An (Almost) Complete Timeline Of the Five Nights at Freddy’s Lore. Part Four.

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog! Since this is such a long series, I decided I would do FNAF one week and then something different the next and then rotate with that! Thank you all for reading, and I will start back up right where we left off! AS ALWAYS; content warning.

1988: After murdering his wife, William sank deeper into his insanity and started working on more animatronics to accompany circus baby in his journey to murder more innocent children. This was when he created Funtime Freddy, Ballora (based on his wife), and Funtime Foxy. Without a restaurant or establishment, there would be no way to get children in contact with these animatronics, so William opened up something different. He created an underground facility called Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rentals, where parents or companies could RENT out the animatronics for parties and such. By now, you should already know, but almost all of the animatronics are now possessed by the children who William had murdered. Keep this in mind as the Lore tends to get a little confusing.

1989: William Afton, angry and frustrated with Henry Emily’s success in the new restaurant, snuck in late at night. He sought to destroy the creations that he had helped create. He knew the children were in there still, maybe not their bodies but their souls. After he snuck in, he took a crowbar to the animatronics, freeing the children’s souls from their cages. They were still angry, more than angry. The children’s spirits surrounded William, and it scared him so much he tried to find a way to get them to leave him alone. That’s when he found the spring bonnie suit that he used all those years ago, and he got into it. Due to all the stress and fear, William was sweating his skin off in the suit. If you remember my earlier blogs, you would know that moisture of any kind and the spring lock suit which he wore could not coincide. The spring locks clamped down on his entire body just like it had done his son. He bled to death inside the suit, transferring his soul to inhabit the spring lock suit forever.

1989: The morning after those events, Henry, the establishment owner, entered his restaurant. He found William’s body and decided that karma had gotten to him this time. Not wanting to deal with the press, Henry closed off that room of the establishment and never opened it again. 

1993: Many complaints have been coming from the customers and other people outside of the franchise for years. This and many investigative reports into Henry Emily and who he has worked with in the past caused Henry to shut down Freddy’s once again. He lost money quickly and couldn’t afford to keep the place open without any customers. He didn’t have any plans to open any more restaurants or establishments, but there was just one thing that he couldn’t get out of his mind. His deceased daughter, who he believed to be possessing the puppet animatronic. Though, to his surprise, the puppet animatronic was missing. After the prior restaurant shut down, he couldn’t find it. He just figured someone stole it. He tried to forget, but he just couldn’t, so he created the animatronic called Lefty, which looked like a black version of Freddy. Lefty’s whole purpose was to find and capture the puppet so he could either break it and set his daughter’s soul free or keep it in search of his daughter furthermore.

Thank you everyone for reading this week! Keep an eye out for next week as I will be posting something different! Cya!

Author: Locklyn Wilchynski

Locklyn Wilchynski (She/Her) is a poet, writer, and musician. She is also a senior literary arts student at Mississippi School of the Arts. Her writing has been published in Co-Lin Refractions Literary & Art Magazine and The Phoenix Literary Journal. She won two gold keys, a silver key, and two honorable mentions in the 2021 Scholastic Arts and Writing Awards. She has also won an honorable mention in the 2021 Ephemera Prize. She is a lover of all things crafted in darkness and finding the beauty within that. She believes that storytelling is one of the most powerful forms of communication to open up new conversations and ideas. View all posts by Locklyn Wilchynski