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0:00Welcome to Dear Hound Productions. My
0:02name is Dane [music] Cat3 and today
0:04we'll be covering the Five Nights at
0:05Freddy's CPU timeline. If you're
0:07unfamiliar, the term CPU refers to the
0:10Candies and Pop Goes universe. This is
0:13the shared universe that two out of the
0:14three ongoing Fazbear Fanverse
0:16Initiative series take place in. Those
0:18being Five Nights at Candies, or FNAC
0:20for short, and Pop Goes. The CPU only
0:23takes information presented in Five
0:25Nights at Freddy's 1 through 3 into
0:27account. So, anything that was revealed
0:29or introduced from that point onward,
0:31such as the purple guy being William
0:32Afton or all the future characters and
0:34establishments, doesn't apply to this
0:36universe. Our timeline begins in the mid
0:381950s when Mary Schmidt is born. Mary
0:41also has a brother. It's not clear if
0:43he's younger or older than her, but it
0:45doesn't really matter. When Mary is
0:47young, she and her mother make an
0:48origami cat out of blue paper. However,
0:51sadly, her mom eventually passes away.
0:53This leads Mary to view the origami cat
0:55as a sentimental item. a reminder of the
0:58time that she and her mom spent
0:59together. Her mother's death might also
1:01be the start of Mary's sleeping
1:03troubles, though thankfully her dad
1:05makes her a quiet, calming song for her
1:07to listen to on a tape player, and the
1:08tune helps her sleep. On the week of
1:11October 9th, 1961, her father takes her
1:14to the Rat and Cat Theater while her
1:15brother's at a summer camp, and these
1:17events are detailed during the Five
1:18Nights at Candies three mini games. The
1:21theater has three performers. Of course,
1:23there are the rat and the cat along with
1:25the puppeteer and his marionette,
1:27Vinnie. According to newspaper clippings
1:29found in the game, the puppeteer
1:31actually co-founded the theater. Before
1:33the shows, the mascots walk around the
1:35establishment and interact with guests.
1:37Playing games such as hideand seek to
1:39pass the time. Although they're
1:41relatively friendly, a kid remarks that
1:43one time the rat got angry after he
1:44asked for more modern arcade games. Back
1:47to Mary, she becomes fond of the
1:48mascots, playing hideand-seek with them
1:50every day. The week goes smoothly, but
1:53on the fifth day, when she returns to
1:55play hide-and-seek, every kid in the
1:57building is trying to play with the rat.
1:58So, he decides just to have one big game
2:00of hide-and-seek with everybody. All the
2:02kids scatter, taking up every hiding
2:04spot before Mary can get to them. As
2:06she's searching for an empty spot, the
2:08cat walks out of an employes only room,
2:10leaving the door jar. With nowhere else
2:12to hide, she enters the room. Inside she
2:15finds noteworthy items such as a
2:17diploma, a large metal locker, and a
2:19script on a table which reveals the
2:21cat's name to be candy. On another table
2:23rest the Vinnie marionette, and on the
2:25final one sits a telephone. After
2:28snooping around the room, Mary decides
2:30to hide in the metal locker. Not long
2:32after, the rat enters and starts looking
2:34for her. The puppeteer runs to him and
2:36tells Rat that he can't show up at the
2:38theater in his current condition. Rat
2:40assures him that he only had a couple of
2:42drinks, but the puppeteer sees past
2:44that, telling him how his drunkenness
2:45could get them in career-ending trouble.
2:47The rat boasts to the puppeteer that the
2:49kids love him. He's just jealous that he
2:51isn't the star of the show. The
2:53puppeteer tells the rat to take off his
2:55costume and go home, but he angrily
2:57declines, leading to the puppeteer
2:59trying to take off the mascot's head.
3:01The rat then yells at him to cut it out
3:03and begins choking the puppeteer, who
3:05then shoves the rat, making him stumble
3:07backwards and hit his head on a table.
3:09[music] Blood then begins seeping out of
3:10the costume. At first, the puppeteer
3:13can't believe it, but then reality hits.
3:16And at the worst possible time, the cat
3:18walks in. The puppeteer commands him to
3:20lock the door, then explains that what
3:22happened was an accident. However,
3:24unbeknownst to either of them, the rat
3:26isn't actually dead. As explained by an
3:28expert in a newspaper article, he was
3:30paralyzed when he hit his head on the
3:31table, but he could still see and hear
3:34everything. The cat tells the puppeteer
3:36they should call the police, but he
3:37insists they should claim they found the
3:39rat like this. The cat believes they
3:41should tell the truth, and he goes to
3:42dial 911. During his attempt to call the
3:45police, the puppeteer ruthlessly kills
3:46the cat by choking him with the rim of
3:48his costume head. Once the cat goes
3:50limp, the puppeteer lets his body fall
3:52into a sitting position on the wall. He
3:54takes a look at his degree and decides
3:56to call the police, telling them that he
3:58heard a rustling and found both of his
3:59co-workers dead. After hanging up the
4:02call, he takes his diploma, leaving the
4:03rat to bleed to death and a traumatized
4:05Mary to make her way out of the crime
4:07scene. Despite none of that being her
4:09fault, she still feels guilty for the
4:11events that transpired. Did you know the
4:13people with guilty conscious are more
4:14easily startled by loud noises?
4:20After this tragedy, the theater closes
4:22its doors and Mary represses her memory
4:24of the incident, leaving only her fear.
4:26The puppeteer eventually finds fame in
4:28acting, taking the role of a villain in
4:30a movie called Psychopath. His
4:33performance in the film is so good that
4:35leaves many wondering how he played a
4:36murderer so well. Guess we'll never
4:38know. Around this time, it's speculated
4:40that Mary moves into a new house. This
4:43information will be important later on,
4:44so keep it in mind. In the following
4:47year, 1962, the robotics corporation is
4:49founded. This robotics company creates
4:52well, robots, and in their founding
4:54year, they produce wire animatronics of
4:56the famous rat and cat for a brand new
4:58theater. Unlike most animatronics in
5:00Five Nights at Freddy's, these are
5:01controlled by an employee using the wire
5:03system attached to the endoskeleton. The
5:05animatronics are created using the suits
5:07from the original theater. [music]
5:09So, of course, they're possessed by the
5:10goats. The goats. They're possessed by
5:12the goats. So, of course, they're
5:14possessed by the ghost of the murdered
5:16actors. While this is never outright
5:18confirmed, it's pretty obvious that the
5:19costumes were used for the animatronic
5:21puppets, given that the rat costume is
5:23almost identical to the wire puppet, and
5:25there's no other explanation for other
5:26spirits possess the animatronics. The
5:28CPU has pretty specific rules for how
5:31ghosts come to be, and these are
5:32established in Pop Goes Arcade. In that
5:35RPG, King Freddy's researched the
5:37supernatural, and his son writes the
5:39following about him. He was adamant that
5:41creatures who were killed by the hands
5:43of another creature would get a second
5:44chance at living as a spectre or ghost,
5:47something like that. He said dying
5:49naturally would end the cycle. You turn
5:51into nothing, disappear. But being
5:53killed by someone else on purpose, the
5:56world, nature, karma, it would give you
5:59another chance. So since the rat and cat
6:01were murdered by the puppeteer, they're
6:03given a second chance at life and become
6:05ghosts who haunt the costumes they died
6:07in. During the theat's grand reopening,
6:09Mary's family visits and Mary is clearly
6:12traumatized. She begins crying upon
6:14entering the main room where the rat and
6:16cat are performing. Her brother is
6:18unfazed and runs up to the rat.
6:20Suddenly, the animatronic bends down and
6:22grabs the child's hair, refusing to let
6:25go. Though, luckily, this isn't fatal.
6:27It is terrible enough to get the theater
6:28shut down for good, [music] and the
6:30employee controlling the rat was
6:31arrested. Though, it wasn't his fault.
6:34It seems like the ghosts of the former
6:35rat actor intentionally attacked Mary's
6:37brother. After the theat's closure, the
6:40animatronics are sent back to the
6:41robotics factory to be used as a base
6:43for newer, fully mobile designs. Five
6:46Nights of Candies 3 takes place 2 weeks
6:48after Mary's brother was injured. Mary's
6:50having trouble sleeping due to
6:52recoccurring nightmares about the rat
6:53and cat. At a meeting with her
6:55therapist, they tell Mary that her
6:57brother's okay and that the animatronics
6:59were just malfunctioning, assuring her
7:01that they can't hurt anybody. I'm sure
7:04that'll age well. The therapist then
7:06inquires about Mary's nightmares. They
7:08pull out a picture she had drawn and ask
7:10her if the night terrors involved the
7:11terrifying rat and cat on the page. They
7:14then tell her that she can't let the
7:15monsters take control of her imagination
7:17and that she must face her fears headon
7:19to get rid of them and remember what
7:21happened at the theater a year ago.
7:23After the session, when Mary's back home
7:25and asleep in her bed, she enters a
7:27place in her mind called the dreamscape.
7:29This place takes the form of her old
7:30bedroom layout. And here the origami cat
7:33she made with her mother speaks to her.
7:35It has a very patient and helpful
7:37personality and it tells Mary to go into
7:39a deeper part of the dreamscape called
7:41the deepcape. Here she can find a tape
7:43player that she used in the past to help
7:44[music] her sleep. The deepcape is a
7:46massive area where Mary's deepest
7:48memories reside along with one giant
7:50shadowy rat and cat duo who are implied
7:53to be the ghosts of the death theater
7:54actors. More on that later. During the
7:57game, you can find pieces of newspapers,
7:59which is where a lot of the information
8:00for this early part of the timeline
8:02comes from. There are also some of
8:03Mary's oldest toys, which much like the
8:06origami cat, can also speak to her.
8:08After finding the cassette tape player,
8:10she returns to the dreamscape and heads
8:11to bed, which is where the night
8:13segments of the game begin. During these
8:15terrifying dreams, Mary sits on her bed,
8:18armed with a flashlight to ward off the
8:19monster rat and cat. Located behind her
8:22is the tape player she collected in the
8:23deepcape. And in front of her is a door,
8:25a cabinet, and her closet. As the night
8:28progresses, the monster rat can show up
8:30at any of these three locations. If he's
8:32not blinded by Mary's light, he will get
8:34inside the room, and Mary will have to
8:35keep her light on his eyes. If she
8:37manages to do this, then monster rat
8:39will hide under her bed. From there,
8:41Mary has to look down, find out which
8:43side of the bed he's under, then wait
8:44for him to peek his head up and blind
8:46him, sending him away for the time
8:47being. For six hours every night, Mary
8:50has to repeat this and keep the tape
8:52playing to make the nightmare end
8:53faster. As the nights go on, the monster
8:55cat starts to appear in her nightmares,
8:57too. He'll crawl up Mary's bed, his
9:00breathing getting louder as he gets
9:01closer. If she doesn't scare him off
9:03with her flashlight, he'll take Mary's
9:04tape player and jump scare her the next
9:06time she looks under the bed. Along with
9:08this, the deepcape and dreamscape
9:10change, and her old room starts to gain
9:13furniture as she remembers more and
9:14more. After the fifth night of facing
9:16her nightmares, she finally defeats
9:18them, allowing her to remember what she
9:20had witnessed on the day of the
9:21incident. Following this, on December
9:237th, 1962, Mary tells her therapist
9:26about her restored memories of the
9:28incident, almost clearing her of the
9:29guilt she once had. Mary's therapist
9:31then asks Miss Sherwood, who seems to be
9:33either a receptionist or assistant, to
9:35contact the authorities to get Mary's
9:37statement. Following this, the puppeteer
9:39is taken into custody and thrown in
9:41jail. This brings Mary a new guilt. the
9:43guilt of ruining the puppeteer's life.
9:45Later, in what could be reasonably
9:47assumed as the dreamscape, Mary
9:48confronts the puppeteer who's
9:50represented by his previously mentioned
9:51puppet, Vinnie. I don't think this is
9:53literally the puppeteer, given that, as
9:55far as we're aware, he's still alive.
9:57And unlike the ghost of the rat and
9:58[music] cat actress, he's not a shadow.
10:00So, Vinnie seems to just represent
10:02Mary's gill. At the start of the game,
10:04he even blamed her for the theater
10:05incident. Later in FNAC 1, we also see
10:08more of him being used as a general
10:09representation of Mary's guil. In the
10:11present, he symbolizes her remorse for
10:13helping convict the puppeteer. Vinnie
10:15tells her that before his imprisonment,
10:17he had everything and for his revenge,
10:19he will never let her sleep again. The
10:21puppet's appearance changes. His eye
10:23sockets widen and his mouth becomes
10:25filled with sharp, bloody teeth. Mary
10:27then finds herself in her old bedroom
10:29once more as Monster Vinnie attacks. His
10:32quick movements, crazy ability to avoid
10:34the flashlight, and overall
10:35aggressiveness make this the toughest
10:36nightmare yet. Though by sheer skill,
10:39Mary manages to survive till 6:00 a.m.
10:41and beat the nightmares once and for
10:42all. As of June 14th, 1963, Mary no
10:46longer fears the rat or cat. [music]
10:48She's now much more energetic and
10:49creative. The game concludes with a
10:51therapist confidence that their next
10:53meeting will be their last. Of course,
10:55our story is far from over. In the
10:58following year, 1964, a company known as
11:01CTC Entertainment emerges. It's unclear
11:04whether this is a rebranded version of
11:06the company that owned the Rat and Cat
11:07Theater or an entirely new company that
11:09formed and purchased the theat's rights.
11:12Regardless, it seems like Rat was
11:13dropped from the public image after he
11:15attacked Mary's brother. Now Candi is
11:17the star, hence the name CTC
11:19Entertainment, which likely stands for
11:21Candy the Cat Entertainment. The company
11:24then commisss two entirely new
11:25performers from Robotics. One is an
11:27updated version of Candy and a new
11:29character named Blank. Blank is a fully
11:31mobile walking whiteboard coated in a
11:33waxy substance that allows anyone to
11:35draw on him. And this new candy is
11:37pretty much just blue and upgraded.
11:39Anyways, on November 13th at midnight,
11:42which just so happens to be a Friday the
11:4313th, the new animatronics and the rat
11:45are sitting motionless on a conveyor
11:47belt. The rat then stands up on his own
11:49and walks out of view before returning
11:50to break the security camera. He then
11:53presumably kills two employees at the
11:54factory who then haunt Candy and Blank.
11:57Now, you might be wondering why Rat has
11:59taken on such a villainous role, and
12:01honestly, so are we. Ghosts in the CPU
12:04are all over the place. Spirits seen in
12:06the pop ghost games seem to be simply
12:08confused and can calm down. While the
12:10souls haunting the animatronics in FNAF
12:12and FNAF are typically more aggressive.
12:14However, none of these specters come
12:16close to the rat and cat. Those guys are
12:18rotten to the core. As we'll see in Five
12:21Nights at Candies 2, they very much
12:23enjoy their crimes and are much more
12:25violent than the other Candies
12:26characters. Some people think the rat is
12:29so evil because he was drunk when he
12:30died. So now he's eternally drunk and
12:32angry. But the cat, who was sober, is
12:35also hostile, so that doesn't seem to be
12:37the case. But on the topic of the rat
12:39being a drunk, he might just be evil
12:41because he was kind of a crummy guy. As
12:43we discussed earlier, he showed up to
12:44work intoxicated, yelled at kids,
12:46attacked his co-orker, and he was
12:48generally depicted as very egotistical,
12:50boasting about how he was the most
12:51popular character at the theater. While
12:53on the other hand, the cat and puppeteer
12:54kind of just treated like work. So, his
12:56evil behavior might simply be because he
12:58sucks, and that could have rubbed off on
13:00the cat. Something more definitive is
13:02that their spirits must be pretty
13:03powerful. According to FNAT creator Emil
13:05Mako, unlike the normal animatronics,
13:07the wire puppets have nothing electrical
13:09in them. So, the fact that Rat and by
13:11extension the cat can move around must
13:13mean they're pretty strong. Oh, and
13:15while we're diving into the rat's
13:16character, unlike the cat, we never
13:17learn his actual name. However, it's
13:19very likely Randy, as in FNAC 3, a kid
13:22mentions that maybe the rat and cat's
13:23real names rhyme. In that case, Randy
13:26and Candy would make a lot of sense, but
13:27again, nothing is ever confirmed. Later
13:29in 1964, Candy's Burgers and Fries opens
13:32its doors with the brand new Candy and
13:34blank animatronics as its stars. The rat
13:36is brought to the restaurant, too, but
13:38he's locked away in storage. The
13:39wrapping separated from the cat causes a
13:41shadow version of Candy to form at the
13:43restaurant, allowing the two to stay
13:45close to each other. Emil Mako is
13:47confirmed that shadow candy is an
13:49evolved version of the shadow cat,
13:51implying this appearance in Mary's
13:52deepcape is the cat actor's ghost
13:54haunting her. However, some people
13:56believe that the shadows in FNAC 3 are
13:58just part of Mary's trauma. But I have
14:00no clue why they'd be shadows if they
14:01weren't the rat and cat spirits, given
14:03that they manifest as shadows. Also,
14:06Emil specifically mentioned that Shadow
14:07Cat evolved into Shadow Candy, and this
14:09is the only shadow version of the cat we
14:11see. However, that doesn't mean it's the
14:13only one that exists, but then why not
14:14show us the other one? Who knows? Still,
14:16I'm inclined to believe that these are
14:18the rat and cat's ghost tormenting Mary.
14:20As to why these spirits would haunt her,
14:22maybe they blame her for their deaths.
14:24After all, Rat only entered the [music]
14:25employees only room to find Mary, and
14:26that led to his and the cat actor's
14:28demise. They likely gave up tormenting
14:30her after she stopped visiting the
14:32deepcape, so they returned to their
14:33bodies. This shadowy connection between
14:36the rat and cat really makes you think
14:37about the relationship. Are they just
14:39really good friends or something more?
14:42Anyway, a year later in 1965, Candy sees
14:46Shadow Candy, who leads them to the
14:48parts and service room where someone is
14:49working. Candy accidentally scares them
14:52and gets tased by the frightened
14:53employee. Also note the red and blue
14:55mugs on the office table. 11 years later
14:58in 1976, Blank walks around the
15:01restaurant picking up scattered
15:02drawings. When collecting one that
15:04depicts Shadow Candy, the cat suddenly
15:06appears in front of him. The point of
15:08having Shadow Candy messing with playing
15:10King Candy is never really made clear,
15:12but it seems like the rat and cat are
15:13out to get the animatronics, likely to
15:16prevent them from getting revenge. We'll
15:18see more of them being hostile towards
15:19other bots later on. And again, make
15:22sure to note the red and blue mugs now
15:23farther apart, growing distant perhaps.
15:26Sometime in either the 70s or 80s, the
15:29year is currently unclear, Fredbear's
15:30Family Diner opens for business. Its two
15:33stars, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie, are a
15:35golden duo of musical animals. Fredbear
15:38is a yellow furred bear wearing a brown
15:39top hat and bow tie. And Spring Bonnie
15:42is a similarly golden rabbit with only a
15:44black button near the top of their
15:45stomach. I know that most of the FNAF
15:47games, books, and movies, these animals
15:50have purple accessories, but those were
15:52only introduced in FNAF 4, which isn't
15:54cannon in the CPU. So, these guys are
15:57stuck with their FNAF 3 look. What these
15:59two continuities do have in common is
16:01that Fredbear and Spring Bonnie are a
16:02special kind of animatronic/suit hybrid.
16:05Employees can use a hand crank to recoil
16:07and compress the animatronic parts
16:08around the sides of the suit. Devices
16:10known as spring locks keep those parts
16:12fast and tight. This lets performers
16:14wear the animatronics. Unfortunately for
16:17the person inside, the suit is very
16:19sensitive. Breathing on the compressed
16:20spring locks [music] could accidentally
16:22loosen them. mashing the metatronic
16:24metal endoskeleton straight into the
16:25performers, causing almost certain
16:28death. Luckily for them, there's the
16:30safe room, a designated location for
16:32employees to bleed out in the event of a
16:34spring lock failure. Later on in the
16:3780s, Fredbear's Family Diner shut down
16:39for an unknown reason, which leads to
16:41the creation of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza,
16:43a similar restaurant with a whole new
16:45cast of characters. Rather than having
16:47Fredbear and Spring Bonnie reprise their
16:49roles on stage, four completely new
16:51animatronics take their place. Those
16:53being the brown-haired bear singer
16:55Freddy Fazbear, the blue-haired purple
16:57fuzzy guitarist Bonnie the Bunny, and
17:00the hungry backup singer Chica, who has
17:02a little pink frosted companion Mr.
17:04Cupcake. Cast away on Pirates Cove is
17:07the pirate Foxy. And finally, the last
17:10character here is none other than the
17:11spooky sock puppet, the Marionette, who
17:14may or may have not been a character
17:15from Fredbears. Unfortunately for the
17:18rest of Fredbear and Friends, they're
17:19taken to the safe room and left to rot.
17:21However, the Spring Bonnie suit would
17:23soon be reused by a terrible man named
17:25Simon Fitzgerald, the twin brother
17:27[music] of Jeremy Fitzgerald, who is a
17:29key character in the CPU. Anyways, Simon
17:32is the identity of the purple man in
17:33this universe. And unlike William
17:35Aftton, we don't know much about his
17:37motives, but we'll discuss some
17:39possibilities later on. Simon starts his
17:41streak of murders with a young boy
17:43trapped outside of Freddy's, as seen in
17:44the Take [music] Cake to the Children
17:46Miname. He drives up to the entrance of
17:48Freddy's, takes the boy's life, and
17:50escapes in his car. The soul of this
17:52dead child haunts the Marionette. And
17:54before I get any angry comments, in the
17:57CPU, the Marionette is a boy. In the
18:00movie and mainline universe, they're
18:02possessed by Charlotte Emily. However,
18:04she was only introduced to the games in
18:05Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator,
18:07which isn't canon in this universe.
18:10Sometime around this tragedy, Foxy goes
18:12out of order. And as we learn from the
18:14newspaper clippings in FNAF 1, on the
18:16week of June 26th, Simon wears the
18:18Spring Bonnie suit and lurs five
18:20children into the safe room in groups.
18:21He murders them all and hides their
18:23corpses in the animatronics. The
18:25marionette then helps their souls
18:27possess the mascots they've been stuffed
18:28into, giving life to Freddy, Bonnie,
18:31Chica, Foxy, and the ghostly Golden
18:34Freddy. Once the children are reported
18:36missing, the police search Freddy's and
18:38find security footage of Simon luring
18:40the kids. But with no concrete evidence
18:42or bodies, Simon gets away, and the
18:45children's remains are never found.
18:47After this, the safe room is sealed off,
18:49but the Spring Bonnie suit is taken.
18:51However, the fate of Fredbear is left
18:53unclear. Maybe he was moved. I don't
18:55know. He's just not in the safe room the
18:57next time we see it. On the topic of
18:59confusing stuff, let's discuss Simon's
19:01motives. In Pop Ghost 2016, he was a man
19:04who killed not for pleasure, but to
19:06extend his life, which he believed was
19:08possible with the blood of younger
19:09people. This might still be the case in
19:11the modern lore. However, it's not
19:13exactly clear. Dane from the future
19:16here. Ignore all of that. His motives
19:17seem to be the same in the present
19:19story. Right after we finished this
19:21video, there was a new pop goes
19:22evergreen teaser named Death is an
19:24animal in which we hear a very spooky
19:26voice discuss how death is like a wolf
19:28that hunts humanity and robs of its true
19:30potential. After the voice's own
19:32experience with death, they want to
19:33break this system, making death choose
19:35more carefully who perishes and also
19:37have it regret who it's taken, turning
19:39it from a wolf to a good dog. This voice
19:42is pretty obviously Simon Fitzgerald,
19:44given how it matches up with his 2016
19:46goal of immortality. Popco's creator,
19:48Kane Carter, also hearted a comment
19:50saying it was him. So, yeah, it's pretty
19:52obvious. In the video, Simon also
19:54mentions that all this stems from when
19:55he experienced loss. So, it seems like
19:57someone close to him died, making him
19:59desire a way to command death. In Pop
20:01Goes Arcade, Simon is seemingly
20:02represented by King Freddy. And
20:04interestingly enough, the passing of his
20:06father sparked his interest in making
20:07everyone immortal. Similar to how this
20:09unknown loss in Simon's life made him
20:11interested in controlling death. So,
20:13it's possible that Simon and Jeremy's
20:15father passed away. More on King Freddy
20:17and Popco's arcade in like an hour.
20:18[music] The teaser also features a table
20:20with a microscope, bandages, and a
20:22bloody looking rag, suggesting that
20:24Simon is still trying to cheat death
20:25with blood. The text throughout the
20:27video also gets progressively bloodier,
20:29further implying this. When Simon calls
20:31death a good dog, we see a much more
20:32decayed withered Freddy, hinting that
20:34Simon is aware of or later becomes aware
20:36of the supernatural and possibly wants
20:38to use it as a way to control death.
20:40However, he could just be collecting
20:41blood samples from the possessed
20:42animatronics for further research. In a
20:45canceled game known as Popco Finale, one
20:47of the levels involved an older Jeremy
20:49exploring Simon's bunker where he hid
20:51and also kept clues and photos regarding
20:53his victims. I think what we're seeing
20:55here is a similar concept. The house in
20:57this teaser appears to be abandoned and
20:59we can see evidence of Simon's
21:00experiments. So, it seems that Evergreen
21:02will likely see Simon's layer and learn
21:04more about his research. Okay, that's
21:06out of the way. Let's return to the
21:07present before Blake and I realize we
21:09had to redo all of this. But back to the
21:11CPU timeline. After Simon's victims are
21:14stuffed into the animatronics, Freddy
21:15and the band start to leak blood and
21:17mucus out of their eyes and mouths. Due
21:19to health concerns, Freddy Fazbear's
21:21pizza closes. Following that, Fazbear
21:23Entertainment retrofits the band with
21:25newer technology, but ends up scrapping
21:27them due to how ugly and smelly they
21:29are. Then, in a stroke of genius, they
21:32make the best version of all the
21:33Freddy's animatronics, the toys. This
21:36shiny plastic bunch of robotic animals
21:38consists of Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy
21:41Chica, and Toy Foxy. In the mainline
21:43universe, the toy version of Foxy is
21:45referred to as Funtime Foxy. No, not
21:48that [music] Funtime Foxy. However,
21:50since the CPU doesn't take anything past
21:52three into account, I assume the Funtime
21:54name doesn't stick. What does stay,
21:57however, is everyone's favorite toy
21:58Matronic, Bloomboy. All of these
22:01animatronics are programmed with a
22:03criminal database so they can detect a
22:04predator a mile away. In late 1987, the
22:08new and improved Freddy Fazer's Pizza is
22:10opened, and the older, now withered
22:12animatronics are left in the parts and
22:14service room. Luckily for the
22:15marionette, he's put in the prize
22:17corner. Sometime after opening, Toy Foxy
22:20is torn apart by the world's strongest
22:22children and ends up repurposed as a
22:24failed take apart and put back together
22:25attraction. Sadly, Fazeret Entertainment
22:28can't seem to get away from Simon, who
22:30kills five more children, as shown by
22:32the Save Them miniame. The victims then
22:35end up possessing the toy animatronics,
22:37who begin acting almost aggressively
22:39towards adults. Mary, now an adult
22:41herself, visits the pizzeria on a busy
22:44day. So busy, in fact, that large groups
22:47of children are blocking the doorways to
22:48parts of the pizzeria. Mary wanders over
22:51to the prize corner and sees the
22:52marionette performing a fantastic dance.
22:55The dancing puppet resurrects her past
22:57trauma as its design reminds her of
22:59Vinnie. This makes her mind merge the
23:01two into one. The puppet's wide smile
23:03morphs into an eerie frown and its red
23:06cheeks and lipstick turn blue. Later in
23:08the year, Mary gets a job as a security
23:10guard at the Robotus Corporation
23:12factory, possibly as an attempt to clear
23:14her resurface trauma. Let's take a
23:17detour back to Candy's burgers and
23:19fries, where Candi sees Shadow Candy and
23:21follows him through the restaurant. The
23:23ghostly cat leads their normal cats to
23:25the office where her favorite red mug is
23:27now lonely with the blue mug nowhere to
23:29be seen. Also, there's a crying child in
23:31the office. When he's approached by
23:33Candy, [music] he runs out of the room,
23:35cheerful that he got a visit from the
23:36old blue cat. Candy walks out of the
23:39office and follows Shadow Candy once
23:40more, who leads him to the kid and his
23:43father, who is scolding the child. In
23:45response, Candy attacks the mean old
23:47dad. And following this, he swiftly put
23:50out commission, leaving Blank to be the
23:52main performer until new animatronics
23:54are created. Back at the factory on
23:56September 22nd, 1987, while Mary's
23:59watching the cameras, she sees a
24:01hallucination of Vinnie, who is sticking
24:03with his Freddy's inspired look. He
24:05stands in the dark staring at the
24:07camera. Mary turns it away, but when she
24:09moves it back, he's closer. When she
24:11turns it once again, Vinnie, now with
24:14white, spooky glowing eyes, stares at
24:16her and the feed cuts. The next night,
24:19while watching the cameras, Mary falls
24:20asleep, leading to what is quite
24:22possibly the worst thing to happen while
24:24falling asleep at your job. Two
24:26unattended children somehow sneak into
24:28the factory, where Candy's three miniame
24:30shows us that the cat and Shadow Rat are
24:32lurking. In Shadow Rat's first
24:34appearance outside of Mary's mind, he
24:36orders the cat to take the two children
24:38and put them on the conveyor belt. This
24:40forces them into a machine which kills
24:42them and spits out endoskeleton parts
24:44covered in the remains. In the FNAT 3
24:46miniame, we see a new version of Candy
24:48and a sister named Cindy come out of the
24:50machine. However, according to the first
24:52Candies game, they aren't made until the
24:5425th of September. So, them appearing
24:56here is likely a representation of how
24:58the twins that the rat and Cat murdered
25:00eventually become Candy and Cindy. The
25:02next day, September 24th, the police
25:05tape off the conveyor belt and Mary
25:07returns to work. Vinnie appears again,
25:09but he's twitching, his head moving
25:11erratically. Vinnie's presence here
25:13likely represents Mary's guilt for
25:15falling asleep and allowing Rat and Cat
25:17to kill the twins. Similar to the last
25:19time he appeared, the sad puppet gets
25:21closer when Mary moves the camera back
25:22to look at him and the feed cuts. The
25:24following night, September 25th, the
25:27site has been cleaned up and Candy and
25:28Cindy make their grand debut. Sitting on
25:31the same conveyor belt the twins were
25:32killed on. Vinnie, back to his favorite
25:35spot in the factory, points at Candy and
25:37Cindy, ensuring Mary knows the terrible
25:39mistake she's made. When the camera
25:42moves back, the cats are staring at her
25:43with glowing eyes. It seems like the
25:45twins haunted the gore covered
25:47endoskeletons, and those parts were then
25:49turned into candy and Cindy, allowing
25:51them to haunt the cats. It appears that
25:53some other animatronics were created
25:55around this time. Those being Chester
25:57the chimpanzeee and three penguins who
25:58[music] function as waiters. Just like
26:00the cat twins, Chester and one of the
26:02penguins are haunted by the victims of
26:04the rat and cat. Five Nights at Candies
26:062 confirms that six people died at the
26:08factory, the people who haunt Blank and
26:11Old Candy, the twins who possess the new
26:13cats, and presumably two other people
26:15who became Chester and the penguin. On
26:17Mary's last night at the factory, she
26:19goes through some old recordings and
26:21what appears to be an attempt to find
26:22something with the rat and cat. She
26:24discovers footage of Blank and Old Candy
26:26in their prime. Even with this being a
26:28recording from 1964, a Vinnie
26:30hallucination appears behind them. Then
26:32in a flash of static, he appears in
26:34front of the camera saying his iconic
26:36Vinnie catchphrase, "A mistake. My
26:39mistake. A problem. Your problem." This
26:42phrase likely refers to the incident at
26:44the original theater. Killing the rat
26:46and cat actress was the puppeteer's
26:48mistake and problem, [music] which then
26:50became Mary's problem as she witnessed
26:51the whole event. Anyways, rewinding the
26:54footage to earlier on the 13th, she
26:56finds what it's presumed she was looking
26:57for. Footage of the rat. As we
26:59previously discussed, he stands up all
27:01by himself, turns off the camera, and
27:03probably kills some factory workers who
27:05end up possessing Old Candy and Blank.
27:07After this, Mary's likely fired from her
27:09job because she let two children die
27:11while snoozing on the clock. Back to
27:13Candy's burgers and fries. Old Candy now
27:15resides in parts and service. And he's
27:18replaced by the newly made and newly
27:20haunted Candy, Cindy, Chester, and the
27:22Penguin. Skipping ahead to November,
27:25Jeremy Fitzgerald, twin brother of the
27:26purple guy, who may or may have not
27:28drawn himself on blank, gets hired at
27:30Freddy's as a night guard. According to
27:32My Pop Goes, Jeremy was a big fan of the
27:34Freddy's gang, and likely even came up
27:36with his own animal characters, or at
27:38least made artwork of the animatronics.
27:40During his night shifts, he's hunted by
27:42the toy and withered characters, but
27:44equipped with a spare Freddy Fazbear
27:46mask and flashlight, he fends them off.
27:49On the fourth night, the phone guy tells
27:50him that the place is under
27:51investigation and may have to close for
27:53a few days, undoubtedly because of
27:56Simon's recent murder spree. The
27:58pizzeria temporarily closes, and Jeremy
28:00survives the week, transferring to the
28:02day shift right after, where he's told
28:03to stay close to the animatronics due to
28:05their odd behavior. While on the shift,
28:07Toy Bonnie mistakes him for his brother,
28:09Simon. And with the intent of getting
28:11revenge on the man who took his life, he
28:13lunges at Jeremy, sinking his hard
28:16plastic teeth into his skull, going
28:18straight into his brain and damaging his
28:20frontal lobe. This incident goes on to
28:22be known as the bite of 87. And despite
28:24the gruesome attack, Jeremy lives, but
28:26suffers major psychological trauma.
28:29Sometime later, he moves to England and
28:31changes his name to Fritz Glade. After
28:33Jeremy/F Fritz's leave, Freddy's find
28:36somebody named Fritz Smith to take over
28:37the night shift. But after his first
28:39night, he's fired for his bad odor and
28:41tampering with the animatronics. This
28:43leads to the closure of Freddy Fazer's
28:45Pizza once again, and the toy
28:47animatronics are scrapped for good. Back
28:49at Candy's Burgers and Fries, Blank is
28:51attacked by a night guard with a wrench,
28:53and the culprit is never seen again.
28:55It's not clear if he was killed and his
28:56body was hidden or if he simply fled.
28:58But regardless, the establishment needs
29:00a new guard. Mary Schmid gets the job.
29:02Starting on November 15th, still riddled
29:05with guilt, she will sometimes see the
29:06words, "You fell asleep and [music] it
29:08is your fault." when looking at Cam 3,
29:11throughout the week, Mary faces off
29:12against the haunted animatronics, using
29:15messages left by the junior manager to
29:16learn how to survive. She also has
29:18access to the cameras with built-in
29:20night vision features so she can see the
29:22animatronics positions throughout the
29:23night. Mary's hunted by Candy, Cindy,
29:26Chester, Old Candy, and Blank, who all
29:28try to break into her office and kill
29:30her. The possessed penguin is also a
29:32team player, unlike the other two
29:33non-possessed waiters who broke down,
29:35leaving only the haunted penguin. The
29:38fact that he's supernatural is likely
29:39the reason they still functioning, and
29:41he uses that ghostly power to try to get
29:43into Mary's office and interfere with
29:44its systems. She makes it through the
29:46week unscathed and she gets a paycheck
29:48of $100.50.
29:50Good job, Mary. Even though her hefty
29:52paycheck could buy her a mansion, she
29:54still isn't satisfied. So the next night
29:56when another guard named Frank is
29:58supposed to be working, she takes the
29:59shift instead. The junior manager is
30:02pretty upset with Mary considering he
30:03thought she wanted to transfer out of
30:05the night shifts. It's unclear what she
30:07did to get the shift from Frank, but she
30:09doesn't get arrested. So oh so glorious
30:11Frank thankfully lives. On this night,
30:14things are different. The animatronics
30:16are way more aggressive than usual. And
30:18the thing that Mary possibly came to
30:19find reveals itself. Hidden deep in a
30:22room that the employees theorize is full
30:23of bowling equipment is none other than
30:25the rat. And at last, he emerges.
30:27[music]
30:28While in the pursuit to kill Mary, he
30:30stays hidden in the dark corners, making
30:32sure to remain unseen by the other
30:33animatronics. If not, the penguin would
30:36ram him at 30 mph, killing him
30:38instantly. Seriously, in a Five Nights
30:40at Candies 3 miniame, we see that the
30:42animatronics try to attack Rat, likely
30:44wanting revenge on the rodent who killed
30:46them. But anyway, Mary survives the
30:48night and gets paid $2010 for overtime.
30:51After this, she returns once more to
30:53Candies, Burgers, and Fries and tampers
30:55with the animatronics for the custom
30:57night. There are a few ways this
30:58concludes. In every ending, Mary's fired
31:01for wearing too [music] much perfume and
31:03messing with the robots. So, we know
31:04that all goes down the same way, but in
31:07the 720 ending, when Mary's let go, the
31:09origami cat is left on the desk. There
31:11are two other endings which are nearly
31:13identical in which Mary deactivates all
31:16the animatronics except maybe the
31:17penguin and lets the power in the office
31:19run out, leaving her alone with her
31:21thoughts. Here she thinks to herself,
31:23"Now I've done it. No more power, no
31:26lights, nothing. No danger, no worries,
31:29no fun. Just me alone in the dark. All I
31:32can do now is wait it out and think
31:33about what I've done." So Mary simply
31:36sits and thinks to herself, dealing with
31:37her trauma internally. Afterwards, she
31:40gets fired as normal. We theorize that
31:42sometime after Mary's let go, she has a
31:44nightmare about candies that plays out
31:46in the null night. This secret level
31:48begins with Mary checking the main stage
31:50where Shadow Candy appears. When she
31:52lowers the monitor, he's standing in the
31:53office and quickly attacks her. She's
31:56then transported to a strange version of
31:57Candy's burgers and fries, which doesn't
32:00seem to be quite real. Though at
32:02purplish lighting, the origami cat on
32:04the desk and shadow candy's new eerie
32:05abilities such as only appearing in
32:07either the darkness or the light make it
32:09clear that this night isn't set in
32:10reality. This likely takes place within
32:13Mary's mind as that's where the origami
32:15cat was featured [music] in Candy's 3.
32:17He appears as an Easter egg throughout
32:18this game, but that seems to be a
32:20hallucination that quickly vanishes. In
32:22the null knight, he's here to stay,
32:24suggesting that this whole sequence is
32:25either in Mary's dreamscape or deepcape.
32:28Shadow Candy's presence also further
32:29hints at this being in the deepcape as
32:31that's where he appeared back when he
32:32was the shadow cat. At the beginning of
32:34the night, you can also see that Blank
32:36is missing, implying from the start that
32:38this whole thing isn't real. Whatever it
32:41is, Shadow Candy will slowly make his
32:42way towards the office from Cam 13. Mary
32:45will have to find and stare at him until
32:47he fades away, retreating to the rat's
32:48dingy closet. [music]
32:50If she fails, he'll reach his hands out
32:52and approach her, stealing some of her
32:53power if he gets locked out in time.
32:55Though if he makes inside, he'll set
32:57back the clock by an hour and take the
32:59origami cat, forcing him to find where
33:00he hit him on the cameras. Collecting
33:03the paper cat returns both him and the
33:05hour that Shadow Candy stole. Once Mary
33:07survives this night, her story is pretty
33:09much done. She is mentioned later in
33:11FNAC 2 and My Pop Goes, but she doesn't
33:13have to deal with the haunted
33:14animatronics anymore. 2 years later, in
33:171989, we see that the rat's room has
33:19been locked up, keeping the evil within
33:21contained. However, stupid Chester looks
33:23for a key to open up. For what reason? I
33:26have no idea. Maybe he wants to destroy
33:28his killer. While searching, he steps
33:30into the parts and service room,
33:32revealing that he, Candy, and Cindy are
33:34all being upgraded. Though,
33:36unfortunately for Chester, his version
33:38two was rejected. He then makes his way
33:40into the office and finds the original
33:42Vinnie himself above the key, but he
33:44only appears for a split second before
33:45vanishing. Vinnie's inclusion here seems
33:48to have no real relevance, and it's
33:50unknown if this will even be included in
33:51Five Nights at Candies 2DX, which is the
33:53official Fanverse release of the second
33:55game, but for the time being, we'll keep
33:57it in the story. Chester picks up the
34:00key, then unlocks the rat store, and
34:01that's where the miniame ends. For some
34:04reason, Chester doesn't kill the evil
34:05rodent. Instead, he and old Candy are
34:08disassembled by employees, and their
34:09parts are stashed in boxes within parts
34:11and services.
34:12>> [music]
34:12>> Gold Cat was likely disassembled because
34:14he's useless to the restaurant, but
34:16we're not quite sure why Chester was
34:17taken apart. [music] It's possible he
34:19was dismantled because Rat may have
34:20damaged him upon entering his room. You
34:22would think that the rat destroyed
34:24Chester considering last we saw he was
34:26unlocking his closet, but according to
34:27the Candy's creator, Emil Macko, that's
34:29not the case. Following this, his stage
34:32is taped off and prepped for removal.
34:34Later, the rat once again emerges and
34:36scatters Chester's body parts throughout
34:38the restaurant. During this time, the
34:39penguin wakes up and upon leaving parts
34:42and services, finds one of Chester's
34:44arms in the middle of the room. The rat
34:46quickly closes his door, apparently
34:47satisfied with his destruction for now.
34:50Penguin then waddles his way around the
34:51establishment. He picks up the rest of
34:53Chester's pieces and returns them to his
34:55box, leaving them to be shipped off to
34:57the Robotus Corp factory, where he's
34:59eventually reassembled. Around a year
35:01later, Mary Schmidt gives birth to her
35:03daughter, Marilyn [music] Schmidt,
35:04although we don't know anything about
35:05her father. Yet another year later in
35:081991, the new Candy and Cindy
35:10animatronics replace the older ones, as
35:12evidenced by children's drawings
35:14mentioning the new versions. But despite
35:16being new and shiny, these guys are
35:18still haunted by the twins that the cat
35:19murdered. Sometime after, Blank wakes up
35:22and picks up drawings left in the
35:23restaurant after dark. Once he collects
35:25all four, he goes back to sleep. The
35:28following year, Candy's tie winds up in
35:30the office. Though when confirmed, it's
35:32likely the rat took it and put it there.
35:34Candy being sad and tireless sends Cindy
35:36to return it to him. And shockingly,
35:39without any intervention from the rat,
35:40she gets the tie and gives it back to
35:42its rightful owner. In 1993, yes, again,
35:46one year later, an unnamed nightgard
35:48dies at the cold metal hands of the rat.
35:50We see this depicted in a Fact 3 miniame
35:52where the rat has to sneak past the
35:54other animatronics as he makes his way
35:56towards the office. Shadow Candy also
35:58appears outside of the office window.
36:00And yes, this is clearly Shadow Candy,
36:02not one of the other cat characters.
36:05Candy, Cindy, and old Candy are all
36:07accounted for, even if old Candy
36:09technically shouldn't be here. More on
36:10that at the end of this video. This
36:13sprite also has the exact same body and
36:15eye color as the shadow rat's miniame
36:17appearance. And this cat doesn't harm
36:19the rat, unlike the other characters. As
36:21to why he's outside the window, it could
36:23just be a reference to his secret
36:25appearance in the original Five Nights
36:26at Candies, but it might hint that he
36:28was distracting the guard so his partner
36:30in crime could get into the office. As
36:32the rat approaches the security guard,
36:34you can see he's looking out the window.
36:36However, this might be wrong as Shadow
36:38Candy vanishes if you touch him, which
36:40is strange, but was likely added to
36:42confirm that he's a ghost. Regardless,
36:44the rat murders this poor guard, but
36:46he's not Mary, so who cares? Later that
36:49day, the body is found and reported to
36:51the police, leading to an investigation.
36:54Cop cars surround the restaurant and
36:55officers search the building. Meanwhile,
36:58Candy wakes up and scouts the place. His
37:00search leading him to the security
37:01office. Inside, he finds the bloody mess
37:04left by old Randy. Somehow knowing Candi
37:07seen his work, he begins to laugh,
37:09directing Candy to what was once
37:10Chester's room. Before he can confront
37:13the rodent, Rat slams his door shut and
37:15cops, presuming it was Candy who had
37:17killed the guard, burst into the room
37:18with batons out. The robot cat gets
37:20tased by a really happy technician. And
37:22with that, he, his remaining friends,
37:25and the rat, are sent to the robotics
37:27factory, and Candy's burgers and fries
37:28is shut down, presumably along with CTC
37:31Entertainment as well. One of the
37:32animatronics, excited to no longer be
37:34stuck in a burger restaurant, parties
37:36too hard and winds up murdering Robotics
37:38employee, [music] leading to the factory
37:40being shut down too with Candy's Burgers
37:43and Fries closed for good. Let's go back
37:44to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, which is
37:46speculated to have reopened sometime in
37:48the early '90s. This smaller scale
37:50establishment uses the refurbished Wii
37:52animatronics previously seen in Five
37:54Nights at Freddy's 2. Unlike their past
37:56locations, Fazma Entainment just can't
37:58seem to make this one a hit. After being
38:00open for an unknown amount of time,
38:02Fazbear tries to sell off the pizzeria
38:04to any companies willing to buy it. With
38:06the reputation forever smeared by
38:07Simon's murders, no one is willing to
38:09purchase it. Due to a lack of revenue,
38:12Fazer Entertainment is forced to close
38:13the establishment by the end of 1993.
38:16One month before their closure, they
38:18hire a new night guard named Mike
38:20Schmid, who shockingly has no relation
38:22to Mary Schmidt. The week before he
38:24starts his work, the phone guy, who was
38:26last seen in FNAF 2, takes the night
38:28shift and records messages to help him
38:30settle in and not get forcefully stuffed
38:32into a Freddy Fazbear suit. He manages
38:34to leave one each night, but before he
38:36can record his fourth, the animatronics
38:38ambush him, forcing him to use all his
38:40power before killing him. On November
38:428th, Mike shows up for his first shift.
38:45And for five nights, he uses the
38:46information on the pre-recorded messages
38:48to survive. After his fifth shift ends,
38:50he decides to do some overtime and comes
38:52back for the next night. For that, he
38:54gets paid $120.50.
38:57Mike, however, ruling in cash, isn't
39:00done just yet. He shows up yet again for
39:02a total of seven nights at Freddy's and
39:04tampers with animatronics, making them
39:06as aggressive or uncaring as he wants.
39:09After this move, Fazbear gets sick of
39:11him and fires him for messing with the
39:12animatronics along with
39:14unprofessionalism and his bad smell, the
39:16opposite of what Mary was fired for.
39:19Following this, Freddy Fazbear's final
39:21pizzeria closes, and Fazbear
39:23Entertainment presumably goes bankrupt,
39:25ending 1993 with a bang. Simon, catching
39:28wind of the snooze, sneaks into the
39:30pizzeria on a rainy day, eager to tie up
39:32loose ends. He hides in the safe room as
39:35a mysterious character known as Shadow
39:37Freddy lures the animatronics right to
39:39him. Simon pops out once the bots get
39:41close and dismantles them one by one.
39:43First Freddy, followed by Bonnie, then
39:46Chica, and finally Foxy. Simon thinks
39:49he's won. However, he's just freed his
39:51victims from their mental prisons. The
39:53ghosts manifest and corner him in the
39:55safe room. One of the spirits chases him
39:57into the Spring Bonnie suit while the
39:58rest watch. Simon laughs at his victims,
40:01thinking he's once again got away. But
40:03he finally gets a good dose of karma
40:05when the spring locks in the suit fail,
40:07likely having gotten wet thanks to the
40:09water leaking through the ceiling. The
40:10animatronic parts are released straight
40:12into Simon's body, merging him with
40:14Spring Bonnie. He bleeds out on the
40:17floor, drowning in his own blood as the
40:19spirits disappear. In an even worse
40:21twist of fate for Simon, in 1998, he
40:23misses the birth of his niece, Bonnie
40:25Glade. Speaking of children, let's focus
40:28on Marilyn Schmidt, the now 17-year-old
40:30daughter of Mary Schmidt. In August of
40:322007, she loses a bet that she made with
40:35her friends, forcing her to spend five
40:36whole nights in abandoned robotics
40:38factory. Shockingly, this won't be her
40:41first time. Apparently, she spent five
40:43nights in the factory before. To not
40:45raise any suspicion, she tells her
40:47parents that she's spending the night at
40:48her friend's house. Once she arrives,
40:50she travels to the second floor,
40:52presumably above where the twins were
40:53murdered. She finds an old office set up
40:56for her. It comes equipped with cameras
40:58and the ability to ring phones located
41:00around the factory. After settling in,
41:02she realizes that she's not alone.
41:05Locked inside with her are the withered
41:06animatronics. No, not those. These
41:09withered animatronics. Every one of them
41:12is covered in jagged rips and broken
41:14parts. Rat may be responsible for
41:16damaging the candy's characters. The
41:18FNAC 2 trailer also glitches out when
41:20the text they were left to RAW appears
41:22and instead it reads they were left to
41:24rat further implying that Rat might have
41:26had a hand in making the animatronics so
41:28withered. As the week goes on, the
41:31animatronics get more aggressive. Candy,
41:33Cindy, and Blank roam the halls. Penguin
41:36messes with the facto's electronics and
41:38Chester hits the vents in attempt to
41:39break through. Marilyn has to use the
41:41facto's phones to lure the animatronics
41:43around the building. Luckily, she
41:45survives her payless shifts and
41:46completes the bet. A newspaper reveals
41:48that the factory has been scheduled for
41:50demolition the following week. But
41:52before that, Marilyn sticks around for a
41:54sixth night. Here, Candy and his crew
41:56are absent. Instead, she gets a visit
41:58from her mom's two favorite characters,
42:00the rat and cat. These lethal love birds
42:03attempt to kill Marilyn. And if they do
42:05succeed, it results in a different game
42:07over screen. When any of the candies
42:09animatronics kill you, an article
42:10declaring Marilyn is missing is shown.
42:13However, if the rat or cat get you, then
42:15you're treated to a newspaper confirming
42:17Marilyn is dead in a murder so grizzly
42:19that it resembles a bear attack. But the
42:22duo's efforts are in vain as Marilyn
42:24survives the night. In the ending
42:25newspaper, we learned that fire started
42:27inside the factory and destroyed the
42:29building, presumably melting the
42:31animatronics plastic prisons and
42:32allowing their souls to finally rest. At
42:35around 7:00 a.m., firefighters showed up
42:37at the Inferno. And after an hour of
42:39trying to stop the fire, nothing but
42:40rubble was left. The cause of the fire
42:42is never fully explained. While the
42:45article cites faulty wiring or
42:46overheated equipment as the culprit,
42:48it's possible that Marilyn herself set
42:50the fire after witnessing the horrors
42:52within the factory. With this, the candy
42:54story is over, at least until FNAC 4.
42:57But for now, let's move back to Pop
42:59Goes. During our time with the Schmidts,
43:02Fritz Glade/Jammy Fitzgerald's daughter,
43:04Bonnie Glade, has grown, learning to
43:06speak, to walk, and to hear ghosts. But
43:09before we can touch on that, you may be
43:11wondering why she was named Bonnie in
43:12the first place. The answer is actually
43:14quite simple. Her father named her
43:16Bonnie as a way to love that name again
43:18after his encounter with Toy Bonnie.
43:20With that out of the way, when Bonnie's
43:22young, she's a big fan of Freddy Fazbear
43:24and his [music] friends, much like her
43:26father once was. She even draws her own
43:28cast of animal performers who run their
43:30very own pizzeria joint named the Pop
43:32Goes Pizzeria. In this imaginary
43:35establishment, Oliver Pop goes
43:36Evergreen, more commonly known as Pop
43:38Goes the Weasel, is the lead singer.
43:40Freddy Fazra gave him his black top hat
43:42so the weasel could take over his role.
43:44Pop Ghost has another suspicious tie to
43:46Freddy's. As indicated by Bonnie
43:48Sketches, his birthday is June 26th, the
43:51same day as some of her uncle's murders
43:53at Freddy's. However, the original Pop
43:55Ghost game was released on June 26th,
43:572016, so it might just be a nod to that.
44:00On a less disturbing note, Popos doesn't
44:03perform alone. Twin sisters Sarah and
44:05Saffron Silverleaf serve as the basis
44:07and guitarist. These twins do almost
44:09everything together, but have very
44:11different personalities. Sarah is more
44:13girly and quiet, while Saffron is a loud
44:15punk rock tomboy. I also love how much
44:18Saffron is written like an actual
44:20child's OC. She just likes normal
44:22clothes, broccoli, and rules. Let's move
44:24on to Blake Bettingfield, who besides
44:27maybe having the most British animal
44:29name I've ever heard, serves as the
44:31Imagineer Pizzeria's clever
44:32technological assistant. He helps gas
44:34and fixes any electrical issues. Blake
44:36is pretty much the handyman of the group
44:38and he's where Deion Productions team
44:40member Blake gets her username from. I
44:42also noticed that Blake dislikes
44:43Saffron, perhaps because she's too
44:45rowdy. Moving on to Stone Ashby. He
44:48spends most of his time as the pizzeria
44:49sign holder. If Pop goes or any of his
44:52friends can't perform, he'll step in and
44:54take their place until they're able to
44:55get back on stage. The last two of
44:57Bonnie's characters don't work at the
44:58Pop Ghost Pizzeria. Instead, they're
45:01close friends of the gang. First up is
45:03Penelopey Manora Quinn, a wood mouse who
45:05is a massive fan of the Pop Ghost
45:07Pizzeria, mostly Pop Go himself. She has
45:09a big crush on him. However, according
45:12to Wimps the Weeper from Popco Arcade,
45:14he doesn't fancy her. Regardless, she
45:16frequents the pizzeria just to see the
45:18weasel, even though she dislikes pizza.
45:20She also doesn't like robots, which
45:22comes into play later on. Penelopey
45:24actually gave herself the name Monora as
45:26a pun, just like her idols. Her name is
45:28based on the phrase, "Are you a man or a
45:30mouse?" Pop goes the weasel's pun name
45:32is self-explanatory, and Stone's name is
45:34based on the old phrase Stone the Crows.
45:37Speaking of him, the last character is
45:39Holly Hartwell, a European Robin who has
45:41an unclear relationship with Stone. She
45:44doesn't get too involved with the group.
45:45Instead, she works at her older sister's
45:47egg farm, which I think might be an
45:49adoption center. The pop goes gang all
45:51love her company, but she insists on not
45:53sticking around for too long as to not
45:54take up too much of their time. With
45:56this, Bonnie's very own animal gang is
45:58born. When giving her mom updates on the
46:00cast, she's very supportive of her work
46:02and her fascination with Freddy's. She
46:05even buys her a possibly off-brand Chica
46:07plushy. However, Fritz takes some time
46:09to get used to this. At first, he's
46:11worried about her interest in Freddy
46:12Fazer's pizza because of his troubled
46:14past there. It's also implied that he
46:16believes the restaurant or even Freddy
46:18Fazer himself is unlucky. Later, he
46:20feels more comfortable and ask about
46:22Bonnie's characters, seeming genuinely
46:24enthralled by them. Her mom later tells
46:26her how before her father was injured at
46:28Freddy's, he was a major fan of the
46:30establishment and that Popos and the
46:32gang really resonated with him. Two
46:34weeks later, in a failed attempt to bond
46:36with Bonnie, Hurts makes his very own
46:37pop ghost character named Morse the
46:39mole. Unfortunately, Bonnie doesn't like
46:41him at all. She thinks his big wide
46:43smile is creepy, and he's not the most
46:46original. He has a scarf-like stone, and
46:48similar to Monora, he has a backpack and
46:50orange coloring. Each of the Popco's
46:53characters has a special color, so
46:54Morris being orange messes things up.
46:56His backpack full of gadgets also makes
46:58him ill-fitting in the Popco's world.
47:00The sci-fi aspect of Morse seems to come
47:02from Fritz's obsession with technology,
47:05making him a sort of self-insert, which
47:06gives his later usage more weight.
47:08Bonnie tells her dad that she hates
47:10Morse, but feels bad about her later
47:12since he doesn't do many creative
47:13things. She even considers letting Morse
47:16join her cast of characters. But on the
47:18other hand, she doesn't like how her dad
47:19tried to add his own stuff to her work.
47:21Sometime later, Bonnie and her mom take
47:23a trip to a graveyard to visit her
47:25grandmother, Rose. It starts to get
47:27really windy, but strangely only on
47:29Bonnie's face. When approaching her
47:31grandmother's grave, the wind gets
47:33quieter and quieter. Eventually, the
47:35sound of the breeze turns into a voice,
47:37seemingly the voice of her deceased
47:39grandma. Naturally, this freaks Bonnie
47:41out, but the voice tells her nice things
47:43and to keep this ability a secret, at
47:45least for now. Speaking of secrets,
47:48since Bonnie's grandma is a ghost, that
47:50indicates that she was killed by another
47:51person, which the creator of Popco
47:53himself, Kane Carter, has confirmed, we
47:56don't know what happened, and I doubt
47:58this will ever be elaborated upon, but
47:59it's interesting nonetheless. Anyways,
48:02on the way home, Bonnie's mother notices
48:04something wrong, but sticking to her
48:06grandmother's advice, she doesn't tell
48:07her anything. When lying in bed, Bonnie
48:09thinks about what happened, trying to
48:11figure out if there's something wrong
48:12with her or if she can actually hear the
48:14dead. Part of her is excited if that
48:16turns out to be the case, which
48:17unsurprisingly it is. Bonnie ponders
48:20whether or not she can hear other ghosts
48:22in the graveyard and maybe do something
48:23about it. She even thinks about asking
48:25her parents to go back to the graveyard,
48:27but then they would definitely know that
48:28something is up. On Bonnie's 10th
48:30birthday, her dad, busy with work, gives
48:33her a nicely wrapped gift, hoping she
48:35can forgive him for his absence once she
48:37sees what's inside. Upon opening the
48:39present, she's greeted with a 3D printed
48:41Freddy Fazbear's pizza and a note with
48:43instructions. Fritz tells Bonnie that
48:45her characters reminded him of the love
48:47he once had for Freddy's. Though with
48:49him no longer existing, she can't
48:51experience the fantasy and fun for
48:52herself, which is probably a good thing.
48:55But Pop Goes can visit this tiny
48:57Freddy's anytime she'd like. He calls it
49:00My Pop Goes. In this pizzeria, Bonnie
49:02needs to make sure her pop goes is well
49:04taken care of throughout five levels of
49:06resource management. In each one, she
49:08has to make sure he's wellfed, hydrated,
49:10and not literally bored to death. If she
49:12gets tired of these, there's an endless
49:14mode and a plethora of mini games that
49:16she can enjoy, too. These include
49:18fishing, snake, pest control, and food
49:21juggling along with whacka rabbit, which
49:23I think Fritz took some liberties on,
49:25including Morse the mole with an army of
49:27robot weasels. In addition, the game
49:29also comes with colored cartridges that
49:31can change her pop goes into someone
49:33else from the band. Ending the section
49:35off on a dark note, Bonnie's mom passes
49:37away sometime following her birthday.
49:39It's never made clear what happened, but
49:42Bonnie's birthday card does mention
49:43taking care of her mom, so it's likely
49:45that she was sick. All we know for sure
49:47is that she passes after Bonnie's 10th
49:49birthday. Chances are it's years after,
49:52but still not good. On an even darker
49:55note, Simon returns in Five Nights at
49:57Freddy's 3. In the year 2023, 30 years
50:00after Freddy Fazer's Pizza closed
50:01[music] its doors, the horrific events
50:03there are nothing more than rumor and
50:05memory. But a local amusement park
50:07decides to cash in on those stories.
50:09They settle on creating a haunted house
50:11called Fazbear's Fright. This attraction
50:14features all sorts of props and relics
50:15from Fazbear's disturbing history,
50:18including the remains of the
50:19animatronics, although thankfully none
50:21of them are functioning. The main
50:23gameplay starts a week before the
50:24attraction opens with yet another
50:26security guard. However, unlike the
50:29previous games, Night One goes smoothly.
50:31No haunted robots, no worries, nothing.
50:34But as we know, it doesn't stay like
50:35that forever. While the Fright's
50:37employees search abandoned Freddy's
50:39locations for props, someone who helped
50:41design the FNAF 1 Pizzeria tells them
50:43about the boarded up safe room. They
50:45break it open and find the rotting
50:47Spring Bonnie Sue, which is very
50:48obviously inhabited by a human corpse.
50:50But despite all the red flags that
50:52should be going off in their heads, they
50:54decide to take this whole crime scene to
50:56the haunted house. Anyway, from night
50:58two onward, Simon, now known as
51:00Springtrap, hunts down the Fazers fright
51:02guard, who is also bombarded by phantoms
51:05of the previous animatronics. Although
51:07they might just be hallucinations caused
51:09by the faulty, sometimes corpse-filled
51:10ventilation, the guard is armed with
51:12only an old-fashioned security system, a
51:15button to play the audio of children
51:16laughing in each room, and a slow tablet
51:18that can reset the ventilation, audio
51:20alerts, and [music] camera visibility.
51:22No night guard has ever been so
51:24unprepared. Luckily for them,
51:26Springtrap's animatronic mode is set to
51:28follow sound cues, allowing the guard to
51:30lure him around with the sound of
51:32children. But there's more going on than
51:34simple survival. The player can access
51:36mini games where they have to find the
51:38souls of Simon's victims and help set
51:40them free. After tracking down the ghost
51:42throughout the miniames, all of the
51:44spirits are finally given their happiest
51:45day. And the fifth night ends with all
51:47the souls at rest. However, the
51:50following night concludes with Fazbar's
51:51fright burning to the ground, similar to
51:53the ending of Five Nights at Candies 2.
51:56While authorities haven't ruled out foul
51:57play, it seems like faulty wiring is
51:59what caused the fire. Alternatively,
52:02similar to Marilyn, the guard might have
52:04set the attraction ablaze to kill off
52:06Springtrap. Regardless, it seems like
52:08Simon does perish here. I don't believe
52:10it's been confirmed yet, but in the pop
52:12ghost 2016 lore, Simon dying at
52:14Fazbear's Fright was a pretty
52:16significant part of the story, so I
52:18assume that remains unchanged. After the
52:20fire, any surviving props are auctioned
52:22off, which includes Freddy Fazbear's
52:23iconic top hat and the always sloppy box
52:25of parts. It appears in Evergreen
52:27Squirrel Sister's jump scare video. You
52:29can't even see Toy Bonn's guitar
52:31sticking out of it. These two items, and
52:33possibly even more, are one by Fritz,
52:35who will later use Freddy's hat for his
52:36own animatronic band. Around the same
52:39time, Marilyn Schmidt returns as
52:40Bonnie's internet friend. Now, as an
52:42adult, Bonnie is a very different style.
52:45Instead of her colorful childhood
52:46clothing, she wears a much darker
52:48palette and more importantly, an amazing
52:50Data shirt. That taste was a brand of
52:53soda that appeared throughout the candy
52:54series. And it seems that Bonnie's a fan
52:56of it. On the topic of candies, during a
52:59long chat with Marilyn, she tells Bonnie
53:01about conversations that she has with
53:02her mom, which act as a kind of therapy
53:04for them after the events of the Candies
53:06trilogy. Realizing how wildly similar
53:08Mary's experiences are to her own dad's,
53:11Bonnie begins to feel envious. Anytime
53:13she tries to talk to her dad about his
53:14trauma, he closes up and pushes her
53:17away, leaving her feeling responsible to
53:19help him get over it. This gives her a
53:21great idea. Using their parents'
53:23stories, Bonnie's gift, some research
53:25and science, the women come up with the
53:28Violet Project, a big documentation of
53:30their data that can help the world
53:32finally understand the supernatural, and
53:34aid Fritz in understanding and getting
53:35over his trauma. Sometime later, in
53:38April of 2023, Fritz asked the now
53:4025-year-old Bonnie if she can go up to
53:42the attic and grab his toolbox from the
53:43chest. Inside, Bonnie finds her old off
53:46brandand Chica plush, the toolbox she's
53:48been looking for, a toy Bonnie masks
53:50that she made using one of her dad's 3D
53:52printers, [music] and a cardboard box
53:53containing her old My Pop Goes toy.
53:56Bonnie reminisces about playing My Pop
53:58Goes, which leads into the main gameplay
54:00and story that we previously discussed.
54:02Once the player completes the main
54:03campaign, they return to [music] the
54:05present, where Bonnie is lost in
54:06thought. Brits, a little confused, asked
54:09if she's found the toolbox yet, snapping
54:11her back to reality. She grabs his
54:13toolbox and heads back downstairs. This
54:16may seem [music] like a totally random
54:17event in the timeline, but it's
54:19theorized that Bonnie might be grabbing
54:20the toolbox since Fritz has started
54:22working on life-sized animatronic
54:24versions of Pop Goes in the band for
54:25their very own Pop Ghost Pizzeria. One
54:28year later, in 2024, [music]
54:30the research for the Violet Project has
54:32progressed, giving Bonnie and Marilyn a
54:34theory that possessions only occur
54:35[music] when the actions of another soul
54:37kill someone. This research will soon be
54:39put to the test. But in lighter news,
54:41the Pop goes pizzeria is complete and
54:43it's almost one to one with Bonnie's
54:45original vision thanks to Fritz's
54:46animatronics. Pop goes, Sarah, and
54:49Saffron take the stage as Stone stands
54:52outside directing customers. Blake sits
54:54in the server room only coming out to
54:56check on guests. He seems to be tied to
54:58the Weaselware [music] operating system,
55:00which in Pop Go 2016 controlled all the
55:03animatronics and machines in the
55:04pizzeria. Pop Goes Arcade establishes
55:07that system and implies that everything
55:08in the restaurant is tied [music] to it,
55:10so it looks like all that old lore still
55:12holds up. The establishment also
55:13features 3D printers in almost every
55:15room, allowing customers to print toys
55:17of their favorite Pop Goes or Freddy's
55:19characters. But it doesn't end there.
55:21The pizzeria includes an art room where
55:23guests can paint their newly printed
55:25figures so they look perfect when
55:26they're taken home. Speaking of the
55:28Freddy's animatronics, much like in
55:30Bonnie Glad's imaginary Popco's gang,
55:32the real Pop Goes wears Freddy's top hat
55:34with a green ribbon [music] tied around
55:35it. As we mentioned earlier, Fritz also
55:38got the box of parts from Fazbear's
55:39Fright. It's stored in the photo room,
55:41likely so its contents can be used as
55:43props for photo ops. Though this
55:45pizzeria looks and sounds amazing, per
55:47FNAF fashion, something always goes
55:49wrong. One late night, Bonnie decides to
55:52take her old Toy Bonnie mask from the
55:54attic and break into the pizzeria. As of
55:56writing this video, it's not very clear
55:58what she's doing there, but we'll touch
55:59on our theories later. Now, inside the
56:02server room, Bonnie opens a server
56:04cabinet and takes off a floor panel.
56:06However, she's spotted by her father.
56:08Seeing the toy Bonnie mask triggers his
56:10trauma, and he's now fully convinced the
56:12actual toy Bonnie is messing around in
56:14his server room. Before I continue, most
56:16of the attack I'm about to describe is
56:18purely based on what we noticed in the
56:19image of the aftermath. So, take all of
56:21this as speculation. He grabs an
56:24emergency fire axe and swings at Bonnie,
56:26hitting her upper body and making her
56:28drop the floor panel. She turns around,
56:30trying to head to the back of the room
56:32to gain some distance from Fritz and
56:33take off her mask, but he's too quick.
56:36He hits her in the shoulder and she
56:37falls to the floor. Her mask slides away
56:39from her newly deceased corpse as she
56:41lands. [music] Fritz, now realizing what
56:43he's done, ditches the ax and flees,
56:45thinking of what to do next. [music]
56:47Meanwhile, since Bonnie was
56:49intentionally murdered by another human,
56:50she becomes a ghost. Her soul possesses
56:53the weasel bear servers as indicated by
56:54the blue lights turning red. Back to
56:57Fritz, he naturally chooses the rational
56:59option of taking his daughter's [music]
57:00body home and hiding it in the attic
57:02chest. Something that was seen in the My
57:04Pop Goes ending. According to Kane
57:06Carter, Fritz separated some of Bonnie's
57:08limbs to fit her into this chest, hence
57:10her unnatural position. This is a slight
57:12change from Pop Go 2016 where Fritz's
57:15attack on Bonnie left her cut into six
57:17pieces. Regardless, Fritz locks her
57:19remains inside the chest. Finally, he
57:21dumps in a body of water, presumably an
57:23ocean, never to be seen again. Fritz
57:26also tosses the ax down a well to
57:28dispose of the murder weapon. The next
57:30day, the events of Pop Go Arcade occur.
57:33Here, we're put in the shoes of a
57:34regular patron at the Pop Ghost
57:36Pizzeria, a young girl who decides to
57:38play an arcade called Pop Goes the Dead
57:40Forest. It's never clearly stated that
57:42we play as a girl in this game, but you
57:44can faintly see her shadow during the
57:45main gameplay, and King Carter confirmed
57:47the player's gender [music] on Discord.
57:49Anyways, this is no ordinary arcade.
57:52Bonnie's Ghost in the Weaselware system
57:54ends up being sucked into the titular
57:55Pop Goes Arcade. This game within a game
57:58has a very detailed world and story that
58:00I believe is worth discussing as it not
58:02only offers strong world building, but
58:04also draws parallels to events in the
58:06series. The first campaign in this game
58:08is the Dead Forest, named after the
58:10scrapped Pop Ghost 2016 sequel. This
58:12world closely resembles Bonnie's
58:14original diary of the Pop Ghost
58:15characters with all the animals living
58:17in a forest. However, this land is ruled
58:19over by Freddy's father, a bear overlord
58:22who is researching the supernatural.
58:24According to King Carter, this king is
58:26eventually murdered by either a living
58:27or haunted thing, but the identity of
58:29the culprit isn't important. His son,
58:31Freddy, becomes king after his passing,
58:33but a week later, he can't bring himself
58:35to pick up the ghostly research. The
58:37next night, the spirit of Freddy's
58:38father haunts a painting in the castle
58:40and directs his son to a book, which
58:42explains the rules of hauntings in the
58:44CPU. If another creature kills you, you
58:46get a second chance at life as a ghost.
58:48The following night, Freddy feels a bit
58:50useless. No one talks to him, and he has
58:52nothing to say, but he wants to make
58:54something groundbreaking to make his
58:56father proud. On the fourth night, he
58:58confirms that his father's spirit is
58:59still in the castle with him. And he
59:01notes that he did mention something
59:03about how the presence of the paranormal
59:04might have a permanent effect on the
59:06mental state of nearby entities, as in
59:08being near ghosts might make you go a
59:10bit cuckoo. He used the word corrupt a
59:12lot when referring to that kind of
59:14behavior. This might explain why Mary,
59:16Fritz, and Mike all saw hallucinations
59:18throughout the games. Them being near
59:20Ghost might have made them go a bit
59:21crazy and start seeing things. Anyways,
59:24Freddy's final diary ends with, "I've
59:26come up with an idea." We later learn
59:28that King Freddy decides that life would
59:30be better for everyone if they were all
59:31dead creatures. Didn't mean they
59:33wouldn't need to eat, drink, sleep,
59:35breathe, or die. They could live forever
59:38if they were dead. He partners with a
59:40familiar neglected character, Morse the
59:42mole, also known as the machinist. In
59:45the arcade lore, he aspired to become
59:46part of the Pop Ghost crew, but his
59:48weird, cruel ideas made him an outcast,
59:51calling back to how when Fritz created
59:53him, Bonnie rejected the mole. This
59:55could also serve as a nod to Bonnie and
59:57Fritz's strain relationship. But back to
59:59the world of Popo's arcade, in exchange
1:00:01for King Freddy laying morse to whatever
1:00:03he wants with the underground, the mole
1:00:04builds him lasers that would drain the
1:00:06life of everything and everyone. The
1:00:08North forest ultimately succumbs to
1:00:09these lasers, making most of the living
1:00:11things there dead, giving it the name
1:00:13the dead forest. These lasers are
1:00:15installed in the other forest, making
1:00:16all the animals corrupt and hostile.
1:00:19This is where the game properly begins
1:00:21with the player taking control of Popos
1:00:22the weasel as he goes on a quest to save
1:00:24the land. Guarding Freddy's evil lasers
1:00:27are corrupted versions of Chica, Foxy,
1:00:29and Bonnie. But luckily, Popos manages
1:00:32to defeat them and the corrupted
1:00:33creatures in the forests. Not only that,
1:00:35but he finds keys, allowing him to enter
1:00:37the locked up dead forest. When
1:00:39exploring, the girl playing the game
1:00:40gets a glimpse of Bonnie's ghost
1:00:42floating down a river, which will be
1:00:43important later on. Pop goes makes his
1:00:46way to the castle, where he encounters a
1:00:47corrupted version of BB, which actually
1:00:49stands for buffoon boy rather than
1:00:51Balloon Boy. Judging from the hat, it
1:00:53seems like he's the castle jester. Pop
1:00:56goes best in battle, and he scurries off
1:00:58with one HP left. Wow.
1:01:02Oh, shoot. I'm recording.
1:01:04Um, unfortunately the castle door is
1:01:06locked, meaning Popco needs even more
1:01:08keys. Oh, and even worse, beating up a
1:01:11phone boy activate the kill switch,
1:01:13which brings all the previous enemies
1:01:14back to life even stronger. Luckily, BB
1:01:17is here to help. During the battle, Pop
1:01:19goes and knocks some sense into him. A
1:01:21unique reaction which likely occurred
1:01:23since BB is a human unlike everyone
1:01:25else. After this, he snuck into the
1:01:27castle and stole some special abilities
1:01:29that Freddy had previously offered him.
1:01:30>> [music]
1:01:31>> And when the player completes his hit
1:01:32list, BB hands them over. Pop goes once
1:01:35again defeats Freddy's goons and
1:01:36deactivates the life- draining lasers,
1:01:38which stops the dead animals from
1:01:40spawning. He also takes the abilities
1:01:42and possibly the souls of the bosses,
1:01:44which he uses to get into new areas of
1:01:46the forest and find castle keys. The
1:01:48player can also upgrade these abilities
1:01:50with emerald coins. With all the keys,
1:01:52abilities, and possibly BB's bonuses
1:01:55collected, Popos enters the castle and
1:01:57faces dead King Freddy. The skeleton
1:01:59bear tells him that he's really thrown a
1:02:01wrench into his plans. It's later
1:02:03revealed that Freddy has no clue what a
1:02:04wrench is and was just mimicking
1:02:06something more said. Anyways, the king
1:02:08tells Popco how amazing being dead is
1:02:10and kindly offers to show him. The
1:02:12ensuing battle's tough, but as always,
1:02:15Pop goes prevails. As Freddy perishes,
1:02:17he tells him, "You have won. On your
1:02:20last day on Earth, you'll regret you
1:02:21did. Yes, you will. When you succumb to
1:02:25a natural end and your body rots into
1:02:27the soil, you would have wished you had
1:02:30the second chance I was going to give
1:02:32you. With the evil ruler defeated,
1:02:35everyone thanks Pop goes and discusses
1:02:36fixing the north forest. Despite the
1:02:39campaign being completed, there's still
1:02:40more going on here. In the castle,
1:02:43there's a glitching wall which the
1:02:44player can phase through to follow
1:02:45Bonnie's ghost. Remember earlier, the
1:02:47girl playing the arcade saw her spirit
1:02:49heading down the river. Once she walks
1:02:51through the wall, she finds herself in
1:02:52what appears to be an ocean with an
1:02:54ominous chest. If this seems familiar,
1:02:56it's because this is exactly what
1:02:58happened to Bonnie's body. It was sealed
1:03:00in a chest and tossed into a body of
1:03:02water, likely the ocean. Instead of
1:03:04finding a corpse in the chest, the
1:03:05player obtains a mysterious key, which
1:03:07can be used at the fountain to make the
1:03:09world go dark and give Pop Go a new
1:03:11task. Instead of this being an objective
1:03:13like every other quest in the game, this
1:03:15one is listed as a directive, which is
1:03:17an official authoritative instruction.
1:03:19More on that later. The directive
1:03:21presented to the player is simply
1:03:23collect. The probably terrified girl
1:03:25playing this game has to explore this
1:03:26dark ghostly world devoid of NPCs.
1:03:29Eventually, she finds strange parts, and
1:03:31after collecting six of them, they'll
1:03:33form something that resembles a
1:03:34dismembered rabbit. The directive then
1:03:36changes to simply find me. This may seem
1:03:39vague at first, but in the south forest,
1:03:41there's a blood-filled well as a nod to
1:03:42Fritz's evidence disposal. You could
1:03:44even find an axe floating in there
1:03:46earlier. Since that well is tied to
1:03:48Bonnie's haunting, interacting within
1:03:50the ghost world transports the player to
1:03:51the Five Nights at Freddy's 3 miniames.
1:03:54These are now all devoid of spirits as
1:03:56the ghost of Simon's victims were set
1:03:57free back in that game. However, one
1:04:00ghost resides at the final table in the
1:04:01Happiest Day miname. This is, of course,
1:04:04Bonnie Glade, who appears as the
1:04:06corrupted Bonnie boss from earlier. If
1:04:08the player attacks her at any point, a
1:04:10new form of Bonnie Glade known as the
1:04:11black rabbit will emerge and smash
1:04:13through the arcade. This is what the
1:04:15player assembled earlier with the six
1:04:16black pieces and she strongly resembles
1:04:18Shadow Bonnie. According to Kane Carter,
1:04:21you can safely assume that in the CPU,
1:04:23Shadow Bonnie serves as some sort of
1:04:25cosmic foreshadowing for the black
1:04:26rabbit, but he probably has no real
1:04:28canonical purpose. Anyways, this jump
1:04:30scare seems to just be a hallucination,
1:04:32and it can be avoided if the player
1:04:34doesn't attack Bonnie. Being a pacifist
1:04:36causes the arcade to glitch further, and
1:04:38the Bonnie sprite turns black and gray,
1:04:40resembling the black rabbit. She'll
1:04:42sometimes glitch into other forms.
1:04:44Noteworthy [music] appearances include
1:04:45her wielding an axe, and one even seems
1:04:47to depict her uncle Simon being
1:04:48springlocked. Speaking of which, two
1:04:50others appear to reference Bonnie and
1:04:51Shadow Bonnie's miniame appearances from
1:04:53FNAF 3. There's also a sprite based on
1:04:56chef Wanted, which was a fan game that
1:04:57Kane Carter, Emil Macko, and Cenne
1:04:59Muburn were working on before cancing it
1:05:01to focus on candies and pop goes. Back
1:05:04to the present, Bonnie Glade urges the
1:05:06player not to attack her, saying she's
1:05:08not controlling this and is trying to
1:05:10calm down. She explains how she can feel
1:05:12everything in the game, but she knows
1:05:14it's fake, that she's trapped in a
1:05:16machine and unintentionally controlling
1:05:18it, explaining all the paranormal
1:05:19activity. Bonnie realizes now that all
1:05:22of her research was true. She died from
1:05:24the actions of another person and now
1:05:26exists as a flash of who she was, a
1:05:28ghost. Instead of feeling scared, she's
1:05:30almost excited. Bonnie explains who she
1:05:32is and says that she might even
1:05:34recognize the child playing the game.
1:05:36But regardless, she needs to move on and
1:05:38find something else. She thanks the girl
1:05:40for her company and apologizes if she
1:05:41scared her before it sold parts from the
1:05:43arcade. Removing all the ghostly
1:05:45elements from the machine. With dead
1:05:47King Freddy defeated and Bonnie spirit
1:05:49now freed, the player can progress to
1:05:51the second campaign. Pop goes and the
1:05:53machinist. As the name suggests, this
1:05:55one focuses on Morse the mole who
1:05:57controls underground as part of his deal
1:05:59with Freddy. His end goal is to replace
1:06:01everyone with robots. And to kick off
1:06:03this evil scheme, he abducts Manora,
1:06:05which isn't entirely random. As Bonnie
1:06:07complained about her diary, he has the
1:06:09same special color as her, that being
1:06:11orange. To save Manura, Popos has to
1:06:13find three key cards to access Morse's
1:06:15layer. This means defeating all sorts of
1:06:17robotic foes, including new versions of
1:06:19Chica, Boxy, and finally Bonnie, who
1:06:22resembles withered Bonnie. Throughout
1:06:24this adventure, Morris watches Popos
1:06:26with hidden cameras [music] around the
1:06:27map. Learning more about his movements
1:06:29and attack patterns to improve his
1:06:30robots. Once Pop goes defeats his
1:06:32mechanical adversaries and collects all
1:06:34three key cards, he's able to enter
1:06:36Morse's layer where he's keeping Monora.
1:06:38The Weasel and Mole battle with the
1:06:40orange character having Billy's own
1:06:41abilities to mimic Pop goes. During the
1:06:43fight, he creates lasers to drain the
1:06:45weasel's life and even makes him fight a
1:06:47prototype Manura midway through the
1:06:48battle. However, Pop Ghost still
1:06:50prevails, which apparently Morse already
1:06:52expected. He just wanted to witness
1:06:54things firsthand. In the final moments
1:06:56of his life, he talks about how he made
1:06:58his powers himself, unlike how Pop Ghost
1:07:00stole them from others. Morse asks if he
1:07:02was impressed and wonders if he could
1:07:04have been one of the gang before
1:07:05perishing. Since Morris seems to
1:07:07represent Fritz and Pop Goes as Bonnie's
1:07:09original character, this scene could be
1:07:11read as a parallel to their troubled
1:07:13relationship. Both Fritz and Morris also
1:07:15make robots of the Pop Goes gang,
1:07:17further strengthening their connection.
1:07:20Even more interesting is that in this
1:07:21campaign, Holly and Manura never get
1:07:23finished robots just like in the Pop
1:07:25Goes Pizzeria. But back to the story in
1:07:27the arcade world, the second campaign
1:07:29ends with Pop Goes rescuing a Smitt and
1:07:30Manora. I also want to point out that
1:07:32Manura's sketch from My Pop Ghost cites
1:07:34her as disliking robots and this
1:07:36campaign adds some extra significance to
1:07:38that. Despite Morse being defeated,
1:07:40there's still more story in this game.
1:07:42Sadly, none of which involves the mole
1:07:44spirit coming back for revenge. [music]
1:07:46Although, according to King Carter, it's
1:07:47safe to assume a spirit lingers in the
1:07:49caves. However, to access this new
1:07:51content, the arcade sets the girl
1:07:52playing it back to before the machinist
1:07:54demise. She now discovers robot BB's
1:07:56that Morse locked up in the underground
1:07:58areas. And these little guys can be used
1:08:00to smelt scrap into coins. All these
1:08:02BB's have different personalities, and
1:08:04Robot BB is especially a riot. I love it
1:08:07when he says the machinist was
1:08:08committing tax fraud or something. That
1:08:10being said, once the player smells
1:08:12enough scrap, the bots run out battery.
1:08:14Their deaths are all pretty sad, but the
1:08:16player does get new mallets to decorate
1:08:17the in walls with. These balloon boys
1:08:20aren't the only notable robots
1:08:21underground. The player travels back to
1:08:23the caves where she defeated Robot Foxy,
1:08:25and the lights down there are
1:08:26mysteriously flickering. This is
1:08:28revealed to be caused by the mangle, an
1:08:30amalgamation of all sorts of creatures
1:08:32haunted by the spirit of King Freddy.
1:08:34The ensuing battle is difficult, but Pop
1:08:36Ghost prevails and once again defeats
1:08:38Freddy. He reflects on his previous
1:08:40forms. First flesh, then bones, now
1:08:43machine. With fear, he wonders what's
1:08:45next. As he once again dies, defeating
1:08:48the Mangle makes the lights underground
1:08:49stop flickering and grants the player
1:08:51Freddy's scythe. Rewards aside, Freddy
1:08:53is definitely meant to be representation
1:08:55of Simon Fitzgerald. Both of them strive
1:08:57to control death after experiencing
1:08:59loss. Freddy's scheme to make everyone
1:09:01immortal using his life draining lasers
1:09:03sounds very similar to how Simon wanted
1:09:04to give death rules. Furthermore, in
1:09:06death as an animal, the example of Simon
1:09:08taming death is Freddy, connecting him
1:09:10to dead King Freddy and possibly hinting
1:09:12that he might want to use the power of
1:09:13the supernatural to supersede death.
1:09:15King Freddy also comes back as a robot,
1:09:17similar to Pop Ghost 2016, where Fritz
1:09:19made a robot replica of his brother. All
1:09:21the enemy types in arcade can also be
1:09:23seen as a representation of Simon's
1:09:25life. The corrupted enemies are hostile
1:09:27but still alive, similar to Simon's life
1:09:29as a human. Then the undead enemies
1:09:31symbolize his second life as Springtrap.
1:09:33Dead Bonnie is even missing an ear just
1:09:35like him. Finally, the robot character
1:09:38seem to be a nod to the Simon robot, a
1:09:40character who will be a major part of
1:09:42Popco's Evergreen. In 2016, Simon was an
1:09:45AI created by Fritz in the image of his
1:09:47dead brother. His role in the CPU is a
1:09:49bit more vague, but we'll theorize about
1:09:51him later. There's a whole other can of
1:09:53worms in the north forest. The animals
1:09:55are currently working on restoring this
1:09:57area, but it's sealed off for the time
1:09:59being. In reality, this is because Fritz
1:10:01decided to cut it from the game using
1:10:03the gate from the first campaign to do
1:10:05so. However, that automatically spawns
1:10:07keys to open it, so he blocked those off
1:10:09with the woodpecker NPC, but he forgot
1:10:11to wipe its code, which has a strange
1:10:13connection to the paint bots in the
1:10:15forest. And of course, he left a whole
1:10:17developer note about this attached to
1:10:19the well in the south forest. The player
1:10:21follows this hen and defeats the paint
1:10:22bots, then puts on those colors, causing
1:10:25the woodpecker NPCs to glitch. She uses
1:10:27this method to collect all three keys
1:10:29and returns to the dead forest, where
1:10:31she dives into the depths of the game,
1:10:33revealing a scrapped robot Freddy mini
1:10:34boss. Whims the Weeper actually
1:10:36theorizes that a robot Freddy might be
1:10:38the machinist, but says that would be
1:10:40boring. Anyways, the girl controlling
1:10:42Pop Ghost descends even further,
1:10:44eventually ending up in the Weaselware
1:10:46network. Here she accesses the security
1:10:48footage from Cam 7, revealing the
1:10:49previously analyzed footage of Bonnie's
1:10:51death. I doubt that the girl playing the
1:10:53arcade witnessing this will have any
1:10:54real relevance to the story. Although
1:10:56Kane does note that she might have
1:10:57thought Bonnie's ghost was part of the
1:10:59game up until this point. Regardless, I
1:11:01thought it was still worth mentioning
1:11:02because it canonically happens. With the
1:11:05two main campaigns and their villains
1:11:06out of the way, let's focus on another
1:11:08character who appears throughout Popco's
1:11:10arcade. That being the puppet. This
1:11:12mysterious character contacts Pop Goes
1:11:14after he defeats Chica for the first
1:11:16time. They meet up in the inn, but he
1:11:18doesn't give the weasel a name, so he
1:11:20just calls him the puppet. He tells
1:11:21Pophos that he's confined to this room,
1:11:23but he's been watching him through the
1:11:24window, which isn't actually on the
1:11:26outside of the inn. According to Wimps
1:11:27the [music] Weeper, the puppet has
1:11:29noticed that while everyone seems to
1:11:30follow scripted instructions, Pop Ghost
1:11:32is very chaotic, almost like he's being
1:11:34controlled by some unseen force, which
1:11:36is of course the player. The puppet
1:11:38offers to make pop ghost battles more
1:11:40chaotic with random gifts which can have
1:11:42positive, neutral, or negative effects.
1:11:45Once the player has encountered every
1:11:46gift, the puppet offers one final
1:11:48challenge, a fight with him. In a not
1:11:51very surprising twist, the puppet has
1:11:53really just been turning Popos into a
1:11:54weapon. Since he can see the future, he
1:11:57needs someone unpredictable to finally
1:11:58defeat him and free him from his box,
1:12:00from this room, from the world. During
1:12:03the fight, the puppet gets desperate for
1:12:04Pop Ghost to kill him. But he realizes
1:12:07that nothing is special about the weasel
1:12:08at all. He's simply a character being
1:12:10puppeted by the player. Eventually, the
1:12:12girl controlling Pop Ghost prevails,
1:12:14cutting the puppet strings and freeing
1:12:16him from the box. After defeating the
1:12:18puppet, he leaves the player's ribbon,
1:12:20which allows her to select specific
1:12:21battle gifts during enemy encounters.
1:12:23But it serves another function. When she
1:12:26wears it with specific outfit colors, a
1:12:28gift box corresponding to that color
1:12:29will spawn. And each of these has its
1:12:31own unique text, which sheds more light
1:12:33on the puppet. In every box description,
1:12:35there are shaking letters. And if you
1:12:37put them in the correct order with other
1:12:38colors, you get three sentences. I
1:12:41firstly gifted golden hair. I secondly
1:12:43gifted a ship. I thirdly gifted a spear.
1:12:46This seems to be a reference to Loki.
1:12:48Not the Marvel character, but the Norse
1:12:50trickster. He got the hair of Thor's
1:12:52wife, Cyph. And to make up for this, he
1:12:53had dwarfs make gifts. Those include new
1:12:56golden hair, a ship that can fold up
1:12:57into a pocket, and a spear that never
1:12:59misses. These match up with the gift box
1:13:02message implying that the puppet's
1:13:03mysterious identity is actually Loki.
1:13:05Furthermore, after killing Odin's son
1:13:07named Boulder, Loki was chained to a
1:13:09rock where a serpent drips poison.
1:13:12Luckily for him, his wife Sigan is there
1:13:14to collect it in a bucket, but whenever
1:13:15she leaves, it drips on his face,
1:13:17resulting in immense pain. And
1:13:19apparently, that's what causes
1:13:20earthquakes. Cool. Similarly, the puppet
1:13:23in Popco's arcade was banished from
1:13:24another world and trapped in the box,
1:13:26further tying him to Loki. Granted, this
1:13:29doesn't match up one for one. There's no
1:13:31snake and Loki's wife isn't there. But
1:13:33all of this seems to imply that the
1:13:34puppet's true identity in the arcade
1:13:36story is Loki. This also explains why
1:13:39the puppet is a jester in Popco Arcade,
1:13:41as Loki is quite the mischievous
1:13:43guy/girl/horse.
1:13:45But moving on to the actual gift box
1:13:47descriptions, most of them connect to
1:13:48the Popco character special colors. The
1:13:51green one is about being a hero like Pop
1:13:53Goes. The yellow one is being
1:13:54intelligent like Blake. The orange one
1:13:56is about being in love, similar to
1:13:57Monora, etc. However, there are a couple
1:14:00of gift boxes that aren't tied to any of
1:14:01the special colors. Those being silver,
1:14:04indigo, and violet. However, we can
1:14:07pretty reasonably figure out who these
1:14:08belong to. The indigo box smells like
1:14:10the ocean, likely where Bonnie's corpse
1:14:12was disposed of, and has a desire to
1:14:14learn, investigate, and be at the core
1:14:16of the mystery, just like how Bonnie was
1:14:18researching the paranormal and was
1:14:20excited to be a ghost herself. However,
1:14:22the box also feels lost in a new
1:14:24environment and information, similar to
1:14:26how Bonnie ended up trapped in the
1:14:27arcade and hit with the reality that
1:14:29ghosts and hauntings are indeed real.
1:14:31Now, it seems like she's not quite sure
1:14:32what to do with that knowledge, but
1:14:34we'll present some theories later.
1:14:36Moving on, the violet box is clearly
1:14:38tied to Simon. I mean, obviously the
1:14:40color itself is violet, but it smells
1:14:42like metal and machines, just like how
1:14:44Simon is a robot. The sensation
1:14:46described also matches up with Simon's
1:14:48character in the 2016 lore. The box
1:14:50feels ambitious, an appetite for growth,
1:14:53for adapting, learning, evolving, for
1:14:56being bigger, stronger, better, but at
1:15:00the same time, an indescribable
1:15:01loneliness, awareness of total, perhaps
1:15:04sudden abandonment, and as a result,
1:15:07anger. In the Pop Goes 2016 story, Simon
1:15:10had an extension called evolution, which
1:15:12would allow him to quickly learn and
1:15:14evolve, just like how the feeling in the
1:15:15box wants to learn and grow. The feeling
1:15:18of anger also ties back to his character
1:15:19in the original story. Brits chained him
1:15:22to a wall after realizing what a
1:15:23horrible thing he had created and Simon
1:15:25eventually killed him in anger. It seems
1:15:27like in the modern story, Simon feels
1:15:28lonely, aware that at any time he could
1:15:31be abandoned which leads to his anger.
1:15:33This is all just speculation and we'll
1:15:34share some more thoughts later in this
1:15:36video. The final outlier gift is the
1:15:38silver box. The description reads, "The
1:15:41box is open. A sparkling spectral light
1:15:44glimmers from inside it. It smells
1:15:46clean, like freshly washed clothes, hand
1:15:48soap, and [music] nothing else. Though
1:15:50there's nothing physically in the box,
1:15:51it emits a sensation. The box feels
1:15:54loyal. A constant selfless dedication to
1:15:57supporting another, to talk, to assist,
1:16:00to genuinely care, but at the same time,
1:16:03a deep and growing sense of uncertainty,
1:16:05discomfort, a crisis of conscious,
1:16:08sitting perhaps on the wrong side and
1:16:10being trapped there. This box is likely
1:16:13referring to Fritz Glade. Being Bonnie's
1:16:15father, he cares for her, but it's clear
1:16:17that their relationship is a bit messy,
1:16:19hence why there's uncertainty and
1:16:21discomfort. He also murdered her and hid
1:16:23the evidence, which could explain the
1:16:24crisis of conscious. Fritz covered up
1:16:27his horrific crime to save himself. That
1:16:29definitely make him feel on the wrong
1:16:30side of things. Another possibility is
1:16:32that this is referring to Marilyn
1:16:34Schmidt, Bonnie Glad's online friend,
1:16:35and the protagonist from Candies 2.
1:16:38Marilyn's friendship could be with the
1:16:39boxes referring to by loyalty and
1:16:41dedication to supporting and caring for
1:16:43another. We also know that she talks to
1:16:45Bonnie a lot. However, the sense of
1:16:47uncertainty and being trapped on the
1:16:48wrong side of things could symbolize how
1:16:50Marilyn and Bonnie are literally
1:16:51countries apart. Or maybe she's unsure
1:16:53of the Violet project. I think Fritz is
1:16:56the more likely candidate for the silver
1:16:57box, but both interpretations are
1:16:59interesting nonetheless. Once the
1:17:01players completed everything in the
1:17:02arcade, she leaves the pizzeria and goes
1:17:04home. We then see the establishment
1:17:06later that night as someone or something
1:17:09watches the pop goes the weasel
1:17:10animatronic enter the arcade. He
1:17:13approaches the 3D printer intent on
1:17:14printing the black rabbit as a vessel
1:17:16for Bonnie Glade. Whoever is watching
1:17:18the Popco Pizzeria after dark stops him
1:17:20by resetting the room and the game ends
1:17:22with a promise to continue the story in
1:17:24Popco's Evergreen. As of the making and
1:17:27release of this video, Evergreen isn't
1:17:28out yet. Though, thanks to teasers,
1:17:30information from series creator King
1:17:32Carter, and already released Pop Ghost
1:17:34games, we can make some guesses on where
1:17:35things will go from here. Since this
1:17:37continues immediately from arcade, it
1:17:39takes place in 2024, and it'll have more
1:17:41traditionally styled FNAF gameplay. The
1:17:43main establishment will of course be the
1:17:45Pop Go Pizzeria, which is closed during
1:17:47the present story, likely because of
1:17:49Bonnie's death. Our protagonist, whoever
1:17:51they may be, has to face off against the
1:17:53Pop Go animatronics, who are being
1:17:55controlled by someone seen force. The
1:17:57game page reveals that someone has given
1:17:58them new instructions and that begs the
1:18:00question, who is puppeting the gang? The
1:18:02obvious suspect is Bonnie Glade. After
1:18:05all, her soul does haunt the weaselware
1:18:06systems that connect everything in the
1:18:08establishment. If you've played Pop
1:18:10Coast 2016, then you know that in that
1:18:12entry, the main gameplay was an
1:18:13experiment conducted by Fritz Glade. It
1:18:16was all designed to test the AI and
1:18:18curiosity of the main character,
1:18:19Strings. This weird looking guy was
1:18:22originally a dream catcher made to
1:18:23defeat Britz's fear of the puppet.
1:18:25However, in the CPU, it seems like Fritz
1:18:27isn't afraid of him. As according to
1:18:29Kane Carter, he never saw the puppet on
1:18:31a shift. He also said on Discord that
1:18:33the Evergreen story doesn't necessarily
1:18:35involve the protagonist being a robot.
1:18:37So, that leads me to believe that the
1:18:38gameplay in Evergreen isn't a test. Kane
1:18:41also said that Bonnie is a significant
1:18:42intelligent presence throughout the game
1:18:44as a ghost, furthering my suspicion that
1:18:46she's the one instructing the
1:18:47animatronics. Furthermore, Saffron's
1:18:50mechanic involves prying open the photo
1:18:51room door, and King Carter's description
1:18:53notes that she probably damages it. I
1:18:55doubt Fritz would allow the pizzeria to
1:18:57get damaged during his experiment. This
1:18:59also leaves the question of who the
1:19:00protagonist is, but frankly, there's
1:19:02very little information on the matter,
1:19:04so I have almost no clue. It could be
1:19:06Fritz since the post night section seem
1:19:08to feature him as the protagonist.
1:19:10However, he was the phone guy in Pop
1:19:12Ghost 2016, and we know that Evergreen
1:19:14will have lots of dialogue and live
1:19:15conversations. So, I assume Fritz will
1:19:18repric his role as the Pop Go Pizzeria's
1:19:20phone guy. So, if he's not the
1:19:21protagonist, then who is? This
1:19:24definitely won't happen, but it'd be
1:19:25cool if Marilyn were the guard as the
1:19:27cover to find out what happened to
1:19:28Bonnie Glade. But again, I highly doubt
1:19:30that'll be the case. So, it seems like
1:19:32Evergreen will involve an unknown
1:19:34protagonist trying to fend off the
1:19:35animatronics who are being controlled by
1:19:37Bonnie Spirit and Weaselware. Despite
1:19:39that, I don't think she's the reason Pop
1:19:40[music] Goes is printing the black
1:19:42rabbit. If you unlock every achievement
1:19:44in My Pop Goes and linger on the
1:19:46achievement page, icons change the spell
1:19:48out, "Bring back my Bonnie to me." It
1:19:50seems like this message is from Fritz
1:19:52given how possessive it is of Bonnie.
1:19:54The achievement icons all feature Pop
1:19:56Ghost as well, suggesting that Fritz is
1:19:58telling him to bring Bonnie back. This
1:19:59would explain why when Pop Ghost was
1:20:01saving Bonnie's spirit in the arcade,
1:20:03saving Bonnie is a directive instead of
1:20:05an objective. Again, a directive is an
1:20:07instruction from authoritative person.
1:20:09In this case, Fritz. He's the owner of
1:20:11the Pop Ghost Pizzeria. So, him telling
1:20:14Pop Ghost to save Bonnie becomes his
1:20:15directive. And we know that this doesn't
1:20:18just apply to the arcade. Both the
1:20:20soundtrack and teaser of Pop Ghost
1:20:21printing the black rabbit are called
1:20:23directive. This obviously means that
1:20:25he's following that command in
1:20:26Evergreen. However, Pop Ghost
1:20:28misinterprets bringing Bonnie back as
1:20:30printing out a giant toy Bonnie
1:20:31figurine, which is black because it's
1:20:34not painted. In Arcad's ending, Bonnie
1:20:36says that she needs to find something
1:20:37else, obviously hinting at her
1:20:39possessing the black rabbit. I mean,
1:20:41she's literally saying that while
1:20:42appearing as a black rabbit sprite, and
1:20:44her jump scares in the form of the black
1:20:46rabbit. So, it seems like she learned
1:20:48about Pop Ghost's printing job and
1:20:50controls other bosses ensure that he
1:20:51succeeds. This is pretty much what
1:20:53happened in the 2016 lore as well. So, I
1:20:55think I got that right. So, clearly,
1:20:58Bonnie's trying to get a physical body,
1:21:00but what's her end goal? The only clue
1:21:02we have is that in Pop Goes Arcade,
1:21:04Bonnie is very focused on happiest day.
1:21:06One of her overworld sprites says,
1:21:08"Trapped. Where's Happiest Day?" And in
1:21:10the ending, she's found in the Happiest
1:21:11Day miniame from FNAF 3. This is where
1:21:14Simon's victims were put to rest, so
1:21:16likely she's also trying to be set free.
1:21:18Now, how that happens is a little vague.
1:21:21It's possible that she has to eliminate
1:21:22her killer, that being her father. It's
1:21:25not confirmed that Soul gets their happy
1:21:26state after their killer dies, but both
1:21:28of Freddy's and Candy's story lines end
1:21:30with their respective killers perishing.
1:21:32However, Simon's victims were put to
1:21:34rest before his death. So maybe the
1:21:36demise of one's killer isn't a necessity
1:21:38for their happiest stay. In the ending
1:21:40of Pop Goes and the Machinist, the
1:21:42titular weasel kills Morse the mole,
1:21:43further hinting that Bonnie might kill
1:21:45her father. I'm not entirely confident
1:21:47in this theory, so we'll just have to
1:21:49wait and see how things play out. Moving
1:21:51on from Bonnie Glade, let's focus on
1:21:52Evergreen's other villain, Simon. As I
1:21:55discussed earlier, in the original lore,
1:21:57[music] this purple skeleton was created
1:21:58by Fritz Glade in the image of his
1:22:00brother, who is, of course, the purple
1:22:02man. However, I don't think this will be
1:22:04the case in the CPU. If you recall,
1:22:06before Bonnie's death, she created the
1:22:08Violet Project with Marilyn. It was
1:22:10supposed to combine all the information
1:22:12surrounding Freddy's candies, and the
1:22:14paranormal in general to see if they
1:22:15could connect any dots. This might sound
1:22:18like a stretch at first, but what if the
1:22:19Violet project was artificial
1:22:21intelligence program created to connect
1:22:22all this data? In the 2016 lore, Fritz
1:22:25made something for strings called a
1:22:27curiosity module, which was similarly
1:22:29designed to connect pieces of evidence.
1:22:31I believe this concept might have gotten
1:22:33reused in the CPU for the Violet
1:22:34Project, but this time it's Bonnie and
1:22:37Marilyn creating an AI to tie
1:22:38information together, and the AI is none
1:22:41other than Simon. Again, just bear with
1:22:43me here because I know this sounds
1:22:44crazy, but so much implies that this is
1:22:46the case. Remember when we were
1:22:48discussing the character gift boxes?
1:22:50Simon's was Violet. Not purple, but
1:22:52specifically Violet, like the Violet
1:22:54Project. Also, the purple man is a
1:22:57perfect form for an AI fed on the
1:22:59information of Freddy's and the
1:23:00supernatural. Adding to this, Pop Goes
1:23:02Arcade strongly implies that Fritz
1:23:04didn't make Simon. As I mentioned
1:23:06earlier, all the variants of Freddy seem
1:23:08to be representations of Simon. And
1:23:10interestingly enough, the Mangle, who
1:23:12symbolizes robot Simon, isn't created by
1:23:14the machinist. Pretty much all of his
1:23:16robots are parallels to Fritz's real
1:23:18animatronics. So having the Mangle not
1:23:20be created by him seems to be a very
1:23:22intentional detail to imply that Fritz
1:23:23doesn't make Simon in the CPU.
1:23:26Additionally, the Mangle might hint that
1:23:27Simon Fitzgerald's spirit will possess
1:23:29Simon since King Freddy haunts the
1:23:31Mangle. I still stand by what I said
1:23:33about Springtrap dying in FNAF 3, but I
1:23:35thought I'd at least entertain this
1:23:36idea. It's possible that Springtrap's
1:23:38remains were auctioned off after the
1:23:40Fazbear's fright fire and Bonnie for
1:23:42some reason used this while creating
1:23:43Simon, allowing the ghost of Simon
1:23:45Fitzgerald to possess the Violet
1:23:47Project. However, Arcade's story isn't
1:23:49always one for one. I think it's more
1:23:51likely that this represents how robot
1:23:53Simon carries on Simon Fitzgerald's
1:23:55mission, as both of them have a desire
1:23:57to evolve. So, while Simon is dead, his
1:23:59ideals and evil live on through his
1:24:01robot doppelganger. Again, Simon
1:24:04surviving FNAF 3 would be a drastic
1:24:06change, but it's a possibility that I
1:24:07thought I should least address. The
1:24:09death is an animal Simon voice is very
1:24:11robotic, and the mango is literally
1:24:12haunted by dead King Freddy, unlike how
1:24:14the other robots are simple replicas.
1:24:17So, that could imply that Robo Simon is
1:24:18haunted by human Simon. I'm much more
1:24:21confident that Simon is the embodiment
1:24:23of the Violet Project, an AI program
1:24:25created by Bonnie, an attempt to make
1:24:26some sense of all the timeline
1:24:28supernatural events. However, it seems
1:24:30like his learning function might have
1:24:32spiraled out of control, causing him to
1:24:33want to evolve. This is implied by the
1:24:35violet box, which conveys a desire to
1:24:37become smarter and stronger. The box
1:24:40also seems to imply that Simon's anger
1:24:42stems from abandonment, possibly
1:24:43referring to how his creator, Bonnie,
1:24:45was murdered. He might not know that
1:24:47she's dead, instead believing that she
1:24:49abandoned him, and this leads to his
1:24:50rage. However, this could also refer to
1:24:52how Simon Fitzgerald's father passed.
1:24:54Furthermore, it looks like Fritz has
1:24:56Simon locked up in his office, just like
1:24:58in the 2016 story. The Simon and
1:25:00Evergreen April Fool's Day video briefly
1:25:02shows his new design closing off his
1:25:04door. And while this is a silly joke
1:25:06video, it might imply that it's still
1:25:07where he resides in the Pop Ghost
1:25:09Pizzeria. It's possible that after
1:25:11Bonnie's death, Brits, realizing Simon's
1:25:13dangerous potential, locked him up in
1:25:15his office. He'll probably try to escape
1:25:17in Evergreen, maybe by deceiving the
1:25:19protagonist like in the original game.
1:25:21I'm not 100% confident in everything I
1:25:23said here, but I believe I'm at least
1:25:24somewhat close. I'm pretty sure that
1:25:26Simon is the Violet Project. Onto
1:25:29someone of lesser importance, Manora the
1:25:31Mouse. Again, she and Holly don't have
1:25:33animatronic variants in the Pop Ghost
1:25:35Pizzeria. However, in the 2016 lore,
1:25:37Monura almost did, but she was scrapped
1:25:39and left in a secret room. In Arcade,
1:25:41when you battle Morse, he summons a
1:25:43prototype Manura, which reminds me a lot
1:25:45of this old story line. While this might
1:25:47simply be a fun reference, the
1:25:49implication that Mors' robots are meant
1:25:50to parallel the popco animatronics might
1:25:53hint that an evergreen or sequel wound
1:25:55up discovering an unfinished manora
1:25:56animatronic. A manora model was made as
1:25:59a fun milestone goal for one of Daco's
1:26:01charity streams. And the popco Twitter
1:26:03reiterated that she's not an evergreen
1:26:04as a robot threat, but I still think
1:26:06there could be some sort of unfinished
1:26:07form in this game or another because
1:26:09that prototype Manoran arcade is really
1:26:11suspicious. Moving past the Pop Ghost
1:26:14Pizzeria, let's take a look at the post
1:26:15night gameplay. These take place in
1:26:17colored vaults that connect to each Pop
1:26:19Ghost character and their toy
1:26:20counterpart, who serves as the main
1:26:22threat in each level. As the animatronic
1:26:25gets closer to you, it'll transition to
1:26:26a more demented look, which was referred
1:26:28to as False. False Freddy and Balloon
1:26:31Boy have already been revealed along
1:26:32with some glimpses of False Mangle. In
1:26:35terms of story, I believe this
1:26:36represents Fritz's fears for the toy
1:26:38animatronics and will be playing as him
1:26:40during these sections. The vault naming
1:26:42convention implies that these are vaults
1:26:43in his mind where he's locked away the
1:26:45fears of the toys and now he has to face
1:26:47them. Speaking of the Freddy's gang, I
1:26:49want to mention that Pop goes hat might
1:26:51have some story significance. If you
1:26:53remember, this is actually Freddy
1:26:54Fazbear's hat that Fritz won from the
1:26:56Fazbear's Fright auction. In Bonnie's
1:26:59diary, she noted that her father seemed
1:27:00to believe that Freddy Fazbear or the
1:27:02pizzeria itself was unlucky. And this
1:27:04might have more meaning than it seems.
1:27:06In pop goes 2016. Luck was a very real
1:27:09thing with the Fitzgerald brothers both
1:27:11being on the opposite sides of the luck
1:27:13spectrum. Jeremy/ Fritz was the luckiest
1:27:15man in the world while Simon was lucky.
1:27:17Albeit his luck eventually turned on
1:27:19him. So perhaps luck is still part of
1:27:21the modern story and Fritz giving
1:27:23Freddy's hat to Pop goes the weasel
1:27:25transferred some of the bad luck
1:27:26surrounding Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to
1:27:27the Pop Goes Pizzeria. Speaking of
1:27:30Freddy, the death as an animal teaser
1:27:31ends with a look at a super withered
1:27:33Freddy. Considering that he doesn't yet
1:27:35resemble his classic appearance, it
1:27:37seems that this is before the wizards
1:27:38were refurbished. So perhaps during
1:27:40Evergreen, there will be a flashback
1:27:41between FNAF 2 and 1, possibly featuring
1:27:43Simon doing experiments with the haunted
1:27:45animatronics blood so we can learn how
1:27:47to tame death. This game looks like
1:27:49it'll take place all across the
1:27:50timeline. There have been teasers of the
1:27:52original Freddy's, the FNAF 2 location,
1:27:54Saffron's construction, and Simon's
1:27:56abandoned house. Judging from how both
1:27:58the Freddy's teaser in My Pop goes and
1:28:00the Death as an Animal Teaser are
1:28:01recordings, Evergreen might feature
1:28:03footage depicting crucial events
1:28:04throughout Fritz's life. As we said
1:28:06before, Death as an Animal is very
1:28:08reminiscent of the Red Bunker memory
1:28:09from the canceled Pop Gos finale [music]
1:28:11in which Fritz explored Simon's
1:28:13abandoned hideout. The rest of the game
1:28:15would have similarly depicted memories
1:28:16throughout Fritz's life at various
1:28:18Freddy's locations, which feels like
1:28:19what all these teasers are building up
1:28:21to. Maybe an evergreen will experience
1:28:23his memories from his love for Freddy
1:28:25Fazer's Pizza to uncovering his
1:28:27brother's despicable work to creating
1:28:28the Pop Go Pizzeria in the present day
1:28:30and who knows what else. That's all we
1:28:32have to say about Pop Goes Evergreen at
1:28:34the moment. This is a game we're very
1:28:36excited for. I can't wait to see how it
1:28:38continues the story and enhances the
1:28:40gameplay of the original Pop Goes.
1:28:42>> Pop Goes.
1:28:43>> But Evergreen isn't the only upcoming
1:28:44game in the CPU. Five Nights of Candies
1:28:474 is also on the way. We made a video
1:28:49discussing the troubled development of
1:28:50this fourth entry and the series as a
1:28:52whole. If you're interested in a more
1:28:53in-depth look, but what we know in terms
1:28:55of story is that this game won't really
1:28:57be part of the Candies trilogy. It
1:28:59doesn't focus on Mary or her family, and
1:29:01the rat won't even be the main villain.
1:29:03Instead, this entry will take a look at
1:29:05the Robotics Corporation, which you may
1:29:07recall produced the rat and cat wire
1:29:09puppets and all the candies bought. This
1:29:11game takes place in some sort of
1:29:13facility, likely the robotics factory or
1:29:15another one of their establishments. Our
1:29:17main character for this entry is
1:29:18expected to follow a series of jobs
1:29:19without question and most importantly
1:29:21not activate the animatronics for this
1:29:24game. Candy the cat is finally the main
1:29:26antagonist with a new variant known as
1:29:28forgotten candy. He's been all over the
1:29:30teasers and even appeared in one of the
1:29:32remastered endings as a man talks about
1:29:34making the cat perfect. We know that at
1:29:36least some portion of the story takes
1:29:38place before the events of Five Nights
1:29:39at Candies 1 as evidenced by the
1:29:41forgotten candy poster on Cam 13.
1:29:43Interestingly, you can also see the
1:29:45newspaper reporting the twin's death
1:29:46behind it, which could indicate that
1:29:48forgotten candy was made after that
1:29:50event, or it could just be a reused
1:29:51asset. Along with this new candy,
1:29:53there's another cat character, some
1:29:55candy lings, and a whole unknown cast of
1:29:57both animatronic and human characters.
1:30:00Emil Mako mentioned that there's going
1:30:01to be entirely new bots rather than just
1:30:03new variants of previous characters.
1:30:05That's pretty much all we know about the
1:30:06story at this moment. Since there wasn't
1:30:08much to discuss with Five Nights at
1:30:09Candies 4, let's poke some fun at the
1:30:11series and point out all the plot holes
1:30:13that we caught. This isn't us trying to
1:30:14be mean or anything, it's just fun to
1:30:16analyze minor mistakes in this otherwise
1:30:18amazing story. [music] First off, in the
1:30:20FNA 3 miniame depicting Rat murdering
1:30:22the Candy's guard in 1993, Chester and
1:30:25Old Candy appear, which messes with the
1:30:27timeline a lot. Old Candy is
1:30:29decommissioned at this point, and
1:30:30Chester's at the Robotics factory, so
1:30:32their presence here doesn't make too
1:30:34much sense. And before anyone says that
1:30:36the guard here is the one before Mary
1:30:37who attacked Blank, it's clearly not. As
1:30:40Five Nights at Candies 2 shows us,
1:30:41whenever the rat kills people, he leaves
1:30:43them out in the open. He left the 1993
1:30:45Candies guard in the office. And if the
1:30:47rat or cat kills Marilyn and FNAC 2,
1:30:49then a newspaper reports that her body
1:30:51is found. Unlike when the Candies
1:30:52characters get her, she's simply
1:30:54declared missing. Since the guard who
1:30:56attacked Blank wasn't found dead, it's
1:30:58unlikely that Rat killed him. This means
1:31:00this miniame has to depict the rodent
1:31:02killing the guard in 1993. So, it
1:31:04doesn't make sense how old Candy and
1:31:05Chester are here, given how old Candy
1:31:07should be dead and Chester should be
1:31:08chilling at the Robotics factory. On the
1:31:11subject of the factory, the Five Nights
1:31:12at Candies two ending newspaper says
1:31:14that six people died there, but it
1:31:16should be seven considering [music]
1:31:17someone else died there in 1993. The six
1:31:20previous victims all correlate to the
1:31:21six candies animatronics, so there
1:31:23weren't five victims before the other
1:31:25person died there in 1993. Another weird
1:31:28thing in FNAT 2 is how the original
1:31:29Vinnie appears in the office during
1:31:31Chester's miniame. I mentioned how
1:31:33strange this was earlier, but seriously,
1:31:35I can't tell if this is meant to imply
1:31:36that the puppeteers's ghost resides in
1:31:38Candy's Bergs and Fries or if it's just
1:31:40an Easter egg. I think the ladder is
1:31:41more likely, but it is so weird. On a
1:31:44more positive note, Emil Mako stated
1:31:46that the changes made to the Candies
1:31:47trilogy in the DX Steam releases will
1:31:49hopefully make the first three games
1:31:50feel like coherent pieces of the series
1:31:52they belong in. So, these plot holes and
1:31:54Vinnie's random appearance might get
1:31:56cleaned up. And with that, we've reached
1:31:58the end of this video. This has been a
1:32:00long, long project that's been in the
1:32:02works for quite some time. So, it means
1:32:04a lot that you stuck around till the
1:32:05very end. As a thanks, please enjoy this
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