The Mystery of the Paper Plates

[Lampchu]

Okay, another thing I wanted to get around to. What is up with the paper plates? Ik the BB-esque one is called Paper Pal (files) and that it has its own AI (files), but what is up with the paper plates in general? Why are they shown everywhere, salvaged, and can move by themselves?

[Tighty-Whitey]

Paper Plates ? i think that someone can't afford normal plates... but that's not THAT sad !

[Sky]

I think they are hints to something, I just have no idea what. I don't know why the BB one appears in the office in FNAF2, but there's some weird things about them in FNAF3.

The Bonnie one covers up a poster of Freddy, the head placed exactly on the head on the poster. Plus it's dark purple, has one lit eye, and has two lines from its eyes like tears maybe? I just know there's also Spring Bonnie posters that replace Freddy posters and one also has only one lit eye.

The Freddy plate just covers a child drawing. It's kind of light colored so maybe a drawing of Golden Freddy?

[Doctor Raven]

Since they don't attack you, it's more like the Paper Plates are simply hallucinations.
The most interesting thing about them it's: The First one it's a Shadow/Freddy (Fredbear?) Paper Plate; The second one it's a Shadow/Bonnie (Springtrap or Toy Bonnie?) Paper Plate; The last one it's believed to be a BB paper plate, but actually it doesn't look very much like him. This particular paper plate doesn't have a hat (The Freddy paper plate have his own hat), it have three buttons (BB only have two), the paper plate have a round purple nose (BB have a triangular red nose). But this could be just the way the kids did it.

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by Adventure Jessica HawlSera:

Originally posted by Doctor Emperor Rufus Raven ITA:

Since they don't attack you, it's more like the Paper Plates are simply hallucinations.
The most interesting thing about them it's: The First one it's a Shadow/Freddy (Fredbear?) Paper Plate; The second one it's a Shadow/Bonnie (Springtrap or Toy Bonnie?) Paper Plate; The last one it's believed to be a BB paper plate, but actually it doesn't look very much like him. This particular paper plate doesn't have a hat (The Freddy paper plate have his own hat), it have three buttons (BB only have two), the paper plate have a round purple nose (BB have a triangular red nose). But this could be just the way the kids did it.

Why is it that we're so ready to brush off anything paranormal that happens in a series about a Haunted Pizzeria in which all of the named characters outside of Mike Schmidt and Jeremy Fitzgerald are undead abominations with a thirst for human blood?

I've never understood that.

Undead abominations?

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by ;496879865901711118:

Originally posted by Doctor Emperor Rufus Raven ITA:

Undead abominations?

You've met the kids right? Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Fredbear, Puppet, Mangle, and BB?

Sorry i didn't noticed that he/she was talking about the animatronics!

[Doctor Raven]

Originally posted by Adventure Jessica HawlSera:

Originally posted by Doctor Emperor Rufus Raven ITA:

Sorry i didn't noticed that he/she was talking about the animatronics!

It's she.

Thank you for the correction!

[Rydi]

I thought about them yesterday and I had this idea that they all represent Purple Man. The first (the one that looks like BB) would be Purple man as himself (night/day guard) with his awkward out-of-orbit eyes and that eerie huge smile; the second is Purple man wearing the Golden Freddy suit when he killed the second round of children (aka Shadow/Purple Freddy) and the last is Purple man wearing the Spring Bonnie suit when he killed the first round of children in the original pizzeria.

But given the particular looks of all the paperplate dolls, maybe they represent the past (Purple man being a guard at Fredbear's), present (Purple man wearing the Golden Freddy/shadow freddy suit to kill the children in FNAF 2) and his future (dying inside the Spring Bonnie suit, hence the broken ear and the tear/blood streams coming out of his eyes).

I don't know, just conjectures.

[Conveyus343]

Originally posted by Rydi:

But given the particular looks of all the paperplate dolls, maybe they represent the past (Purple man being a guard at Fredbear's), present (Purple man wearing the Golden Freddy/shadow freddy suit to kill the children in FNAF 2) and his future (dying inside the Spring Bonnie suit, hence the broken ear and the tear/blood streams coming out of his eyes).

I don't know, just conjectures.

I hadn't thought of it this way, but it makes a whole lot of sense! I like it. :)

[gavtel]

They're definitely from either a sister location or a "previous location". The Freddy one isn't yellow or purple AND can't be Toy Freddy either. Though it's possible that the Freddy one could be based on Withered Freddy (two buttons), the Paper Plate Freddy we see has a brown hat and bowtie(meaning it's another version entirely).

The Bonnie one is actually referenced in the Halloween Bonnie design that we saw in the first teaser for the Halloween version of FNaF4 (slanted out ears, right eye glowing while left one isn't, etc). It could also be some sort of "Purple Spring Bonnie", kind of like Shadow Freddy was a Purple Fredbear, which would explain the similarities.

The last one seems to represent a Puppet-type character, perhaps another one that we didn't see (as JJ is another version of BB, why can't there be another Puppet). It seems to have red arms and blue legs, a red nose and blue eyes / mouth. What if the Puppet we see in all of the FNaF games after 1 represents the emotion of sadness while the other one represents happiness (kind of like the theatre masks now that I think about it (I think they represented Comedy and Tragedy in that case)).