Charlotte Emily

* Toddler
* Teenage
* Adult

**Charlotte Emily**, otherwise known as **Charlie**, is the main protagonist of the novels *Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes,* *The Twisted Ones* and the secondary protagonist of *Five Nights at Freddy's: The Fourth Closet*.

It's ultimately revealed in The Fourth Closet that she was the one murdered by William Afton instead of her brother Sammy, as she first believed. She is one of the four animatronic dolls built by Henry to recreate his late daughter after she was murdered. Her "youngest" incarnation was the Ella doll, while her "oldest" was unfinished, completed, by William Afton, and ultimately possessed by Elizabeth Afton.

She is the alternate continuity version of Charlotte Emily from *Five Nights at Freddy's 2*, who possesses The Marionette, and later, Lefty.

## Appearance

#### Teenage version

In The Silver Eyes, Charlotte is described to be a teenage girl with a round face and rosy cheeks, with brown wide eyes that "glisten", and frizzy light-brown hair. She wears a purple T-shirt, black jeans, combat boots, and a denim jacket. She has a thin mouth and always looks as if she were about to smile.

#### Toddler version

The toddler version of Charlie has frizzy brown hair, wide eyes, and a round face with a smile missing one of her teeth, she wears the same clothes as Ella.

## Personality

Despite her sweetness and kind personality, Charlie is independent/self-sufficient, as she doesn't get captured by William; that may tell the reader she can fight for herself. As seen in the book, she is the one who "killed" William in the Spring Bonnie Suit (as it was thought). She also finds it hard to trust people.

## Five Nights at Freddy's Novel Series

### The Silver Eyes

According to the novel, Charlie is the daughter of Henry and an unnamed woman, and the twin sister of Sammy. On November 1st, 1983, Afton donned the Spring Bonnie suit, and he kidnapped Sammy, Charlie's twin brother, when they were both toddlers. While William Afton was suspected of committing this murder, he wasn't charged; as a result, the diner ends up closing down. In 1995, Charlie, now 17 years old returns to her childhood home of Hurricane, Utah to attend the launch of a scholarship dedicated to her school friend Michael Brooks who went missing ten years earlier.

She reunites with her childhood friends Jessica, John, Carlton, Marla, Lamar, and Marla's little brother Jason. They decide to revisit the place where Michael died: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a family restaurant Charlie's father once owned. Now an incomplete shopping mall has been built in the restaurant's place, but upon further investigation, the friends discover the restaurant is still standing and that the mall had been built around it.

Breaking in, they explore the abandoned restaurant and find that the animatronic mascot characters - Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, and Chica, which were built by Charlie's father - have been left behind.

The next day, Charlie and her friends attend the scholarship's launch ceremony at their old school, where Michael's parents give a speech about him. Afterwards, John confesses to Charlie that he remembers seeing a strange person in a yellow Freddy costume at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza on the day of Michael's death, and he now suspects this person was Michael's killer.

That night, Charlie, Jessica, John, and Carlton return to the restaurant, accompanied by their friends Lamar, Marla, and her 11-year-old brother Jason.

They discover the still-functioning control panel which makes the robots move, and Charlie finds a fourth robot - Foxy the Pirate Fox - which cuts her arm with his hook. The next morning, haunted by recent events, Charlie tells John that before moving to Hurricane her father owned another restaurant called Fredbear's Family Diner, which featured two performing robots, yellow versions of Freddy Fazbear and Bonnie the Bunny named Fredbear and Spring Bonnie.

John drives Charlie to the abandoned diner in New Harmony, and she remembers the day her brother Sammy was abducted by someone in a Bonnie costume, which led to the diner going out of business and Charlie's parents divorcing. She suspects that Sammy's abduction and Michael's murder are connected.

That evening, the friends go to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza again, but are caught by the mall's security guard Dave, who threatens to call the police. Charlie offers to let Dave explore the restaurant with them, and he accepts. Inside, the friends play with the control panel, and while they are distracted Dave retrieves a yellow Bonnie costume from a closet and abducts Carlton, which Jason witnesses.

The friends flee the restaurant and fetch Police Officer Dunn, only to find that the restaurant's door has been chained up while they were gone. Police Chief Clay Burke - Carlton's father - does not believe their story, and assumes Carlton is playing a prank. Charlie later talks with John about her father; he closed the restaurant and committed suicide after Michael was murdered, leading many people in the town to suspect he was the killer.

Charlie and John go to a library to research the history of Fredbear's Family Diner and find an old newspaper article about Sammy's kidnapping with a photograph of Dave, who the newspaper identifies as the diner's co-owner. Jason runs off, intending to rescue Carlton, and Charlie, John, Lamar, Jessica, and Marla break into the restaurant to find him. Finding Carlton, Charlie undoes the spring locks and frees him from the costume.

As they search for a way out, the four robots come to life and pursue them through the restaurant. William reveals that the robots are possessed by the vengeful ghosts of his victims and boasts that they will hunt down and kill any intruders. The group tries to hide in a party room, but all four robots corner them.

However, they are halted by the arrival of a fifth robot, the yellow Freddy from Fredbear's Family Diner, which Charlie realizes is possessed by Michael's ghost. The yellow Freddy allows them to leave, and Chief Burke arrives to search for the missing Officer Dunn. William attacks in the Spring Bonnie costume, but Charlie activates its spring locks, killing him.

As the robots drag William's corpse away, Chief Burke escorts everyone out of the mall. The friends go their separate ways, and before leaving Hurricane, Charlie visits her father's grave, remembering a happy day she had with him when she was a child.

### Twisted Ones

A year later, Charlie tries to start over by entering St. George college. She first appears in Chapter 1, hearing her robotics professor, Dr. Treadwell, teach a lesson about how the brain filters out unnecessary information.

Before college, on her 18th birthday, she began having nightmares, twisted versions of her memories, involving her twin brother, Sammy. Charlie wanted to return to Hurricane to find Sammy. In August, she told her aunt that she's going to be accompanied by Jessica, since she's going to attend St. George college. Aunt Jen declined, which led to Charlie’s first ever fight with her aunt. Ultimately, Charlie packed her things and drove to Hurricane, but she had second thoughts when she reached city limits. She then drove to St. George and slept in her car for a week until Jessica noticed her. Charlie then stayed with Jessica's through the rest of the summer semester. Charlie caught attention on Jessica’s course catalog and saw that the college was offering robotics courses. So, she pleaded with the admission staff into letting her go there even though it's past the deadline.

A classmate, Arty, seemed to have interest in Charlie, as he tries to be with Charlie by inviting her to do activities with him; as doing a chemistry project with her and by Charlie helping him understand topics in robotics class, however Charlie ignored him due to all the problems that were arising. He was in three of her four classes, including Dr. Treadwell's robotics class.

Later, she is contacted by Clay Burke, who informs her of a series of murders that is taking place, whose victims have wounds that connect with the young woman's past. Without a doubt, Charlie, John and Jessica join Clay to solve the mystery and find out who are the cause of such a terrible event.

Then they discover that the authors of this are animatronics created by William Afton. Not only that, but they also discover that Charlie is the target of these creatures. Knowing that more people could die, the girl decides to go alone to the next point where the animatronics were going to attack, being captured by them.

She is taken to an underground pizzeria, where she is quickly rescued by her friends, who had followed nothing more nor less than the original animatronics of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. However, they are surrounded by twisted animatronics, commanded by William Afton, who is now undead; With his new body, he calls himself Springtrap.

They manage to escape their attackers, even managing to burn down Twisted Bonnie and Twisted Wolf. Then Charlie sees that Springtrap escapes and starts chasing him, leaving her friends behind.

She manages to confront Springtrap, demanding that he answer why she had taken him, why he had chosen Sammy instead of her. He replies that he did not take him, but her. Suddenly the building begins to collapse and Springtrap escapes. Without another option, all begin to look for the exit.

When they are about to leave, Charlie is captured by Twisted Freddy (who is terribly damaged) and introduced into the springlocks trap. Although her friends tried to free her, the trap is activated and Charlie is crushed by the mechanisms of the suit. Right before her childhood home collapsed, John returned to sees Aunt Jen next to Twisted Freddy, where Charlie's hand is reaching out of.

As Charlie's friends mourn over her death, a woman drives up and got out. As the woman was almost at the door, most of Charlie's friends rushed to the doorway to meet her. Arty seemed confused, and John watched for a steady moment. John didn’t speak until Arty met his gaze. "That's not Charlie." John said.

### The Fourth Closet

At some point, after her childhood home collapsed, she was transported along with the scrap of her collapsed house to a junkyard. A night before *The Fourth Closet* takes place, Jenny pulls her out of the scrap and took her to her home located in Silver Reef, where she was living for some time, and repaired her. Jen kept Charlie locked inside a chest. Baby impersonates Charlie so she can find her through Charlie's friends and her Aunt Jen so she can give Charlie to her father William Afton.

In the book, Charlie doesn't make an appearance until Chapter 5, John finds Charlie in a chest, unconscious, while he and Jessica were hiding at Aunt Jen's house in Silver Reef. They make a run for it after they find Jen dead. John drives to his apartment and sets Charlie on his bed to rest. After discovering fake Charlie's true identity, he hides Charlie after fake Charlie visits his apartment while Jessica stalls her.

Charlie eventually wakes up from a nightmare. Marla checks on her while John shows her Ella as a three-year-old girl caused by an illusion disc the doll has. Charlie takes a closer look and tells him that the disc is different from Afton's. Charlie later tells John that she wants to go back to Aunt Jen's house, as she kept papers that could help them understand the situation that they're facing, so John drives her there.

At Aunt Jen's house, John finds a suicide letter from Henry, and from what it read, leaves Charlie anxious. She then finds a lockbox, revealing multiple blueprints of different versions of Ella that Henry drew. They try to escape after they hear Baby. She tells Charlie to come with her to see their "father", to which she declines. She then attacks both her and John. Charlie begs after Baby beats John almost to death. Charlie lets Baby talk to her so she can let John live.

Baby confronts her, who tells Charlie to call her Elizabeth. She shows Charlie memories of her with her father, revealing that she was a ragdoll this whole time. A total of four robots were built by Henry, each simulating a stage of life (toddler, child, teen, adult). Henry didn't finish the fourth one after he realized that he had gone insane. Elizabeth revealed to Charlie that all her memories of her with her father were just recordings made by a camera on a tripod. Baby was the robot with "silver eyes" who was in the corner of Henry's workshop. Elizabeth then also revealed that she isn't even possessed by the real Charlie either.

The real **Charlotte Emily** was the one murdered by William Afton, not Sammy. Henry, after finding out his daughter's death, sent him into an insane depression. He cried, bled and sweat so much into the ragdoll that used to belong to Charlie for months, which created the "spark of life", the doll became sentient. The ragdoll is powered by Henry's emotional energy, unintentionally due to him grieving so much into the doll. Henry then began to recreate Charlotte as a robot, recreating her stages of life (toddler, child, teen, adult). He based the robots on the ragdoll, which looked like Ella. He then also began creating false memories for her, using a camera tripod. The robot copies of Charlotte are powered by the Ella ragdoll, which gave the robots life. The robot copies of Charlotte Emily are unaware of the original Charlie’s death, assuming that the one murdered was Sammy.

Baby then drives her hand into Charlie's torso, tearing the Ella ragdoll out her causing her to lose consciousness. After Charlie regained it, the two break into a fight. Charlie defeats Elizabeth by activating her father's suicide contraption. The blade impales them both, as well as the Ella doll that Charlie is holding against her chest. Charlie slides the doll over to Elizabeth before they both die.

By the end of the novel, it is revealed what is written on the real Charlotte Emily's grave. This reveals her last name, "Emily" and that she actually died in 1983 at three years old after being murdered by William Afton, an old friend of Henry, even co-owner.

## Fazbear Frights

### *Epilogue - The Cliffs*

The Marionette appears during the epilogue of the seventh book. The remains of the Marionette spent awhile locked away in storage as evidence for a fire that occurred at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place several years ago, but it was grabbed by Detective Larson during an investigation on the Stitchwraith. This hooded endoskeleton was unknowingly harboring the soul of child murderer William Afton. Now separate from the entity, William Afton combined with piles of trash and scrapped animatronic parts the Stitchwraith had been collecting, becoming The Agony.

Sensing Detective Larson's good heart, the Marionette helped Larson defeat Afton, telling him to bring her to the monster. After ramming the gigantic garbage pile with a forklift into a lake, the Marionette went inside of the Miscreation and tore it apart from the inside out. William Afton screamed as Charlotte caused his new form to collapse. The infected parts that made up the monstrosity begin to sink to the bottom of the water, including the mask and limbs of the Marionette, taking William Afton with her.

## Trivia

* Even though it was first thought that Charlie being a robot was a plot twist, it was foreshadowed throughout *The Silver Eyes* and *The Twisted Ones*.
	+ Charlie wearing Ella's outfit.
		- Charlie also, to some degree, resembles Ella.
	+ The slight dent Charlie made when she sat on the car hood.
	+ Tripod markings on the gravel in Henry’s workshop located in Charlie’s childhood home.
	+ The fake blood that was found in the pizzeria that was thought of to be William's.
* May 13th, Charlie's birthday, was also the date that the second update of *FNaF World* came out.
	+ Coincidentally, this date also landed on a Friday, making it a Friday the Thirteenth.
	+ This update also included a character many presumed to represent Henry, Charlie's father.
* Charlie's character reflects that of Michael Afton from the games. Both have a dark and mysterious past and uncover their father's sins and creations which attempt to kill them, both have managed to even survive gruesome situations and cheat death. Additionally, both are no longer considered human, Michael is currently a living corpse while Charlotte is an advanced A.I.
* Charlie’s car is said to be an old blue Honda, given to her by Aunt Jen. In the graphic novel the car appears to be an early 80’s Honda civic 4door.
* The updated version of *The Freddy Files*, where it's stated that many fans have been quick to point out that Henry, William Afton, Charlie (Charlotte), and Elizabeth are all characters from the games and books, fans have also noted that two of the original victims in the books (Susie, Fritz) match the names etched on the tombstones in *Pizzeria Simulator*."
* Charlie in the books does not possess the Puppet, and in the novel trilogy, Puppet never existed, but rather some speculate that Charlie's real soul seems to be embedded into Ella.
* The Charlie known in the books is not actually the authentic Charlie. She is a doll made by Henry in grief to deal with the death of his daughter. She is the third doll, and Circus Baby was meant to be the fourth Charlie but wasn't because Henry killed himself before he got to her.

* The popular theory is that the woman John sees at the end of the book is Charlotte, who is now in the body of the 4th Robot Charlotte, which used to be inhabited by Elizabeth, and Charlotte is now an adult. This appears to be reinforced by the illustrations of the graphic novel.
* *The Silver Eyes* reveals that Charlie's birthday lands on the year 1978, since she's 17 in the events of the book, which takes place in 1995. However, the book would later go in to say that she was three in 1982, making her 16 years old. In *The Fourth Closet*, her birthday lands on the year 1980, which would make her 15 years old.