Simon Fitzgerald

**Simon Fitzgerald**, otherwise known as **Purple Guy** is the posthumous antagonist in the game POPGOES. He is the Twin brother of Fritz Glade. He plays a similar role as he did in Five Nights at Freddy's, He is very important to the lore of POPGOES. He was killed inside of the springtrap suit and his brother Fritz Glade retrieved his disembodied head inside of the Springtrap suit's helmet.

It was initially believed that 'Simon', the robot Fritz built that included the remnants of Springtrap, was yet another resurrection of Simon Fitzgerald. However Kane has confirmed that Simon was a failure to bring him back and Simon the robot was his own entity not possessed by the original soul, hence why the Robot was willing to kill Jeremy despite Simon seeming to love his brother. It is implied that Fitzgerald's soul may still be influencing him or that the robot has his memories, as the ending of the second 'Arcade' game has springtrap kill the protagonist before cutting to a resting robotic (or cybernetic) Simon still being built.

Simon seemed to love his brother, as we see him crying next to Jeremy whilst in the hospital, and be killed more kids to use his theory of extending life to save his brother. The original ending for the cancelled sequel would have had him being allowed to rest with his brother and niece in an eternal Happiest day. However whilst he did love his brother, he was already coming up with his theory on using Children's blood for a sort of immortality elixir, and was already a killer, he just did so again for the sake of helping with Jeremy's injury, and another part of his motivation seemed to have been proving himself right. His dialogue in the second Arcade game has him say that he did not take pleasure in what he did and regretted some of it, he was still pleased with the results, gloating 'Look what I have become' and saying 'In the end, I was right' before killing the protagonist. This all hints at Simon having an egotistical and narcissistic personality, and he seems to have embraced being a Killer as Springtrap. So whilst he had more sympathetic traits then the canon Purple Guy William Afton, he was still a very evil man.

It was said that he killed 20 children in the backstory, this gives him a higher body count then the canon purple Guy, who was only confirmed to have killed 6 children in the backstory. The ones from the missing children incident and Charlie Emily. It was heavily indicated William Killed more, as he killed again in 1987 and created the Funtime Animatronics with the secret purpose of killing children, however an exact number and confirmed victims are never given

In this version, the reason for the Bite of '87 is that Jeremy was Simon's twin, thus shared his face.

Despite Popgoes being developed before the release of Sister Location and the Novel Trilogy which confirmed the real Purple Guy's identity, both Simon and his Brother have traits of William Afton. Simon's motivation was an obsession with extending life and Immortality using an elixir that involved children's blood, William himself had similar immortality obsession, with the supernatural material 'Remnant'. And as Kane himself has noted, Fritz Glade is a brilliant scientist/inventor and businessman who created advanced animatronics, and had accidentally killed his daughter. William is also revealed to be British in Sister Location like the Fitzgerald siblings.

Simon apparently became an Urban Legend of sorts in the Popgoes Universe, similar to killers like the Bunny man. This Purple Guy Mythology is what Fritz took inspiration from when building Simon the Robot.