William Afton

*"He's not really dead. He is over here, follow me... ”*

— William Afton tricking Susie into following him after her dog was hit by a car

*“ You can't. ”*

— William Afton mocking the children for trying to save themselves from him.

## Main Information

### Aliases (AKA)

The Purple Guy (Canon Name)Spring-Bonnie

The Rabbit

The Employee

The Monster

Pink Guy

Mr. Afton

Dave Miller

Springtrap

Scraptrap

Afton

Father

Daddy

Man (Game Files)

The Man Behind the Slaughter (Fan-made name)

The Demon

Yellow Man (Theoretical, Midnight Motorist)

The Man

Vincent (Fan-name)

## Physical Description

### Info

**William Afton**, also known as the **Purple Guy** and **The Employee**, was the co-founder of Fazbear Entertainment, as well as the main antagonist of the *Five Nights at Freddy's* franchise. He was a serial killer who targeted infants and young children, and who was directly responsible for all of the incidents and tragedies throughout the series. His role in the franchise's story is pivotal. His story is told via arcade styled minigames, in which he looms in the shadows, appearing as a purple figure.

He was a wealthy businessman and inventor who secretly built animatronics to hunt and kill young children, which went unknown by his partner, Henry Emily. His daughter, Elizabeth Afton, would be killed by one of the animatronics he built. Prior to this incident, his youngest son had unfortunately suffered the same fate. For his own selfish reasons, he becomes a serial killer, dubbed **The Purple Guy.**

He would dress up in a **Spring-Bonnie** Springlock Suit to trick several young children into following him during birthday parties. Once he had them far enough from their parents, he would mutilate and murder them, before stuffing their corpses into animatronic suits. He was apparently charged sometime before 1993, and tried for the murders of these children, but was released due to lack of evidence. He can be seen during several hidden minigames, such as Save them.

He eventually meets his end when the souls of the murdered children become so bloodthirsty for revenge that they chase him into a sealed off room. Once inside, Afton tried to scare away the children by wearing the same Springlock Suit that he used to murder the children in. Once inside the suit, Afton laughs at the souls of the children, believing that they will be fooled by the costume's friendly facade. However, a droplet of water from the leaky roof lands on the mechanical gears of the suit, and they break loose, spinning rapidly and gradually collapsing inwards with Afton still inside. His body was crushed slowly and painfully by the force. While Afton was slowly bleeding out, the souls of his young victims fade away, leaving him to die alone in the empty room. After William bleeds out and dies, the suit then fully crushes him, replacing his flesh and bone with a metal endoskeleton, and forever trapping his body in a metal prison.

With their killer suffering a horrific and brutal fate, the children are presumably able to peacefully pass away, free from their torment. 30 years after his demise, William's soul is brought back to life, still inside the suit, now taking up the name Springtrap. He serves as the main antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's 3, and the main antagonist of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator.

In Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Springtrap is not seen much in the first nights, but he is shown more and more in the later nights. The player must lure him away from the office by playing sounds of children laughing in different rooms. He will slumber into the rooms in hopes of murdering a child, but then continue into the office once he sees he's been tricked. His identity is kept hidden from the player, although many players noticed a rotten jaw inside of the mask, until the final minigame of the story. It is revealed that Springtrap is actually William Afton, having been killed after his body was crushed and shredded by mechanical gears. The Horror Attraction is burnt down, but Afton somehow survives, although his suit and mask undergo extreme damage. He goes through unknown changes and becomes Scraptrap.

In the finale of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, the player Michael Afton, lures Afton, Circus Baby, Funtime Freddy and The Puppet into a fake establishment. Then, Henry Emily sets the place on fire with Michael willingly inside. All of the animatronics burn, and Michael is killed in the process. Circus Baby was completely destroyed, as was the Puppet. Both of their souls supposedly move onto the afterlife.

### Physical Appearance

#### Human

Since William Afton is the only ever seen in human form in some of the minigames, it's hard to pin down his exact appearance to the point where it’s mostly unknown. In the mini games his sprite color ranges from various tones of purple, depending on the mini game. It is worth noting that he appears purple because he is simply hiding in the shadows, not because his skin is bloated. His mouth appears to almost always be put in the form of a elongated sadistic smile. William is seen as having a cleft chin outside of the mini games. It isn't until Five Nights at Freddy's 3 that he retained a semi-consistent appearance, underutilized as it may be, though he has expressive eyes and a mouth that conveys his emotional state.

The most detail William has shown is during the Save them Death minigame, in which he is revealed to be a tall skinny man with a long neck and has glowing, white eyes, a yellow object on his chest which resembles a security badge, and holds a purple object, which is speculated to be a weapon or tool (some people thought it was a phone). it extends in his hand in a beckoning pose. He also has what appears to be bad posture, as his neck is always leaned forwards.

It is heavily implied that his true appearance is the same as his counterpart in the novels, which could mean that he used to be fat and healthy, but ultimately became sallow and thin with a poorly shaven face, messy brown hair, saggy skin, and the appearance of a middle-aged man, as well as having lifeless grey eyes.

#### Springtrap

A few years after the closure of the third Freddy's, William went on a rampage inside of a closed pizzeria, destroying all of the animatronics and, unbeknownst to him, freeing the souls of the children. Eventually, the souls of the children ganged up and chased him into an abandoned room. Inside of the room was a spare Springlock Suit, a **Spring Bonnie** suit to be exact. Because the suit was the same one he used to murder the children in, it is believed he wore it so he could try scare them away, by reminding him of what he put them through. This fails, and the souls barricade the door, blocking Afton from escaping. Due to his frantic movement, the springlocks become uneasy, and a droplet of water lands on them. They break loose, and Afton is killed via crushing.

30 years after his demise, William is reanimated as Springtrap, an amalgamation of human and robot mixed into one. Now undead and full of rage, he relentlessly hunts down anybody he can find to torture and kill.

The suit is a drab olive color, with darker colors on his stomach and the insides of his ears. A great portion of his right ear is missing, with a single red wire sticking out of the stump. Springtrap's entire body is torn and tattered, with gaping holes bearing exposed wires and caging throughout, making him appear much more macabre-looking than any of the other animatronics from any previous installments in the series. His green/brown/black nose has an irregular squarish shape due to deterioration.

While both of Springtrap's hands and feet are attached and generally intact, with his human feet presumably inside, his legs are entirely stripped from the mid-shin down, fully exposing the endoskeleton wiring and metal. Several of his finger joints from each hand are missing their suit overlays. The middle and little fingers of Springtrap's right hand are notably missing their fingertips (this is no longer the case for his model in future games). A single black button can be seen on the middle of his chest. If one looks closely at the large hole in Springtrap's chest (which is located under his button), Willam Afton's broken yet somehow still alive body can be seen. Springtrap has a wide, permanent grin, as the material surrounding his teeth has deteriorated. His jaw can be seen moving on occasions, such as during his second jump scare, on cam 15, his first rare-boot, along with Scott Cawthon's "**Thank You!**" image. Springtrap's endoskeleton feet appear wedge-shaped, with each sporting five toes. As of the 8th of October, 2016, images of an early Springtrap model show his visible endoskeleton torso in the shape of an upside-down triangle. It has six "ribs", which almost act like actual animal ones.

Both of Springtrap's eyes are properly set inside of his head, and appear to be pale gray in color. The eyes themselves as multiple blood-vessels can be seen in them. They also appear to be glowing, suggesting that William Afton remains alive as a result of a paranormal event. Out of his whole body, only his head, bits of flesh and blood-vessels can be spotted. This is due to Scott not seeing a purpose in adding details in places not visible to the player during normal gameplay. His head can be seen more clearly in three rare-boot images depicting Springtrap trying to tear his own mask off. However, only after passing all would it be known to the player that this is actually William Afton, as the last mini game shows him getting impaled and dying in the suit.

As seen in *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*, Springtrap also walks and crawls with a limp. The arm joints also appear to be loose, though this may simply be due to the deteriorated condition of the original suit. *Help Wanted* also alters his general design, the suit itself being a lighter color. The biggest change between the *Help Wanted* model and the original is the body of William Afton. The eyes are now bright green with black pupils, looking more animatronic than human this time. While the corpse's head is a dark purple in color, the rest of the flesh on the body is a dark brown. Parts of the flesh are missing, such as the strands of flesh on the lower legs, or the flesh that goes from the torso to the pelvis. His endoskeleton is rustier, and seems slightly less detailed.

Springtrap's design in *Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery* is a lot closer to the *Five Nights at Freddy's 3* design, with some very slightly different textures from his original look. The biggest difference is William Afton's mouth, which moves alongside his jaw. Like most other *Special Delivery* animatronics, the more damage Springtrap takes, the more broken he is, gaining more dark burn and dirt marks over time.

#### Scraptrap

William Afton returned once again in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator* with a new design, dubbed **Scraptrap** by fans; While he does retain some key physical details from Springtrap's design, there are some major differences. Unlike the previous design where his interior was mostly machinery, it is now almost entirely organic, and shows his human skeleton as well as flesh, with five bony fingers as his right hand. The reason as to why William Afton is much more detailed this time is probably because his full body can be seen in one of the rare-boot screens. There are more torn patches in his suit with multiple metal-wires, and he has lost his left forearm, half his left ear, and the rest of his right ear. His feet now have fabric over them, with three large, round toes on each foot. His eyes no longer glow and now look completely metallic.

The mask also has significant differences, with much larger eye sockets, a black nose, a square muzzle, a singular pair of buck teeth at the top row and small sharp needle-like teeth at the bottom. Afton's mummified head is clean of blood, now with ears, thicker lips, rigged teeth and a dimple. The texture of the skin appears to be bone, showing that his corpse has decayed to the point where his skeleton is exposed.

### Personality

Although seeming very cryptic at first, William's character traits and nature can be seen via silent actions within retro-graphics and by reading between the lines throughout the games.

William Afton is the textbook definition of evil. He is the sadistic serial killer who sparked the downfall of his own company, Fazbear Entertainment, murdered almost a dozen children in cold blood, and started the tragic chain of events that leads players throughout the series. It is heavily implied that William's true motive is to gain the secret of immortality and live eternally alongside fulfilling his cruel and sadistic pleasures. Judging by his actions and appearance within the games, William is wicked, cold-blooded and methodical, clearly showing no remorse for his actions. He was even malicious enough to murder his closest friend and business partner Henry's only daughter Charlotte, an event which caused Henry immense emotional turmoil to the point where he nearly committed suicide, showing that William is more than willing to harm his friends, whether it be mentally, emotionally, or physically.

As shown in every mini game he appears in, he always smiles during his killings, and in the *Pizza Party* mini game in *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted,* which appears to be a recreation of one of Afton's murders, William in the form of Glitchtrap can be seen dancing gleefully after murdering the victim, taunting them while they are trapped inside of a robotic suit and suffering a slow and painful death. Both of these examples show that William is extremely ruthless and sadistic and appears to take delight, satisfaction, and pride in the murder of innocent people while watching his victims suffer in agony, especially when said victims are mere children. One of William's voice lines in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator* suggest that he is opportunistic and will proceed with his intentions, regardless of the risks.

Heard in the opening cutscene of *Sister Location*, William shows a rather calm and neutral personality. This is likely a façade to hide his true intentions and evil mindset while showing that he is a manipulator and seemingly theatrical, being able to easily put on a character to fool people. The fact that he created the Funtime Animatronics, which are very advanced and technological, shows that he has a genius level intellect, a talent for robotics, and is very proud of his creations. He is also fascinated by how they have evolved after the events of Sister Location.

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 suggests that he wants his victims to fear and respect him, as well as suffer slowly before he kills them. This is in stark 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, likely due to the fact that he was never caught or convicted for his crimes and always got away with them. This explains his behavior in *Five Nights at Freddy's 3* and *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator*. Given his nature, William is most likely not insane, he just seemingly does not care for the difference between right and wrong, and simply chooses to be evil for no other reason than to achieve his twisted and unethical goals of immortality, and satisfying his endless need to inflict pain and death.

It is heavily suggested that William's greatest fear above all is death. This is shown in one of the *Five Nights at Freddy's 3* mini games, where he cowers in fear while facing the vengeful ghosts of his victims, explaining why he refused to pass on after his death and became Springtrap to begin with. This fear is so immense that he has developed an unbreakable iron will to live, no matter the cost ultimately this is what pushes him to survive even in the most deadly situations time and time again. He showcases his willpower by confidently stating "I always come back". This ironically shows that despite William's immense cruelty and arrogance, he is a coward when facing his own demise and retribution for his actions. Afton knows Hell awaits him, and he intends to stay away from it for as long as possible.

Despite his cruel nature, it is implied that he loved his daughter Elizabeth, since he warned her not to go near Circus Baby, as he programmed the animatronic to be homicidal. It is also implied that Baby was made in honor of Elizabeth. William even orders his son Michael to free Elizabeth from Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental. However, William knew Elizabeth's possession of Baby, yet paid and allowed technicians to shock her for an indefinite amount of time. Taking this into account, it's likely his connection towards Elizabeth wasn't as genuine as it seemed.

Besides that, his relationship with his son Michael is made more clear. From what we learn in *Sister Location*, William sent him on a dangerous mission to rescue Elizabeth from the underground facility, which ended up in Michael's gruesome death and reanimation as a rotting corpse. After learning of his survival in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator,* he attempts to murder the boy himself. This indicates that he hates Michael, and doesn't care about him in any way whatsoever.

His relationship with his other son seems relatively unknown, but from what is shown in the *Five Nights at Freddy's 4* mini games, he is uncaring and neglectful towards him, as he never interfered with any of the bullying, even when it began to result in actual pain. Taking in all of this information, it's likely that he didn't have an emotional connection to his family, rendering him to be truly heartless.

### History

#### Five Nights at Freddy's

While William Afton is not seen in this game, he is referred to in newspaper clippings. He is described as an employee dressed as a company mascot that lured two children on the night of June 26th into a backroom. Sometime after, five children were linked to the incident, and while the suspect was charged, the bodies were never found. It is theorized that because the bodies were never found, he was eventually released from custody due to lack of evidence. This is proven in Help Wanted from one of the death screen quotes.

#### Five Nights at Freddy's 2

William Afton is depicted as the “Purple Guy”, a mysterious purple figure in the *Five Nights* series. In the Take Cake to the Children mini game, he is depicted driving up to the outside of a pizzeria, and killing a child outside of the restaurant.

Finally, he lured five children into the backroom using cake and a Yellow Suit, as seen in Foxy GO GO GO, and murdered them. They go on to possess the Freddy Fazbear, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and Golden Freddy suits. The Puppet would give them life in the animatronic suits to save their souls. It's unconfirmed whether William or the Puppet stuffed the children into suits.

In the second game, he is implied to have been the night guard before Jeremy Fitzgerald. After surviving a week on the night shift, William Afton complained about conditions, so he was moved to the Dayshift. He went to murder 5 more kids, as seen in SAVE THEM, who are implied to possess the Toy Animatronics.

#### Five Nights at Freddy's 3

William Afton returns in the third game's end of night mini games, dismantling the classic animatronics one by one when they cannot enter the safe room he is hiding in. However this unleashes the spirits of his victims who chase the terrified William Afton around the Safe Room, and he put on the Spring Bonnie suit, thinking that this will protect him, believing the ghosts would not notice him. However, water from the leaky roof caused the metal gears inside the suit to slip out of place and rapidly spin inwards, crushing and stabbing Afton to death.

#### Five Nights at Freddy's 4

William Afton appears in a cameo in the fourth game, where he seemingly helps an employee in the Spring Bonnie costume in the back room.

#### Sister Location

While William does not appear anywhere in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, his presence is very strong. His voice can be heard during the opening intro, where he describes Circus Baby's design and purpose. At the end of the game, his son, Michael (the main protagonist of the game), speaks to him. He informs him that he found something William was looking for, and that "they" (likely the animatronics of Sister Location) had mistaken Michael for being William.

His Springtrap form also returns, but only appears briefly at the end cutscene that takes place in the burnt Fazbear's Fright (after the events of the third game) when the player beats all of the Custom Night presets, meaning that he survived the burning of the attraction. After Michael Afton finishes speaking, Springtrap will appear from the right side of the screen before the cutscene abruptly ends.

Upon observing his appearance, Springtrap appears much the same as his original design from the third game, although he seems to be missing a few animatronic parts (such as the pelvis and hip which exposes his endoskeleton pelvis and complete lack of veins and arteries), and an extra few rips and tears, making his appearance fall into further disrepair a little bit. From his half-torn right ear, the red wire appears to be cut off. His back from the lowest part of his torso is chopped off. Blood "vessel-tubes" at the front of his neck are missing as well. His pupils, however, are not glowing white, unlike from the third game, though this could just be the angle and lighting. He is most likely damaged from the fire. The rest of Springtrap's features, however, are difficult to locate clearly due to being covered partly by darkness. This burned version of Springtrap was called Dark Springtrap.

#### Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

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

Seen when completing the Fruity Maze mini game, standing next to Susie from the right is William Afton wearing a Spring Bonnie suit that he uses to lure children with. The girl is lured away and gets murdered by him.

#### Ultimate Custom Night

William was prevented from moving on to Hell and was being tormented in his mind by the vengeful spirit of Golden Freddy, the fifth victim William killed in the Missing Children Incident, a child named Cassidy.