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School Days
is a Five Nights at Freddy's (technically crossover) fanfiction written by ISS600 and published on FanFiction.Net and crossposted to Wattpad. The story itself takes place in 2014 and focuses on Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and co. as they live their life in the lovely town of Salado, Texas, experiencing fun, drama and unraveling a decades-long cold case to get justice for several dead children.
School Days has an absurdly long existence dating back to mid-2017 and been plagued with many, many updates and rewrites and retcons, most notably the Reignited Rewrite in early 2022 (January-April) which retconned the entire story and more to present a polished and smoother concrete storyline as well as better writing quality and more realism. After 5 years of existence, the first official chapter of the story was posted on the 5th of July, 2022.
The story is rated T (Mature on Wattpad) and has a planned spin-off titled Holi-Days which will be a slice-of-life type story that feels more like a typical High School AU-type series and builds the world and characters without introducing unwanted filler content to the main series (i.e. dates, hangouts etc.). Both series also accept OCs to be added for background students and characters which can be summitted through Reviews, PMs, Comments, Messages and in the Discord server.
Definitely not to be confused with the anime. Has a YouTube channel found here that features playlists for the main series and Holi-Days, a DeviantArt folder and public Discord server where supplemental material for the series can be found.
School Days provides examples of the following tropes:
- Absurdly Divided School: All three schools in Salado Blue divide themselves into the four Factions: The Animatronics, The Nightguards, The Honoraries (Animtronics & Nightguards) and The Neutrals.
- Accent Adaptation: Because of the fic's Texan setting, the majority of the characters have been given slight suthern twangs to their accents. In the case of Marionette, Seán and Peter, their accents come from their respective countries (France and the U.K. respectively).
- Adaptation Amalgamation: School Days takes place in the FNaF universe that has had the lore of several fangames added in alongside some aspects of the real world.
- Adaptation Deviation: The fic deviates from the source material of the games and fangames in some ways to create a sort of part-canon part-fanon mix.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Many characters have had their relationships changed to better fit the series such as several characters being related to each other and others being paired for shipping purposes.
- Adaptation Species Change: Instead of being killer robots, the fic has the animatronic cast being turned into human children. Oddly enough, the lore of the games and fangames is canon which brings to mind the question of "how are the animatronics humans in the modern day if they existed as robots prior in the late 1900s?" which has yet to be answered.
- Adaptational Backstory Change: Because the animatronic characters are instead human children, this was inevitable.
- Adaptational Location Change: While the FNaF games are implied to take place in or near Hurricane, UT and the fangames are all located Scott-knows-where, the fic is set in the real-life town of Salado, TX.
- A Day in the Limelight:
- Many different characters are given a chance to shine such as Super Science Fair where the protagonist is an OC and the shorts each featuring one of the protagonists as a central character instead of being split amongst a party.
- OC Submitters are allowed to give their OCs chapters where the OC is the protagonist and have a plot tailored to them. This means that anyone's OC can have their own day in the limelight. All you need to do is ask the author.
- Age Lift: An inversion, the canon cast are well into their 20s at least while here, they're 13 or under.
- Alliterative Name: Many examples: Freddy Fazbear, Fionn and Fianna Fox, Jamie Janis Johnson, Ben Boyd, Sawyer, Søren, Sam, Sora and Scott Suarez, Pete Picks, Ray Rackon, Sara and Saffron Siraetius, Benton Bourne, Manora Mann, Lillie Lamianes etc.
- Alliterative Family: The Fazbears and Foxes have several family members with names and surnames beginning with F.
- All There in the Manual: DeviantArt features images, family trees, detailed profiles, and the author's FanFiction.Net page links YouTube channels containing playlists, and soundtracks for events and years. The public Discord server contains many pieces of information such as a fully-fledged calendar to track the story's timeline as well as profiles for author-made OCs, character lists and more.
- Alpha Bitch:
- T.C., Chica's older sister who loves to pick on her and her friends daily with all the cruelty of an 8-year-old.
- Sara Vextant is the self-proclaimed "head honcho queen" of Aemulus Junior High and her first appearance is her harassing Marionette and the twins at lunch.
- Anachronism Stew: The fic takes place in 2014 yet includes characters from games not released until at leas a year later. Explained away in-universe by having all of the fangames' universes being canon and melded together; the characters can appear before their game release because the events of the game have already happened.
- Beta Bitch:
- Toby, T.C.'s right-hand-rabbit who loves to back her up and assist in bullying the kids. Teddy is a subversion as though he's there and present, he isn't an active participant most of the time.
- In Sara's group, the spacey but smug Cambry Teelins fills this role.
- Big Brother Instinct: Evan, Jason and Marionette are viciously protective and caring over the younger children they've befriended. Marionette applies this attitude to the entire Animatronics faction.
- Big Brother Worship: Fionn and Fianna adore the twins and the triplets highly respect Marionette. By extension, so do the rest of her friends and fellow faction members to the point the majority consider her the Team Mom of the Animatronics.
- "Blind Idiot" Translation: Usually averted with any French translations due to the author having a French friend but viewers are warned that these will crop up regarding other languages and asks them to inform her of any mistakes.
- Cast Herd: The extremely large (named) character list is broken up into many many groups and subgroups to make it easier to keep track of and manage for both viewers and the author. Best exemplified on the character page with its inordinate amount of subpages.
- Coming of Age Story: School Days and Holi-Days both chronicle the journey of the kids as they grow and live, though School Days focuses less on it as the story goes on.
- Death by Childbirth: Delia's cause of death as her body couldn't handle the triplets' birth. Talking about it is an intense source of pain for both Paul and his kids.
- Domestic Abuse: Mrs. Vivian Fox towards Mr. Austin Fox and to the children. Implied with Mrs. Maline towards Vinnie as well.
- Drama Queen: T.C. acts the part towards even the smallest slight made against her, usually to get someone in trouble for it.
- Emotions vs. Stoicism: The younger kids rely on emotion and let their hearts guide them more often than not while the older kids utilize reasoning and logic. On a character-specific level, Evan and Jason display this trope, Evan being emotion and Jason being stoicism.
- Entertainment Above Their Age:
- 7 year old Freddy finds joy in academic studies and college level writings.
- Bonnie loves to read expansive dictionaries despite being a 7 year old.
- Downplayed with Marionette who is 12 and likes to occupy herself learning about the spiritual, monsters like vampires, ghosts, succubi and reading mature, young adult, dark fiction.
- Also downplayed with Jason who is 12 and likes to read The Divine Comedy alongside other similar Biblical works.
- Family Theme Naming:
- The Fazbear family tree combines this with Theme Initials and feature names beginning with F (Frederick, Francesco, Fabio, Fred Barry, Freddy) and names related to gold (Aurelia from aurus, Cressida means gold, Marigold).
- The Cottontails' & Trapps' surnames all relate to rabbits (Haisse and Heischoen from ''hase'', Kanichen meaning ''rabbits''), spring (the season) and traps (Frühling being the month of Spring, Trapp sound like trap).
- Sans a few of them, all of the Fox family have Biblical names.
- Fighting Back Is Wrong: It's invoked by a teacher and lampshaded by students in Interview #2: J. Fox. Jason comes across Chad Millers bullying Evan and swiftly dispatches Chad with a restraining wristlock. The teacher Mrs. Lida spots the incident and gives Chad a slap on the wrist, whereas Jason is given detention. Marionette calls out the unfairness and ends up in detention for doing so.
- Floral Theme Naming: The girls in Marionette's previous school are all named after flowers.
- Friend to All Children: Jason, Evan and Marionette are all on good terms with the younger kids and love to socialize and interact with young children. Young children also love them for their humor, small talents and comforting, parental atmosphere.
- Full-Name Ultimatum: Bonnie screams out "TOBY IAN HAISSE" when he finds out that Toby painted his face with permanent ink.
- Funetik Aksent: Heavily downplayed to be easier for readers note but does crop up regarding Chica and Fionn.
- Fusion Fic: School Days crosses over with multiple Five Nights at Freddy's fangamesnote to create a solid student body and simultaneously plays out the other games' stories in sequence with the main one, though the focus is less.
- Girl Posse:
- Teddy and Toby act as beta bitches to T.C. Toby acts a her right-hand-rabbit in picking the younger kids while Teddy is less enthusiastic to partake in such behaviors, though he doesn't make attempts to stop them.
- At Aemulus Jr. High, spacey, snide and smug Cambry Teelins joins with ditzy Jane Ikurosaba to follow and devote themselves to "head-honcho queen" Sara Vextant. Both are bullies who hold no interest in kindness towards The Misfit Trio.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: In an inversion of the usual way the trope goes, Freddy the brunette is idealistic while Bonnie the blonde a realist. Same for Jason and Marionette with Jason the blonde being the darker and more cynical one while Marionette the brunette is the more idealistic one.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold:
- Fred Barry, Gordon, Peter, Seán and Chica all have hearts of gold, heads of gold and a wonderful attitude to boot.
- Inverted with T.C. however as she has golden-blonde hair and a heart of coal.
- Half-Sibling Angst: All of the Fox kids resent their half-sibling status because their physical appearances are very obvious markers of infidelity by their mother, an emotionally and physically abusive figurehead who openly wishes they didn't survive the abortion attempts. Not only is it obvious that they are children born from affairs, but they share a genetic connection with someone who cannot stand them and wishes them dead on a daily basis.
- Hates Their Parent: The Fox kids and Vinnie all cannot stand their mothers due to their mothers' abusive and controlling actions.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: The Fazbear/Bearns family and Cottontail/Haisse families are incredibly close and have formed this trope between each other. Idealist Freddy and realist Bonnie are best friends, musical Séan and Fred Barry consider themselves brothers and Peter and Gordon have practically grown up together.
- High School AU: School Days is a younger version of this trope with the cast as young children in elementary and middle school instead of decades old robots entertaining the messed-up masses.
- Initiation Ceremony: Acceptance Meeting describes the Animatronics one involving the initiated receiving their name and costume.
- Innocent Beta Bitch: Downplayed example with Teddy. Though he does pick on Freddy from time to time, he doesn't actively join T.C. in bullying the others, instead sitting on the sidelines.
- In-Series Nickname:
- The factions all employ the use of these with "faction names".
- Evan and Jason refer to each other as "Ev" and "Silly" (pronounced see-lee) respectively. Marionette and Jason also indulge in this trope with nicknames of "Nette" and "Sil" for one another.
- Garage Band Freakshow Rock use nicknames for each other and have faction names that double as online pseudonyms. Evan, Jason and Marionette also have online pseudonyms they use in the same manner as Freakshow Rock.
- Benjamin Barnaby, Jamie Janis, Dayna Darla and Tina Casey are nicknamed with their own initials and use them more than their own names.
- Junior High: Evan, Jason and Marionette attend one just a few blocks away named "Aemulus Junior High".
- Letter Motif: The Bearns (paternal side of the Fazbear family) have a majority of family members with names beginning with F.
- Mama Bear: Marionette is viciously protective of others and entire Animatronic faction respect her like a mother or friend (depending on age).
- Massive Multiplayer Crossover: The story features Five Nights at Freddy's and crosses over with many fangames to round out and expand the cast.
- Massive Numbered Siblings: The Fox kids at 5 (6 if their deceased sister Roxy is counted). Bonnie also hints that some branches of his family have this.
- Meaningful Name:
- Arielle's maiden name is Henson, referring to Jim Henson, a pioneer in puppetry. Fittingly, she's the maternal grandmother of Marionette.
- Many Animatronics have surnames relating to the animals of their canon selves e.g. Saffron and Sara Siraetius (from Sciuridae which is the family of squirrels), Nat Felidaeza & Orion Fielidyne (both surnames are derived from the family name for cats). Others have the animal name built into the surname e.g. Barney Lapin (which is "rabbit" in French), Cody Cuetlachtli (the Nahuatl word for "coyote", Blaine Torona ("toro" meaning "bull" in Spanish), Matt Rattrus (rat for, well...a rat). Some use onomatopoeic sounds to create surnames Sam Barkerson (bark being the sound a dog makes), Sheila Mowmonz (derived from the meow sound of a cat). And some have names which sound similar to the animal Ray Rackon (raccoon) and Pete Picks (pig).
- Salado Blue Elementary School is named for the town and the color of Animdude, Scott Cawthon's avatar.
- "Aemulus" from Aemulus Jr. High is Latin for "rival" and where the name "Emily" is taken from, referencing the character of Henry Emily.
- Aurum High School contains "aurum" which is the Latin word for gold, a prominent color in F.N.a.F. with Golden Freddy.
- Melting-Pot Nomenclature: Most of the characters feature wide variety of names that are diverse as the cast themselves. Names come from all sorts of languages like French, Japanese, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and more.
- Missing Mom: Delia Johnson, Paul's wife and the triplets'note mother who is now deceased.
- New Transfer Student: Seán, who's new to the U.S.A. and doesn't know what he's doing half the time
- Nonindicative Name: School Days starts out with school being the big focus but gradually shifts to the big mystery, turning its title into a slightly Ironic Name. Holi-Days is also an example as many of its chapter involves school as the main focus.
- O.C. Stand-in: The fic features a vast array of characters ranging from ones with a lot of canon characterization to very little and expands on them quite a lot. Endo 01 and Endo 02 are main characters in twins Evan and Jason, and quite a few backgrounders like The RAT from Five Nights at Candy's (known as Matt) have playlists of specific music that factor into their personalities and in-universe music tastes.
- Odd Name Out:
- The Cottontails/Haisses and Trapps have a majority of German and English names, and then there's the Irish "Seán".
- The McEggson/Gallen y Pacheco family have children with feminine names like Tina Casey, Adalind, Alve Tia, Nina and then there's Chica, the Spanish word for "girl".
- The Fox family children consist of Greek-named Jason & Evangélion, alliterative Fionn & Fianna, and...Eli. If the rest of the family are taken into account however, then it's the children minus Eli, parents and grandparentsnote who stand out with their lack of Biblical first names as the rest of the family have themnote .
- Taken a step even further, Jason is the odd name out for having a Latin middle namenote , while the other children have Biblical middle namesnote .
- One-Steve Limit:
- * Played straight with the name "Freddy". There are multiple kids taking on the position of characters named "Freddy", but only one of them is actually named "Freddy"note . The others are similar-sounding namesnote , use "Freddy" as a nicknamenote or are named after something that relates to another part of the character.note
- Inverted with other names however:
- Blake (Blake Naylan & Blake Stelidome)
- Bonnie (Bonnie Cottontail (Haisse) & Bonnie Glade)
- Fritz (Fritz Jeremiah, Fritz Smith and Fritz Vulpes)
- Jeremy (Jeremy Fitzgerald & Jeremy Hasen)
- Jon/John (Jon Suarez & John O'Cronin)
- Matt (Matt Rattrus & Matt Hawthorn)
- Nick (Nick Simpson & Nick Cotton)
- Sam (Sam Suarez, Sam Barkerson, Sam Cotton & Sam Radian)
- Sara/Sarah (Sara Siraetius, Sara Vextant & Sarah Birch)
- Scott (Scott Suarez, Scott Cotton & Scott Cawthon)
- Sheila/Shayla (Sheila Mowmonz & Shayla Nicks)
- Simon (Simon Glade & Simon Jeremiah)
- (Surname) Stone (siblings Ronan, Jen, Gray Stone & unrelated-by-blood Thomas Stone)
- Played mostly straight with several similar-sounding names:
- Freddy F. (B.), Fredericka "Freddy" K. & Friedrich B.
- Bonnie C. (H.), Bonnie G. & Banī M.
- Chica Mc E. (G. y P.) & Chicha B.
- Emmet P. & Emét B.
- Jonathan S. Jon S. & John O'C.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: Benjamin Barnaby, Jamie Janis and Dayna Darla are only known by their initials (B.B., J.J., D.D.) and seldom are they referred to by name, even amongst each other (although B.B. is occasionally called "Benji by some"). Evan as well as almost nobody calls him Evangélion or even knows his full first name.
- Outdated Name: The 2nd name in Jamie Janis' name "Janis" stands out as being quite old compared to the other names used, as does Blaine.
- Passing Notes in Class: Evan is notorious for doing this to assist in the spread of gossip or informing people of the rumors spread about them. Losing his voice only made this worse.
- Race Lift: Inevitable since animatronic animals don't have races. The cast is quite a diverse list of ethnicities and skin colors due to the author trying to match the skin tones of the games to real-world equivalents (meaning any dark-colored animatronics would be dark-skinned ethnicities and so on) and also avoiding any ambiguous skin tropes.
- Related in the Adaptation:
- The main animatronics of FNaF are now all related to their respective counterparts i.e. Golden Freddy, Freddy, Toy Freddy and Fredbear are all brothers.
- The Marionette of Five Nights at Freddy's and Reverse Puppet/Vinnie of Five Nights at Candy's are first cousins in this adaptation while neither share any connection in their respective canons outside of design and name.
- As a sort of referential joke, Sugar the Cat who is a stolen, recolored and genderswapped version of Candy Cat is now the blue cat's cousin.
- Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Fox family all feature names relating to Celticnote and Greek mythologiesnote and the Biblenote
- School Clubs Are Serious Business: The Animtronics, Nightguards and Honoraries take their faction clubs as exceptionally serious business in contrast to The Neutrals, who see them as crazy and overzealous.
- School Forced Us Together: The gang ended up becoming friends purely because the school setting put them together and out-of-school adventures requiring supervision by the older ones.
- Science Fair: Short 11, Crew Lockman's interview describes science fair prep and one taking place spliced in-between personal comments, asides and a therapy session.
- Sensitive Guy and Manly Man:
- Downplayed with the twins: Evan is more emotionally open while Jason is more brash.
- Played straight with Bonnie being more quiet and emotionally calm while Fionn is more passionate and loud.
- Show Within a Show:
- School Days features the Five Nights at Freddy's game series and associated fangames as canon games within the universe as the story takes place in a mix of the games' universe and real world.
- It also has a fictional French book series named "Monstres Mythiques" (Mythical Monsters) that Marionette is an avid reader of.
- Sibling Rivalry: Evan and Jason, Freddy and Teddy, Bonnie and Toby and B.B. and J.J. to D.D. though some are more hostile and aggressive than others. Also present with the parents, even as adults, most notable between Mrs. Samantha McEggson and Tía Casey Castillo.note
- Small Towns: The story takes place in the rea-world town of Salado, Texas with a population of around 2,800.
- Surprisingly Creepy Moment: Shorts 1 to 11 are fairly tame if a bit odd with how it reads before Chapter 1 bring in the sudden creepiness with Jason's sudden haunting by the ghosts in the closet.
- Tamer and Chaster: The School Days version of Five Nights in Anime are turned into young girls (10-12) and the sexual elements are nuked out of existence and replaced with cute Moe instead. Done deliberately in-universe by Fredericka and the others due to obvious reasons. The game itself does still exists in its original form however.
- The Artifact: Several remnants of past rewrites remain despite being irrelevant and completely out of place regarding the very realism-based and mostly grounded nature of the fic post-rewrite.
- The Abnormal Normal Bus Ride, Interview No. 2 and PE Problems feature the cast riding the same bus and having lunch together despite Jason, Evan and Marionette not being in the elementary school. This is a holdover from when those three were in 5th grade in older renditions until the 2022 Reignited Rewrite bumped them up to middle school and therefore moved them out of the building. This is hand waved in-universe by the middle school undergoing repairs requiring the students to use a few of the the elementary school facilities such as the gym.
- The title itself as well turns into an Ironic Name and Non-Indicative Name as the mystery becomes a bigger focus instead of slice-of-life school stuff.
- The shock collar and Mallory's incredibly odd characterization are from the very first drafts of the story and still stick out as odd and unfitting though they will be worked into the story soon.
- Sugar the Cat (named Sheila Mowmonz in the fic) is the only character from her game to be included and her inclusion alongside internet hoax Sparky (Sam Barkerson) is a remnant of the very first character line-up of the Nightverse Series as a whole (circa late 2014). Despite no other characters of online hoaxes or T.R.t.F. being featured ever, these two stick around anyway.
- Blake's surname of "Stelidome" came from a word related to badgers but after several years, the word has been completely forgotten.
- Collin "Cassette Man" Cass is listed on the Five Nights at Candy's wiki under "Audio Recorders" (alongside F.N.a.C. Phone Guy) but he has no article nor real mention of his existence elsewhere. For all intents and purposes, he's not a character, but he still exists anyway and his absence is a Running Gag.
- The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry:
- Chica despises her sister for endlessly bullying her over her interests, accent, appearance and more as well as being an Attention Whore and forever refusing to leave her be. T. C. looks down upon her sister for socializing with weirdos, her friendship with Fionn, music tastes and everything else really. Both have a painfully strained relationship with little hope of repair or any sisterly love to grow at all.
- J.J. is the smart one who while D.D. is the pretty one
- Theme Naming: Many examples can be found all over the fic such as multiple Animatronics having animal-related surnames, meaningful names and genius bonuses and more. Also, the morally mysterious characters tend to have names beginning with W and V and surnames beginning with A.
