well then... since y'guys wanted it... >:D

basically before HW2 ruins it I had this idea that since Helpi is currently uuuuuh malfunctioning as of RUIN... that the devs are like oh shit we need a new helper. So they base one on some old employee files and other records they find.

so ofc its michael. (but it doesnt know its based off michael shhh)

sorry abt the old art from august </3

is he evil? is he actually going to be helpful??? :3c eeeheheh

LOOK. Sister location is HIS game. If there is no michael then WHAT IS THE POINT.

(Pizza sim as well but i made these before we got the updated information OKAYYYY)

bonus bit

PS. designs are likely to change(ESP MICHAEL!!), but this is pretty much what i felt like i should share before HW2 comes out tomorrow LOL.

Now I'm just thinking what glamrock Freddy's reaction to the underground scooper would be, maybe he would see it, and stumble back. Maybe he'd quickly check his stomach hatch. He doesn't know why he did it. Maybe he'd glance over at the scooping room window in a quick pang of horror. Maybe he didn't know what he was looking for in the glass. But maybe the feeling occurs to him that he's been in this kind of situation before. Surprisingly, Freddy has a thought that the outcome of this weird dejavu is the same as it always was.

He is full of many, many, wires.

This time, he thinks, they aren't going anywhere.

They can talk, in death. Evan has questions. He wants to understand; he needs to know the whole story in order to process and heal. He needs to know why Mike was the way that he was to understand that it wasn't Evan's fault; and he wants to know what happened after he died, what it was like.

Michael wants to answer him. He wants to help; he's obligated to help, after everything he's done to Evan. He prepares his story, opens his mouth to speak...

And nothing comes out.

In which Michael threw himself to the wayside when he decided to save them, so much so that he isn't ready to talk about his own trauma after he dies.

I just feel like I’m being dragged down…

@castaccio you make a good point! I'll admit, I did kinda narrow down on the conflict and your input did make me think a bit more!

Sure, his conflict and need to stop his father aren't the only thing that defines him, but the other aspects of his life are as fairly tragic.

His need to save the children, who tried to kill him + were killed by his father

His want to mend his relationship with his siblings, which one of them being extremely loyal to his father and scooping out his organs and the other who was also trying to kill him alongside the missing children.

And his regret about the Bite, which defines a fair bit of him.

It's just- SO much, if not all of his life is defined by tragedy and atonement and it's incredibly fascinating. All of his personality and character is defined by the tragedies his father caused that it's all he's remembered for.

It's kinda poetic. So much of his life was a mess of tragedy and atonement that there wasn't any time for it to be anything else.

That's another potential reason we don't have much of his personality outside of the animatronics or his father.

He didn't let himself be defined outside of anything else.

Maybe atonement.

Maybe punishment.

Or maybe there simply wasn't TIME for being just himself.

Not while his father's victims were still hurting.

Not when HIS victim was still hurting.

fuh naff

When I posted this on Instagram it did good so uhh here

❛   —  i know you are,❜ response is a classic, and easily tossed over his shoulder, accompanied by a grin and a throaty chuckle. it's all in good humor, though, and the comment practically rolls right off his shoulders. and here is where his gaze shifts, lands back on the task at hand. ( one of his sisters many dolls. and this one, specifically, happens to have a pretty bad lip chip going on. ) he's trying to school some steadiness into his grip so he can paint it over. this is very much not his wheelhouse, and michael makes a mental note to thank charlie's mom for the extra paint later. right now, though, he's laser focused. cautious as he can, he dots a bit of color along the mouth. thankfully enough, by the time he's finished, the shade of which seemed to match pretty well. the chip was barely visible. ❛ you wound me, liz, ❜ mike says, hand dramatically pressing to his chest. ❛ i am offended you would think me capable of such a thing. ❜ said even as he hands the toy back to her. ❛ there. good as new. she still has to dry a little, though. so be careful. ❜

𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐌𝐏𝐓. i accidentally deleted the meme. ❛ did anyone ever tell you that you're annoying ? ❜ sent for michael and elizabeth. from @ladyseidr !

In Saffron Pawn one of the scrabbles mentioned him having a fox pet. Given Michaels Foxy mask during their childhoods, was there any internal conflict?

Answer: a tentative but confident but still tentative "i think so"

So, in this au, Evan spends a lot of time (both pre- and post-Capture) killing animals. But one day post-Capture, he goes to kill an animal (both because it's a "safe" way to express his feelings and it makes him feel closer to William), but he just... can't.

I've posted about this before, but I've since changed my mind on how that first "I can't kill this animal" scene goes, so I'll use this as an opportunity to voice said changes.

The first animal that Evan finds himself unable to kill is a fox. I haven't yet decided if this happens before or after he and Mike find Mike's old letters in one of William's storage locations; maybe it happens afterward, when Evan's faith in William is shattered and his feelings toward Michael (and his feelings in general, tbh) are more confusing than ever.

I think the fox does remind Evan of Michael/Foxy, but in a more subconscious way. The fox might be a kit fox or gray fox, rather than your stereotypical red fox, to show that while it IS a fox, there's a disconnect in Evan's mind on the conscious level.

On the subconscious level, the fox reminds Evan of a big, tall, dark red animatronic with a scary hook, and of a big brother that towers over him and hurts him and that he's helpless to stop. But there's also the subconscious understanding that the fox before him is none of these things. Even if it's a red fox and not a different kind of fox, it doesn't look anything like Foxy/Mike. It's gray/orange/sandy/brown (depending on what fox it is) rather than dark red. It's not big. It doesn't tower over him. It's not scary; it's scared.

Evan hesitates, and the fox runs away.

Somehow, it feels like Michael just won something over him. It's confusing. It hurts. Evan doesn't mention anything about the fox to Michael.

Sometime later, though, Evan comes home with an injured squirrel. Maybe Evan injured it while trapping it or maybe Evan just found it that way. Either way, Evan once again can't finish the job like he thinks he should be able to. Evan doesn't know what to do, but he does know that Michael has known what to do every time he's found Evan injured in the time Ev has been in Mike's custody (and maybe before then, too). So Evan brings the squirrel back to Michael and tells Mike to fix it.

Animals-- and people-- don't work that way, of course. And Michael doesn't really know anything about squirrel-care, and he's not very excited to have a dirty rodent in his house. But he agrees to let it stay and help Evan take care of it while the thing is healing; after that, it's going back outside where it belongs. Except Evan comes home with another squirrel a few days later. Maybe if Evan's still a bit, ah, messed up, he purposely hurt the squirrel so Mike wouldn't be able to say no to keeping it.

A few weeks pass. Michael's awed to see just how attached Evan becomes to the squirrels; Evan hasn't shown much emotional reaction to anything unless it concerned William or proving that Michael doesn't actually love Evan or that Mike is the "weak" sibling. Even when the squirrel (or squirrels) are fully healed, Mike can't bring himself to tell Evan to get rid of them. Though, like @honey-bunnysaurus said in one of these posts once, Mike tells Evan "I'm only letting you keep the squirrels because they're small, okay? We're not taking in any more animals." So, what does Evan do but go out and get the one animal Mike could never refuse: a fox.

Evan's being sly, of course. It IS the one animal Mike could never refuse, and they both know it. But, maybe, just maybe, it's almost like a thank-you, too. While Evan's love-language was once touch and words of affirmation, living with William's manipulation (where Evan was expected to say and do whatever William asked of him and was largely given hollow "symbolic" shows of love in return) has (maybe temporarily) skewed Evan's love-language into something closer to acts of service. Again, not something Evan would consciously be aware of or admit, but maybe choosing to bring a fox into the home wasn't just Evan being sly, but a thank you to Mike for indulging him and taking him in.

Maybe on the days when Evan is having a really hard time believing Mike actually cares about him, the fox snuggles up to him. It brings back painful memories of everything Mike did to him, but it's also a reminder that things are different now. Just like the original fox that Evan couldn't kill, the fox isn't actually Foxy; it's not big or scary. It's something different. Something new. Something tied to his past but not directly OF his past, sorta like how one has to acknowledge and remember one's past mistakes in order to strive to be better in the future.

Evan never tells Mike any of this to his face, of course, but sometimes, Mike wonders. And the fox pet (and everything it symbolizes) probably comes up in both of the brothers' therapy sessions various times.

Headcanon: Michael hates his physical appereance, as he looked too much like his father. So the "zombification" had it's good things in his eyes, even if it didn't make a complete change. Still, when he doesn't hate his body and face for looking like his father anymore, now he hates it because he literally looks like a zombie for a good while.

There's no relief for the kid.

"Well"

"It does not look half as bad"

ahem. mini fic time

summary: the party had been for him. the prank had been for him. he had meant to die, that much he knew [or, evan afton recalls the events that led to his brothers death]

snippet under the cut !!!

He should have died that day.

After a while Evan started to realise that part of him in fact, had. The hollow pit in his stomach had grown with each passing day since, the guilt clawed at his heart until it ached, the cold gripped his mind and never quite let him go. For a while, he was never entirely sure why he could feel such guilt over something that wasn’t his fault. Later he would place that feeling to be survivor's guilt, and that too, only increased with each moment that passed.

The party had been for him. The prank had been for him. He had meant to die, that much he knew.

He remembered the day as clearly as it had been ten years ago. The details were not vague nor were they fuzzy despite them being the memories of a child from an entire decade ago. No, they were sharp, magnified even, somehow the experience through dreams felt just as real as it had back then if not more so. He remembered every single little thing just as it had been, right down to every noise, sensation and every droplet of blood.

As soon as his eyes slipped shut he finds himself ten years old again, surrounded by blaring lights and a sea of people whose faces he'd long forgotten. All except four. He's being held back against his will, as much as he thrashes and turns he can't get himself free from their icy grip. He feels so small, so weak. He hates it. There's no point in trying to wake up, he's forced to let the dream, the memory run its course. It always happens the very same way each time and yet he's completely immobilised and unable to stop it. 

No matter what he does he can't save him.

I CAN'T LOOK AT TUMBLR I HAVE WORK PLS TAG ME IF THERE'S MIKE AFTON CRUMBS IN HW2 I BEG OF YOU

or send them my way pretty please

I am trying to draw a two pages FNaF Sister's Location fancomic, where color has a symbolism. However I am stuck so :

Explanation about the symbolism I had in mind in the tags.

Something I think would destroy Michael when he finally got out of William's house:

At every turn, the adults who were supposed to care for him failed him. Now that he's an adult, nobody is expected to help him at all.

This took a few weeks but I finally finished quite possibly my favorite piece I've ever done.

ok i really need to rewatch these games bcus i dont understand what half of these notes are referencing but me and my brother decided the order was 4-> 5-> 2-> 1-> 3-> 6