[ID: A tiermaker list of five nights at freddys characters.  The categories are Desolation, Hunt, Flesh, Spiral, Corruption, Eye, Vast, Lonely, Stranger, Slaughter, Buried, Dark, Web, End.  Desolation: Jack-o-Foxy, Jack-o-Chica, Jack-o-Bonnie. Hunt: Michael Afton, Evan Afton, Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Funtime Freddy, Funtime Foxy, Gregory, Roxanne Wolf, Montgomery Gator, Glamrock Chica. Flesh: Mangle. Spiral: Shadow Freddy, Shadow Bonnie, Lolbit, Phantom Mnagle. Corruption: No characters. Eye: Psychic Friend Fredbear. Vast: The Blob. Lonely: Henry Emily. Stranger: Elizabeth Afton, Circus Baby, Ennard, Ballora, Molten Freddy, Scrap Baby, Glamrock Freddy. Slaugher: Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, Withered Freddy, Withered Chica, Withered Bonnie, Withered Foxy. Buried: Golden Freddy. Dark: Nightmare Freddy, Nightmare Chica, Nightmare Bonnie, Nightmare Foxy, Freddie’s, Nightmare Mangle, Nightmare Fredbear, Nightmare, Nightmarionne, Sundrop, Moondrop. Web: Glitchtrap, Vanessa, Vanny, Lefty. End: William Afton, Springtrap, Scraptrap: Burntrap, The Marionette, Phantom Freddy, Phantom Chica, Phantom Foxy, Phantom Marionette, Child Spirit.]

Hope this clears it up

Anyway I’m going to ramble excruciatingly under the cut

Some of these are just me having a bit of fun, case and point, the Jack-o-animatronics: I don’t really consider them to be real entities but they fit so nicely with the desolation I couldn’t resist. If they were in any way tangible I’d stick them in with the dark as they’re still technically nightmares. I guess.

I’ve already talked abt Mike, but I wanna defend my Evan classification as well; you could argue that Evan would be better for the end or the dark, I think hunt works better (in general I think this series is hunt/stranger coded) because that’s what haunts every aspect of his life. He never feels safe and is always being watched.

Returning to my having-a-bit-o-fun clause: do I really think that characters become avatars for different entities over time, i.e. Evan is hunt when he’s alive then buried when he’s Golden Freddy? No —I picture it more like certain entities marking them throughout their lives, like Jon and Martin. I classified them by the entity that dominated their life at that time. Example: when Jon was a child, I’d put him under the web, when he’s an adult, I’d put him under the eye.

Idk if I need to defend the toy animatronic classification here. I don’t personally think they’re haunted, so their purpose is to hunt down and kill Afton. Nuff said

Notice how Funtime Freddy and Foxy are in hunt while Baby and Ballora are in the stranger! Interesting! Same with the toy animatronics, I don’t consider them to be haunted, more like driven by some other desire to kill. Side note: the funtimes are my favorite animatronics and SL is best game. Moving on.

I feel like flesh mangle is self explanatory, but i just wanna caveat that I consider them 50/50 flesh/hunt with the rest of the toys.

Spiral is all the hallucination animatronics, which is why phantom mangle is here but the rest are not because, again, I don’t consider the toy animatronics to be haunted. I consider these ghosts of soulless beings.

Nothing for corruption! Sad. The only thing I could think of was that purple mold Springtrap from special delivery, but like hell I’m bringing those non-canon assholes into this. This is complicated enough as is.

Again, the eye is kinda a goof, if anything I’d say that it’s an object with fear power, like Annabel’s camera or Jon’s tapes. I think it’s actually pretty fitting with the way it literally stalks Evan through the story. I take it back it’s not a goof I’m a genius.

The blob is so stupid. I almost hate to acknowledge it. It goes into the vast because it’s canon universe existence is that it’s the melded forms of all the animatronics ever I guess? Including chica and other animatronics that weren’t at the fnaf 6 location when it burned WHATEVER I’m not getting into it— it’s a writhing screaming mass of murdered souls it’s going under vast.

We don’t actually have any solid proof this grey pixel man is Henry but that’s how I’m gonna interpret him for my purposes. (Don’t get me…fucking stated…on how these games delivery bits of lore….so stupid…) Henry’s going under lonely because he lost his daughter and the tragedy of that consumed his life. (bluh bluh but in the books it says he has a son and wife— I do not care about the books 🔪)

I’m kinda using the stranger classification for all the characters with intense identity issues? Can I also tangent about something else that bothers me? I do not believe that Ballora is haunted with Mrs. Aftons ghost. I say I don’t believe because I acknowledge that this is the reality the canon wants us to believe, but can we stop for just a second and ask where this fact is presented?? I have no idea if it’s in the books. I don’t care about the books. As near as I can tell the only piece of in game confirmation is the Easter egg in security breach where the Ballora-looking staffbot is sitting at the Afton table. That’s IT!!! How fucking insulting is that, like you’re such a discarded piece of set dressing that your murder and dismemberment aren’t even worth bringing up. I can’t understand making this canon it makes no fucking sense, so like throughout all of sister location Mrs. Afton just had nothing to say to her son or her daughter and THEN in ultimate custom night she still has nothing to say to her husband like I’m not asking for a monologue but why bother canonizing it at this point

Sorry I just had a moment of clarity and became hyper aware of where I am and what I’m doing *shudders*

Anyway, I’m gonna summarize my whole beef with this headcanon: Baby and Ballora aren’t haunted by the spirits of Elizabeth and Mrs. Afton, rather I think they’re metaphocally haunted by their memory. Like, we can’t really speak for Ballora but Baby talks at length about the incident with Elizabeth, the only child she ever killed. You could say her distress was all a ploy to gain Mikes trust, and I think that’s probably mostly true, but I really feel like she’s been down here all these years just thinking about it, going over it again and again. Why did that happen? Especially poignant if you pair it with the idea that William might have assumed Elizabeth haunted her after this and spoke to her as such. I just think it’s a much more compelling narrative to have a sentient robot (we know she’s always been completely sentient even before she killed Elizabeth because she describes details of her life from before the incident) be haunted by an action she had no control over, and then an identity thrust upon her that she didn’t understand or want. Pretending to be Elizabeth may have even been a coping mechanism she learned, being the only thing that would make William stop torturing her.

Since this is already as long as it is, another tangent: I like to image that William tried to meld his wife and Ballora together, and with her last dying breath she told him to fuck off and spat in his face, then faded away to the Christian afterlife, which is canon in all Scott’s Games games.

Glamrock Freddy also gets to go here for his intense canon identity issues. This is also the reason I’m not down with the mike-possesses-Glamrock-Freddy theory, I think it cheapens his character. “I am not me” is a much more powerful line for a robot who’s struggling with this identity he had no say in than the ghost of Michael Afton like, idk trying to disown himself?

I’m still very unsure about putting the main four under slaughter instead of hunt or stranger. My reasoning here is that they’re compelled towards senseless violence because they came from senseless violence and are now cursed to perpetuate it. Shrug. They could fall under a lot of categories.

Buried Golden Freddy is one I feel pretty passionate about. Trapped, confined, cannot move or communicate. Literally locked away to bury the Fazbear troubled past.

Also I’m not acknowledging Cassidy. Possibly the worst introduced piece of lore. If she has to exist why not have her haunt one of the other main four animatronics, it makes no sense for her to be in golden freddy, like William started killing kids and just decided to stuff one of their bodies in the incredibly emotionally significant one that ruined his life? Why? Also the game that “proves” her existance, UCN, when referring the “the one you should not have killed” they use he pronouns. It just makes sense for it to be Evan, like narratively and with the lore already presented. Like I’ve seen some people quibble like “but the newspaper clippings said five kids went missing” yea and the fifth kid could have been Charlie! This isn’t a loose end, there’s no reason to introduce a character like this and furthermore *just imagine me fading into static here*

The dark is pretty self explanatory: all the nightmares go here. Whether you consider them tangible animatronics used to scare Evan or literally just nightmares, I think theyre pretty clearly entities of the dark. Sun and Moon are here too —at first I put them in the stranger cuz they also sorta have an identity thing going on, plus, literally clowns, but someone on insta (I think it was awacatin but i can’t remember and i dont know how to check!!) mentioned they’d be good with dark which is actually so much better. Like their whole think is lights on/lights off like the dark kinda runs their lives.

Web gets the SB subset of glitchtrap/Vanessa/vanny —I think the webs pretty good for mind control stuff already but then its also like. Computers/interweb/bugs/viruses etc Big evil plan type of characters, lying in wait, putting everything into its place to get the desired result etc. And then Lefty gets to be here cuz its a device for capturing, luring, tricking, secrets, etc etc etc.

William again could go a lot of different ways. Someone else on insta (again no idea who sorry!!) mentioned it be pretty satisfying to put him in the slaughter (cuz you know, the man behind the slaughter) but I dont really think violence was what drove him, I think it was an obsession with death and a need to control it. My personal interpretation of him is that he was partially driven mad by the loss of his son and then daughter, hating the weak helpless feeling it left him with, hating feeling vulnerable, so he tries to overcome it to, like, literally beat death. It’s not so much that he wants to bring his son back to life (though I think he does) it’s that he wants to nullify death as a concept completely. And through those means, becomes an avatar who cannot die. Ergo, all the traps go here (except glitchtrap, which I don’t really think is imbued with Williams soul or whatever? Cuz how could it be that doesn’t really make sense. I prefer the more esoteric explanation of just like, an inanimate non-living object becoming possessed and malevolent just because of the evil fearful entity it was born from.)

Charlie/Marionette also gets put here because of her deathless powers. I like to think, like Georgie, she got made into a death avatar against her will. Just through the act of being killed by a death avatar but being too stubborn to succumb to her fate. I think also, the reason she possesses her animatronic longer than the others, withstanding the fire etc is because she’s not actually haunting her suit the way the others are. Like, the others are haunting their suits because Charlie helped them and they’re literally hidden in the suits bodies, but Charlie isn’t inside the puppet (there’s literally no way, the puppet is too small to hide a body inside) she’s more like merged with it? And then also the phantoms. Deathless creatures without bodies haunting you and driving you insane. Pretty cut and dry.

So, uh, I hope that clears it up.

Paradise Lost (Chapter 1)

I’m so proud of how the poster turned out and I’m praising myself a genius for coming up with the credit part haha. Enjoy!

OC x Jinwoo pairing 1.020 words by Serena

Chapter 2

Summary: YG trainee Jung Jisoo had seen other soon-to-be artists come and go. After eight years of training she gains her chance of becoming a soloist. Within the world of glamour and secrets Jisoo has found her paradise only to become lost within. She finds herself emerged in a forbidden love. But is a foolish love worth the risk of your hard worked idol life? 

“What do you think?” With a curious yet worried look Jisoo’s eyes watched Taehyun’s expression, his body language, his eyes. Looking for any sign of disappointment. Taehyun sat on the seat opposite from her, a pen between his teeth, head leaned over the table. With all the quietness he could muster he read the lyrics she had written. After what felt like hours he finally looked up, giving  a small nod and a smile. It wasn't promising but it was enough – for now. “I like it.” “Oh thank god”, Jisoo groaned in relief. She took in a sharp inhale, clutching her hands to her face. “If I needed to rewrite the song I’d go mad.” Taehyun chuckled. “I wouldn’t think you need to.” “So can I show this Yang Hyun Suk?” Taehyun nodded, glancing at the sheet one more time. “I think yes. He might disagree on my opinion, though. He has done that before when we were composing for Win.” “Great. This makes things even better”, Jisoo huffed. “You only need a melody for your lyrics now”, Taehyun continued his strain of thoughts. “I can help you with that. You haven’t worked witgh the device yet, have you?” He took his pen and nudged the computer with it. Jisoo shook her head. “Never needed to compose until now.” Taehyun nodded. “It seems to me he’s relying on your singing skills.” His eyes skimmed over her for a quick second. “And looks”, he added. “When’s the deadline for your song?” Jisoo bit her lip. She was avoiding this particular subject. “The day after tomorrow.” Taehyun spared a look at the girl, saying nothing. “Let’s get to work then.”

About five hours later, give or take, Taehyun announced a need of a break. “Finally! I thought you’d never need one!” Taehyun laughed. “You could have said something.” “It’s quite alright. I don’t complain with all the help you’re giving me.” “Alright, alright.” Let me get something to drink. I’m longing caffeine.” Jisoo chuckled. “Okay.” “You want some?” “Water would be nice.” “Sure thing.” Taehyun left, his long legs striking the ground like a runway. Jisoo puffed her cheeks, slowly spinning around in her chair. After a while she took her phone in her hands, deciding to write Jinwoo a message.

To: Bambi From: Jisooro

Is everything okay? I haven’t heard from you yet.

Jisoo set the phone aside, locking her screen and closing her eyes. Jinwoo was usually quick in responding, although she had been told that only she had that privilege. He didn’t reply quick this time, however, so she took her phone back in her hands, writing him another message.

To: Bambi From: Jisooro

Did you get lost?

She snickered to herself, finding her remark to be an oldie and yet funny enough to re-use.

To: Bambi From: Jisooro

Where are you? Talk to me Bambi!

Eventually, Taehyun returned with a bottle of water and a cup of coffee in his hands. “There you go”, he said, handing her the bottle. “Thanks!” She opend the lid and took a few sips. “By the way, have you seen Jinwoo?” “A couple of hours ago. Why?” “He doesn’t respond to my texts. Do I need to worry?” Taehyun shook his head. “He’s fine. Probably just busy.” “Mh”, she murmured. Taehyun eyed Jisoo suspiciously for a few seconds. “So what’s the deal with him?” “Eh?” “You’re friends, right?” “Yes, but you knew that.” Jisoo got curious. Taehyun nodded. “We two are friends too”, Jisoo added then.   Taehyun grinned. “I hope so, or else sitting here would be a waste of time.” Jisoo playfully slapped his arm. “Come on! You aren’t wasting your time on me.” Taehyun chuckled. “You aren’t, right?”, she asked, needing to make sure. “No.” Jisoo sighed. “Good.” “But, you know, dating is prohibited.” “Are you asking me out?”, Jisoo chuckled, not taking his remark serious. “No”, he chuckled. “Just talking in general.” “Well, I know it’s prohibited. So is drinking, clubbing and smoking. I’m also not allowed to drive a car or do plastic surgery or, on top of that, eat at the same time as male trainees. It’s ridiculous, really. I haven’t forgotten if that’s what you want to know.” Taehyun laughed. “I can see that. Embrace it, though. It won’t change even after you debut. At least not for a few years.” “Yeah, yeah, whatever. So… why the question about Jinwoo?” Taehyun shrughed, eying her again. “I was just wondering.” “Wondering what?”, Jisoo tilted her head. He shook his head. “Nothing. Forget about it. I’m curious about one more though”, he said. “How did you and Jinwoo became such close friends to begin with? With YG trying to prevent things like that.” Jisoo laughed softly. “He saw me crying in the practice room. Ever since he didn’t leave my side. His happy-go-lucky character was annoying at first, but it grew on me.” Taehyun hesitated. “Why were you crying?” “Well, it wasn’t exactly easy to keep up the spirit when I saw all my friends debuting, Chaerin especially. We met on the same audition and became very close. After 2NE1’s debut Yang Hyun Suk started dropping a lot of the remaining trainees and soon only I was left. I was the only trainee for two years. Eventually Jinwoo and Jennie joined the company and that’s when he found me. I was so lonely at that time.” Taehyun nodded thoughtfuly. “And then at some point Jinwoo debuted.” “And Bobby… Minho… you”, Jisoo added. “And you’re still a trainee”, Taehyun concluded. “I can’t imagine how that feels like, especially since I know that you’ve become friends with more than Jinwoo and me, and seeing them debut but not you again…” Jisoo nodded, feeling tears prickle her eyes. She sobbed softly, trying to hide it. “Sorry”, she mouthed, feeling it was no use to cover it up anymore seeing as he watched her. “Don’t be. Everyone has their hardships. I’ve got mine too.” Jisoo smiled. “Thank you, then.” “I’ll always lend you my ear. Now, how about we go back to work? Make you a song Yang Hyun Suk can’t resist?” Taehyun smiled brightly.   “Alright.”