I know I should start out this series of FNAF (Five Nights At Freddy’s game created by Scott Cawthon for anyone who hasn’t been up-to-date with Youtube and gaming in general) posts with something from FNAF 1 or a general summary of the game – not that there is any because we are still groping in the dark with two main theories, a middle ground between them and many other theories that also make sense – but MatPat (Matthew Patrick from The Game Theory Youtube channel for everyone who hasn’t come across Youtube or gamers as of yet, *sigh*) just uploaded his FNAF Sister Location theory video no. 2 (because he uploaded the first one before the game was even released). Midway through watching his video, something clicked. I tweeted him my ideas and then watched the video again, by which point, many red alarms were ringing and even though this video is part 1 of his original video plan, I couldn’t wait for him to make part 2 before I could write this, so let’s begin (haphazardly).
P.S. Spoilers everywhere. You have been warned.
Firstly, I have not read the FNAF book “The Silver Eyes” (TSE), written by Scott Cawthon and Kira Breed-Wrisley. I only know as much as MatPat has told us about in his videos. At the end of his recently uploaded video, Mat says that the events of TSE take place in 1995, after all the games and child murders. If that were to happen, I would imagine that Purple Guy/William Afton was the murderer of the children, was caught in and survived the springtrap incident, left town and came back, probably to reminisce his dead daughter. But there are so many things that come to my mind.
First and foremost, the ending of Sister Location (SL) that you reach if you play the game as instructed by a convincing female voice is the true ending of the game – it’s canon to the story in TSE as Mat has already established. In the book, Scott repeatedly talks about Afton’s eyes and how they seem so dead and glassy, so artificial, as if the owner of the body is actually dead and whatever is behind the eyes is not him. SL ends with the player, the man, slowly moving to his right in a robotic movement and staring at a mirror or glass of some sort and opening his eyes to reveal purple (or pink or violet) eyes. It is so obvious that Scott’s motive while writing the book was to reveal the ending of SL, and which ending of SL is the true ending, according to the story of FNAF and everything in the FNAF universe, and if you hadn’t read the book or watched Mat’s videos, you wouldn’t know. Scott really loves to play with our minds huh? He makes sure that if you miss out on even one game, his book or Mat’s videos, you will be absolutely lost, much like those who only play the game for the game and do not appreciate the story behind it. Honestly, I’ll drop this here, FNAF isn’t much about the game as it is about the true story everyone is trying to seek out. It is about the plot that he will probably never reveal. Oh Scott, how we wish to look into your brain to find the truth… Anyway, back to the game! The fake ending is the one where you end up in your home with your popcorn and exotic butters, and all of a sudden, when you turn to your right, you see Ennard moving into your cosy den, and that’s it! It ends there! But does it? What happens afterwards? Is it the same ending as the true ending? Maybe just not with your innards taken out, maybe in some other way he takes control of your body? (Btw, innard? That’s where Ennard’s name is from! Innard, Ennard, Ennard takes out your innards and take control of your body and becomes your new innards…get it? …Never mind…)
Point made is that you have been possessed by an animatronic, and now it is free to roam around the world, and I imagine the the rest of TSE takes on from here.
However, which animatronic is it? I don’t remember if Mat said this or not, but a lot of people keep saying Baby took control of him, Baby is out in the open now and bla bla bla but HALT! Baby? Are you sure? I believe Mat had pointed this out that Baby’s eyes are green. Again, my memory does not co-operate with me, but I think the little girl that Baby consumed has blue eyes and somewhere along the game Baby is shown to have blue eyes. I won’t go too deep into that right now as I don’t remember much of it and will wait for Mat to remind me again of this in his next video. To summarise: Baby has either blue or green eyes, NOT PURPLE. Whose eyes are purple? ENNARD’S! Again, Mat and others have also established that Ennard is probably controlling everything in SL. “There is a little of me in every body” was a quote in one of the SL teasers, meaning Ennard is controlling all the animatronics, including Baby. Even after that little card is removed from her body and she is sent to the “Scooping Room” and disheveled, her voice can be heard. As she is sent to the Scooping Room, and even when he works on her animatronic body (pressing codes into number pads and stuff), we can see Ennard at the back, in the dark. Who is controlling the animatronics? Whose voice do we keep hearing? Who leads us everywhere? Who says she knows how to pretend? Who pretends to help us to gain our trust? Who sends us to the Scooping Room? Who is in our cosy room in our house? Who comes after us in the private room? Who jumpscares us when we don’t listen to them as they instruct us to go to the Scooping Room or when we make a mistake while going there? ENNARD! Ennard has taken control of our body! Not Baby. Again, why is there so much confusion? Why do we assume it’s all Baby’s dirty work? Because Ennard is not on stage, we don’t know about Ennard until the game shows us (and the teaser but the teaser didn’t help in understanding much about Ennard). Plus, the voice we keep hearing throughout the game started to talk to us when we were in Circus Baby’s territory, where we gave her “controlled shocks”.
So Ennard takes control of our body, not Baby. Yes, Baby may have been what killed Afton’s daughter, but Ennard is the one controlling everything. Ennard kills Henry too. And now she has to get out, so she takes who? The man who came back to either find out what killed his daughter, or simply to reminisce in this horrid place – Afton.
All of this leads me to think that SL may have taken place BEFORE all the games, not after.
According to this flow of events, Henry is killed by Ennard, possibly in Baby’s body or not, we don’t know. Then or before that, she kills Afton’s daughter and Afton comes back for some reason. Now, I would like to point out that at this point that although I haven’t seen anyone talk about this, the reason he goes back is probably already told in the trailer: “Where memories sleep.” He probably went back for Baby, to either just see her or destroy her, in the memory of his dead daughter . Back to the flow of events: Ennard’s motive now is to go out into the world and be free. Again, I would like to point out that the reason she wants to go out now is also given in the trailer in the last whisper: “You don’t know what we’ve been through”. She wants to leave this place, whether it’s with the friends who have been and are continuously being tortured or not. And after all, we all know that they’ve been through a lot by now, as proved by the “controlled shocks”. However, they also plead: “Dont hold it against us.” True, we shouldn’t, because they were tortured and now they’ve turned to harm us. But what do I mean by “they”? I mean Baby, Funtime Freddy, possibly Bonnie, Ballora, Funtime Foxy and Ennard. All of them. But who is smart enough to use us? To manipulate us into thinking they’re friendly? Ennard. She stops them from ruining her plan to release them all by gainng our trust.
It is from here, I believe, that the FNAF games begin. (Scott must be proud of our creativity and imagination as we come up with all these theories from his games. Thank you Scott, for bringing out the best of creativity in us). This is where I will establish something I strongly believe, till now unless Mat drops his own more credible theory, that Scott decided to have Afton coloured as purple because of the eyes that obviously isolate him from the rest of the crowd of actual human beings (because it’s Ennard in Afton’s body now). And thus, Purple Guy was created. So the story isn’t about the dead children vs the Purple Guy (Afton), it’s more accurate to say the game is about the dead children vs ENNARD. Purple Guy is parallel to Ennard. The dead children are now seeking revenge on Ennard, the animatronic, by probably possessing other animatronics.
This is basically a war between an uncontrollable animatronic and dead children possessing more animatronics. These animatronics are really ruining some lives out there…
(Honestly, at this point, there’s so much to say, I’m losing my mind. I’m literally forgetting my next words :O )
Now comes springtrap. I personally believe in the middle ground of the Dream Theory and the Timeline Theory. The games I believe are dreams, but things are actually happening in real life. As seen in FNAF 3, Purple Guy is led by dead children’s souls into the springtrap where he is possibly shocked (yet again but now inside a human body…) and bleeds. But not to death, oh no, he doesn’t bleed to death. In the bad ending of FNAF 3, we see the eye-holes in the animatronic heads still lit up, while in the (happy) ending, we see that the eye-holes in the heads this time are dark, not lit up. This means that in the happy ending, the children’s souls rest in peace, while in the bad ending they are up for more revenge. Mat clearly states that as the springtrap situation occurs, we see that Purple Guy’s eyes are still lit up. Clearly in this game, if your eyes are lit up, you’re alive, meaning Purple Guy still lives. Well… not “lives” exactly, Afton is dead and Purple Guy is Ennard as I have already established, but you get the point. This is where the TSE story picks up again. Mat says that Dave (Purple Guy changes his identity for hiding or something, long story apparently) had scars in his body. Mat establishes, and I agree, that indeed those scars are the result of the springtrap situation.
(P.S. I refer to Ennard as ‘she’ and Purple Guy as ‘he’ but I mean the same person. Or robot… You get my point.)
So now I have concluded that Ennard goes killing children mindlessly, obviously as she has no mind to begin with, which also logically explains why she kills children (she has no mind, and she is no human). This happens in many FNAF locations until the souls of the dead children take Ennard down at the end of FNAF 3’s happy ending.
Earlier in this post I said Ennard killed Henry, and many of you may have been disagreeing, saying it was Baby who killed Henry. But let me break it down. Henry, in a FNAF World ending and the book, says that he made an uncontrollable animatronic, which we assume killed him. I agree that it did in fact kill him. But this uncontrollable animatronic is not Baby. It’s Ennard. There are two dots that represent eyes when Henry dies, but Baby remains in her position. That shows that Ennard is in control of Baby and gained access to his place through her to kill Henry. Those two eyes belong to Ennard. But why does Ennard not recognise Afton on Day 2 of SL? Because Afton did not create Ennard. But why do we hear the little girl telling her father (Afton) that she wants to see the animatronic HE made exclusively for her? Why, at the beginning of the game, even before we start to play it, does a man (Henry) ask Afton about the animatronic HE made, to which Afton replies saying she can sing and do a bunch of other stuff? Because Afton made did in fact create an animatronic, but not Ennard. He made Baby!
For all your confused minds: Afton made Baby. Henry made Ennard. Ennard cannot be controlled. Ennard does not know Afton. But Ennard took control of Baby. Ennard somehow killed Henry. Ennard probably used Baby to kill the girl. Afton thinks Baby, the animatronic he made, killed his daughter. But he was wrong, as we see right at the end of SL. Ennard killed her. Ennard pretends to be Baby. Ennard scoops out Afton’s innards and goes to the outside world, free. She continues killing children, like Afton’s daughter, in Afton’s body. But souls of those dead children lead him into the springtrap of FNAF 3, but she doesn’t die. And this is probably where things is TSE begin to take place, IF events in TSE have anything to do with FNAF events at all.
After all, we must remember, TSE is only a re-imagining of the story, in which Scott dropped many clues. We must remember to not take everything from the story as a hint to find out the story of FNAF, but only those that make sense according to FNAF. The rest are unlikely to even be part of the FNAF timeline.
TO BE CONTINUED…
Coming up next: More bits and pieces fom Mat’s videos that I have an explanation of & more theories.
Trivia? I don’t think so: Do you guys see that the mask is missing on Night 5 in the Control Module – the place from whrere you advance to Ballora Gallery, Circus Baby’s Control Unit and Funtime Auditorium? The mask that Ennard wears is usually hung up high right in front of you, quite visibly. Why? Because now Ennard requires it. Ennard puts on at least half of that mask to even have a face and not just be constructed of cool wiring.
Who Let My Thoughts Out? 