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Oh such sweet Exotic Buttery goodness that will be had!
1981 - Freadbear's Family Diner closes after a child goes missing.
1983 - (FNAF 4) The company has joined/ formed the Fazbear Entertainment group and most likely rebranded to something along the lines of Fazbear and Friends or something like that. This place closes after a child is hurt at a party and the company rebrands yet again.
(Info from the book)
1985 - Freaddy Fazbear's Pizza closes after children start to go missing an employee is suspected but later released due to a lack of evidence. (Henry, Charlie's father ends his life this year.)
(Speculation)
I think this is the best place to fit SL into the time line.
1987 - (FNAF 2) Freddy Fazbear Pizza Grand Re-opening.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is closed by the department of health, after a worker is hurt by a Springlock suit causing the loss/ damage of his frontal lobe.
(An injury to this part of the brain can cause changes in emotional control, initiation, motivation, and inhibition. An intolerance for frustration and easily provoked aggressive behavior are typical. Promiscuity and lethargy may also result.)
Animitronics are no longer able to free roam during the day after it's closing.
1993 - (FNAF 1) Mike Schmidt is hired to guard the derelict building. (Freddy Fazbear's Pizza is set to close by the end of the year.)
Purple Guy dies after being crushed in the Springlock Bonny suit hidden in the back security office that is sealed off.)
Mike Schmidt is Fired for tampering with the Animatronics and Oder.
2023(?) - (FNAF 3) Fazbear Fright (Haunted House) prepares for it's big opening. The Springlock Bonny Suit is found and brought to the house.
The Fright House burns to the ground due to faulty wiring.
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The 1985 info in this timeline is speculation, as we don't know how much of the book cannon we can fit into the game cannon if they are indeed 2 timelines.
However we know from both hand unit that in SL a Fazbear's Pizza has just closed.
And we know that in the 1987 game FNAF 2 that the Pizzeria is being Re-opened meaning it was closed down before.
Also I don't know if 2023 is a confirmed date. It says decades after the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closes for good in the news paper, but 2013 would still be 2 decades after it's closing in 1993. So I don't know.
- William Afton is confirmed to be the Purple Guy in the books, however, Purple Guy has never been confirmed to be the Phone Guy. That has always been speculation among the fans. I apologize for not seeing how that information is relevant in this theory, but there that is.
- In the interview at the beginning of the game, Afton is being interviewed (interrogated?) about the questionable features his animatronics possess. He feigns ignorance and starts listing off all the features than I'm sure anyone who's been to an establishment with Baby, and/or the others, knows about. I'm sure those features are even covered in any advertising for her as a rental. Obviously those features would be the selling point of getting her, or any of the other animatronics at your child's birthday party. The people questioning him quickly call him on that, they know that he knows exactly what features they are asking him about. I would imagine this is one of the interviews that the police are giving Afton when he is being questioned about the deaths of the children in the book, when he becomes a suspect after Henry. Everyone knows that he did it, it's a matter of finding proof. But by that time, Afton has already gone into hiding.
- You keep assuming that Handy is an artificial intelligence, rather than an automated response system. Similar to what CleverBot is. You don't believe CleverBot is an artificial intelligence, that would be absurd. There is no evidence to support the idea that Handy has any sentience beyond basic response and troubleshooting. It does no task that a non-AI program could do. As I pointed out, Afton is in hiding, he likely already has assumed an alias. For all intents and purposes, he is a lowly employee to the system, which has no way of telling otherwise. You said it yourself, why would a CEO be in a parts and repair center? Because at this point in time, he isn't a CEO of this company, he is playing the role of a grunt.
- If your assessment of when Sister Location takes place is correct, then Afton is already in hiding. He has already been investigated by the police, he is already a major suspect in the murders, he has already partaken in the "run and hide" you are clinging to. He isn't using his fortune to get around, he isn't living in his mansion of a house, he isn't using his credentials as a CEO to traverse his facilities. As you later point out, he is a cunning man, he knows better than to do any of that. It would be a spotlight to where he is, it would be suspicious. But a grunt? No one cares if another technician, especially if they seem to be needed, is suddenly in the building. He blends right in, which is his whole schtick, right?
I'm having fun with this, my heart's racing a bit as I type. Thanks for debating with me. :) Onward!
- No one has said as far as I'm aware that he wouldn't have a shut down code, but again, why would he need one? Why would he assume the facility is to be breached upon entry? How would he know prior that the facility is in disrepair? Things seem to be breaking more and more as the nights continue. It can be assumed that the animatronics have a play in this. And if he did have a code to override the facility, how would he input such a code? The panel where you enter your name is faulty from night one, but should that cause alarm for the rest of the building? Who's to say a code like that even exists? And why would you implement a system that shuts down every safety measure in the building simply to reboot for a shock button? That wasn't a very smart design choice. Why would one assume an override code be in place if they can't even build a safety system that makes you safer as it shuts down, as opposed to essentially dooming everyone in the facility should your shock button suddenly stop working?
- We know by the books that Afton's appearance has changed significantly, as I have previously pointed out in several responses across the forums. In addition to that, it's actually a plot point across the games that the animatronics have poor facial recognition software. To the extent that if an employee is not wearing a uniform they are in danger, anyone after hours is in danger. And in FNAF 2, you can get away with tricking Bonnie by simply wearing a mask. The slightest deviation from what is right and what is wrong throws off the software in place. So with Afton's change in appearance, why is it so hard to believe that he wouldn't be recognized? And we know that we are pretty much being lied to the entire game, to our doom, so perhaps Baby does recognize him. She is good at pretending after all.
- On that note, the major plot twist of the game, turns out, is that Baby doesn't actually want to help you. She wants to trick you into thinking she's helping you, but actually wants to use your body to escape. Anything to get you to trust her, anything to get you into that scooping room, my dear. She won't put you in harms way, oh no... but if they looked like you. If they looked like YOU, they could get out. What's so special about you? Two technicians were already "available" for this plan. Why you?
(on a side note, were those the techs that dropped off Ballora on the conveyor?)
- Back on previous points, there is no evidence to support the idea that Handy is self-aware.
- On some level, I think you are giving Afton's cunning a little too much credit, to a point where he has no faults, he makes no mistakes. But evidence in the book says otherwise. Through the police investigation, they knew Afton was responsible for the deaths. They knew it beyond a shadow of a doubt. The problem is, you can't arrest anyone if you don't have proof. Afton was caught, but not charged. So, he made mistakes, they found out it was him. His cunning only got him out of an arrest. I think he has a major ego, and I think it's his ego, his thought process that is telling him that he can do no wrong, is exactly what is getting him in trouble. His ego makes him careless. He thinks he's outsmarted these machines, he's tricked them... but really, he's the one being tricked.
- There is no evidence to support that Afton has no knowledge of how to build animatronics, in fact, it's the exact opposite. Afton was able to build, from the ground up, a major robotics company in his own name. AFTON ROBOTICS, I say dramatically. And here's where I type a long quote from the book, "'I helped him create.' The voice came from inside the mask, but it was not Dave's, not pitiful, sour tone they would have recognized. The voice of the rabbit was smooth and rich, almost musical. It was confident, somehow reassuring--a voice that might have convinced you of almost anything. Dave ♥♥♥♥♥♥ his head to the side, and the mask shifted so that only one of his bulbous eyes could peer through the sockets. 'we both wanted to love,' he said in those melodious tones. 'your father loved. And now I have loved.'" Now I'll continue. When the police searched Afton's home, they found boxes full of parts, the springtrap suit, and many journals with incoherant rambling and things to suggest he downright hysterically worshipped Henry. Purple Guy, who we know is Afton, knows how to completely dismantle the animatronics (as seen in one of the minigames). The person you are playing as is able to perform maintaince tasks that Handy notes that the other techinicians have been otherwise unsuccessful with, yet, you manage just fine. He was able to maintain a springtrap suit long enough for it to be, I say hesitantly, safe to use on the regular. Henry built some of the first animatronics, yes, you are correct in that, but it's also absolute fact that he did not build all of them, and he didn't build them alone.
- As I mentioned in one of my previous replies, killing off a main character is a much larger stretch to accomodate such a theory than it is to say that Afton had a child, one that wasn't mentioned in the book because it was not relevant to the story at hand. Writing in a new character is not the same stretch as retconning a main character. Even if Charlie is part of the book, where Afton, and him being the Purple Guy, started at as well. As an important side point.
- Scott has said himself that the games and the books are, in a way, both canon. Perhaps they are closer to both holding the truth than you think. Killing off a main character like that doesn't makes sense.
I'm at about the halfway point of my notes now.
I agree with most of this, but it was the bite of '87 not a spring lock suit failure. The spring lock suit failure most likely happens before the grand reopening in 1987.
- I've made this next bit a point in previous posts as well. Serial killers have families. That's not to say that they feel love for them, they supposedly lack that capacity for emotion. But a lot of the time it is part of the guise to appear normal. To show to the world that they are not psychopaths. In fact, serial killers go to great lengths to hide this lack of emotion. To keep your own child away from such machines that you designed specifically to kill children with. I say that's a great way to hide the fact that you are a killer. That you would protect your own disguise from your murderous creations. Because when your kid goes missing to these machines you built, who is going to be the first one they question? The problem with young children, they have a tendency to not listen. And we know what happened because of that. We've established that Afton is, to put it shortly, insane, and that he idolizes Henry to an unhealthy degree. And we've now read the quote that he wants to love. AND I've made the assessment that his ego makes him reckless. So, little girl dies because of Baby, little girl possesses Baby, Afton has connection to little girl, Afton is insane and wants to love and now little girl is dead. Afton is pretty much prime suspect in murder case of young children and is on the run and in a disguise as a lowly employee within his own company (how clever!). Afton goes looking for Baby. Sister Location. He's blinded by his pursuit of "love" to mimic Henry. It's a crazed obsession, but he doesn't really know what that is.
Obviously those series of events could use a little more finesse, but I've already written a book here and still have two pages of notes to go. Yikes.
- Your logic in this next part is flawed. You say that because you were in the scooping room on the previous night that AS AFTON, you in your right mind would never enter there because you know how dangerous it is, having seen it with your own eyes and being the CEO. But given that logic, any random technician in the same position would be the same. Unless you are suggesting you are playing as a different person each night, because then, who would know better having not seen the room before. In addition to that, you were perfectly safe in the scooping room last time. You have to be standing in a specific spot, presumably, for the scooper to hurt you. Player's mistake on that last night, huh. Whoops. Anyway, I don't think being Afton, or not being Afton, has any relevance in this point. It doesn't disprove anything based on the logic given.
- By your logic in this next part, one could also assume that Purple Guy has purple skin as well.... and shoes. Right? There is no distinguishing markers between clothing and lack thereof. Or perhaps him being purple is merely representative of something else. Perhaps him being purple is symbolic. Perhaps he is purple because this plot point hasn't been developed yet. Perhaps purple is easily rememberable. Or maybe purple is just easy to see. Or he is suppose to represent a shadow, an unknown, and can't be black because the background is also black. We don't actually have any proof for any of those ideas, let alone him being purple because he is wearing purple. My idea is that the end screen in Sister Location has you with purple-y pink eyes because those are the eyes of Ballora, and Ballora's eyes are most proporionate to that of a human. I don't think the eyes are trying to tell us anything, or maybe it's that "plot point that hasn't been written yet".
- "The bad is always left behind." The animatronics were specifically designed to kill, they have these "features" built into their very programming. I don't think physically escaping is the ultimate issue, and/or resolution, here. Baby specifically tells you a story about her one day on stage. That when there was one child in the room, she stopped singing. Something was wrong, she wasn't herself. Her stomach opened up, she couldn't move. The girl got to close... and we know what happened next. Baby didn't have any control over that situation. Her programming told her that there was one child in the room, and she lost all control over her actions. Baby likes singing. She enjoys performing. I don't think escaping the torture facility is the only escape she has to worry about. It's something that was overlooked in her plan. That the bad is always left behind, the programming doesn't change. They have a will to continue performing in some capacity. Luring children is something that comes with that. Killing children is beyond their control. Those "features" are keeping them trapped. Not just the physical facility.
- I think the games pretty well establish that when random employees "go missing" it's company policy to just cover up the disappearance and not ask any questions. There isn't actually a body to find, and those cameras we know are crap quality, and Afton's whole appearance thing, they probably wouldn't know exactly who it was even if they got you on camera.
- By the time that FNAF 4 and the springtrap suit incident happens, Ennard doesn't really have any reason to fear the suit either. They aren't alive after all. They would be immobilized should the suit malfunction, but it's worked for them so far. They didn't account for the room being wet. They were busy getting away from other angry child spirits. What did they have to fear from them? Who knows, but they obviously didn't want to find out. They are smarter than that, the suit fooled them before. At one point in the game, Baby scolds her former restaurant for not using the suits in ways they were suppose to be used. She says this very menacingly. In fact, she's rather hostile about the suits throughout that conversation. "DUMMY." She's got an ego for herself. And that ego was her doom too, at the very least their immobilization. That suit would crush an endoskeleton inside of it just as well as any human. But the difference is, they wouldn't die. Unless some vital fluid tubes got punctured. Some red liquid keeping the endoskeleton in working order that may or may not resemble blood...
- And on the fake ending. It's labelled fake. And one of the lines that Ennard voices in the ending sequences is that it will find a way out. I don't think the PC (whoever they may be) is stupid enough to take home a faulty animatronic that spent the last several hours trying to kill them. Oh, you reached 6am, we're best friends now. Nah. That thing somehow followed you home. Creepy.
I should end this off with the note that I am totally willing to be pursuaded that Afton is not the person you are playing as. But unfortunately, none of the points you have given me thus far have convinced me in the slightest that he could not, at the very least, be a possibility.
That is true I got it mixed up with something MatPat said about the Springlocks being the cause of the Bite of '87 on the guard that was moved to day shift. Jeremy Fitzgerald I think it was before Fritz(?) takes over on Night 6 in FNAF 2.
It's hard not use the Game Theory FNAF 2 theory with reguards to FNAF 2 as Scott said MatPat got almost all of his theory right but didn't say which parts. Grrrr lol :P
Hi there! Welcome to the Fray and I loved your response!
But I must say it was full of a lot of conjecture although it was very VERY well written :), so to keep the long posts to a minimum and my opinion to the same I will simply state a few facts to you that I hope will prove my point that you cannot be William Afton.
1) Fact: Companies often change their name if the ownership changes or they receive a bad reputation. I will include articles as resources to this fact. Were William Afton to leave Afton Robotics and go into hiding as a result of him being the suspect of murder, the company would most likely change its name to distance itself from the negativity and bad publicity his scandal would bring and the controversy that would tarnish the company name. https://patrickbetdavidblog.com/2011/08/01/8-reasons-why-companies-change-their-names/ & http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/small-business/sb-growth/why-would-a-company-change-its-name/article556291/ And there is no evidence in the game that he has left Afton Robotics.
2) Fact: The person speaking to Afton in the opening of the game is a board member. We know this from the voice acting leaks prior to the game’s release, you will also note that none of the voice actors claimed to play anyone from law enforcement. https://www.voices.com/people/animdude#feedbacks which means he’s not being questioned by the police at this point and there is no evidence that he is on the run or has gone into hiding.
3) Fact: We know from the little girl’s dialogue when she says, “…didn’t you make her just for me?” that her father created the animatronics she speaks of, and it is a fact from the Silver Eyes novel that the creator of the animatronics was Henry. William Afton even gave all of the credit to Henry in the scene from the novel when he spoke to Carlton, “…that one is one of the first suits that Henry ever made...” and “…did you not know that Henry made this place?” William Afton was Henry’s assistant and as you said, terribly obsessed with his genius for creating the animatronics, he did help Henry, but he was not the maker.
4) Fact: William Afton was never said to have any children in the Silver Eyes novel nor was there ever any mention that he had been married or had a love interest at any point. It is a fact however that Henry had a daughter – Charlie.
5) Fact: William Afton was a flesh and blood human being when he committed the murders of the children in the Silver Eyes novel, not an animatronic wearing a person-suit, which brings me to my next facts.
6) Fact: Dead bodies do not make scars. In the Silver Eyes novel, in that same scene where William speaks to Carlton, he shows him the scars from his initial accident with the Spring Lock suit – a human corpse cannot heal itself. The wounds from the Scooper would never close and would remain open.
7) Fact: Dead bodies do not bleed. There would be no red fluid coming out of the Spring Bonnie suit after the Purple Man jumps inside at the end of FNAF3. I will grant you that hydraulic fluid can be red, but it can also be amber, green, purple, or (in this example of common hydraulic fluid used for robotics) brown https://www.grainger.com/product/MOBIL-DTE-26-4ZF35 and over time the color darkens as it’s used in the robot’s system. Since we do not know for a fact what type of hydraulic fluid the animatronics use – to speculate would be mere conjecture.
8) Fact: Dead bodies decompose. If Sister Location takes place around the time of FNAF 4 roughly 1983-85, and William Afton becomes a hollowed out shell for an animatronic, by the time he jumps into the Spring Bonnie suit at the end of FNAF 3 roughly 1993-1994, that’s ten years give or take, his body would have turned to liquid and then dried out http://www.enkivillage.com/how-long-does-it-take-for-a-body-to-decompose.html This link is safe and contains no pictures of corpses by the way, but it does have a few small images of the various stages of decomp using a pig carcass at the bottom of the article.
9) Fact: When William Afton left town in the Silver Eyes novel he changed his name to Dave Miller. There is no mention of this name in the game, anywhere. Even the name tacked onto the Hand Unit reads “Mike”.
10) Fact: When Afton was faced with animatronics that were to become murderous he immediately sought out and wore his Spring Lock Bonnie suit – it’s his safety net, it protects him from the animatronics. The PC in the Sister Location does not bring a spring lock suit with them to work as a precautionary measure and instead gets stuffed into a spare one and has to be told how spring locks work – Afton would already know how to work them.
11) Fact: Baby/Ennard does not recognize you and says that you are “new”. This is a fact and point I will not let go of. Yes it is easy to fool the old & toy models of animatronics by wearing a Freddy head, but Baby is not an old or toy model, and the PC does not wear an empty Freddy head when he meets her for the first time or at all during the course of the game. It is also a fact that William Afton did nothing to disguise himself in the Silver Eyes novel other than age and lose some weight and Carlton’s father, the police chief, was able to identify him by sight as William Afton after taking a good look. If Baby/Ennard is able to still remember the little girl that she/it killed then it is logical to surmise that it would remember William too.
12) Fact: The true name of the character you play as is never revealed and neither is the true name of the girl’s father or even the girl’s name for that matter. It is this fact that makes me squirm the most, if only Scott had dropped some dimes on us…this debate would not be what it is. Now, this fact does not prove my belief one way or the other, if anything it states that even if I think I’m right, the truth is, none of us know for certain and without more definitive data…we may never know.
I hope this has been helpful! And sorry about posting between your posts, I just happened to be on my phone during my break at work and saw something to respond to – and it wasn’t until after I had responded that I saw your massive texts! XD
2. While he may not be talking to police (those leaks are new information to me), even board members hold power over him as a CEO. If he is being questioned by the board, something has come up to bring his leadership onto the chopping block. If they are trying to avoid being associated with him due to him being caught up in the murders (whether they think he did them or not), it's possible that his own company ousted him. If he can't even get his company to support him, who is going to? It's not disproven just because it's not mentioned.
3. Henry was the builder of some of the animatronics, and he didn't do it entirely himself. In the same conversation with Carlton as you pointed out, and I pointed out originally, Afton says these words, "I helped him create". Many people have speculated that Afton helped design the animatronics. One thing we do know in the games is that the animatronics are built and rebuilt time and time again every time they break or what have you. They get scooped on the regular. Also, Henry died before Baby ever made it on stage. She was an unknown in the novel and was more revealed in FNAF World. So even if Henry created her, the original her, he was already dead by the time that Baby killed the little girl on her first day on stage. And with Baby and the other animatronics being rebuilt on the regular, it's likely that certain features were added to her to keep her up to par with the new animatronics (ballora, funtime foxy and freddy), and that's why the board was questioning Afton about these other features, "design choices" as they put it. And they are even speaking to Afton about his "achievements on a technical level", and they are specifically talking about Baby!
4. As an addition to that, and something that I haven't yet seen someone bring up, is the accent of the little girl. The little girl has a British accent. Who else do we know has a British accent? William Afton.
5. Redacted. The book and the games are canon in different ways, not all the same, not all different.
6. The games make a habit of never giving you any details about the person you are playing as. The only reason that we know for a fact that Purple Guy is Afton is because of the book. We have no details beyond that fact. If it is just a skin suit, there aren't any bodily fluids to worry about seeping out of the holes. At most a stitching at the holes of some kind to keep the skin from ripping off as Ennard moves inside of it. Which had to have been done anyway, because no matter who skin suit is, Ennard is patched into it somehow. By FNAF 3, the skin is already decayed beyond recognition.
7. I made the point that it wasn't blood. Up until the Springlock incident in 1993, the trap suit and Ennard are somewhat maintained (more on this in a second). If hydraulic fluid was not maintained and switched out, it would slowly thicken and darken with grime and other contaminants (as you mentioned). If the fluid started out red, it would slowly darken to a more blood like appearance. You can have a gander at the developmental screen of Springtrap if you'd like.You said yourself it's entirely plausible, and then offered your own conjecture.
Purple Guy also doesn't actually appear to die in the mini-game, just become severely immobilized. Which supports my theory that he isn't actually a living human. Ennard however doesn't actually need that fluid to live, without it they would have more to worry about with rust build up over time and possibility limitations with movement. Queue Springtrap in FNAF 3. That suit cannot move without an endoskeleton in it. Otherwise it would just be slumped over like Golden Freddy is. So in order for Springtrap to actually be able to function in FNAF 3, an endoskeleton has to be inside of it somehow.
8. Skipped, for later on.
9. Skipped. He had to have become Miller at some point, and we are using the book for other evidence points, I don't understand why this cannot be one of them.
10. Redacted...mostly. How embarrassing would it be to get trapped in a vent in a suit that is known to be involved in a mass of murders. The game gives no evidence to support that the person you are playing as doesn't know how the springlock suits work. Baby telling you about it doesn't actually mean the PC's knowledge of them is non-existent.
11. I already addressed that concern in my last argument. Baby/Ennard is lying to you the whole game to get you to trust them. That's the plot twist the second you step into that room. And in the novel, Afton was off the grid for YEARS, and as Miller passed a background check. It took a little more than a good look. When Clay went back to those case files, "he didn't know what he was looking for, there was nothing new here." The book says that he had been pouring over the files time and time again over the years, that he knew them back and forth. He was reflecting on the old case. Then he stumbled on the picture, and it was a picture of Afton, not Dave that started the connection.
I made a note to check exactly when the background check took place, and as you'll see next... within 6 months before the events of Silver Eyes. "He torn open the drawer, pawing through it until--- there it was: employee background checks requested by businesses from the last six months." .... "Clay flipped the page back to see why the check had been requested, and his face drained white, his breathing stopping for a moment... He took the partial file back out of the drawer and delicately he lifted one of the photos out. It had been taken in the aftermath when the place was no more than a crime scene." That means that Miller had been investigated more than once about activity around the establishment. Within the timeline of a few weeks to a few months after the murders in 1985 as AFTON, and again six months before his "death" in 1993 as MILLER (for that crime scene photo to be added to his portfolio and check he needed to be suspicious somehow). And he still was never caught. The connection wasn't made until later, for the story of the book. The games however...
My assumption on the timeline is this:
The murders happened towards the middle of the year in 1985 based on the book. Henry commits suicide by Baby later this same year. In the following months, Afton takes Baby and in this time period the start of Circus Baby's Pizza World is created. Baby has been refitted with her new features. Ballora and the Funtime animatronics are created as well. It is likely that also during this time (late 1985-1987) that the Toy animatronics are also created. Which is why they bare a similarity in appearance.
The first day Baby is on stage, the little girl, Afton's daughter, is killed. Circus Baby's is shut down and instead devolves into a rental service instead, with the animatronics going to the maintainance facility at the end of each day.
Sometime during this year (1986) Afton goes into hiding. He's being investigated. Prime suspect numero uno. His company is questioning him, the police are questioning him, and just about everyone believes it was him, though they don't have the proof yet, so he needs to disappear.
FNAF 2 location opens, and then subsequently closes weeks later after the bite of '87. Faulty programming.
Afton takes up the alias of Dave Miller around this time.
We know by one of the newspaper clippings that no murders happened in 1987 and beyond, the FNAF 2 restaurant was closed because of the bite. Miller is laying low. And the FNAF 1 location gets closed down because of health concerns, the children who were killed in 1985 are totally reeking up the inside of those animatronics. That means, any time between 1986 when he first disappears after the murders, and at least up to right after the six month period before Springlock incident in 1993 we can safely look past for Sister Location. I think Sister Location happened after that final background check in 1993, and before the Springlock failure. That cuts down on the time that his skin suit has to be in functioning order significantly. Within six months or less. Right down into those crunch hours for how long it takes a body to decompose.
And in FNAF 1, the location where the Springlock incident happens, you are playing as someone named Mike. You know what I'm thinking? I'm thinking that following the background check somewhere in that six month period, Afton changed his alias again because he was being investigated once more. This time to Mike Schmidt. And on the custom night, Mike Schmidt gets fired for tampering with the animatronics, general unprofessionalism... and ODOR. He's now rotting... he's Ennard.
Wouldn't that be crazy? You're playing as Afton through more games than you think.
Ennard gets crushed in that Springlock suit when it malfunctions. One of the hydraulic tubes gets punctured, and red fluid leaks everywhere. They become immobilized, but do not die. But now they have an issue, they are trapped in that suit, and they are damaged, and they are alone in a service room in a restaurant that is being closed down by the end of the year. Sucks to be them.
A lot of time goes by, Ennard trapped in that suit stays essentially in low power mode until they are discovered years later by the dudes making the FazBear Fright attraction. Which eventually goes up in flames.
Other things like motivation to why Afton is in Sister Location in the first place I covered in my last ramble, so I won't reiterate them here. I hope I covered all that I meant to, and that it made some sense. It may turn out to be complete junk, because as you said nothing has been confirmed and we are missing a lot of stuff to go on, but I'm actually quite proud of how well it turned out. I need a rest.
I'm just going to go through this quickly. I'm all for the idea of us playing as Afton, but honestly I reckon this whole thing is going to turn into the 83 vs 87 vs dream theory debate.
Just to make it clear, the only reason we assume we play as Afton this early on is because it's the only name given to us. Now, to go through this...
"He created the animatronics, why did Baby say she didn't recognize him?"
Correction: Baby actually is deactivated/destroyed by Ennard either on Night 1 (in the final vent scene where you can hear all that sound) or on Night 5. Honestly, I reckon it's night 1 because we never actually see Baby. Ever. We only hear a voice we ASSUME to be her.
"He's been working for the establishment and most likely OWNS Afton Robotics, why would he be treated like a new and lowly employee who is expendable ?"
Fair point, but maybe the Handunit is set to think Afton is a new employee. It isn't human, and looking at it's graphics it's probably quite old and not as advanced as other stuff in the game.
"He created CHILD KILLER robots, he murdered CHILDREN and you want to sell me some idea that he had this child of his own that he wanted to protect from them yet didn't think to not take her to a building where she could potentially be alone with one??"
I have no arguement to this. Maybe he didn't know the Animatronics would out-right kill someone? And probably the Animatronic is Ennard, seeing that... okay, no, I'll go on a tangent if I begin on that. Moving on...
"William Afton owns Afton Robotics, he would have known all about the Scooper and how dangerous it is."
Doesn't necessary mean he built the place or ever step foot in the building. And to be honest (this is something I was going to mention before) Ennard is the only Animatronic that actually tries and kills you (He puts you in the scooper on night 5, like he always planned. He would have done it sooner (on night 4) if those technicians didn't turn up. And on night 3 Foxy gets you but doesn't kill you, forthere it's pretty safe to assume every animatronic will knock you out, only for Ennard to retrieve you and put you in the scooper).
"William Afton would know how dangerous his creations are and wouldn't have been fooled by one much less agreed with its pleas for help."
Use the thing I've said previously: Afton thinks Ennard is deactivated as he is the only dangerous Animatronic, but he is somehow reactivated (how, I don't know). Afton thinks that the worst that will happen to him is that he'll be knocked out, but since Ennard is there he'll also be taken to the Scooper. And since Ennard reveals himself on the final night, Afton doesn't know till then.
So yeah, he doesn't know how dangerous it is, with Ennard reactivated.
"The Purple Man I've come to know is better than that."
Hey, guess what, we still don't know anything about the Purple guy (I'm calling him guy. Don't know why. Sorry if it annoys you). Saying he's Afton is the furthest we've gotten since comfirming Purple guy turned into springtrap.
Answer (sorry for crushing your dreams): You idea of the purple guy isn't built around the games: It's built around the fandom's impression of him. In reality, we only know a handful of things about the purple guy, of which fans have streched out and formed a whole personality for him.
Sorry.
"To make him nothing more than a shell diminishes the villain I've come to love."
Actually, story wise, this is pretty good. It changes the story, solves so many unsolved questions about the guy, it even throws in a twist that no one (and I mean no one) saw coming.
I should honestly stop calling the games's purple "Afton". It's Ennard. Ennard is the games's purple guy.
"I will now patiently await the backlash I know I'm going to get for this, I love FNAF, I love the games and I love this one too, I just don't like potential direction of my favorite character."
Well... this is my backlash? I don't know. Sorry if this annoys you at all, but you can look at Sister Location one of two ways: an offical game (which I'm looking at it as) or a spin-off game for the fans (which you are looking at it like).
Eh, and look at the bright side, it ended the 83 vs 87 vs dream theory debate. That's pretty good, right?