# Vanessa (Five Nights at Freddy's)

Vanessa, or by his psyedoyum Vanny, is a fictional character and one of the main antagonists in the Five Nights at Freddy's series. She first appeared in Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, where she is the security guard of a big plaza, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Plex, and - also in secret - is William Afton's (the main antagonist of the series) follower. However, in the film adaptation, she is a police officer from an unspectified North America town and Afton's daughter, who also helps Mike Schmidt, a security guard of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to defeat Afton and the animatronics.
In the games, she voiced by three actresses: Jessica Tang (Help Wanted), Heather Masters and Marta Svetek (both in Security Breach). In the film adaptation, she is played by Elizabeth Lail.

## Roles

She served as the main protagonist of Help Wanted, a minor character in Special Delivery, the secondary antagonist-turned-supporting character of Security Breach, a minor/supporting character in its DLC, Ruin, the secondary protagonist of the film adaptation, and a minor character in Help Wanted's sequel, Help Wanted 2.

## Biography
### Games
#### Five Nights at Freddy's Help Wanted

Vanessa is the main protagonist of the game as a VR tester hired to play a virtual experience game called "The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience". In one of the endings of the game, she accidentally flees Glitchtrap (a copy of William Afton's consciousness) and eventually became his follower. This ending is canon to Security Breach.

#### Five Nights at Freddy's: Special Delivery

Sometime after the events of Help Wanted, Vanessa was an employee of Fazbear Funtime Service working as a security guard for the company. After she was contacted by one of the game developers from Silver Parasol Games, after they accidentally created a virus from one of animatronics' PCB. She pretended to be a Senior IT Representative from Fazbear Entertainment to trick them into giving her full access to their company to get rid of the virus. After believing that Vanessa got rid of the virus, Silver Parasol started working on the The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience again, only for Vanessa to give unauthorized commands to their system, gaining full control over their system. She locked every employee out of their account. It's implied that she got everybody at Silver Parasol's warehouse killed by the animatronics.
After receiving an e-mail from Vanessa's fake credential, "_pizzaplex", it is revealed that Vanessa was researching the company's records of the Fazbear Entertainment Floor 3 employee, and that she transferred from Fazbear Funtime to work as a security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex, which leads into the events of Security Breach.

#### Five Nights at Freddy's Security Breach
##### Main story

After the e-mails' events seen in Special Delivery, Vanessa is still a security guard for Fazbear Entertainment and literally still served as a follower of Glitchtrap. In a one day, after sees Gregory, she orders all animatronics and security bots to search Gregory and kill him. She later captures Gregory, but he escapes. Later on, Vanessa capture Freddy and interrogating him, accusing him of colluding with Gregory, but after she is abortive for trying to find Gregory's location, leaves. Afterwards, when 6:00 a.m. arrives and the mall's doors open, Vanessa requests that Gregory to meet her for a "reward", which is several different recordings of Vanessa and an unknown person undergoing therapy.
The game has six different endings, but one true ending: in this true ending called "Princess Quest Ending", Gregory rescues Vanessa from Glitchtrap's control, and escapes from Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Plex in a sunny day, along with Freddy's head. An another ending reveals that Vanessa and Vanny is the same person. And an another ending called "Burntrap Ending", it is reveals that she was working for the resurrection of "Burntrap", a combination of Glitchtrap and Springtrap.

##### Ruin DLC

Vanessa does not appear in most of the DLC, however, Gregory mentions that he has a friend who has maps of the Pizzaplex, which could be Vanessa. Additionally, Vanessa can be seen in the background eating ice cream in "Brazil Ending."

#### Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2

Vanny makes a small appearance during the "Princess Quest" ending of Help Wanted 2. After the player enters the Sister Location elevator and makes their way inside of the large crane machine, Vanny can be seen looking inside from the front of the machine. After the player hands Moon the same Glitchtrap plush seen in the original Help Wanted, Moon sends the plush down the machine's prize chute and Vanny retrieves it. However, Vanny seems to summon a version of Glitchtrap directly from the plush before crushing it, waving towards the player, and leaving. She can also be obtained as a prize after completing the "Princess Quest" ending.

### Other media
#### Film adaptation

Vanessa initially meets Mike on his second night of the job. She shows him the characters and explains about why Freddy's shut down (the missing children). She later admits that she has been suspicious of Mike since she entered the building as he seemed nervous and was injured. She bandages him up and later throws away his sleeping pills and tells him to focus on the job and he'll be fine. Vanessa meets Mike again when it is revealed that she knew of the animatronics sentience. Vanessa helps build a fort for the animatronics and Abby. She goes to get a table cloth and when Mike tries to touch a springlock suit, she explains that it is meant to stop human actors playing as the characters from getting injured but that it is dangerous and unpredictable - she proves this by poking it with a broom and it locks.
Later she is confronted by Mike who said that she seemed scared and nervous in that room. She gets aggressive and tells Mike to keep Abby away from the animatronics and to not take her back to Freddy's. It is later revealed that Vanessa is the daughter of William Afton. She helps Abby escape Foxy and then attempts to stop her father from killing Mike. She is instead stabbed and falls to the ground (although not dead). After William's springlocks activate due to Abby making the animatronics see William for who he was (their murderer) Mike and Abby get her out of the pizzeria. She is later seen unconscious in the hospital at the end of the movie.

## Appearances

* Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted (voice only)
* Five Nights at Freddy's: Special Delivery (Email only)
* Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
* Five Nights at Freddy's: Ruin DLC (mentioned and cutout in "Brazil Ending" only)
* Five Nights at Freddy's film adaptation
* Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2