If Ralph were Henry, he would be in a prime position to haunt either the Tape player that Henri speaks out of in FNAF 6, or an animatronic suit (which would give him a reason to use a proxy devise to communicate in Fnaf6)
Yeah, i dont think Ralph is Henry soley because the canon ending to the book is a 1:1 retelling of phone guys death from fnaf 1 and the book is confirmed tk take place before fnaf 1
But I think they are saying, similar to his partner. His death may have not entirely "killed" him. One of this series Mainstays is "die horribly in an animatronic and you're probably gonna be stuck in it as agony/remnant" so the death would still happen. Ralph dies, presumably shoved in suit, and "awakens" but not as the hypnotized Ralph but as his original self Henry. Then as a creature similar to Afton FNAF6 happens and that's why we don't see Henry because he doesn't want to be seen that way. Also could explain why he was chill with burning to death....
When it comes to Henry’s fate, I’ve never really liked the idea that he was arrested. Especially considering the Help Wanted era, where we learn that the first few games are in-universe games based on real events, it’s possible the newspaper mentioning the criminal's conviction was just a detail the indie developer added for dramatic effect, and not necessarily true in the actual FNAF universe. As for the idea of Dave dying and William turning to Henry for help, only for Henry to refuse, leading William to kill Charlie-that's the best explanation I've heard for Charlie's murder. People often say William killed her because he was mad at Henry for creating Fredbear, which ended up killing William’s son. But that theory never sat right with me. I also don’t think Ralph is Henry, mainly because Ralph and Henry have different voices in the games. However, the idea that Ralph serves as a parallel to Henry makes a lot of sense. As for Ralph’s daughter being named Coppélia, I’m still unsure what that means. I hope she becomes more relevant in future games, possibly even as a playable character.
The thing is trying to use the in universe game thing is you can say that about nearly any detail and no one would ever be able to come to a consensus on what to accept as fact, so it’s not especially helpful for theorizing. If we wanted to write off the conviction thing, i feel it’d be better to just say it’s due to Scott not having a story planned out before FNAF 1 aside that kids were killed and possess robots.
@thepixelman4776 To each their own, but it's obvious that the games being 'in-universe' games is a crucial detail-they wouldn’t have included it otherwise. How I see it, they're signaling to us that we should trust the new information we receive, even if it contradicts what we’ve been told before, because those previous games are part of the in-universe lore. And maybe conviction is the only true 'retcon,' but there's no way to know for sure. Personally, I'll stick with the idea that any inconsistencies with the current games stem from those older games being unreliable narrators
No, the early games still happened. The entire point of the in-universe games is that they were part of FazEnt’s plan to rebrand and make a mockery of those events. The canonicity of the actual games is not called into question by HW. The canonicity of those clippings is rather called into question simply because Scott hadn’t ironed out the details of his story yet.
I absolutely loved this idea that some of these characters would prefer an illusion due to the trauma in their lives. The Week Before made phone guy a 3 dimensional character such a good book 📖
this is a solid theory that *does * fit, i just think henry being in jail fits more? (for now) either way, i really enjoyed watching the process of this theory coming to be i think this kind of thinking from your recent videos (the coppelia/sandman one especially) is exactly what the community needs
Wait, no, I could see Henry going into the persona of Ralph in that it goes along with my theory of Mike being brainwashed into believing he might actually be William as the result of the nightmare gas in Sister Location and "turning purple." If William knew that was an effect (from the experience of putting Mike through the FNAF 4 experiments and making Mike feel like Dave/CC), why not have Henry step in for someone, or create this persona?
I'm super glad you brought up Help Wanted(Tales from PP) bc Ralph really reminded me of the story, especially with a potential robot daughter and a (potentially) not real wife and ends with him being stabbed by a robot, like how Henry dies in the Silver Eyes trilogy🤔
you know what's crazy I was reading monkeys paw in my class yesterday like the whole class had to read it because our teacher gave it to us as work dam insane timeing
I have a theory that Charlotte was the first to die while Susie was the first to get stuffed because it didn't seem like Charlie needed help possessing puppet because she somehow possessed puppet without a physical body so that leads to believe Charlie survived pizzeria simulator.
So if Susie was the first to get stuffed that would explain why we hear withered chica say: I WAS THE FIRST I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING!!!!! So that means Chica did die in pizzeria simulator since there's a physical corpse. Now you may be asking why Afton survived the fire? well maybe it's because he's an adult his body can handle remnant better than children either that or Afton must've had a stronger does explaining how he can survive all these fires. So Golden Freddy, Puppet, and Afton are still here but every other child has moved on and went to heaven.
Can i say, I’ve always liked the idea of Henry being the phone guy, I’m in this video she talks about not having enough information to prove it, but having Henry be the phone just feels kind of, satisfying in a way? Like despite the fact theirs not any evidence for it in my own head canon of the story that Henry is the phone guy.
I find it crazy how I used to headcanon that Henry when we just got his name and Phone guy (Before he was named Ralph) were one in the same! Thank you for talking about this, it's so fun seeing it become an actual theory/parallel!!
Although I love the idea that Henry was being gaslight by illusion disks/nightmare gas, I feel like Scott would give more explicit connections to Henry and the false reality idea beyond parallels of other characters. The movie Mike Henry parallels while strong in a broader sense does not directly connect Henry to the false reality deal between Mike and GF. The coppelia symbology in the week before maybe a nod to Henry from the books but it seems to be more telling of Ralph as a character, who in fnaf 2 tried to get in contact with the owner of fredbears (either William or Henry) and his delusions in the events of the book then Henry especially when interpreting the week before as canon to the games (same timeline parallels are shaky at best). Although I agree the missing children’s newspaper clipping was probably a byproduct of Scott not understanding the difference between charged and convicted, the disregarding of the point does not inherently assist the theory as even if someone was charged it does not necessarily have to be Henry. Other than disagreeing with the use of the parallels, the narrative idea of Henry being in a vulnerable position and being manipulated into helping William (cover ups, making circus baby, etc) and get him out of the picture is a very solid argument regardless of using nightmare gas or illusion disks
I guess my only refute to this is that in TSE it is literally Henry and not a parallel to Henry that is objectively being fooled by the illusion discs he set up all through his house. And that Scott is more often vague than he is explicit.
Curse of dread bear had a brain surgery mini game, in which you essentially had to restore functionality to a human brain and implant it into DreadBear. Another note worthy occurrence is how you make Fredbear appear in UCN; Death Coin in hand you make Golden Freddy mimic Dave's death. All alone on the night, it's AI set to 1(the weakest possible active setting) you use your Death Coin to remove Golden Freddy from the night. This causes Fredbear to rise out of Golden Freddy and kill you instead. But like I said, the circumstances mimic Dave's death at the end of Fnaf 4.
Henry's insanity ending. He hid a speech in company property; Egg Baby. They could easily of shuffled Henry away to a barrage of mental health therapy like Vanessa in security breach. Fazbear entertainment has lots of therapists on their payroll meaning they could be used to pull Henry's strings, so to speak.
It's like that one episode of Community when one of the extras points out that the Main 6 always get to do stuff for the achool. "Everything always comes back to Henry and William." I like the parallels between different versions of Henry and different characters, but I do hope that the Mimic and whatever comes next can get into a new story. There's only so many times a villain can eacape death and be burned before it's like "okay, we get it. You need money, bring back Jason Vorhees or Freddy Kruger or Afton. They'll be around for a hundred years"
So now that i think of it one of Circus baby's voice lines supports this, "Isn't that why you're down here? To be with her again?" Like in the nightmare chamber to live a lie and torture yourself
At first, I was really questioning making the connection to the Monkeys Paw story. I couldn't figure out how you'd be able to do it and why, but as I kept watching, you began to convince me! This was such an interesting take on the FNAF franchise and a great theory video! Narratively speaking, this is so satisfying! Well done.
THIS. I had a thought about making a theory about how Henry is the one being experimented on and couldn't remember where I got the information so yay found it theory coming by about 2035
if henry was in jail during the time the phrase "Nothing was ever proven in a court of law" implies a plea deal where he pled guilty likley due to the advice of legal counsel to get a reduced sentence allowing him to get released by the time of pizza sim
I like your theory about William killing Charlie to get Henry to work on the illusion discs. He never had a good reason to kill her in my opinion; this provides much needed motivation.
Cool video! I was happy when you mentioned the ''Monkey's Paw''. When Candy Cadet's story ends with ''that night, there was a knock at the door'' was a cool reference to the Monkeys Paw!
14:15 the way to find Ralphs talk about he never brought Coppelia to Freddy's is by literally cheating, by going to a page with an item you couldn't possess in that part of the story, so is a misleading information from the book to confuse cheaters
yeah this kinda confused(ses) me bc I didn't cheat the first time I read it but must have gone to the page by accident bc I read it going through the first time. I'm not sure this means that's WHY it's in the book considering there is already a cheater's page, but I did recently learn you aren't "supposed" to read page 44
It's a very good theory, you explained important things that we still didn't know its meaning, like "What happened to Henry?" or "Why Charlie Got Murdered?".I wish you success in your future.
I would have paid more attention to the monkey's paw summary, but I was too distracted at how the Freddy and Bonnie plushies aren't next to each other. That's criminal
me2me: nervous you're overthinking the plush placement no one's gonna care we've gotta start filming fnaf fans: 🐻🐰??! 😡😡😡 my bad homie 🥲 (i'm being silly i just think it's funny i literally had this thought before filming)
OMG I'm 11mins in and just screamed at my phone screen. I gad the same thought reading The Week Before; that Ralph FEELS like Henry. Is Ralph Henry? But I talked myself out of it, thinking how the community would react to such an idea. Thank you for putting into words what I could not and for making sense of such ideas in a less literal way than what my mind jumped to. Calling Ralph 'Henry-coded' is such an apt way to put what I felt reading the book. I will definitely be binging your videos and keeping up with the channel.
Watching on, I wanted to point out a couple things I noticed only recently in rereading the newspaper clippings from FNAF 1. First of all, and least relevant, I believe Bronwen Light was the author of at least the one of the articles, simply because it would be narratively satisfying in terms of launching her campaign to bring to light (pun intended) the truth about the MCI. Second, and more important to this video, I realised for the first time that William is almost certainly identified on video WITHOUT the Spring Bonnie or Fredbear suits. In the first newspaper clipping, it says that the police only THINK that a mascot costume was used to earn the trust of the victims. It's only in the second clipping, refering to the five children, that the author says with certainty that a mascot costume was used. It is my belief that the Spring Bonnie suit being 'noticably moved' as stated by Ralph in the FNAF 3 training tapes is what prompted the police's suspicion to be all but confirmed. As to whether or not anyone, specifically William, was convicted for the crime, it is only in the headline of the second newspaper that it is said that the suspect was convicted. In the article proper, it only states that the suspect was charged, meaning they were to stand trial but still innocent until proven guilty. However, the very same article says that, although the suspect was charged, no bodies were ever found, and it is written in the same paragraph in such a way that it seems the author is saying "Although there is a suspect, it isn't likely they will face jailtime." Furthermore, the death screen in Help Wanted that reads "Nothing was ever proven in a court of law" suggests that no suspect was in fact convicted. My best guess for the headline is that it was exaggerated as headlines often are to grab the reader's attention. Finally, and again less relevant to this video but just something I'd like to point out, I believe I can solve the "after many years" inconsistency in one of the other newspaper clippings. It is my belief, with evidence from The Week Before when Ralph crawls through the ventilation shafta throughout the restaurant, seeming to go to unused rooms and stretch on beyond the restaurant's layout, that the FNAF 2 restaurant is actually the same location as the FNAF 1 restaurant, and that after the Health Department issued warnings to the original restaurant in the fourth newspaper clipping, the restaurant closed and reopened as the FNAF 2 restaurant. After the Bite of '87, the second restaurant closed, leading to the opening of the FNAF 1 restaurant by, at the earliest, 1989 (given the pop culture references throughout The Week Before). The newspaper clipping which reports that the restaurant is set to close by year's end after "many years" of trying to stay in business is therefore more recent to the events of the game, which takes place in November, just a month before 'year's end', as someone writing an article on a restaurant which reopened twice in the same location after an infamous incident took place there probably wouldn't take stock of the reopenings and just report that the business as a whole would be shutting its doors in the near future.
Sister Location really wanted to tell us that everything was connected, or at least the wiring for most of the buildings is connected. But I wonder now if Scott really wanted us to know that the Fear Experiments were still active, to suggest that someone is in there? That, maybe, FNAF4's protagonist is a kidnapped Ralph/Henry? There's a heavy theme of Afton being a kidnapper in the series, or that the animatronics are sometimes programed to kidnap people; what if FNAF1's final voicemail is the gang getting Ralph and taking him away? What if the big secret in all of this is the jumpscare is the last thing you remember (from the player-perspective) before you are taken away? They are called the "Missing Children"... Is it possible, that while people end up dead after all of it, really what's going on is people are getting continuously dragged down into the bunker?
Nervous, your intros and general video editing is getting better and better every month, and I'm really enjoying the creativity you're putting into everything. You have definitely come into your own, among the other YT'ers like Rye, and FuNAF. Keep up the awesome work, and I'll keep looking forward to your videos, on whatever content you decide to do.
Since Bronwen seems to be in Golden Freddy at the end, if Ralph is Henry and he dies to Golden Freddy, he could be in Golden Freddy, thus solving where Golden Freddy was in Pizza Sim. He was nearby.
this is also imo the best answer to what golden freddy **is**. it's already been shown that multiple ghosts can haunt one thing, so why should there be a limit? the kids died in virtually the same way the animatronics end up killing people, so why wouldn't the souls of the employees who came before michael end up haunting something? the main four are already taken up by their hosts, who have had charlie's help tying them to their bodies, so the most likely places for them to go are the unused spare suits and endos, especially when they've been stuffed into them. cc/dave and the vengeful spirit also may have had help bonding with the suit, explaining why they'd be at the forefront of the collective consciousness. golden freddy is the ever-growing mass of souls that have, one way or another, died at freddy's- or at least, that's what it was before the suit stopped being taken anywhere. it's no single soul, and therefore, it's hard for any soul to specifically have control, leading to its wacky behavior. yenndo is probably the sister location equivalent, because there would've been folks dying there too, and i sincerely doubt golden freddy was physically in two places at once anywhere in the timeline. i also like the implications it has for the puppet, as that means she would've been helping *all* the souls, a *lot* more souls than just five or six random kids. makes the story a lot more satisfying. she obviously couldn't've helped henry, meaning golden freddy would still be haunted after she was done with it- golden freddy would be a cooperative effort between dave, cassidy, and henry (after he gets got in the week before as phone guy), backed by other employees and victims who might insist on sticking around until william is finally dead and gone. it would better explain why you get those voicelines from cassidy, as she was the one who killed you, her and every other soul in golden freddy. why wouldn't she and everyone else that could possibly be "the one you should not have killed" use their ghost powers to torture afton until they felt better? what character, aside from henry, makes the most sense narratively to be the one to do this to him?
@@bur_n_t”why should there be a limit?” Because we have absolutely zero reason to believe this, and it does nothing but needlessly complicate events for no reason. It’s a fine headcanon, if that’s your thing. But it’s not a viable possibility in the story as it exists. Henry’s arc is not enriched at all by being connected to GF as opposed to just being a vengeful man gunning for his old partner. And the one you should not have killed is Andrew. It was always Andrew. It’s always gonna be Andrew.
Ok so wait a minute... in fnaf 4, the recordings playing in the nightmare chamber is definitely suspicious. Were they recorded there? Then in the week before, the edited voicemail, the animatronics knowing exactly where he lives and always coming for him if he tries to leave and not being able to escape. And his daughter always being the prize for surviving the nights... its so weird. I'm curious if william was manipulating Henry to keep the animatronics there.
Honestly, my theory goes Henry was busy crying over Charlie’s death for like most of the decade and it was only when he ran out of tears that he decided to do something about it asshole and non-confrontational move in my opinion
I feel like we never got a conclusion with the whole "henry made an animatronic to kill himself, it wasn't the core four and it wasn't Baby" thing it was talked about in FNAF World, it was talked about in the books, but it was never in the spotlight enough to earn a definitive recon or not...Pizzaria Sim made me think he was there, but if that were the case did we ever see his animatronic anywhere in the series before hand???
Re: the Coppélia/Sandman parallels, I would argue Henry is more of a parallel to Spalanzani (who I almost think might be Coppelius in the ballet Coppélia if that makes any sense, in my "it's a sequel not a retelling" theory). Spalanzani gets most of the way through creating a realistic person but Coppelius in The Sandman needs to provide the realistic eyes to fool Nathanael and the rest of the people, and in Coppélia the ballet once someone gets close they know she's a doll (in The Sandman they generally seem to suspect but they don't have it fully confirmed until the confrontation between "Coppola"/Coppelius and Spalanzani, which is why the general public asks for their partners to start being more human and imperfect). I do think that there is still some manipulation/hypnotism by Coppelius but I don't know that I quite agree on Henry being a Nathanael parallel (because Nathanael doesn't really create anything in the way that Spalanzani does, or collaborate with Coppelius).
Soooo true. In my OG Week Before vid I explain that Nathaneal is really more of a Michael parallel and in this video I'm moreso speaking about the theme of being fooled by illusions and struggling to accept/not wanting to believe that Olympia/Charlie is not a real person. I still 100% agree that Spalanzani is a better Henry parallel.
What if Henry dissapeared because he was busy fighting osha and endlessly saving freddy's from osha and that's why Henry dissapeared from the majority of the seris?
so it's a lipgloss over a lip liner lipgloss: Physicians Formula Diamond Plumper lip liner: Sunshine Makeup in their true red color the plumper does have a minty tingle to it but it doesn't bother me (just test first in case your lips are sensitive to it)
20:48 i've never thought the fnaf 6 pizzeria or any of the purchases you make for it as a player were real. i don't think the money the player "earns" is real either, and neither are the lawsuits you can get slapped with. that's ALL henry, pulling the strings to convince the player character that nothing is amiss so they'll continue bringing all the animatronics back together for his big moment at the end. how come we never once see a human being inside FFPP until later games had you revisit the location? why is the arcade cabinet from "stan's budget tech" that you happen to purchase also the one which depicts susie just before her murder? why is candy cadet available for purchase at all? it's because no matter which seller you look at in your catalog, the pizzeria upgrades you buy are coming from one source: henry. he knows these items are haunted; little fragments of the MCI kids' souls stuck to them, needing to be burned away just the same as molten freddy and the others. he may even be storing all of these items in separate locations so as to keep the remnant in/around them scattered enough that the spirits don't manifest, but sends them to the pizzeria when you order them because he knows they'll all go up in flames at the end of the week and- he hopes- set those kids free.
I have considered this too but since this was more about the costs Henry would incur just from getting the pizzeria in the state it is at the beginning of FNAF 6 I decided to leave it at that. It's kind of like Mike and Henry are both aware they're creating a simulation of a pizzeria, not an actual one.
You mentioned Henry making the illusion disks but...didn't the illusion disks say "Afton Robotics" on them? I'm only about half way through the vid but I thought I'd note that detail because that part confused me
in the books, Henry canonically made the illusion discs and Afton stole the tech and made it "better" So yes the ones they find have Afton Robotics on them but the first ones were made by Henry for use in his home
@@ShesNervous thank you! I must have forgotten that part since it's been a minute since I've read the novels...though I should've understood that part because of Charlie bot
hate to break it to you but robo-hallucinations have been around in FNAF for a while you're fine to disagree though there's a lot of theories out there i don't even know for certain there's just a lot of evidence to suggest it's the case
one thing to point out tho, is the page where ralph mentions he never brought copellia to freddys is the inaccessible page 44, theres no legitimate way to get to page 44 this video explains the potential mistakes in TWB ua-cam.com/video/Z_pkMA92FZA/v-deo.html
WHAT!? How did I read it in my first playthrough? I wonder if I flipped to a wrong page. I'm gonna watch this video and hopefully remember to come back here haha.
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Intro
1:40 Monkey's Paw Summary
3:11 Where is Henry?
6:29 Bonus Vids Ad
7:03 The Rest of the Theory
@@ShesNervous you saw my theory?
"Hi, I'm nervous"
*Checks channel name*
*"Holy shit, she is."*
She... she always was 😭😭😭
It offers a new explanation of, "a wound first inflicted on me" he's talking about imprisonment
huh. good point.
Came here to say the same thing. It's almost like parts of these stories are alternate realities from the illusions that someone was having.
That would be entirely so selfish then because he'd have only been imprisoned if Afton was out there inflicting wounds on other people first
I love when I still get mind blown from FNAF theories
Same tbh
If Ralph were Henry, he would be in a prime position to haunt either the Tape player that Henri speaks out of in FNAF 6, or an animatronic suit (which would give him a reason to use a proxy devise to communicate in Fnaf6)
Yeah, i dont think Ralph is Henry soley because the canon ending to the book is a 1:1 retelling of phone guys death from fnaf 1 and the book is confirmed tk take place before fnaf 1
But I think they are saying, similar to his partner. His death may have not entirely "killed" him. One of this series Mainstays is "die horribly in an animatronic and you're probably gonna be stuck in it as agony/remnant" so the death would still happen. Ralph dies, presumably shoved in suit, and "awakens" but not as the hypnotized Ralph but as his original self Henry. Then as a creature similar to Afton FNAF6 happens and that's why we don't see Henry because he doesn't want to be seen that way. Also could explain why he was chill with burning to death....
I like having him possess the recorder (when I'm being serious) or Helpy (when I'm being silly).
When it comes to Henry’s fate, I’ve never really liked the idea that he was arrested. Especially considering the Help Wanted era, where we learn that the first few games are in-universe games based on real events, it’s possible the newspaper mentioning the criminal's conviction was just a detail the indie developer added for dramatic effect, and not necessarily true in the actual FNAF universe.
As for the idea of Dave dying and William turning to Henry for help, only for Henry to refuse, leading William to kill Charlie-that's the best explanation I've heard for Charlie's murder. People often say William killed her because he was mad at Henry for creating Fredbear, which ended up killing William’s son. But that theory never sat right with me.
I also don’t think Ralph is Henry, mainly because Ralph and Henry have different voices in the games. However, the idea that Ralph serves as a parallel to Henry makes a lot of sense. As for Ralph’s daughter being named Coppélia, I’m still unsure what that means. I hope she becomes more relevant in future games, possibly even as a playable character.
Copellia could be tape girl in Help Wanted.
Ralph's twin daughters
Copellia and Seethellia
The thing is trying to use the in universe game thing is you can say that about nearly any detail and no one would ever be able to come to a consensus on what to accept as fact, so it’s not especially helpful for theorizing. If we wanted to write off the conviction thing, i feel it’d be better to just say it’s due to Scott not having a story planned out before FNAF 1 aside that kids were killed and possess robots.
@thepixelman4776 To each their own, but it's obvious that the games being 'in-universe' games is a crucial detail-they wouldn’t have included it otherwise. How I see it, they're signaling to us that we should trust the new information we receive, even if it contradicts what we’ve been told before, because those previous games are part of the in-universe lore. And maybe conviction is the only true 'retcon,' but there's no way to know for sure. Personally, I'll stick with the idea that any inconsistencies with the current games stem from those older games being unreliable narrators
No, the early games still happened. The entire point of the in-universe games is that they were part of FazEnt’s plan to rebrand and make a mockery of those events. The canonicity of the actual games is not called into question by HW.
The canonicity of those clippings is rather called into question simply because Scott hadn’t ironed out the details of his story yet.
I absolutely loved this idea that some of these characters would prefer an illusion due to the trauma in their lives. The Week Before made phone guy a 3 dimensional character such a good book 📖
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this is a solid theory that *does * fit, i just think henry being in jail fits more? (for now)
either way, i really enjoyed watching the process of this theory coming to be
i think this kind of thinking from your recent videos (the coppelia/sandman one especially) is exactly what the community needs
Wait, no, I could see Henry going into the persona of Ralph in that it goes along with my theory of Mike being brainwashed into believing he might actually be William as the result of the nightmare gas in Sister Location and "turning purple." If William knew that was an effect (from the experience of putting Mike through the FNAF 4 experiments and making Mike feel like Dave/CC), why not have Henry step in for someone, or create this persona?
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facts is facts ‼️
I'm super glad you brought up Help Wanted(Tales from PP) bc Ralph really reminded me of the story, especially with a potential robot daughter and a (potentially) not real wife and ends with him being stabbed by a robot, like how Henry dies in the Silver Eyes trilogy🤔
Fellas, is it gay to put your rival and old friend in a little terrarium in your basement and watch him day and night?
nah it's just bro stuff
@@SouMorse just guys being dudes. William kicking his feet while he watches Henry sleep in a very hetero way.
I'm sobbing rn
William: You don't get it dude, it's just a joke.
you know what's crazy I was reading monkeys paw in my class yesterday like the whole class had to read it because our teacher gave it to us as work dam insane timeing
Also I'm subbing mostly for that reason
whatever works 🫡
i also first heard the story in school and it always stuck with me
What if Charlie, since she was at the pizzeria, stopped Henry from being stuffed and potentially helping him regain his sense of self.
that would be so precious 😭😭😭
idk if there's evidence for it but I like it as a headcanon
I have a theory that Charlotte was the first to die while Susie was the first to get stuffed because it didn't seem like Charlie needed help possessing puppet because she somehow possessed puppet without a physical body so that leads to believe Charlie survived pizzeria simulator.
So if Susie was the first to get stuffed that would explain why we hear withered chica say: I WAS THE FIRST I HAVE SEEN EVERYTHING!!!!! So that means Chica did die in pizzeria simulator since there's a physical corpse. Now you may be asking why Afton survived the fire? well maybe it's because he's an adult his body can handle remnant better than children either that or Afton must've had a stronger does explaining how he can survive all these fires. So Golden Freddy, Puppet, and Afton are still here but every other child has moved on and went to heaven.
Can i say, I’ve always liked the idea of Henry being the phone guy, I’m in this video she talks about not having enough information to prove it, but having Henry be the phone just feels kind of, satisfying in a way? Like despite the fact theirs not any evidence for it in my own head canon of the story that Henry is the phone guy.
Your presentation and editing are so captivating! This gives me a lot to think on
CANDI I literally love your videos I am so flattered
@@ShesNervous Oh my good heavens you know who I am that's so freaking cool hahaha!
@CandiBuunny Yes! Your latest vid on someone not being an Afton made me so excited bc I've made a similar theory on CC not being an Afton in the past
You're such a great story teller
thank you!
I feel like between you and Rye, slowly every theorist is gonna have a cat that somehow interrupt their theories
I find it crazy how I used to headcanon that Henry when we just got his name and Phone guy (Before he was named Ralph) were one in the same! Thank you for talking about this, it's so fun seeing it become an actual theory/parallel!!
i’m super excited for the into the pit gameplay!! i can’t wait to watch them over and over again
"Hi, I'm nervous" 😂 that's an awesome intro
I can see that, but what's your name? XD
3:55 why is the crying child called dave? I thought his name was evan
Hyperdroid has a good video explaining the name Dave that I agree with (:
Although I love the idea that Henry was being gaslight by illusion disks/nightmare gas, I feel like Scott would give more explicit connections to Henry and the false reality idea beyond parallels of other characters.
The movie Mike Henry parallels while strong in a broader sense does not directly connect Henry to the false reality deal between Mike and GF. The coppelia symbology in the week before maybe a nod to Henry from the books but it seems to be more telling of Ralph as a character, who in fnaf 2 tried to get in contact with the owner of fredbears (either William or Henry) and his delusions in the events of the book then Henry especially when interpreting the week before as canon to the games (same timeline parallels are shaky at best). Although I agree the missing children’s newspaper clipping was probably a byproduct of Scott not understanding the difference between charged and convicted, the disregarding of the point does not inherently assist the theory as even if someone was charged it does not necessarily have to be Henry.
Other than disagreeing with the use of the parallels, the narrative idea of Henry being in a vulnerable position and being manipulated into helping William (cover ups, making circus baby, etc) and get him out of the picture is a very solid argument regardless of using nightmare gas or illusion disks
I guess my only refute to this is that in TSE it is literally Henry and not a parallel to Henry that is objectively being fooled by the illusion discs he set up all through his house.
And that Scott is more often vague than he is explicit.
Curse of dread bear had a brain surgery mini game, in which you essentially had to restore functionality to a human brain and implant it into DreadBear. Another note worthy occurrence is how you make Fredbear appear in UCN; Death Coin in hand you make Golden Freddy mimic Dave's death. All alone on the night, it's AI set to 1(the weakest possible active setting) you use your Death Coin to remove Golden Freddy from the night. This causes Fredbear to rise out of Golden Freddy and kill you instead. But like I said, the circumstances mimic Dave's death at the end of Fnaf 4.
Henry's insanity ending. He hid a speech in company property; Egg Baby. They could easily of shuffled Henry away to a barrage of mental health therapy like Vanessa in security breach. Fazbear entertainment has lots of therapists on their payroll meaning they could be used to pull Henry's strings, so to speak.
love these points ty for sharing
It's like that one episode of Community when one of the extras points out that the Main 6 always get to do stuff for the achool. "Everything always comes back to Henry and William."
I like the parallels between different versions of Henry and different characters, but I do hope that the Mimic and whatever comes next can get into a new story. There's only so many times a villain can eacape death and be burned before it's like "okay, we get it. You need money, bring back Jason Vorhees or Freddy Kruger or Afton. They'll be around for a hundred years"
I love the spiderweb top!
So now that i think of it one of Circus baby's voice lines supports this, "Isn't that why you're down here? To be with her again?" Like in the nightmare chamber to live a lie and torture yourself
“Hi im nervous” why, what happened?
check the channel name ✨
At first, I was really questioning making the connection to the Monkeys Paw story. I couldn't figure out how you'd be able to do it and why, but as I kept watching, you began to convince me!
This was such an interesting take on the FNAF franchise and a great theory video! Narratively speaking, this is so satisfying! Well done.
Ok, jokes aside, the Monkey's Paw story actually gave me chills
THIS. I had a thought about making a theory about how Henry is the one being experimented on and couldn't remember where I got the information so yay found it theory coming by about 2035
if henry was in jail during the time the phrase "Nothing was ever proven in a court of law" implies a plea deal where he pled guilty likley due to the advice of legal counsel to get a reduced sentence allowing him to get released by the time of pizza sim
This remind me of that circus baby song never coming home a line that says "be careful what you wish for because you'll get more"
I could make myself sleep.... But not yet.
I like your theory about William killing Charlie to get Henry to work on the illusion discs. He never had a good reason to kill her in my opinion; this provides much needed motivation.
Cool video! I was happy when you mentioned the ''Monkey's Paw''. When Candy Cadet's story ends with ''that night, there was a knock at the door'' was a cool reference to the Monkeys Paw!
The Reba reference caught me so off-guard
Aww, your coordinated sweaters. 🥰
14:15 the way to find Ralphs talk about he never brought Coppelia to Freddy's is by literally cheating, by going to a page with an item you couldn't possess in that part of the story, so is a misleading information from the book to confuse cheaters
yeah this kinda confused(ses) me bc I didn't cheat the first time I read it but must have gone to the page by accident bc I read it going through the first time.
I'm not sure this means that's WHY it's in the book considering there is already a cheater's page, but I did recently learn you aren't "supposed" to read page 44
It's a very good theory, you explained important things that we still didn't know its meaning, like "What happened to Henry?" or "Why Charlie Got Murdered?".I wish you success in your future.
I would have paid more attention to the monkey's paw summary, but I was too distracted at how the Freddy and Bonnie plushies aren't next to each other. That's criminal
me2me: nervous you're overthinking the plush placement no one's gonna care we've gotta start filming
fnaf fans: 🐻🐰??! 😡😡😡
my bad homie 🥲
(i'm being silly i just think it's funny i literally had this thought before filming)
9:21 FINALLY! Someone has brought up the name Copelia and the play
Thank you!
I have a whole video going over ALL the parallels!
Stunning work I am always up for info on Henry from FNaF😮
OMG I'm 11mins in and just screamed at my phone screen. I gad the same thought reading The Week Before; that Ralph FEELS like Henry. Is Ralph Henry? But I talked myself out of it, thinking how the community would react to such an idea. Thank you for putting into words what I could not and for making sense of such ideas in a less literal way than what my mind jumped to. Calling Ralph 'Henry-coded' is such an apt way to put what I felt reading the book. I will definitely be binging your videos and keeping up with the channel.
Watching on, I wanted to point out a couple things I noticed only recently in rereading the newspaper clippings from FNAF 1. First of all, and least relevant, I believe Bronwen Light was the author of at least the one of the articles, simply because it would be narratively satisfying in terms of launching her campaign to bring to light (pun intended) the truth about the MCI. Second, and more important to this video, I realised for the first time that William is almost certainly identified on video WITHOUT the Spring Bonnie or Fredbear suits. In the first newspaper clipping, it says that the police only THINK that a mascot costume was used to earn the trust of the victims. It's only in the second clipping, refering to the five children, that the author says with certainty that a mascot costume was used. It is my belief that the Spring Bonnie suit being 'noticably moved' as stated by Ralph in the FNAF 3 training tapes is what prompted the police's suspicion to be all but confirmed. As to whether or not anyone, specifically William, was convicted for the crime, it is only in the headline of the second newspaper that it is said that the suspect was convicted. In the article proper, it only states that the suspect was charged, meaning they were to stand trial but still innocent until proven guilty. However, the very same article says that, although the suspect was charged, no bodies were ever found, and it is written in the same paragraph in such a way that it seems the author is saying "Although there is a suspect, it isn't likely they will face jailtime." Furthermore, the death screen in Help Wanted that reads "Nothing was ever proven in a court of law" suggests that no suspect was in fact convicted. My best guess for the headline is that it was exaggerated as headlines often are to grab the reader's attention. Finally, and again less relevant to this video but just something I'd like to point out, I believe I can solve the "after many years" inconsistency in one of the other newspaper clippings. It is my belief, with evidence from The Week Before when Ralph crawls through the ventilation shafta throughout the restaurant, seeming to go to unused rooms and stretch on beyond the restaurant's layout, that the FNAF 2 restaurant is actually the same location as the FNAF 1 restaurant, and that after the Health Department issued warnings to the original restaurant in the fourth newspaper clipping, the restaurant closed and reopened as the FNAF 2 restaurant. After the Bite of '87, the second restaurant closed, leading to the opening of the FNAF 1 restaurant by, at the earliest, 1989 (given the pop culture references throughout The Week Before). The newspaper clipping which reports that the restaurant is set to close by year's end after "many years" of trying to stay in business is therefore more recent to the events of the game, which takes place in November, just a month before 'year's end', as someone writing an article on a restaurant which reopened twice in the same location after an infamous incident took place there probably wouldn't take stock of the reopenings and just report that the business as a whole would be shutting its doors in the near future.
Sister Location really wanted to tell us that everything was connected, or at least the wiring for most of the buildings is connected. But I wonder now if Scott really wanted us to know that the Fear Experiments were still active, to suggest that someone is in there? That, maybe, FNAF4's protagonist is a kidnapped Ralph/Henry? There's a heavy theme of Afton being a kidnapper in the series, or that the animatronics are sometimes programed to kidnap people; what if FNAF1's final voicemail is the gang getting Ralph and taking him away? What if the big secret in all of this is the jumpscare is the last thing you remember (from the player-perspective) before you are taken away? They are called the "Missing Children"... Is it possible, that while people end up dead after all of it, really what's going on is people are getting continuously dragged down into the bunker?
I feel like this is really solid! Great work!
Nervous, your intros and general video editing is getting better and better every month, and I'm really enjoying the creativity you're putting into everything. You have definitely come into your own, among the other YT'ers like Rye, and FuNAF. Keep up the awesome work, and I'll keep looking forward to your videos, on whatever content you decide to do.
Since Bronwen seems to be in Golden Freddy at the end, if Ralph is Henry and he dies to Golden Freddy, he could be in Golden Freddy, thus solving where Golden Freddy was in Pizza Sim. He was nearby.
this is also imo the best answer to what golden freddy **is**. it's already been shown that multiple ghosts can haunt one thing, so why should there be a limit? the kids died in virtually the same way the animatronics end up killing people, so why wouldn't the souls of the employees who came before michael end up haunting something? the main four are already taken up by their hosts, who have had charlie's help tying them to their bodies, so the most likely places for them to go are the unused spare suits and endos, especially when they've been stuffed into them. cc/dave and the vengeful spirit also may have had help bonding with the suit, explaining why they'd be at the forefront of the collective consciousness. golden freddy is the ever-growing mass of souls that have, one way or another, died at freddy's- or at least, that's what it was before the suit stopped being taken anywhere. it's no single soul, and therefore, it's hard for any soul to specifically have control, leading to its wacky behavior. yenndo is probably the sister location equivalent, because there would've been folks dying there too, and i sincerely doubt golden freddy was physically in two places at once anywhere in the timeline.
i also like the implications it has for the puppet, as that means she would've been helping *all* the souls, a *lot* more souls than just five or six random kids. makes the story a lot more satisfying. she obviously couldn't've helped henry, meaning golden freddy would still be haunted after she was done with it- golden freddy would be a cooperative effort between dave, cassidy, and henry (after he gets got in the week before as phone guy), backed by other employees and victims who might insist on sticking around until william is finally dead and gone. it would better explain why you get those voicelines from cassidy, as she was the one who killed you, her and every other soul in golden freddy. why wouldn't she and everyone else that could possibly be "the one you should not have killed" use their ghost powers to torture afton until they felt better? what character, aside from henry, makes the most sense narratively to be the one to do this to him?
@@bur_n_t”why should there be a limit?” Because we have absolutely zero reason to believe this, and it does nothing but needlessly complicate events for no reason. It’s a fine headcanon, if that’s your thing. But it’s not a viable possibility in the story as it exists. Henry’s arc is not enriched at all by being connected to GF as opposed to just being a vengeful man gunning for his old partner.
And the one you should not have killed is Andrew. It was always Andrew. It’s always gonna be Andrew.
@@damkylan3 yknow you mightve had a point if you didnt ruin it by andrew truthing
Ok so wait a minute... in fnaf 4, the recordings playing in the nightmare chamber is definitely suspicious. Were they recorded there? Then in the week before, the edited voicemail, the animatronics knowing exactly where he lives and always coming for him if he tries to leave and not being able to escape. And his daughter always being the prize for surviving the nights... its so weird. I'm curious if william was manipulating Henry to keep the animatronics there.
Honestly, my theory goes Henry was busy crying over Charlie’s death for like most of the decade and it was only when he ran out of tears that he decided to do something about it asshole and non-confrontational move in my opinion
I feel like we never got a conclusion with the whole "henry made an animatronic to kill himself, it wasn't the core four and it wasn't Baby"
thing it was talked about in FNAF World, it was talked about in the books, but it was never in the spotlight enough to earn a definitive recon or not...Pizzaria Sim made me think he was there, but if that were the case did we ever see his animatronic anywhere in the series before hand???
You're very nice and welcoming! And your theories are wonderfull! Keep it going🥳
Re: the Coppélia/Sandman parallels, I would argue Henry is more of a parallel to Spalanzani (who I almost think might be Coppelius in the ballet Coppélia if that makes any sense, in my "it's a sequel not a retelling" theory). Spalanzani gets most of the way through creating a realistic person but Coppelius in The Sandman needs to provide the realistic eyes to fool Nathanael and the rest of the people, and in Coppélia the ballet once someone gets close they know she's a doll (in The Sandman they generally seem to suspect but they don't have it fully confirmed until the confrontation between "Coppola"/Coppelius and Spalanzani, which is why the general public asks for their partners to start being more human and imperfect). I do think that there is still some manipulation/hypnotism by Coppelius but I don't know that I quite agree on Henry being a Nathanael parallel (because Nathanael doesn't really create anything in the way that Spalanzani does, or collaborate with Coppelius).
Soooo true.
In my OG Week Before vid I explain that Nathaneal is really more of a Michael parallel and in this video I'm moreso speaking about the theme of being fooled by illusions and struggling to accept/not wanting to believe that Olympia/Charlie is not a real person.
I still 100% agree that Spalanzani is a better Henry parallel.
A wound first inflicted on me could be his capture! 😮
What if Henry dissapeared because he was busy fighting osha and endlessly saving freddy's from osha and that's why Henry dissapeared from the majority of the seris?
oh dis... dis is fwikkin good...
I hope all this will be explained one day from Scott himself
That is a NICE jumper.
Now that's out of the way, tell me your theory 'Nervous...
Your intro+channel name are amazing, subbed.
Welcome to the Nervous System!
Underrated content I love your vibes!!
YESSS COPPELIA/CHARLIE CONNECTION THANK YOU 🙏🏻
'Henry's in an illusion'
'Henry's in jail'
OR, ALTERNATELY, HENRY GOT BRAZIL'D... (insert why not both meme)
I need to know what lipstick that is you're wearing. I NEED IT 😤✨️
so it's a lipgloss over a lip liner
lipgloss: Physicians Formula Diamond Plumper
lip liner: Sunshine Makeup in their true red color
the plumper does have a minty tingle to it but it doesn't bother me (just test first in case your lips are sensitive to it)
We’re going into some serious BlackFootFerret territory
I find this theory really interesting, good job! Also im just commenting to help out with the yt algorithm
yey bonuses incoming
Henry and William is the biggest yaoi bait
I love this theory but I don't think Ralph and Henry are the same because they have completely different voices and personalities
henry doesn't die until part 6. this book has nothing to do with his disappearence.
So it's the narrator saying these things to him. Does that matter? All the you this you that.
I can't unhear the TikTok TTS lady
i'm never going to speak again thanks 🥲
@@ShesNervous im sorryy 😰🙏
@@Tyulenin IT'S OKAY I am joking I promise I can handle it.
20:48 i've never thought the fnaf 6 pizzeria or any of the purchases you make for it as a player were real. i don't think the money the player "earns" is real either, and neither are the lawsuits you can get slapped with. that's ALL henry, pulling the strings to convince the player character that nothing is amiss so they'll continue bringing all the animatronics back together for his big moment at the end.
how come we never once see a human being inside FFPP until later games had you revisit the location? why is the arcade cabinet from "stan's budget tech" that you happen to purchase also the one which depicts susie just before her murder? why is candy cadet available for purchase at all?
it's because no matter which seller you look at in your catalog, the pizzeria upgrades you buy are coming from one source: henry. he knows these items are haunted; little fragments of the MCI kids' souls stuck to them, needing to be burned away just the same as molten freddy and the others. he may even be storing all of these items in separate locations so as to keep the remnant in/around them scattered enough that the spirits don't manifest, but sends them to the pizzeria when you order them because he knows they'll all go up in flames at the end of the week and- he hopes- set those kids free.
I have considered this too but since this was more about the costs Henry would incur just from getting the pizzeria in the state it is at the beginning of FNAF 6 I decided to leave it at that.
It's kind of like Mike and Henry are both aware they're creating a simulation of a pizzeria, not an actual one.
Oooooo FNAF theories my favorite
Dont be nervous
What?😅
You mentioned Henry making the illusion disks but...didn't the illusion disks say "Afton Robotics" on them?
I'm only about half way through the vid but I thought I'd note that detail because that part confused me
in the books, Henry canonically made the illusion discs and Afton stole the tech and made it "better"
So yes the ones they find have Afton Robotics on them but the first ones were made by Henry for use in his home
@@ShesNervous thank you! I must have forgotten that part since it's been a minute since I've read the novels...though I should've understood that part because of Charlie bot
My reply triple sent because my phone lagged XD
0:03 i thought William was the co-owner🤔
they are both the co-owners. That's the co part.
Checked out as soon as she suggested Phone Guy’s daughter is actually an illusion disk induced robo-hallucination. I hate modern FNAF lore.
hate to break it to you but robo-hallucinations have been around in FNAF for a while
you're fine to disagree though there's a lot of theories out there
i don't even know for certain there's just a lot of evidence to suggest it's the case
I love this theory
8:44 🤓☝️ actually,henry has a wife in the book trilogy,even if 7:11 ,i think henry not being single (before charlie d*es) is something we should think
Both are divorced dads who are raising their respective kids, even if Henry is technically "raising" a robot kid instead of his real alive son.
one thing to point out tho, is the page where ralph mentions he never brought copellia to freddys is the inaccessible page 44, theres no legitimate way to get to page 44
this video explains the potential mistakes in TWB
ua-cam.com/video/Z_pkMA92FZA/v-deo.html
WHAT!? How did I read it in my first playthrough? I wonder if I flipped to a wrong page. I'm gonna watch this video and hopefully remember to come back here haha.
skip ahead to the next chapter
theres no chapters :(
OH MY GOD YOU ARE RIGHT I AM SO SORRY
Give me like 2 minutes
FIXED. Thank you so much for telling me. it is now the pinned comment if it's not yet showing up.
henry is deepdish
why is the freddy behind u have such a big moutj
Ur so kawaii UwU :3