Patricia

**Patricia** is the mother of Susie, and Samantha. She is a major character from the third story from *Fazbear Frights: Step Closer*.

## Physical Appearance

Patricia is tall and skinny with dark-brown hair and big eyes, pale enough to see her veins. Before Susie's death, she used to have her hair shiny and bouncy, wore long fake lashes and sassy red lipstick. After her death she stopped wearing makeup and constantly looks tired. She wears a wrinkled blue T-shirt and faded jeans.

## Personality

Patricia is a caring mother who can be rather protective over her work and materials. When Susie is killed, she has a difficult time getting over her grief, resulting into a fall in with depression and consequently a decrease in activity.

## History

Patricia is a textiles artist who makes big modern quilts and woven blankets from the studio in her house. When Patricia was around 6 years old, she became friends with Jeanie. The two went through school, college, and grad school in art together. When Patricia married Hayden, Jeanie was her maid of honor, and when Patricia gave birth to Susie and Samantha, Jeanie became their godmother.

When Susie was four years old, she got upset that her scarf didn't fit Oliver, the ancient oak tree outside of the house, so Patricia suggested that she ask Jeanie to knit a scarf specifically for Oliver, and every year Oliver would get a new scarf. One day, Susie gains a fascination with her mother's ivy, which had climbed up the porch posts at the front of tbr house. Patricia wanted to cut it, but Susie refused, having named it Ivy and wanted to see it climb higher. One time, when Susie was five, she had gotten chocolate on one of her mother's tapestries, and in her panic gashed open her forehead and started bleeding on it, which made Patricia furious.

A year before the events of the story, Susie was lured to her death by a serial killer while at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Hayden left the family, unable to handle the grief, while Patricia sought help from a counselor and Jeanie. She begins having trouble sleeping, and she tells Jeanie that she can only sleep with the help of pills. The pills also affected how she behaved in the morning, as evident when she she slammed on the breaks and pounded her head into the steering wheel one time when Samantha had forgotten a part of a school project and they were running late.

One night, while on the phone with Jeanie, Patricia hears a noise outside. At first, she believes she's imaging things, but when she finally gets up to check she finds the front door wide open. She checks on Samantha before grabbing a pair of knitting needles and investigating the house. She finds nothing and closes the door, but then considers the possibility that someone came in while she was investigating. She runs to Samantha's room again and this time finds her sitting up in bed crying. The two sit together in silence before Patricia returns to bed.

Later, Patricia and Jeanie sit together on the porch swing. She tells Jeanie that she's considering taking Samantha to a new counselor as she's said Samantha is stuck and she's having difficulty talking to her. Jeanie tells Patricia that she's already knitting this year's scarf, and Patricia cries and brings up how Susie was always anthropomorphizing, and how she should have discouraged her vivid imagination believing that it would have made it more difficult for her to have been lured away. Jeanie stops her, telling her that not all of the murdered children were like Susie and that she’s just trying to find ways to blame herself. Patricia has Jeanie go over what happened to Susie and when she tries to run away Jeanie stops her, telling her that if she doesn't face her torture head-on, she'll never be able to let Susie go.

A few days later, Samantha has Patricia read her a bedtime story about a happy ghost. She tries reading quickly, but when she reaches the part about the ghost finding a special place to be with his family forever, she slows down, getting emotional. The next day, Patricia discovers that Samantha has been looking through her stuff. She decides to call Jeanie instead of yelling at Samantha, and Jeanie tells her that she must have a good reason. She tells Patricia to let it go, and then tells her to let it *all* go.