Strings (2016)

* Scarecrow (Reprinted)
* Scarecrow (Original)
* Sec-Strings (Reprinted)
* Sec-Strings (Original)

**Strings** is the protagonist of POPGOES and POPGOES 2. He's an AI created by Fritz Glade, and the character you play as in the first game.

## Description

* Sec-Strings (POPGOES)
* Strings (Memories)
* Sec-Strings (Memories)

## Appearance

Strings is a tall, slender, red scarecrow with four long, thin arms, two legs that join together at a point, and a black mask covering his face. He has four hands with long, slender fingers that have two joints. He has a rounded torso and hips that extrude from his body.

## Story

### POPGOES 1: The Blackrabbit

Strings was originally designed to be a dreamcatcher. Fritz was having severe nightmares of The Puppet, so he turned to a friend who managed to deal with his own nightmares, and the friend recommended that Fritz build a dreamcatcher specifically meant to stop the Puppet in his dreams. Fritz then built Strings - naming him that and giving him actual strings to fight off the Puppet, who was controlled by strings - to fight off nightmares and, to his surprise, it worked. After Fritz built Strings, he no longer had any nightmares of the Puppet. Fritz then put Strings away in storage in case he needed it for the future.

Sometime after that, he opened up The Popgoes Pizzeria. Realizing that he needed a security guard for the place, he decided to renovate Strings to act as one. He also wanted to use him as a test for AI, and wanted to use him to figure out details of his past as his memory was extremely fuzzy. He programmed an AI that had the same base AI as Simon, but instead gave him a specific module called Curiosity that would allow him to draw conclusions based on the information he was given. The base AI meant that he was capable of feeling emotions, and the Curiosity module would allow him to figure out the most logical series of events that happened in Fritz's past. Fritz then redesigned him so he would be capable of actually guarding the pizzeria as well, and then put him to work.

In the Gem Ending, Strings does what he's told to do and tries to figure out Fritz's past, but is never able to fully understand what happens. As a reward for doing a good job as a night guard, Fritz allows him to mess around with the AI for the animatronics, which leads to the events of the seventh night, Good Night.

In the Grave Ending, Simon contacts Strings to try to practice manipulating him. He both tries to entice him with knowledge about the truth of Fritz and tries to show that he is powerful by convincing Strings that he can empower the animatronics to finally finish their original task with destroying the nightmares, which is shown via the Lux Animatronics. He does this through six nights, and on the sixth night, he finally feels confident enough to try to manipulate Fritz and thanks Strings for helping him. Afterwards, Strings is sitting at his terminal, waiting to be deactivated by Fritz for the day, but instead, Simon breaks out of the office, walks towards him, and leans down to look into his camera. After this, Strings has a panic attack and automatically shuts down.

### POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest

After Simon was freed, he began to tear Strings apart, and later he has used pieces of him to create the Epitome Animatronics. Simon then threw Strings downstairs into Fritz's old office, who was heavily damaged losing most of his limbs and other parts. He has lost his Curiosity Module, and he was no longer able to have panic attacks, but he was alive.

## Trivia

* Originally Strings was canonically considered male, but in an update to POPGOES on April 9th, 2017, he was retconned to be female; however, on September 29th of 2017, Strings was changed to male again.
	+ Because of that, after encountering Bonnie and quitting the game, POPGOES Arcade ending says "Tonight his shift begins", referring to Strings as male.

## Gallery

### POPGOES Reprinted

Drawing of Sec-Strings’ right finDrawing of Sec-Strings’ left finDrawing of Sec-Strings left stylus armsDrawing of Sec-Strings right stylus armsDrawing of Sec-Strings right armDrawing of Sec-Strings’ left armStrings' Curiosity ModuleStrings' Blueprint
### Full Body

Strings FrontString SideStrings BackSec-Strings FrontSec-Strings SideSec-Strings Back
### Misc.

Sec-Strings' Extras render.Dreamcatcher Strings' Memory CardSec-Strings' Memory CardConcept ArtStrings Sprite from POPGOES ArcadeSec-Strings "Heart Monitor"Sec-Strings Base Text