Daycare Attendant

* Moon (Book)
* Moon (Games)
* Sun (Games)

**Daycare Attendant**, specifically **Moon**, is a major antagonist in *Somniphobia* the first story of *Tales from the Pizzaplex: Somniphobia* and a minor antagonist in *Bobbiedots Part 1*, the third story of *Tales from the Pizzaplex: Submechanophobia*.

**Sun** makes a minor appearance in a dream in *Alone Together*, the second story in *Tales from the Pizzaplex: B7-2*. Both sides are the Superstar Daycare animatronic of Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex.

## Physical Appearance

### Sun

Sun is a jester or clown-like animatronic with a stylized sun-shaped head, white eyes, and a widely grinning expression, with a tannish side of his face curving over the other color half and overlapping the nose (becoming a crescent moon), and the other half being orangish. He has a lanky body with long limbs and large, opposable five-fingered hands. Sun is fit with his chest split with two colors that correspond with his face, adorned with two buttons, yellow and orange striped pants, and a faint maroon gradient can be seen on his body just above the fabric sash of his waist frills. Both his neck and waist frills are maroon with a yellow stripe. Sun also wears orange elf-like shoes with a star symbol on the outer part of the shoes, and a moon symbol in the inner part of the shoes, and he has maroon ribbons with bells wrapped around his wrists.

### Moon

Moon is a jester or clown-themed animatronic with a head bearing the likeness of a grinning crescent moon, as the "sun rays" from the Sun half disappear and the right-sided half of his face and mouth have been colored black (though, the detailing on his teeth and eyes are still visible), making the crescent moon half of his face more notable. His torso is painted silver and black, and there are two buttons located on his chest. His arms are silver and gradient to blue towards his forearms, and his hands and fingertips are also colored blue. He wears dark blue billowy pants with yellow stars all over.

On his head, he wears a sleeping cap that is blue in color and patterned with bright yellow stars, and the end of the cap is decorated with a golden bell. He has blue and gold frills around his neck and wears puffy blue pants accented by yellow stars. Identical to Sun, Moon's waist frills remain maroon and gold, his shoes are still orange with moon and star symbols on them, and he maintains the same maroon ribbons and gold bells on his wrists. There is also a small latch on his back which connects to hooks, allowing him to perform wire stunts.

Alongside having his glowing red eyes, the book version has a different design for his eyes. His left eye remains white with pink spirals, while the right eye has the inverse effect of being pink with white spirals.

## Functionality

Moondrop is used in a Fazbear Entertainment themed Dream Sphere, which can be used for educational purposes. The Dream Sphere hypnotizes people, causing them to see things written down on paper manifest into pictures. These dream spheres are sold at Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex and cost a thousand tickets to buy. The Dream Sphere packaging recommends that the sphere be only used for 10 minutes a day. When Sam goes over the time limit, his personal memories start seeping into the simulation.

The actual Daycare Attendant was originally a character in the Fazbear Theater but was transferred to the Superstar Daycare.

## History

### Somniphobia

While the actual physical Daycare Attendant doesn't appear, an astral projection replica of Moon serves as the main antagonist. At some point in time, one of Moon's Dream Spheres ended up in the hands of a kid named Josh, who ended up in a coma.

Sam and his friends purchase the Dream Sphere at Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex in an attempt to avoid studying. Moondrop appears in every transition between the simulations, waving to whoever is using the sphere. Sam calls first dibs on the sphere and ends up getting addicted to it. He starts using it for 20 minutes a day. Sam was able to see long lost memories of his father when he was still alive, filling a hole in his heart.

Sam uses the Dream Sphere so much that he becomes physically connected to the sphere. When it is unplugged, Sam feels disconnected and unable to focus on reality. He becomes more erratic, wanting to push people away. He even starts getting weaker physically. After spending some time away from the sphere, wanting to prove he wasn't obsessed with it, he gives in and goes into another simulation. Sam ends up in a perpetual loop, reliving his dad's death over and over again.

Sam is able to break free from the simulation and wake up. He decides to return the sphere to Raad, who isn't home. The guys want to use it for another study session. As Sam waits in Raad's house, temptation returns as the Dream Sphere moves on its own without being plugged in. Moon appears and Sam tells him to give him his best memory. Instead, Moon sends Sam to his dream world. His dad was still alive and he conquered his fear of Jules by beating him in an arm wrestling match.

In reality, Raad's dog Brudus was biting off his face. Sam, balancing between both realities, crawls to the bathroom. Moon appears and all of Sam's pain goes away. Sam dies as he follows Moondrop to the unknown.

### Bobbiedots, Part 1

Abe is training the new Pizzaplex employee Preston. He explains the origin story of the Daycare Attendant while showing him how to fix the generators in the Superstar Daycare. The Daycare Attendant was originally meant to be a character in the Fazbear Theater, with Sun as the main character and Moon as his dark side. Eventually, he was converted from performer to the Daycare Attendant. However, the triggers used to activate Moon were unable to be removed. Moon remained a consistent glitch in the programming.

In the Superstar Daycare, the lights tended to go out. Rather than spend time and resources fixing it, they made the generators in case the power goes out abruptly. Fazbear Entertainment also didn't want to spend money fixing Sun, so they kept Moon and made his split personality a gimmick, along with the lights going out. As Abe finishes the story, Moon himself appears.

He calls Abe a naughty boy, reminding him of how he had faked his way into working at the Pizzaplex to avoid being homeless. It gave him an epiphany that he wasn't doing all that much good, but had to do what he needed to do to survive. Abe helps Preston turn on the generators, reverting Moon back into his Sun form.

### Alone Together

Two years earlier, Travis had built a mechanical turk/automatic chess player themed around Sun. Testing the machine, Travis went inside the cabinet and accidentally locked himself in. He suffocated to death, but his ghost lingered on, supressing the memories of his own death. Travis carries life normally, unaware that he was presumed dead to everyone else. Travis' dad uses his notes to build a replica version of the Sun-themed turk, with Travis believing that he was doing it for a school project. This causes him to start having moments of deja vu.

Sun appears in Travis' dream, playing chess and dancing with Glamrock Freddy on a red and yellow chess board. He walks up to Travis, asking why things seem so familiar. This presumably represents himself trying to subconsciously remember his death and make peace with it.

## Trivia

* The Daycare Attendant's two personalities are the mascots of two types of candy, named Moondrop and Sunnydrop respectively. Given their descriptions of "Sleepy-time candy" and "Energizing candy", the candies seem to be a form of supplement to help kids sleep and have more energy respectively. Interestedly, the Daycare Attendant’s Moon form is known as his nickname *Moondrop* in *Somniphobia*.
* Like many other animatronic antagonists (Chica, Friendly Face, Lally, Happs, and Ballora) Moon didn’t mean to harm the protagonist on purpose.
* It can be seen that Moon represents or is possesed by Sam’s dead father since near the end after he dies he helped Sam move past from his pain.
* It's unclear whether the Daycare Attendant's origin story also applies to his game counterpart. It is likely that it does given *Bobbiedots Part 1* and its accurate portrayal of the game's version of the Pizzaplex.