Coincidence: I Can't Fix You Had Something Right In Lore

[din din]

"I Can't Fix You" by TLT is a somewhat hated song around here, but something struck me as odd. Scott Cawthon himself said "This is an amazing song. :) Absolutely amazing."

This could just simply be a compliment, but why didn't Scott comment on any of the other hundreds of FNaF songs? My likely terrible theory is that there was something canon in the song. Let's analyze the lyrics.

[Verse 1]
I've been trying for so long
To sing you the right song
To show you something different
Every day
So you hear what I have to say
Like puzzle pieces
And now we're here at a standstill
I wonder if you feel
The kind of pain that rips your
Insides out
That's something I know all about
Shocking, ain't it?

[Chorus]
Is it because I can't be her
Made your mistakes and make me hurt
I can't fix you
Is it because I can't be her
Made me awake and make me hurt
I can't fix you

[Verse 2]
I can feel my heart breaking
Mistakes I've been making
I'm running out of patience
To pretend
This isn't how I'll let it end
My feigning fading
You've been mourning your loss here
And that's grinding my gears
How can a human lose their
Self-control?
There's nothing left to make you whole
I'm done explaining
[Chorus]
Is it because I can't be her
Made your mistakes and make me hurt
I can't fix you
Is it because I can't be her
Made me awake and make me hurt
I can't fix you

[Bridge]
This is what happens when you
Leave it to somebody else
If you want it done right
You should just do it yourself
You over-saturate your
World with nothing but machines
You might make everyone happy
But you're dead inside just like me

[Verse 3]
And now we're here at a standstill
I wonder if you feel
The kind of pain that rips your
Insides out?
That's something I know all about
Shocking, ain't it?
We have a lot more in common
Than you would be calm with
It's like we're the same person
Me and you
We both don't know we can do...

[Chorus x2]
Is it because I can't be her
Made your mistakes and make me hurt
I can't fix you
Is it because I can't be her
Made me awake and make me hurt
I can't fix you

The line "Is it because I can't be her" sounds a little bit off. If you've read The Fourth Closet, the third novel in the FNaF novel series, this will likely make sense to you. If you haven't read it, spoilers ahead.


Elizabeth, or Fake Charlie, or Baby, whatever you want to refer to her as, is a character in the end of the second novel and the entirety of the third novel. Her father worked on Baby and gave no attention to Elizabeth. When Elizabeth was scooped by Baby, they "merged". The line "Is it because I can't be her" is the Elizabeth side of Baby asking her father this question.

If you want a basic summary, TLT accidentally predicted part of the books.

This could be a dumb theory and stretched out way too long, and will be debunked, but I just wanted to share.

[Jeremy Does Stupid Stuff]

no

[Kaleidio]

It could also be that games Circus Baby is complaining to William yet again, similar to her confusion in SL's Private Room. She kept saying "isn't this why you came here? To see me again?"

[din din]

What I'm saying is that TLT accidentally predicted something. I should've said coincidence instead of theory, it makes it seem like I mean TLT has some sort of inside knowledge.

[Kaleidio]

Originally posted by glacieraircraft:

What I'm saying is that TLT accidentally predicted something. I should've said coincidence instead of theory, it makes it seem like I mean TLT has some sort of inside knowledge.

Or more like Scott stole it like what happened in The Fourth Closet (Charlie being a robot)

[innate_butchery_aptitude]

Originally posted by Scott:

Hecc off

[din din]

Originally posted by Nuke Florida:

Originally posted by Scott:

Hecc off

no u.

[Kaleidio]

Originally posted by glacieraircraft:

Originally posted by Nuke Florida:

no u.

[Q]

Thank I hate it

[Stick]

dOeS tHiS mEaN tHaT aLl TlT sOnGs R cAnOn? PuPpEt Is GoLdEn FrEdDy'S mUm CuMfIrMeD?!1!1!

[din din]

Originally posted by stickninja1015:

dOeS tHiS mEaN tHaT aLl TlT sOnGs R cAnOn? PuPpEt Is GoLdEn FrEdDy'S mUm CuMfIrMeD?!1!1!

yEs tHeY alL arE cAnOn1!1!1!!!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!1!

[JustThatOneGuy13]

The Song predicted Molten Freddy.

[Rollerwings]

Originally posted by Chris The Fennec:

Originally posted by glacieraircraft:

What I'm saying is that TLT accidentally predicted something. I should've said coincidence instead of theory, it makes it seem like I mean TLT has some sort of inside knowledge.

Or more like Scott stole it like what happened in The Fourth Closet (Charlie being a robot)

As a fellow writer (but nowhere near their level), I've gotta defend Scott and Kira on this one. They stole nothing; they had a very clear plan all along! The original, self-published version of TSE came out December 17, 2015. Bought it myself that very day on Kindle and sped-read it gleefully. The Scholastic version of the novel came out September 27, 2016 and both versions included the following details about Charlie's childhood bedroom closets: a) Ella, her childhood tea-party doll, resembled her exactly and even was a lookalike with her earliest school photo. b) the middle, locked closet had a microchip shard with one of her own hairs wrapped around it caught under the door. c) she seemed to remember Aunt Jen returning with her to the house to get "some clothes or something" but had only vague memories of this event, not even certain if it truly happened. d) John expressed surprise when he realized her "Big-Girl Closet" (the largest one) was open and empty when they returned to the house together in 1995.

So Scott and Kira included all this foreshadowing into the first novel, and you generally don't spend that many words on something "trivial" like the layout of the closets in a character's bedroom unless you have definite plans to expound on that in sequels. As much as I love TLT's songs, "I Can't Fix You" came out December 10, 2016, quite a while after both versions of TSE.

So while I respectfully take issue with the idea that Scott and Kira stole TLT's idea about Charlie being a robot because the facts hold up that they were *waay* ahead of him on that one, glacieraircraft sure made some amazing points about "ICFY," as it predated novel-version Baby's backstory by a good deal and included lines like "Is it because I can't be her." Chilling!

[Glorious M e l o n]

Originally posted by breadspy:

Originally posted by Chris The Fennec:

Or more like Scott stole it like what happened in The Fourth Closet (Charlie being a robot)

As a fellow writer (but nowhere near their level), I've gotta defend Scott and Kira on this one. They stole nothing; they had a very clear plan all along! The original, self-published version of TSE came out December 17, 2015. Bought it myself that very day on Kindle and sped-read it gleefully. The Scholastic version of the novel came out September 27, 2016 and both versions included the following details about Charlie's childhood bedroom closets: a) Ella, her childhood tea-party doll, resembled her exactly and even was a lookalike with her earliest school photo. b) the middle, locked closet had a microchip shard with one of her own hairs wrapped around it caught under the door. c) she seemed to remember Aunt Jen returning with her to the house to get "some clothes or something" but had only vague memories of this event, not even certain if it truly happened. d) John expressed surprise when he realized her "Big-Girl Closet" (the largest one) was open and empty when they returned to the house together in 1995.

So Scott and Kira included all this foreshadowing into the first novel, and you generally don't spend that many words on something "trivial" like the layout of the closets in a character's bedroom unless you have definite plans to expound on that in sequels. As much as I love TLT's songs, "I Can't Fix You" came out December 10, 2016, quite a while after both versions of TSE.

So while I respectfully take issue with the idea that Scott and Kira stole TLT's idea about Charlie being a robot because the facts hold up that they were *waay* ahead of him on that one, glacieraircraft sure made some amazing points about "ICFY," as it predated novel-version Baby's backstory by a good deal and included lines like "Is it because I can't be her." Chilling!

But what's the point of making a character a robot if she acts the exact same as a regular human? It's a plot twist for the sake of plot twists, nothing more.

[Rollerwings]

Originally posted by Melon Badger(I like to Wiggle):

But what's the point of making a character a robot if she acts the exact same as a regular human? It's a plot twist for the sake of plot twists, nothing more.

Not the exact same, keep in mind. At the age of seventeen, she avenged her brother's killer with her bare hands vs. William at the end of TSE. In TTO, she threw herself in harm's way to keep her friends and complete strangers from town safe to the point that Chief Clay was asking, "who is this kid?", put a major hurting on Will and then (sorta) survived a two-story house collapse. In just those two novels there were quite a few hints that she wasn't a typical teenager. (Haha, I was her exact age in 1995 and lifted weights and did a lot of sit-ups but I couldn't begin to aspire to that level of bad@$$ery.)

There's also the nature of her relationship with John in TTO. Teenage awkwardness aside, they were both having a rough time trying to adjust to being a couple and she in particular was struggling with forming healthy human connections.

[Glorious M e l o n]

Originally posted by breadspy:

Originally posted by Melon Badger(I like to Wiggle):

But what's the point of making a character a robot if she acts the exact same as a regular human? It's a plot twist for the sake of plot twists, nothing more.

Not the exact same, keep in mind. At the age of seventeen, she avenged her brother's killer with her bare hands vs. William at the end of TSE. In TTO, she threw herself in harm's way to keep her friends and complete strangers from town safe to the point that Chief Clay was asking, "who is this kid?", put a major hurting on Will and then (sorta) survived a two-story house collapse. In just those two novels there were quite a few hints that she wasn't a typical teenager. (Haha, I was her exact age in 1995 and lifted weights and did a lot of sit-ups but I couldn't begin to aspire to that level of bad@$$ery.)

There's also the nature of her relationship with John in TTO. Teenage awkwardness aside, they were both having a rough time trying to adjust to being a couple and she in particular was struggling with forming healthy human connections.

That doesn't even come close to implying she's a robot when she has memories, can eat, looks exactly like a human, and apparently has a heart beat.