Lynda

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**Lynda Takaliken** (also known as **Apparition**) was the wife of Gron, the mother of Charles and Jackson and the grandmother of Carson. She was going to serve as one of the many antagonists of The Return to Freddy's 5: Story Mode, prior to its cancellation.

## Appearance

Lynda appears to have severely cracked and rotten fair skin, along with blank white eyes and long brown hair. Her neck appears to be broken fairly badly, and she also appears to be wearing what appears to be a short red dress with long sleeves along with high heel shoes. She also appears to heavily resemble a zombie.

## Behavior

### Gameplay

As revealed in the "A Story" video by Tyler Ahlström, Lynda would have been able to be summoned if the player kept their flashlight off for too long and would have killed you with flesh eating robotic rats that scamper on the ground and crawl on the screen. This is evidenced by the unused frame of Lynda twitching in the Elevator and the unutilized "Rodents" AI.

### Minigames

In the *December 23rd minigame*, Lynda can be seen in a car along with her sons, Charles and Jackson, waiting for her husband, Gron (who the player is currently playing as). As soon as Gron arrives and gets in the car, he will turn on the car, getting ready to go, but seconds later, his boss, Alison, crashes straight into their car on purpose in a, act of revenge, severely injuring the whole family. The minigame will then end.

In the *Frankburt's flashback minigame*, in which you play as BFP, Lynda can be seen standing and twitching in one of the room's corners.... She appears to be dead since she appears to have white-ish gray skin (commonly associated with ghosts) and has large bulging veiny eyes, unlike a normal human. The player can talk to her, by pressing "shift". These are the following lines she will say to the player:

## Quotes

*The silence... can you hear it...? The whispers... can you hear them...? I'm not far away... just please don't leave me...*

## Trivia

* Lynda is referred to as "apparition" within the game's files.
* Her design was very likely inspired by the character "Lisa" from Silent Hills P.T., as evidenced by her broken neck and generally similar physique.
	+ This would not have been the only reference to P.T. within TRTF 5, as the 2-0-4-8-6-3 easter egg was also inspired by it.
		- Tyler is known to be a big fan of Hideo Kojima, and keen followers of the saga will notice he's still taking design cues from Kojima's works.
* What appears to be a statue of her can be seen within Floor 3.
* Before her name was initially confirmed, Lynda was said to be one of the missing/dead children and a victim of Vincent's murders.[1] However, this was eventually retconned in the TRTF: The Dreadful Truth book.
* As revealed in the second TRTF5 Trailer and by Grammar Wizard in a TRTF AMA, Lynda was planned to make an appearance in the Major Updates for The Return to Freddy's 3 as an hallucination that would summon randomly in your Security Office and murder you.
* Lynda was originally intended to use a different model, and the original model can be seen within the Floor A teaser. She appears to be wearing business attire and high heels within her original model.

**Lynda** is a minor character that appears in one of the chapters in The Return to Freddy's: The Dreadful Truth. She is the wife of Gron, the mother of Charles and Jackson and the grandmother of Carson.

## Biography

On December 23rd of 1943, Lynda’s husband, Gron, was getting ready to take her, along with her two children, Charles and Jackson, to go to GPD for an early christmas celebration! However, her husband’s boss, Alison, wouldn’t let this be a normal day for them. Alison was still furious at Gron for tampering with The Machine, in order to stop the creation of the Tortured Suits, Alison was thirsty for revenge. So as Lynda and the rest of her family were getting ready in the car, Alison unexpectedly purposely crashed his car straight into Gron’s, severely injuring the whole family.

Several hours later, Lynda and the rest of her family were healing in the hospital, all still passed out from the crash a couple hours earlier. After a while, one of Alison’s henchmen (disguised as a fake doctor) broke into the hospital, where they went up to Lynda’s life support and started to tamper with it (as ordered by his boss Alison, who was still thirsty for revenge). This, of course, sadly kills Lynda shortly after he does this right on the spot.

## The Return to Freddy's 3

### Major Updates (2016)

#### Gameplay

Lynda's jumpscare animation (as seen from the original TRTF5 Trailer).
## The Return to Freddy's 5

### Gameplay

Lynda shaking violently in the Elevator.A look-alike statue of Lynda that appears in Floor 3.
### Minigames

Lynda and her sons inside their car waiting for her husband to come in during the *December 23th* minigame.Lynda and her family inside their car.Lynda and her family being car crashed and majorly injured by Alison.Lynda fainted on a nurse bed at a hospital with her family and a Fake Doctor in the *KILL HER Flashback*.Lynda fainted on a nurse bed while her life support is being damaged by the Fake Doctor.Lynda, now dead, lying down on the nurse bed while the Fake Doctor laughs at her demise.Lynda as a ghost with her face glitching in the *Frankburt's Flashback*.Lynda and Gron holding Jackson as a baby with Charles in between during the first "corrupt" minigame.Lynda and her sons inside their car in the *December 23th minigame*.Lynda and her whole family inside their car.Lynda and her whole family inside their car while its starting up.Lynda and her whole family majorly injured inside their damaged car.Lynda's sprite in the first corrupted minigame.Lynda fainted on a nurse bed in the *KILL HER Flashback* minigame.Lynda's sprite as a ghost in the *Frankburt's flashback minigame*.Same, but with her face glitching out.Ditto.
### Miscellaneous

Lynda (who is using her original model here) on Floor A in a teaser for TRTF5.Same image, but brightened. Text reading "Some things are left to be forgotten, but they keep coming back to us like rodents" can be seen in the upper left hand corner.