William Afton

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**William Bradley Afton** (c. 1950 – c. 1994), formerly **Springtrap**, father of Michael Afton and Elizabeth Afton, is a deceased American cryptid, unidentified serial killer, terrorist, reckless endangerer and vandal, as well as a former businessman, restaurant manager, roboticist, chef and writer from Hurricane, Utah, haunting a corpse-robot hybrid as a spirit, who abducted and killed 12 kids between the years of 1985 and 1987.

Originally an enthusiastic robotics whizz, he and his best friend — Henry Emily — made multiple attempts at creating yellow bear-focused entertainment business due to never seeing yellow bears in person. Their first attempt led to the creation of Ferdinand Von Bernard, engendering the entire universe. Course correcting from the cosmic sentience they accidentally gave Ferdinand, Fredbear was created to much better results. This led to the opening of Fredbear's Family Diner and establishment of Fazbear Entertainment, Inc.. After Fredbear spontaneously combusted on stage due to a nervous breakdown, the duo rebuilt him and created a partner to help solve this problem. This new creation was named Springbonnie, a character William became immediately attached to. The location shut down that same year, however, after a report of Harold Fitzharold and Trevor Rovert's deaths, with The Hurricane Screamer blaming it on a non-existent bite of '83.

The two would soon return with a new restaurant named Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. After Henry didn't give him back his $5, William would go on another murder spree, first killing Henry's daughter — Charlotte Emily, then using Springbonnie to lure and kill 5 more children that same night and accidentally killing a 6th one during The Missing Children Incident of 1985. Finding out about remnant through his murders, William founded his own company — Afton Robotcs, LLC, building a sister location to Freddy's named Circus Baby's Pizza World, filled with child killing machines, to one of which his daughter — Elizabeth Afton — would die, resulting in an immediate shut down. Finally he would come back to Henry, opening a second Freddy's, where he killed yet another set of 5 kids in The Dead Children Incident of 1987.

A springlock failure killed William in 1994, causing him to possess the Springbonnie suit, turning him into Springtrap. Staying in Freddy's safe room, boarded up by Henry, he was only let out in May 2023 by Phone Dude. After escaping the phone man's assassination attempt, Henry burned his pants off, forcing Springtrap to change suit and go back to the name of William Afton. He soon ended up being fully burnt in the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place Fire, but rescued and transferred to a hospital, where possessed by his numerous victims he was tortured through hellish paranormal nightmares.

Having beaten the nightmare game and taken the control of his vessel once more, he is currently planning his schemes, locked up in the burnt down ruins of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place by his son — Michael.

## History

### Biography

#### Early life (1949–1983)

**Between 26 June 1949 and 1951** William Bradley Afton was born in the United States of America, in the state of Utah, possibly in New Harmony, to an unknown family. During his teenage years he attended Hurricane High, where he was already friends with Henry Emily, the two meeting there at the latest. Together the dynamic duo, being robotics enthusiast, made Reginald the Robot as their science fair project. During the fair William had a neck brace, suggesting his absurdly crooked neck was caused by a childhood injury.

As a young adult, William met Eleanor Schmidt and the two began going out, with William telling her that her eyes look like sapphires during their first date being how she fell in love with him.

Sometime that decade the two (William and Eleanor) also got married, moving together into the Afton Residence in Hurricane and were seemingly happy together for a decent amount of time. The couple had two children: Michael Afton (b. c. **1969**)~~, ??? Afton~~ and Elizabeth Afton. The times they reproduced are the only instances of William having intercourse\*.

     At some point in **1970's** he also introduced her to Henry, who was intimidated seeing a real life accountant, her money literacy proving too smart for his comprehension\*.

    Eventually, though, the two divorced in **1980** after William spoiled that Billy Dee Williams would act in *Empire Strikes Back* and Eleanor claimed the kids, as William forgot to do anything about it for 3 years\*.

At an unknown date, William had also invented the audio illusion disks — devices which emit sound frequencies capable of fooling people into seeing things that aren't supposed to be there.

#### Birth of Fazbear Entertainment (1983–1985)

##### Quest for a yellow grizzly

In **January, 1983**, known as a local nobodies, William and Henry were casually walking down the streets of Hurricane. On their walk, they realised that neither of them had ever seen a yellow grizzly bear. The mere thought of this sealed their fates, and the partners took to crafting the most realistic animatronic bear they could muster. Their first attempt did not turn out as amazingly as they would have hoped, with the decrepit machine having giant, unrealistic claws and teeth, muddy fur and tears all over. However, William slapped a few illusion disks (which he kept in the back of his car) onto the robot, making it take form of a beautiful golden grizzly. After this, they named the bear Ferdinand Von Bernard. Aside from looking like a bear and having voice like honey butter, the illusion disk's frequency also managed to grant him sentience and cosmic power beyond human understanding. For whatever reason, this didn't bother William and Henry and they proceeded to let Ferdinand loose upon the town. After Ferdinand caused mass public panic, dined on a local restaurant owner — Joe Thurgood — and fled the police, the duo was once again left without a yellow bear. Since nobody knew or cared who they were, however, they managed to escape any responsibility for the crimes of their godlike ursine creation.

Later that month they designed a new animatronic, simply based on Ferdinand's likeness, naming him Fredbear. This new robot, being both simpler and stupider was considered a downgrade from their previous attempt, but it didn't matter to the duo, as they loved it. They also gave it rubber teeth, as to prevent it from mauling anyone to death like his predecessor did. At first, they didn't have anywhere to put the mascot, so they opted to have Fredbear perform at the Hurricane Dump. This ended up being so amusing to the people of Hurricane that the duo managed to make enough money to buy a vacated diner, where they opened up Fredbear's Family Diner, starting their company — Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. — and preparing for their star to finally perform on a real stage. This also allowed them to invest into making a real artificial intelligence for Fredbear, them coding a near perfect imitation of real sentience. Its compatibility with the hardware was "extremely poorly designed", however, soon to follow in another disaster.

**31st of February** marked Fredbear's stage debut, wit his first and unfortunately last performance resulting in the animatronic spontaneously combusting from a nervous breakdown. William and Henry, heartbroken by the event, decided to take measures so this would never happen again, starting a project originally titled *Not Dumb Robot Plans*. William then stormed the Hurricane Government Building and shouting and threatening a US Government Representative with physical violence, if he doesn't have the government remove February 31st from the Gregorian calendar. His act of terrorism was successful.

Now having avenged Fredbear's untimely demise, William and Henry set out to create something without flaw, but then they invented springlock hybrids instead. These contraptions, capable of being switched between endo and exo-skeleton modes would allow the puppets to function as either autonomous robots, or human-worn costumes. This was done in an effort to allow the animatronics to de-stress when needed and keep them from going on their legally required breaks. They then rebuilt Fredbear, equipping him with this new mechanism, labeling the new model as Fredbear 2.0, as well as making a second, identical, spare version, connected to the same AI network. For extra safety, they also created a new character to be Fredbear's partner and give him emotional support — a golden rabbit which William insisted they name Springbonnie (this being noted as the best he could come up with) with concerning intensity, causing Henry, feeling threatened, to just roll with that name. William was the only person unafraid of testing the suits, which were only held together with paper clips to prevent the spring-locks from snapping into the animatronic mode, impaling the user in the process. After testing Springbonnie, he enjoyed dancing around in the rabbit costume so much that he started developing an obsession with the character, even making a spare for the restaurant whenever he was using the main unit. Since William was still perfectly capable of doing his job, Henry didn't take issue with this new behaviour.

With the improvements they had made, Fredbear's Family Diner became a financial success to a ridiculous degree. The restaurant had become popular enough for them to move forward with an animated series called *Fredbear & Friends!* made by a low budget animation studio, but this presented a new problem for William and Henry. The show-runners requested new characters for the show with more diverse colour pallets. William and Henry had only cared about yellow animals up until now, but they reluctantly obliged and created Leopold, Theodore, Mirabella, and Foxy. Although Henry didn't have any particular problems with the cast, William held deep resentment for them as they existed in opposition to everything he stood for. The colour yellow, apparently.

However, with the duo now being at their peak, William was able to regain custody of his kids. For no specified reason, William implemented cameras into various Fredbear plushies strewn about his house and neighbourhood to monitor his children. ~~As a result, William had the absolute privilege of hearing his younger son confess to the murders of Harold the Janitor and Harold the Cashier.~~ When Harold fell victim to the paper clip spring-locks of spare Springbonnie, William, distraught over the loss of his second favourite costume, broadcasted his tragedy on local news for all to see.

on a **Friday**, Michael's ramblings about an incident with a little brother left William completely perplexed. There was no such younger brother, as William could've sworn he only done s\*x twice. After that, he told Mike to stop making up stories, trash his disrespectful Foxy mask, and take up engineering. Soon after, the police shut Fredbear's down, as the staff at the diner finally reported Harold and Trevor's dead bodies to them. The news media blamed it on an alleged "Bite of '83", where Fredbear supposedly bit a child related to William. When asked about it, he denied any claims of the child's existence. The controversy caused by their restaurant's shutdown and Fredbear's public execution caused William and Henry to lay low for a couple of years.

The controversy caused by their restaurant's shutdown and Fredbear's public execution forced William and Henry to lay low for the next 2 years. One scene showing their hiding had them in a Hurricane railway train, where William read an issue of The Hurricane Screamer about revoking the civil rights of Phone-people, Ferdinand's return and plans to use bears as new guardians for the fatherless, sitting next to David Miller, wearing each others' clothes as to conceal their identities.

##### Big rebranding

In 1985, William and Henry finally resurfaced and used their Fredbear's fortune to buy a new restaurant space and renovate it into their second pizzeria, which they named Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Since Fredbear was dead and the public wouldn't accept him regardless, they took to the Fredbear & Friends side characters to create replacements. They chose Leopold as their new main star, as he was actually a bear like his predecessor. His name, however, proved not marketable enough, so after 5 seconds of brain storming renamed him Fred "Freddy" Fazbear. This also worked out well, since they had already named the pizzeria "Freddy Fazbear's" before this. Initially, Freddy was to be paired with Springbonnie, but William's disdain of all the non-yellow animatronics led to Henry renaming Theodore to Bonnie to serve as an alternative. The duo also decided to add Mirabella (and her pet cupcake) to the band, as to distract people from Freddy and Bonnie being just inferior versions of Fredbear and Springbonnie. Due to lack of overtly feminine characteristics, they arbitrarily renamed her Chica so that any Spanish speakers would know she was female.

Lastly, they created a fourth animatronic based on Foxy. William had a deep-seeded hatred for this character specifically, likely due to the extra theming of a pirate gimmick as opposed to the more vanilla characters he was comfortable with. He even made a list of 50 rules, all of which were methods of attacking the Fox. (The 34th was Eleanor throwing her calculator at the robot.) So, he convinced Henry to shove Foxy into the back corner so everyone would pay attention to the three stage performers. However, as the restaurant opened to moderate success, Foxy immediately became a hit character amongst the customers. In a fit of anger, William ran up to Foxy and kicked him in the knee caps, shattering his legs and putting him out of order. This managed to dissuade the children from crowding around Pirate Cove and they went back to watch the main band instead. Just for good measure, William continued to beat up Foxy after closing to ensure he stayed out of order permanently.

While their animatronic entertainment might have been state of the art for the time, the duo blew the rest of their budget on good table cloths, resulting in lack of proper employed chefs or pizza ingredients. With no other choice, William was put in the cook position, with his dishes being described to taste like cardboard.

Eventually, the partners adjusted to their new business success and were happy with what they had, even without their beloved golden animals.

#### Search for revenge (1985-1994)

##### Loss of $5

On **23rd of June**, not having cash on him, Henry asked William to lend him $5. Not thinking much of it, William fulfilled his friend's request without a problem. While it didn't seem to be much at first, this event would prove the most important in the lives, if not existences, of not only the two men, but the entirety of Utah.

**25th of June** was the day when, after a long day of work, which included repairing Springbonnie, William was extremely hungry. William drove to eat at the local Carl's Jr, as he hated the Pizza at Freddy's. Ordering an original Angus Burger and a large Coca-Cola, Carl's Jr Employee asked him to pay exactly $5. This was the moment that William snapped, having not been returned his borrowed money. William could've easily paid for his food with a $20 dollar bill, but evidently, he only wanted to use a $5 bill specifically. As a result, he angrily sped 1 mile over the speed limit back to Freddy's to confront Henry. Before that though, he found Charlie locked out of the establishment by a group of three bullies. Attempting to help her back in, he wanted to tell her about his problems with her father, but then, out of nowhere, due to the hatred filling his heart, he suddenly gained the power of death stare, accidentally killing the sweet girl. Panicking, he threw her corpse into the alley next to the pizzeria, next to the trash, and drove off from the crime scene before anyone would notice. After calming down, this sudden gainage of magical powers inspired him to do the same thing on purpose to 5 more children in order to spite Henry, each kid for each $1.

After midnight, now on **26th of June**, William returned to Freddy's and put on the retired Springbonnie suit in order to lure 5 children to the safe room. He baited them with the promise of their dead dogs being alive with Old Man Jenkins. Although none of the five had owned a dog before, they figured they'd manage to get dogs for free so they followed William to the back. When it turned out William had lied to them, Cassidy Brooks kicked him in the shins. William was prepared for this, as he had duct taped the springlocks to prevent them from snapping, but this caused the pink to be knocked out of him and he turned purple. Whether or not he physically appears this way is unclear.

Regardless, this attempt on his life angered William enough to immediately death stare all 5 children at once, killing them all instantly. When stuffing their bodies into the animatronics to hide the evidence, Shadow Freddy inadvertently led Andrew Miller to the safe room. Startled by the sudden witness, William accidentally killed Andrew with his death stare as well. After stuffing him and Cassidy in a spare discarded Fredbear suit, William was satisfied with his vengeance and went home for a good night's sleep.

To lay low while the authorities investigated the Missing Children's Incident, William went on vacation to leave Henry to deal with it himself. This led to the police interrogating the only witness to the crime, Shadow Freddy, and somehow the information he had led to the arrest of a man in a Popgoes outfit. Alongside this, the restaurant shut down soon after when the public realised the foul odour of the animatronics coupled with the terrible pizza Freddy's was serving.

##### Sister location

When William returned home from vacation, he got the idea to open up his own pizzeria without the limitations of working with Henry. So, he conceptualised Circus Baby, basing the character on his daughter Elizabeth (despite the two looking nothing like one another) and telling her all about her. Having recently noticed Freddy's animatronics acting strange, he discovered an ethereal substance he dubbed remnant. This lead William to repurpose his ideas for the new pizzeria in order to collect more remnant, his plan involving the animatronics murdering children so he could research the substance. William then created each Funtime Animatronic for a specific purpose. Freddy for marketing appeal, Foxy to finally make his most hated creation less appealing to the public (possibly basing its design on Elizabeth's fox doll), and Ballora to be better at ballet than his ex-wife, Eleanor Schmidt.

One day, when Eleanor came to pick up Elizabeth for a week, she wound up seeing Ballora and fusing with the robot out of anger, causing William to now be stuck with a robot wife dancing around his workshop every day. This didn't stop any of his plans, however and he went ahead and secured a building for this sister location, naming it Circus Baby's Pizza World and doing some test runs for the establishment, letting people come for birthday parties before the grand opening. One of these early parties, however, led to Elizabeth ignoring his demands not to see Baby. As a result, Elizabeth was killed and William shut down everything he had been doing. He deactivated the animatronics, put them into storage, and blew up the restaurant, blaming the event on gas leaks.

##### Grand reopening

Distraught over losing his daughter, William wanted to return to some sense of normalcy. He showed up at Henry's house and they began working on re-opening Freddy Fazbear's Pizza with a new location, which they would advertise as no longer having terrible pizza (because it had no food whatsoever). Despite beginning to clean up the existing animatronics, one look at Foxy prompted William to come up with the Toy Animatronics as new replacements - specifically so he could create a new and uninteresting Foxy variation.

This wound up being too effective, as all of the children were too disappointed by Toy Foxy to focus on any other characters. This led to them turning her into a mangled array of endoskeleton parts, and all this focus on Foxy (now dubbed "The Mangle") made William angry enough to go on another killing spree. This second Missing Children's Incident was much sloppier than the first, as William casually stabbed the kids on camera and left their bodies sitting in the building.

William then noticed The Security Puppet from previous location, whom he suggested they bring back as a regular Marionette, floating around suspiciously, causing him to ponder if it was Charlie possessing it, but he didn't care enough to check. This resulted in the Puppet going right past him and giving the 5 new souls a second chance at life, and so they all possessed William's greatest creation: Balloon Boy.

Records of William's killing spree led Henry to discovering what had happened, so he fired William and the partners' bond finally shattered. William, scared that someone less forgiving than Henry would find the footage, decided to steal the name of one of his victims' parents, Dave Miller, so he could sneak back into working at Freddy's and take care of the problem. "Dave" succeeded in erasing the evidence, and just for extra satisfaction he tore apart the unused 1985 animatronics. This, alongside his general bad vibes in the workplace and repeatedly going to the parts and service to kick the old Foxy in the shins, led to Phone Guy nonchalantly firing him.

William wasn't driven away so easily, though, and he managed to sneak back into the restaurant as a customer using an obvious disguise in order to witness his beloved Balloon Boy commit the Bite of '87. After this, William was interviewed by the local press about the Bite. Not wanting to incriminate his favourite animatronic, William pinned the blame for the incident on Mangle just to spite Foxy some more. He was also asked if the new Foxy was male or female, to which he replied "yes".

##### Another contender in children's entertainment

After Freddy's was shut down once again, with Henry reopening the '85 pizzeria to moderate success, William remembered he still had the Funtime Animatronics sitting around and he opted to create an underground animatronic warehouse facility for his new rental business, named "Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rentals", across the street of Henry's "new" establishment. Some time later, William noticed Baby's eye colour had changed to green, but he brushed it off as him remember it wrong. After she started talking to him about personal matters, however, he realised his dead daughter was haunting the machine and so he locked her up underground, writing a note on the fridge to handle that problem some other time.

##### Sabotage at Freddy's

When Michael Afton had finally returned from engineering school, William decided he needed to take revenge once more to squander Henry's success, so he threw him into the Nightmare Chamber (a crude replica of their house that vaguely resembled the layout of Freddy's, with dangerous, makeshift animatronics that would attack Michael) in order to train him to survive against the deadly animatronics at Freddy's. When Ferdinand Von Bernard interrupted this training process, William gaslit Michael into thinking it was all just a dream before moving on to the main goal.

He had Michael apply with his mother's maiden name as "Mike Schmidt" as to not draw attention to himself, and after a week he attempted to convince Michael to deactivate all of the animatronics to get back at Henry. Mike initially rejected this command and made the animatronics more deadly out of spite, but when Henry fired him for body odour he wound up doing what William wanted.

##### Death of Afton

This proceeded to get Freddy's to close once more, and William seized this opportunity to finally harvest the remnant of the animatronics so he could find success in scientific research and one-up Henry again. He set up a camp in the safe room, where the animatronics were programmed not to enter and bribed Shadow Freddy to lead them to him with a conga line, so he could destroy them one by one. However, this led to the ghosts of the Missing Children appearing before him. Scared the ghosts would kick him in the shins, William donned his Springbonnie suit once again in hopes of it doing something in his favour. Feeling empowered despite this accomplishing nothing, he began to laugh at the ghosts and dabbed. This caused the duct tape he had put on the springlocks to fall off, and paired with the leaking ceiling the springlocks snapped. William, impaled every which way by the springlock failure, wound up experiencing so much agony that his soul bonded with the robot. This new form inspired him to come up with a new name for himself, leading to the rise of Springtrap.

### Necrography

#### 30 years of nothing (1993–2023)

While Springtrap was thinking about integrating himself back into the society, the ghosts showed up once more. Instead of attacking him, however, they offered Springtrap a truce if he would make them a favour. Being very bored, they had Springtrap convert a camera monitor into a TV. Though there was no real way of getting any real channels set up with what they had, so the ghost fraid had to settle for their 3 Seinfeld VHS tapes.

When Henry showed up at the Pizzeria and found Springtrap, explaining to him that he took over Afton Robotics and was now profiting off his work. This made Springtrap livid, with the two former friends beginning to settle things with a regular fight. Henry being more agile than a haunted corpse rabbit took Foxy's dismembered leg and bashed Springtrap in the shins. Fearing the possibility that Springtrap could attempt suing him back, Henry threw him into the safe room and boarded it up.

#### Springtrappin' time (2023)

##### The horror attraction

After 30 years spent mostly by playing the old arcade machines, trying to beat other ghosts' high scores (BigWilly himself achieving 170268 points in one game), on 2nd of May 2023 he was found by Phone Guy's son Phone Dude, tackled and thrown in the back of a track. Fascinated by the 21st century, he hammered Phone Dude with questions about all that's changed, to which the latter responded by throwing him his smartphone. Springtrap immediately adapted to the new tech, tweeting a selfie from Phone Dude's account at 6:46 PM with the caption "My name is Springtrap".

When they had arrived at Phone Dude's new amusement park horror attraction, Fazbear's Fright, he shot Springtrap with a bear tranqualizer and tossed him into the building. After waking up completely delirious, Springtrap decided to walk it off, taking stroll through the fright dome. Tripping over several Fazbear memorabilia, he began to reminisce about his creations so much, his thoughts took the form of sentient phantoms. Not happy with the selection of characters, he tore off Phantom Foxy's right arm. After noticing the building was a huge fire hazard, the phantoms lit themselves on fire to warn their father. He wasn't aware enough to take the hint tho, so he just ignored them and continued his stroll.

When he approached the office, Springtrap was shocked to see Henry again, taking the role of the attraction's night guard. Furious about being trapped in a room for 30 years, he now wanted to wage war against Emily. He bribed the phantoms to start a full assult on Henry's security systems. Due to lack of oxygen, Henry wasn't able to stand up and fight Springtrap again conventionally, so h resorted to playing BB's laughs thought the corridors, with Springtrap always double checking if it wasn't the real deal this time around, desperately wanting to meet his greatest creation once again. This wasted lot of his time.

Fortunately for him tho, Phantom Chica gave him a pair of soundproof earmuffs, letting him run to the office freely. He arrived just in time to see Henry pathetically trying to dial a phone number on the wall tiles. Unfortunately, before he was able to finally death stare his old friend, Henry's camera monitors short circuited, lighting the office on fire. While the phantoms yelled at them that they told Springtrap this would happen, he and Henry finally realised the whole thing was just a set up by Phone Dude to kill them both. Too petty to have their conflict end in a tie, they made a quick truce to escape the flaming building. As soon as they exited the last door, the attraction had completely erupted.

After gathering their bearings, the noticed the local news appear and start taking photos of the event for their naturally dying newspaper. To avoid being sold on an auction, the duo played dead under some rubble. Once everyone went away, the two stood in awkward silence, waiting for the other one to break the truce. After about 32 seconds, Henry pulled one of Springtrap's ear wires and used it to burn his pants off. The smoke settled on top of him, turning his whole body a darker colour, with his defeated eyes now returning back to single white dots.

##### New image

Ashamed about his pantlessness, Springtrap decided the only was to redeem himself would be to get a new suit. Luckily, he remembered he still had a backup one back at the abandoned Fredbear's Family Diner. After a few days, he got to the old location and found out why he left it there 40 years ago. It was the suit in which Harold had died. Springtrap was too embarrassed for this to stop him, however, so he tore it off of Harold's skeleton anyways. His only idea for getting rid of the suit he already had on was to slam into a wall repeatedly. This ended up working a bit too well, with his left forearm getting broken off, leaving but a single, spike-like bone pertruding from him. After changing into the new clothes (his corpse inexplicably morphing into a a more mummified appearance with a normal skin colour), he got worried people would only know the name "Springtrap" as the guy without his pants on, so he went back to his original name. Sadly throwing his old suit into a rubbish bin, Afton left Fredbear's to aimlessly wander Hurricane.

Being now considered one of Hurricane's 6 cryptids, William spent his time being photographed hiding in forests and filmed stalking women coming home from Jr's. After Henry built yet another pizzeria, this one named Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, curious William came to check it out. He was there several times, looking so spooky that one of Henry's managers didn't even have the balls to salvage him. After several of these managers failed their duties, it turned out William's son Mike, now a makeshift purple revenant, took up the mantle. When the two met, William was surprised to see his son again, but he didn't really care. He just bragged to him about how he had already figured out this whole Pizzeria was just Henry repeating Phone Dude's previous assassination attempt on his person, due to fire hazard signs being everywhere. After that, he started to workshop a new name for himself with Michael to no avail, the possible ones including "Gooftrap", "Salvage", "Scraptrap", "Springscrap", "Springtrap 2: Electric Boogaloo", "Burntrap" and "Springbonnieman". Michael, upset about his father not giving a darn about their grand reunion, tased William and threw him into Henry's office.

After William regained consciousness, he immediately tried to attack Henry. His old friend nonchalantely threatening Will with a lighter told him all about his newest creation, L.E.F.T.E., which managed to capture Charlie. William just sat there with a bored expression, as Henry poured his eyes out about not knowing how to let his daughter out. After learning that Henry gave Mike $5000, becoming bankrupt, enraged William scrambled into the vents to take revenge on his son for stealing his chance to finally get his $5 back.

##### Not-so-ultimate custom night

After a few more days of unsuccessfully trying to kill Mike, William was stunned to hear Henry's speech. So much so, that he didn't even realise the whole building got set on fire. After realising what was happening, William tried to escape through the vents to no avail. His body was later discovered and rushed to Hurricane hospital. Not questioning why Will was a robot with a clearly dead charred corpse inside, he was accepted into the hospital and diagnosed with a coma.

When William woke up, he found himself trapped in his dreamscape, with a giant selection screen of 50 animatronics he had some hand in creating, including two versions of himself. He decided the best course of action was fighting them all at once, on the highest possible difficulty. Th only being in this hellscape which was not out to get him was the newest "Rockstar" rendition of Foxy. He was eventually conditioned to finally appreciate the pirate fox. After thousands of attempts, including a few where he got to see Andrew, regarding himself as the creator of this nightmare and the one William shouldn't have killed, William finally beat the mares at their own game and got to leave.

When William awoke, he realised Michael was wheeling him out of the hospital. Excited he got to escape any possible consequences of his actions, he began to concoct some brand-new schemes, right as Mike shoved him back into the wrecked pizzeria and left, having stolen some circuit boards off of William's endo.

### Mellography

Much hasn't been teased about William's story in the upcoming parts 3 and 4. He will return in the digital ghost anomaly form of Glitchtrap for the adaptations of *Help Wanted*, *Special Delivery*, *GGY* and *Security Breach*, as well as in a new vessel in the form of "Burntrap" for the last one.

He's likely to also be involved with the creation of Yellow Thing, Baby Springtrap and Plushtrap Chasers, as well as possible adaptations of other anthology stories he has roles in, these being *Coming Home*, *What We Found*, *Prankster*, *The Scoop* and *Stitchwraith Stingers*.

Nothing is confirmed for now, however.

## Physical description

### Mortal

William Afton appears as a pink man with a long, crooked neck, featuring a yellow badge and black eyes with occasional white pupils. In 1985, Cassidy Brooks kicks the pink out of him and he shifts to a purple hue, and his eyes have perpetual white pupils from then on. After Henry fires William for the second Missing Children Incident, he loses his badge, leaving a tan line where the badge used to be.

### Springtrap

Once springlocked, Springtrap has a withered green rabbit suit with tears and gashes revealing reddish chunks of flesh and his metallic endoskeleton. Alongside this, his eyes now have a yellowish rim with black irises and white pupils, and he has a single red wire sticking out from his broken ear.

Henry later sets Springtrap's pelvis on fire, causing it to burn off of his body and leave him without pants. Ashamed by this, Springtrap shifts to a darker hue and his pupils turn pure white.

After destroying his suit in order to replace it, William briefly appears as purple mangled flesh around a metal endoskeleton. His arm proceeds to break off shortly after this.

### Spare suit

When William dons his backup fursuit, the suit has a more golden hue with a prominent snout, buck teeth, sharp lower teeth on his separated jaw, and more broken ears. His eyes shift from white to grey with black pupils, and his corpse becomes a mix of tan and red. His only remaining hand now features bony fingers jutting out of the suit pieces, while his other arm is a short bone shank with flesh dangling off of it.

After the Pizzeria Simulator fire, William's suit is burnt and darkened with notable grime, and his lower jaw is now missing.

## Personality and traits

William Afton appears to be a sadistic, resentful and chaotic man, determined to achieve his selfish goals without any care for most other people's wellbeing. He seems to enjoy his depraved actions, as he can be seen smiling as he performs them.

He is shown to be extremely vengeful and resentful, holding a grudge for entire decades. After Henry forgets to give him his $5 back, he goes on a quest to destroy everything his former friend held dear. Although he didn't mean to kill Charlie, he still sabotaged Henry's business and ruined his life by murdering twelve children on both Freddy's locations, tampering with the Toy animatronics' facial recognition system, wiping the camera recordings clean, opened Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rentals in front of Freddy's in order to top it off, instructing his son, Michael to sabotage and disable the animatronics' A.I and dismantling the animatronics in order to spite Henry. His resentment was so persistent to the point it remained for years, even after the 30 years of being locked in the safe room, he waged war against Henry after being locked by him in the safe room for so long. And after Henry admits he gave Michael $5000, Afton is so enraged he attempts to assassinate his own son, feeling he robbed him of what he was owed. This can possibly suggest him to have a huge ego, considering his needs, desires and all that he is owed to be more important than those of other people.

Although he tends to blow things out of proportion, considering any wrongs towards him to be way more sever than they actually are, he doesn't seem to recognise this, with his hypocritical comment to Henry's suicide bot blueprints, calling his mentally ill friend a "drama queen".

William has developed an obsession with the Springbonnie character over the years, constantly wearing the various costumes while working, relaxing, or even sleeping. He loves dancing, performing, and pretending to be the big anthropomorphic bunny, so attached to the costumes he considers loss of one a big enough event to broadcast it on live television. Springbonnie is repeatedly described as being his "beloved" character, being William's first choice of murder weapon. Despite this he doesn't show any particular interest in rabbits as a whole, being rather indifferent towards Bonnie and his other iterations. Yellow, specifically gold, seems to be his favourite colour, with any character that appears differently being automatically inferior in his eyes.

He also prefers simpler and un-themed characters, resenting Foxy's pirate gimmick. he shows an extreme hatred towards the character and any of his counterparts, as he was just a rating trap in the *Fredbear & Friends!*. He considers the pirate gimmick "filthy", seemingly believing there to be more elegance to the simpler, plainer designs of Fredbear's other friends. It is shown in multiple scenes how he abuses the original Foxy animatronic, kicking him in the kneecaps so children would lose interest in him, tearing him so he could stay that way permanently and going to the Parts & Service Room in order to kick him in the shins while working under the name of Dave Miller, told Michael to throw away his Foxy mask because he considered it "disrespectful", made Funtime Foxy the lamest and least interest animatronic out of all the Funtime animatronics, tried to made Toy Foxy the most irrelevant animatronic as possible, tried to beat Foxy's high score in Pac N' Pal, ripped Phantom Foxy's hook and rejected the idea of Rockstar Foxy being his only ally during his purgatory, although eventually he appreciated his existence. It doesn't seem to be a problem with foxes themselves, however, as he made a recolour of Funtime Foxy his online avatar. His main problem, aside from the theming, seems to lie specifically in Foxy's race, changing the ginger fur of red fox species for the white of arctic foxes being his first priority when making the Toy animatronics.

William is an expert at fooling, tricking and manipulating people as he was able to convince Missing Children to follow him into the safe room with the promise of their dead dogs actually being alive and safe with Old Man Jenkins, as well as gaslighting Michael into believing the Nightmare animatronics were merely figments of his imagination.

Based on his deniably canon actions in Trash Day, he seems to also be rather lazy, preferring to break his own leg than to take out the trash as Eleanor asked of him.

Despite his flaws, William does appear to be appreciative of what he has. Before Eleanor divorced him, they seemed to be a very happy couple. Losing Elizabeth made William devastated. He seemed to value his friendship with Henry highly before what he considered a betrayal.

## Relationships

### Family

#### Eleanor Schmidt

**Eleanor Schmidt** is William's ex-wife, who possessed Ballora in 1983. The two having met each other as young adults in 1970's quickly fell in love and got married. This love didn't survive too long, however, as less than a decade later the two got divorced and grew to hate each other ever since, William beginning to treat her like an object ever since she began to haunt one of his machines, both taking any chance they could to screw each other over.

The pair met at an unknown point during their young adult years, presumably in 1970's, with their first date being at a romantic restaurant. William was enchanted by Eleanor's beautiful sapphire eyes, while she fell for his corny romanticism. Ever since then the two seemingly were a very happy couple, getting married not much later, with many of the photos in Afton residence showing them enjoy life together. They were so in love they even did the s\*x whopping two times (though thankfully only after marriage), resulting in births of Michael and Elizabeth.

Their happiness didn't seem to last too long however, as William spoiling Billy Dee Williams' appearance in The Empire Strikes Back caused her such distant towards him, she left him immediately, taking the kids. After this event, William grew to feel deep contempt for his ex, likely heartbroken by her departure, so much so that he forgot to even fight for the custody of their children. All the framed photos with her in them, hanging throughout the Afton residence walls, were edited in some way, either crossing her out or sticking Henry's face on them, suggesting William felt a lot of resentment towards her. Despite this, ever since 1983 they met on weekly basis, with Eleanor taking the kids for the weekends, which seemingly annoyed William.

In autumn 1985, William built a robotic ballerina named Ballora out of his contempt for Eleanor, wanting to make something that would upstage her in something she never even thought about doing before — ballet. Whether William forced her to dance for children in the (opened for only one day) Circus Baby's Pizza World goes unsaid, although it is certain that he dismantled her vessel after shutting the place down, despite her being the only possessed funtime robot to his knowledge at the time.

Though they never meet during the events of FNaF5, Eleanor assumes Michael to be William and tries her best to kill him and steal his body, leaving only after her and the other funtimes realise they got the wrong man and while they also never seem to interact during the events of FNaF6, as Gabriel took control of the Molten Freddy amalgamation, Eleanor seemingly joined in on torturing William during FNaF7. This shows how far their relationship has gotten, from wholesome love to absolute hatred towards one another.

#### Michael Afton

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#### Elizabeth Afton

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### Henry Emily

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## Speculation

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## Paranormal powers and skills

### Abilities

* Mortal
* Springtrapped

* **Death stare** - Main form of attack
* **Martial arts** - Tried settling things with Henry "the old fashioned way"
* **Genius intelligence**
	+ **Robotic engineering** - Created variety of fully mobile, autonomous robots
	+ **Coding** - Invented proper Artificial Intelligence
	+ **Bio technology** - created illusion discs
* **Stealth mastery** - Able to lure multiple kids without being noticed.
* **Business management** - Amazing at handling finances
* **Social influencing** - Successfully gaslights Michael into thinking Nightmares weren't real, made Henry believe he was his friend while actively hating him.

* **Immortality** (Types 1, 2, 5, 6 and 7) - Is a haunted corpse-machine.
	+ **Self-sustenance** (Types 1, 2 and 3)
	+ **Inorganic physiology** (Type 1)
	+ **Superhuman physical characteristics** - Speed, strength and durability of a metal skeleton.
	+ **Bodily weaponry** - Springlocks.
* **Death stare** - Main form of attack.
* **Phantom conjuring** - Can create phantoms (fully sapient tulpas comprised of his memories.)
* **Supernatural willpower** - Determined to get his $5 enough to persist after death.
* **Technology manipulation** - Causes cameras to glitch out through his sheer paranormal presence.
* **Martial arts** - Tried settling things with Henry "the old fashioned way".
* **Genius intelligence**:
	+ **Robotic engineering** - Created variety of fully mobile, autonomous robots.
	+ **Coding** - Invented proper Artificial Intelligence.
	+ **Bio technology** - created illusion discs.
* **Stealth mastery** - Able to lure multiple kids without being noticed.
* **Business management** - Amazing at handling finances.
* **Social influencing** - Successfully gaslights Michael into thinking Nightmares weren't real, made Henry believe he was his friend while actively hating him.

#### Optional equipment

* Springbonnie
* Knife
* Car

### Weaknesses

* **Poor planning** - Told Elizabeth about Baby, laughed in old Springbonnie, got distracted by Henry's speech.

## Criminal record

### Kill count

* **First-degree murder** (Capital felony):
	+ Missing Children Incident - Murdered 5 children with a death stare:
		- Smith, Susie
		- Fitzgerald, Jeremiah
		- Johnson, Gabriel
		- Notsmith, Fritz
		- Brooks, Cassidy
	+ Dead Children Incident - Murdered 5 subjects through stabbing, premeditated:
		- Robertson, FNU
		- Unidentified
		- Unidentified
		- Unidentified
		- Unidentified

* **Involuntary manslaughter** (First-degree felony):
	+ Emily, Charlotte - Unaware of his power, accidentally killed her with a death stare.
	+ Miller, Andrew - Surprised by his presence, accidentally killed him with a death stare.

* **Negligent homicide** (Third-degree felony):
	+ Thurgood, Joe - Eaten by Ferdinand Von Bernard, co-created by William and Henry, made dangerous on accident by William adding.
	+ Fitzharold, Harold - Made employee wear Spare Springbonnie.
	+ Rovert, Trevor - Made employee wear Fredbear.

### Other crimes

* 2 counts of **Attempted murder** (First-degree felony) - Emily, Henry and Afton, Michael.
* **Public disturbance** (Class C misdemeanour) - Let Ferdinand Von Bernard loose onto the streets looking like a real grizzly.
* 2 counts of **Reckless endangerment** (Second-degree felony) - Let Ferdinand Von Bernard loose onto the streets, let kids close to Fredbear 1.0, which later combusted in front of them.
* **Reckless endangerment of employees** (Second-degree felony) - had Fitzharold, Harold and Rovert, Trevor wear lethally unsafe costumes.
* **Extortion** (Second-degree felony) - Threatened a US government representative with violence for political reasons (changing the national calendar).
* **Civil rights violation** **based on race** (Class A misdemeanour; Hate crime) - Together with accomplice Emily, Henry did not allow Fredbear and Springbonnie their legally required breaks, based on them being machines, for "a few months".

### Due punishment

* **Imprisonment:** 10 life sentences, 86 years and 2 month without possibility of parole.
* **Capital punishment:** Exorcism through fire.
* **Monetary liability:** Fine of up to $83,250.

## Etymology

*Main article: Names and Aliases of William Afton*
### William Afton

* **William** (/ˈwɪljəm/) is a male given English name derived from the Germanic name *Wilhelm*, meaning "resolute protector" or "strong-willed warrior". It ultimately descends from Proto-Germanic *Wiljahelmaz*, with a direct cognate also in the Old Norse name *Vilhjalmr* and a West Germanic borrowing into Medieval Latin *Willelmus*. The Proto-Germanic name is a compound of *wiljô* "will, wish, desire" and *helmaz* "helm, helmet". It became very popular in the English language after the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and remained so throughout the Middle Ages and into the modern era. Its diminutive forms in English include *Will*, *Wills*, *Willy*/*Willie*, *Bill*, *Billy*/*Billie*, *Wull*, *Wully*/*Wullie* and *Liam*, with the female forms being *Willa*, *Willemina*, *Wilma* and *Wilhelmina*. Although Scott Cawthon has never officially talked about his reasoning for this choice of name, it appears to be in reference to the "strong protector" meaning behind it, referencing William's determined nature of always coming back to kill more.
* **Afton** (/ˈæftən/) is a rare surname of British origin, being a habitational name from a places called Afton, examples of which are hamlets in Devon and Isle of Wight in the UK, with the bloodline's ancestors being pure blooded Anglo-Saxtons, originally coming from German regions of Western-Central Europe. The name is speculated to have been chosen by Scott in reference to his own, very similar sounding surname, due to In The Flesh's relationship between Matt and Springtrap being a possible parallel that of Scott and real Springtrap, him wanting to base the Purple Man on a twisted, demented version of himself.

### Springtrap

* **Springtrap** (/ˈsprɪŋtræp/) is a male nickname made up of the words *spring* and *trap*, meaning "Trap made from springs" or "One trapped in a springsuit". It comes from combining the first part of Springbonnie's name — Spring (which in itself is a pun referring both to its nature as a springlock hybrid made up of elastic coils, rabbits' affinity to hop around and the first template season.) — with William's condition of being a poltergeist bound to the vessel of this springlock endoskeleton and his old corpse entangled in it.

### Dave Miller

* **Dave** (/deɪv/) is a diminutive of **David**, a male given name derived from Hebrew *דָּוִד*, the name of an important biblical figure King David, name meaning "beloved one". derived from the root *dôwd* (דּוֹד), which originally meant "to boil", but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in the figurative usage "to love"; specifically, it is a term for an uncle or figuratively, a lover/beloved. Its diminutive forms in English include *Davey*, *Davi* and *Daveth*, with the female froms being *Davina*, *Davinia*, and *Davida*. The name, stolen by William from David Miller in the main undeniable canon, first appeared without a backstory in *The Silver Eyes* simply as an alias used by Afton as a guard in the abandoned mall built around Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in 1995. This name might have been chosen as during the events of novel timeline, William tricks the Missing Children into seeing him as their father, telling Charlie that "Your father loved, and now I have loved", this love ending up an important theme throught the trilogy.
* **Miller** (/ˈmɪlər/) is an occupational suname of English, German, Irish or Scottish origin, common in the United States, deriving from the bloodline's forefathers working as millers. The surname may also be translated from many cognate surnames from other European languages, such as *Mueller*, *Müller*, *Mühler*, *Moller*, *Möller*, *Møller*, *Myller*, or *Milleiir*. The surname, stolen by William from Dave Miller in the main undeniable canon, first appeared without a backstory in *The Silver Eyes* simply as an alias used by Afton as a guard in the abandoned mall built around Freddy Fazbear's Pizza in 1995. While originally it most likely had no deeper meaning than being an unassuming, common American surname, it may now be connected to the steel mill primarily appearing in *Into the Pit* and mentioned in *He Told Me Everything*, with the town (despite featuring a school named "Westbrook High") being widely speculated to be Hurricane.

## Behind the scenes

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## Trivia

* Springtrap's expression at 2:39 in part 2 is a reference to Tails gets Trolled comic's most iconic panel.
* William is considered by fans to be one of the mascots of *AUCFNAFT*.
* Despite his posh estuary London accent, William has never once having stepped foot in England\*. This could either imply he comes from an Anglo-American family, being a generation 2+ immigrant, which can be supported by his son, Michael, considering himself a Briton. Alternatively, he could just be faking the accent to sound smarter.

## Gallery

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## See also

* Springbonnie
* Spare Springbonnie
* William Afton's car
* Afton residence

## Notes and references

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Stated to have been "young adult" (18–25) in *Undeniably Canon FNaF - Eyes Like Sapphires* video description, before Michael's birth circa 1969. Stated to have been 35 while purple by driver's license, between 26 June 1985 and death circa 1994.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (January 8, 2023). My William has never even step foot in Britain. external (Tweet)
– via Twitter.
3. ↑ Undeniably Canon FNaF - Eyes Like Sapphires
4. ↑ the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (January 11, 2023). It's true. external (Tweet)
– via Twitter.
5. ↑ the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (February 26, 2023). William introduces Eleanor to his friend (1970s at some point probably) external (Tweet)
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6. ↑ the ooftroop explaining how being good with money is too much intelligence for Henry's brain.
7. ↑ the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (September 9, 2022). Bonus lore about William Afton and Eleanor Schmidt. external (Tweet)
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8. ↑ the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (February 7, 2023). WHY WOULD YOU TELL ME THAT BEFORE I SAW IT?? external (Tweet)
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9. ↑ the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (September 9, 2022). Eleanor just kinda claimed them and William forgot to do anything about it for like 3 years. external (Tweet)
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10. ↑ the ooftroop explaining what rule 34 is.
11. ↑ *Five Nights at Freddy's*, The Hurricane Screamer 1985 issue #1.
12. ↑ the ooftroop wandering whether to reveal Glitchtrap's Undeniably Canon design early.
13. ↑ the ooftroop showing off his first attempt at designing an Undeniably Canon "Burntrap".
14. ↑ Shion [ShionAH] (22 April, 2023). Springtrap Speed Calculation external (Post)
– via Fandom.
15. ↑ the ooftroop [@the\_ooftroop] (6 January, 2023). I don't think anyone has picked up on this but Springtrap's face in this shot was based on Tails Gets Trolled (Tweet) – via Twitter.