Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26006155-20190425222457/@comment-26006155-20190608225911

One thing I've found whenever I've felt trapped in a corner while theorizing, is that it's much more likely that one of the assumptions I'm working with is wrong.

That's why I spent 8 months thinking that Nightmare was Golden Freddy, despite the Nightmare=Shadow Freddy link in the FNAF 4 textures.

Remember that FNAF 1 Golden Freddy and FNAF 2 Golden Freddy are NOT the same creature. Only FNAF 1 GF blackscreens your game, just like when Shadow Bonnie attacks in FNAF 2. FNAF 2 GF stuffs us like the others, but FNAF 1 GF and Shadow Bonnie devours our soul.. so there's no reincarnation as a robot.

FNAF 1 "Golden Freddy" is a girl. We hear a sound clearly idenfied in the SFX as a Girl Giggle. And Nightmare in FNAF 4 also uses variations on the Girl Giggle texture. Which, when slowed down, becomes Freddy's laugh in FNAF 1.

But the novels state that Golden Freddy was a boy named Michael. And while the novels may be a mirror universe, it seems to me that much of the family tree is still intact.

Two souls died in the Fredbear suit: Shadow Freddy, one of the two children William lured on June 26th, 1983, and Golden Freddy, the child Shadow Freddy(controlling Fredbear) bit in the Bite of '83 during the Missing Children Incident. So BOTH souls now inhabit the Fredbear suit.

A girl is attacking us in FNAF 1. Whenever "Golden Freddy'"s attack comes, it's heralded by a girl's giggle. And in FNAF 3 that "Shadow Freddy" texture, when view in first-person and not over a camera or 8bit vision, looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/Xf1fSL4l.jpg

In FNAF 3, Shadow Freddy appears very, very much like Golden Freddy.

So I think Shadow Freddy is what actually attacks us in FNAF 1.

She's the game's version of Charlie. And her twin brother Sammy is FNAF 2 Shadow Bonnie.

And while Shadow Freddy, controlling Fredbear, did perform the Bite of '87 on Michael, which is why you get that 1-9-8-7 Easter Egg and Shadow Freddy's golden jumpscare in FNAF 1, I think her brother was the one who performed the Save Them Massacre before FNAF 2.

In Save Them, Mangle says "He Was Here" in her secret file. Mangle saw who the killer was, and knew it was male, not female. So Shadow Freddy/Fredbear didn't do this.

And in FNAF 4 we see a nightmare in "Fun with Plushtrap", a bare-front suit just like the one Sammy died in in the FNAF 4 Purple Guy Easter Egg, where someone recalls fending off this renegade replacement-suit Spring Bonnie with a flashlight, in a hall that has two doorways on each side.. just like the office in FNAF 2.

This is the memory of the previous night guard, before Michael, who had to shut Sammy's rampaging Spring Bonnie suit down with a flashlight. This is William. And also part of the reason he left for Day Shift, letting Michael/Jeremy take the hot seat the next week.

So Fredbear, controlled by Shadow Freddy/Charlie, performed the MCI, andBites of '83 and '87. And the kid she bit in '83 become Golden Freddy, another golden bear ghost trapped inside her, only able to come out occasionally.

And Spring Bonnie, controlled by Shadow Bonnie/Sammy, performed the Save Them Massacre. This was the suit that was noticably moved.

The lore does make sense. But it requires backtracking and trying new assumptions until you find a model where all the pieces fit.

And, again, this is a mystery. The solutions are rarely going to be simple, because this is a deberate game made by the author to be as challenging as possible.