The RAT

"TBA" - TBAThe RAT, also commonly referred to as RAT, is the main antagonist of the Five Nights at Candy's series. He appears as the final antagonist in Five Nights at Candy's, the main antagonist in Five Nights at Candy's 2 and as the central antagonist in Five Nights at Candy's 3.
He is the former face and mascot entertainer for the infamous Rat & Cat Theatre, accompanied by his co-workers, The Cat and The Puppeteer. He was extremely popular and adored by the children of the theatre, sparking jealously from The Puppeteer who envied him. Following an unfortunate accident where the actor of The RAT was killed whilst inside the costume, the suit became possessed with the vengeful soul of the actor who went on to terrorise and murder in the future years.
He was not portrayed by any portrayer or voice actor.
==Story==
===Background===
The Rat & Cat Theatre was officially opened to the public at an unknown date, presumably in the early to late 1950's, starring The Rat, The Cat and The Puppeteer accompanied by his puppet, Vinnie. The actor for The Rat was hired to play the role of The Rat character alongside his co-workers in numerous shows and acts of theatre to customers and patrons alike. His popularity flourished and grew as many children grew fond of the character, taking a likeness to him over the other characters. Because of this, The Rat's actor developed an inflated ego while his co-workers, especially The Puppeteer envied his popularity and love from the audience.
===Five Nights at Candy's 3===
In the year 1961 of an unknown date, Mary Schmidt attends The Rat & Cat Theatre daily as a treat from her father while her brother is away on a school camp. On her first day attending the theatre shortly before the scheduled show is about to start, she meets and becomes acquainted with The Rat who introduces himself and asks Mary if she wants to play hide and seek with him in his dominating and authoritative nature. Mary accepts the offer and runs off to find a hiding spot in the establishment while The Rat counts to one hundred. Following a few moments after hiding, The Rat will find Mary and scare her, cackling and yelling "I found ya!". Afterwards, he goes on to perform the show as per usual before everyone leaves and the theatre closes for the day.
On Mary's second day of attending the theatre, she doesn't encounter The Rat and instead meets The Cat, it's presumed that The Rat was somewhere else in the theatre, presumably performing at the respective show for the day.
On Wednesday, Mary's third day of visiting the theatre, she finds The Rat who recognises and remembers Mary from the first day they met compared to The Cat who barely remembered Mary during subsequent encounters with each other despite already having met each other prior. He suggests another round of hide and seek before the show starts and Mary accepts. Mary goes to hide once again while The Rat counts. Despite Mary's best attempts, she is caught and found once again by The Rat who continues to laugh and relish in the moment.
Similarly to Mary's second day, on her fourth day, she plays hide-and-seek with The Cat with The Rat nowhere to be found.
On Friday, the fifth day and the day with a surprise show, the theatre becomes busy and packed with copious amounts of families who fill all the tables in the theatre, eager at the surprise show. Upon returning to where The Rat would usually be, Mary encounters The Rat surrounded by excited and adoring children who jump on the spot. As a solution to the excitement, The Rat enthusiastically announces that they'll play one big game of hide-and-seek together. The Rat begins counting and all the children, including Mary hurry off to find a hiding spot. Unfortunately, they're all taken by the rest of the kids so Mary decides to hide in a closet in the Staff Area room that was accidently left accessible by The Cat leaving the room. Mary sits in silence for a few moments.
Soon enough, The Rat enters the room, claiming to have seen her go inside. However, before he can progress any further with his search, he is interrupted by his co-worker, The Puppeteer entering the room. The Puppeteer angrily berates and reprimands The Rat for being drunk on the premises. Despite The Rat's protests, The Puppeteer is insistent that if parents found out, the theatre and their reputations would be decimated. The argument escalates resulting in The Rat claiming to have "talent" which The Puppeteer lacks. The Puppeteer demands that The Rat leaves and goes home but he refuses. As a result, a scuffle ensues between the two. The Puppeteer attempts to remove the head from the costume and so in defence, The Rat begins to strangle him. In retaliation, The Puppeteer forcibly shoves The Rat off of him causing to trip and fly backwards and smash the back of his neck full force into the edge of a table. The impact completely paralyses him and he falls to the floor, slowly bleeding out but still able to see and hear his surroundings.
The Cat enters the room soon afterwards, discovering the corpse. While The Puppeteer is adamant on lying to the police and say that he had been involved in a drunken accident to save themselves, The Cat instead suggests on telling the police the truth and admit it was an accident. Fearing punishment and the risk of his reputation being destroyed, he deliberately murders The Cat by strangling him from behind. After dialling the police and informing them of the "accident", he places his diploma in one of the room's cabinets before leaving. Mary, still in the locker, sits in terror, traumatised. 
The authorities arrive on the scene and evacuate everyone out of the building to investigate the crime scene. After gathering enough courage, Mary exits the closet in tears and reunites with her father outside in a loving embrace. As a result of the incident, Mary develops extreme anxiety and fear of the theatre and its characters, especially The Rat, realising them in the forms of Monster Rat and Monster Cat that would terrorise her for the foreseeable future.
===Post Five Nights at Candy's 3===
The authorities recover the bodies and perform the respective autopsies. It soon becomes public knowledge that the two deceased co-workers were killed as a result of a drunken brawl, taken from the lies of The Puppeteer. The theatre is closed and The Puppeteer moves on with his life to become a renowned film actor while the costumes of The Rat and The Cat are transported to the newly opened Rowboatics' Corp Robot Factory located on Saint Antonia's Road 27.
In the year 1962, the two currently possessed suits were converted and transformed into mechanical wire-controlled animatronics that could be manually controlled by the respective puppeteers and employees. However, because of their possessed state, the suits possessed free movement from their controls. Until the scheduled grand reopening of The Rat & Cat Theatre, the new RAT and CAT were kept in the factory. Furious and enraged at their fates, The RAT and The CAT work together to terrorise and murder others, including children in the future years with the the former being responsible for the eventual collapse and fall of Candy's Burgers & Fries.
Later that year, The RAT and The CAT were transported to the grand reopening of The Rat & Cat Theatre, becoming a massive success. They stand on the stage, dancing, waving and entertaining the crowds as the children watch on in excitement while the parents smile in amusement. Mary attends the grand reopening, alongside her brother however the unexpected occurs when Mary's brother rushes up to the stage in excitement. The possessed RAT crouches down to the child and attacks him by lowering his arm and striking the child. This event generates panic and fear as parents and children cry out afraid. The establishment is shut down indefinitely and The RAT and The CAT are decommissioned and transported back to the robot factory, placing an end to The Rat & Cat Theatre forever. Because the animatronic could have only moved from input from the control panel, the employee responsible for controlling The RAT is arrested and awaits trial for his crimes, unknowingly taking the blame for The RAT.
Candy's Burgers & Fries, founded and owned by CTC Entertainment, is planned to open to the public as an animatronic themed restaurant, taking the place from The Rat & Cat Theatre. Rowboatics' Corp was responsible for manufacturing the two main robotic attractions for the restaurant, using the the designs of The RAT and The CAT as a base for the newer, mobile and more advanced models of Candy's Burgers & Fries.
Over the next couple of years, The RAT suffers damage to his suit while his colours also begin to become faded and worn. In November of 1964, Old Candy and Blank are created and sit on the conveyor belt of the robot factory, awaiting to be brought to the restaurant. The RAT is also seated between the two deactivated robots. At 12 AM of November 13th, 1964, The RAT activates and flees the scene right before destroying the observing security camera.
Following his escape from the factory, The RAT infiltrates the newly opened Candy's Burgers & Fries where he remained in the mysterious, unnamed storage room in the Secondary Party Room of the restaurant for the remaining twenty years. It's currently unknown whether or not the employees of the restaurant were aware of his presence.
===Five Nights at Candy's===
In November, 1987, an older and adult Mary Schmidt was hired as Candy's Burgers and Fries' new nightguard, responsible for monitoring and guarding the restaurant and its animatronic characters after hours. As Mary survives night after night from her security office, The RAT remained dormant and deactivated in the mysterious storage room until Mary's sixth night.
For unknown reasons, Mary returned to the restaurant for an extra sixth shift, soon encountering and coming face to face with The RAT once again, having not seen each in over twenty years. The RAT attempted to kill Mary, moving from the storage room swiftly to the security office. Regardless of the animatronics' hostility and best efforts, Mary survived the night, reaching 6 AM and defeating The RAT. Following Mary's termination as a nightguard after her seventh night, she leaves the restaurant forever, escaping the grasp of The RAT for the foreseeable future.
=== Post Five Nights at Candy's ===
Despite failing to kill Mary, The RAT still continued to remain dormant in the storage room to resume his terrorising of the restaurant. In 1989, two years since the events of Five Nights at Candy's, Chester the Chimpanzee roams the restaurant after hours, discovering a key to The RAT's room in the empty security office. Using the newly acquired key on the storage room's door, an aggressive RAT attacks Chester, dismembering him and ripping him to shreds. The Penguin searches the restaurant, collecting Chester's remains, even catching a small glimpse of The RAT closing his door upon spotting The Penguin.
The RAT decided not to intervene or terrorise the establishment until four years later in 1993 where The RAT leaves his room and makes his way towards the security office, avoiding the attention of the other animatronics and security cameras. In a matter of moments, The RAT was able to breach the security office and sneak inside unbeknownst to the nightguard on duty. The former snuck up towards the latter and killed him, leaving his corpse in the middle of the office. New Candy comes across the scene shortly after police arrived at the scene. The RAT scurries back into his room while New Candy takes the fall and is framed for the murder. The animatronics are damaged and beaten for the incident. The restaurant is shut down permanently and all the animatronics, including The RAT are transported back to Rowboatics' Corp's Robot Factory where they are abandoned and left to rot.
=== Five Nights at Candy's 2 ===
Fourteen years later in August of 2007, Marylin Schmidt, the daughter of Mary Schmidt, was forced to spend five nights in the abandoned robot factory as the result of losing a bet to her friends. The former animatronic mascots attack and attempt to kill Marylin during her five night stay in the factory while The RAT and CAT are inactive and passive.
=== Final Defeat & Death ===
To presumably end The RAT and The CAT's wrath of terror and fear, Marylin returns to the factory for an extra sixth night for a final stand-off against The RAT and The CAT. Working together, The RAT and The CAT try and try again to catch Marylin off guard and murder her from 12 AM to 6 AM. Nonetheless, Marylin prevails and triumphs against The RAT and CAT, surviving until 6 AM and definitively defeating The RAT once and for all.
But instead of stopping there, Marylin intentionally ignites a fire in the warehouse department of the factory, causing an ensuing fire that spreads and engulfs the entire factory in a roaring inferno. Everything within is destroyed and incinerated in the fire, including all the animatronic mascots of Candy's Burgers & Fries and The RAT and The CAT who meet their burning, painful demise in the fire. When the fire is extinguished hours later, everything is reduced to rubble and ash, finally putting an end to the vengeful lives of The RAT and The CAT.
== Appearance ==
The RAT's human appearance and physical description before the actor's death is unknown since the performer is only seen in his costume.
== Relationships ==
=== Allies ===
* The CAT (Deceased) - Ally
== Death Animations ==
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Category:Fictional Characters
Category:Main Antagonist
Category:Male
Category:Deceased
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