Five Nights at Freddy’s timeline in the closest thing to a nutshell

The Five Nights at Freddy’s timeline, among the fandom is agreeably one of the most complex and confusing storylines out there. After years of games, books, and MatPat there’s only so little things that have been confirmed by the creator Scott Cawthon. Scott has for now only confirmed william afton to be the main in FNaF 3 Springtrap, the bite of 83 theory, Purple Guy is purple not because he is a decaying body, every easter egg was placed in order and a few others. Considering how big and unfinished this timeline is that’s still very little.

Five Nights at Freddy’s started out as point and click horror game about a nightguard working the night shift at a pizzeria for five nights. As the night goes on the animatronics start to get a bit quirky and they try to hunt down the nightguard from 12 to 6am. Each hour and night gets harder until the end when you get your check and leave or get fired depending on the game.

The timeline starts out in the 4th game of the series as a young boy deemed the Crying Child. The Crying Child spends 12 to 6am trying to keep away nightmarish versions of Freddy,Chica,Bonnie, and Foxy. During the day he goes to fredbears family dinner owned by his dad, William and Henry Emily. The Crying Child is days away from his birthday and he’s deathly afraid by the animatronics, it doesn’t help that his brother Michael constantly bullies him by jumping out from under his bed and from behind the TV. On the day of the Crying Child’s birthday his brother decides to give him a birthday present by the animatronic yellow bear on stage. Him and his friends drag his younger brother across the restaurant till they get to Fredbear, Michael says to his friends that he thinks his brother wants a kiss from Fredbear and so they lift him up to Fredbear’s mouth and CHOMP.

The bite of 83, fans speculate that the Crying Child didn’t make it after that due to there being more proof he was gone than alive.Later on in the game after dealing with Nightmare Fredbear, there’s dialog when you finish the night, the Crying Child’s brother apologizes when your in the hospital then, the plushy of Fredbear that you have that watches you tells you that he will put you back together as your plushy friends fade away.

After the events in FNaF 4, the other restaurant Freddy Fazbear’s pizza, new and improved, put security bands for the children to prevent anymore mischief from happening. Coming home in a drunken rage, William Afton drove by the restaurant and noticed Henry’s daughter, Charlette. She was trapped outside from the kids inside, as they walked away William came up to her weapon in hand and killed her.As William drove away the security puppet the other kids trapped went to into the alley to find Charlette, raining and cold the puppet came to comfort the dead body. After this William changed, he enjoyed it even, he wanted more it was a rush. William went back to the FNaF 1 location and he put on his golden bunny springlock suit that’s for both

employees and the animatronics, he lured kids to the backroom and killed all 5. He had to shove the bodies in the animatronic suits which led to the closing of Freddy Fazbears Pizza due to sanitation issues from foul odor, blood and mucus around the mouth and eyes. William had been suspected of killing these kids but got off of the charge due to lack of evidence. After that Henry could never look at him the same, he had to cut off William completely. William wasn’t very happy about that so he snuck back into the FNaF 2 location for the bunny suit but when he did he noticed that the animatronics worked differently they had sensors to detect bad people that could possibly hurt the kids. it was very advance for 1987 but that didn’t stop William from killing more.

The toy animatronics seemed odd, they would act very weird around the adults and protective of the kids. This would go on as they investigated the missing children. The toy animatronics started getting aggressive around security guards until one of them went in for a bite. Mangle, the take apart and put back together animatronic had bitten the head of a security guard named Jeremy, thus the bite of 87. William started to notice the animatronics acting strangely and the news of the bite, so he went in the dark to the closed FNaF 1 location to take apart and experiment. During this time William made another pizzeria, Circus Baby’s pizza world. He had made animatronics just for experimenting on how the children haunted the robots, unfortunately during this time he had lost his daughter to on of his robots and closed it down. A bit after William closed Circus Baby’s pizza world and made it into a rental service, he went back to the old location and took apart the animatronics.

This now leads up to the end of the night minigames in FNaF 3 where Purple Guy, aka William Afton, takes apart each animatronic each and every night till every animatronic is taken apart. After all animatronics are gone the children haunting them appear, William scared runs and hides in his golden bunny springlock suit but then suddenly the springlocks snap shut and he falls to the ground bleeding. As William bled out the children moved on, unfortunately for William, Henry found him and he was closed behind the backroom until years later when Fazbear Frights opens up.

A new restaurante Freddy Fazbears Pizza Place comes into town and Michael, the main night guard in almost all the games, gets hired to be the manager of the new location. He’s told to take in the animatronics from the back alley for scavenging, each animatronic Scrap Baby, Molten Freddy, Scraptrap and Lefty first get tested to see if its worth scavenging. During the day Michael orders and cleans on his computer while facing off the animatronics until it starts getting hotter, there’s a voice and its Scrap Baby’s. “You played right into our hands” she says, she keeps speaking about how it’s lucky for them to be here to fulfil what they were built to do. “I’ll make you proud, daddy. watch, listen, and be full.” After that there was a loud beep followed by a “connection terminated” it was your boss, he was talking about how this place was built as a trap for them to move on after the smoke clears. near the end of his speech its revealed that this was all Henry’s doing, the last bit was for his daughter, he apologises for the cruel things that happened to her, “I’m sorry that on that day, the day you were shut out and left to die, no one was there to lift you up in their arms, the way you lifted others into yours.” There was a way for Michael to leave but he chose to stay burning away as the light fades.

Cassidy, the one that haunts the golden bear from Fredbear’s family dinner is still filled with revenge. She makes a personal hell just for william by killing him over and over again with all of the other animatronics. Old Man Consequence by the river tells the young one to rest now and leave the demon to his demons. Cassidy listens, she can now be at rest. now that William was free he could come back and as a glitch. now into FNaF Help Wanted, playing as a testing subject for the scary game made by Fazbear Entertainment. The player will find a series of tapes in no specific order and tape after tape glitch trap will get closer and closer. Unfortunately the tapes are all out of order and with the very last one it’s said to not collect all the tapes or it will free him, but if you do he’ll try to merge with you and take over your body.

A young boy named Gregory stays in the Mega Pizza Plex after it closes. Gregory sneaks in Glamrock Freddy after a malfunction in the show and it goes on from there. Its revealed that the security guard there, Vannisa, is looking for Gregory so Freddy chooses to help the young boy. After running and hiding from the glitched animatronics also looking for him he find secrets, some little, like recyliling pizza and some big, like Monty being the reason Bonnie was replaced by him. After surviving 6 hours at the pizza plex, Gregory gets a choice to stay or leave, he chooses to stay to help fight Vanny and try to find the mystery of the missing kids. After upgrading Freddy there finally ready to go down the elevator to stop evil from spreading. When going down, there’s what they call The Blob, The Blob is the remnice of all the missing children’s built up anger so they have to be careful to go past it. After The Blob they find the final boss, Burntrap aka William Afton, he tries to corrupt Freddy and Gregory has to stop that from happening. Finally after dodging everything coming at them the building collapses and they make it out knowing they stopped William for the last time.

Will he come back? Probably yeah. There’s still more games, books, and a movie to come so who knows?