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Kinda ,, small reminder ,,,

I'm a Schmidt = Emily thruther till the day i die. So uh. 👍 yeahsg

Garrett Schmidt is the Charlie Emily to me

im just thinking what if mike schmidt is the son of the movie's equivalent of henry emily. i had this thought on the way home from the movie at like. 10 pm so at the time it was incoherrent, but im going to expand on it here.

point 1- garrett played a similar role to charlie emily, in that despite being watched over they were both killed by william afton.

p2- in the flashbacks, its very obvious that the entire family is in a place away from society. they're literally in a forest. it wouldn't make sense for william of all people to be there if he wasn't close to the family.

p3- the books and the game mirror eachother, so there is a chance that schmidt could be another fake name, one william recognized because, again, he was a family friend.

p4-what happens when your kid goes missing? idk probaly witness protection or an urge to seperate yourself from the incident, both reasons for the name change.

p5-(kinds joke reason) abby rhymes with charlie and looks similar to her (brown hair, brown eyes)

p6-i argue that abby also took on the role of the puppet/charlie at the end of the movie. she didn't necessarily give them life, not like what was done in the game, she shoeed them how they died. she reminded the children of the life they had before, and of who really took it. by doing that, in a way, she gave them that life back. she gave them their real personality back, one not influenced by william. she cut them from his influence, she gave them the gift (the picture) and it gave them life (their memories)

p7- in the movie, mike says his father 'couldnt deal with it' and left after his mother died. yk what that sounds similar to? book henry emily killing himself in despair. maybe mike's dad is alive maybe he's dead, we dont know. but it is similar enough, an act of completely removing himself from the equation.

p8-book henry has a sister named jen, yk what name that sounds like? jane. who was mike and abby's aunt, and we dont know which parent she was related to.

p9-'but wouldn't mike know about the pizzaria if william was a family friend?' honestly, probably. but theres also a high chance that he wouldnt. if the family lived in nebraska, (which im pretty sure they did) they wouldn't have a need to go to utah, not even for a friend's restaurant. sure, he might know that his dad's friend had a restaurant, but not that it had animatronics or anything. the family probaly moved to utah after garrett's disappearance and after freddy's closed down.

p10-'wouldn't mike know vanessa? theyre similar in age' if they didnt live in the same state, probaly not. william in the movie was a, suprise suprise, shitty father, even foregoing the stabbing of his kid. i doubt hed care enough to take her with him on like. a short out of state trip.

p11(edit)- in the books aunt jane was killed by evil charlie to get to charlie, yk what that sounds like? the animatronics killing aunt jen to get to charlie

p12(edit)-the words at the end of the movie say 'come find me' and the music playong at the end is the puppets song so i think garrett is the puppet which is. again. an emily thing

p13(edit)- mikes dad looks like a mechanic shown in the training videos [cough henry emily cough]

if i think of anything else ill add it but anywys this is why i think the schmidts in the movie are the emilys equivalent. also check out the notes on this post because theres a lot of replies n reblogs that support my theory

Honestly it lowkey annoys me whenever people say that Michael has 'very little personality' outside of hunting down his father.

N like- on the surface, that seems true, but like. If you look deeper, that's... not really true?? Because there's a LOT that actually speaks to his character, but you have to be willing to catch onto the connections his character has

Like, for example, Michael has a very straightforward way of speaking. He's dry and sarcastic ("They thought I was you... [laugh]"), has a foreshortened sense of the future (the drawing of a gravestone in the security logbook), not to mention the dialogue of foxybro in fnaf 4. He doesn't beat around the bush, but he's bitter and dry and sarcastic. Even as an old man, his anger and cynicism towards Freddy's shows in his drawings, but he has a sense of humor (the exotic butters and casual bongos referenced in the logbook, not to mention the silly drawings), plus he's sentimental (as said before, exotic butters and casual bongos). Not to mention he's stubborn as shit, given he keeps coming back to Freddy's, even after 30 whole years.

A lot of people also really like to write Michael off as being stupid, for... some reason. The games really say otherwise; the fact that he tampers with the animatronics regularly, figured out what his father did and what happened to Elizabeth in less than a week, freed the dead kids, helped make FFPS and ran a business, likely Also made the fnaf 3 location too, knew what was gonna happen to him in SL (pretty clear given the fact you can ignore Baby's directions on the last night), can manage several animatronics at once throughout an entire night...

Michael is very clearly Really Fucking Smart. Smart enough that I'm willing to bet that was one of the reasons why William sent him to the SL bunker. Michael is FAR from an idiot, and the FNAF movie even proves this further! He's SCARILY smart!

There's a lot more too; him using a red foxy mask speaks a lot to his character too. Red is often used to denote everything from passion to anger (yknow, 'seeing red' being a term for when you're blind with rage), and he wears it the entire time he bullies CC. It's not just a literal mask, it's figurative too; Michael puts up a mask of anger, he pretends to be this scary bully. The cruelty isn't real, Michael is just the scapegoat and he's acting out (very very common).

Also, Michael is 100% who you play as in fnaf 4 based on the movement, and who rubs away in Midnight Motorist. CC is the type of kid to freeze up, curl up into a ball and cry when he's scared, as seen several times in fnaf 4. It wouldn't make sense for him to suddenly turn around and start running around, or fighting back. It's very Michael to run around, constantly looking around, or to break out and run away.

Another note on Michael's character is that he's associated with Foxy. The Funtimes are clearly modeled after the Aftons (Ballora and Baby are, why wouldn't the rest match CC (Freddy) and Michael (Foxy)?), and using that we can gleam some parts of Michael from FT Foxy (since William clearly was trying to mock and make fun of him with the angsty teen voice). FT Foxy is a performer; he's dramatic, he's vicious, attacking even when he 'shouldn't', and wants his stage solely to himself.

This fits Michael; Michael put on an act of viciousness and cruelty, always attacking when you least expected it. So it makes sense that Michael, too, is a performer, and FFPS hammers this in using the business bear. Again, the mask represents Michael acting, pretending, and it wouldn't be the first time an Afton would pretend (William, Elizabeth, and to an extent, CC). The rest of the Aftons are also theatrical and dramatic, so again, this tracks. He's also represented as one of those hand puppets in the ffps alleyway poster, something used to ACT.

And again, with Foxy, we can gleam that Michael likely is also a sort of 'leader' figure, since Foxy has been depicted as not just a pirate captain, but also as a Ringleader. This also tracks, not just bc the Aftons have a circus theme, but Michael is the eldest of his siblings, and thus the de facto 'leader'. He's the first to act, to put things into motion when everything 'ends'. Foxy is also, well, a fox, which are depicted as cunning and intelligent, which only lends credence to Michael being intelligent.

It's also implied that Michael... doesn't really care about people who Aren't his family?? Whether that's by blood or not, he doesn't care abt others who isn't his family. This is implied by the fact that he only cared about freeing Elizabeth, showing absolutely No care about the Funtimes despite them clearly being sentient. Not to mention the lawsuits he regularly gets in FFPS, or the state Fazbears Frights is in in fnaf 3. And, judging by Henry's final speech, he and Michael just. Don't seem to talk At All. At the very least they definitely don't communicate since Henry assumed Michael wanted to die (which is left Very Ambiguous).

Honestly this doesn't even BEGIN to get into everything that the Glitchtrap Michael theory says about his character that also hammer in all of these traits Even Further.

And like. Michael is SOOO much like William when you put all of this into perspective. Like, they are SIMILAR similar, but differ in ways that are important. Michael is a performer, an actor, he doesn't care about anyone outside of his family, he's stubborn as fuck, he's smart as hell, he's sarcastic and dry, etc.

He has SO. MUCH. CHARACTER. You just have to dig a little- this is ALL gleamed from the games and Security Logbook. There's more if you believe he's Glitchtrap- which he very likely is.

Just... it's nuts. He's such an intriguing character, he's not perfect and he's morally gray, yet people love to dumb him down to "hehe sad uwu arsonist zombie boy who's also Stupid"

Please just let Michael be a problematic old man (he was born in the 60s ffs, he's almost in his 60s by the time ffps rolls around).

puppet kids

Me explaining why Movie!Mike's dad is actually going to be the film counterpart to Henry Emily;

FNAF Movie:

The year the movie seems to be based in is probably the early 90’s from the outdated stuff and the whole theme. We can clearly see the equipment used by Mike, the electronics, the wallpaper and all the old stuff revolving around the 90’s and where the original first FNAF game was based around.

The song played by the animatronics in the movie was in fact made in 1983, so some added detail put into the movie.

The movie has its own lore like how the books and games have theirs, but was based off “The Silver Eyes” it seems like, a FNAF book.

The animatronics act like children because they are, so of course they would happily build a fort and honestly, I wanna make one rn.

There were no scenes with the Puppet in it and was actually confirmed to be an endo-skeleton named “Tina” they had around the set.

Maybe Bonnie messed up on purpose while singing when Vanessa asked Mike to dance because he didn’t like Mike back then.

I have a theory that the child we see replacing Cassidy/C.C is in fact(maybe) William’s son. He’s got more than one child as we know of, so maybe in the movie, Golden Freddy is his son. Maybe not, but it’s a theory, especially since we see the poor child looking at him and Afton reaching out. It looked like pain and sadness on the child.

Mike’s Father is probably Henry. Just a theory. We know that Afton took Garret, but I doubt Garret told Afton any information, so he probably worked with Henry and knew what his kids looked like. Why would he have a reason to take Garret in the first place if he’s not at the Pizzeria? Besides, he might have used that child, as he used Charlotte. Killed because he wanted Henry to feel the same as he did. He may have taken Charlottes place. Funny how Mikes family looks similar to Henry’s. Plus, in the scene where we see an endo-skeleton being built, the man looked like Mike’s Father.

Abby will probably die in the next movie. It’s possible she will have an end just like Elizebeth did, or maybe instead she’ll become the puppet, but I doubt it. Can’t forgot to add more trauma and pain to Mike’s life, can we. (It’s a theory, please don’t come at me. I don’t like her either and seeing something resembling Lizzy’s death will free me)

Edit: the movie was set in the early 2000’s, sorry.

Parallels I noticed between Elizabeth and the Golden Freddy kid in the FNAF movie (plus my own ideas and interpretations):

- Coerces someone into trusting them and then trying to kill them (GF taking Abby to get turned into an animatronic and Baby scooping Michael to wear his skin)

- Both GF and Baby coerce people based on incorrect information (Baby thinks Michael is William and GF thinks Abby is becoming part of their “family” because of William controlling the kids, or I have another idea that GF might be trying to bring Abby back to the pizzeria so she can break William’s hold on the kids but I’ll elaborate on that some other time)

- Kills/attacks the main character’s aunt and leaves her on the floor (whether or not Aunt Jane is dead we don’t know for sure) like Baby does in The Fourth Closet with Aunt Jen (plus the Aunt Jane/Aunt Jen thing)

- Assuming that GF is William’s son and Vanessa’s brother, this would be a reverse of Sister Location. In the games, it’s the son who survives to adulthood and has to do his father’s bidding, while the daughter had been killed as a child and stuck in an animatronic. In the movie, the daughter survives and the son dies and becomes the leading spirit.

- Both Elizabeth and GF seems to have more authority over the other animatronics, both being the ones who really speak to the main characters directly.

- It’s possible that GF mistook Abby for Vanessa, seeing as her outfit on the first night she was there she wore the same pink top and blue pants combination that Vanessa wore in the photo with her father, which could parallel how Baby mistook Michael for William

Bonus Thoughts: I have a theory/hypothesis that the GF kid might actually be Michael, or this universe’s stand in for him. Instead of it being the idea that the Aftons and the Emilys switched kids, what if instead the kids in each family switched roles, like the brother (Garrett) being killed and turned into the Puppet instead of the sister (Charlie) like in the games (plus Mike being like the older brother who feels guilty for his brother’s death, and the novel said in chapter 1 that he felt like he was the problem in the family even before Garrett went missing, and then being related to Henry would be great). It would make a neat spin on things to see Vanessa as this world’s Elizabeth and her trying to free her brother, just like Michael did for his sister in the games. Whether a horrible fate will befall her like Michael had I don’t know we’ll just have to see for ourselves when the next movie comes out.

Amended Theory for the FNAF Movie!

I added this to my first theory but I decided to make it its own post so it's easier to find! So after watching the movie in theaters again, I’m gonna add and also change just a few things based on more information.

❌ Spoilers for the FNAF movie below! ❌

• I still believe Mike is Afton’s biological son (Garrett and Abby are not)

• I still believe Vanessa is Afton’s adopted daughter (she was adopted after he lost Mike during the divorce)

• Based on others theories, I’m now believing that Mike’s “dad” is the stand-in for Henry Emily in the movie. The reason he isn’t mentioned as an owner in the training tapes is because Afton is a known narcissist and wouldn’t want to share credit with anyone or he left the company before that training tape was made. His name in the movie is Henry Schmidt.

• Afton’s wife divorces him and marries Henry, taking Mike with her. Mike is too young to remember Afton. Henry left Fazbear Entertainment after marrying Afton’s ex-wife, it is unclear if he left of his own volition or if Afton more or less kicked him out

• This would explain why Afton targeted Garrett specifically, especially since he left the state to follow the Schmidt’s while they were camping. It wouldn’t make sense to leave to just snatch a random kid from a random camping ground. Garret’s kidnapping was a targeted attack, Garrett is the son of Mr. Schmidt and Afton’s ex-wife. He took him to hurt his ex-wife

• That being said, this would make Garrett a great stand-in for the Puppet since in the games, Charlie (Henry’s daughter) is Afton’s first kill and eventually goes on to possess the Puppet after her death

• I’m also making a slight change to what I said about Abby, I do believe she is the daughter of Mr. Schmidt and Afton’s ex-wife after Garrett was taken. I do think Mike said “our mother died” instead of “her mother died”.

• Mike describing his family life as picture perfect, spending time together, saying grace at dinner, it all seems a little too good to be true. I feel like there’s more to Mike’s family that meets the eye

• Also, it’s never clearly stated that Mike’s “dad” died, all Mike says is “dad couldn’t handle it”, which isn’t super clear. He could still be alive at this point

• Afton clearly knew who Mike was when he read his name in his file, even though he hasn’t seen him in years. I think he recognized traits from himself and his ex-wife while he was studying him. And as to why Afton attacked him at the end of the movie, we know that he is not above hurting his family (he legit stabbed Vanessa and stole his ex-wife’s kid presumably)

I hope my ramblings make sense, but this is how I see the story progressing in the sequels!

my theory about the FNAF movie

in Mike's dream sequence sees that Garrett was William's first Victim, so it means that Garrett is not really Crying Child from the Movie. and it means that the next movie Garrett will posses The Puppet, and actually he is Charlie from the movie universe. and his death is very similar to Charlie, also in my theory the location that Garrett's body It was left, I think it was the location of the pizzeria from FNAF 2 (because Garrett's death was in 1987 and this is the year of FNAF 2), and then Puppet saw it and tried to save it but they arrived too late. similar to Charlie, and in the credits appears FNAF 2 minigames voice and talk "C-O-M-E, F-I-N-D, M-E" i believe that Garrett as The Puppet talked this when The Puppet's Music Box ends.

and also the fans theorizes that Abby is Elizabeth from the movie, but in my opinion Abby is half version of Elizabeth in the movie, because in Charlie's trilogy is confirmed that Charlie have a Brother named Sammy. so for me, Abby actually is the movie version of Elizabeth and Sammy.

also not to forget, the man with the endo skeleton is very similar to mr. Schmidt, and it also means that Mike's father is Henry Emily from the movie, and also William kidnapped Garrett for his insane envy/jealousy for your ex-best friend/partner

also i think Vanessa is the half version of Crying Child from the movie, because both goes on the hospital in Coma. and i think in the next movie will not just have somethings about the FNAF 2, i think will also have somethings about FNAF 4, because of Vanessa in the Hospital.

and Mike when he talking with Vanessa, he said that his mother died, it means that she might possessed a Animatronic from Freddy's or maybe not.

Since Im going to believe Mikes Dad is Henry until told otherwise and I love that these could be bunny ears... I'm gonna have Henry do this because William loves it lol

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FNAF movie animatronics are like. 6ft or 7ft right-???? The puppet would be taller (8-9ft tall. And since in canon the puppet is taller then the animatronic-).

And going by Garrett puppet theory .... Man. That family reunion would look so funny. 3-4ft lil sister, 5'6ft older brother, 8-9ft tall middle brother and a 5ft(???) tall father(Mike, Abby n Garrett's dad) ....

I've found definitive evidence for Garrett Schmidt being the puppet. You see:

'Charlotte' and 'Marionette' is a stupid ass pun.

While spelled differently, when spoken aloud 'Garrett' and 'Marionette' is another. You guessed it. Stupid ass pun.

Their names have always been a joke. Thank you for coming to my fnaf theory ted talk.

So does anyone else feel that Mike's dad is gonna take the place of Henry Emily? I've seen a bunch of people pointing out that it seems to be the same actor that's also the guy working on an animatronic in the tape Mike watches. If that's on purpose then it could work really well with the game lore, with Williams first victim still being Henry's child, only this time being one of his children instead of his only one. Plus it would be a fun parallel with the twist of Vanessa being an Afton, and it brings the possibility of getting a version of Henry's speech in a future movie.

KIND OF SPOILERS FOR THR FNAF MOVIE??

I’ve been seeing people talking about how maybe Mike’s dad is Henry and that’s why William took Garrett(I’m wholeheartedly convinced he became the puppet in the movieverse) but also pointing out that he would have known about Freddy’s then

If he was there during the bite or responsible for it like Michael Afton is in the games. I wondered if it’s possible that he blocked out the memory as a trauma response - just fully buried any and all memories revolving around Freddy’s and maybe seeing those memories and traumatic wounds being reopened as he ends up in the fnaf 2 location??????

Idk not much of a theory just a thought I had