WHY did Purple Guy kill the children?

[Speedwagon]

Does anybody know yet?


In my opinion, Purple Guy just woke up one day and thought "I'm gonna be a ♥♥♥♥ today!".


But that is not correct :(


Do you guys have any ideas?


DO NOT SAY IT WAS THE PUPPET

[Derpcrow]

Because they knew too much about the plaaaaaaaans. The last pack of rats in the mafia are at the bottom of the ocean now.

[Read that while listening to this.]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWqKPWO5T4o

Jokes aside, he could've just been evil, or he could of had a motive that Scott has probably given us the answer to. :P
[Which is obvious.] :3

[Fugitoid123]

He killed them so Five Nights at Freddy's can be a thing.

[Kevin Spicy]

Maybe it's a dark inner monologue from Scott's point of view that we've yet to figure out. He does repeatedly implicate the Purple Guy as an in-universe version of himself (If the Phone Guy = Purple Guy theory is to be believed)

But that's just a theory...

[Hunter #357]

Purple Guy got up one morning, and everything was normal.

Except everything wasn't normal.

As soon as he left his room, he was greeted with a bunch of loud, obnoxious people filing through the hallway.

"Get out of the way!" "Nyeh nyeh nyeh nyeeeh!" "MOM! JERRY STOLE MY TOY!"

Purple Guy got very pissed.

He was even more pissed that he got to work late because of those loud people.

And he got even more pissed because he had to
work overtime with no pay that week as punishment for being tardy.

Basically, he was having a horrific day.

He was very, very pissed off.

Mad enough that he could just kill something and not feel bad about doing it.

So that's what he did.

He lured several kids into the backstage that day while wearing one of the old costumes, promising them that there would be neat arcade games stored away in there.

Purple Guy then killed them all, presumably with a knife from the kitchen.

He did it all while the place was shutting down,
so that there would be a minimal amount of witnesses.


This is a joke.

[Doctor Script]

I don't understand... Don't say it's the puppet?

... Oh! I see.

It was the Marionette. I gotcha. :D

I'm just kidding, but in seriousness:

When I first started looking into the lore of these games, I was very perturbed by the fact that no character had a reason to kill 5 kids at a time. Everything seemed to point to Phone Guy being the purple man, but, as Cawthon points out, MatPat got *Almost* everything correct. If that means that phone guy isn't the purple man, then I had nothing. All the facts of who purple man is point to Phone Guy until FNAF3, where he dies in a completely different manner then Phone guy does.

Eventually, the closest thing I ever got to a motive was Voodoo. I thought Fazbear was a Haitian Loa (A voodoo 'god'... sort of. Vuhdo is a fairly complicated mythos. It's actually a bit of an offshoot of christianity, but isn't..? Its hard to map out, especially with their rightful fear of cultural appropriation), The skull like shape of the Animatronic masks and the uncanny similarity between Freddy and Baron Samadi seemed to point in that direction. I also saw that the sacrificing of chickens to speak with the dead as a voodoo ritual and Purple is a color of death and magic in Voodoo lore. And finally, Magic comes to life at Freddy Fazbear Pizza.

However...

There is no Loa with a name similar to Fazbear. That was a complete dissociation on my part.

The practice of putting Top hats and bow ties on bears is surprisingly deep, and has nothing to do with Voodoo. The practice is even older then Teddy Bears. Who knew?

Every culture on the planet that has ever practiced animal husbandry with chickens has some practice sacrificing them to speak with the dead. Turns out that when you can live through decapitation, people assume magic over rational biological independence of the brain. ... Ironically, now that I think about it.

Purple has almost no literary significance (Although, there is argument about Purple being tied to Fan Fiction and 'Mary Sue' tropes). In the order that colors are discovered among cultures, purple is almost always the last to be discovered. That means when it comes time to give it significance in a symbolic sense, everything is already accounted for. Voodoo is no different. Black is the color of death and magic in Voodoo lore, not Purple. The confusion came with contemporary artists, and you can't make black 'glow' because of color theory I don't completely understand. So, they make it dark shades of purple instead. This is especially true of old time 'pulp fiction' comics, when purple was an easy and available color for 4-color printing. Also being a time when Voodoo was at the height of popularity in American pop culture. Alas, another point of support bites the dust... and frontal lobe.

Magic and children might as well be tied to the hip. Magic being a short hand for narrative imagination, and children's abundant source of imagination, is like peanut butter and jelly. Not a thing connecting it to Voodoo.

The only real connection is that Texas is close to Louisiana... So... I could tie together the genealogy of concepts? Assuming Cawthon has a friend who practices Vuhdo as a religion, or otherwise has ties to the culture enough to justify utilizing it as a trope.

Which I can't prove. So... I have nothing to help you with the "Why Purple Guy Kills" question.

[Tc]

Originally posted by SithCrafter:

Does anybody know yet?


In my opinion, Purple Guy just woke up one day and thought "I'm gonna be a ♥♥♥♥ today!".


But that is not correct :(


Do you guys have any ideas?


DO NOT SAY IT WAS THE PUPPET

Here's what I know. Fnaf 2 and 3 the murderer has one expression on his face a creepy smilie until his death.

In the book he is portrayed the same way, it's possible purple guy is a pyscho path. Mentally illed cerial killer.

[Tc]

Now this teaser is out and says there was never just one. This means another killer or resturant, but why a resturant? Fnaf 3 we know of the sister location and other multiple locations.

I think its another killer fnaf 3 night guard. Fnaf 3 sec killer burns with springtrap. Its safe to assume another but expect a plot twisit dont get ur hopes up.

[LadyFiszi]

I think he could have some wildly sadistic and pedophilic instincts, and/or he was simply coward to try to hurt people in his size to satisfy his sick needs, so he just went after children.

[WeltaChara]

the exact same reasons in the book:
he's mentally insane
he hates the youth
and probably something about his childhood

[Rollerwings]

I think it's entirely possible that with Fazbear Entertainment's horrible disregard for human life and worker safety, Purple Guy could have suffered an accident himself or witnessed something happening to a coworker and he just sort of snapped, vowing revenge on the entire company. And while the act of witnessing something horrible in no way guarantees the witness will descend into dark deeds, if he had preexisting issues it might have been the breaking point for him.

This might have been a case, in his mind, of "killing the messenger." Phone Guy had the unenviable task of dismissing all the danger and explaining the heartless policies to the workers. And after the suit was used at the FNaF2 location, who was utterly devastated by what happened to the kids? Phone Guy. (At least that's how I interpreted it. He sounded like he was ready to cry.) Purple Guy might have been lashing out at the easiest target, someone who he wrongly felt was responsible for what he/his coworker had suffered. And he ultimately got his revenge, since the robots he turned into haunted beings killed Phone Guy.

As for his motivation in the novel, these theories (not mine) are worth reading. They contain spoilers, even in the URLs:

http://teal-mafioso.tumblr.com/post/140570214488/here-is-a-pretty-good-question-and-i-think-it
http://teal-mafioso.tumblr.com/post/137092965513/fnaf-the-silver-eyes-henry-and-williampurple

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by LadyFiszi:

I think he could have some wildly sadistic and pedophilic instincts, and/or he was simply coward to try to hurt people in his size to satisfy his sick needs, so he just went after children.

That's what I also believe. Infact he smiles like a psychopath during the murders. Aka: He didn't really had a motive to kill them. He just wanted to feel the pleasure to kill the kids.

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by Lady HawlSera The Prinny:

Originally posted by breadspy:

I think it's entirely possible that with Fazbear Entertainment's horrible disregard for human life and worker safety, Purple Guy could have suffered an accident himself or witnessed something happening to a coworker and he just sort of snapped, vowing revenge on the entire company. And while the act of witnessing something horrible in no way guarantees the witness will descend into dark deeds, if he had preexisting issues it might have been the breaking point for him.

This might have been a case, in his mind, of "killing the messenger." Phone Guy had the unenviable task of dismissing all the danger and explaining the heartless policies to the workers. And after the suit was used at the FNaF2 location, who was utterly devastated by what happened to the kids? Phone Guy. (At least that's how I interpreted it. He sounded like he was ready to cry.) Purple Guy might have been lashing out at the easiest target, someone who he wrongly felt was responsible for what he/his coworker had suffered. And he ultimately got his revenge, since the robots he turned into haunted beings killed Phone Guy.

As for his motivation in the novel, these theories (not mine) are worth reading. They contain spoilers, even in the URLs:

http://teal-mafioso.tumblr.com/post/140570214488/here-is-a-pretty-good-question-and-i-think-it
http://teal-mafioso.tumblr.com/post/137092965513/fnaf-the-silver-eyes-henry-and-williampurple

"Almost" killed him...

How many times do I have to point this out?

SPRINGTRAP. IS. A. LICH.

A Lich is an undead wizard who use necromancy. Springtrap is pretty much a possessed suit with a corpse inside.

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by Lady HawlSera The Prinny:

I mean a lich in the sense that he is an undead person who maintains his life but storing his soul in a mundane object... like a bunny suit. And has done so ever since the first time he died in the Springlocks.... as he strongly implied to Carlton

It's more plausible that Purple Guy is possessing the suit, while his corpse is still there.

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by Lady HawlSera The Prinny:

Originally posted by Doctor Emperor Rufus Raven ITA:

It's more plausible that Purple Guy is possessing the suit, while his corpse is still there.

Cause the book gave me this impression

Purple Guy is physically intact enough to not need the suit, unlike the kids, but his soul is tied to the suit and he needs it.

Proof? When Charlie returns to him after knocking him out, Purple Guy's heart has stopped... but slowly activates when Charlie shows up. Next Purple Guy is vegatative and unresponse... until Charlie puts the Spring Bonnie mask on him, suddenly Purple Guy is responsive and able to talk.

However AFTER the events of Silver Eyes, when Charlie activates the springlocks. Purple Guy's body is too damanged after falling to those springs a second time and he can't take off the suit again.

There are a lot of details here I just cannot ignore

Well, I haven't read the book and I don't know much the William Afton character. But Purple Guy is not a wizard.

[PurpleGhost]

Originally posted by That Guy with the Gibus:

Maybe it's a dark inner monologue from Scott's point of view that we've yet to figure out. He does repeatedly implicate the Purple Guy as an in-universe version of himself (If the Phone Guy = Purple Guy theory is to be believed)

But that's just a theory...

a game theory!