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Ahem Testing. Testing. Woah boy, you're not going to like
this one. But I think we're right. Hello Internet. Welcome to Game Theory.
The show that started so many flame wars, you'd think we were a pizza plex. So right now,
I'm in the middle of reexamining every piece of FNAF lore the series has ever produced in order
to construct a definitive timeline for the series, or I suppose, as definitive as possible for the
series, considering, you know, it's FNAF. That means that me and Tom and Head Editor Dan
are combing over every misleading teaser, every line of hidden website source code, every
page of the novels and their accompanying graphic novels, and every questionable skin from FNAF
AR. From Big Chungus Springtrap to Statue of Liberty Chica. Because nothing, says Merica!
quite like rebranding a national monument with a giant toga wearing murder chicken
shilling for pizza. And our forefathers wept. Anyway, since this is an absolutely massive
quest, we've broken the timeline down into three core chunks: Foundations of Freddy's,
the Afton Era and Post Purple Guy. Basically everything that happens post Springtrap getting
torched in FNAF 6. And while that timeline theory is still in the works, we've already made
some discoveries, some big and some small. And it's one of the bigger ones that brings
us here today. You see, as we were rewatching all the cut scenes from FNAF 6, we heard this
line from the completion ending of the game. Oh sure, everyone remembers the whole “don't
keep the devil waiting” bit during that ending, but all of us tend to forget
what comes after the fire. An acknowledgment that Fazbear Entertainment is no longer a corporate entity. When Henry dies
in that fire, the game makes it clear that the company dies with him. But that doesn't
make any sense. Knowing what we know now. If FNAF VR, AR and Security Breach,
Fazbear Entertainment is alive and still very much running. In fact, the
company seems stronger than ever building a giant mega Pizzaplex that towers over
anything the company's ever done before. So what gives? A dissolved company can't be going
around making new games, and they certainly aren't building new 80s inspired animatronics, are they?
All of it seems to imply that someone restarted the company between FNAF 6 and FNAF VR and it
was that single simple observation, my friends, that led us down a rabbit hole I believe may have
solved another core part of Security Breaches endlessly frustrating story. First, we wanted to
prove to ourselves that this corporate restart was a real thing. Throughout the core gameplay of FNAF
6, if you buy and display animatronics with a high liability rating, you get a chance to experience
a fun little mechanic known as being sued. You go through these lawsuits and
decide whether to pay a lawyer to fight for you or just pay the listed
amount to settle the case. It's a fun, quirky gameplay mechanic that fits
with the humor of the franchise. However, there's a detail within these
lawsuits that's important. If you take a look at the names at the top of each
lawsuit, you'll see that the defendant is listed as “Fazbear Entertainment Inc.”
Those last three letters are important, that I-N-C there means that
Fazbear is an incorporated company. It means that Fazbear Entertainment has
shareholders, people that own stocks within the company. There are also two different types of
corporations, S-Corp's, which tend to be smaller and C-Corp's which tend to be bigger. Trust
me, you don't really want to know any of that, nor do you need to know any of it for this theory.
I just bring it up because it's knowledge that Steph and I have accumulated over the last
decade of doing this work as business owners, and I just wanted it to be validated at some
point in my life. Anyway, useless business information aside, as we hear at the end of FNAF
6, Fazbear Entertainment Inc. has been dissolved. We can assume that Henry, in his
final act before sacrificing his life, dissolved any and all ownership remaining in the company so it would die with him. Which is
why it's so weird that suddenly it's back. And not just back, but back in a
completely new form. In Security Breach, if you check out the balloon boy arcade
cabinet above the daycare on the title screen, you'll find that the copyright is now owned by
a brand new company, Fazbear Entertainment LLC. Again, those last three letters there are
important. They stand for Limited Liability Company. Basically, it means that the owners of
the business aren't shareholders, but rather one or a small group of individuals that can't be
held responsible for the debts of the business. For instance, if the Fazbear business took out a
small loan of $1,000,000 but couldn't pay it back, the banks couldn't then approach Henry or
William's personal money demanding Repayment. LLC members also aren't usually responsible
for the co-owners negligence or wrongdoing. Which again, knowing the history of this
company is probably going to be a better business arrangement. Most importantly
of all, though, LLC’s tend to be smaller, held by one or a few individuals rather
than a collection of shareholders. And this actually explains a lot. If you
go for the Afton ending of Security Breach, you go down the elevator only to discover the
FNAF 6 pizzeria underneath the whole thing. Try explaining that decision to your shareholders.
We're just going to build our new mall on top of that old burnt down pizzeria
that'll rake in the big bucks. How about the fact that we get messages
on the Fazwatch from building contractors concerned about building a giant mall
over the equivalent of a sinkhole. Again, this doesn't feel like something you'd be
able to do if the company had shareholders. But if the business is owned by a single
individual, they could essentially do whatever they wanted. They don't have to answer
to anyone. In short, there is strong evidence to suggest that someone has restarted the
Fazbear brand under this new corporate entity. But who would do that? Why would they do that? Was
I just chasing down a lead that didn't matter? No, because I wasn't the only one asking the question.
In December of 2021. This book was released: The FNAF Ultimate Guide. Basically your one stop
shop for anything important to the franchise written by the man himself: Scott Cawthon and only
Scott Cawthon. This thing is robust. It contains every scrap of dialog, every game mechanic, a
summary of every Fazbear Fright and a description for practically every one of the nearly 150
characters introduced into the franchise. If it ain't in here, it probably ain't worth
your brain space. And if the book explicitly calls something out, well, it's probably going
to be worth a look. And wouldn't you know it. But in the FNAF AR description of the Glitchtrap
virus, we get this quote: “The cease work order from the Fazbear Entertainment Office of Legal
Affairs seems to indicate that the company at some point becomes aware of the problem and
tries to stop it. That leaves one question… just who is running the company.” And it was
here that I knew that I was on to something. The fact that the ultimate guide felt the
need to point it out made me realize that this is absolutely something that
we need to be solving. The clues are in place for us. It was now time
for us to put it all back together. So let's figure out who is running the show over
at the new improved Fazbear Entertainment LLC, shall we? Well, let's consider what exactly
that person is doing. First and foremost, they're building a brand new location over
the remains of the old FNAF 6 location. That right there is a huge red flag. Why not just
bulldoze the whole thing and build a new one? Unless, of course, they know what's down there.
Because remember, underneath it all lies the heart and soul of this franchise, Afton. They are
choosing to build their new location on top of his literal gravesite. The head of this new Fazbear
Entertainment LLC wants access to him and as we see at the end of the game, it seems like their
goal is to bring him back to his former glory. But just having access to Afton's body isn't
enough. This person wants more. We know that the head of Fazbear Entertainment LLC
has been actively taking an interest in Vanessa becoming head of security, despite
her having no qualifications for the position. We know this based on in-game messages,
quote: “INTERVIEW NOTES - as requested, here are my notes on today's chief security
officer interview. While Vanessa seemed eager and bright, she doesn't appear to
have any relevant background experience. I realize the recommendation came from
the top, but we need someone who's run security for a facility of this scale. I
do not recommend her for this position.” Based on this email, Vanessa should
have never gotten the position, but note that it's marked for deletion. Someone
wanted to hide the poor interview performance. Someone at the top. In yet another email we
see this, quote again: “NEW HIRE SUMMARY - Head Security Guard. No prior qualifications.
Internal reference (name withheld)” The person putting Vanessa forward for
the job is trying to stay anonymous. But hold on. Why would someone want to hire
Vanessa despite her limited experience? Well, the only really special thing about her
is that she's possessed by Glitchtrap. So if someone's trying to bring Afton back,
preserving his body underneath the Pizzaplex, it makes sense to get someone into the
Pizzaplex who houses the only other part of Afton that remains: His consciousness,
in the form of the Glitchtrap virus. But who would possibly want to bring
a serial killer back to life? I mean, think about what this person has done.
They've restarted an entire company. They've hired third parties to scan old circuit
boards. They've rebranded the franchise, built a mall, and then doctored emails to hire
someone all in an effort to resurrect Afton. Who would do that? Who would go
to that level of extreme? Can't be Vanessa. She can't hire herself.
Can't be Michael. He's always trying to get rid of Afton. Can't be Henry. He
dissolved the company in the first place. Can't be Gregory because he's trying to destroy
the animatronics. But there is someone it can be. I will make you proud, Daddy.
The only person who would be that motivated to bring Afton back to life. The one person that
through all of the games they've appeared in, has been on Afton side, wanting to keep his
vision alive. That's right. Ladies and gentlemen, I submit to you that Elizabeth Afton is the one
in control of the new Fazbear Entertainment LLC. I guess you could call her the Boss Baby.
I will now pause and give you a chance to write your collective groans, frustrations
and general vitriol down in the comments. While you're doing that, let me quickly remind
you that right above that fiery comment section is our merch shelf, where it's your last chance
to preorder our new ARG Jacket. The puzzles that you wear. Once that thing's gone, it is gone
forever, so get your orders in this weekend. But you know what? If you don't want the
hassle of solving your clothes and you just want to be snuggly and warm this holiday
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All right. You done venting in the comments? I told you this one would make you mad. Let's
see what you wrote. And yes, I'm doing this from the past. But Elizabeth is dead. Baby's eyes are
blacked out in the blob. She died in FNAF 6. Yep. All of those are perfectly valid, I know it
sounds insane. Believe me. No one recognizes that more than me. But I ask you, when
has any character that's meant to be dead in this franchise ever stayed dead?
Let's just look at the facts, shall we? Our second ever theory on this game drew
attention to all the similarities between Elizabeth Afton and Vanessa. They both
like flowers. They both have an abusive and manipulative father named William A. And of
course, there's the blond hair and green eyes. However, we've never been able to actually figure
out how these two characters are connected beyond them just being similar. could it just be another
instance of this franchise doing what I like to call “Pulling a Jeremy” that's using the same
detail multiple times just to confuse us. But you see, there's a bit more that's
suspicious about Vanessa. There's one thing that me and every other
theorist out there has been scared to tackle in this game. And it's this.
Security Breach’s Fire Escape ending. In it, Glamrock Freddy yeets Vanny
off the top of a burning Pizzaplex, sending both of them to their death.
Gregory pulls off the Vanny mask to reveal that it was Vanessa the whole time,
a twist that surprised literally no one. Except after the credits we pan up to
the roof to see security guard Vanessa looking down as the building
burns around her. Excuse me, What? Two Vanessas? Everyone just kind of
collectively hand-waved this away. It must be a hallucination. Maybe it's her spirit
still trapped in the Pizzaplex. Or maybe, just maybe, Vanny and Vanessa have always been two
separate individuals, two twin sisters. hold on. In Security Breach Fury’s Rage. We get
VR sisters. That's one of the bosses in Fury’s Rage. And I think it could
be possible that one of the sisters, maybe Vanessa went to go save her other
sister after being taken over by Glitchtrap. Recently a new theorist has entered the ring
with some pretty interesting things to say about Security Breach. John from the YouTube
channel FuhNaff. And while I was busy coining the catch phrase MUSIC MAN, he was busy in his
corner preaching the gospel of the VR sisters. Remember them? Of course you don't. Why would
you? So let me refresh your memory. In case you’ve forgotten Security Breach got delayed
a lot. I mean, a lot a lot. And at one point, Scott Cawthon, worried that the fan base would
be upset about the repeated delays, decided to release a short little meme game to tide us all
over. A beat 'em up title called Fury’s Rage. Four straightforward levels with a secret
boss at the end, punching through waves of the franchise's most forgettable enemies. Freddy
Frostbear, Clown Springtrap, Radioactive Foxy, El Chip. And the rest of the enemies are
just variations of Chica, the Puppet, Mangle, Baby. As for the bosses, most of
them are jokes. Sure, you've got Vanny, but there's also Megabrow, which
is just Browboy from FNAF World. There's Soulbrawler, which is a reference
to one of Scott's earlier game characters, Souldozer and the secret final boss
of the game Dreamgeist. Basically a giant troll about fan theories. And
yet in this game full of memes and tongue in cheek references, there's one
set of characters that don't quite fit. The first level's boss, the VR Sisters.
They're the only truly original characters for this game. Literally everyone else you can
point to and understand what the reference is. Now that is weird. Why would Scott put
the time and effort into designing them? Coming up with a name and purposely
putting them in there for us to look at if they weren't important in some way? With
Vanessa being taken over by the Glitchtrap Virus in FNAF VR. Makes sense for this to be in
relation to her in some way, she's a VR sister. And then her having a twin sister would explain
why there could be a second Vanessa at the top of a burning building during the ending.
What is it that John's been saying lately and his theory vids
“Need more proof?” Yeah. Yeah, I do. You probably do
too. Luckily, I have it for you. Once you get to level four of Fury’s
Rage, you find yourself in some sort of factory surrounded by conveyor belts and
magnets holding up humanoid robot torsos. In the end, you fight Vanny and the game ends.
But wait. Before you get to the boss battle, there's one very crucial detail in the level that
everyone overlooked. An orange pod with a female figure sitting inside. I've seen enough sci fi
to know that that right there is a birthing pod, and the figure inside looks an awful lot
like Baby from The Fourth Closet graphic novel. That's right, friendos. It's time
once again for everyone's favorite segment. MatPat uses the lore of multiple FNAF books to
explain parts of the game that make no sense. In The Fourth Closet, Baby's origins take a
weird turn. She's actually a robot built by Henry to help replace his daughter Charlie
after her death. You see, Henry creates a robot for each stage of his daughter's life:
toddler, child, teenager and finally adult. In his mind, this would allow her to grow
up with everyone else around her. And this gave us our first confirmed instance
of robot kids being a thing inside of the series robots that are capable
of bleeding, eating, feeling cold. And here's the weirdest twist of them all.
Baby is the final adult form of Charlie, which, let’s just say I have
some strong feelings about. Welcome to the books I guess. What's also
interesting is that in the books it's clear that previous versions of the robot humans don't
have to stop working or die in order for newer, more grown up models to activate both teenage
Charlie and adult Charlie, a.k.a. Baby, are walking around totally sentient with their
own goals and motivations. One wanting to live a normal life, completely unaware that
she's a robot and the other looking to kill children in service of William Afton
bitter because she's a robot. Sounds a lot like the relationship between a certain young
security guard and her twin sister murder rabbit. Now while we have no evidence to really
support Charlie being rebuilt in the game lore like she was in the books. It does
seem like Elizabeth may have multiple sisters of herself running around. In the words
of John, who first proposed this one a year ago: it could be very well possible that
once Elizabeth died, William Afton not too soon after, rebuilt her and built
different ages of her throughout the years, just like we see in the books, in robot
form. So that could be VR sisters, two different versions of the same person.
You know what? I think he’s right. At the time we didn't have the evidence, but now I
think he was ahead of his time. Move over, Gregory. There's a new robot human in town. And
her name is Elizabeth Afton and Vanessa and Vanny, and probably the head of Fazbear Entertainment
LLC too. All iterations of the same person from different life stages, all Elizabeth Afton,
some aware of who they really are and some not. And one of those versions is RUIN DLC girl. In
some of Security Breach’s cut dialog there are laugh lines that are definitely feminine, but also
some that clearly mix in a young, girlish tone. You hear that last one? Clearly, there's a childish girl laugh with a
bit of a British accent mixed in there. Exactly like the voice of Elizabeth from sister
location. Sites like The Cutting Room Floor attribute these as cut Vanny lines which makes
sense considering that there aren't many human females in the game. But that laugh seems awfully
young for Vanessa or Vanny, and that's not all. Going back to Fury's Rage noticed the shoes on the
VR Sisters, specifically the cool purple sneakers. I could’ve sworn that they had matched the design
of the blond girl's light up sneakers and the RUIN DLC poster. But upon closer inspection, it was
close, but not strong enough of a match for me to call it out in theory. Dead end rights? No.
Notice the two colors on those shoes. Red and purple. Very specific shades of red and purple.
And what's the coloring of our two VR Sisters? Red and purple. Seems that maybe, just maybe, this
blond girl is also part of the Elizabeth sisters. So that would actually give us our Four Closets:
Baby the original, young girl Elizabeth in the RUIN DLC, Vanessa the 23 year old security guard
according to the FNAF AR emails, and Vanny, who, you know just might be slightly older,
her being a robot would also explain how she survived a massive fall from the top of a
pizza place without being totally disfigured. Personally, I think this would actually be
a pretty cool idea having all the versions of Elizabeth come together. This child, Vanny,
Vanessa, maybe even the original Baby would show up to complete the tribe of Robot Elizabeth's. But
doesn't all of this disprove my initial theory? If Vanny is the adult version of Elizabeth,
then doesn't that mean we're out of Elizabeth's to run Fazbear Entertainment LLC? We
filled all four of our closets. Well, not quite. Because when you get to the very end
of that final book, Charlie's Love Interest, John stands by Charlie's grave after all the
other known versions of her have died. He looks up and sees none other than yet another
slightly older version of Charlie standing in front of him. I kind of just wrote this off
initially as a cute ending, but in the wake of what we've been talking about this whole time, it
reveals that there were never just four closets. There were never just four versions of Charlie.
There were more potentially an infinite number of them, which honestly makes sense. Can’t have
a 20 something year old Charlie looking 20 forever. She too would need to age up to look like
a woman in her thirties, her forties, her fifties. This idea is also shown in Fury’s Rage. While the
VR Sisters are the first bosses. After you defeat them, they become regular enemies during the third
level. There are dozens of them that come out to attack you, one after the other after the other,
new ones being built to achieve their purpose. Other bosses don't do that in the game.
And in stage four, those humanoid robot torsos hanging from the ceiling. They look
a little bit more on the feminine side to me. Robot women being built by the boatload,
ready to replace the ones that we destroyed, be they VR Sisters or security
guards or murderous rabbits. And at the top of the food chain is an
older, wiser, more vengeful version of Elizabeth pulling the strings, looking to bring
her family of robots all back together to the same place. I suppose you could say that that
makes the Pizzaplex the true Sister Location. But hey, say all you want about Elizabeth's
business practices. You got to admit she knows how to dress up a joint. I've always
loved how the pizzaplex looks. That eighties neon style just hits the
nostalgia button too hard for me. Fortunately, the metal posters from our
sponsor Displate are here to scratch that very itch. Now I'm able to have all those
bright neon colors fill in the office, even when we're not focusing on
FNAFs ridiculous lore. No joke. We actually had a bunch of our team come
over to our home base in Raleigh recently and quickly realized that we hadn't
decorated the place. So we had it on over to display to add some much
needed style to our blank walls. Now, our team isn't just walking into a blank
office. They're heading into the gaming zone. And what's great about Displate posters is that
they're super durable, they're made out of a high quality metal, which means that they're
not going to tear, they're not going to rip. They do not fade, ever. I've gotten so
many posters from Displate over the years, and despite a cross-country move
and several redecorating sessions, these things look just as good and just as
vibrant as they did when I first got them. And thanks to Displate’s huge library of metal
posters, whatever your preferred esthetic is, you are bound to find a number of
designs that really speak to who you are. Maybe you prefer some posters
of flowers or ice cream or, you know, anything that doesn't constantly remind you of
killer animatronics that destroyed your family. And then when you change your mind and you want to
switch up your esthetic, great Displate signature magnet, hanging technology means there's
no need to get out the tool belt to start punching more holes in your wall. You simply
take off the old poster and put the new one up. It is as simple as swapping out a refrigerator
magnet. If only solving this franchise were so simple. Using Displate posters to decorate
your space is easy, it's straightforward, they look great and it saves you so much time.
So there's always room for just one more game. And I haven't even told you. The best
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If you want to buy one or two posters, you're about to get yourself 35%
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Because if you're like me and you just ordered five or more posters, well, my friend,
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im so scared im watching it rn 😭