Five Nights at Wario's: Origins

* Count
* Appearances
* Analysis

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## Chronology

Hark! An origin story, that's what every supervillain needs nowadays.

## Overview

...The "Explained" story said that the new timeline's Wario and Co. were killed by Bruno... and I guess that, since it's a split timeline, that they are separate versions.

**Featured character:**

* Wario (new timeline)

**Supporting characters:**

* 1988 Mode Phone Guy ***(First appearance)***
* 2018 Mode Phone Guy ***(First appearance)***

**Antagonists:**

* Wario (original timeline)
* Waluigi
* Mario
* Luigi
* Peach
* VIRUS ***(First appearance)***
* Emma

**Other characters:**

* Flumpty Bumpty ***(Cameo)***
* Christopher (original timeline) ***(First appearance)***
* Christopher (new timeline) ***(Named only)***
* Rosalina (original timeline) ***(Named only)***
* James (new timeline)
* Richard McRoy ***(Mentioned only)***

**Locations:**

* Wario's
* Wario's Fast Food Factory
* Wario Ware Inc. ***(Named only)***

Before starting 2018 Mode, you get a diary entry from Christopher far earlier in the diary timeline:

> *Christopher's diary entry #3*
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> *I believe I understand now. They were in a loop. This mystery curse were attached to their spirits as they were sent back in time, splitting time into 2 paths. This new path got stuck in an endless loop, until the grief finally was accepted and the curse lifted.*
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> *That's what I initially thought.*
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> *Spending so much time here alone has truly improved my research. And being able to see back in time, into these 2 branching paths, is unbelieveable[sic]. Another me, another Christopher, is working at Wario Ware Inc., after there was a big fire there. In the time I come from, there was never any Wario Ware Inc.*
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> *From my understanding of time, if a split like this happens it will eventually come back together, combining into 1 path again.*
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> *...So why is the world now a wasteland here? When I told Rosalina what to do, and sent myself into the future, I expected to find out more. And I did - yet, I'm almost more confused.*
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> *The curse apparently came from a book in my timeline. The original timeline. And looking through my machine, the curse should have been lifted by mr. Edward Coleman, an employee who worked at my cousin's company.*
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> *But something must have gone wrong. I have to try to find out exactly what. Did the curse come back? Whatever it is that is behind this curse... did it somehow find a way into our world?*
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> *-Christopher Peterson, January 23rd, 2745*
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Huh, this doesn't seem like the Christopher from the previous few diary notes, in fact, this is the Christopher from the original timeline.
Oh dear, this is getting tangled. OK, uhm, the Original Chris is trying to figure out what happened behind the wasteland that is the year 2745 while New Chris just wants to return to his original "new timeline" and be reunited with Rosalina.

According to Original Chris, he hypothesizes that the curse didn't go away. I guess this is best seen with 2018 Mode; the curse didn't go away, rather, it may have taken a mind of its own and morphed itself into its previous host bodies.

Beating 2018 Mode's Night 5 gives you this note:
> *This is yourself writing this, James. I'm writing this down in case I forget this... my mind is all over the place at the moment.*
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> *It all happened so fast... at one moment I'm talking to Richard McRoy in the reopened Wario's Fast Food Factory. Then...*
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> *I saw a flash of bright, pink light.*
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> *Before I knew it, Christopher was standing in front of me, in a strange lab of some kind.*
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> *He looked scared. Stressed out.*
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> *I tried to ask him what just happened, and where we were. He didn't say anything, only slightly nodded towards a home made calendar on the wall.*
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> *It read February 14th, 2745...*
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> *I could not believe it.*
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> *Christopher started speaking to me at last. He almost whispered, saying we were in the "house with the green door". He went on to show me a machine of his, one that could transfer energy through time. The machine he used to bring me here...*
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> *He showed me recordings he has made. It seems like I come from a "second timeline", as he described it. A curse of some kind had been activated in the so-called original timeline. He had asked his wife to use his machine to send the victims of this curse back in time, but it only resulted in splitting time into 2 branches... a new time was born. One where I seem to originate from...*
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> *Christopher wouldn't say more. I saw him trying to contact this other him, the Christopher that I knew. The one that disappeared from Wario Ware Inc... The one that kept saying he heard his own voice in the halls.*
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> *This was it. This was were that voice originated from. It was this Christopher trying to contact him, for some reason... So why did he mysteriously disappear?*
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> *After this, Christopher tried to contact another man. I believe his name was Edward Coleman. Christopher kept shouting into his machine: "They are coming back! It's not over! They have only begun! Get out of there!"*
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> *And that's when it happened...*
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> *Christopher vanished, Disappeared, in front of my very eyes. Just like the Christopher I once knew, who experimented at Wario Ware Inc. all those years ago.*
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> *Something is going on. It's almost as if someone or something saw Christopher trying to stop this curse, and therefore took him away...*
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> *Now I'm all alone. I'm scared. I'm confused. Before he disappeared, Christopher told me to never leave this building. Whatever this curse truly is, it seems to have been what McRoy saw back in the Factory. Oh dear... poor Richard... and somehow, it grew bigger. If I can't leave this house, well, it can only mean the outside world is hostile... Potentially due to said darkness.*
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> *What do I do now... What do I do now?! I plan on looking through the archives that Christopher left behind here. Maybe I can find some answers there... I'm sure Christopher knew. He knew SOMETHING was watching him. That's why he didn't tell me anything. That has to be why the Christopher I knew vanished from Wario Ware Inc., and why this Christopher vanished as he tried to help that poor Edward Coleman.*
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> *Something saw him... knew what he tried to do. There is something out there, trying to keep this curse alive. And from Christopher's warning about going outside, it seems like they succeeded...*
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> *I have to do something.*
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...Wow. OK, uh, haha... Let's roll back.
New Chris, while listening to his own voice back in the Factory, was getting the name "Emma." Now that we know that it was Original Chris telling New Chris that from the year 2745, Original Chris was warning New Chris about her.

A presence surrounds them, something that does not want the curse to stop. Is it Emma? Maybe.

I also wanted to make a connection with James' time traveling described as a "bright pink flash" coinciding with 2018's intro having you time travel. However, in 2018 Mode's case, it's more of a pure red screen showing "WHO ARE YOU RUNNING FROM?"

Now that line, that line right there, is almost synonymous with the GBCamera Face, so that face certainly has a connection with the sudden revival of the curse.

In other stuff, there's a secret night. to do that, find some silver key and put it in some door. The GBCamera Face will appear and send you to a glitched menu. Some things lead from here to there and you're in a night where you can only be in the attic. After running around some more, you get this message from her:
> *DO YOU REALLY THINK THESE GAMES WILL WORK?*
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Emma knows, and she is prepared.
Whatever plan James has, the whereabouts of both Christophers, what the "house with the green door" is, Emma's reveal, and the hope of the curse's eventual destruction will all culminate in Five Nights at Wario's 4 and its cross-game content.