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Storyline and timeline

The video presents the games’ story as a tragic history of Fazbear Entertainment, while stressing that some events remain open to interpretation. It also notes that later books add explanations that do not always line up neatly with the games.

Fredbear’s and the Mimic’s origins

Henry Emily and William Afton begin with Fredbear’s Family Diner and its dangerous spring-lock suits. Elsewhere, inventor Edwin Murray creates the learning program M1, later called the Mimic, to care for his son David. After David dies, Edwin’s grief and violence teach the Mimic rage.

Fazbear acquires Edwin’s company and designs. The Mimic becomes increasingly dangerous, and a 1979 visit by technician Arnold ends in a fire and the Mimic’s disappearance.

1983 — The Bite of ’83 and Charlotte’s death

Afton’s younger son, often called Evan or the Crying Child, is terrified of animatronics. His brother Michael and friends shove him into Fredbear’s mouth as a prank, and the spring-lock mechanism crushes him. He later dies.

Around this period, Afton murders Henry’s daughter, Charlotte. The Puppet reaches her body, and her spirit inhabits it. Afton becomes interested in how souls can bind to metal.

Afton’s experiments and the Funtime animatronics

Afton creates the Funtime animatronics with features designed to lure, capture, and kill children. His daughter Elizabeth is killed by Circus Baby and becomes bound to the animatronic.

The video also connects FNAF 4’s nightmare creatures to experiments using hallucinogens and fear, drawing on the book story “Dittophobia.” It notes that the exact place of these experiments in the timeline is uncertain.

1985 — The Missing Children Incident

Wearing the Spring Bonnie suit, Afton lures and kills children at a Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location. The video identifies the commonly discussed victims as Susie, Jeremy, Gabriel, Fritz, and Cassidy, while noting that some sources suggest a sixth victim, Andrew.

The Puppet gives the children “life” by connecting their spirits to animatronics: Freddy, Chica, Foxy, Bonnie, and—depending on the interpretation—Golden Freddy.

1987 — The second restaurant and the Bite of ’87

A new location opens with “Toy” animatronics equipped with facial-recognition technology. Afton returns and kills more children, whose spirits appear to possess the Toys.

The restaurant closes after a birthday-party incident in which an animatronic bites someone’s frontal lobe. The victim is often assumed to be guard Jeremy Fitzgerald, but the video treats this as an inference rather than a certainty.

The original Freddy’s and FNAF 1

The company returns to older animatronics at a later restaurant. Night guard Ralph leaves recordings about the robots’ increasingly hostile behavior and is eventually killed.

In 1993, Michael Afton—working as Mike Schmidt, according to the video—takes a guard job there. After the restaurant closes, Afton returns to dismantle the animatronics and collect their metal for experiments.

Sister Location and Ennard

Afton injects remnant from the dismantled animatronics into the Funtime characters. Michael later works at the underground rental facility, where the animatronics combine into Ennard. They use the Scooper to hollow out Michael and escape inside his body.

After Ennard leaves him, Michael survives in a decaying, remnant-sustained state and sets out to find his father. Meanwhile, Afton is cornered by the children’s spirits and hides in the Spring Bonnie suit. Its spring locks fail, trapping him as Springtrap.

2023 — FNAF 3 and the fires

About 30 years later, Springtrap is found and brought to the Fazbear’s Fright attraction. A night guard survives a series of attacks and hallucinations, then the attraction burns down.

Henry later creates a new pizzeria as a trap, drawing in Afton, Scrap Baby, Molten Freddy, and Lefty, which contains the Puppet. Michael manages the establishment. Henry sets it on fire, intending to end the cycle and free the trapped spirits.

Ultimate Custom Night

The video interprets Afton’s punishment as a vengeful spirit keeping him alive and tormenting him in a nightmare. Whether that spirit is Cassidy or Andrew is disputed: the games and books provide different clues, and the video leaves the identity unresolved.

Help Wanted and Vanessa

Fazbear Entertainment commissions games meant to dismiss the company’s history as fiction, then develops a VR game using old animatronic circuit boards. Malicious code appears as Glitchtrap.

A developer named Jeremy and a later tester who leaves warning tapes are both caught up in the code. Vanessa gathers the tapes while testing and is drawn under Glitchtrap’s influence. The video argues that Glitchtrap may be the Mimic’s program rather than Afton, but treats the issue as unsettled.

The Pizzaplex and Security Breach

Fazbear opens the Mega Pizzaplex over the ruins of the earlier pizzeria. Its Glamrock animatronics include Freddy, Chica, Roxanne Wolf, and Montgomery Gator. The video says Bonnie was destroyed and Monty took his place onstage.

Gregory, a child living in the Pizzaplex, is linked to the Mimic/Glitchtrap influence and helps Vanessa get her security job. During Security Breach, Gregory and Freddy evade Vanny and the corrupted animatronics. Gregory disables Glitchtrap’s influence through arcade games, and Vanessa is freed in one ending.

The game’s underground scenes introduce the Blob/Tangle and Burntrap, but their identities and significance remain uncertain. The video highlights conflicting interpretations and acknowledged development complications.

Help Wanted 2 and Ruin

In Help Wanted 2, the player is implied to be Cassie’s father, a Fazbear technician. Glitchtrap interferes with the training simulations, and the ending connects the technician to the Maskbot that gives Cassie her mask.

In Ruin, Cassie returns to the abandoned Pizzaplex after a voice pretending to be Gregory asks for help. She uses the mask to access an augmented-reality network, disables security nodes, and releases the Mimic. Roxy helps Cassie escape, but the story ends on a cliffhanger: the elevator falls, and it is unclear who caused it or whether Cassie survives.

People and sources mentioned

People: Scott Cawthon, Dawko, Edwin Murray, William Afton, Henry Emily, Michael Afton, Charlotte, Elizabeth, Vanessa, Gregory, Cassie, Arnold, Ralph, and Jeremy Fitzgerald.

Books and other sources referenced: Secret of the Mimic; Tales from the Pizzaplex, including “Dittophobia”; Fazbear Frights and its “Stitchwraith Stingers”; Into the Pit; The Silver Eyes; the Five Nights at Freddy’s Survival Logbook; and interviews with Scott Cawthon, including one with Dawko.

Games covered or discussed: FNAF 1, FNAF 2, FNAF 3, FNAF 4, Sister Location, Pizzeria Simulator, Ultimate Custom Night, Help Wanted, Curse of Dreadbear, Special Delivery, Security Breach, Help Wanted 2, and Ruin.

The video is by Uproar Media.