LORE / CHARACTER ANALYSIS

hey! this page is essentially kinddd of like a blog, but more specifically dedicated to analyzing the lore and what it means (although my personal opinions may be sprinkled throughout and this isn't intended to be professional). e.g. "what are william's motivations?" and "who actually haunts golden freddy?" basically i'm like matpat but gay and not trying to make things more convoluted

i think glitchtrap's personality would be like what would happen if you dialed william's personality up to 11. it's trying to replicate all of his traits but has no real basis for how much is too much, the context or strength behind any particular trait, or the nuance involved.

where william is silly, glitchtrap is an absolute fucking goober. where william is unstable, glitchtrap is completely volatile. and of course where william is selfish, glitchtrap is just supervillain type evil. you get the point. one thing that is funnily enough 1:1 is that they're both constantly playing characters, where it's debatable if there's any kind of true self beneath the roles they play.

the aspects of him that DON'T get grabbed are arguably the most human ones. the grief, the twinge of regret that he's buried down so far within him, his love for his family. hell, even the jealousy and obsession are absent. ironically glitchtrap is basically just how they fucked up william's personality in canon

and just cause i feel the need to add the disclaimer here. william is NOT glitchtrap - he is well and dead in pizza sim.

raccoon-in-a-dumpster asked: what was mike's adolescence like?

thats where shit really starts to go down ‼

he's hit puberty, getting moody, starting to really feel like none of his family cares about him (especially william). for now this is mostly internalized but he's definitely noticing william pays more attention to his siblings than to him, and that continues to fester within him. he starts acting out & being rebellious to get his father's attention (bad attention is better than none for him), starts slipping in school, groups up with the mean kids. and eventually he begins taking his anger out on his brother too by bullying him. blah blah blah bite of 83 happens you get it.

michael knows he has fucked up. very. very badly.

a week passes. evan(cc) dies. dad has refused to talk to him ever since the accident. mom wont look him in the eyes. lizzie isn't nearly as upbeat as she used to be. his friends left him. there's nowhere for that anger to go anymore, and nowhere for the grief either. so he just... starts keeping it inside. he mellows out, hardly fights back anymore - if he's being yelled at he probably deserves it, in his mind. it's not like his personality disappears, but the spark has extinguished. no one wants to associate with the kid who killed his own brother. eventually william starts talking to him again, but... there's no hint of fondness in his voice anymore. just resentment.

michael doesn't know what to do with himself. he's got bad grades, no discernable passions (art seems useless to him, and his interest in robotics was snuffed out long ago), and no real goal in life. he's just... there. lizzie dies, mom leaves, but he can hardly even cry. it's like the world moves around him, but he does not.

when michael is nearing 18, the anger and grief kind of partially turns to apathy and that continues into his adulthood. so when he's scooped its like "well. this might as well happen to me. whatever". also he has this whole sense that he *needs* to make things right, fix what he ruined, which is why he willingly goes to the sister location. he can't get evan back, but he can at least get lizzie... right?

late into their college days, henry breaks it off with william because they Just Cant Be Together Like This(bla bla bla 60's/70's homophobia) and he's a Good Christian Man. immediately going to marry a woman to make up for his 'sins'. william getting a wife because he sees henry doing it and feels like its something he has to do.

dating around, escalating to sleeping around trying to fill the void, hoping someone will click but nobody makes him feel the way henry does at all. even clara, who came the closest out of anyone else, was still more out of obligation than true love cause of an accidental pregnancy.

as much as william loves his kids - michael was a mistake and he really wasn't ready to have a kid yet, locking him to a path he wasn't sure he wanted to walk. he's a shitty parent because he was never actually prepared and at that point the diner is taking up a lot of his time so he just kinda escapes to the diner and buries himself in his work most of the time.

once michael's siblings are born, he tends to give better treatment to them(better experience + he actually wanted them), even though he loves them all there is definitely favoritism and a hint of resentment. despite knowing that michael didnt do anything wrong. of course, he feels a lot more justified in that resentment after evan(CC)'s death.

(written on 11/4) ok serious thoughts on the fnaf movie this time. they're a little scattered but i did just see it so i gotta think on it some more before i give like an actually structured review. but immediate thoughts post-viewing:

i had fun with the movie! i thought it was enjoyable. was hoping for at LEAST a little more blood (i really wanted to see william fucking explode into blood for one) but i knew there wasn't gonna be much since its pg13. it wasn't scary like in the slightest except for 1 jumpscare that almost kind of got me but i wish they set up the atmosphere a little bit more.

i think that the pacing is NOTTTT very good at all. william needed more screen time 100% and there wasn't that great of a build up to the climax. maybe its more impactful to people who didn't already know that steve is william, but i'd wager that they're probably like HUH WHUH??? at that reveal because its not really. set up that much. and yes im biased because i fucking love william ok.

MAJOR GRIPE. i hate that vanessa is related to william. please stop retconning the afton family scott pretty please. give that man his dead children back. i seriously seriously love the "man goes fucked up sicko mode because of his grief" trope but alas.

i think matthew lillard did a great job, BUT... we barely got to see him at all! and, especially with the "i always come back line..." i cringed a little bit man. like what are you coming back from? you haven't died yet man. there's nothing to come back from yet tf are you yappin about. it felt like it was really shoved in there honestly. we DESPERATELY needed to see more of him! in fact, most of the characters needed more set up! like ok... mike lost his brother? why should i care. mike is gonna lose his sister? why should i care tho?? these kids died but they dont really seem like they care too much about being dead either so whats the big deal.

AND WHY DIDN'T THE KIDS HAVE BEEF WITH WILLIAM/THE YELLOW RABBIT. THEY CLEARLY WERE SHOWN TO KNOW HE KILLED THEM, BUT THEY DON'T TURN ON HIM UNTIL ABBY PUTS UP HER SHITTY LIL DRAWING? FOR REAL????? WHY? + THEY DONT EVEN GET NAMED AT ALL. THE MOVIE CARES SO LITTLE ABOUT THE KIDS AND YET THEY DONT EVEN ALLOCATE THAT TIME TO AFTON EITHER. THEY FUMBLED BOTH SIDES!

also a lot of stuff just kind of isn't resolved? like the mike vs his aunt thing. is his aunt dead or...? + what was the fucking freddy saw trap thing that doesn't get explained at all. did the police not see that or does william just lug that thing in and out of the building constantly. what's it even for.

im also curious about some things. whats up with that kid who had a midnight motorist shirt (im assuming its just a fun reference since fnaf 6 wouldn't even be possible with the movie lore thus far). whats up with the other random springlock animatronic that is never named nor do we get a full look at. Where's Henry. are we just straight up ditching henry this time around?

i came into this knowing it wouldn't be lore accurate nor gory because of the rating but ugh. Ughhhh. can we please settle on one fnaf timeline to be canon its been almost 10 years we don't needa be playing like this anymore bro. i want to see the afton family for REAL show me cc getting his fuckin head chomped off or elizabeth getting snatched. give us literally any of the original missing children give us cassidy or something. like even in the silver eyes at least we got henry ffs! it just makes me a little sad knowing that one of the rejected scripts WAS accurate to the game lore. but let me be clear - i did enjoy the movie! it was fun! it's just that a lot of it kind of crumbles if you stop to think about it for more than a few seconds.

final rating 6/10 movie mid not enough william afton moaning and whimpering AMEN! /j

you might have seen what i said before about FNAF being a tragedy at it's core - but what do i mean by that? what evidence do i have?

i think for one, the murders are inherently tragic; children whose lives were cut short far too soon by a selfish, cruel killer. trapped for eternity inside bulky, not-well-maintained animatronics, forced to sing and dance all day and all you can do is watch as the luckier, living children run around and play just like you once did... there is no way to free yourself, no way to go back to what you once were.

i find william's downfall to be particularly intriguing. a man who seemed to have everything life could give handed to him on a platter - a wife, kids, a nice house, a nice car, a successful business and at least a decent amount of money (albeit it with at least a few mental issues) - but one day loses his son in a horrible accident, marking the start of his downward spiral as his grief and inability to let go ends up wrecking everything that he had left, losing his friends and family through his own selfish, dark desires. losing henry and getting kicked out of fazbear ent. because he killed charlie, losing another child to his own creation that was meant to gather remnant to bring his son back.

there's a sense of betrayal as well - william killed henry's daughter charlie, despite knowing the pain of losing a child, despite knowing how much henry meant to him and how charlie considered him family. william betrayed his oldest son michael by sending him into what was basically a death trap, all in attempt to find and retrieve elizabeth (his daughter) who he also couldn't bear to lose.

but did it really have to be that way? that's the thing. william couldn't see past his own self-centered thoughts, his grief becoming all-consuming, and at some point he just loses the thread of what he started this all for and realizes that maybe, just maybe, he actually does enjoy killing. and he doesn't even regret it in the end. maybe he regrets the consequences, yes, but he wouldn't take back what he did...

i think that william is actually a very silly goofy guy! he's dramatic, he's an entertainer and an actor as shown by how he acts when he's wearing the springbonnie suit. although he's definitely playing it up for an effect there, he's still kind of uhh. theatrical i think. but he's also very charismatic and could probably smooth talk his way out of prettty much anything, which is part of the reason he doesn't get arrested after the MCI (also the lack of evidence). at the same time he has kind of a weird vibe to him, you can just tell there's something wrong with this dude, like maybe he's trying a little too hard to look normal.

and thennnn there's what's beneath the surface. william is kind of insensitive, self-centered/selfish, and egotistical. he also absolutely refuses to admit his own faults or shortcomings. something bad happened? not his fault! he was wrong about something? no he wasn't! another thing, william is very paranoid and usually feels like anyone or anything could be a threat to him (mostly because of that one passage from the silver eyes, "had spent so much of his life fighting like a cornered rat." and ANOTHER thing from the silver eyes, "he had taken on the mantle of bitter sadism as an integral part of himself. he would strike out against others and revel in their pain, feeling righteously that the world owed him his cruel pleasures.")

at first he kills charlie because he wants to bring evan back, and feels he deserves some kind of revenge on henry because it was HIS animatronic that did the bite after all, right? but along the way he realizes he enjoys killing. and that it feels so good to have power when he hasn't for most of his life. so he keeps going, and eventually all that comes crashing down on him. and it's tragic! because he used to have what many would call a perfect life. but he completely ruined that with his own selfish desires.

Q: What’s your opinion on the recent lore drop in regards to the leak to the upcoming Tales of the Pizzaplex book? The Fnaf 4 stuff?