Thread:BlackfootFerret/@comment-39932144-20190807134314/@comment-26006155-20190809122608

If Scraptrap is William Afton, why didn't Scrap Baby acknowledge him as such?

Why did she insist that The Person Who Called Everyone Here was her father William, even though she's been hanging out with Scraptrap in the restaurant for days?

Why was Scraptrap so repeatedly insistent on making sure that everyone knew he was, indeed, William Afton? Shouldn't this have been obvious? Why all the reminders?

And even if the voice was the same.. why was the tone completely alien from the other two times we've heard it before, from William being interviewed at the start of Sister Location, and Michael at the end of Sister Location's Custom Night?

Why is Scraptrap's design so alien from Springtrap, and its face is a literal fusion of both Fredbear and Spring Bonnie? That nose is unmistakeable, it looks like Golden Freddy's. Although you know I think that's actually Shadow Freddy.

Shadow Freddy is an expert at mimicing voices, she did it with Phone Guy's. William and Michael both have PJ Heywood's voice. And apparently, so does Henry, in order to fool so many other people into thinking that he was actually William.

So Scraptrap could be William. Or it could be Michael. Or it could be Shadow Freddy. Or it could be some other entity somehow related to William that also has that voice. Which actually covers most of the family if you get really technical.

Something doesn't add up about Scraptrap.

And even if this is what Springtrap looks like now, some radical change happened to that animatronic that turned it into a very different entity. An unknown story in itself.

I don't understand Scraptrap. Any way you slice it, there's a huge story here that we're not aware of.

So, rather than getting in line and saying what everyone else is saying, I simply say that I don't understand Scraptrap. It's currently an Unknown Entity in my FNAF notes.

And if Henry was capable of fooling the entire family into believing that he was William, who says Scraptrap can't be doing the same?

It's very tempting for a theorist to try and slot an assumption into a place where there's an annoying unknown quanity.

But doing that is dangerous. Because the moment you declare a theory, it's human nature to try and defend that theory. To subconsicously elevate information that confirms the theory, and to mentally minimize evidence that contradictions it.

It takes courage and discipline to say "I don't know" about something. But it's the honest thing to do.

And knowing what you DON'T know is every bit as important for theorizing as making discoveries. Because if you know what you don't know, you know what you should be looking for.