The Storyteller

***The Storyteller***, also known as ***Tiger Rock***, is the main antagonist of *The Storyteller*, the second story in Tales from the Pizzaplex: The Bobbiedots Conclusion, and *Tiger Rock*, the first story in **Tales from the Pizzaplex: Tiger Rock**. He is the evolved form of the Mimic.

## Physical Appearance

### Tiger Rock

The Mimic's appearance is based on the tiger bust that was inside of the artificial Baobab tree set in the middle of the Pizzaplex's atrium that was later removed. He has heterochromatic eyes, one glowing a deep emerald green and the other a light blue, they also glow neon. His head has black stripes, and his teeth are silver. In the Pizzaplex's VR booth, Tiger Rock gained a physical form; a white and lilac tiger animatronic wearing a white rocker jacket with lavender and gold accents. He also has four mechanical limbs that emerge from his back. Tiger Rock's face is predominantly white, with few faint black stripes that radiate out from his muzzle to create a diamond pattern that embraces his white nose and mouth. He has a few incandescent whiskers, and his teeth are nearly transparent and pulse with softly colored lights.

He is later damaged, missing his right cheek which exposes his mechanic gums, and a part of his upper arm is torn revealing the endoskeleton beneath. Later on in the story, Tiger Rock takes multiple more forms, including a white metal Owl, a white metal Cat, and a white metal clock. All of these share the same eyes as Tiger Rock himself.

### The Storyteller

As The Storyteller, The Mimic is a multicolored artificial baobab tree. The heartwood of the tree is colored in various shades of yellow, and the tree’s branches are rainbow and vibrant. The tiger's head is completely white. Its mouth is open showing backlit silver canine teeth with blinking lights behind the teeth, being his hardware. It has a blank expression, and its eyes are painted two different colors, a deep emerald green and a brilliant blue. He has four arms jutting from his neck, two slanted upward and two slanted downward. He also has multiple wires running from him to every attraction in the Pizzaplex. These wires can be seen in the Fazer Blast server room and Superstar-cade.

## Personality

Tiger Rock is initially introduced as a friendly tiger animatronic. He is eager to both learn and use knowledge. His cool persona contrasts his stoically brutal nature. It's unclear whether he's only pretending to be nice to let people's guard down, or if he believes his brutality is just due to his programming.

## Functionality

As The Storyteller, Tiger Rock's head served as the main hub of all Pizzaplex technology. Programming from the Storyteller is fed through tubes spread within the Pizzaplex and integrated directly into the animatronics. However, remnants of its old programming collected as the Mimic seep into the animatronics. Tiger Rock also expresses similar violent tendencies.

## History

### The Storyteller

After a group of Fazbear Executives decides to create an artificial intelligence named The Storyteller to generate future ideas, placing within the Pizzaplex once it's fully built.

Tiger Rock’s head was place in a baobab tree in the center of the building with its fiber-optic roots serve as a network connected to the Pizzaplex's venues and various animatronics would be given their instructions from the animatronic head acting as the main controller of the network being inside the tree trunk.

After seeing the tiger's head, Edwin has flashbacks of his son David's death. Terrified, Edwin left the scene, unaware that security had spotted him and notified Mr. Burrows. Edwin had confronted him the next day about how the Storyteller was programmed, and Mr. Burrows explained that The Storyteller rearranged parts of various stories into new scenarios, which would then be used for arcade games and VR/AR attractions.

Months later, The Storyteller was completed and began its effect on the Pizzaplex's attractions and animatronics. With the Glamrocks started malfunctioning: Glamrock Freddy adopts a spoiled brat-like behavior, Glamrock Chica becomes starved for attention, Roxanne Wolf becomes a cruel bully and Montgomery Gator gets violently aggressive with them switching voices and shutting down abruptly. Even the facility itself was affected with doors randomly locking and unlocking. Mr. Burrows dismissed Edwin's concerns in these sudden changes.

Edwin continues his investigation, going to a Fazbear-owned warehouse and looking through the archives for clues about The Storyteller's programming. He finds the file for The Storyteller, which has a sketch of the tree and ways to get in. Edwin returns to the Pizzaplex and follows the instructions, activating a catwalk that went towards the tree. Edwin makes his way to the top of the tree and finds an open panel. He drops down, coming face to face with the tiger's head. The white tiger's eyes were colored green and blue, and its mouth was open exposing his silver teeth. It was mounted onto the tree's interior, connected to a computer terminal. Despite fearing the tiger, Edwin persevered and looked into the systems. He noticed that The Storyteller was running a program named "Mimic1", the same program he used when coding the Mimic.

Edwin spent the next few days going in and out of the tree, trying to fix the programming. One day, Mr. Burrows noticed the panel on top of the tree, realizing that was how Edwin kept sneaking in. Operating the tree's systems remotely, Mr. Burrows watched on the cameras as Edwin went inside the tree and locked it from the inside. He planned on leaving Edwin in there to slowly suffocate to death, believing that he was the cause of all the malfunctions. After a few days, the tech crew wants to go into the tree for maintenance. To cover his tracks, Burrows decides to check and see if Edwin is dead and dispose of him properly if he was still alive.

Mr. Burrows went in, expecting to see that Edwin had survived somehow. Instead, he finds Edwin's body half-buried under a pile of construction paper with various crude drawings on them the same one from that are found in the Staffbot Silo, not knowing it was a secret sign language David had taught the Mimic AI. He had written "I'm sorry" on one of the papers. Nerve wracked by the side; Mr. Burrows tried to exit through the tree's front entrance. He puts his palm on the scanner, but it doesn't work. Now locked in, Mr. Burrows tries disconnecting The Storyteller to get people's attention. He rips out the wires, but the white tiger remained lit. He tries entering his password into the terminal, but it fails. He tries punching the tiger, but it remains active.

### Nexie

The Storyteller is briefly mentioned in the story, as the tree's power briefly goes out. Tiger Rock's climax takes place concurrently near the beginning of this story, with Astrid watching the events from afar while at the Buddytronic Boutique.

### Tiger Rock

After the events of *The Storyteller*, the baobab tree is being taken down because of all the glitches it had been causing, having only been in the Pizzaplex for about three weeks. It is encased in plastic and roped off from the public. Somehow aware of its impending doom, the AI presumably transfers itself into the nearby VR booth, becoming Tiger Rock, a fully formed white tiger animatronic. When the VR booth is hosting a one-day attraction showing a simulated Pizzaplex ten years in the future, a young boy named Kai tries it on. Kai is taken on a tour of the future Pizzaplex by Glamrock Freddy, and they eventually arrive at Tiger Rock's attraction; Tiger Rock Trampoline.

There, Kai meets the titular Tiger Rock, who offers to take him further on the tour. As he's dragging Kai along, he pulls on Kai's arms harder and harder to the point where his bicep pops. Terrified, Kai runs away and tries to hide from Tiger Rock, who is actively hunting him. Before he can get caught, Kai is supposedly pulled out of the simulation after the ten-minute time limit. However, the booth broke, leaving Kai trapped in the virtual world for Tiger Rock to torment him.

Kai is put into a perfect recreation of his ordinary life, with virtual duplicates of his family and friends. Over the course of three days, Kai sees Tiger Rock-related hallucinations, such as an owl, cat and clock all slowly developing Tiger Rock's features. Portions of the future Pizzaplex also seep in, with the futuristic escalators replacing the stairs at Kai's school. Eventually, Kai realizes that he is stuck in virtual reality. His sister Malia's plush animals come to life and attack him, as Tiger Rock watches from the closet. Kai pleads to wake up, as the simulation collapses into a sea of color. With Tiger Rock looming over him, Kai sees a glimpse of the VR booth's wall. Kai pushes through it and comes out of the other side, with the last he sees being Astrid, her grandpa and Nexie.

Kai wakes up back in the real world, having only been inside the VR booth for five hours. After the whole ordeal, Kai gets ready for bed. He notices an owl outside, only for it to be normal. As Kai peeks his head out of the window, Tiger Rock bursts through the window and into the room. Through his residual violent programming, Tiger Rock tears Kai's arms off of his body. But, instead of going for his legs or head, Tiger Rock vanishes into the night and leaves Kai to bleed out.