#im gonna eventually make a full narrative post thatll be like

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michaels timeline (notes from google doc feel free to ignore)

be born as a beautiful little twin along with elizabeth. dont ask what happened to his mother because i dont know. he doesnt either. williams gay.

sister goes missing. this is very sad and baby michael does not know how to cope, especially since he and elizabeth were very close. bullying from fritz and his friends get worse. charlie also goes missing around this time, which makes everything even worse. he saw his OWN DAD kill charlie... this is getting scary for him!

he gets bit and what a CONVENIENT alibi for Willaim afton. his baby boy got hurt SO BADLY hes busy fucking raising his disabled child. I have not decided yet if Michael is a robot or not yet. I was already toying with the idea of a Mikebot au, but im not sure how i feel making it canon, im still really on the fence on how i feel about that. Either way, Michael is resurrected under the guise of it being a freak accident. And nursed back to health, verrry very luckily for William, the boy has a fuzzy memory. Michaels brother, and his brothers friends also all go missing around this time. They are presumed dead, along with Charlie and Elizabeth.

Michael is taken out of schooling to help him recover and so william can keep a very, very very very very very close eye on him. he had already been keeping a close watch on michael after elizabeths disappearance and especially after michael had witnessed what he had witnessed. Michael was never put into school again, and instead began working at the resturant himself. William, a very strong capitalist, and very smart engeneer, saw no problem in taking michael out of school permanently, setting him to work, and teaching him everything he knew. this continues until hes 15.

william afton had to fake his own death to keep his innocence and could no longer keep schooling michael, . who was put into the foster system.. The evidence was begining to pile up and he had to hide. Michael would have immediately been put into henrys care, but henry was on trial for murder at the time. henry spent six months to a year in jail, before being released as innocent, and was able to pull michael out of the foster system and into his home.

Michael and henry lived a simple, easy, quiet life. They didn't get along great, there was a lot of anger and hurt on both sides that got reflected onto eachother. lots of fighting. the worst parts were the interviews or interest in the case, it was the biggest thing to happen in hurricane utah and still is. michael lived this way until he was in his early twenties, when he got a letter sent to him by his father, instructing him where he could find his missing sister. which he does and he finds her you know this. you know this

elizabeth gets rejected from ennard, leaving her behind with michael and "ennard" crawling off who eventually forms molten freddy. It goes rogue. Michael is left a rotting corpse and with Elizabeth/baby (no suit pieces so theyre just wires) Michael and Elizabeth/Baby (Abby?) who set off on their goal to find and kill will, the rest of the animatronics, ending their reign

the resturant in this timeline is a mix of simulator's restaurant, and security breaches mall. think security breach, if it was in the classic original style. Cheap, very 80s plasticy feeling, with arcade carpets and checkered walls.