William Afton

**William Afton** (also known as **Purple Guy**, and **Dave Miller** in Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes) was a serial killer, responsible for The Missing Children incident mentioned in the original games. He is the creator of the Sister Location animatronics and is the former owner of Afton Robotics, LLC and Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental. He is all around the main antagonist of the franchise, and serves as the unseen overarching antagonist of *Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location*.

## Appearance

William Afton is only ever seen in some of the minigames. He is represented as warm/dark magenta which is a purplish red (hex code: ee82ee) with black eyes and a large grin. The only other time in the franchise he was part of is the opening cutscene in Sister Location, when he is talking about Circus Baby's capability. He is once more heard with a speaking part in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, having a semi-active speaking role in the night shift as Springtrap.

## Personality

His background is mostly told via silent actions within retro-graphics, or by reading between the lines throughout the games. Between his minigame presence and piecing together information gleaned from the phone calls as well as the posters in *Five Nights at Freddy's*.

William Afton is the textbook definition of evil. He is the murderer of the five children that sparked the downfall of Fazbear Entertainment, and started the tragic chain of events that leads players through the series. It's implied William's true motive is to gain immortality and conquer death. Judging by his actions and appearance within the games, William is cruel, cold-blooded and methodical, clearly feeling no remorse for his actions, as he was malicious enough to murder his closest friend Henry Emily's daughter Charlotte showing that Afton is more than willing to hurt his own friends to get what he wants.

As shown in every minigame, he is seen in he always smiles in a unhinged manner during his killings, showing that William is sadistic and takes joy, pleasure and pride in killing people. The Pizza Party minigame in Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted shows this in more detail as it appears to be a recreation of one of Afton's murders. "William" can be seen dancing gleefully after murdering the victim. One of William's voicelines in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator suggest that he is opportunistic, and will murder children regardless of the risks.

Heard in the opening cutscene of Sister Location, William shows a rather calm and neutral personality likely to hide his true intentions and psychotic mindset, showing that he is a manipulator and the fact that he created the Funtime Animatronics which are very advanced and technological shows that he has a genius level intellect and a talent for robotics.

His voice lines in Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery indicate that he is arrogant, boastful, and overconfident in his way of thinking and even indicates he wants his victims to to fear and respect him. This is in contrast to his subtle, poetic and calculated voice. His mannerisms are incredibly flamboyant and unhinged. It seems that William's hubris grew larger as he became more experienced as a killer, which explains his behavior in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 and Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator.

Despite his cruel nature, it is implied that he at least cared for his daughter Elizabeth, as he warned her not to go near Circus Baby, knowing he programmed the animatronic to be homicidal, and it's suggested that he made Baby as a symbol of his affection to his daughter. He even orders his son Michael to free Elizabeth's soul from Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, however, in reality, he did it most likely to punish him for accidentally killing his younger brother in FNaF 4.

## Role in the Five Nights at Freddy's Series

### *Five Nights at Freddy's*

While he isn't seen or mentioned by name in *Five Nights at Freddy's*, his existence was implied in newspaper clippings littered throughout the game on the walls of the pizzeria, talking about his murders and implied an arrest had been made.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*

In *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*, William Afton can be seen in the Foxy Go! Go! Go! Minigame and the Give Cake to the Children Minigame.

In the Give Cake to the Children Minigame, William Afton appears at the near end, driving up to the child outside the door of the pizzeria and killing them before driving off, the child is Henry's daughter.

On the third playthrough, William, who killed Henry's daughter in the Give Cake to the Children minigame, is seen standing in the corner of the starting room, smiling. When Foxy approaches the children, they seem lifeless. The minigame ends with Withered Foxy's jumpscare.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's 3*

In *Five Nights at Freddy's 3*. He returns as the main antagonist as Springtrap, the suit inside of which he was trapped and killed. On the first four end-of-night minigames, William will dismantle the animatronics when they attempt to go to the Safe Room. Upon attempting to enter the room, the "**ERR**" message will be displayed. If they do not enter the room, Purple Guy will dismantle them regardless.

On Night 5, however, the five spirits of the children he killed appear and enter the Safe Room along with Purple Guy. After chasing him for a while, he runs into the Springtrap suit. But then the spring locks in the suit malfunction due to Purple Guy's excessive motions and the moisture in the room. Purple Guy is then brutally crushed and sliced by the numerous mechanical parts lining the inside of the suit, and he slowly dies from serious injury and blood loss. The spirits disappear afterward, avenged. However, he came back 30 years after his death as Springtrap, and was more bloodthirsty than ever—he haunted Fazbear's Fright and tried to kill the night guard, who is Michael, Henry or a random unnamed person. Eventually, the attraction is caught on fire. In the newspaper, Springtrap's head can be seen when brightening up the image, giving an early hint he survived.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's 4*

In *Five Nights at Freddy's 4*, he does make a cameo in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria at the end of Night 3, where, if the player goes back to the Dining Room when the man in the Fredbear suit is first seen, he appears to be helping  another employee into a Spring Bonnie suit.

### *Sister Location*

In the opening scene of Sister Location, an entrepreneur is asking him questions about the new animatronics. They inquire why certain features were added and express their concerns, but he avoids answering the specific features they refer to.

He is also the creator of the Funtime Animatronics (Assisted by an unknowing Henry) and the former owner of the Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, and, by extension, Circus Baby's Pizza World.

It's revealed in the final Michael Afton's Cutscene that William sent his son, Michael, to his rundown factory to find his daughter, but he is 'scooped' as his sister, Baby, tricked him. Ennard took control over his body, but he manages to survive as Michael becomes a rotting corpse. He swears to find him.

### *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator*

William Afton returns as the main antagonist. It's revealed that William's old partner, Henry, lured Springtrap, Scrap Baby (Elizabeth Afton), Molten Freddy (and by extension, the remaining parts of Ennard), and Lefty (the Puppet) to a new Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Michael in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator is the manager. On Saturday, Henry burns the whole pizzeria down, while he dies in the fire. Michael decides to stay in the fire as well. Springtrap and every other animatronic die in the fire and the souls are free, as their killer is dead.

While not directly appearing, footprints that are very similar to Springtrap's can be found behind the house in Midnight Motorist's secret minigame, presumably luring away the child of the abusive father in the game.

Seen when completing the Fruity Maze game, standing next to a girl named Susie from the right is William Afton wearing the Spring Bonnie suit that he eventually was trapped in and became Springtrap he then seemingly murders Susie.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted*

Even after being burned alive, William didn't fully give up, and returns as the main antagonist. Fazbear Entertainment, while scanning the circuit boards of animatronics, scans the circuit board of Springtrap. This causes William's soul to attach itself to the board. William's soul then becomes a virus known as Glitchtrap. Glitchtrap encounters three beta testers - Jeremy Fitzgerald from the second game, Tape Girl and the player, Vanessa. He makes Jeremy cut his face off after he descent into insanity by the virus. Tape Girl destroys her tapes, which makes Glitchtrap be destroyed into small pieces. Vanessa pretended to be a Senior IT Representative from Fazbear Entertainment to trick them into giving her full access to their company to get rid of the virus, it is revealed that Vanessa used her fake credential, "\_pizzaplex" to override security protocols and allow a data packet containing Glitchtrap into the Fazbear's systems through after it was flagged as a virus.

## Role in the books

 ***FNaF: The Novel Wiki | Fandom|See here.***

William Afton is the main antagonist of the novel trilogy.

He was described as a thin man whose clothes seem big on him. It also mentioned he was once fat, but later lost weight as the years passed. He has scars on both sides of the neck and on his back from a spring-lock failure, which he managed to survive.

He is also the main antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights anthology novel series.

He is serving as the unseen overarching antagonist of Epilogues 1, 2, 4, 5 and Fetch, the titular central character of The Man in Room 1280 and the main antagonist of Epilogues 3, 6 and 7. He may also be the unseen overarching antagonist of Coming Home and might return in Friendly Face.

## Trivia

* It is strongly suggested in the games and books that William Afton is highly intelligent.
* William Afton's true physical appearance has never been revealed in the games.
* For the longest time, Michael Afton was thought to be the same entity as William Afton, but it was figured out in the final cutscene in V. Hard Golden Freddy preset (Custom Night) that he was not. Also, in the first murders, Michael would be too young to use a vehicle and can't have known about safe rooms as he wasn't an employee during the simultaneous spring lock failures. Only William would know.
* William speaks with an English accent, with his Daughter and Son also having accents.
* William seems to have 3 children, his son Michael, his daughter Elizabeth, and his younger son (FNaF 4 Crying Child).
* William appears in the *Five Nights at Freddy's 2, 3, and 4* Minigames, the Foxy Go! Go! Go! Minigame and the Take Cake to the Children Minigame, Save Them and Follow Me.