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Pre-Game Theories

A few people on the subreddit seen Dawko supposedly playing SL ahead of its release via the Discord chat, this is assuming he was recording gameplay for it and has it scheduled for midnight. As for everybody else? Same deal.

Scott will release the game on Steam as it is on the 7th, but if he isn't trolling us and was being honest with the game's dark tones, he could also release a kid-friendly version on GameJolt or something of the sort. That way, (probably nearly)

Scott is talking about delaying the game to make it more kid friendly on Steam, but remember. This is Scott. He's trolled us before.

Maybe, In-Universe , Baby's franchise was scrapped simply because most people don't like clowns! (Which is kind of ironic, considering that out-of-universe, the fanbase seems to be embracing the new animatronics just as much as they do the old ones.)

The "Sister Location" is his personal Hell, where he is experiencing karmic punishment . He has to keep away the robots, every night or suffer a painful death, over and over and over... forever

Fazbear Entertainment wanted to make a more female-oriented location, it seems. So who better to be the star than the original female herself, Chica! During development, the company created a character by the name of Circus Baby. Later, the company brought in a test audience of kids to see their reactions. The most well-liked character was Circus Baby, while the least liked character was, ironically enough, Funtime Chica. Realizing what a big hit she was, Fazbear Entertainment changed their minds and made Circus Baby the star of the show, while Funtime Chica was promptly scrapped and placed in the Parts & Service Room, along with Ennard.

Within the trailer, one detail on Funtime Foxy is that something with dark eyes and a red dot appears to be reflecting on his face; while many seem to theorise it's the puppet, Ennard seems more likely to fit the description, especially with the enigmas around it at present, possibly an earliest hint that Scott has left us to this character.

Hidden in the recently released map are two rooms to the north and south of the Funtime Auditorium. Those rooms will be accessible to the player, either as a gameplay feature or after find some way to open them up. As usual, animatronics will be unable to enter, providing a safe zone (though that doesn't rule out the supernatural). Come the fifth or sixth night, however, the player may find an extra suit inside one of the rooms....and someone else might be hiding in there with it, waiting for you.

When the management was allowing children inside to test things out, they weren't doing a show preview to make sure that the animatronics worked or were endearing to the intended audience. No, these children (skewing older than the target audience, teenagers at the oldest) were specifically chosen to perform in spring-lock suits, because they had more room to operate those suits without risking a full collapse. Unfortunately, the management either failed to note that Afton Robotics is being run by a psychopath, or the management is run by the Purple Man at this point, and the suits killed the kids anyway, because they were designed to kill. The management then ducked out with the death of children being the one thing that can spell major legal consequences for the company.

Notice the names of the rooms on the map, "Circus Gallery, Ballora Gallery, Funtime Auditorium, etc" pretty intresting names that sound like they are for the purpose of display.

One of the rooms on the map is a breaker room, IE a place where the main power switch is implying that you will need to go there occasionally for the purpose of rebooting the establishment's power, this is supported by the fact in the trailer there were incidents of flickering lights in some of the rooms.

As we'll play as a mechanic/technician and not a security guard, it seems that our hero will have to come face to face with these monstrosities on numerous occasions as he/she moves about the area. Therefore, it makes sense that the animatronics would move around as well, and not simply freeze, since there are no cameras to stare at. However, they might pause when they detect the protagonist's presence.

In addition, those voice clips may be important for judging how far certain characters are from your position, as well as indicating when you've been detected and need to hide.

Judging by the Ballora voice clips and the possibility of springlock suits, it seems that the animatronics are actually more primitive than they look, and are programmed to turn and walk towards sounds. This means that they could stand right in front of the protagonist without attacking, provided that our hero remains absolutely silent. However, something will keep the protagonist from simply sitting out the nights (probably Funtime Foxy, continuing the character's legacy as a strategy killer), and the protagonist will have to move around and use those control panels to keep the animatronics from doing....something. Basically, it's an inverse of the Fnaf 4 mechanics. Instead of waiting until you don't hear the animatronics, you must wait until they don't hear you.

Though it will by no means justify his behavior, this game will at least hint at exactly why the Purple Man kills, his hatred for children, and how his twisted mind works. There may even be some tragic aspect to it, but no matter what has happened in the past, he'll be a Complete Monster in the present, and he'll let it be known somehow before those five nights are up.

Surprised this theory wasn't already here. More creative tropers can come up with some stories about her here.

Well, the owner likely did move these robots to an underground location so the police, CIA, and feds cannot find them.

The Location we have got screenshots of looks very industrial and not very colourful and friendly like most pizzerias, while the steam quote mentions Circus Baby's Pizza World, and how it needs a night guard. Which makes this troper wonder if we will get a glimpse of the actual establishment in a possible tutorial level before the main game.

The Purple Man made/worked on these machines and doesn't really need another person to help out. However, at this point, he's the guy calling the shots, so he arranges to have the player character working around the time that a group of children just so happen to go missing.

Kids were sent in to test the attraction. However, the Purple Man programmed the animatronics. So, the bots kill the kids, but there's no Marionette to stuff souls into them. Instead, the mechanic is dealing with some very remorseful and angry animatronics who want to stop the person (they believe) turned them into murderers so that the attraction never opens. They succeed, but the Purple Guy manages to cover it up as a malfunction, leading to the company-wide banishment of the spring-lock suits.

Circus Baby's was open back in the 70s or 80s, alongside its brother location(s). The news article was indeed all a cover-up — due to the gas leaks, the restaurant suddenly exploded. Though, the animatronics themselves were taken "deep below ground", and were updated and improved over the years...and that's roughly when the game begins proper.

Maybe this troper is just being cynical, but between the more feminine, humanlike animatronics and source code mentioning "private" uses of the animatronics, this location could be something more akin to a robotic strip club than the previous Chuck E Cheese model. This may also explain why it's not technically part of the Freddy Fazbear's line, as they don't want to ruin their brand's reputation as being family-friendly.

The player will actually be residing inside of the backstage, while the normal night guard explains the ins and outs of the game to you from the office.

Why else would Scott have used him on the Steam icon when Baby is clearly the boss here? And you might say because he has the title, but remember that FNaF3 used Springtrap instead of Phantom Freddy.

You might be thinking that means their parts move or whatever when the technician is working on them, but I think it means management knows how the bots are at night time. Correct me if I'm wrong on if any sort of technician works on active moving equipment.

To quote the description... "Now hiring: Late night technician. Must enjoy cramped spaces and be comfortable around active machinery. Not responsible for death or dismemberment."

Springtrap will return, but with some Funtime parts on him, akin to a Cyborg — in an attempt to refurbish himself.

And he won't show up until either Night 5 or 6, where he and Baby will take on the roles of all the others, a la RAT and CAT.

Let me explain: the game takes place after FNaF3 and the people running the place are trying to revive Freddy Fazbear's once again, but in a Lighter and Softer way. They've just discovered these new, hidden animatronics. And around this time, they've also purchased a charred, yellowish rabbit animatronic that used to work for the franchise. With the money they've made/had, they've redesigned the Hair-Raising Hare to look more like his new colleagues, officially dubbing him "Funtime Spring Bonnie."

The sister animatronics have more advanced tech than the Fazfour, but the originals weren't even totally new in 1987. Technology marched on since.

Desk guy is a night guard that regrets building an animatronic named Baby, which might be Purple Guy regretting building the animatronics he used in the dismantling, the ones who caused his death.

The kids in the originals had caused a lot of death over the years. Maybe Afton knew what was happening and ran away from the establishment. However, with each guard the kids kill, another ghost is created and ends up possessing an animatronic. The dead Night Guards, wanting to stop the originals, made a deal to help Purple Guy destroy the FNAF 1 animatronics. After they were done, they let the kids take on Purple Guy and turn him into Springtrap, probably by blocking his only exit.

And Baby is leading the charge, as there is too many animatronics. There is a whole ARMY of supernatural terminators at the sister location. Murderous ghosts + Killbots + large numbers = Eldritch Terminator Salvation. Hate to think what the show that is beginning actually is.

Whether the protagonist is the Purple Man, someone with the management, or some poor sap who fell into a heap of trouble is yet to be seen. However, the lengths that that person will go to keep the animatronics away will cement him or her as someone just as demented as they are, or even put the animatronics in a somewhat better light altogether.

If you subscribe to the idea that the Toy Animatronics went for Jeremy/Fritz in FNAF2 due to having parts of the Fazbear Four used in them, this could make a bit of sense; Ennard itself also has to have a very good reason for management to essentially scrap him and use him to repair the others. One conceivable idea is that it killed someone and shortly became possessed by them.

Ennard is a possessed Animatronic who has spread his consciousness to the others from being used as spare parts.

"Get back to your stage NOW" and the device featured in the latest teaser seems to sound like an inner monolouge (probably from the player) as they attempt to diddle with the Lights/Power to get Ballora to return to her stage.

Fredbear's Family Diner, Fredbear and Friends, and the Sister Location were all co-owned and/or co-operated by Henry and Afton, like in the novel. Like the novel, Henry will commit suicide due to some personal tragedy involving his creations. William Afton will sell the rights of the company to another party and slip into the background in order to further his murderous efforts. The one (albeit minor) piece of evidence is Phone Guy's mention of trying to "track down the original owner" of the animatronics, and his unfamiliarity with the Fredbear brand, hinting that he wasn't apart of the crew in the days of old. The million dollar question will be how long the Sister Location was around before the "unfortunate incident" caused the company to panic and hide the springlock suits and seal the hidden rooms.

She doesn't walk or run like the others, she spins, but it makes her slower normally. Thus, she lies in wait to have a direct line of sight with the player character, then comes at them very quickly. Could be teamed up with Funtime Foxy for maximum effectiveness.

He has two puppets: Bonnie, and Chica, his fellow bandmates. If he has a Bonnie puppet on his hand, he will act on a variation of Bonnie's behavior in the first two games, being very aggressive and getting close to the player character more often than the others, but quickly leaving if unsuccessful. If Chica's on his hand, he'll be slower and take diversions (like to a kitchen, if the place has one), but will stick around if you successfully block him off, rendering you vulnerable to the others. May also combine with Fnaf 1 Freddy's stealth techniques.

Since it seems that the focus in the lore will be on the springlock failures, it seems like a good fit, since the leading theory for the Shadows' origins centers around them as well. They probably won't be able to interact physically with the player character, but their supernatural nature will make them dangerous. May be the Night 6 threats.

Either after the springlock incidents or some great robotic mishap that was too much for the minimum wage employees to handle, the animatronics were shipped back to the facility they were made in for repairs and testing for bugs in the AI (hauntings notwithstanding). The performance they're doing in the trailer is a test run for bugs, locking joints, etc.

The building the animatronics are in is a testing facility, and they're being modified before being sent back into public.

This theory is most likely jossed, but it's just one to throw out here.

The only conceivable way this theory will come to possibly be true, however, is that the parts we do see on Mangle by the time Jeremy starts his job, (i.e. the mask, hands, and feet) are replacement parts added by the staff after the repairs they had to do after every shift; it wouldn't be unbelievable if some parts of the animatronic were damaged beyond repair and therefore needed to be replaced.

Or maybe that character will be cunning enough to pretend to be Dark Is Not Evil , and then murder you when you come to trust them.

Alternatively, maybe the sentient character will be trying to protect you, knowing that the other animatronics are going haywire — or perhaps haunted. It would be nice to not be Alone with the Psycho for once, and it could introduce some interesting new gameplay mechanics. They'll still be creepy , of course, but perhaps the player will have to learn to trust them.

It's been remarked many times how much more advanced this franchise's animatronics are compared to Real Life animatronics. Maybe it was only a matter of time before the company that makes the animatronics created one that was actually sentient. If this is true for Baby, or the currently unnamed clown character, or someone else, then they would make an interesting Contrasting Sequel Antagonist — the first bots in the series who are willingly and knowingly evil!

Notice how, throughout the rest of the franchise, the theme is " Humans Are the Real Monsters " — although some people In-Universe find the animatronics scary, the machines themselves aren't choosing to be evil. Heck, even most of the humans aren't so bad —, for example, had a sense of remorse. But the point is, despite all the Hostile Animatronics , the only truly evil character so far is Purple Guy. Now, listen to this...

One or more of the new animatronics will turn out to be the most undeniably evil character(s) in the franchise.

It's what the teaser implies with using her quote and Baby being hidden in the background, possibly functioning like the Freddles in FNAF 4 or Baby's personal army to kill nightguards.

This troper's wife had a theory she just came up with. What if we're getting it all wrong and we're not playing in a bunker/bomb shelter? What if the person we're playing as is in Purgatory and must survive the ordeal of the game to finally pass on? Now she herself admits this was a bit far-fetched, but listen to her reasoning: deep below ground where memories sleep (I could be wrong about the wording). Being 6 feet under would be pretty far below ground, and a grave is referred to as your "final resting place". Anger is restless and secrets don't keep. Well, being stuck in Purgatory would make anyone just a little angry, and maybe they have to come to terms with what they did (survive the nights) to move on. Hence secrets not keeping.

This is mostly an observational thing but, with the recent teaser being brightened up , one would be forgiven for assuming it's just Baby. However, it looks more like the face in the first teaser , which has a few minor differences towards Baby's if you compare it to this screenshot of her from the trailer . Now, admittedly, the animatronics do look similar with a few differences (eye sizes, eyebrow sizes, the panels around the eyes, and in the first teaser, the face lacks the side panels that Baby has); it could be that this is an older version of Baby or possibly the actual Baby we should be scared of.

For added WMG and Fridge Horror , the protagonist could be a child. Why? They'd be a perfectly convenient target for animatronics possessed by dead night guards with a vengeance. Given the above idea that it could take place in a factory, perhaps the child was dared to go into the Factory at night or something? Not to mention how the character seems to be able to crawl through vents, which, given their size, a child would be able to do easily.

For some bits of thought, let's take a look at what's in-game. The game seems to take place within a factory rather than a restaurant. There's more human animatronics (moving away from a cartoonish look and towards a more realistic approach, "growing up" so to speak), and they may have the ability to speak given Baby was able to do that. Not to mention the "Don't hold it against us" and "You don't know what we've been through" could apply towards the Night Guards as a whole. For the former, they're just doing their job and they could use it as an excuse to go after the kids in turn. For the latter, they did have to deal with keeping an eye on the animatronics and going through each shift as if it could be their last, and in the case of the dead night guards, they got a jumpscare before being dragged away and killed by the misguided kids.

Let's face it, the ghost children and the animatronics have quite the kill count over the years when it comes to night guards. Who's to say that they're not as pissed at the kids as they were at their murderer and want to take revenge on them? Not to mention it would be a nice plot twist (in this troper's mind, at least).

The Animatronics in this game are not possessed by dead kids, but by dead NIGHT GUARDS, and the protagonist is a child.

Remember back in the second game, when the Purple Guy could deactivate you in the minigames? Remember how he seemed to be holding some sort of device that some fans mistook for a telephone receiver?

The truth will get out, yes? And something's definitely trying to get out...

Where do you keep your memories and keepsakes but in a vault? But this is one big vault... and holds some deadly secrets.

If you look at the schedule easter egg, there are two slots obviously allotted to Funtime Freddy and Funtime Foxy. While the two's initials are indistinguishable, one character has significantly fewer bookings than all the other characters. Since Freddy is known as a headliner character, it's not too hard to imagine which character is getting the short end of the stick...

Though he (maybe) owns the manufacturing plant, other engineers handled most of its output. The Sister Location is the Purple Man's one earnest shot at headlining his own work. However, he couldn't make his designs work around the constantly shifting face plates, and because it gave an unsettling appearance, the place was critically panned shortly after it opened. This being the Purple Guy we're talking about, he took out his frustrations in unorthodox ways , and now, there's a very good reason these things are hidden away....

Following his disappearance after night 2, he was probably out checking this location. After Fazbear's Fright burnt down, he claimed insurance money and any cash he could get from the salvage to put it towards high tech Animatronics. Unfortunately for him, these ones are just as problematic.

Purple Guy had a sister who had controlling interest in the company. He tried to destroy the animatronics before they got possessed, but his sister threatened to vote him out of the company. He must have begun on Funtime Foxy, turning it into Mangle. He then had to do something that would disgrace the family name if the sister didn't comply, put their customers out of business by murdering kids, with the added bonus that she would be in part responsible for their deaths. She ignored it and when he was caught, she got the best lawyers to get him off. Ironically, what the Purple Guy failed to do, his victims succeded, and the animatronics were abandoned. Purple, guilty that he had caused their deaths in vain, came back to free them, resulting in his death . His sis then began supplying the animatronics at Chica's party world, and bought the Springtrap suit from an auction of a burned down horror attraction to use in the amusement park, not knowing it was a particularly pissed-off undead brother of hers. Needless to say, she became Baby. The reason for the Oh, Crap! face of Baby during the trailer when possibly confronted with Springtrap makes this explanation more likely.

For those who think I've gone off topic, I am sorry, but determining when Purple was an employee of Fazbear's and when he founded Afton animatronics is essential to determining the date of the game.

Purple wouldn't be referred to as the day shift guard, but rather as the man who knows how the machinery runs. However, this could explain how the former night guard before Jeremy got his transfer to the day shift much easier than any of the previous nightguards without management knowing that the bots were out for blood.

The job he is working at, there are only maybe a dozen animatronics. At a factory, there may be Dozens, and I don't think that you have to be planted inside a suit to become a ghost, I think general vicinity is all that is needed (a'la the Puppet and the hit and run victim in FNAF 2/(3?)). He may feel safer on the job site rather than his own haunted home base. Although that only means he can't go anywhere else; not to his home, not to a club, but only those two places.

Unless if he had built a company in the past, the company fell, and he was reduced to minimum wages, working in a place kept afloat by the same animatronics his company had built.

Also, there is this theory that the Purple Guy's company made the animatronics. One question: If he is the head of an animatronics company, then why is he working at Fredbear's in 198X? Baby and crew were made by the company that Purple owns. The 198X time period has him working minimum wages, set forward a few years; he could have worked his way up to the head of a company, and probably either built a rival company that was successful or renamed an already successful company, and manufactured the new lines.

But back to the previous train of thought. Since Chica is on the label, this has to take place before the truth came out in 2024.

But why use the Chica name? In 2024, the Fazbears were synonymous with "Horrible death", "haunted animatronics", and "Odors", and thus would not use one of MurderBear's friends on the brand label of a park filled with such murder bots, especially if they left the only Chica they had to rot in Freddy's diner.

To think about it, if they had existed after 1983, they would be in FNAF 4 terrorizing The Child in his dreams. Of course, that would assume that The Child knows about the animatronics. He met the real animatronics of FNAF 2, assuming that he was indeed the Bite victim of '87, thus they were among his nightmare roster. However, his plushie collection can mean he is well versed in the lore of Fazbear and gang, so there would not be a reason for him to not know of the existence of the sister location characters, much less the animatronics. Yet they never appear in his nightmares. Why? Because either Fazbear rewrote history (they are an expert at hiding bodies and all), or they never existed before 1987.

The cartoon showed in Fnaf4 has no mention of Baby or any of the Funtimes. This means one of two things; either they're infamous enough that they were scrubbed away from the franchise in the past, thus their non-appearance, or they weren't even created yet and weren't part of the franchise to begin with.

There seems to be a trend starting with Freddy sharing a Moniker with another member of the Fazbear Four.First there were the Spring animatronics, which were Fredbear/Golden Freddy and Spring Bonnie/Springtrap (though you could argue that it's more of Fredbear then Freddy) and now Funtime Freddy with Funtime Foxy, the inclusion of Chica's Party World made this troper think that maybe Chica will finally have something added to her to stand out from the others.

The recent source code investigations seem to indicate that one "Afton Robotics" is either the location of the game or plays a significant part in the backstory. In the novel, William Afton is the Purple Man. Assuming that some names carry over into the game universe (even if the story itself does not), this would explain a ton. It would explain why the teaser images tend to use a lot of purple. It would explain a ton of Purple Man's antics throughout the series. He owns the place that makes these machines. He has working knowledge of all the characters: their strengths, their weaknesses. Considering the time period, he may be the single most knowledgeable person in regard to the animatronics, which is why he still plays a crucial role in this location.

Balloon Boy is Baby"Wireman" is Baby due to its scary appearance and bald head.Baby is a Chica due to the dumpy body shape of the main animatronic, is the lead of CHICA'S Party World, and the fact the Chicas are based on BABY chicks.Baby is related to the Bonnie line of animatronics; the main colors of the game are purple, blue, and yellow, the colors of all the Bonnies in the series.Baby is the player, because they crawl on their hands and knees barely avoiding danger like a cartoon baby. That, and the possibility of crying like a baby as they corner you, and they prepare to rock you your final lullaby, to finally "silence" the big baby.The airhorn siren is Baby. You don't wake the baby, the baby wakes you.There are two sets of the same animatronics, and Baby is one of the few that aren't out and about.

The head of Chica's party world. The child-like shape, as Chica has been noticed to have funky shapes (the phantom version being compared to a watermelon and whatnot). What's more, Chica is a chick animatronic, an animal that is a BABY chicken. The only thing missing is the beak.

Its face looks very infantesque. Its quote also sounds very much what a leader and main villain would say. "There's a little bit of me in every body". Scott has not stated which animatronic is named what (except the Funtimes); it's safe to say this could be truly Desk Guy's killer.

S/he said that "there's a little of me in every body" with great emphasis on the last two words being separated. As we already know, spring-lock suits are very difficult to separate oneself from after they have been set off, so...

He/she will be the one displaying undeniably supernatural behavior, will be a lot fiercer/better able to kill you than the others, and will have a habit of popping up unexpectedly.

That's an awful lot of loose wires just running off to who knows where. "There's a little of me in every body."

This is mostly based on the dream theory (how could the Child dream of this if he potentially dies at the end of 4?), plus Scott said that 4 was the end of the "Original Five Nights at Freddy's story", which makes this troper think perhaps with the novel being set in an alternative canon, this game exists in this version of the universe, perhaps we may even get a reference or are playing as Charlie in this game.

Now, if you've seen Trailer 1 (which I'm sure you have), you would've seen the jumpscare at the end. Now, I think that those, let's call 'em "face parts", would move according to an "energy" reading of some sort, which would be affected by many factors. One of which would be sounds played through the speakers, how fast the animatronics are moving, and how much "energy" is being used by an audience. The way that they would tell would be similar to this . So when the animatronics jumpscare you, all of those factors come into play, as the guard may begin to start moving from the jumpscare, the loud noise of the jumpscares, and how fast the animatronics are moving towards you. This would also be how we see Ballora's eyes.

Freddy's possessed by the dad, the ballerina by the mom, Foxy by opposite sex twins, and Baby by the...well, baby of the family who was the Unwitting Instigator of Doom

An attempt to keep up with the times instead of the 4-bit graphics 2 and 3 had and the 8-bit graphics 4 had. However, this would only work if this game is set in the future.

Chica is just as significant to the stage band and Foxy is one of the most popular characters in universe, it would be pretty believable if they too had "golden" predecessors like Freddy and Bonnie did, Chica's might of possibly even had been featured with the other Funtime Characters.

They act the way they do in response to a tragedy, and their motives are perfectly understandable. However, they aren't trying to stop a Serial Killer from killing again. They don't uphold peace in a fun place for children. Those days are gone. All that's left for them now is revenge for what happened to them. It may not be fulfilling. It may not even be sane. But it's all they have, and they're going to take out their anger on you. If you can catch a breath long enough to feel pity, so be it. It won't improve your situation.

They want to live like a human being. So they Fusion Dance into Ennard, trick you into the scooping room, then yank out your insides and wear your skin

Ok, maybe I'm reaching here, but given Scott's history , would anyone really be surprised at this point? Adding to this theory the only evidence, we have that it is Baby is the quote from the [1] Update 2 ending. To make matters worse, we never actually saw what Baby looked like in said ending.

The animatronic in the second teaser and that is featured prominently in the trailer is not Baby, but a Red Herring

As noted, the ballerina is the only one whose eyes we don't see. This could mean that she will be attracted to sound in a manner similar to Springtrap, which in turn would make any form of noisemaker a potential distraction to pull her away from your position. With at least three other animatronics to worry about, though, getting to the switch without being caught could be very tricky, indeed.

BB was originally a puppet in a puppet show and someone had the bright idea to build him an endoskeleton. No Strings indeed.

Markiplier lost the game, is P.O.'ed, and trapped you in with Murderbear and friends to see how you like it.

Terminator will be referenced at least once in the game, or at least in this WMG.

The game takes place during a war and the protagonist is in one of the Vaults from Fallout filled with Murderbear and Friends.

The creepy magician, as seen as by the looks of the plush doll in the trailer, is not an animatronic and is in fact the father to the child possessing Baby, and maybe is Purple Guy to boot.

Baby, when breaking out of the animatronics' normal American monotone, is said to have a British child's accent. It is possible that another character to be revealed to have the same accent to provide some relation for a revelation within the game.

To put it simply, it's interesting how both Funtime Foxy and Funtime Freddy turn their eyes towards the fourth wall in the trailer, and yet when the ballerina has her turn, her eyes are closed. In fact, we never see them open at all in the trailer, not even a little. If the importance of secrets is so vital to scares, then it's very likely this may be the case...

The ballerina will attack when she opens her eyes, or her mechanic will have to do with opening her eyes.

And you can only use the cameras while being in the Office, otherwise you need to rely on sounds and other things that tells you an Animatronic is nearby.

Would probably give our pizza loving chicken some sort of appearance, and though it isn't seen in the trailer, there's no telling if a Chica puppet exists in general.

Although if this game takes place in the future, then Baby rather was Springtrap, refurbished by the buyers into Baby, sans dead body. In which case, she is truly a monster, and a returning one at that.

This changes the whole story of FNAF 3. Rather than the undead Serial Killer who everyone feels got his just desserts, begging and pleading for help while trying to kill the guard... Springtrap was actually an innocent animatronic who served as a tomb for said murderer, begging and pleading for help. She still may be trying to kill the guard, but she still garners a lot of pity. Any person who took great wrathful pleasure in the begging cries of Springtrap in FNAF 3 would feel horrible for getting pleasure off of an innocent person's pain. Much like the animatronics getting pleasure killing their murder, again and again...

What worse kind of fate is there than to house the deceased corpse of a serial killer within for a few decades?

Compile this with the fact that there is no Funtime!Bonnie apparent in the location, and Baby is the Big Bad , she is likely to turn out to be a Bonnie.

She is a Bonnie, because the game's colors are blue, purple, and gold. What other animatronic, within the whole series, has versions of itself in those colors? Toy Bonnie is remarked to be bluer than Original!Bonnie, who is more purplish, with Springtrap, formerly known as Spring Bonnie, as a GOLDEN Bonnie.

However, afterward, the usual disaster struck; either they brought some old equipment in (not realizing the danger it could pose if activated and let loose) or they didn't keep out a certain monochromatic murderer. So either before the place opened back up or after it had been in operation for a few years, the deaths and maimings began ultimately leading to the place being closed down and all the mechanical entertainers locked away in the tunnel system, maintenance, and control area below the main park.

This location is not a restaurant or a bunker. Instead, it's similar to the tunnels underneath places like Disney World — miles of tunnels under the otherwise open park that would let employees move about unnoticed as well as remove their costumes. During the heyday of the franchise, Freddy Fazbear was clearly popular, enough to spawn an entire restaurant chain and a TV show along with toys and merchandise; it's not out of the question that Fazbear Entertainment might seen an opportunity to cash in on this. Assuming it's a diverse company, it wouldn't be surprising if they had a hand in tons of other industries, including theme parks, so when the new cash cow seems to have come, they simply planned to rebrand the whole park with Freddy Fazbear stuff and make some money.

One voice is female, the other is male. After what happened in FNAF World with the loading screens, Scott confirming the gender is pretty unlikely at this point.

That way there's still a surprise to its release, without having to do an Inversed

Just to keep up with the more feminine approach to the characters. Maybe Phone Guy's sister, with a deep Minnesotan accent to boot.

This one is very likely to be jossed and probably the troper being too paranoid and cautious about Scott's curveballs, but this is still something to consider since besides the Funtimes, the names are a bit difficult to pinpoint who will be who. The differing voices within FNAF World Update 2 and the Trailer (I.E. Monotone American adult in one, then terrified British child the next) also make me question this.

But he will not be voiced by Scott, instead being another voice actor. He may get onto the project.

This also fits with the "Dead Ponytailed sister" theory (the kid is promised repairs with grey text; the only one who speaks with grey text is a little girl with ponytails , who appears only once and is presumed dead and a hallucination, given that there's an empty room in the kid's house).

Before the bite happened, the SDM built baby, which somehow killed his daughter. Baby was then possessed by her. The brother witnessed this, and began to fear the animatronics as a result.

"You don't know what we've been through" springs to mind with this one. And I feel that such a facility should be fully inhabited by other workers, but what if it's abandoned? What if your character is a fall guy? Someone sent here by the higher-ups to be "gotten rid of" because he found out something that would doom the company.

The fake ending has Ennard visit your house. Whether it's to kill you or just to hang out (or if it's) is uncertain.

There's a reflection of Springtrap on Baby's face in the second image teaser. Baby herself tells us "You don't know what we've been through". Recall that in FNAF 3, the few remaining items from the fire at Fazbear's Fright were put up for auction. Springtrap is heavily implied to have survived, too. Someone bought him and the other bits, and is/became so enamored with the idea of the spring-suit design that he built (at least) four new animatronics with two of them based on Mangle and Freddy, and incorporated an extension of the springsuit idea with multiple separate shell pieces that can open and shift. However, this has caused Purple Man's spirit in Springtrap to reawaken, and this in turn has made the children's spirits return to possess the new animatronics to try to destroy their killer once and for all, with the buyer/builder caught in the middle of it.

Well, it is called "Five Nights at Freddy's: TheLocation". And given how the main animatronic here is Baby, it only seems fitting that the sister chain of restaurants was a spin-off based off of the main character's relative, in this case the sister.

The player character will be locked in the bunker after something goes wrong, forcing him (or her) to take cover from the animatronics' wrath. Each night will focus on evading danger long enough to find a safe place to lock yourself into. At the beginning of each new night, the animatronics will find a way to break your defenses, forcing you to move again. Only on the fifth night will you find a way to get out of the place, and by then, the characters will be more frustrated and ambitious than ever.

They are the most significant animatronics in the game's lore. Two of them from the location that started it all, one bit a child unwillingly, said child probably becoming the Humanoid Abomination that kickstarted the events of the other games, Fredbear eventually became Golden Freddy, and Springbonnie is where the Purple Guy met his end but is now possessing him as Springtrap. This can be somewhat reinforced by looking at Baby's teaser image with corrected colors and you may. Then again, you could call it just a case of pareidolia, but if they return, maybe they will get voices too or remain silent as in past games.

Sure, Scott said there might not be a free-roam FNAF game, but he never said he wouldn't include the ability to move between rooms period.

The protagonist heard the air raid sirens, panicked, and immediately ran for the nearest safe area, which just so happened to be the area where Sister Location takes place. The protagonist can't leave after the first night because they either believe the war is still going on, or are trapped down there by elevator failure.

Notice the lack of a Timer HUD in the trailer (granted, FNAF 3's trailer also lacked a HUD for the tiny bit of gameplay it shows). The game also feels a bit more cinematic judging by the movement of the player's vision during said trailer.

These guys were crushed in springlock suits, died in agony, and were buried somewhere deep underground with the animatronics that killed them. They are Fazbear Entertainment's original sin, effectively erased from history by their former supervisors. And now, they are very, very angry.

Only employees who have been with the company since the beginning know of its existence. Built underneath the grounds of the long abandoned sister location, the bunker is the company's ultimate contingency plan, where the worst of the worst ideas go. Sure, the Springtrap suit (maybe) isn't there, but that's because the costume apparently wasn't directly involved in the springlock failures, and even if the Purple Man used it in his murders, he covered his tracks too well to have the suit linked to the murders. These animatronics were commercial failures because something happened that was so bad that Fazbear Entertainment would have been taken down completely if it had gone public. Thus, all evidence of the Sister Location was erased from history, save for one little audio training tape found in a certain Freddy Fazbear's Pizza saferoom . Add the complete disregard to employee safety, as well as the realization that the bodies of all of them have to be put somewhere, and...

Funtime Freddy and Funtime Foxy have speakers on their chests to allow for this. During the initial nights, you'll simply hear whatever pre-programmed phrases they say when performing. As the nights go on, the messages get increasingly creepy and/or distorted. Their voices will also be your primary method of tracking how close they are at any given moment.

The reason that Bonnie and Chica are missing is because it isn't finished yet, and Baby and the ballet dancer were originally intended to be added with the Toys, but scrapped due to money problems. The animatronics attack you because they were fitted with the same criminal detecting technology as the Toys, and due to causing the Bite of '87, you have a criminal record.

The animatronics are called Funtime in order to make them seem more harmless and to remind the patients that the animatronics are good and used to please children. It's underground because the animatronics are all experimental and maybe even sentient and have to be kept hidden from the government. You play as the older brother of the victim of the Bite of 87, locked in the centre and stalked by the animatronics while the staff try to get back inside and rescue you.

The new area is a rehabilitation centre for people who were traumatized or lost someone due to the tragic events of '87.

At about 1:15 in the trailer, you can hear what sounds like a bomb siren. One of the earliest shots showing the actual game is an elevator descending. By the (lack of) logic of WMG, this could mean that there's war above, and the protagonist is taking shelter down in the old abandoned Fazbear storage area. One of the biggest complains I've seen about FNAF 1-3 is the question of "Why doesn't the player just leave?". 4 justified it by having the game as a nightmare, which isn't so easily escaped from. This game could rationalize it as the world outside being dead or war-torn to the point where dealing with violent animatronics is far better than going back outside. FNAF 3 also shows that the series is okay with taking time skips into the future (it takes place in 2017 at the earliest, though it's more likely set in the early-to-mid 2020s), so who knows?

Voice acting in the game is going to be a thing apparently, so why not have her say creepy things to the player?

At the end, the voice says "You don't know what we've been through". Maybe the minigames will show what the voice means?

The voice in the trailer says "Don't hold it against us" and "You don't know what we've been through", implying these Animatronics, or at least Baby, have broken their programming and become sentient and in other words "Alive". What's scarier than a killer robot? A Killer Robot that can think and act for itself. One that isn't held back by its programming.

Given the shots of the previous four games, and the setting (underground), this could be the true final game in the series' timeline.

Just a thought, considering Funtime Foxy/Mangle seems to fit in with the Toy Models. However, Funtime Freddy might not be Toy Freddy, and there is also a strange absence of a Funtime Bonnie and Chica.

If you believe that the reflection in Baby's nose is supposed to be Sprintrap, you'll notice that what appears to be his ears are completely intact. In the third game, one ear is severed. This game will show the events that lead to that ear being removed.

Baby will start the night deactivated, but the more the player does, the more it will risk waking her up. Once she's awake, it will likely seriously influence the gameplay, changing how every other aspect of the game interacts with the rest of the game. Maybe it's opening new paths to the player for the others, maybe it's randomly changing details, maybe it's Baby bum-rushing the office ala Foxy but much harder to counteract.

The segmented face that seems to look like it will open up? The five fingers? Granted, you can see she has an endo-skeleton just by looking through her mouth, but the things are supposedly collapsible.

So to sum it up, the pizza places went out of business, the company didn't and accidentally brought cursed-slash-haunted-as-balls objects to one of their successful businesses, accidentally setting themselves up for yet another scandal of murder, mutilation, and mayhem.

The idiots bring it in to the park where they have a place all set up, FNAF 3 happens, and the place burns to the ground. Here, it splits depending on the true fate of everyone's favorite monochromatic serial killer . If Springtrap is dead, then the hauntings are officially working on Hollywood Indian burial ground rules; wherever you take the object you foolishly dug up, stole, or otherwise got cursed from in the first place, the curse goes with it until you either put it back where you found it or give it a proper burial. However, if Springtrap survived as implied by the ending newspaper picture and a reflection hidden in the teaser images of the new animatronics, then we have a serial killer who specializes in tampering with animatronics in a theme park probably full of animatronics that, on any given day, is loaded with his favored targets — children.

That is, until after a decade or so, someone comes up with a brilliant idea. The tragedy of the Freddy Fazbear murders has faded in the public's eyes. It even has an online following of people still convinced they can solve it, so why not see if we can't dig up anything interesting from some of those old buildings we still have hanging around? We could bank on the nostalgia of the kids who got to go there and the mystery of the whole horror murder aspect of it and make some money. So with that idea, they go plunder the locations they have left and find a lot of artifacts from one of the original locations as well as the oddly corpse-looking animatronic, but that's perfect because now they're going for a horror angle. No need to fix it up.

Once the pizza places go down, odds are good that the company rebranded to protect its other properties from the fallout, stop using Fazbear as their public name, and pick one of the other companies they've bought up over the years to be the new face company. All the existing Freddy Fazbear's get sold off and demolished or abandoned. The company moves in a different direction and focuses on other things they have, like a few theme parks and their other non-Freddy television shows, then for a number of years, things are good. No more haunted equipment or crazed serial murderers stalking the franchise anymore, so no scandals or deaths.

So Freddy Fazbear's went under after yet another murder scandal; great, one less breeding ground for childhood trauma in operation. But the problem with this is that Freddy Fazbear's is only a franchise, one part of a much larger company that takes the hits if something goes wrong while the main company is relatively safe; after all, franchise owners are responsible for what happens in their individual restaurants in many cases. The actual parent company, Fazbear Entertainment, which we've seen or heard of multiple times in the past, meanwhile, is just giving them equipment and supplies while taking a cut of the profit.

Real life places with animatronics like Chuck E. Cheese's have similar animatronics that represent the same character, and it's possible that Freddy Fazbear's is the same way. If this is true, there could be multiple Funtime Foxies, and the one from Sister Location isn't necessarily the same one that became Mangle at the FNAF 2 location.

One of the tapes in FNAF 3 mentions that, after the springlock failures got the spring suits decomissioned, some older suits were taken out of storage and used to fill the void they left. It's stated that, since they were pulled out at such short notice, questions about relevance to the franchise should be deflected. FNAF 2 reveals that they keep older animatronics in storage, so that if something happens to the modern ones, they still have a backup. It could explain why Baby looks so much older than all the other animatronics.

The animatronics in this game are old animatronics, but were put back into use after the springlock failures.

This is based on the grounds that sister location takes place around the 80's and at least around FNAF 2's time, as Springtrap would probably still be Spring Bonnie and functional at this time. Given the between-nights minigame in FNAF 4, it adds another dimension to her admonition to "Please stay in your seats".

Baby looks like a child, and the hole in her face implies that something, or someone can be placed in there. Baby could also mean something like 'baby sister'. If we're going by the theory that the bite victim's dad is Scott, maybe she was built to keep his sister alive, but she went insane from the pain.

The incident at the Sister Location was what left the bite victim terrified of the animatronics, and it involved his sister.

This here troper thinks that the way we might see Springtrap get damaged would be hinted at in all of the jumpscares. And at the end of Night _, you would have an unavoidable jumpscare, that is basically a cutscene. Why is Springtrap down there? Eh, who knows.

From the reflection, it looks like Springtrap is in his damaged state and may even be kneeling before her. As if awaiting for his damnation.

At one point, when Eggs Benedict should have died, Baby's voice is heard saying, "You won't die." over and over, until his corpse stands back up. It's unclear, but not impossible that she may have had a hand in willing him back to unlife.

Since Funtime Foxy is confirmed to appear from the leaked list, and Funtime Freddy is also a thing, this seems like a reasonable guess.

will only appear on Night 5 or 6, similarly to Nightmare Fredbear in 4 . In addition, he'll return in the form of, as this is almost certainly a prequel to

The copyright leaks confirm that Funtime Foxy will be making an appearance in this game, as well as the previously-unseen Funtime Freddy. Funtime Foxy appears in FNAF 2 as an old and mangled animatronic, and Funtime Freddy seems to have been scrapped altogether. This suggests that the Sister Location is a lot older than the original ones seen in the first four games. Suggesting this is the appearance of the new animatronic — it looks far less advanced than the ones in the other games, meaning it could be an early prototype of the ones yet to come.

The presence of Funtime Foxy confirms that the robot that would become Mangle is much older than expected. The same goes for Balloon Boy and JJ.

The Sister Location opened after Fredbear's, and once Fredbear's closed due to the Bite/children getting murdered, the plush decides to possess Baby in its efforts to "put the child back together".

I couldn't take a pizza place or whatever Sister Location ends up being seriously with that name of a bot on stage. I have a feeling "Baby" will actually end up being...well...a baby... so the nickname could be literal.

But it will remain unopened. Phone Guy might allude to something undesirable centering around it, but won't reveal what it is.

Purple Guy will be roaming the halls during one of the nights performing his infamous Spring Bonnie act. He may even be setting up the player character to take the fall for a murder he committed during the week.

In the training videos from the third installment, there is a clear disregard to employee safety, and the recommendation that all employees caught in the suits should hurry to the safe rooms to die seems to indicate that management would rather hide the bodies than change the suits. However, if a customer got caught, especially a child, management would be forced to change policy to save face.

He wants to get the suits decommissioned so that he can swipe one of them for his nefarious purposes. He understands that the company will do their utmost to hide the suits from police/insurance agents, even if they were involved in a crime, so he's pulling strings to play on the company's paranoia, and he succeeds.

If this game really is centered around the spring lock suits, then it only makes sense that we'd finally get to see a spring lock endoskeleton in its entirety. Only unlike the first 2, this one will try to kill you.

Scott did say that the game "Will definitely be different". Whether it means something like free roam or a different kind of survival is yet to be confirmed.

Wishful thinking, admittedly, but that's what this page is for. If the theory about her being the Puppet's sister is true, it could have something to do with the Puppet being a very odd Big Good . Maybe they're a Red Oni, Blue Oni duo, and she's the Blue Oni who disapproves of her brother's Roaring Rampage of Revenge . Maybe she'll try to actually fix things, in her own Creepy Good way.

Baby is only helping you to trick you into getting "scooped" so the animatronics can use you to escape

she's just as bloodthirsty as the previous animatronics. Though it could be that she's a Knight Templar like the Puppet.

What if she genuinely wants to be a Non-Ironic Clown , but everyone is afraid of her ? What if this made her decide to act like the Monster Clown everyone sees her as? Perhaps Scott's message that she scares him is Foreshadowing this?

the reason said little girl got murdered is because she loved Baby and wanted to play with her.

Confirmed. Baby has a tragic backstory of unwillingly murdering a little girl. And it's implied, or at least not ruled out, that the other animatronics may have had similar experiences.

This new animatronic will turn out to be one of the most tragic characters in the franchise.

The new animatronic (as well as any other new ones) will be added as playable characters to FNAF World, via DLC.

This game centers around the Puppet's "family", his sister is the leader, and the Puppet himself takes a backseat role (at least until he gets haunted).

The appearance of the animatronic looks amazingly similar to Toy Bonnie. If it's not explicitly Toy Bonnie, it's whatever originally used the Toy Bonnie animatronic suit. This also adds into "THERE WAS NEVER JUST ONE," implying that there was more than one animatronic to use the Toy Bonnie suit before it was used for the purpose we all know.

This game takes place some time around the Purple Man's very first murders, and may even explain why he kills at all.

And it was quietly closed down after the spring-lock failures in favor of the much more popular Fazbear/Fredbear franchise.

Sure, their animatronic namesake in Freddy Fazbear got shut down due to horrible events, but that doesn't mean that the father company went down because of it. If anything, they'd have sold off the locations for whatever they could get, changed some names within the company, and either done some rebranding to protect the other parts of the company from harm or started using a different child company as their public name. Same company and leadership in charge, different name to disassociate them with the murder scandals.

The rosy cheeks and sheer uniqueness from the other animatronics are due to them being a part of a different attraction entirely.

The location will finally explain why the Puppet is so different than the other animatronics, as it was a carry-over from the sister location that survived thanks to it being the only character without spring-locks. The game will also show where the Puppet's ability to "give life" comes from.

In FNAF 3, the Phone Guy mentions on the tapes that there were multiple,spring-lock failures at the sister location. Given what happened at the Pizzeria with the Puppet, who is to say that foul play was not involved at the sister location, and who is to say that something else didn't do the same over there, only with adults, rather than children?

Reading the above theory made me wonder: what if it's not a restaurant at all? So I thought about what place besides a Suck E. Cheese's would have animatronics, and this is what I came up with. It would explain why Baby is a clown. Maybe she is meant to be a performer/announcer.

Up until now, the only noise the animatronics made was loud screaming, actually a child's screams run through a filter, and they only ever came right for you. Now we have voice acting  specifically two sentences from the trailer stating "Don't hold it against us" and "You don't know what we've been through". This Troper believes that this game takes place in a timeline where the requirements to free all the dead children were met and their souls have been released, which means now instead of scared confused children, we're dealing with the adult victims of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza chain. Everyone who fell victim to an animatronic while on duty at night, every victim of spring-lock failure, every witness who saw too much while the Purple Guy was on the prowl, everyone who the fans previously forgot were also victims. After all, why would finally celebrating the birthday the children never got free them? So now you have the minds of fully cognizant adults who've been living a torturous existence trapped inside messed-up-looking animatronics for God knows how long hunting the player.

In the Sister Location trailer , the faceplates of the animatronics have some sort of smooth shifting motion, which looks much more advanced than anything 80's robotics could do.

It could be another restaurant or establishment that is owned by Fazbear Entertainment. And if possible, it may not have the characters we have come to know since the first game. To demonstrate, Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell are all owned by Yum! Brands, and even though they all offer different types of food, they're still considered sister locations because of the company who runs them.

the new update for Five Nights at Freddy's World mentions "Fazburger", and that Baby (one of the animatronics from the list) is present as well.

Post-Game Theories

Baby really was benevolent but her understanding of the situation is backwards.

Even kidnapping you temporarily if nothing else kept Foxy from murdering you, though it was dangerous.

She has you destroy her robotic body keeping only her base programing on a chip.

presuming she was a good robot programmed for good things possessed by an evil spirit that forced her to kill. The reality was she was a good spirit possessing a robot programmed to quietly commit murders for the sake of harvesting children. So when you destroy the body, in the process destroying most of the "remnent" that attaches the soul to the body, you loosened the grip of the good portion of her while allowing the evil robot programming with no morals to take a stronger hold.

The audio you play on Night 2 telling Funtime Freddy to "go back to sleep" was orginally from Chica, who was scrapped at the last second.

So Circus Baby, at this point well known to be a human soul bound to an anamatronic body. During the first few nights she's actually very helpful and does her best to keep the player alive as well as sharing what secrets she knows.The only hint of active malice comes at the very end which if you've played the game you know what happens. This comes afterWell this troper believes up until this point she was actually a good and benevolent force but fell at the last hurdle byWouldn't Bon-Bon quickly point out the imposter using his/her voice? It's possible that CBPW just reused Chica's lines for Bon-Bon. Another possibility is that they scrapped Funtime Chica & Bonnie at the last second and replaced them with Bon-Bon. Note how similar the springlock suit in Night 4 is to Chica. Also also note how we only see technically two out of the original four animatronics - Freddy & Foxy.

Lolbit IS the Purple Guy.

In the DLC cut-scenes endings, after Ennard claims William Afton and goes around in their organ-less body, they start to become an Uncanny Valley . As the days progress, their skin begins to decay and rot more and more, scaring his neighbors as they start to look like the living dead. The host body, unable to contain them or make for a suitable vessel anymore, starts to fall apart. The spaghetti mess that is Ennard is regurgitated into the sewers. Ennard's promise that he won't die rings out . The corpse is then pulled back together, apparently animated by one single animatronic in the end. Lolbit's eyes shine through , whereas all the other animatronics, rejected, look on from the sewer

Magic, or at least some form of necromancy, is a known but rare occurrence.

the neighbors

it's obvious Mr. Afton is now a shambling corpse

hide behind their houses rather than in them

morbidly amazing

This could maybe possibly explain whydon't just call the cops or something when, and.They're terrified, but also fascinated that something so...is happening so close to home.

her tricking you into the Scooper, it's possible this is Ennard fooling the player.

Most likely true, given Freddy, the first one you decommission for Handy, had voice mimicry software and hardware. You basically handed it to Ennard on a silver platter. And guess who starts talking strangely right after that night? Yup. You've got it. Baby.

The Big Bad is actually Handy himself, who tricked the animatronics into attacking you by forcing you to zap them a bunch of times, then deliberately attracting them towards you to have them kill you. Baby, on the other hand, is the one who reveals to the player that Handy is a Bad Boss who constantly says Blatant Lies and is rather cruel. This would explain why she's not in her room at night; she's trying to escape. As for

Ennard IS Handy.

Ennard either: A.) Remembered being multiple versions of the cast being dismantled over and over. OR B.) Discovered it while snooping around. Angry at the humans who abused him/her/it, Ennard decide to pose as a instructor, forcing the employees to unwittingly abuse the animatronics, tricking them into thinking all humans are bastards. Baby, seeing this, tries to put a stop to it by helping the player when the tangled monster is watching. However, in Night 5, the monstrosity catches on and "decommissions" (AKA kills) Baby and uses Baby's voice (since it was multiple forms, hence multiple voices) to trick the player into the Scooper, and use their body to wreak havoc in the human world

Here's the deal:

The game takes place in the Stanley Parable world.

You are just doing everything the narrator tells you. Either there are multiple narrators or the narrator could change his own voices to pretend to be someone else. Alternatively...

The game takes place in the Portal universe.

It has a lot of similarity. Silent protagonist, AI voice on the elevator, pushing the buttons, (possibly) rogue AI...

Portal canonically had a lot of alternate universes. This is the one where alternate Aperture becomes Circus Baby's Pizza World. Given that Aperture got its start making asbestos shower curtains for the military, and later branched out into all the crazy stuff they made afterwards, it wouldn't be too farfetched for them to move into animatronic research in some timelines.



The suit from Night 4 is from one of the older games.

Spring-Bonnie or Golden Freddy/Fredbear

I want to say jossed since neither have face plates that open.

My new theory is that the springlock suit is Golden Freddy/Fredbear but a new funtime version of Golden Freddy/Fredbear the purple guy made for him to use in comitting his crimes, the Funtime Foxy took out go the Fredbear Endoskeleton first.

The suit I think is either

Ennard is made of every Animatronic's Endoskeletons

notice how only the shells of Foxy, Freddy, and Ballora are in the Scooping room. And before she is even sent there, Baby herself seems to lack her endoskeleton. This, doubled with the fact Ennard is yet to be seen, means it could be possibly his phrase. "There is a bit of me in every body" is actually meant to be reversed into "There is a bit of Every Body in Me"!

Spoiler warning:

Ennard is the Purple Man

There were no ghosts or the ghosts didn't influence the animatronics' actions; the animatronics were already murderous robots.

the Purple Guy's LAST NAME.

Bad Ending caused by Ennard

as how Baby's programming has her aware of how many children are in the room and what to do when there's one child present shows

They were all designed by the psychopath that is the Purple Guy. All for a bunch of sick kicks in murdering all the Night Guards who were on shift, all of the children who came to the Fazbear chain of restaurants, and anyone he could get to go even close to the animatronics. It's the ultimate crime, and he never bloodies his own hands by it.

Let's see, the biggest piece of evidence for this WMG is how all of the animatronics are made by Afton Robotics, LLC. Afton, as inGiven this, not to mention there's little to no evidence of there being child murders caused by humans in Circus Baby's Pizza World, not to mention theoutright feels that the animatronics were designed to be murderous AI at night or have certain programs that turn them murderous even at the daytime. And why?

Whether the children had anything to do with the animatronics' actions may or may not be rendered moot by this WMG. If it's true, then they may be stuck to the animatronics as the last thing keeping them in this world, and being kids, they may not be as murderous as they've been thought to be. If they're still murderous, then barely anything changes and the animatronics would hunt the night guards regardless.

Although, this also makes the Purple Guy's fate in becoming Springtrap a subverted case of Laser-Guided Karma, as even though he's dead, he'll still be attached to one of his murderous animatronics and still getting kicks out of it. This can be supported by the fact that the little girl (presumed to be Afton's daughter) wasn't allowed near Baby, possibly because he knew what would happen.

The between night cartoon is of significance to the plot

Until we get to see the last part of the cartoon, we have no way of fully knowing.

Something about this cartoon's existence and elements seem to have some sort of possible connection to the lore. I.E "You work the graveyard shift at a Taco store" (typical role for the night guards) or "I set the house on fire" (Possible shout out to 3?)

Ennard becomes the Purple Guy, and the Technician becomes The Puppet.

wore the mask when wearing the technician's skin, the mask would probably pretty much shape the Purple Man's bizzarely shaped head and wide grin.

So Ennard became Afton after killing him, then murdered the children, then was shoved into Springtrap ? Considering Springtrap had barely any bones or muscle inside him in FNAF 3... Unlikely considering Purple Guy bleeds profusely when he dies via Springtrap. Dead people don't bleed much. Ennard would have had to find a way to keep the flesh alive so it wouldn't rot and give him away. That would require having blood and some of Afton's organs still in his system.

became after killing him, then murdered the children, then was shoved into ?

This will tie in everything that has taken place in Five Nights at Freddy's with Sister Location, and could even explain how the Puppet was able to help the children's souls into the animatronic suits — the Puppet made the animatronic suits in life. Possible support, if Ennard

The Mystery of 1983

Scott might've said that there's no plans for a sequel to Sister Location, but he implied that there may be one if it's successful enough. Assuming that a sequel does get made, Sister Location will serve as the first chapter to discovering what the significance of 1983 is.

The Technician is the father of the child in FNAF 4

Well, if the Technician is the father of the Child, then maybe he has cameras in his youngest son's room to keep an eye on him so he doesn't meet the same fate as his sister. Properly Paranoid and all that. It's possible that, if the Technician isn't Purple Guy (but Ennard is), he may suspect his oldest son of being Purple Guy. Then again, Baby implies on Night 4 that the original murders using the Golden Bonnie suit have already happened...

Then this takes place after the murders (the phone calls in FNAF 2) but before the 2nd opening of the FNAF 2 restaurant. Baby probably overheard about it from other technicians. What Ennard does with his new "skin" I'm not sure, but he can't be the murderer then.

It makes no sense from a lore standpoint that Afton is the murderer or the technician. However, there is evidence to suggest that the technician is the father of the child in FNAF 4. Follow me on this, if this is the case, then the sister in FNAF 4 that is missing is the child that Baby killed. The father quit working on the animatronics after this, only to return when another of his children died at another Fazbear location. The Cameras in the secret room that shows the FNAF 4 kid in the house from the main part of the game if you type 1983 on a nearby keypad; this may play in to this theory, but in what way, this troper is uncertain. If Ennard wears his skin in the real ending, then this may support the "Purple guy is the child's dad" theory and the "Ennard is Purple guy" theory.

Baby is the only haunted animatronic in this game. She's haunted by the little girl from the mini-game.

With so much lore in FNAF about haunted robots in each game, one would think there will be at least one in Sister Location. The biggest indicators are from the cupcake mini game. In the game, Baby has blue eyes, the little girl is clearly shown to have green eyes. Baby's eyes in the main game are green, not blue, which could indicate possession. Also, maybe that secret scene with Baby pulling the child inside her from the mini-game was more literal than we think. Baby says she did something awful to a little girl, but has no idea why she did it. It could be that it wasn't her who did something awful, but someone else used her to do it. Forced to shove a body inside her, perhaps?

There's going to be at least one wacky comedic Fan Work around the Fake Ending.

Specifically, they'll make it look like Eggs adopted Ennard as a pet or something.

Funny thought

Ennard wears the skin of the night guard to escape

Purple attempts to absorb the other ghosts it created at the shutdown of Fazbear Pizza into itself, the ghost children are merely putting Ennard back into a proper suit, Springtrap

we never do see how "springy" deals with the Fazbear's Fright guard in FNAF 3. Perhaps the fire was, rather than destroying "Springy", covering up Ennard's "old suit".

In this game,. Now, if this was before 1993-94, then when. This causes additional horror because

One of the reasons Baby helps you is because...

being forced to murder a child

the Daughter's murder

assuming the "Baby" you hear at night 5 is Ennard or her trying to finally escape

...She feels horribly guilty about. Think about it; outside of, she never attempts anything malicious,. Seeing an opportunity to amend her mistakes, she decides to help "Eggs Benedict" escape.

Ennard is separate from Baby, but is Nightmare and Purple Guy all rolled up into one.

Sister Locations characterization of Baby isnt exactly consistent if we consider that shes Ennard, since theres no real reason for waiting until Night 5 to scoop the player character. (She could have done that at the end of Night 3.) Baby is protective of the player against threats initially, and we later hear Ennard can imitate the voice of the girl Baby killed. So maybe Ennard is just using Babys voice for the sake of consistency for the player character to continue trusting them?

Under this assumption, Ennard/Nightmare has the ability to manipulate the other animatronics, explaining Fredbear biting the boy in 4 and Baby killing the girl in the history of Sister Location.

Ennard, like Nightmare, has a bizarre association with internal body parts Its a small thing, but why not?

When we see Purple Guy in FNAF 4, he doesnt appear to be aggressive, implying his Start of Darkness may not have happened yet If he was indeed the real killer at all.

In Sister Locations ending, Ennard is shown to have stolen the body of the games player character. Considering this is still Nightmare were talking about, he goes on to start killing children for the fun of it. But lets suppose, for a moment, that years later, reality began to ensue. Whatever foul machinations allowed him to live within the player characters body begin to fade. So he begins utilizing control of the other animatrionics to kill new night shift employees and steal their bodies. The various Purple Guys we see are actually Ennard/Nightmare hopping between bodies.

Alright, heres some grand unifying nonsense, split into five parts:

Still leaves some Puppet-sized holes in the story

The reason the Purple Guy murdered children...

...Is because they found out about his secret — he's not exactly human anymore.

The Technician is not Afton or Purple Guy, he's Phone Guy.

The Technician is Mike Schmidt

One very quick line at the very beginning of Night 1 lends this credence, as Handy states "insert your name as seen above the keypad". What's above the keypad? A piece of tape with the name "Mike". Unless there are two Mikes intimately connected to the Fazbear curse, this is our hero from Fnaf 1. He used to be a worker at Circus Baby's Pizza World, way back when Freddy Fazbear's was still open. He was hired to help set the place up in advance of its opening, which included test screenings with children. He brought his daughter to work with him. He knew that something was wrong with the animatronics, particularly Baby, but he lacked the experience to figure out what. Though he couldn't control the other children, he forbade his own kid from getting near them. However, the child disobeyed, and Baby killed her. Mike's life went into a downward spiral, and he became depressed and alone. Years later, he decided to figure out exactly why the robots were malicious. Circus Baby's had disappeared because of the incident, and William Afton with it, but Freddy Fazbear's was still open, if only barely, because of a string of horrible murders at the locations. Taking the role of a security guard, Mike charged through seven nights, evaded the main five animatronics, discovered the fate of Phone Guy, saw hints of their being haunted, and got fired when he was caught tampering with their A.I. Not long later, Freddy's shut down, and Afton popped up again, renting out the Circus crew for parties. Determined to find answers, Mike used his former experience to get a job as a technician and infiltrate the underground bunker where the murderous animatronics were kept.

The Technician is a brother or cousin of Purple Guy

You are playing as Mr. Afton, and are therefore the creator of these animatronics and the father of the child Baby killed. However, you aren't Purple Guy — you're a family member he forced or coerced into being an accomplice. Baby's more... unique features were added at his order/request.

This would change little about the "you are Afton" theory, except to reconcile the headscratchers that come from the concept of Ennard being Purple Guy. They're two totally separate beings. Also, it does away with a personal issue I had — it's implied pretty heavily that Afton truly loved his daughter, which conflicts with my personal distaste for giving sympathetic qualities to characters as evil as PG.

Part Jossed, but with elements of confirmed. You are playing Mr. Afton's son, and you are the Purple Guy, though given the Strong Family Resemblance , there are likely multiple Purple Guys

The Big Bad is doomed to fail.

Ennard rips out your insides to place itself into your body so it can masquerade as a human.

It's piloting around a freshly-killed corpse. That hollowed-out body is going to start decomposing before long.

That, and the skin is subjected to surprising amounts of wear and tear just from moving around. You don't notice because it's constantly being replaced. That doesn't happen anymore when the person in question is dead... Confirmed in the Custom Night minigames.



Consider what the big plan is.This plan will fail no matter what for one very obvious reason.

FNAF 4 was actually set in the sister location.

On Night 2, the map of the location shows three different areas hidden around the place. These match up to all three scenarios of FNAF 4 (The bedroom, the outside areas, and the Fun with Plushtrap hallway); this is supported by the camera systems in the private room displaying the bedroom and hallway.

This could explain many things. The Fredbear Plush could have a walkie-talkie attached to it, which clarifies its talking ability, and Pigtail girl may very well have been Baby. However, what this means for the hallucinations, the jerkbag brother, and of course the Nightmare animatronics is still unclear. It might be possible that the child was a test subject in what basically amounts to the Truman Show with horror.

I don't believe that this is a test facility, but perhaps a private area to keep him safe. This would support the "technician is FNAF 4 kid's dad" theory. However, I still don't know what that means for the outside area....

The Technician is the older brother of the FNAF 4 kid, and also the brother of the little girl in Sister Location.

He came to the Sister Location to find out what really happened to his sister. That's why Ennard tries to use her voice to lure him, why he doesn't have the authority that the father/Afton/(purple guy?)/the creator of the animatronics would have and has to get in through a low-level job, and maybe even why it's called "Sister" Location.

The Player's name actually is Eggs Benedict.

Sadly jossed.

Eggs's choice of exotic butters would make sense given their love of popcorn. Who's to say that the autocorrections weren't actually all correct?

Eggs is the father of the girl that was killed. Eggs, however, is not Mr. Afton.

Which actually makes the canon ending make more sense: Baby and/or Ennard was then programmed to want to take Eggs's body, completing his revenge on his wife. The question then is, would he go after his wife and kill her, or would he decide letting her live was the better punishment, especially if she doesn't know he did it?

The question then is, would he go after his wife and kill her, or would he decide letting her live was the better punishment, especially if she doesn't know he did it? Poster of the mentioned WMG here; I actually feel this could be the case too, because when I first saw said cutscene, my mind instantly tried connecting it to the plot, getting a whiff of an Unwanted Child story. Plus, it would explain the girl's statement of "Didn't you make her just for me?" He probably did — just not the way she had in mind. And it would also establish a motive and pattern for the later murders (barring the likely unrelated incident in FNAF 4): He believes he is ridding the world of unwanted children. The 'Take Cake' minigame would certainly look that way at least: he straight up murders a child excluded from the party.



There's a WMG above that got me thinking. That WMG was the one about how the Show Within a Show has some significance to the FNAF plot. Well, what if the metaphor goes deeper? What if Mr. Afton/Purple Man wanted his daughter to get kidnapped/killed by Baby? Why would he do that? Well...what if he thinks she really isn't his daughter ? Afton thinks that his wife cheated on him with Eggs and the daughter was the result of the affair and decided to get revenge on both of them by killing the daughter. All the telling her to stay away from Baby was just reverse psychology 'cause, come on, if someone tells you not to do something, that just makes you want to do it more . It doesn't particularly matter if the daughter is really Eggs's or not, Afton just needs to THINK she is. Just like Vlad thinks the baby isn't his in the Show Within a Show

The spring suit you are in on night 4 was of a funtime Chica!

Now this may be a stretch, but hear me out. Notice the face of the springlock suit; it doesn't look like either Freddy's or Bonnie's, but it does look a bit like Toy Chica's without her beak.

This Chica Suit is missing its beak, therefore making it have a wide grin, and Scott teased that Chica's missing beak was a SIGNIFICANT point. Plus the suit itself is a slight yellowish colour (though given spring suits, that's a given) and, final point. It's from Baby's previous pizzeria which, if we go by the code, that was on the site at one point. It could have been Chica's Party World... The location that was shut down due the incident with Baby.

Mr. Handy anticipated you would betray him from the outset.

You'll inevitably betray Mr. Handy, either by going to the Scooping Room without authorization or the Private Room without authorization, either way leading to your termination one way or another. Because of this foresight, your name was autocorrected to Eggs Benedict. You know. Like Benedict Arnold.

Ennard becomes the Purple Guy (Aka William Afton/Eggs Benedict), but the Purple Guy is still in control.

Think about it. When someone is killed and stuffed in an animatronic, they possess it. Whats to say that even though Ennard skinned Purple Guy and stuffed itself in him, that Purple Guys spirit DIDNT take control of his new animatronic skeleton? Ennard is technically an animatronic, so Purple Guy possessed it.

Lets look at some facts here:

Lets say Sister Location took place before Five Nights at Freddys 1-4. In the second game, William Afton physically stops Freddy from trying to save the children. In the third game, he easily dismantles all the animatronics with little struggle. How could one human man take down a six-foot tall robot that could easily kill a human? Because Afton is no longer human. He has the same strength as Freddy and the gang, if not greater because of all the animatronics Ennard assimilated.

In the third game, Afton got trapped in an empty Springtrap costume and apparently died  but it was odd how there were no bones to be seen through the rips of the decaying suit. Just a rotting face, what we can assume to be rotting muscles, and eyes that looked too synthetic to be human eyes. Bones just dont disappear  this means Afton didnt have a skeleton unless the wiring in Springtrap is Ennard, his new skeleton.

Plus, why is Afton called Purple Guy? Yes, because of his sprite in the minigames but what color eyes does he have after Ennard wears his skin? Purple.

And why would Ennard want to kill children? And why would they come back to any of the Pizzerias after all theyve been through? The animatronics of the Sister Location didnt want to hurt anyone else or be hurt anymore, which is why they took Aftons body to escape. Unless Afton repossessed his body. And Aftons already proven he takes some sick delight in killing children  after all, he did program the animatronics of the Sister Location to lure, abduct, and kill any stray children now that hes back, quite possibly insane from losing his only morality chain (his daughter) and having died and come back, why shouldnt he go the next step and kill children himself? What does he have to lose now that hes powerful and cant really die? All the Pizzerias will trust him, because hes one of the owners of the Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria chain, and made the animatronics. He has full access to everything, the cameras, the animatronics, security, etc. that makes it all too easy for him. He cant be stopped, not even by the other animatronics...

He will come back.

He always does.

We have a place for him.

Im still here.

If this is true, then that is probably why he goes for the Fazbear Fright guard (assuming that he is a middle-age adult and not a child). Springtrap (if he is Ennard in the long run) could have been looking for a new body! Other points that might support this: Purple Guy's sprite in the minigames seems to be the same height or towers over the Animatronics, whom, let's be honest, mostly appear to be 7-8 feet tall at best, and Ennard appears to be the tallest Animatronic in the series. If it isn't Purple Man regaining control, it is Ennard acting on the AI of most of the animatronics (stalk and abduct children), only it was radicalized slightly.

And now for a massive stretch of a theory I do not take pride in thinking up: One of the features Ennard took was the voice mimic module, which, if we go back to the "Purple Guy is Phone Guy" theories, suddenly PG being done in could be given a newer twist. Ennard mimicked PG and the Animatronics to make that scene sound real, but that at the least implies the real PG would have been dead before or around FNAF 1. (Again, this one's a huge stretch.)

One little problem with this theory: Why did Ennard bleed when he was iron-maidened in the Springtrap suit? Who says that he kept the same meat suit all these years? Maybe it "switched suits" with different people all these years, changing its identity with a new suit, a new victim. Maybe we have been playing Ennard this whole entire time and it was truly Mike Schmidt, Jeremy Fitzgerald, Fritz Smith, and Eggs Benedict who all have died and become man suits to Ennard/Purple Man? The Spring-trapped one was a bit more fresh and drippy.



This game takes place between the original game and 3

Okay, stay with me here while I explain this:

We know in 3 that Afton/Purple Guy meets his demise returning to the Pizzeria to destroy the evidence of his crimes (which makes the theory he is Eggs kinda hard to swallow).

Note that the opening narration implies that the higher-ups are aware of the features he included in the Circus Baby group (that were obviously intended for child abduction), and even if Ennard escaped [[spoiker:after killing the technician, their guts and insides would probably be found eventually]].

The events of this game are why Afton returned to destroy the evidence: what happened at Circus Baby's got people suspicious of him and he now had a reason to return to cover up the evidence of his original crimes, leading to his demise and being turned into Springtrap.

So:

Frezbear's Diner murders.

Events of 2 (and 4 from the sound of it) including the original murders.

Events of the first game.

Events of Sister Location.

And finally events of 3.

One thing that could raise an issue with this is the 1983 code in the Secret Room, but if the Child's room and hallways are actually part of the facility, it makes more sense. The room in the game does not match the room in the minigames then, either. One door, a window, the bed pushed into a corner, a collection of Fazbear plushes. None of those are in the room in the game itself, meaning the room you're in every night and the minigame room are different rooms. If the game isn't a string of nightmares and memories, the logical conclusion is that the events of 4 really happened and that the Child wasn't in his own room every night.

Ennard was originally the out of order anamatronic and Circus Baby is innocent.

I was confused by Circus Baby's [[spoiler:180° turn from "I'll help you survive" to "I kidnapped you, you're dumb, and I put you in a death suit", so I came up with this theory to try and figure it out. The "out of order" animatronic is the base for Ennard, seeing as the clown mask he wears has face plates and thus is from a previous Circus Baby's Pizza World animatronic, and I feel this is important because he could have picked any other mask, or not worn one at all (this is why it is absent from its usual spot on the wall), and the mask being broken would be the result of a previous scooping. Also, Ennard could hide in the spring suit to avoid detection during inspections (if CBPW cares enough to pay for that). Now, as for Baby's innocence in the whole suit thing (and after events), this sequence would be how night 3-4 plays out:1. The player does maintenance on Funtime Freddy. (During this time, Ennard mobilizes and makes its way to the Funtime Auditorium.)2. The player is caught by Funtime Foxy--a. With help from Ennard, or-b. Ennard intervenes.3. Ennard takes the technician and puts them in the springlock suit, and then in the scooping room.4. With Funtime Freddy's plates open, Ennard takes his voice mimicry module and installs it to itself.5. Ennard is hidden in the scooping room, and talks to the waking technician. The "learning to pretend" speech now also has a double meaning, as it would also refer to Ennard gaining the ability to mimic Baby. Being a different animatronic would explain the sudden change of character, and how there is enough room for 3 full-size animatronics in the scooping room.]]

poster of the "technician is father of fnaf 4 kid" wmg here. I had this thought too, there's no way Ennard is just a combination of all the animatronics. Or else Ballora wouldn't try to kill you on night 5. Except Ballora isn't there anymore. You soon find out that she was already scooped. Ennard probably lied about her to make sure you keep going in the right direction. That's why it kills you instead of Ballora if you don't follow instructions.



The Puppet was originally programmed at the same time as the Circus Baby gang — this explains why he did what he did with the dead kids.

The Puppet has an AI system that was programmed at the same time as the Circus Baby gang. It was since somewhat re-programmed to just give gifts but some of the previous programming remains. This is why when the Puppet finds the dead children, he 'gives life' by stuffing the dead children into animatronics. After all, the Circus Baby gang have some suspicious features, which are commonly theorized to be for child abduction.

The Puppet was never trying to revive the dead kids; only acting according to his programming which told him to get ahold of kids and hide them inside the other animatronics to complete the purpose they were all designed for.

In the good ending, Ennard followed you home...

Because they wanted to see the show too.

...Hey, this is Wild Mass Guessing.

Ennard, in Eggs's body, goes on to become Rick Astley.

The purple-eyed person in the end is a silhouette of Rick Astley.

Fun fact: The song came out in 1987.

...what?

Baby, Handy, and Ennard are all working together.

We already know that Ennard is everyone, but Handy is also on the side of the animatronics. By being unhelpful, he makes you trust Baby more when she talks to you, which is just another part of the plan. There's not really any reason why Handy wouldn't be sympathetic to the animatronics since, in the end, he's also a machine being used by the company. It's just that in the end Handy isn't an animatronic, so he can't leave.

Ennard didn't fully scoop out the player.

One of the major flaws with Ennard's plan is that he just wouldn't fit in a human skin suit, and it would eventually rot away too.

However, who's to say they didn't fully scoop you out, and instead joined themselves into the player character, making Eggs (or Will if you... will?) a Cyberpunk Cyborg. It would mean he would still have a reason to be able to take out the Freddy's crew by himself, and it would also explain why he would still be able to bleed when he gets Springlocked.

Eggs decided to compromise with Ennard.

Think about it. Ennard would be much faster while trying to kill Eggs in the good ending. My best guess was that Eggs decided to help Ennard get out of the facility without killing him and that Ennard now stays with him like a roommate or something.

There was never just one...Purple Guy.

if Ennard scoops Eggs's body and puts it on, how could he bleed later when he becomes Springtrap?

For all their supposed sentience, we have to remember Ennard is a robot, more or less, and was likely programmed to take Eggs's body by Mr. Afton. I propose that after that, Ennard was programmed further to become a Big Bad Duumvirate with Mr. Afton to basically, combined, be Purple Man. For lack of a better term, Ennard was the 'face' of Purple Man, who lured the children away, and Mr. Afton was the one who committed the actual murders.

While I would hope that Ennard would develop enough sentience and free will to break Afton's programming and turn themself in, I think it's more likely Ennard was the day-shift guard that got arrested. Either way, it's only a matter of time before Ennard's true nature as an animatronic is discovered. And as someone both associated with both animatronic building and Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, that puts Mr. Afton right on top of the suspect list. So Mr. Afton hurriedly went to all the pizzerias to try to hide all the evidence that proved his guilt. Cue the events that led to him becoming Springtrap.

Then again...if Phone Guy is a Purple Man, then that would explain why there are three different character designs for Purple Man. Because they were meant to be three separate men. This could be one of the most plausible and even dramatic explanations, because now that we've got the third game, the book and the Sister Location, everything that is assigned to the adventures of the Purple Guy just cannot fit into one single person anymore. Never mind the obvious blood fountain that followed the springlocks crash and human eyes in the animatronic (how did they not dry out after all those years is up for another theory maybe), by the end of the third game this "only" Purple Guy is the ultimate Russian doll of possession: three to five animatronics blended together into one, which then got trapped inside another one? Bonus points if you consider that Baby might have been possessed by the girl she killed prior Ennard, and Ennard himself may or may not become possessed by whoever he scooped that faithful night. How does it work and what's the point? Plus, narrative-wise, if the scooped guy was indeed Afton, this twist is completely useless. A good story is when a normal guy creates robots for entertainment, realises they're all crazy, gets his daughter killed by one of them, and then as he comes back to the hellhole looking for answers, gets scooped by a maniac animatronic who then uses his flesh as disguise in order to kill children. But, as evident from the game, Afton already was a murderer: he designs the animatronics to kill, and as the game starts, we are informed that Freddy Fazbear's Pizza has already closed down — things have already happened involving murder. What is the point of getting rid of one murderer to replace him with a wire-operated murderer with the same objectives? Two more or less fairly decent ways the "multiple Purple Guys" theory can go are: either the scooped guy was indeed Afton and the other Purple Guy was a random dude, or, as suggested before, Afton is relatively alive and well while Ennard assembled himself and became the other Purple Guy. The first theory would combine the dodgy canon of the book and the established universe just as Scott wanted, naming one guy, but leaving the main one up to interpretation in the best traditions of FNAF (throw the poor Phone Guy in here), but again, not much drama concerning the replacement point, so let's explore the second one in more detail. Is it possible there could be another Purple Guy? The dodgy book itself actually establishes that Afton had an accomplice — somebody has actually, willingly joined a guy in order to orchestrate a scheme of luring children away to kill and stuff them inside animatronic suits. Willingly. The original Purple Guy had an actual helper — that helper himself could already be the Purple Guy Jr., so, apart from that, what are the odds there could be other psychos willing to kill children? Sadly to real life even, there were never just one. Then, the Purple Guy we know dies a bit differently than Afton from the book. Add to that the already discovered inconsistency with the springlocks, and the fact that if it was Ennard getting crushed — really? A seven foot whatever robot hideous megazord getting obliterated by a trashy ancient suit so badly he couldn't even move for like twenty years? That book implies Afton was actually crushed by springlocks on several occasions before - he has scars, he knows the feel, but he was never killed by it? He's a robot after all, nothing crashes those killer metal muscles. Then, there are the weird different sprites from the second game — was it intentional, we'll never know. Other interesting thing — the "consistent" Purple Guy from the third and fourth games has the same shadow of purple, is quite tall, and has glowing eyes - Ennard? Afton? Quite confusing. Ennard pretending to be Afton while not even being in the body of the latter would also make sense — of course he can be a night guard and nobody would realise he's a co-creator of everything — he's not the goddamn Afton. And those restaurants close every other weekend, and many people come and go, and old faces tend to be forgotten, and real Afton himself doesn't want to get recognised either. A weird dude-murderer with a suspiciously extensive knowledge on animatronics turns out to be Afton — well, there's nobody left to prove otherwise. Afton designed those animatronics that were then combined into Ennard — that's telling a story about yourself in third person. Ennard wanting to be Afton is a rather daddy issue maybe, but hey — "robot spends 1983,0000 dollars to look like his idol". You can't really kill a robot such as Ennard the normal way. Springtrap is all ready to make a comeback one day. There can even be three or more Purple Guys, why not, but let the best two collide in a final game, in a final Purple Fight. A human murderer whose eventual karma