Just a girl and her 7-foot-tall bunny man
Springtrap and Deliah
is a Five Nights at Freddy's comic made by GraWolfQuinn on Deviantart. The comic began in 2017, ending in 2019.Springtrap has been around Deliah's house for a few months, being as good of a friend to Deliah as he can be. However, things start to change when a boy named Harry starts getting closer to Deliah then he would like, coinciding with her father Nick becoming increasingly suspicious of him. Out of fear of losing Deliah, Springrap decides he will never let her go, no matter what it takes.
Unfortunately, the author took down her comic in 2021. But fortunately, other people have posted the comic elsewhere. The comic is available on Wattpad here.
Springtrap and Deliah contains examples of:
- Anti-Hero: Springtrap's main motivation is to keep Deliah all to himself and replace Nick as her father-figure. His anger issues and fears of abandonment make him increasingly desperate in his endeavors, going so far as to threaten anyone he perceives as a rival for Deliah's affection with violence. However, he does genuinely love Deliah and is at least to some extent aware he needs help, keeping him from being entirely unsympathetic.
- A Boy and His X: A girl and her seven feet animatronic bunny-pal. Deconstructed, as the comic showcases just how quickly a relationship like that can turn sour and how much the inherent power-imbalance can screw both parties over.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Zig-zagged. Springtrap is still the Fazbear-killer, but in this interpretation of the character he did it out of a misguided desire to be a father and is remorseful about it in the present. He's still dangerous, but he tries to keep himself under control and be a good father to Deliah, though her actual father isn't too pleased about it.
- Alternate Universe Fic: Per Quinn's description, the comic's premise was conceived long before Sister Location and is just meant to be a fun story.
- And Now for Someone Completely Different: It was confirmed via
Word of God that the person who died and ended up possessing Springtrap isn't William Afton in this fan-comic. His real name is never revealed, though. - Arch-Enemy: To say that Springtrap and Nick distrust each other would be an understatement.
- Batter Up!: When Springtrap tries to hurt Deliah during a violent episode, Nick hits him with a baseball bat.
- Blackmail:
- Springtrap tries to scare Harry off by revealing himself as the Fazbear-killer. It blows up right in his face; Harry records the conversation and threatens to show it to Deliah if Springtrap doesn't back off.
- After Nick finds out about Springtrap's past and tries to take Deliah away, Springtrap threatens to kill Deliah and make Nick watch, if Nick doesn't let him continue being Deliah's Parental Substitute.
- Bittersweet Ending: The Light Ending. Springtrap finally manages to come clean to Deliah about his past, but she becomes afraid of him as a result and he decides to leave her house, heavily implying that he'll kill himself. Harry stops him and offers Springtrap to live with him and his family instead, which Springtrap reluctantly accepts. Harry also mentions that one of his relatives is a therapist, implying Springtrap will get the help he needs.
- Body Horror: The flashbacks to when Deliah first met Springtrap show him with all the damage he had before being patched up, along with the corpse of his true self inside.
- Berserk Button: Springtrap has a few, but the biggest among them is mentioning anything about his past, especially in front of Deliah.
- Broken Pedestal: Both endings have Deliah's ideal vision of Springtrap shattered, one way or another.
- Children Are Innocent:
- Deliah is an adorably chipper girl who takes Springtrap's odd existence without question. Downplayed, as she is way more aware of his more dangerous traits, like his possessiveness and his anger issues than she lets on, but deliberately lets them slide to keep him as a friend.
- Subverted with Harry, who sees through Springtrap's nice facade almost right away and uses very direct blackmail to protect himself form him.
- The Corrupter: The dead children act as this to Springtrap, continually stoking his fears of abandonment and insecurities about being a bad friend and father figure to Deliah. Simultaneously they give Deliah nightmares about Springtrap killing her to drive a wedge between them and fuel Nick's suspicions against Springtrap. They abandon this role in the Light Ending when they see Springtrap is making an honest effort to become a better person, though they still don't forgive him for their murder.
- Dark Secret: Deliah still becomes afraid of Springtrap when he finally comes clean about who he really is. Finding out that your best friend was formerly a child murderer would definitely make you more wary of them, no matter how nice they were.
- Decoy Protagonist: Despite being one of the title characters, Deliah ultimately features very little in the story, compared to Springtrap. In fact, she's Locked Out of the Loop for most of the plot and her side-story about receiving nightmares by the dead children never really goes anywhere.
- Downer Ending: In heavy contrast to the Light Ending, the Dark Ending ends the story on a rather sour note: Springtrap finally snaps and decides to kill Deliah so she can be with him forever as a spirit, with the last page of this ending featuring Deliah claiming she hates Springtrap and wishes she never met him before he goes for the kill. To add insult to injury, the author confirmed that she considers this to be the story's true ending. However, the author also encourages people to make their own decision about which ending is canon to them.
- Exhausted Eye Bags: Nick always sports these, clearly indicative of the large amount of work he has to deal with.
- Facial Markings: Springtrap has two cuts above his eyes.
- Foreshadowing: During their movie night, Deliah says she could never hate Springtrap, unless he was a dead serial killer of course, but that could never be true. True to her word, she becomes afraid of him in both endings when he admits the truth.
- Hates Being Alone: One of Springtrap's biggest fears is being abandoned and left all alone, which drives many of his actions.
- Green-Eyed Monster: Springtrap gets intensely jealous of everyone who gets close to Deliah and often tries to scare them off, so he can have her all to himself.
- If I Can't Have You…: The Dark Ending has Springtrap finally snap and try to kill Deliah in order to keep her by his side forever.
- Intergenerational Friendship: Surprisingly, Springtrap forms this with Harry in act 3 of the comic.
- Interspecies Friendship: Deliah and Springtrap the animatronic. Subverted as Springtrap isn't actually a sentient animatronic, but a human ghost possessing an animatronic.
- Locked Out of the Loop: Most characters in the story are unaware of Springtrap being the Fazbear-killer. Harry finds out when Springtrap reveals it to him to scare him off, Nick suspects Springtrap is shady, but only learns the extend of what he's done much later in the story through Harry's mother and Springtrap eventually confesses to Deliah in the Light Ending.
- Love Cannot Overcome: A platonic version. In the end no matter how hard Springtrap tries, his mental problems and anger issues keep getting in the way of his desire to be a good friend and father to Deliah. Both the Light and the Dark ending conclude the story with their friendly relationship ending, due to Springtrap realizing he can't be what Deliah needs him to be.
- Multiple Endings: Starting from page 159, the comic's third act splits into 2 endings:
- Light Ending: With the help of Harry, Springtrap admits the truth to Deliah. Upon seeing that she is now afraid of him and realizing that he has caused too much pain to her and Nick, he decides to leave, implying he will off himself until Harry stops him by offering him a place at his house and mental help via his uncle. The last page ends with Deliah and her father reconciling.
- Dark Ending: Springtrap ultimately loses it and decides to kill Deliah so she can be with him forever as a spirit, just as he did with the other kids. The last page ends with Deliah getting caught by Springtrap after trying to run away from him, with her telling him to his face that she hates him and wished she never met him. Quinn personally considers this ending the true ending.
- Never My Fault: Springtrap has a habit of doing this, kind of. He knows there's something wrong with him and that he's probably dangerous for Deliah to be around, but he blames pretty much all of his problems on his anger issues instead of actually finding a way to deal with them and get better. He also tends to flip out and get violent whenever someone mentions his past as a serial killer.
- Nice Girl: Deliah is a chipper, happy young girl who just wants everybody to be friends.
- Nice Guy: Harry is friendly and collected with everyone around him, including Springtrap.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Springtrap obviously wasn't named Springtrap when he was still human, but he seems to have abandoned his old identity altogether, leading to everyone (including the dead children) referring to him as Springtrap.
- Papa Wolf: Despite being scared to death of Springtrap, Nick never hesitates to try and defend Deliah from him. At one point he whacks Springtrap over the head with a baseball bat, when it looks like he's about to hurt Deliah.
- Parental Neglect: Due to the demanding nature of his job, Nick doesn't have much time to spend with Deliah, creating animosity between the two and making Deliah more willing to accept Springtrap as a Parental Substitute.
- Parental Substitute: What Springtrap wanted to be to the other children, believing in his insanity that he would be a better father to them then their actual parents.
- Reluctant Psycho: It becomes clear throughout the story that Springtrap just wants to be the cute bunny Deliah sees him as, but his more psychopathic and clingy tendencies make it hard for him to even keep that up. A core conflict is Springtrap's fear of losing Deliah as a result of his condition and past, in some form or another. This fear is realized in both endings.
- Sanity Slippage: In the Dark Ending, Springtrap cracks and falls back on his murderous ways from the fear of losing Deliah.
- Secret-Keeper: Harry finds out about Springtrap's past murders when Springtrap tell him to try and discourage him from making friends with Deliah. He records their conversation on his phone and threatens to make it public if Springtrap doesn't back off. He does keep it to himself when Springtrap asks him too, under the condition that he tell Deliah himself at the end of the summer. In the Light Ending, Springtrap fesses up as promised.
- Ship Tease: Between Deliah and Harry. They blush at each other on occasion and when the two play hide-and-seek with Springtrap, both of them recognize how cold their hiding spot is and Harry wraps his arm around Deliah to keep her warm.
- That Man Is Dead: Springtrap utterly refuses to acknowledge his past and gets angry when someone tries to imply he might be more than a living, fluffy animatronic-bunny. It's a common point of conflict between him and Nick.
- Troubled Fetal Position: Springtrap does this whenever a situation is too much for him to handle.
- Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Harry and his family have little to no qualms about having a 7-foot animatronic around their neighborhood. Even Harry telling them Springtrap's backstory doesn't faze them too much. Though Harry does admit his parents will need some convincing to let Springtrap stay in the Light Ending.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Springtrap develops this with Harry over the course of the comic. Ironically, their relationship is leagues more healthy than Springtrap and Deliah's.
- Yandere: A platonic example with Deliah, who Springtrap wants under his watch at all times, keeping everyone else away, including her own father. This plays into his motivation for the child murders too, wanting them to be with him forever by fusing their souls with his own.
