"If you ever see a girl walking alone at night, don't walk towards her. That may scare her and it's really creepy. Instead, spint on all fours at her. This makes you resemble a friendly dog (girls love dogs). She will know you're there to protect her and she will feel safe." Ballora: *And I took that literally*
Ballora has always been the most terrifying animatronic to me. Her endoskeleton is just- unsettling. Her humanoid appearance makes her stand out against the more wacky and animalistic designs of the other Funtimes. Her smooth and calming voice makes her seem almost motherly, which is probably the scariest part about her. It’s kind of like how the Beldam from Coraline speaks in a soothing tone, yet is far more despicable than the caring parental figure she pretends to be. Ballora had a lot of potential and could have been one of the most horrifying villains in the franchise, but, much like Baby, she was wasted. A real shame honestly.
I made a comment saying I think they purposely dropped Ballora because she is scary and that's the issue The uncanny valley effect she gives with being very human shaped messed with your head and may actually scare children who the games have been molding the sequels to more and more leaving out more of the "horror " out of the horror game
I don’t know why I just thought of this after reading this comment, but what if ballora’s slightly more… curvaceous design than any of the other animatronics was a part of her distraction tactics, just something to potentially distract parents a bit more, obviously without being too over the top.
There is one theory that says Ballora might but possessed by pigtail girl one of the children in the fnaf 4 8 bit cutsences but I don't know how much lore wise to back that up but it is a cool theory
Imo, none of the funtimes are traditionally "haunted." I personally ascribe to the theory that Afton melted the fnaf 2 toy animatronics together (remnant included) and used that to create the funtimes, splitting any remnant among them
@@finallyforfeited I mean, the books pretty much prove this. If I remember correctly Afton was infusing remnant into the Funtime animatronics, because again if I remember it describes each of them, and Baby/Elizabeth is there as well.
I honestly love Ballora, ironically, because of the condescending way Baby treats her, hearing Baby say “Ballora never learns” just made me say “she just like me fr”. We don’t get such layers of dynamic with the other funtimes, that “toxic family” vibe that I think adds to Ennard. Because a big thing with the best of the funtimes is also the juxtaposition between their appearance and actual behavior, I.E. Funtime Freddy is the big to Bon Bon’s little, but Bon Bon is seemingly his “protector”, Funtime Foxy behaving like a showman in UCN, but also being shy, Baby, despite her name, being the most coordinated, functional and “grown up” of them. Also the bluntness and deadpan of her speech, and how inappropriate some things she says are is like the thing ever (“flesh and bones”, “I can hear you breathing”). She’s a hot mess, I love her.
One reason a lot of people think Ballora is possessed is that both her and Baby's voicelines sound sentient, whereas Funtime Freddy's sound like prerecorded voiceclips.
Yeah but circus baby has some erie sounding like a robot coming to life ( as in a AI ) voice lines as in her able to recognise what happened before Elizabeth died
@@Gaeilge. baby is far from alive, which is why we kicked her out. Funtime Freddy and foxy can be annoying, but never to this extent so we did what we did.
One of the main reasons people think Ballora is Afton's Wife, is because of the lyrics of her song. It makes total sense if you assume they are being sung by his wife. Why do you hide inside your walls, (her husband spending so much time in laboratories) When there is music in my halls? (she wants him to come spend time with her instead) All I see is an empty room, (a reference to Elizabeth's empty bedroom perhaps) No more joy, an empty tomb. (she knows she's dead, but her spirit is stuck in that animatronic) It's so good to sing all day, To dance, to spin, to fly away. (and now all she does is sing and dance all day long)
and because of that one fnaf game where there's everyone ganging up on william afton i forgot the name but you know the one, in which her line after jumpscaring him is something like "you wanted me to come" and if a possessed animatronic version of your wife was chasing you but a part of her is in that thing and you were gonna die from an other animatronic eventually why not take the opportunity to see what remains of your wife one last time ?
@@billie1129 It's UCN and the line is "admit it you wanted to let me in.' it's said in this video. There's nothing like what you said in UCN. Still though yeah got a point
I don't think Ballora IS Mrs. Afton but I do believe she is meant to symbolize her. Just for the fandom or because Willam wanted to recreate his (ex?) wife.
Honestly my favorite headcanon is that the Daycare Attendant is taken from Ballora's specs. Moon does Ballora's spider crawl, in exactly the same manner. The lower torso twists so that the legs move backwards allowing them to crawl *very* well. Add that with the tutu element, the non-animal appearance associated with stage and theatre, the grace of both Sun and Moon, and I think Ballora being the Daycare Attendant's predecessor makes a lot of sense.
Ballora had great potential similar to Funtime Freddy, a shame she wasn’t expanded upon, there could have been a vent repair section in Help Wanted showing Ballora’s spider walk, or something, and in Fazbear’s Frights she could have been replaced with PHANTOM FREDDY in the story that she’s supposed to feature in. Definitely could have done more with her character
I’m shocked Ballora wasn’t in Help Wanted. Every other Funtime got added except her, even Lolbit! (The Bidybabs aren’t in the game but whatever, even though they could have replaced the stupid Plush Baby level!) Also yeah Phantom Freddy would make more sense. I would prefer Nightmare instead (mainly because I think they look cooler, but I guess that doesn’t really matter in a book with no pictures) but Phantom Freddy does make more sense.
She does have her own story in the Fazbear Frights, though it is really lackluster. I think it's called Dance With Me and it's about a girl who steals some glasses and those glasses can allow her to see Ballora dancing away from her and everytime the glasses are put on she can move closer. It ends up with some kid putting on the glasses and dancing -whether that means Ballora possessed her or stole her body, I'm unsure.
@@PrisonPlaysFNAF That is the story in question. She acts more like a phantom in that than like an actual animatronic. Ballora doesn't do any sort of possession or whatever, she just makes some homeless kid give up what little security they do have to go return the glasses to their rightful owner for whatever reason.
@@PopGoesMyBall As an entity doing the same thing? He would. Replace the character on the glasses with Freddy, change the dancing to him watching, maybe walking loops around the girl and getting closer slowly in that way (you don't even have to, he could still just approach at a slow rate and it'd work), and the story would be pretty much the same. And it'd make more sense than Ballora of all characters warping around or creating hallucinations or something.
to be completely honest, I think it would've made more sense if Ballora was the one who took control of Ennard after Sister Location. while I love Funtime Freddy, it's clear that the only reason he suddenly had so much importance in FNaF 6 is because Scott knew how much people loved the guy. Not because he was particularly interesting. With Ballora, it's clear that she at least has a fair amount of intrigue to her character, what with her very vague song lyrics and generally mysterious presence. It feels like they WANTED to do more with her, but just didn't know exactly how to flesh her out. So now she's just a weird little side-mystery, I guess.
To be fair, considering the components of Ennard... Freddy Fazbear is the mascot and figurehead of the brand, and is closely related to Fredbear as well Now these kids are from the MCI in the 1980s, they're almost CERTAINLY missing memories and overall kinda fucked up from the stuffing, forgetting, being blended together and split into chunks, and finally re-fusing. It's pretty likely they'd use the face of the most recognizable and iconic member of the Funtimes. A decent Runner-Up *would* be Foxy, but i expect Ballora would be the last they would pick
@@higueraft571 I'm talking purely by what I'd consider to be engaging in terms of a story. this is a good "lore" explanation for it- in fact I completely forgot that the Funtimes are possessed by the MCI victims- but in terms of substance it doesn't do anything for me. like, cool. Funtime Freddy is in control now. what does that bring to the table, exactly? why should I be interested in one of the most one-dimensional antagonists in Sister Location all of a sudden?
@@jamariskorkinel You seem to miss the point, NOBODY is "in control", Freddy Fazbear is simply the "face", as it's simply something they all are familiar with and recognize. Like Altzheimers patients that, even when they have nearly nothing left, are *keenly* aware of their favorite songs, and can pretty accurately recall them for a long while... And one-dimensional? Pretty simple goals at least, sure, Become Whole Again, and Escape. You are their means. If that's one-dimensional I'm ITCHING to hear what animatronics/antagonists arent..
@@higueraft571 I'm not really too sure what that first paragraph is really supposed to mean (besides implying that no one ever had real control over Ennard?) especially in relation to my comment that focuses on the "engaging narrative" aspect of FNAF, so I'll skip past that for now By one-dimensional, I mean by their personality, not their goals. Circus Baby, while fairly simple, has quite a lot going for her in terms of her personality and backstory. Circus Baby in Sister Location, compared to pretty much every other character in the game (hell, maybe even the entire series), is quite complex. She has a fully fleshed out backstory that she uses against you as a form of manipulation, is scarily intelligent, has a strong vendetta against William, who she believes YOU are, and even attempts to guilt-trip you by sounding like Elizabeth Afton near the end of the Fake Ending. while it might not seem like much, it's pretty huge in terms of how Scott normally writes characters. and the only other character within Sister Location that I believe has a hint of intrigue to them is Ballora. Funtime Freddy is a one-sided maniac. Funtime Foxy had no voice. and the Bidybabs and Minireenas are basically mindless goons. Ballora's mysterious, at least.
I think it is alright they used Baby. Itis about a teen afterall. I am not sure a motherly figure would fit. I would love a story more focused on ballett though. Like she is haunting a retired ballerina. We don't have any elderly main characters at all in those books afterall.
I think one of the dumb reasons why I fully believed that Ballora could be (an inspiration to) Mrs. Afton would be some of these ballet-related headcanons that I made back then (buckle up guys, this is gonna be long, also, I am not a ballerina). - If you played FNAF 3, there is a Golden Freddy secret mini-game with a music box song playing on repeat. The title of that song is "Swan Lake". Swan Lake is a ballet/theatre performance that tells the story between two lovers, Odette and Siegfried. Odette and her fellow maidens were cursed by an evil magician named Von Rothbart. Rothbart has cursed Odette and the other ladies to turn into swans by day and humans by night (you guys see where this is going?). In the end, Odette managed to break the spell by drowning herself, to be followed by Siegfried. In some versions, the fellow swans dance around Rothbart as he died. (which kind of gives off FNAF 3 ending vibes) - In "The Immortal and The Restless", people have implied that Vlad and Clara could be William and Mrs. Afton. You see, "Clara" was constantly the headcanon name given to Mrs. Afton, but the name Clara isn't just that. Clara is also the main protagonist in a ballet/theatre performance called "The Nutcracker". Clara also has a brother named Fritz (we have several Fritzes in FNAF). But perhaps the most interesting among them all is Drosselmeyer, a toymaker who brought dolls to a party one Christmas night (some said he brought 4 life-sized dolls, and other said it was 2), and as far as I know, these dolls can sing and dance on their own. Let's not forget that in FNAF AR, Ballora's frozen ballerina skin allows her to play "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", one of the most important dances in "The Nutcracker".
@@JavaBallAnimation I learned about the swan lake ballet through a few novels that use it as references and the other one is one of the more popular plays/performances. Either through a bit of googling or in passing, it's possible to learn this stuff. Doesn't take that long either.
Based on the lack of evidence that Mrs Afton possess her and the sudden Staffbot that looks like ballora in place of Mrs Afton I’d argue it’s less of confirmation bias that she possess her and more of like a symbolical moment. I’ve always seen ballora as this dance figure who also has a tad bit of motherly symbolism, which is even more evident in the frights where she plays a role in a story almost certainly focused on mother/women figures I feel like she could definitely play out as a more intriguing character if Scott implemented her character more often (i.e. faceplates and spider-like movement), she’s honestly one of my favorite characters and I can definitely see the polar opposites between F.Freddy and Ballora
I had always understood it as William Afton based Ballora off of Mrs. Afton. Like a characterization he sees her as the mother of his children other than that he sees her as a clown who shuts her eyes to their problems.
I mean, even Puppet/Charlie used to be seen as 'motherly figure' who guides spirits of the kids, Ballora and Puppet are kind of similar because both of them are mature. I feel like William created Ballora more due to the fact that he felt that his other creations needed a motherly figure, rather than doing it for the sake of his (now ex) wife, with whom he had arguments and of course, to hunt remnant, a trustworthy, motherly figure such as Ballora is perfect for this mission because little kids trust motherly characters quite easily
I never really believed the Ballora Afton theory, though I think the reason at least some people made the connection was through UCN. Given that her lines suddenly became a bit more flirtatious when compared with SL, and given who the protagonist of UCN is, I could see why some people might assume things. Doesn't prove it though, if anything it just lets us get a look at Will's weird thoughts pertaining to his ballerina murder-bot. Honestly she's always been such a weirdly interesting character, especially her night 2 appearance. Going in she's this threatening hunter, stalking you through the room, stopping whatever she was doing to go find you. Then, when you leave, she just let's you go. She hears you scuttling around but instead of getting up again she decides to leave it be. Is it because she genuinely thinks it's just a draft or something? Is Baby telling her there's nothing to worry about and pacifying her? Or is the reverse true, was Baby the reason she was so aggressive in order to paint a scarier picture and help Baby's 'guardian' narrative, while the calm and gentle woman is the original? I wish they'd given her more proper screen time. I think she and Mango would have worked well as a duo, stuck in a large, dark room with both of them able to crawl anywhere. You can track both by noise, but since both sounds are active it'd be harder to track one while listening for the other. Like a mix of the vent repair and dark rooms.
but in security breach, there is a table with 5 staff bots representing the afton family and the staff bot that represents mrs afton has blue hair and purple outfit, which are the same as ballora's hair and outfit
I would prefer the idea of Ballora being based on William's DECEASED wife rather than being possessed by her, which gives the purple guy even more reasons why he tried to achieve the immortality/resurrection technology and the like (before going absolutely bananas/revealing his darker, more sinister side).
Why would he do that though? William didn't give a fuck about his family. Wether he cared about his children is still debatable but he definitely didn't care about his wife.
@@Notkryo Pride, sense of his property being stolen from him? Idk, dude is a narcissist psychopath, could be less about her well being and more about his perfect little bubble crumbling down.
@@ethangnasher3848 I don't really see him like that type of person, that's more VHS William type of personality. The canon one is just a cold psychopath who doesn't care about anyone let alone anything except for himself.
@@Notkryowe know that he doesn’t give a single flying fuck about his children, but maybe with his wife it was different? He may not see her as simple property or as a burden? since he probably married her of his choice? But idk, he’s a narcissist, a psychopath to say the least and would probably treat her the same as his children. But we don’t know certainly
My theory is they didn't use Ballora as much all of a sudden because she's ACTUALLY kind of scary and would scare the kiddos , which the games started to lean towards annoyingly for sales of merch etc Where Freddy even when jump scaring you is still cartoonish enough to get away with it.
This is something that has always confused me in this series. The Funtimes thought Baby was too controlling and dominant, so they kicked her out. But in Fnaf 6, Ennard is just called Molten Freddy, implying he has basically full control. Did he dominate and force them into submission after Baby was kicked out? That can’t be the case because Molten Freddy can barely hold itself together! Are the other animatronics just ok with this? That can’t be true either because if the plan was to pretend to blend in then Baby at least could pretend to not be crazy, meanwhile Freddy can barely control himself and just wants to kill things! I don’t know, I feel like Molten Freddy should have just been a redesigned Ennard with a new voice. Sorry I’m complaining about this on a video about Ballora.
No, I think that's a good point! Molten Freddy feels much more like another Funtime Freddy than another Ennard. It would've made more sense if it was implied that Funtime Freddy basically strongarmed his way into leadership position.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 Thank you! If the series says “Hey they are all still Ennard” then show it. Either make Ennard look and sound like a mix of the 3 if they all actually work together now, or keep it as Molten Freddy, but leave something for the fans to realize that Freddy is basically forcing his will on the body. (Maybe while he’s speaking you could hear faint whispers for help, or just moaning similar to Fnaf 1) Either way my head canon now is that Freddy is forcing his will on the entire body. It makes me like Molten Freddy more (and stops me from complaining about this every time he’s mentioned)
Well supposedly, they kicked out Baby because she's an entity apart from the others who are made out of remnant then put apart and mixed together like twice because Peepo Willy thought it was funny. When they put themselves back together is probable that the more dominant personality took control when Baby got left out.
I always personally thought that Ballora wasn't possessed but more just based on Afton's wife. The man wasn't exactly normal so it seems plausible that he based it on her but then her songs are a product of grief?
@@higueraft571 Yes and even Scott debunked the 'Ballora is possessed' theory. The novels are meant to be a guide to the storyline in the games, and the novels state that agony is a powerful element (even causing the 'possession' of Springbonnie from Into the Pit, and William isn't even using the costume in that story)
I always liked the idea of Ballora being modeled after Afton's wife, but never assumed she was *literally* possessed by her. We know for a fact that Baby was based on Elizabeth and that possession was accidental/coincidental. Wouldn't be shocking if William's human designs all derived from people he knew.
Ballora has always been one of my top favorites solely for the reason of her spider-crawl. It’s a horrifying thing Fnaf VR could have really utilized, and separates her from how the other animatronics move around.
@@zeas_roses she doesn’t have a name since she doesn’t even exist in the fnaf lore, they just took Clara from the TV show you watch in sister location. There’s no proof that Mrs Afton exists. If she did she’d probably be mentioned in one of the games.
@@Wackycreature yeah, there’s no mention of her except in the security breach room but anyway, still doesn’t mean her name is not Clara. it could be, and it could not, but there’s no proof saying it isn’t and vice versa
Ballora has to be my favourite, her design is breathtaking and matching it with the terryfing aura she emanes its just perfect. Her voice couldnot be better, michella did an excellemt job with the way her dialogue and tone was brought, she gives of a strange confort aura, menacing and in top of that the scariest jumpscare of fnaf in my opinion. I like to believe she was modeled after Mrs. Afton because in my hdc she died in an accident which ended up tearing the family apart making william too obssesed with the robots giving the kids loneliness, liz's desire of bein good enough and Micheal bullyng Cc (one of them was moms favourite) . I just really love her that much and this video made that love stronger
For “dance with me” it makes sense too use ballora as the main antagonist, everyone views her as the guilt trip animatronic afton made based on his wife and a pit of dispair she left in him so the fact she represents the thief’s guilt for stealing is the best connection they could have picked
I can see why people theorize about Ballora because she’s a big odd ball like the puppet she doesn’t fit in with the others, she’s very humanoid and isn’t an animal. Having such a different character really brings up a lot of questions
I wished she was used more in the main series like as a side character in the pizzaplex like music man. Or even a modern styled ballora paired with dj music man.
Ballora is unironically my favourite FNaF character of all time. The 'spider crawling' theories, the Mrs Afton theory...I just love this ballerina robot.
I like the idea of her being not literally Mrs. Afton, but something made to "represent" her The thing is, we've been following this family for so long and yet I feel we know so little about them Since we never heard of her, maybe she died before William became a serial killer, or she divorced him because he was a terrible father/husband Maybe william was so abusive to his family that he ended up killing his own wife. It could be a heated argument - she could have found out about the deaths and the hidden laboratory - and the situation escalated. This could put more layers on William's character and also show the impact it had on the kids and the way they see their father (especially Michael since he is the oldest) In any case, I think it would add to William's manic behavior if he somehow tried to replace his wife, even if it wasn't a conscious decision
In Sb audio file, it mentioned that the ex wife took her own life after seeing her children being turned against her in court by William. Maybe William felt a bit of guilt for his actions in court, which is why he created Ballora to somehow redeem himself and feel less guilt or he created Ballora as a mockery of his ex wife, that's why she looks more clownish with her makeup than a beautiful and elegant ballerina character like Odette or Clara from the Nutcracker ballad. Either way, he never revealed that Ballora is important to him in more ways than just remnant hunting machine, because he doesn't care about his ex wife.
Ballora definitely is one of the most unique characters in FNaF's lineup. The spider-crawl, the noise-based tracking on _both_ sides, and her generally creepy appearance when she moves, whether gracefully or rapidly, towards you while never once opening her eyes. The humanoid design, with a completely unmoving face devoid of changing expressions, and her dance taking all of her body language away (as well as her crawl doing the same) means she has pretty much the least visual tells of what she's thinking at any given time until she actually does it. But, we simply don't see a lot of it. I do wish she was in Help Wanted... but I wish a lot of things about Help Wanted, and I know it too appears on closer inspection to be rather rushed. Or, at the very least, full of evidence of ambitious projects cut short, even if its gameplay style allows for easy removal of concepts that don't pan out during development, and addition of extra content after-the-fact. You could really just keep going with a title like that, even without the VR as the main thing - that just makes it that much better. Funnily enough, if Yenndo were in the game, literally all of the SL characters would be had Ballora made it in. The Minireenas and Bidybabs have cameo/easter egg appearances (presumably cut content, or replaced by the Plush Babies for the Bidybabs as well), Lolbit appears in the Funtime Foxy Dark Rooms segment where he also appears, Funtime Freddy and both Bon-Bon and Bonnet show up in his Night Terrors level (as well as in the Funtime Foxy one, alongside Baby, when Lolbit does), and Baby herself in her own Night Terrors level. And Ennard has his Vent Repair section. Other than the even _more_ obscure easter eggs of SL, or, if you want to go that way, some of the Nightmares (rather, only the Nightmare Endoskeleton and Nightmare Mangle don't show up throughout HW), every big character in SL shows up.
Ballora in the cleithrophobia story for tales from the pizzaplex #3 is pretty terrifying especially she try to help Grady to get out of the tubes but cause her to bend his limbs rather brutally
I feel like if Mrs. Afton did posses Ballora, she would be more…protective? There’s no proof yet if Mrs. Afton is as evil as her husband, and if Elizabeth is right next to her as Circus Baby then wouldn’t Ballora be more protective of her?
As a firm Ballora is Mrs. Afton believer, I don't think so. We aren't even sure Baby herself recognized Michael until the "you won't die" bit, so I think Ballora could also have not recognized him. We can't rely much on possessed animatronics' memories, they're flimsy at best
@@Elmamariameuamor And... Ennard WOULDNT kick her out alongside baby? She's not apart of the Whole, she's an Other, in this instance. Otherwise she's a soup of part-souls crammed into one animatronic like the other two or so. Also she's an Afton, and even if she werent AGAINST William, there's still a likely chance (considering the abusive as shit household) that she'd still be indifferent to his rampages... Not quite "I want to please daddy :)" that Baby has, but still, she would NOT fit in with the revenge-fueled children...
@@higueraft571 I don't think Ennard kicked Baby out because she's haunted by a human soul. Personally I think they kicked her out for being too bossy, manipulative and condescending Edit: that and the whole Baby wanting to please William thing. I don't think Mrs. Afton would be lenient, otherwise she wouldn't have been killed by her husband in that theory
Okay, so since uncanny stuff tends to get under my skin, Ballora is one of the more effectively disturbing animatronics to me. Her movements, those closed eyes, and elegant appearance, concealing that honestly really disturbing endoskeleton face underneath really gets to me. I just wish they would've done more with her. Interestingly enough, I don't think she's as aggressive as Baby would like you to think she is. After all, Baby partially controls her, so why wouldn't she attempt to make her seem like a threat, meaning you trust Baby more? Though, her design is very strange compared to the rest of the SL cast. Baby is just a large, childlike robot meant to be the main attraction for children to interact with. Freddy seems to be meant to put on little comedic shows with Bon Bon, Foxy reprises his original role of having his own show stage, though I'm not sure what his performance would be like. But Ballora? I can't tell what her purpose seems to be from her design. She's not as kid-friendly looking as the rest, I mean, just look at her, especially the outfit, so I'm not sure what her purpose would be. Gotta admit though, her voice is actually quite calming, except for one thing that loops her back around to being terrifying again. Listen to her singing. There's a very clever way of making you have that fight or flight response in there. She'll sing familiar sounding tunes, but the last note will always be discordant, dissonant. Something isn't right, and you can immediately tell. It's really smart, and very uncanny. So yeah, they really didn't do enough with this character lol.
Something that immediately debunks the "Ballora is Mrs. Afton" theory is how Scott Cawthon himself, ***I*** believe, said that Mrs. Afton plays no major role in the story. In Security Breach, the staff bots dressed as the Afton family's dialog strongly implies what actually happened. What ***I*** got from it was Mrs. Afton probably divorced William, or just left. If anything, Ballora just symbolizes Mrs. Afton, and Ballora maybe even shows how she felt towards William. "Clara" also potentially serving as another symbolization for Mrs. Afton (Just to add onto this, I am not trying to spread any rumors, or lies. But at some point in my time, I saw a post about Scott saying how Mrs. Afton plays no major role in the story. I do not remember where I saw this post at all, I saw it only once. If anybody can tell me where this post is, or if it's real or not, or if I remembered it wrong, anything, please tell me. I'll update my comment to be more accurate. I'm just basing it off of what I've personally seen and believe, you are COMPLETELY free to believe what you want, this is just what I believe)
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 I did see that post somewhere, It could've been deleted, but I'm unsure. I still stand by my belief though, because of Security Breach (no death was really implied, just that she divorced/left) But yeah, I swore I saw a post about Mrs. Afton's role in the story by Scott
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 I really wanted to apologize if it came off as me trying to force things onto people, I promise I wasn't. I did say that the post could've been deleted, maybe it was fake? All I said is that I saw a post of Scott saying something about Mrs. Afton, and it's completely okay if you do not believe me. All I was saying is that I swore I saw it somewhere. But yeah, I'm sorry about that. You can believe your own thing
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 you are offended and overreacting at all the reply sections I've seen you Taking offence when people are just saying their theory for example : this person
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 it should not really called an opinion when it comes to this like saying " In my opinion , mrs Afton is ballora" It sounds wierd and should be used " I think " Also I'm not assuming anything
I'm pretty sure that the whole “Ballora is possessed by Mrs. Afton” thing comes from a misinterpretation of The Game Theorists' theory about the character being based off of her in the same way that Circus Baby is based off of Elizabeth.
I think a huge missed opportunity is connecting music man and Ballora. I mean they’re both music based, they both craw around like little spiders and music man just kinda appeared in pizzeria simulator, then was deemed important enough to be featured in custom night. It would be cool if the little music men in security breach were actually like a prototype idea for the mini rinas or vice versa and Ballora has control over them, meaning baby has control over them since she has control of Ballora. Would’ve been cool if they’re was a connection there or something
I think… Ballora is the ONLY main animatronic not possessed. But she has sentience. I think all the Funtime animatronics were given some sentience. I think Ballora does not work as intended. Rather, she is a good “person” who doesn’t ultimately want to hurt people until Baby forces her to by taking control of her. I think Baby hates that about Ballora. Ballora will jump you if you intrude on her room but to be fair, she can’t see. She’s blind.
I also think this is the most interesting thing Scott could have done with her. That she isn’t possessed and doesn’t function as Afton built her to. She’s just another victim.
I think the real appeal of Ballora being Mrs. Afton is that the entire Afton family would have converted into animatronics. Mrs. Afton is like a loose hanging thread and it makes it a nice headcanon for some people.
@@higueraft571 Oh yeah, it easily implies that William either accidentally got all of his family killed or intentionally did to all of them except CC. I think the other appeal is just seeing them all come together as animatronics and see the horror of how they've all changed and barely recognize each other
@@sketchstevens5859 Also that Ballora would be Ejected from Ennard if she were Mrs Afton, and that the main theory being her song... written by someone with zero knoledge of the lore at all :V
i think that ballora being built in the image of mrs. afton after she left makes more sense. like she is meant to represent her and they are still separate people here.
As a ballerina, im sad ballora wasnt used more as was just always there or just the theory of being Mrs Afton Also if actual pointe shoes were shaped the ways hers were, it would be so painful. It kinda hurts to looks at lol (from someone whos been on pointe before but not recently bc im not sure if my feet are ready for pointe work again just yet)
I really wish that there could be confirmation or some cool easter egg in the games about ballora being Afton’s wife, because that’s such a horrifying concept! The idea of her being afraid and concerned about his actions, but being k*lled and melted into an animatronic before she could leave him could’ve added so much extra horror to sister location and william afton’s character as a whole.
I choose to believe in that unless Scott or SteelWool deny it, which I doubt will happen at this point. It's such a fun and terrifying concept! Even though Scott said Mrs. Afton wouldn't be too important to the plot, she could still be Ballora, since her character was barely used (honestly, not surprising considering FNAF's tendency to waste amazing characters). Even if it's not canon in the end, I like how they leave us enough space to believe it could be, specially with that Nannybot in SB
@@Elmamariameuamor Pretty sure Scott HAS denied it, stating that Mrs Afton plays little to no importance in the story, like Phone Guy/Phone Dude and the such.
@@higueraft571 I addressed that with my interpretation. It's not really a denial, considering how convoluted this lore is and who can be considered important or not
She certainly divorced him, as it was hinted in Sb audio tape but whether she died by her own hands or his, remains unknown. Maybe, he took revenge and killed her and then, staged it to look like she committed suicide but I personally think that he wouldn't go this far for the sanity of his kids, so it's better to believe that she died by her own hands instead
Regarding Molten Freddy, it’s always been odd to me how Funtime Freddy was the one leading them and being the voice of Molten Freddy, when Ballora seemed the most conscious out of the 3. Funtime freddy’s lines seemed pre recorded and party related, funtime foxy didn’t have a voice until UCN, whereas ballora’s lines seemed to be conscious like baby’s. At the very least I wish Molten Freddy had a Distorted Voice that was a Blend of all their Voices together.
also if Ballora *was* Mrs. Afton it seems unlikely that she would be so willing to kill her son and also agree to dump her daughter out of Ennard in Sister Location.
ballora would have killed in help wanted, especially the vr version. Imagine seeing this tall, terrifying mannequin-esk animatronic crawling around in a dark room.
While I don't think there's any possibility of Ballora being possesed by Mrs. Afton, I think she was supposed to be modeled after her. It isn't unrealistic to consider the nootion that one possibility for William's wife to leave him is him focusing entirely on his work to the point of isolating himself from his family. When she left him and/or died, he built Ballora as a sort of twisted way of expressing his guilt. It makes me think all the Funtimes were modeled after the family that fell apart before his very eyes: Baby as his daughter, Freddy as his son with his little "protector" (Fredbear plush) Foxy since his son wore the foxy mask, Ballora as the wife that left him. I agree with you that Ballora is her own entity and not Mrs. Afton, but that doesn't exclude the theory that she may have been a tribute to how William drove her away.
Ballora and Baby have always been more of my favorite animatronics. I feel like she has so much potential and I hope that the help wanted sequel does her a bit more justice.
been thinking the same, that Ballora is possesed by their mother. I was thinking the whole gang was a twisted reflection of what William Afton wishes their family could be.
Wasn't really expecting a video today! Loved it as always. Ballora has always intrigued me especially since we don't know much about her personality and such. Might be why she kinds unnerves me a bit. And god I forget she crawls like that. 😭
I love Pizza Mom. Her musicbox, her poem, and her two modes as graceful dancer and nightmare spider clown. A trend I've noticed from watching your videos is that most of my favorite characters tend to get tossed to the side. Mangle, Puppet (and Nightmarion), Bellora, Enard, and even Baby. All those characters have interesting, unique and super creepy elements that make them really interesting to me, but because everything has to be Wills fault, he gets the spotlight and they get pushed off. I think what I'd like most out of FNAF in the future is more spin offs/side games just centered around underused characters, like AR was.
I think that Ballora is Mrs Afton because even Scott told us in his own way. In the Freddy Files, when you read the description of Funtime Freddy it says "Funtime Freddy's audio semms to be pre-recorded and realtes to kids and birthday parties, unlike BALLORA and Circus Baby's audio wich is more complex". Now I think she is possessed by Mrs. Afton also because of the song she sings where she seems to describe Elizabeth's room from Fnaf 4, (as MatPat said in one of his old video). It may then turn out that it is not possessed by Mrs. Afton but by someone else, but that it is possessed by someone is quite clear to me. If I have to add one more detail, even in Security Breach in the Easter egg where the Afton family is represented by the Staff Bots, it seems to have some resemblance to Ballora. (sorry for my English im not that good and i dont knowif everything is alright)
Ah, this is a nice way to wake up! This was a great analysis for a character that didn’t have much if any characterization, so nice job. Bonus kudos for sounding so confident, you’ve come a long way from the ai voice in a pretty short time and that’s awesome! Can’t wait for the next video!
Thank you so much for making this. I’m just re-entering the FNAF theorizing world, and I was dying to hear someone talk about Ballora. “She might be Afton’s wife” really seems like a thread that should be untangled. Mrs. Afton doesn’t really come up much, and we’ve (probably) never seen her, but I’m not ready to write her off as a Dead Disney Mom who logically has to exist for some characters to be born but isn’t really a character herself. Frankly, in a story like this, a mother doesn’t have to exist. The story could’ve been that William kidnapped and maybe brainwashed 3 kids to make his own family and it wouldn’t even come close to being the craziest thing he got away with. If William had a wife, she probably did things that influenced the story other than birth children. That said, I don’t believe she’s possessing Ballora. I think all 4 of the animatronic from Baby’s band are representative of the Afton family (Ballora was inspired by Mrs. Afton, Baby was inspired by Elizabeth, and the Funtimes are new iterations of Michael’s and CC’s favorite animatronics, Foxy and Fredbear), but Baby is the only one who is truly possessed. The others are infused with Remnant to make them more “alive,” but I assume the process of isolating Remnant sanitizes it of any memories or personalities of a particular person. Still, she can probably tell us something about who Mrs. Afton is/was.
One idea I had for Ballora in help wanted is she’s actually the one responsible for Ennard being in game with her ai being used to dictate how Ennard was supposed to act in their games. This is entirely unconfirmed but its weird that lolbit and bonnet get their own appearances but no ballora
I am so glad I happened upon your channel! The things you say sound like something I would come up with myself, but your way of wording them is MILES better than mine would ever be. I'd also like to point out your approach to theory building, it is very rational and never really goes overboard or trails too far away from the topic. Keep it up, and best wishes!
I subscribe to the Ooftroop Undeniably Canon interpretation of Ballora's relation to the Aftons. William Afton's ex-wife pissed him off so much that he made an animatronic specifically to spite her by being better at ballet than her. William Afton's ex-wife was an accountant with no interest in ballet, so this wasn't particularly difficult.
Ballora has so much potential both story and horror wise and i feel like shes never done proper justice, her FF story honestly sucks and misuses her, im glad to see lots of ballora love in this comment section she honestly deserves it
Ballora is my favorite animatronic for some reason. I find her so intriguing, and the fact that we know like nothing about her makes her so mysterious and cool to me. Love her color scheme too 💜
I don’t know how true this is, but I have my own opinion on the mother theory. (Honestly what I’m about to say might have been said by MatPat already but I don’t remember honestly) I think Ballora could be Williams wife, but not literally (as in it’s not possessed by her). What if during (one of the many moments in William’s life) his wife left him. William in grief over his wife leaving him ends up making Ballora, as it reminds him of her and a complete family he used to have. This could cause the line of “Admit it, you wanted to let me in” to feel more like she’s talking to William in UCN, instead of Ballora making a joke about how hot she looks.
Or the line could be a product of hallucination that William experienced in UCN by the hands of Cassidy who tortures him mentally since he used to torture others when he was alive (especially during experiments that he conducted)
A nice little summary of her. A small fact about me is that I was actually terrified of her because of her jumpscare. Her sound and her endoskeleton creeped me out.
Nope...Scott said the name ballora came from a spanish word I think? And it means ballet that's why- If you want a proof search some old interviews of scotts and his posts from his social medias...!
balor isn't a demon. he's a giant in irish mythology that was defeated by the tua de danann when they discovered Ireland. when he opened his eye he would cause entire armies to turn to stone
i never believed that ballora was mrs afton i feel like if she was she would have a more important role ballora just feels like a side character just like funtime foxy that makes up ennard/molten freddy also love your content and your one of the people who inspired me to talk about fnaf on my channel.
Also. Scott had confirmed that Afton's wife exist. But that's she's just a minor character (or at least when he said it, now there's no telling if he changed plans somewhere along the line)
He said that she isn't really important to the story, and judging by the fact that a random Sb audio tape about Williams divorce exists, then he is loyal to his word about Mrs Aftons irrelevance since the ex wife of William took own her life before the main events of Fnaf games, which makes her not important
I've always thought of Ballora as a representation of Mrs. Afton rather than the actual person herself. This is reinforced for me by the Staffbot family in SB, but idk. Maybe we're all wrong and the writer of this series just doesn't want to make a girlboss slay. Oh well
Lmao i agree. I never trough she was ballora herself. Maybe we will see more things of Mrs.afton soon.They could at least said how she died or even if she died. But idk.
She cannot literally possess Ballora since she wasn't killed by Ballora or stuffed inside the suit. The Staffbot scene is only a reference to a popular fan theory, it doesn't try to tell us more than that.
One thing you left out is that in the Fazbear Frights book Dance with Me has a lot of connections with Motherhood and Mothers. Kasey the protagonist of the story has a troubled relationship with her Mother. She also meets a older women who gives her Grandmotherly advice, she's saved by the police by a other elderly women and the family that she stole the glasses from in the first place is a mother and daughter. It's just strange that the animatronic Ballora who is heavily theorize to be possessed by Mrs Afton the mother of the Afton kids, is in a story about Mothers and Motherhood. Coincidence? I think not!!
I don't think his wife possesses ballora, I just think ballora represents her. William was clearly deranged and was more focused on the restaurant and animatronics than his family (see fredbear plush). Wouldnt be surprised if his wife left and he made ballora to cope.
Great video! Around when SB came out I thought I had found evidence for the 'Ballora is Mrs Afton' theory (Even tho I never really liked it), but I'd made a bunch of assumptions then it fell apart at the main seam. Theory in case anyone was interested: * The Vanessa therapy CDs heavily imply that her mother committed suicide after the divorce. * I believed that the family back story is not Vanessa's but Afton spinning a tale using his kids experience for inspiration. * In SL after the night in the springlock suit, the workers who scooped Ballora are found hanged in her room. Hanging being an unfortunately common method of suicide. * So Ballora killing in the way she died was the link. Issue is the workers are actually one each in Ballora and Funtime Foxy's room, so it's not exclusive to Ballora, and no one's arguing that Funtime Foxy is Afton mom.
Ever since I heard the theory that she is Mrs Afton I wished that she was either the main villain of Sister Location trying to get revenge on William by possessing the player with the others and hunting him down or had a role like Glamrock Freddy where she aided the player to get out and get revenge on William. I feel like she had so much to offer and was just a huge let down. Still love her tho
Another great video like always and honestly if scott was going to make mrs afton possess an animatronic it should be funtime freddy. The reason I say this is because he shows up so much in the series. Like he was the main one to kick out baby, he was the main head of molten freddy and of the blob. It would make the fnaf 6 ending truly feel like the end of the aftons. Lastly it would just make mrs afton more interesting as a character
I’ve always had this headcanon that William Aftons wife left him after the death of the crying child / Evan, and as a weird messed up coping mechanism he decided to sort of recreate his wife, resulting in ballora. I don’t think she’s actually possessing the animatronic.
Probably as a coping mechanism due to the fact that his ex wife took her own life after William turned her kids against her in court in a Sb audio tape, so maybe he felt slightly guilty for indirectly causing her death and depriving his kids of their mother
My thoughts: well, there's proof in her songs that she might be the mother, however, this would mean fun time foxy, and Freddy, are the only ones possessed by the MCI kids, which explains their very chaotic, Spacratic behavior, hence why bonbon exists in the 1st place. I think it's about an 87% chance of her being the mother. Especially from the cut nanny bot lines in the post it room, nanny bot mentions a divorce, which gives us Williams motive to killing her, there's a lot of evidence you kinda skimmed over, but not everybody can find everything!
Ballora was always the most terrifying and interesting to me, and one of the reasons is, after comparing her with all of the main-game animatronics, I’m pretty sure that she has the thinnest and SHARPEST TEETH. They are thinner and sharper than the nightmares. Was this a mistake, because this is ridiculous.
Personally, I really like the theory that Ballora is Mrs. Afton as I feel it adds a lot of substance to her and her relationship with Baby, who is her daughter. Even more so if we take into account the theories surrounding her death- did William kill her? Did she commit suicide out of grief from losing her children? Was it a complete accident? She represents everything I love about FNAF- the mystery and the open-ended questions that lead people to come to their own conclusions.
I never really thought Balora was posesed by Mrs Afton, more built in her image. Then her lines in UCN were explained by the game being Williams personal he'll, William wanted to be with his wife but was consumed by his work and killings.
No, I think it's the opposite actually, his (now ex) wife wanted to spend time with him but he rejected her and worked all the time instead. And also, the lines could be a product of hallucination that William experienced in UCN which is a place between heaven and hell and Cassidy took time to torture him mentally as revenge for all those years that he mentally tormented different people when he was alive
"If you ever see a girl walking alone at night, don't walk towards her. That may scare her and it's really creepy. Instead, spint on all fours at her. This makes you resemble a friendly dog (girls love dogs). She will know you're there to protect her and she will feel safe."
Ballora: *And I took that literally*
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@@WobblesandBean Agreed honestly
"I assure you, having a sexy ballerina robot is necessary for this pizzeria"
-William Afton after being questioned by his investors, circa 1989
Lol
Investors: *sees ballora running around on her spider legs.*
Also Investors: "I see nothing wrong with this Mr Afton, shut up and take my money."
@@theferretmasre5090 😂😂
"I assure you, having a 7 foot clown baby animatronic with a murder claw hidden within her torso is necessary!"
She's a mass murdering robotic monster.
With all due respect, Afton, those weren't the design choices we were reffering to...
Ballora has always been the most terrifying animatronic to me. Her endoskeleton is just- unsettling. Her humanoid appearance makes her stand out against the more wacky and animalistic designs of the other Funtimes. Her smooth and calming voice makes her seem almost motherly, which is probably the scariest part about her. It’s kind of like how the Beldam from Coraline speaks in a soothing tone, yet is far more despicable than the caring parental figure she pretends to be. Ballora had a lot of potential and could have been one of the most horrifying villains in the franchise, but, much like Baby, she was wasted. A real shame honestly.
I made a comment saying I think they purposely dropped Ballora because she is scary and that's the issue
The uncanny valley effect she gives with being very human shaped messed with your head and may actually scare children who the games have been molding the sequels to more and more leaving out more of the "horror " out of the horror game
And like Beldam, she crawls like a spider when things don’t go her way
@@umapessoa240 spiders, who knew they were terrifying right ?
Lol
I don’t know why I just thought of this after reading this comment, but what if ballora’s slightly more… curvaceous design than any of the other animatronics was a part of her distraction tactics, just something to potentially distract parents a bit more, obviously without being too over the top.
The most terrifying aspect of it is her monkey like facial structure (Atleast to me)
Ballora is one of the giant question marks of fnaf, is she possessed? Who’s possessing her? Is she even important? WHAT ARE THIS GAMES!?
I can say with almost some certainty that it's likely she may be or appears to be somewhat possessed by something!
There is one theory that says Ballora might but possessed by pigtail girl one of the children in the fnaf 4 8 bit cutsences but I don't know how much lore wise to back that up but it is a cool theory
Imo, none of the funtimes are traditionally "haunted." I personally ascribe to the theory that Afton melted the fnaf 2 toy animatronics together (remnant included) and used that to create the funtimes, splitting any remnant among them
@@finallyforfeited I mean, the books pretty much prove this. If I remember correctly Afton was infusing remnant into the Funtime animatronics, because again if I remember it describes each of them, and Baby/Elizabeth is there as well.
@@nicolerobertson2654 that where erhe problem with the FNAF lore started is the books they gave us less awnsers and more questions
I honestly love Ballora, ironically, because of the condescending way Baby treats her, hearing Baby say “Ballora never learns” just made me say “she just like me fr”. We don’t get such layers of dynamic with the other funtimes, that “toxic family” vibe that I think adds to Ennard.
Because a big thing with the best of the funtimes is also the juxtaposition between their appearance and actual behavior, I.E. Funtime Freddy is the big to Bon Bon’s little, but Bon Bon is seemingly his “protector”, Funtime Foxy behaving like a showman in UCN, but also being shy, Baby, despite her name, being the most coordinated, functional and “grown up” of them.
Also the bluntness and deadpan of her speech, and how inappropriate some things she says are is like the thing ever (“flesh and bones”, “I can hear you breathing”). She’s a hot mess, I love her.
exactly this !! i’ve never been able to word how i feel about this group of characters as well as you have.
Why thank you, baby can be such a headache sometimes, so we kicked her out.
i honestly never thought of them that way but now that you pointed that out i love it
That's how I felt about them as well haha. I just didn't know how to put it in words, and you said it perfectly.
One reason a lot of people think Ballora is possessed is that both her and Baby's voicelines sound sentient, whereas Funtime Freddy's sound like prerecorded voiceclips.
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Yeah but circus baby has some erie sounding like a robot coming to life ( as in a AI ) voice lines as in her able to recognise what happened before Elizabeth died
@@Gaeilge. baby is far from alive, which is why we kicked her out. Funtime Freddy and foxy can be annoying, but never to this extent so we did what we did.
@@ballorafuntime7567 Circus Baby Is the smartest out of y’all though
One of the main reasons people think Ballora is Afton's Wife, is because of the lyrics of her song. It makes total sense if you assume they are being sung by his wife.
Why do you hide inside your walls, (her husband spending so much time in laboratories)
When there is music in my halls? (she wants him to come spend time with her instead)
All I see is an empty room, (a reference to Elizabeth's empty bedroom perhaps)
No more joy, an empty tomb. (she knows she's dead, but her spirit is stuck in that animatronic)
It's so good to sing all day,
To dance, to spin, to fly away. (and now all she does is sing and dance all day long)
And because of a table in scirity breach that represents the afton family has a ballora like staff bot represents Ms afton
The song was written by Ballora's VA, who knows nothing about FNAF lore. Therefore we cannot use her song as evidence
@@sophitiaofhyrule it was? I can only find that it was sung by her not written.
and because of that one fnaf game where there's everyone ganging up on william afton i forgot the name but you know the one, in which her line after jumpscaring him is something like "you wanted me to come" and if a possessed animatronic version of your wife was chasing you but a part of her is in that thing and you were gonna die from an other animatronic eventually why not take the opportunity to see what remains of your wife one last time ?
@@billie1129 It's UCN and the line is "admit it you wanted to let me in.' it's said in this video. There's nothing like what you said in UCN.
Still though yeah got a point
I don't think Ballora IS Mrs. Afton but I do believe she is meant to symbolize her. Just for the fandom or because Willam wanted to recreate his (ex?) wife.
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Ya ballora is mrs.Afton
She died in a wizard and her soul went to ballora
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Honestly my favorite headcanon is that the Daycare Attendant is taken from Ballora's specs. Moon does Ballora's spider crawl, in exactly the same manner. The lower torso twists so that the legs move backwards allowing them to crawl *very* well. Add that with the tutu element, the non-animal appearance associated with stage and theatre, the grace of both Sun and Moon, and I think Ballora being the Daycare Attendant's predecessor makes a lot of sense.
This is what always believed too tbh, and the Nanny-Bots being Ballora-themed kind of adds weight to this theory in my opinion :)
I'm not really the moon I'm afraid.
Ballora had great potential similar to Funtime Freddy, a shame she wasn’t expanded upon, there could have been a vent repair section in Help Wanted showing Ballora’s spider walk, or something, and in Fazbear’s Frights she could have been replaced with PHANTOM FREDDY in the story that she’s supposed to feature in. Definitely could have done more with her character
I’m shocked Ballora wasn’t in Help Wanted. Every other Funtime got added except her, even Lolbit! (The Bidybabs aren’t in the game but whatever, even though they could have replaced the stupid Plush Baby level!)
Also yeah Phantom Freddy would make more sense. I would prefer Nightmare instead (mainly because I think they look cooler, but I guess that doesn’t really matter in a book with no pictures) but Phantom Freddy does make more sense.
She does have her own story in the Fazbear Frights, though it is really lackluster.
I think it's called Dance With Me and it's about a girl who steals some glasses and those glasses can allow her to see Ballora dancing away from her and everytime the glasses are put on she can move closer. It ends up with some kid putting on the glasses and dancing -whether that means Ballora possessed her or stole her body, I'm unsure.
@@PrisonPlaysFNAF That is the story in question. She acts more like a phantom in that than like an actual animatronic. Ballora doesn't do any sort of possession or whatever, she just makes some homeless kid give up what little security they do have to go return the glasses to their rightful owner for whatever reason.
Phantom Freddy wouldnt work in dance with me in my opinion
@@PopGoesMyBall As an entity doing the same thing? He would. Replace the character on the glasses with Freddy, change the dancing to him watching, maybe walking loops around the girl and getting closer slowly in that way (you don't even have to, he could still just approach at a slow rate and it'd work), and the story would be pretty much the same. And it'd make more sense than Ballora of all characters warping around or creating hallucinations or something.
to be completely honest, I think it would've made more sense if Ballora was the one who took control of Ennard after Sister Location.
while I love Funtime Freddy, it's clear that the only reason he suddenly had so much importance in FNaF 6 is because Scott knew how much people loved the guy. Not because he was particularly interesting. With Ballora, it's clear that she at least has a fair amount of intrigue to her character, what with her very vague song lyrics and generally mysterious presence. It feels like they WANTED to do more with her, but just didn't know exactly how to flesh her out. So now she's just a weird little side-mystery, I guess.
To be fair, considering the components of Ennard... Freddy Fazbear is the mascot and figurehead of the brand, and is closely related to Fredbear as well
Now these kids are from the MCI in the 1980s, they're almost CERTAINLY missing memories and overall kinda fucked up from the stuffing, forgetting, being blended together and split into chunks, and finally re-fusing.
It's pretty likely they'd use the face of the most recognizable and iconic member of the Funtimes. A decent Runner-Up *would* be Foxy, but i expect Ballora would be the last they would pick
@@higueraft571 I'm talking purely by what I'd consider to be engaging in terms of a story. this is a good "lore" explanation for it- in fact I completely forgot that the Funtimes are possessed by the MCI victims- but in terms of substance it doesn't do anything for me. like, cool. Funtime Freddy is in control now. what does that bring to the table, exactly? why should I be interested in one of the most one-dimensional antagonists in Sister Location all of a sudden?
@@jamariskorkinel You seem to miss the point, NOBODY is "in control", Freddy Fazbear is simply the "face", as it's simply something they all are familiar with and recognize. Like Altzheimers patients that, even when they have nearly nothing left, are *keenly* aware of their favorite songs, and can pretty accurately recall them for a long while...
And one-dimensional? Pretty simple goals at least, sure, Become Whole Again, and Escape. You are their means.
If that's one-dimensional I'm ITCHING to hear what animatronics/antagonists arent..
@@higueraft571 I'm not really too sure what that first paragraph is really supposed to mean (besides implying that no one ever had real control over Ennard?) especially in relation to my comment that focuses on the "engaging narrative" aspect of FNAF, so I'll skip past that for now
By one-dimensional, I mean by their personality, not their goals. Circus Baby, while fairly simple, has quite a lot going for her in terms of her personality and backstory. Circus Baby in Sister Location, compared to pretty much every other character in the game (hell, maybe even the entire series), is quite complex. She has a fully fleshed out backstory that she uses against you as a form of manipulation, is scarily intelligent, has a strong vendetta against William, who she believes YOU are, and even attempts to guilt-trip you by sounding like Elizabeth Afton near the end of the Fake Ending. while it might not seem like much, it's pretty huge in terms of how Scott normally writes characters. and the only other character within Sister Location that I believe has a hint of intrigue to them is Ballora. Funtime Freddy is a one-sided maniac. Funtime Foxy had no voice. and the Bidybabs and Minireenas are basically mindless goons. Ballora's mysterious, at least.
@@jamariskorkinel you do know baby is possessed by elezabeth
I love Ballora, it's a shame she never gets used like ever. She should've been the antagonist of To Be Beautiful imo
I think it is alright they used Baby. Itis about a teen afterall. I am not sure a motherly figure would fit. I would love a story more focused on ballett though. Like she is haunting a retired ballerina. We don't have any elderly main characters at all in those books afterall.
@@BlackCroft666 wait that was baby? how did I not notice
@@BlackCroft666 I don't think Eleanor is considered a version of Baby really.
@@BlackCroft666 Do you mean Eleanor?
@@BlackCroft666 Id prefer to play the role of a fake mother instead, waiting for the right moment to "Discipline" the kids.
I think one of the dumb reasons why I fully believed that Ballora could be (an inspiration to) Mrs. Afton would be some of these ballet-related headcanons that I made back then (buckle up guys, this is gonna be long, also, I am not a ballerina).
- If you played FNAF 3, there is a Golden Freddy secret mini-game with a music box song playing on repeat. The title of that song is "Swan Lake". Swan Lake is a ballet/theatre performance that tells the story between two lovers, Odette and Siegfried. Odette and her fellow maidens were cursed by an evil magician named Von Rothbart. Rothbart has cursed Odette and the other ladies to turn into swans by day and humans by night (you guys see where this is going?). In the end, Odette managed to break the spell by drowning herself, to be followed by Siegfried. In some versions, the fellow swans dance around Rothbart as he died. (which kind of gives off FNAF 3 ending vibes)
- In "The Immortal and The Restless", people have implied that Vlad and Clara could be William and Mrs. Afton. You see, "Clara" was constantly the headcanon name given to Mrs. Afton, but the name Clara isn't just that. Clara is also the main protagonist in a ballet/theatre performance called "The Nutcracker". Clara also has a brother named Fritz (we have several Fritzes in FNAF). But perhaps the most interesting among them all is Drosselmeyer, a toymaker who brought dolls to a party one Christmas night (some said he brought 4 life-sized dolls, and other said it was 2), and as far as I know, these dolls can sing and dance on their own. Let's not forget that in FNAF AR, Ballora's frozen ballerina skin allows her to play "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", one of the most important dances in "The Nutcracker".
These are good!
How Blud even find out about this
@@JavaBallAnimation I learned about the swan lake ballet through a few novels that use it as references and the other one is one of the more popular plays/performances.
Either through a bit of googling or in passing, it's possible to learn this stuff. Doesn't take that long either.
Based on the lack of evidence that Mrs Afton possess her and the sudden Staffbot that looks like ballora in place of Mrs Afton I’d argue it’s less of confirmation bias that she possess her and more of like a symbolical moment. I’ve always seen ballora as this dance figure who also has a tad bit of motherly symbolism, which is even more evident in the frights where she plays a role in a story almost certainly focused on mother/women figures
I feel like she could definitely play out as a more intriguing character if Scott implemented her character more often (i.e. faceplates and spider-like movement), she’s honestly one of my favorite characters and I can definitely see the polar opposites between F.Freddy and Ballora
I had always understood it as William Afton based Ballora off of Mrs. Afton. Like a characterization he sees her as the mother of his children other than that he sees her as a clown who shuts her eyes to their problems.
I mean, even Puppet/Charlie used to be seen as 'motherly figure' who guides spirits of the kids, Ballora and Puppet are kind of similar because both of them are mature. I feel like William created Ballora more due to the fact that he felt that his other creations needed a motherly figure, rather than doing it for the sake of his (now ex) wife, with whom he had arguments and of course, to hunt remnant, a trustworthy, motherly figure such as Ballora is perfect for this mission because little kids trust motherly characters quite easily
I never really believed the Ballora Afton theory, though I think the reason at least some people made the connection was through UCN. Given that her lines suddenly became a bit more flirtatious when compared with SL, and given who the protagonist of UCN is, I could see why some people might assume things. Doesn't prove it though, if anything it just lets us get a look at Will's weird thoughts pertaining to his ballerina murder-bot.
Honestly she's always been such a weirdly interesting character, especially her night 2 appearance. Going in she's this threatening hunter, stalking you through the room, stopping whatever she was doing to go find you. Then, when you leave, she just let's you go. She hears you scuttling around but instead of getting up again she decides to leave it be. Is it because she genuinely thinks it's just a draft or something? Is Baby telling her there's nothing to worry about and pacifying her? Or is the reverse true, was Baby the reason she was so aggressive in order to paint a scarier picture and help Baby's 'guardian' narrative, while the calm and gentle woman is the original?
I wish they'd given her more proper screen time. I think she and Mango would have worked well as a duo, stuck in a large, dark room with both of them able to crawl anywhere. You can track both by noise, but since both sounds are active it'd be harder to track one while listening for the other. Like a mix of the vent repair and dark rooms.
I know you most likely mean Mangle, but Mango made me laugh a bit! Thanks!
Considering Mangle's personalities, it truly would be fun to see them interact
@@eldritchabomination9726 Indeed it would!
but in security breach, there is a table with 5 staff bots representing the afton family and the staff bot that represents mrs afton has blue hair and purple outfit, which are the same as ballora's hair and outfit
Mango 😭😭
I would prefer the idea of Ballora being based on William's DECEASED wife rather than being possessed by her, which gives the purple guy even more reasons why he tried to achieve the immortality/resurrection technology and the like (before going absolutely bananas/revealing his darker, more sinister side).
Why would he do that though? William didn't give a fuck about his family. Wether he cared about his children is still debatable but he definitely didn't care about his wife.
Why does she have glowing eyes then?
@@Notkryo Pride, sense of his property being stolen from him? Idk, dude is a narcissist psychopath, could be less about her well being and more about his perfect little bubble crumbling down.
@@ethangnasher3848 I don't really see him like that type of person, that's more VHS William type of personality. The canon one is just a cold psychopath who doesn't care about anyone let alone anything except for himself.
@@Notkryowe know that he doesn’t give a single flying fuck about his children, but maybe with his wife it was different?
He may not see her as simple property or as a burden? since he probably married her of his choice? But idk, he’s a narcissist, a psychopath to say the least and would probably treat her the same as his children.
But we don’t know certainly
My theory is they didn't use Ballora as much all of a sudden because she's ACTUALLY kind of scary and would scare the kiddos , which the games started to lean towards annoyingly for sales of merch etc
Where Freddy even when jump scaring you is still cartoonish enough to get away with it.
This is something that has always confused me in this series. The Funtimes thought Baby was too controlling and dominant, so they kicked her out. But in Fnaf 6, Ennard is just called Molten Freddy, implying he has basically full control.
Did he dominate and force them into submission after Baby was kicked out? That can’t be the case because Molten Freddy can barely hold itself together! Are the other animatronics just ok with this? That can’t be true either because if the plan was to pretend to blend in then Baby at least could pretend to not be crazy, meanwhile Freddy can barely control himself and just wants to kill things!
I don’t know, I feel like Molten Freddy should have just been a redesigned Ennard with a new voice. Sorry I’m complaining about this on a video about Ballora.
No, I think that's a good point! Molten Freddy feels much more like another Funtime Freddy than another Ennard. It would've made more sense if it was implied that Funtime Freddy basically strongarmed his way into leadership position.
@@notrealnamenotatall2476 Thank you! If the series says “Hey they are all still Ennard” then show it. Either make Ennard look and sound like a mix of the 3 if they all actually work together now, or keep it as Molten Freddy, but leave something for the fans to realize that Freddy is basically forcing his will on the body. (Maybe while he’s speaking you could hear faint whispers for help, or just moaning similar to Fnaf 1)
Either way my head canon now is that Freddy is forcing his will on the entire body. It makes me like Molten Freddy more (and stops me from complaining about this every time he’s mentioned)
Well supposedly, they kicked out Baby because she's an entity apart from the others who are made out of remnant then put apart and mixed together like twice because Peepo Willy thought it was funny. When they put themselves back together is probable that the more dominant personality took control when Baby got left out.
@@ethangnasher3848 That makes sense. I just wish they at least showed off the transformation for us.
The entire point of molten freddy is that he DOESNT want to kill you though.
I always personally thought that Ballora wasn't possessed but more just based on Afton's wife. The man wasn't exactly normal so it seems plausible that he based it on her but then her songs are a product of grief?
Fun fact, the songs were written by someone with 0 knowledge of the lore.
Ballora doesn’t acknowledge having a daughter lmfao
That’s what I think as well!
@@ganja_burn_9516 which is why she can't be possessed by Williams ex wife
@@higueraft571 Yes and even Scott debunked the 'Ballora is possessed' theory. The novels are meant to be a guide to the storyline in the games, and the novels state that agony is a powerful element (even causing the 'possession' of Springbonnie from Into the Pit, and William isn't even using the costume in that story)
I always liked the idea of Ballora being modeled after Afton's wife, but never assumed she was *literally* possessed by her. We know for a fact that Baby was based on Elizabeth and that possession was accidental/coincidental. Wouldn't be shocking if William's human designs all derived from people he knew.
Yeah, that makes more sense
Ballora has always been one of my top favorites solely for the reason of her spider-crawl. It’s a horrifying thing Fnaf VR could have really utilized, and separates her from how the other animatronics move around.
Even if Clara Afton’s spirit does not inhabit Ballora, I think that Afton programmed her AI based on her personality…
Also reminder, she wasnt ejected from Ennard with Baby
Her name isn’t Clara lol
@@Wackycreature any proof she wasnt?
@@zeas_roses she doesn’t have a name since she doesn’t even exist in the fnaf lore, they just took Clara from the TV show you watch in sister location. There’s no proof that Mrs Afton exists. If she did she’d probably be mentioned in one of the games.
@@Wackycreature yeah, there’s no mention of her except in the security breach room
but anyway, still doesn’t mean her name is not Clara.
it could be, and it could not, but there’s no proof saying it isn’t and vice versa
Ballora has to be my favourite, her design is breathtaking and matching it with the terryfing aura she emanes its just perfect. Her voice couldnot be better, michella did an excellemt job with the way her dialogue and tone was brought, she gives of a strange confort aura, menacing and in top of that the scariest jumpscare of fnaf in my opinion. I like to believe she was modeled after Mrs. Afton because in my hdc she died in an accident which ended up tearing the family apart making william too obssesed with the robots giving the kids loneliness, liz's desire of bein good enough and Micheal bullyng Cc (one of them was moms favourite) .
I just really love her that much and this video made that love stronger
For “dance with me” it makes sense too use ballora as the main antagonist, everyone views her as the guilt trip animatronic afton made based on his wife and a pit of dispair she left in him so the fact she represents the thief’s guilt for stealing is the best connection they could have picked
I can see why people theorize about Ballora because she’s a big odd ball like the puppet she doesn’t fit in with the others, she’s very humanoid and isn’t an animal. Having such a different character really brings up a lot of questions
I wished she was used more in the main series like as a side character in the pizzaplex like music man. Or even a modern styled ballora paired with dj music man.
That would've been so neat. 83
Ballora is unironically my favourite FNaF character of all time. The 'spider crawling' theories, the Mrs Afton theory...I just love this ballerina robot.
I like the idea of her being not literally Mrs. Afton, but something made to "represent" her
The thing is, we've been following this family for so long and yet I feel we know so little about them
Since we never heard of her, maybe she died before William became a serial killer, or she divorced him because he was a terrible father/husband
Maybe william was so abusive to his family that he ended up killing his own wife. It could be a heated argument - she could have found out about the deaths and the hidden laboratory - and the situation escalated. This could put more layers on William's character and also show the impact it had on the kids and the way they see their father (especially Michael since he is the oldest)
In any case, I think it would add to William's manic behavior if he somehow tried to replace his wife, even if it wasn't a conscious decision
In Sb audio file, it mentioned that the ex wife took her own life after seeing her children being turned against her in court by William. Maybe William felt a bit of guilt for his actions in court, which is why he created Ballora to somehow redeem himself and feel less guilt or he created Ballora as a mockery of his ex wife, that's why she looks more clownish with her makeup than a beautiful and elegant ballerina character like Odette or Clara from the Nutcracker ballad. Either way, he never revealed that Ballora is important to him in more ways than just remnant hunting machine, because he doesn't care about his ex wife.
Ballora definitely is one of the most unique characters in FNaF's lineup. The spider-crawl, the noise-based tracking on _both_ sides, and her generally creepy appearance when she moves, whether gracefully or rapidly, towards you while never once opening her eyes. The humanoid design, with a completely unmoving face devoid of changing expressions, and her dance taking all of her body language away (as well as her crawl doing the same) means she has pretty much the least visual tells of what she's thinking at any given time until she actually does it. But, we simply don't see a lot of it.
I do wish she was in Help Wanted... but I wish a lot of things about Help Wanted, and I know it too appears on closer inspection to be rather rushed. Or, at the very least, full of evidence of ambitious projects cut short, even if its gameplay style allows for easy removal of concepts that don't pan out during development, and addition of extra content after-the-fact. You could really just keep going with a title like that, even without the VR as the main thing - that just makes it that much better. Funnily enough, if Yenndo were in the game, literally all of the SL characters would be had Ballora made it in. The Minireenas and Bidybabs have cameo/easter egg appearances (presumably cut content, or replaced by the Plush Babies for the Bidybabs as well), Lolbit appears in the Funtime Foxy Dark Rooms segment where he also appears, Funtime Freddy and both Bon-Bon and Bonnet show up in his Night Terrors level (as well as in the Funtime Foxy one, alongside Baby, when Lolbit does), and Baby herself in her own Night Terrors level. And Ennard has his Vent Repair section. Other than the even _more_ obscure easter eggs of SL, or, if you want to go that way, some of the Nightmares (rather, only the Nightmare Endoskeleton and Nightmare Mangle don't show up throughout HW), every big character in SL shows up.
Ballora in the cleithrophobia story for tales from the pizzaplex #3 is pretty terrifying especially she try to help Grady to get out of the tubes but cause her to bend his limbs rather brutally
I feel like if Mrs. Afton did posses Ballora, she would be more…protective? There’s no proof yet if Mrs. Afton is as evil as her husband, and if Elizabeth is right next to her as Circus Baby then wouldn’t Ballora be more protective of her?
Not to mention she wouldn’t be hunting her son Micheal most likely
And she'd have been ejected from Ennard
As a firm Ballora is Mrs. Afton believer, I don't think so. We aren't even sure Baby herself recognized Michael until the "you won't die" bit, so I think Ballora could also have not recognized him. We can't rely much on possessed animatronics' memories, they're flimsy at best
@@Elmamariameuamor And... Ennard WOULDNT kick her out alongside baby? She's not apart of the Whole, she's an Other, in this instance. Otherwise she's a soup of part-souls crammed into one animatronic like the other two or so.
Also she's an Afton, and even if she werent AGAINST William, there's still a likely chance (considering the abusive as shit household) that she'd still be indifferent to his rampages...
Not quite "I want to please daddy :)" that Baby has, but still, she would NOT fit in with the revenge-fueled children...
@@higueraft571 I don't think Ennard kicked Baby out because she's haunted by a human soul. Personally I think they kicked her out for being too bossy, manipulative and condescending
Edit: that and the whole Baby wanting to please William thing. I don't think Mrs. Afton would be lenient, otherwise she wouldn't have been killed by her husband in that theory
Okay, so since uncanny stuff tends to get under my skin, Ballora is one of the more effectively disturbing animatronics to me. Her movements, those closed eyes, and elegant appearance, concealing that honestly really disturbing endoskeleton face underneath really gets to me. I just wish they would've done more with her.
Interestingly enough, I don't think she's as aggressive as Baby would like you to think she is. After all, Baby partially controls her, so why wouldn't she attempt to make her seem like a threat, meaning you trust Baby more?
Though, her design is very strange compared to the rest of the SL cast.
Baby is just a large, childlike robot meant to be the main attraction for children to interact with. Freddy seems to be meant to put on little comedic shows with Bon Bon, Foxy reprises his original role of having his own show stage, though I'm not sure what his performance would be like. But Ballora? I can't tell what her purpose seems to be from her design. She's not as kid-friendly looking as the rest, I mean, just look at her, especially the outfit, so I'm not sure what her purpose would be.
Gotta admit though, her voice is actually quite calming, except for one thing that loops her back around to being terrifying again. Listen to her singing. There's a very clever way of making you have that fight or flight response in there. She'll sing familiar sounding tunes, but the last note will always be discordant, dissonant. Something isn't right, and you can immediately tell. It's really smart, and very uncanny.
So yeah, they really didn't do enough with this character lol.
I agree with u but she is still my fav animatronic lol-
Something that immediately debunks the "Ballora is Mrs. Afton" theory is how Scott Cawthon himself, ***I*** believe, said that Mrs. Afton plays no major role in the story. In Security Breach, the staff bots dressed as the Afton family's dialog strongly implies what actually happened. What ***I*** got from it was Mrs. Afton probably divorced William, or just left. If anything, Ballora just symbolizes Mrs. Afton, and Ballora maybe even shows how she felt towards William. "Clara" also potentially serving as another symbolization for Mrs. Afton
(Just to add onto this, I am not trying to spread any rumors, or lies. But at some point in my time, I saw a post about Scott saying how Mrs. Afton plays no major role in the story. I do not remember where I saw this post at all, I saw it only once. If anybody can tell me where this post is, or if it's real or not, or if I remembered it wrong, anything, please tell me. I'll update my comment to be more accurate. I'm just basing it off of what I've personally seen and believe, you are COMPLETELY free to believe what you want, this is just what I believe)
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 I did see that post somewhere, It could've been deleted, but I'm unsure. I still stand by my belief though, because of Security Breach (no death was really implied, just that she divorced/left) But yeah, I swore I saw a post about Mrs. Afton's role in the story by Scott
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 I really wanted to apologize if it came off as me trying to force things onto people, I promise I wasn't. I did say that the post could've been deleted, maybe it was fake? All I said is that I saw a post of Scott saying something about Mrs. Afton, and it's completely okay if you do not believe me. All I was saying is that I swore I saw it somewhere. But yeah, I'm sorry about that. You can believe your own thing
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 dear , they didn't force anything
Stop assuming
And they didn't have anything to apologise for
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 you are offended and overreacting at all the reply sections I've seen you
Taking offence when people are just saying their theory for example : this person
@@funtime_julia_arts2316 it should not really called an opinion when it comes to this like saying
" In my opinion , mrs Afton is ballora"
It sounds wierd and should be used " I think "
Also I'm not assuming anything
I'm pretty sure that the whole “Ballora is possessed by Mrs. Afton” thing comes from a misinterpretation of The Game Theorists' theory about the character being based off of her in the same way that Circus Baby is based off of Elizabeth.
That could be!
I think a huge missed opportunity is connecting music man and Ballora. I mean they’re both music based, they both craw around like little spiders and music man just kinda appeared in pizzeria simulator, then was deemed important enough to be featured in custom night. It would be cool if the little music men in security breach were actually like a prototype idea for the mini rinas or vice versa and Ballora has control over them, meaning baby has control over them since she has control of Ballora. Would’ve been cool if they’re was a connection there or something
I think… Ballora is the ONLY main animatronic not possessed. But she has sentience. I think all the Funtime animatronics were given some sentience. I think Ballora does not work as intended. Rather, she is a good “person” who doesn’t ultimately want to hurt people until Baby forces her to by taking control of her. I think Baby hates that about Ballora. Ballora will jump you if you intrude on her room but to be fair, she can’t see. She’s blind.
I also think this is the most interesting thing Scott could have done with her. That she isn’t possessed and doesn’t function as Afton built her to. She’s just another victim.
I think the real appeal of Ballora being Mrs. Afton is that the entire Afton family would have converted into animatronics. Mrs. Afton is like a loose hanging thread and it makes it a nice headcanon for some people.
Even if it DOES fall apart if you think about it too hard...
@@higueraft571 Oh yeah, it easily implies that William either accidentally got all of his family killed or intentionally did to all of them except CC. I think the other appeal is just seeing them all come together as animatronics and see the horror of how they've all changed and barely recognize each other
@@sketchstevens5859 Also that Ballora would be Ejected from Ennard if she were Mrs Afton, and that the main theory being her song...
written by someone with zero knoledge of the lore at all :V
@@sketchstevens5859 ...also the stuff in SB Implying she divorced and died naturally too
Actually, I think it's implied Vanessa's mother took her own life.
i think that ballora being built in the image of mrs. afton after she left makes more sense. like she is meant to represent her and they are still separate people here.
As a ballerina, im sad ballora wasnt used more as was just always there or just the theory of being Mrs Afton
Also if actual pointe shoes were shaped the ways hers were, it would be so painful. It kinda hurts to looks at lol (from someone whos been on pointe before but not recently bc im not sure if my feet are ready for pointe work again just yet)
I really wish that there could be confirmation or some cool easter egg in the games about ballora being Afton’s wife, because that’s such a horrifying concept! The idea of her being afraid and concerned about his actions, but being k*lled and melted into an animatronic before she could leave him could’ve added so much extra horror to sister location and william afton’s character as a whole.
She definitely wasnt, or she'd be kicked out of Ennard with Baby.
It's more implied she simply divorced him and/or died of cancer
I choose to believe in that unless Scott or SteelWool deny it, which I doubt will happen at this point. It's such a fun and terrifying concept! Even though Scott said Mrs. Afton wouldn't be too important to the plot, she could still be Ballora, since her character was barely used (honestly, not surprising considering FNAF's tendency to waste amazing characters). Even if it's not canon in the end, I like how they leave us enough space to believe it could be, specially with that Nannybot in SB
@@Elmamariameuamor Pretty sure Scott HAS denied it, stating that Mrs Afton plays little to no importance in the story, like Phone Guy/Phone Dude and the such.
@@higueraft571 I addressed that with my interpretation. It's not really a denial, considering how convoluted this lore is and who can be considered important or not
She certainly divorced him, as it was hinted in Sb audio tape but whether she died by her own hands or his, remains unknown. Maybe, he took revenge and killed her and then, staged it to look like she committed suicide but I personally think that he wouldn't go this far for the sanity of his kids, so it's better to believe that she died by her own hands instead
Regarding Molten Freddy, it’s always been odd to me how Funtime Freddy was the one leading them and being the voice of Molten Freddy, when Ballora seemed the most conscious out of the 3. Funtime freddy’s lines seemed pre recorded and party related, funtime foxy didn’t have a voice until UCN, whereas ballora’s lines seemed to be conscious like baby’s. At the very least I wish Molten Freddy had a Distorted Voice that was a Blend of all their Voices together.
also if Ballora *was* Mrs. Afton it seems unlikely that she would be so willing to kill her son and also agree to dump her daughter out of Ennard in Sister Location.
Mike says that they thought he was his dad, the one who killed her, according to the theorys
Ballora is one of my favorites from the entire series. I feel that she's really underrated, and I don't often see her talked about in the fandom.
Remember. she *Dances to forget* Certain events
ballora would have killed in help wanted, especially the vr version. Imagine seeing this tall, terrifying mannequin-esk animatronic crawling around in a dark room.
That would've been amazing
While I don't think there's any possibility of Ballora being possesed by Mrs. Afton, I think she was supposed to be modeled after her. It isn't unrealistic to consider the nootion that one possibility for William's wife to leave him is him focusing entirely on his work to the point of isolating himself from his family. When she left him and/or died, he built Ballora as a sort of twisted way of expressing his guilt. It makes me think all the Funtimes were modeled after the family that fell apart before his very eyes: Baby as his daughter, Freddy as his son with his little "protector" (Fredbear plush) Foxy since his son wore the foxy mask, Ballora as the wife that left him. I agree with you that Ballora is her own entity and not Mrs. Afton, but that doesn't exclude the theory that she may have been a tribute to how William drove her away.
I wish Ballora got a much bigger role in sister location or any other game she was my favorite.
Ballora and Baby have always been more of my favorite animatronics. I feel like she has so much potential and I hope that the help wanted sequel does her a bit more justice.
I couldn't believe she wasn't in help wanted the thought of a humanoid metal dancing mom crawling around like a spider would make me cry
been thinking the same, that Ballora is possesed by their mother. I was thinking the whole gang was a twisted reflection of what William Afton wishes their family could be.
Wasn't really expecting a video today! Loved it as always.
Ballora has always intrigued me especially since we don't know much about her personality and such. Might be why she kinds unnerves me a bit. And god I forget she crawls like that. 😭
I love Pizza Mom. Her musicbox, her poem, and her two modes as graceful dancer and nightmare spider clown. A trend I've noticed from watching your videos is that most of my favorite characters tend to get tossed to the side. Mangle, Puppet (and Nightmarion), Bellora, Enard, and even Baby. All those characters have interesting, unique and super creepy elements that make them really interesting to me, but because everything has to be Wills fault, he gets the spotlight and they get pushed off.
I think what I'd like most out of FNAF in the future is more spin offs/side games just centered around underused characters, like AR was.
I think that Ballora is Mrs Afton because even Scott told us in his own way. In the Freddy Files, when you read the description of Funtime Freddy it says "Funtime Freddy's audio semms to be pre-recorded and realtes to kids and birthday parties, unlike BALLORA and Circus Baby's audio wich is more complex". Now I think she is possessed by Mrs. Afton also because of the song she sings where she seems to describe Elizabeth's room from Fnaf 4, (as MatPat said in one of his old video). It may then turn out that it is not possessed by Mrs. Afton but by someone else, but that it is possessed by someone is quite clear to me. If I have to add one more detail, even in Security Breach in the Easter egg where the Afton family is represented by the Staff Bots, it seems to have some resemblance to Ballora. (sorry for my English im not that good and i dont knowif everything is alright)
Ah, this is a nice way to wake up! This was a great analysis for a character that didn’t have much if any characterization, so nice job. Bonus kudos for sounding so confident, you’ve come a long way from the ai voice in a pretty short time and that’s awesome! Can’t wait for the next video!
Thank you, Bud. ^_^
Thank you so much for making this. I’m just re-entering the FNAF theorizing world, and I was dying to hear someone talk about Ballora. “She might be Afton’s wife” really seems like a thread that should be untangled. Mrs. Afton doesn’t really come up much, and we’ve (probably) never seen her, but I’m not ready to write her off as a Dead Disney Mom who logically has to exist for some characters to be born but isn’t really a character herself. Frankly, in a story like this, a mother doesn’t have to exist. The story could’ve been that William kidnapped and maybe brainwashed 3 kids to make his own family and it wouldn’t even come close to being the craziest thing he got away with. If William had a wife, she probably did things that influenced the story other than birth children.
That said, I don’t believe she’s possessing Ballora. I think all 4 of the animatronic from Baby’s band are representative of the Afton family (Ballora was inspired by Mrs. Afton, Baby was inspired by Elizabeth, and the Funtimes are new iterations of Michael’s and CC’s favorite animatronics, Foxy and Fredbear), but Baby is the only one who is truly possessed. The others are infused with Remnant to make them more “alive,” but I assume the process of isolating Remnant sanitizes it of any memories or personalities of a particular person. Still, she can probably tell us something about who Mrs. Afton is/was.
One idea I had for Ballora in help wanted is she’s actually the one responsible for Ennard being in game with her ai being used to dictate how Ennard was supposed to act in their games. This is entirely unconfirmed but its weird that lolbit and bonnet get their own appearances but no ballora
Ballora is my favorite character. Her name just rolls off the tongue and I love her theme and design.
I am so glad I happened upon your channel! The things you say sound like something I would come up with myself, but your way of wording them is MILES better than mine would ever be. I'd also like to point out your approach to theory building, it is very rational and never really goes overboard or trails too far away from the topic. Keep it up, and best wishes!
Oh, thank you so very much! ^_^
ballora really was robbed, i think it‘s a shame how ballora was underutitilized or barely adressed at all with how molten freddy was executed
Let's be honest, The best thing about Sister Location was it's characters
and its OST
@@Eyedeene the OST hits so hard omg
she deserves better 😭 she’s one of my favorite animatronics
I’m so happy you made a video about her!! She’s my absolute favorite fnaf character
Ballora is one of the spoopiest animatronics to me(she is really uncanny)
she do be making me act kinda sussy
So glad I became a fan recently, i think an extra long special of all these character analysis would be awesome! Hope you do more!
Thank you so much! And I will! 8D
And perhaps I might try a long special someday. ^_^
I subscribe to the Ooftroop Undeniably Canon interpretation of Ballora's relation to the Aftons. William Afton's ex-wife pissed him off so much that he made an animatronic specifically to spite her by being better at ballet than her. William Afton's ex-wife was an accountant with no interest in ballet, so this wasn't particularly difficult.
Ballora has so much potential both story and horror wise and i feel like shes never done proper justice, her FF story honestly sucks and misuses her, im glad to see lots of ballora love in this comment section she honestly deserves it
Ballora is my favorite animatronic for some reason. I find her so intriguing, and the fact that we know like nothing about her makes her so mysterious and cool to me. Love her color scheme too 💜
Ballora has always been one of my favorite animatronics
I don’t know how true this is, but I have my own opinion on the mother theory. (Honestly what I’m about to say might have been said by MatPat already but I don’t remember honestly)
I think Ballora could be Williams wife, but not literally (as in it’s not possessed by her). What if during (one of the many moments in William’s life) his wife left him. William in grief over his wife leaving him ends up making Ballora, as it reminds him of her and a complete family he used to have. This could cause the line of “Admit it, you wanted to let me in” to feel more like she’s talking to William in UCN, instead of Ballora making a joke about how hot she looks.
Or the line could be a product of hallucination that William experienced in UCN by the hands of Cassidy who tortures him mentally since he used to torture others when he was alive (especially during experiments that he conducted)
A nice little summary of her. A small fact about me is that I was actually terrified of her because of her jumpscare. Her sound and her endoskeleton creeped me out.
Im pretty sure ballora was named after the balor, a type of demon with its eyes sealed shut
Nope...Scott said the name ballora came from a spanish word I think? And it means ballet that's why- If you want a proof search some old interviews of scotts and his posts from his social medias...!
balor isn't a demon.
he's a giant in irish mythology that was defeated by the tua de danann when they discovered Ireland.
when he opened his eye he would cause entire armies to turn to stone
Clockwork Ballora kinda gives me Beast Wars Blackarachnia vibes.
idk why but this style of video has such a nostalgic vibe, your voice is also pleasent to listen to while explaining things 👍
Ballora has always reminded me of the Other Mother from Coraline, with the calm voice and motherly energy contrasting her appearance and motives.
the most I can see Ballora being used for is a ballet school. (please don't bite my head off(
i never believed that ballora was mrs afton i feel like if she was she would have a more important role ballora just feels like a side character just like funtime foxy that makes up ennard/molten freddy also love your content and your one of the people who inspired me to talk about fnaf on my channel.
I been wanting this for a while 😅 THANKS
Was glad to see her get to be in help wanted 2!!
The theory is based on her songs more than her design. At least that's the impression I got
I'm not sure how I stumbled across your channel, but your content is really consistently good. Keep it up
Also. Scott had confirmed that Afton's wife exist. But that's she's just a minor character (or at least when he said it, now there's no telling if he changed plans somewhere along the line)
He's Scott Bloody Cawthorn. He almost certainly changed plans.
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He said that she isn't really important to the story, and judging by the fact that a random Sb audio tape about Williams divorce exists, then he is loyal to his word about Mrs Aftons irrelevance since the ex wife of William took own her life before the main events of Fnaf games, which makes her not important
I love ballora’s voice and design and I think she can do so much more if given another chance in the games
I've always thought of Ballora as a representation of Mrs. Afton rather than the actual person herself. This is reinforced for me by the Staffbot family in SB, but idk. Maybe we're all wrong and the writer of this series just doesn't want to make a girlboss slay. Oh well
Lmao i agree. I never trough she was ballora herself. Maybe we will see more things of Mrs.afton soon.They could at least said how she died or even if she died. But idk.
She cannot literally possess Ballora since she wasn't killed by Ballora or stuffed inside the suit. The Staffbot scene is only a reference to a popular fan theory, it doesn't try to tell us more than that.
One thing you left out is that in the Fazbear Frights book Dance with Me has a lot of connections with Motherhood and Mothers. Kasey the protagonist of the story has a troubled relationship with her Mother. She also meets a older women who gives her Grandmotherly advice, she's saved by the police by a other elderly women and the family that she stole the glasses from in the first place is a mother and daughter. It's just strange that the animatronic Ballora who is heavily theorize to be possessed by Mrs Afton the mother of the Afton kids, is in a story about Mothers and Motherhood. Coincidence? I think not!!
I still to this day get shivers down my spine after listening to Ballora singing in Sister Location
My biggest nitpick is HOW DOES THE UPPER FACEPLATES CLIP THROUGH THE HEAD PEICE.
I don't think his wife possesses ballora, I just think ballora represents her. William was clearly deranged and was more focused on the restaurant and animatronics than his family (see fredbear plush). Wouldnt be surprised if his wife left and he made ballora to cope.
8:44 she’s also made by Afton to represent his wife
I don't think that was confirmed anywhere.
Great video!
Around when SB came out I thought I had found evidence for the 'Ballora is Mrs Afton' theory (Even tho I never really liked it), but I'd made a bunch of assumptions then it fell apart at the main seam.
Theory in case anyone was interested:
* The Vanessa therapy CDs heavily imply that her mother committed suicide after the divorce.
* I believed that the family back story is not Vanessa's but Afton spinning a tale using his kids experience for inspiration.
* In SL after the night in the springlock suit, the workers who scooped Ballora are found hanged in her room. Hanging being an unfortunately common method of suicide.
* So Ballora killing in the way she died was the link.
Issue is the workers are actually one each in Ballora and Funtime Foxy's room, so it's not exclusive to Ballora, and no one's arguing that Funtime Foxy is Afton mom.
Ever since I heard the theory that she is Mrs Afton I wished that she was either the main villain of Sister Location trying to get revenge on William by possessing the player with the others and hunting him down or had a role like Glamrock Freddy where she aided the player to get out and get revenge on William. I feel like she had so much to offer and was just a huge let down. Still love her tho
Another great video like always and honestly if scott was going to make mrs afton possess an animatronic it should be funtime freddy. The reason I say this is because he shows up so much in the series. Like he was the main one to kick out baby, he was the main head of molten freddy and of the blob. It would make the fnaf 6 ending truly feel like the end of the aftons. Lastly it would just make mrs afton more interesting as a character
Ballora's big question reminds me of Vanny, feels so obvious in a way that you just can't help but doubt it.
I’ve always had this headcanon that William Aftons wife left him after the death of the crying child / Evan, and as a weird messed up coping mechanism he decided to sort of recreate his wife, resulting in ballora. I don’t think she’s actually possessing the animatronic.
Probably as a coping mechanism due to the fact that his ex wife took her own life after William turned her kids against her in court in a Sb audio tape, so maybe he felt slightly guilty for indirectly causing her death and depriving his kids of their mother
Perfect timing! I just finished playing through Sister Location!!
My thoughts: well, there's proof in her songs that she might be the mother, however, this would mean fun time foxy, and Freddy, are the only ones possessed by the MCI kids, which explains their very chaotic, Spacratic behavior, hence why bonbon exists in the 1st place. I think it's about an 87% chance of her being the mother. Especially from the cut nanny bot lines in the post it room, nanny bot mentions a divorce, which gives us Williams motive to killing her, there's a lot of evidence you kinda skimmed over, but not everybody can find everything!
Based on, likely
Actually, hell no. That falls apart if you think about it too hard
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Even though she doesn't have all too much going for her, I really like Ballora- ^^
Ballora was always the most terrifying and interesting to me, and one of the reasons is, after comparing her with all of the main-game animatronics, I’m pretty sure that she has the thinnest and SHARPEST TEETH. They are thinner and sharper than the nightmares. Was this a mistake, because this is ridiculous.
Personally, I really like the theory that Ballora is Mrs. Afton as I feel it adds a lot of substance to her and her relationship with Baby, who is her daughter. Even more so if we take into account the theories surrounding her death- did William kill her? Did she commit suicide out of grief from losing her children? Was it a complete accident? She represents everything I love about FNAF- the mystery and the open-ended questions that lead people to come to their own conclusions.
I never really thought Balora was posesed by Mrs Afton, more built in her image. Then her lines in UCN were explained by the game being Williams personal he'll, William wanted to be with his wife but was consumed by his work and killings.
No, I think it's the opposite actually, his (now ex) wife wanted to spend time with him but he rejected her and worked all the time instead. And also, the lines could be a product of hallucination that William experienced in UCN which is a place between heaven and hell and Cassidy took time to torture him mentally as revenge for all those years that he mentally tormented different people when he was alive