#spring bonnie vc: oh cool. great. i'm awake i'm barely functional & the serial killer is rotting inside my suit. also he's not dead. so fun

[spring-lxcked]

I mentioned in a joke post generally believing that Spring Bonnie's programming is inactive post-springlock incident, so of course that means an entire headcanon post.

Spring Bonnie was not an intelligent animatronic. He was only ever created to speak pre-recorded lines and sing and dance on-stage, alongside being worn. (Of course, there was an earlier prototype, pre-springlock suits, but he's not a part of this specific headcanon). However, William committed atrocities both while wearing and while nearby the suit, many of which involved intentionally harvesting remnant. Between unintentional exposure to remnant and pure, unbridled agony, Spring Bonnie does become, to some degree, sentient. In springlock mode, he is entirely unable to do anything, his programming overridden. Outside of that, he is initially not dangerous. The springlock incident had nothing to do with Spring Bonnie himself. It was purely William's own mistakes. In the years trapped in the backroom, the suit rots and Bonnie loses all power. Still, part of William's disorientation comes from the remains of that remnant and agony. What had made Spring Bonnie sentient is still present, still angry, and that anger intermixes with William's own. Theoretically, if you could repair the suit enough and power it, Spring Bonnie would come back on. In reality, though, this alone couldn't stop William and, if anything, would only make Springtrap more erratic and unpredictable. On a similar note, I recognize that fanon often suggests that Spring Bonnie's programming is what causes Springtrap to follow audio lures. While I actually like this theory, this is not the case for my Springtrap. Rage (both from William and the agony) + the disorientation of 30 years trapped in darkness, fading in and out of reality, makes him prone to following nearly anything he hears. And let's be honest, hearing the sound of his previously usual targets is distracting to say the least. While he gradually becomes less and less disoriented with time, he's never fully immune from a desperate need to kill.