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Fred Bears Family Diner. This

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is where all began: the

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animatronic empire, the string of

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deaths, and Williams descent into

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madness. Everything stemmed from this

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one location. or at least

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that's what we thought until

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today. Hello!

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Internet Welcome to Game Theory where it is

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finally time. Today I graduate from Flap Boy

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to finance man and take on my very

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first from that theory of I I say

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that I have actually been helping That right

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for that varies with the past three years

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sake of thanks how the as they play

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back body gets talking about Gregory The Robots

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All right I mean to be fair that

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was both of our sin but you know

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I through something out of us matter at

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the resort the now yeah Gregory's Robot First

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map theory and look how well received it's

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but look how good. That's gone for

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all. It's a sudden so well for

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all about yeah, well could possibly go

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wrong. but don't worry theorists, I promise

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to days theory is way less crazy.

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Hopefully because today. I'm going to

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be tackling one simple, teeny tiny

1:21

detail. But I think is really important to

1:23

understanding this franchise Help wanted to was full

1:25

of collectibles most of which you get from

1:27

a prize machine after you be so many

1:29

games. Some are set prices that relate to

1:31

the level you just completed like a son

1:33

figure for being the first day care mission

1:35

or meet pretzel for beating the fast by

1:37

theater however have to beat the game. There

1:39

are some extra prices to collect that a

1:41

given to you at random when you replay

1:43

a stage. Usually this is just extra plus

1:45

she's models or foods but sometimes you get

1:47

posters and one of these posters stood out

1:49

above all the rest ends. Up on the

1:52

back wall right next to the fast rent

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entrance for the Princess Quest mini game, it's

1:56

a poster promoting Food Fest Nineteen Seventy. Now

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to the knife can. In this community, Fall Fest

2:01

is nothing new. We first saw this name

2:03

pop up almost five years ago in the

2:05

Curse of Dreadbear DLC to the original Help

2:07

Wanted. A Halloween inspired event full of attractions,

2:09

rides and of course spooky versions of all

2:11

our favourite characters to fit in with the

2:13

Halloween theme. But there is one crucial difference

2:15

between this Fall Fest and the one we

2:17

see on the poster from Help Wanted 2,

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The Date. The banners around the Curse of

2:21

Dreadbear hub world show that this event was

2:23

taking place in 1983, but

2:25

this new poster is from over a

2:27

decade before. This whole Fall Fest thing

2:29

has clearly been running for a very

2:31

long time. In fact it's been running since

2:33

before the earliest confirmed parts of the SNES

2:35

timeline. In The Silver Eyes when Charli is

2:38

looking for news articles on Fredbear's family diner,

2:40

she starts the search at 1979, seeming

2:42

to imply that this was when the dino

2:44

was founded. But that is nine whole years

2:47

after this poster was published. And that's not

2:49

all, look at the design of this poster.

2:51

While it's advertising Fall Fest, it's not inherently

2:53

spooky like the event we see for the

2:55

Curse of Dreadbear. It has all

2:57

terminal elements, but it's mostly designed to look

2:59

like an old two toned circus poster, complete

3:01

with a giant circus tent right in the

3:03

middle. And this isn't the first time Steel

3:05

Will has offered us hints that circuses might

3:07

be important to this franchise. There's the minigames

3:10

in Help Wanted 2 like the Carousel and

3:12

Bazzablast, there's the circus costumes that are down

3:14

in the basement of Ruin, there's even circus

3:16

themed Funko merch. Clearly, Steel Will

3:18

is beating us over the head with this circus thing for

3:20

a reason. But why? Well back

3:22

in 2022, in the build up to Security Breach's

3:24

Xbox port, Steel Will did an interview with Gamejolt

3:27

to talk about how they made Security Breach, give

3:29

some updates on Ruin's development and drop some

3:31

little hints towards what might be coming down the

3:33

pipeline for them and the FNAF franchise. And when

3:35

asked what kind of game they'd like to make

3:37

in the future, they said this. They

3:50

want to create a game about the origins

3:53

of Freddy's set in the 70s. Most

3:55

of us at the time assumed this would

3:57

just be Fredbear's Family Diner, but with all

4:00

this circus imagery popping up... it begs the

4:02

question. What is spread Best Family Diner wasn't

4:04

the origin of Friday's what if. Instead it

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was the circus full fast nineteen seventy and

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once I realized that things started to fall

4:11

into place this post that is the key

4:13

to clarifying some massive holes in the last

4:15

time my to compose a number of things

4:17

we been predicting for a while and his

4:19

sons a little more light on the franchise's

4:22

latest villain photography exhibit. Maybe this isn't such

4:24

a small theory after a what's so you

4:26

better grabs your popcorn Ferris because the show

4:28

is about to begin and I'm going to

4:30

reveal to you the true origins of Friday's

4:33

Now I understand that maybe some hesitancy image

4:35

changing up the entire beginning of a timeline

4:37

again it. it's a pretty big play, and

4:39

while there have been a number of installed

4:41

circuses throughout the games and books, doesn't necessarily

4:43

mean that's where this whole thing started Says

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this: Take a look at one of the

4:48

more recent examples of the sucks being since

4:50

it up so I can show you where

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I'm coming from. In the basement of the

4:54

ruined Dlc where you from the Mimic, there

4:57

are two costumes hanging up, an old lady

4:59

blackbird and an elephant dressed as a clown

5:01

in the game files. There's also a line

5:03

wearing a boss to just get three animals,

5:05

all associated with the circus elephants of them

5:08

from tracks lions will regularly tamed by lion

5:10

tamer, some of crows or black but aren't

5:12

decently circus animals. I do often appear in

5:14

Circus Focus media like Disney. Stumble across the

5:16

elephant is literally dressed as a clown. It

5:18

doesn't get more Sarkozy the map. But the

5:21

most important part isn't this a seeming? It's

5:23

the fact they aren't animatronics suits. In our

5:25

initial theory on ruin, we talked about how

5:27

these costing seem to be related to surface

5:29

babies because. You know soccer siver when

5:32

such as babies and stamina rentals or

5:34

even such as babies pizza well to

5:36

do to say what animatronics and complex

5:38

wonder why that would they have physical

5:40

christians they wouldn't unless these costumes actually

5:42

came from something cytosine that was before

5:44

Animatronics were part of this franchise in

5:46

the Mimic not the Robot the Tales

5:49

from the Pizza Black story named also

5:51

and we learn have a talk to

5:53

named Edwin who owns a robotics company

5:55

getting big of of making a robot

5:57

vacuum cleaner. however up with the bus

5:59

of. Than the death of his wife and

6:01

then the crippling pressure of running his own

6:04

business, he decides to sell the company to

6:06

none other than fast their entertainment wide as

6:08

far as their agree to purchase because they

6:10

want Edwin for his robotics knowledge. Specifically, they

6:13

want him to todd that character costumes into

6:15

full blown animatronics. We seen him do exactly

6:17

this with Secret in the first few pages

6:19

of sort. Later on, he goes on to

6:22

explain that this is the eighteenth power to

6:24

he's been asked to create, Describing the collection

6:26

as quote is such as like a ray

6:28

of animal and other character. Costumes Circus. Like

6:30

he said, we believe for a long time

6:32

that Edwin is the books parallel for Henry,

6:35

the animatronic genius. the help asked them to

6:37

grow prosper into the animatronic empire we know

6:39

today. So the such as the costumes we

6:41

see in the basement of Ruined likely came

6:43

from that same time period appeared were him.

6:45

He was transforming costumes into animatronics. and these

6:47

costumes aren't Henry's only connection to the surface.

6:49

I've when Charlie goes back to a childhood

6:51

home in the Silver Eyes he looks through

6:53

Henry's office of find an assortment of books

6:56

that quote would have seemed eclectic to anyone

6:58

who didn't know the Man that will. Hi,

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see say. For. Details: Books on biology and

7:30

anatomy someone human beings, others on animals that

7:32

were books about the history of the traveling

7:35

carnival and of the circus Spell books about

7:37

child development, about myths and legends at about

7:39

sewing patterns and techniques. Never volumes that claim

7:42

to be about fix the Gods about quilting

7:44

be said about football, cheering squads and their

7:46

muskets. Most of these make a lot of

7:48

sense things like anatomy, mascot so in patterns

7:51

it all ties into the I did he

7:53

was creating characters and turning costumes and animatronics.

7:55

The books about child development either tie into

7:57

the fat the he was catering. To kids.

8:00

That was trying to figure out how to

8:02

best serve his customers. Or it's linked to

8:04

the Human Anatomy books and ties into had

8:06

recreating robot versions of his daughter Charlie. But

8:08

there's one selection, as always stood out, was

8:10

on one the I'd never had an explanation

8:12

for. and that is the history of the

8:15

traveling carnival and of the circus. Why would

8:17

Henry need books on that topic Is all

8:19

the work he's ever done is on animatronics

8:21

and diners. He needs it because the origins

8:23

of fans bow are rooted in traveling sexes

8:25

and carnivals. A was a hint as to

8:28

the first years of this business or this.

8:30

Circus Surface seems to be were fast, but entertainment

8:32

will begun. But now the question is, who else

8:34

was there And I don't mean human characters. Let's

8:36

be honest, we don't have many of them that

8:39

are actually important, especially not back in Nineteen Seventy.

8:41

I mean which of the fans back Heart as

8:43

were part of the original roster as I mentioned

8:45

during her wanted to? We get a number of

8:48

mini games that take place in part of a

8:50

like settings namely Feather Blast and the Carousel. And

8:52

it's the Carousel but I want us to take

8:54

a look at first. The game itself is pretty

8:57

straightforward. you know when you don't have an ass

8:59

trying to desperately. Keep your microphone attached! Oh

9:01

My. God. Who! despite this man, did

9:03

manage to notice a very interesting detail

9:05

in the levels. Design A random pumpkin

9:07

just sitting there waiting to be time.

9:09

I think we could all agree that

9:11

pumpkin or something we specifically associate with

9:13

Halloween and the only have been we

9:15

know to take place at Halloween in

9:18

this franchises. Yeah, guess that Full Fast.

9:20

So even to Halloween themed version of

9:22

Moon appeared during the nightmare level of

9:24

a carousel. Right to carousel. He's from

9:26

full facts which means it's from the

9:28

early part of the franchise, but. Then

9:30

take a look at the characters that

9:32

I used on the carousel. Friday bodied.

9:34

he got boxy which you know is

9:36

what you'd expect. except it's not just

9:38

the original versions from Want. The one

9:40

that immediately stands up to me is

9:42

this white and pink version of Time

9:44

Fox. Whoa. Kind of because you might

9:46

also notice he has a hooked sand

9:49

something. A fun time folksy is clearly

9:51

lacking in Sicily. Catch however that is

9:53

a version of Fun Time folksy with

9:55

a hookah And that since math? well

9:57

again that came out before sister location

9:59

and doesn't. Have any other Fun

10:01

Time Animatronics presence implying that Fun

10:03

Time Folksy didn't originally belong with

10:05

that group about products instead belonging

10:07

to an earlier set and this

10:09

carousel tells us exactly which group

10:11

that it's The other characters on

10:13

this ride besides Fun Time Folks

10:16

in the original for all have

10:18

Rosie red cheeks which aligns with

10:20

the toy animatronics from Snap to

10:22

Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica

10:24

and Fun Time Foxy the toy

10:26

version of Foxy The toy animatronics

10:28

being here feels wrong. dominate. The

10:30

toys that become a thing until Nineteen

10:32

Eighty Seven with their special recognition software

10:34

I knew more complex and oh skeleton

10:36

say replace the old wizard versions of

10:38

the original Friday, Bonnie Cheetah and Foxy

10:40

from the original Freddy's how they of

10:42

on a ride from Nineteen Seventy. Well

10:44

this is because I don't think the

10:46

toy animatronics I meant to call back

10:48

to the Nineteen Eighty Three Freddy's animatronics

10:50

the supposed to be referencing the original

10:52

circus costumes. Going back to the mimic

10:55

story once Edwin abandons the warehouse favour

10:57

employees are sent in to collect any

10:59

thoughts. Bad property things. Like that costumes.

11:01

One character mentions a few of them:

11:03

a brown pretty fast by costume, the

11:05

Lhc to costume a folksy costume, a

11:07

bunny costume the original for who are

11:09

all in existence as costumes if for

11:11

the introduction as animatronics at Freddy's as

11:13

Best Pizza. And what's even crazier is

11:15

the designs of those costumes actually exists.

11:17

A few years ago there was, ah

11:19

bless you say controversial but at the

11:22

time official Snap authors that dropped an

11:24

image onto the fluff sub reddit was

11:26

zero context or explanation. The only thing

11:28

we knew is that these images. Contains

11:30

Scots official copyright. These images were commissioned

11:32

by Scott which makes them as good

11:34

a piece of evidence is any and

11:36

what are these images Off versions of

11:39

Freddie, Bonnie and See talking a similar

11:41

styles the mascot costumes he'd find a

11:43

theme park like Disneyland or with large

11:45

proportion them fairground heads in order to

11:47

have a human sit inside them. These

11:49

appear to be the original courses for

11:51

the characters were with these costumes use

11:54

I suspect they were born at the

11:56

circus. Why well notice the bright red

11:58

cheeks, exaggerated features like big. The noses

12:00

or cheeks have been used point clowns and

12:02

circus performers for centuries. Joseph Grimaldi is recognized

12:05

as being the ancestor for modern clowns and

12:07

and eighty know to the created the designed

12:09

for his most iconic Joey. The class of

12:11

one of these characters iconic features was painted

12:14

red cheeks similarly. Ah, but first Illini is

12:16

known to have helped redefine a type of

12:18

clown in the mid nineties hundreds known as

12:21

the August Clock complete with the bright red

12:23

nose we know today. Why did both these

12:25

performers be that necessary to have bright red

12:27

features for the evolution of the clown? Because.

12:30

When the word com was first recorded

12:32

and fifteen sixty mm prospect or peasants,

12:34

this often boiled down to one simple

12:36

stereotype: the town drunk who you would

12:38

often see after he got a bit

12:40

too much to drink with a bright

12:42

red nose and red cheeks. This happens

12:44

when your body isn't able to digest

12:47

alcohol, probably causing really subsystem. He is

12:49

that essentially cause your face to have

12:51

an allergic reaction, namely red cheeks and

12:53

nods. The idea of referencing this is

12:55

to make clowns or characters immediately look

12:57

foolish, silly, or disarming so people will

12:59

be quicker. To laugh at them rather than

13:01

be scared of them. which is pretty ironic

13:04

when you think about it. That is why

13:06

I believe these costumes. A circus costumes. Not

13:08

because they're trying to make characters look like

13:10

drunks that wouldn't be buried. Child friendly he

13:13

was to invoke those same we actions of

13:15

silly, goofy and the kitchen is. You can

13:17

see this trait carried over into the most

13:19

definitively circus costume we got available. Elephant costume

13:21

down in the ruin basements. Usually don't get

13:24

a chance to see them up close but

13:26

freeze frame just right or you know such,

13:28

the game files and you'll find. That although

13:30

little faded it to has rosie red

13:32

cheeks or read teeth. Characters like the

13:34

ones we see in these designs would

13:36

have been right at home at a

13:38

circus which also opens up the door

13:40

to other Red Sea characters from this

13:42

franchise to potentially be part of the

13:44

original roster. Maybe characters? The Woods originally

13:46

animal costumes are more likely humans wearing

13:48

the same kind of face paint. A

13:50

some point saloon boy balloon boy has

13:52

never really fit in anywhere we turned

13:54

on stop to and he was just

13:56

that and we've hated him ever since

13:59

or said read. But

14:02

a security breach. He got his own arcade

14:04

cabinet balloon well and if you played that

14:06

game you'd see a circus tent in the

14:08

background. Saloon Boys only standalone adventure places him

14:11

the surface or was he never fit in

14:13

with Snuff Two characters. He did have a

14:15

striking resemblance to a handful of characters insists

14:17

the location and circus baby other would and

14:20

puppets like the magician and fortune teller all

14:22

jobs that would be found. A circus selling

14:24

balloons was an important part of any socket.

14:26

Saloon Boy with is little sign offering them

14:29

to children would be right or home with

14:31

the rest. Of Been. And to top it

14:33

all off when Fanco decided to release that

14:35

you saw this line of math products it

14:37

can take not just clown versions of all

14:40

the characters of versions of all of them

14:42

wearing balloon Boys iconic outfit. We were being

14:44

shown up a looter. actors and specifically that

14:46

outfit are inherently tied to the Suck Saloon

14:48

voice has to be a part of this

14:50

surface is where he finally makes sense. Another

14:52

example would be Circus Baby Jesus showing up

14:55

a lot in recent games just like the

14:57

circus imagery so it feels like still will

14:59

a purposely trying to connect the two. He's

15:01

also. Got the Red Sea to talks about

15:03

as well as that white face paint that

15:05

we see almost additional. Clancy's fit right into

15:08

a circus sauce. You know she's literally got

15:10

surface in on Nine May be this character

15:12

whose placement in the time on his perplexed

15:14

us so long belongs way earlier in the

15:16

franchise's history than any of us expected thought

15:18

above those who in the books there is

15:20

one of the costume the gets cold out

15:22

the coal for but always one more it's

15:25

just a costume. Now I'm so mad is

15:27

once again freaking out because just as all

15:29

clowns and they aren't part of a circus

15:31

and dude. i get it just trust me

15:33

on this in that quote from the mimic story

15:35

about the rak of costumes off the listing of

15:38

the main for characters we know and love they

15:40

finish off by adding and bright pink yellow green

15:42

coat just a costume similar to the colors we

15:44

see son wary and security breach yeah i know

15:47

they're a little off but like they're pretty cops

15:49

and does look a the rest of his costume

15:51

totally pointed toes of bells puppy trousers all depends

15:53

i suppose and the to to like frills on

15:56

his waist and ankle see as one hundred percent

15:58

meant to be a court justice He even

16:00

jumps out of a freaking castle when

16:02

we first meet him in security breach.

16:04

And as Matt was VERY keen to

16:06

point out, Jester's originated as performers for

16:08

royalty in their castles during the middle

16:10

ages. Finally, there's the epilogue, where the

16:12

Jester character once again returns. But this

16:14

time, we get a description of its

16:16

mask. Quote, Lucia stepped up to the

16:18

costume, suppressing a shiver at the Jester's

16:20

leering, toothy grin and its wide eyes.

16:22

One of Son's most distinct features is

16:24

his obnoxious toothy grin. It's so iconic

16:26

that he had to have teeth underneath

16:28

his teeth, just in case. And those

16:30

large vacant eyes definitely give off that

16:32

leering vibe that Lucia was describing. So,

16:34

even though Son doesn't have the red

16:36

cheeks like we talked about, he still

16:38

appears to be very obviously connected to

16:41

the original crew, Freddy, Chica, Foxy and

16:43

Bonnie. As well, the circus. He is

16:45

the last one mentioned when they're all

16:47

being listed off, as if the costumes

16:49

were grouped together, like they came from

16:51

the same collection of characters. Characters that

16:53

came from Fazbear's circus days. Son and

16:55

Moon actually make a lot of sense

16:57

as characters in a traveling circus. In

16:59

the Tales story, Bobby Dots, we get a

17:01

bit of much needed backstory on this character,

17:03

who just showed up in security breach, not

17:05

matching any of the 80s-tastic designs of the

17:07

Pizza Plex. It turns out, they weren't always

17:09

a daycare attendant, but instead, a performer. They

17:11

put on shows where Son would be the

17:14

hero, and when the lights went out, Moon

17:16

would appear as the story's villain. That ties

17:18

into the comedy and tragedy masks that we

17:20

found in Ruin. Masks that display Son and

17:22

Moon's face. So, it would have also been

17:24

an ideal performance to keep kids entertained at

17:26

a circus venue. And later on, when the

17:28

daycare was introduced, that same Bobby Dot story

17:30

describes the daycare's design as a carnival-like space,

17:33

hammering home the connection to the character's origins.

17:35

And then the icing on the cake. During

17:37

Hell Wanted 2, he is the one we

17:39

face when we're trying to fix the carousel

17:41

from those old full-fest days. He's been there

17:43

since the start. And when you think about

17:45

it, in the early days of the franchise,

17:47

when you're trying to keep costs down, buying

17:49

a full mascot costume or fursuit from a

17:51

trusted provider can cost upwards of $5,000, while

17:55

costumes for professional jesters and clowns are typically

17:57

just a few hundred bucks. Keeping costs nigh-

18:00

nice and low when you're first starting out.

18:02

It really feels like the circus origin is

18:04

helping characters that are out of place have

18:06

a place to finally belong. Sun and Moon,

18:08

Baby, Balloon Boy, all of them would be

18:10

right at home here at the circus. However,

18:13

Fall Fest isn't just the origins of the

18:15

Fazbear franchise, it's also the origins of William

18:17

Afton's first major tragedy. Fazbear Blast in Help

18:19

Wanted 2 is a shooting gallery that matches

18:21

the design of the hub world during the

18:24

Curse of Dreadbear DLC. Dreadbear even makes an

18:26

appearance at the attraction. So this attraction clearly

18:28

takes place during Fall Fest 1983. However,

18:31

the penultimate Fazbear Blast level ends with you shooting

18:33

a number of rockets and popping all the balloon

18:35

versions of the animatronics that appear. Doing so seems

18:37

to cause a chain reaction that leads to the

18:40

whole thing ending up in flames. And when you

18:42

go back for the final level, the place is

18:44

burnt to the ground. We see the same thing

18:46

happen during the carousel ride. As you try to

18:48

fix it, sparks fly and the thing lights up,

18:51

leading to the nightmare version of the level where

18:53

the whole place is already ablaze. And if you

18:55

go out of bounds during that carousel level, you

18:57

can see the red sky, burnt trees, water tower

18:59

and windmill that are all present during

19:01

that final Fazbear Blast level off in the

19:04

distance. Steel Wool is clearly showing us that

19:06

much like every other establishment in this franchise,

19:08

this event, Fall Fest 1983, ended in fire.

19:14

1983 sucked for this franchise, but especially

19:16

for Afton. He loses his kid to

19:18

a malfunctioning spring lock suit and his

19:20

other son's negligence. Fredbear's family diner gets

19:22

shut down and to top it all

19:24

off, he loses the thing that started

19:26

this whole business, the circus. Steel Wool

19:28

is all about a sympathetic villain backstory.

19:30

Try not to set out to make a

19:32

cool looking villain, go make a monster, they

19:35

have a reason for it. These aren't just

19:37

like these supernatural forces that came out of

19:39

nowhere to just hurt people and punish people,

19:41

right? Like they were results of other wrongdoing.

19:43

Adding a fire to an already pretty awful

19:45

list of tragedy and loss, it would make

19:48

it a little less surprising that Afton could

19:50

suddenly snap and go on a murder spree.

19:52

But this fire tells us more than just

19:54

how this first chapter in FNAF history ended.

19:56

It also tells us that there was one

19:59

other character here. else present from the

20:01

beginning that you wouldn't suspect the mimic. Yeah,

20:03

I know, I was surprised too, but everything

20:05

seems to be pointing to this guy being

20:08

here since the earliest days of the franchise.

20:10

We get a lot of different descriptions for

20:12

the mimic during the epilogues of Tales from

20:14

the Pizza Plaques. Sometimes it's a traditional endoskeleton,

20:17

other times it's a spider-like mess of slimy

20:19

black wires. But when we are first introduced

20:21

to it, we're given one extra detail. A

20:24

detail that I never fully understood. Quote, It

20:26

wasn't just a basic metal structure, its steel

20:28

frame was contained within a building collection

20:30

of metal rods and curved plates and an

20:32

impressive system of ball joints and pistons. All

20:34

of it was topped with a long, vaguely

20:37

rectangular shaped shiny steel skull. The skull was

20:39

the only part that was shiny, the rest

20:41

was dark and discoloured as if it had

20:43

survived some kind of fire. That's a pretty

20:45

specific way of phrasing it, especially when it

20:47

points out that the head isn't blackened by

20:49

the same issue. We're being given a clue

20:52

as to where this mimic came from, because

20:54

the other detail that's important to bear in

20:56

mind is that quote comes from the very

20:58

start of the story, when the endoskeleton first

21:00

arrives at the pizza plaques. It was delivered

21:02

to this location already burnt, which tells us

21:05

that it had to be in a previous

21:07

Fazbear fire, and I believe that fire was

21:09

the fire of full fest. But what makes

21:11

me so sure that the mimic got all

21:14

burned during that fire specifically? Here's the thing,

21:16

I know we always joke that everything in

21:18

this franchise ends in fire but we can

21:20

actually count the number of fires on one

21:23

hand, even if you're an animatronic with only

21:25

4 fingers. Which means it shouldn't be too

21:27

difficult to go through each one and determine

21:29

which one the mimic came from. Working

21:31

backwards, there's a fire at the end of

21:33

security breach if you beat the burn trap

21:35

ending. Afton is defeated, the blob steals him

21:38

away and the entire pizza plaques catch his

21:40

fire and collapses. But as we've talked about

21:42

before, it doesn't seem like this is the

21:44

canon ending for security breach. We

21:46

find Gregory's drawings for the non-canon endings during ruin

21:48

and the last one we collect is his drawing

21:50

of the burn trap ending. Which means this fire

21:53

wasn't a real fire. And even if it was,

21:55

this ending takes place at the pizza plaques so

21:57

the mimic couldn't have been delivered to the pizza

21:59

plaques burnt from a fire as the burn

22:01

trap ending comes later in the timeline. Second

22:03

option is the FNAF 6 fire, but once

22:05

again we face issues with timeline. The pizza

22:07

plex is being built on top of the

22:09

FNAF 6 location, which means the mimic wouldn't

22:11

be able to be delivered to that location

22:13

when the pizza plex is being constructed like

22:15

we see in the book because it would

22:17

have already been there. The only other fire

22:20

left other than full fest is the FNAF

22:22

3 fire, but the owners of Fazbear Fright

22:24

seemed pretty stoked when they found their first

22:26

working animatronic, Springtrap. Up until this point they'd

22:28

only had bits and pieces like a foxy

22:30

head. So it feels like they'd also made

22:32

a pretty big deal of finding a mimic,

22:34

bringing it back to the location even if

22:36

they thought it was just an endo. So

22:38

it doesn't feel like it can be that

22:40

one either, which leaves only one fire for

22:42

the mimic to have been burnt in, the

22:44

fire of full fest 1983, meaning the mimic

22:46

has been around for a long time. We

22:49

actually theorised this back when we covered Sun

22:51

and Moon after the events of Ruin, we

22:53

connected the mimics thrown together, thin, simple animatronic

22:55

designs to that of Sun and Moon, namely

22:57

a very weird but distinct feature, independently moving

22:59

teeth. It's a strange design detail that we've

23:01

never seen before, so for both characters to have

23:04

the same detail in the same game makes it

23:06

seem like they have to be connected in some

23:08

way. And if Sun and Moon come from the

23:10

early full fest origins of the franchise then the

23:12

mimic being around at the same time would explain

23:14

that connection. But there's one more detail that tells

23:17

me that the mimic has to have been around

23:19

during the full fest era of FNAF, something that's

23:21

been right under our noses for years. For a

23:23

while now we believe that the Glitchtrap virus in

23:25

Help Wanted One, the virus that takes the shape

23:28

of a yellow bunny rabbit and takes over Vanessa's

23:30

mind, isn't actually William Athern himself, but

23:32

instead a version of the mimic program

23:34

that is mimicking Athern's behaviour. In the

23:36

game we heard about Fazbear trying to

23:38

keep costs down for this new game

23:40

they're developing. That

23:53

game was Help Wanted, it's an in-

24:00

of us game that takes the original FNAF

24:02

games and turns them into new VR

24:04

experiences, which is exactly what we learn

24:06

happen to the Mimic program in the

24:08

Storyteller. Quote, It's a simple

24:10

template style software that takes previously created

24:12

stories and rearranges them into new scenarios

24:15

for VR, AR and arcade games. That

24:17

is what Glitchtrap is. The Mimic program

24:19

having been scanned into the system gets

24:21

a crash course in Afton's murdery tendencies

24:24

and is now mimicking it, hence he

24:26

appears as Afton's iconic yellow rabbit. Except

24:29

there's one part of this explanation that never

24:31

sat right with me. If the Glitchtrap Mimic

24:33

was learning about Afton from the in-universe games

24:35

of FNAF 1-6, then why

24:37

does he take this form? Afton in all

24:39

of those games, even in the 8-bit minigames,

24:41

is always wearing his Springlock suit. Because

24:44

that was the costume he wore at Fredbear's

24:46

Family Diner. But the version of the suit

24:48

the Mimic shows us as Glitchtrap is a

24:50

completely different design and at the time, we'd

24:52

never seen this version before. This isn't his

24:54

Springlock suit. It's a hand-sewn suit with plastic

24:56

looking facial features similar to the ones we

24:58

saw on that concept. Those suits came

25:01

from Fall Fest and so it would make

25:03

sense for this hand-sewn golden rabbit suit to

25:05

have also come from the same time period.

25:07

But for the Mimic to have been able

25:09

to copy this design, it would have to

25:11

have some memory of this version of Afton

25:14

in its memory banks prior to being uploaded

25:16

to the Help Wanted game system. It would

25:18

have to have observed Afton perform in this

25:20

iconic golden rabbit costume alongside a golden singing

25:22

bear at Fall Fest. The Mimic would have

25:24

to be around during the early costume days

25:26

of the franchise. Tape Girl did say the

25:29

circuit boards looked pretty old after all. It was

25:31

just junk. Circuit boards and things like

25:33

that. Look pretty old. Maybe the Mimic

25:35

was originally meant to mimic Afton specifically. I'm not

25:37

entirely sure of this to be honest but it

25:40

does feel like this is where the clues might

25:42

be headed. Both Fall Fest and the Diner were

25:44

open until 1983 after all. So

25:46

they co-existed for at least 4 years with the

25:49

Diner opening in 1979. And

25:51

we know that Afton was performing a Spring Bonnie

25:53

at the Diner so it's possible that the Mimic

25:55

was part of Afton's plan to expand the business.

25:58

He could literally be in two places of- But

26:00

once, eventually, the Mimic would be locked

26:02

underground, with some circuit boards containing its

26:04

programming set aside just in case. And

26:06

when the Mimic software was finally used

26:08

again to help speed up the process

26:10

of a new VR game, it was

26:12

shown all of those old FNAF games.

26:14

And while it watched and learned, it

26:16

recognised someone, William Afton, the golden rabbit

26:18

from the circus. And so decided to

26:20

take on the form it remembered from

26:22

all those years ago, creating the monster

26:24

we have spent the last three games

26:26

and two DLCs trying to stop. And

26:28

hey, that's just a theory. A

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GAME THEORY! Thanks for watching.