The Bones

Why would you sacrifice all the symbolism, implications, horror and everything else that comes with The Scooper for the sake of book lore? Why would you want that at all? Keep him dead and stinky, please.

wrong

That man is dead. That man's body is dead. That man is not a zombie, that man is a ghost who is stuck possessing his own decaying corpse.

"How does he move with all the damage that must have been done by Ennard?" he's possessing it.

"How does he talk when he probably doesnt have lungs or vocal chords anymore?" he's possessing it.

"How does he [insert thing that you probably wouldn't be able to do as a corpse and that you need a fully intact body for]" HE'S POSSESSING IT.

IT LITERALLY SOLVES ALL OF THOSE PROBLEMS.

How does Springtrap speak? How does Scraptrap move with those rusty ass joints? How does the puppet speak with a childs voice that it is definitely not programmed to have?

wrong

That man is dead. That man's body is dead. That man is not a zombie, that man is a ghost who is stuck possessing his own decaying corpse.

"How does he move with all the damage that must have been done by Ennard?" he's possessing it.

"How does he talk when he probably doesnt have lungs or vocal chords anymore?" he's possessing it.

"How does he [insert thing that you probably wouldn't be able to do as a corpse and that you need a fully intact body for]" HE'S POSSESSING IT.

IT LITERALLY SOLVES ALL OF THOSE PROBLEMS.

How does Springtrap speak? How does Scraptrap move with those rusty ass joints? How does the puppet speak with a childs voice that it is definitely not programmed to have?

The third game - he was a rotting corpse

The sixth- you could see his bare skull in between the mask

And in security breach - that decaying flesh miraculously came back.

So I think with this knowledge of Remnant having a weird healing property, it could mean that the organs that Michael has lost, could’ve been regrowing this entire time, forcing the Ennard amalgamation out of the skin suit.

Which marks the question? If that’s the case why didn’t Charlie or the rest of kids come back from their injuries if remnant is that fallible. Well that’s the thing; it only happens if remnant is injected into the recipient not expelled from the original source. In Charlie’s case as well as the missing kids, they were the source, and the animatronics were the recipients—

Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, The Puppet etc.

They were the things EXPOSED or “injected” with remnant, the same way Michael was injected with remnant via the scooper. Hence why they don’t really have much of a healing property where Mike did because he’s an organic being as opposed to bolts and metal bars. This gives me another issue though— Why does William have that property, he didn’t have remnant injected before the suit, right? Well, even though it’s not proven fact— in the TSE novels, we did see him live without the suit (Post-Springtrap) and seemingly recovering

so it’s possible he might’ve had remnant injected into himself beforehand. In fact, my theory is that he used the remnant from the dismantled animatronics on himself in FNAF 3.

Considering the time period when the dismantling occurred, they likely happened in one night. William wouldn’t have much time to do anything else other than any form of remnant from the animatronics themselves. Remnant that he likely used on himself therefore granting him virtual immortality.

So In conclusion, Michael still can be technically be “alive” if you consider the properties of remnant and its weird sci-fi shit we can barely comprehend. More so while ennard was inside, the brain was likely tricked into thinking his body is dead, which yeah he likely definitely was for a period (no heart, bled out etc.); It’s a classic recipe for a dead person yeah? but when that whacky shit begins coming into play, it likely means that Michael’s body canonically would be able to heal and regenerate any injuries that he sustained, thanks to the remnant he was injected with.

It’s weird and I don’t know how to feel about it but hey, it’s a just a theory