No visitors after midnight.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Lost Souls or FNaF: Lost Souls, is a fan-webcomic by ChiwwyDawg based on the Five Nights at Freddy's video game series.In a long abandoned theme park, four animatronics with a dark past try their best to get adjusted to their new lives. They scare every human who enters away before midnight, to protect them form a murderous entity that stalks the park at midnight. But one day a pair of siblings named Cody and Bridget enter and manage to weasel themselves into the animatronics' metal hearts.
Can they find a way to protect their new friends from the evil outside without having to give up on them entirely?
Lost Souls loosely follows FNaF-lore, but being a fan-comic, a lot of things differ from canon. Chances are, this is intentional.
The comic is available on Tapas
, Webtoon and Chiwwy's Deviantart page.
Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls provides examples of:
- Adaptational Nice Guy: The animatronics in this comic are far less blood-thirsty and their desire to protect others, especially children, doesn't go straight to Knight Templar - levels. They're content with just scaring intruders away and even that is done for their safety, because the entity haunting the park has proven to be extremely dangerous. Downplayed, as there are frequent implications of the animatronics having been completely different before the fire. Night 4 has it confirmed through Kelly that children under their care went missing and that they apparently killed a man, though the reason for the last one isn't given and Kelly is a more than a bit biased source.
- Affectionate Nickname: Golden Freddy calls Freddy "Junior", which is fitting seeing as the latter is the former's successor.
- Agony of the Feet: Bonnie breaks his foot clean off when he falls from the defunct roller coaster. Luckily Cody is able to repair it.
- A.I. Is a Crapshoot: Downplayed. The animatronics experience a reset-glitch whenever someone shines a light in their eyes, causing them to freeze up completely until the light is taken away.
- Aloof Big Brother: Freddy often comes across as this, due to his strictness and coldness towards his "siblings". Subverted as he feels he has to act that way in order to keep all of them safe.
- Alternate Universe: One in which Fazbear's Frights was built and a theme park was erected around it to cash in on the in-universe real-life Fazbear murders. However, the attraction burned down under mysterious circumstances, with the other rides beginning to break down shortly after. In the comic's present, the theme park has been abandoned completely, with only the animatronics and the mysterious entity still walking its grounds.
- Ambiguously Evil:
- The Ghost Girl that shows up in the comic from time to time and appears to be based on Circus Baby and/or Elizabeth Afton is shown regularly manipulating events, such as luring Bridget and Cody into the theme park with the help of the rabbit and sabotaging the theme park's rides in the past with her ghostly powers. It's not clear why she does all of this though and she never actually harms any of the main characters. It's even implied her sabotage of the rides was done in an attempt to scare people away and prevent them from meeting a worse fate, similar to what the animatronics are doing in thepresent. It is finally cleared up in Chapter 12 where she reveals that all of her mischief was done with the intent of making sure people weren’t hurt by Fredbear.
- Golden Freddy, who the animatronics thought had been destroyed in the fire, arrives just in time to save them from the entity and presents himself as a kind, fatherly figure who is overjoyed to see his old friends again. However, it's heavily implied that he has either ulterior motives or is an extension of the entity, trying to gain the animatronics' trust. Both Bridget and Cody feel uncomfortable around him, with Bridget admitting that he scares her. He in turn seems to take an immediate dislike to the children and tries to talk Freddy into forbidding them from coming back once they leave. Ghost Girl is also shown quickly retreating once he appears, implying that she is scared of him as well. Not to mention the silhouette of the entity Cody and Bridget see in the fog in chapter 2 looks a lot like him. It’s finally revealed on Night 5 that he’s simultaneously the real Fredbear and the entity having Came Back Wrong and requiring the souls of the animals he has killed to move around.
- Regan and Kelly, the Fazbear's "patrons" appear menacing when they first appear and don't like the fact that Bridget and Cody interact with the animatronics. That said, we still don't know their exact relationship or why they want the kids to stay away from the Fazbears. When they finally interact with the animatronics in chapter 9, Regan is nice to them and shows concern for Bonnie's foot, while Kelly acts dismissive towards them. Kelly also forces Cody and Bridget to leave, on the grounds that they are trespassing on her family's property, then callously outs the Fazbears out of spite when Bridget refuses to leave her friends. Though as the story unfolds, it seems Regan doesn't mean the Fazbears any harm, he's just doing his job as Kelly's assistant. And Kelly herself falls more into the Hero Antagonist category, as she genuinely seems to believe the Fazbears are dangerous and considers her actions towards Bridget and Cody necessary to ensure their survival.
- Ambiguous Situation: Whether the animatronics are still possessed or not is left kind of up in the air in the comic. They refer to each other by their Funny Animal personas' names (Chica, Bonnie, Foxy and Freddy) and act like entertainer robots with sentience, but it's later on confirmed that multiple children died at their old workplace and that they where somehow involved in it.
- An Arm and a Leg: The flashback to the Fazbear's Frights fire shows Bonnie missing all of his limbs and part of his ear.
- Bait-and-Switch: The comic's prologue starts off like your typical horror movie introduction: Two teenagers come to the park at midnight to do a test of courage, following the rumors about supernatural happenings at the Fazbear's Frights attraction. Once they enter the facility, the reader sees shadow-y figures move about in the dark, until Freddy himself appears and jump scares the teens. But after the the kids run away, it's revealed that scaring them was all Freddy planned. He even scolds the other animatronics for getting so close to the kids.
- Bears Are Bad News: Golden Freddy invokes the trope more and more as the comic goes on. For starters, there's a heavy implication that he's somehow connected to the entity in the fog. Then there's his extremely manipulative behavior. He tells Cody to stay away and implies he'll hurt Bridget if they continue to come back. He repeatedly guilt-trips the rest of the Fazbears for their feelings of friendship toward the kids and even pressures Freddy into barring Cody and Bridget from returning. When the rest of the animatronics finally talk back to him and start to press him on his insistence that the children need to stay away, he snaps at them, spotting some pretty creepy Black Eyes of Evil.
- Beary Friendly: Freddy, though it may not seem that way at first. He acts cold and authoritarian most of the time, but it's just because he cares and doesn't want anything to happen to his family. In truth, he's just as happy about Cody's and Bridget's visits as the rest of the animatronics, as it reminds him of happier times and he enjoys tutoring Cody.
- Big Bad: The theme park is regularly haunted by a malevolent entity at midnight. It's incredibly aggressive and capable of trapping anyone still in the park at that time in an all-encompassing fog, preventing them from escaping.
- Big Brother Instinct:
- Freddy is very protective towards the other animatronics and does whatever he can to keep them safe. He also develops this towards Bridget and Cody after warming up to them.
- Cody adores his little sister Bridget and does his best to care for her and make her smile.
- Inverted with Bridget. While she might be the younger sibling, she's just as much looking out for Cody as he is looking out for her. A lot of times she gets on his case about neglecting his school work and reacts shocked when he reveals to her just how bad he is failing at some of his subjects.
- Big Damn Heroes:
- Cody and Bridget first meet Freddy when he rescues them from the entity in chapter 2.
- Just as it looks like the animatronics, Bridget and Cody are about to be attacked by the entity in chapter 5, an unknown voice calls out to them and leads them back to Fazbear's Frights. Said voice is revealed to be none other than Golden Freddy.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Golden Freddy acts friendly towards his fellow animatronics and Bridget, but for some reason bears a hefty grudge towards Cody and not so subtly threatens him into leaving the amusement park for good, implying something will happen to Bridget if he doesn't.
- Black Eyes of Crazy:
- Freddy's eyes briefly turn black when he blows up at the other animatronics for endangering Bridget and Cody.
- Golden Freddy has black sclera and white pupils in Bridget's memory of him glaring at Cody.
- Chekhov's Gun: In chapter 1 Cody briefly mentions his good grades in machinery and programming. The Deviantart description for that page even reiterates that these are the only subjects he's interested in. This talent later allows him to repair Bonnie's broken foot after they're saved from the entity in chapter 6.
- Child Prodigy: Downplayed with Bridget. In a conversation with Cody she mentions she got As in all of her classes, but she's a very regular little girl otherwise and doesn't display any extraordinary talents, apart from her penchant for sewing.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: While it's never shown what exactly the entity does to its victims, the brief shot of the bleeding deer implies that it violently mauls them.
- Dark and Troubled Past:
- The animatronics' attraction burned down under mysterious circumstances, leaving them in pieces and forced to hide when the park's owner came to sell what was left of the place for parts. Prior to this there was apparently an incident were several children under their watch went missing and died, followed by them killing a man for as of yet unknown reasons.
- It's implied that something unpleasant happened to Cody when he was still visiting private school. When Bridget attempts to talk about it, he gets angry and yells at her.
- Darkness Equals Death: The entity only comes out at midnight and staying out when it moves in via the fog is basically a death wish.
- Death of a Child: The Fazbear-murders presumably still happened in this AU.
- Eldritch Location: The park itself. The animatronics are incapable of leaving it, time often goes crazy when you enter and it's haunted by several supernatural beings.
- Failsafe Failure: The thread the animatronics use in case on of them gets lost in the fog is already a precarious safety measure. The entity cuts it when the animatronics go into the fog in chapter 5, trapping them and leaving them no way to find their way back to Fazbear's Frights.
- Family of Choice: The animatronics see each other as family. Most of Freddy's strictness towards them stems from his fear of losing them.
- Friend to All Children. The animatronics were built to be this, having originally been entertainers at a children's restaurant. This is partially why they resent their current life so much, as they have to actively keep children from going near them and why the younger ones, especially Chica, cling to Bridget and Cody's visits so much. All they want is to be near and play with children again.
- Follow the White Rabbit: Bridget and Cody are lead to the theme park by a mysterious rabbit Bridget adopts later on. Cody even lampshades this via the Trope Namer when Bridget runs off to follow it.Cody: Last I checked, your name wasn't Alice!
- Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: Freddy often has to be the responsible party pooper to the more carefree, younger animatronics. It's not a role he particularly enjoys, but if it keeps everyone alive and safe, he's willing to play it.
- Gentle Giant: The animatronics tower over the humans, but they're all friendly and would never intentionally hurt someone. Though it's implied it wasn't always that way.
- Large and in Charge:
- Freddy is the biggest of the animatronics and the oldest. He's also the leader of the group and does his best to keep them all safe.
- Also invoked for Fredbear a.k.a Golden Freddy, who is even taller than Freddy and was the leader of the animatronics before his assumed demise.
- Lovable Coward: Foxy, for all his pirate-bravado, is really easy to scare.
- Loyal Animal Companion: Halo always sticks close to Bridget's side, accompanying her wherever she goes. Bridget even mentions that he gets antsy when she tries to leave him behind.
- Missing Mom: Cody and Bridget's mother died some time ago. They still remember her fondly.
- Not Quite Dead: Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy and Chica all believed Golden Freddy to have been killed during the fire that destroyed their attraction. But then he appears at the end of chapter 5 to save them from the entity, seemingly none the worse for wear.
- Promoted to Parent: Unlike their mother, Cody and Bridget’s father is out of town more often than not. Also unlike their mother, Cody and Bridget’s father is still alive. As a result, Cody has had to look after his little sister mostly on his own.
- Puppydog Eyes: Chica, Bonnie and Foxy do this to Freddy when he attempts to tell Cody and Bridget they can't come back. Much to everyone's joy, it works.
- Sibling Rivalry: Bonnie and Foxy really like getting on each other's nerves and even threaten to beat the other up a few times.
