Michael Terrence Afton.

### Relatives

William Afton (father), Florence Afton (mother), Elizabeth Afton (younger sister), Evan Afton (younger brother), Clara Schmidt (maternal aunt), Debbie Schmidt (maternal aunt), Mary Schmidt (cousin)

### Occupation

n/a (vol 1), Rollercade employee (vol 3 and 4), nightshift/dayshift worker at various Freddy’s locations

## Physical description

### Species

human (vol1-vol5), living corpse (vol5-13)

## Appearances

### Debut

prologue

Michael Afton is a reoccurring main character in The Afton Tapes, and the oldest son of William and Florence Afton, as well as the older brother of Elizabeth and Evan Afton. He plays a large role in all 13 volumes, and goes through so much character development he probably gives himself vertigo 💀 ~~(im being so fr that personality section took me ages to write)~~

## Personality

Throughout the volumes, Michael has several personality changes and developments to his overall moral character. Certain parts of his personality are truly his personality, and stick with him through all thirteen volumes; as an example, his impulsiveness and overall tendency to bottle up any emotion other than anger. Due to constant reprimanding from his father and having to take care himself from a very young age, Michael has trouble processing his feelings and cannot express emotions such as love or sadness well—instead, he resorts to either frustration/anger or to push people away. This was the main reason why he tormented Evan in 1983; as he was grieving the deaths of both his mother and best friend, he pushed his sadness and anger onto his little brother. As mentioned, he also happens to think impulsively, doing things in the heat of the moment simply because he thinks he should or that it’s the right thing to do. Overall, his reoccurring traits are kindness, brashness, and being more brawn than brain.

In 1982, Michael didn’t particularly pick on his siblings/people just because he could, compared to a year in the future. Most of his assholery or whatever was influenced by Carl Davidson, for the most part. He had a good, if not stable, relationship with both his siblings although he still was short-fused and impatient at times. For the most part, he was good natured despite his occasional off-moments. However, after the death of his mother, he got more tempered with his siblings and most people around him as he tried to process his grief properly and find a way to cope. This was worsened after Charlie went missing in May. At first he didn’t lash out at Evan, but William giving Evan special treatment combined with the latter’s ‘’wild’’ claims that someone had murdered Charlie caused Michael to snap at him constantly. The outbursts eventually lead to flat-out tormenting in mid-1982, causing both his relationship with Evan and Elizabeth to strain.

By 1983, he had toughened up compared to the last volume considerably, and had become an asshole. Since he had so much anger just boiling inside of him, Michael constantly ended up projecting it onto anyone who was unfortunate enough to cross him as a coping mechanism. Being unable to channel his grief, along with Carl consistently encouraging his behavior was the result of his overall douchebag-ery. Michael experiences frequent mood swings (mostly due to his currently undiagnosed BPD as well as the diagnosed ADHD) and would switch from either being cruel and humorous, to cold and distant as he bottled up his emotions. Late November, however, Evan met his demise at Michael’s hands which caused him to spiral. Any anger he had bottled up exploded, and mostly turned into more grief and sadness for himself. Most scenes featuring him after the Bite of 83’ are either him being dead silent, or sobbing quietly.

From 1984 to 1985, Michael’s personality doesn’t experience much change. He isn’t featured much, but the times he is, he is either sarcastic and bitter, or quiet and resigned.

In 1986, Michael has slowly falls back to his old self, his relationship with Elizabeth surely becoming less strained again. He is loud and brash once more, like in 1982, though his sarcastic and dry humor has carried on. For the most part, he becomes less impatient and rarely ever lashes out after finally coming to peace with Elizabeth, and realizing he doesn’t need his father’s validation. After Elizabeth starts high school with him and he finally has someone in the school who doesn’t hate his guts, he becomes considerably more cheery, constantly cracking jokes with his sister and showing her a lot of affection. His recovery is shattered right before Elizabeth’s death however, as the two get into an argument—Michael ends up yelling at her, lashing out again. He ends up feeling incredibly guilty about her death and any old feelings he had put behind him about Evan immediately came back. This leads him to become cold and rude once more, using his anger as a coping mechanism again. This personality carries on into 1987.

Since he has lost so many people close to him, Michael has a tendency to push people away to prevent both of them from getting close. This happens with Jeremy Fitzgerald when he starts to work at Freddy Fazbear Jr’s, as Michael is constantly rude and snarky to Jeremy despit the latter really doing nothing to warrant the behavior. As a whole though, underneath all the angst and bullshit, Michael is generally a kind and moral person.

## History

Michael was born July 10th, 1969, in Edinburgh, Scotland.