William Afton

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### Image

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### Occupation

Businessman
Co-founder of Fazbear Entertainment
Serial killer
CEO of Afton Robotics
Night guard (Formerly; Implied)

### Goals

Murder children at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza
Use funtime animatronics to murder children(both succeeded for a while).
Get away with his crimes(failed).
 Closeup Freddy Fazbear's pizzeria(succeeded).
Destroy original four animatronics(succeeded).
Scare away the spirits of the five children(failed).
Kill Michael(possibly & indirectly succeeded).
Continue killing spree with his daughter(failed)

### Crimes

Vandalism
Corpse Desecration
Murder
Theft
Kidnapping
Manipulation
Torture
Mind controlling people
Tampering
Assault

Vorlage:Quote**William Afton**, also known as **The Purple Guy**, later dubbed **Springtrap**, is the main antagonist of the *Five Nights at Freddy's* franchise.

He is the founder of Fazbear Entertainment along with his business partner Henry Emily. However, he was secretly a serial killer who used the Springbonnie suit to lure and kill dozens of children.

He was voiced by PJ Heywood.

## History

*Note: Given that the Five Nights at Freddy's story is told out of chronological order, the history of William Afton is presented in the order the events occur to him.*

### Summary

William Afton was a businessman. In the early 1980s, he met an engineer named Henry Emily. The two opened Fredbear's Family Diner. At some point as seen in the FNaF 2 minigame, Take Cake to the Children, William drove up to a Freddy's and killed Henry's daughter Charlotte, leading her to possess the Puppet.

Willian then used a Yellow Bonnie suit to lure 5 children into the Safe Room. As seen in the FFPS minigame Fruity Maze, he began with a girl called Susie, promising her that her dead dog was alive. After this the children’s corpses into Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Golden Freddy suits. After this, the Puppet gave them life, allowing them to possess the animatronics.

### Five Nights at Freddy's 4

William appears in a cameo in the fourth game, set in 1983, helping out someone with the Spring Bonnie costume in the back room. He is the father of the Crying Child and the Older Brother (Michael is the older brother).

### Five Nights at Freddy's 2

In the second game, set in 1987, he is implied to have been the nightguard before Jeremy Fitzgerald. During the Summer of that year, He was attacked by the animatronics, and complained about conditions, and thus was moved to the dayshift. As indicated in the minigame SAVETHEM, he then went to use a spare yellow suit to murder 5 more kids, and could be seen attacking Freddy, leaving behind the message "You can't" in response to his and the Puppet's wish to save the children. This implies that by this point William Afton is aware of the souls of the children possessing animatronics. Afton also seems to be the one who altered the 'Toy' Animatronics facial recognition software, which made them hostile to the employees of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Afterwards, he fled, leaving the dayshift slot "available".

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### Sister Location

William Afton appears in *Sister Location*, this time actually using his real name. In the opening scene of Si*ster Location* an entrepreneur asked him questions about the new animatronics. He inquired why certain features were added and express their concerns, but William avoided answering the specific features they refer to. He also created the animatronics and was the former owner of the Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental and, by extension, Circus Baby's Pizza World. William had in fact created the animatronics to kill children. William’s daughter, Elizabeth, snuck off to meet Circus Baby. She got to close however and got scooper by Circus Baby. After this, William closed down the restaurant under the pretence of gas leaks, and moved the animatronics into the rental facility.

In FFPS, it's implied William gave the Scooper, used to dismantle animatronics, a second function, to inject a substance called Remnant into the animatronics, seemingly able to bind souls to bodies. At some point after setting up the rentals facility, he instructed his son Michael to go on a suicide mission to the underground facility and find his sister, indicating he knows his daughter's soul is within Circus Baby.

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### Five Nights at Freddy's 3

In the Night 5 minigame it is revealed that, after William destroyed the animatronics, he was chased by his victims into the Safe Room, which contained Spring Bonnie. After being chased around the Safe Room, William ran to Spring Bonnie and wore it to protect himself. The lock mechanism faltered as William laughed in the suit, as well as the fact that there was rain dropping down through the roof, due to the fact that the spring locks will break from moisture, thus killing him slowly as his body slumps to the floor. He then started to rot as 30 years pass by the year is exactly 2023. The Fazbear's Fright crew found him, and installed Springtrap into the attraction on Night 2.

When in Fazbear's Fright, Springtrap hunted the Guard. Springtrap usually hid on secluded areas of a camera's field of view, but stared straight into CAM 01, CAM 09, and CAM 13. When around The Office, Springtrap stared at the Guard through the window. When about to attack, he peeked in from behind the door. He also briefly appeared from the right, only to slink away. Springtrap was susceptible to audio distractions and constantly followed the source of the noise the Guard created, only following the sound when played in a location close to him. He was also susceptible to the vents being sealed, due to using them. After the ventilation system is left with errors for too long, which the guard started hallucinating, seeing multiple Springtrap's in the camera. After 5 nights of hunting the guard, the building burnt down. Springtrap was seen in the newspaper picture taken after the fire. He was then seen later in Sister Location again in a cut scene. Springtrap is seen to have survived the worst of the fire, and is seen leaving the burnt out husk of Fazbear's Fright.

### Sister Location

In *Sister Location'*s Custom Night final cutscene, Springtrap is seen to have survived the worst of the fire, and is seen leaving the burnt out husk of Fazbear's Fright.Vorlage:Scroll Box

### Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator

Springtrap has returned in *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator* under his real name, William Afton, and has deteriorated to the point where much of the suit has been replaced. Afton is one of the animatronics who received a call to gather at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Place on Tuesday.

Unlike the other animatronics however, Afton suspected the call to be false, but decided to go anyway just out of curiosity. Michael Afton, his son, salvaged him, seemingly for scrap. If the player chose to discard him, the completion ending on Saturday is prevented, as all the animatronics need to be present in the Pizzeria. Henry played five different audio prompts through the tapes, and Michael had to document Afton's response times. After the fifth audio prompt, the salvage ended and Michael got $1000 for the salvage. Afton assured him that he knew the call was "deceptive," but it was intriguing.

From Wednesday onwards, Afton hunted Michael through the vents, while being lured around by the sounds of children. On Saturday, it's revealed that Henry was responsible for sending out the call to the animatronics and had lured them all into a trap. Afton meets his final end when he is incinerated with the other animatronics, Michael and Henry, during which the Henry tells him, "...the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't keep the devil waiting old friend."

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### UCN

William Afton is heavily implied to be the protagonist of *Ultimate Custom Night*, having been sent to Hell after the events of *Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator*. It was a personal hell for him created by "The One [he] should not have killed", forcing him to fend off animatronics, before eventually getting killed by them, before the whole scenario would begin all over again, for eternity. A distorted voice, implied to be William's, could be heard in the Old Man Consequences minigame, screaming in rage.

#### Springtrap

Springtrap appears as a customizable antagonist in both his FNaF 3 and FFPS form. Springtrap sneaks through the Air Vents to get to the protagonist, with him being tracked by the protagonist. Springtrap is silent, and the protagonist checks if his face appears at the front vent. Closing the vent door sends Springtrap back to his original position. Afton only attacks once per night, with no warning, from the vent on the right wall. A violent clamoring sound and flickering lights are the only indication of his attack, and the protagonist has to close the vent door.

### Help Wanted

Glitchtrap, the main antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted, is implied to be a digital version of William Afton. They play a huge role in the game as they torment the player. They try mind controlling the player and anyone they come into contact with. In the game after the player finishes the game glitchtrap takes over the players mind in a way. This happens by them quite literally entering their mind they then become a servant of Afton's. They would soon mind control the tape girl(vanny) as well as many other play testers. One of these testers was Jeremy Fitzgerald they resisted though, this would be futile as they would kill themselves to try and resist Malhare's effect and it worked. Glitchtrap didn't seem to care much though about his death; they would be taken down by Golden Freddy. This would end Malhare and free all of William's servants putting a minor dud in his plans.

#### Springtrap

Springtrap features in *Help Wanted* as a character in the VR game *The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience*. He functions exactly like he does in Five Nights at Freddy's 3.

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## Books

Purple guy has appeared in several books in the Fazbear Fright's series. Keep in mind this version of him is separate from the Novel version and that version of William can be found here.

### Before the Stingers

William Afton was one of the founders of Fazbear Entertainment, and unlike his other iterations, was well known for his murders. He committed several murders while wearing the Spring Bonnie suit, including that of Andrew and presumably of Susie as well. He was eventually caught in a horrific fire, but Andrew attached his soul to him, to anchor him to life so he could suffer.

### *The Man in Room 1280*

He's eventually put in Heracles Hospital in Room 1280, his body being completely burnt and on the verge of death, with Andrew still inside of him and tormenting him in his mind. The government later took him off of life support. However, he continued to live. During his stay, he became the source of speculation amongst the nurses, sensing something evil in him, a theory that's further believed after scans revealed two minds inhabiting his brain.

Years later, local priest Arthur Blythe was called to the hospital to give him his last rites, but William began to communicate with him, first by creating beeps through the monitors, and next by tracing letters with a single finger, spelling out FAZBENTERDISCENTER. Arthur figured out that it was short hand for the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, which Arthur then figured out he wanted to visit. He began to petition for the hospital to allow the man to visit, initially being refused. All three nurses attempt to kill William, but all are prevented by Andrew.

During this time, Arthur was able to pester the hospital enough to be granted temporary custody of William to take him to the distribution center. When they arrived, he burst into chunks of flesh and gristle, seemingly releasing the tormenting specter, as evidenced by tiny footsteps coming from the man. William lives from this as well, anchoring on Andrew without him knowing. William was also able to manipulate Andrew's anger, allowing it to have deadly effects on whatever it touched.

### *Stitchwraith Stingers*

William remains anchored to Andrew without his knowledge for a long time, up until the point where Andrew possessed an animatronic dog named Fetch. This dog eventually ended up in the possession of Phineas Taggart, a scientist that studied human emotion and its power. One day, the broken down Fetch animatronic, a three foot tall doll and an animatronic endoskeleton were used in Phineas' experiments, the three objects put together to form a being that had agony soaked in from several other miscellaneous objects from his collection. This being comes to life and kills the doctor.

Andrew awakens inside of the endoskeleton, meeting another dead child named Jake, who is in control of the body they're in. Andrew reveals that he had used his anger to infect a number of items, back when he was at the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center. Jake decides to search around for the items and destroy them so they won't cause any harm. With a sentient endoskeleton wandering around, it was bound to be seen by people, and it was labelled as an urban legend; the Stitchwraith. William remains in hiding during their hunt, planning to reveal himself when the time is right. During this time in hiding, he was also able to channel Andrew's anger, so that any person the Stitchwraith touched felt the emotions pulsing through them to the point where they bled black and died, thus forcefully turning Andrew and the endoskeleton they were in into a killing machine.

After collecting several items, such as the deactivated remains of Fetch, the crushed parts of a Plushtrap Chaser, an Ella doll and a torn apart Foxy animatronic, Jake begins to destroy the items, but is stopped by Detective Larson, a police investigator that had been trying to find the Stitchwraith. Andrew attempts to kill the detective, but Jake stops him, causing the Stitchwraith to fall into the trash compactor they were using.

When Jake tried to pull Andrew into his memory to keep him safe from the annihilation of the Stitchwraith, William revealed himself, first as a colorful, shapeless blob, and then as the burnt skeletal man from before, but this time with two rabbit ears and a claw. Andrew mysteriously disappeared, and William's mangled form attacked Jake, engulfing him in darkness temporarily. William's spirit then fused with the huge mound of junk comprising of the Plushtrap Chaser, Ella, Fetch and Foxy. After fusing with the four animatronics, he began to suck in even more of the junk around him, including Eleanor, a female shaped endoskeleton. This fifteen foot tall amalgamation of animatronic scrap plans to attack Larson.

Afton was able to get an advantage by stabbing Larson, transferring his infection to him, but Larson persevered. Afton was impaled by a forklift drove by the detective, crashing through the walls of factory and towards the lake nearby. Afton overpowers Larson's force, crushing the forklift to pieces, but not before the broken mask of the Puppet, as well as several of its limbs went within Afton's new form.

From there, the Puppet was able to make the animatronic parts free themselves from the salvaged fusion, forcing the Agony to tear itself apart. Afton screams as his form dissipates, and the broken body of trash fell into the water. Afton, alongside the Puppet and the other animatronic parts, sank into the bottom of the lake never to be seen again. Larson lived, as the Stitchwraith (now solely possessed by Jake) used its energy to burn away at the detective's wound, removing the last remains of Afton's infection finally putting down the serial killer, for good.

### After math

Later William would end up splitting his soul and those fragments of his soul going towards the like of Glichtrap and Bunttrap.

## Personality

Afton was once a kind hearted man before tragedy ruined his life. He was extremely nice, every child in his family is adopted as Afton believed in giving kids a home who didn't have any and his rival Henry Emily who worked for the rival restaurant at the time was going bankrupt, so William bailed him out of bankruptcy despite him working for the rival restaurant and the whole reason why he created Freddy's in the first place was to entertain kids and make them happy. He had always dreamed of a place like that where kids could have fun all the time, until the day tragedy struck and this tragedy would lead to Afton doing the horrible crimes he did this tragedy was dubbed as the "*The Bite of 83"**.*** He went to drastic measures to revive his family sadly it would all be for nothing as these tragedies would keep on happening and it slowly caused William to go off the deep end and start killing for fun. Along the way (before he went insane) he found out that by harvesting something called *Remnant* he could become immortal. It was also the same material he was using to bring back his family as well. Even though he went insane he still cares for his daughter and his son Michael and chuck. He only attacked Micheal because they had become a giant purple thing now and he didn't recognize them anymore. Which shows that deep down despite the evil he has done he still has a heart underneath that robotic suit. Though this is merely a theory; there is strong evidence to prove this.

## Powers and abilities

* ***Manipulation***- Afton can manipulate several people into getting what he wants and he has shown to be very cunning while doing this.
* ***Fighting experience***
* ***Super strength***- Afton has proven to be able to take about metal robots as a mere human. This is only him as a human so him as a robot should be stronger than this due to his body being made out of metal.
* ***Enhanced durability-*** due to him being a robot, he should have considerably good durability due to his robotic biology.
* ***High IQ***
* ***Stealth***
* ***Master of disguise***
* ***Machine tampering***
* ***Immortality***
* ***Short range teleportation***
* ***Fear gas-*** Purple guy has invented a gas which causes people to hallucinate and make them see things which are frightening to them. He only ever uses this to scare his kids from going to Freddy's, due to him being worried for their safety and protection; it could be extremely useful in a fight. In other words Afton pulls a Scarecrow.
* ***Possession***- If Afton touches a living thing he can still infect them with Glitchtrap. This effect is slow but if the person is not near something very hot then they can't cure it. If it fully spreads on the organism they are completely under his control. It starts as a purple spot and slowly spreads across the organism, although they do not turn purple in the process but they will still have a purple spot in the area they were touched.
* ***Mind control***- Afton can mind control people as Glitchtrap to turn them into his servants.
* ***Teleportation (digitally as Malhare)***
* ***Technokinesis (as Glitchtrap)***
* ***Datakinesis (As Glitchtrap)***
* ***Time travel-*** Afton can only time travel by using the time traveling ball pit in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

### Weaknesses

* ***Fire***- Fire can burn away Afton's remnant if it's hot enough which will take away his immortality.
* ***Cockiness***- Springtrap is VERY cocky he often likes to take his time to play with his victims since he underestimates his victims. This can be proven with several voice lines in the series. It would also explain why he doesn't go for the kill at the very start it's because of how cocky he is.

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## Gallery

### Purple Guy

Fivenightsatfreddyspurple5.pngAfton murdering Charlotte.Stuff3.gifWilliam putting the mask of the Spring Bonnie suit onto a fellow employeeFNAF 6 - Secret MinigameFNAF 6 - Secret MinigameOrange guy 1.jpgPurple guy in FFPS minigame midnight motorist.Orange guy 2.pngPurple guy in FFPS minigame midnight motorist.
### Springtrap

Afton 3.jpgAfton in the UCN Select Screen.Springtrap desk.pngWilliam Afton at the salvaging desk.Afton death scene 1.webpA rare screen showing purple guy's corpse in the suit in fnaf 3.Afton death scene 2.pngA rare screen showing purple guy's corpse in the suit in fnaf 3.Burnttrap next to charging station.jpgBurnttrap next to his charging station in SB.

## Trivia

* His actual motivation for killing the children is still a mystery, although many people assume he did as part of an experiment to become immortal. But other reasons as to why he may have killed was so that he could bring back his family, this however is just a theory.
* His real name is Billy but he prefers to go by William.
	+ *Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator* implies the latter, as a blueprint reveals the Scooper’s purpose; to transfer remnant, a substance that gives a soul its ability to remain after death, into the animatronics.
	+ Furthermore, a minigame accessed during the Midnight Motorist arcade game features a man depicted by a yellow sprite, who is shown to be abusive to his son. The "yellow man" is speculated by some to be William's father, and Michael and Elizabeth's paternal grandfather, causing some to believe that William's child murders stem from his own abusive childhood at the hands of his father.
		- Although it is more likely that the Yellow Guy is Afton himself. It is unknown why his sprite was changed from purple to yellow, though it is likely to not have him confused with Michael.
* He is the main antagonist of the series. However, he did not appear in FNaF 1, but was referenced in newspapers about the Missing Children's Incident.
* In *Ultimate Custom Night*, William reuses his line "I always come back" after his jumpscare. Ironically, his mechanic involves showing up once per night, so he definitely won't come back.
* He is British.
* He was arrested in 1985 as he was the prime suspect in the missing children incident. He was released however due to the lack of evidence.
* William could have been inspired by:
	+ Vorlage:W, a engineering entrepreneur who created the *Showbiz Pizza Place*'s animatronics. Scott Cawthon actually met Fechter in person.
	+ Nathan Dunlap who, after being fired from *Chuck E. Cheese*, shot four of the five employees fatally and injured the fifth in the 1993 Aurora, Colorado, shooting.
	+ This creepypasta, which tells the story of a mascot of *Chuck E. Cheese* who had severe mental problems and begun thinking that he was the real Chuck E. Cheese. However, he began killing children and using their meat for pizza.
	+ Freddy Krueger, due to them both being sadistic child murderers who become more powerful in death.
	+ The one confirmed inspiration is Hannibal Lecter, but that's only for his voice.
		- As of version 1.031 of FNaF 3, Springtrap now makes footsteps and moaning noises when he moves.\*\*\*\*Some people have assumed that the moaning noise is Afton inside of the Spring Bonnie suit trying to talk.
		- He is named after a trap device of the same name which is used for catching animals during hunting, and the fact that he is in a Springlock suit.
		- Occasionally, when the game starts up, one of three images of Springtrap revealing the William's mummified corpse inside of him may appear, similarly to the eyeless Bonnie screen from the first game and the eyeless screens from the second game.
		- Before having his name confirmed, the most common name for this animatronic coined by fans was 'Golden Bonnie' as fans believed that Springtrap was somehow connected to the similar-looking animatronic Golden Freddy, while also retaining a resemblance to Bonnie.
			* Two more common fan-given names were 'Hybrid' and 'Salvage', for fans believed that Springtrap was made from the parts of dismantled animatronics.
			* Coincidentally, Springtrap *is* a hybrid of a human and an animatronic
			* Another coincidental detail is that Springtrap is implied to have been "salvaged" after the restaurant was shut down.
		- In the promotional photo for *Sister Location*, Circus Baby appears to be smiling at someone off-screen, and the figure reflected in her nose looks suspiciously like Springtrap - this led fans to believe he would return in *Sister Location -* while he was not the main antagonist, he did appear in an ending cutscene after the Custom Nights, revealing himself to still be alive after Fazbear's Fright burned down and foreshadowing his return in *FFPS*.
		- As well as being an antagonist in UCN, Springtrap can be seen in the FNaF 3 version of the Office. This is presumably a hallucination, as it doesn't disappear even when Springtrap is active.
			* Burntrap was the only antagonist in *Security Breach*'s main game to be unable to attack and jumpscare the player directly.
			* Despite a few lines of dialogue in the *Security Breach* trailers seemingly coming from some form of Glitchtrap, Burntrap never speaks throughout his entire encounter.
			* Upon close inspection, it can be seen that the unused model for Spring Bonnie that was originally intended for *Help Wanted* was partially reused and heavily edited for parts of Burntrap.
				+ One of the character artists for *Security Breach* who worked on Burntrap, Johnathan Gonzalez, stated that his base model came from characters in *Help Wanted*.
			* Burntrap's name, while never mentioned in-game, was confirmed via his files, as well as Steel Wool's blog post for the February patch.
				+ Despite this, the Character Encyclopedia states that "Burntrap" is not the character's canon name. Interestingly, no alternative name is given in the book.
			* While it is unknown who voices Burntrap's various laughs within the game, it is possible that it might've been Matthew Curtis, as he was originally meant to voice the character.
			* Burntrap's true identity is currently unknown. Many believe him to be a revived William Afton or even Glitchtrap, although this has yet to be debunked.
				+ Some others believe him to be an incarnation of the Mimic having fused with the unidentified burnt corpse in Burntrap's body. Although there is little evidence for this theory.

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