#phoneguymonth2024

I know he only calls in UCN but it would be so funny if he could do this

Hello? Hello, hello? Whelp. Looks like I'm declaring it; August is uhhhh…. Phone guy month.

You know, how Fazbear Entertainment has a policy where they'll wait 90 days or until the place has been cleaned before they report an employee as missing? 90 days is 3 months. August is 3 months before November, which is when FNAF 1 takes place. So what better month to dedicate to our favourite mentor than the month that he likely went missing. Dark, I know.

I was inspired by @halogenrobotics Vanweek and @puhpandas ggyweek, as well as my own midnight brain deciding that I'd bully my own Phone Guy during August for the exact reason above.

It's going to run from August 1st to August 31st, but I'll be honest, you can do this whenever the hell you want, don't let a silly timeframe panic you.

There are 31 different prompts, but you don't have to do all of them and you definitely don't have to do it on any specific day. The numbers are just an ID to separate one prompt from the next. Just pick and choose the prompts you like!

It's Phone Guy month but any of FNAF's human mentors are accepted, so Phone Guy, Phone Dude, and Tape Girl (Kim too, but she's generally considered one of the Phone Guys).

Art and fics are accepted. Here is the AO3 Collection.

Tag what you make with "PhoneGuyMonth2024" so that I can see it!

8 - Foxy

Day 3: Mentorship

Summary: Scott isn't sure if he's ready to be a mentor.

Note: I might, at times, make reference to the name Ralph in my new fanfictions. But as for now, we'll still be using "Scott / Scotty" as Phone Guy's name.

…

"So you'll be training Michael. Teach him what you want him to know," said the Faz. Ent boss. She looked overhead emotionlessly. "And remember, if things don't work out… You know how to clean up a body."

Scott nodded.

"I-I've never trained someone before."

The boss looked over her shoulder at him dismissively.

"Just tell him what you learned. That's not so hard, is it?" She stopped. "Except things he isn't meant to know."

With a gulp, Scott trembled. He knew he tended to talk quite a bit.

"So make him feel at home." The boss exited the pizzeria, the clang of her keys hitting against the door echoing. She was ready to get the day over with.

Scott stood there, already overwhelmed.

Over the course of the day, he looked over the different areas of the pizzeria, deciding he'd need to remember them and everything about them.

Since he was nervous he ended up forgetting quite a bit.

Finally, the new hire showed up.

"Sorry I'm late," Michael said with a chuckle. He was driving with his friends for some donuts and ended up wasting thirty minutes. "The map kept leading me in circles."

Scott blinked, trying to register it for a second.

"Really? Can I see your map?"

Michael gulped. "It's a fairly new location…" He said, making up an excuse. "It wasn't built yet."

Scott shrugged with a smile. "It's okay. Come, I'll show you around!"

He showed Michael around, telling him about the different rooms and the history of the company.

Nodding, Michael followed along but seemed to have a few questions.

"Uh, Sir?" He said. "What will I be doing?"

"Oh yeah!" Scott replied. How could he forget? "Uh, you're the new cook!"

"Awesome!"

"Yeah, you'll be making our award winning pizza, as well as sodas and hotdogs!"

Michael could get used to this. He could see it already: Michael Afton: World Famous Cook! He'd be praised every day for his expertise.

"Can you show me?"

He had a boy-like curiosity about him. Scott shook his head.

"I don't know how. But hey, you'll do great with the head chef! Uh, good luck!"

He tipped his hat to Michael and left.

Michael felt happy at being welcomed, but then a sense of dread came.

He saw a big burly woman grin at him. She had a grin of one of the serial killers you see in movies. He did not trust that.

"Ah, fresh meat!" She chuckled. "Well then, soldier, let's get you ready for work!"

Well, this is probably as good of a time as any to post this

So, for context: a couple of months ago I made this compilation of some of my favorite Phone Guy moments for my friend, just as a silly side-project thing. I don’t normally post stuff like this, and I am also not an editor, so it’s been sitting in my gallery ever since. I didn’t think I’d ever post it, but then the book was announced, and now Phone Guy Month came along, and then I kinda figured eh, why not? So here we are

https://www.deviantart.com/paigelts05/art/1101525291

Published: Sep 22, 2024

Across all Freddy's locations, there are several constants. Fredbear chomping down on a kid's skull, a bite of 87. At least one missing persons incident. The role a handful of guards fill. One of those roles being a Phone Guy.

Here are 4 of many.

Krasnyy Guy, the youngest phone guy on record. He worked at the location that was was given the code letter 'C'. Unlike the others who were given a standard company greeting and a suggestion to record tapes for future guards, Krasnyy was given far more prompting in a script written around the greeting to tell him things like 'mention why you are recording the message (do not say you were told to)', 'you MUST read out the standard greeting', 'you may not state the real reason behind why the animatronics kill: there is a company approved reason', etcetera. Krasnyy always.abided by the letter but not the spirit, relying on double and hidden meanings to try and convey the truth to other guards whilst misdirecting management. Back in 87, they'd done the same thing when they hid him in a side room and told him to record training tapes for the summer, but he instead used the chance to warn the guard of the dangers of the 1987 location, slapping 'welcome to your new summer job' as a formality on his first recorded phone call. There wasn't much difference between the situation that he found himself in back in 1987, and the situation that he eas in during the 'night 4 incident' of 1993. Also, by giving Krasnyy these extra prompts, Faz Ent was able to make the calls that he recorded line up eerily closely with the ones that Ralph would record over two months later. Krasnyy was also the only phone guy whose night 4 recording was interrupted by another person instead of any animatronics: the groan was Vincent Taylor, and the 'robotic' scream was Krasnyy's own scream. The voices of the posessed tend to come out weird when the ghost and host are working in tandem like Vincent and Ina, and Krasnyy and Philip were that night. After the somehow winning the fight, he opted to hide within the building as leaving the building was too risky. He hid in the safe room for three months before his best friend, Mike Schmidt, was able to find him and smuggle him out of the building. Krasnyy is a journalist, and is the only surviving phone guy to have kept working at the same Freddy's location after 'night 4', as it was dubbed. He finally left when location C closed down in 1997. The only reason why he stayed that long was due to the animatronics opting to not kill him or Mike, but instead severely harm them, both physically and mentally, whenever they were caught, as being posessed made the animatronics see those two night guards as being like them but traitors instead of possible suspects. The animatronics intentions were to have either Mike or Krasnyy work for them so that they could have a human hunting down their killer during the day, and they succeed with Krasnyy, making him 'the voice of the animatronics'. The years spent working at Freddy's had left permanent scars. No longer working at Freddy's meant more time to write articles about the darker side of that place, so that people know that neither he nor others that were left scarred by that place are crazy.

Paul Scott, the phone guy with the shortest tenure and temper. He worked at the location that was was given the code letter 'Y'. He was given a company greeting, and despite his hatred and coy attempts to hide the truth between the lines, his professionalism and grim determination to see things through and finish what he started made him record phone calls that were eerily similar to those that Ralph would make over two months later. He recorded his night 4 call on his fourth night, and whilst he doesn't remember what happened after the animatronics caught him, he's certain that he saw his own decapitated body on the floor before passing out. He woke up in a hospital that looked more like an underground facility over a month later, and aside from a scar around his neck and his hair being cut at that length, he has no way of verifying what really happened that night. He met someone who had a similar role to him whilst in that facility, but they both passed out when trying to figure out where they were and what was going on. When he came to next, he was in a normal hospital, and it had been three months since that horrible night shift. He has no idea how he is alive. He didn't even bother sticking his nose around at Freddy's again go find out, as he already knew from his first night that the company has been planning on letting him go by the end of the week. He just didn't expect to lose three months of his life because of it. And besides, the guard that was working at Freddy's 90 days later had found his cut off hair shoved inside a Freddy head, so he knew that his neck injury had to have happened in parts and service: his memory of that night was correct on location, but he still could not explain how he survived decapitation, even though it seemed more and more likely that the blurry memory that he had was completely correct. He wears a choker to cover up his scar, and his hair did grow back in time, so by the time the last active Freddy's locations of the era closed in 1997, he looked almost like his old self again.

'Zero', the phone guy whose actions were - unknown to him - held as the template for what those in the role of 'phone guy' should do. He worked at the location that was was given the code letter 'O', but it was also refered to as location 0, or the origin location. Zero's real name was Ralph back when he was alive, and he was unaware that Faz Ent used him as a template for a 'constant variable' that they had across all their locations. He had always thought that 'phone guy' was just a nickname, and whilst sometimes it was just that, knowing what he knows now he knows that when it came from the mouth of his boss, it wasn't a nickname, but his role. After his death, he was distressed to find out that back in August 1993, almost all the others in his role had been wiped out with very few survivors, meanwhile, his own demise was spelled almost three months later in early November 1993. Whilst at first he had no idea why Faz Ent had gone to such lenths get kill him and his cohorts killed, the answer was rather clear: they all knew too much and were liable to speak out if they survived much longer. He himself had become aware of the names of the ghosts within the animatronics on his instincts alone, and he had discovered something else about the animatronics during his final week that Faz Ent didn't want getting out. Ralph is a seer, and so is Bronwen Light. They both used their phones as an anchor to try and navigate Ralph's final five nights; Ralph just trying to make it out alive so he could go back home to his daughter, and Bronwen trying to make sure that the animatronics wouldn't overcharge and escape to terrorise the town. Ralph found only one path where his daughter would be safe and at least one of himself or Bronwen would survive: on his fifth night, he recorded a voicemail for the next guard: his night 4 recording. Due to keeping the animatronics attention, Bronwen was able to survive, and as Ralph was dead, the animatronics stopped trying to escape, so his daughter, Coppelia, wasn't in danger. Bronwen brought Ralph's phone back to Coppelia, and whilst Ralph had lost most of his memories, he could always recognise his daughter. As he learned more about the other locations, first from Bronwen and later from other phone guys, he started to go by the name 'Zero' to try and hide his old self in hopes that Faz Ent and the animatronics wouldn't go after his daughter again.

CW FOR GORE + EYESTRAIN