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Hopper, you lost me when you said "Henry sold Fredbear's to Henry."

And as I've argued extensively, the novels are a mirror universe to the story of the games.

We already know Elizabeth's story changed from one medium to another.

In the games, William realized that the Baby robot had been altered from his original design by The Company, the organization that now apparently owned his work. The very organization that he repeatedly dodged questions about Baby's true function in the beginning of Sister Location, explaining all of Baby's trivial secondary functions instead, which did not please the Board Members that were grilling him.

Game WIlliam did care for his daughter Elizabeth. He originally designed Baby as her horcrux, a means of giving her robot immortality, the most precious gift he thought he was able to give.

When William realized that the re-designed robot (the killer claw was NOT part of the original design, and the helium tank had been removed, yet the hose for it still remained) was a death trap designed to steal a child's soul rather than protect it, William wasn't able to shut Circus Baby's down that day, but he did repeatedly forbid Elizabeth to see the very robot he had built just for her.

Elizabeth, full of disbelief and an impatience that ALL THE OTHER CHILDREN were able to see Baby, her robot, except for her, had to sneak off to catch a brief moment of privacy with Baby in the crowded restaurant. At which time Baby's new programming kicked in, and she ate Elizabeth, extracting all of her soul into the living metal springs, instead of only part. Ending Elizabeth's human life.

Novel William and Novel Elizabeth are very different.

Novel William did not care for his daughter, preferring instead to work on his prize robot, Baby, who he valued more than her.

Neglected, Elizabeth snuck into the laboratory one night and flat out pleaded with Baby to kill her, so that she once she became part of Baby, her soul would now be part of The Daughter That Her Father Wanted.

And Novel Baby, who had been designed as a child-killing machine from the start, agreed, and absorbed Elizabeth as she was programmed to do.

The Afton Family might have a similiar structure in both the games and the novels, and who become what robot might be the same.

But WHO PEOPLE WERE? That's alien.

Charlie, Henry's daughter, and the victim of Take Cake to the Children, had her soul split into The Puppet and Shadow Freddy. And while Charlie is the hero of the novels for the longest time, her other side is the Arch-Villain of the games. The one who, only after finally being given the birthday party that she was denied in Take Cake to the Children later on in Happiest Day, finally released the other spirits and let everyone move on.

Game William, too, is very different.

He may have had a hand in creating the Shadows, but the Shadows were the ones who murdered all the children in Foxy Go Go/The Missing Children Incident, and The Save Them Massacre.

The Glitch minigame is all about how William, trapped in the same Spring Bonnie suit that his earlier victim Sammy was haunting, tries to redeem himself and give Sammy cake so he can move on once his spirit finally escapes the box of memories it was trapped in. So that Sammy/RXQ can leave and go to Happiest Day, leaving William in control of Springtrap.

I cover all this in The Summer Paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHaJUF6hwC0&t=1044s

Something of the novels may have invaded the games from FNAF 5 onward, presenting Henry as the original inventor of the animatronics.

But I still claim that Game William was the original inventor of Freddy. And that Henry/Phone Guy, his eldest son and the real person consumed by jealousy, created Fredbear alongside Spring Bonnie (an advanced version of the existing Bonnie robot) as a "Better" version of Freddy.

Henry was galled that William tapped his youngest son Michael Afton/Jeremy Fitzgerald to be Freddy. So Henry, the pass-up eldest son, felt a need to prove he was better than Michael. And Wiliam. So he created Fredbear as a glorious golden knock-off.

Freddy's, a family-owned and operated company, was where it all began.

When Henry took over and tried to turn the operation into a soulless big time company like Chuck E Cheese is where everything went wrong.