My take on the FNAF lore (part 1)
(I'm not adding the secret of the mimic lore into this. Nor the books. This is my version of the story. And I've been going with this story for years now. And I hope you all are fine with it..)
In the 1950s, Two men, whose names were Henry Emily, and William Afton, were two college friends who were into technology and animatronic designs. When it was the science convention, they won for their amazing endo skeleton. Once they earned enough money from They're temporary jobs, they opened their own restaurant in 1976. Which they had paper work for, and used most of They're days of thinking what the name and theme will be. Soon, they came up with “Fredbears Family Diner”. The mascot would be a large yellow animatronic bear, and his sidekick being a yellow animatronic bunny. While in business, william afton met a beautiful woman named Clara. Whom he fell in love with instantly. They dated for months, and soon married and had 3 kids. Michael Afton, who was the oldest, Elizabeth Afton, who was the middle child, and Evan Afton, who was the younger child. As the years went on in 1983, it was Evans birthday party. He hated the animatronics, but he was forced to be there because Michael was the babysitter that day since William was busy. When Michael and his friends saw Evan hiding under a table, they dragged him out, and teased him. For context, Michael hated Evan because he was forced to watch him and it wasted his time. So Michael decided to prank Evan that day.. his friends grabbed Evan and took him to the animatronics that were on stage. And without any adult supervision, stuffed Evans head into the mouth fredbear. But due to the sensitive springlocks in the suits, Evans' tears and squirming made the spring locks set off, and Fredbear's jaw automatically crushes Evans frontal lobe. Making him unconscious. Michael was shocked. Asking if Evan was okay, and telling him it was just a prank. But Evan didn't answer. William walked into the room, and saw Evans' blood dripping from the jaws of Fredbear.. after a couple of months that turned into years of cleaning and dealing with legal issues, William and Henry finally reopened Fredbears. But they replaced the original fredbear with a different version of him. (Looked a lot like Freddy fazbear but yellow).. but after years of bad business due to the bite of 83, they were forced to shut down. But they did have enough money from Fredbear's success to gain materials and open another business, But it would be a rental service for kids birthday parties. In 1986, they opened Circus Baby's Pizza World, which was also a rental service. Which meant they could rent animatronics to kids' birthday parties in their own home. It was revaluationary for that time. William came up with the idea from his daughter, Elizabeth. Who drew a picture of a clown with orange hair and pigtails and a red skirt. Making circus baby. And William got an idea from his wife, Clara, who loved ballet. And William made ballora inspired by her. Then William and Henry built funtime freddy and funtime foxy. When Evan died to fredbear in 83, William wanted to bring him back somehow.. he did his research, and found out a child's soul can hold remnant at a young age which can bring humans back from the dead, or maybe make people live forever. So william made adjustments on circus baby to lure in children and soon kill them. But his daughter, Elizabeth, went into that room, and died along with the kids. She went against her father's wishes to not go into the room, but he wanted to keep his daughter safe.. didnt go so well, huh?. After losing both of his youngest kids to his own creations, Henry was becoming an alcoholic and mourning their deaths every night. That it came to the point where he couldn't even help Henry on projects. Henry, getting sympathy for William, decided not to push him further, and continue doing the projects himself. In 1987, they finally came up with something new. A fully advanced model of a fredbear type animatronic. Henry called it “Toy Freddy”. And they soon got obsessed with “Toy” Animatronics. Making Toy bonnie, modeled after springbonnie. And Toy chica, since they needed a third animatronic instead of two. William might have been a bit drunk while making Toy chica since she looks a bit… inappropriate for children. But they just went with it. They reopened at the old abandoned Fredbear's establishment, cleaned it up a it, put the old animatronics in the backroom, and made it look different. Printing posters of the toy animatronics, banners, and a security animatronic named the Marionette. After they were done, they put the toy animatronics on stage, put the security puppet in the prize corner, and a new animatronic, called Toy Foxy, in kids cove. Which was basically the arcade room. The old animatronics, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy, were in parts and service. Used for spare parts and just left to rot. It was going good for a while, good business, fair reviews. Some did bring up the bite of 83, but William refused to acknowledge it. Kids were being ruthless though.. They tore apart toy Foxy due to him being girly. And the technicians were tired of putting him back together each week, so Henry made toy Foxy a “take apart and put back together” attraction. It was at that point toy Foxy turned into a mangled mess. Many kids took Toy Foxy’s suit pieces home, making his endo skeleton revealed a bit. His legs were on his torso, his arms were on his neck. Etc.. so technicians started calling him “The Mangle”.
(This was part 1. Let me know if you want a part 2!)
Posted Dec 8, 2025, 3:39 AM UTC