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Novels: Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes
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Fridge Brilliance
- While it's unclear how much autonomy Phone Guy has over his phone calls in UCN, the Adaptational Villainy of the once-peaceful animatronics (i.e. from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator) is justified with the implication that the player character is William Afton, the main source of conflict within the series. Even if they were willing to leave other protagonists alone, they will not be as nice to a child serial killer and tormentor of spirits.
- The inclusion of Springtrap into the game seems to disprove the “William Afton in Hell” theory, right? Until you remember that Afton only became Springtrap after being brutally ripped apart by the Spring Bonnie suit and then left to bleed to death. So Springtrap’s presence in the game makes a lot of sense if the above theory is true: rather than being a reminder of Afton’s victims, he’s a reminder of Afton’s failures.
- Likewise, the inclusion of his Pizzeria Simulator incarnation could be a mockery of his inherent cowardice, killing people — children, even — to further his research, or just because he felt like it. Scraptrap in this game, billed simply as Afton, strikes exactly once and then leaves whether he was successful or not, as if he just gave up at the slightest hint of resistance while picking on someone his own size.
- Scrap Baby also makes no more than one attempt to attack per night. Like father, like daughter.
- Then there's the fact that Springtrap is another animatronic used to kill and hide someone, even if the victim was Afton himself. It's unlikely the kids are in hell with him, so the suits are likely possessed by demons or somesuch.
- Most of the Marionette's lines support the "William Afton in Hell" theory, especially how she enjoys William Afton's helplessness and how she used to be afraid of him, but isn't anymore. The Marionette never had any reason to fear Michael (if she even knew who he was to begin with), but she very likely feared William Afton at one point since he was the one who killed her. It's also clear from the rest of her dialogue that she's much more intelligent and aware of what's going on with the UCN than the rest of the animatronics, and it's very unlikely that she would make a mistake as basic as confusing William and Michael Afton for each other, especially since she's likely seen them both as Lefty during FFPS. But one line — "I don't hate you, but you need to stay out of my way." — seems to contradict this. After all, she has VERY good reason to hate William Afton after everything he's done. However, the line makes a lot more sense when you think about it in one of two contexts — either she has finally let go of her hatred but enjoys seeing William Afton pay for what he's done despite that, or she was being sarcastic about not having any more malice towards Afton. This also explains why Rockstar Foxy is willing to help the player out, even though they're playing as William Afton. It's not because Rockstar Foxy has any good will towards Afton; in fact, he's just as willing to kill Afton when he's in a bad mood. Rather, Rockstar Foxy understands that Failure Is the Only Option for Afton: he will be doomed to die at the hands of his animatronics time and time again, for all of eternity, regardless of whether or not he survives each night. Rockstar Foxy isn't sparing Afton: he's prolonging his next death.
- One of Nightmarionne's kill quotes mentions that it is "the fearful reflection of what [the player] has created". It seems like a fairly generic Game-Over Man kill quote, but looking at it from the perspective of "William Afton is in hell" theory, it makes a lot of sense. After all, the Marionette is someone that Afton personally killed, and always goes after whatever night guard takes the shift at Freddy's. Nightmarionne is Afton's fear of the Marionette multiplied by nightmarishness, and knows exactly what Afton is.
- Combined with Fridge Horror, but the Toy Chica cutscenes show seven victims of Toy Chica, who is clearly a stand-in for William Afton. But we only know of SIX, Charlie and the 5 MCI victims. This could very well mean that there were SEVEN victims of William Afton, and that this unknown 7th victim is "The One You Should Not Have Killed."
- or it could very well be representing his daughter Elisabeth, who died at the hand of the murderous circus baby animatronic he made just for her
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- or it could very well be representing his daughter Elisabeth, who died at the hand of the murderous circus baby animatronic he made just for her
- Most of the nightmare animatronics' mechanics involve making their way to the office easily and frequently returning. Nightmare Freddy's Freddles will appear whenever the monitor is raised, Nightmare Bonnie and Nightmare Mangle will give you little time to buy their plushies or you'll have no choice but to keep the camera on the right hall until they leave, Nightmare Fredbear and Nightmare instantly teleport to the doors, Jack-O-Chica will be summoned whenever the office is too hot, Nightmarionne will frequently follow your cursor and Nightmare BB will force you to think twice before raising the monitor. In the game they originated from, they relentlessly torment the Player Character within his nightmares, and they're continuing to do what they do best. However, since the Nightmares claim to be embodiments of Afton's wickedness, they're much more relentless.
- More retroactive fridge brilliance for 2, but when JJ appears here, she's an active threat, unlike in 2 where she's harmless and possibly a hallucination. Her mechanic in UCN is that when she's in the office, she disables door controls until she leaves. Of course she can't do anything to Jeremy — there are no doors in his office for her to mess with!
- Why is the Phone Guy, of all people, in this roster of hostile animatronics? He died to the possessed animatronics hunting for the children's killer. William is the reason the Phone Guy is dead. He represents all the innocent workers that died in William's place.
- Notably, there's no indication that Phone Guy really is down there in the UCN, they could just be playing recordings of his calls. Then again, he said animatronics stuff people in suits. Assuming those suits from the first game had Remnant in them, it's possible he met a similar fate to that of the kids, rather than just dying.
- Why is Orville so resistant to the audio lures? He's an elephant, a creature with big ears. Even with the loud audio lures, he can likely still hear what the player's doing in the office.
- Why do Ennard and Molten Freddy act almost identically? Besides the latter no longer having Baby, they're different versions of the same character.
Fridge Horror
- Given some of the lines the animatronics say when they catch you, a common belief that one of the child spirits is trapping William within UCN. Already terrifying on its own... however, it's not just one person who says these lines. It's several. Best case scenario, some of the other children decided to help this one. Worst case scenario? The children were all dragged down to hell with William.
- Or it could be Fridge Brilliance, where the kids get their revenge by tormenting William in Hell.
- Based upon more recent games, turns out there's a third option. ICN isn't hell proper, it's an Ironic Hell made specially for William by his victims. They haven't been dragged to hell with him so much as manufactured their own hell for the express purpose of holding William back from the afterlife while they take revenge on him. Which accidentally let him come back again.
- Orville's secret quote directly implies that the vengeful spirit is personally interfering with the ending of Pizzeria Simulator by trapping William in the Ultimate Custom Night rather than letting his soul get released. However, Cassette Guy was deliberately trying to cut William loose to send his soul to Hell, so if William got trapped instead, then he's not in Hell. And it might very well be that the only way to escape the Ultimate Custom Night is to beat it, so if William beats the Ultimate Custom Night… well, Purple Guy's spirit is now free to wander. Alternatively, perhaps this is that "darkest pit of Hell" that Cassette Man mentioned at the end of Pizzeria Simulator. That the UCN is indeed William's punishment in Hell for the torment he caused.
- Anyone else find it weird how Music Man has the 1 jumpscare noise? Remember that weird carnival music that randomly played in the first game? Remember how we never saw what was out of those camera's view or what was behind Mike in that game?
- Happy Frog, Orville, and Nedd Bear all have surpisingly ominous lines that indicate that they're possessed. Some of the extra children in 3's Happiest Day minigame were wearing masks like theirs.
- The noises Springtrap makes upon killing the player sound strange, but this game isn't those sounds' debut. They also played in the minigames of FNaF 3 whenever the Purple Guy dismantled the animatronics. The Purple Guy and Springtrap are the same person. Those sounds playing in Springtrap's Game Over indicates he's dismantling you.
Fridge Logic
- If all of William's creations are tormenting him in hell, as implied by numerous voice lines and the main menu being titled "Eisoptrophobia", then why is Phone Guy in there? Doesn't that imply that he's an animatronic like the rest of them? Unless it's specifically the phone itself that William created...
- Perhaps it's because William was technically responsible for Phone Guy's death? He did create the animatronics, he was responsible for killing the children that possessed them, and since Phone Guy has been with the company since before they decommissioned the springlock suits, William could have even been his employer.
- The above is correct. The animatronics are only hostile because of the children's spirits within them, spirits that are hunting William and wouldn't be hostile at all if he didn't kill them. William made the animatronics hostile. He's directly to blame for Phone Guy's death. Phone Guy's inclusion in Afton's hell is Phone Guy finally having a The Dog Bites Back moment after being indirectly killed by Afton at the very beginning of the series.
