The document provides a detailed summary of the Five Nights at Freddy's game timeline. It describes the key characters of William Afton and Henry Emily, the founders of two robotics companies. It outlines the locations' openings and closings due to various tragic events like the Bite of '83 and the murders of five children by William in 1987. These events lead the spirits of the dead children to possess the animatronics. The timeline culminates in William being springlocked and trapped inside an animatronic suit in the abandoned Freddy Fazbear's Pizza location.
2. Setting the scene
William Afton
● Founder of Afton Robotics
● Father of three children, Michael, Elizabeth and Evan Afton
● Best friend and business partner of Henry Emily
Henry Emelie
● Founder of Fazebear Entertainment inc
● Father of one daughter, Charlie Emily
● Best friend and business partner of William Afton
3. The beginning
● The year 1982
○ William and Henry co-founded the Fazebear Entertainment Inc
○ Opened their first location, Feadbear’s family diner
○ Henry took care of business and shit
○ William designed the robots and suits, particularly the springlock suits
■ Springlock suits were special suits that could be used both as a
costume and an animatronic
■ Henry wore a Fredbear springlock costume and William wore a
Spring bonnie costume
■ If a suit is old or wet the springlocks might malfunction and crush
whoever is inside
“Hey Will, wanna open a
restaurant chain with me?”
“Yeah lol”
4. The children
● Michael Afton
○ The oldest
○ Most likely a young teen at this point
○ Keep your eyes on him
○ Lil shit (so far)
● Elizabeth Afton
○ Not of much importance as of now
○ Probably William’s favorite
● Evan Afton
○ Deathly afraid of the animatronics
○ Especially Fredbear
● Charlie Emily
○ Henry’s daughter
○ Presumably goes a lot to her fathers diner
The worst
British
Has never done anything
wrong in his life
The mc of the books
5. The bite of ‘83
● In 1983 Henry and William expanded the company by opening Freddy Fazebears Pizza
○ William built four new animatronics: Freddy Fazebear, Bonnie the Bunny, Chica the Chicken and Foxy the pirate
Meanwhile at Fredbear’s
● Evan is still deathly afraid of the animatronics
● Michael takes advantage of this, bullying him by wearing the mask of one of the characters and scaring him
● This lead up to Evan’s birthday party at Fredbear’s
○ Michael and his douche friends brings Evan over to Fredbear and put him in his mouth
○ The springlock’s inside of the Fredbear jaw gets wet from Evan’s tears and…
7. Whoopsie
● Evan doesn’t die from this, he falls into a coma
○ This is where FNAF 4 takes place, in Evan’s coma-induced nightmares
● At the end of the game we see Evan before death
○ He can hear Michael apologising profusely before his voice fades out
○ William starts talking to him, saying that he will “put him back together”
● Evan dies in the hospital, but due to being paralyzed by Fredbear, his soul starts to possess
the Fredbear animatronic (ish)
● William eventually finds out about this and oh oh we have a problem
8. Circus baby’s entertainment and rental
● This is when William created Circus baby’s entertainment and rental, a company that rented out animatronics
○ And this is where William first went downhill
● He made these animatronics that he rented out, and he was experimenting with these animatronics
● He was trying to kidnap and kill a child through these animatronics
○ This was to experiment and see how death worked with possession in order to bring Evan back to life
○ The animatronics had these compartments inside of them that were supposed to trap and kill the children
○ It was made so that anytime a child was alone with them in a room, they would kidnap them
9. Circus Baby
● Circus Baby was the main star of the show,
and she specifically was made to count
children and make sure that whenever she
was alone she would lure the child in with ice
cream, only to then scoop them inside of her,
trap the child, and kill them
10. Elizabeth is a scoopfull
● This is where we re-introduce Elizabeth Afton once again
● During the time her father worked on the sister location animatronics she
gained interest in Circus baby
● She kept begging her dad to let him go see her, but he refused to since baby
was dangerous
● She sneaks off to see baby without dad
● She is completely alone with baby and baby opens her chest and offers
Elizabeth ice cream
12. The great Henrilliam divorce
● Henry, being the other C.E.O of Fazebear Entertainment Inc obviously found out about this
incident along with the fact that William was trying to kidnap and kill children in order to
find a way to bring Evan back
● And so, being disgusted with his business partners actions, Henry kicks William out of
the company
○ He doesn’t alert authorities about William since they were best friends and Will
just lost two of his three children
■ Which like, ouch
○ They cover the whole event up as the location closing due to gas leaks instead of
a dead child
○ Which as we will see later, was a mistake
What the actual fuck is
wrong with you
My children are dead,
Henry
13. William is not a good father
● After William was kicked out of the company and lost two of his children he becomes
extremely bitter and takes it out on Michael
○ During one of the minigames in Fnaf 6 (yeah there are more than 6 of these
games lamo) William is shown to be drunkenly driving home, banging and
yelling at Michael’s door.
○ He walks outside to try and get in through the window only to see that Mike has
broken and escaped through the window and has escaped and ran somewhere.
He proceeds to follow after the tracks to Freddy Fazbears pizzeria and is then
asked to leave (since he’s not supposed to be there)
● We can see that Michael start to resent his father
● Around this time, Michael also starts to suspect that something more is going on with his
siblings deaths
○ Judging from the minigame where Michael has escaped his room to one of the
many locations, we can draw the conclusion that Michael starts going to the
Fazbear locations in order to figure out what is going on
Fuck you dad
15. The first victim
● After Henry kicked William out of the company, he created a puppet animatronic
that worked as a security bot. It was supposed to keep track of all the children
to prevent any more potential murders to happen
○ It was mainly supposed to protect Henry’s daughter, Charlie
● William, having reached some sort of breaking point decides to do to Henry
what he did to himself
○ Take away his child
● William lures Charlie out of the pizzeria once the puppet is preoccupied and
kills her in an alleyway
● The puppet tries to save her but it too late
● It rushes out in the rain to the alleyway where Charlies dead body lies, the rain
starts to tear at its body
○ As Charlie dies, she possess the puppet
17. This is where the timeline gets fucky
● We are now definitely in the year 1987
● After killing Charlie, William continued his killing spree at Freddy Fazbear’s
Pizza
○ He dressed up in the bunny suit he used to have when working with
Henry, lured five children away from their parents and killed them
○ To cover his tracks he stuffed them all down old animatronic suits that
were locked away and not in use
● This causes an investigation to be held at Fazbear’s Pizza
● Let’s make one thing clear, We are now at the second game “Five nights at
Freddy’s 2”, not the first game
19. Child murder: Part 2 electric boogaloo
● However, Charlie, having possessed the puppet, brings life to the dead children
and makes them posses the animatronics they were stuffed into
● This causes the old Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy suit to become possessed by
the five children that were murdered
Possessed by a child
named Gabriel Possessed by a child
named Jeremy
Possessed by a child
named Susie
Possessed by a child
named Fritz
● If you’re wondering why they look so
busted, it’s because William stuffed
the kids down the specifically broken
and unused animatronics in the back
● Notice how I’ve only listed four of the
five dead kids
○ I will be getting back to the
fifth in due time
“Come back to life!!!”
“Yippie! We’re not dead”
20. William is a bastard
● At this point William has been identified as the killer and has been
apprehended, they just need to find the bodies which they can’t because
William has hidden them away in the suits
○ Bastard prolly knew they wouldn’t be able to find them because he used
to work there
● They couldn’t arrest William because they couldn’t find the bodies, although
pretty much everyone knows he had something to do with it
“Wharr I do???? You can’t prove
anything ehl oh ehl”
21. The bite of 87 (Whoopsie: Part 4)
● The nightguard who worked at the Pizzaria throughout FNAF 2, Jeremy, is now
told he has one last task before the investigation is over
○ He’s supposed to supervise a birthday party
■ (Also yes, the guard who works there also has the same name as one of the
dead children. It’s not the same character. This happens twice because Scott
hates us)
● Unsurprisingly, everything goes to shit
● During the birthday party, one of the possessed animatronics freaks out and
bites the frontal lobe off of Jeremy
○ This is because they think Jeremy is William, they’re just scared and
confused kids and can’t see the difference :(
● This event went down as the bite of 87
● This causes the location to be shut down completely
○ However, they take some of the old animatronics from the location and
transport them to a new location
○ These are the animatronics that are possessed by the dead children
22. A new (not rly) nightguard appears
● As you might’ve noticed, Jeremy Fitzgerald was the nightguard for the majority of the second game (6 night’s specifically) and got bit which
caused the location to be shut down.
● But who took his place during the one nightshift BEFORE the birthday party where Jeremy was bitten?
● A new security guard named Fritz Smith (Once again, yes the same name as the dead child, but not the same character)
● This new guy is of course immediately fired cause the place closes down
● However, this guy isn’t all that he seems…
● The new guy is actually Michael working under an alias
○ He’s working there in order to get more info on what happened to his siblings
23. Fnaf 1
● The new location that’s opened is called Freddy Fazebears Pizzeria
○ This pizzeria uses the old worn down animatronics from fnaf 2, but they
have been fixed up and now they look brand new (But also they still defo
have dead children possessing them.)
● Look at this yassification
24. Fredbear/Golden Freddy
● This is where we get back to the mysterious fifth child I alluded to earlier
○ The fifth child that William murdered was a young girl names Cassidy.
This child was not stuffed into one of the animatronics, but rather one of
the springlock suits. Specifically Henry’s Fredbear suit. William probably
got access to it the same way he had access to the Spring Bonnie suit
○ Now you must be thinking “Wait a minute! How can cassidy be
possessing Fredbear when Evan was the one possessing the suit?” And
the answer is that they BOTH possess the suit
○ What’s worse is the fact that since it’s a suit, they can’t move. They
literally just sit on the ground forever. Imagine dying, and then not only
do you have an eternal roommate, you also can’t move
○ They go on to possess Fredbear, or what he’s called in the first game:
Golden Freddy
25. It’s everyone's (my) favorite boy!!!
● In fanf 1 we follow Michael who’s now began working full time as a nightguard at the newly opened Freddy Fazebears Pizzeria under the alias of
Mike Schmidt (love that name btw)
● He’s once again working there in order to find out what happened to his siblings and sort of understand just what the hell is going on here
○ This is why he’s constantly going back to a job where murder animatronics try to kill him every night
○ Also a little tragic (and a personal hc of mine) is that since Michael is William’s son he looks so much like William that the ghost
children think he looks like him even more than they did Jeremy
● A little fun (it’s not fun) fact
○ Whenever golden freddy (aka Evan and Cassidy) appear in the office they say to Michael “It’s me”
○ Which basically means that whenever Golden Freddy appears, Evan who is also the only one who would recognize Michael goes out of
his way to tell his big brother that it’s him before him and Cassidy kill him
○ They’re the only animatronic that won’t immediately kill you
26. Self indulgent hc time part 2
● Because this is my powerpoint
● So we don’t know the canonical reason as to why Golden Freddy doesn’t kill Michael
immediately
○ It could be because they’re not as agile as the rest, it could be cause Evan wants to
taunt Michael with the information that it’s him before killing him, it could be out of
shock cause “holy shit that’s Michael! Hi Michael!! Oh wait nvm we’re supposed to
kill him”
○ My personal headcanon is that Evan does want to help Michael in his little
investigation, which is why he says that it’s him. But Cassidy (who we learn much
later is more ruthless and less patient) literally just wants to kill and Evan only
manages to hold her back for a few seconds before she takes over and kills Michael
○ But that’s only if the player isn’t quick enough and loses. Canonically Michael never
gets killed by golden Freddy dw
27. The man behind the slaughter
● After Michaels first week of working at the restaurant he gets fired for tampering with the
animatronics
○ An undisclosed amount of time goes by and the restaurant shuts down
● This is where William pops back into the picture. He’s gotten wind of the fact that the children
are actively trying to kill him and are possessed
○ He doesn’t want ghost children after him and he also wants to continue to experiment
with these possessions and so he decides to kill to birds with one stone and fix both
problems
28. Purple bitchass
● William visits the shut down location in a purple Freddy suit (probably one he made himself) and lures the animatronics out one by one and
dismembers them
● He believes this will put some kind of end to them
● He also takes some parts from each animatronic and took them home with
him and installed them into some other robots he was working on
○ (Keep this in the back of your mind)
● Unfortunately for William, the dismembering does NOT work out in his favour
● With the children semi-released from the animatronics they all band together
to confront him
29. Gamers rise up!
● The five children who were killed by William all corner him while one of them, I’d like to think Cassidy since she’s a lil more aggressive and
vindictive, chases him down
● William, the genius he is, gets into a nearby spring bonnie suit, believing that it will protect him from the ghost children
● And since the old worn down building is really damp, the suit being really old, and genius William taking his sweet time to laugh at the ghosts at
his amazing victory: The springs, unsurprisingly, lock
● This causes all of the springs and beams and
mechanical stuff to impale him
● Lmao
● He rly lost the 1v5
● Also you might notice that technically there are two of
the spirits missing: Evan and Charlie
● This is because Charlie was left behind in the fnaf 2
location and Evan idk he prolly wanted to sit outside so
he didn’t have to watch his dad die (even if he is a
monster)
30. Grandpa is sealed into the musty walls of Freddy Fazbears
● After some more time passes, someone seals up all of the
walls and shit in the old closed down Fazbear location
● Wonder who that could possibly be
● (That just had to have been Henry, right? Like who else would
do that?? Who else has the control and management to
tamper in a closed down location and would actively seal
William inside but Henry)
Tihi~
Henry noooooo
31. Fnaf 3
● You know all of that we just talked about? Yeah we’re gonna fast
forward 30 years
● A new location called Fazbear's Fright opens up
○ It’s a haunted house inspired by Freddy Fazbear's
and they need a nightguard which can only mean
one thing
● Our boy Michael sniffs this job opportunity out like a hog
with truffle and gets the job once again under the alias of
Fritz Smith
○ He rly likes that one it would seem
● During his work there he finds out that the company
managed to find an extremely old and abandoned
animatronic from one of the locations
● I wonder who that could be
32. Purple man is back
● Yeah unsurprisingly, it’s William, now going by Springtrap
● So Michael is basically hired to keep watch of Springtrap and make sure he doesn’t kill him
● Which like
● Has just gotta be awkward
● Like imagine you’re trying to investigate the deaths of your siblings and missing children and
the disappearance of your father only to find your dad on the other side of the window of your
office, literally trying to kill you
● Cause there’s no reason Springtrap doesn’t realize it’s Michael teh second he gets close enough,
right???
Oh hello Mikey
Uhm……..
● Anyways, Michael being the king of avoiding awkward situations
and nuclear revenge does the only logical thing in this situation
33. Burn baby burn
● He burns Fazbear's Fright down
○ With his father still inside
○ Lmao, eat shit old man
● Unfortunately, he does not eat shit. Instead, William
somehow makes it out of the fire alive :/
● It’s implied by later games that he told Michael where he
could find his sister before they once again separated
34. The unexpected reappearance of sister location
● Remember how William sort of took pieces from all the animatronics? Yeah, he put them inside of the rental animatronics from Circus baby’s
pizzeria…
● This means that the children have still not been released and are instead haunting the funtime animatronics
● Fast recap of who’s possessing who:
○ We haven’t gotten like, canonical confirmation that these are accurate (except for Elizabeth) but it’s just easier to assume that it
looks something like this
35. Role call!!
● Circus Baby
○ Possessed by Elizabeth Afton
● Funtime Freddy
○ Possessed by Gabriel (Freddy)
○ And/Or possibly Cassidy + Evan
● BonBon
○ Possessed by Jeremy (Bonnie)
● Funtime Foxy
○ Possessed by Fritz (Foxy)
○ And/Or possibly Cassidy + Evan
● Ballora
○ Possessed by Susie (Chica)
● The reason I say possibly possessed by Cassidy and Evan for Funtime Freddy and Foxy is cause those two are the most aggressive between all of
the funtime animatronics and I can’t really definitively place which animatronic Cassidy and Evan possess like the others
○ But just know they’re somewhere in there
36. The not so unexpected reappearance of Michael
● And like a moth to a flame, the second this place opens for hire, Michael is
there
● He once again gets a job, this time as a maintenance worker where he has to
check on the animatronics and shock them in case they misbehave
● While he’s working there he gets into danger and is cornered, that’s when
Circus Baby starts talking to him
○ She tells him about a space under a desk where he can hide
in order to not die
○ He does as she says and indeed does not die. This,
combined with the fact that he knows that his dead sister is
possessing Circus Baby makes him trust her
● Baby manipulates Michael throughout the game, drip feeding him
information about what is going on whilst leading him to the scooping room
37. Michael is a scoopful
● The scooping room is a room where the mechanical insides of the funtime
animatronics get removed with the help of a giant metal scooper that, well, scoops all
of their insides out
● All of the animatronics want to get out of the establishment, but anytime they try, they
get discovered because they’re 2 meter tall robots
● So Baby comes up with a plan
○ She believes that they could escape if they can look human. So when
all of them have been scooped out, all of the animatronics combine
into a metal amalgamation of all their insides called Ennard
● She’s telling all of this to Michael as he’s stuck inside the scooping room in
front of the giant scooper that is on btw…
● So yeah
39. Michael is worn like a skin suit
● So yeah, the animatronic goes on with life wearing Michaels skin
● And it works
○ For like 3 days
40.
41. Michael is worn like a skin suit
● So yeah, the animatronic goes on with life wearing Michaels skin
● And it works
○ For like 3 days
● What you just saw was Michaels dead body slowly deteriorating from being worn like a suit, to the point of him starting to rot and shit. Then
when his body reaches it’s breaking point, Michael vomits Ennard (aka all of the 5 dead children and Elizabeth) out and falls to the ground
● Then Michael’s dead body gets possessed by his own spirit and he’s alive again (but also still a walking corpse)
○ Don’t ask me how it works
○ Just roll with it
42. Elizabeth gets kicked out of the group
● Shortly after Ennard departs from Michaels dead body, Elizabeth is
kicked out
○ It could be because she’s the daughter of William but
like, so is Evan and he's allowed so i personally think it’s
more of the fact that she was closer to William. It’s been
showed through dialogue in the game that she was a
big daddy’s girl even after the whole murdering children
thing
○ Maybe she was a William apologist
● Either way she reconstructs herself out of her old Circus Baby parts and
becomes Scrap baby
43. The unexpected return of Henry
● At this point there's just way too many animatronics running around
○ The animatronics inside of Ennard decide to pull a Scrap Baby and try to assemble themselves to look like a functioning
animatronic, they fail and result into a wiry mess called Molten Freddy
○ Scrap Baby is just running around doing whatever
○ Springtrap is also running around doing whatever (except he has the actual potential to be dangerous)
○ Don’t even get me started on The Puppet (Charlie) cause like, we have no idea where she is or what she's doing
● This is when daddy Henry steps up and decide to put an end to this bullshit
● He creates a new Pizzeria location in order to lure all of the robots into one place
○ He also hired Michael because of course he does
■ Cue sad Henry and Mike reunion where Henry has to see Michael as a literal rotting corpse
● He also makes an animatronic called Lefty specifically made to trap The Puppet because he knows Charlie is too smart to be lured into an obvious
trap
○ This works and he manages to lure all of the animatronics (Springtrap, Scrap Baby, Molten Freddy and Lefty) with souls inside of them
to the Pizzaria alongside Michael as the nightguard and himself
44. The greatest moment in the entire franchise
● All of this culminates into the grand moment of the sixth game
● Scrap Baby is speaking to Michael, talking about how he was a “gift” for the animatronics for them to do with as they please. Shes just about to
kill Michael when Henry interrupts her over the speakers and delivers the best monologue in the entire game franchise
45.
46. The end of the narrative
● At the end, Henry burns down the pizzeria with the 5 children, Evan, Elizabeth, William, Michael and himself inside, thereby releasing all of the
animatronics souls and putting an end to this horrifying turn of events
● All of them die and it’s implied that they go to heaven (cause Scott is christian) and all of them get peace
● We get to see all of the dead children’s gravestones, with Cassidy’s being covered up while a 6th one is in the distance
○ It’s still debated on whose gravestone this is. It could be Evan’s, it could be Charlie’s, it could even be Michael’s (but that’s less
likely since it’s focusing on the dead children
● The main takeaway is that all of them are at peace now
● And isn’t that just a wonderful ending
47. Psyke! William also goes to hell
● We’re almost done I promise
● This one's more of a tidbit
● William canonically goes to hell lmao
● Yeah so after fnaf 6 Scott released a free game called ultimate custom night. Its a game where you can do a custom night with up to 50
animatronics and with a difficulty up to 20
● And without going into too much detail, it’s been theorized that you play as William Afton in his own personal hell. Being forced to do this
needless loop of death with all these animatronics taunting you whenever you die
● And it’s implied that Cassidy is the one carrying out this punishment. Which means she can’t move on and go to heaven until she stops, which
might also mean that Evan is also stuck there :( But that’s not confirmed and all of this is loose theorizing
○ That might be why both of their gravestones are obscured, cause they haven’t moved on like the rest of them
○ But it could also just be Cassidy down there torturing peepaw Afton alone
○ But hey, I believe at one point she does let go judging from some of the newer games, so I believe at this point she should be happy in
heaven now
48. And then nothing more happens canonically
● Because I said so :)
Canon Not canon
