What exactly happened in Five Night's at Freddy's part 2 - Answering those all important Questions

Answering those all Important Five Nights at Freddy’s Questions

 

Today’s the day I attempt to solve Five Night’s at Freddy’s. If you haven’t read the first part of this theory, I recommend you do, while not 100% necessary it will give more context to what I’m saying here (Here’s the link http://thecoolstuffblog12.blogspot.co.uk/2015/06/what-exactly-happened-in-five-nights-at.html ). I’ve scoured everywhere from YouTube to Reddit to my highly impressive brain and these are my findings.

 

Firstly, who are shadow Freddy and shadow Bonnie? They seem really important but not in an obviously apparent way.To cut to the chase I think they are the phantom versions of Freddy and Bonnie and here’s why. Firstly, a phantom for Bonnie and Freddy are noticeably missing from FNAF 3 and while there is a phantom Freddy, after looking at its design closer I am convinced that it is actually a phantom of Golden Freddy. From the shape of the head, its golden tinge, the missing ear and even the slight tilt of the head there are too many similarities to ignore. Some people believe the Freddy that appears to the left of your office occasionally is Golden Freddy however due to its colouration it is more likely shadow Freddy.

 

It is my belief that both the phantom and shadow animatronics are apparitions created by the puppet. Don’t forget that the puppet doesn’t just want to kill the purple guy, this is a tormented child’s soul looking for vengeance. He attacks both Jeremy and Fritz in FNAF 2 and is in control of the animatronics that attack Mike in FNAF 1. It therefore makes sense that the phantom animatronics in FNAF 3 contribute to the player character, a night guard’s death as for years the puppet has been on a crusade to save the children from what he thinks as a child are evil night guards. Think about the behaviour of the shadow animatronics, in FNAF 2 both of them randomly appear and crash your game, which likely mean they kill you, a night guard. In FNAF 3 shadow Bonnie takes cake to a child to free his soul and shadow Freddy leads the animatronics to be dismantled, ultimately leading to the children’s souls being released. They’re helping children, just like the puppet would.

 

The only issue with this idea is the withered look of the phantoms in comparison to the clean looking state of the shadow animatronics. Here’s the thing though, the phantom animatronics were created by the puppet at a point where he intended to burn down the building, they’re apparitions of the future state of the animatronics we see in the box of spare parts looking completely fine in the office. The shadow animatronics meanwhile we created years before this plan of burning the building, long before the animatronics were scattered and dismantled. It should also be noted that aside from the withered nature of the phantoms the shadow animatronics and phantoms do share many features including the distinctive white eyes and ghostly appearance making many believe they are simply hallucinations, however I think prove they are creations of the puppet's doing.

Another difficult to place animatronic is Golden Freddy. It’s pretty much accepted that the fifth child was stuffed into the Golden Freddy suit however I don’t believe this is the case, at least not exactly. When we hear of an unfortunate incident involving multiple spring lock failures in a spring lock suit I think this was only the Golden Freddy suit that went wrong. The killer seems to have used the Spring Bonnie suit safely on multiple occasions and it only kills him when there’s rain on the ground to loosen the locks. The Golden Freddy spring suit however I think was the one involved in the incident all the way back in the original pizzeria location killing an innocent employee. The killer took the Spring Bonnie suit knowing it was okay to use and the Golden Freddy suit was hidden away. The Golden Freddy we see is an apparition, created by the Puppet. This is the ghost of the fifth murdered child in the form of the ghostly Golden Freddy. This explains his strange behaviours throughout the games, from his ghostly attacks and his disappearing when you touch him in the Save Them mini game as well as the lone endoskeleton that can be found in FNAF 1 and 2, it used to belong to Golden Freddy who is now out of commission and hidden away somewhere for good.

 

Golden Freddy is the lost soul of the fifth murdered child but unlike the others he’s not haunting an animatronic that is still in use, rather taking the form of a decommissioned and dangerous spring lock suit after being formed by the Puppet. Remember in the Give Life mini game in FNAF 2 we don’t see the puppet stuff this final child into a suit like the other 4, rather Golden Freddy’s head comes at you from the dead child, showing us how the Puppet bought this terrifying golden bear, this ghost to life.

 

The bite of 87 is a huge incident in the timeline and yet we have had very little revealed over the three games. It is scarcely mentioned however I think the key to figuring out what happens is in FNAF2. The likely victim of the bite is Jeremy Fitzgerald as at the end of night 6 he is moved to day shift with the restaurant being shut the next day with no more night shifts after this day shift in which Jeremy was guarding over due to the now obviously apparent danger. Jeremy being the victim would also explain the November date on his pay check despite being welcomed to his new summer job on night 1, he was in hospital in critical condition and thus didn’t receive his pay check until months later. This also shows us the phone calls from FNAF 2 are likely recorded the day Jeremy receives them. Before the new FNAF 4 teaser images I would’ve said the biter is almost certainly Mangle due to its larger jaw, sharper teeth and jump scare where it attacks the top of the head. However the FNAF 4 teasers do seem to be hinting at the nightmare animatronics having a role to play in this strange incident.

 

So that’s one more question answered leaving only one. The big one. The identity of the purple man. I’ll start by addressing the elephant in the room, phone guy. Many believe the phone guy is the culprit and honestly a lot of evidence does point at him HOWEVER I have the proof of this guy’s innocence in the murders and it comes from the FNAF 3 mini games where purple man dismantled the animatronics and then is crushed by the spring Bonnie suit. FNAF 3 has both good and bad endings that I’ve already mentioned. Since neither has been declared canon the events of the timeline must take place in a way for both to be possible. This means the FNAF 3 minigames must take place AFTER the events of FNAF 1? Why? Firstly we see the animatronics who are not withered being dismantled. In FNAF 1 the animatronics are in full working order and are not damaged, showing us that these events need to have taken place after FNAF 1. Also the building we see is in disrepair, there are leaks in the ceiling and rats on the floor. However the animatronics have already been moved there, showing us this is after the building was repaired and re-opened. The buildings damaged state shows us this is after the building was abandoned and after the restaurant shut down, therefore this must have taken place after the FNAF 1 building was abandoned and therefore phone guy cannot be the killer as we know he was killed by the animatronics before the events of FNAF 1, while purple guy dies in these mini games after FNAF 1.

 

The difficult thing is that the purple guy may be someone we’ve never met. However if it is someone we’ve met in the games the most evidence points towards none other than FNAF 2’s custom night guard, Fritz Smith. I have evidence and I hope you'll be convinced. Firstly the murderer must have been present in FNAF 2, the Phone Guy mentions the building is on lock down, especially to former employees. The next clue comes from Fritz’s pink slip after he’s fired. It says he is employee number 3. Who are the previous 2 employee’s? We know there’s a day shift worker and many would assume Jeremy Fitzgerald is the other. However we know Phone Guy was an employee of this location as he must have worked there to record his messages. This means that FNAF 2’s custom night takes place before the other 6 nights. I think that Fritz Smith takes the night shift of the night after the now day worker quit due to 'conditions' as phone guy puts it.

 

We also know Fritz can tamper with animatronics due to the reasons he is fired. This would explain the strange item in his purple guy’s hand in the save them mini game as well as disabling Freddy and being capable of dismantling the animatronics in FNAF 3. This could also explain the aggression from the toy animatronics who remember are not possessed by dead children, he tampered with their facial recognition software so they would react to any adult (They attack Jeremy Fitzgerald in night 1 and presumably the day shift worker), not just him. Remember he was arrested as a suspect for the first missing children incident and would thus be on a criminal database like the one the toy animatronics are linked too. Him working in the FNAF 2 location would also explain the badge on purple guys chest in the Save Them mini game that takes place in the FNA 2 location and also explain the badges absence in the FNAF 3 mini games that take place long after FNAF 2 where he was fired.

 

An important thing to note is Phone Guy talk of rumours of the company as early as night 1 in FNAF 2, he doesn’t ever say he’s just talking of the old location. Therefore the murders could easily have taken place before Jeremy’s first night. So why isn’t the killer the day shift worker? Because he’s dead. Phone guy says this day shift worker complained about conditions and animatronics tried to get into his office and then later talks about the amazing solution of the Freddy head. See where I’m going with this, this worker didn’t have a Freddy head. This is why Jeremy and Fritz were both given one, to avoid them being killed. This so called day shift worker was likely killed by one of the old animatronics as this was before purple guy tampered with their facial recognition software. This company isn’t exactly concerned about  the morale issues of covering things up, this guard’s death is just another example and while he probably didn’t enjoy his savage death this does suggest he is not the killer.

 

After all that there is still one huge flaw to my theory. The killer must have worked in one of the previous locations that used the spring suits and the safe rooms and more importantly listened to the Phone Guy’s recording explaining how they work, with the safe rooms being invisible to cameras and animatronics and how to use the spring lock suits as we know the killer used a yellow spring suit. The Phone Guy also mentioned in his FNAF 2 night 6 phone call that the building is on lock down, especially concerning previous employees. However I do have something that could strongly suggest Fritz Smith fits this criteria.

 

What is the one key difference between Jeremy Fitzgerald’s and Fritz Smith’s nights? Fritz Smith does not receive a phone call at the beginning of the night. In his first night working as a night guard Fritz receives no phone call, no training tape, no nothing. Something doesn’t quite add up unless Fritz has already received night guard training from working in a previous Freddy Fazbear Pizza location. The reason he doesn’t receive a training phone call is because he’s already known to the company and to Phone Guy for working in a previous location and listening to Phone Guy’s original recordings, the ones that explain both the safe rooms and the spring lock suits. Does this seem like a bit of a stretch? This would certainly explain where Fritz learnt how to tamper with animatronics as well as learn the skills to survive a night at the FNAF 2 location, a location with more animatronics than any other. It would also explain how the company managed to draft him in at such short notice, he was already known to them from working in a previous location. After the custom night Fritz Smith is fired and the first time we see purple guy after this event in the timeline is in the FNAF 3 mini games where the gold badge on purple guy’s chest is mysteriously gone. Coincidence? I doubt it.

 

 Fritz Smith is the purple guy, the evil man who took the lives of 11 innocent children, but eventually he was stopped by his first victim which brings us back to the very first mystery from FNAF 1 that had us all scratching our heads. The Puppet did everything he could to save the children, he bought them back to life and in the happiest day mini game he freed their souls for good. Finally he tried to stop anyone in that hated security guard uniform and stop the purple guy, Fritz Smith for good. He is truly behind it all and yet we still see him in FNAF 3 in the hallway making him the saddest case of all because his soul still hasn’t been freed even after all these years. He’s still here and maybe always will be finally giving us closure on the phrase, ‘It’s me’.

 

So that’s that … until October. If however you’re sitting there thinking about some huge flaw in my theory then I’d love to hear where I may have gone wrong. I am confident in my conclusions but equally would like to hear what everyone else thinks, it is all speculation after all so please let me know and if you enjoyed this like the Facebook page.

 

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What exactly happened in Five Nights at Freddy's?

What exactly happened in Five Nights at Freddy’s?

Normally I like to write a mildly funny introduction to my blog posts but there is a lot to talk about with Five Nights at Freddy’s which from now on I’ll shorten to FNAF. So blah blah blah, insert funny joke here, let’s get started.

 

The FNAF story starts long before the setting of any of the three main games in a small family run restaurant called Fredbears Family Diner. How long this restaurant was open for is unknown, however what we know for sure is the event that set’s everything into motion takes place at the Diner. It’s accepted and for good reason that the Take Cake mini game is the first event we see in the FNAF timeline where we see who is likely Fredbear (Who would later become Freddy Fazbear) taking cake to screaming Children. A crying child is left outside the building and after a while we see a purple man pull up in a car next to the Diner and murder the child. We know from the tear stains on the child’s face that remain after his death matching the design of the puppets mask as well as the puppet’s jump scare which always follows this mini game that this child’s soul exists in the Puppet.

 

The negative PR from this incident makes the owners of Fredbear’s Family Diner sell the restaurant to a company known as Fazbear Entertainment. To distance themselves from the murdered child incident they rename the restaurant as Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria and open a chain of restaurants. It is unknown how many restaurants or for how long they are open for is, however we know there are multiple restaurants as a sister location is mentioned in the Phone Guy’s training tapes in FNAF 3. This first chain of Pizzeria’s is when the spring lock suits are introduced. These suits double as both animatronics and suits as stated by Phone Guy in his FNAF 3 recordings. These two suits are golden versions of Bonnie, who would later be known as Springtrap and the mysterious golden Freddy. The issue with these spring lock suits of course is that the spring locks have a tendency to snap shut with someone inside, killing them. In his night 4 recording in FNAF 3 Phone Guy talks of an unfortunate event with several simultaneous spring lock failures resulting in employees no longer being permitted to use the Spring Lock suits. On his night 5 recording he also mentions the Golden Bonnie suit has been notably moved, making it highly likely it’s the suit the purple man uses as his disguise for his later murders.

 

We are also told that these Pizzeria’s contained safe rooms that are invisible to both the restaurants security cameras and the animatronics programming. However Phone Guy’s recordings say they are sealed up never to be mentioned again. Finally and perhaps most importantly we know that five children are murdered in this location. We learn about this in the FNAF 1 newspaper clippings where we learn that a man used a character costume to lure five children into a back room and murder them. While a man was caught on cameras and arrested (Although it should be mentioned it is at no point said he was prosecuted) the children’s bodies were never found. The Pizzeria continued for a little while longer until it was eventually closed after blood and mucus began leaking from the original 4 animatronics, those being Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy. This suggests that the four of the children’s bodies were stuffed into these four suits with the killer using the Golden Bonnie suit as we know it is only one of two that can be worn.

 

How the five animatronics from FNAF 1 (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy) are possessed by the dead children is shown to us in the Give Gifts, Give Life mini game. We see the Puppet, the possessed animatronic of the first murdered child try to give the dead children presents to make them happy. However after this doesn’t work with them being dead, the Puppet stuffs them into the suits and gives them life in these new bodies. The final frame before the Golden Freddy jumpscare reveals the final child is connected to Golden Freddy, showing us how these 5 robots became possessed.

 

We also know this took place in the original Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza from the Foxy Go Go Go minigame where we see Foxy run out of pirate’s cove to entertain the children. The third time he runs past the same purple man sprite before finding the five children are lying there dead. This must take place before the suits are possessed as Foxy does not attack the purple man. We therefore know that in this location five children were murdered, the safe rooms were supposedly sealed up and the five animatronics from FNAF 1 were possessed thanks to the Puppet.

 

After shutting down Fazbear entertainment eventually reopens its restaurant and the brand new Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria is opened. This is the only time during this timeline where we have actually been told the date as it takes place, 1987. This is also the setting for Fnaf 2 where after the old Pizzeria’s were left to rot (At least according to phone Guy) the old animatronics have become withered and damaged. Wary of another missing children’s incident and the bad press that would come with it the new Pizzeria has brand new toy versions of the original animatronics. Not only are they supposedly more kid friendly (Although I struggle to see how mangle could ever be classified as kid friendly) but they have built in facial recognition software to a criminal database to attempt to protect children and prevent another incident. The original animatronics are present in their withered state and both Golden Freddy and the Puppet can be encountered during FNAF 2. Despite all this however five more children are murdered in this location. We see this in the Save them mini game where the Puppet leads Freddy throughout an exact replica of the FNAF 2 building with five dead children scattered throughout the building.

 

Notice how the Children's bodies are in places that would
 likely make them unseen by the buildings cameras

 While we do not know when during FNAF 2 this night takes place (It must be at night due to the restaurant being empty) the dead children’s bodies are positioned on the map to likely be invisible to the security cameras and thus they could be in the building during one of the nights you play. The Phone Guy mentions a yellow suit was used during the night 6 phone call which makes it likely the murders took place during the week you play in as Jeremy Fitzgerald. On night 6 the Phone Guy also says the building is in lock down especially considering former employees, telling us the murderer is almost certainly an employee of Fazbear Entertainment. Rarely during the save them mini games Freddy is attacked by the purple man who this time has a gold badge on his chest and a strange purple object in his hands. When he catches you the screen crashes leaving you with the message ‘You Can’t’ likely referring to the minigame title Save Them (As in the children).

 

One nagging detail is how the killer managed this when he had been captured by Police years before. There are two possibilities. One is that the purple and pinkish sprites represent different people. I don’t think this is likely however as the killer must have been an employee at the previous Pizzeria in order to know how to use the spring lock suits. We know the killer uses one of these yellow spring lock suits and he can’t have done this if he was a brand new employee, partly for not knowing they were sealed in the old safe rooms and partly as he would not know how to operate them. It also seems unlikely a serial child killer with no apparent motivation other than enjoying murder as seen by the smile on his face whenever we see him in FNAF 2 would share the murdering with someone else.

 

While an investigation is going on throughout FNAF 2 the restaurant is closed down due to an entirely different reason. In FNAF 1 we are told of an incident known as the bite of 87 where an animatronic bit someone during the day removing their frontal lobe. This is not mentioned at all throughout FNAF 2’s phone calls despite the game being set in 1987, however after night 6 we receive a newspaper clip that states that the restaurant will be shut down immediately and the new animatronics scrapped due to possible malfunction, with the original’s being kept for possible re organization of the company. This makes it highly likely that one of the toy animatronics bit someone, during the day thus the restaurant is immediately shut down and the animatronics are no longer allowed to walk around during the day, being restricted to moving only at night. This must have taken place during the day shift AFTER night 6 in FNAF 2.

 

An unspecified number of years later another Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria is opened which acts as the location of FNAF 1. Some major events take place in this building. Firstly FNAF 1 itself takes place with the player character Mike Schmitt going through seven nights with Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy roaming the Pizzeria trying to kill him. After night seven he is fired for general unprofessionalism, tampering with the animatronics and odour.

 

Before the events of FNAF 1 with Mike Schmitt the Phone Guy is killed by the animatronics. We hear this happen in the night 4 phone call where he appears to be attacked by all the animatronics. During his phone calls which we know are pre-recorded in this game he also reveals some important information to us telling us about the bite of 87 and the original missing children’s incident.

 

Finally we know the purple guy dies here. We know it is this location due to it mirroring the map of the FNAF 1 pizzeria and not featuring the toy animatronics. However in the FNAF 3 minigames that take place after each night that this location contains a safe room with the spring Bonnie suit inside. This tells us this is the same building as one of the original Freddy Fazbear’s pizzerias, after Fredbear family Diner but before the location of FNAF 2. After shadow Freddy, what appeared to be just an Easter egg in FNAF 2 but played a prominent role in FNAF 3 lures each of the original animatronics to the safe room. However due to the safe rooms being invisible to the animatronics they glitch out and the purple man, this time lacking the gold badge appears and dismantles them. After Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy have been dismantled, the spirits of the five children from the first missing children’s incident enter the safe room and scare the purple man into the spring Bonnie suit. The building is rotting and in a terrible state and thus rain is all over the floor causing the spring locks to snap shut killing the purple man who is now known as Springtrap.

 

Finally there’s FNAF 3 which is set 30 years later with a horror amusement attraction is opened called Fazbear Fright to cash in on the rumours and mysteries of the old Pizzeria’s. A week before the attraction opens, a night guard is hired to watch over the building and the attractions owners find an animatronic for their attraction, an animatronic who happens to be Springtrap. He tries to kill you for a 5 nights while phantom animatronics (In a withered and damaged state) jumpscare you if you fail to upkeep the ventilation properly, distracting you to allow Springtrap an advantage to try to get you. After night 6 the attraction catches fire and burns down, apparently due to ‘faulty wiring’. Playing the game though normally rewards you with the bad ending where there are five masks, representing the five original animatronics with lights on behind their eyes, suggesting the children’s souls still haunt the animatronics. If you complete a bunch of strange minigames and exploit intentional glitches to give crying dead children cake you get the good ending, where there are only four masks (Golden Freddy’s is strangely missing) and the lights are off in the masks, suggesting the souls have been released. However the Puppet occasionally appears in a perfectly un-damaged state in the hallways. We know he’s really there as we can see his reflection in the water on the ground meaning it’s likely he was the one to burn down Fazbears Fright to try to end the purple man for good and at least for now this is where our story ends.

 

This is getting long so I’ll upload the second part in a few days. I’ll discuss all the big questions people tend to have about the series such as Golden Freddy’s identity, the significance of the shadow animatronics and of course the identity of the murderous purple guy. Meanwhile the Cool Stuff blog has a Facebook page now which is linked below. If you enjoyed this post and are interested in the next part then I’d appreciate a like on the page. See you next time and be careful, Freddy is right behind you.

 

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