Characters / Dayshift at Freddy's

All the visually stunning characters in Dayshift at Freddy's.

Main/Human Characters

"Old Sport"

Tomorrow is another day.

An orange recolor of Purple Guy and the character the player controls. There's more to him than meets the eye.

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• And I Must Scream: Used to be the nightguard at Fredbear's before he got stuffed into and springlocked by a suit. He was left dying for days, and even when discovered by Henry, was left to bleed...
• Arc Words: "Tomorrow is another day." Considering The Reveal, this might be a Survival Mantra for him.
  • "My Legacy" is also this if you get the Pure Evil ending.
• Barred from the Afterlife: Can't join the child spirits and the Puppet as they move into the afterlife because of his status as The Soulless.
• Body Horror:
  • Whenever he fails at putting on the springlock suit, dozens of blades pierce his body.
  • The reason he's orange is that he's actually a zombie, and must spend hours applying makeup to his body to hide the fact that he's rotting.
• Canon Name: Jack Kennedy. The third game would explain that he uses fake identities when moving from pizzeria to pizzeria, and that Jack is his real name regardless of what you put his name in as, although if anybody refers to him as Jack or by the name you gave varies.
• The Chosen One: Was given life again by the Real Fredbear in the second game so he could save the children trapped at Freddy's. It's up to you whether you act on this, though.
• Consummate Liar: If you chose to lie to the Phone Guy about his private life, he ends up creating a whole fake family he loves dearly.
• Determinator: Good "Old Sports" will stop at nothing to complete his promise to The Real Fredbear, to the point where, in the third game, he can use this determination to temporarily boost several stats. And resist Henry's attempts to break him with talking — a tactic that worked on everyone else, even the Puppet and an ethereal doggo.
• Foil: If you chose to pursue the true ending of the second game, he's one to the Purple Guy (fittingly, seeing how he's his Palette Swap). Like him, he was trapped in a springlock suit (though he did it first) and keeps coming back to the Fazbender restaurants, bringing chaos with him. However, he's trying to save the children rather than kill them.
• The Gadfly: Whenever he arrives at a Freddy's, he brings chaos. You can hand lewd picutres on the walls, have public sex with Foxy and Chica, rickroll everyone, make a pizza with Bonny's actual face, wreck the urinal and much more, just to have fun. Though it could be because, having died in the restaurant, Old Sport is just trying to brighten up his undead existence.
• Heroic Sacrifice: In the third game, a possible path for a good-aligned Jack will have him trap himself, Davetrap and the other possessed animatronics into his pizzeria with the intention of burning the remains of the Fazbear franchise into ashes, stopping it from claiming any more lives.
• Interface Spoiler: Deliberate — some of his dialogue options have a small "Lie" next to them, slowly foreshadowing The Reveal.
• Loss of Identity: His true name is lost and forgotten even by him. It's Jack Kennedy.
• Palette Swap: Of Purple Guy/Dave Miller. Minus the large hands and long neck.
• The Reveal: He used to work as the nightguard before being stuffed into a Fredbear suit and left to die. Then he was brought back to life by the Real Fredbear to save the trapped souls of children killed in the restaurants.
• Revenant Zombie: He was brought back to life by the Real Fredbear to save the children that keep dying in the pizzerias.
• Robosexual: Clearly attracted to Foxy and (less so) Chica.
• The Soulless: It turns out he's dead, and thus devoid of soul.
• Suddenly Voiced: When you get close to an ending in the third game, Old Sport will bust out a fully voiced monologue for the occasion.
• Super Window Jump: Has a deep-seated compulsion to leave any given building through the window regardless of if the door is locked.
• Walking Spoiler: Due to The Reveal in the second game.

Phone Guys/Scott Cawthon

Welcome back, employee.

His DSAF2 design

A man with a heckin' phone for a head, who's also your boss and the manager of the restaurant. In the second game, it turns out every Freddy's has its own Phone Guy. In the third, you hire your own Phone Guys as employees.

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• Artificial Human: In game two, Phone Guy reveals that he and his kind are mass-produced to serve as managers for the Freddy Fazbender's restaurants. They also seem to be made for specific branches, as in DSaF2 he will tell you that he will be sent back to the factory after his branch is closed. Game three reveals that the tech responsible for this was thanks to one Dr. Henry Miller.
• Bad Boss: More so in the first game, and Dave says he's this in the second, but that depends whether you're with or against him. In the third game, the first game's Phone Guy can use a Bastard Boss skill to drain your team's HP.
• Dark and Troubled Past: The three Phone Guys you hire all have their problems; Black Phone Guy fought in Vietnam only to die in a spring suit and lost all memories, Purple Phone Guy fled from Fazbear due to recovering his memories, only to learn he missed his son growing up, and Orange Phone Guy was a drop-out med student who embraced being Scott Cawthon as a means to escape his shitty previous life.
• Deuteragonist: In DSaF2's Happiest Day route.
• Expy: His appearance is likely inspired by the fairly popular trend of depicting Phone Guy with a red rotary phone as a head.
• Fake Memories: In the second game, when he shows you a picture of himself and his family (whom he says he hadn't seen in a decade), you're given the option to point out that the Phone Guy in the picture is the one from the first game, implying this. In the Perfect ending to the game, though, Old Sport can turn up at his door and he seems to at least have a wife at home.
  • Interestingly, the one memory he has of the past that he thinks is fake is not. It turns out that he used to be a performer named Peter who Henry murdered with a springlock suit when he tried to stop the kids being led to the saferoom. It's possible to get a night cutscene of this very event, and asking Phone Guy if he's ever experienced a springlock failure will get him to recall his final day as 'Peter', to which he finishes by saying his memory cores must be faulty.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: He avoids actual swear words even at his most agitated.
  • In DSAF2, it's subverted a few times, most notably on Friday of Purple Guy's route when he chews you out in the office.
• Locked Out of the Loop: On the "Happiest Day" playthrough, he's seemingly the only person in the restaurant who's unaware of what's going on.
• Meaningful Name: His head is literally a phone.
• My God, What Have I Done?: If you chose to defy Dave on Day 2, Phone Guy will be greatly regretting ignoring your attempts to warn him.
• Named After Someone Famous: All Phone Guys are named Scott Cawthon because it was the name of their founder, who served as the prototype Phone Guy.
• Nominal Hero: They are opposed to Dave's string of murders and even Orange Guy's depraved actions in any route where he sides with Dave, however they are still just the managers of a very corrupt and shrewd business and they often leave Orange Guy in bad situations in many endings even when he's not doing something particulary evil.
• The Reveal: The DSaF2 version's actually Jack's brother.
• Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome: Both your bosses are revealed to have bit it and their souls are now trapped in the Flipside, at least until you rescue them.
• Took a Level in Kindness: The Phone Guy from the second game is much nicer and generally more pleasant than the one from the first game, and can actually become a Benevolent Boss if you side with him. Subverted, since the Phone Guy from 2 is a different character than 1's incarnation. That said, he later turns around in 3.
• We Have Reserves: A business has gone down recently? Don't worry they just create a new Phone Guy for the next "brand new" location. With a large body of former springlock suit performers at your disposal, it's easy to keep up with the demand.

Purple Guy/Dave Miller

Hello there, old sport.

A child murderer who attempts to enlist you as his helper and has a habit of calling people "old sport".

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• Adaptational Comic Relief: While still the Serial Killer Big Bad, Dave's ALSO a major sense of comic relief. The Knight of Cerebus Evil Genius elements of Canon Afton are given to Henry.
• Adaptational Dumbass: William Afton was a consummate professional and genius roboticist. While Dave is capable of reworking animatronics into death machines, he's much more foolish than his canon self. Most of his Evil Genius acts, like building the animatronics and experimenting to find a means to subvert death were given to Henry.
• Adaptational Heroism: While still a serial killer, he's nowhere as monstrous as his canon counterpart. He pulls a full Heel–Face Turn in the third game, while his body, still stuck in the Spring Bonnie suit, causes mayhem in the living world.
• Adaptation Name Change: Is named Dave Miller in this continuity. Except that it's a fake name. His real name is the one in canon, William Afton.
• Alas, Poor Villain: As Henry himself states in the third game, he was "already broken", not having anyone at all thanks to his Hilariously Abusive Childhood, and entered a toxic relationship with Henry due to just wanting love. In the third game in particular, as Davetrap, despite going to Vegas with the now "immortal" Old Sport, he can't be happy, and when they enter his hidden bunker, Old Sport reveals himself to be Jack, and with some nudging from Henry, promptly strangles Davetrap to death despite the claims that he loved him.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Thanks to his shitty childhood, he was so desperate for human connection that he look to Henry as the father he never had, and the his time at the pizzeria as the childhood he never got to experience.
• Beware the Silly Ones: He’s one of the funniest characters in the games, but he’s also a very effective child murderer. This is especially notable in the third game, where DaveTrap can be absolutely terrifying at times.
• Big Bad: He is the one who kills kids and tries to shut down the pizzerias, but it’s revealed that he was influenced by Henry.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Had one with Henry in the past, and can form one with Old Sport if you choose to go for one of the evil endings.
• Big Bad Ensemble: DaveTrap has this with Henry in the third game.
• Breaking Speech: Delivers a devastating one to phone guy in the second game.
  Dave: I mean... Have you ever looked in a mirror, Scott? Your head is a plastic rotary phone!
  Phone Guy: I- come on let's not bring phone heads into this-
  Dave: You're a monster, Scott.Your life is fake. Your memories are manufactured. Your kids are fake. There's 50 more of you rotting in the factory. You are nothing.
• Card-Carrying Villain: He doesn't actively hide his deeds so much as he does dispose of any actual evidence. Otherwise, he takes pride in being a twisted, murderous goon.
• Catchphrase: "Hello there, old sport". Also "We are a family, old sport." in the third game
• Deadpan Snarker: When he comes back as Springtrap in the true ending of the second game.
  Phone Guy: I've been looking for you... everywhere.
  Dave: Really? And did you think to look behind the three false walls you've left me behind?
• Dirty Coward: If his choice of victims is anything to go by, he is one. He's also not above framing his co-workers to save himself.
• Faux Affably Evil: Calls you 'old sport'. Also a child murderer, thief, and will not hold back against you in the second game if you don't help him.
• Final Boss: Of the Happiest Day and Fairly evil endings in the second game.
• Forgets to Eat: Spends at least one ending of the second game dazed from malnutrition and sleep-deprivation because the idea of destroying Freddy's made him too excited to take care of himself.
• Hilariously Abusive Childhood: As we discover in the third game, William was an orphan thrown out of the orphanage because people didn't want an aubergine kid. He then grew up on the streets, busking for money by playing the trombone, and eventually found his way to the traveling circus of one Dr. Henry Miller...
• Laughably Evil: He may be a child murderer, but he's hilarious.
• Leitmotif: His appearances are generally underscored with the use of the opening theme for Rugrats: Search for Reptar.
• Literal Split Personality: In the third game, the (relatively) reasonable Dave in the Flipside and the springlocked child-murdering Davetrap in the real world.
• Long Neck: His neck is shown to be elongated and somewhat lopsided in more detailed artwork from Dayshift 3.
• Meaningful Name: He's purple, and he's a guy.
• Off with His Head!: In the third game, taking the evil route leads Jack into killing Dave this way.
• One-Hit Kill: In the third game, he's capable of instantly killing enemies with his Tamper technique. Just don't expect it to hit.
• Only Known By His Nickname: His real name's still William Afton, but basically everyone calls him Dave, with the sole exception of Henry, and occasionally Old Sport.
• Papa Wolf: If you side with him in the second game, it's possible for him to develop an overprotective and bizarre father/son dynamic with Old Sport. He even goes so far as to refer to him as his "orange baby".
• Precision F-Strike:
  • Decline his offer on day 2 and he won't be happy.
    Dave: I'll see you around, old fuck.
  • He will say the same thing if you refuse to follow through with the plan to murder the janitor after killing the children.
  • Same goes for 3 if you refuse Dave Trap's offer, only with much more reverb.
• Psychopathic Man Child: It's ironic, considering that he hates kids. He's a violent child murderer, but his topics of conversation are incredibly immature. And gets a kick out of prank-calling Phone Guy. Discovering just what Henry did to him and just how dependent Dave became on Henry makes it more tragic and somewhat understandable, though.
• Revenant Zombie: If you go for the true ending in the second game, he shows up after you kill him with the Springtrap suit to take his revenge on you. Also, Davetrap in the third game.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • His reason for all the child murders is to destroy Freddy's for buying out Fredbear's and therefore destroying the dreams of himself and Henry.
  • In the second game, if you help Phone Guy kill him with his Spring Bonnie suit and wall him up and then return for the Happiest Day, he bursts out as a zombie and tries to murder everyone, only to be stopped by the Real Fredbear.
• Serial Killer: Just like in the original FNAF series.
• Shout-Out: His habit of calling everyone "old sport" is one to The Great Gatsby, where Gatsby does the same.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Kebabs. He can fill a month's worth of planning with interjections about them. Even Davetrap, being undead, feral and thirty years rotted, makes time to get one.
• True Final Boss: Dave Trap serves as the last opponent in the Happiest Day route of 2.

Animatronics

The Classics from the first game, Toys and Withereds from the second game, and a few other... special ones that only appear in certain circumstances.

The Real Fredbear

IT IS I, THE REAL FREDBEAR!

A mysterious and powerful golden bear with springlocked jaws.

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• Ascended Extra: In the first game, he only shows up as a gag in few of the endings. His role is greatly expanded in the second game.
• Big Good: With The Puppet and Shadow Doggo. Ultimately, his goal is to save the children at Freddy Fazbender's.
• The Cavalry Arrives Late: Although he usually appears in the game to engage in battle, in one ending in DSaF2, he will arrive after Toy Freddy has already taken care of Dave (who brought a gun to Freddy's) as a threat, then after realizing, quickly vanishes again.
• Catchphrase: "It is I, the Real Fredbear!"
• Demoted to Extra: He only appears once in the third game, nodding to Jack among the flames of the burning pizzeria.
• Ethereal Choir: Whenever he shows off his springlocks, angelic choirs play.
• Final Boss: He's the last opponent of An Ending in 2, otherwise known as the Pure Evil ending.
• Friend to All Children: Revived Old Sport because an adult was needed to save the children trapped at Freddy's. Dave even ends up referring to him as the 'very spirit of childhood' at one point.
• Game-Over Man: Outside of the Golden Ending, this is his role in 3.
• Herald: He's the one who brought Old Sport back to life and set him on a mission to save the children, setting up your involvement in the game.
• Hero of Another Story: Apparently, he dealt with Dave's partner-in-crime Henry off-screen.
• Outside-Context Problem: Literally appears out of nowhere during many of the second game's paths. Usually to kick ass. Somewhat averted because he had a paw in Old Sport's current 'alive' status.
• Powers That Be: Appears out of nowhere a lot, can restore life to a dead body (although not restore its soul), powerful as hell, behind the plot — yup, he counts.
• Stylistic Suck: He is represented by a photo of a bear tinted yellow with added purple hat and bowtie. The photo splits to show his springlocked 'jaws'.

The Puppet

A creepy puppet animatronic that rests in a giant music box. As it turns out, she's a guide for children killed by Dave to the afterlife and your sister Dee Kennedy.

• Adaptational Backstory Change: Instead of being the daughter of Henry who was killed by William named Charlotte, her true identity here is Dee Kennedy, your sister who was killed by Henry.
• Black Speech: Her voice sounds are ethereal gibberish.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Most of her body is black, but she's a Big Good who helps dead children reach their happiest day.
• Psychopomp: Specifically for the children killed by you, Dave or Henry.
• Samus Is a Girl: As in canon, the soul possessing the Puppet is that of a girl.

Additional Fazbender Employees

Matt

Good. This never happened

The guy who works at the prize corner. Everyone loves him.

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• Black Market: In the second game, he can sell you fireworks under the counter.
• Extreme Libido: Invoked; in the prize corner, one of the options says "Leave while your hymen's intact".
• Magnetic Hero: He claims that everyone loves him; Old Sport isn't so sure.
• Only in It for the Money: Happy to sell you even potentially dangerous items if you have the tokens.
• Perpetual Smiler: His sprite leaves him in a state of perpetual off-putting smile.
• Slasher Smile: It's horrifying, to the point that in the second game, Old Sport claims to have gotten a PTSD from it.
• Virgin Power: The reason he looks the exact same as he does in the previous two games as he does in 3? He doesn't have sex.
• Younger Than They Look: Thanks to being a virgin.

Chef "Doughmaster" Ronaldo

Are you ready to cook?

The main chef at Freddy's. Can cook pizzas with varying degrees of edibility with you.

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• Berserk Button: Don't toss his pizza onto the ceiling.
• Lethal Chef: Can be this, depending on what you want to be put in your pizza. This can range from motor oil to Bonnie's face.
• Team Chef: You can suggest what to put into your pizza, but at the end of the day, he's still the only one in Fazbender's who cooks.

Jimbo the Janitor

Congratulations mortal! You have summoned Jimbo!

The janitor working at this Freddy's location.

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• Berserk Button: If you ask him the meaning of life, he gets angry at you and sprays you with the spray bottle, which will kill you if in a Springlock Suit.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Asking him the meaning of life will cause him to get really mad at you and spray you with the spray bottle, which will kill you if you're in a Springlock Suit.
• Killed Off for Real: According to a Reddit AMA, DirectDoggo has stated that "Jimbo is long dead."

Others

Shadow Doggo

CRAS EST ALIUS DIES^note TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY

A mysterious purple doggo dressed in a yellow bowtie and hat who appears to you in a few of the endings in DSaF2. His true identity is revealed at the end of DSaF3 — he is what became of Jack Kennedy's lost soul.

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• Big Good: With The Puppet and The Real Fredbear
• Composite Character: In a literal sense. Jack's own stray soul took the form of his now deceased doggo Sparky, which, even though a relatively minor character, is the only one he can only say goodbye to before he died in his springlock coffin.
• Expy: His appearance is similar to both Shadow Freddy, with his purple coloration, and Nightmare, with the yellow bowtie and hat.
  • His role as the final person the player meets after getting the worst possible ending, which has a seemingly permanent effect on subsequent playthroughs, as well as his curiosity as to why the player continues to do the Pure Evil route, calls to mind Chara.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: If you complete 2 or more Pure Evil endings, he'll want to know why you keep doing the route.
• Punny Name: His true name. He is Jack and he is black - Blackjack.
• Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: If you complete 2 or more Pure Evil endings in a row, his dialogue is different from the first time, and if you go for the Happiest Day route, the Puppet will mention that a "ghostly dog" told him things about you, and later, Doggo will mention that he told Fredbear of the events and that he's learned to forgive you.
• So Proud of You: If you get the Happiest Day or the Perfect ending.

Henry Miller

One day... You will know the Joy of Creation.

Dave's business partner and the co-owner of Fredbear's. He's a Mad Scientist Serial Killer who manipulates a naive Dave into being his "partner" and aims to surpass death and live forever.

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• Abusive Parents: He's not ACTUALLY Dave's parent, blood related or adoptive, but he's at least viewed by him as a father figure. It's safe to say that Dave would be better off without Henry in his life.
• Adaptational Name Change: Goes by Henry Miller instead of Henry Emily in this visual novel.
• Adaptational Villainy: He's immensely worse in here than he is in canon. There? Henry's a Cool Old Guy, and ultimately puts into action a scheme that seemingly destroys the remaining animatronics, sending his "old friend" to hell. Here? He's just as bad as canon Afton, if not worse.
• Big Bad: Serves as this in the third game.
• Big Bad Ensemble: While he’s the one who drives the plot in the Flipside, DaveTrap is the main villain in the real world.
• Brutal Honesty: How he frames his breaking speeches. In reality, he's accentuating the negatives about his opponents and appealing to it. It takes Jack believing that he and the others can stop Henry and Dave's crimes and legacy from hurting anybody else.
• Break Them by Talking: In his own words: "Attacking with physical blows? How crude and ineffective. I prefer to use honesty, whenever possible." (Cue One-Hit Kill breaking speeches.)
• Cutscene Boss: While he kills your party members in the final battle, you don't attack him directly, instead attacking the Spite that blocks you from attacking him. Once it's all gone and the party is revived, the party beats him up in a series of images.
• Composite Character: An odd combination of this and Decomposite Character. He takes the name and relationship with Dave that Henry had, but he takes the child murdering scientist role of the canon William, alongside his pink appearance being based on Afton's appearance in the "Foxy, Go Go Go" minigame.
• Deadpan Snarker: Some of the dialogue in his tapes and during his fight show he has a dry wit. This does not make him any less terrifying.
• Eviler than Thou:
  • If asked about to Dave after choosing what animatronic to tamper with, he has this to say;
    Dave: Let me tell ya...
    Dave: If I'm heartless and you're soulless...
    Dave: he's devil incarnate.
  • He's mentioned in this regard again if you ask him about working at Fredbear's.
    Dave: I tell ya, even by my standards... Henry was one cruel fucker.
• Evil Mentor: To Dave.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Probably has the deepest voice out of all the characters, and is the most evil. Unless you go through with the Pure Evil ending.
• Final Boss: Of the good route in 3. He also serves as this for the series as a whole
• Greater-Scope Villain: If it wasn't for him, the events of the series would have never happened.
• Knight of Cerebus: He’s one of the few characters in the games that is played completely and totally seriously.
• Mad Scientist: He’s referred to as Dr. Henry Miller, and as revealed in his tapes, all of his and William's murders were experiments on the nature of death and the soul.
• Manipulative Bastard: In the third game, it's revealed that he essentially manipulated Dave into doing such evil deeds aside from surgically removing parts of Dave.
• Noodle Incident: He caused the blowtorch-urinal incident that Phone Guy and Purple Guy bring up if asked about. It caused 17 people to be hospitalized, and Freddy's restaurants started putting cameras in the restrooms as a result.
• Posthumous Character: He's been dead for a good few years before the events of the games, according to Dave. Except he's not dead — just being held in a limbo void by Blackjack and is slowly using his spite to grow more powerful.
• Psycho Pink: His body color is pink and oh boy, was this guy a piece of work.
• Sadist: Listening to the tapes he recorded tells you that Henry tortured not only the children he killed in pursuit of his experiments, but also William, who was his most loyal follower (albeit without William's knowledge).
• Serial Killer: With Dave after Fredbear's was bought out.
• Shout-Out: When asked about to Dave after choosing what animatronic to tamper with, he leaves you off with this:
  Dave: After all, it's rude to talk about someone who's listening...

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