The Problem with Candy Cadet (Soothsayer or Sellout?)
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
- Today we're taking a look at true storyteller of Five Nights at Freddy's, the Candy Cadet. A space-themed bot who sees all despite his lack of eyes. The many stories he tells give hints on the story hidden to us... doesn't it? Today we're taking a deeper look at him and these stories and will try to uncover what they mean... and if they mean anything at all.
What do I mean? Let me explain...
Music:
A Slice and a Scoop - Pizzeria Simulator
Hibernating Evil - Ultimate Custom Night
Gracefully into the Abyss - Help Wanted 2
Down the Drain it Goes - Chica in Space (Freddy in Space 3)
0:00 Candy Cadet, the Lorekeeper of Fnaf
0:49 Is Candy Cadet Haunted?
1:47 Candy Cadet in Pizzeria Simulator
2:37 The Kind Man Story
3:23 What is the Kind Man Story about?
4:02 Is William the "Kind Man"?
5:26 The Vagueness in Candy Cadet's Stories
5:47 The Kittens & Snake Story
6:36 What is the Kitten & Snake Story about?
7:07 Is this about Michael?
7:54 The Woman in a Room Story
8:40 Charlie, the Puppet, and the figurative key
9:30 Candy Cadet's stories importance in Pizzeria Simulator
10:15 Candy Cadet in Ultimate Custom Night
10:37 Candy Cadet gets Ruined (Ruin)
11:07 The Boy, the Mother, and the Monster Story
12:06 Gregory, Vanessa, and the Mimic
12:59 Gregory's first encounter with the Mimic
14:22 Ruined Cadet's Candy Revenge (Help Wanted 2)
14:47 The Woman & the Witch Story
16:01 Who the heck is this story about?
17:41 The Painful Truth about Candy Cadet's Stories
18:45 The Big Problem with Candy Cadet
20:48 Candy Cadet Sells his Soul for 49.99 Story
21:45 Candy Cadet is the Rogue Developer
22:14 The Blind Bot Sees All, and Nothing at All - Ігри
A quick note but I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better after my surgery and recovering at a pretty good pace! Not 100% yet, but definitely on the mend. ^_^
Awesome!
I hope you get better soon :D
Glad you made a well recovery, dont know what I would've done without these videos
I'm sorry, I didn't know you were going through a surgery. But I'm glad you're recovering
so awesome to hear, i hope that you make the swiftest of recoveries
Imagine being a child at Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria, seeing Candy Cadet, depositing a quarter, getting some candy, and then it tells you the most disturbing story, then just deactivates.
Fucked up story time is the spice of life
and then an airhorn as a sweet finisher (I know its not exclusive to candy cadet nor even diegetic to fnaf but I always found it funny that even with the story, the minigame finishes with an airhorn)
I was thinking about that
How would that work in a Pizzeria 🤔
You expect to get traumatized by an animatronic with teeth, but no, it's the glorified gumball machine that does it.
And it's never happened to anyone else there so nobody believes you and eventually you're gaslit into thinking you made it all up, but every so often whenever you visit you'd swear you heard him finishing a story to some other kid, only it's not quite the same story you must've made up, so you don't put too much stock in it...
candy cadet is basically the personification of the biggest problem from the series: mystery for the sake of a mystery
Scott realized how invested people were in solving the lore and decided to prolong it as long as possible. If he tells the story right away, people might be done with it, and he loses his audience. He also is just writing it as he goes..
yeah he's good at making the mystery,but sucks at revealing them
@@BenjaminBox i think he doesn't want to show the lore because when people see it, they finally realize that the series is poorly written, so scott looses credibility as a writter
@@Wizardjones69I mean I think he lost whatever credibility he had as a writer a long time ago.
@@dopeydoughnut6334 The Silver Eyes was ok as a standalone story. But the sequels to that book on the other hand shows that Scott isn’t a very good writer or really plans ahead (even with Kira still co-writing the sequels with him). Sure, the robot twist was there from the beginning but it wasn’t well executed and really opens a lot of plot holes. Not to mention now human robot theories are everywhere in the fandom and I’m so tired of seeing them.
During the Fazbear Civil war of ‘93, Candy Cadet was awarded a Purple Heart and promoted to Glucose General.
He spent his retired days in a care facility, telling tales of the horrors of war to children who wanted lemon drops.
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Ngl better story in this comment than in the actual games
@@B_2_weak_sauce Facts my man, facts.
It specifically has to be lemon drops tho, any other candies he just gives away for free
@@itsnotpaul8548 Any other candy he gives away is free? *I am about to abuse this opportunity.*
Candy Cadet's the kinda guy to tell you a story about a chicken who went on a mouse-killing spree, which is an obscure parallel to WW2💀
I mean, have you seen chickens? They'll peck each other to death, those bitches are evil
The problem with candy cadet is that he doesn't actually give any candy.
He did, right before he tells you a story in Pizzeria Simulator, a candy comes out of him. (You can see it at 0:49 )
also at 2:34
I mean, he does when fully stocked, 99% of the time in Pizzeria Simulator he gives you candy
To quote DSAF3 "Don't ask for cryptic stories from a candy robot." Or something to that extent.
Correction he says, "Don't come to your candy dispenser robot in your pizzeria for whimsical parables. Or life advice."
Candy Cadet is representative of FNAF as a whole. A vague mess of ideas that has potential to be a good story but refuses to give any concrete answers, and as a result, we're only left with fan theories that vary so wildly from each other that I wouldn't blame anyone for saying that FNAF doesn't have a story. There's an ancient rule in storytelling call "Show, Don't Tell" that dictates that it's better to show what's going on in your story so the audience can be properly hooked, and doing the opposite, "Tell, Don't Show", isn't going to be nearly as effective since the audience likely won't feel the impact of anything that happens. Candy Cadet however, and by extension FNAF as a whole, take that a few steps backward by opting for a new rule. "Imply, Never Tell". You can't say anything in FNAF is absolute. You can only hint at it otherwise people will get upset. Well, I'd argue that people are already upset by that rule by now. Bendy proved this by opting for that same rule in Ink Machine, and players weren't exactly thrilled. Then Dark Revival came out and went with the "Show, Don't Tell" rule, and everyone was much happier. TLDR; I'm tired of the vagueness of FNAF. I don't want inklings of what could be a story for others to finish writing because Scott is either lazy or too scared to upset anyone. I want a REAL story that means something.
Yeah, the vagueness has really only damaged the franchise.
The lore hints are so unclear and open to interpretation that we can't even concretely establish many important events.It's like someone threw a 100 somewhat related loose ends and expected us to tie it up for them.
Like you said the games follow the, "Tell, Don't show" policy. And even when it tells, it's never clear about it. It just gets frustrating after some time.
Honestly, I would love prequel games of FNAF that go back cover individual stories of fan-favorite characters in detail. That they SHOW the horrific things these characters and people around have gone through.
The issue was only further agrovated when all of the methods to make what little is shown questionable became fixtures. So even the little we did see now can easily just not be real.
I wish that for the 10th anniversary this year they just gave us a short game that definitely clears up the first four games or the core events like the MCI and CC incident. I'm also tired of relying on the books for lore that's not even consistent, it should be available in the games. I have a hard time believing that Into The Pit is going to clear up certain events and the names associated with them. I know Scott didn't expect FNAF to become such a sensation so maybe he didn't really think too much about the lore, but it's been 10 years and we got a crazy amount of games and books, there's no way they don't have a timeline of events figured out, we need SOME answers. I still don't know what Toy Chica missing her beak means and that was one of if not the first direct hint we got that then led to the Dream Theory, but now with all the sci-fi stuff and the scary gas thing they put in nothing makes sense, they over complicated it for the sake of building up mystery while we still don't have a timeline or confirmed names.
My thoughts EXACTLY 👏 !! While I do enjoy theorizing and types of analysis content like this video, FNAF absolutely suffers from a lack of concrete details. I feel like Scott had the right idea intially, but he, and now Steel Wool, seem to either be too afraid to reveal truths about the series, OR (and I feel this is HIGHLY likely) are keeping the status quo because they know that theorizing is a huge part of the appeal to FNAF, and therefore is what will make them the most money. That's how they get away with releasing unfinished games like Security Breach 😑 .
he's not too lazy or too scared, he can't do it because despite doing this for 10 years his writing skills have not improved even a little
he’s just a matpat standin. that’s all he ever was.
More like MatPat (and theorycrafter in general) bait.
I will give Candy Cadet this. When he shows up, the atmosphere of the game really takes a turn. Even if it is just for a moment, he does a good job having the player question what exactly is going on in whatever game they are playing.
As much as the mimic might be a lil controversial to say the least, at least with Candy Cadet (and other aspects of ruin) it as an excellent build up to its reveal
If I'm remembering one of the TetraBitGaming Ruin Cut Content videos right, Candy Cadet's story originally would have said the woods were full of dangerous animals, and in an earlier version of the map you would have to pass by the original fnaf 1 gang after Candy Cadet's room.
What does this add to the conversation... nothing. Just a fun fact
Actually... that DOES add somethign to the conversation: specifically, it adds that the story being told by Candy Cadet might actually be about Ruin's protag. Similarly, in Pizzaria Simulator you get a story that could be referring to Henry's plan to burn all the animatronics (unknowingly binding their remnant all together into a single form).
Perhaps what we should be taking from this is that Candy Cadet is predicting the future by examining stories it knows?
Honestly, I’ve always nursed a bit of a grudge against Candy Cadet simply for being yet another non-commital way of delivering us information in a sea of others.
I get it, that vaugeness is part of the fun, but there’s a point where there’s too much non-commital information in this franchise. At some point we need something, anything we can hold onto. It’s like we’re building a card tower with a mix of yu-gi-oh, playing, and tarot cards not wanting to fit together really, and we’re not even sure if these are actually playing cards or maybe lego bricks.
Imagine if, instead of candy cadet to deliver this information, we got the Player/michael’s notebook, and each night we’d be able to read more entries. Sure, it’s still technically not firm, due to an unreliable narrator, but it’s a far more clear and reliable source than the confusing ramblings of a glorified gumball machine. Not to mention it would give some characterization to a character (Michael or the Player) that desperately needs it. I dunno about you, but that feels like a much more clean and fitting way to deliver the information.
Same. I also hate that he's the main evidence for the Missing Children = Molten Freddy theory, because of the existence of the scrapped Animatronic 01 and just...wanting the Funtimes to be their own thing. I don't think the theory actually holds up, but it's so prevalent because otherwise, you have to acknowledge that the Missing Children are repeatedly brought-up, but don't exist in Pizz Sim.
@@diarawisteria2218 He isn't the main evidence for that. Henry's speech in the Insanity Ending is the main evidence for it, since he is obviously referring to "Follow Me" when he says William "led them there AGAIN" and "overpowered them AGAIN", and then at the end of it, he says he needs to "call them all back, together in one place". He does not pivot from talking about the MCI before saying it. And where could they be? Molten Freddy, the one described as having the most remnant out of everyone present. "Fascinating... what they have become".
Oh, and there's also Fourth Closet, coming out after FFPS and showing William literally extracting remnant from a melted amalgamation of the Classics' endoskeletons and then injecting it into Funtime Freddy and giving it life for the first time. He also says repeatedly that they now serve a "greater purpose", an important turn of phrase considering Henry says in FFPS that the MCI are "now set to *new purpose* and used in ways I never thought imaginable."
Oh, and Help Wanted shows the endos of the Classics burning in a furnace.
Candy Cadet may as well not even be a factor. The virgin Candy Cadet vs. the chad FFPS/Fourth Closet/Help Wanted triple whammy. lol
Agreed. They've tried to hard to make the game mysterious, that it feels like there's just questions with no answers.
Candy Cadet is gonna have some real competition when his greatest rival, Steak Seargent walks in
he tells a bunch of very direct things about the lore, but 50% of the words he say are lies, in a 50 word sentence, 25 words are false
@@cloudy7263 If you change words to sentences, I could see Scott adding it on the next game, sadly.
Dude I’d put in a coin to get a steak, heck yeah! 😂
Pizza Private better watch out
I wonder if scotts iffyness on book cannon is him not remembering lore he wrote for games and the books, mixing them together
Also realizing scott has no idea how snakes work
The mom could've been the Mxes program, too. It warned Cassie to the best of its ability and tried to stop her, but she still went through with following "Gregory".
Please be nice to my child. He is perfect and precious. Lovely little man.
Candy Cadet is honestly one of my favourites. I love the design, the goofy voice, and the weirdly dark vague story hints. I remember getting one around when Pizza Sim came out late at night not knowing what he was or did, and being so confused as to what just left that little robot's head.
5:16
i think its afton yes, by the fact that afton wanted a "family"
in silver eyes, he pretty much makes it obvious that the animatronics with children souls are his "family"
but in william's mind, the burglar was henry, but the kind man and the burglar are william afton in reality
but as i said, william think its henry's fault, so he places the burglar as henry
Candy Cadet is where Willy has been the entire time, trust me.
I honestly never paid attention to him that much, but he was always a somewhat enigma to me in the franchise.
Ironic, I know. 😅
The kitten story to me matched how our boy william had this snake within him (his desire to murder and experiment) that he couldn’t get rid of, at random one of his children got murked by his snake, which was manifested in his animatronics, it wasn’t literally left open but it was in some senses an eventuality that his machines would murder his children as he warned them but never truly put the snake away to stop this from happening in essence allowing it to happen. In his guilt he put her back together in baby.
Decillionth! May I have a reward? I want…a Krabby Patty!
Candy Cadet: Now I will tell you a story. There was a sponge who lived in a pinnacle under the sea.
SpongeBob SquarePants!
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Yee!
🍔 Be careful! They go straight to the thighs!
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SpongeBob: And then you blow up!
Squidward: : | !
Lesson learned: never eat too many Keabby Patties.
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Wait, I asked for Keabby Patties…oh well.
I've been a major supporter of the idea that Henry is much guiltier than the paragon he gets depicted as.
He talks about Afton's crimes as if they were something he *allowed to happen.*
I like to think that the three stories are, in some way, explanations of just how the murders affected him.
The idea that he knew Afton would do it, and that he let him. The idea that Afton had broken in and taken the lives of those he tried to protect. The idea that his efforts to save them only ensured their deaths.
Why were they killed at Freddy's? Of course, the security puppet would never let them be taken elsewhere. He had, effectively, locked them in that building with a man who he knew was dangerous.
Why did he have the Afton Schematics. How did he get them. *That isn't something you just stumble across, why does he know how they work.*
The fact that he does nothing with William Afton when he become Springtrap instead of bring him to justice make me question his moral. Doesn't help that he doesn't even talk to Michael about his father before PS.
Tbh for the Ruin story, it could be about mental growth, rather than physical growth from aging. Like, considering that at the end of SB Vanessa escapes Glitchtrap's control, that'd mean there's a pretty huge mental growth on her part between that and HW/Ruin, even in that short of a timespan.
But yeah, I think in times like these, we must remember Mr. Hippo's wise words, sometimes a story is just a story. I mean, it does seem to apply perfectly in that context.
Anyways, great vid as always, and glad you're feeling better!
Candy Cadet design is the best one in the entire franchise
Change my mind
Finally someone that gets it
Like the Mediocre Melodies, Candy Cadet has definitely earned his place in the fandom as both Meme Fuel and a source of Lore (through implications) but I'm kinda over his cryptic with a twinge of EdgeLord characterization. Although, I was also annoyed when he was used as an Exposition spewer in Ruin and HW2 so maybe I'm just never satisfied, LMAO. That being said, The Woman and The Keys story is one of my favorite things from the franchise and I won't take its impact away from him and I like the Letting Go interpretation you shared with us. I still think it's about Charlie and her naivety blended with determination to Save Them led to more harm being done (but she learned! She grew up in the Afterlife like she didn't get to and learned, at least according to Sire Squawks!) but new ideas and Theories are always welcome. Overall, I just keep Mr. Hippo's gentle Roast of Theorists and Occam's Razor in mind when it comes to him and keep it moving.
I’m predicting candy Cadet will probably be in into the pit the game and drop the mimic backstory exposition to Oswald finally killing the Henry Edwin parallel argument.
(please)
I predict he'll be there but then we'll get a backstory that's so close to Mimic's AND someone else's that we'll never know who the heck it's about. XD
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 gonna to confirm my mimic and pittrap fusion theory, which is what creates glitch trap and why he has the MCI kids memories in VR 2 but not actually William🥱 (joke or is it)
Everytime Fnaf has cryptic lore, my life shortens by one year. I am a ghost now.
As much as i love candy cadet his stories are confusing as hell
Maybe Candy Cadet is like Mr. Hippo telling us that some stories are just stories that don't have a specific meaning? 🤔
Huh, Pizzaria Simulator/UCN Candy Cadet has a different head then the Ruin/Help Wanted 2 Candy Cadet(s), Pizzaria Simulator has only a visor with flashing lights, whereas the other (two?) has the lights around the entire circumference of the head. (Another difference is the lack of those four large obvious screwhead/boltheads)
I noticed that! But I think it's more just an updated model than a totally different character.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 Honestly, I think too many theorists take that opinion about too many of the differences between FNAF games (especially Help Wanted 1 forward), but Candy Cadet is the most likely for it to be true. (Though the horror that would flow through the theorist community if none of the differences were redesigns would be facinating.)
@@QuestionDeca below his left wheel, it says prototype
I think it's possible that Candy Cadet was made by Fazbear Entertainment to cover up the events of the past by telling stories that are 1:1 opposite versions of the events that actually did happen.
For example, in the keys story, instead of it being a women, it's a young child (since the spirits are children, not adults), and the key, or "piece," are split into five, five "pieces."
This ends up saving five children, at the expense of one, the Crying Child.
When read like this, it seems to be a variation of ShatterVictim.
I figured this'd make more sense.
As for the HW2 story, it seems to be about Glitchtrap, who was lured Vanny and trapped by the one they're working for.
Glitchtrap was said to have only a fraction of their code remaining, so, instead of being a young girl who aged, they'd be a fully grown entity that was stripped down into a small piece.
They young boy would be a grown woman, Vanny, who leads Glitchtrap into a trap, as we see in HW2's ending, with the old witch being a young boy, most likely being TOYSNHK, or whoever the Nightmarionne imagery belongs to, who Vanny works for.
That's just a barely in-depth example of two of the stories, I figured it'd be a pretty interesting angle to look at.
There's something oddly comforting about Cadet's TTS voice...
The Ruin and HW2 stories could have another meaning if you take out the genders; someone being lured into letting a monster out of the basement? Cassie being lured down by the mimic. Someone returning to slay someone who tried to slay them, being tricked into walking right back into their clutches? Could be the HW2 protag, whether you believe it to be Cassie's dad, previous programmer Jeremy, or some other near-victim of something related to Fazbear Entertainment (especially considering the files suggesting that we were supposed to be following voice logs from Vanessa throughout the game).
I also heard someone theorize that the Pizza Sim stories are all meant to imply that the five missing children souls are all in Molten Freddy, basically hammering it in that 5 Became 1. Though it does seem a bit weird that you would need three stories to make the same point.
the hw2 one could also be about michael, getting tricked into being scooped in sister location, left with a permanent scar as literal purple guy, then getting lured by henry into the pizza sim location, a LITERAL OVEN
Molten MCI also doesn't make sense chronologically. Because, WHEN William would have made them into the Funtimes ? He destroyed the FNAF 1 Gang. The Toys aren't there and the OG are on stage so it has to be FNAF 1 restaurant.
So for the theory to be true, he must have made them into the Funtimes around FNAF 1... But Michael would had already been scooped by now since he was already fired for his "odor" back in FNAF 2. So William couldn't made them into the Funtimes since they already escaped years before.
@@ultimate-phenix I think I always assumed that the bad odor in fnaf1 came from tampering with the animatronics filled with decaying corpses? If not just entirely made up to try and fire Mike legitimately. And as with many things in the series, there's no way to know if the closed Freddy's location that the hand unit mentioned is the Security Puppet Freddy's or the Fnaf1 Freddy's.
Also, the theory I heard regarding Molten MCI uses Henry's log from the Insanity ending of Pizza Sim as a way to describe what happened: Afton using "his old tricks" to lure the animatronics off their stage (potentially what the purple Freddy is meant to represent, which makes more sense to me personally than Shadow Freddy luring the animatronics to their doom) so he can dismantle them as close to the hidden room as possible, taking their remnant (in other words, the souls of the MCI kids) and "setting them to new purpose" by using them to power the funtimes. There's no indication that the fnaf 3 mini games all happen in one night, after all, he could've been going back over the course of weeks. Not to mention the more recently found endos in the furnace in Help Wanted alluding to Molten MCI, too.
"Are they (the kids?) still aware? I hope not."
It's not a perfect explanation, it doesn't explain why the spirits were able to scare Afton into the springlock suit if they were stuck inside the funtimes, but if nothing else I could see that being what Scott was trying to imply at the time of Pizza Sim. And theories don't have to be perfect, y'know? The way the storytelling of this series goes, we're probably never going to know the one definitive answer, so why not just have fun with it?
@@ultimate-phenix I also like NimoClancey's way of viewing it where 1-3 and 4-Pizza Sim are their own separate trilogies, which I'm sure isn't what Scott intended at all, but it alleviates some of the pressure of trying to tie absolutely everything into one another. 😅
@@SpikyEaredPichu96 I still think it doesn't work, not only because of the spirits presence but also because of the Security Logbook.
If you don't know, it was released just before FFPS (NotRealName talked about it in her Logbook Chica video) and it's the origin of some of the most accepted theories like Golden Duo, the name of "Cassidy" for the Golden Freddy Spirit or just the idea that Mike Schmidt IS Michael Afton.
Well, in this logbook, Mike canonically is responding to a survey made by Faz Ent in order to work for them. He used his nickname "Mike" so we can assume it was around FNAF 1. And he already did some reference to SL like the fact he would prefer money AND ABSOLUTELY NOT Exotic butter.
So FNAF 1 Mike was already scooped and even if William destroying the bots can happen between nights... The fact is that we see their remains on the floor every time so no one has repaired them. So, since all of them were in working order during FNAF 1, William could only have destroyed them AFTER Mike's shift;
But... In the end... I think you're right. Theories doesn't have to be "perfect". And Scott isn't the best writer so it's possible he really wanted to tell us Molten MCI was canon and just never thought of the inconsistencies on the timeline. He did write the games as it goes and never had a clear plan after all...
It's just that I saw so many people being almost dogmatic about Molten MCI that I overreact when the conversation is about it. But yeah, as long as everyone understands that 70% of the "canon" is just the fanon that shouts the loudest, yeah, let's just go with our own interpretation and have fun.
I may have been to adamant and I'm sorry about it.
That has to be the most threatening "Candy. Candy. Candy." I have ever heard. Anyway I'm going to pick this guy up and shake him aggressively until he gives me a straight answer. And then fix him up because being ruined for two games in a row seems like a disservice to his goober-ness.
The pizza with fries and mozzarella sticks does sound good though, but I'm not paying $50 for that.
I'm so glad you're feeling better after your surgery ❤
I haven't watched the video but the title and the tumbnail is very promissing
edit: i watched the video and YES candy cadet's stories always felt somehow weird. Like they fit the stories in-game but there was just something either extra or missing. "Is this detail important? Is this just added to make the story sound more real? is this story about this event or the other one?"
I kinda felt like he was theory bait to keep fans busy after fnaf 6 until scott figured out where the series should go from there
i dont think Candy Cadet is meant to be taken too literally. I think we're only supposed to take the general idea from it. the Pizza Sim stories are 5 things becoming 1 thing. i think it's referring Molten Freddy. Who is the present day version of the original 5 kids being killed... or at least what's left of them in the present day (present as of Pizza Sim) as the other remnants of the 5 children have since passed on. Molten Freddy being all that's left.
The ruin story is about being tricked by a familiar voice. foreshadowing that Gregory... wasn't Gregory.
And the Help Wanted 2 story, if generalized, is simply someone who was fooled once, is fooled again with a different tactic. which i think is probably a reference to the fact that help wanted 2 ends with the player character being taken by the AR world... just like what happened to Vanessa in help wanted 1. i think that story is a bit more meta in the fact that we have the potential to do the same mistake we did in the first game with the 2nd game. which of course is doomed to happen anyway cus ruin proves the bad ending is the true ending. i think that's what Candy Cedet's HW2 story is all about.
as for the last story... i have no idea XD honestly that one showed up out of left field... but to generalize it... a group of people missing out on something and died because of it... who knows... maybe it's another meta jab at the community XD
candy cadet the lore keeper and the most sweet thing in the whole series
It's cool to see someone taking this angle, rather than the "We SoLvEd FnAf" route, but no hate to those creators either, it's just refreshing to find something different!
Thanks for the vids!
I've been so excited for this! Glad you're feeling better!
I'm glad your surgery went well and you're recovering okay! I love your content and I always watch your new videos when I see them. My only note, which I hope doesn't come off too nitpicky, is that you say "perchance" when the word is "penchant" - I've noticed it in a couple of videos. "He has a penchant for doing that." Perchance is used more like "Could you do this for me, perchance?"
My favorite interpretation of the third story is that its about afton, in an attempt to put his son back together, he ensures the deaths of 5 kids
I suspect the FFPS Candy Cadet is a meta reference to Scott's frustrations over trying to reconcile the fragmented lore up to that point. But in Security Breach and its sequels, CC is there to shed light on the events leading up to the game. So in Ruin is tells how Gregory was lured down to the Mimic when it impersonated Vanessa. HW2's Candy Cadet clears up the confusion about who the protagonist is. It's the same exact protagonist from HW1 lol. Vanessa/Vanny had escaped the oven aka the chamber Glitchtrap locked her soul in, then came back and found herself trapped yet again in the mask.
Kinda crazy that the 8-Bit mini games were the clearest FNAF ever got about telling it’s lore… AND THAT WAS ALREADY VAUGE AS HELL!!!
Based on how the kids/animatronics viewed William in the FNAF movie, the first story could be game William’s version of events that he told the kids before they turned on him
With the woman and the 5 keys, I agree with it probably being about charlie, but I wonder if it meant that she could of brought one kid back like baby presumably did for Michael.
For the ruin story, it works for Gregory being the mother and Cassie the little boy too
The young woman and witch I read as Cassie's dad, if he's hw1 Jeremy- his first escape being with surviving the guillotine slicer but left with a scar but dies the second time
Considering it is about a key to freedom, it could be that she could have brought piece to any one of them if she focussed on it, but she tried helping everyone and only ended up trapping them in the end.
By the way candy Cadet story about the the man burying the child in the knock at the door is talking about molten Freddy because one of molten Freddy’s lines is
“ knock, knock I’m here”
Molten MC as weird as it is most likely true
Personally, I disagree, the stories aren’t about how a bad person put five things together, it’s a good guy trying to do, well good.
@@azimuddin1890 that’s cause the good guy is Michael
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Does that mean it’s Aubergine Man Jr (Michael Schmidty) putting five things together?
@@azimuddin1890 that’s the entire plot of sister location
William splits the kids into Funtime Freddy Funtime foxy bonbon,ballora with Cassidy creating yendo
Michael creates ennard he put 5 things together
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I mean, I still feel like it’s a stretch in the games. Because we don’t see that happening, we need the Charlotte (Web) novel trilogy to think that.
I get that, but still I don’t agree.
Tbh, I think the end of the first story is about Henry and the Pizza Sim itself, because he lured everyone to the pizzeria (their coffin), where they become one thing after the burning.
but we talk with candy cadet before that happens, candy cadet cannot predict the future, right????????
@@Wizardjones69 Tbh, I don't even know what exactly he is. He doesn't seem to be possessed, but how could he get new stories after the burning? He could be under influence of the memories of the dead children on Pizza Sim, but it doesn't make a lot of sense for SB and HW2. I wouldn't be surprised if the next book series presents something that can explain it better, although it definitely wasn't Scott original intent.
I was watching this, and I asked myself the silly little question of “How did Ruined Candy Cadet get where he is?” Little did I know this would lead to me realizing that Security Breach shows the vent system FNaF 6 takes place in is BELOW the Pizza Place, a detail I have never thought about at all and I have so many questions but it is past midnight and I am too tired to answer them myself.
After cross-referencing all of his stories, I've noticed a reoccurring quality to them - not every inch of each story is reflective of the events they're alluding to.
There are placeholder elements in each one that are essentially red herrings. After cutting out certain elements from each story, each one ends up nigh-perfectly reflecting an event that actually occurred in the canon. So they're stories for people who are already in the know of what they mean - the only people who know what to cut out and interpret in the first place. Or, at least that's the intent.
Which means they're probably not stories that provide new information and more stories that make you think; "Wait, why does this random candy dispenser robot know about that?" It's sort of in the same vein as the fruit punch and lemonade clowns occasionally threatening to cut your throat, it's an attempt to unnerve and perplex, as well as to give Candy Cadet his own character as a being who knows things he has no right knowing. The only times he gives information on something that we 'shouldn't' already know is in Ruin when he talks about the Mimic.
Let's go, new video! Also, I just realised candy cadet uses the generic male text to speech.
7:10 One thing to note is that the snake is only said to eat one kitten, with no repetition of the action claimed or implied, only that time passed. Snakes don't eat very frequently, only once every several days, so that one kitten would sustain it for a weak. Plus, the boy is only said to put THE kitten together, being the single one that was eaten.
But that would be even more confusing. It would mean it follows the same 5 becomes 1 format but one becomes one. I think more likely it IS the same 5 becomes 1 and that Scott wasn't thinking of how often snakes eat, as it's not a literal snake, it's a metaphorical one.
I've always had a theory that candy cadet's stories are purposely vague so in the future Scott can apply them to anything and then pretend the story has been planned out all along. I also apply this to pretty much all of fnafs story telling post sister location.
pretty much every story telling post fnaf 4
@@Wizardjones69 I say sister location because Baby's dialogue is pretty overt. It's also the last time we are directly told who we are playing as.
Well, it doesn't really work because he's never used these stories for anything lol. Not to mention that they always have numerous connections to existing and current story events (current when they happen), so they wouldn't really be useful to connect to future events anyway.
If anyone remembers Identity V's Melodas Estate Investigation/Stormy Night Surprise event, you'll remember that the characters told stories. I feel like the Candy Cadet stories are like that. They vaguely parallel each of the characters with a fantasy story, but remember: the monstrous bird was the woman telling the story about the girl that got ate by the bird.
That's how I take these stories. Especially the Ruin and HW2 stories. Cassie is probably the basement monster, and Vanessa is 100% the witch (we even see the 'witch' get her meal in the PQ4 ending, with Vanny crushing glitchtrap).
Also, the kittens might not be kids, but security guards. It's about Henry letting William keep hiring night gaurds, despite knowing that they will die. He lets William hire a guard, the guard dies. Though this may also be about Michael and the Fazbear's Frights guard, as the story of the woman with the keys is an oddly prophetic parallel to Henry burning everything at the end of FNAF 6. But the keys story may likely be about Micheal burning down Fazbear's Frights horror attraction, believing it to be the way to free the kids, only resulting in that not being the means to their freedom and the kids being stuck or free being based on the minigames, not the fire.
The story about the man adopting fivr kids is more likely about Charlotte. She kept the dead kids safe after the location closed, but William broke in and destroyed the animatronics. Charlotte probably made molten Freddy or the amalgam.
This unrelated to the topic of the video, but I really appreciate that your video is segmented into specific parts. So many videos I watch are either not at all, or when they are the segments don’t make any sense and are just labeled in chapters.
Wait, the "kind man" was worried about "someone breaking into "one of their five homes."
Candy cadet is warping the story. The kids' adoption was actually five kidnappings.
There weren't five orphanages that housed one orphan each. There were five abductions of children who weren't orphans.
The "burgler" was probably somebody who came to free the children. And somewhere in the untold part of the story, the kids were killed and put into suits.
The kind man interprets the destruction of the machines as his own children being murdered. And he melts the machines together.
OH HECK YEAH! I'm early to the video about Candy Cadet!
Candy Cadet has one of my favourite designs
My head cannon is that Jeremy is the woman, and he has the scar from his previous dealing with Glitchtrap (the witch)
So my take on the Help Wanted 2 story, at least for the Vanessa angle, is this.
Vanessa likely is an Afton or Afton Parallel. Considering Micheal would have been old father or grandpa age, maybe a cousin or something that shared an abusive household cycle... Tangents aside, Vanessa as a little girl could have been scarred by her father mentally, making her have daddy issues and obey under threat of grave consequences. As she became an adult and got taken over partially by Glitchtrap, which itself was a mimicry of Afton himself (also no doubt an abusive dad), so Vanessa obeyed but still fought control. Gregory, being a small boy into video games, and likely someone who before Security Breach had a family (because how would he become Patient 46 without a parent having a connection with FE?) and probably got his brain more thoroughly hacked by Glitchtrap. Then he helped the Mimic take over Vanessa the rest of the way, and then Gregory somehow got released from control or both have an alter ego. After SB, Vanessa adopts Gregory and the rest is basically history. Also, it could be Cassie's Dad/Bonnie Bro. He may be an old dad but men can have kids when they're basically 80 so it's not impossible. He was probably one of the employees who was killed by Gregory, and was scarred for life from Fredbear's (or even the bite of 87 if anyone goes by that logic). If Bonniebro was a technician he likely was in similar situations as Micheal except with less actual idea of what was happening. Plus with the Fall fest situation, it makes sense that if William wanted to cheap out on fire hazard prevention in the Circus, Bonniebro likely was the laser tag kid along with the other bullies. (while Crying Child would have been the kid on the Ferris Wheel as we read in the survival Logbook.) And (both) attractions, as well as every other thing at Fall fest caught fire. Bonniebro, Micheal, the bullies, Crying Child, and more were likely traumatized by such a massive burndown of Fallfest, with Fredbear's, Freddy's, Circus Baby's, and more all just compiling trauma for everyone around.
Hey, just a quick hint for the "figurative key" part. The "she" is actually refering to baby, and the "melting the keys to save them" refers to molten freddy. Molten freddy has the souls of 5 victims, and they were convinced to merged based on baby's suggestion that it would make freedom easier.
Tbh, I always envisioned the witch's oven story as a nod towards one of two possible things:
Cassie perhaps returning a few years later to get rid of The Mimic, after being duped into releasing it and trapping The MXES. Which I think may be where the story is heading.
OR..
A certain slender animatronic who was also lured in by somebody, and nearly burnt alive. Their fate was also quite vague, as we never see even a glimpse of them say for one rare moment. ;)
What if it would be both, though?
The main reason I am watching your videos is that I like your voice, but I enjoy the fnaf conent as well.
Thank you kindly! 😊
Further along and a new thought... If Candy Cadet is being programmed with these "Stories" who and why are two Questions you really need to answer before you take his words for anything.
The mimic
I honestly think that first story (about man, orphans and potential threat) is about William Afton and him living double life while being constantly afraid of himself getting to kids he desperately wanted to entertain and care after via animatronics, failing and then probably getting caught red-handed (knock on the door)
second (boy, snake and kittens) is about Henry closing his eyes on inconsistencies of Williams behaviours, but then deciding to finish it all in Sister Location and "cut open the snake", while accidentally getting all "kittens" in one big agony mass instead
Third (young woman sealed in melting keys together to free children) is definitely about Puppet failing to actually freeing all children like it was interpreted in the video
Custom Night phrases "He pieced the remains together, he promised them to never leave them, but he could not choose" seems to be highlighting the relationship between William and his children as he is being tormented, first part refers to "I will put you back together" and the second is how he was constantly trying to prevent his daughter from interaction with Baby, and third is how he failed in both cases to give more of his attention to business instead of his daughter who got too close to Baby and got clawed and actually causing more children suffer and die instead of actually "putting back together" his younger son and/or letting him go
Help Wanted 2 one, as it shown during the gameplay being a parallel to Security Breach must be about what happened between SB and SB:R instead - Vanessa thought she could deal with Mimic this time after she escaped with Gregory in the first part of the Security Breach story, because she has more experience now, and went down to set a proper security system with Gregory and thats how Mimic learned their voices and manners of speech, but eventually Gregory (Monster in the basement making the boy open the door story) and then Vanessa (Woman getting tricked by a boy into the witch oven story) miserably failed because of the same walkie talkie trick that Cassie falling for
also the Gregory's backpack and walkie talkie being left in the underground is INCREDIBLY sus and other than those stories we don't really know what happened to them both
My guess is that Stan's budget tech is a company made by henry to give insight to the manager on why this has to be done, with fruity maze, midnight motorist and candy cadet to give backstory.
“Basically exposition hidden behind a riddle built on a wibbily wobbily foundation that someone else could easily misunderstand the details” is literally the entire lore design ethos post fnaf3.
I read the second story like this: Henry knew William for a long time, and through that time he realized that deep inside William was a troubled man who had terrible desires. But even still Henry also knew that William had some good in him, he was very smart, he could charm his way out of a bad situation, William was far too good at looking good in public. So as a way to keep William bound to a place, a way to keep him from doing something terrible, Henry opened Fredbear’s with William. He knew very well that William had a voracious appetite when it came to things, from machines to business, William was always after more, bigger and better prospects.
Fredbear’s was like a giant cage, a place where William could release his inner machinations without letting his dark impulses take over. Fredbear’s for a time was successful, no doubt in part because of William’s charisma and the many machines he made. But eventually William grew too big for that cage and it was only a matter of time before he tried to get out, then one day an opportunity presented itself, a way for William to free himself both metaphorically and physically.
After he killed Charlie, and the Crying Child died, William was no longer allowed at Fredbear’s due to the police investigation. He was free, and that one child wasn’t enough to satisfy his cravings, he needed more, so that’s what he did. Now freed from Fredbear’s and Henry’s watchful eye, William went to Freddy’s and the MCI happened.
Maybe it was willful ignorance on Henry’s part, but for whatever reason he felt regret for his choices and tried to make it right in the end, but his definition of making it right wasn’t what was desired by those he was trying to help.
In the end it was self servicing, a way for him to relieve himself of the guilt he felt without questioning whether or not he should simply leave things alone. Ultimately his efforts creating a monstrosity that desecrated the graves of those he wronged through inaction. He created a monster in an attempt to bring peace to those who died.
I think that by reading into the last bit we can gleam some of the story we didn’t see, for example what tearing the snake open represents in universe would be Henry found all of the broken animatronic parts that William left before he got springlocked and he put them together. IE; maybe Lefty was created using pieces of the old animatronics melted into new shapes, it would also explain why Charlie felt comfortable enough around it to let her guard down and get caught. Or given new lore, it could also mean that those old pieces are stuck in the Tangle/Blob.
Granted this is just how I read it given the context of Pizzeria Simulator’s story.
11:50 that pronunciation of "lullaby" is so satisfying.
In a way, he is a soothsayer who sells candy and hints via his stories. He was somehow tuned into things as the overall “Greek Chorus” to the series over story for the player.
Dude, why did they change his design when moving him to Ruin? He looks so much better in Pizza Sim. (I'm not talking about him being damaged).
16:02 So for me, I think it just fits more with Vanessa. The story plays off to be like retelling where she got infected in HW, then later on in the therapy cd's, she says she compartmentalize him as she was freeing herself, which then gregory lures her back to being fully taken by glitchtrap which explains her mood change and when patient 46 was introduced in the cd's.
10:33 if I recall correctly candy cadet was planed to be a threat in unc as he appeared in the og line up Scott teased tho I can’t find why he was cut or what he would’ve done.
19:25 im sorry wth you can’t just say something like that and expect no back up questions. First off why was a cat on (I assume) your windshield? Was it your cat or a stray, and where you driving threw a flower field in spring to get said windshield covers in pollen? My god I’m so confused and I’d greatly appreciate backstory
I live in the middle of the woods and the tree pollen is atrocious. XD I also have outdoor cats- strays that I've been feeding and homing- and they constantly sleep on my car. I really need to buy a car cover, lol.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 oh I see but do you have a garage you can keep the car in? I imagine that work better then a car cover. But thank you for the explanation
I feel like with the Candy Cadet stories we get in Pizza Sim, we are probably only supposed to pay attention to the reoccurring theme of five things becoming one (the MCI kids) and not try to connect the humans in the stories to actual characters like William and Henry. But who knows.
This is one I've wanted for a long time, Candy Cadet is one of the more notable characters in Pizza sim and I liked how odd he was, lost my mind when he returned in ruin. And I agree his game would be more fun if it wasn't our only bit of direct story now, like imagine fnaf 3 being told through a text to speech candy dispenser. Still great video! A lot more animation in this one which I liked!
my dumbass saw the fnaf sl micheal outline and thought it was chonny jash's pfp
The problem with Candy Cadet is that, in a game where lore is hidden EVERYWHERE, I don't like that it's hidden in a robot that tells stories... Is a take? It's one I don't get, but the video was entertaining regardless~! Kinda wanna see more now.
I meant less that it's only hidden in a robot and more that there's story details we should be seeing, and we shouldn't have the only plot details delivered through the robot, you know?
And thank you!
I thibk the biggest difference between Candy Cadet's stories and how they're used is that the original Pizza Sim ones are extremely metaphorical, rather than trying to tell us what really happened vaguely. At no point did anyone actually have to offer up a kid to Afton and chose to do nothing like in the Snake Story, but it gives us a decent potential look into Micheal's headspace and his regrets. I think thats actually the throughline of the Pizza Sim stories, the regrets the characters facing Afton have.
As someone who has been a fan since the beginning when I was about 12 and I stopped paying attention around sister location because things got way too confusing hearing the nice man story for the first time absolutely blew me away wth
“Not every story has to be about something Orville. Sometimes a person just wants to talk, why does it have to be a story?” - Mr Hippo
Fnaf's lore/implications sometimes makes me shrug
aggressively.
Glad to hear you're feeling better tho!
I like the idea that agony is what posses CC. He’s not haunted, but filled with the thoughts and feelings of those around him. Imagine if the 5 things becoming one WAS CC. Like he’s all the original souls. I don’t thinks it’s happened in canon, but it’s a fun thought
Another flaw of Candy Cadet, that's a pretty major one actually, is the fact the the stories he tells are stories/events that are already known by people, but just reimagined and told in another way, which may or may not be confused with another story. This means that he actually doesn't contribute anything to the lore that we don't already know about, and if he is, then it's too vague to be useful or just overaps with known events and people just misconects his story with those events.
Okay so I haven't listened to the full story but the story that Candy Cadet tells in the basement during Ruin kinda gave me an idea. I agree with the idea that it's Vanny/Mimic/Gregory, that whole shebang, but it also could be read as the Afton family, to me. Ignoring timeline, specific. William was making things in the basement. His children heard them moving. He told them not to worry. His wife sang them a lullaby to sleep (assuming Ballora is based on the wife, it'd make sense if she sang a lullaby, and that's why Ballora has one) and then the creature learns it. Then the rest of the story happens.
Again, this is ignoring the timeline and probably key details, but it's just interesting to me, to think about.
The kitten story makes me so sad 🥲
Candy cadet is my lover.
Hmm... What if Vanessa was an attempted victim of Williams, who got away? That would be her escaping the oven, only to come back later as an adult.
It's just a small thing. I also have no clue what the time between these ganes is so idk.
I think the problem with candy cadet is not only the stories he tell is very vague but it makes it even more confusing that leads to many different interpretations of what the story might mean to and connect in the fnaf lore that may or may not be right and it difficult because the fnaf lore is pretty difficult of how certain things connect.
It would be cool if candy cadet does tell some stories like the family pizza as fun goofs and even the other stories but than give us actually answer or bits to certain events maybe like a recording of William making baby or William crying about with his son death, or maybe news recordings about what happen during the bite of 87 and the parents reaction. Or you can have the children voices play during candy cadet story of them being angry and want revenge and are still around, and when you get more of the animatronics in each night you can hear there voice that is for some reason is connected to them like Charlotte. and maybe have some news recordings of certain things that have connections to the animatronics like people reported seeing a broken down scraptrap stalking people and killing them or reports of a mechanical bear terriozing people maybe exploring the lore of this world in fnaf and give us fun facts like when was it first open, how many restaurants there are ? Who are the new owners of fnaf if there is any around the time. Juat gives us some neat answers and stuff that answers certain questions
Great video! Love the interpretations too!
Regarding the story in Ruin, do you think the moment Mimic tricked Gregory with Vanessa's voice was towards the end of SB, when Vanessa says something like "What are you still doing here? The doors are open! ... I think you deserve a reward. Go to the main stage..." I know it's hard to tell since there was so much cut content, but I did always find it strange that Vanessa's tone shifted from annoyed to, coaxing? In that one line. Just a thought...
We were so close to getting a modern day fnaf video essay that doesn’t have the princess quest song in the background.
His pizza sim stories sound like they could’ve been written by Henry himself
I love Candy Cadet and his cryptic stories. Probably the best addition to the series. Hope he comes back later to tell us stories for quarters. Stories that may or may not be a summary of what happened in the series or not.
His design most certainly ain’t a problem 😎🔥
I feel like with the kitten & the snake story, people often miss that only one of the kittens got eaten. Matter of fact, that's what annoys me about the original 3 stories. They all have the number 5 in common but the "5" is related to different things. 5 corpses combined into one to be laid to rest, 5 kittens and 5 nights pass, but something only happens to one kitten, and 5 keys combined into one and made useless. The kitten & the snake story is the only one in which 5 things aren't combined into one. Rather one thing is torn into pieces and then put back together... Put back together. Maybe that references the Crying Child somehow.
Regarding Gregory “meeting” the mimic I’m sure it happened but it can’t have copied his voice/actions in that time alone, the first thing he says when Cassie enters the room is “I’m Gregory” in the exact same tone that Gregory did to Freddy at the beginning of security breach, so he can’t have copied his character post game with lines he specifically said (in a weird way mind you so we would remember it). Either way we see his bag down there but also a concrete wall as well as faz-wrench spots and we have not seen either Gregory or Vanessa with a faz-wrench but it’s still possible we just can’t confirm HOW the mimic is mimicking Gregory yet.
Snake and the kittens, sounds a bit like Henry and William's relationship, like Henry knew his business partner was fucked up, and he was so spineless that he was willing to let William have maybe one or two kids. Little did he know one of them would be his own daughter.
I do like the idea that Candy Cadet is like he 8-bit minigames.
A spirit is able to interact with electronics and reuse parts to tell a story. The 8-bit minigames always felt like hijacked arcade games trying to communicate with the player. I would guess the versions of the games that were released by the "Indie Dev" were probably the main games, without those mini games. If Cassidy, the princess, is the 'video game' spirit, it's possible she has been trying to reach out the the player(s) of those games to tell them the truth, and FNAF World is sort of the culmination of that video game hijacking.
The Logbook showing us a similar power being used by the Bite Victim, able to alter the text of the book to interact with the real world. The Bite Victim, whoever was 'attached' to Golden Freddy, etc don't have functional bodies to interact with the world, so they use other ghostly powers to do so, by altering existing things to try to communicate. They are limited in what they can do by the medium through which they are trying to communicate. They can't just make something new, it has to be fashioned out of existing stuff.
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On the kind man story: If we go with Henry, the home is the restaurant. He felt that kids would be safe there, but he was wrong. The single coffin thing could be describing the actual gameplay of FNAF6. Henry is going to bury all of the children in one place.
when the candy cadet ad story was going I was fully expecting NotAName to segue into a sponsorship with a company that's like hellofresh but only for pizza. Like, a pizza subscription service or smth
yet another fantastic video great job 👍
I honestly like Candy Cadet. He does not tell us anything new or exclusive, he just recycles some pre-existing bits of story in a way to make us think about how it all goes together. It's the coolest thing in the series because it provides us the fun of speculation without the downsides.
If only the rest of the storytelling was this nice to us, lmao. Everything else seemingly has to give us a new angle and it completely wrecks everything because some bits just can't logically extend, but it is pushed to.