#step closer

I'm always thinking about how Pete's last moments were calling Chuck and leaving a voicemail telling him he was right and he was sorry for doubting him, and that they could face it together. I know he'd been mean to Chuck and scared him with the Foxy animatronic, but I do not think he deserved that. The theme of karma is like... Okay, to learn a lesson, maybe, but to die? Especially because the whole story really centers around how even though their relationship has been damaged because of the divorce and how Pete had been struggling with his emotions from dealing with it and having all these responsibilities shoved onto him (I can't help but think about the scene where Chuck thinks to himself how he understands why Pete hates him half the time since he's forced to look after him in the place of their mother) they clearly still love each other and long to go back to a time before the rift formed. And you can very much tell they care about each other. And Chuck is the one that tells Pete what he thinks is happening, and nearing the end Pete decides to confront the issue head on. You would think Pete reaching the conclusion that it was because he was wrong and he needed to make it right, and going to face the Foxy animatronic, would be him learning the lesson he was meant to learn that week, and facing it together would be what finally helps them come back together and it would be the happy ending. But then he just get hit by a truck and dies. It so unbelievably cruel and it's an extremely common thing with the Fazbear Frights stories. A lot of it is just cruelty for the sake of cruelty. Like Gumdrop Angel. She ate her sister's gumdrop because she was upset at how Ophelia got all the attention, how no one cared about her, how her extremely rich step dad wouldn't pay for her to go to college but WOULD buy Ophelia a pony, so at the end, because she ate the gumdrop, she gets eaten alive. And this one is so messed up because she didn't even do anything that bad. But I wouldn't say the story is necessarily trying to tell you that she deserved that, because I think the point of a lot of these stories is that it IS cruel and tragic. I think Angel is a character that a lot of young readers could relate to. Especially since through her point of view you do see how unfair all of it is and are meant to feel bad for her. I'm not sure these are the types of stories where there is always a moral of the story. But still. After she ate the gumdrop and Ophelia started crying, her step dad started banging on her door and screaming and she wondered if he would hit her and considered calling the police. Like... Hello?