Who I Think "The One You Shouldn't Have Killed IS" under the William Afton in Hell Theory

[Lord Tenebros]

I've been watching the PurgaMike/MikeHell vs. WillHell Theory rage on, and I honestly have a LOT of issues with PurgaMike/MikeHell both logically and storywise. I have a whole list of counterarguments to common PurgaMike arguments that I was going to originally post along with this, but I kept getting error messages due to length.

Ladies and gentlemen, I believe, no, I am almost dead certain, that the One You Should Not Have Killed is none other than Michael Afton himself. And no, I’m not talking about Michael Afton as the Bite Victim. What I'm saying is that the One You Should Not Have Killed is the very same Michael Afton that people think is suffering his brother's rage in the PurgaMike theory, Foxy brother and all.

This theory came around with an observation that almost nobody has addressed: nowhere does it state that the One You Should Not Have Kill have to be a child. I looked at every single quote mentioning him, and it never says "The Boy" or "The Child" You Should Not Have Killed. Just, the One. Which means that One could be an adult. It could be Michael.

I can already here a lot of you typing, "but William didn't kill Michael.” Allow me to correct you: he didn't kill Michael DIRECTLY. He didn't take a knife and slice open Michael's throat like he did to the murdered children. But he is still responsible for Michael's death.

Because he sent Michael into CBEAR to die. He sent Michael into a death trap filled with animatronics that he knew were dangerous because he designed them himself. He sent Michael to free Elizabeth, knowing that the task would almost certainly, or at the very least have a very high chance of killing him. If the animatronics mistook him for his father, which is implied to have been the case, this makes the danger to Michael even higher.

It's incredibly unlikely that Michael knew about the true nature of the animatronics – why would William tell his son, if (a) their relationship was strained to begin with and (b) Michael could just report to the police and have the Funtime animatronics investigated, especially since Elizabeth’s death is already associated with Baby? Michael's report might not have done anything much in and of itself, but it could have alerted Afton Robotics' board of directors if they got wind of it (and they were suspicious of William Afton’s designs to begin with), and things could quickly unravel for William Afton from there.

As far as I’m concerned, sending someone off on a dangerous, possibly fatal task, while deliberately withholding knowledge on how dangerous that task is, definitely counts as murder. It doesn't matter that Michael came back as an undead because of the Remnant, his life as a normal human being ended in CBEAR. You might disagree with me. We could argue all day on whether William killed his son or not indirectly. But it doesn't matter what any of us thinks. Because Michael Afton agrees with my statement.

Listen to his words at the end of the Golden Freddy mode cutscene in SL. He is ♥♥♥♥ing ♥♥♥♥♥♥. The tone of his voice as he promises to come find his father is one of menace and vengeance. He might have been willing to keep going on with the task of setting his sister free because his love for his sister and his desire to atone for his brother's death might have outweighed his outrage and fear upon discovering the dangerous nature of the Funtimes, but make no mistake. He HATES his father for what he did. He HATES his father for sending him in CBEAR to die. And this was back in Sister Location, when most of Michael's issues with his father were largely personal. How do you think Michael would react when he fully learns about the many atrocities that his father committed as the years pass? How do you think he would react when he learns that his father corrupted his sister into a monster? He would react just like how anyone with even a minimally functioning moral compass would react – rage, hatred, disgust all added on to his desire for vengeance that existed since the beginning. Out of the many characters in FNAF, I do not think there is a single person who despises William Afton more than Michael.

There is no in-game evidence to suggest that the Crying Child held any malicious or vengeful feelings toward his brother. Take out the conjecture, the "of course he would be vengeful" or "I would be vengeful if I were him." There is nothing in the games that suggests any hatred towards Michael. The closest thing we have to feelings of resentment is the Freddy vs. Foxy anime cutscenes, but this is roundabout at best, and something about them feels off – why would it be Freddy and not Fredbear, since the Crying Child is associated with Fredbear more than any other animatronic? But there is PLENTY of evidence that suggests Michael wants vengeance against his father for multiple reasons.

And this is the beauty of it. By sending his son to die, by killing him indirectly and committing one of the most wicked crimes possible: the murder of one’s own child, William Afton turned his son into his greatest enemy, the one who would dedicate years to undoing his evil and destroying him once and for all. Michael Afton, the One He Should Not Have Killed, would be his father’s greatest enemy in the world of the living...and in the world of the dead.

I think that at the conclusion of FNAF6 and when all the souls moved on to the afterlife, Michael Afton was given the opportunity to get revenge on his father by creating his own personal Hell for his father instead of him going to standard Satan Hell, a Hell that others can enter or leave but William is forever trapped in. And he took that opportunity. Unlike the BV in PurgaMike, Michael doesn’t have OP-♥♥♥♥♥♥♥t powers, since William is already damned to begin with and Michael is simply customizing the torment that would have happened anyway even without him. In UCN Hell, Michael is forcing his father to go through what his family, his victims, and all the innocent Night Guards went through because of the nightmare that William Afton created.

And what's more, Michael is the ONLY character who knows what ALL of the animatronics throughout the franchise look like. It's been solidly established in the Logbook that Michael was the one who experienced the Nightmares, most people agree with this. And most PurgaMike supporters use the Nightmares to support the BV tormenting his brother in UCN theory, but here's my first question. If Michael is the one who knows about the Nightmares, then how would BV know about them to use them against his brother? He wouldn't know about their existence. And not only that, he wouldn't know about the existence of SEVERAL of the UCN animatronics, whether he is Golden Freddy or not. (I personally firmly believe that he is Shadow Freddy, but that's not relevant for this discussion). He would only know about the Withereds and Originals, MAYBE the toys. He wouldn't know about the Nightmares, he probably wouldn’t know about the Phantoms, there is only a 50:50 chance that he would know about the CBEAR animatronics, and he wouldn't know about the Mediocre Melodies, the Salvages, or the Rockstar animatronics. Unless Michael has a guilt complex the size of Mt. Everest and outright gave him that information (“Oh God bro, you’re making me suffer so much with these animatronics, let me give you even more of them to torture me with!”), which is frankly a ridiculous idea, BV simply wouldn’t have enough information to create the UCN.

But Michael does. He can recreate representations of the Originals and Withereds to remind Afton of his child victims. He can recreate the Nightmares and Funtimes to turn his father's evil inventions against him. He can recreate both versions of Springtrap to, as I described above, force his father to confront his failures and the monster he has become. And he can recreate both versions of Baby to remind Afton of the daughter that he corrupted and betrayed. In the land of the living, the many animatronics he faced were his enemies, they were the obstacles that he needed to overcome to survive and defeat his father. But in the afterlife, they are now his weapons. A veritable army of animatronics, and every single one of them is a different way through which Michael can get revenge on his father. It's unlikely that Michael micromanaged every single line and detail about the UCN animatronics, but he doesn’t need to. He can supply the big picture and the afterlife fills in the details.

And I don't think he's doing this alone, either.

Enter the Vengeful Spirit, who is distinctly a female voice, which alone weakens the MikeHell theory since Michael never harmed a female character. Most of the souls have either passed on or, considering that the animatronics seem to be fine with being William Afton’s guards/tormentors with the exception of Withered Bonnie, are voluntarily taking on that role as penance (unless Michael or Cassidy has brought all the souls in to take revenge on William Afton – if Bite Victim or Cassidy can drag souls away from their appropriate afterlife then Michael Afton, a vengeful adult ghost, is definitely capable of it too and to say otherwise is philosophically dishonest), but the Vengeful Spirit (who I personally believe is Cassidy, though it could be Elizabeth too) isn't satisfied. She still wants revenge. And she sees the UCN Hell that Michael created as the perfect opportunity to get that revenge. Whether the two of them worked together or independently is up to speculation, but they're expressing their rage towards Afton in the UCN long after the events of FFPS have concluded.

The OMC cutscene (which has William screaming either in hatred for Henry and Mike or for help in the background) is OMC telling Michael to just give it a rest, to let go of his revenge so that he can pass on and leave his father to suffer in Hell by himself – holding onto his hatred and vengeance will cause more harm than good in the long run. And the Golden Freddy cutscene could be Cassidy finally letting go of her hatred too, leaving William Afton entirely alone in the Hell that his son has helped to create. And there is a whole new layer of brilliance to add if Michael is the One You Should Not Have Killed. William is screaming in hatred for Michael because he's figured out that his son is the one responsible for his eternal torment, but he can't do a single damn thing about it. And if he's screaming for help from his son, the irony becomes even more delicious, because not only will his son not help him, but he's actively causing his torment in the first place.

And one last thing. The creepy child that shows up is, from what I've gathered, a modified picture of Scott's son so that the negative image has blue eyes. Many people have thought that this is the Crying Child, but this description also fits a younger version of Michael Afton. But why would Michael Afton manifest himself to his father in the form of a child?

Simple. An additional layer of mockery from son to father. This is Michael's way of saying, "You spent your entire life murdering innocent children. But now, I want you to know that a child, YOUR child, is the one that is going to be kicking your ♥♥♥ for the rest of eternity, and there's not a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing you can do about it."

And there you have it. This is why I think the UCN is Michael torturing his evil father in the afterlife in the name of justice and vengeance. What do you guys think? I apologize for how long this is but it was necessary in order to fully get my thoughts out and get all of my arguments across.

[Glorious M e l o n]

one problem with this is that the face of the TOYSHK is quite clearly a child, but who knows, maybe Michael is pretending to be a child so William thinks it's just one of his other victims. I still don't believe in Mikehell in the slightest though, so this is a good enough explanation for me.

[Lord Tenebros]

Originally posted by Wiggle:

one problem with this is that the face of the TOYSHK is quite clearly a child, but who knows, maybe Michael is pretending to be a child so William thinks it's just one of his other victims. I still don't believe in Mikehell in the slightest though, so this is a good enough explanation for me.

I actually addressed the "child form" towards the very end of my post as Michael taking on that form to mock his father further, but still, thanks for the input!

[Glorious M e l o n]

Originally posted by Lord Tenebros:

Originally posted by Wiggle:

one problem with this is that the face of the TOYSHK is quite clearly a child, but who knows, maybe Michael is pretending to be a child so William thinks it's just one of his other victims. I still don't believe in Mikehell in the slightest though, so this is a good enough explanation for me.

I actually addressed the "child form" towards the very end of my post, but still, thanks for the input!

oh ok, that makes sense actually.

[chuckster]

this is satisfying, but I don't understand why cassidy or elizabeth would get involved

and the vengeful spirit is supposed to be gender ambiguous, judging by its voice description

[Glorious M e l o n]

Originally posted by Aubergine Scatman:

this is satisfying, but I don't understand why cassidy or elizabeth would get involved

and the vengeful spirit is supposed to be gender ambiguous, judging by its voice description

maybe Cassidy also wants revenge on William but Michael is trying to block her off which is why Golden Freddy is appearing to suffer in the final cutscene?

[Lord Tenebros]

Originally posted by Aubergine Scatman:

this is satisfying, but I don't understand why cassidy or elizabeth would get involved

and the vengeful spirit is supposed to be gender ambiguous, judging by its voice description

I can't answer to the vengeful spirit's gender (although I do think it's Cassidy). As for why Cassidy or Elizabeth would be involved, both of them have VERY good reason to hate William Afton. And there's a pretty good chance that at least one ghost is still pissed and want revenge even after the Fazbear nightmare is over.


Also, I don't think Michael is necessarily trying to block her off. He might not even be aware of her presence in the UCN Hell, or is indifferent to/or even willing to team up with her.

[MMMRRREEEOOOWWW]

I can totally get behind this, But I kinda still think that the theory that GF Created this hell for William is canon.