YMMV / Springtrap and Deliah

• Awesome Art: The art is incredibly expressive and vibrant.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: This version of Springtrap is portrayed as an unstable individual with severe abandonment issues and mood swings. One of his recurring fears is losing control and attacking Deliah as a result. The motive for the child killings was a misguided desire to have children, as he found a way he could keep his victims with him forever. He tries to do the same to Deliah in the Dark Ending. In the Light Ending he mentions that his psychiatrist in life told him he was seriously dangerous, and that he was denied adoption rights due to his mental instability.
• Draco in Leather Pants: Springtrap's Adaptational Nice Guy - status was bound to make him this. Plenty of readers are quick to say he should be forgiven completely for all his past crimes and be allowed to hold onto his relationship with Deliah. But nice guy or not, Springtrap is still an unstable serial killer. Even he knows he can't always control himself and that he has anger issues.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Springtrap's motives for his murders were a misguided dream of starting a family, as he believed he was keeping his victims with him forever and that he would be a better father than their actual families. Later installments of the games and the novels depict William Afton—his canon counterpart— as an Abusive Parent, enough to give the novels' version of Elizabeth a serious complex. In other words, the sort of person this Springtrap would probably be outraged by and would use as an example.
• Misaimed Fandom:
  • The scene in which Nick refuses to forgive Springtrap for threatening him and follows it up by saying that he hates him for taking Deliah away got him on many a fan's bad side, a few even commenting how Nick was being unreasonable and that he should have accepted the apology or at least should have made an effort to get on good terms. Apparently a lot of those fans forgot that Springtrap literally threatened to kill Nick and has been doing everything in his power to estrange him from his daughter. One apology in that situation is clearly too little too late.
  • Likewise, Deliah telling Springtrap not to touch her in the Light Ending once he admits the truth to her, especially after she told him she'd never hate him just 2 pages prior, had many readers criticizing her for seemingly lying to Springtrap and being called a bad friend. As heartbreaking as it is, Deliah's reaction is entirely understandable and realistic for finding out her best friend is a former Serial Killer and was foreshadowed all the way back in Act 1. Others have pointed out that just because she is afraid of him in that moment doesn't necessarily mean that she hates him and they could still reconcile in the future, once Springtrap has gotten the help he needs.
• Ron the Death Eater: Predictably, Nick is this to a lot of fans. It's not uncommon for readers to claim he's being a helicopter parent and that his hostility towards Springtrap is just jealousy because a living animatronic is proving to be a better father than him. While the latter is partially true, this tends to overlook the very important fact that Nick is completely right to distrust Springtrap. Springtrap killed five children in life and he's obviously mentally unstable in the present. If anything, Nick should be more worried about him hanging around Deliah. Not to mention that, when all of his suspicions are proven correct, Springtrap threatens to murder Deliah and make Nick watch before killing him.
• The Woobie: Deliah, despite being cheerful most of the time, can fall into this. Given that Springtrap is her Only Friend until Harry comes into her life, coupled with Nick's dream implying her mom was an Abusive Parent, it's not hard to see that her life isn't all sunshine and rainbows.

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