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1. The Lore of FIVE NIGHTS AT
FREDDYS
Author: Ace Date: 2025.05.19

2. 5. The Resurrection of William
2. Tragic Events
3. Aftermath of Tragedy
7. The Ongoing Legacy
CONTENTS
8. Current Events
4. Circus Baby's Pizza World
1. Introduction to Freddy's Family Diner
6. The Final Confrontation

3. 01
Introduction to Freddy's Family
Diner

4. At some point, both left the company, with an
unknown individual taking over as CEO.
2
Chain Evolution
3
Restaurant Opening
1
CEO Change
William Afton and Henry Emily opened a restaurant
around the early 70s, named Fredbear's Family Diner.
The restaurant quickly evolved into a chain known as
"Freddy Fazbear's Pizza," started in 1983 under the
company of Fazbear Entertainment, Inc.
The Beginning

5. William was secretly a serial killer, using mascot costumes to lure,
abduct, and murder kids.
His motives aren't known, though widely speculated to be him
trying to achieve immortality through researching the paranormal,
haunted metal (known as remnant), which he created through the
murders.
William Afton's Crimes

6. First Victim
His first target was Charlotte Emily, the daughter of
Henry.
She became the Marionette, a ghost who took care of
and helped awaken the other lost souls.

7. Tragic Events
02

8. In 1983, William's younger son also died in an incident, at the fault of his eldest — Michael.
The younger son's fate (name unknown, BV for short) is still unknown, though often speculated to be connected
to either Golden Freddy (an enigmatic spirit taking the form of a yellow bear) or helping Charlie with saving other
souls.
"I will put you back together" was the last thing said to BV by a debatable party, most commonly believed to be
either William, Charlie, or Golden Freddy.
The Death of William’s Son

9. 4 of these kids were Gabriel, Susie, Little Jeremy, and Fritz, going on to haunt Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy,
respectively, with Susie implied to have been the first to die.
The 5th is commonly believed to be named Cassidy, becoming Golden Freddy, though some think it's someone
else.
In 1985, William killed 2 kids, and 3 others were later connected to that incident (The Missing Children Incident,
or MCI).
The Missing Children Incident
He was arrested but released due to a lack of evidence.

10. The Bite of '87
This caused the unimportant Bite of '87.
In 1987, William pretended to be a security guard at a new Pizzeria
and killed 5 more kids (DCI for short).

11. Aftermath of Tragedy
03

12. Closing of Freddy's
Later that year, the location was closed, and the
company went bankrupt.
Haunted Shift
1 3
He later had some sort of nightmares about it and
his brother's death, likely paranormal in nature.
2
In 1993, Mike worked a shift at the haunted original
Freddy's.
Nightmares
Closure and Bankruptcy

13. Costume Use
Due to the leaking roof, the
machine snapped on him, killing
him. He went on to haunt it and/or
his corpse inside.
Tragic Death
1
At some point, William went to
that original Freddy's to destroy
the 4 haunted robots, but ghosts
manifested.
3
Fearing for his life, he put on the
costume he used to kill them,
which was a part costume-part
robot hybrid.
William's Fate
Ghost Encounter
2

14. Circus Baby's Pizza World
04

15. Sister Location
Deception and Tragedy
It was a front for William to kill more kids, with the robots there
made to kidnap them.
It backfired when his daughter sneaked in to see Baby, and it killed
her, haunting the location as a result.
While Freddy's existed, a Sister Location called "Circus Baby's Pizza
World" opened.
Killing Kids Plan
Daughter's Fate

16. Robot Isolation
2
The other robots also got haunted
somehow, likely with melted down
remnant from some other kids, most
likely MCI.
1 4
Robotic Horror
Years later, William sent Mike there to
find Elizabeth; thinking he was William,
she tricked him, and the Funtime Robots
combined into one amalgam of wires,
killing Mike and using his corpse as a
skin suit to escape.
Haunted Robots Corpses and Escape
3
Elizabeth's Trick
William, distraught, locked her and the
other robots from there in an
underground warehouse where they
were rented out for parties.
He quickly rotted, and they had to escape
to the sewers. He repossessed his corpse
thanks to remnant, though.

17. 05
The Resurrection of William

18. After a few nights, the building burned down, and William escaped.
Around 30 years after his death (presumably 2023), William was
found by Phone Dude, who stole him and put him into his cheap
horror attraction based on the Freddy's urban legends, not knowing
William was inside the robot.
Return of the Nightmare
There's a good ending in that game where Charlie released the
other spirits, but its canonicity is "complicated" according to Scott
(FNaF creator).

19. Security Logbook
Mike also had a security logbook at some point, where two ghosts,
BV and presumably Cassidy (given it's not him), talked about
something.

20. The Final Confrontation
06

21. He also made a robot that captured Charlie.
After a bunch of managers failed to collect all 4 robots, Mike came
and succeeded.
Henry's Last Efforts
Finally, after like 50 years, Henry re-emerged and made a fake
pizzeria, where he called the Funtime robots, now separated from
Elizabeth, herself, and William.

22. Henry burned them all and himself, with high
temperatures now revealed to work on ghosts,
apparently. Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. was
supposedly closed for good.
The Burn and Beyond
But one ghost, very highly implied to be Golden
Freddy, though argued as a random never-before-seen
6th MCI kid by some, wasn't ready to let William go, so
he kept him from being released and tortured him in
super nightmares.

23. 07
The Ongoing Legacy

24. Fazbear Frights
There's a book series called Fazbear Frights which has debatable
canonicity too that'd take place after this, but if canon it's basically
just filler that nullifies the Vengeful Spirit nightmares thing.

25. They kidnapped a guy and gaslighted him into living in a secluded
fake house they made for him, where he made FNAF games, in the
FNaF universe, as to make it seem like it was all just fake stories.
After all this, Fazbear Entertainment was revived as Fazbear
Entertainment, LLC.
The New Freddy's

26. It appears as a man in Spring
Bonnie (William's suit), acts exactly
like William, knows stuff only
William knows and even claims to
be back, with William's
catchphrase of sorts being "I
always come back".
Entity Appearance
After a bit of shenanigans, it
manages to possess a beta tester
and makes her his minion. We call
her Vanny.
Possession Incident
VR Game Creation
A VR game was later made, that
was a remake of these, but some
suspicious circuit boards were
sent to be scanned into it, creating
a paranormal, digital entity known
as Glitchtrap.
The VR Game and Glitchtrap

27. Current Events
08

28. Vanessa and the Pizzaplex
Vanessa, most likely Vanny, then got a desk job at Fazbear Entertainment.
Fazbear Funtime Service, a program where animatronics were mass produced and sent for parties, etc. got
hijacked by Glitchtrap who made them hostile.
He made Vanessa infiltrate the service as a fake FazEnt representative, supposedly fix his infection, but actually
just cut off anyone's access to the system other than him, and send a data packet with him to the current Pizzeria
— Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex.

29. As the Pizzaplex was built on top of the simulated Freddy's, the Mimic got control over it too, but was quickly
taken down.
An Endoskeleton with it installed was sent to the last simulated Freddy's Henry built to burn, where it got out of
control, started killing people, and in the ongoing story is hunting down a group of teens.
In the current book series, most likely canon, there's this AI called Mimic1, which copies stuff.
Many think that's actually what Glitchtrap is, just AI copying William.
The Mimic and Ongoing Threats
There's also this boy Gregory who ended up possessed by Glitchtrap and hacking the Pizzaplex for reasons
unknown.

30. Glamrock Freddy's Help
There's also a giant abomination
of wires that resembles the
Funtime amalgam down there,
which took this William away.
Security Breach
Giant Abomination
Now in Security Breach (possibly
2035), Gregory, out of Glitchtrap's
control, had to escape being
trapped in the Pizzaplex, as all the
robots controlled by Glitchtrap
and Vanny wanted to kill him.
With the help of Glamrock Freddy,
most likely haunted by someone,
though it's unknown who, Greg
ended up finding a newly built
Springtrap in the simulated
Freddy's and somehow defeating
it.
Security Breach

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