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The FNAF book series is ALSO set in a video game world.

I know that because it's fiction anything can happen but... All these things that happen in the lore just seems a bit TOO impossible for me- at least by animatronic and supernatural standards in my eyes. An invisible augmented-reality animatronic that can move things in the real world? A time-travelling ballpitt? I feel like that's all a little bit too out there for the franchise, and considering that the FNAF games are quite literally a video-game world, it'd make sense. The animatronics are escaping from a video-game world... Into another one.

The "hitchhiker" on Andrew's spirit is William, and the Stitchwraith Epilogues are the origin of "Glitchtrap".

Scott has made it clear that these books are meant to provide some answers about the leftover mysteries from the last couple games, and the question of how Glitchtrap came into existence is probably the biggest one. It's made clear by Epilogue 4 that the "hitchhiker" is malicious in nature, turning what was meant to be a harmless prank into a lethal attack; as of the publication of Book 4 there's no definitive evidence that William is the hitchhiker in question, but given that the series doesn't really have any other human antagonists (other than the Older Brother and the faceless heads of Fazbear Entertainment), there's not a lot of possibilities. If this is the case, then that would mean that all of the items infected by Andrew- likely including several of the antagonists we see throughout the stories- would contain a piece of William's spirit, explaining their malicious behavior.

Now consider that Epilogue 4 ends with Jake resolving to track down all the infected items and stop them from hurting more people; based on Epilogue 2 opening with the Stitchwraith collecting pieces of the Plushtrap Chaser, it seems likely he followed through on this. However, in doing so, Jake would unintentionally be putting more and more pieces of William's spirit in one place, presumably making him stronger and allowing his true identity to resurface. Now consider that Glitchtrap first manifested in the Fazbear Virtual Experience after the developers scanned a bunch of old circuitboards sent to them by the client, IE Fazbear Entertainment. Given how the main plot of the Epilogues involves Detective Larson hunting down the Stitchwraith, it seems likely that at some point the Stitchwraith will be captured, destroyed, or at the very least lose its gathered parts. These parts will then be sent back to Fazbear Entertainment, who will send them off to Silver Parasol Games to improve the virtual animatronics' AI; knowingly or unknowingly, they will be putting William back together.

• Seemingly at least partially confirmed as of Bunny Call: "The Man in Room 1280" ends with the titular man- heavily implied to be William- having his body explode after being taken to the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, seemingly making him the source of the infection.
  • It's literally said that the Man moved on but something hasn't. Andrew is behind the infections. However, I still doubt that the Man truly passed on.
• The first half is now essentially confirmed as of Blackbird; the Man in Room 1280 is indeed the hitchhiking soul, and its form twisting into a humanoid rabbit is all but proof that his true identity is William Afton. As for the second half, the form that William takes upon beginning to re-manifest resembles a vast Bonnie animatronic forged from many smaller animatronics, with entire faces visible within; this bears more than a passing resemblance to Glitchtrap's appearance in the "Princess Quest" minigame from FNAF VR, hinting at a connection between the two.
  • The rest seems to be Jossed as of The Cliffs, though. Not only does the Puppet seemingly kill him and destroy the aforementioned animatronic (albeit in a pretty cool moment), but the years of psychically battling Andrew have led to his spirit being severely weakened, and the only reason he was able to assemble the Amalgamation was because something else even worse than him was helping him do so. He seems to be by all appearances Killed Off for Real while this entity becomes the true Big Bad.
  • That said, it's not impossible that the Other Evil, not William, does go on to become Glitchtrap. (Note that, in the Security Breach trailer, the voice talking to Vanny- which would almost certainly be Glitchtrap- does not have the British accent that William has had in every other incarnation and is not voiced by PJ Heywood, despite PJ being confirmed to have done work for Scott recently.) Admittedly that would fail to explain why Glitchtrap would still appear as Spring Bonnie in that case; that will most likely depend on the true identity of the Other Evil.
    • Wasn't it said somewhere that the trailer used early footage? IIRC the early versions of Help Wanted also had a different voice actor for HandUnit, so they could have simply used some random guy before adding Heywood's lines. And even then, Glitchtrap has too much in common with William to be something else.
    • Well, if one of the theories about what it is is confirmed and the Other Evil is technically the soul imprint of William's evil made manifest, then "too much in common" would be kind of a moot point, would it?

Lonely Freddy's are the non Nightmare versions of the Freddles.

Both are miniture versions of Freddy and with how often the Crying Child was alone, he probably encountered one or two of them, but with his fear of Animatronics, it probably prevented him from suffering the same fate as Alec.

Springtrap's Revenge from "In The Flesh" is an In-Universe version of Security Breach.

It's the next game in the in universe FNAF, involves William trapped in a virtual world trying to get out, and the story ends with him succeeding. Sounds close enough to me.

• I think you mean Help Wanted.
  • You're right, it does make more sense for it to be Help Wanted.

The Fazbear Fanverse Initiative games- or at least some of them- will be revealed as canon in future volumes.

Now that the Fanverse games- the FNAC series, One Night at Flumpty's, The Joy of Creation: Reborn, and the upcoming POPGOES reboot- are essentially official products, it wouldn't be too farfetched to imagine that Scott might strike a deal with the creators to integrate them into canon. Possible evidence for the inclusion of the games, or at least some of them, being canon with the book series (and possibly also with the main series games) includes:

• The Stitchwraith's facial component- described as the head of a white doll covered with crayon drawings- sounds strikingly similar to Blank from the Candy's games. While Blank himself is obviously significantly larger than the three-foot-tall doll that Jake is possessing, it wouldn't be the first time we've seen a miniature version of an existing animatronic; just look at Bon-Bon, Helpy, or even Lonely Freddy and the Minireenas from these very books. Considering that Scott has a whole roster of characters to choose from, it seems strange that he would make such a pivotal character be a completely new and rather bland design...unless, of course, that design is a preexisting character from another series.
  • Jossed as of the release of "The Real Jake"; "Simon", the doll which becomes the head of the Stitchwraith, is just an ordinary white cloth doll with crayon drawings to simulate the activities of a real child.
• While some of the games currently have lore that contradicts canon (such as the very different backstory of the Purple Man in POPGOES compared to the main series), that may not be the case with their official Fanverse releases. Of the games with major story components- FNAC, TJOC, and POPGOES- all three have been stated to have updates to the lore as one of the features of the official releases. Perhaps said changes will involve making the lore compliant with FNAF canon? As for ONAF, it's possible that it and its sequels are in-universe video games, ones which are based on the in-universe Five Nights at Freddy's series introduced in "In the Flesh".
  • Knowing how Scott does things, they'll probably get a cameo or two in the books rather than actually appear in the games themselves.
• During "1:35 AM", Delilah has an encounter with her neighbor Mary, a woman who seems rather significant but whose relevance to the overall plot mysteriously ends after the meeting. However, a close reading suggests that Mary may in fact be Mary Schmidt, the protagonist of Five Nights at Candy's: she's fairly old, which would make sense with Mary Schmidt having been born in the 1960s and the books taking place in the late 2020s or early 2030s; at one point she sings a strange song about penguins (a mechanical version of which was an enemy Mary faced while working at Candy's) that the narration specifically draws attention to; and she's stated to have a child who died in a fire (Mary's daughter Marilyn is the main character of Five Nights at Candy's 2, and the good ending of said game has the factory the game takes place in burn to the ground, without explicit confirmation that Marilyn survived).
• The stories from Bunny Call, particularly "Bunny Call" and "In the Flesh", seem to draw explicit parallels with The Joy of Creation's story mode. Both "Bunny Call" and TJOC focus on a person defending their family from an inexplicable animatronic deep in the woods; likewise, both "In the Flesh" and TJOC focus on a person who has worked (or is working) on the in-universe Five Nights at Freddy's series being tormented by a real version of one of the "fictional" animatronics. Even the titular character from "The Man in Room 1280" could be seen as a parallel to the Ignited Animatronics, with the emphasis on his horribly burned appearance and the evil lurking within him.
  • POPGOES and by extension Five Nights at Candy's HAVE to be in-universe games for them to be canon as they treat only the first three games as canon (Candy's and POPGOES share a universe).
    • Unless, as suggested above, the announced changes to lore for the "official" ports involve bringing said games in line with the rest of the series' canon.
    • Nope. POPGOES Evergreen still counts only the first three games as canon.

There's no Third Soul in the Stitchwraith: He's a scapegoat made by Andrew, who is truly evil.

Take a look at Andrew:

• Tries to kill a nurse.
• Holds a defenseless man, who is deeply afraid of death, alive, just so he can be tortured when death itself will be enough torture for him.
• While possessing Fetch, he killed a dog, a girl, and cut off a guy's finger.
• Created an army of toys out of his own agony.
• One of the toys drove a woman to insanity and death.
• Doesn't give a shit about his mistakes and lets Jake fix things on his own, while he's chilling in that battery pack.
• Literally says he might be responsible for "zapping" people, but doesn't have remorse for most likely killing two people.
• Very confident about killing the man (Forgot if it's one of the guys zapped by Stitchy or Room 1280 Guy) and immediately shot down Jake's idea of a third presence.
• Did take responsiblity for a/the death, even if he did get defensive and backtracked when Jake asked if he's killing for fun.
• Outright described as pure evil by the nurses.

Andrew is very clearly evil. And seeing how he acted, it's possible he's behind the murders and the nonexistant Hitchikker is a scapegoat he made.

• Jossed as of Blackbird; the Epilogue confirms that the hitchhiker is real and exactly as malevolent as implied.

The Stitchwraith is why Foxy dissapears at the end of Step Closer.

He already collected him by the time Chuck comes back.

• Confirmed by the epilogue of Blackbird, as the defunct Foxy was among the Stitchwraith's collected items.

The baby Springtrap that Matt births in In the Flesh eventually grows up to become the monstrous Spring Bonnie in Into the Pit.

It'd not only be a possible explanation for why that Spring Bonnie exists, it also could be a clever way of tying together the two stories, provides an origin story for the creature, wouldn't be out of character since Springtrap wanted to escape from the game to find more victims and that's what the Spring Bonnie does, and it even kinda makes sense: both are organic versions of Spring Bonnie, and both are supernatural (or were born through supernatural means).

• Spring Bonnie killed six children in 1985, while In the Flesh is way too modern to be in that year or before. So unless Spring Bonnie himself found the ball pit before Oswald, it's practically impossible.
  • Actually, that is very likely. Remember how Spring Bonnie follows Oswald into the ball-pit and the present day? If it truly existed back in 1985, then it wouldn't have any knowledge of the pit's time-traveling capabilities. And how did it know what to do when arriving in the present day, which is a calculated impersonation of Oswald's dad? My guess is that since In the Flesh Springtrap was having trouble finding victims (you know, 'cause of its appearance) it focused its rage (just like it did in In the Flesh) and began to adopt a more powerful and child-friendly form to be able to get kids to trust it and then lure them to be killed. It eventually found the ball-pit and travelled all the way back to 1985, where it slowly got used to the period and later found its victims in six children, which it lured and killed during the period when Oswald was going to 1985 as well.

In The Man in Room 1280, the titular Man/Andrew may have infected the Fazbear Entertainment management in addition to the items, and that explains why the VR game includes the Fazbear Entertainment executives continuing the horrors one of their founders wanted to stop.

I'm kinda confused by Fazbear Entertainment's 180 from "We're disbanding" to "We lied and now we're making a VR game and a mall", and as I see that the black goo the Man exploded into may have infected some items at the Fazbear Distribution Center, I propose that the executives of Fazbear Entertainment were meeting at the Distribution Center to finalize their decision to disband Fazbear Entertainment. They changed their minds and decided to actively cover up the events of the previous games when some black goo from the Man infected them as well.

• Given that the entire pizzeria in FFPS was a setup by Henry to lure the remaining animatronics to their destruction, it's very likely that he was no longer actually associated with Fazbear Entertainment; HandUnit's statement that Fazbear Entertainment is "no longer a corporate entity" seems more like what Henry wants or believes to be the case than anything concrete. It's much more plausible that Fazbear Entertainment was simply biding its time to reopen all along, especially given that the distribution center shows no signs of being in the process of closing down when Arthur arrives with the Man (if they really were closing down, why would they have shelves upon shelves of newly manufactured merchandise ready to ship out?).
  • This doesn't mean it's completely out of the question, though. Given that Fazbear Entertainment is known for being a major Incompetence, Inc. to the point where it's a miracle the company continued on for as long as it did, successfully discrediting the events of the previous games through hiring an indie developer to make video games about them and silencing anyone who might find out, plus being perfectly willing to release a game containing the digital "soul" of a known serial killer to potentially corrupt millions into people just like him if it meant making extra cheddar when earlier they didn't let the springlock suits see the light of day again after their flaws became apparent, it's possible that William could be influencing them through their being "infected". (and having shelves upon shelves of newly manufactured merchandise doesn't necessarily mean they're ready to ship out. Shelves upon shelves has been used a lot in media. They could just be in storage).

Blackbird is a Creation Myth detailing how animatronics and perhaps Purple Guy are made.

It explains everything. Whoever made William Afton spawned him off from a movie, or perhaps from a different kind of format. All of the animatronics were part of the movie, then came to life. This also explains Oswald's drawing of the animatronics- he was literally drawing them to life to complete the story. It's sort of an In-Universe Recursive Canon effect. The video games might be a Recursive Canon of Oswald bringing the animatronics and Purple Guy to life, which also explains how Glitchtrap is able to escape into the real world.

• That would provide a hard retcon to the entirety of the games' canon and make years of theorizing and hard work all for nothing, so unless Scott Cawthon himself confirms that, a hard no.
  • You're misunderstanding this. It's not a "it never happened" theory. It doesn't retcon anything. This theory makes it so that all the backstories are still canon. Like I said, it's a Recursive Canon effect.

Many of the more recent stories are meant to show that other emotions, not just agony, can affect/bring to life animatronics/toys, or have other effects.

I've noticed stories that don't seem to affect lore (and some that do) have a specific emotion driving the plot.

1. Bunny Call has resentment, as Bob being sick of his family taking up all of his time prompts him to sign up for the titular bunny call. The creature taking the form of Ralpho was animated by Bob's strong resentment, and overcoming Ralpho signified Bob overcoming his resentment towards his family.

2. In the Flesh has rage, with Matt pouring all of his anger from his relationships, divorce, and office environment into his creation of the virtual Springtrap, which incited even more rage from him when he couldn't beat it. The hell he created for Springtrap to be in until the next day was created out of rage, allowing Springtrap to become a real manifestation of Matt's rage that ultimately destroys him.

3. The Man in Room 1280 has agony, with Andrew using his own agony to fuel his power over William to increase his agony.

4. Blackbird has guilt. Nole and Sam designed the Blackbird to intimidate its victims into confessing their worst sins, and when Nole's confession drives Sam away, Nole feels guilt for it and for Sam's assumed death, and begins to feel the Blackbird stalking him, increasing his guilt to the point where it consumes him, until he faces it head on by seeking out and apologizing to Christine, after which Sam returns alive and the Blackbird seemingly vanishes.

5. The Real Jake actually has a positive example: love. Jake, despite his illness, is pretty stable, and looks forward to talking to Simon/his father Evan as it is a source of positivity. After Evan's death, he is unable to talk to Simon and passes the next day as the love and positivity from Evan/Simon had ended. His soul is then bound to Simon, the most significant source of love.

6. Hide and Seek has jealousy/spite/rage, as Toby wants to have one high score that his brother doesn't and wrecks the Hide and Seek game when he can't beat it. Shadow Bonnie is able to manifest as his shadow and his outright proven to be fueled by Toby's anger and jealousy towards his brother. Toby is eventually Driven to Suicide when he can't let his jealousy go.

• Pretty much implied and confirmed. The scientist that was trying to find out which emotion reached the furthest mentioned that it was agony, implying that he studied with other emotions as well.

The Other Evil is the Devil.

Because if someone would be worse than Afton, it's the big man downstairs himself.

• Very unlikely. Satan doesn't seem like the type to do that; he prefers to wait in his kingdom of Hell and eagerly torture souls unlucky enough to end up with him. If anything, he'd be dragging Afton back to Hell if that were the case. And besides, it's implied that all the spirits in Golden Freddy tormenting Afton and prevented him from truly going to Hell allowed him to come back. Which means that since Satan is past that line of no return, he couldn't possibly have gone to the mortal world with him.

The Other Evil is Shadow Freddy.

What else could be more evil than William himself, other than nothing but his evil? As a bonus, Ultimate Custom Night proves that Nightmare/Shadow Freddy would attack his human form (assuming that's the real Nightmare).

The Other Evil is Nightmare.

As a combination of the previous two theories, dialogue in Ultimate Custom Night heavily suggests that the Nightmare's are actually demons from Hell. Sounds like a perfect position for a malevolent being with a large amount of power.

• Except UCN is a dream and not Hell, so it seems more like Nightmares being sadistic pricks. And Shadow Freddy seems more like a creature born from William's evil, anyway.

The Other Evil is Spring Bonnie.

He has a connection with the Stichverse given the cover showing this black thingy coming out of his eye and has shown himself to be evil and certainly messed up.

• Unlikely given that he's killed by accidentally hanging himself at the end of his book.

The Other Evil is Agony itself.

Agony has been shown to be powerful in the books and the Amalgamation calls itself Agony.

This follows the Silver Eyes Continuity.

The presence of Ella and the fact that Cassidy isn't Golden Freddy make me think that this is the case.

• The fact that there's a fire involving William and the Puppet (who we know didn't exist in the Novel Trilogy) and that Golden Freddy isn't Michael Brooks makes this practically impossible.
  • When I think about the Puppet and Michael Brooks does virtually disprove this theory. William was seemingly burned to death in The Fourth Closet.

There was no time travel in Into the Pit and the true William commited those murders: The thing we see in Into the Pit is a agony-induced recreation of the event.

Seeing as this is heavily likely to be connected to the Epilogues, this could be likely, even if slightly.

The plot of Gumdrop Angel will involve Candy Cadet

Very well could happen, right? Cadet is the only candy-related robot so far and the cover shows a woman being melted into candy.

• Jossed.

Gumdrop Angel will involve cannibalism.

The cover includes a girl (obviously our titular hero Angel) as a candy-made monstrosity. From an extended preview, we know that there are birthday gummy statues that kids eat, and are instructed to start from the bottom, so they can stay conscious for as long as possible. In short, a utterly disgusting piece of shit at Fazbear Entertainment is feeding kids with humans that have been transformed into candy statues, and making sure that they will stay alive for as long as possible. Ladies and gentlemen, there's someone as bad as William Afton.

• Partially confirmed; There is cannibalism involved in the story, but the villain isn't as bad as Afton.

Renelle is Eleanor, and her backstory was meant to give Afton a Freudian Excuse.

For startes, Renelle is Ellener backwards, which sounds similar to Eleanor - Not to mention that the end of the story focuses on her pendant/necklace/whatever, which was what Eleanor used in TBB. Mrs. Afton being dead could explain why we never saw her in any form of media, plus the description of Renelle's father could also fit for Afton - A man consumed by grief focuses on his work and neglects his children.

Ophelia was planning to give Angel the gumdrop nose anyway.

Ophelia in Gumdrop Angel seemed like she was genuinely trying to connect with Angel despite knowing how much she hated her. That's why she didn't eat the nose to begin with. She knew Angel wanted it and was planning to surprise her with it. Kind of like the sister from... I believe it was Lonely Freddy? Though unlike that story where it's implied she was possessed and wanted Alec to get it so it could transfer his consciousness. Poor Ophelia had no way of knowing what it would do to Angel.

Dr.Talbert is...

• An disguised William Afton,link here:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jDKZpX2wMCs and this would make William Afton an Well-Intentioned Extremist.
• Henry Emily,In the Book, Circus Baby tried to Replaced Charlie and used it as a fake identity just like Eleanor did with Renelle And Talbert tried to save his daughter Like Henry did In the Novelization.
• A New Character
• Michael Afton, William from Fazbear Frights never showed to have kids,this likely will change in the future,and Michael changed his last name, Who wouldn't change their last name being related to an Killer,like Michael changed Afton to Schmidt.

Nightmare created Eleanor.

• Eleanor is described more evil then Afton,She powered William Afton's new body, the Afton's Amalgamation, and kept Afton alive so he can cause more suffering for her to feed on,In UCN, Nightmare tells William, I'm your wickedness,made of Flesh, this would make Nightmare a Complete Monster,and the big Bad of the entire franchise as an whole.

Fazbear Entertainment is LITERALLY a place where "fantasy and fun come to life".

• The "fantasy" part of the quote is quite self-explanatory. Fazbear Entertainment-based cosplay managing to bring the costume to life is one such example. Another is Oswald's drawings being brought to life. And where's the fun? Well, the fun is for people like William Afton, of course... Perhaps all of this is his "fantasy" and fantasy alone.

The Strongest Force in FF Isn't Agony.

It's love. Love is shown to be able to disinfect the infected objects. Jake's compassion is what saves Millie and what is implied to be many, many others in the last epilogue.

Eating the nose doesn't turn you into the Birthday Gummy

That's a red herring. The Birthday Gummy is the size of a grown woman, both the victim at Ophelia's party and Angel herself. Besides, I doubt that the announcer would've let Ophelia take the nose home with her for later if they were planning on it. No, they have a far better, more subtle way of luring their victims in, and there's one other way that Angel could have started gummy-ing that everyone seems to miss.

[Dominic] reappeared. He was carrying several paper towels and a spray bottle of what looked like water. He sat down on the seat next to hers.

Whatever [the stuff that looks like water] was, it smelled flowery, and it was warm.

Now pay close attention to what the stuff touches:

Dominic was dabbing at her hair and the skin of her jaw and neck with paper towels he’d sprayed with whatever was in the plastic bottle.

Now see what part of Angel begins acting oddly.

Angel’s neck itched. She scratched at it. Her jaw itched, and she scratched at that as well.

Angel even acknowledges that that it could be that, though she does make several misjudgments over the course of the story (mostly regarding Dominic) over the stories)

Dominic had cleaned her hair, and her skin for that matter. What had been in that plastic bottle? It had been more than water ... It had a floral smell. What if the solution in that bottle was toxic? It was from Freddy’s. It wouldn’t have surprised Angel at all if something was wrong with it.

And let's face it, it's just weird that they have this strange clear fluid that smells like flowers and is warm at hand.

Like Eleanor to Circus Baby, Lucky Boy and Frights!Shadow Bonnie only resemble BB and Games!Shadow Bonnie superficially

As both were firmly on the side of the missing children and only passively involved in attacking the guard, BB stands and makes noises (one of the few he can make) Shadow Bonnie quietly crashes the game, etc.

Mr. Renner in Animatronic Apocalyse is the Freddy Bully from F Na F 4

The Freddy bully grows up to be Mr. Renner, an unremarkable, middle aged principal, but he gets possessed by an supernatural force, perhaps the same one as Nightmare, leading him to become the cult leader, even wearing his old Freddy mask.Full details seen here

Mimic 1 isn’t Glitchtrap and he is truly William Afton and the books have been lying to us

This one explains itself.

"Dittophobia" is a scrapped Fazbear Frights story

I mean, all the clues are there: the story does not feature or even mention the Pizzaplex or anything related to it, and could've been perfect either as a standalone story or something related to that very novel series.

• The one thing I'll say is that "Dittophobia" does feature the recurring theme of simulations present in Tales but absent in Frights. You could still be right, just with Scott deciding to bring it back because it tied in nicely with that theme even if it was pretty unrelated otherwise.