What Exactly Happened
in Five Nights at Freddy’s 4?
Many a FNAF fan rejoiced when the fourth instalment of this
devious franchise was released early. Many of these same fans then finished
rejoicing after they’d experienced the game and sat with a confused look on
their face, myself very much included in that. Being the last instalment meant
many were expecting some answers to the many questions. What we got however was
more questions, however Scott Cawthon has said himself he’s happy with the game
and the Halloween dlc won’t be adding to the story so somewhere in there are
the answers. Time to try and find them.
Any time when discussing FNAF 4 there’s always something
looming overhead which I’ll get out of the way. Fredbear and his chomp on the
child’s head, is this the famous bite of 87. Short answer no … I think. Even
when I first saw the night 5 cut scene my eyebrows were raised, I thought
something wasn’t quite right and there’s a lot of evidence saying that this
cannot be the bite. Firstly and most obviously the child dies after night 6. We
hear the heart monitor flat line which surely means the child’s death. Phone
Guy tells us on night 1 in FNAF 1 (The only mention of the bite throughout the
series interestingly) that the victim survives. FNAF 1’s year is vague but it
is later than 1987. The child could have been in a coma (Although phone guy
never mentioned this) for all that time and eventually passed after FNAF 1 but
this seems unlikely.
There’s more too, the bite has to have taken place before
FNAF 2 due to the presence of Fredbear and Spring Bonnie. However this isn’t
possible due to one more damming piece of evidence. The bite of 87 is the
reason animatronics cannot walk around during the day as said by phone guy on
night 1 of FNAF 1. Fredbear bites the child while on stage performing (Not
moving around) and in FNAF 2 phone guy tells us the animatronics can walk
around during the day meaning this ‘bite’ cannot take place before FNAF 2.
I’ve seen many theories where people try to prove loopholes
to make this event the bite of 87. There are many theories like this out there,
saying that maybe the child died after FNAF 1 or that Phone Guy in FNAF 1 said
that people can live without a frontal lobe and didn’t actually specifically
refer to the victim and they can walk around in FNAF 2 because they’re toy
animatronics. They’re well put together and interesting theories and they had
me believing something like this to when I started putting this together put
unfortunately I just don’t think it’s possible. Maybe it was the intention for
this to be the bite of 87 but it’s just not possible when following the events
of the previous games.
So what did we actually see? A spring lock failure is what
springs to my mind. Terrible puns aside we already knew there was an incident
with “multiple and simultaneous spring lock failures”. The bite in FNAF 4 fits
the description and also explains how the purple man wore the spring Bonnie
suit safely for all that time, the problem was with Fredbear. However if this
is the case and this was the reason the spring suits we stopped being used by
the pizzerias then what happened to this child. From the night 6 cut scene in
FNAF 4 it seems highly probable he became a recurring figure in the series.
There are multiple theories. Firstly and perhaps the obvious idea is Golden
Freddy due to the Fredbear plush and obvious link to Fredbear in general. The
problem with this is Golden Freddy was bought to life by the Puppet as seen in
the FNAF 2 mini game Give Gifts, Give Life. The Puppet is strangely not in FNAF
4 (Although I think he’s in the locked chest) and it’s the Fredbear plush that
is scene saying he’ll put the child back together. Even this however is not cut
and dry as it could be the older brother saying this to the child who is at
this point slipping away for good.
So maybe this child is the Puppet? The problem with this is
the Take Cake mini game in FNAF 2 where we see a crying child being murdered
followed by a jump scare by the Puppet. I think we all agree this is the first
event we know of in the timeline (When else could it be) and if the Puppet
ins’t being created here why the jump scare. Some think this is Fredbear being
created and not the puppet but I do not believe this to be true and the proof
lies in Golden Freddy.
Are Golden Freddy and Fredbear the same entity? Sort of but
not really. Fredbear is a physical animatronic as we know but notice how we
never see the physical animatronic after the event we see in FNAF 4. Instead we
get Golden Freddy who can go through closed doors and seemingly teleport. He’s
been speculated to be a hallucination in the past but I think he’s a ghostly
entity. The Puppet in the Give Gift mini games is seen putting the bodies in
the suit but we don’t see this with Golden Freddy and the fifth child. What
happened I think is the dead child’s soul was bought to life in the form of a
ghostly version of Fredbear that we all know as Golden Freddy. Watch the Give
Gifts mini game this is clearly what happens.
Another issue I’ve had with placing this child as an
animatronic is that the animatronics all want revenge on the man that murdered
them right? Isn’t this why they attack night guards in the first place.
Remember what phone guy said in FNAF 2, they react to the kids’ just fine but
when they encounter an adult they just stare. The FNAF 4 child has no reason to
attack adults and night guards after being killed by Fredbear but due to the
final cut scene we know he’s likely around somewhere as an animatronic. The
answer I think lies in Nightmare, the brand new animatronic. It’s a dark
version of Fredbear which sounds awfully familiar. FNAF 2 has a dark version of
Golden Freddy, the infamous Shadow Freddy. Shadow Freddy doesn’t kill the Night
Guard, he sits around in the parts and services room and leads Animatronics to
purple guy which leads to the children’s souls being released.
In my previous theory (Which is linked below, a lot of it
still holds strong) I suggested Shadow Freddy and Bonnie were early renditions
of phantoms. Where my new idea leaves shadow Bonnie is unknown to me but I
think most logical evidence points towards the child in FNAF 4 becoming Shadow
Freddy.
So who actually was this child before his unfortunate
demise? Many have suggested he’s purple guy’s son and there is evidence to
support this. We know purple guy works at the pizzeria (we see him helping
someone into Spring Bonnie in what looks like a safe room. This would explain
how the child keeps ending up at the pizzeria, how he has all the toys and how
he has access to the mangle in the other room. The house layout is also very
similar to the office and corridors in FNAF 1 and the pizzeria we see in the
game I think was before the one in FNAF 2 opened which happens to be the same
building used in FNAF 1.
The problem with this I have is how the Purple Man murdered
the children for the revenge of the death of his younger son. Firstly, his
older son was one of his children, if he cares so much about his child to
murder in revenge why would he actually kill another child of his own.
Secondly, the murder in the Take Cake mini game has a child completely
unrelated to that incident so why murder that child (This murder took place
before the events of FNAF 4) and finally more murders appear to take place in
FNAF 2 which would mean the purple man continued murdering children after taking
revenge.
There’s one more point I wanted to discuss, the Fredbear
Plush. At first I thought it was an imaginary friend type thing as it spoke to
the child but as the game went on it seemed very apparent it was possessed. The
question is possessed how or by who. The only answer I can come up with is it’s
the Puppet talking to the child through this plush. However I admit that is a
bit of a stretch as is quite a lot of this theory, honestly I’m still not sure
if I missed something that proves Fredbear’s bite was actually the bite of 87.
For the record I’m not claiming this is a bite of 83 rather that it was a
spring lock failure took place at some point.
So that’s what I’ve got, I’m working on a complete timeline
so if you enjoyed this look out for that and if you think I’m wrong tell me
why, I doubt anyone could figure out this lore without help. Finally check out
the previous theories linked below for the identity of the purple guy, on that
FNAF 4 changes nothing.
(Part 1)
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