As this is a Heartwarming Moments page, spoilers will be left unmarked. You Have Been Warned!
These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids, these characters will live on.
Game Examples
- The Fredbear plush. Despite seemingly always making things worse for the Child, he genuinely cares for the Child and acts as his Parental Substitute.
- Of course, there is the theory that the Fredbear plush is actually possessed by the ghost of one of the Child's deceased friends after being murdered by William. If that's the case, whether it be the Puppet or Golden Freddy, whoever is in that plush is willing to give death the bird and help their friend whom they knew in life with their problems with their trauma and older brother. If that isn’t proof of True Companions, I don’t know what is.
- Fredbear may say that all of the plushies are still the Child’s friends, but Fredbear himself, who has done nothing the whole game but try to comfort the Child and make him a better version of himself by encouraging him to be brave when he’s terrified of the animatronics, has proven to be his Best Friend.
- The ending to Night 6:
- We see the Child Protagonist facing his plush dolls of Fredbear and the other animatronics in a black void under a spotlight. As the plush dolls slowly fade out, Fredbear says that all the animatronics are still friends with him, that the child is "broken" and that he will put him back together before fading away himself. The child then cries what is presumed to be tears of joy before finally fading away. If you cried at the third game's ending, you'll cry here, too.
- It even adds some extra heartwarming to the third game in hindsight. The "hidden" portions of the minigames, where you had to track down the crying child in each one and get them to the "Happiest Day"? That can now be seen as Fredbear and the other toys following through on the promise to "put him back together."
- According to a theory, "put him back together" might mean Fredbear hosting the Child and becoming Golden Freddy. He would now roam essentially as a ghost, but he would have friends (the other animatronics) to play with and could protect other children. Also, the Child up until then hates animatronics, but now, as an animatronic, he doesn't have to hate them anymore.
- Another one? The dialogue before Fredbear starts talking is written in the same color as the brother's, and he's begging his brother to hear him as he apologizes. While also a Tear Jerker, this shows that despite being a Big Brother Bully, he still loved his brother and is horrified by what he did.
- Also the kid may not die. Yes, we hear a flatline at the end, but flatline actually only indicates that the machine has been plugged off. The kid may have died...or he may have recovered and no longer requires an EEG. However, the most likely option is that he's dead.
