Remember those days back when you first got into FnaF?
I do. I remember watching early theories and went through a phase of being convinced that:
-William and Michael were the same person.
-William Afton was innocent.
-Elizabeth co-haunted Circus Baby with the red-haired pigtailed girl.
-Mangle, Foxy and Fredbear all had turns at being the ‘87 Biter (I still have no f***cking idea who did ‘87. When in the timeline was CC?!)
-Michael was, in fact, every night guard in every game.
-Shadow Freddy was Crying Child.
-Charlotte/Charlie was actually called Mallory.
-Springtrap had sentience of its own, besides William.
-That one weird phase I had where I believed that SPRINGTRAP could have possibly been a Bite animatronic.
-That Michael was Springtrap instead of William.
All these years since I first came across FNaF (back in 2015) and I am still none the wiser to the actual lore, and frankly, I’m too tired to care. I came into this fandom a curious 7-year old who’d watched LDShadowLady play FNaF, and I emerged a 15-year old who’d seen the horrors of the universe and had an intimate knowledge of immortality with enough AUs to crash AO3.
FNaF raised me more than my father did. This franchise is my literal childhood. Without it, I’d be absolutely lost. And I can really see how much I’ve grown along with the fandom after looking back on all the crazy theories I once believed.
The reason I bring this up is because I was cleaning my room and found an old notebook decorated with awful drawings of the original 4, filled with almost unreadable notes about how William and Michael were the same person. It made me feel so old, ngl.
I don’t know what the hell is happening to the lore (Security Breach, I’m looking at you) and honestly, I’m just here for a fun time (specifically Baby.). I’ll just crank out a few awful fanfictions every now and then and that’s all I need. Anyway, thanks for coming to my nonsensical ramble that doesn’t really have a point, I just wanted to waste your time.
(Note: Crap! Am I Mr Hippo?!)
