Purple Guy

**William Afton**, also known as "**The Purple Guy**" is a major antagonist in the *Sean In The Vyond World* series. He was based on his counterpart from the *Five Nights at Freddy's* video game series.

## Appearance

In the actual game(s), Purple Guy was only seen in (8bit) minigames and usually depicted as a purple humanoid figure with black eyes and sometimes a yellow badge. Although Sean Morawski's version is depicted as a man with dark wine red hair, thin eyebrows, a pointy nose, and droopy eyes. Like his nickname suggests, he wears mostly purple with a purple security cap, suit, indigo tie, dark purple pants with large pockets on the outside, bluish purple sneakers, and instead of a badge, he wears a nametag.

## Personality

William Afton's background is mostly told via silent actions within retro-graphics, or by reading between the lines throughout the games. Between his mini-game presence and piecing together information gleaned from most of the games, the community has been able to piece together some information about William all together.

From what we know, William Afton is more or less the textbook definition of evil. He is an extremely malevolent, sadistic, and cruel man showcasing himself to be increasingly psychopathic and demented, being able to hide his true nature under a mask of politeness and even smiling sadistically whenever he commits his depraved actions, judging from both the intro of *Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location* and several 8-bit minigames across the series. According to his voice actor, PJ Heywood, Afton's voice is inspired by Hannibal Lecter, in a way that he's unnervingly calm even when about to kill someone, which is supported by some of his novel counterpart's quotes. Contrary to common fan interpretations, Afton isn't insane or otherwise psychotic in any way, but instead is a very calm and sophisticated individual who barely raises his voice or loses his cool throughout his screen time, which makes him even more intimidating.

William is an expert at manipulating people. He psychologically manipulates his son, Michael, by presumably making him believe his sister is still alive and okay in order to force Michael to obey his order. He managed to convince various children by wearing his Spring Bonnie costume to follow him into the Safe Room to be murdered, convincing Michael to enter Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental, and it presumably took Henry a while to realize his best friend murdered his daughter. Afton isn't above using people's personal issues to manipulate them, convincing Susie to follow him with the promise of her dead dog actually being alive. Also, assuming he isn't the Orange Guy from *Midnight Motorist*, he could've manipulated an unnamed boy by coming over to his house and making him break out of his home to Freddy's, knowing he did it more than once so he can escape his abusive life.

William's sadism goes even deeper, as he seems to have a desire to not only kill his victims, but to make them suffer in fear and agony before they die, outright claiming he's "sustained" by it (assuming his AR copies are fully accurate towards the real deal). This is further shown in the *FNaF VR* Pizza Party minigame where the Mimic, which is supposed to replicate Afton, dances happily after stuffing the player in a Freddy Fazbear suit, implying William was having the time of his life killing. Afton also has an ego and is overconfident of his abilities, constantly getting himself in many dangerous situations, such as charging straight at the animatronics to destroy them or walking into a several deadly traps while being fully aware it might kill him, all with a smile on his face and claiming he "always comes back". However, while he might constantly claim he will come back from anything that's thrown at him, Afton uses those boasts to hide his extreme fear of death, as shown through him panicking in utter terror when confronted by the ghosts of his victims, with implications he even begged Michael and/or Henry for help when burning to death. This is also the most likely reason why he has such an iron will to live, being aware of the fact that, if Hell exists in the series, there's a special spot reserved for him.

Despite his sadistic and dangerous tendencies, it is implied that he didn't want his daughter Elizabeth to die, as he warned her not to go near Baby, and later sent Michael to Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental to free her. Elizabeth also implies that William made Baby in her honor, making his daughter the only person that he may have cared about. However, *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator* implies that he has a dysfunctional relationship with his daughter, and that he is responsible for influencing Elizabeth's blood lust and sinister behavior (although this might also be because of Baby's programming corrupting Elizabeth). He also may have even wanted her to continue his murderous legacy alongside him. Besides, he knew that Circus Baby was possessed by Elizabeth, yet still allowed his employees to shock her. There have even been some theories that Afton *wanted* Elizabeth to be killed by Baby and used reverse psychology to do so, claiming he created the robot for his daughter but not allowing her to play with it while making her watch as she interacts with the other children.

Adding to that, in the *The Fourth Closet*, although a separate timeline from the games, shows that William was an abusive father to Elizabeth, going so far as hitting her and pushing her to the ground when she simply disrupted his work. Taking in the fact of how both versions of William act almost completely identical to each other, it's possible that he didn't have an emotional connection to Elizabeth in the mainline story either, rendering him to be truly heartless.

William's motives for his actions, as well as his backstory, remain unknown to this day, with many believing he became a killer because he was driven by some unknown tragedy (most often interpreted as the loss of his family), a selfish goal for immortality, or he was just a twisted and sadistic monster who wanted to see people suffer, while some believe his motivation might be a combination of the above. However, there is still no official confirmation as to why Afton became the monster he is today.