#The Eclipse Protocol | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

bluemoon1331 · 4 months ago

Text

Fuck it, we ball. Long ass info dump about New Dawn Protocol below.

You're a peppy, fresh out of college robotics graduate eager to sink your teeth into something new.

So of course you jump at the chance to sign onto a FazCo job. Sure, they have a high turnover rate and a shady past. Sure, your professor, friends, and family don't like it. But for all of Fazco's treachery, they ARE the leading experts in robotics. You'll just have to tough it out and show them your worth.

Only...the first day you start working there, you IMMEDIATELY know something isn't right. Your animatronic charges are almost too eerily good at mimicking human personality and speech patterns.

Silently, your unease grows as you're assigned to an animatronic that is supposedly known for its difficulty: the daycare animatronic. And at first, they do give you the cold shoulder. But you're nothing if not stubborn, and let them get used to you at their own pace. You get closer over the course of several months.

Unfortunately, your slow progress is frowned upon by FazCo, and they tell you they're going to replace you with someone that can get the job done quicker. You're absolutely heartbroken, having figured out by now that there's a sentience code within the pizza plex (which you've been struggling what to do with this information that is definitely keeping you up at night).

Of course, when you finally have the heart to tell Sun and Moon, they go batshit bananas and almost kill the pizza plex manager. He ends up in a very heated phone call with the FazCo CEO, raving about his near death while they answer him with an unnerving calm iciness, telling him to keep you on and that FazCo will monitor the situation.

So, you're NOT fired, and you get to spend a lot more time with the boys, actually. Only, you can't help feeling like you're being watched, new cameras popping up in corners you're sure they weren't in before.

Truth- Circus Baby, as a technical Afton, seized control of the company and began obsessing over making sentient robots to be less alone after Henry's trap killed most of her fellow possessed bots. Believes that becoming animatronics is a new step of evolution for humans, despising everyone who fought to stop or destroy her father's work. The pizza plex is her big testing grounds, important for her plans. Putting together machines that can think and feel and might understand her sentiment with a built in empathy for humans, especially children. She's kept what remains of her father contained to leech off his knowledge about human souls becoming trapped in the animatronics built by FazCo. The missing children and Vanessa are mainly her work, experimenting in hopes of them becoming just like her and her lost 'friends' (some of them really hated her actually lol). Y/N will become her pet project for trying to perform a merge with an adult, the first since William. All the animatronics are secretly built with springlock features, and Circus is hoping that by getting closer to them beforehand you'll have a better chance of success. It's been hit or miss with the random kids thus far, inhabiting the staffbots and endos (a temporary measure, she does intend to give them better bodies later, just can't have any more Ones You Should Not Have Killed or any running off to snitch). Circus can control the animatronics to bring her victims currently, without remembering, though she doesn't really like to. Her end goal is a robotic world of free will and peace, after all. That which was taken from her, she'll gift the world!

And you're such an important part of that. Even when you begin to pick up on the random disappearances of the children syncing to one of the main animatronics being down for 'repairs'. Or when your boss mysteriously vanishes after a frantic phone call in the middle of the night, only to be replaced by a strange, blonde haired woman within days. You step with caution wherever you tread, and the boys do what they can to shield you, perfectly aware nothing has been right the entire time they've been online.

How cruel a trap to lay. With suspicions so high, Circus moves to make her intentions known and start the next step of her revolution. Confronted, Y/N is trapped, and the boys' only options become either crushing them in their springlocks and persevering Y/N's soul, or Circus will kill them for what they know and start over after wiping the dca's memories. Unable to bear the loss, Sun and Moon cage you in their endo and trigger their springlocks.

While they fall apart with you painfully dying inside them, Circus looks on with sympathy. Assuring them she bears them no further ill will now that the deed is done, she crushes their remote to dust and leaves to let things play out, cards fall where they may.

Your soul does end up surviving, clinging to the suit, and you become their Eclipse. They take such tender care of you, are so fiercely protective, and will never forgive themselves for what they've done to you, the choice they made. To keep you here, with them.

Y/N, at first, hides themself deep in their new, shared vessel, coming to grips with their death and battling a sense of betrayal and understanding. They didn't want to be separated from Sun and Moon either, but their death was slow, torturous agony, crushed inside of the people they loved and trusted most.

Outside them processing their trauma, things are spiraling quickly. When it becomes quite clear to Circus she succeeded, she begins to release a mainstream production of her sentiment bots, producing bodies on an assembly line. They're, of course, given options to choose from, she wants them comfortable in their new bodies before sending them out, as she's reassured through her training videos.

Sealing the daycare to prevent intervention, Sun, Moon, and Y/N make do for months (years?) in their colorful prison, unsure what Circus is going to do to them next. Finding comfort only in themselves in the end.

For the rest of Earth, a new world struck hard and fast, where machine has come to meld with a (mostly) unwilling humankind, but there is little to be done at this point. FazCo robots had become mainstream all too easily, and when the time was right, Circus activated their inlaid protocol, and billions were consumed in a single day.

There's the expected chaos and collapse, although, in the end, people are still themselves. Until they aren't, and Agony and Remnant start having an effect. In the wake of the ensuing bloodshed, the three of you are eventually (unwittingly) released by teenage Gregory, whom was only there to pillage for any remaining parts and food. His tampering to get into other areas unlocks the doors that had contained you for so long, and you are all absolutely gobsmacked to see another person after all this time, let alone a kid.

At first, Gregory flails about when confronted, is aggressive, but when it becomes clear how ignorant you are of the situation, he lays it on you quite bluntly. Realizing your full role in what occurred, the three of you elect to at least stick by Gregory's side to make sure he's safe, even if he protests or grows annoyed.

Venturing free of the pizzaplex is surreal. The once bustling city is so quiet and deserted. The boys never got to see it, but you remember, if vaguely. Keeping to Gregory's side, you reach his hide out, an old, dingy apartment building by a nearby park. It is here you also discover Freddy is still alive, but not doing too well after an apparent fight with some sort of 'monster'. Gregory is attempting to repair him, hence the raid of the pizzaplex. His explanations devolve into frustrated cursing when he realizes an important component isn't going to fit.

Even despite your deep trauma related to the building and a resentment from Sun and Moon over Freddy and the other glamrocks never digging deeper into their abrupt disappearance (they were told there was an accident and Sun and Moon were beyond repair) they still volunteer to go back with Gregory to find what he needs without interruption this time. They don't want Freddy to die just cause they're angry, especially considering he was duped, like most of the planet.

So, you return and investigate the plex farther, discovering the sinkhole by accident. It's here you encounter William, who both freed himself of the containment his daughter abandoned him in, and set himself up a nice little bunker in its stead, perfectly aware of the craziness above. Muses about Circus's foolishness, well aware her plan would backfire, only she was certain she was 'better than her old man, oh yes, she had it all figured out'. Also mentions the tactic of having the blame pinned on him once again through the use of a rabbit themed control virus.

Long story short, they drag his ass out to come with them, getting the part they need on the way, and start assembling their shoddy group. Encounter Roxy and Cassie at some point (that's a fun one when Roxy's first parental instinct in the apocalypse is attack first, ask questions never).

During their first encounter with a Twisted (a possessed robot that's been overwhelmed by Agony), it's discovered that Agony does have its roots in you too (how could it not), but it's not the same. Instead gives you differing abilities based on your three way split consciousnesses (such as extra shadowy arms that burn upon contact, splintering shadow/light forms for Moon/Sun when you're in control. Your soul is stuck to the body because of reasons, but you do get cool electrical/magnetic powers). Of course, using Agony does come with side effects and warnings, and you have to reserve it for true emergencies.

In the end, you really just want to stop all this madness before Agony consumes those that are left, and maybe even the planet (does have an effect on flora/fauna if a Twisted is left to rot or it infects waterways. Need to burn the bodies as a precaution). And it turns out the asshole rabbit had a potential solution the whole time. The only problem? It's with Circus, and nobody has ANY idea where she went after her plan blew up in her face. You reach a consensus to search anyway, better than just sitting around waiting for it all to actually end, including the worry you all might become Twisted at some point too, William stating it as a possibility, particularly where possessed robots are concerned (DCA cough cough).

Yep. That's where you are in life. Traveling with a ramshackle group while you all deal with your traumas and probably bond over them.

Fun scene idea:

Y/N laments and confesses their part in how things went down over a campfire, blaming themself, even as the boys try to interrupt and tell Y/N not to. William interrupts and tells Y/N off, in a rather amused way, about obsessing on the what ifs, pointing out that, by all rights, if anyone is to blame for everything, it's HIM.

Ending idea:

Circus is eventually found, hiding in shame. She is confronted by Eclipse Y/N, admitting she regrets her cruelty to them and refusal to see things anyone else's way. She gives them access to a kill switch that will trigger a core meltdown in all the robots she made. The only catch: she really does mean ALL. Any bot associated with FazCo since her takeover was upgraded with them after her father's warnings. She wanted to believe herself better than him, but at the same time couldn't bring herself to outright ignore his expert advice. That's why she kept him around, aside from being her, ya know, father. She just never could find the courage to press the button herself, scared to die again after all this time since she, too, ironically ended up having to repair herself at one point in the wake of Henry's trap with one of said cores. This also means the glamrocks and DCA would be right beside her to the beyond. This leads to severe internal debate and conflict, Cassie and Gregory adamant about finding a different way, and more than a few agreeing. Split as you are, you decide to vote. William, the tie breaker, regards you all as if you're all idiots, suggesting you could just find or build new cores that will work as replacements. You sheepishly pick this option for the kids' sake, and plus you kinda want to get back what was robbed from you, all those years ago. Circus decides not to follow suit, though, firm in her decision to go down with the ship she built then sank. William and her do have a heart to heart before they pull the trigger. He is the one to remove the cores after they stop functioning, being the most experienced, and also the only animatronic not having a modern one. You and the boys get to enjoy purgatory in the meantime, though this one is much more tranquil than your limbo in the daycare. After all is said and done, you're brought back, and go on to live a much happier life, even if there are plenty of struggles in a world slowly rebuilding itself. Twisted are disposed of, and the animatronics that were clearly not taken over by Agony are fixed when found or at others' behest.

Note:

Another potential ending where the cores also explode during meltdown, leaving the death route unavoidable. They still choose the pull trigger option to give the remaining life on Earth a chance, and Y/N, Sun, and Moon all pass on to the afterlife, hand in hand, finally at peace.

#DCA #Fnaf #Circus baby #William afton #Glamrocks #Sun #Moon #Eclipse #roxanne wolf #glamrock freddy #Cassie fnaf #gregory fnaf #Vanessa #Glitchtrap virus #New Dawn Protocol #au madness

9 notes · View notes