Blackbird (Character)

The cover of Fazbear Frights #6

**Blackbird** is a major antagonist in the first story of *Fazbear Frights: Blackbird.*

## Physical Appearance

Blackbird has black feathers covering its body, a small, orange, triangular beak and green glowing eyes, mostly covered underneath the thick layer of feathers. It's currently unclear whether or not Blackbird is an animatronic or some other supernatural being.

## Functionality

According to the story Nole and Sam make up, the Blackbird stalks its victims and punishes them for something they've done wrong in the past. They either must atone for their sins or suffer the consequences.

## History

### Blackbird

The Blackbird was created to serve as the main villain in a horror film college project by Sam and Nole after the pair remembered the creepiness of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza animatronics. They decided he would punish his victims because of their past acts after Nole brought up he had seen one while planning on not attending class, and its gaze had made him feel guilty enough to return. In their project, the Blackbird would stalk the main character Floyd for past transgressions. Sam created the costume of the character, scaring both himself when looking in the mirror and Nole when seeing a photo of it. During the creation of the project's bedroom set, Nole confessed something wrong he had done in the past: tormenting and bullying a girl named Christine. He bullied and fat-shamed her, put a dead mole in her locker, and threw burrs at her. Sam, a former victim of bullies, was angry at Nole for being so harsh, and left the room.

The next day, Sam was walking down the railroad tracks listening to music and presumably wearing the costume. Eleanor pushed Sam under the train causing him rolled into a ditch and passed out from the pain of a broken leg. The feathers of the costume scattered in the impact, and Sam was presumed dead. Eleanor then uses the Blackbird costume to become an extension of the guilt that Nole felt for his acts, just like the character was intended to do in the project. Nole begins to feel a dark presence following him, never clearly visible beyond a dark shape. Nole begins to believe that the Blackbird, or possibly some form of Sam in the Blackbird costume, is now stalking him. He becomes constantly nervous, and sleep deprived as he begins to have dreams or hallucinations of Blackbird coming into his room to attack him to the point that one of his frat brothers break down his door thinking he was being attacked and murdered.

After deciding to try and appease the Blackbird by apologizing to Christine, the Blackbird initially relents from appearing, but when Nole decides to try and forget about Sam, the Blackbird and Christine because the creature hadn't appeared in some time and get some sleep, the second he closed his eyes the Blackbird began another cacophony of noise. Accepting apology was his only chance, Nole set out to find his former victim, the Blackbird following once more. After minor appearances at Wilbur's Eats and the corridors of Christine's college. Although she doesn't remember him, she accepts the apology, revealing that she had been bullied by others and that she become stronger from it. Soon after, he got a phone call from Sam and his family soon after, revealing Sam was alive and had simply been unconscious in the ditch since the morning of the day before. As Nole had hoped, after apologizing, he didn't see the Blackbird again.

## Trivia

* Blackbird is the fourth original animatronic character to be introduced from the Fazbear Frights series, the first being Fetch, the second being Ralpho and the third being The Stitchwraith.
* It's unclear if the Blackbird was Sam's undead spirit, or if the Blackbird had become sentient, following the rules of its story set by Nole and Sam.
* Blackbird's role is similar to that of Ballora in *Dance with Me*; that is, stalking a person somewhat invisibly until they right a past wrong.