#fnaf chooses to focus on the aftons

[dovewingkinnie]

unable to move on

[naffeclipse]

So, about that specialty as a fanfic writer post! I've been thinking about it a bit and wondering what to say that isn't just repeating all my gushing I've already done about your writing in general, but then I realized the post says fanfic author specifically so I'm gonna focus on just that! (thinking about fanfic as its own kind of genre in a way, even though definitions like that can get pretty complicated on what constitutes what but I digress and it's just the start of the ask fkjghskjdgh)

So anyways! I think your specialty as a fanfic author, regarding what I know about fanfic, the communities, and all the shapes it can take, is the construction of a story and the way you put the characters of the source material in it. And I know this might sound pretty general for fanfic (your writing is so good in general after all XD), but I'd explain it like this:

You are incredibly good at creating a world, a plot, with its own rules that might be completely different to the source material, and yet the way you build the characters is very recognizable. Of course when it comes to Sun and Moon, there really isn't that much that canon offers to us, but the few aspects that we do have, the fandom has kept secure and transformed, analyzed, subverted and played around with them to create many wonderful scenarios! And I just absolutely love the way you play with all of them! And not just Sun and Moon! You clearly know a lot about fnaf in general and you apply that to make the AU you are working on all the much richer! The way afton is always this looming evil figure, in whatever version you are using (glitchtrap or the man himself), how you have had different versions of Vanessa, from a vicious antagonist, to a friend trapped by the circumstances (just like it's up to interpretation in the games!) and how there is also glimpses to such a wider story whenever you mention characters like Michael or Charlie, or even Freddy.

But then you are also very good at sticking to your plot! Fanfic is, of course, a medium to have fun and exploring all sorts of branches to a story is fun (and you do that a lot in your blog too, which I absolutely love and will always be excited about!), but when it comes to a world you have planned, the specific fanfic you are writing, I'm just so impressed how you can choose what to focus on, and while you imply things, you know what is relevant to the story you want to tell, and how to stick to it, even though worldbuilding about all the rest of the source material tends to be very tempting, but might not be what the story requires from a technical standpoint. Again, I feel there's no wrong way to go about fanfic! It's just the method you use is very, like, precise? And for what you want to achieve i'ts just perfect! You figure out what your structure is, what your plot needs, and the fun thing is that if we wonder about the rest, what goes beyond the story or little details you feel might not be able to be included, we can still send asks about them! So it's not like it's lost or anything. You have your beginning, your middle and your end and you nail them every time! It's so cool!!

So yeah! I think your specialty as an author of fanfic in particular, is your way of figuring out what you want to do with your story, structuring and building it really well, and knowing how to make the characters fit the world while maintaining all those little references to canon, no matter how different the world is to the source material!

Sources (aka fanfics I had in mind while writing this XD): Deep Dreams, Sleuth Jesters, and Cryptid Sightings.

Chaotik, I've been rereading this over and over and I am completely melted. I'm just a puddle now, thank you ♥ You are so sweet and kind, ahhh! I'm gonna smooch you on your head *smooch*

[alicraft336]

I need to stop doing this to myself :')

Before I continue I would like to clarify one thing, I thought of this like a year or so ago but I haven't thought about it again until last night when I couldn't sleep, some things have more thought put into it than others, and to be honest I don't even know if I'm going to continue working on this or not because I already have a lot of other projects I'm working on, for some reason my brain can't focus on one project at a time and keeps giving me more and more ideas making me overwhelmed, it's like it's going; "you seem to be stressed about finishing this project, let me make another one for you so you can focus on that instead of the thing you're supposed to be doing!".

Anyways, I'm going to stop complaining now and tell you about the Au. The Au in question is a Fnaf x Undertale Au, I already have a few roles in mind like how I want Nightmare to take the place of William Afton and Dream to take the place of the Puppet/Marionette. I know it would make more sense for him to be Henry but I want him to be the Puppet/Marionette. But I haven't gotten everyone's roles set up yet nor do I know if I ever will.

~The roles I have so far~

⚠This isn't exactly like Fnaf and it's story, some things have changed including how everything happened, think of it as Five Nights at Candy's, it's inspired by the game but not exactly like it, I am just using characters that have already been established in the game to help you more understand their roles⚠

Nightmare takes the place of Springtrap/William Afton

Dream takes the place of the Puppet/Marionette

Merciless takes the place of Circus baby/Elizabeth Afton

Angst takes the place of C.C

And Crescent takes the place of Michael Afton (he wasn't responsible for C.C' or in this case Angst' death, but he does blame himself for it because he believes he could have prevented it if he hadn't stormed out of the establishment after his argument with Nightmare)

~The Pizzeria and its inhabitants~

-Everyone is in the same Pizzeria so they can interact with one another whether they like it or not.

-Nightmare is in the pizzeria as well, Dream trapped him somewhere unknown to the others and he refuses to tell anyone of his whereabouts much to the annoyance of Merciless.

-Crescent was the only night guard in the hell hole of a Pizzeria and he hates it, but he can't leave his brother (Angst) behind again, he'll never be able to forgive himself. Dream has tried on countless occasions to convince him to leave and stop focusing on the past and live his life but it always seems to fall on deaf ears. Crescent is listening to him and he knows he's right, but he chooses to ignore him in favor of keeping an eye on his little brother and making sure he's safe, something he failed to do while he was still living.

-When it comes to 'Circus Baby's Pizza World' instead of going for the whole Circus theme I was thinking about going for a Renaissance one, with Merciless being the king of course. I personally do not believe that the Funtime animatronics are possessed and there just AI, Merciless being himself would take advantage of this, as there king they cannot disobey him, it's in their coding and they cannot go against it.

-Some of you may have realized that when I was talking about Crescent I said that he was the only night guard, and that's because I can't help myself and made his new co-worker the Reader, Aka you guys! As you start your very first night you'll be introduced to (almost) everyone by your dead inside coworker.

Another thing that I can see happening on the regular is Merciless flirting with you as his older brother is just in the background with the face of; wtf???

He's not even doing it cuz he likes you or anything, he's doing it to 1. Make Crescent uncomfortable because he knows that sort of thing does, 2. To make you flustered cuz he thinks it's hilarious, and 3. To lure you into a false sense of security. Think of him as Yugi Tsukasa from Toilet-bound Hanako-kun mixed with his brother Hanako/Yugi Amane.

I can also see him following the Reader around the pizzeria as they're trying to do their job and he's just in the background messing with their shit. Just outright annoying them, the only reason they will ever get is that 'he's just doing it to get their attention', which is true but it doesn't stop it from being annoying.

-The last idea I have is that they can change from there 'animatronic form' to a more 'human form' (there still skeletons fyi), why? Because I like the idea of the Reader freaking the hell out when they see a person in the kitchen making a pizza only to figure out it's one of their 'animatronic' friends who just wanted pizza and to taste it as well.

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I like how I've spent hours of my life making this and writing it down only to (probably) throw it away

[galaxythedragonshifter]

I kinda wanna rewrite my own version of FNAF (especially SB, like a lot of other people are doing honestly.)

Like, I really love FNAF's "canon" lore, but I have my own interpretation of the story I'd love to write, and I'd love to fix the narrative aspect of things. (Considering that the narrative is very...all over the place, as MatPat proves LMHO-)

I'll probably end up calling it my FNAF Retold!AU

(I'd probably stick very close to canon until Security Breach (because I REALLY want to fix the narrative of SB. Like, it needs a LOT of adjustments), but it will be just a more cut and dry version of the story that actually has a cohesive and more straightforward narrative.)

I also kinda want to focus on Security Breach more than the other games, since I want to actually give it a sense of horror and mystery. I love SB because it has a lot of potential, it just wasn't used correctly. I'd love to make a better backstory for Moon, Bonnie, Foxy, and especially Vanny. (And I want to fix the whole "Afton mess up" that happened)

I'm also debating on wether or not to make this a "choose you own adventure" story with Y/N to make it more fan-interactive. I might, might not. Depends on how ambitious I wanna get.

[and-stir-the-stars]

Hello, enjoyer of Kats-rambles here. Even though he hasn't been the main focus of them, I've been enjoying your Henry thoughts lately. I have a pretty similar interpretation: that although Henry is a nice person, he's not strictly speaking the best adult figure in the Afton kids' lives and has (or had) a huge blind spot when it comes to William. This really contrasts with your human Freddy Fazbear who's not only a wonderful father to Gregory, but a pillar of support for Evan during his recovery. What really struck me was how he was still able to have compassion for Evan's siblings while still holding them accountable for what they did to him. I really love the way they kind of parallel one another and was wondering if you set them up that way on purpose? ~Dire Kumori

It feels kinda weird to hear anyone imply that they like my thoughts on fnaf characterizations considering all my characterizations are largely just amalgamations from me choosing the most interesting parts of *other* people's interpretations, lmao (then again, that does rather feel like the point of this fandom, considering that so little is strictly canon). But thank you, haha. The idea of Henry being loyal to a fault and diving head-first into denial when his loyalty gets him nowhere is an interesting one to me, though I don't have any knowledge from the books or anything to back that take up with.

Unfortunately I can't say that I wrote Henry and Freddy to parallel each other. I haven't even been thinking about Henry's place in the au very much, if I'm being honest. I wrote a while back that Mike and Liz would end up being adopted by him, but I've been second-guessing that decision more and more every time I think about whether games-canon Henry was actually a good person. If Liz and Mike still get adopted by Henry in the au (which they probably will, since I can't think of any other character in the games who could fill that role, though I've considered having them get adopted by Freddy, too, on a couple occasions), then Henry is going to have to take some big steps to make up for abandoning them and ignoring all the red flags about the abuse and neglect they faced at home.

I haven't decided yet whether Henry suspects William's responsibility for his daughter's death. Either way, when I imagine what Henry has been up to off-screen at this point in the au I think of him cutting people off, obsessively drifting between Freddy's locations trying to shower the kids there with excessive love and kindness to make up for his guilt over Charlie's death, and somehow being blind to the three kids who need that love and kindness the most.

Freddy, meanwhile, is a good person who IS able to see through William's family-man act but, unlike Henry, for one reason or another can't do anything about the abuse Evan is facing at home other than give Evan a safe place to stay for as long as he needs. I honestly can't say I noticed that parallel, much less set it up. I haven't put much thought into "setting Freddy up" to be anything, actually. I've only really been writing him based on his characterization and how I *think* Glamrock Freddy as we see him in SB would respond to the situations I put him in.

Like, I didn't have much of an idea what Freddy would say to Michael when Mike had his panic attack in MBMW chapter 1; going in, the only thing written in my outline was that I knew that there was no way Glam Freddy would be okay with a kid having a panic attack in front of him, no matter what he had heard about them or how much he disliked them/what they had done. I didn't know what Freddy would say to calm Michael down beyond just giving Mike breathing exercises as I started writing that scene, only that he'd try comforting Mike while still being pissed at him for putting Evan and his son (and daughter, as I would later write Vanessa into the story) in this situation in the first place. As cliche as it is for an author to say this, Freddy is the one who took control of the situation with Michael, not me, because I couldn't figure out what Freddy would say until as I was actively writing the scene.

And the scene just after that where the two are sitting in the car and Freddy assures Gregory that he's not mad at Gregory for hurting Mike but is rather proud of his son for protecting his friend wasn't in my notes AT ALL. The panic-attack scene was supposed to have ended with the line "Gregory didn’t give Michael the dignity of a response. He just tugged on his dad’s hand and marched straight out of there without looking back" before immediately cutting to the 'four months after the Bite' time skip, but as I wrote that line, I suddenly found myself wondering what Freddy's response to Gregory's outburst would be considering I ended up writing Freddy as trying really hard to keep his composure around Mike, and... well, again, the characters took the reigns in that scene between Freddy and Gregory.

Honestly, someone left a comment on ch1 of MBMW commenting on the contrast readers got to see between William's horrible parenting and Freddy being a good, attentive father figure, and I was blown away at the very idea because they were SO RIGHT, and I friggin wrote the story myself and somehow never even saw or noticed it. Maybe I was trying to write Freddy as a good parent, but my real goal was just to write Freddy as *himself*.

Basically, this is my long-winded way of saying that as much as I like to think of myself as an experienced writer, my process is little more than asking myself "how would a character respond if I put them into a situation?" and I don't pay much mind to parallels or foils like I do when *consuming* media. You guys as readers are really the ones who force me to view my material in a fresh light, and with comments and questions like this and the one listed above, YOU guys are actually the ones bringing my stories new intensity and life. That's why I like getting new comments so much; sometimes you get one that makes you think of a character or line in a new light.

[paigelts05]

[BLOOD] FNAF - The trade-off threat

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/BLOOD-FNAF-The-trade-off-threat-868843152

Published: Jan 31, 2021

Reneagde File Server Location: https://archiveofourown.org/works/23843413

I drew the thumbnail sketch for this at 1 am and only got round to starting it the next month. Given that I gave the Forest siblings an entire rework, including a surname change, I thought it would be suitable for me to illustrate one very important event: the threat. Ryley found something that he wasn't supposed too, and Daniel D wanted to ensure that the word wouldn't get out, so preyed on Ryley's want to keep his sister safe. So he made a deal that was an ultimatum and a threat. Only one of the siblings would survive, and the burden of choosing which was placed on the shoulders of the older of the two; Ryley. The tracker whose findings landed him in this situation. °•.🌹 Story 🌹.•° =°•.🌹.•° He had found it. He found the body dump. It was well out of the way, and far outside of town. No wonder nobody thought to look here. What sane person would ever suggest searching for the victims of a murder that happened in the city in a place like this. Now, all he needed to do was report back the location and wait to see if the bodies vanished as they appeared in the animatronics. As he reached for his phone, someone spoke to him. "Look what we have here." Ryley froze. He didn't expect to hear someone behind him. Especially someone he recognised. This place was supposed to be forgotten about, but now it was clear to him that he had made one little oversight; it was forgotten about by everyone but those three: The man who ran Fazbear Entertainment and Afton robotics, his right hand woman and wife, and finally, the last person who was permitted to know of this place was Ryley's own boss. He stayed silent. Even though he wanted to speak, wanted to scream, wanted to draw others to this place, he couldn't open his mouth. He was frozen to the spot. Even though it was the middle of summer, he felt as though he were now standing in several feet of snow. "You may have found it, but I found you too. Now, I offer you a choice." As his boss spoke, Ryley felt something sharp and cold on the back of his neck, and something warm trickle down soon after. "But first you must follow me. I'd rather talk about this somewhere more private." With a pit of corpses in front of him and his boss holding a knife to the back of his neck, Ryley had no choice but to do as his boss said. He could bearly manage a nod, but his boss knew that this was a nod in agreement. The two then walked to Ryley's boss's car. Ryley was instructed to curl up in the boot. With a knife to the back of his neck and not much of a choice in the matter, Ryley complied. The ride to wherever his boss was taking him was silent and felt like an eternity. Once they arived at Freddy's, Ryley was dragged out the boot under the cover of darkness, and ushered into the restaurant and into his bosses office. There was a gun on the desk. It looked new. "I have an ultimatum," Ryley's boss said, breaking the silence, "you can live to tell everyone what you found, but I'll send my right hand to kill your sister." By right hand, Ryley knew that his boss meant he'd be sending Vincent Taylor. "Or, you may die. If you're not alive by six AM to tell the tale, then your sister will live." Ryley heard what his boss said, but it felt like a dream. Everything was hazy, and felt off, but after hearing those words, everything snapped back into focus. "How do I know you'll keep your end of the bargain..." Ryley managed to say, less say but more whisper. Without a word, his boss brought the knife from the back of his neck so that the knife was now at Ryley's throat. Ryley raised a hand in shock to try and block the knife, but all it accomplished was a slice in his hand. "I'm a man of my word. I may not be honest or trustworthy, but when I make a deal, I carry out my end every time," his boss snapped, "I'd have killed you right now if it wasn't for my proposition. That'd be too easy for you." The silver haired man waited a few moments for Ryley to calm down before continuing, knowing exactly how crafty his white haired employee could be. The man had to make sure that there were no loopholes, and that there was only one real choice. "You can plan and scheme all you want. You can't weasel your way out of this one, little tracker. Now pick up the gun. You may find it useful." =°•.🌹.•°

[trashcand-y]

i sit in my office, the fnaf brainrot eating away at my remaining brain cells, I rub my evil little hands together and come up with an angsty and sad headcanon for Monty and Bonnie with an evil little smile on my face

let’s brainstorm. Before Monty replaced Bonnie maybe they already had beef. Maybe it was already clear that Monty was jealous and wanted some of the spotlight on him. A lot of people also forget that Bonnie is canonically very aggressive throughout the previous games so I like to think the reason he went to Gator Golf before he disappeared is because he was going to confront Monty about something? i mean it’s after hours maybe they get into spats more often than not. I really like the idea of Vanny being involved in Bonnie’s disappearance. some people have considered Bonnie’s parts being used to rebuild burntrap- but I don’t much care for that idea? I don’t see it as a necessary thing Vanny would have to do. Grandpa Afton is still kicking at this point I don’t think he’d need new parts tbh. there’s plenty other theories but let’s move on. it’s the only thing I can use to justify why Vanny would have any involvement in Bonnie disappearing. Let’s walk and talk. Here’s the timeline. Bonnie is a big star, second most popular alongside Freddy, Monty isn’t a glamrock animatronic, he’s just there for his attraction as it’s mascot so he’s not as popular. He’s jealous. Bonnie is smug and confident. There’s a rivalry after hours. Vanny is Evil™️ and up to No Good and wants Bonnie’s parts. Why? No idea. Not the focus of this post. Maybe she wants to spruce up burntrap. maybe for some other Evil™️ reason. pick your poison it’s your choice. She’s aware Monty and Bonnie get into spats and chooses to use it to her advantage. Bonnie one night heads to Gator Golf, he arrives, Vanny influences Monty to kill Bonnie. She takes his parts and since as Vanessa she’s a security guard, she has access to the security cams and deletes any evidence of Monty’s involvement (hence why in the logs Bonnie’s last whereabouts are only when he reaches Gator Golf and nothing else) and then here comes the angst I love- that next morning Monty is back to his post but doesn’t remember anything. The farthest he can recall is seeing Bonnie wander towards him after hours… and then blank. Nothing. Eventually he gets the news that he’ll be Bonnie’s replacement after his ‘disappearance’ and honestly? In that moment he couldn’t be happier. He gets what he wants. He gets a nice new endoskeleton and a nice new look that matches his already fiery personality. but people talk. and he hears. and he gets mad. sometimes at others. sometimes at Freddy. mostly at himself though. he breaks things and he throws things. people are blaming him for something he didn’t do. or did he? We the players contribute to this anger. The evidence is all there isn’t it? Bonnie was last seen at his attraction. He disappeared. And now Monty gets to replace him. Monty does have a temper. Is it that much of a stretch? Kids are excited to see him and his new look. He’s so cool! But kids keep asking him why he replaced Bonnie. Where’d Bonnie go? What happened to Bonnie? He doesn’t have a real answer so he just says what he was told to say. Some stupid kid friendly excuse just so the kids don’t worry too much and cry. anyways that’s my headcanon. ta-dah! I laugh an evil little laugh and go to sleep with an evil smile on my face

[shrapnelstars]

(Don’t @ me unless you read the whole thing.)

I binge watched all of MatPat’s FNaF theories last night, and let me tell you, after going back over the story and assessing where we are now, the more I feel like the Afton arc makes more sense if you kick 4 from the timeline. Just that one change. The son going out to undo what the father wrought flows more naturally without trying to figure out what the fuck happened in that game.

I’m definitely of the opinion that Mike is an android because the series undeniably strayed further into Cyberpunk towards the end of that arc, and the books (ZOMFG!!HERETIC!) echoed that theme hard with TFC and the way it ended, not to mention how a lot of material started centering around Mike’s identity and even calling it into question (Survival Logbook). Charlie’s identity was very much shaken when she found out she was an android, and it was treated as a major moment, and she had to reconcile that information in her mind, the decision of which ends the whole series. Mike has a similar moment when he realizes that it’s very incorrect for him to still be alive, resolves to find William, and shuts down everyone’s mess in the maze fire. Those characters both take that pivotal reveal, reclaim their lives as their own instead of lamenting the validity of their existence, and end the horror show on their own terms.

I have to be honest, though: I don’t hate 4. I loved the focus on storytelling and especially the greater emphasis on the Commodore-style minigames. They were my favorite addition to the series (still are!), and did an amazing job at minimalist storytelling that used silence to their advantage when setting up atmosphere. The issue with 4? Now that I think about it, probably the fact that it had to have the Nightmare animatronics in it in the first place. If 4 was just a Commodore-style game focusing on a child who got killed by a freak accident at an arcade, that would have made a lot more sense and had a lot more focus. Take a close look at how everything falls into chaos when that color-pack of enemies has to be explained and placed in the story. If that kid was just having trauma-induced nightmares and hallucinations up until his death, we wouldn’t have to contend with the micro-discs, who made them, the house monitoring scenario, and all that other cruft. Since the Nightmares had to be made physical just to contrast with 3, we have all of these extra details.

What I like about this new arc we’re entering into is that, not only are we clear of all of that baggage and are starting anew, the series also seems to be going back to it’s Cassette-Futurist roots, focusing on 80′s-90′s aesthetics and technology, and telling a character-focused story from the ground up to avoid the pitfalls and plot contention of the first arc. It will probably genre-shift into Cyberpunk and transhumanism once again, since that’s baked into the already-seeded story right now, but at least people won’t reject it as hard when or if it happens since it’s been there all along.

I don’t know why people fight so hard against stuff like Mi/keBot and the events of the books. Scott has shown his preferred plot leanings from the very beginning, and his stories always lean towards Dystopian Cyberpunk and some form of softcore identity death (Children in the suits becoming feral, Elizabeth becoming Baby, Ennard’s whole concept, the remnant mass from the end books, Charlie being a robot, Mike being surprised at being alive after being hollowed out by Ennard, the girl turning into a junk heap in FF1 [an actual hardcore example], and on and on). Why they pick and choose certain elements to “protect” from his standard mode of writing baffles me. Speaking of, this is also the third time Scott has said that the books are allowed for solving the game story and these kinds of fans have stiff-armed him. Nobody is trying to place officer Clay or John in the games, so that strawman can be dropped. Seeing character motifs, small plot details, and bits of characterization mirrored between the books and the games is going to happen, because the overarching story is the same. And once again, Afton and Henry are canon immigrants. Any hard separation between the books and the games was shot by the time Sister Location came out because of those two characters being lifted straight from the books into the games. You can be a purist if you want, but I feel like you miss a lot of the fun of the series by trying to enforce that nobody thinks about the books and the games at the same time.

[canon-william-afton]

The FNAF Movies News

Information is taken from Scott Cawthon’s interview with Dawko for those who have not watched it yet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03E_hZdXqBE

There may be a trilogy of movies. 

Each movie might cover only the first three games, by release not story line.

The movies will not be linked with the novels.

The first movie will only focus on the first game.

What this means for this blog:

The following is speculation about the content of the movie, not quoted by Scott Cawthon from the interview.

William Afton is the one behind the murders, so there is a chance he will be in the first movie, but most likely he will not play a lead role. He may not even be in it except by mention or by photograph.

However, if Scott is planning on covering Fredbear’s Family Diner, in the form of flashbacks, we may possibly get to see Spring Bonnie.

If he chooses the route of classical horror films, (He said in the interview he wants to keep it a horror movie) if William is in fact in the movie, we might expect to not see his face or only brief glimpses of him.

This blog will continue to write facts about William based on the movie(s) however, to the extent of the lore that is revealed.

That being said, the movie is very much anticipated and Scott is an inspiration to content creators.