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Tear Jerker / Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet

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The conclusion of Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet would leave you crying for the story's main characters.
  • John is in trauma since Charlie's apparent death. When he sees Charlie again, he knows something's wrong yet he still wants to believe she's still there.
  • The entirety of Henry's suicide note.
    • Some of the note doesn't make sense at first but put in context with what we are told later by Elizabeth, we discover that the death of one of his children completely broke Henry worse than we'd originally been led to believe. The loss of his daughter led him to try and keep her alive in any way he could, even if he had to construct robotic facsimiles with fake memories to do it. And eventually the horror of what he was doing finally destroyed him.
  • Jen being killed by an impostor of her own niece, preventing the real Charlie from reconciling with her.
  • Elizabeth's story. She was so jealous of her father William's obsession with Circus Baby that she decided to be her, and it went in a different way that she expected. Even when William did find a use for her, she is full of resentment and jealousy towards Charlie for how her father loved her.
    • Elizabeth showing Charlie a flashback of her final day before becoming her current self. She was a Cheerful Child who wanted to impress her father with her schoolwork, but all he did was knock her to the ground and stomp on her paper. Elizabeth is in tears, and she tries to nudge the paper from his foot but he hits her in return. At this point, Elizabeth ran out of the room crying until she saw Circus Baby, and she took her teacher's makeup in order to look like Baby. Both Elizabeth and Baby soon recall the former's death and their merging into one entity.
  • Charlie realizing that she was a robot the whole time.
  • Carlton crossing the Despair Event Horizon and crying after he believes he can't find the kidnapped children, almost considering accepting his fate in the hands of the animatronics. He starts thinking about his best friend Michael's death at William's hands and how he was unable to help.
Carlton: I've failed. I'm not going to find him. Michael, I failed. I search for the missing piece, I promise, I searched. But now I know it all, and there's nothing I can do. I'm sorry, Michael. I failed you, again.
  • In Carlton's experience in the limbo for the murdered children's spirits, they see Spring Bonnie (a representation of William Afton) and believe him to be their friend. Basically, Afton lured them into a false sense of trust while dressed as Spring Bonnie before killing them, and their spirits don't recall that the yellow rabbit mascot was actually their murderer. No wonder that the animatronics keep targeting the wrong people.
    • Susie's case is even more heartbreaking; her puppy had died, yet "Bonnie" claimed that he found it, and her remaining memories are about her trust towards him for allegedly finding her puppy.
    • Carlton ultimately convincing the children that "Bonnie" was the one who killed them, which leads to them realizing the truth and dragging their murderer to the furnace. After they have settled their score, Michael gives Carlton one last drawing before giving him a final thank you and sending him back to the real world.
  • After Carlton is hospitalized, Clay shows up, telling his son that he was scared even if it wasn't a practical joke.
  • The final page shows that Charlie was only three years old when William murdered her.
  • By the end of the book, you have to feel sorry for John. First he was suspicious of his miraculously alive again best friend to the point it seriously affects his life, then he discovers he was right and discovers the real Charlie - finally allowing him to believe that she ''did'' survive. But then by the end of the book, she's gone once again and what's worse, "Charlie" never really existed as he knew her. The real "Charlie" had died years and years ago, and he had only ever known a very human robot...

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