*Distorted music plays*
*Distorted Baby's voice* Isn't this why you came here? To be with her again?
*Creepy Laugh*
*Little girl voice* Daddy, why won't you let me play with her?
*Incomprehensible voices*
*Raspy voice* I will put you back together
*Dramatic music plays*
Hello internet! Welcome to Game Theory!
7 MILLION theorists strong!!!!!
*Confetti noise*
And a lot of that is thanks to this franchise.
More often than not, when I talk to people about their favorite episodes of this series,
It's THESE!
Young, old, it doesn't matter, the FNAF series was their first introduction.
So I always feel a lot of pressure on these videos to deliver in a BIG way!
You know, looking back they're some of my personal favorites.
Not only am I proud of the final product, but I'm proud of what they represent.
As the FNAF series has been a true team effort.
Branching across every person who has ever touched this channel.
Spanning every editor who's ever worked on an episode of Game Theory.
Getting you loyal theorists involved with pitching theories,
and covering every style of theory that I personally write.
From more IRL episodes, to more lore based ones.
We've used everything, from books, to spin-off titles, real world math and science,
to source code analysis, teaser images, trailer hints and even US trade mark data.
Looking across this series, it's incredible the breadth that we've gone to.
And to think I almost never covered this series to begin with.
It was going to be Slender, but then you guys, YOU loyal theorists encouraged me to look into it.
All based on a simple Twitter poll.
You guys made it happen, and the rest is history.
Funny how life goes sometimes.
Anyway, like I said, I feel like a lot of responsibility with these episodes.
But I think today is my favorite of the whole series.
Because now we finally have all the pieces necessary to tell a coherent plot.
It's not just some corpse kids, and silent puppets, and mauve murders who don't say anything,
we have personalities now, actual character, and most importantly of all...
MOTIVATION
Motivations for why a serial killer would create a place like Sister Location.
And believe it or not, the answer is actually quite sad.
So the question of the day is, can a game make you feel sympathy for a child murderer?
Because once who have the complete story, you might just see purple guy in a whole new light.
One line across this entire franchise answers everything.
I will put you back together.
But before we get to all of that, let's back up a bit.
Last time we established that William Afton, purple guy himself, is who you play as in Sister Location.
And the one who eventually get's himself scooped.
We also establish that he once had a daughter who got herself killed at the hands,
or should I say at the metal claw grip, of Baby.
But there is so much more hidden in this game than THAT!
By playing through the game and unlocking Sister Location's secret private room,
players get treated to a shocking Easter egg.
By typing the date '1983' into the keypad besides the monitors,
the static blazes to life, revealing blurry footage of the FNAF 4 house!
The Plushtrap hallway,
Foxy's closet,
and creepiest of all,
the crying child's bed.
We also get a clue as to how this is being done,
Sitting there on the desk is none other than our good old friend,
Psychic friend Fredbear.
(Breaks into song) He's here, he's there, he's everywhere,
Who 'ya gonna call? Physic friend Fredbear!
*Audience laughter*
A 'lil less physic this time, and a 'lil more plush.
Cradling what appears to be a remote control.
Now many have said this is a walkie-talkie, but it is, in fact, a camera control.
Notice the buttons on top?
Those are switchers, allowing you to switch between the different cameras you have placed in the environment.
The wheel on the bottom presumably allows you to turn the cameras,
or, potentially focus them.
The Fredbears from FNAF 4 are just that.
Freadbear plushes equipped with hidden security cameras.
Something mother's are using all the time these days to monitor their children.
And also getting themselves hacked while doing it.
See also the Watch Dogs episode.
(Singsong voice) Creepy stuff!
But that begs the question:
Why would anyone have remote monitoring of a child's bedroom,
programmed to run to a secret room in an underground animatronic storage facility?!
And also, why THAT house?
Well it's important to note that it's not just any house.
It's a house that's connected to...
...Circus Baby's Rentals.
You heard that right.
Sister Location is UNDER the FNAF 4 house.
During the Freddy breaker room challenge, we're presented with a map of the facility.
We see the Entrance Elevator,
Main Hub area,
and the various holding rooms branching out all around it.
But what we also see,
more faintly,
are three other areas.
Maps that should look pretty familiar to fans of this series.
The plushtrap hallway,
the path to Fredbear's,
and the crying child's bedroom from FNAF 4.
No JOKE!
Just like the vent system maps from previous games,
the faded diagram would imply
that all of this is located on a different level than Sister Location.
i.e. Above it.
And, as we can see, not just above it,
but connected to IT!
In fact, while we were too busy freaking out over the ever nearing Funtime Freddy,
most gamers over-look that, as a part of that mini-game,
we were responsible for returning power to those areas of the map.
They were even labeled: Observation 1 and Observation 2.
Observation? Observing What?
It just gets creepier and creepier.
Now before you go saying that an underground facility attached to a house,
is far-fetched, It's actually something supported by the book in details I guarantee
everyone over-looked while reading it.
Page 118: Our main character Charlie is outside her childhood home
which is also home to Henry, Co-founder of Freddy's.
While exploring her father's animatronic workshop
We get the following quote:
"She knelt again and put her hand on the ground, fishing around until she found
a small screw in the bare dirt. She palmed it, then looked closer. there were small holes in the ground,
exposed when she moved the loose dirt. Charlie ran her fingers over them, thoughtful."
Tiny holes hidden under the dirt of an animatronic workshop, huh?
It's an oddly specific detail that never gets mentioned again
And never goes anywhere but is one of those things that gets the Theorist mind a ticklin'.
Because when I hear of misterious holes in the ground in someone's private workshop
I think: trap-door,
hidden trap-door, or more accurately; secret entrances.
Could this be a hint as to a secret entrance in Henry's animatronic workshop into
Sister-Location? In-fact we can proove using more details from the book
That it is still being used by Afton! Earlier in that same chapter
Scott makes sure to drop a few more hints that
seemingly never go anywhere, but we all know Scott better than that, right?
And now that we have Sister Location to reference, these little details start to make a whole lot
more sense. "The benches were there, where her father had assembled and tweaked
his inventions, but the materials, the blueprints and the half-finished robots that were once crammed
onto every surface had disappeared. Where are they?"
So we have missing blueprints and partially-finished bots that have just disappeared
But it continues, "'Charlie', John said from across the workshop.
He was in the dark corner, if the skeleton had been there, it could have reached out to touch him.
But it's not there."
Notice the italics here, this isn't something that we're doing for effect in the video
This is straight from the book. Time and time again, Scott and the team working on the book
are emphasizing these lines.
As though they're pointing to a greater mystery
here, that someone has stolen these
materials and are using them for their own devices.
That they're hidden somewhere
in this world, but it's a mystery that
never gets solved within the pages of the
book. But perhaps most importantly of all is
a paragraph a few sentences later that
pulls all these clues together and may
finally give us an answer as to what is in
THE BOX!
You know, THE box (FNAF 4). "John was standing
beside her father's toolbox, and he stepped
away as she came over giving her space
Charlie knelt down before it. It looked
as if it had just been polished. It was
made of dark, stained wood, glossy... All the
tools were polished and clean... They
looked as though they had just been used
that morning, wiped down and put away
meticulously. Like someone still cared
for them." Stolen blueprints,
missing robots, pristine tools, despite
supposedly going unused for 10 years?
Hints at a trap door and William Afton
lingering around the town in disguise?!
Quite simply the pieces here add up but
again that's hints that we can glean
from the book. The bigger question here
is: why would Afton be spying on the
FNAF 4 house in the games?
Well, because it's his. As we established
last episode, you play as purple guy and
each night you go back to your
retro-themed house. At first, these
cutscenes seem like they should just be
absurd breaks from the spoopy action of
the main game. "Clara, the baby isn't mine!"
But look closer, and you notice
the details of the room in particular a
very ugly lamp. A very ugly,
very familiar lamp. One that we saw in...
you guessed it, FNAF 4. In other words,
this is Afton's house, and from his
underground private room he's observing
his kids, crying child, the older brother,
and the girl who eventually becomes Baby.
As I suspected in my prediction video for
this game; this truly is a 'Sister
Location'. A sister's location and from
there, all the parts start to fit
together. So let's retell the story from
the beginning now that we have all the
pieces. "Remember what will happen if he
catches you."
It's a line we hear repeated over and
over again throughout FNAF 4 and
now we know why. Crying child has seen
golden Bonnie abduct children multiple
times in the past. This moment in the
back room that we all debated about
whether or not it was a murder is in
fact a child kidnapping. Silver Eyes
proves it, as it shows that purple guy
kills by trapping the kids in spring
lock suits. "Carlton was wedged
inside the heavy barrel, shaped torso of
a mascot costume, the headless top half
of some kind of animal.
His arms were trapped inside the torso
section pinned to his sides in an
unnatural position... He could feel... pieces
of metal that pressed against his back
and poked him... Dave said to Carlton, 'if you
trigger those spring locks, two things
will happen: first, all the locks will
SNAP right into you, making deep cuts all
over your body, and a split second later
all the animatronic parts they've been
holding back will instantly be driven
into your body. You will die, but it will be
slow."
Having witnessed a scene similar to
this, the boy is justifiably terrified.
Trying to avoid the pizzeria at all
costs. But it's kind of hard when your
father is one of the owners.
Meanwhile, William Afton knows that he's
been found out, hence the observation
monitors and security Fred Bears he
needs to be sure of his sons movements
even when he's at work.
Be it above ground or
below. I mean the guy may be a killer but
it's not like you can just kill his son
even if he was the witness to a gruesome
murder at the restaurant. But Afton's
problem get solved prematurely with the
fatal chomp of '83. The son William loved
killed by the very animatronics he also
loved, leading us to one fateful promise.
"I will put you back together." We've
analyzed this line a lot in past
theories because it's not only the final
lines of FNAF 4 and FNAF World,
thereby making it super important to
this franchise, but because it's also
presented to us in a different color
than Fred Bears yellow. Someone else is
talking here, and now we can finally
pinpoint who said it, and more
importantly why. It was Afton. "I will put
you back together." A promise to fix his
son. A broken son. In the only way that he
knows how. Animatronics. Enter sister
location and the fun time animatronics.
Not built for entertainment, or for being
worn but built to help Purple Guy save
his son. Built for capture. Although no one has
yet found how to unlock them in the game,
if you dig through the Sister Location
files you, find a set of blueprints for
the various animatronics outlining their,
size and special features. Not only are
they enormous, topping seven feet in some
instances; certainly bigger than a small
child. But, they're also equipped with
things like 360-degree tracking, parental
voice mimicking, and storage tanks. Look
closer at the wireframes, and you see
that the storage tank isn't quite empty.
Yeah. That's a child in there. Curled up
in Fred Bears stomach. Captured alive,
ready to be experimented on, because
purple guy is no longer killing to
satisfy himself. He's doing it to recover
his son. To figure out the secret of
fusing souls into animatronics.
You heard me.
Afton wants to unlock the mystery of
giving gifts, giving life. If that seems
like a stretch, just look at the number
of sentient, independent, and fully aware
robots in sister location. We not only have
the core set but, there's also the baby
babies and the minireena's. Tens of
sentient animatronics moving against
their programming. And unlike past games,
where we received explanations like
anti-criminal systems, dying guys, and
murder suits are the products of a
nightmare; here they just kind of exist.
Why?
Well, Baby tells us over and over in the
trailer for Sister Location.
Don't hold it against us. [Repeated]
*LOUD PIANO KEY BEING STRUCK*
"You don't know what we've been through!"
Before the game's release we had no idea,
but now we do know what they've been
through. Experiments and controlled
shocks, dozens and I mean dozens of
children captured as the fun time
animatronics executed on the programming
that told them to collect. All so that
Afton could learn the secret to
reawakening lost souls. As we see in
Silver Eyes, he knows it's possible as
he's not shocked at all when the
animatronics come to life at night.
"'They're home with me.' Dave's voice
was course and the large mascot head
slipped forward and tilted as he spoke,
'Their happiest day....
All they know is that you're here, trying
to take away their happiest day. You are
intruders.'" And as evidenced by
the animatronics crawling throughout
sister location, he succeeds in his goal.
But in doing so he pays the ultimate
price. Losing the second of his children,
his daughter. When she ignores his
warnings to stay away from the robots, a
daughter whose soul goes on to possess
baby, as evidenced by the eye color shift
from blue in the mini-game to green in
all the other times that we ever get to
see Baby. Now flash forward to the
beginning of sister location; a place
where, as we're told in the trailer:
'Memories Sleep.'
'Anger Is Restless', 'And Secrets Don't Keep.'
The children's spirits are mad and eager
to get out but, how does a ragtag group
of sentient robots escape? Even if they
made it to the surface, GIANT
endoskeletons roaming around would be
like the coming of Terminator 2, and
humans don't take kindly to that sort of
thing. And so, they've been forced to
concoct a sneakier plan to escape. They
put together their individual abilities
Afton programmed into them, like
Freddy's voice mimic, and Ballora's
misdirection tactics to create a new
entity. The collective consciousness
known as Ennard, a tangle of wires and
eyeballs that serves as their final hope.
And we know it's all the animatronics
together, because it refers to itself as
"We."
"There is nowhere to go when we look like this." As the
teaser said, there was a part of him in
every body. After all, throughout the five
nights Ennard uses those various skills
and pretends in order to gain our trust.
Using the voice mimic to sound like Baby
be sympathetic, adopting the voice of the
little green-eyed girl to make us
compelled to move forward and save her. But
it's all a trick, and by night five
they've cleared out all the evidence;
killing the other technicians so that no
one can speak of the haunted
animatronics. But note that those guys
haven't been scooped. They've saved that
honor specifically for you. You, the
purple guy. The reason they're stuck
there in the first place. Using Baby's
voice they push you into the scooping
room, remove your skeleton, and inhabit
your body. And as we see in the final
scene, their escape... is successful. The purple
guy. The serial killer father trying to
put his son back together, is killed by
the exact monsters he first created. But
not in an unhappy way. He achieved what
he wanted; being reunited with his
children.
Page 411 of Silver Eyes. "The voice
of the rabbit was smooth and rich, almost
musical." Dave cocked his head to the side
so that only one of his bulbous eyes
could peer through the sockets. 'We both
wanted to love.'
He said in those melodious tones. 'Your
father loved, and now I have loved."
But hey, that's just a theory.
A GAME THEORY!
Thanks for watching.
Welcome back to the
SUPER AMAZING END CARD TOURNAMENT! Where last
time, I asked you whether you thought
sister location was scary good or
frighteningly bad.
Survey said 97,000 votes for sister
location and 30,000 against. It looks like
ya'll felt that Scott got his groove
back with this one.
The follow-up question for today: Which
animatronic is your favorite? Maybe the
scariest? Maybe it's the one you most
identify with?
Maybe it's the one you're most excited
about yiffing? Hey, no judgement here.
You yell and sniff all you want. Whatever
your reasoning, just click on one. At this
point, there's like a thousand, so, let's
just tear it down to the essentials and
you can include all versions of that
character. So here we go your options are:
Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy / Mangle, Golden
Freddy / Fredbear, Spring-Trap and Baby.
Apologies to all you Balloon Boy and Ballora
fans out there.
Seriously though are you out there? Seems
like those two in particular just don't
fit in anywhere. Anyway, click on one of
the options to cast your vote, and once
you're done you have two options. Number
one, go and check out the FNAF playlist
on the channel. Binge-watch that sucker,
because honestly it's a lot of fun to
look back at those old theories and see
just how far we've all evolved in our
thinking about this game. Each episode is
like a little time capsule, and you're
like, "Oh yeah I remember when there was
only four animatronics, and everyone was
like WHOA Golden Freddy is blowing my
mind right now!" Or option two if you're
looking for a break from FNAF
might I recommend, to you Salad Fingers
over on the film Theory channel.
Seriously if you like FNAF then you
will love my Salad Finger theories.
It's creepy, it's mysterious, and it is ripe
for theorizing, and it's brand-new with
part two of that theory coming out today.
Assuming you're one of the people
watching this theory the day it comes
out. In fact, you know what, here's a link
to go directly there. It's perfect
viewing for Halloween weekend. Now if
you'll excuse me I've got some Metroid and
Mario theories in the works that have
been on the back burner because of FNAF.
So get ready for those. Enough jumpscares
for one Halloween. It is time we move on
to some new theories. See you next week.