Eleanor Schmidt

*Not to be confused with the upcoming antagonist Eleanor.*
**Eleanor Schmidt** (previously known as **Eleanor Afton**) is the ex-wife of William Afton and mother to the Afton Children. She is the Undeniably Canon parallel to Mrs. Afton, a character largely absent from the main series.

Eleanor is first introduced minding her own business as an accountant until discovering William built the animatronic Ballora just to spite her. As revenge, Eleanor fuses with and becomes Ballora for the rest of the series.

## Appearance

Eleanor appears as a bluish-purple woman with long blonde hair, light purple lipstick, and eyelashes at the bottom corners of her eyes. In the flashback to her and William's court case, her hair is tied in a ponytail, and she wears a suit with a purple necktie.

## Story

Eleanor Schmidt, at an earlier point in time not focused on in the narrative, was William Afton's wife. At some point before 1980, William Afton introduced her to his friend Henry Emily. Henry's feeble mind simply couldn't handle seeing an accountant in real life. He was just too intimidated.

Eleanor divorced William in 1980, and she left with their children. After the success of Fredbear's Family Diner in 1983, William regains custody of them while Eleanor goes about her business for a few years uninvolved.

In 1985, however, William Afton creates the animatronic Ballora. After this, Eleanor shows up to take Elizabeth with her for a week. However, she notices Ballora inside William's house and things go downhill immediately. Since Ballora's main purpose is to perform ballet better than Eleanor, someone who never thought to pursue it, she feels incredible anger towards being so easily one-upped and fuses with Ballora just to spite William.

After this, she just dances around William's workshop until Circus Baby's Pizza World is destroyed, after which she's deactivated and put in a laundry basket with the other Funtimes until being relocated to the underground Rental Facility.

In Part 2, Ballora overhears Henry struggling to handle basic finances and pushes him out of the way to handle it herself. With her background of working in accounting, she is perfectly content to manage his money for him. That is, until she realized she isn't going to be paid for her work. After this, she walks out on Henry and attempts to escape with the other animatronics. After this fails, Henry fires her officially and sacrifices a technician to put a shock collar on her.

After Baby figures out a new plan to escape, Ballora contributes by trying to taunt Michael (who they all assumed was William) and later smuggles her Minireenas to the Scooping Room to measure him. Once merging with the other animatronics as Ennard, they scoop Michael and use him as a disguise until leaving his rotten skin suit to do their own thing.

After 30 years, Ennard is invaded by the Missing Children. Eleanor is upset by the prospect of having so many children to deal with, so she conspires with the intruders to eject Elizabeth from the amalgamation. This immediately backfires on her, as the Missing Children immediately vote to silence her after gaining control of Ennard. After this, Ennard reforms into Molten Freddy and later gets destroyed in the Pizzeria Simulator fire.

## Trivia

* At 2:16 in Part 1, Eleanor is shown being stuck in the Hurricane Dump when William and Henry bring Fredbear to perform there.
	+ It's probable that she likely wound up in this position after an unpleasant encounter with William that ended up in his favor.
* At 17:54 in Part 2, a newspaper blurb mentions a wire monster that is great at handling finances. It can be presumed that Eleanor just consistently handles random peoples' money as Ennard for no particular reason.
* Eleanor shares the same name as the main antagonist of the Fazbear Frights book series.
	+ This potentially ties into the ending stinger of Part 2, which shows the animatronic Eleanor being possessed by remnant that escaped the Pizzeria Simulator fire.
* Eleanor is canonically a top.
* Eleanor has been confirmed to have divorced William in 1980, for the reason being that he spoiled The Emperor Strikes Back.

## Gallery

Eleanor doing what she does best. Accounting.A brief glimpse of a time where William and Eleanor actually loved each other.The furious fusion of Eleanor and Ballora.Eleanor discovering she had to pay child support.Eleanor storming out of the court roomEleanor waving goodbye to Elizabeth after ejecting Baby from Ennard.Eleanor (within Molten Freddy) taking delight in the Missing Children having their complete Seinfeld collection burned.

## References

1. ↑ https://twitter.com/the\_ooftroop/status/1613607684212662273
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/the\_ooftroop/status/1568104644110422017