Henry Emily/William Afton: BECAUSE IT'S WHAT I LOVE TO DO!
Bluey Capsules
note is a parody webcomic made by a collaborative group of artists loosely retelling the Five Nights at Freddy's timeline.Emphasis on loosely.
As of now the webcomic has been cancelled with no plans to restart it.
WARNING: Due to the comic's nature as a fancomic, only people familiar with the source material will be reading it, so anything carried over from the source material will not be spoiler tagged. This is to avoid excessive spoiler tags. You have been warned.
List of tropes in Bluey Capsules:
- Adaptation Expansion: Every character in the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise that can be even slightly alluded to exist has a fully fleshed-out role in the story, including some new original characters the team made themselves.
- Affectionate Parody: The creators are clearly massive fans of the source material, and it's made even clearer once the comic shifts from nonsense parody to a darker, more serious retelling meant to fill in the gaps in the timeline whilst still maintaining elements of parody.
- Alternate Reality Episode: The short aside taken for April Fools 2021/The first anniversary. The same goes for its second anniversary in 2022.
- Applied Phlebotinum: Remnant. It can power electronics more efficiently than any normal power source, and when injected, induces immortality, as Vinny and his husband can testify.
- Art Shift: Due to multiple people drawing the panels, art changes are bound to happen. This also tends to happen whenever the comic switches to a more serious tone.
- Babysitter from Hell: William when Henry asks him to look after Sammy. He proceeds to spend the whole time attempting to murder Sammy and failing in increasingly comical ways.
- Big "NO!":
- Elizabeth drops a big "no" when she sees Charlie dead at her funeral, right before transforming into her Superpowered Evil Side.
- Michael screams one of these when he realizes CC's flatlined.
- The Cameo: Lots of cameos. Here’s the full list.
- Cast Full of Gay: Despite the time period, essentially all of the main non-child characters (and William) are explicitly shown to be queer in some way or are confirmed to be by outside sources (Joan is often shown wearing the lesbian flag, Michael and Jeremy are crushing on each other, Vincent and Scott are married, Susie has two moms, etc). This even extends to the animatronic characters, as Mangle uses all pronouns and Spring Bonnie was in a relationship with Fredbear.
- Cast of Snowflakes: No matter how small a character is, they're getting a unique look and likely a backstory to match. This makes for some pretty memorable extras that fans always wish to see return.
- Censored Child Death: Children die a lot, as expected. However, violence against the children who are killed is almost never shown.
- Averted once with C.C, where the events of the Bite of ’83 are shown in explicit detail.
- There is a tinge of Early-Installment Weirdness where at the beginning of volume 1, Charlie’s corpse is pictured multiple times. Meanwhile, every child death afterward was handled by only showing the aftermath. This is probably because she was the only child whose death was mostly Played for Laughs.
- Cerebus Syndrome: Shifts into grimmer territory after the Bite of '83.
- Continuity Nod: There are several of these, including:
- In volume 3 part 5, Vincent has his bloody prison jumpsuit that Depeche Mode signed in Volume 2 part 8.75.
- In volume 3 part 4.25, the garage door is still a wreck from William hitting it with his car on the first page of the comic.
- In volume 4 part 5.5, we see William hiding behind the car that Michael said he bought himself in the last character QNA.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: The first thing that the team posted on the Bluey Capsules twitter was a "continuation" of an existing Pinky Pills comic. The art is a lot less polished and the character designs aren't finalized into their current incarnations.
- Funetik Aksent:
- The Aftons' speech tends to be rendered in such a way that illustrates that they're British.
- When Michael speaks in an American accent while posing as "Fritz Smith," he can still sometimes be seen pronouncing the word "father" with his accent.
- Grief-Induced Split:
- Charlie's murder causes the demise of her parents' marriage. Her mother Emilie moves to Las Vegas, leaving behind her husband and remaining daughter.
- Boss and Ivy divorce after their three children go missing.
- Interrupted Kiss: Subverted. The March 3 2022 update ended on a cliffhanger of Jeremy and Michael about to kiss. Fans expected someone to walk in on them before they actually kissed, but were happily surprised to find that didn’t happen in the next update.
- Monster Clown: The Aftons keep "Bubba" in their bathroom to use as a shower. Do not look at him.
- Mood Whiplash: The story can flip-flop between a lighthearted joking atmosphere and the seriousness of the events in the original timeline, sometimes in the same page.
- Nightmare Face:
- ''"SO, WHY DID YOU DO IT, MICHAEL? HOW DID IT FEEL?"
- The Puppet/ Charlie pulls quite a few scary faces, especially in early volumes.
- ''"SO, WHY DID YOU DO IT, MICHAEL? HOW DID IT FEEL?"
- Non-Standard Character Design:
- Sammy, a yellow lion-like creature, and Scott, who has a rotary phone for a head.
- Charlie and Vincent used to qualify, but their designs were retconned to having always been human.
- Politically Correct History: Despite taking place in the 80s, gay marriage is commonplace (though may not be legal, as "Officiated 49 gay marriages" is at the top of Vincent's criminal record) and trans characters are accepted with no question. It's not a perfect world where homophobia doesn't exist, however, as Jeremy's backstory involves his homophobic aunt sending him to Bible camp, but it's essentially comparable to the modern day in terms of acceptance.
- Posthumous Character:
- Charlie Emily. She's still hanging around, though, in the form of the Puppet.
- Mrs. Afton (or Sunny) is also this. The reason for her death? Her husband's cooking. And like Charlie, she lingers in a lamp that somewhat resembles Shadow Bonnie without limbs.
- Rotating Protagonist: While the members of the Afton family get the most focus, each part usually focuses on a different character's perspective. Sometimes a part begins from the point of view of a character that the audience hasn't even met yet.
- Side-Story Bonus Art: The monthly patreon bonus images see the characters indulging in activities that aren't part of the webcomic's main story.
- The Stoner: Fredbear has quite the affinity for drugs in this universe.
- Wham Episode: Downplayed, since people who are aware of the original series' lore will know it's coming, but still.
- The Bite of '83. C.C. gets his head crushed in Fredbear's jaws due to a prank gone wrong by Michael and dies in the hospital.
- Charlie is revealed to be possessing the Puppet. She attacks William in his own home, and is only fended off by fire. This is where William discovers Remnant, and what will later motivate him to engineer the Missing Children Incident.
- Fruity Maze. Elizabeth's new friend Susie, after having her dog run over, plays Fruity Maze in the arcade. William uses this opportunity to hide in the Spring Bonnie suit to lead her into the back room and kill her. He stuffs her into Chica to observe what her Remnant will do.
