Mimic

* Mimic
* Glitchtrap

The **Mimic** is an animatronic endoskeleton created by Edwin Murray. It is the main antagonist of *The Mimic*, the third story of *Tales from the Pizzaplex: Nexie*, as well as the epilogues. It is the prior form of The Storyteller.

It was an experimental and intelligent animatronic created by Edwin Murray to copy any movement it sees and care for his son, David Sean Murray, whilst Edwin worked. After David dies in a car accident, Edwin beats the Mimic out of grief and making mimic his angry.

## Physical Appearance

### Original

In *The Mimic,* Edwin used unorthodox objects such as the pistons from a washing machine and trinkets from a Leavers machine to make the endoskeleton's body. There was also a processor at the back of the skull with wires connecting from the back of its head, through its mouth and around its rib cage. Mimic's jaw was made from the Leavers machine's guide bars with teeth drilled onto it. Edwin beats Mimic out of anger, dislocating its eye, compressing its face, breaking its teeth, bending its spine, and crushing its hands, arms and rib cage.

### Epilogues

In Epilogue 1, the Mimic's body is seven feet tall. While most endoskeletons have a basic metal structure, the Mimic has a steel frame with many metal rods, ball joints, pistons, that allow it to expand and contract its limbs at will. It has a rectangular-shaped head with white eyes in steel sockets, a mouth lined with white metal teeth, and a pair of bent metal ears at the top that resemble antennae. It has a small switch at the back of the skull that opens its mouth, allowing access to the circuits and wires inside. Its white eyes turn orange when it is activated. When it hunts the teens, its pupils are black.

When it is sent with a batch of new state-of-the-art animatronics to the Pizzaplex, the Mimic stands out as the only one dirty and discolored. Only its head still appears shiny. It is suggested that it looks as if it had survived a fire. A worker claims it was a guitarist.

Because of its retractable limbs, Mimic is able to rotate its body around. One of its forms is a nine-legged spider with one eye on one of its legs and another on its back.

### Ruin

In the *Ruin* DLC for Security Breach, it has a smaller squared-off head similar to older classic endoskeleton models with vaguely humanoid teeth similar to the Daycare Attendant's endoskeleton teeth. Its left hand also resembles the classic endoskeleton one, with four fingers on it, while the right hand resembles the one Burntrap has. Both its legs are also different from one another; the left leg has some sort of wiring encasing it, and looks similar to Withered Bonnie's, while the right one resembles Spring Bonnie's.

## Functionality

Mimic was originally designed to be a friend to David, Edwin's son. It was coded to mimic any human behavior it saw, and mimicked David's movements. After David died, Edwin lashed out at Mimic in anger and pummeled it. Edwin unknowingly implanted violent behavior into Mimic's code, turning it into a brutal killer who would go on to kill many people.

After being delivered to the construction site of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex, Gil reprogrammed Mimic to rip off the limbs and heads of other endoskeletons. However, the method of dismemberment gets mixed into its already violence-driven programming, causing it to tear off their body parts. The endoskeleton also has light manipulation powers, being able to control nearby lights at will.

The manual in the ruins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place explains that Mimic has retractable and expandable limbs and a contracting torso, allowing it to fit into any animatronic suit. It then says that the model was not stable and that if it is ever encountered, it should be disconnected from its power source and dismantled.

## History

### *The Mimic*

In the third story of *Tales from the Pizzaplex: Nexie*, the Mimic is revealed to have been created by Edwin Murray. It was originally designed to be a friend to his son, David. It was coded to take in information and mimic human behavior. David and Mimic spent lots of time together, the latter imitating the former's movements. They drew pictures, played games with a ball, and even came up with their own form of sign language. David, who loved white tigers, gave Mimic a makeshift white tiger plushie to match his own. They also played dress up with the costumes Edwin was tasked with fitting endoskeletons in, much to Edwin's dismay.

One day, David goes outside on his own to play ball. The ball goes onto the road, and as David runs to retrieve it, a white van races by and runs him over, killing him. Two weeks go by, and Edwin, stricken by grief, attacks Mimic. It is pummeled and left to rot as Edwin leaves the factory, disappearing without a trace. With his company bought out by Fazbear Entertainment, the factory ends up back in their ownership. Mimic had survived, and absorbed the information from Edwin's attack, integrating murderous tendencies into its code.

Over the course of a few months, Fazbear Entertainment sends two search parties to search Edwin's factory and take the important artifacts with them. Mimic kills them, fueled by Edwin's violence. It also takes the other data he retrieved into account as well. It takes memories of Edwin and David doing simple tasks such as putting leftovers in the fridge and hanging clothes as methods to hide the bodies of its victims. It also uses the data from when it and David wore Edwin's costumes, gaining the habit of killing its victims while wearing various animal outfits.

### *Pre-Epilogue and Event of Help Wanted*

At an unspecified point in time, Mimic leaves the factory, somehow ending up in Fazbear Entertainment's hands. The Mimic endoskeleton was mass-produced for animatronic costumes, with the company also giving the endoskeletons code that made them mimic what they saw. Eventually, it was given a spot in the Fazbear Entertainment manuals. The Mimic endos are eventually deactivated due to unspecified potential dangers mentioned in the manual.

While its programming is integrated into the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, with Mimic's code being used to expedite the game's development. During development, the development team inadvertently released a malicious digital manifestation of The Mimic known as Glitchtrap into the game.

For unknown reasons, however, the original Mimic remained. It was given a basic speak modulator and was presumably going to be the endoskeleton for a guitarist animatronic for the Mega Pizzaplex once it finished construction.

### *Epilogue - Lally's Game*

The endoskeleton was delivered to Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex in the middle of its construction, alongside the other Glamrock animatronics. It was going to be the guitarist of the group. Gil, one of the workers, decided to steal the broken robot for himself. He was one of the workers clearing out endoskeletons from Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, which was set to be remodeled into a museum. Tired of the monotonous work and wanting to speed up the process, Gil programs the endo with a "clean-up protocol" to rip off the heads and limbs of endoskeletons.

Following programming, the endoskeleton briefly complies and puts the endoskeleton remains into a pile. Without warning, the endo defects, ripping Gil apart. Ten other workers are murdered in cold blood. The only one that survived is another worker named Danny, who runs out of the pizzeria and begs the construction crew working on the Pizzaplex to seal the entrance away.

### *Epilogue - Happs*

The endoskeleton is still around when Lucia and her friends break into the pizzeria. It notices their arrival and begins hunting them.

### *Epilogue - Somniphobia*

Lucia and the crew hide in the storage room. The endoskeleton makes the lights flicker in an attempt to scare them out of hiding. The group stays still long enough for the endo to give up and walk away. As the group splits up to search for escape routes that weren't sealed off by the construction crew, the endoskeleton continues its hunt. Joel and Wade narrowly miss an encounter with the endoskeleton in the employee's lounge, as the endo drags its claws against the wall.

Nick and Hope explore backstage and discover wardrobes filled with character costumes. One of them has a secret opening into the walls that the endoskeleton can access. It pulls Nick in and tears off his arm. It brings Nick back out to decapitate him and the endoskeleton sinisterly holds Nick's head aloft in front of Hope. She runs away, with the endoskeleton letting her flee. The group reunites and finds about Nick's death. They hide inside the Parts and Service room.

Hope describes the endoskeleton to the crew and Lucia notices a bunch of empty animatronic suits. She realizes that the endoskeleton could slip into a suit without any of them noticing. The endoskeleton does just that, tearing off Hope's limbs and head in a dog animatronic. The remaining six survivors run away in terror.

### *Epilogue - Submechanophobia*

The endoskeleton continues its hunt for the remaining six survivors. The group is in shambles after the deaths of Nick and Hope. Joel forces Wade to come with him as he splits up from the rest of the group. Lucia, Adrian, Jayce and Kelly hide out in the employee's lounge, remaining out of site of the animatronic as it heads down the hall. While trying to get a radio to work, Lucia finds a decades old operators manual that showed various designs of endoskeletons. She recognized that one of these old endoskeletons was the one chasing after her and her friends, the Mimic. The Mimic had two variants, and the documents stated that they should be shut down and disassembled if encountered.

Meanwhile, Joel and Wade find a potential exit through the ventilation shaft of a furnace, although it is blocked by a rotating fan. Since the Mimic had control of the lights, and all the electrical technology as a whole, Joel wants to lure it near them so that the fan turns off giving them a chance to climb out unscathed. Wade is used as bait. The Mimic spots him and chases him throughout the pizzeria until Wade is able to get enough distance to lure it into the systems room. The plan works, as the power within the room goes off and the fan stops.

As Joel starts squeezing his way through the fan, the Mimic catches Wade before he is able to join him. Wade screams for Joel to come save him, but he does nothing as the Mimic rips him apart. Unaware that Joel is there, the Mimic grabs Wade's body parts to put in the pile and leaves. The Mimic is far enough for its influence on fade. The power turns back on as Joel is mid-way through the fan, and he is cut to pieces.

### *Epilogue - The Bobbiedots Conclusion*

Mimic torments the group further by pretending to be a person trapped in the pizzeria, luring them to a secret room behind the stage area. It gets into one of the costumes, a monkey, and chases them, but the group barricade themselves in the office before it can do anything. Mimic encounters Adrian and Jayce who are inside the vents but is unable to pursue them.

By the time Adrian and Jayce encounter him again, Mimic has changed from a monkey to a dog. They evade Mimic again by hiding under one of the arcade's pinball machines. Mimic notices Adrian alone goes to the storage room and heads after him. He was planning on lodging an endoskeleton leg into the blades of the chute's fan. But the leg flies out and Adrian falls. Mimic catches him and tears him apart.

### *Epilogue - Nexie*

Mimic tries tricking the group again, talking to them over the radio. It convinces them to come find it in the janitor's closet, but after they start taking too long, Mimic realizes that they've caught on. It sneaks out of the closet and into one of the lockers. When the group passes by, Mimic attacks Lucia. She gets a tear in her scalp, but she is able to escape alive.

Later, Mimic encounters Jayce on his own in the storage room, unaware that he and the others had a plan to trap it. While Mimic is deadbolted into a storage room, Jayce crawls through the vents to escape. However, his sleeve gets caught in one of the rivets, causing a chain reaction that makes the section of the vent he's in disconnect. Jayce tries to crawl back up, but Mimic grabs onto his legs and tears them off. Mimic pulls Jayce into the room fully and kills him.

### *Epilogue - Tiger Rock*

Mimic is swiftly able to escape the room by mimicking Jayce's crawl through the vent, shifting its body to fit the compact space. It heads to the backstage area where Lucia and Kelly are going. Mimic puts on a mushroom costume to blend in. The two girls put on other costumes in the hopes that Mimic won't be able to detect them. Mimic unveils itself to the duo, changing to a nine-legged spider. Kelly tries to run, but Lucia stops her. Mimic goes to Kelly, inspecting her. However, it registers Kelly as a costume and puts on the outfit with Kelly inside, crushing her in the process.

### *Epilogue - B7-2*

Mimic walks away, while wearing Kelly's remains within the costume. Mimic returns to the costume room and changes into a gopher costume. Lucia walks in and removes the zippers from the other costumes. When Lucia gets to the gopher, it jumps out and Lucia hides. Mimic searches the room for her, noticing Lucia, who was still in the rodent costume, trying to blend in. Mimic crawls in, trying to crush her, but Lucia opens the zipper and escapes from the back. Lucia hides behind a jester costume, putting her head inside to catch the Mimic's attention.

Mimic leaps into the costume, unaware of Lucia's true plan. She beats the costume with a metal rod. As Mimic tries crawling out from the jester's mouth, the springlocks within the jester suit activating, keeping a hold on the Mimic. Lucia flicks Mimic's power switch, and Mimic shuts down, powerless and contained.

### *Post-Epilogue*

Due to Vanessa transferred the Mimic's digital consciousness from the Fazbear Funtime Service into the Pizzaplex's system, its programming was integrated into The Storyteller, with Mimic's code being used to influence the story-driven programming of the Pizzaplex's animatronics. It was later transferred into an animatronic white tiger head. Glitchtrap somehow finds out about its old endoskeleton body trapped under Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place and had Vanny uses Glamrock Freddy to clear a path to the now underground pizzeria to reactive it.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's* Series

#### *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach* (*Ruin*)

A security system called M.X.E.S was created by Gregory and Vanessa to keep the Mimic trapped as the Pizzaplex shuts down and is abandoned. The Mimic poses as Gregory, mimicking his voice and pretending he's trapped in the Pizzaplex so Cassie can unknowingly free it. Once Cassie deactivates the security protocols, Mimic prepares to kill Cassie, only to be stopped by Roxanne Wolf.

She can only hold it off briefly, as the Mimic emerges and starts to chase Cassie. Gregory comes into contact with Cassie and gives her the instructions to the elevator. She manages to get in just in time. Mimic tries to grab her but ends up getting its left arm chopped off. In an attempt to not be followed, Gregory sends the elevator crashing down, leaving Cassie, Roxanne and the Mimic stranded in the rubble of the old pizzeria.

In the Scooper ending, Cassie traps it in a room resembling the Scooping Room, with the Mimic now wearing an amalgamation of a clown elephant, a jersey lion, and an elderly crow suit. Once Cassie presses the button, the scooper activates and dismantles the Mimic.

## Trivia

* Epilogue 1 makes note of the endoskeleton in the epilogues to have the Mimic's burned body, however, the endoskeleton having a different, shiny head was made note of. This could hint at the Mimic's actions being influenced by whatever programming is contained within that head.
* It's also made note of in later epilogues, that the Mimic endoskeletons have an off switch on the back of their heads, if the epilogue endoskeleton lacks this feature, it's likely the head doesn't belong to a Mimic, however this is currently speculation.
* Epilogue 6 and *Tiger Rock* show that the original Mimic witnessed some kind of twisted game of hide-and-seek that caused the Mimic endoskeletons to start acting weirdly, resulting in the entire Mimic line being decommissioned. Judging by the way it acts in the epilogues (luring people to the backroom and hiding in a costume), this game of hide-and-seek may have been The Missing Children Incident. This is backed up by Pizza Party in *Help Wanted*, where Mimic1 as Glitchtrap recreates the murders in the form of a minigame. This strangely also lines up with the party hats on the dead children from *Into the Pit*.
* When Cassie is about to enter the ruins of the FNAF 6 location, her flashlight goes out despite working unimpeded throughout her journey. This was presumably caused by the Mimic and its strange ability to control electronics and short them out through close range contact.

## Glitchtrap

* Digital
* Physical

### Alias

Mimic1
The Storyteller
Tiger Rock
Burntrap (Non-canon name)
The Anomaly (by Tape Girl)
Malhare (Fan Name)
The Darkness (by Mystic Hippo)
The Witch (by Candy Cadet)

### Origin

*Tales from the Pizzaplex: The Bobbiedots Conclusion*
*Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*

### Occupation

Computer Virus

**Glitchtrap**, known as **Mimic1** is the digital manifestation of The Mimic and They are the main antagonist of *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted* and its sequel and an antagonist of *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach* in the Princess Quest arcade cabinet.

In *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach*. The Mimic appear as the optional final boss, named Burntrap. He only appears in the Non canon "Burn It All Down" Ending.

Its Burntrap form is the result of Vanessa repairing its body into an old hybrid abomination of the Springtrap costume, its endoskeleton, with the remains of Luca.

## Physical Appearance

### Glitchtrap Form

In *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*, he takes on the form of a cartoonish Spring Bonnie costume that is based off of Spring Bonnie’s appearance from a poster advertising Fredbear's Family Diner - being a grinning, bipedal, golden-yellow rabbit. He is wearing a purple star-speckled vest, a purple bow tie, and two black buttons near the top of his chest. He also has stitches stretching across his waving hand. He initially appears translucent, progressing into a less-spectral form over time. He also possesses vivid purple eyes with small pupils, which are the first thing visible when he starts to appear to the player's right. In Blacklight Mode, his eyes will turn blue with white, circular pupils. He also has large whiskers on each side of his face, three eyelashes on both of his eyes, and large arching eyebrows. If you look closer you can see wetness coming from their eyes and mouth, resembling tears and drool, that's also a feature that he has in the Princess Quest arcade machine in *Security Breach*.

### Burntrap Form

In *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach*, The Mimic reappeared as Burntrap in the "Burn It All Down" Ending, having been presumably repaired using Luca/Springtrap's remains by Vanessa. In the final confrontation, The Mimic had become a physical being that closely resembles to both Springtrap and Afton from the third and sixth installment of the franchise respectively but with major differences. His suit is still olive and dark yellow in color, but now he has a human jawbone with teeth, and his endoskeleton resembles a combination of the Glamrock Animatronics and a Springlock Suit with sharp claws at the tip of each digit with five fingers instead of four.

His costume is remarkably smooth and appears to have an oily, flesh like texture. The suit has missing segments of its costume, such as on his limbs and pelvic area. His eyes are pitch black with purple glowing pupils and his right foot's endoskeleton is completely exposed while his left foot still had its costume covering.

## Personality

### Glitchtrap

While Mimic's personality as Glitchtrap is unknown and quite mysterious, he is nearly completely silent, as his only voice line is "*I always come back. Let me out.*" from the Princess Quest minigame but given the fact that he seemingly has the same personality as William Afton: malicious, evil, cruel, sadistic, and arrogant. He seems to retain his high intelligence, such as being able to manipulate and brainwash people — like he did with a woman named Vanessa — in order to get what he wants. As seen in the conversation he had with Vanny, "William" still desires to strike fear in the hearts of his victims and even his allies as he spoke to her in a rather threatening manner. Glitchtrap seems to like to taunt the player by waving at them and staring in an attempt to make them feel uneasy and fearful, similar to what Springtrap did in *Five Nights at Freddy's 3*.

### Burntrap

As Burntrap, Mimic appears to have little to no personality as he doesn't appear to express any emotion, besides laughing. He also appears to be incapable of speech as he doesn't speak during his encounter with Gregory. However, Burntrap is implied to be persistent as he continues to try and possess Glamrock Freddy during the "Burn It All Down" Ending's boss battle even after Gregory repeatedly burns him with the burners located within his chamber.

## History

### *Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted*

According to Tape Girl's logs hidden across The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, the Mimic was scanned into the game's software by the development team after circuit boards were delivered to Silver Parasol Games by their client, Fazbear Entertainment. The company was instructed to use the animatronics' code to speed up the development process, specifically not having to code pathfinding for the virtual animatronics in-game. However, its circuit boards being scanned caused Mimic gradually to materialize as Glitchtrap, a virus replica of himself wearing the Spring Bonnie suit. Another Silver Parasol Games employee, Jeremy, is heavily implied to have committed suicide via slicing off his own face with a guillotine paper slicer after having recurring nightmares under Glitchtrap's influence. Following this event, Tape Girl is readied to replace Jeremy as play tester and whilst doing so, she discovers that the Mimic has attached itself to the logs Tape Girl had recorded across the span of the game's development. Thinking quickly, she breaks the recordings' files into pieces in an attempt to stop Glitchtrap. She advises against reassembling the logs, as the Mimic will be rebuilt alongside them. In the final tape, Tape Girl explains that to destroy the Anomaly, one must let it begin the process of merging, and then perform a hard reset of the game.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery*

In the unused E-Mails, Mimic's digital consciousness was accidentally transferred by Silver Parasol into the Fazbear Funtime Service after circuit boards were delivered to Silver Parasol Games by Fazbear Entertainment.

After Vanessa tricks them into giving her full access to their company to get rid of the virus, she turned Glitchtrap's digital consciousness into a plushie version of himself. After receiving an e-mail from Vanessa's fake credential, "\_pizzaplex", it is revealed that Vanessa transferred Mimic's digital consciousness from the Fazbear Funtime Service into the Pizzaplex's system.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach*

They return as the optional final boss in *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach*, nicknamed Burntrap. It only appears in the "Burn It All Down" Ending, with Mimic returning to his old endo body. Burntrap was shown to be able to hack into the majority of the animatronics' systems to become hostile towards children like Gregory and was even able to control Vanny. It is also the main antagonist in the Princess Quest minigame.

After surviving a setup similar to the first game of the franchise against the shattered forms of Monty, Roxy, and Chica, Gregory successfully remotely ignites a fire in the old pizzeria, the same way Henry did against William prior. Not wanting to burn to death, he tries to flee after Gregory and Glamrock Freddy. Unfortunately for Mimic, the endoskeleton is suddenly strangled by Tangle and dragged away into the now destroyed celling.

### *Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach*

In the *Ruin* DLC, Mimic as Glitchtrap appears in his Princess Quest form in the AR world on the wall of the Vanny office over Fazer Blast, with one of his other versions on the opposite wall over the vent to the Winner's Lounge. In the real world, the outline of his *Help Wanted* appearance can be seen in the grime of the wall where his Princess Quest 1 image was in the AR world.

## Trivia

* Burntrap holds his right arm in a position that seems like he is holding something between his arm and chest. People believe this is a reference to David and the tiger plush he made for Mimic, with Mimic as Burntrap pretending to hold the plush like he did over fifty years prior.
* It is also believed that the flesh in Burntrap's suit is Kelly's corpse rather than William Afton, referencing the events of the seventh epilogue where Mimic put on a blue dog costume with Kelly inside, squishing her to death in the process.
	+ This was proven false as Kelly's corpse fell off of the Mimic when it left the suit.
* Despite a few lines of dialogue in the *Security Breach* trailers seemingly coming from some form of Glitchtrap, Burntrap never speaks throughout his entire encounter.
* Upon close inspection, it can be seen that the unused model for Spring Bonnie that was originally intended for *Help Wanted* was partially reused and heavily edited for parts of Burntrap.
	+ One of the character artists for *Security Breach* who worked on Burntrap, Johnathan Gonzalez, stated that his base model came from characters in *Help Wanted*.