Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-32182236-20190721003717/@comment-26006155-20200107224538

Jacky720 wrote: Unless it's a red herring. And not the fallacious type. Certainly, but there are ways to detect red herrings.

If given a choice of two possiblies, a good author will almost always pick the path that leads to the better story.

If we interpret the "Multiple Simultaneous Springlock Failures" incident in FNAF as several failures happening on a single suit, there's really no news. Phone Guy is used to stories of a single suit failing, and this never stopped Fazbear Entertainment from using the springsuits before. Protocol when this happens is for the employee with the failure to get to the secret room "before they bleed out" and ruin the wholesome family experience with their gushing blood and death throes.

But.. if you interpret this Mutiple Failure event as several different suits all failing at once, the story is much deeper: While any given suit might fail on any given day, they're usually pretty reliable. The odds of several suits not only failing on one day.. but at the exact same time of day? .. is astronaumical. It's almost impossible that this is a real accident.. and not a deliberate act of murder where someone just killed a roomfull of people.

This sort of big, shocking incident definintely sounds less likely. But it would take a big incident like this to force Fazbear Entertainment out of their complacency and into actually doing something about the problem. Which is what ends up happening, with the springsuits being retired, at least temporarily.

So on one side, we have Business as Usual, nothing new.

And on the other side, someone just deliberately killed several performers by sabotaging their springsuits.

The Story Potential on the side of multiple people being involved is far greater than just dead-ending it by saying several springlocks failed on a single suit.

And we already have Carlton's example in The Silver Eyes, where a single springlock failure set off a chain reaction that fired almost all of the other springlocks off. So any springlock failure usually does involve severa locks failing anyway.

Now let's look at the Halloween Hack.

If we interpret the "No" fight as Dr. Andonuts struggling not to lie to his wife when she asked him if something was wrong, as someone macho might do to appear to have everything under control, we get a rich story:

Dr. Andonuts feels guilty about making a pact with Giygas, the enemy of mankind, to get his seemingly magical science powers. And especially terrible that Giygas stolen his son Jeff's PSI powers as part of the payment. Which is why Dr. A could hardly bare to turn and face his own wife and son, knowing that both his silence, and revealing the truth of his misdeeds, might drive both of them away from him forever. Dr. A considers himself to be a monster, deliberately sending Jeff away to a boarding school rather than have him stay and be corrupted by his own father. Because he loves Jeff, and wants him to be a hero despite the disability Dr. A himself is indirectly responsible for. Dr. A then attempts to use the very powers Giygas gave him in their pact to create the Phase Distorter in the hopes of empowering Ness and his friends to destroy Giygas in the past. Which is why once Giygas re-invades the timeline, he twists Dr.A's mind into making an army of monsters to destroy the world, then manipulates Varik to hunt down and kill the traitor for him.

...But, if we go with the interpretation that Dr. A won't talk to his wife, because he's gay and was never really interested in her in the first place... the story ends. Dr. A is gay, and he's just ignoring his family because he's an asshole.

There's the remaining question of why Dr. A got married and actually had a son to explain away. And also a lot of seemingly nonsensical drug-induced dialog that doesn't make sense anymore. But is Dr. A is Gay a possibility? Sure!

It's just an exceptionally bad one.