So, I have a new Fiona Lives AU where instead of being bought by Fazbear, Big Top remains an MCM character and keeps the Big Top Carnival and what not. Since Music Man and those that came after were probably based on Big Top or related to him in some way, that would mean Fazbear (and Afton!) wouldn't have ever had a Music Man.
I'm thinking as I'm having Fiona kind of take a step back away from new animatronics and animatronic characters, that Stan, a very close and trusted friend of hers and also the guy that turned her characters into the Mediocre Melodies in canon, could end up running his own sub-company kind of thing to cover all the robotics related MCM stuff. He and his tech team would get to continue developing animatronics and stuff without Edwin, with Fiona still overseeing it but more from a distance.
And uhh this would mean all the Music Men would be free of Fazbear forever. They could be doing literally anything now. I have a few ideas for that, but I was wondering if maybe you would have any thoughts on that? Like, what kind of stuff do you think any of the Music Men would do if they were Murray's animatronics? Do you think they'd have their own attractions and branding and stuff or do you think they might prefer to have smaller attractions in other company's locations alongside other animatronics? Something more behind the scenes and less public maybe? Something else?
What do you think? Any thoughts?
I'm thinking as I'm having Fiona kind of take a step back away from new animatronics and animatronic characters,
And you know what, good for her. Good for her health and the general public's health because oh my god the consequences of her death and the robots that caused it.
My ideas for how the Music men would be, had they not been Fazbear'd, is really underwhelming compared to how they were in canon in my head though. The Music Men are already sidepieces, and I think they'd stay that way.
If we're extrapolating from how the Music Man line would've gone had they not been Fazbear Entertainment'ed with only Big Top as a representative, Big Top is a ticket booth with a face and arms that hold up signs. The arms are multipurpose and he can be turned into a ride in a pinch, but he's primarily a ticket booth. Because of that, I think they'd be either machines that happen to have faces like Big Top or like, Candy Cadet style machines with an entertaining gimmick. Murray's creations, if they're not explicitly for entertainment, seem to fall into these categories.
Something that comes to mind (and definitely not at least partially ripped off from @/wakebymoonsleepbysun's ideas for the cymbal crash bar nooo noo i would never) is Music Man being a jukebox who can listen in and identify vocal portions of the music he's been instructed to play and lipsync/gesture along to it. He'd be an animatronic in the original, non-FNAF sense but he wouldn't be a rockstar on the stage, he's just stationed at a restaurant and you pay 5 dollars to watch him sing Pink Pony Club. Expensive and decorative jukebox.
DJMM is such an unreasonable animatronic. I don't know what he could be for. Why you would make a robot the size of a house for the sake of making music is beyond me. Maybe he's a construction/maintenance bot who helps set up carnival rides, booths, seating, who happens to just play music as he does it? Like, I could lean more on his main ability ingame which is, yknow, making beats, but while Fazbear Entertainment has the cash to burn to make a robot that does that the size of a house for no reason other than aura I do not think Murray is going to do all that for a soundcloud artist. Yeah yeah, dream about being a famous DJ or musician all you want, now go do manual labor
Weirdly enough I think the mini music men would stay the exact same. They're hex bugs but more complex. They're kinda perfect. Maybe they might look a little different to fit more him and Fiona's artstyle and design styles but they'd be cymbal-crashing spider wind up toys all the same.
