#security breach isn't just bad. it's not fucking done.

[emdotcom]

*remembers what they did to Vanny* 500 FUCKING PIPEBOMB ATTACK.

[ahamkara-apologist]

Oh thank god now that Echoes is finally out I can talk about the Faith-Keeper loretab

First off: I'm not really sure who it is exactly, but we've got a Hidden agent listening in on a discussion between Eido and the Spider about Eramis. If I had to guess, this agent is likely Ikora, since Misraaks asked her to look after Eido at the end of the Lost in the Light quest post-FS campaign, but we don't really get any clarification here. In my heart its Ikora, though.

First off: I LOVE the callback to Eido's shitty datapad security from Season of Plunder. Remember when she was recording her audio logs and Eramis just dropped in unexpectedly to talk to her behind Misraaks's back? Looks like she hasn't fixed her security breach well enough to prevent others from doing the same. Which is deeply funny to me- babygirl, your father is a Splicer. His whole entire job is being a top tier hacker!! You need better security than that!!!

Eido babyyyy, I'm not sure why you think you can blackmail a crime lord, but I admire your efforts! I'm not really sure what Spider is doing here, maybe moving closer to her? Either way I love how his whole 'fake caring' shtick got immediately dropped to the side as soon as Eido laughed at him. You're not winning any uncle points here, Spider. The note about Eramis having been given up by everyone around her, however? This is both a good and a bad sign. Good because it means that the forces of Darkness that got her into this whole mess no longer give a fuck about her and aren't there to push her into poor decisions again, bad because Eramis is historically notorious for making terrible decisions when there's nobody around to influence her anyways. Given the fact that she was outright suicidal the last time we checked in on her and that means that we have a limited time frame to get Eido to soften her up before she starts putting her neck on the line again (which has me very nervously side-eyeing Revenant; I don't believe that she would want to join with Fikrul given her prior experiences with the Scorn, but it can also go either way if she's pushed. Eido could convince her to give her assistance to prevent him from spreading Dark Ether...or Fikrul could sway her to look away from what he's doing by promising to bring back Riis with the power of the Echo)

Not gonna lie, my first reaction when I read the 'staccato clicking' noises coming from Eido was 'DID SHE JUST PULL A FUCKING GUN ON HIM??', followed by wondering if she was threatening him in some way- then a friend pointed out she was likely crying, which made me go back to reread and realize that the wheezing noises were coming from her, not Spider (in my defense, he's a wheezy boi). So, yeah, she's crying. Poor sweet girl, I've been there before. I know that Misraaks set Spider on her to try to set her straight (which is deeply funny to me- he must be desperately worried for him to have Spider handle her, of all people), but, well...it's the Spider. He's a crime boss. 'Gentle' isn't in his nature

This does give me great hope for an Eramis redemption arc in the future, though. Compared to everyone else we've faced recently, Eramis hasn't even come close to the level of awful that the Witness has done, and she's outright helped us in several instances. There's no reason why we can't try to form an alliance with her- the main thing stopping us is because Eramis herself doesn't think that she's worthy of redemption. If we can barter with Savathun- whose desires are ultimately selfish even if they were momentarily aligned with our own- then we can certainly assist Eramis, especially if it means getting the remaining Houseless Eliksni off our back and in a safe, guardian-free refuge of their own (WITHOUT being tricked into being pawns of the Witness)

Also- absolutely love Eido's little speech here. Her insistence on clinging to optimism is probably what made Eramis see Eido as the guiding light for the future of the Eliksni people, and in a way, it's perfect to fit the Traveler's motif of forgiveness in the Light. Makes me wonder if the theory that Eido is the Kell of Kells may be hinted at here, since it's Eido alone of all other Eliksni who refuses to give up on a person's ability to change for the better. Even Misraaks can't do that, despite creating House Light and its open-door forgiveness policy.

I TOO WOULD LIKE GREATER CULTURAL CONTEXT ON ELIKSNI NON-VERBAL COMMUNICATION. I wonder who EKS-443 is- I would love to harass them for more information on what certain Eliksni vocalizations mean. I'm so starved for more worldbuilding on their biology and cultures, I'm hoping this is a sneak peak into what we might be getting in Revenant.

But also. Uh-oh bestie. The Vanguard should probably keep their claws out of this if they want diplomacy to succeed, because Eramis is not going to be happy if we stick our soft little monkey paws into Eliksni business again. We're going to have to back Eido up but let her do most of the talking/persuading, or shit can go south really fucking quickly- just like trying to pspsps a wary old ally cat into the safety of a home after years of extensive abuse. Waiting with bated breath to see how this turns out!

[supastar-vhs]

I genuinely wanna know why a lot of people seem to like the sun and moon show cause I could not sit through one full episode of that it was the lamest, stupidest shit ever

(I watched different episodes but could not finish one of them I kept trying different ones like "ok maybe this gets better??" cause I like to give things the benefit of the doubt before a genuine critique but spoiler alert, it didn't get better)

-They miss-characterize the fuck out of the canon characters

-The vr models look goofy as hell

-The non-canon characters are so awful and feel like useless fillers (especially earth and bloodmoon, they serve minimal plot purpose)

-Earth is a black character voice acted and played by a white woman (which is pretty weird, they couldn't have casted a black woman to play a black woman?? and before anyone says "earth isn't black" look at her skin tone and hair texture now be honest with yourself)

-Lunar is basically a loli (shota??) since it's been mentioned he's the same age as Eclipse yet he's short and acts like a child

-They mis-characterized monty and moon SO BAD (and sun but it was less noticeable)

-it's vr chat which that alone is a good enough reason to not fw tsams cause vr chat is like a breeding ground for discord mods

-The plot sucks, a 12 year old could have done better than those grown adults

-also so many of the fans are so weird?? In the show sun and moon are like depicted as brothers but then people turn around and ship them, it's weird

idk if it's just me over-analyzing but I cannot be the only person that finds this show unbearable, I feel like the only reason it's popular is because sun and moon fans are really desperate for content since their time in security breach (both the game and dlc) was so limited

this is a genuine opinion I'm not trying to hate on the show (I am) but I really have nothing positive to say about it and I need to know if it's just me cause I notice so many people like this shit show and the lame ass characters for whatever reason, if you have stuff to prove anything I said wrong and I mean like genuinely explain why (not just "you're wrong 😡😡" and giving no reason) then feel free because I'm genuinely curious about the hype for tsams

[sugarywishes]

Going in the post FNAF6 events, is there any other notable changes of note in this AU? Like changes to the games before Security Breach, different animatronics, etc, or is it pretty much one to one otherwise?

Okay, so this is where my rewrite starts to become a little...weirder than usual since I changed a LOT about post FNAF 6, (although believe me the security breach part will need its own post!) Reminder that this is still very much a work in progress, I haven't fully finished thinking the whole thing out yet, so as time goes on there is a possibility of lore updates or changes, answers below as usual!

Well for FNAF UCN, I know there's people who think that Andrew (i don't actually know who this is, but it's some kid from the books) is 'The One You Should Not Have Killed'/TOYSNHK, but lowkey i think that's stupid and I have decided to not include him. As I've said plenty of times before this rewrite does not include ANYTHING from the books (okay I lied there's a handful of things from the books that I've altered to fit into my story because I like the idea of it, but I'll list ALL the changes of the rewrite in another post if people are interested!)

Cassidy is TOYSNHK. Old Man Consequences is Henry, I guess. And yes, UCN is Afton's afterlife prison created by Cassidy, but it's not his real afterlife destination. He probably could've been able to escape sooner it had it not been for Cassidy constantly torturing him. And also Afton comes back I guess. Besides that everything is the same! (Mostly because, does this game really matter? It's basically just a spin off)

Anyways onto Help Wanted, I guess the only changes are just handfuls!

As we know in canon, Fazbear Ent. hired Silver Parasol Games to create a game trivializing and mocking the company's past to make a quick buck and probably to get people off their back about it. However an incident involving a beta tester named Jeremy (I'll get back to that in a sec) caused production of the game to halt, and development of the game was sent to another unknown company (presumably Fazbear Ent. Maybe?) But I'm altering some of that.

Silver Parasol Games does not exist in my rewrite. Instead the development company working on the game is a branch of the Fazbear Ent. Company, mostly because I feel like it makes sense for this moronic business to employ their own workers to do stuff for them at a cheaper rate than actually pay another studio more money to get things done. While the incident with Jeremy still occurred, the game halted production because Fazbear Ent. had to deal with the legal issues cause yk...one of your employees disfigured himself and probably a few people saw that. And after that was dealt with (rather swiftly, they probably bribed a few people here and there) the game production continued.

As for tape girl in this rewrite, uh...idk, I made her Vanessa/Vanny. I know there's probably some evidence out there that is like "but they're two different people you idiot !!" And yeah I'm sure they probably are but whatever, this rewrite has way too many characters and I'm not dealing with that. I felt like it didn't make sense for Tape Girl to not deal with Glitchtrap herself instead of getting the player to do it themselves. Like you said you knew a way to get rid of him, so...why didn't you do it earlier?? Anyways the way I'm changing Tape Girl and her lore is gonna be weird to explain, but that's for me to refine later in life!

Anyways, back to Jeremy, I made the choice to not make him Jeremy Fitzgerald, because 1. I feel bad for the poor dude already, he already lost half his head, does he need to lose his whole face too?? 2. Jeremy in HW isn't too important anyway, so no point in bringing Jeremy back just to kill him off (I mean J. Fitzgerald isn't that important either, but 🤷🤷) and 3. He would be too fucking old for this! During 1983 he was about 15-16 years old, and presuming HW takes place around modern time, he'd probably be in his 40s or 50s I think (maybe 60s idk, there's a reason it's my least favorite subject 💀💀) and like what the hell would he be doing there? Senior citizen ass go to the retirement home bro. And also who the hell would work AGAIN for the company who covered up the time you got your BRAIN BIT OFF by one of their robots??

And yeah Glitchtrap = William Afton. However, he STILL doesn't have any memories of his life as William (and now, he only barely remembers Mike and Henry, his strongest memories are when he was Springtrap and Scraptrap) when he escaped the UCN afterlife prison created by Cassidy, he managed to find out how much things have changed in the company, and more importantly he found out about the game they were developing.

He still wanted to have an immortal life (cause he also vaguely remembers wanting to live longer from when he was still working on reviving Evan, and his 'brain' scrambled it into him wanting to live FOREVER, no dead son here!) And he was like, "well, I guess coming back as a digital entity would be awesome!" But remember there's still a chance of him being fully deleted forever as explained by Tape Girl, so his plan is to infect people with his virus to use them as vessels to live in the real world again (and maybe collect remnant? Idk, this is still an idea I'm debating on keeping in this part, will likely get dropped though.)

(Also, I guess Special Delivery can stay the same in my re-imagining, not much to change about it and I like the Vanny lore!)

Again, I'm still working out the kinks here. This will probably be subjected to change if it calls for it! Any questions, let me know!

[dalekofchaos]

Why I have mixed feelings on The Mimic

I have mixed feelings on The Mimic after playing Ruin.

Why I've grown to like it.

To me the new FNAF games are the horrors of Fazbear Entertainment not learning their lesson and repeating the sins of the past and The Mimic is built on the agony of Freddy's. It's Afton's legacy being passed down. The agony he started is being continued to this day and you can bet he is smiling and proud that even tho he's in a hell of his own making, his legacy is being continued and he couldn't be even more proud, although his pride and satisfaction is unsettling Cassidy and Charlie. The Mimic is Fazbear's Curse and while William might not be around, his legacy remains or I guess you could say William's legacy is remnant(I had to)

Why I don't like it.

The original story of Security Breach was scrapped because of Sony's meddling and Scott's bad communication. To me, The Mimic felt like course correcting. Vanny's potential was squandered. Help Wanted seemed like it was leading to William's revival.

The Pizzaplex being built over the remains over Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place feels meaningless if it wasn't about William's revival.

Princess Quest shows Glitchtrap as something we'd see Afton turning into the Afton Amalgamation. But if that wasn't the plan, why even include it in Princess Quest?

The Princess is labeled as Cassidy in Princess Quest. But if Glitchtrap isn't Afton, why label her as Cassidy and paint it as Cassidy trying to free Vanessa and ending Afton once and for all?

I feel as though Afton was meant to be the puppet master.

William was Glitchtrap and Burntrap was the plan, but Princess Quest is the canon ending and that stopped Burntrap’s revival and it just melted away(you can see the steam in the recharge station in Ruin) so without William, The Mimic was free to return to what it was created to do(dismember limbs) and lure Cassie to free it.

I think William was the puppet master because of the trailer line

"When i first found you, you were nothing, you were small, pathetic… But now, you are more…. Are you ready?" This could be Afton talking to The Mimic or Vanny.

“You will do as I say, you will bring me what I want, and if you fail me, then you will–both of you–BURN!”

BOTH OF YOU, meaning Vanny and The Mimic.

Just keep things SIMPLE. Fazbear Entertainment was cutting costs and scanning the circuit boards of Scraptrap and the remains of the animatronics from FFPS and that’s how Glitchtrap was made.(or you know fully intended to create Glitchtrap because someone in Fazbear wanted William to return) Glitchtrap wants a follower that will help make him whole and help him fulfill his plans. Which is restore his family in his twisted image. Glitchtrap wants full control of the Pizzaplex, Vanny is completing his instructions, retrieving his body and uses Glamrock Bonnie’s remains to repair his suit and Burntrap wants to kill Gregory for his remnant. Not everything needs to be overly complicated, Scott.

Everything that made Vanny special was taken away by The Mimic and Gregory as GGY. They've made it clear that Vanny didn't matter and that was bullshit. It’s like every step in this new narrative seems like her character’s importance is getting diminished to less and less, like half the stuff she’s supposed to have done in this narrative has been has been…the roles of it has been filled in by other characters. Gregory is the one who puts the Glitch in the Pizzaplex, but she was the one who originally supposed to do that in the scrapped emails for FNAF AR and she hasn’t even been mentioned ONCE in these new books. Gregory has. The Mimic has. Glitchtrap technically has, but like no Vanny. What the fuck? There’s no presence of her and she’s supposed to be one of the new main antagonists, but now they’ve completely shafted her character for the sake of WHAT??? So not only did they fuck over Vanny in the games, they do the same fucking thing in the books. What WAS THE FUCKING POINT OF HELP WANTED IF YOU WERE GOING TO GIVE VANNY’S ROLE TO GREGORY???

They didn't have to use The Mimic. They could've used Vanny. Vanny could've used recordings of Gregory and synthesized his voice to lure Cassie and other children down to the Pizzaplex. Could make the Vanny or Burntrap endings canon. This could've been what redeemes Vanny. But no, instead they gave up and abandoned Vanny altogether and gives her role to The Mimic. "Cassie could be the new Vanny" I don't give a shit. Help Wanted established Vanny and Security Breach was supposed to be VANNY'S GAME. If they wanted a new villain so badly, they had Vanny RIGHT FUCKING THERE!

I mean just imagine Ruined Vanny! 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. art by azoinab.

But if they wanted Princess Quest to be canon, they could've used The Afton Amalgamation. Burntrap assimilates The Blob and becomes The Agony. The Pizzaplex is in ruins because of Afton. Have Gregory, Vanessa and Cassie working together to rebuild the Glamrocks, put together Happiest Day and ending Afton once and for all or ending Afton to how he dies in Fazbear Frights.

I am well aware that Five Nights At Freddy's is more than Afton, but saying we don't need William anymore is like saying Halloween doesn't need Michael Myers or saying Elm Street doesn't need Freddy Krueger. Complaining about William returning is like complaining about a horror icon returning, it's just dumb and silly. He is the monster that started it all and having a final end as the Afton Amalgamation would be more fitting than as Scraptrap.

To me, the script was flipped and the story was changed because of the reception to Security Breach. They gave up on Vanny and changed Afton to The Mimic. You can argue that Scott has this planned out since 2019 all you want, but using Afton's image for a new villain without any hints whatsoever in the game that this isn't Afton was just dumb. And honestly? We already had a Mimic esque character. Ennard. Ennard and Mimic are the same concept (evil endoskeleton mimics humans) and I think Ennard came out much better. When it comes down to it. Scott had bad communications as what he wanted Steel Wool to do and The Mimic just comes out of left field and at the expense of Vanny and Afton.

[stormyy-bluezz01]

gregory isn't as bad as you think.

(MAJOR SPOILERS FOR SECURITY BREACH RUINS DLC!)

with the ending of the ruins, while most people have come to the conclusion that gregory wasn't the one to toss cassie down that elevator, some were simply convinced that despite not being the one to originally trick cassie into coming down to the ruins, he was still the one who cut the elevator line, potentially killing cassie. & i think part of that has to do with the misconceptions about gregory.

let me explain.

a lot of people out there just don't like gregory, & are convinced that he's an irredeemable little shit. this is mainly because of his behaviour in the first sb game. lots of people think he's the scum of the earth for destroying freddy's friends & using them for upgrades, & while i agree he shouldn't have done that, it's pretty easy to understand why gregory did that. you, my friend with mommy issues, might be overly emotionally attached to roxy because you've seen what roxy is actually like. but gregory most probably has never even been to the pizzaplex before.

oh, & don't forget that these animatronics can physically be restored even after 'dying'... a human child cannot. that's right, that's all that gregory is. a child. i, a 15 year old, would freak out quite badly in this situation, personally, so i'm quite impressed with how calm gregory managed to keep himself. but what he was showing on the outside doesn't change what he must've been feeling on the inside. fear. i mean, let's be real guys, gregory has to be no older than 11, though he does look as young as 9 [though judging by his snarky personality, plus his similar looks to c.c., i don't think he's younger than 9, thus placing him in the 9-11 age range].

this does somewhat factor into why some people don't like gregory: his personality. gregory is quite snarky, sarcastic & rough around the edges, but he's not the sociopath some people paint him out to be. god, guys, this kid is living out on the streets! bro is definitely an orphan! & speaking of gregory living out on the streets, we don't even know how long gregory has been fending for himself. while he probably hasn't been on the streets themselves for that long [he is pretty clean-looking, after all], gregory probably doesn't have any true family [at least, before he met gregory (& vanessa if we count the princess quest ending)], or anyone who truly cares for him at all [not counting cassie, who's probably his only real friend]. so is it a shocker that gregory is the way he is? he acts selfishly because no one else was around to be selfish & look after him on his behalf. & as hard as freddy tries, poor papa-bear doesn't do the best job of making sure gregory doesn't fucking die in the middle of the night, lol.

...oh, & also, coming back to the 'destroying animatronics' part, some people (well i only saw one person use this theory in their fnaf gacha vid... don't judge me for watching that stuff guys, 2023 fnaf gacha is actually good, & 10x as entertaining-) actually think that gregory might've arrived at the destroyed pizzaplex once he figured out what was going on, only to figure out that cassie had released the mimic, & then gregory, having to choose between saving his best friend & saving countless lives from the mimic, ended up dropping the elevator with cassie in it.

while this is a way more plausible & reasonable theory, i still don't think gregory was in the pizzaplex at all, because i simply don't think he could've gotten to the line the elevator was hanging by... at least, i don't think he could've gotten there in time. as far as we know, the elevator line would be practically inaccessible for a human with no tools. it's a lot more likely that the mimic cut gregory off in the middle of his sentence (this game in particular was basically set on tricking cassie & the player on who was the real gregory the entire time, so even at the end, it was likely that steel wool would try to do this again. an amazing literary technique, if you ask me!), especially since the files contain two voicelines overlapping for that particular moment.

besides, we've already established that gregory is a tad more self-centred compared to other kids. who's to say gregory wouldn't be more focussed on cassie than the mimic here? gregory didn't give a damn about the animatronics, & while they may be a special case (considering that the animatronics can actually be physically fixed & recovered, & that gregory thought the technicians would just shut down the pizzaplex for a while to fix said animatronics), i think it's fully possible that gregory would pick cassie over all these random strangers. other than freddy, cassie is probably the only person gregory has ever truly bonded/connected with. cassie is one of the most important people in gregory's life, & gregory. she's probably like a sister to him, so why would gregory pick multiple strangers over one of the few people he considers family?

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TL;DR (still kinda long, to be honest, but this part does flow well & is shorter, so stick around to read this because this is the part where the post actually makes sense!)

in conclusion, what i've been tryna say this whole time is that gregory isn't a sociopath, he's a homeless kid with no family, & it's funny (in an upsetting sort of way) how some of y'all are literally painting him as a bad person for destroying the animatronics when the real villain of fnaf is literally supposed to be william afton himself, & here y'all are, victim-blaming a fucking 9-11 year old who lives on the streets.

& yes, once again, i'm gonna repeat that while i do agree gregory should not have destroyed the animatronics (especially since they've legit been freddy's friends his entire life, rip dude), it's understandable why he did so. gregory wanted to upgrade freddy so the poor guy could actually have a better chance of surviving the night (remember that save points are probably not canon, so gregory is actually a kid who is only managing to survive the night thanks to pure luck. he can't take any risks here!).

he's also just a young boy, no older than my own little brother (who'd totally freak out & not handle the situation as well as gregory did), & while gregory may act like a little shit/brat, it isn't his fault as he probably didn't have many positive role models growing up & had to fend for himself (maybe on a more emotional/metaphorical level when he was younger, as he does not seem to have been homeless for a long time).

& once again, gregory is a self-centred child who'd definitely pick saving his best friend's life over dozens (& potentially even hundreds) of people. after all, he's a kid who probably cannot comprehend the consequences of doing this, he & cassie are like 9-11 & despite his experiences, gregory probably still can't fully comprehend the idea of death, being just a young boy. (cassie is a different case since she basically saw roxy die-)

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....another TL;DR because the TL;DR is hella long- (this time i'm putting it in dot-points for those of you who are mentally incapable of reading huge slabs of text. still kinda a lot to swallow but bare with me here guys-)

gregory is not a sociopath: he's just had a hard life (you can't tell me he hasn't, while we don't know what he's been through, bro's definitely been through a hard life if he's on the streets instead of in an orphanage-) & this affects his behaviour. his age & maturity (he acts a bit like an edgy 13 year old, in my opinion-) also factors into this behaviour.

gregory only destroyed the animatronics because they were literally gonna kill him. (he believed that the technicians would shut down the pizzaplex for a couple of weeks to fix the animatronics, once the employees found the animatronics)

however, just because he destroyed the animatronics does not mean gregory would kill cassie in cold blood like how some of y'all believe he did. cassie is gregory's best friend, while gregory was probably meeting monty, roxy & chica for the first time, & therefore didn't have any bond with them. plus, once again, cassie is alive, she cannot be 'brought back' the same way the animatronics can.

gregory's also established to be self-centred, & would definitely choose to save cassie, regardless of the consequences (since the mimic would definitely escape if gregory got cassie out of the ruined pizzaplex).

there are probably a few more things i could choose to say in gregory's defence, but this post is getting too long & confusing. until then, i recommend watching this video which was supposed to be related, except i forgot to write the material relating to it! (still a good, reliable & interesting video though-):

~EDIT~

i now remember the material i was gonna type regarding this video! while there was something i was going to say in regards to the different possible endings (i forgor what it was now-), i do remember now that i was going to mention how some people believe gregory to be patient 48 (or whatever that number was, i forgor & i don't feel like cross-checking, so feel free to correct me!).

it's a well-known fact by now that patient 49 is most definitely being controlled/manipulated by glitchtrap. although people originally believed patient 48 to be vanessa/vanny, this is now proven to be false... or something like that, idk i don't keep that up-to-date with game theory's fnaf videos-

but anyways, most people these days actually believe gregory to be patient 49. part of this is to do with the fact that we don't know where gregory came from. while cassie talks about her dad all the time, gregory doesn't mention anything from the past, not even cassie. so for all we know, matpat's theory is correct & glammike, elizabeth!vanny/vanessa, & gregory = robot!c.c. are all canon-

but back on topic, because they believe that gregory is patient 49, many people believe that gregory would kill cassie in cold blood, or at least kill her in the name of saving people. but that's where you're wrong.

if you've watched the video above, you'd have probably heard how id fantasy (the creator, & a brilliant fnaf theorist if you ask me! she's right up there with matpat, tbh, imagine matpat but simplified & you'll get her videos!) theorised how gregory was most probably under glitchtrap's influence at one point or another (thus backing up the whole 'gregory is patient 48' theory).

however, something that most people forget is that anyone under glitchtrap's influence is forced to stay there if they want to live. vanessa did not want to be vanny, but she would've suffered a fate worse than death if she refused. after all, as we can see in the 'no' ending of fnaf: help wanted, the main character is just trapped in the game forever, even if they did 'win' against glitchtrap. once you pick the game up, there's simply no escape. i, too, would give up & let glitchtrap win the same way vanessa did, if i found out what the alternative is, & that there was literally no way to come out alive.

while, i, too, am not quite sure how gregory got his hands on the game or got under glitchtrap's influence, if we were to go with the 'gregory is patient 48' theory, i hope this explains the piled allegations against him. though frankly, i believe the 'elizabeth is patient 48 theory' way more.

[freddy-fazbears-wonderland]

what is a hot take about the FNAF franscise / fandom that you have? You seem to have really good opinions tbh

Lemme give you more than one

A lot of the male characters the fandom obsesses over really aren't shit when you think about it. When you look into them, you realize that most of it is just fandom interpretation, and the characters on their own aren't worth the hype. And I'm not just talking about being underdeveloped. Even just poorly written in general. This is why I am largely uninterested in the Afton family with the exception of Elizabeth.

If Security Breach didn't bring us characters like Gregory, Vanessa and Cassie, I probably would've stayed invested purely in the animatronics.

And while we're on the subject of character writing, a lot female characters in fnaf get done dirty not only in canon but the fandom as well. The most infamous example and one I'm sure everyone agrees with is how Circus Baby was handled after Sister Location and in the books. I'm not completely opposed to the idea of her being manipulated by William.

But they dropped her original characterization entirely just to make her daddy's little girl. That being said, this also could've worked if we got to see how William controlled her become she's just... unwaveringly loyal and we don't get why. The most we could go off on is that William probably knowingly had his daughter endure controlled shocks. I'm so fucking glad Help Wanted 2 dropped and we got OG Circus Baby's characterization back.

But it's also weird that the writers of the fnaf novels thought it was a good idea to make Circus Baby of all characters an attempt at a femme fatale. The character possessed by a freaking kid.

Which is why I'm glad that at least with the games, Steel Wool has been doing better with how the female characters are handled.

That leaves the fandom as a problem the girlies can't be bad or nuanced. Because Elizabeth, who is also a victim much like her brothers, tends to get overlooked at best if nor outright villainized. Like, this girl being a brat makes her irredeemable somehow.

Which is so weird when a popular headcanon is that Michael is the Foxy bully and loved to pick on the Crying Child. But he gets treated with much more grace despite this.

William motherfucking Afton gets treated which more grace despite clearly being an irredeemable villain.

And let's not forget how people were trying to antagonize Vanessa for throwing away Mike's pills. Sure, she could've handled it better but she still helped him out. Hell, she's one of the reasons why Mike was able to get his shit together and become a better guardian for Abby. Despite all her flaws, if she wasn't there, Mike would've lost custody Abby.

There's probably more but those are the only ones I can think of.

Can we talk about how the Clickteam/Scott era of fnaf is overhyped?

Because since he retired, people have gotten rose tinted glasses about that point in fnaf history and have forgotten that a lot of the problems we have with fnaf's writing is his fault.

But because Steel Wool committed the crime of making one bad game, people blame them for fnaf's bad writing. Which isn't true because while Security Breach wasn't good, what we got in writing and what could've been is way better than what Scott would've given us.

My last hot take is that I'm noticing some elitism in the horror side of the fandom. Like, they seem to think that they're true fnaf fans because they're in it for the spooks and think that kids are ruining the franchise when... youngins have always been there. Hell, I have no doubt in my mind they were fnaf kids themselves.

Not even just kids in the fnaf fandom but anyone who dares indulge in fnaf any way they deem unacceptable like making goofy videos or even shipping characters, for example, are somehow ruining the franchise.

It's weird until you realize that a lot of them are toxic anyways, so of course they see harmless fun as a bad thing while actual dogshit behavior like grooming, bullying and the likes get overlooked.

I have to mentally prepare myself for them because I want to make a fnaf shipping series and while it's most likely that it'll just be isolated to just other shippers, you never know. Especially since I've seen two YouTubers make negative videos about fnaf pairings, there is a chance I will have to deal with one of them.

They also have rose tinted glasses about fnaf because they refuse to acknowledge that the franchise was already kinda goofy from the start and not horror 24/7.

Anyways, I'll end it here because I'm pretty sure I'm pushing it and I can’t think of anything else to add.

[princess-of-the-corner]

I just thinking about FNaF AU versions of Security Breach's endings, and since the Vanny Route is kinda merged into the Burntrap Ending, I realized that would mean that the possible escape routes would probably be the only Fake Endings (well, that and a possible alternate ending where Vanny is killed before Afton can be expelled from her body).

So that would eliminate at least two endings, which (if I've done my math right) would limit us to the following ending routes:

Escape through front entrance.

Use Fire Escape.

Steal a delivery van from the Loading Dock.

Vanny (the canon ending you've already mentioned).

Additionally, I can see there being a "last second bad ending" if you mess up the final boss fight and get Vanny killed.

Not to mention, I can see how the changed circumstances (saving the Animatronics instead of Shattering them, the Glamrocks figuring out that Vanessa is possessed and wanting to save her as well, Freddy having no reason to burn down the PizzaPlex), affecting how the "Escape" endings would play out as well.

(Note: I'm aware none of this matters as this isn't a video game, but I like thinking of hypotheticals.)

So yeah I think.

Hm.

Because Freddy wouldn't go with Gregory if he escaped, that would go other types of sideways too.

I think instead of the 'choose to go to Vanny's hideout' the option is 'choose to go to Charlie's office'.

So any 'Ending' where Gregory leaves before exorcising Vanny is a bad/neutral ending. Charlie and crew will be informed of the night's events when they come in for day shift. They deal with Vanny, but despite searching the local area they cannot locate Gregory. Gregory is still a homeless kid living on the street, and will not go back to the Pizzaplex out of fear for everything happening again.

The Good/True Ending would be going to Charlie's office and surviving until Charlie and crew get there. Then exorcising Vanny.

The Bad End happens if you go to the office, survive until Charlie gets there, but fuck up on the Exorcism and kill Vanessa.

[equizona]

The security breach crew just listening to a nonbinary mechanic reader venting and rambling about Vanessa misgendering them

˗ˏˋ THAT'S NOT RIGHT ´ˎ˗

— CHARACTER'S?: Glamrock Freddy, Glamrock Chica, Montgomery Gator, Roxanne Wolf, Sundrop, Moondrop

— A/NOTE?: Vanessa slander. And my personal headcanon that Monty and Roxy call people rockstar, Chica and Freddy call people superstar and the daycare attendants call people sunshine.

➸ GLAMROCK FREDDY

He'll listen to you patiently, letting you vent all you need. Bottling it up is bad so he's happy you're safe to talk to him. But he is upset with Vanessa, and will mention to her that she needs to try better to make sure to get your pronons and name right.

He will also offer you a hug and will then try to get you to dance/sing with him once you're finished venting, in an attempt at cheering you up and getting your mind off of it.

➸ GLAMROCK CHICA

What!? She is a little too engaged in this whole thing. She doesn't like Vanessa and she has zero shame on showing it. She will vent about Vanessa with you. She will also make sure that you know how valid your feelings about this are! She will absolutely threaten Vanessa in a subtle way that's very creepy.

She will absolutely try to get you to come to her maze with her to play so you can get your mind away from Vanessa! And she will bring you all sorts of pizza and snacks from the Pizzaplex. All your favorites! You deserve it!

➸ MONTGOMERY GATOR

He might be angrier than you are. How dare she? That worthless security guard? He's going to rip her to shreds! He will encourage you, and once you're done and okay again, he will go.. talk to Vanessa. He will scare the fuck out of her. Might also threaten less than.. pleasant things.

He's going to drag you to his golf course to play games with him. Doesn't even have to be golf, you can both make up some silly game. Or, if you're the type, he'll take you to his room where tou can rage, and scream, and break stuff as much as you want. Go wild, rockstar!

➸ ROXXANE WOLF

Oh fuck no. There is no misgendering in this Pizzaplex. Roxy is ready to fist fight Vamessa within 0.3 seconds of your vent. Don't test her, either, she will absolutely murder Vanessa. She knows how. She can hide the body. They won't know. How would they know? On the other side, she will also make sure you know how valid your feelings are. 'Cause they are! She will encourage you to go tell Vanessa off.

She will take you to race with her, if you're into that. Or she'll take you somewhere else. Maybe her room? Would you like to just vibe with her? She'll do whatever she feels will make you the happiest.

➸ SUNDROP

That's horrible! He feels very bad that you're getting misgendered. Did Vanessa do it on purpose? Was it a slip-up? He's very engaged in what you're saying, and trying to decide how he should be acting towards Vanessa until she apologizes. He will try to make you talk to Vanessa in a grown up, mature way. If it wasn't on purpose, surley she will listen if you tell her you're upset and try to correct her behaviors towards you.

If he thinks you need to be distracted a bit, he will invite you to play a game, or do some arts and crafts. Do you like to paint? Draw? Hide and seek? Tag? He can do it all!

➸ MOONDROP

Oh, he doesn't like Vanessa. This is basically his invitation to murder her and hide her body where nobody will ever find her. No? Okay.. If he isn't allowed to fight her alone, he will encourage you to do so. She has no right misgendering you.

If you really don't want to, he might ask you if you would like to take a nap. He's good with those. Or would you like to play a game? He can do that. Or he could let Sun have control to help cheer you up instead. He'll do what you want.

[ppnuggie]

RESCUE BOTS — fluff

『　chase ,, heatwave ,, boulder ,, blades ,, female human reader 』　

-> playing fnaf w/ the rescue bots

— fluff ,, sfw ,, crack

— bc bots playing a horror game is kinda funny tbh ,, requests are open ,, so dont be shy <3 pls just read my rules tho !! but do know scenarios will take more time then headcannons will ,,

chase ::

• he wasn't aware of the game until he had asked you about it ,, curious as to what you were playing.

• he found it quite hard to understand when you explained the lore.

• "why would humans want to put the bodies of their dead children in robots?" he asked ,, head tilted and optics filled with concern.

• still he does let you play and asks a few questions every now and then ,, such as what the minigames after the nights are about and such.

• though he will watch from over your shoulder ,, sometimes jumping at the jumpscared every now and then.

• he'd try to keep this game away from blades ,, knowing that the mech would start having nightmares during his stasis if he were to find out about the game and play it.

• if he had to pick a favorite game of the series ,, it would probably be the second. all the different animatronics and the challenges there are to it are interesting to him ,, the different tactics to use for different characters.

heatwave ::

• he doesn't really give two fucks about what you do ,, as long as he isn't involved. but once cody is ,, he's suddenly all interested.

• what is this 'fa-naff' game you're playing? he cocks an optic at you two as you explain it.

• he grumbles about how its ridiculous ,, though once cody offered him to watch you two play ,, he rolled his optics.

• "i suppose i could spend some time," he huffs out.

• bro screams like a girl as soon as the first jumpscare comes on ,, and plays it off as it was one of his gears that needed a little oil and loosening.

• sometimes he sees the nightmare versions of the characters in his stasis ,, but won't ever tell anyone that ,, he'll just silently suffer whilst he witnesses them when he's recharging.

• his favorite game would probably be the third ,, the minigames are something he enjoys as a break from all the stress of trying to keep springtrap occupied ,, and the other extra jumpscares.

boulder ::

• he knew the lore beforehand ,, because he had asked graham about the same game.

• he asked if he could watch ,, and was quite pleased when you said that he could.

• he takes the time to understand more of the mechanics of the animatronics and not pay attention to how you get jumpscared.

• he's still a little uncomfortable about the fact that the animatronics have dead children souls in them ,, which results in him feeling bad for what happened to them.

• does enjoy the programming behind the games ,, how nicely done the art is and how realistic it looks.

• his favorite game would be the first and original one ,, something about it just appeals to him.

blades ::

• at first ,. it was you who asked blades to join you in playing the game ,, in which he almost accepted until dani had told him it was a horror game.

• he started to freak and went all out with saying no.

• but then he was later called a coward by heatwave ,, and because of that ,, he had to prove that he wasn't a coward ,, so he ended up playing the games with you.

• he does come to like it ,, but not the jumpscare parts or rhe parts where it can stress you out or the 20/20/20/20 mode ,, the only part he likes is the minigames and thats it.

• he does end up loving fnaf security breach though ,, with all the exploration in it and how you can fight back the animatronics and don't have to worry much about power or looking door to door.

• loves loves loves sundrop !! the design on them and the bells for the blind children ,, he found sparkwarming.

[sirro85-blog]

Dark Horses 5

Kovac hoved into view, his face caked in congealed with blood, his eyes bright through the grime, his mouth split into a grin.

"Do you feel the joy of it? The everliving fucking joy," his voice was animated and loud, "I tell you now, you'll never feel as alive as you do right now!"

Kovac looked around, his movements feral, "I love this job," another mad grin, "you'll never feel alive again!"

Costa jerked awake and looked around, he was slumped in a chair, around him soldiers worked. Staff Sergeant Frank King was binding Butlanska's wounds.

"You doing ok trooper?" Asked a voice.

Costa looked up feeling dazed, "uh, yes ma'am," he responded.

"Very good trooper, come with me," said the Quartermaster.

Something sparked in Costa's numb brain, "you called me trooper, ma'am."

"I did, would you rather I change?" Came the response.

"No, no trooper is good, ma'am" Costa said stumbling after the large woman, he'd never enjoyed being called "Cherub"

Ten minutes later Costa was sat at a table tucking into a plate of food, he had clean clothes and had enjoyed a brief shower, now the Quartermaster had produced cottage pie and vimto seemingly by magic and he was filling up on his favourite meal. The Quartemaster stood nearby, he could tell she wasn't watching him.

Captain Dorman and Sergeant Webb approached, they both stopped a distance off as the Qm's baleful glare turned to them, "evening Qm, I wanted a chat with Trooper Costa, debrief him after his escapades with the Major."

"Later."

"I was rather, er hoping, he's in our command...welfare," the Captain trailed off.

"I've got him right now, Major told me, you can talk later Hero, take Plank and get about your day," spoke the Qm.

Costa, feeling more alert and less dazed appreciated the peace, he respected his Troop commander and his sergeant but this period of calm made him feel whole again, he watched the two men walk away. He felt even better when Ty was brought across to sit with him.

"Here you go Mouth," said the Qm handing a bottle of iced tea to Ty, it was his favourite brand.

His meal finished Costa felt renewed, The Qm gave him a nod and walked away. A minute or so later Major Kovac appeared and patted Ty on his uninjured arm.

"Damn good to see you in one piece trooper," Costa here went through the ringer keeping you alive, would've been a damn shame to waste that effort," he turned to Costa, "Costa, tell Sergeant Webb I said you can carry that kukri anywhere you want." The Major nodded to them both and walked off. Ty placed his hand over Costa's and they sat in silence for a while.

"Cherub, Mouth stop lazing about holding hands and piss off back to work the pair of you," yelled the Qm and the two troopers ran for it.

The Dark Horses fortified their positions and scouts were sent out to check the secondary Bartuq positions.

Barbie stopped running and lay down on the floor, "It's too much, it's too damn wet, this isn't air this is soup!"

Becca turned back and jogged over to her, "struggling Baps?"

"Fuck your skinny ass Becca, this is too damn hot. Its a jungle, its like 1000% humidity," gasped Panther dropping to her knees beside the prone Barbie.

"Come on, it's not so bad, we round this headland and comeback down by the river, one of the rivers, we'll make it about 12k back to base." Becca said jogging round her two friends.

Knickers slowed to a stop and bent at the waist, gasping for breath, "If we, kill her here, we can, dump the body, in the river, and claim, she went on, ahead."

"Oh come on, it's not all that bad we're over 2/3 done. Only a little more suffering left," Becca encouraged.

"Listen bitch," Barbie said rolling onto her knees, "you think just because you like pain the rest of us want this?"

"I don't like pain?"

"Really!? Hurt-me-Daddy-Becca doesn't like pain? Choke-me-Daddy-Becca isn't enjoying being short of breath?" Scoffed Panther.

Becca stopped jogging on the spot, "I don't call Kovac Daddy."

"No? What do you call him? Master?" Panther hooted, "Major!!?"

"Oh Major, yes sir, I'll do anything you order Major, do you salute?"

Becca pouted and rounded on Panther, "what about you? Do you call Wolf sir while on your knees?"

Panther gave a peal of laugher, "fuck off, he calls me a goddess before we even start, he only outranks me out here, we all know Kovac is the big dog everywhere."

"Speaking of the big-dog, has the Major made a decision about this second position we need to capture?" Asked Barbie looking from her troop commander to her Sergeant.

"Nothing yet, but you can trust the Major will have a plan," answered Knickers.

Barbie nodded accepting this fact and gestured to the path, "shall we get this over with?" They started to jog down the track.

Kovac was sitting with Wolf in his office, "the plan has to be simple Wolf, there is no magic trick to this, we breech and we force them south onto the savannah and any survivors get mopped up by Towoli security forces at a later date, once the second defensive structure is captured they're finished as a power," Kovac spread his hands.

Wolf nodded, "look, overall it's a good plan but the idea of this being a rapid breech entry job, it's a bit...old fashioned."

"RBE is a classic because it works, long and short of it is, we need to get in and we need to do it fast, Dorman will breech, Becca will push in and you will sweep. I'll have Gilly set up the gunners to drive any escaping frogs south." Kovac stood, "once the Qm has the ordinance redistributed we'll give orders."

The Dark Horses were a unique force in the galaxy, taken wholesale from a regiment that had taken heavy losses they had all been trained to the same standard and even for human military were considered highly trained. I found during my time with these humans that I took their training for granted, these were not the human standard, these were the heights humanity could reach in this area. Twinned with this complacency was an amazement that humans could train, could learn a skill and develop it to a level of brilliance even to other humans. Most races known were born to their specific tasks in society.

Of course all species could develop or enhance a skill but none could break a typecast like humans could.

When the Dark Horses attacked the Bartuq defence, I realised I was watching military unit that had been working together and been led by the same officers for over a decade.

It looked like the fluid parts of a machine, 3 troop stole forwards in the gloom and placed their charges, they breached the outer perimeter and Becca led 2 troop forward, flooding the breach and securing a position. Fortified by Dorman's 3 Troop Becca pushed on and Wolf came behind to support them. Within the hour the Bartuq compound was captured.

I joined Becca and Kovac on the ridge watching the Bartuq stream out into the grasslands, their numbers greatly diminished.

"Tough bit of work that," Becca muttered.

"Butchers bill mercifully short," replied Kovac.

"Won't have to listen to Grey's guitar practice for a while," Becca said.

"Aye, hopefully Frank won't be able to save all his function in that arm."

This is a human habit, making cruel comments to alleviate a situation, they call it humour, or friendship.

Armoured vehicles poured out of a group of hills attacking the Bartuq.

"Oh fuck, what's this fart-waffle?" Asked Gilly as he joined the two officers.

Kovac cursed softly, "It's the Earth Defence Corps."

"What are the EDC doing? What are they doing here? Fucking cowboys," Becca asked.

"Forget that, that's, what? Three squadrons? Of bloody interceptor class Chimera armoured light cav, that means they must have deployed at batallion level, so they have at least a regiment of support infantry, two? They must have more armour and combat support arms to support that too...they've either deployed a goddamn Brigade of troops to this rock or they're even more incompetent than I give credit." Kovac said, his voice stunned.

"So the cannon fodder have come in strength, what else is new? If they didn't deploy a brigade to do a platoon's job they wouldn't be able to lose as many men as they like to do," Becca said shrugging.

"No, they've deployed a brigade of human troops on the border of Xhost held territory!" Kovac said, turning around and looking at the sky, "you can't do that quietly."

"Kov, does it matter? I mean..." Gilly was turning to Kovac but cut off as the Major turned and ran down the slope.

I've seen human panic and fear, I've also seen humans overcome that fear and direct it. This seemed to be what Kovac was doing

The Major was using his communicator, "all units return to the FOB, immediate withdrawal."

Gilly turned to Becca and gave a questioning gesture after Kovac, but Becca wasn't looking. She was staring at the sky.

Half a dozen Xhost warbirds were dropping in from low orbit, they dropped low over the EDC and began firing into the Chimera squadrons.

Becca had turned and streaked away, Gilly opened his communicator up and started calling instructions to Griffin Battery.

A dreadnought class Xhost ship broke atmospher and I looked up on time to see a cloudburst, a dark, stinking rain fell across the savannah and onto the foliage the Dark Horses were retreating into, I felt it hit my exterior and it burned, I slowed and as more drops hit I blacked out.

I could hear voices, human voices.

"You both look ridiculous," laughed a familiar voice.

"Good to see you weren't caught in it."

"Listen, the implication that I had found somewhere to take a nap is a vicious rumour spread by my political enemies," that voice again.

"So you avoided it and Kovac avoided it but the rest of us got soaked, including the professor," said a third voice.

"Did it have any effect on you lot?"

"Made my eyes stream," said the second voice, a woman's.

The first voice, must be Wolf I realised, "lot of red eyes."

"Stinks and makes you cry, hardly a dangerous weapon," the third vice said.

"Killed the Bartuq survivors and a few drops overwhelmed the professor," said Gilly.

"So...what is it?" Asked Becca.

"Kovac says it's propenyl sulfenic acid, according to Petra."

"Sulfenic...onion juice!?"

"Basically," Wolf said apologetically.

"Explains why I'm craving hotdogs," said Gilly.

"So, what? They've used their bio-weapons and it gave me cravings, the Xhost aren't as tough as I remember them," Wolf said.

"Except, they've landed and formed a beachhead. Kovac has contacted the general for support...till then we're on our own, the onion juice devastated the Towoli numbers."

It should come as no shock that some of the galaxy's most potent biochemical weapons have been harnessed by humans for food, drink and recreation. Nicotinoid, cannabinoid, capsaicin ethanol and goitrin and thyocyanates. All accepted toxins in the human diet.