William Afton

* William Afton
* SpringTrap

Employee at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza (formely)

Serial killer (now)

**William Afton** is the primary antagonist of the *FNaF VHS* series by Squimpus McGrimpus.

William Afton is a businessman, animatronic business partner of Henry Emily and co owner of the Freddy Fazbears pizzeria franchise. After the death of his son Joseph in an incident known as the bite of '83, he went on to murder five children in what is now known as The Missing Children Incident, which took place from 1984 to 1985. Following his death from being mutilated by the Spring Bonnie springlock suit as a result of a springtrap failure, his spirit would live on to possess the animatronic suit.

During Joseph's 9th birthday party at Fredbear's Family Diner, his older brother, Michael played a prank on Joseph by picking him up and shoving him in the mouth of the Fredbear animatronic. However, the animatronic malfunctions and bites down on Joseph's skull damaging his frontal lobe leaving him in a coma which he would ultimately die from. While Fredbear's Family Diner would later shut down, Joseph's ghost would later go on to possess Fredbear and become Golden Freddy. Following the closure of Fredbear's Family Diner, all information about the incident, and the now-abandoned animatronics would be covered up and no employee would be allowed to mention the incident.

Later, Fazbear's Entertainment would be created, and the diner would be reopened and rebranded as Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, introducing four new animatronics: Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken, and Foxy the Pirate. The new pizzeria would prove to be popular with children, even spawning a TV show produced by Wondermation Studios.

Mourning the passing of his youngest son Joseph, William grew to despise Michael even more, wanting to kill him but couldn't due to the possibility of getting caught. Therefore, he managed to find another way to vent his vengeful anger: he would dress up as Spring Bonnie, go to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, lure some troublemaking children similar to Michael into the backroom, and sadistically murder them, before hiding their corpses in the animatronics. He did this with five children: Nicole Morales, Lucas and Angie Collins, Benjamin Nelson, and Charlie Emily. Everyone except Charlie died in 1985, with Charlie being killed in 1984.

After the murders, Fazbear Entertainment would increase security at their pizzeria, introducing the new Toy animatronics, which would identify criminals through their facial recognition features, as an effort to prevent the murders from happening again. Meanwhile, the ghosts of the children would go on to possess all four animatronics, with Lucas possessing Bonnie and his sister possessing Chica, while Charlie would possess the newly-introduced Puppet animatronic. Nicole would possess Freddy, while Benjamin would possess Foxy. Afton would also make a recording about why (and how) he committed the murders, before warning Michael at the end, telling him to simply run if he found the tape.

A few more years later, the pizzeria would shut down due to the animatronics starting to smell bad and secrete blood because of them. Not long afterwards, Afton would return to the pizzeria and destroy the four animatronics. However, this would release the ghosts, who would proceed to terrorize him. William dons the Spring Bonnie suit in an attempt to hide from the ghosts. However, a spring lock malfunction occurs, causing William to be mutilated by the animatronic parts, killing him. The safe room where William died would later be walled up.

However, William would be somehow revived, and once in a while made a tape. The first one was on March 24, 1993. William talks about how he's trapped and possessed the suit. Five days later, on March 29, he notices that the animatronics have been put back together, as they are walking. He notes that the animatronics probably still think he's dead, or they just hate him that much. William swears yet again that they deserved it.

Four months later, in July 20, 1993, William bets that the animatronics are wondering why are they still trapped. William explains that God doesn't care about right and wrong, and that He just wants to see interesting things happen. William hopes that God is treating Joseph better than him.

Four months later, on November 12th, 1993, William goes insane and screams at Michael to let him out. A day later, he hypocritically asks Michael how could he do that to his own father. William swears he's gonna get out, find, and kill Michael.

Nine years later, on June 5th, 2002, William laments that he was left rotting in one room for a long time. He realizes he lost track of time, wondering if it was a month or a year. After saying he's alone, he curses out everyone.

In 2008, 15 years after the closure of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and 6 years after Afton's last tape, Fazbear's Fright, a horror attraction based on the murders at the pizzeria, would be built. On October 6th, Afton would be moved there, activating and lurking its hallways, wanting revenge on Michael. He makes a tape in which he screams that he got out, and reveals that he knows the Puppet will make Michael come here. A few days later, on October 18th, he makes one last tape in which he simply says "I see you", while the face of the destroyed suit, now Springtrap (although it was never called that in the episodes), appears.

The same year, under the Puppet's order's, Michael entered Fazbear's Fright and set it on fire, burning William to death as he screamed in agony. Michael also died in the blaze himself, freeing all the trapped spirits, sending William to Hell, and making Joseph forgive Michael.

## Personality

William is narcissistic and displays no empathy. He outright states that he has remorse for his victims, pointing out that he made their deaths "quick enough to be efficient, but long enough to make it last." He is also sociopathic, only killing the children so as to relieve his enmity towards Michael. He genuinely believes he has done no wrong, and that the children he killed deserved to die.

Despite hating Michael, he loved Joseph dearly. His accidental death at the hands of Michael drove him into grief, and would be the very cause of his infamous bloodlust. Even when being trapped in a room inside Spring Bonnie for at least four months, William hopes God is treating Joseph better than himself, showing he still has some love in him. However, even before the death of Joseph, William thought of Michael as someone not worth his time due to being a troublesome kid, viewing him as a failure.

After his "death" in Spring Bonnie, he is shown to be more violent and wrathful, His violence is far less hidden, and he wanted to flat-out kill Michael. Despite this, he knows Charlie's plan and that she'll make Michael come to Fazbear's Fright.

## Description

William is depicted as a man seemingly in his 40’s with dark hair and fair skin. He has a lazy eye.

## Appearances

### Canon

* welcome to the team!!!!
* *Pirate Cove Pre-Show* (debut)
* *Nonexistent Video(mentioned)*
* *Night Security Training Video(mentioned)*
* *Facial Recognition Testing(mentioned)*
* *Security Footage* (mentioned)
* *Memories(mentioned)*
* *Finale* (death)

### non-cannon

* Father.mp4(debut)

* sadgirl.mp4 (mentioned)

## Trivia

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He is very narcissistic and egotistical.

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* It is currently unknown whether he worked with the company or not. He does mention how Paper work kept getting worse after he got distracted from his hatred of Michael, which implies a Businessman like Job like in canon. His opening line of 'A man like William Afton' implies he was decently well known with a Public image of being bland.
* The portrait we see of him is actually an edited image of former politician Tom DeLay’s mugshot.