Five Nights at Freddy's

Going to wager it's PRECISELY because of the adult theory

The fandom has grasped at straws before but this was ridiculous

As I edited on my last post,

Afton Robotics is a thing now.

Like The Silver Eyes Afton.

edited 18th Jun '16 4:29:43 PM by Grounder

Between AftnROBTCS and "PrivateBDayBooking[5OL]/Chldrn_ENT/BdayProps/Novelties" I'm guessing Sister Location might be about the backstory of the Purple Guy/how (at least some) of the murders were committed.

edited 18th Jun '16 11:51:41 PM by IHOP

It's amazing how many fangames this series has generated.

So I guess Emil's just as quick at making games as Scott. Also, Nightmare Rat's surprisingly badass.

And yet again Rat proves to be one of the creepiest fan animatronics that I have had the pleasure of seeing.

I was more weirded out by the picture of him with the photorealistic kid in one shot. That did not fit visually.

Book deal with Scholastic signed.

Fangame Popgoes Pizza released today.

PFFT

I'm sorry there's just something funny about Fnaf as a YA series that I can't place omg

It makes sense to me. For one, it's been my experience that FNAF has a fanbase that trends a bit young. For another, it's sometimes easy to forget how much kids and teens eat up horror - R. L. Stine got rich by catering to that demand, after all.

edited 27th Jun '16 8:14:41 AM by 32_Footsteps

Plus, for all the child murderer backstory, the series as a whole is pretty bloodless other than FNAF 3's final flashback and Baby's killing the Creator.

That works keep the objections down on the parental side

edited 27th Jun '16 8:36:09 AM by sgamer82

But then you invite criticism from parents and parental figures when the series does get darker.

FNAF was never a child friendly series. It just ironically attracted a crowd of children....

It's so popular with kids that it has freaking surprise egg and kid's song videos with the animatronics in them like stuff like Frozen, Caillou, and other wildly popular kid's frachises do.

So the story for the POPGOES fangame has been figured out and, wow, Scott has some competition with Sister Location for "darkest story related to the FNAF universe ever written."

Jeremy Fitzgerald was the Bite of '87 victim, with Toy Bonnie being the one who bit him (the game mentions at the start that it does not consider FNAF 4 or Sister Location to be canon). Jeremy was emotionally scarred by the incident and changed his name to Fritz Smith to distance himself from it. Jeremy's twin brother, Simon Fitzgerald, tried to give blood transfusions to keep Jeremy alive in the hospital, but it wasn't enough.

Unable to give anymore blood safely, Simon returns to Freddy's and kills five kids, collecting their blood and transfusing them into Jeremy/Fritz to keep him alive. Fritz recovers and moves to England, never speaking to his brother again (its unclear if he knew about the murders).

30 years later, Fritz has made a new life for himself, and even has a daughter named Bonnie. He hears on the news about the burning down of Fazbear's Fright and the auction to be held. He goes to America and purchases the box of toy animatronic parts and Springtrap. Fritz recognizes the corpse inside Springtrap as his brother, Simon. He uses the pieces of Springtrap to build Simon a new body, a purple skeleton-like animatronic. However for some reason Fritz chains Simon to a wall and leaves him there.

Fritz's daughter Bonnie finds the Toy Bonnie mask among the artifacts from the auction. She puts it over her head and surprises Fritz, saying "Look daddy! It's me!" Fritz's repressed memories about the Bite of '87 return, and in a PTSD-type rage, he hacks Bonnie to death with an axe. Horrified by what he has done, Fritz comes up with a plan to "SAVE BONNIE."

Using the remaining parts of the toy animatronics, he builds POPGOES Pizzeria, seemingly as both a place to atone for his crimes by bringing joy to children, and a darker purpose. The Toy Animatronics' spirits are haunting Fritz. He builds an animatronic called "Strings" to ward them off and serve as the nightguard for POPGOES pizza.

Unfortunately, Simon escapes and begins to corrupt the animatronics. He has Popgoes, Sara, Saffron, Blake, and Stone destroy the spirits of the Toys somehow (except the Puppet, who escapes). Simon also instructs Popgoes on how to "SAVE BONNIE," to use the Pizzeria's 3D-printers to build a new body for her. He prints Bonnie out in six pieces, each piece corresponding to how Bonnie was chopped apart when Fritz killed her. The new animatronic, "Blackrabbit," destroys Strings. Simon uses his powers to transform her into "Lux Blackrabbit" aka "Whiterabbit" who then proceeds to murder Fritz.

The Popgoes animatronics and Simon celebrate Fritz/Jeremy's death with a grave marker saying "Rest in Peace Jeremy Fitzgerald. Inventor. Caring Father. Coward.

edited 27th Jun '16 2:40:37 PM by IHOP

wtf

My reaction exactly.

That's stupidly convoluted.

@Ecrivan: Actually, considering kids like to be scared just as much as adults, uhm... yeah it is rather child friendly. Cawthon in general seems to make sure his games are kid friendly. Kid friendly doesn't mean you're not giving the audience a scare, or refraining from involving death in the story. Kids are surprisingly ok with dealing with the death of fictional characters. Granted, these are probably best suited for older groups of kids.

New teaser!

Brightened.◊

edited 9th Jul '16 5:00:30 PM by Grounder

Interesting. Those things kind of remind me of the Mini Nightmare Freddy's in 4. I wonder if they signal the main Antagonists Robot appearance like the Mini Freddy's did with Freddy?

So, I went to a convention, and I saw a small boy dressed as Balloon Boy. It was adorable.

Also, that teaser definitely gives off a factory vibe.

MatPat tries to decipher the specifics of Sister Location before its release.

Will be interesting to see what he's correct about and what he gets wrong.

A neat one in the last quarter, which MatPat himself acknowledges as a stretch but I personally like, is the idea that the soul within Baby belongs to the Crying Child's sister. His evidence cites the fact that FNAF 4's pigtail girl, seen in a cutscene in which she says that people get stuffed into the animatronics, is the only person in the game whose dialogue is the same color as the "we will put you back together" dialogue in the finale and the possibility that she's the owner of the girl's bedroom with Mangle (or possibly Funtime Foxy) within it, a detail that apparently nobody has thus far worked out an explanation for.

edited 17th Jul '16 9:57:53 PM by sgamer82

Another teaser!

Brightened.◊