FNaF RPG

Background:

The story of Five Nights at Freddy’s is not a single tragedy. It is a long, rotting chain of tragedies that began in the early 1980s and refused to end.

It started with two men: Henry Emily and William Afton. Together they created Fredbear’s Family Diner, a small, cheerful place filled with the smell of pizza, the sound of children’s laughter, and two springlock animatronic suits — Fredbear and Spring Bonnie. To the public, it was a dream. Behind the scenes, it was the birthplace of something monstrous.

In 1983, during a child’s birthday party, the Bite of ’83 occurred. A young boy (often called the Crying Child), tormented by his older brother and his friends, was forced into Fredbear’s mouth as a cruel prank. The animatronic’s jaws clamped down. The injury was catastrophic. The boy survived for a short time, but the damage was done — both to his body and to the family. That same year, or shortly after, William Afton murdered Charlotte Emily outside the diner. Her body was left in the rain. The Puppet, driven by her dying wish to protect the children, became the first animatronic to be possessed by a human soul. Charlie’s spirit would later become the one who gave the other murdered children life inside the machines.

Between 1983 and 1985, William continued killing. He lured at least five children — Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie, Fritz, and Cassidy — into the back rooms of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza using the Spring Bonnie suit. He murdered them and hid their bodies inside the animatronic suits: Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Golden Freddy. The spirits, awakened by Charlie’s gift, began to haunt the restaurant. The Missing Children Incident was covered up. The restaurant was cleaned. The bodies were never found by the public. But the souls remained.

In 1987, the redesigned “Toy” animatronics were introduced. They were advanced, facial-recognition capable, and still haunted. The Bite of ’87 occurred when one of them (widely believed to be Mangle or a Toy animatronic) bit a victim, removing a frontal lobe. The restaurant closed again. The classic animatronics were moved into storage, still containing the restless spirits.

Years later, William’s experiments grew darker. He created Circus Baby’s Pizza World and the Funtime animatronics — Circus Baby, Ballora, Funtime Freddy, Funtime Foxy — designed not just for entertainment, but to capture and kill children. His own daughter, Elizabeth, was killed by Circus Baby after disobeying his orders. Her soul possessed the animatronic. Michael Afton, William’s son, would later be sent into the underground facility of Sister Location, where he was scooped, used as a skin suit by the Funtime amalgam, and left as a walking corpse.

William himself eventually became trapped inside the Spring Bonnie suit during a storm, the springlocks failing and piercing his body. He did not die. The agony and remnant kept him alive as Springtrap, rotting and insane, still obsessed with immortality.

Henry Emily, broken by guilt over Charlie’s death and everything that followed, spent decades preparing a final solution. In Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place (the location of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator), he lured the remaining haunted animatronics — Scraptrap, Molten Freddy, Scrap Baby, and Lefty (containing the Puppet) — into a trap. He burned the place down with himself inside, hoping to end the cycle and free the souls. In the true ending, many of the spirits were released. Cassidy, however, was not finished with William. She kept him trapped in a personal hell of endless nights (Ultimate Custom Night), tormenting him forever.

But the story did not truly end.

Decades later, Fazbear Entertainment tried to rewrite history through virtual reality (Help Wanted). They digitized the old horrors. In doing so, they accidentally (or deliberately) created Glitchtrap — a digital remnant of William Afton’s consciousness. Glitchtrap infected the system and eventually possessed a young woman named Vanessa, turning her into Vanny. At the same time, the company built the massive Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex, filled with glamorous new animatronics: Glamrock Freddy, Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf, Montgomery Gator, and the Daycare Attendant (Sun and Moon). Beneath the shiny surface, the old evil still festered. The Mimic, an endoskeleton designed to copy and learn, absorbed decades of violence and agony. Gregory, a child on the run, found himself trapped inside the Pizzaplex overnight, aided by a corrupted but protective Glamrock Freddy. Later, Cassie entered the ruined Pizzaplex in search of her friend, facing the Mimic and the collapsed remains of everything that came before.

Throughout every era, the same themes repeat: the abuse of children, the failure of adults, the corruption of innocence, the persistence of agony, and the refusal of both victims and killer to let go. Remnant and agony bind souls to metal. The past refuses to stay buried. Every attempt to cover it up only creates new monsters.

This roleplay encompasses the entire timeline — from the bright, naive days of Fredbear’s Family Diner in 1983, through every murder, every fire, every failed attempt at redemption, all the way to the rotting skeleton of the Pizzaplex and whatever comes after. You may begin in any year, any location, and as any character except William Afton or Henry Emily. You may change the past. You may try to save people who were originally doomed. You may become the one who ends the cycle... or the one who makes it worse. The consequences of your actions will follow you across decades.

Current situation: The timeline is completely open. There is no fixed starting point. The moment you declare who you are, where you are, and in what year, the story begins. The rest of the universe will react accordingly.