| “ | Drunk and angry, William raced back to the restaurant to give Henry a piece of his mind, only to find someone else waiting: Henry's daughter, Charlie. Locked outside of the building, bullies laughing at her through the window. "Fine. Some other problem to fix." But then, Afton got an idea. A beautifully awful idea. This? This was his chance to get back at the man who had humiliated him all those years ago. Henry had killed his business, and now Henry's robotic suit had killed his son. It was time for William to do some killing of his own. Let Henry feel what it's like to have something you love ripped away. While parties continued inside the walls of the pizzeria, William attacked Charlie in the back alley. It felt good. He felt free. The years of resentment and bitterness trapped in his heart finally released in a moment of pure, unapologetic evil. He would make Henry hurt like he hurts! | „ |
| ~ MatPat describing Afton's descent into evil as he murders Charlotte. |
William Afton is the main protagonist of Game Theory's "ULTIMATE" version of the Five Nights at Freddy's timeline, serving as the main protagonist of Parts 1 and 2, the main antagonist of Part 3 and the deuteragonist of Part 4.
The co-founder and co-owner of the entire Fazbear franchise, William Afton was a man that wanted to create life itself and entertain numerous children with his creations. However, after being filled with hate, tragedy and loss, he eventually devolved into a serial killer determined to bring back the family he lost and spite his best friend-turned-archenemy, Henry Emily.
Through voice clips, he was voiced by his original counterpart's voice actor, PJ Heywood. When giving his evil laugh, he is voiced by Tyler Mascola.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Close to Being Pure Evil?[]
- Despite being "best friends" with Henry, William secretly hated him simply because the man was better then he was, and always wanted to prove himself superior.
- He let Michael bully his younger brother simply because "kids will be kids", which lead to the latter's death.
- In a drunken rage, he murdered Henry's daughter Charlotte outside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza out of pure spite.
- It's also implied that he originally came to assault Henry out of anger for "causing" his son's death via creating Fredbear.
- He tormented Michael, his own son, with the Nightmare animatronics, which left him with trauma that would last for years.
- Out of sadism, he kidnapped and murdered five children before hiding their corpses in the animatronic suits, with it being explicitly stated Cassidy was kidnapped and brutally beaten to death with a shovel.
- While he might have felt some regret for his murder of Cassidy, as MatPat outright says William felt like he shouldn't have killed them and depicts him with a horrified expression when her murder method is described, it's also stated he felt amazing after other the murders and felt sadistic joy in them, so it's possible he got over it and/or the remorse was very minor and overshadowed by his sadistic ecstasy.
- Out of spite for Henry continuing Freddy's without him, he would go to his new location and cause another set of murders, which ended with the Bite of '87 when a man was attacked and injured by the animatronics.
- He created the Funtime animatronics and Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental to capture, experiment on and murder children for him to discover the secrets of Remnant and find a way to recreate his entire family with robots. The series would claim he has actually killed dozens of innocents this way.
- This also resulted in his daughter Elizabeth being killed, although that was an accident.
- After realising they're haunted by his victims, William would disassemble the five classic animatronics and melt their endoskeletons to create Remnant, which he would then inject into Funtime Freddy, causing him to become violent and erratic.
- Attempted to hide in his springlock suit to escape the ghosts of his victims while using their tragedy against them, all while he mocked them.
- Despite it all, he still egotistically believed Henry would save him after his springlock failure.
- His actions indirectly caused Elizabeth to put Michael in a fate worse than death, although to be fair he couldn't have known that.
- He would try to personally kill Mike upon returning as Springtrap, twice.
- Assuming he went to the Pizza Place for the same reasons as in canon, he wanted to murder even more children with his daughter while ignoring that it was a trap out of bloodlust.
- He caused a man named Jeremy to slice his face off and commit suicide while trying to body-swap with him.
- He would enter the mind of Vanessa and, with help from Clara and Gregory, psychologically torture her into following his order's and being a second Elizabeth for him.
- Assuming everything in Security Breach happened as shown in the canon games, then he caused nine child murders through Vanessa and tried to kill Gregory. However, both of those weren't confirmed, with the latter being briefly implied while the former was completely glossed over.
What Prevents Him from Being Pure Evil?[]
- He genuinely loved his youngest children, the Crying Child and Elizabeth. He was heartbroken by their deaths, the former even causing his fall to villainy, and tried to bring them back through animatronics. He was also monitoring the Crying Child through his favorite toy to make sure he's safe and was excited when Elizabeth returned via Baby, who he also made just for her.
- He is a rather sympathetic character. He grew up poor in the Great Depression and, unlike most of his counterparts, was genuinely a good person that wanted to spread joy and magic to children through the same means he saw in his childhood. However, his business would end up a failure, he was forced to be bought out by the man he hated, and he lost his son to his own creations, causing him to fall into alcoholism and his family and life to be ruined. Things became worse when he also lost his daughter and was tormented by Cassidy for years in his nightmares, which was played for sympathy with him begging for death.
- However, it's also worth to note he's not very affected by his childhood, since he moved past any well-intentioned goals, and a lot of his misery is his own fault. So, while he's still sympathetic, it's not too much. It’s worth noting that MatPat, who expressed sympathy for William throughout the series, still admitted he was a monster who deserved punishment.
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