Fazbear Entertainment.

What do we know about Fazbear Entertainment?

Little to nothing really. All we know is that this is the company that bought Fredbear's Family Diner and turned it into Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. We know they own a chain of these types of restaurant that spreads across the country and we know that they like to fire security guards because they smell. Overall, we can assume they have a very small part in the overall story of Five Night's at Freddy's, since they never really make a true appearance.

Or can we?

Sometime before 1983, a child is murdered outside Fredbear's. The massive hit of PR this event caused led to the owners of the diner to sell the name and rebrand as Fazbear Entertainment. However, after this rebrand, 5 (or possibly more) children are murdered. This is odd. After the murder of a child outside the old location, wouldn't security have been buffed in the new location? Instead, more children are killed, and the killer managed to acquire a Spring Bonnie spring locked suit and lure the children inside the establishment, when before the murder was outside. This seems to show that security, if anything, has lessened, to the point where the killer is only found after the crime has been committed.

After this Fazbear Entertainment starts again, with both a new location and a host of new animatronics. The old animatronics are kept in storage for spare parts and the new animatronics are equipped with facial recognition software connected to a criminal database in order to prevent more murders. But this presents another oddity. Why do the animatronics, during their night-time roaming, begin to go after the security guard? If Fazbear Entertainment have access to a criminal database, they wouldn't hire someone who was on it, because they would know that the animatronics would attack them.

Perhaps this is what led to the Bite of '87, when the faulty facial recognition of the Mangle animatronic caused it to bite off Jeremy Fitzgerald's frontal lobe, almost killing him and leading to the newer animatronics being scrapped and the restaurant's second closure in the last five years. This presents another oddity, which relates to the spring locked suits of the previous location. At one point, these suits malfunctioned and led to the deaths of two employees who were wearing them at the time and so they were sealed away in the back rooms of most locations owned by Fazbear Entertainment. Yet when the normal animatronics malfunctioned, they were scrapped. The previous incident was much more serious, so why weren't the spring locked suits scrapped when it was clear they much more of a fatal flaw? Their use was forbidden after that, so there was no reason to keep them around.

Unless... there was a reason.

What if there was something different about the spring locked suits?

What if the animatronics were supposed to attack the night guard?

What if security had been lessened at the first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza?

What if, all this time, Fazbear Entertainment had a different agenda in mind?

And what if a single, cryptic phone call held the key to all of this?

(Omitted: Sir,) it is lamentable that mass agricultural development is (omitted: not) speeded by fuller use of your marvelous mechanisms. Would it not be easily possible to employ some of them in quick laboratory experiments to indicate the influence of various types of fertilizers on plant growth?

You are right. Countless uses (omitted: of Bose instruments) will be made by future gener- (omitted: ations. The scientist) seldom knows contemporaneous (omitted: reward; it is enough to possess) the joy of creative (omitted: service.) - Phone message, 5th Night, Five Nights at Freddy's

Ask yourself a question: why would any company, especially a new one, buy a name that had such negative connotations to it? Fredbear's Family Diner was the site of a child's murder and yet Fazbear Entertainment was willing to buy that title, even if they were going to rebrand it. No company makes a purchase like that without a reason, so what could that reason be?

Perhaps Fazbear Entertainment knew something about Fredbear's. Something that was a direct result of the child's death. Something that they knew only that restaurant and its assets could give them.

What if they knew about the ghost?

The child was still there. Unbeknownst to everyone there, the child's spirit had lingered at the site of its murder, clinging to this world in the hope that they could see their killer jailed. Maybe, somehow, Fazbear Entertainment found out. Maybe one of their employees was simply taking their family to the diner in its final days and saw the child somehow. In any case, they would have known and that's when it all started. Fredbear's was bought and rebranded with new characters. One of these characters was the Puppet.

And before long the Puppet became the new home of the child's spirit.

This proved something to Fazbear Entertainment. This proved that a dead spirit, even one of a child, can possess and animate something man-made, such as an animatronic like the Puppet. They began to wonder... could they do it again? Were there limitations or barriers? There was only one way to find out.
They would need more spirits.

In the beginning, perhaps, the company has standards, in a sense. Another child's death was hard to think about, so they would stick to adults instead. This explains the spring locked suits and their fatal flaw: the fact that the springs could release unexpectedly and crush the person inside. Any other company would have fixed this flaw, because of the backlash that would occur if this flaw was discovered, but Fazbear didn't, because this flaw fit their purposes perfectly.

And lo and behold, sometime between 1983 and 1987, the springs fail and two employees are killed inside the suits.

This is just a reminder of company policy concerning the safe room. The safe room is reserved for equipment and/or other property not being currently used and is in fact a safety location for employees only. This is not a break room, and should not be considered a place for employees to hide and/or congregate - and under no circumstance should a customer ever be taken into this room and out of the main show area. Management has also been made aware that the spring Bonnie animatronic has been noticeably moved. We would like to remind employees that this costume is not safe to wear under any circumstances. - Phone Guy, 5th Night, Five Nights and Freddy's 2

After this incident, the spring locked suits are cleaned up, emptied and hidden away from prying eyes in the back rooms of many of the restaurants across the country. From there, Fazbear Entertainment shifts public and advertising focus from the golden suits to four other animatronic characters: Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy the Pirate Fox. The old suits were hidden away and employees are instructed never to use them again.

And then the company waited. To see if it had worked.

It had. But not the way they'd imagined.

Before long, ghostly, shadow-like apparitions that resembled the spring-locked suits began to appear during the night, caught on the network of cameras set up within the restaurant. For Fazbear Entertainment, this was a breakthrough and a puzzle. It showed that the dead employee's spirits were bound to this place, but why didn't they inhabit the suits they had died in? It took time to realize that the spring locked suits couldn't be moved by these spirits because they lacked their endoskeletons, but by that time something else had occurred.
Another child had died. Not due to murder, but due to accident.

Back in 1983, during a regular birthday party, a child was unintentionally hurled up by the party-goers into the mouth of Golden Freddy while it was in animatronic mode. As his mouth closed, the child's head suffered horrific damage, which eventually turned out to be fatal. The child dies in hospital, and their spirit leaves them. But instead of moving on, it returns to the restaurant and the Puppet finds a home for them.

As this was happening, another event occurred that would lead the way for Fazbear Entertainment for years to come. Some after the death of the two employees in the spring locked suits, a murderer, who was most likely the same person who murdered the first child, sneaks into Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and uses the Spring Bonnie suit to lure at least five children into the restaurant and kill them before supposedly being caught. If the killer was an employee of the location, then this would explain how the security had lapsed. But there is another explanation.

Perhaps Fazbear Entertainment had decided that adults wouldn't work. Perhaps they had abandoned their standards after the failure of the adult spirits and hired the killer (if he wasn't already an employee of theirs) to do their dirty work. Or perhaps the killer had started at a convenient time for them, so they simply let it play out and got rid of him afterwards. In any case, the result was the same. Now at least five spirits were haunting the location and Fazbear Entertainment simply had to wait for something to occur.

It was the Puppet that gave them their results. Still inhabited by the first child's spirit, it attempted to cheer up the dead children around it with presents. When this had no effect, it did the only other thing it could. Before the watching eyes of Fazbear Entertainment, caught on their network of cameras, the Puppet took the bodies and put them inside the four new animatronics. At the same time, the child that had been fatally injured in 1983 returned and the Puppet put them inside an animatronic as well: Golden Freddy.

In the days to come, the final days of the second location, Fazbear Entertainment watched and evaluated the results as the animatronics began to act strangely, letting out foul odors, leaking blood and mucus and, during the night, moving around on their own. What surprised the company most was Golden Freddy, who was able to move to a degree without the endoskeleton inside him, proving to them the 'benefits' of using dead children.

But the second location couldn't avoid the negative PR forever. Eventually, it closed its doors and the move to a new and improved Freddy Fazbear's Pizza began. The possessed Golden Freddy suit was taken to the new location and the old Spring Bonnie suit was abandoned where no-one would find it.

It was then that Fazbear Entertainment started Phase Two.

Uh, by now I'm sure you've noticed the older models sitting in the back room. Uh, those are from the previous location. We just use them for parts now. The idea at first was to repair them...uh, they even started retrofitting them with some of the newer technology, but they were just so ugly, you know? The smell... - Phone Guy, 2nd Night, Five Nights and Freddy's 2

They had their possessed animatronics and a new location. Now the tests began.

Fazbear Entertainment began to experiment, trying to find the limitations of the abominations they had created. The animatronics were slowly and steadily dismantled and left in various states of disrepair. Questions were asked: how much of an animatronic could be removed before the spirit disappeared? Could they still move normally as they rotted away? Could they be blinded or crippled?

Over time, these questions were answered, but now Fazbear Entertainment faced another problem. There could be no risk that their experiments were discovered and the public eye was on them now, expecting them to up their security. So they appointed a night guard to watch over the restaurant at night. For the company, this was a double-edged blade. They now had a perfect cover-up to insert human subjects into their tests, but they also ran the risk that that same subject could also figure out what was going on. They needed a way to keep the guard occupied.

A program was created and facial recognition systems were installed under the guise of preventing attacks on children. In fact, these systems were programmed to activate in the night and recognize the security guard as a potential threat. The security guard's only protection was a flashlight and a Freddy mask, which acted as a signal to the animatronics not to attack. Even some of the old animatronics were installed with this software, except for two. The Puppet and Foxy, though why these two specifically is unclear.

It was determined that the guards would be allowed a certain number of night shifts before being assigned to the day shift and another guard was hired. This meant that no guard would be there long enough to realize something was going on during the night and while they were there they would be preoccupied with keeping the animatronics under control.

And so the experiments continued, hidden from the world.

And that's when it all started going wrong.

I'll be honest, I never liked that puppet thing. It was always...thinking, and it can go anywhere.. - Phone Guy, 2nd Night, Five Nights and Freddy's 2

To Fazbear Entertainment, the plan seemed full-proof. Anyone who could've known what was going on was taken care of. The night guard were preoccupied and the killer imprisoned. The only ones who could allow it to leak out were the animatronics themselves, but they couldn't speak, so it was fine.

They didn't consider the Puppet.

The spirits within Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy were under constant experimentation and supervision, with no chance to see what was going on around them or have any clue what was happening. They were the spirits of children who had only recently died, with no idea what was going on or what to do.

But the Puppet had been there for a long time. Since the first location had opened, it had learned, studied those around it and realized what was happening. The company, confident that the child spirit within the Puppet would be unable to learn, yet unwilling to experiment on it in case it was the thing anchoring the rest of the spirits to the animatronics, put the Puppet in the Gift Corner, sealed in a present and kept pacified by a wind-up music box. For a time, this was able to delay the Puppet, but eventually, it learned its way around that too. With utmost stealth over a number of months, it turned the company's own failsafe against it.

The facial recognition software was tampered with. Being a child, the Puppet was unable to truly reprogram the system, but it did enough. To the animatronics, all adults were now registered as some sort of threat, though the shoddiness of this work meant the animatronics merely froze rather than attacked. It was only by coincidence that this tampering bore fruit before it was caught for good.

On the 13th of November 1987, Jeremy Fitzgerald started on his first day shift after six nights of Night Guard duty. As usual, the facial recognition software had been reprogrammed and his face removed from the system. Or so the programmer thought. Whether by negligence or perhaps as a result of the tampering, at least one animatronic still registers Jeremy as a threat and acts on it. The Foxy replacement, known by the staff as 'Mangle,' attacked Jeremy, almost fatally wounding him and resulting with the removal of his frontal lobe.

In the days leading up to the soon-to-be-named 'Bite of '87'' the third location was subject to an investigation and temporary lockdown. Now, after the incident, Fazbear Entertainment scrambled to cover up their misdeeds as the investigators found reason to intensify their search. The animatronics had been left to roam during the night-time lockdown under the eyes of a number of security guards on rotating shifts and the guard on shift immediately after the Bite, Fritz Smith, was used as the company's scapegoat, blamed for tampering the animatronics and fired. For the third time, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza was shut down and Fazbear Entertainment moved the possessed animatronics to another location. The new animatronics were scrapped after the company realized what had tampered with them. As for the Puppet, it's unclear what happened to it, but it's assumed that Fazbear Entertainment was still unwilling to get rid of it, so it and the other possessed animatronics were moved back to the old location. The first Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.

But the downfall of the experiment wasn't done yet.

S A V E

T H E M - Various minigames, Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Whether or not the true killer had been arrested is unclear. If he had been an employee of Fazbear Entertainment, then either they had decided he was still useful and framed another for his crime, or they had betrayed him and gotten him caught themselves. Whatever the case, sometime between the closure of the third location and the opening of the fourth, the murderer returned.

For years, he'd been haunted by the things he'd done and now he wanted it to stop. For the animatronics to be silenced for good. Like he had all those years ago, he broke into the establishment and hid there one rainy night, waiting under the very noses of his former masters. The Puppet however, now knew who this man was and what he had done and acted to get revenge. One by one, it reactivated the possessed animatronics and led them to the killer. But each time, the animatronics were disassembled, separating the spirits from them and rendering them unable to attack him. This would, however, be the killer's own undoing.

When all five children were free of their metal bodies, they appeared before him. In fear, he shouted at them defiantly. By sheer coincidence, he had hid in the room where the very suit he'd used to kill the children in the first place had been hidden. Out of options, he climbed inside to hide from the apparitions. Somehow, it had worked and the murderer let out a triumphant laugh.

But the suit had been there a long time, rotting away. It had been subject to years of disrepair. In years gone by, employees had been warned that moisture could loosen the springs. And on that night, it had been raining.

With sudden clang, the spring locks failed. In his moment of triumph, the killer met his end.

But he did not die.

With the last of his strength, he held out, long enough for his soul to bind itself to the spring locked suit. He lingered, and denied the children their revenge, preventing them from moving on.

When Fazbear employees eventually arrived and discovered this, they knew their experiment was at an end. They reassembled the animatronics, only to discover they could not be controlled, now trying to attack any human they could find. The Puppet was locked away never to be allowed out again. The animatronics were kept on stage during the day, locked in a constant cycle of performance. It was only during the night that they were allowed to roam, searching for a vengeance they would never get. And the killer's body, forever trapped inside the Spring Bonnie suit, was sealed away, and all involved were told never to speak of its existence again.

Until a man named Mike Schmidt became the Night Guard.

Somehow, Mike Schmidt was able to figure out something was wrong and when he began to raise his complaints, he was fired. This began the final downward spiral Fazbear Entertainment could handle. Coupled with the recurrence of previous issues with the possessed animatronics and the establishment's long history of bad luck, Fazbear Entertainment finally collapsed. Their experiment had led to their downfall and all Freddy Fazbear locations were finally closed.
The animatronics, and the children inside, were left to rot away, forgotten by the world at large.

Thirty years later, those seeking to open 'Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction' would discover the Spring Bonnie suit, unaware of the horrific rotting body within. For five nights it would roam the halls, hunting the only living soul, the current Night Guard. But the dead children still lingered and their phantoms would be the ones to convince that guard to end it all. On that final night, the building where it all truly began burned to the ground and the killer along with it.

The spirits were finally free and faded away. The Puppet lingered on for only a few moments, watching the legacy of his tormentors burning, but it too collapsed, burning, to the floor, empty once again.

It was finally over.

...

Or was it?

If you really think about it, why were Fazbear Entertainment interested in this experiment in the first place? Why would they risk so much? Perhaps they were founded on the idea with the intent to find a way to test the theory. Maybe it was only a small group within the company who had schemed to use Fazbear Entertainment for their own ends. Or maybe the cause is even more sinister. No matter the case, with all this evidence, there is only one question worth asking.

Is this experiment the only one?

-w-

Yes, I may have said like 15 minutes ago I was going to bed, but I just had to write this out...

You agree or no?