Nightmarionne

**Nightmarionne** is the final boss and primary antagonist of *Five Nights at Freddy's 4: Halloween Edition*, who returns in *Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted*. It also returns in Security Breach and Help Wanted 2 in the form of hidden plushies.

## **Appearance**

Nightmarionne is a tall, gangly black puppet animatronic with a white mask. It's eye unknown each hold a glowing white pupil, and have black tears running down it's face to it's mouth. It has black lipstick, and many small, sharp teeth in it's mouth.
His body is thin, almost appearing bony in some places. It has short arms with three long, tentacle-like fingers coming from each hand with white stripes on each finger. it's chest has small, rib-like protrusions coming from it, and an extremely thin stomach. From it's small waist it has two long, thin, twisted and knotted legs that end in a point.

## **History**

While Nightmarionne made it's debut in the Halloween Edition of *Five Nights at Freddy's 4*, it's appearance in the game is deemed as non-canon to the story of the *Five Nights at Freddy's* franchise.

In *Help Wanted*, Nightmarionne made it's appearance in The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience along with other Nightmare Animatronics.

## **Behavior**

### *FNaF VR: Help Wanted*

#### Night Terrors

Nightmarionne returns in the second Night Terrors level. It will approach from either the hallways, and it's finger-tentacles will squirm out from the closet, hole in the ceiling, and under the bed. The player must fend Nightmarionne off at the doors while frequently using their light to repel the finger-tentacles. Failure to do either will result in a jumpscare from Nightmarionne, ending the run.

### *FNaF AR: Special Delivery*

Nightmarionne was confirmed to be planned for the game, as it's name and data is listed within text in Special Delivery's files. However, Nightmarionne would never be implemented into the game.

## **Trivia**

### *General*

* Nightmarionne is the only Nightmare Animatronic to possess only one set of teeth.
	+ Although Nightmare Chica's cupcake shares this feature, it is technically not its own separate animatronic.
* Strangely, Nightmarionne's name appears to be a portmanteau of the word "nightmare" and "marionne". It is unknown why the animatronic was given this name instead of "Nightmarionette", which would be a portmanteau of "nightmare" and "marionette".
	+ It is possible that this was simply a typo on Scott's part, or perhaps that the text simply got cut off.
	+ in the name and the spelling of it comes into play here: The French for "Puppet" is "Marionnette" with two Ns, and (as French is a gendered language) feminine. A masculine equivalent, if it had one, would likely be "Marionne". This is furthered by the voice it eventually receives: where its "real" counterpart has the high and feminine voice of a little girl, it is given a deep, vaguely masculine voice.
	+ This could also have been done to give Nightmarionne a more unique name.
* Nightmarionne is referenced several times in Security Breach, such as it's plush being found in multiple locations throughout the Pizzaplex, as well as appearing on the side of one of the main arcade games.
	+ As well as this, the Nightmare S.T.A.F.F. Bots are likely designed after him, having black tears and painted-on smiles with sharp teeth.

### *FNaF VR: Help Wanted*

* FNaF VR marks Nightmarionne's first canonical appearance.
	+ It is also the first game in which Nightmarionne has a fully animated jumpscare
* Nightmarionne's voice lines in the *Help Wanted* are reused from *Ultimate Custom Night*.
	+ Before Curse of Dreadbear, Nightmarionne was the only character in *Help Wanted* who had their lines reused from *Ultimate Custom Night*.
* Nightmarionne is one of two Nightmare Animatronics that doesn't appear in the Curse of Dreadbear DLC.
	+ The other is Nightmare Fredbear.
		- Both, however, make minor cameos in Build-a-Mangle in the form of Nightmarionne's head & Nightmare Fredbear's hand.
* Nightmarionne is the second non-canon character to appear in Help Wanted, the first being Bonnet.
	+ The Jack-O's would also later be added in the Curse of Dreadbear, bringing the total of previously non-canon characters included in the game up to 4.
* Security Breach's RUIN DLC makes reference to Nightmarionne's appearance in AR, as the collectable AR Nightmare Plush, which is a digital Nightmarionne plush, has a description that claims Nightmarionne to be from "that old headset game".
	+ This could suggest that the non-canon characters included in Help Wanted canonically originate from that game, though this is unconfirmed.

 FNaF 1
 Help Wanted