Charlotte Emily

**Charlotte "Charlie" Emily** (also known as (The) **Marionette**) is a minor, but important character. She is William Afton's first victim and Henry Emily's only daughter, who post-mortem merged with the character of Security Puppet, giving her the ability to freely possess and leave the Marionette body whenever she desires. She also has the power to guide other spirits.

In 1987, she was responsible for getting Afton's second set of victims into new bodies, even tho the children all banded together to possess Balloon Boy instead of the bodies she prepared for them. She also attempted to free her friends by throwing a party in the purgatory pizzeria, but failed, leading to the creation of Molten Freddy and events of *Ultimate Custom Night*.

## Appearance

Much like her father, Charlie's skin used to be grey with her eyes black and hollow. Unlike him, however, she wasn't technicolored, appearing with all normal detail. At the time of her death, she wore her middle length dark grey hair in a ponytail, a grey shirt, grey pants and grey shoes. The only colorful accent on her person was the green Security Puppet bracelet.

When in the purgatory, she appears as a featureless, nude, hairless silhouette of dark gray color, wearing a mask taking the form of her vessel - the round, white face with red cheeks of Marionette.

## Story

### Life

Being born through mitosis with her twin brother Samuel "Sammy" Emily in 1980, to her single father Henry, Charlie grew up in Hurricane, Utah.

In 1985, 5 year old Charlie was attending a party at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, before someone pulled a prank on her by blocking the box Security Puppet, whom Charlie was assigned to be guarded by, was inside of, throwing Charlie outside and locking the door. Her father's best friend, William Afton, happened to drive by at that very moment and attempted to help her inside. However, the rage in his heart suddenly caused him to gain the power of death stare, causing Charlie to drop dead the moment their gazes met. Scared of what just happened, William threw her body into the back alley next to Freddy's and drove away. The Puppet, after escaping its box, was able to walk out of the building and find Charlie's corpse. As the robotic guardian pulled itself to her through the rain and embraced the tiny corpse, Charlie's soul got attached to the character, keeping her between worlds as a powerful spectre.

### Returning As Psychopomp

Stuck as a powerless phantom for 2 years, unable to help the 6 kids William killed after her, Charlie was finally able to come back in 1987, after he and her dad brought back the puppet character as the Marionette. After William murdered 5 new children at the establishment, he noticed Marionette floating around and whispering to everything she could see. He considered if this could have been Charlie, but he didn't care enough to check, so he left her alone.

At night, Charlie found the new 5 lost souls, that William didn't bother actually hiding the corpses of and guided them to new bodies of the Toy Animatronics. Instead of going for what she prepared, however, the 5 kids banded together becoming a single oversoul of chaos and possessing Balloon Boy.

For the next week, Charlie was involved with Balloon Boy's coup against Jeremy Fitzgerald II and later Fritz Smith, stopped by the sounds of Dream Wand, an invention of Henry (unaware of Marionette being his daughter), that caused her to fall asleep whenever she heard an old Lullaby.

After The Bite of '87, the New Freddy's location was shut down, with Henry scrapping the whole Toy line of animatronics, except for Toy Freddy and Marionette, as Charlie just vanished. Henry, scared by the idea of Marionette returning to haunt him, started work on an animatronic that would capture and trap her, which he called Lefty.

For 36 years Charlie waited in the purgatory pizzeria for her ghost friends to let go of the material world and let her help them pass on. It also may or may not have been helped by her father's hallucinations of giving kids cakes, as the guard at Fazbear's Fright. She was able to put on a small party for everyone. However, since Charlie never grew up to take any cooking lessons, nor had anything other than remnant and frosting, the cake she prepared wasn't very good. Trying to save herself embarrassment, she pointed saying "Everyone look, it's... uh... William Afton!" and threw the cake on the floor. Assuming she was rudely pranking them, the missing children left her once again. With nobody to brave the unknown with, Charlie came back to earth to repossess the Marionette, which was still intact after all these years, laying in garbage.

After a few days, Marionette's bracelet sensors received a signal, causing Charlie to go check it out. It turned out to come not from a child in need of guardship, but rather Lefty, which Henry finally got around to building. The robot immediately forced Charlie inside its hollow interior, trapping her. This was Henry's doing and only now, after capturing her, did he find out who she was. He wasn't able to let her out, however.

Another month or so after that, Charlie was finally able to escape the literal bear trap, as the machine burnt down in a fire Henry started. This most likely also burnt Marionette, forcing Charlie and the other Missing Children to finally pass on into heaven.

This didn't last long, however, as Cassidy called them all up to come back again and torture William for a bit in a hellish nightmare, presumably taking control of the vengeful recreations of Marionette and Lefty, as well as possibly the fearful reflection of her death, being a new monster, Nightmarrionne. After William managed to beat the ghosts on the hardest possible difficulty, however, Cassidy ditched Andrew and the rest, presumably including Charlie, followed suit.

### Future

Nothing has been teased about Charlie's presence in the future episodes, however it's likely for her to make another appearance if Part 3 is to include an adaptation of the story *You're The Band*.

## Gallery

Charlie moments before her death.Charlie's ghostly form in the purgatory pizzeria.Charlie as Marionette trapped inside of Lefty.

## Referances

1. ↑ https://youtu.be/patvsyqr3Bw?t=1170
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/the\_ooftroop/status/1610261046119260162