Timeline/Five Nights at Freddy's

games only and stuff actually tied to it such as the logbook or ultimate guide. sometimes, the novels and fazbear frights books can be used; scott said they can be used as parallels or metaphors for unanswered questions.

Our number one rule with figuring this out is to always believe there's something paranormal happening when Phone Guy tries making sense of something, lol

## 1970s

* Fredbear's Family Diner opens. The only mascots are Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, two spring-lock suits. They work both as animatronics and suits which are extremely dangerous if not handled properly.
* The events of **Stage 01**: Fredbear's is depicted.
* According to in-universe merch and TV shows, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy were also around.

"*If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I'd probably be a bit irritable at night too.*"
-**Phone Guy**
* The first Freddy's opens with a Freddy animatronic. There's also The Puppet, designed to protect kids with certain colored armbands.
* The events of **Take Cake to the Children**: Charlotte Emily, Henry's daughter, is killed outside Freddy's by William Afton.
* The events of **Security Puppet's Minigame**: The Puppet, programmed to protect Charlotte, goes outside and lays next to it, getting possessed by Charlotte. Charlie's father, Henry Emily, contemplates suicide, but doesn't go through with it. He goes into hiding.

"*I could make myself...sleep. But not yet. Not until I undo what he has done and heal this wound - a wound first inflicted on me, but then one that I let bleed out to cause all of this.*"
-**Henry Emily**

the novels state that charlie died in october 1982. just a fun fact. it's not stated in the games yet, though

* The events of **Midnight Motorist**: William Afton goes home later that night.

## 1983

* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurants are established. *This could happen before Take Cake to the Children*.
	+ The Withered location opens featuring Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Fredbear, Spring Bonnie and the Marionette.
	+ Phone Guy records his Springlock Training Cassette tapes, as it's stated to be for performers or entertainers at "Freddy Fazbear's Pizza."
* There is a Fredbear & Friends TV show.
* The underground facility of Afton Robotics, LLC. is built. The password for the monitors in the facility have the same date.
	+ Someone talks through the Fredbear plush to Afton's youngest son.
* William Afton starts Circus Baby's Pizza World, with intent to kill more children. A springlock suit is also created for the location.
* The events of **Sister Location Death Minigame**: Circus Baby's Pizza World's opening day goes horribly wrong; Elizabeth Afton gets clawed up by Circus Baby and crushed inside. Elizabeth possesses Baby, granting the robot Elizabeth's green eyes instead of the robot's default blue.
* A story is made up about a gas leak.

"*In other news, the grand opening of Circus Baby's pizza has been cancelled due to reported gas leaks in the building. Sources close to the establishment question the report, saying that strange activity around the area at night suggest something else is to blame.*
*One local is quoted as saying "Everything just stopped. There was so much excitement built around this place opening and then they just stopped talking about it. There was only a handful of people that ever got a look at the inside, kids from here and there, making sure everything works right, you know. I guess they weren't quite as ready as they thought they were."*
*A tenant from across the street claims to have witnessed a large group of cars surrounding the building during the night and large pieces of equipment being taken out of the building under tarps. A few weeks later, the building was for sale.*
*There is no comment yet from the local entrepreneur who financed the venture.*"
-**ScottGames**
* Everything from Circus Baby's Pizza World, just Circus Baby and one Springlock suit, are moved to the Underground Facility.

* The events of **Days Until the Party**: Michael Afton bullies his younger brother, constantly terrified of the animatronics.

"*The Older Son: Michael Afton, AKA, You*
*This theory seems confirmed by the game.*"
-**The Freddy Files: Ultimate Edition**
* **The Bite of '83**: Crying Child (Michael's little brother) gets his head placed in Fredbear's jaw, crushing it. Crying Child is put in critical condition in the hospital.

aka golden freddy. not confirmed yet but it doesn't contradict anything yet as seen later in FNAF3's bad ending image

* Spring-lock suits are decommissioned. Phone Guy records his FNaF3 Night 4 Training Cassette to announce it.

"*After learning of an unfortunate incident at the sister location [Fredbear's Family Diner], involving multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures, the company has deemed the suits temporarily unfit for employees.*"
-**Phone Guy**
* Fredbear's Family Diner closes and Fredbear is replaced by Freddy as mascot.

## 1985

* June 26th: The first Missing Children's Incident: William Afton uses a Spring Bonnie suit to lure in five kids and kill them.
	+ The events of **Foxy Go! Go! Go!**: It depicts the murders.
	+ William gets spotted via video surveillance.

"*Two local children were reportedly lured into a back room during the late hours of operation at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza on the night of June 26th. While video surveliance identified the man responsible and led to his capture the following morning, the children themselves were never found and are presumed dead. Police think that the suspect dressed as a company mascot to earn the children’s trust.*
*Five children are now linked to the incident at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, where a man dressed as a cartoon mascot lured then into a back room. While the suspect has been charged, the bodies themselves were never found. Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza has been fighting an uphill battle ever since to convince families to return to the pizzaria. “It’s a tragedy.”*"

both the novels, fazbear frights books, and the ultimate guide places the MCI in 1985. also all grammar mistakes are purposefully put in because that's how it was written in the game

* Phone Guy records his FNaF3 Night 5 Training Cassette Tape, where he mentions that the Spring Bonnie suit had been moved.
* The events of **Give Gifts, Give Life**: The Puppet grants the children life inside the animatronics by stuffing them inside of it. Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie, Fritz and Cassidy possess Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy respectively. The bodies were never found.

"*...Henry's daughter, Charlotte, is confirmed to possess the Puppet. After her death, she helped William Afton's murder victims find new life--and a chance for revenge--in possessing the other animatronics.*"
-**The Freddy Files: Ultimate Edition, Puppet's bio**
* The events of **I Will Put You Back Together**: The MCI ghosts take Crying Child under their wing and he dies in the hospital. Both Cassidy and Crying Child share Golden Freddy. (As seen in FNAF3's Bad Ending having GF's head light up two eyes while everyone's only got one)
* Phone Guy records his FNaF3 Night 5 Cassette Tape, where he mentions the Safe Rooms being sealed off. Fazbear Entertainment is likely covering up the murders.

"*Local pizzaria, Freddy-Fazbear’s Pizza has been threatened again with shutdown by the health department over reports of foul odor coming from the much-loved animal mascots. Police were contacted when parents reportedly noticed what appeared to be blood and mucus around the eyes and mouths of the mascots. One parent alikened them to “reanimated carcasses”.*"
* The Withered Location is shut down.

## 1987

### The summer

* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza reopens with Toy animatronics that can detect a predator a mile away. The Withered animatronics along with the Puppet are brought too. Phone Guy mentions the disgusting smell coming from the Withereds, possibly the smell of dead child corpses who knows
* The first night guard works the shift and gets bothered by the Toy Animatronics entering his room. He gets transferred to the day shift. That day shift guard may be William Afton.
* Phone Guy records his Night 1 and 2 call and details how Freddy's works for the second night guard, including the new mask mechanic.
* The events of **Save Them**: After Phone Guy's recording of Night 2, William follows up with killing more children. Freddy and the Puppet try stopping him, but they can't. The next batch of dead children possess the Toy animatronics.
	+ William learned from his previous spree and avoided getting caught by surveillance, only causing the police to investigate.

* Phone Guy records the Night 3 phone call.

"*Oh, hey, before I go, uh, I wanted to ease your mind about any rumors you might have heard lately. You know how these local stories come and go and seldom mean anything. I can personally assure you that, whatever is going on out there, and however tragic it may be, has nothing to do with our establishment. It's just all rumor and speculation... People trying to make a buck. You know... Uh, our guard during the day has reported nothing unusual. And he's on watch from opening til close.*"
-**Phone Guy, Night 3**

it's that last line especially which makes me suspect the day guard is william.

"*Ok, so uh, just to update you, uh, there's been somewhat of an, uh, investigation going on. Uh, we may end up having to close for a few days... I don't know. I want to emphasize though that it's really just a precaution. Uh, Fazbear Entertainment denies any wrongdoing. These things happen sometimes. Um... It'll all get sorted out in a few days. Just keep an eye on things and I'll keep you posted. Uh, just as a side note though, try to avoid eye contact with any of the animatronics tonight if you can. Someone may have tampered with their facial recognition systems - we're not sure. But the characters have been acting very unusual, almost aggressive towards the staff. They interact with the kids just fine, but when they encounter an adult, they just...stare.*"
-**Phone Guy, Night 4**
"*Um, from what I understand, the building is on lockdown, uh, no one is allowed in or out, y'know, especially concerning any...previous employees.*"
-**Phone Guy, Night 5**
* Oh no, "previous" employees. William got fired, how's he gonna feed Michael now?
* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza temporarily closes down.

### November

* November 8th: The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's 2**: Jeremy Fitzgerald takes the job at the grand re-opening of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Fazbear Entertainment reuses Phone Guy's recordings to train Jeremy.

* November 12th: Phone Guy asks Jeremy to take the day shift (since it's been available for some time) and advises him to stay close to the animatronics.

"*Uh we have one more event scheduled for tomorrow, a birthday. You’ll be on day shift, wear your uniform, stay close to the animatronics, make sure they don’t hurt anyone okay, uh for now just make it through the night, uh when the place eventually opens again I’ll probably take the night shift myself.*"
-**Phone Guy, Night 6**
* The Bite of '87 happens. Unlike Crying Child, this victim survived. This incident made the animatronics stop being able to walk during the day at Freddy's.

"*Uh, they used to be allowed to walk around during the day too. But then there was The Bite of '87. Yeah. I-It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe, you know?*"
-**Phone Guy**
* November 13th: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza will be closing.

"*After being open only a few short weeks, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is closing it's doors. The new animatronics will be scrapped due to possible malfunctions, however the original characters are being kept in hopes of a possible reorginization of the company.*
*"It's a minor setback. We are confident that we will reopen someday, even if it is with a much smaller budget." -CEO Fazbear Ent.*"
* Michael Afton works the night shift the night before Freddy's closure under the pseudonym "Fritz Smith", before being fired for tampering and odor.

"*So, aside from some desk swag, what reward do you get for surviving a custom night? Nothing more than a termination notice, made out to--who the heck is Fritz Smith? Looks like Jeremy DID get switched over to the day shift after Night 6. Interestingly they fire Fritz for the same reasons they fire Mike from FNAF: "Odor" and "Tampering with animatronics."*"
-**The Freddy Files: Ultimate Edition**
* The robots are scrapped. William Afton dismantles them and takes their remnant. He uses that remnant to create the Funtime animatronics; Ballora, Funtime Freddy and Funtime Foxy.

"*With the most amount of remnant collectively in [Molten Freddy's] structure, this amalgamation of Afton's constructs is a necessary element of Paragraph 4.*"
## 1993

* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is planned to close at year's end.

"*After a long struggle to stay in business after the tragedy that took place there many years ago, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza has announced that it will close by year’s end. Despite a year-long search for a buyer, companies seem unwilling to be associated with the company. “These characters will live on. In the hearts of kids- these characters will live on.” -CEO*"
* Phone Guy takes the job as night guard and gets killed after almost finishing up his last week.
* November 8th: The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's**: Michael Afton, under the pseudonym "Mike Schmidt", is hired as night guard to Freddy Fazbear's and works there.
* Mike is fired on the first day of his second week after tampering with the animatronics and odor.
* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closes, becomes abandoned and derelict.

## Whenever

* *Some company* buys William Afton's facility, renaming it to Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental. So Willie here doesn't have access to his place now.
	+ William sends his son, Michael, down into the facility to put his sister back together.
	+ The events of **Sister Location**: The Funtimes believe Michael is William. They merge to become Ennard and scoop out Michael Afton while tippily topping out of the Underground Facility in his skin.
	+ The events of **Follow Me**: At the same time, William Afton dismantles the FNaF1 animatronics for its remnant. The ghosts entrap William, which has him flee inside the Safe Room's Spring Bonnie suit. The crap conditions and moisture loosens the springlocks, smothering and smushing and killing William. He becomes Springtrap.

* The events of **Sister Location's Custom Night's Cutscenes**: Michael Afton's body rots, making the body useless to Ennard. It ejects itself out of Michael's body. Michael doesn't die because Circus Baby tells him so.
* Michael's going to come find William.

* Ennard ejects Circus Baby because she's being a jerk.

**Ennard**: You are crowding us.
**Baby**: Be Quiet.
**Ennard**: You can’t tell us what to do anymore.
**Baby**: Yes, I can. You will do everything that I tell you to do.
**Ennard**: We outnumber you.
**Baby**: That doesn't matter, dummy.
**Ennard**: We found a way to eject you.
**Baby**: You would be lost without me.
**Ennard**: Ha, ha! Say goodbye to our friend!
**Baby**: I can put myself back together.
* Circus Baby rebuilds herself while Ennard becomes Molten Freddy.

* The events of **FNAF World**: Inside a game world created by Cassidy and maybe the other victims of William, the pieces are set to achieve the Happiest Day minigame.

## 2023

"*Local amusement park is getting ready to scare your socks off with a new attraction based on the unsolved mysteries of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Featuring actual relics from the decades-old pizzeria, this new attraction is guaranteed to bring back your childhood in the worst possible way!*"
* Yeah that attraction's in development.
* The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's 3**: Michael Afton takes the night shift at Fazbear's Fright.
* Between Night 1 and 2, the Fazbear's Fright crew manage to open the Safe Room in the FNAF1 Freddy's location and discover Springtrap. They bring it to Fazbear's Fright.
* After some nights, the plaze goes ablaze and Springtrap is set free from the building.
* The events of **Happiest Day**: Bringing together the souls of Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy, the Puppets puts together a birthday party for the Crying Child ghost. The MCI children's souls are set free.

"*A new local attraction based on an ancient pizzeria chain burned down overnight. Authorities have not ruled out foul play, but at the moment it seems to have been caused by faulty wiring. Very little was found at the scene. The few items that were salvaged will be sold at public auction.*"
* Michael Afton gets nightmares.
* The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's 4**: The night gameplay.

the logbook featured fnaf3's office, and michael drew a nightmare animatronic as answer to what his most recent dream was.

* Henry revives the Fazbear Entertainment company just so he can build a restaurant to lure in haunted animatronics.
* The events of **Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator**: Michael Afton, healthy entrepreneur that he is, lures in William Afton, Molten Freddy, Circus Baby and Lefty. Henry burns the last remnants of Freddy Fazbear's past, killing Michael and basically everyone else except William again.

* Cassidy tethers William Afton's soul to the game world, forcing him into Ultimate Custom Night. Old Man Consequences tries convincing Cassidy to let him go to Hell, but naaaaah she don't.

*Help Wanted* revealed Glitchtrap's origins being from scanned circuitboards. The in-universe Fazbear Virtual Experience has several featured characters that aren't "canon" according to Scott such as the Jack-o animatronic, or characters that weren't in the games made by the "rogue indie developer" such as Coffee from The Desolate Hope.However, all those character did appear in FNAF World. It's possible that the circuitboards hosting FNAF World were scanned, resulting in their designs to be used in the VR game.

## Even Later

* Fazbear Entertainment is still alive even without Henry's alive-ness. They commission an indie developer to make games based off the events in order to make them look too fantastical to believe.

"*They lied to us. They lied to all of us. They told us that the whole point of this VR game was to undo the bad PR done by a rogue indie game developer, who supposedly made up a bunch of crazy stories that tarnished the brand. But that’s not true at all! In their haste to develop this VR game and clear their name, they sent us some things I don’t think they intended us to see. Such as a hard drive containing e-mails between Fazbear Entertainment and a certain indie developer. Fazbear Entertainment hired the game developer. Those indie games were designed to conceal and make light of what happened. This isn’t just an attempt to rebrand. It’s an elaborate cover-up. A campaign to discredit everything.*"
-**Tape Girl**

thanks scott for implying everything that happened before was a lie

* Fazbear Entertainment acts shocked about the indie developer's games and commissions Silver Parasol Games to develop a VR-based experience based on the dumb games. FE supplies them with old circuitboards and other technology from the defunct animatronics for help with pathing.
	+ One of the circuitboards holds FNAF World, where William's soul's at.

this explains the appearance of some... odd characters appearing in the VR game, such as Coffee or the Jack-O animatronics

* Fazbear Entertainment also creates the Fazbear Funtime Service, which delivers animatronic fun at your doorstep.
	+ The Fazbear Funtime Service is also gifted circuit boards from old animatronics.

* The circuit board hosting William gets inside the game and takes ahold of the game.
* Jeremy, one of the employees in Silver Parasol Games, playtests the game and gets ahold by William. He cuts his face off while wearing the headset. Days later, he gets "replaced".
* Tape Girl manages to fracture William Afton into several tapes.
* Because of troubles, the VR's development is handed off to Steel Wool Studios. (Or another studio, eehehhh Help Wanted's already extremely meta)
* The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted**: You're a playtester and playtesting The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience. You piece Tape Girl's fragmented William data back together.
	+ Vanessa, working as a beta tester, gets turned into an unwilling follower for William Afton.

* Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex is being built.
* The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery**: You play as a cute little "I wanna order everything".
* Vanny works at the Fazbear Funtime Service. Now possessed, she searches for some murder stuff while in the office. Luis, IT guy, notices and keeps sending her e-mails about it.
	+ Fazbear Entertainment hires several therapists to figure out what Vanny's mind's up to. All of them die when asked about Vanny's messages with a secret contact.

* Due to "unforseen circumstances", Fazbear Entertainment puts halt on all existing contracts.

"*Please immediately cease all work on Fazbear Entertainment properties. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Fazbear Entertainment is ordering a halt to work on all existing contracts, especially in reference to any vintage hardware. We will be in touch regarding our future course of action; please contact our billings department regarding payment for completed work to-date action.*"
-**Sincerely, Kaula Stringer - Associate General Counsel Fazbear Entertainment**
## Later

* The Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex is built on top of the FFPS location. Because of that, there're constant sinkholes in the Roxy Raceway area of the mall. Also, huge amounts of energy is being sucked underground by Vanny to charge William Afton, whose body is being rebuilt to host his digital soul.
* Vanessa is hired as main security guard of the mall, despite having no previous experiences. This hiring came from an unknown person apparently "high up in the company." But who could it be? OoooOOOoo...
* Glamrock Bonnie enters the Monty Golf area and goes missing. Afterwards, all Bonnie merch and iconography is removed. Plans to replace Bonnie Bowl are up in the air.
* Gregory is in the main Pizzaplex.
* The events of **Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach**: Gregory and Freddy discover Afton again. Gregory burns Afton again and he's brought away by Blob to unknown places.
	+ Cassidy attempts freeing Vanessa's soul from William's control.

The Princess is yellow and Cassidy once inhabited Golden Freddy, who's yellow. The series' reliance on certain colors makes this point prevalant.

Princess Quest III has the Princess navigating through a twisted version of the FNaF1 location. On the way she sees a large Chica staring from the darkness, which are things that Cassidy remembered.