šEnnard Michael (before he rots) design for my FNAF AU!! As always Iām late to post these from YT. Copy and pasting the massive lore dump for these below!! X3
Michael would absolutely HATE his look here bro does NOT wanna look like his dad whatsoever, and here Liz is dressing him up like him- so, like many other things in my AU, Iām going very canon divergent here. Liz doesnāt think Michael was William, so thatās not why she scooped him. She loves her dad, had a great relationship with him! What happened with Circus Baby? She SHOULD be blaming him but, she blames herself. Like a āI didnāt listen to my dad and look what happenedā situation, because he tried to keep her from Circus Baby while she was alone. (Had preventative measures built in too like recognition, so that CB specifically WOULDNT scoop his daughter but. Yk. That failed bc his animatronics are JANK)
Anyways, the Funtimes were coded to be more friendly with her, not kill-y like CB when she malfunctioned and did what she was supposed to do to other kids. Liz blames herself, even if she shouldnāt, her dad shouldnāt have been building child/teen/whatever human would fit murder bots. And even though William kinda like, eventually just straightup left her in there because he couldnāt stand to face what heād done- sheās stuck, physically AND mentally. Blaming her father is a huge ask, for her. She canāt see her dad being that cruel, because she never knew that side of him. She feels upset about scooping Michael but it was a mix of desperation to get outā¦and also having never witnessed him growing as a person, only remembering him as her okay/often jerk older brother who got Evan killed. So, she and her band of misfits steal his body,
And when they get out there into the world, obviously, everythingās different. Her immediate family is gone. Initially, Scooped Michael ends up dressed like William as a weird coping mechanism thing. She misses her dad, a lot. And whatās really important for me to portray is that, sheās not evil, nor is any other who kid died and stuffed in an animatronic suit. Imagine going through that, as a kid. Sheās not like, 5 years old or something but sheās young, twelve years old when she dies, and I know when I was that age, there was times Iād break down and want nothing other than the comfort of my parents(still do!!), and I wanted the little comic doodles to show some of that! Thereās no excuse for the things she does, or the person she becomes(murder-y too), but there IS reasonings, which is very different. (Clarifying since sometimes ppl think Iām excusing what these characters do ack)
šAdditional notes: The gray hairs were a very new addition and a suggestion from my friend, so future drawings will also have it! I was very minimal with the shading on this guy cuz I just needed a design ref for an animatic Iām working on! Though the way I shaded his skin here makes him look a little plastic-y, which is fitting I think! Cuz heās dead.
I did try to make him vaguely a little blue in the face with purplish/blue lips because Elizabeth at least gives him the mercy of strangulation to death, so he wonāt have to. Yknow. Get gutted AS consciously, he was still a bit conscious tho. (Also the tooth gap is from pliers eek)
Also- I wanted to make sure itās also clear she missed her mom, but her dad was her main source of comfort. So, just wanted to take a peek into that psyche; just a kid, who ended up doing some really horrible things, wants her parent back and cannot- rather, refuses to- fathom the type of person said parent really was.