Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-26006155-20190609121528

Isn't the human nervous system electrical? Little signals jump from neuron to neuron in electric bursts. Sure, most of the chain is chemical, but at the end of the day all the thinking done by organics and robotics alike comes down to electricity.

And I think that's part of the point that FNAF is trying to make. Expanding our definition of life to include robotics, and how, rather than being  Science Fiction antagonists determined to destoy each other, these two types of life might co-exist?

If you've read The Afton Family Horcruxes, you know my take on things. Phone Guy(Henry) was Charlie's father. And when Michael denied her birthday party in 1972 by locking her out of the restaurant and denying her a chance to bond with her intended horcrux animatronic (Classic Chica), Henry sought to both ensure his daughter's robotic immortality, and get revenge on Michael and William who ostracized his line of the family, by stabbing Charlie with a silver knife, and carrying off part of her soul to make the android Jay Jay.

The Jay Jay that, like Ella in the novels, was Charlie's toddler form. Which was then upgraded to a adolescent form in the Second Closet, and then her teenage form in The Third Closet. With "The Fourth Closet" intended as her adult form.

This teenage Charlie is the girl with the super-creepy red smile we see in the hidden park in FNAF 4. Who, with an RGB color analsys with 4 perfect matches, is the twin to the boy carrying the Plushtrap toy, Sammy. And it was these two pair of twins that William lured to the back room in the first FNAF 1 poster involving two children, on June 26th, 1983.

We see Sammy's teenage form getting fitted into Spring Bonnie by William in the FNAF 4 easter egg. And Sammy and Charlie went everywhere together. And since Fredbear and Spring Bonnie were the first two fancy hybrid springsuits available when Henry/Phone Guy open his "New and Improved (heh)" Freddy's in 1983, if Sammy tried on Spring Bonnie, that leaves Fredbear for Charlie.

Which is why Charlie had to have become Shadow Freddy.

What Henry didn't realize when he stabbed Charlie in Take Cake to the Children, was that he didn't get all of her soul. That quick cut left much of her soul behind, to be absorbed by the Puppet. Which is why Shadow Freddy and the Puppet are linked through things like Nightmarion. They are parts of the game girl.. yet they are also opposites, as seen in the mirror-flipped version of the posters in the Puppet's hall in FNAF 3. The Puppet is trying to put things back together, even as Shadow Freddy tries to tear them apart.

Phone Guy wasn't in complete control in FNAF 2. He complains about the decision to turn Pirate's Cove into Kid's Cove, and Foxy's redesign. But these happened anyway.

And in the Survival Logbook, where Foxy-bias Phone Guy wrote the original version, with Michael and William both writing their creepy notes and doodles in the margins, the Fourth Author is Shadow Freddy. She leaves Fredbear-yellow post-it notes in the margins, and acts like the boss of the operation (my video about the logbook: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zPKumZi4gg )

In FNAF 4, Shadow Freddy was the one who was really controlling all the animatronics, and forcing Michael's "friends" to attack him in the remade Bite of '87 scene. And she (again, girl giggle is in the sound file's name) replaces all the attacking animatronics in FNAF 4.. with first Fredbear. And then her true form as the ghost Nightmare/Shadow Freddy.

Like in the second novel, where they find Fredbear, who doesn't have any of the warm aura they'd experience before meeting Michael/Golden Freddy, once Fredbear wakes up all the other do too. She controls them.

So it wasn't hard for Charlie to command the FNAF 1 animatronics to take out her father.

Why did Shadow Freddy have it in for Henry?

As I mentioned, he did stab her outside the restaurant in 1972. And while Charlie's good side in the Puppet could forgive such a thing.. her evil vindicitive side in Shadow Freddy could never let such a thing go. And when she had the chance, she got her revenge, and total control over the FNAF 1 restaurant.

The only in FNAF 1 actually recorded by Henry is Night 4. Henry/Phone Guy dies long before William starts his week there in the actual game.

How do we know it's not him in FNAF 1? Because he loves Foxy. His version of Foxy (in contrast to William's version that became part of Mangle) was his Horcrux Animatronic, a springsuit he'd put on that would extract and archive part of his soul as a backup in the event his antroid self died. Henry couldn't help loving Foxy.. he was a narcissist, and Foxy was literally part of him.

But "Phone Guy" in FNAF 1 did not share that love of Foxy, coldy referring to him, not by name, but as "The Character".

Foxy was a hated piece of Shadow Freddy's father. And after eating his android self (and probably gaining the power to mimic his voice in the process by eating that part of his soul), she tormented this remaining piece of Henry by turning the special stage Henry had made for his Foxy horcrux, into a prison behind an "Out Of Order" sign.

Foxy was never out of order. He's able to move about, and does an Olympic Sprint down the west hall if you don't check up on him enough. The Out Of Order sign was a lie, and Nightmare Foxy's FNAF 4 teaser image has this sign as a hidden text, and uses his hook at the "?" at the end. Was Foxy out of order? No. Never.

Whatever Non-Phone-Guy person was actually running FNAF 1 when William started, they downright hated Foxy.

So Shadow Freddy used her command over the animatronics to trap Phone Guy, and ordered them all to attack. Then she did the honors by walking in as Fredbear and ate him.

Remember that before the pre-recorded phone call ends in Night 4, we hear what seem to be a series of snapping/clicking sounds just as Shadow Freddy roars.

I believe these are springlocks activating. The very same little inner metal teeth that the Twisted Animatronics use to link with their victims and suck out their soul energy.

Just like Spring Bonnie is still a working, physical animatronic, Fredbear is too.