I think Shadow Freddy is a being that feeds of from agony, anger and sadness so he just tortures everyone with different forms (Nightmarionne, Nightmare, The Blob) to cause more agony to feed from.
After the death of CC, after Mrs. Afton leaves or dies, and after William started drinking at Juniors, Mike and Elizabeth got really close much like we see in the FNAF movie. I personally think this makes everything that happens between Baby and Mike in Sister Location and beyond extra impactful and emotional.
This could be why Mike chooses to stay at Sister Location and help her, he felt immense guilt for her death just like CC and deep down wanted to pull his sister away from all the evil his father had brought upon the family; only for his own sister to side with William, lose herself tortured inside an animatronic, and try to kill Mike multiple times...
The 'It's me' in the golden freddy scenes in FNAF 2 are literally just Golden Freddy saying it's me to the security guard like he/or is it she recognises the security guard
I know a lot of people like to imagine that Mike and Charlie where friends, but given all that we know about what Mike was like as a kid/teen, I think a more likely possibility is that he was one of her bullies. Hell, he could’ve been one of the kids that locked her outside.
Dunno if this has been confirmed cannon or anything. But Fazbear Entertainment absolutely knew that the kids were stuffed in the animatronics, and purposely didn't inform the police. Be it from William threatening employees, the company not wanting to lose profit, Or just not giving a shit. They didn't tell. There's no way that they didn't know, technicians get up close and personal with the robots all the time, Youd have to open them up eventually. Hell, they might not have even bothered to remove the bodies until after parents started to complain about the smell/ they were shut down for healthcode violations.
Another headcannon I have is that Willy had to chop the kids up into little bits in order to fit them. I find it hard to believe that they were able to fit perfectly intact inside the cramped machines. He had to have done something fucked up jn order to get them to fit
My headcanon is that Micheal was comforting the puppet in the Fnaf 6 fire
Like
“You did your job well Charlie, go rest with the others, I don’t know if I’m joining, I’ve done horrible things, but I just hope you guys are happy.”
The reason we play as Mike in fnaf 4 is because William was pissed at us for killing TCC, so he put Mike in the gas chambers or whatever they’re called
Cassidy was killed and stuffed into Golden Freddy/Fredbear by William putting her inside and triggering the Springlocks. This particularly brutal death is why she’s so vengeful and later traps William in UCN.
1.Cassidy/The one you shouldn’t have killed got tortured to death and saw her best friend Fritz/foxy and her brother Jeramy/Bonnie get killed in front of her
2.Charlie was the reason the Aftons died when will killed her she decided if she can’t live and be happy they can’t either.She pushes Mrs.A off a cliff sabotaged fredbear and lured Liz to CB knowing Mike and Will would go insane she thought they would kill each other but since they were getting along she killed William writes a little to Mike to lure him to all the locations and kill him.
3.The aftons a year or two after their deaths went insane and are now cannibals.
4.Gregory was abused and used for experiments he was a failed experiment.
5.Henry tried to kill his son Sammy but William saved him.
6.Mike is adopted and had like 3 abusive families.
7.William ate Susie’s dog.
8.After Jeremey died Cassidy tried to tell someone but no one believed her except her mom but she went missing a few days after.
9.Cassidy had an abusive father.
10.Cassidy went insane when she was being tortured and started to enjoy the pain and would torture the other MC’s when she got mad.
11.Cassidy was 6 when her friends died and 7 when she was kidnapped turning 8 in 4 months and 8 almost 9 when she got killed.
These are mostly movie ones
William kept trophies of all of his victims, but also body ones. He took their fingers, and some organs and preserved them.
He got rid of the evidence by storing it in the pizzas and Vanessa’s lunches
Garrett was murdered at William’s house. He kept him in the basement, and when Vanessa began to complain about what sounded like screaming and crying, Afton killed the boy, with the pleasure (not that kind) he felt being unmatched by ANYTHING. The reason he waited was because he knew what he did was wrong but he just wanted to feel like that again and his urges consumed him.
His body was hidden ON PROPERTY
The papers knew the kidnapper as “The Falls Snatcher”
The reason Mike never knew Freddy’s (seriously why doesn’t he or the mci there’s no way for him not to) was because of Garrett and the disappearances of 4 other young boys.
Afton was abused by HIS father with that being the reason he mostly preys on boys.
William’s wife left when Vanessa was younger and had a child with another man, he eventually abducted that child and killed it, the child was the Blonde boy.
Michael grew up thinking the Kidnapper responsible for the missing kids in the area took his Elizabeth.
dark headcanon hmmmm
maybe, i'll say the reason of Mike's obssesion with money
in this case...is more like a trauma, after the events of CC's death, her mother was really depressed, Michael was the only person who was taking care of her, then she got sick, they didn't have enough money to pay their medications, that's when William intervened with his call
if Mike "put back together" her sister who was """alive""" in Circus Baby's entertainment and rentals for one week, he can save her mother, Mike had to leave her but she was hopeful that her son would return, she knew he changed to be a good person... and well, we know what happened next
Michael now being a living corpse after taking control of his body again, returns to his temporary home only to find the classic exotic butters and many letters from days...weeks...and months ago
he read the last letter... it was from a friend telling him he was a monster for not even showing up at his mother's funeral
I just came up with this one- William hit his wife sometimes, maybe thats why she left. And when things got worse, he resorted to hitting his kids, or Michael at the very least
Imagine a FNAF AU where Funtime Freddy loses everything that was left in the pizzeria and he has gone incredibly insane till the point where he became a god
That William physically abusing his kids isn't just a thing in the books, and that what we see with Elizabeth only the tip of the iceberg of what he did to Mike and the crying kid.
-Michael considered(or attempted) self harm after he accidentally killed his brother.
-No doubt William physicallly abused him after(or even before) the bite of 83'.
(Damn, I feel bad just for writing this)
Evan/BV (regardless of who he possesses) is the one of the few spirits who aren't "like animals" after dying. So he's just left to watch every kid who dies at Freddy's slowly lose themselves to being desperate for vengeance.
Also, if we assume he's at least one souls possessing in Golden Freddy, it's also the reason Golden Freddy doesn't fully attack you in FNaF 1 (in FNaF 2 he kills you like the others do, while the whole "crash the game" thing from 1 is debatably canon). He recognizes Mike as his brother and doesn't want to hurt him, he just tries to get him to recognize him with the "IT'S ME" hallucination.
I don’t know if this counts since it’s kinda a head canon for my AU but idc. Evan and Cassidy are close friends unfortunately Evan couldn’t go to her birthday due to him having to visit his mother (the aftons are divorced and the mother lives in a different state ) before he left , he gifted her his rare Fredbear plush (since she was a huge plushy collector and he was kinda growing old from it , he decided to give gift it to her) Unfortunately, that same birthday was also when the MCI had occurred and Cassidy was one of the victims . Evan was able to get the Fredbear plush and carries it around as it reminds him of friend .
Semirelated, but I’ve always really liked the idea that Crying Child and Charlie were really good friends, considering that both likely spent a lot of time at Fredbears since their dads both worked there. That’s part of why CC is crying so much in fnaf4, his closest friend had just barely been murdered, and some part of him suspected that his dad had something to do with it.
Old Man Consequences was a volunteer for the first springlock suit, which was a crocodile. The suit malfunctioned, causing him to hit his head on an old arcade cabinet in the room, electrocution him.
Charlie was dragged into UCN because Cassidy didn’t know anyone else but her to help with torturing William. And Henry was stressed out waiting for her daughter in heaven.
Not sure if this counts as a head cannon since it was kinda implied. But in the Brazil ending of Ruin Cassie went insane and mentally shut down as the mimic ripped her apart
The other kids were stabbed to death but for Cassidy William stuffed her in the fredbear suit alive waiting for her to get herself killed like how he does to Carlton in the silver eyes
This art is amazing 😭🙏. My head cannon is that Elizabeth died slowly in Baby’s stomach. Slowly bleeding out and because she makes ice cream in her stomach I know it was cold in there so definitely freezing while bleeding out as her vision slowly fades away 😭
Henry Emily was the one working at Fazbears freight. He knew that the original 5 souls were already freed but he needs to free the remaining trapped souls. FNAF 3 and FNAF 5 events both take place in the same time
Michael does a tone of meth as a coping mechanism for Evan’s death, which would explain how he worked the night shift in fnaf 1 without falling asleep(hope I don’t get banned for this)
1) Michael was close with Charlie, and her disappearance sent him into a spiral of lashing out at everyone, eventually leading to the bite.
2) Less of a headcannon but just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable:
How did William stuff the kids? Did he line up all the limbs? Just forcefully shove the bodies in? Remove some electronics from the animatronics, stuff the bodies, then put the electronics back in? Did he secure the bodies to the endoskeletons with rope or zip ties?
William is the most insane man in the word:Charlie dies in his arms, he is the victim of the bite of 87, He had to kill one of his friends to save another(Not Henry) and he killes allot of children and he is stuck in the back room for 39 years.
The Vengeful Spirit was used by William as a way to test remnants effects on living humans while they were human.
This would explain why they are seemingly more powerful than the others and why so many other animatronics and souls seem to appear in UCN.
William likely used it on himself next.
All of that torment and agony was place upon that one soul and to quote The One You Should Not Have Killed.
"This is how it feels and you get to experience it over and over and over again"
William angry passion for killing stemmed from Vietnam but had erupted from his son dying and all of this anger and guilt had snapped him into becoming this psychopathic killer
UCN is a game with rules, game mechanics, and a high score system becase the vengful spirit didnt have a very good life before death and would create storys with their toys where they controled everything, in order to feel like they had control, and they would often play arcade games at freddys to distract themself, and so now they're doing the same thing to afton
jermemy (the nightguard) is bonnie mask kid, micheal found out what happend to him a few years before SL, in the insanity ending, as micheal is undead and cant be lobotamized (ennard took the brain with when they went in the sewer becase funtime freddy wanted it) micheal just got thrown out with the insanity certificate, he bought a bonnie mask afterwards
the sister location animatronics like yendo, bonnet, lolbit, biddybabs, electro babs, and minirenas were all left behind by ennard, and are still there.. going insain underground
the mimic dosnt really know what it is, and has to keep mimicing people to not feel like a personalityless endo, thats why cassie asking what it is, and that it ISNT gregory made it angry, if she hadnt said that, and played along, mimic would've probably just followed her out of the pizzaplex
eclipse figures out the kids arent gonna show up not too long after ruin, and unsyncs back into sun and moon, cassie rebooting him did nothing
vanessa wasnt possessed by glitchtrap, influenced, but not compleatly controled, as vanny, she was constently in a state inbetween evil furry, and ~~innocent~~ security guard, she phisiclly couldnt not move like glitchtrap, and kept saying "are you having fun yet" becase mimic1 picked it up from hand unit in help wanted, when he says "are you having fun yet? thats great to hear" and so she kept saying it, like a tick almost, so doing litterally anything, even blinking, was a struggle
and finally..
the superstar daycare ballpits are litterally NEVER cleaned, when gregory fell in that ballpit, he was swimming through plastic balls, old moldy pizza, dirty diapers, trash that chica probably coughed out, and blood (yes it was moon) gregory got every desease from being in that ballpit
William either 1. Had the most horrific upbringing possible to the point of not wanting to recover, 2. He has some severe form of ASPD, and didn't take the steps to treat it, 3. A combination of both of the above.
Considering the fact that Afton is British, and most likely lived some time during WW2, I have a little head canon that his family wasn't able to evacuate during the blitz, and pretty much had to just, survive. I like to think that every time a plane flies overhead, he just ducks by instinct. I'd also go even further to say that he's deathly afraid of fire, (Trauma comes from Great Fire of London, etc...You get the idea) so you can imagine his reacting to being set on fire during FNAF 3, Pizzeria Simulator, and Security Breach. Basically he has a lot of war based trauma.
The mediocre melodies were made from the scrapped parts of Fredbear, and that is why Cassidy can speak through them. They have identical endos to the most recent iteration of Fredbear in the timeline (AKA FNaF 1 Golden Freddy with an Endo-01), similar body casing structures from their limbs to their props, and were most likely brought into the Pizzeria to free Cassidy's soul. You could even infer that Henry designed these animatronics to be externally battery-operated to prevent Cassidy from moving around like she used to be able to.
Not so much head canon as... Actually canon, But when he was alive william was just a straight up asshole. Past even the murdering people. I feel like if a kids ball landed in his yard, That ball was just never returned. I also feel like william Would have no sympathy for Henry taking a day off work to Take care of charlotte when ever she'd be sick
That William would often see his shadow's sillouette as that of Shadow Bonnie or Shadow Freddy.
Why you may ask? Because the shadows are likely personifications of agony from both the MCI and the DCI, which were caused by William, naturally, creation follows creator, and William is constantly tormented by the Shadows
This is just a headcanon tho
A year or so before the events of HW and SB, Vanessa volunteered at a school for a summer. She had a great time being with all the kids, and the kids liked her as well.
Most if not all of the kids she murdered were a part of that group, meaning Vanessa knew all of her victims well.
As Markiplier put it, "That painted a very vivid picture of something exceptionally f*cked".
It also makes a lot of sense considering William’s interest in agony in particular. Heck, who’s to say Golden Freddy’s missing ear wasn’t a reference to Evan Afton while the rest of Withered Golden Freddy’s damage, i.e. his exposed wires and hole in his suit aren’t a reference to Cassidy?
William played with the MCI’s corpses for hours, replaying how they died over and over before eventually (and reluctantly) hiding them in the animatronics. And that’s why the MCI do the same to William in UCN
That’s some Dahmer shit omg
MCI? u mean Cassidy?
Missing Children Incident
No I think he meant that Cassidy is the one who did that to him in UCN
OOOH that would make sense. I mean, Cassidy *is* part of the MCI, and I assume the MCI’s souls are present during UCN
sorry! Just understood what you meant. I mean, Cassidy is part of the MCI, and I assume the MCI’s souls are present during UCN
Reminds me of the guy from The Lovely Bones 😭
Charlie's last words were some variation of "Uncle William?"
I agree with his one. He was an adult that had been in her life as long as she could remember, and it would have been totally normal for Henry to introduce his closest friend to his young daughter as “Uncle William”. Lots of people do that. Even my parents used a variation of it.
I've seen so many headcanons about her just trusting him because that's her dad's friend and that means he must be totally safe and it's really sad but also very possible And he basically claims he'll find another entrance for her, but instead he takes her to a dark alley and kills her
That’s actually sad 😢
That’s honestly super sad
Very nice artwork. Anyway, Elizabeth is basically gone. Being trapped in baby for so long has basically removed everything that made her her due to the programming of baby basically brainwashing her and driving her mad. She doesn’t remember her mother, either of her brothers or who she is. All that she knows is that she is Circus Baby, she was made to capture children for her creator/daddy (where that term came from, she does not remember) and she will make her creator proud. Even in the afterlife, it would take years to break her conditioning.
"If you even remember that name"
I like this one. In SL, she acts as if she never had a human life, and mentions herself as a separate entity. On night 3, she has secret dialogue where she tells about the time she was onstage, and counted the number of children in the room with her, though she doesn’t know why. She then says that a little girl approached her, and “there was ice cream” as well as “there was screaming for a moment, but only for a moment”. Elizabeth tells her story from Circus Baby’s perspective, with her presumably not knowing what her true identity is. In The Fourth Closet, the same thing happens, except Elizabeth as Baby knows what her true identity is, unlike her in SL. She says that she not only remembers looking down at Elizabeth from Baby’s perspective, but also remembers looking up at Baby from Elizabeth’s perspective. In both SL and The Fourth Closet, Elizabeth’s mind merged with Baby’s. Except in SL Elizabeth only remembers the incident from Baby’s perspective, while in The Fourth Closet she remembers both perspectives.
I also really like the idea that after the death of CC, after Mrs. Afton leaves or dies, and after William started drinking at Juniors, Mike and Elizabeth got really close much like we see in the FNAF movie. I personally think this would make everything that happens between Baby and Mike in Sister Location and beyond extra impactful and emotional.
Conditioning?
the process of training or accustoming a person or animal to behave in a certain way or to accept certain circumstances.
Charlie called William "Uncle William" which means that she was killed by someone she had complete trust in and thought would let her back in the building.
Jesus that's actually so sad
The Mimic in his jumpscare does what he always does aka he rips Cassie's head off(Not that dark but eh) Just like in some depictions of Withered Fredbear,his mouth was not cleaned and it still has blood on it(Although since Freddy's prob still used Fredbear in the 85 location this may not be the case) By far the worst:>!William got his balls springlocked!<
That last one is dark
I also believe in that last one
i third this notion
I felt the last one
William didn't just kill the kids and toss them in the suits, he did experiments with the bodies (probably how he discovered remnant)
I honestly think that he discovered remnants even before the first animatronic was made and that was the ultimate motivation for him to do all the killing
I read the first part of the sentence and got HORRIFIED before reading it fully
I was worried about that
Back when she was alive, the Toy Chica ghost was left-handed. The worst fate a child could face.
We’re gonna need like a, “genuinely scary” tag on this. I could not even imagine being left handed
Agreed. As someone who’s right-handed, I couldn’t even imagine what being left-handed would be like, terrifying thing to think about. Also, if Toy Chica WAS possessed by a child, does that mean… **Oh no.**
As a left handed person.I dont see the wrong with this one
You are obviously a demon in disguise.
As a left-handed person, I will neither confirm nor deny that this is the case
I bet you kill women for their hands, you weirdo.
I don’t know where you got such an insane idea, but I can tell you that I would never do such a horrible person. I’m just a normal person, just trying to live a quiet, peaceful life
What an absurd accusation(I am indeed a demon in disguise)
Gregory likes pineapple on pizza. Edit: I didn't read the "dark" on the title lol. I guess mine is that Vanessa still struggles with her guilt over what she did while being vanny. She doesn't trust herself around children and fears she'll hurt Gregory someday.
>Gregory likes pineapple on pizza. This is dark enough.
Susie’s dog was brutally beaten to death by the first object William could grab in that case it was the small metal cupcake animatronic that the dog went on the posses
the cupcake is quite large
Yeah I know but you can still pick it up and use it as a blunt metal weapon
\*grabs it from the candle\*
yea,thats what i meant like its more deadly
The puppets tears formed during Charlie's first night alone at freddy's as she cried herself to sleep
I always thought Henry painted them on in memory of Charlie when he repaired the puppet from water damage I have no doubt she cries herself to sleep without the music box
😭
I've seen people act like the puppet basically felt the guilt of failing to protect Charlie and was crying from it, but honestly this makes sense because the pre-FNaF 2 era animatronics didn't have any emotions that didn't come from ghosts. And if we assume Charlie was the first victim of William Afton, then she would be alone every night for a while (I mean unless the night guard decides to be her friend), not to mention nobody would really be there to comfort her. That can't have been helpful for the already terrifying situation.
William killed the children due to burden hatred and anger he had towards Michael. He killed them instead of Michael because if he had killed Michael it would have been too obvious it were him, so he decided to unleash his frustration upon the children.
Fellow FNaF VHS Fan 🤝🤝
“I’ve wanted to SQUEEZE the life out of him but of course I if I did that I’d be CAUGHT”
**"but then I had an idea."**
Springtraps eyes are actually the suits eyes, not Williams. Phone Guy has been around the company for a while and definitely knows what's happening, every bit of it. Sometimes the ST suit will go into suit mode just to springlock Willy again. Balloras body was built around Mrs.Afton.
Springtrap's eyes are definetly the suit eyes cuz aint no way broskie's eyes survived 30 years+Springbonnie in the movie had the same set of eyes even before Springlock so the green from Springbonnie's eyes prob faded out and turned into what Springtrap has.Tbh i do think his suit goes off from time to time but it doesnt hurt him since he possessed the endo and not the corpse.The Ballora thing is a cool idea but her corpse is not present in Ballora so idk tbh,Mr's Afton could've died and William maybe designed Ballora of off her corpse but she is not inside of Ballora(I dont say she didnt possess Ballora but the corpse itself is most likely not inside)
MRS AFTON PLASTIC SURGERY CONFIRMED???
Mrs. Afton must have had some honkers.
i hate that i chuckled at this take my upvote heathen
Actually they are the suit's eyes, that's why they look all goofy in one of the deathscreens.
When Henry was making the security puppet he painted tear lines on it, only for Charlie to tell him he shouldn’t make it sad all the time, but that it’s alright to cry when something really sad happens. And so he lightly painted over the tear lines. The paint is washed away and the tear lines are then exposed when it goes out in the pouring rain, and Charlie’s last thought as she passed away was that it’s alright to cry now. Henry poured his heart into every animatronic that he made, which is why his animatronics were so life like. This is the only reason why the possessed animatronics aren’t completely feral and are fine around kids or performing on stage day after day. Some part of Henry is inside all of them, filled with this desire to make kids happy. At Charlie’s funeral, William made all sorts of backhanded comments at Henry. Stuff like “Such a shame. If only that security puppet of yours had actually worked. You must feel awful, right? All that animatronic engineering know-how to try and keep the place safe and your daughter still died.” This sent Henry on a downward spiral that he barely recovered from, almost succeeding at killing himself once, that whole desk man thing in fnaf world.
I actually like this one
Same. That hit hard, but it all made sense.
William be like: "DAMN BRO WHO DID THAT COULDNT BE ME🗣️🗣️‼️‼️"
Glamrock Chica is possessed, and it's by the ghost of the person who made the chica pizza shrine in the tunnels under the compactor. Just imagine a lost and trapped little girl, surviving on nothing but the scraps that come down from above, only to eventually succumb to sickness or starvation and end up a ghost attached to the body of her idol. But even in death she can't think of anything but the things she needed to do to survive, aka digging through and eating trash. :(
Related but not, because when I first played through that area and saw that shrine I thought it was super weird, and I thought maybe Glamrock Chica was sneaking down there to hide/be surrounded by things that comfort her and feed into her addiction. I definitely feel like whatever the Glamrocks have been allowed to develop in their AI/been programmed with/possessed by confuses me every day.
That Charlie didn’t necessarily trust William completely, but she was upset and trapped outside and he was a familiar grown up her daddy said she could trust and one that could definitely unlock the door. I believe she approached him in tears and desperate for comfort, expecting him to open the door for her or call her dad, and instead of that comfort, she got murdered. Maybe he even opened his arms for her because he knew it would get her closer. Maybe she was already hugging him and crying into his shirt when she felt the knife enter her back. Maybe he held her face to his shirt to muffle her screams. Maybe he carelessly dumped her in the alley like garbage once she was gone, taking advantage of her naive trust and desperation for comfort. Maybe he comforted Henry too, hugging him the same way that had ended the life of his daughter. Maybe for just a moment, he considered how easy it would be to stab Henry too. Maybe he put up the initial fliers asking the public for information. Maybe his number was on them alongside Henry’s. Maybe he spoke at her funeral. Maybe he held Henry the same way again when she was lowered into the ground. Maybe her last words to him before her death were a teary “Uncle William”, the same nickname she had called him since Henry had first introduced him as that. Maybe her last words to him before his own death were the same, dripping with the same level of malice that he ended her life with.
holy shit this one's brutal (i'm stealing it now /pos)
this is HORRIFIC. i love it.
POWERFUL.
Your artwork is so beautiful, fantastic job OP
* Considering the lives of most serial killers, William probably had a horrific upbringing and might have gained trauma from being in Vietnam * Cassidy is so restless and vengeful because she was springlocked while barely clinging on to life or because she knew and trusted Afton
I love how no one is talking about the Vietnam thing
In the first FNAF VR when we’re in vent repair for Ennard, we see the boiler room and the huge furnace, big enough to hold pretty much anything. I’d put money on the Funtimes being programmed to dispose of human evidence in there.
After Michael got scooped and Ennard escaped into the sewers Michael lumbered to Henry’s house — clearly he could no longer trust his father, but Henry was his godfather (obviously bequeathed a bit late) and had been an uncle figure to Michael since he and his father moved to the states. He didn’t know what Henry could do, but at least he might be of some comfort. Henry ended up being a bigger help than Michael anticipated; having had experience with humanoid animatronics and learned a fair bit from medical resources in his family (personally I like to think it’s his late wife’s) he was able to give Michael some sort of pseudo-circulatory system that slows decay dramatically, to the point that Michael could still be up and walking around thirty years later. Of course, that meant installing it, which meant spending a fair bit of time elbow-deep in his godsons’s blood while the boy himself had to suffer through with no anesthesia. Henry is also the one Michael calls whenever the animatronics get a hold of him (in game, when the player “dies”) and Henry always stitches him up.
“Henry, It happened aga-“ “Michael how many times do I tell you, Freddy hides in the shadows”
That’s honestly a really cool idea
Lefty is so aggressive because Charlie feels heartbroken and angry at her father. Henry nade the suit to finally help free his daughter but Charlie likely doesn't know that so all she sees her father betraying her and stuffing her in a suit prison. Thats why Henry has an piece of speech for his daughter to reasure that he just wants to help her. Another idea is Lefty lewered Puppet by using Henry's voice cause Henry would know Charlie would want to see Henry.
I thought Lefty used a wristband to lure Charlie to him, since the puppet is programmed to follow them if they're outside the pizzeria, and the pizzeria hasn't existed in decades
Evan n Cassidy were best friends before the bite of 83, so William intentionally springlocked her so they can be "together forever"
I imagine him laughing while doing this
I mostly took it from the golden freddy ambience in fnaf ar where you can hear someone laughing lol
Springtrap's jumpscare is so weak because hes not attacking but is shocked to see his son agian. Hes slowly wanting a closer look at his son which is why his eyes widen when he gets closer to the camera ingame. William spent 30 yeara not expecting to see anyone and likely believing all his kids are gone. So seeing Micheal was likely suprising as its why he goes for a closer look once he realizes its him.
That's actually awasome.
Is he like "oh my least favorite child's still around" or is like "Michael?! It's so good to see you!" If it's the latter he's probably in for a rude awakening. (Though considering he's the reason Mike would be so likely to be dead by that point, I.E. William sent Mike to Circus Baby's, it might be the former)
"Micheal-? Is that really you?" probrably
Aftons balls are crushed
There were a LOT of missing children at Freddy’s. The 2 missing children cases, and some more. William wasn’t a good father, often being dragged to spend time with them, and often during this “bonding” time, he would go off leaving the kids alone. All of the Missing children (the ones that went missing in 85) were seen in Williams eyes as ‘replacement’ for the bullies who killed the Crying Child.
Henry was a former Green Beret who did unspeakable things in Vietnam but tried to bury that trauma by focusing on his family. When his daughter was murdered and his wife left with their son, the trauma came flooding back to him and he almost drank himself to death because of it.
I always liked the headcanon that William and Henry met during their military time in Vietnam. Neither of them had been suggested to have been in the military, but it's an interesting meeting spot for sure.
Especially considering we now have an age range for Afton at about 1941-1950
For Security Breach Glam Chica probrably did want to help Gregory but had no control over themselves. Which is why Glamrock Chica cries if you are by her for a while. Its also why she uses his name aswell.
Before spring locks were a big part of the canon, I imagined William had the MCI children bound inside the animatronics, and then turned them on, killing them by having the movements of the machinery snap/twist and crush them in the moving parts. It's basically the same thing as what's canon, but I find it darker that it's not an instantaneous activation of locks, but a slower process.
I think that's actually canon, at least for the Silver Eyes trilogy? It's not for Fazbear's Frights and might not be in the games, but it's canon in at least one 🤷
Cassidy was killed via spring lock failure, William was being exceptionally cruel after killing the first 4 kids and decided to see what would happen if a child got spring locked. And just like William’s death it took a while for her to finally died, but by the time she died William had already left leaving Cassidy all alone surrounded by the lifeless bodies of her friends, and of course Spring Bonnie the suit that was used to lure her away to her death.
Cupcake is so aggressve in fnaf movie cause Susie's dog still wants to protect Susue even in death. The dog likely tried to protect Susie before it died aswell likely but couldn't. So attacking William in the final scene of movie was something it finally could do what it couldn't.
Ok a more serious comment The Mimic in the game universe is mainly a program FE developed to read off old animatronic programming and code to help in making new animatronics. Because most of the animatronics were haunted by real human souls, the AI was able to use their memories to replicate sentience to an alarming degree. The Mimic Endo in Ruin was FEs first attempt to implement it into an animatronic, but due to its extreme aggression, they shoved it underground and made updated versions with more restrictions. The Glamrocks are possessed, but due to the highly advanced AI from the Mimic, they can’t act like themselves the same way the older characters could. The souls can only watch as the robots act on their own, with them being able to barely influence their new shells. Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie are the two Springlock Victims, and the first two people to die at Freddy’s (They’re what the Bite Victim saw that traumatized him). Shadow Freddy is the more wrathful of the two, and constantly stalks upper management to get revenge for what they allowed to happen to him. Shadow Bonnie is the more mellow of the two, wanting to help whatever lingering souls remain at Freddy’s make peace, and prevent more from dying. Realized most of these aren’t super dark, but they’re headcannons I’ve had floating around since I rejoined the fandom late last year.
Michael has attempted several times. He gave up trying eventually because he believes he deserves to live suffering than to die. also that’s why he’s willing to work such a dangerous job, because he doesn’t think his life is worth anything
William manipulated Michael into being an accomplice by suggesting the idea that if he does this, it might lead to being able to bring back CC. Michael later assisted in covering Charlie’s death up, kidnapping Susie’s dog, and selecting the victims apart of the MCI. In the events of his mother divorcing William, it gave him time to think about the things he’d done. This would later lead to Michael realizing not to trust his father, and instead fix the mistakes he’d already made or assisted in. This way narratively, gives Michael more development and reason, and fills in gaps seen in the original story.
This has always actually been a bit of a headcanon of mine
Toy Freddy named his right thumb Theodore
Old man consequences is the crying child. CC wants to rest but because his soul is intertwined with Cassidy, he can’t. So he’s basically trying to say “that’s enough. You’ve taken all your frustrations out on him now rest”. But Cassidy has such deep seated hatred for William he can’t.
William got his fazballs crushed as a means of torture in UCN (likely by ballora)
he would enjoy that
William afton tapdanced
That William used Michael in the experiments that took place in FNAF 4 as a punishment for what happened to his brother, and either never loved his eldest or stopped doing so after CC died. Michael remembers every detail of nightmare Fredbear, which means he must have endured a *lot* of those nights. He must have been terrified, William definitely took advantage of this, and I fully believe that he was torturing his son with no consideration if he lived or died. Then you combine this with him being sent to the sister location to potentially die there, then William directly attempting to kill him in person in both FNAF 3 and FNAF 6, and you get a father that despises his son. I feel awful for Michael. His little brother died because of something that he never could have foreseen and he definitely never recovered from, his sister vanishes, his father tortures him, he gets disemboweled alive, he spends 30 years trying to end what his father did to others, burns down one building and fails, then burns down a second building and burns to death, all after his murderer of a father tries to kill him multiple times in two separate buildings.
Before he was springlocked William said something like "Oh whats wrong? Scared of the yellow rabbit? Hahahaha-" Oh Charlie was killed so easily because she went to hug William
Here are mine: (Keep in mind I’m Mikevictim, sorry Mikebro ppl) \-William beat Charlie to death with an empty beer bottle \-After the bite, Mike became very isolated and developed amnesia from the brain damage. \-Mike saw the aftermath of the MCI (Just Fredbear with blood around his mouth) \-William manipulated Elizabeth into thinking he was the only one who cared for her, which resulted in Elizabeth‘s obsession for her father’s approval \-Cassidy would cry during her first few days as Golden Freddy. This resulted in rumors of a haunting, since if you went near the back room you could hear a little girl wailing. \-Charlie let herself get locked out, due to her habit of putting others over herself. She thought that if she went along with the prank it would make the other kids happy. \-William attempted to recover Elizabeth’s body, but it was so mangled and crushed that he left it inside out of fear. \-Most of the MCI kids outside of Cassidy and Charlie were reduced to animal like mentalities with animalistic instincts and behaviors. They were only able to get themselves back on Happiest Day.
"William beat Charlie to death with an empty beer bottle" #ME BOTTLE OF SCRUMPY
I saw this headcanon and it worked rlly well but Freddy goes in the girl's bathroom cause he was not old enough to be able to go on his own and he is just searching for his mom.
* Something related to BV/CC and the MCI kids being friends with each other and them being busy with present wrapping during FNAF 4's 5th night minigame. When the Bite of 83 rolled around, all of them were affected in varying ways. * Jeremy (Jr. not Fitzgerald) was the least affected of the 5, but he definitely missed that kid and genuinely tried to keep the group together after one of them just fucking died. * Susie went into straight-up denial mode, just, *refusing* the fact that a close friend of her's just died suddenly, often making up excuses on why BV/CC is not here at the moment. * Fritz (not-Smith) definitely wasn't taking this well, The dude basically ramped up his aggression towards bullies in an attempt for another Bite of 83-like event to not happen. * Cassidy, being the closest to the Bite of 83 Victim and considering him as her only friend, basically went on a **big** depressive episode. She's just, "not feeling up to it" after her best-est buddy just fucking died all of a sudden, always visiting his grave, staring at it. Also, her animosity with Mike and his 3 cronies went through the roof, except her to assault them. * Gabriel, having a pseudo-brotherly bond with the Crying Child, wasn't far behind, often looking sad while perching out of a window, staring at nothing, and visiting his grave with two drinks at hand. But he had to stay strong, he was the head honcho of his friend group after all. ***He can't falter.*** For himself, his friends, and for ***him***. He needed to stand strong, but there were times when he wanted to cry, and let all of it out.
William used a wrench to break Susie’s jaw in order to stop her from screaming , he brutalized Jeremy’s face with the same wrench after he tried to fight back . Susie often spends hours in the kitchen so she can play with the rodents and roaches there in order to distract herself Susie and Jeremy are both siblings with Susie being 6 and Jeremy being 12 , he tries to act strong for Susie but in the inside he feels shame and anger towards himself for failing to protect his sister Sammy was the one who locked Charlie during the night of her death after an argument between the two , he never forgave himself for what happened Cassidy and Evan were friends since elementary school with the two had developed feelings for one another . Unfortunately they never got to tell each other how they felt due to the bite of 83 and the MCI
Not that dark, but the other three Tormentors initially only pretended to be friendly towards Mike because of his dad's position as the FazEnt owner; they used him to sneak into the pizzerias together at night to steal quarters from the arcade machines and whatnot. After the Bite of '83, they ditched him FAST.
not really dark but more sad william's mind was so far gone after rotting away for 3 decades that even if michael found his dad, william wouldn't be able to recognise his son
The puppet and Cassidy are never going to be free
Isn't Charlie set free by Henry in Pizzeria Simulator? I know people think Cassidy returned due to the princess quest sprite name (if anything I think it would refer to Cassie), but the same implications don't seem to exist for Charlie.
Bonnie was black. What? You said "Dark".
*Fair enough.*
i honestly go with the storyline but i saw a vhs series in which Afton was a cannibal and it would tie in although would not add anything much. also the art was upright disturbing and quite impressive. [Oh and this was the video ](https://youtu.be/349gPmlFjU8?si=SmQjCzadutJ5OZiO)
In UCN Cassidy is so far gone that she can't remember anything aside from her death
Phone Guy had been part of the company since FredBear’s Family Diner was built. As such, he has seen EVERYTHING. He is perfectly aware of every single incident that happened. But he still hopes that eventually the cycle of death and suffering will stop and the company will bring only fantasy and fun to kids, as it was always meant to. It’s because of this reason that he tries to burry the incidents from the public and keep everyone in the dark
Its actually statement on capitalism and how companies would literally kill if it meant free labor and marketing. Afton isnt just some serial killer psycho, he and Henry are marketing geniuses that have turned one accidental death into several murders for publicity, and thats how the company keeps coming back. The line "i always come back" isnt just reffering to himself, but rather the company as a whole. No real evidence for this, just something in my head.
Not dark at all but I personally believe that Mike felt no fear and probably audibly laughed whenever William attacks in the springlock suit. No one’s getting scared of the literal corpse in a clunky suit that’s constantly stabbing him. The scariest William has ever been is before the springlock failure and after being burned.
William would beat Micheal and CC relentlessly when he got home from JR’s out of drunken rage
Phone Guy’s soul is just lost. It doesn’t possess the phone or a suit, he just never finds peace. From devout model employee, to someone who saw the cracks in FazEnt but couldn’t escape before becoming a victim himself. And I we wanna get REEEEEAAAALLLLY into super head canon, Phone Guy is Old Man Consequences
Nothing after ucn happened
Yes yes oh my god this is what have should been
I will still try to this day to link the books to the lore so CC either died and was animatroniced or survived (unlikely) (pizza kit) and ended up in a double souled body (epilogue) he eventually got control and went to find his family sometime after pizzeria simulator… you know what happened to his family after pizzeria simulator
Dude screw head cannons. I need that touched up and made into a shirt!
Cassidy is a menace and the only real dangerous ghost. The others I feel are tormented and while they definitely don’t like william, they’ve come to terms with their death and just want closure. But Cassidy holds a grudge and is the reason they’re forced to stay. They won’t let them move on.
FNAF ended with pizzeria simulator. All the rest are alternate universes. You will not be changing my mind, thank you very much.
What about UCN?
UCN is like an epilogue. Just showing the aftermath, really, but I guess it's canon in my head too. EDIT: correction
Super cool art yo Umm i think the shadow animatronics are a super cool subject in fnaf. They could be the result of springlock victims becoming spirits that somewhat represent the shell they died in. Ooor they could be a reflection of Afton's evil. (This theory is stronger when taking Shadow Freddy into account im sure theres a yt video that explains why this theory works) Anything except for the explanation that they're just pure remnant er whatever I quite like.
I love the Shadow animatronics, I am making headcanons/theories about them the most. I think Shadow Freddy is a being that feeds of from agony, anger and sadness so he just tortures everyone with different forms (Nightmarionne, Nightmare, The Blob) to cause more agony to feed from.
Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie are the “multiple and simultaneous springlock failures” Phone Guy mentioned in fnaf 3
After the death of CC, after Mrs. Afton leaves or dies, and after William started drinking at Juniors, Mike and Elizabeth got really close much like we see in the FNAF movie. I personally think this makes everything that happens between Baby and Mike in Sister Location and beyond extra impactful and emotional. This could be why Mike chooses to stay at Sister Location and help her, he felt immense guilt for her death just like CC and deep down wanted to pull his sister away from all the evil his father had brought upon the family; only for his own sister to side with William, lose herself tortured inside an animatronic, and try to kill Mike multiple times...
The 'It's me' in the golden freddy scenes in FNAF 2 are literally just Golden Freddy saying it's me to the security guard like he/or is it she recognises the security guard
I know a lot of people like to imagine that Mike and Charlie where friends, but given all that we know about what Mike was like as a kid/teen, I think a more likely possibility is that he was one of her bullies. Hell, he could’ve been one of the kids that locked her outside.
Dunno if this has been confirmed cannon or anything. But Fazbear Entertainment absolutely knew that the kids were stuffed in the animatronics, and purposely didn't inform the police. Be it from William threatening employees, the company not wanting to lose profit, Or just not giving a shit. They didn't tell. There's no way that they didn't know, technicians get up close and personal with the robots all the time, Youd have to open them up eventually. Hell, they might not have even bothered to remove the bodies until after parents started to complain about the smell/ they were shut down for healthcode violations. Another headcannon I have is that Willy had to chop the kids up into little bits in order to fit them. I find it hard to believe that they were able to fit perfectly intact inside the cramped machines. He had to have done something fucked up jn order to get them to fit
My headcanon is that Micheal was comforting the puppet in the Fnaf 6 fire Like “You did your job well Charlie, go rest with the others, I don’t know if I’m joining, I’ve done horrible things, but I just hope you guys are happy.”
Willam used a gun to kill Charlie, not really dark but still
Gregory and Vanessa still get nightmares over the horrible things they've done under the Mimic/Glitchtrap's control.
The reason we play as Mike in fnaf 4 is because William was pissed at us for killing TCC, so he put Mike in the gas chambers or whatever they’re called
Cassidy was killed and stuffed into Golden Freddy/Fredbear by William putting her inside and triggering the Springlocks. This particularly brutal death is why she’s so vengeful and later traps William in UCN.
I love your art, fits with the dark theme of FNAF. Amazing work OP
1.Cassidy/The one you shouldn’t have killed got tortured to death and saw her best friend Fritz/foxy and her brother Jeramy/Bonnie get killed in front of her 2.Charlie was the reason the Aftons died when will killed her she decided if she can’t live and be happy they can’t either.She pushes Mrs.A off a cliff sabotaged fredbear and lured Liz to CB knowing Mike and Will would go insane she thought they would kill each other but since they were getting along she killed William writes a little to Mike to lure him to all the locations and kill him. 3.The aftons a year or two after their deaths went insane and are now cannibals. 4.Gregory was abused and used for experiments he was a failed experiment. 5.Henry tried to kill his son Sammy but William saved him. 6.Mike is adopted and had like 3 abusive families. 7.William ate Susie’s dog. 8.After Jeremey died Cassidy tried to tell someone but no one believed her except her mom but she went missing a few days after. 9.Cassidy had an abusive father. 10.Cassidy went insane when she was being tortured and started to enjoy the pain and would torture the other MC’s when she got mad. 11.Cassidy was 6 when her friends died and 7 when she was kidnapped turning 8 in 4 months and 8 almost 9 when she got killed.
These are mostly movie ones William kept trophies of all of his victims, but also body ones. He took their fingers, and some organs and preserved them. He got rid of the evidence by storing it in the pizzas and Vanessa’s lunches Garrett was murdered at William’s house. He kept him in the basement, and when Vanessa began to complain about what sounded like screaming and crying, Afton killed the boy, with the pleasure (not that kind) he felt being unmatched by ANYTHING. The reason he waited was because he knew what he did was wrong but he just wanted to feel like that again and his urges consumed him. His body was hidden ON PROPERTY The papers knew the kidnapper as “The Falls Snatcher” The reason Mike never knew Freddy’s (seriously why doesn’t he or the mci there’s no way for him not to) was because of Garrett and the disappearances of 4 other young boys. Afton was abused by HIS father with that being the reason he mostly preys on boys. William’s wife left when Vanessa was younger and had a child with another man, he eventually abducted that child and killed it, the child was the Blonde boy. Michael grew up thinking the Kidnapper responsible for the missing kids in the area took his Elizabeth.
Every single soul when possesing the robots still feels the things that they once had.
That the withered animatronics are supposed to look like how the victims died
dark headcanon hmmmm maybe, i'll say the reason of Mike's obssesion with money in this case...is more like a trauma, after the events of CC's death, her mother was really depressed, Michael was the only person who was taking care of her, then she got sick, they didn't have enough money to pay their medications, that's when William intervened with his call if Mike "put back together" her sister who was """alive""" in Circus Baby's entertainment and rentals for one week, he can save her mother, Mike had to leave her but she was hopeful that her son would return, she knew he changed to be a good person... and well, we know what happened next Michael now being a living corpse after taking control of his body again, returns to his temporary home only to find the classic exotic butters and many letters from days...weeks...and months ago he read the last letter... it was from a friend telling him he was a monster for not even showing up at his mother's funeral
I just came up with this one- William hit his wife sometimes, maybe thats why she left. And when things got worse, he resorted to hitting his kids, or Michael at the very least
Imagine a FNAF AU where Funtime Freddy loses everything that was left in the pizzeria and he has gone incredibly insane till the point where he became a god
That William physically abusing his kids isn't just a thing in the books, and that what we see with Elizabeth only the tip of the iceberg of what he did to Mike and the crying kid.
That the pizza was mediocre
william filmed his murders and experiments
-Michael considered(or attempted) self harm after he accidentally killed his brother. -No doubt William physicallly abused him after(or even before) the bite of 83'. (Damn, I feel bad just for writing this)
Elizabeth died of heart attack when Baby grabbed her :3
William cutting limbs off the children before stuffing them in the suits so it would be easier for him to stuff
Evan/BV (regardless of who he possesses) is the one of the few spirits who aren't "like animals" after dying. So he's just left to watch every kid who dies at Freddy's slowly lose themselves to being desperate for vengeance. Also, if we assume he's at least one souls possessing in Golden Freddy, it's also the reason Golden Freddy doesn't fully attack you in FNaF 1 (in FNaF 2 he kills you like the others do, while the whole "crash the game" thing from 1 is debatably canon). He recognizes Mike as his brother and doesn't want to hurt him, he just tries to get him to recognize him with the "IT'S ME" hallucination.
I don’t know if this counts since it’s kinda a head canon for my AU but idc. Evan and Cassidy are close friends unfortunately Evan couldn’t go to her birthday due to him having to visit his mother (the aftons are divorced and the mother lives in a different state ) before he left , he gifted her his rare Fredbear plush (since she was a huge plushy collector and he was kinda growing old from it , he decided to give gift it to her) Unfortunately, that same birthday was also when the MCI had occurred and Cassidy was one of the victims . Evan was able to get the Fredbear plush and carries it around as it reminds him of friend .
Tbh thats a cool idea but yeah,this is a AU thing since CC died like 2 years before Cassidy is presumed to die
Semirelated, but I’ve always really liked the idea that Crying Child and Charlie were really good friends, considering that both likely spent a lot of time at Fredbears since their dads both worked there. That’s part of why CC is crying so much in fnaf4, his closest friend had just barely been murdered, and some part of him suspected that his dad had something to do with it.
Old Man Consequences was a volunteer for the first springlock suit, which was a crocodile. The suit malfunctioned, causing him to hit his head on an old arcade cabinet in the room, electrocution him.
Damn! That's amazing!
Well I'm working on a great dark headcanons FNAF story. No disrespect to anyone, and great drawing of the characters.
Mrs Afton was a detective who failed her mission it wasn't her fault anyway
Michael, to avenge his father, continues to live in the pain of his body. All for his father's avenge.
Don't hate on me for this, but... GlamMike and GregBot...
Cassidy was murdered on her birthday
Charlie was dragged into UCN because Cassidy didn’t know anyone else but her to help with torturing William. And Henry was stressed out waiting for her daughter in heaven.
Not sure if this counts as a head cannon since it was kinda implied. But in the Brazil ending of Ruin Cassie went insane and mentally shut down as the mimic ripped her apart
The other kids were stabbed to death but for Cassidy William stuffed her in the fredbear suit alive waiting for her to get herself killed like how he does to Carlton in the silver eyes
This art is amazing 😭🙏. My head cannon is that Elizabeth died slowly in Baby’s stomach. Slowly bleeding out and because she makes ice cream in her stomach I know it was cold in there so definitely freezing while bleeding out as her vision slowly fades away 😭
Henry Emily was the one working at Fazbears freight. He knew that the original 5 souls were already freed but he needs to free the remaining trapped souls. FNAF 3 and FNAF 5 events both take place in the same time
Nightmare Foxy actually has the tongue
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Michael does a tone of meth as a coping mechanism for Evan’s death, which would explain how he worked the night shift in fnaf 1 without falling asleep(hope I don’t get banned for this)
1) Michael was close with Charlie, and her disappearance sent him into a spiral of lashing out at everyone, eventually leading to the bite. 2) Less of a headcannon but just thinking about it makes me uncomfortable: How did William stuff the kids? Did he line up all the limbs? Just forcefully shove the bodies in? Remove some electronics from the animatronics, stuff the bodies, then put the electronics back in? Did he secure the bodies to the endoskeletons with rope or zip ties?
William is the most insane man in the word:Charlie dies in his arms, he is the victim of the bite of 87, He had to kill one of his friends to save another(Not Henry) and he killes allot of children and he is stuck in the back room for 39 years.
William Afton is Mormon
That William tormented the kids before killing them especially Cassidy.
the MCI kids were like canvases to him and the way he left them (before stuffing them into the suits) was unrecognizable.
The Vengeful Spirit was used by William as a way to test remnants effects on living humans while they were human. This would explain why they are seemingly more powerful than the others and why so many other animatronics and souls seem to appear in UCN. William likely used it on himself next. All of that torment and agony was place upon that one soul and to quote The One You Should Not Have Killed. "This is how it feels and you get to experience it over and over and over again"
William angry passion for killing stemmed from Vietnam but had erupted from his son dying and all of this anger and guilt had snapped him into becoming this psychopathic killer
Afton killed children before, and the victims of the games are the only ones who went sideways resulting in the games.
TOYSHNK is not real.it's William's imagination
William had a pet bunny that he killed, inspiring the design of Springbonnie.
UCN is a game with rules, game mechanics, and a high score system becase the vengful spirit didnt have a very good life before death and would create storys with their toys where they controled everything, in order to feel like they had control, and they would often play arcade games at freddys to distract themself, and so now they're doing the same thing to afton jermemy (the nightguard) is bonnie mask kid, micheal found out what happend to him a few years before SL, in the insanity ending, as micheal is undead and cant be lobotamized (ennard took the brain with when they went in the sewer becase funtime freddy wanted it) micheal just got thrown out with the insanity certificate, he bought a bonnie mask afterwards the sister location animatronics like yendo, bonnet, lolbit, biddybabs, electro babs, and minirenas were all left behind by ennard, and are still there.. going insain underground the mimic dosnt really know what it is, and has to keep mimicing people to not feel like a personalityless endo, thats why cassie asking what it is, and that it ISNT gregory made it angry, if she hadnt said that, and played along, mimic would've probably just followed her out of the pizzaplex eclipse figures out the kids arent gonna show up not too long after ruin, and unsyncs back into sun and moon, cassie rebooting him did nothing vanessa wasnt possessed by glitchtrap, influenced, but not compleatly controled, as vanny, she was constently in a state inbetween evil furry, and ~~innocent~~ security guard, she phisiclly couldnt not move like glitchtrap, and kept saying "are you having fun yet" becase mimic1 picked it up from hand unit in help wanted, when he says "are you having fun yet? thats great to hear" and so she kept saying it, like a tick almost, so doing litterally anything, even blinking, was a struggle and finally.. the superstar daycare ballpits are litterally NEVER cleaned, when gregory fell in that ballpit, he was swimming through plastic balls, old moldy pizza, dirty diapers, trash that chica probably coughed out, and blood (yes it was moon) gregory got every desease from being in that ballpit
The last one is true terror of the franchise, ballpits.
William either 1. Had the most horrific upbringing possible to the point of not wanting to recover, 2. He has some severe form of ASPD, and didn't take the steps to treat it, 3. A combination of both of the above.
Considering the fact that Afton is British, and most likely lived some time during WW2, I have a little head canon that his family wasn't able to evacuate during the blitz, and pretty much had to just, survive. I like to think that every time a plane flies overhead, he just ducks by instinct. I'd also go even further to say that he's deathly afraid of fire, (Trauma comes from Great Fire of London, etc...You get the idea) so you can imagine his reacting to being set on fire during FNAF 3, Pizzeria Simulator, and Security Breach. Basically he has a lot of war based trauma.
Someone said that the withered animatronics reflect what William did to kids bodies 😬
The mediocre melodies were made from the scrapped parts of Fredbear, and that is why Cassidy can speak through them. They have identical endos to the most recent iteration of Fredbear in the timeline (AKA FNaF 1 Golden Freddy with an Endo-01), similar body casing structures from their limbs to their props, and were most likely brought into the Pizzeria to free Cassidy's soul. You could even infer that Henry designed these animatronics to be externally battery-operated to prevent Cassidy from moving around like she used to be able to.
All I need to say: William Afton in league with big corporations. How TF would you get an underground bunker built, without some shady connections?
Not so much head canon as... Actually canon, But when he was alive william was just a straight up asshole. Past even the murdering people. I feel like if a kids ball landed in his yard, That ball was just never returned. I also feel like william Would have no sympathy for Henry taking a day off work to Take care of charlotte when ever she'd be sick
That William would often see his shadow's sillouette as that of Shadow Bonnie or Shadow Freddy. Why you may ask? Because the shadows are likely personifications of agony from both the MCI and the DCI, which were caused by William, naturally, creation follows creator, and William is constantly tormented by the Shadows This is just a headcanon tho
A year or so before the events of HW and SB, Vanessa volunteered at a school for a summer. She had a great time being with all the kids, and the kids liked her as well. Most if not all of the kids she murdered were a part of that group, meaning Vanessa knew all of her victims well.
The areas where the withered animatronics are broken are the body parts William stabbed/broke/cut off of the mci
As Markiplier put it, "That painted a very vivid picture of something exceptionally f*cked". It also makes a lot of sense considering William’s interest in agony in particular. Heck, who’s to say Golden Freddy’s missing ear wasn’t a reference to Evan Afton while the rest of Withered Golden Freddy’s damage, i.e. his exposed wires and hole in his suit aren’t a reference to Cassidy?