Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190403163405/@comment-26006155-20190418024857

Well, this is why I try to persue every possible avenue. *Especially* the weird and unpopular ones.

Remember what I said all that about Story Potential earlier? It applies here, too.

If you look at the "NO" fight from the Halloween Hack, and take the easy route and says it's about Doctor Andonuts grappling with his latent homosexuality, that's an easy explaination.

But it doesn't explain all the rest of the confusing dialog in the rest of the game.

Or why Dr. A married a woman and actually had a child with her. Or why his attitude towards his family suddently *changed* when, if he was into guys, it should have been consistent from the beginning.

But when you pass over the easy explaination, and say that it's about grappling with Lying, and Dr. A feeling torn about telling his weird a Terrible Truth or not.. sure it's more improbable, but it explains the rest of the Hack so much better!

So based on which route answers more parts of the lore more tightly, the epic story of Doctor A being a Doctor Faustus and trying to escape from the terrible consequences of a pact he once made with Giygas is a far better story that fits the lore much more closely, than the simple out that says "Dr. A was Gay, end of story."

And another easy answer we come across is saying that in FNAF 3, William's Spring Bonnie suit just failed because of the rain. End of story.

That suit had to be soaking wet at the time. But inspite of this William was still able to put it on, and it functioned perfectly for a few moments, giving him time to laugh, until suddenly ALL the springlocks all fired at once.

Not a single failure, not a cascading domino effect.. BOOM, ALL the springs failed at exactly the same time. Something nearly impossible from statistical probablity.

If it's just William in the suit.. why did Springtrap seem to be writhing like a man caught in a straight jacket in the teaser, but was able to walk about normally during the game?

Why is the outer face grinning like a maniac, while the internal face is screaming?

Why does Springtrap seem to be trying to tear off his own face in the intro screen, but the jaws keep closing to make sure that the thing inside the suit doesn't escape?

But when you realize that the suit William just got stuffed into is the very same one he seems to have stuffed someone else into according go the FNAF 4 cutscene.. and that that suit is *already possessed* by the spirit of one of his own victims, who would *absolutely love* to perform an ironic act of revenge? Then all of these strange details make sense.

RXQ was already in that suit. Shadow Bonnie was in that suit. And all he had to do was wait for Shadow Freddy to get William trapped in the secret room, and try to use Spring Bonnie to escape from the ghosts, then BITE by activate the springlock traps.

That's what a "spring trap" is. A trap designed to capture it's prey alive.

So one has to ask, if William is the prey.. who set the trap?

The opening teaser talks about preparing for the Return of the Purple Guy. And in purple letters "We Have A Place For Him". And they did.. inside Spring Bonnie.

William was the one involved in the Two Child FNAF 1 poster. That's the event the Shadows came from, and they've been trying to get revenge on him ever since.

So saying that William got deliberately Springtrapped inside a Spring Bonnie by the ghost of one of his previous victims is definitley a more complex explaination than: "The rain did it. End of story."

But it does answer more of the observable details about the game.

And has far more of that Right Brained thing I love so much: Story Potential.

Which greatly improves the probablity that a talented artist looking to create a secret, epic story would take this route rather than the easy, boring one.

An easy Red Herring is a time-honored trick authors use in mysteries to throw off the reader. We have to be aware of this trope and look out for it.