The Miscreation

## 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 and depraved 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 never ending need to inflict pain and death. 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 minigame he appears in, he always smiles in an unhinged manner during his killings, and in the *Pizza Party* minigame in *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*, which appears to be a recreation of one of Afton's murders, William in his Glitchtrap incarnation can be seen dancing gleefully after murdering his 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 and craves watching his victims suffer in agony, especially when his 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 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 desires.

It is heavily suggested that William's greatest fear above all is his own death. This is shown in one of the *Five Nights at Freddy's 3* minigames, where he cowers in fear while facing the vengeful ghosts of his victims, 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 deadliest 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, arrogance, and love of bloodshed and murder, he is at his core a cowardly excuse of a man when facing his own death and retribution for his actions. William knows hell awaits him, and he intends to stay away from it for as long as he can.

Despite his cruel nature, it is implied in *Sister Location* 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 was aware of her possession of Baby, yet paid and allowed technicians to shock her for an indefinite of amount of time. Taking this into account, William's connection to Elizabeth may have not been as genuine as it seemed.

Besides that, his relationship with his eldest son Michael is made clearer. 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 son's survival in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator*, he attempted 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 youngest son seems relatively unknown, but from what is shown in the *Five Nights at Freddy's 4* minigames, he is uncaring and neglectful towards him, as he never stopped Michael from bullying him, and while working at Fredbear's Family Diner, he cruelly shut the backroom door in his son's face and ignored his cries for help. Taking in all of this information, it's likely that he doesn't have an emotional connection to his family, rendering him to be truly heartless.

However, in the S.T.A.F.F Bot silo in *Security Breach*, there is a table filled with various S.T.A.F.F. Bots that appear to resemble characters who are part of the Afton family. This could imply that after all these years, William actually misses his family, and might have ordered Vanny to organize those bots at the table to honor or remember them in a very strange and disturbing way.

## Bio

William Afton was a businessman, entrepreneur, and robotics engineer who founded Afton Robotics, LLC and co-founded Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. William had three children with an unamed wife: his eldest son Michael Afton, his daughter Elizabeth Afton, and his youngest unnamed son.

At some point before the year 1983, William met a man named Henry Emily, who helped open their first location together Fredbear's Family Diner.

In 1983, the duo opened their second location together, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. After this establishing Freddy's, Afton's youngest son was accidentally killed by Michael after being shoved into Fredbear's operating mouth, which crushed the child's skull. This caused Fredbear's Family Diner to close. Before or after this incident, presumably in either 1983 or 1985, William, for unknown reasons, murdered Henry's daughter, Charlotte Emily, outside of said establishment.

In 1985 on the night of June 26th, William killed five children named Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie, Fritz, and Cassidy at Freddy's using the Spring Bonnie costume to gain their trust. However, he was caught on camera and arrested, but was apparently let go by the authorities, likely due to the bodies never being found, thus leaving no concrete evidence to prove that he was guilty and allowing him to get away with the horrific crime. However, the five children would later be reborn with the help of the the Puppet, who was possessed by Charlie. Because of this, they then go on to haunt Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and the elusive Golden Freddy respectively. The spirits then gained a thirst for revenge against their murderer or any adults like him out of confusion, thus causing their homicidal actions against anyone who enters the pizzeria after dark. Customers start noticing blood and mucus coming from the animatronics, which leads to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closing down and the company to be sold to unknown buyers.

After the pizzeria's closure, William hosts a private party for his own restaurant before opening day called Circus Baby's Pizza World with a new set of animatronics called the Funtime Animatronics. One in particular, Circus Baby, was seemingly made in honor of his daughter, Elizabeth. However, William designed these robots not with the intent of entertainment, but to capture and kill children to obtain Remnant, a supernatural substance which he discovered from the haunted robots at Freddy's. Afton wanted to discover the secrets of Remnant to become immortal. Elizabeth was warned not to go anywhere near the animatronics. However, she ignored his orders, resulting in her death. This led to the cancellation of the pizzeria's grand opening and the incident to be masked as a gas leak.

Afton then opened Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which is a service that lets customers rent out the Funtime Animatronics for private parties. He soon sold the rights of his independent company to Fazbear Entertainment. At an unknown time period, William sent his son Michael into the facility to locate and "free" Elizabeth, who's spirit had possessed Baby.

In 1987, William, apparently as a security guard under a new alias, proceeded to kill five more children at the New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Location, who are heavily implied to haunt the Toy Animatronics. Afterwards, William once again vanished.

Sometime in the 90s, William, for unknown reasons, went to the abandoned lower-budget Freddy's restaurant to dismantle the original animatronics. However, he awoke the ghosts of the five children he murdered and unintentionally freed them from their metal endoskeletons that trapped their souls. This resulted in them trying to attack William. Fleeing from the spirits, William escaped into the safe room where Spring Bonnie had been placed for storage, he donned the suit to hide in.

In his arrogance, William stood and laughed at the ghosts while inside Spring Bonnie. The springlock mechanisms within Spring Bonnie went loose, resulting in the endoskeleton parts and gears that were being held back to spring back into place, severely mutilating his body and causing his slow and agonizing death.

Many years later, Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction was being made as a homage to the Missing Children Incident and other incidents that made Fazbear Entertainment infamous. Employees found the withered Spring Bonnie animatronic in one of the safe rooms and reused it for the attraction. There, William's corpse was reanimated and he came back as Springtrap. He remained there for less than a week, stalking and hunting the night guard during the night, until the building burnt down.

Springtrap was revealed to have survived the burning, as seen from the final cutscene in *Sister Location*.

His fate after the fire was revealed in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator*. He left the remains of Fazbear's Fright and went through unknown changes, becoming Scraptrap. He eventually ended up in the Back Alley outside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, where he was brought in, salvaged, and later destroyed in the burning of the pizzeria as part of his old friend Henry's revenge and ultimate plan, while the rest of the souls were laid to rest. Only William remained.

Cassidy, Golden Freddy's spirit, wouldn't let William die. As an act of revenge and punishment for his actions, the child trapped him in an artificial nightmare of his past, where apparitions of his creations and the many animatronics who held grudges against him proceed to torture him over, and over, and over again.

Unfortunately, he escaped from his endless torture and once again came back, this time as a digital virus known as Glitchtrap, after the developers of The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience scanned the ancient circuit boards of Scraptrap's charred remains, in which William's soul remained latched onto. Trapped inside the game and wanting to get out, he invades the mind of a beta tester, who he has brainwashed into committing his evil deeds at the Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex by murdering more children.

Residing in the remains of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, which was directly underneath the Mega Pizzaplex, William downloaded his soul into his old body in which he previously burned to death in. Vanny was able to repair and modify his original body, and after the transfer was completed, William regained his physical form and became Burntrap. He soon saw two intruders, a child named Gregory and his companion Glamrock Freddy. William, somehow retaining his power from the digital realm to corrupt humans and objects through making contact with technology, attempted to take control of Glamrock Freddy through security monitors and sent the damaged Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf, and Montgomery Gator to kill Gregory. However, Gregory was able to reactivate the burning room trap in the old pizzeria that Henry used to kill William beforehand. William tried to exit to the building and pursue his targets, but before he could escape, an animatronic amalgamation (or "The Blob" as referred to in the game files) grabbed him by the neck and dragged him away into the ceiling, leaving his extremely hurt forcing him to hire help