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I'm proud enough of this post that I thought I'd mirror it here. It originally appeared at: https://undertale.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:156428#31

-- I've sometimes wondered, in FNAF's story, that since so many of the characters seem to share remnant in some way, perhaps they're individuals, yet also part of a whole? Like each character might have originally been a different personality of William Afton, who has multiple ones, and they all found a way to gain forms of their own?

When mixed-race children show up, they're always considered abominations by the Identity Movement, the modern name White Supremacists choose to call themselves. It's terrible to them, because they consider their identity to be such an important thing, but here is someone who is "stealing" their identity, and giving it to someone else. And they hate that.

This is why Charlie, whose parents were a mixed race black and white couple, was shunned by most of the other Aftons in a traditionally white family. Which set up the whole Take Cake to the Children incident when Michael locked Charlie out of a family birthday party, setting her up to being stabbed outside Freddy's, getting her soul split into the Puppet and vengeful Shadow Freddy, and all the chaos that came after.

Charlie was an Afton.. but the others didn't accept her. She was one of "Them" and not one of "US"

That whole drive to divide, to define someone else's identity. It's at the root of so much conflict, ancient and modern.

I imagine the humans were horrified to find that, by some manner, Kanashi now existed. Kanashi wasn't.. and WAS.. one of their own. Before then there were two worlds: The World of Humans, and the World of Monsters. But suddently, that boundary was shattered by Kanashi.

I imagine it horrified the more militant section of human society. Here was a monster with a human soul. One of "Them" had stolen something that belong to "US". They had to be stopped. So the humans attacked.

Identity is definitely a driving force behind many of these conflicts.

As someone who considers themselves to be an artist as well as a theorist, it's hard for me not to sympathize with the hybrids of the world. Be they Charlie, Kanashi, or Steven.