Gumdrop Angel | Sergio's Lucky Day | What We Found
“What do you want?” he screamed. To whom, or what, he didn’t know.
No one and nothing answered.
Hudson has just gotten a great new job as a security guard at the upcoming Fazbear's Fright horror attraction. After a troubling childhood, he could really use the break, and though he can't escape his past and the rumors surrounding it, he can at least pay his rent now. Then Barry and Duane bring in a new attraction– a strange old yellow rabbit. They're excited to have something creepy in their attraction, but Hudson isn't too fond of it. The rabbit's not too fond of him either.
The twenty-fourth Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights story, and the last of the eighth book, Gumdrop Angel.
Tropes related to “What We Found”:
- Abandoned Area: Fazbear's Fright is made to look like this, but it's actually had a ton of money and creativity poured into it.
- Abusive Parents: Lewis is a horribly abusive stepfather who consistently beats Hudson and calls him nothing. This lasts for ten years until Hudson breaks and threatens to stab him. Lewis simply laughs at him, so Hudson sets the house on fire.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Hudson's been outcast ever since the fire that killed his stepdad and mom. Everyone thinks he did it. Turns out they're right, but even then, can you really blame him for killing Lewis, at least?
- Ambiguously Gay: When Barry brings the boys some of his grandmother's leftovers, Duane jokingly asks if he could marry Barry to get his grandma's food. Barry laughingly responds that Duane's not his type.
- Artificial Zombie: Springtrap, the pseudo-reanimated corpse of William Afton wearing the suit.
- Body Horror: Springtrap looks like a rotting zombie, so this goes without saying.
- Bring My Brown Pants: At one point, Hudson completely breaks and pisses himself in horror.
- Broken Bird: Hudson.
- Bully Magnet: Hudson became this after his stepfather started abusing him. He has numerous flashbacks to his lifelong victimization.
- Call-Back: This entire short is a huge homage to Five Nights at Freddy's 3. It stars a security guard who gets hunted by Springtrap and his evil little hallucinations through the attraction, with a mechanic where you can see Springtrap in two different places even being referenced.
- The Cassandra: Granny Foster begs for Hudson to quit his job, because she knows something bad is about to happen. He says he can't risk losing the paycheck, and she sighs and says that it's his path to go through.
- Childhood Friends: Duane and Barry have been friends with Hudson even before his father died, and have stuck with him through all the years.
- Cooked to Death: Hudson tries to hide from the hallucinations inside of a large oven. It goes about as well as you'd expect.
- Cool Old Lady: Granny Foster, Hudson's cool grandmother.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Hudson keeps his abusive childhood and arson charges on the down-low because he wants to move on. Everyone still brings it up anyway.
- Destroy the Abusive Home: Even though he blocked it out, Hudson realizes, just before he dies, that he was the one who burned his house down, killing both his abusive stepdad and his mom.
- The Dog Bites Back: After a particularly bad day, an 18-year-old Hudson threatened Lewis with a knife. When this didn't work, he burned the house down.
- Downer Ending: Hudson had a horrible life, culminating in an incredibly traumatic night that ends with him dying horribly. And his best friends are about to find his body.
- Evil Laugh: Springtrap does this quite a bit as he tortures Hudson.
- Foreshadowing: Not only does Granny Foster warn Hudson to quit his job, she also is the one who told him that fire cleanses all... relating to his family's death and his own.
- Fright Deathtrap: The aptly named Fazbear's Fright features Springtrap pushing hallucination after hallucination on Hudson, making him injure himself while trapped in his own mind, and eventually killing him.
- Glasgow Grin: On Springtrap.
- Green and Mean: Springtrap is a rotten yellow-green due to decades of neglect, and is very, very mean.
- Hair-Raising Hare: It's Springtrap. What do you expect?
- Hate Sink: Cartoonishly abusive Lewis.
- Haunted Technology: Definitely Springtrap, and whatever he's using to make Hudson hallucinate.
- Hollywood Voodoo: Granny Foster is said to use voodoo dolls on her enemies, which apparently work.
- Hope Spot: Hudson had one just before the story, as new girl Faith seemed to really like him and asked him out. Then she found out about his past, and immediately asked him if he killed his parents. Bit of a dealbreaker on both ends.
- I Know What You Fear: Once Hudson touches Springtrap, the rabbit's able to make him hallucinate every last bit of his childhood trauma.
- Ironic Fear: Hudson's really freaked out by the animatronics that he has to work with and guard every night.
- Karmic Death: The tragedy that has chased Hudson all this time was him killing people in a fire. He then dies being burned alive.
- Let the Past Burn: In a bit of a literal way...
- Love Triangle: Somewhat averted; Hudson finds out that Barry is now dating Faith, but Barry is very genuine and considerate and tells Hudson that he hadn't known they'd gone out until recently, and that he'll break up with Faith if it'll affect their friendship. Hudson tells him that it's fine.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: There's technically the possibility that all of this was just Hudson having a breakdown; he believes he knocked out one of Springtrap's teeth, but when Barry and Duane arrive in the morning, Duane mentions that he'd forgotten to pick up the tooth the night before, implying it had already been there.
- Mind Rape: Shortly after Hudson touches Springtrap, he begins to be haunted by visions of the animatronics and flashbacks to his childhood to the point of reducing him to a blubbering, piss-soaked mess before he's cremated alive in an oven.
- Monster of the Week: Springtrap.
- Murder by Cremation: Hudson hides from the illusions inside one of the attraction's large ovens. It ends about as well as you'd expect.
- Murder in the Family: Hudson didn't mean to kill his mother, but she died in the fire with Lewis.
- No Full Name Given: For anyone. If Granny Foster is Hudson's paternal grandmother, he may have the last name Foster? But it's never made clear.
- No OSHA Compliance: Fazbear's Fright has human employees working overnight even before they've put a phone system in. So if something happens to them? Too bad.
- Out of Focus: Technically Springtrap. All of his attacks on Hudson are through his control of other machinery and Mind Rape while he remains hung up on the wall, so despite being the main antagonist, he has very little pagetime.
- Past Experience Nightmare: A good portion of Hudson's ordeal in Fazbear's Fright is this, centered on his abusive stepfather and the house fire that killed him.
- Power Trio: Hudson, Duane and Barry. Duane and Barry are incredibly loyal towards their friend and care a lot about him even after all that happened.
- Scary Teeth: Hudson manages to knock one out of Springtrap.
- Stealth Sequel: The short turns out to be a retelling of Five Nights at Freddy's 3, with the main character Hudson working at Fazbear Frights and the main antagonist being Springtrap and the hallucinations caused by him touching it. However, it's ambiguous if the corpse inside Springtrap is still William Afton since the story describes it differently than how he appears by the time of "The Man in Room 1280"; then again, the stories could be happening in separate continuities.
- Stop Hitting Yourself: Played for Horror, as Hudson is stabbed in the arm by Springtrap. When he retreats, he realizes that his hand is bloodied, in a way that implies that he stabbed himself.
- Swirlie: Hudson was subject to these when he was in school. Then, in a darkly amusing scene, Springtrap uses his illusionary powers to force Hudson into a bathroom stall and give him another one. Or at least make him think he did; it's unclear what exactly is real and what is not.
- Through the Eyes of Madness: As Hudson can't tell what's an illusion and what's not, neither can the audience.
- Trauma Conga Line: Hudson's father commits suicide. His mother then remarries an abusive asshole who beats Hudson almost on the daily. Hudson burns down the house and kills his parents, then is so traumatized that he blocks out the fact that he did it, and thus thinks he's innocent as everyone else blames him for the fire. He drops out of high-school and goes through retail jobs before getting into the wondrous job of Freddy's Security Guard, which will totally end well.
- Useless Bystander Parent: Hudson's mother wasn't able to do anything as her new husband abused the hell out of her son.
- Voice Changeling: Springtrap doesn't actually speak in Afton's voice to Hudson, but with the voice of his abusive teacher.
- Wicked Stepfather: Lewis, who immediately took over the household and started physically abusing Hudson.
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The Woobie: Man, Hudson just can't seem to catch a break, huh? - Working-Class Hero: With this new job, Hudson can now afford rent on a regular basis! He's basically rich now.
