Steve Snodgrass

**Steve Snodgrass** is the protagonist of *Help Wanted*, the first story of *Tales from the Pizzaplex: Happs* and is the rogue indie developer mentioned in *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*.

## Physical Appearance

Steve's appearance is not described in the story, however it's likely that he looks identical to the indie developer from *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*. He is also said to have a gym-free physique.

## History

### *Tales from the Pizzaplex* Series

#### *Help Wanted*

While Steve studied at a local public collage with his friend Matt, he worked long hours at poor jobs to pay for his tuition. Once graduated he had hoped that his digital art and design skills would get him a job at one of the many tech companies in his booming city, preferably in designing video games. However, the competition was fiercer than Steve anticipated, and for the last several years all of the applications he sent out were turned down. Instead, he's been working as a janitor at the Gas Up. Steve lives in a tiny studio apartment that is a floor above a take-out place called Cap'n Ernie's Fish Boat. At home, he works on indie games, with his current project being a family-friendly fetch quest-based game featuring cartoony chipmunks called *Chip Off the Old Block*. Steve has also recently joined a dating app. He hopes to one day marry a smart, kind, beautiful woman, live in a comfortable house, and have a boy and a girl. For the past month he's dated a woman named Amanda, who he rarely gets to see due to their conflicting schedules.

One day, Steve is approached by Brock Edwards, a talent acquisition working for Fazbear Entertainment. Steve had visited Freddy's a few times as a kid and knows of the troubled history surrounding the company, including the numerous murders and stories of paranormal events. Mr. Edwards informs Steve that Fazbear Entertainment is in need of some rebranding, and in order to laugh off the rumors they decide to put out a line of horror games based on the "lies" that have been spread about the company. Having found the two games Steve posted online, the company wants him to develop four games for them. Steve is hesitant, finding the idea of making games based off the seemingly real murders to be distasteful. Fazbear Entertainment offers to fly him to a remote location to work on the games in order to avoid leaks, which is another part of the deal that Steve doesn’t enjoy since it further pushes him away from Amanda. Despite all the other offers the company makes, the biggest issue that Steve has is creating horror games in an already scary world, so he denies the offer and returns to *Chip Off the Old Block*.

Suddenly, Steve receives a message from a beautiful woman named Victoria. She invites him to her house on Saturday, so Steve cancels his plans with Amanda and visits Matt, who approves once seeing what Victoria looks like. Steve drives deep into the country to Victoria’s house, a neat little white cottage with green shutters and a green front door. He enters and finds an empty room with a soft but steady mechanical whirring sound. Suddenly, Steve hears a loud, high-pitched ringing that makes him feel unsteady. The ringing stops when Victoria enters the room. Steve then hears another high-pitched electronic scream and sees the red light on the smoke alarm flashing. He tries to disable it but passes out. When he wakes up, the room is now decorated with furniture and pictures. Victoria enters and explains that Steve had a dizzy spell and passed out on the couch. Steve’s confused and Victoria explains that he has memory loss as a result of a car accident a few years prior, and sometimes his memories will temporarily reset. She then hands him a photo of their marriage.

Steve wakes up the next day to his four-year-old daughter Abigail and two-year-old son Avery excited for pancakes. Victoria has Steve use his plumbing knowledge from his father to fix a leaky faucet, and when he comes back, she gives him a letter that reveals the house is being foreclosed on. Victoria tells Steve that he works at the Gas Up, but the pay isn’t enough, so Steve promises to find a better-paying job. Later, an expensive-looking shiny black car visits and Steve immediately recognizes the man who steps out of it as Brock Edwards. Steve also remembers the offer that Mr. Edwards gave him and agreed to it as long as he gets to stay with his family.

That night, Steve comes across Abigail repeatedly bumping into a coffee table with blank eyes. She returns to bed and Steve notices that the doors in the house never properly close, and when he gets back into bed Victoria asks why he got up, having not heard the noise. Victoria reminds him that their children sleepwalk, which they get from him, just without the night terrors. Over the next few days, Steve converts the house’s tiny attic into his office. Using the nighttime visions and fears, Steve channels his feelings into the games. Steve also becomes attached to his family despite still not remembering anything about them. His fears eventually begin to creep into his mornings, finding himself scared of everything and feeling unsafe. One night, Steve hears whirring and rumbling inside the walls, and since he isn't asleep, he believes it's real. His bedroom wall begins to form a large bubble which pops, splattering an oily, black substance all over the room. Steve tries to wake Victoria up to flee but Victoria doesn’t see anything and convinces him to lie down. The noises in the walls prevent Steve from returning to sleep.

DJ Dan, the music man, announces a heavy blizzard that traps the family inside, much to Steve’s dismay. The high-pitched ringing in Steve’s head also begins to get worse. After five days, the snowfall is still heavy, which Steve finds bizarre since snow isn’t common in the area. While eating dinner, Steve asks if Victoria checked the weather only for DJ Dan to report that the National Weather Service has reported three more inches of snow with a temperature of 15 degrees. As he tells everyone to stay home and stay safe, Steve decides to finish the second game. By the time Steve returns downstairs, everyone is asleep. He looks in a mirror and when he takes off his shirt, he finds small, shallow cuts on his arms, chest, and belly. He takes a shower and waits on the couch. When he hears the refrigerator door open and the cabinets slamming, he runs to the kitchen to find Avery getting a glass of water. Avery returns to his room and Steve hears skittering inside the walls. The walls pulsate as a hole appears and a creature's tongue pierces Steve’s forearm. He runs down the hall as a green serpent like head pukes out snakes. Steve makes it to his room and uses a chair to block the door. He tries explaining what happened to Victoria, but she doesn't believe him.

The next day, Steve discovers that the snakes are gone. After breakfast he returns to his office to work on the third game, noticing that the high-pitched ringing in his head stops whenever he's working. After dinner, Steve hears DJ Dan on the radio reporting more snow, bringing up Valentine's Day. Steve apologizes for not having anything to give Victoria, but DJ Dan's song ruins the moment for him. When he tries to change the channel it's all static and Victoria says that only the pop channel reaches them from out in the country. Steve goes back to work, finishing the third game and starting the fourth. Eventually he returns downstairs only for the walls to pulsate and the ceiling to crack, revealing an extremely large spider. Its abdomen splits open and hundreds of small spiders swarm Steve, and his screams cause Victoria to run to his aid. When he looks, the spiders are gone. The ringing sound in Steve’s head gets louder and louder, and Steve decides that he needs to get out of the house. Steve compares the ringing to a smoke detector and decides to destroy the smoke detector in the living room with a fire poker.

Although the ringing has stopped, Steve is still surrounded by the sound of DJ Dan on the radio. He can also now hear the sounds of wheels turning and gears grinding. The house is different too, with tread marks on the floor and hinged trapdoors on the walls and ceiling exactly where the creatures attacked him. The noises begin to approach Steve, so he hides in a closet and looks out to see that Victoria is actually a robot with a human face. He thinks about saving the kids, but they are revealed to also be robots. They call out for Steve but eventually stop and DJ Dan chimes in, trying to convince Steve to come out. When the trio go into the kitchen Steve tries to escape but has to quickly hide in the bathroom. Victoria finds him in the bathtub, but he quickly pushes her back and runs to the bedroom, leaning against the door and using a chair for extra support.

Steve sees the radio in the bedroom and DJ Dan claims that he's trying to help. He reminds him of how sad and lonely his previous life was, and that he was happy with Victoria and his children. Steve rebuts that they weren't real, but DJ Dan says everything that he felt for them was real and he needs to let himself be happy. Steve brings up the night terrors, and DJ Dan says they weren't real and were just there to inspire him. Steve asks how he can be happy, and DJ Dan tells him to push a red button on the radio, as it will let him create his own reality as he wants it to be. With DJ Dan promising a life of bliss, Steve presses the button, causing a high-pitched ringing to fill his head. He falls to the floor as the room spins, but suddenly everything is still. Steve looks up to see Victoria in the doorway, wearing the same dress that she was in when they first met, and he hugs her. Steve feels a bliss that feel so great that he fails to notice that he's being repeatedly stabbed in the chest.

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

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

Steve Snodgrass was hired by Fazbear Entertainment LLC to create a series of games about prior events in an elaborate coverup to develop The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience. Through communication over email, he creates games equivalent to the real life games, with images shown of the in-universe games being of FNaF 2, FNaF 4, and FNaF: Sister Location. FNaF and FNaF 3 stand ins are also created, as featured within The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience. The presence of certain characters like Nightmarionne and Bonnet, indicate there to also be some forms of the FNaF 4: Halloween Update and Sister Location Custom Night Mode DLCs. The in universe games appear to also use utilize the title of Five Nights at Freddy's, due to the abbreviations of FNaF, FNaF 2, and FNaF 3 being used in the menu. It is unknown how this fits in with Steve only finishing three out of four game before his death, a lack of emails mentioned in the story, or HandUnit stating players of his games had been fed lies for the past few years.

When Silver Parasol Games is hired to first develop the experience, they are told the point of the VR game is to undo the bad PR he caused with his crazy stories that tarnished Fazbear Entertainment LLC's name. In the company's rush to develop the project and clear their reputation, Silver Parasol Games is accidentally sent a hard drive containing emails between them and Steve, revealing the truth of the situation. In the game's intro, HandUnit states that lawsuits are pending against the indie game developer, which may not actually be valid or true, considering Fazbear Entertainment LLC were the ones to hire him in the first place, and the fact he is dead.