so...gave myself an art challenge.
what was that challenge, you may ask? simple(?):
create designs for the MCI that are Canon Accurate (as in Only Really using design elements that can either be Canonically traced back to the child in question, or can Reasonably be traced back to the child in question). but there's a catch:
I Also Wanted To Make Them 80s Accurate As Well. as in stuff like clothing, hairstyles, and accessories have to be accurate to the time period.
for me, i would place the importance of canon evidence in the order below:
Game Design (only really applies to Susie and mildly to Gabriel) > ORIGINAL Novels > Graphic Novels > Fazbear Frights Books (only really applies to Susie) > Movie
so for example, i take design elements mentioned in the novels as being more important than, say, the movie.
so here they are!! explanations below the art :]
(small warning for eye contact with Cassidy's image)
Susie: we have her canonical appearance in the game, the OG novels, and the Graphic Novels...but we also have her appearance in "Coming Home," which seems rather different. so i thought...why not combine them together? make it that she has blonde hair that borders on light brown, and give her (partial/sectoral) heterochromia? her hairstyle and dress were changed a bit because. technically speaking they were 80s accurate, but they kinda seemed...formal? like, not exactly the kind of clothes i'd see a six year old casually wearing to a Chuck E Cheese type of place, y'know? especially considering that in "Coming Home," Susie is described as having a much more casual outfit. so i gave her hair that was still curly/wavy but was like. a more common hairstyle, and a dress that seemed more casual, more like you'd see a six year old running around in in the 80s.
Fritz: all we really know about Fritz for certain, due to the the OG Fourth Closet Novel, is that he has freckles. aside from that, i gave him a hair color between blonde and ginger (combination of the movie and graphic novel), and a short-sleeved, striped shirt.
Gabriel: in the original Help Wanted, we technically have a lot of details about Gabe, though they're pretty subtle. in the Freddy Repair game, we pick three items either OFF or from WITHIN Freddy. a baseball cap, a green and purple watch, and a red shoe. given that at least two of these items are found inside of Freddy, it could be inferred that these items once belonged to Gabriel. along with this, the game "Pizza Party" could be assumed to show Gabriel's luring and subsequent murder, if a bit abstractly (see: we appear to be playing as a child being lured to a back room in Freddy's, ending with us becoming Freddy. and Gabriel is generally agreed to be the child inside of Freddy). this would also make Gabriel around seven years old, given the number of candles on the cake. on top of this, Gabriel (or a child we can assume to be him) is described as having a black and white striped shirt in the original novels.
Jeremy: All We Have To Go Off Of Is The Movie. That's All We've Got. so i just did a slightly edited version of the Bonnie Kid in the movie.
Cassidy: we technically...don't have a lot on how they look. again, all we've really got is their appearance in the original Fourth Closet novel - long black hair. why don't i count the UCN face? technically speaking, we don't know that's Cassidy. we don't know if the boy from the movie is called Cassidy; the main reason i used the movie as evidence for Jeremy is because we have nothing else to go off of for him. but all we know about Cassidy is "long black hair." decided to make it somewhat frizzy, like popular hairstyles from the 80s.
so! with all that out of the way, extra fun facts!!
Jeremy is in 6th grade, while Cassidy is in 7th grade. Cassidy was in the same grade as Mike at the time (1980).
Fritz has autism and ADHD. he has a lot of meltdowns where he gets a bit violent; usually towards himself. he pulls at his hair, scratches himself, sometimes hits himself, kicks, etc. that's why he's got a lot of scratches, scrapes, bruises, and is covered in bandages.
while not visible, Cassidy and Jeremy have braces.
Cassidy is transmasc (he/they), and Gabriel is transfem, but unaware of that.
that is all!! hope y'all enjoy these :]
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