princess and heiress

or, dirkjohn: sappho edition

idk, writing on how i'm not sure glitchtrap is william

Here are some rambles about how I don't think Glitchtrap is William but more of a mimic. The thing is that no side was clearly taken by the games. I wish there were cause it seems important, but you know...

There's a quote from HandUnit that says that they recreated personalities from the past. "Using proprietary technology developed by Fazbear Entertainment, our VR development teams were able to use vintage control board, almost like plug and play, digitally recreating performances and personalities from the past in an instant."

Which hints towards what Glitchtrap might be. He's treated as a glitch, a virus, something that invited himself but also grew stronger by himself as if he was an unfinished code and finished his own coding.

It's also worth looking into Glitchtrap's design. It doesn't really look like Springbonnie, does it? It has resemblances, sure, but it is also very different. In fact, it looks like someone tried to draw the bunny from memory but like, very fuzzy memory. You know, as if someone saw a picture once and tried to recreate it. In fact, Glitchtrap does look more like the Springbonnie posters from Security Breach.

A little step aside, I'd like to point out that Glitchtrap isn't the first virus in FNAF. Remember Lolbit? That's a virus - a very bad one, but it acts like one and it doesn't have a physical body. So there's a possibility that William might have tried to "clone" himself as an AI - in his goal of being immortal or some shit - but didn't have time to finish it. This could explain why Glitchtrap knows so much about William without being William.

Ok, back to the subject. Throughout Help Wanted, Glitchtrap is said to be observing. Learning. And this is a theme that goes on a lot.

“I saw it for the first time today. There was a character, I couldn't make out who it was, standing at the end of the hall. I thought it was just bugged out, so I made a note of it and kept playing. But then it was looking in the window. And not like Chica or Bonnie would. It was like it was actually looking in the window, seeing what I was doing.”

Only after you're done getting all the tapes and beating the game, you have access to Pizza Party which is a very different level. It's an amalgamation of everything. As if Glitchtrap is connecting to William's memories.

The first time I saw Pizza Party, I thought it was Glitchtrap pridefully showing the player what he knows. But you could also assume that he's trying to copy William. In other words, what if he's not trying to show the player, but rather he needs to recreate William's crimes? As a step closer to be him.

Then there's that one thing from the fake mails (of FNAF AR) that's bothering me. "One day you're researching flowers and the migration patterns of bees (fascinating, right?) and the next day you type in 'How far can a human being be cut in half before losing consciousness.' "

Which is something you'd think William would already know and wouldn't have to look up on google. But Glitchtrap, who isn't human in the first place, wouldn't know. He doesn't have any idea about how human works.

In the CDs from Security Breach, you have "two" Vanessa. The one who answers and the one who does not. If you pay attention, you will notice that the Vanessa who talks back is the real one and the Vanessa who does not talk is Glitchtrap.

The Vanessa who does not talk reacts a lot. And she goes through a lot of sensory issues. First, there's the sun too bright, the chair not comfortable enough, the smell of the flower, the taste of the candy. Which is something you could both attribute to someone who didn't experience sensory in a long time and to someone who's never had them.

It's also worth noting that the real Vanessa doesn't want the candy whereas the other one seems to really be enjoying it. There's also Vanny's chasing animation which is... very funny. But also it's not very human-like? It looks a lot like some old cartoon character chasing you. Which is something that has been very much associated with Glitchtrap before, all the friendly cartoony movements (such a the wavings and the little dance). So definitely Vanny chasing you is Glitchtrap in control.

But then there's also that Security Breach canon ending that doesn't make sense (due to the obvious lack of parts that was supposed to be there before. It's like a whole chapter got deleted.) I'm not going to talk about how stupid I think that Burntrap still exists when it has been burned down to the ground with everything else... What I don't understand is how it'd be a good idea to go back to that... scraps that is just gonna break down on itself. However, if Glitchtrap's whole purpose is to mimic and maybe replace William, he's gonna want to be him in what's left of his body - even if it's not a reliable idea.

Oh! and let's not forget about the Afton Family bots in the sewers! You can take it the way you want, but the way I see it still feels like recreating a picture. Like trying to be closer to the person Glitchtrap wants to be but he didn't know the Afton family.

They're not human-looking, they've been recreated with - I can't find the exact term - pictural codes? Like the way children will draw a house: a triangle on a rectangle.

Which is very fortunate for us to determine which robot represents who: the headless for Crying Child, the pigtail hair for Elizabeth, the fancy outfit for William, etc.

Lastly, there's also the thing where William is literally stuck in hell with Cassidy.

But also it would be better because you can only make a character come back so many times. At some point, it'll get old and boring.

✨FNAF THEORY TIME✨ ⚠️THEORY BASED ON THE GOLDEN DUO THEORY⚠️

autor: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUl6LmaGbQCi5fpvmMFWRHA

anglais:

~The "Nightmare Duo" Theory~  and other stuff This is a theory I made up with a friend of mine almost a year ago- I actually wrote this down in some comments, but I never made an official post for it so- here we are! The theory begins with the Survival Logbook. The Logbook is a book owned by Michael Afton as we can see the first page where it says "This book belongs to Mike". Mike will always write and draw stuff using a red pen. In the book there are also Cassidy, who communicates through faded texts, and Evan, who communicates changing some sentences in the Night 4 and 5 last pages. Cassidy makes questions for both Evan and Michael and they'd respond in their own ways. But, there is this one question which looks like is referred to Evan but for some reason the one giving the answer id Michael. The question made by Cassidy was "Do you have dream?" and Michael responded with a drawing of Nightmare/Nightmare Fredbear. This is really strange considering that we know that we play as Evan during fnaf 4 and he should be the only know knowing about those characters. Our theory begins here. We think that we play as both Evan and Michael during fnaf 4. -EVAN'S NIGHTS- We know they were William's experiments, so they are real and not dreams. He experienced them in 1983 before he died. -MICHAEL'S NIGHTS- We play as him only in the nights were Nightmare Fredbear and Nightmare appear. His nights are actually dreams and he experienced them while he was working in the fnaf 1 location (Cassidy's question is asking if the had dreams recently and he had the Logbook during fnaf 1.) So what happened here? We think that while he was working in the fnaf 1 location he met Golden Freddy. The souls inside Golden Freddy, Evan and Cassidy, both decide to haunt Mike and make him have nightmares (Cassidy asked about them meaning that she knows.) There could be a lot of reasons to explain why they decided to do it. We can go from Evan wanting his brother to understand what he felt in the years he bullied him, to Evan wanting to make Michael understand that he was now inside the suit. Cassidy is helping him probably because she thought that Michael was William or she genuinely wanted to help Evan. Anyways, they both start to haunt Michael to make him have those nightmares where both Evan and Cassidy are tormenting him. Notice that Michael dreams about 2 bears and not one. Evan is Nightmare Fredbear, Cassidy is Nightmare. Now you may be asking, how did Nightmare Fredbear end up in fnaf VR then? You see- the games which are canon in the game universe (I'm talking abiut the games created by the "lunatic" nominated in fnaf VR) are probably fnaf 1 to 4- They were able to recreate what happened to the nightguards because everything was filmed by the cameras in the locations. The only games in which we are sure that had cameras are fnaf 1, 2, 3 and 4. This also means that the Nightmares were actually the Funtimes with a sound illusion disc in them (this explains why there are Funtime Freddy and Baby in the fnaf 4 bedroom in fnaf VR) This also explains why the fnaf 4 location is connected to the fnaf 5 as we can see on the map. However, they were able to recreate Nightmare Fredbear not because he was filmed on camera (since it's impossible if he was Michael's dream), they were able to do so because they found Michael's drawings. He drew Nightmare Fredbear on the Logbook and probably a few more times too. I believe that  the same thing could have happened also with Nighmarionne, with the only difference that he is most likely a nightmare that William would have. -------------------------- Off topic, I'm trying to find some cool names for my theories! The Princess = Cassidy theory is now called "PrincessCassidy"- I thought that the perfect name for this theory about Nightmare Fredbear and Nightmare being Evan and Cassidy could be"Nightmare Duo" since it's also based on the Golden Duo. I'm still trying to find a name for the OMC=Evan theory- I was thinking something around the lines of "BVConsequences" but I'm not sure- what do you think? Do you have any name ideas? Let me know!

français:

~La théorie du "duo cauchemardesque" et d'autres trucs C'est une théorie que j'ai élaborée avec un ami il y a presque un an. En fait, je l'ai écrite dans certains commentaires, mais je n'ai jamais fait de post officiel à ce sujet, alors voilà ! La théorie commence avec le Journal de bord de la survie. Le journal de bord est un livre appartenant à Michael Afton, comme on peut le voir sur la première page où il est écrit "Ce livre appartient à Mike". Mike écrit et dessine toujours avec un stylo rouge. Dans le livre, il y a aussi Cassidy, qui communique à travers des textes effacés, et Evan, qui communique en changeant quelques phrases dans les 4 et 5 dernières pages de Nuit. Cassidy pose des questions à Evan et Michael, qui y répondent chacun à leur manière. Mais il y a une question qui semble s'adresser à Evan, mais pour une raison quelconque, celui qui donne la réponse est Michael. La question posée par Cassidy était "Est-ce que tu as des rêves ?" et Michael a répondu avec un dessin de Nightmare/Nightmare Fredbear. C'est vraiment étrange étant donné que nous savons que nous jouons le rôle d'Evan pendant le FNAF 4 et qu'il devrait être le seul à connaître ces personnages. Notre théorie commence ici. Nous pensons que nous jouons le rôle d'Evan et de Michael pendant la Fnaf 4. LES NUITS D'EVAN- Nous savons qu'il s'agit des expériences de William, donc elles sont réelles et pas des rêves. Il les a vécues en 1983 avant de mourir. -LES NUITS DE MICHAEL- Nous jouons en tant que lui seulement dans les nuits où Nightmare Fredbear et Nightmare apparaissent. Ses nuits sont en fait des rêves et il les a vécus pendant qu'il travaillait dans le lieu du fnaf 1 (la question de Cassidy est de savoir si le avait des rêves récemment et il avait le journal de bord pendant le fnaf 1). Alors que s'est-il passé ici ? Nous pensons qu'il a rencontré Golden Freddy pendant qu'il travaillait sur le site de la fnaf 1. Les âmes à l'intérieur de Golden Freddy, Evan et Cassidy, ont décidé de hanter Mike et de lui faire faire des cauchemars (Cassidy a posé des questions sur eux, ce qui signifie qu'elle est au courant). On peut aller d'Evan qui voulait que son frère comprenne ce qu'il ressentait pendant les années où il l'intimidait, à Evan qui voulait faire comprendre à Michael qu'il était maintenant à l'intérieur du costume. Cassidy l'aide probablement parce qu'elle pensait que Michael était William ou parce qu'elle voulait sincèrement aider Evan. Quoi qu'il en soit, ils commencent tous deux à hanter Michael et à lui faire faire des cauchemars où Evan et Cassidy le tourmentent. Remarquez que Michael rêve de deux ours et non d'un seul. Evan est le Fredbear de Nightmare, Cassidy est Nightmare. Maintenant, vous vous demandez peut-être comment Nightmare Fredbear s'est retrouvé dans Fnaf VR ? Vous voyez - les jeux qui sont canon dans l'univers de jeu (je parle des jeux créés par le "lunatique" nommé dans le fnaf VR) sont probablement fnaf 1 à 4- Ils ont pu recréer ce qui est arrivé aux gardes de nuit parce que tout a été filmé par les caméras dans les endroits. Les seuls jeux dans lesquels nous sommes sûrs qu'il y avait des caméras sont les fnaf 1, 2, 3 et 4. Cela signifie également que les cauchemars étaient en fait des Funtime avec un disque d'illusion sonore (ce qui explique pourquoi il y a des Funtime Freddy et Baby dans la chambre de la fnaf 4 dans la fnaf VR). Cela explique également pourquoi l'emplacement de la fnaf 4 est relié à la fnaf 5 comme on peut le voir sur la carte. Cependant, ils ont pu recréer Nightmare Fredbear non pas parce qu'il a été filmé par une caméra (puisque c'est impossible s'il s'agit du rêve de Michael), ils ont pu le faire parce qu'ils ont trouvé les dessins de Michael. Il a dessiné Nightmare Fredbear sur le journal de bord et probablement quelques autres fois aussi. Je crois que la même chose aurait pu se produire avec Nighmarionne, à la seule différence qu'il est très probablement un cauchemar que William aurait fait. -------------------------- Hors sujet, j'essaie de trouver des noms sympas pour mes théories ! La théorie Princesse = Cassidy s'appelle maintenant "PrincesseCassidy"- J'ai pensé que le nom parfait pour cette théorie sur Nightmare Fredbear et Nightmare étant Evan et Cassidy pourrait être "Nightmare Duo" puisqu'elle est aussi basée sur le Golden Duo. J'essaie toujours de trouver un nom pour la théorie OMC=Evan - je pensais à quelque chose du genre "BVConsequences" mais je ne suis pas sûr - qu'en pensez-vous ? Vous avez des idées de noms ? Faites-le moi savoir !

Petscop Scared Me. Here’s Why…

At this creepy time of year I made it my business to research and create some creepy artwork inspired by games such as #bendyandtheinkmachine

View my Insta for art-related content: https://www.instagram.com/dennis.haleigh/

I had never really been interested in the #horror genre before, and #bendy was a flippin’ good game to start with. I strongly recommend it. (Bonus points if you watch #razzbowski ‘s lets play. Super, super entertaining.)

After learning about bendy, I wanted to research some more of that scary goodness, but honestly, I can’t handle gore or gross stuff. I figured, if I stuck to the cartoon-y stuff, I wouldn’t be scared crapless.

I don’t think I could have gotten things more backwards. I couldn’t stand #fnaf for instance. Too scary.

Jeez. Who’d-a thought!?!?!?!?!??????????

Then, I dug into #dokidokiliteratureclub and its various mods. Big mistake.

THEN I heard that if you like #dokidoki you should check out [insert various other foreign and obscure meta game titles here]. These effectively terrified me. But there was something wrong with my fears. They were just that – fears of the “what if,” with no real grounding in reality.

“What if my stuffed animals are evil?” A question I hadn’t seriously considered since watching Toy Story 2 in elementary school.

“What if cartoons are out to get us?”

And worst of all: “What if game characters can manipulate the world around me?”

Studying game lore led me to creepypasta, which is by far some of the most baseless fearmongering, jumpscare-driven clickbait that exists on the internet. Also some of the finest entertainment for those such as myself who astonishingly lead dull lives in the real world. 

Studying the creepy led me to discover a deep dark secret of moviemaking, gaming and creative industries in general: turns out, my darkest fears were true. Entertainment has the ability reach directly out of our screens – be they VR headsets, phones, computers or TVs – and effect the real world. Your drawings can peel off of their paper and effect the environment around you.

Don’t believe me? Well today, grasshopper, I want to talk about #petscop

I would strongly recommend viewing this series if you are 13+ and like a good scare (warnings for language and disturbing content). If you’re like me and you want to explore the lore and the alleged basis of media, Petscop is richer than deep dark hot chocolate and an engaging book by the campfire in the dead of winter.

There’s one catch: The alleged basis in reality I referenced above will make your blood run cold, not due to a well-placed jumpscare or frightening imagery, but because the game forces you to do the following:

1) Look beyond the game

2) Look past yourself

3) Challenge yourself

Seriously. That’s the scary part. Allow me to explain…

****MILD SPOILERS FOR PETSCOP BELOW****

The “dark secret” of Petscop is that this series that looks cute on the surface is really a cautionary tale about #childabuseawareness (#abuseawareness ). The fictional player in Petscop accumulates information over time relating to several cases of abuse and murder. The player is shocked by what he learns and sees. Some internet theorists assume that the entire game of Petscop is supposed to demonstrate an #AI training ground, where an unknown individual is attempting to re-create the scenarios surrounding these deaths of various children. Play testers like our fictional guide are AIs involved in this experiment.

In fact, the truth is, the characters in this goofy game has a life outside of their code. And, no, I’m not talking about creepypasta Sonic.exe materializing as a plushie to kill you dead.

I’m talking about references within the game to real child abuse and murder. It’s not a pretty thing to research. Oh. You thought you’d just come for a quick scare and then you’d be merrily on your way? Fat chance. Turns out, there is heavy implication suggesting that Petscop was created as more than just another creepypasta clickbait thrillride. It actually tries its best to make its viewers *over-dramatic gasp* think.

How does it do this, you ask? By alluding strongly to a true story about a young girl who was abused and murdered by her adopted parent and several “therapists” and “professionals.” This was all part of a shockingly vain (and I mean doomed from the start) attempt to make the child feel natural love her new mother. When the girl reacted like anyone would to blatant abuse and bullying, she was murdered in cold blood. I won’t post the full story here cause its some heavy stuff, but see the below links if you want to learn more. WARNING: disturbing content. 13+ only please.

Game Theory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oC88jsc-wpg

ADVOTI: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrODA-ybqdE

No, I don’t think I’ll be watching a Let’s Play of #thebindingofisaac any time. Ever.

Now, I look back on ALL the above-mentioned fear-filled games and can’t help but thinking that they are dealing with serious topics a bit too lightly. Don’t’ get me wrong. No one is going to blame you for enjoying some haunted fun this #halloween but I would ask you to consider – and remember – the truehorror stories of our age. Be solemn for those who have suffered and pray fervently for those who inflict the suffering (forgiveness and second-chances are not always a popular opinion, but hey). Pray for those who have a duty to pass judgement – that they would help make wrongs right – and that the stories would of victims be told and paid attention to with the same viral awareness of the poor-audio, one-off indie art project that viewers of Petscop have become obsessed with.

And, most of all, don’t dwell in the dark. With #Christmas and #Thanksgiving just around the corner. Make a change in yourself. Reach out. Become that stereotypical charitable little old lady who encourages the downtrodden, picks up the fallen and loves the lost ones of this world. Who knows? You, dear reader, may have been lost on your journey once upon a time. Can you remember who came alongside and helped you? No? News flash: we all need someone like that at some point in our lives. The meaning of life is to be that person constantly. It’s not easy. It’s not always fun. But it has its rewards.

And if you are of religious conviction like myself, your love and kindness – choosing to forgive vs. hold a grudge; offering a smile instead of being just another frown – has an eternal impact because 1) right and wrong exist, 2) God exists and 3) the people you interact with will literally exist forever.

BRB ya’ll. I need to check out another horror game.

#adoption #fostersystem