Dual Process Theory

[CORI] So, uh... [CORI] Thank you? [CORI] Holy shit??? [CONNIE] This is more than we ever expected. [CONNIE] And deserve. [CONNIE] We want to thank everyone who watched, commented, shared, discussed… [CONNIE] This was such a shock to us and we’re so happy to have sparked such a conversation. [CORI] We’d like to especially thank the content creators who reacted to our video. [CORI] Game Theory themselves reacted, which just… [EXPLOSION] [CORI] ...blew our minds... [CORI] But we also want to thank RyeToast, She’s Always Nervous, ID’s Fantasy, GiBi, everyone. [CORI] We love and watch all of you and this was, like, a weird trip for us. [CONNIE] We had a lot of questions after our video, but because we didn’t want to dwell on just ONE video or ONE theory, [CONNIE] And instead move on to our next theory for another fandom– [CONNIE] Amy Rose design analysis, "Sonic the Hedgehog"– [CONNIE] We decided to host a livestream to answer some Frequently Asked Questions. [CONNIE] That stream was four hours long. [CONNIE] So we just wanted to RAPIDFIRE some frequently asked questions, and some important updates to the theory we’ve had in the meantime. [CONNIE] Then we can finally get to work on talking about our beautiful baby girl. [CONNIE] Yes, the two of us are sisters. [CONNIE] Cori's pronouns are she/they, [CONNIE] And I'll take any pronouns you got. [CORI] MatPat brought up that the “multiple simultaneous” springlock failures... [CORI] could just as easily be referring to multiple springlocks in the same suit failing rather than multiple suit failures. [CORI] Yeah, that's fair. Makes sense. [CORI] Could be either/or. [CONNIE] Also pointed out that the Fredbear mask isn’t a perfect 1-1 with Into the Pit. [CONNIE] That's also fair. [CONNIE] In my defense, I was blinded by my desire to use my favorite meme. [CONNIE] Also would like to apologize for making MatPat read this one out loud. [CORI] People pointed out the Bite of ’83 was probably not a Springlock failure, as it could be, it could not be. [CORI] Fredbear does stop moving after the bite rather than keep performing, [CORI] But we do think that at the very least it was chalked up to a Springlock Failure by Fazbear Entertainment to save face. [CORI] “No, it’s not a problem with our safety, it’s just these specific suits. Look, we retired them, we’re safe now.” [CONNIE] "Do you have any DCI theories made post-video?" [CONNIE] Yeah, they’ll end up in an upcoming theory vid you probably won’t expect them to appear in. [CONNIE] Short answer is, we do think that Shadow Bonnie is probably the DCI Agony, [CONNIE] And someone on RyeToast’s podcast suggested recently that Shadow Freddy could be the MCI Agony so we’re really vibing with that. [CORI] Someone in our comments suggested that Mike could have tipped off the police to the bunker’s location, which could be how they found it for FNAF6. [CORI] Lovin' that! [CONNIE] “Does Movie!Golden Freddy Kid being a boy with a striped shirt and the same color hair as Vanessa strengthen your BiteVictim=FifthKid theory?” [CONNIE] Yes, yes it does. [CORI] “Speaking of which, could Crying Child be the Vengeful Spirit?” [CORI] Yeah, there’s really no evidence against it, [CORI] But we personally just have more evidence to Mike. [CORI] Specific UCN lines lean more towards Mike and can’t be explained by Crying Child. Like, “You knew I’d find you eventually.” [CORI] The Red Lake scene has William screaming Mike AND Henry's name... [CORI] ...again, the two people in there– [CORI] [And] Mike was the character who went on a multi-year vengeance quest with a character arc that didn’t seem to end otherwise. [CORI] “Are you saying that William actively sent Michael down to the bunker to die? [CORI] Kinda, yeah. [CORI] We don’t think he chessmaster-planned him to die, he’s more useful alive technically, [CORI] But he just didn't give a shit about his safety and sent him to the basement with robots who wanted to kill him. [CORI] That's what we think Michael was so pissed about. [CONNIE] “In the Logbook, how could the crossword be spelling Altered’s name when Faded is the one who wrote ‘My Name’?” [CONNIE] They wrote that on all the pages with hints, yes, [CONNIE] But the hints are in altered text, meaning that Altered is the one who is spelling out the name. [CONNIE] Altered already messed with the crossword to write “Who are you” and “What is your name,” [CONNIE] Which would be a weird question if they knew the name of the person they were talking to. [CONNIE] Probably “My name” was in Faded’s broken attempt to respond. [CONNIE] Also we're not saying the ENTIRE crossword was altered, [CONNIE] But that the coordinates being given THROUGH altered text, and not anything Faded wrote down, [CONNIE] Makes us think that Altered is the one whose name is here. [CORI] Also, if there's any way to find [Faded's Name], it would be the Foxy grid, being it begins with Faded letters saying "ABC." [CORI] God help anyone who tries to solve it. [CORI] “If the Vengeful Spirit isn’t Golden Freddy, why does the Fredbear sprite talk to Old Man Consequences in the cutscene?” [CORI] Well, this scene is a FNaFWorld reference, down to giving you an achievement in FNaFWorld if you unlock it. [CORI] And in FNAFWorld, this isn't Fredbear. [CORI] This is Adventure Freddy. [CORI] So, uh, if we go by that logic, the Vengeful Spirit is Gabriel, who’s pissed that he still hasn’t gotten his fucking spaghetti wheels. [CONNIE] “If you think the Box holds Cassidy’s body, do you think they actually would’ve shown that onscreen in-game?” [CONNIE] Probably not. [CONNIE] Cori thinks it might've shown bones, [CONNIE] I personally subscribe to Bronze Films’s theory from “What’s Inside The FNAF 4 Box? [CONNIE] That it would be Golden Freddy’s head with the light in the eyes out, [CONNIE] Symbolizing that Cassidy was Golden Freddy Kid, and that he has moved on now. [CONNIE] But speaking of the box, [CONNIE] Now time for "slightly-longer theory update" section. [CONNIE] Since we posted our video, Twisted Animatronic posted his theory on the box’s contents, [CONNIE] And he does kinda agree with us that it’s the Crying Child. [CORI] So Charlie, in the box, specifically can hear and not see. [CORI] Like CC, and like... [CORI] ...a normal person after being locked in a trunk. [CORI] I wouldn't know, I've always been on the other side of it. [CORI] But second, [CORI] What we realized was staring us right in the face was that Charlie was put in that trunk... [CORI] After she was killed by a Springlock Freddy animatronic... [CORI] And then LITERALLY "put back together again." [CORI] Whelp... [CONNIE] Also we were asked how Cassidy “can’t see” here but could respond to Charlie’s “What do you see?” on the Mirror page. [CONNIE] And the answer is... [CONNIE] Symbolism! [CONNIE] Also we see Jake and Andrew seeing different things on the mortal and spirit plane. [CORI] Okay, now onto possibly our most Frequently Asked Question: [CORI] So, a lot of people asked us, if we believe that William was the driver in Midnight Motorist, [CORI] And Michael was the runaway, [CORI] And this all happened after the Bite... [CORI] Who the hell is in the chair? [CORI] Cause it can't be Cassidy. [CONNIE] And, see, here's the thing. [CONNIE] The reason that we didn’t put that in the video? [CONNIE] Was because we legit just forgot it wouldn't be obvious. [CONNIE] You know how like, you’ll just be talking to someone, and you’re like, [CONNIE] “Yeah, it’s pretty much the same thing as the end of 'Brother Bear,'” and they’re like, [CONNIE] And then you realize not everyone has seen "Brother Bear," [CONNIE] And you’ve just seen it so much that you’ve forgotten its contents are not common knowledge, [CONNIE] And you have to rush home and get your blu-ray DVD copy and run back and get them sitting down and— [CORI, interrupting] The point is! [CORI] We think the person in the chair was Elizabeth. [CORI] We saw this Reddit post from Aldorria suggesting that Elizabeth may have been this girl by the swingset. [CORI] She has the same clothing, color scheme, [CORI] Early concepts of Baby show she was supposed to have brown hair, [CORI] And the fence in this [clip] is the same as the fence around the Afton house, [CORI] Perhaps with Cassidy entering through an offscreen gate. [CONNIE] Also note that the Fredbear Plush has eye pinpricks here and not around any of the other street kids, [CONNIE] Implying that William is using the plush to spy on her as well, [CONNIE] AND that this kid has all three toy animatronics except for Mangle, who IS in Elizabeth’s room. [CONNIE] She also talks to Cassidy like she knows him, just immediately telling him to look at her toys. [CORI] The reason we bring this up in context to Midnight Motorist, [CORI] Is that it means that Elizabeth was old enough to form sentences by the time of the Bite, [CORI] Let alone by the time of Midnight Motorist. [CORI] So this sentence isn't out of the realm of realistic child development. [CORI] And also the sprite is designed to look very similar to the base child sprite of FNAF2, [CORI] Which implies the person in the chair is a kid. [CONNIE] It COULD be a Ms. Afton, but as we'll discuss in a later video, [CONNIE] We don't think she was around by this point. [CONNIE] Anyway, next update: [CONNIE] A couple people asked why William would automatically jump to shoving kids into suits as an experiment. [CONNIE] And this one was on me, I forgot to put in a sentence or two that explains our thought process. [CONNIE] We don't think that was his first thought. [CONNIE] We think that either one of two things happened. [CONNIE] The first option is that he DIDNT think it would do anything, [CONNIE] But he just needed a convenient place to hide Susie after seeing the opportunity to lure and kill her, [CONNIE] And Chica happened to be right there. [CONNIE] THEN, when she started twitching, he started messing with the suits. [CORI] Our OTHER option is that William just straight-up killed Susie's dog. [CORI] You know the "Susie's dog is the Cupcake" theory? [CORI] We’re not 100% sold on it but it is starting to make sense. [CORI] Most scientists will do animal testing before testing on humans, for obvious reasons, [CORI] And William would probably test on animals before immediately jumping to “kid killing.” [CORI] Could explain what he was up to during the probable two years between the Bite and the MCI. [CORI] If at the end of these experiments he either drunk-drove and hit her dog, or just picked it up off the road, [CORI] And managed to get it into the Cupcake, then he’d have an idea of how to start locking human spirits in place. [CONNIE] And in this way, he actually, eerily... [CONNIE] ...was not lying when he told Susie that he knew where her dog was. [CONNIE] He did. [CONNIE] And he was bringing her to him. [CONNIE] In his own fucked up, evil way. [CORI] And finally, speaking of that two-year time gap, [CONNIE] After we made the video– [CONNIE] and we keep kicking ourselves for looking this up so late– [CONNIE] We did research on what the effects are if you lose your frontal lobe. [CONNIE] Note that we don’t have ANY confirmation that the frontal lobe is specifically what got injured on Cassidy, [CONNIE] BUT we listened to Mangle’s police radio and realized it was talking about a child being bit. [police static] [a voice says something garbled, which could be "We got a little boy... he's got no frontal lobe."] [CONNIE] And the Bite of ’87 hadn’t happened yet by the time Mangle was trying to eat Jeremy’s head. [CONNIE] So unless we had multiple simultaneous bites, it’s possible Mangle was playing an old radio broadcast. [CONNIE] Why would they do that? [CONNIE] Oh, we have a WHOLE THING and all– [CORI] And we're just gonna leave it there! It gets complicated. [CORI] But IF Cassidy lost his frontal lobe, [CORI] We actually found out when it comes to frontal lobe loss, [CORI] It’s actually RECOMMENDED that you take the patient home as soon as possible. [CORI] Being around familiar locations and people greatly helps their recovery, [CORI] So Willy-boy wouldn’t have even had to pull the Parent Card here. [CORI] He might've had Cassidy with him for a long time. [CORI] And another thing is that Cassidy might not have been in a coma for his time of death, [CORI] But rather a state of paralysis. [CORI] Frontal Lobe loss can cause either partial or complete body paralysis and difficulty communicating, [CORI] Or [he could] only do so on one side of his body, [CORI] Like “The Monty Within” talked about at length for so... [CORI] So FUCKIN long. [CONNIE] This also gives William time to experiment before jumping to murder, [CONNIE] And also, as summerlycoris (she/her) on tumblr points out– [CONNIE] Sorry if I pronounced that wrong– [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] “If William had money (and he had money- how else could he afford a fucking bunker?)" [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "Then palliative care so his son could 'recover' at home is plausible." [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "Even in the '80s it's plausible, considering that the '80s in the FNAF-verse has advanced animatronics that even WE don't have today." [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "Plus, hospice care in America started to become a thing in 1973 in our universe." [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "So by the time Cassidy gets got, he could probably be looked after at home." [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "Also it makes everything more tragic if Cassidy really had a chance to get better before his dad fucked everything up forever." [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "Because people can get better from comas. And stupours." [CONNIE, reading summerlycoris's post:] "Brains can heal to some extent- especially for kids." [CORI] Speaking of going to Freddy's, [CORI] That brings us to our final update, [CORI] From our buddy Cassie, handle @JoyFlameball, xe/he. [CORI] One of the things people kept asking us was how Cassidy could possibly have been lumped in with the MCI, even if he disappeared around the same time. [CORI] He wasn't at Freddy's, he was at his house. [CONNIE] And, well, Cassie pointed out something that just had us... jaws on the floor, [CONNIE] We're gonna let xem read you what xe wrote. [CONNIE] "Into the Pit" is going to drop in just over a week, [CONNIE] And if it proves us wrong? [CONNIE] Cool! [CONNIE] Then we GET to start over from square one. [CONNIE] If it’s written and presented well, we’re not gonna be mad at the story taking a route that is different from what we expected. [CONNIE] We're not writing it, we're just consumers. [CONNIE] If we don’t like it, we can drop it and talk about Sonic the Hedgehog. [CONNIE] If we do like it, I can get a new plushie and squeal about Midnight Motorist theories. [CORI] We’re currently almost done with our Amy Rose theory. [CORI] We just want you guys to know that it’s not going to be a huge dramatic video like our last one, and DEFINITELY not as long. [CORI] We believe in it just as much, but this isn’t gonna be a “Cassidy is the crying Child” reveal that recontextualizes the entire game series. [CORI] It's just a fun little lightweight theory. [CORI] And if you're here JUST for FNAF, don't worry. We'll have you covered in our... next video. [CONNIE] See ya then!