Henry Emily (Five Nights at Freddy's)

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Henry Emily, also known as the Cassette Man, is the overarching protagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
He was the founder of Fazbear Entertainment, which he created with his business partner William Afton, and designed the technology for the animatronics. After Afton murdered his daughter Charlotte, he would dedicate his life to searching for him and his victims and rectifying his sins, gaining the help of William's son Michael in the last year of their lives.
He was voiced by Dave Steele.
==Appearance==
According to his depiction in the FNAF Official Character Encyclopedia, Henry was a fair-skinned man with green eyes and messy light brown hair that made up a mullet and a chinstrap beard. He wore an orange-chequered shirt, blue overalls, a brown belt with a utility bag attached to it, and brown shoes. It's possible that the depiction was based on his appearance in the 1980s and prior, so it's still unknown what he looked like in 2023.
==History==
===Past===
Henry’s past is fairly unknown but it’s clear that he was a talented engineer and mechanic. He at some point became a father and had a daughter named Charlotte Emily, nicknamed Charlie. However it’s unknown who Charlie’s mother was. At some point probably in the 1970s, Henry met a fellow engineer and robotics expert named William Afton and the two soon became best friends and business partners.
Henry and William then opened a small local restaurant called Fredbear’s Family Diner. Henry, presumably by himself, created the animatronics for the restaurant, Fredbear and his companion Spring Bonnie. They were both springlock suits a mechanism Henry designed that would compress the suits endoskeleton to allow for a human to fit inside to wear them as costumes. 
Fredbear’s was seemingly a rousing success and thus another restaurant was opened in 1983, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza with its mascots being the titular Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken and Foxy the Pirate Fox. Henry once again made the animatronics for the restaurant while Afton handled the business side of things. In the process of opening Freddy’s, Henry and William started their own company Fazbear Entertainment, which owned the Fazbear brand. Henry at some point created a animatronic known as the Puppet which was put in an unknown location (either Fredbear's or the original Freddy's) to protect Charlie from harm.
However, one night in 1983 things took a tragic turn. A few bullies locked Charlie outside of the Puppet's location and she was cruelly murdered by William in an act of betrayal. However, Charlie would end up possessing the Puppet and vowed to protect children from William’s machinations. Things would only get worse when in that same year, William’s son tragically died after accidentally being shoved into Fredbear’s mouth by his older brother Michael. This horrific incident would then be dubbed the “Bite of 83”. Henry both ashamed and emotionally broken shut down Fredbear’s and left the company in disgrace.
Two years later in 1985, William committed five more murders, causing the Missing Children Incident. In 1987, when the new owners of the company opened a new Freddy’s restaurant, they noticed that the new animatronics were “glitching” out and that was causing trouble for their business. Although the company tried to contact Henry they were unable to track him down,
Years or even decades later, he finally found out that William was the one who murdered the five children as well as his daughter Charlie. He then learns to his horror that the children Afton killed were trapped inside the animatronics he created, recovering blueprints of Afton's Scooper, as well as knowledge of Remnant. Henry then begins to blame himself for everything that happened heavily regretting trusting Afton to begin with and allowing him to spread such pain suffering to people. Henry couldn’t even sleep at night knowing what those poor children went through and heavily contemplated committing suicide. However, Henry knew that he couldn’t die just yet and became dead set on destroying the remaining animatronics and killing Afton to undo his horrible atrocities.
Years passed, and after the events of Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction, Afton was released into the world as the undead human/animatronic hybrid Springtrap, alongside two of his creations; Molten Freddy, an amalgamation of his animatronics, and Scrap Baby, possessed by Afton's own daughter Elizabeth. 
=== Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator ===
Henry eventually masterminded a plan to have an unknowing volunteer begin owning and operating a Freddy's pizzeria so that he may gather all of the remaining possessed animatronics in one place, where he could then destroy them and liberate the souls. To ensure his daughter would be amongst them, he created L.E.F.T.E to capture the Puppet and bring her to the Pizza Place. Henry ended up hiring Afton's son Michael as the manager, much to his own surprise. Originally planning a way out for him, Henry eventually scrapped the idea as he thought Michael wished for death like he did, although kept him in the dark about his true intentions.
Using a cassette player, Henry leaves instructions for the manager of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place via cassettes. "Cassette Man"'s tapes talks the manager through the process of salvaging what he describes as "vintage animatronics" under the pretence of spare parts, with it being specified under paragraph 4 of their contract. He made sure to gather all of the animatronics in the restaurant by Saturday.
====Completion/True Ending====
In the game's Completion Ending, all of the animatronics are gathered together, and Henry quickly traps all of them in he underground catacombs, He comes on for one last transmission. And explains his plans to incinerate the last of the animatronics as he believes this is the only way to end the agony of the Fazbear tragedy. He expresses hope that the souls in the animatronics will find peace and pass on after the fire. However, Henry condemns William for his unspeakable atrocities and tells him that all that awaits him is the darkest pit of hell and that he shouldn’t keep the devil waiting. 
He then apologizes to his daughter for not being there at the time of her death to save her, before declaring that it is time for all of the tragedies surrounding Fazbear Entertainment to be put to rest. As he monologues, he lights the place on fire, burning the animatronics, Michael, and himself in the process and Fazbear Entertainment was then shut down. Thanks to Henry’s efforts the souls of Elizabeth, Michael, Charlie and him can all pass on to the afterlife finally free from the pain and death of the past. 
Henry, however, didn't expect one thing; the vengeful soul of one of Afton's victims wouldn't let William die and forcefully kept him alive in a torturous purgatory, a befitting fate for a wicked man. 
====Insanity Ending====
In the Insanity Ending where the player accesses the Egg Baby Data Archive, they hear Henry confessing to what he has done, but that he plans to make things right. Upon reporting what they have learned, the player's character is deemed insane and sent to receive a lobotomy.
====Bad Ending====
If none of the possessed animatronics are salvaged, Henry will say that requirements of the player's job were not met, and will fire the player's character. It is unknown what he would've done afterwards.
==Personality==
Henry is shown to be very serious and stern, showing little to no actual emotion during his screen time and is very indifferent towards everything happening in the restaurant. However deep down Henry is a tormented, remorseful and regretful man haunted by his own guilt and agony. He feels as though he was somewhat responsible for all the tragedies that took place as he trusted and enabled his business partner William Afton which ultimately led to him killing almost a dozen children, starting with his own daughter, Charlotte. In-fact Charlotte’s death specifically tormented Henry the most to the point where decades later he still regrets not being able to save her.
Over the years Henry was forced to live with his actions and remorse, in fact this trauma runs so deep he claims he couldn’t even sleep at night and heavily contemplated committing suicide. However he showcased himself to have an iron will, vowing to stay alive as he was the only one who could finally put a stop to William’s machinations for good. Henry shows signs of vengefulness and spite having hoped that Afton would suffer in hell for his actions and didn’t even consider the man to be human anymore calling him a creature and a monster. 
However, despite viewing the animatronics as a serious threat and being disgusted at their bloodlust he is still a sympathetic man and shows most of them pity. He understands that they were poor little souls who became what they are through tragic circumstances and expresses a sincere hope that the souls residing in the animatronics will indeed find peace after their deaths. Even, Elizabeth who had become Circus Baby and just as evil as William was pitied by Henry presumably seeing her as yet another victim of her atrocious father. 
Henry was also implied to have been a very creative and imaginative inventor having personally built the original animatronics for Fredbear’s Family Diner and Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza and was even the one who came up with idea of springlocks suits to make the animatronics more lifelike. 
==Quotes==
==Gallery==
CassetteUse.gif|Henry's cassette tape.
HenryCloseUp.png|A close-up of Henry from the character encyclopedia.
File:Henry emily ITP.png|Henry in the Into the Pit game.
==Trivia==
*The stories that Candy Cadet tells, might be related to Henry, who tried to protect the five children from William, but failed, so he decided to gather the remaining animatronics, and end their suffering.
*It is often theorized that Henry is the main protagonist who play roles as security guard in Five Nights at Freddy's 3.
*In Pizzeria Simulator, it's heavily implied Henry is the one built R.A.S.C., an unique bot who has abilities to lured the remaining hunted animatronics enter inside the chamber.
*It is theorized that after the events of Pizzeria Simulator, Henry's spirit became Old Man Consequences.
*According to Henry, souls and remnants can co-exist together without need each others.
**This is also somewhat proven to be true in Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery. As remnants can created artificially through sentient metallic substance experiment, despite their existence is still under protection from Shadow Bonnie.
*Henry shares narrative parallels with Edwin Murray:
**Both were businessman and possessing highly intelligent mind.
**Both create animatronics. Henry is the creator of Security Puppet, where as Edwin is the creator of The Mimic.
**Both had lost their beloved child. Henry lost his daughter when his daughter locked outside who later killed by William, where as Edwin lost his son where his son died on crash while played with his creation.
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