Five Nights at Freddy's (game)

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## Chronology

**Five Nights at Freddy's** is a point-and-click survival horror game. You could say it's a real-time strategy survival horror game, but that isn't confirmed. rip

## Overview

The first game is simple, extremely simple: Murderer in a costume lured 5 kids and killed them via stuffing them inside the animatronics. Simple as mashed pie.

Let's throw Phone Guy too since it's obvious he died by Golden Freddy.

Time for speculation realm: Phone Guy explains that the animatronics think the nightguard is an endoskeleton and will force you into a suit. How would they know that unless a previous guard had that happened to them? We can conclude that another guard had been killed that same way.

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**Featured Characters:**

* Mike Schmidt ***(First appearance)*** ***(Eyes only seen)*** ***(Death determinent)***

**Supporting Characters:**

* Fazbear Entertainment
	+ Phone Guy ***(First appearance; unnamed)*** ***(Dies)***

**Antagonists:**

* Freddy Fazbear ***(First appearance)***
* Bonnie the Rabbit ***(First appearance)***
* Chica the Chicken ***(First appearance)***
* Foxy the Pirate ***(First appearance)***
* Yellow Bear ***(First appearance; unnamed)***

**Locations:**

* Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (FNaF1) ***(First appearance)***

**Items:**

* Security camera ***(First person view)***
* Camera monitor
* Freddy Fazbear suit

**Races and Species:**

* Humans ***(Drawings only; eyes visible)***
* Bears ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Rabbits ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Chickens ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Foxes ***(Animatronic charicature)***
* Plant ***(Mentioned only)***

I've always wanted to analyse the FNAF series just by going via the facts presented inside the games. A game with theory potential is nice, but a game with just "mysteries" gets tired after the next installment hits and even more questions get presented instead of answers.

Everything will be presented, *everything*. There won't be any facets of lore just... left behind, and I will reiterate those points in further installments.

## Main Story

Your name is Mike Schmidt, you are a security guard in a place called Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. According to Phone Guy, the animatronics believe you are a naked endoskeleton and will try and force you inside a suit. You return to this job for 6 more nights until you get fired for tampering with the animatronics.

Pretty straightforward there, but pieces of lore are uncovered and some suspicious stuff is happening around this game.

### Behavior

The animatronics, while they do try and get inside your office, exhibit some... odd behavior, almost trying to scare the night guard. Bonnie staring into the cameras with dark eyes in the Backstage, Chica rustling with the pans in the Kitchen instead of actually heading down the East Hall, Freddy playing the Toreador March when the power is out. There's a ton of behavior that should clue in that the animatronics aren't just trying to "stuff an endoskeleton inside a suit."

Speaking of the black eyes, the black eyes that the animatronics give isn't just exclusive to the guard; there are a ton of children's drawings showing the animatronics with dark eyes. Whether this is due to malfunctions or, you know, signs of possession, are uncertain.

So there, a new mystery: Why do the animatronic's eyes go black?

### The Bite of '87

"It's amazing that the human body can live without the frontal lobe."

Phone Guy mentions this regarding the Bite. This small line, while originally intended as a joke, snowballed into a huge mystery. "Oh Foxy could've done the bite since his stage is unused and he's broken down and has sharp teeth." "Oh Freddy could've done it because... handprint on head?"

Haha. The former theory, Foxy did the Bite, is far more plausible. The second installment will have the game take place *in* 1987, but we'll get there when we get there. For now, we're acting like this is currently the only game in the series.

### 5 Missing Children Incident

The reason we're in this mess...

Basically, some dude dressed in a mascot costume lured in five children and killed them. They definitely got stuffed inside the animatronic shells, seeing as one newspaper mentioned blood and mucus pouring out of the eyes and mouths of the animatronics.

That's... it, really, five kids died and then stuffed. The kids might have possessed the animatronics, who knows. Since we're only having one protagonist, those hallucinations could just be product of his own imagination- oh dearie let's talk about the hallucinations!

## = Hallucinations

"It's me" is a prominent line featured in this game. The first instance are flickering images of Freddy and Bonnie. What is of note is Freddy's shot, as he's shown with human eyes (the veins give it away).

Sometimes, when you die, the death screen will be Bonnie's face with black eyes instead... why? I have no clue. Golden Freddy also shares this odd occassion.

Back on topic, the second instance of "It's me" is on the East Hall. Other than those words, crudely drawn crying children can also be found. A connection between those two instances can be made.

The third instance is the Pirate Cove sign for when Foxy is running towards the office. We can dismiss this as just "Foxy is telling us he's coming", but Scott could've just *not* written anything on there. We can make the broad assumption of "It's me" always being connected to a tragedy, whether it was the 5 Missing Children or the Bite of '87.

The largest and most famous instance is Golden Freddy, or Yellow Bear in the game files. This interview asked about the story behind Golden Freddy and Scott only replied that things just happen during the game making process. He can't explain Golden Freddy. If we take that interview and apply it to here, Golden Freddy has no purpose, he just exists. Well, when the game was just on its own.

We can actually see some aspects of Golden Freddy having no purpose in existing, namely, the fact he shares the same handprint mark as Freddy.

Another hallucination is of the Backstage endoskeleton and empty heads staring directly at the camera. Can't explain that without a theory.

Autobiography of a Yogi is recited in the Night 5 phone call. The excerpt mentions the comparison between plant, animal, and steel. These comparisons are that all three share the same phenomena of fatigue, possibility of recovery, and unresponsiveness by death. This reciting also happens when the animatronics are at the West and East Corner.

### What do we know of Mike?

Well, judging by the Custom Night existing, Mike knows about tampering with animatronics. It's not just some arbitary "oh just input the numbers and see the animatronics get more difficult." Fazbear Entertainment actually fires Mike for this exact reason.

He's also stinky.

## Conclusion

Dude in a suit kills kids, stuffs them into animatronics, those animatronics might be possessed. An animtronic bites someone's head off. (Unknown if this event happened before or after the incident.) Phone Guy dies by Golden Freddy. You tamper with animatronics and get fired.

## Nitpicks

Small notes of criticism that vary from importance.

The layout of the pizzeria is almost purposeful in having the night guard be killed. Two hallways, both of them ending at a small office. Management shouldn't spend all of their budget on an office that can just have a door with a handle. Having doors that close via using power is just too excessive for a simple night duty. Give the guard a taser, far more effective than magnetic doors.
We don't know yet if Fazbear Entertainment actively wants to kill their guards.