EvanAfton

**EvanAfton** is the theory that the Crying Child's first name is Evan.

## Evidence

* The Foxy Grid puzzle in the Survival Logbook is usually used to try and identify one of the spirits interacting with the Logbook. The most widespread belief is that the two spirits "haunting" the book are the Crying Child and the fifth MCI victim. The name found in the word search, Cassidy, is attributed to the MCI victim more often than not, so the name revealed in the Foxy Grid would naturally be CC's.
* The Foxy Grid was initially solved by u/Wolfie1740Kingdom, where they concluded the BV's name was "Evan."
	+ In the Logbook, BV responds to Cassidy's questions by altering text in the Night 4 and 5 "Feelings About Tonight's Shift" pages. Going in order, OP found the pages with the questions that BV is responding to:
		- "I can hear sounds" is responding to "DOES HE STILL TALK TO YOU?" on page 75.
		- "It was for me" is responding to "THE PARTY WAS FOR YOU" on page 103.
		- "I can't see" is responding to "WHAT DO YOU SEE?" on page 59.
			* All three of the "question" pages so far have blood splatter on them.
		- "I'm scared," rather than being in response to a direct question, was deduced to be in response to another page with blood splatter: page 47, the "Feelings About Tonight's Shift" page for Night 2.
			* The reasoning is that BV is responding to how he feels about "the night shift," which obviously is "scared." In addition, Night 2 in FNAF games is when the difficulty starts to ramp up. The Logbook has direct connections to FNAF 3, and in that game, Springtrap first appears on Night 2.
	+ Using the page numbers in order as coordinates – (7, 5) (10, 3) (5, 9) (4, 7) – the name "EVAN" is spelled out.
		- u/godzilla813105 used an alternate method to find the final coordinate: add the numbers 5 and 3 on Foxy's magazine to get 8, then add that to the sum of all the tally marks in the book (as the end of the quiz says to "tally up your score"). The sum is 47, and (4, 7) on the grid gives the letter N.
* The name "Evan" was found in the Survival Logbook by u/Yurtle\_212.
	+ "Reflect on the Happiest Day of your life" could refer to the mirror in one of the other pages. This might be showing that we must mirror the image of HD from FNAF 3 (which would then have it match the layout of Fredbear's in FNAF 4). If we do this and count the colored groups (the balloons, children, and cake), we get the coordinates (1,5) (3,2) (2,3) and (5,3).
	+ If we use these coordinates in the Foxy Grid, we can get the name "Evan".
* In "The Real Jake," Jake’s father is named Evan, who has a brother named Michael. This can be interpreted as a reference or parallel to the two Afton sons, Michael and BV.
	+ u/Wolfie1740Kingdom solved the Logbook puzzle before learning about TRJ, so the name was not found through reverse-engineering.

## Problems

* Both methods in finding the final coordinate in u/Wolfie1740Kingdom's solution can be seen as questionable.
* u/Yurtle\_212 says that their own method feels "incomplete."
* Jake is much more of a parallel to BV in "The Real Jake" than Evan is.
	+ However, that doesn't mean the name choices are insignificant, as Michael still has a brother named Evan.
* In the FNAF movie, the BV stand-in is called Garrett.
	+ It is possible that the name of BV in the games is different, due to the FNAF Movie existing in a different continuity to the games.

## Conflicting theories

* CassidyVictim
* GarrettAfton
* MikeVictim
* LogbookUno