Michael Afton

MICHAEL AFTON

* Upcoming
* Manager
* Teen
* Adult
* Security Guard
* Scooped

## Signature

**Michael "Mike" Afton** is the son of William Afton and Eleanor Schmidt. He has a consistently active role in the timeline; being responsible for the Bite of 83, working the night shift of the 1993 Freddy's Location, working as a technician in Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rentals, and becoming the manager of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place.

Michael is a generally self-serving and vain character. Although he has moments of kindness and comradery, he typically fends for himself, assumes everyone finds him good-looking, and will go out of his way to actively threaten or attack others if they aggravate him. This winds up mostly targeting Henry Emily, as the two butt heads almost every time they interact.

Despite this, Michael gladly takes on dangerous jobs if it benefits him. For his night guard and technician positions, he does this to make his father proud of him. By the time he takes on the role of manager at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, he simply does it for the great business opportunity after years of isolation.

However, this takes a darker turn after the Pizza Place is destroyed by Henry. After Michael escapes the fire, he revives Fazbear Entertainment for himself solely for the enjoyment of running a business, directly betraying Henry's ultimate goal of ending its twisted legacy.

## History

Michael is introduced after William Afton regains custody of his children. After having to draw 4 eight turns in a row in a rigged UNO game with ??? Afton, Michael decides to try and torment his brother by constantly screaming at him in a Foxy mask. Although this doesn't have any particular effect, his brother puts on a convincing enough performance that Mike decides to up the ante and toss the child into Fredbear's mouth on his birthday.

Although Fredbear does bite down on the child's skull, the rubber teeth William and Henry implemented cause this to be a completely inconsequential event. However, the child threatens to "do the job again" to Michael, which scares his friend Jeremy Fitzgerald II enough to knock the child unconscious with a chair.

After Mike rushes his brother to the hospital and all seems to go well, the child decides to reveal that he never existed and then fuses with Michael. After this point, the child's existence is completely unknown to any character other than Michael. William then tells Michael to take up engineering school after being confused by Mike's traumatised ramblings of a younger brother, and Mike decides that's a reasonable idea and goes off to engineering school for a decade,after his sister was normaly killed by Circus Baby and went missing,

When Mike returns, William throws him into a nightmare chamber to prepare him for a night guard position at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. When Ferdinand Von Bernard breaks into the chamber for a vague sense of revenge, William ends the testing process after Mike manages to stall long enough for Ferdinand to grow bored and leave. William then gaslights Michael into thinking none of this happened and then changes subjects to getting Michael a job at Freddy's.

Once Michael accepts and applies under the alias 'Mike Schmidt' to not draw attention to himself, he breezes through the week without a problem. When William asks him to deactivate the animatronics, though, Michael gets annoyed at his father's bizarre scheme and cranks them up to their most dangerous setting just to challenge himself for the last day of the week. Because this rubs the animatronics' foul scent onto him, though, Henry fires Michael for odour and unintentionally causes Mike to deactivate them on his own terms out of spite.

After this causes the restaurant to shut down, William takes advantage of the situation and tells Michael he's off to vandalise Henry's house before going off to Freddy's to collect the animatronics' remnant. Of course, this ends up with William becoming Springtrap and never returning home. When Henry comes looking for William, Michael tells him all he knows and inadvertently causes Henry to sue Afton Robotics and absorb it into Fazbear Entertainment.

After Henry takes control of Afton Robotics, he begins advertising Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rentals; cutting into Michael's precious soap opera time. This leads to Michael discovering a note William left on the fridge detailing the death of Elizabeth and her possession of Circus Baby. Because of his lack of social interaction and the sudden shock of realising his sister was dead, Michael becomes delusional and interprets the note as a direct command from William for him to fulfill.

Once Michael successfully threatens Henry into giving him the technician position, he manages to evade the attacks from the Funtimes for most of the week. However, Funtime Foxy and Circus Baby later manage to trap him in a springlock suit and measure him so they can become Ennard. When Ennard initially tries to persuade him to go to the scooping room on Night 5, he decides he's had enough of taking other people's orders. So, he storms into Henry's private room, which leads to him and Ennard realising that there's been a huge mix-up. After getting everything cleared up, Michael helps smuggle Ennard home with him so they can live out a happy life.

This, however, gets reset by Ferdinand Von Bernard, who presumably alters Michael's motivations enough to change this outcome. Instead of storming off like before, Michael follows Ennard's instructions to the scooping room exactly. Then, when Ennard gives him the obvious hint that they wanted to use his body as a disguise, Michael misinterprets it as a compliment for his good looks and writes an autograph as they activate S.C.U.P..

Michael ends up being dead for a while as Ennard puppets his skin for their own purposes. After they eject themselves from his body, Baby coughs his remnant back into his skin so he can repossess it and go back to his mediocre existence.

Because he's now a purple pile of skin, the neighbourhood shuns Michael into a forced isolation. He attempts to craft an effigy of William to keep himself sane, but this plan doesn't work and he decides to instead engineer his refrigerator to try and regenerate his missing organs.

After 30 years, he makes somewhat tangible progress and feels well enough to go outside again. Evidently this was the right call, as no characters pay any mind to him despite his appearance being unchanged by the fridge. He becomes the manager at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, and does everything Henry wants him to do perfectly. He gets Molten Freddy to follow him into the pizzeria, throws Scraptrap into Henry's office after feeling betrayed by William not caring about their reunion, embarrasses Scrap Baby enough for her to stick around to save face, and gets paid $5000 by Henry to salvage L.E.F.T.E. from the back alley.

When Henry delivers his parting speech to everyone in the pizzeria and sets the building on fire, Michael only notices what's going on when Henry mentions an exit he had planned for him. Mike then bolts out of the building and sits outside before coughing up some stray remnant.

Michael later retrieves Scraptrap from the hospital in order to harvest his circuit boards before ditching him at the destroyed pizzeria. After going home, he "buys out" the company from its founders and begins to plot out his revival for Fazbear Entertainment as its new CEO.

## Physical description

Michael is unique in that he frequently changes in appearance throughout the series.

In 1983, he wears a grey tank top and has slightly messy brown hair. His skin is also notably tan, a trait that gets altered after ??? Afton vanishes from existence and fuses with him, causing him to grow paler.

When Michael returns in 1993, He's taller, sports a purple jacket, white shirt, and jeans, and now rocks a short mullet. When working at Freddy's, he wears the same purple uniform that other employees are shown to wear earlier in the video.

In Part 2, Michael changes his casual outfit to a light denim jacket with blue jeans and a belt.

When working at Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rentals, he wears a dark blue jumpsuit with a brown utility belt. While the animatronics mistake him for William Afton, he's depicted to resemble his father, albeit still wearing the jumpsuit and having a normal neck.

After being scooped, Michael's outfit changes back to the purple jacket from Part 1, while his eyes are now purple and Ennard's wires spill out of his mouth. After vomiting Ennard, Michael is shirtless, purple, and has a much more skeletal face alongside a gaping stomach cavity.

After Michael becomes the manager of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, he dons a light blue shirt, blue necktie, orange vest, and khaki pants. After the fire causes him to cough up some remnant, he becomes a darker shade of purple.

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## Trivia

* When Mike coughs up stray remnant after the fire, he turns a darker shade of purple.
	+ This potentially implies that ??? Afton has unfused with him.
* In Part 1 at 5:36, one of the photos on the wall shows Michael wearing a blue hat with a yellow stripe and brown ears, referencing the web animation Mike and Melissa.
* Mike and Jeremy stopped playing UNO, because of Jeremy turning out to be a Brit truther.

## Gallery

Mike horrifically losing a rigged game of UNO.Michael and his UNO Buddies in their disgraceful masks.Adult Michael's casual outfit in Part 1.Michael facing off against the Nightmares."Mike Schmidt" as a security guard in the 1993 Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.Michael's casual outfit in Part 2.Mike in his technician uniform.Michael being mistaken for William Afton.Michael trapped in a springlock suit.Michael being scooped.Purple Zombie Michael, freshly gutted.Michael overseeing the revival of Fazbear Entertainment.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/the\_ooftroop/status/1624860571085438977