#i LOVE MXES Roxy.

[monty-glasses-roxy]

The second AU I came up with was the same premise as the first one. Security Breach is happening and the MXES and Helpi security systems in her brain are at war with Glitchtrap so she's unpredictably in and out of control with all of the problems that entails.

She gains control again when she's patrolling the warehouses under the Plex. She's not sure how she got there and her memory is fuzzy and corrupted but she knows vaguely what's going on. There's a kid in the Plex, maybe two, and they're being forced to hunt them down. This is not the first incident of having to fight for control or have to take on someone under control so that a kid doesn't die, but that doesn't make it any easier. She doesn't know what to do. Every time she gains control, Glitch learns how to counter it and takes it back in a constant back and forth and she is so fucking tired of it all.

She wants an out and she wants one now. Even if she gives up, she knows MXES and Helpi are program bound to keep forcing her back in control over and over again until Glitch is dealt with, so she has no choice but to find a solution. She's getting desperate after so many near misses. She can't lose even for a moment because the second she does a child will die. She has to win.

But she's so fucking tired man... And it's so hard to think with this systems battle going on in her head... Is there even a way out?

She pauses in her wandering around and realises where she is. She's not supposed to be able to go back here. She supposes she's never wanted to try before so that might have changed with her switch to the MXES without her noticing. It's far too close to Sewerhell for the others to be allowed anywhere near... And that gets her thinking. After a few moments, an idea strikes.

"Helpi? The retired animatronic storage... That'll forcibly disconnect me from the network, right?"

"That is correct!"

"Will it do the same with the security networks?"

"Hm. Checking." A long pause. "Due to the severity of the situation, we can prevent you from losing security access whilst in Retired Animatronic Storage Facilities. What are you planning to do?"

"I don't know but whatever's in there can't be as bad as it is out here..."

"Wh-WHY ARE WE GOING IN THERE?!"

Roxy can hear the whispers of Glitchtrap pushing back and she decides to take the risk and face whatever the fuck is in there. She crosses the threshold of the door with great difficulty as Glitchtrap fights back. The second the door closes behind her, that force is gone. She's disconnected from the main network. She's not known a quiet like this in a very long time...

She calls out to Helpi and he very happily informs her that she's still fully connected to the MXES and Helpi security systems. She can still leave, but at this point, does she really want to?

She finally takes a god damn minute to herself in the network silence and it is amazing. But she can't stay like this, she has friends to break free and at least one kid to bust out of the Plex when she can find them!

... But she can't leave the room without risking killing them again. Problem.

This AU has Roxy exploring Sewerhell searching for a solution to this. She meets previous animatronics, and uses her unique MXES security abilities with their knowledge, insight and protection to find a way out of this, prevent the others from killing someone, and safeguard all of them from Glitchtrap. Whilst ALSO keeping an eye on the Raceway because she's STILL the Mimic's only guard.

Are the Minis with her? Psh you think her besties that aren't Glitchtrapped are gonna let her go into hell on her own? Nope! They're going with her whether she likes it or not! (Though a large amount of them are filling in on the guarding job cause she literally can't do that from Sewerhell. At least two of the main four are with her though)

And that's AU 2!! Which can lead to everyone hiding in Sewerhell too so they can work together here!! Fun stuff

[alish-artie]

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Cassie really likes to imitate Roxy in a lot of ways, huh-

Also you can’t tell me that M.X.E.S. wasn’t the one driving this kart come on.

[pillowspace]

Might I propose, the the magnus archived aspects:

Freddy - the corruption

Monty - the slaughter

Chica - the buried

Roxy - the hunt

Gregory - the desolation

Vannessa - the web

William - the end

Sun - the stranger

Moon - the dark

Foxy - the vast

Bonnie - the flesh

Staff bots or Puppet- the eye

Map bot - the lonely

Mxes - the extinction

Cassie - the spiral

All of these are based on security breach, and I never got passed season 2 of the magnus archives, so sorry if these are wildly inaccurate XD

YESSS LOVE THAT!! Marinating in your thoughts rn

[dalekofchaos]

Things I would've changed about Security Breach Ruin

I loved Ruin, as I did a fix it post for Security Breach, I will only be doing a small list of changes since I think what we have is perfect already

The 4th ending aka ability to fix Chica, Bonnie, Monty and Roxy. We find Chica's voice box if we beat Chica's Feeding Frenzy. But I feel like there should've been an option to fix the Ruined Animatronics. How we fix Monty. There is a Monty Gator Golf Game in Ruin, simply put we must get the score for the Under Par Trophy. Monty's parts would be his legs. We clearly see his legs in that area behind his stage, but can't get them. So we get the needed score in Monty Golf and win Monty's legs in chapter 3. To repair Bonnie, it's required to deactivate the Wet Floor Bots and to find a specific part in the cut Bonnie Bowl game. Cassie inserts the part in Bonnie's remains and for a brief moment, Bonnie comes to life. As for Roxy. We know Gregory and Vanessa came back to set up MXES and seal the Mimic in the basement. So who's to say they could've have returned to return Roxy's eyes? They couldn't return them to Roxy as that would be too dangerous, so perhaps they could place it somewhere in Roxy's Raceway to return to her one day. Cassie finds Roxy's eyes prior to deactivating Roxy, Cassie finds her eyes and after she's deactivated, Cassie gives Roxy back her eyes. If we get all parts to Monty, Chica and Roxy and reboot Eclipse, they will all return and save Cassie from The Mimic. This will then unlock the 4th ending. The Glamrocks taking their revenge on The Mimic for ruining their lives, saving Cassie and Gregory and Vanessa comes to the rescue. The ending shows Vanessa and Gregory taking everyone down to Parts and Services to repair them. Freddy has his body back. Roxy, Chica, Bonnie, Monty and Eclipse are all back to their normal selves. Bodies restored and freed from the mimic. The final scene would show The Glamrocks putting on a private performance for Gregory, Cassie and Vanessa.

The Mimic would look like Tiger Rock in AR Mode. One thing I feel like should've happened is have The Mimic looking like Tiger Rock. We would be able to wear the mask during The Mimic chase scene and Tiger Rock would be after Cassie and have a unique jumpscare.

Cassie's model looks more like her cutout

Two alternative stories of the same Ruin.

Replacing the Mimic with Burntrap and replacing The Mimic with Vanny.

Replacing The Mimic with Vanny will basically be the same story, but it takes place after the "Disassemble Vanny" ending. Vanny is Ruined. Vanny is shattered by the Staffbots, but she’s alive. Vanessa is dead, but Vanny remains. To keep her body moving she repairs herself with parts from staff bots and animatronic parts from Parts And Service. Vanny lives and she plans on getting her revenge on Gregory and any other child she can lure to continue Afton’s work and you could’ve replaced MXES with the actual Glitchtrap. She lures Cassie to the Pizzaplex. Vanny uses Cassie to free Burntrap from the basement. When it's too late, Cassie is on the run. She's running from both Burntrap and Vanny. There are 3 endings. The elevator ending where the elevator is dropped. The bad ending where Burntrap glitches Cassie to become Princess Rabbit(best name I could come up with, plus it's the dark version of Princess Quest) and the Brazil ending. the "happy ending" but with the reality being that Cassie is left at the mercy of Burntrap and Vanny art by azoinab.

Replacing The Mimic with Afton. Afton via Glitchtrap having control over the Pizzaplex is able to manipulate Cassie with Gregory's voice and Glitchtrap replaces Helpy. He's trapped in the basement after his encounter with The Blob. After escaping with Freddy, Gregory went back to save Vanessa. They developed the MXES system to keep Afton down in the basement and keep the anti-virus to kill the virus until Fazbear Entertainment can rebuild the Pizzaplex. We would later find out that won't happen because all of Fazbear Entertainment is glitched by Afton And the top follower is the CEO of Fazbear Entertainment aka the reason why the cycle keeps happening over and over again. I would have that CEO be Sammy Emily because what better fuck you to Henry would be to turn his only living child into the perfect embodiment to everything he tried to destroy in the fire, but that's just me.. We'd also find out Glamrock Bonnie was his first attempt at escape and Freddy and Monty were forced to destroy him. The Blob was controlled by Afton and Afton is using The Blob to collect more remnant/agony. Cassie frees Afton and we are chased. Burntrap's plan is to glitch Cassie. Gregory and Vanessa escaped, so he's using Cassie as his new Vanny. We have multiple endings. 1. The elevator ending. "You let him out. He infected you and I'm sorry Cassie, I can't risk you bringing him after us" 2. Cassie reaches a dead end and we get the bad ending where Afton makes Cassie into the new Vanny. 3. Scooper ending. Cassie attempts to kill Burntrap with the scooper, but the remnant in it just makes him stronger and this just leads to Cassie's death. 4. the Brazil ending. the "happy ending" but with the reality being that Cassie is left at the mercy of Burntrap

[rdostuff]

@ateshewee you comment with caps and generally love my fnaf art hehe thanks for the idea

I think Roxana would have treated him as a serious person at first, but later she realized that he was just silent. Also headcanon when he praises roxy even just like "👍🏻" she is embarrassed like a little girl

(I also thought about the dynamics annoying x tired but mxes is not like that he doesn’t care at all)

[spacehareart]

MXES, Mimic and Interstellar Bonnie..!

Some notes;

MXES uses they/them, Mimic uses Any pronouns (uses She / He / They / It the most ), and Stellar Bonnie uses She/He pronouns.

These are designs for my close to canon AU which i plan to eventually post more about on @ghostfacevanny. It needs a new name

Purple Bonnie is different from Blue Bonnie. Glamrock Bonnie is gone by the time Interstellar Bonnie comes around. IS Bonnie was supposed to replace GR Bonnie, but the kids loved Monty so much that IS Bonnie just took over the Bowling area.

The side information;

Glamrock Gang; Freddy, Blue Bonnie, Chica, Monty, Roxy, Music Man.

Interstellar Gang; Purple Bonnie, Sundrop, Moondrop, Tiger Rock, Ballora, and Tangle.

[crunchchute]

need to know when exactly hw2 is taking place so that i can work it into my headcanons cause right now its just not fitting at all. a lot of "..unless?" but i wont know until i get the timeline (more under cut i guess. spoiler territory ahead 🚨🚨)

also i had 6 hours of copium for my sleeptime. if youre a hater just take this as if i was pulling this out of my ass, unless you agree, in which case youre welcome to comment or. nod in agreement.

so how does this help wanted economy affect the fazcoin?

but no for real now. to preface im very forgetful when it comes to fnaf lore and i sometimes miss some plot points and many times they affect my headcanons (once i remember them) but i cant check everything. im just forming my own little timeline with my own ideas i guess, but i still want it to be canon adjacent So!

i believed that its taking place post SB, pre Ruin. which i was super happy with as i was worried it would be pre-SB and not give enough lore that i crave. however, just as ive seen some people say, this didnt help with the lore much, and it just got more confusing for me. still a fantastic game but from a lore point it doesnt give us anything too big or a conclusion (well. maybe one) i also saw people say its post ruin, which i dont agree with but i would agree with during ruin. (when ppl say cassie is the player, i dont think so, need more arguments) its unclear once people bring in other arguments than the obvious roxy's mask or the state of the pizzaplex. but basically as an afton believer its hard for me to work around this, but i will try. never back down never what?

so my hc is iykyk, scraptrap->man in the room->ghost/amalgamation->latching onto tech and the mimic in the form of glitch and burntrap->mimic "shedding" him->wills ghost forming mxes; it also works without the frights books but the afton amalgamation and everything around it is too cool to not use. i fucking love ruinborn afton graaaaah *tears shirt apart* i also liked the idea of his spirit shattering and a piece of it forming glitchtrap for years, and i believe it can coexist with mimic, i think burntrap was real and is both mimic and afton.

now. this game. really messing it up for me as glitchtrap existing post or during burntrap just doesnt make sense, i dont want -trap multiples or something (sounds like the years old 2-3 purple guys theory lmao) but i will look into it as glitchtrap and mxes connection..? honestly, i really expected getting to see burntrap here (or at least mimic shown). was burntrap like retconned or something for real??? also still dont understand when people say burntrap isnt the mimic or whatever. no, it is, just with something a little extra on. and that extra is again, wills ghost or remnant or whatever you wanna call it, symbolized by the bonnie parts on his endo, but theres also flesh so yeah, as funny as it sounds i fuck with the afton homunculus growing over mimic theory. its stupid enough, he would do it.

but i wanna focus on mxes, i knew we wouldnt see the entity in the game, didnt expect it. but i also didnt expect the system to show up, which it did, but obviously not the entity yet as i believe they were formed only after burntrap has been "scooped" by tangle (comparing the scooper mimic ending and the burntrap one as a parallel) i just dont understand how glitchtrap is in here. thats the thing i cant figure out! this is 100% post SB so at that point glitchtrap is just gone. how did we get him back now? only ends up with me reaching with like MEGA SPOILERS the vanny ending crushing glitchtrap being a metaphor of her locking away or deleting the code. extreme reaching would be stuffing it into the mxes system where glitch would turn into the entity. but thats way too loose, but ive seen many people call the mxes entity glitchtrap, which doesnt even work with their theory that glitchtrap is mimic, because the entity is obviously not the mimic. like you have to consider this too, not just mimicmimicmimic but then agree that a glitchy rabbit is similar to another glitchy rabbit

lost my thread of thought. and thought of how this all is just, an end to glitchtrap era and only mimic in the future. well.. without an evil rabbit, fnaf will lose its charm for me, i dont know if vanny!cassie would save it for me, i only want wiwi. more wiwi, no mimi *starts glowing red and then explodes* anyway its not that bad. as long as i get to see the mxes entity again i will be good. and as long as im right about the clickteam game, i will be happy :D

also im intrigued by the fallfest showing up again, i really want to see how the maps look and look at all the details.. but in general the area is either underneath or next to the pizzaplex, the body of water in curse of dreadbear imo is the same as the underground water in ruin and hw2 to me confirmed that it truly is all in one place (goes nowhere with this). i love how the hw2 hub is in the pizzasim building. also, another thing, need to check it out again but i want to see if scrap baby is in a vr level or reality so i can theorize about scraptrap, as in, if at least tangle and scrap baby are still around and real in the plex, it would make sense for scraptrap to not show up because he has gone through digitization /j you know the whole pipeline. and so on and so forth

anyway im gonna pet my dogs and maybe read tse and then get back to hw2 in the afternoon. just getting this out of the system and my brain

[jellycreamjammedart]

Love your Ruin DLC story and hcs. May I offer some of my AR World fuelled-shenanigans?

We can tell from the weird world that some things/places are more holograms, I think. They glitch in the real world after all and yet… Some that like monitor that teaches us to match the symbols are peculiar. Thus I imagine a few times Cassie does weird stuff in the real world.

—The animatronics lose track of Cassie when she goes through the “portal doors”. No one knows how she ends up in a completely different section. One minute she’s there then the next she is some place new! And forget the massive server room she was stuck in.

—It looks like she is clipping through solid things to even the keen-hearing/sight of Roxy.

—How Mapbot was reprogrammed to give out the Vanny Mask, which why does that even have a cybernetic implant to install, remains a mystery. Vanessa ditched the darned thing.

—The Blob likes like a massive shadowy mess in the AR world. It’ll just stare at anyone who can manage to catch a glance before slinking off.

—Cassie will occasionally see a virtual Moon slinking around almost guarding the nodes. (Sun does thank us even after rebooting them.)

—Everybody agrees that the wet floor sign bots are creepy in AR. The fact you can hear snippets of mainly kids screaming… Why?!

—The AR collectibles look like Minecraft grass blocks. (If you know you know.)

—There’s a creepier, almost skeletal virtual entity that lurks from the distance whenever Cassie sees through floor texture glitches. MXES and it look similar. Both blue bunnies.

Yeah I'm aware of most of these. The second blue bunny, if it's the one I'm thinking about, is assumed to have been an earlier design for mxes-- while extremely creepy, id imagine it was changed to better match the whole cyber theme

the whole map/mask bot thing is quite in the air. i kinda like this idea i saw around that vanessa created mxes and the vanni system as a big middle finger to glitchtrap/afton/vanny/mimic1, by using something so horrible shes got roped into and trying to turn it into something good-- the downside being that the mimic somehow got a bit of a hold on the system... and that vanessa left the mask behind. actually she left the mask behind and gregory left his wholeass backpack and freddy-talkie behind like... bruh kinda careless of ya both lmao

cassie going through the ar portals and sending the ruined bots into a tizzy as they have to process what just happened like "WHAT WHERE DID MY CHILD GO???"

meanwhile the blob is just blob'ing around

[dana-chan-the-control-brain]

Here are some of my thoughts on Ruin gameplay wise:

Ruin isn't that great from a gameplay perspective.

I do like that Steel Wool took a lot of criticism to heart and they improved Ruin in the Story department way more comparitively to the base game ten fold.

Like imagine having a Rabbit antagonist show up more than twice and is a constant presence throughout the game???? Imagine a protagonist with actual motivation and backstory to why they are there with relatable emotions?

I'm sure Vanny is sure jealous of MXES right about now. (Gregory to Cassie too probably and that's how the game ended how it did but that's another post)

But here's the thing that really soured me on Ruin. Especially on repeat playthroughs, and it was something I was easily discovering as I played through the first time.

There's really no creditable danger in the majority of Ruin.

The atmosphere is darker, and it is spookier.... But it is all literally in your head. The danger and horror is all an illusion.

Mr.Glitchy Malhare man can't harm you directly. He can only summon animatronics after you, or send an animatronic to kill you automatically if you stay too long in AR. Which you tend to recognize the sound ques and can easily get out of situations if you're trapped in AR.

The thing about MXES summoning animatronics to you....

All the animatronics AI from the Base game has been severely nerfed.

Monty can no longer jump and you can out walk him fairly easily. YEAH. WALK. I had never had to run from Monty. He'll despawn if he loses sight of you.

Roxy and Chica behave in a similar functional way.

Chica is faster, and gets distracted less easily if you have her chasing you. And her tight corridors prevent her from despawning but she can easily be out walked.

Sun and Moon won't even chase you and have to go out of the way to see the jumpscare.

You can become invisible to the endos.

And you don't need to run into Roxy as an enemy if you don't want and just use the very obvious intended camera speaker mechanic.

All the animatronics move slower than your base walking speed so I never found them that credible a threat and tended to get bored by them.

The tedium of the puzzles didn't help ease that boredom that much.

The only times of this game that felt genuinely horrifying to play were the Bonnie bowl section and the Freddy chase.

Freddy moves faster than your base running speed and he WILL get you a few times if you don't know what you're doing. It was one of the most horrifying experiences in the game for me.

I know horror is subjective. But once I learned quick that MXES couldn't hurt me, and all the animatronics AI was dumbed down to extremely basic.... I found everything an annoyance rather then a threat.

Not only that, Cassie mechanically is not fun to play. (CHARACTER WISE I LOVE HER but for another post)

She runs slower then Gregory and jumping around and running just isn't as fun. I suppose it makes sense. Gregory is dodgy cus he lives on the streets. Cassie just came home from eating carrot cake.

I have replayed the base Security Breach over five times because it's so fun to play. And yes. I typically play the game straight without many crazy glitches.

Ruin, I have only played twice and I got sick of it. The animatronics aren't fun to run from if they all function the same.

I did like it when MXES was approaching as I was solving puzzles. It lead to some genuinely tense moments.

Steel Wool is so close to making the perfect FNAF game.

I REALLY think that the animatronics needed some more AI tweaking or just copy how their shattered AI worked in base game.

I'm kinda glad that the game wasn't TOO hard. But it lead to a lot of situations where I was just casually walking away from the animatronics and it wore off it's novelty in repeat playthroughs.

Meanwhile I can play Security Breach for weeks and never get bored.

Reminder, this is just my opinion, and I'm just talking about the game mechanically.

Story wise, it's definitely an improvement and I did enjoy it alot and I will talk more in depth on that later

[krackkokichi]

Disorganized RUIN questions, thoughts, and observations

this has been in my notes for a few days, and i needed to put them out there. would love for any comments, corrections, etc! all under the read more

Helpi

— sometimes gets veiny with yellow eyes: instances where he is hijacked by Mimic? but in one of those he argues with "Gregory" so is it something else?

— can't be related to MXES because actively works to disable it

— takes Freddy's place in Brazil ending

— tied to VANNI but why would Faz. Ent. have a mask that looks like that? definitely not created by Vanessa as is unaware of MXES

— why doesn't he let Cassie take the mask off in that one big area

Mimic

— the mascot costumes?

— poses and moves the same as Burntrap, but is it actually Burntrap?

— scooper ending parallels Burntrap being attacked by the tangle

— clear parallel to Candy Cadet story

— Gregory and Vanessa definitely lured the mimic into its enclosure and sealed it with MXES

Bonnie

— Monty dark ride shows Monty looking up to Bonnie & Bonnie passing the guitar

— hidden cutout of Bonnie falling/being blown away by monty

— connection to wet floor signs?? what does it MEAN

— eyes still glowing

— why in the back of Bonnie Bowl when last recorded location was Monty Golf

— broken bowling ball pieces suggest he was attacked there, not moved

— why'd he take so long to move to Monty Golf, and why go there in the first place?

— why was he killed? he still has his parts so probably wasn't used for Burntrap, unless since Burntrap wasn't created in this timeline, Bonnie wasn't needed? hmmm....

— Monty didn't have the claws at the time Bonnie was destroyed, but it was specifically a Glamrock Bonnie sign that Cassie used to electrocute and destroy Monty (hint toward karma??)

— Bonnie's sign seemingly confirms that Monty's shades were originally his (people using this as proof that Monty is innocent since "no way would Freddy let him wear them" when Freddy probably doesn't have any clue what happened [i don't necessarily think Monty did it; i'm just pointing out this is a bad rebuttal])

— he and Freddy have matching earrings, Freddy has bowling stuff in his greenroom, and Bonnie has Freddy merch in his room, and the poster? oh yeah. they're so gay

Freddy

— prototype??? i struggle to think this is just a design retcon when it's the first thing we see of him and it's a purposeful addition. and why would Faz. Ent. leave their main animatronic as a prototype

— gift box in chest? and its a different color? something's up for sure

— why was he replaced with Helpi in Brazil ending

— line in security breach where he questions if he was the first Glamrock Freddy

— i actually don't know if the PQ ending necessitates the destruction of his body or if that just happened over time, but from what I have seen people say, it seems like it is destroyed?

— are we sure that that's not just what the glamrocks' bare endos look like on the hands, because his hands are def just metal and not green, so could be not Monty's claws?

— invisible in AR

— multiple instances of headless Freddy (plushie, statue, in the AR portion with giant MXES, construction poster that says "don't lose your head", and ofc the actual animatronic)

— Mimic is pretty good at mimicking Gregory, and Freddy spent the most time with him, BUT Freddy constantly assists and supports Gregory, whereas the Mimic pushes Cassie to do things she doesn't want in order to serve its own purposes (why would Mimic play the long game with Gregory?)

Roxy

— atp i assume that Foxy was converted into Roxy in universe. Roxy trans REAL

— Foxy log ride? Cassie says it was so much fun, but other flavor text says it was never finished

— only one of the four capable of speech is Roxy (w/exception of "i smell pizza!")

— Roxy reactivating? how?

— her manner of speech is completely different from normal in the special day scene

— the cutouts, her replacing Monty on a vending machine, and her appearing fixed in AR unlike the others suggests that there some level of personalization to the AR?

Other animatronics

— Nightmarionne plushies and the Baby plushie room with the tally marks?

— Monty shrine???

— what happened to DJ MM? he's massive af and is just. not there? only possible appearance it the giant endo Cassie has to climb into in AR

— plenty of vandalizers apparently had no trouble getting pretty far in, so did the animatronics just avoid them or what

— who put the bunny ears, sun rays, etc. on the maskbot and music men?

— people saying latina Chica confirmed canon cause she's wearing a dress that is actually just a saloon dress? guys her name is literally Chica. latina Chica was always canon

— i love Eclipse (Kellen referred to them with they/them pronouns on twt btw! i'm assuming most people just don't know, but it's a little bit frustrating)

MISC.

— Cassie's dad and the note from him that can randomly show up

— elevator ending probably canon, but who knows for sure (Gregory didn't drop it, and you can fight me on that because why would he guide Cassie just to kill her?)

— Brazil ending definitely reference to sci-fi movie Brazil in which the protag goes into an escapist fantasy while being tortured. apparently this is also a term referring to the same movie, but a lot of people seem to not know what it means, so there you go

— how long after Security Breach is this? how long has Gregory been missing?

— if a man said to a woman what Freddy said to Bonnie, people would except they were a couple instantly, but since it's two guy robots, it's just a headcanon? bffr

Edited to add: the music-like noises that happen at the title drop remind of the beginning of "Beat It" no matter how many times i hear them

[monty-glasses-roxy]

Ohh I was listening to Who Are You Really? by Mikkyekko again and I just. Oooo fun new MXES Roxy idea

[grizzlyofthesea]

My Ruin Experience

I just finished my first playthrough of FNAF Security Breach: Ruin a few hours ago, and I'd like to reflect on my experience. I still have a ton that I need to go back and do, but I think I still got enough out of it to comment.

Needless to say, spoilers ahead. Continue at your own risk.

What I Liked:

The mechanics. Though short and simple, the Faz-wrench and Security Node puzzles are fun. The AR mask is also a really cool concept, and it opened the door for some unique gameplay and exploration.

The autosave between key checkpoints. Hallelujah.

The AR aesthetic. Holy crap, I love it. It's so trippy and dreamlike, and NEON. Totally '80s retro-futuristic, totally radical.

The character designs. My favorites are Ruined Freddy, the little Music Men with the rabbit ears, and MXES. Ruined Freddy is both horrific and strangely adorable despite having no head. I like how he chomps with his stomach like it's a mouth; it's a fun call-back to Nightmare Fredbear. And he has a gift box in his stomach. The implications of that give me the creeps. The rabbit Music Men are just cute. I hate them, but they're cute. And MXES? That's just an awesome design. Way more imposing than Glitchtrap (though Glitchtrap did work, just more as a psychological/lore thing than an outright threatening design).

All the crazy visual details and Easter eggs they put into AR mode. My favorites are the giant endoskeleton in the daycare theater and the huge bowling balls in Bonnie Bowl.

Roxy's dynamic with Cassie. I hope we get to see more of it in the future. It's just too precious.

Monty's backstory as told through the cardboard cutouts on the gondolas in Gator Golf. Just...adorable.

The part where Monty's swimming around in water and you need to hop on crates to dodge him. That was just cute. He was like a real gator. I have no idea how he didn't immediately short out, but still. Cute.

The horror of Cassie being confronted by the Mimic, not Gregory. I totally saw it coming, but it's still terrifying from a psychological standpoint.

What I Disliked:

The loading time. I think it was just because I have the PS4 version, but it took FOREVER to load the game both on startup and every time I died and wanted to retry. I hope the load times are optimized in the future.

The linearity. Once you leave one section, there's no going back; there isn't even a post-game where you can go back and do stuff. You're especially out of luck if you're on an all-collectibles run.

The lack of direction in some parts. I got stuck in so many places for such a long time because it was unclear where I was supposed to go/what I was supposed to do. Looking at you, catwalks and beauty salon.

MXES showing up at the absolute worst times and leading you to your death not out of personal failure, but out of misfortune. It got annoying after my 10th death in the Monty Golf catwalks.

Those dang Music Men, especially the ones in the bowling lanes. They were annoying to deal with. Doable, but annoying.

The stupid endoskeletons. I didn't like them in the base game, and I don't like them now. They really get to me. (I know. I'm a huge coward.)

All in all, I got about as much as I hoped for. I still have to get the rest of the endings, but this was some great DLC. It cements Security Breach as one of my favorite games in the series, and it gives me hope for whatever else Steel Wool has to offer.

[balloonboyismyson]

Anything about Swap!Mimic? 👀

Already asked a little bit about MXES, so I’m curious about him, too.

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As far as game mechanics, instead of being a virtual threat and taking off the mask keeps you safe, I think it would be fitting for in this case putting on the mask would! This would work since you are able to walk through things in the virtual world, Mimic would be unable to touch you.

As far as why he is there, he probably entered the same way OG!Mimic did, except since he never learned violence and instead learned love, he would try to keep everyone as safe as he kept the kid he watched.

In this timeline, the reason why Mimic was in Vanessa's suit (BurnTrap in the OG game) was because he wanted Cassie to see him as a threat and burn the place down. Instead, when Cassie left with William and Roxy, he needed to try something different.

In RUIN, instead of shutting down Nodes, Gregory actually activates them. The lie behind this would be "Cassie" telling him something is blocking her exit and needs the Nodes to turn on so she can open/move it (depending on what she states is in the way).

[valleyfthdolls]

Haven't heard of Cassie possibly being the next villain before, can you tell me about it?

Yes I can!! I love this idea.

The basis for the theory of it being canon comes from the VANNI mask in Ruin. At the beginning, Cassie is given Vanny's mask from the Help Wanted Curse of Dreadbear DLC, and it implants a "transponder" whatever that is into her brain. Using this, Helpi communicates with her wirelessly even without her wearing the mask, and I believe this implant into her fucking brain is also how the VANNI mask can get "stuck" on her face using the AR inhibitors which prevent her from taking it off if activated while she is wearing the mask, as well as possibly explaining her ability to seemingly teleport while wearing the mask (idk how to explain that). At the end of Ruin, it's revealed that The Mimic has been corrupting the virtual augmentation neural network (the VANN? sure.) and luring Cassie to the ruins under the Pizzaplex to free it. At the end, Cassie gets in contact with Gregory, but the double captions and screeching of the intercom imply interference from The Mimic, who cuts the elevator cord (something Gregory, who was not at the Pizzaplex, wouldn't be able to do remotely) and sends Cassie plummeting to her presumed death.

The theory of Cassie being the next villain suggests that Cassie survived the fall, but was understandably deeply traumatized by the apparent betrayal from her friend who she had risked her own life for. As a result of this, she could become a villain to him, seeking revenge, but I think that if she survived the fall of the elevator, it's not just her own hurt that would do her in (though I do think The Mimic can best infect people who are hurt/mentally weakened), but The Mimic itself, and the implant connecting Cassie to it.

I think that since The Mimic is still "alive" and fully functional at the end of Ruin, it is likely still capable of corrupting the neural network, which, remember, Cassie is permanently hooked up to because of the implant in her brain. Now that Cassie is alone, vulnerable, traumatized and nearing death, The Mimic, who was intentionally tricking her into believing the elevator fall was Gregory's doing, can take it a step further and corrupt her brain, giving it another follower. This is probably what happened to Vanessa when it corrupted her, too, since it implies that Glitchtrap did literally infest her brain through things like Tape Girl saying Glitchtrap would "merge" with her and Fazbear Entertainment putting a disclaimer for "digital consciousness transference".

Either way, if Cassie survived, The Mimic is right outside the elevator door already repeating Roxy's voice (her line saying Cassie's name was recycled from earlier in the game) to make her inclined to trust it, so it's not looking good for her.

Funnily enough, before Ruin's release, I had speculated that Cassie had actually already been an escaped victim of this- specifically, that Cassie was Patient 46 from the tapes, having already escaped Glitchtrap once, and that the VANNI mask; the color matching of the AR world, Vanny and Glitchtrap's eyes, and Cassie's shoes; MXES not appearing to be attacking; the Cassie - Cassidy (Princess) parallels etc. in the trailer showed that Cassie had gotten roped into all of this already and that it was now trying to pull her back in.

[auralina33]

Wait we can send OCs for the ask game?? [Is holding Minnie with an extreme grip]

(But uh for the ask game, I'm curious about what you think of Eclipse and/or Cassie since they're the newest characters)

I CAN DO MINNIE SOMETIME... I'd like to see more actual story-based content of her since this ask game kind of relies on that, but HEEHOO

Doing Cassie since someone else asked for Eclipse!

CASSIE

First impression: Oh god, please don't be like Gregory. Please don't be like Gregory. PLEASE, DON'T BE LIKE GREGORY. RUIN DLC DON'T DO THIS TO ME.

Impression now: SHE WASN'T LIKE GREGORY!! Oh my god I love Cassie so much. I was SO pleasantly surprised to not only see the Glamrocks' fate being framed as tragic by the narrative but for even the protagonist to show them sympathy. Cassie's so sweet I love her so much, the fact that a big driving force of her character is how kind she is really gets me after how the main game went.

Favorite moment: The "Deactivating Roxy" scene is the obvious one. It really manages to recontextualize both of their characters and their relationship really well, and as a fellow lonely kid the implications of Cassie's birthday party and how Gregory and Roxy came up to be with her since no one else did... MAN. THAT GOT ME. I also like all the little moments where she questions what's going on with the V.A.N.N.I. mask, seeing her being able to tell that something's off and get gaslit about it while KNOWING things about the implications of that mask that she doesn't is so unsettling.

Idea for a story: I kind of want to write something with Security Is In Place Cassie or Memento Mori Cassie. She exists in both AUs but kind of veers a significant bit off-canon. I'd also love to write something with Cassie and Roxy, Cassie and MXES, or Cassie and the Mimic.

Unpopular opinion: She does not hate Monty she does NOT. (I'm coping but listen to me Monty deserves sympathy too, ok.)

Favorite relationship: Cassie and Roxy easily take the cake for obvious reasons. Though I DO think there's a lot of interesting possibilities in Cassie and Gregory and Cassie and the Mimic.

Favorite headcanon: If she DOES end up becoming the next Vanny, I really like the idea that instead of having to actively control the Glamrocks against their will, they may join and listen to her somewhat more willingly because she was one of the only people who cared about what happened to them and was nice to them.

[summerlycoris]

All the girls in security breach are some degree of girlfail.

Roxy? Girlfail in denial. She has to hype herself up in the mirror, is clearly projecting HARD when she insults Gregory ("I bet you don't even have friends..." comes to mind.) And then she gets run over by a reindee- I mean go kart. After that the denial really kicks in- "I'm still beautiful. I just need a little work done..." And then in ruin she loses to the mimic in what could have been her big moment. Poor Roxy... never change.

Chica? She knows she's a girlfail, and has accepted it. She eats her trash and walks around like a zombie. I'm sure at some point she wasn't like this. But she is now, and she seems to be at peace with it. Even in ruin, she's happy just to eat trash, and get her voicebox back.

Vanessa? She's a girlfail, and she doesn't know it. She's working a dead end job while possessed by an electric serial killer copycat virus. When she saw Gregory, for so long the only thing she could do was shine a flashlight at him. Couldn't even summon an animatronic until a few patches ago. Couldn't even actually catch Gregory (unless he literally walked into her, or in cutscenes.) Until the ruin patch. Needed a kid to save her using the power of three arcade machines. Managed to seal the mimic with Gregory's help, and make MXES... which then got turned off and the mimic was let loose not long after. Absolute failure. That's why I love her.