@@juliabp6057 Course, not saying they aren’t, I’m a fan of the FNAF books as a whole…well maybe not as a whole, but I do like a lot of them. But I think I speak for everyone where I can say that overall, the books have largely done more to complicate and confuse matters for the fan base than solve things.
@@juliabp6057 i commonly hear the opposite, the newer books are better and the old ones were kinda bad (specifically the second and third of the novels, afaik people didnt mind the first. they're also like obsurdly long for a book that should not be that long nor has the writing quality to sustain that length)
I like that you gave Cassidy that human side in the first half. Most people only see her as the bloodthirsty vengeful spirit out for Afton and nothing else. I'd like to think that she made sure The Bite Victim got to move on (somewhat) peacefully before fully focusing on the Afton's revenge and torture in UCN. Like, by that point it's only her left in the suit.
I agree 100%. I love the psychotic little girl trope, but most of the time that’s ALL people see in her which just isn’t fair. She can be a sadistic, bloodthirsty little girl AND care for others.
I like that you gave Cassidy that human side in the first half. Most people only see her as the bloodthirsty vengeful spirit out for Afton and nothing else. I'd like to think that she made sure the Bite victims got to move on ( some what) peacefully before fully focusing on the Aftons revage and torture in ucn. Like, by that point it's only her left in the suit
The funniest part about fnaf world being created by Cassidy is that either Cassidy created scott cawthon, or Cassidy found Scott's pocket dimension and took it over.
Imagine Cass created an oc that is an avatar for middle age guy, and made back stories like: "This guy is a game developer, he's actually our god, and we're just video game characters."
What I like in this interpretation, is that it puts the focus on what I think the story of the original games was: the murdered children possessing the animatronics. In all honesty, at least in the first games, William was never the main plot point. Plus the less supplementary material with dubious placement in the games' continuity, the better.
Thats so true. Just him explaining the happiest day like that made me feel genuine emotions. Thats what art is meant to do right? I wish the story would be more focused on the kids, cuz comparing this concept to the william family bs is night and day. Im realizing i couldnt give less of a f*ck about william and his family drama 😂 id much rather the kids and the animatronics themselves be more of a focus. Its like comparing a family sitcom with magical soul goop, to a real, genuine, and human/emotional story.
"William was never the main plot point" I dunno, FNaF 3 kinda disagrees with you... Actually, FNaF 2 and 1 disagrees with that notion, since it was William who started all of this. William killed the kids, William said "you can't" to Freddy in FNaF 2, William is Springtrap, the original trilogy ended with us killing William, the Scott era ended with us burning William and him suffering in hell. William is just as much as part of the story as the kids. The story of the original game wasn't just murdered kids possess the animatronics, it was murdered kids possess the animatronics in search of _revenge._ If you remove William from the equation, FNaF can not happen, simple as that.
@@L1z43vr FNaF3 really depends if you look at the gameplay or the minigames. The minigames clearly show the souls getting their revenge. The main gameplay shows us the consequences of that revenge. FNaF 1 and 2 barely use William. In FNaF 1 he is barely even mentioned, appearing only in the easteregg news clippings. In FNaF 2 we do see him a bit more, but at the same time we are still basically given nothin about him other than he murders. We are given way more bout the children (Give gifts give life, give cake, post night cutscenes). And even if William did murder them, it doesn't immediately make him the main point of the story. I am not saying that he doesn't matter in the story, I'm just saying that the original story was way more focused on the kids. The game took a more William centric story only in FNaF:SL, and even there (at the time it was released) he wasn't really the main plot element.
@@L1z43vr william didnt. the spring bonnie killer did. it never mattered who it was, there were never any motive, there were never any higher position at the company, no explanation on how he got the suit. barley any indication the suits were used for anything other than corpse disposal. purple guy was just some normal serial killer that targetted the freddies restaurant chain using regular serialkiller methods. yes, the kids, the animatronics wanted revenge but it was mindless revenge on all adults and especially security guards.
Cassidy being the one to make fnaf world, and thus just being able to create all of UCN makes SO MUCH SENSE in context, like this theory is one of the few I've watched where I can't find much I can disagree with, like it's very much a storybook ending of sorts, but works REALLY WELL with the rest of the series.
@@Hex.A.Decimal Don't know much about the books but I remember how William dies there, would make sense that if she made fnaf world and the minigames with the arcade cabinents (hence the 8 bit) that she made UCN from all the electronics william fell into.
At this point I think this is what “solving FNAF” should be about. Less complicated/insane theories and more using what information we have to interpreted details to form a cohesive and satisfactory narrative. This has to be one of the best structured theories I have come across un a while, well done :)
I also love the idea that William’s first victim and his most violent victim doing what he was never able to do (putting BV back together). I think another aspect might be that Cassidy needed BV out of the way to have full control over UCN and be able to properly torture William. I also wonder if the “multiple and simultaneous springlock failures” mentioned in Fnaf 3 could refer to Cassidy on the tail end of the MCI
This is honestly really heartwarming. I feel like too often in this franchise both the creator(s) and the fans get so caught up in brutality and murder, and I love the idea of CC getting to grow, to find friends, and find his happiest day. I want to believe this so bad.
I'd always assumed Golden Freddy was pissed because I genuinely believe Cassidy's death was far more brutal and violent than the others, but the idea of a spring lock death? That just makes everything even more f-cked up than it already was. And when you pointed out the way Springtrap twitches in FNAF 3 and the Way Golden Freddy does in UCN, something just clicked. I can't even imagine how frustrated Cassidy would have been. Imagine going through one of the worst fates a game series has ever created, only to be stuck and not be able to move, almost as if you have a sleep paralysis demon keeping you from moving. It's so sick and twisted. And yet, it really would explain a lot. My biggest problem with Cassidy being more of a violent death was that I couldn't come up with a death more violent than what happened to the MCI kids. It never even *occured* to me to come up with a springlock death. Yeah, that'd make me pretty mad. Something else about this theory that works is the explanation for FNAF 3. I always thought it odd that Golden Freddy wasn't around lore wise. It makes sense Cassidy isn't there. She thought William was dead.
I like to think Cassidy was a bit of a fighter, maybe taking a few other (non-fatal, possibly running into stuff in a panic) blows before William finally caught her and decided she deserved worse.
@calip7446 that's what my thinking was. I just wasn't sure what could be more brutal than that. Didn't even cross my mind that a deliberate spring lock failure was what William chose as his method for Cassidy
@@intuitionedits2.032 She nearly got away. She thought she would make it and maybe tripped. But William thought she tried a bit too hard to get away to go out like the others.
This is PHENOMENALLY well written. I loved every second of it. The only thing it's missing is the part where Cassidy herself finally decides to move on
considering Freddy fazbears was located in a small town in the middle of Utah back in the early 80s, it kinda makes sense that Cassidy would know CC at least slightly. The son of one of the more successful men in town and all that
The fact that’s Fnaf worlds map is shaped like brain tells us how Cassidy’s powers work. It’s a type of possession/dream possession/ dream walking, she can make constructs in this spirit dream world. This also explains how she kills, she gives people brain death
I recently saw a video that went deep into Burntrap's design in game, and when looking at it up close, it made me realize that the suit itself looked almost organic. The "mask" looked like it was his skull, there were purple veins all over the inside of the suit, two of the fingers were made out of bone, and most hauntingly of all was that it looks like it was actively changing the Mimic to be more like Springtrap. There's a lot of aspects to this theory that I'm calling "the Afton Parasite," but one of the biggest parts of it is that I think that Cassidy is the Blob, and that the Mimic is still around in Ruin, now mostly free of Burntrap, and why the Blob is inactive, is because Cassidy literally ripped the Afton Parasite off of the Mimic and then dragged him back into her torture chamber. What we see in Ruin is either her torturing William, or, a more terrifying scenario, perhaps William starting to infect the Blob, and Cassidy trying to stop him from taking over her. This might be my favorite interpretation of Burntrap, that gives us the best of both worlds, both being the return of Afton and the introduction for the Mimic, it gives more characterization for the Mimic and Cassidy, with the whole experience having some massive negative effects on the Mimic's mind, and showing that Cassidy either is crazy or went crazy after decades of just sitting around torturing her own killer, and it shows how far Afton's gone, to the point where he's unrecognizable as a human.
This is one of my favorite theories. It treats Cassidy as an actual character instead of a plot device for the story, and the same with the crying child, their stories and feelings and emotions are far too important for the story. This is a rlly great video overall !
@@chaoraiser2338 like most pre HW characters, she has the problem of barely being a character or being put in after Fnaf 4 so there wasn't much time to explain motivation, same thing happened with Mike, William, Henry, etc, Cassidy in particular is very egregious since she's supposed to be so important thanks to the context of UCN, just it was never explained properly since there wasn't enough time, along with not having too many (THEORETICAL) book parallels outside of Andrew.
@@JustABroom well yeah tho I wouldn't say barely a character I think she probably has a lot more going on then we know about that's probably even already been listed but we just didn't make a connection
I didn't expect this theory to go from fascinating to super sad. Like it's genuinely sad. But it all makes so much sense somehow. I have always believed that every game is connected somehow and BV and Cassidy duo fixes quite a few issues imo. I love that you made a point that BV and the MCI kids helped each other
great theory. i do question how charlie fits into this, though, since she clearly has a lot to do with happiest day and the sheparding of the souls. it feels a little weird if she just comes in right at the end and cassidy was responsible for setting up everything else
I mean that’s where stuff like Puppet stuff comes in and adds a lot more of an arch to her actions. I think first and foremost in this theory she’s the guardian who actually wants to help the kids purely out of kindness, and I think still plays a part in everything. I think Charlie herself is the one with the power to put the final cake on the table, given that they just sit there until she does it.
This is now my personal favourite interpretation of FNAF. Regardless of this being proven or disproven i believe this is the best story contructed from FNAF.
This is really great. I've honestly never looked at Fnaf World like that but it makes a lot of sense. This explanation just feels very satisfying to me. I really love the idea that Golden Freddy took the Crying Child's life so now Golden Freddy is going to make it right and help him reach his happiest day. It feels very poetic.
I like the idea that (kinda llke Cassie and Gregory), Cassidy was a friend of the bite victim in life. It makes the rest of your theory all the better because by the time of pizza sim, Cassidy would have known William in life from when she was friends with BV, and then helped his son move on from the trauma that William never would have helped with. Cassidy would have all the more reason to hate William.
Hm, I actually like this conclusion. It fits nicer than anything else and doesn't rely on the books (except for the logbook but that's the only book that matters) or anything post UCN. It actually feels complete as a story.
This has to be one of the best theories I’ve seen in the recent years of FNAF. It gives a perfect explanation to UCN while also giving happiest day the weight it deserves. It also makes Cassidy a really great character and not some asshole who decided to prevent the other kids from passing on because she was angrier than the rest of them. Her being able to make constructs of the spirits instead of trapping them with her fits so much better and also fits so well into the original supernatural aspect that made FNAF so scary in the first place. Top tier writing on this one if I do say so myself, Sire.
This is probably the most bittersweet and satisfying theory I've seen in a long time. You managed to tie everything together so nicely. It gives the MCI/BV a whole new meaning and depth I never even considered. I've never wanted to believe in a theory being canon this badly lol.
I know this is technically a theory video but IMO you really have a knack for character analysis and truly understand these characters. Its a shame that while FNAF has some great fan animators, the idea of Michael, Cassidy, Charlie and the rest of the MCI kids all coming together to give Mike's little brother his happiest day back allowing him to move on, while Springtrap tries to kill Michael in the background would be amazing and heartwarming to see.
I have no idea why I decided to put off watching this video for so long. This is amazing! I've always been fond of the idea of Cassidy wanting to help BV, but seeing it told like this really just puts into perspective on how amazing and heartwarming it is from a narrative standpoint. Not to mention a bit mind blowing in some areas. I never thought about the symbolism of BV being hurt and killed by Fredbear, only to be helped by the spirit of that possesses that same animatronic! Nor how since Cassidy can create entities in UCN, she's the glowing eyes in FNaF World, since I always thought it was Charlie. It's also just nice to see Cassidy be a more in depth character here instead of just "the angry one who wants to torture William" and nothing else. She has motives and goals. She does want to make Afton suffer of course, but before she does that she needs to help out her friends. And then that part where you talk about Afton having his power and control taken away due to Cassidy caring about and helping their friends is just...ahh! It's so good! This is FNaF! This is why I love FNaF's story! If this theory doesn't make Cassidy, this little, most likely younger than 10, year old girl seem like the most badass little girl you have ever then I don't know what will! Definitely my most favorite video from you by far. Need to catch up with the rest of them now lol
THIS GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS OH MY GOD. This was show stopping, amazing, phenomenal, never been done before. Like THIS is truly how to tell a story with FNAF, this was what FNAF was always meant to be. You truly did put the pieces all together
I wonder if Cassidy's ability to create things like World and UCN is also tied to accessing other the memories of other spirits. The reason for the FNAF 3 minigames and World having normal endings that aren't important might be because she pieced them together from real arcade games she and the other MCI kids played. This might even be how we access the secret minigames in FNAF 6. Cassidy is at that location somehow (source: they burn us), and she uses the arcade games to show Michael memories. And these would all be memories that Michael would especially want to know. With Fruity Maze, she glitches the same game Susie played and shows us Susie's memories. In Security Puppet, she shows us Charlie's memories. And in Midnight Motorist, there's a normal way to play the arcade, but if you go a different and secret route, she's able to show us William's memories. (William has technically been dead and a spirit since Follow Me) As for FNAF World, it's possible the reason for the normal ending and Adventure Fredbear is that it's a limitation of her ability to create "spaces" using arcade games. Arcade games aren't designed to be esoteric ghost worlds, they're supposed to be played through normally, so to construct it using memories, Cassidy has to put the ghost stuff into secrets and easter eggs. Which is why Adventure Fredbear does seem to know some things, but is guiding you on the normal ending. That's Cassidy limited by programming, but all you have to do is wait for it to glitch and she guides you the right way. And for the FNAF 3 minigames, she can put the pieces in place, but it's up to the BV to find them himself. Granted, there is the "puppet-master" so it might not just be a natural limitation, but maybe that's Shadow Freddy and RXQ is the player character in FNAF World? It would tie into Shadow Freddy being around in FNAF 3 and RXQ being a character in the minigames. And then for UCN, she might use memories from the other spirits to create it, but maybe not since they've moved on. But there is one spirit who has a lot of memories she can use: William.
I really appreciate seeing a good post-Dream Theory explanation for the ties between Psychic Friend Fredbear and Glitchbear. That's a big selling point of this narrative. The Charlie/MCI and Cassidy/CC parallelism also works brilliantly. It's even tempting to suggest that Ewan/Andrew was supposed to be a parallel to this relationship between Cassidy and CC. Your point from the earlier video about interpreting Cassidy's death as a springlock failure also helps to solve the problem of the MCI-era FNaF 3 phone call mentioning "multiple and simultaneous springlock failures": I've always been convinced that it had to mean William getting springtrapped, and that's a nightmare from a timeline perspective. Even if you squint at the wording and make it mean the Bite of 83, it's hard to see how that works. The death of the one you should not have killed, on the other hand, works.
I think Cassidy was either a spring-lock incident like explained in this video, or they was an experiment victim [Dittophobia], which would give them basically a huge reason to get revenge in the way they did in UCN, and not seem like an overkill because William basically manipulated Rory into staying in the experiment chambers, or the fnaf 4 house. Although its a cool theory, I dont think there's much connection other than the fact that it justifies UCN and her vengance.
Squawks, I found you just over a year ago. I don't know if you will see this but I whole heartedly enjoy your videos, your live streams, everything. This theory has genuinely brought me to tears. Be proud of the work and effort you put into your theories / videos - Your storytelling, explanations and humour make them worth the hour, 20 mins, 10 mins or whatever the length is every single time. Thank you so much
This theory completely rocks. Cassidy taking the main character role of the mci freeing everyone and still staying behind as a vengeful spirit. Obviously not what scott intended but this IS cannon for me
@@siresquawks meant to say is that i don't think scott had any of this lore in his mind when making the first 4 games and after that the lore kinda focused on william. As someone who has recently come back to see fnaf theories, the mci plotline never really struck me as having this much potential. Good to be proven wrong
Ah I see, I get that. And I agree. I think Scott’s a bit like Akira Toryiama (Dragon Ball Manga creator) in how he’s more of a consistent improviser and can achieve pretty solid stuff with it (with some missteps along the way).
To me this is the original FNAF story, i was blown away watching this, how things make so much sense, i was kinda like the crying child, having to put the pieces together and you through this video helped me put it together and finally understand it all, from all this years learning the lore but only in separate pieces and not something consistent like in this video, i thank you for that, now the pieces are finally together.
The idea that Cassidy was spring locked when shoved into the suit is such a gruesome idea but makes so much sense. Like you said it explains the twitching the ghostly presence the indomitable will similar to Aftons. They say that agony is what powers remnant one of the reasons springtrap it's so resilient in my mind is the amount of agony he's been able to endure therefore powering his amount of remnant whenever you apply this to Cassidy it all kinda clicks. Mind blowing in my opinion thanks, I always wondered what people meant by she had the most violent death and never thought of her being springlocked because it was never outwardly implied if she was or wasn't shoved in a suit, at least not that i ever saw.
This is so good I think this is one of your best ones yet. I like the emphasis on the contrast between the cute fnaf world select screen made by cassy, to help someone. And the grim realistic fnaf ucn select screen, made by cassy, to torture someone. All this really works to the point that I'm sure this has to be how it really went
The bite victim is a very interesting character because they're an outsider They're the only spirit not killed by William or by his creation specifically designed to kill somebody if he's mad at anybody, it's his brother, not his father which I feel like puts him in the perfect position to help the other spirits move on because he's not holding on to that anger
Cassidy is my favourite character and this is one of the only interpretations that really gets what I like about her and what I think was intended by them. It really is about that full circle moment of revenge. She’s angry and vengeful but the best revenge is to help the mci move on ucn is like her own inability to move on it she’d sacrifice she must continue with her purpose. A great video for a great charcater
I think this basically solves every issue i've had with previous theories. Cassidy not being important. Andrew somehow existing even though he doesnt feel like he thematically fits into the storytelling of the series. Having cassidy and BV's relationship make since through fnaf world and the logbook. This us how i will intrepret the franchise from now on amd nobody can tell me otherwise.
even if I disagree with the UCN portion of the video (because of Stitchline lol), this is exactly what i think cassidy is and i feel SO vindicated that someone came to the same conclusion, because people called me crazy for thinking Cassidy had any character at all. really really great stuff!
I think this is my favorite "theory" (it's 100% canon, I will not be hearing otherwise) about the subject of Cassidy. It's a almost bitter sweet ending
I often put on fnaf videos in the background because I love this community, but this was the first time i’ve had a jaw dropping moment because of a fnaf theory. I’ve never thought about Cassidy being springlocked, which makes complete sense as to why she would be the vengeful spirit. There are just so many things about this theory makes sense. great vid
This was awesome and very well put together, though I feel Cassidy wasn't alone in this plan as Charlie is the most likely candidate to talk to BV after he dies, is there wherever Golden and is around, is the one who tried to help Cassidy along with the other MCI victims and is the only main animatronic besides Golden and to act self-aware in both UCN and FNAF World. I personally feel that the Puppet was in on it the while time and wanted the same but just to try get Cassidy to move on and to help the others in the process and not to kill William.
Charlie isn’t the mostly likely candidate for the plush or the final scene. The only two characters to have any connection or awareness of Psychic Friend Fredbear are Mike, William, Crying Child, and Cassidy. In the final scene with the BV we can hear a flatline as he fades out, and Mike talks to him earlier in the scene, meaning that moment occurs in a hospital with human characters capable of interacting with him. William has Psychic Friend Fredbear in SL, and instructs Mike to put Elizabeth back together. Charlie shares one scene with the BV on screen and that’s happiest day itself. In fact, Cassidy is the only character post mortem to ever interact with the BV directly prior to happiest day to our knowledge. I do agree that the puppet is there along the way helping the spirits and protecting them.
Out of every FnaF video I have seen in my entire existence, this might be the most poetic, balanced, and overall satisfying. "Well done SireSquawks, well done mate'." -CM
That intro explaining how you’re not interested in using other peoples theory was golden. Ytbers like you are primordial in a sea of people just criticizing matpat or dawko etc. thank you for such great content 👏
Wonderful video as always, Squawks. I have two remaining thoughts which still lay in the back of my mind on Cassidy although maybe they're just because of ignorance. 1. Not super important but the age-old debate on Cassidy's gender. Primarily a girl name (although can be unisex), referenced as 'he' by Withered Chica, appearance and VA description could go either way. The way I think of it, Cassidy the child is female but, as Golden Freddy, referred to as male; not so different from the Puppet. 2. Has the theory of the BV and Cassidy sharing the body of Golden Freddy died down? I always found it curious and plausible but I haven't heard much about it lately. If they don't share the same host, it makes me wonder what Afton meant by "putting him back together", what caused him to (seemingly) abandon this goal, and the state of the BV's spirit and why it seems so unique compared to other spirits - although perhaps its because the BV isn't possessing an animatronic? Somewhat related and likely unanswerable right now, I'd love to know what shifted Afton's focus from the BV to seeking personal spiritual control and immortality.
1. I might need to do an updated version of my Gender rant. IMO it doesn't matter as much, plus there's just as much evidence in game for Cassidy being a Boy. 2. Yeah it's not as popular as it was when game theory used it. It's not implausible just kinda mixed on evidence. I don't consider it required for this video, it just the difference between "BV floats in soul void" vs "BV is part of golden freddy".
@@siresquawksDoing some reflection, I guess there isn't anything game-wise which necessitates BV and Cassidy both in GF. The closest thing is "It's Me" but such a vague statement can mean anything. Anyway thanks for responding, I've always appreciated your interactivity with your community ^-^
It is fascinating. Cassidy, in inflicting endless torment on William, ironically becomes infinitely more evil than William himself. There is no doubt that William is a vile, despicable man, and I see no qualm with letting him experience every bit of torment and misery that he inflicted upon all of his victims. Ultimately though, the torment that William inflicted was finite. Those souls did eventually move on and find peace. Even at his worst, William never had the power to inflict infinite pain on any of his victims, and thus, genuine karma would not warrant an infinite punishment. As awful as he may have been, I can't feel comfortable saying that he deserves to be brutally tortured for eternity. He is to suffer for trillions upon trillions of years, only for his torment to not have even begun, as is the scale of eternity. I think that's far crueler than anything that William himself ever did, even if he was a horrific monster.
I heavily disagree honestly. Should Henry and others have not stepped in- the suffering of the kids would have been infinite. William hurt people for reasons that even under the most sympathetic of theories become quickly unjustifiable at the scale he'll continue onto. William in UCN gets dealt the hand he tried to deal to others- to suffer forever while he maintains power over them forever effectively. William was never going to show mercy- Cassidy won't in return.
@@siresquawks I expected that sentiment. By no means was William justified. His actions were evil and cruel. As for the children, while their suffering would have endured longer, even exponentially longer, had Henry and Michael not intervened, it would not have been infinite, as eventually the remnant containing their souls would have been destroyed by some means (i.e, the destruction of the Earth by the sun in 7.6 billion years, though something else would probably destroy it before that). Their suffering might have lasted an incomprehensibly long time (and I see no qualm with William experiencing all of that pain), but, by the nature of the material world, it could never have been infinite, even if William had wanted it to be. And even assuming that William had intended for the spirits to truly suffer forever, I can hardly call the ending of Cassidy torturing him permanently to be appropriate as a punishment. At best, Cassidy is sinking to the same level as William in the afterlife. What William did is monstrous and inhuman, but in our real life conceptions of justice, an evil act, while worthy of punishment, hardly warrants another evil action. For example, If, hypothetically, a man kills my daughter, it would not be just for me to kill his daughter in return. William wouldn't have shown mercy, and that's unjustifiable, but it is similarly unjustifiable for Cassidy to act that way. That isn't to say that I disagree with the theory. I do agree with it for the most part, but I think that Cassidy becoming like William is a tragedy.
This, in my opinion is your best video to date, Sire. True lab for this was an impeccable choice. I keep thinking of 'bad memories' from Memory Head when I think of Cassidy and BV. I left a long post about the connection between Shadows, Code, and Cassidy (Oh My!) on your last video. But it kept getting shadow banned by YT. So I gave up. ((I personally think Bite Victim didn't die until after the MCI. Maybe he was in a coma for a decade, semi-aware of what happened at Freddy's. Maybe he even saw the MCI... Or at least ONE of them. I think he had 'the sixth sense' if you will. The children moved on using his memories of them. They all stuck 30 years around for him. They were his friends. But it doesn't really matter for your theory.)) Cassidy drowned. I don't understand when or where or the significance. I don't know if this is metaphorical, and they drowned in code, in vengence. Or if this is literal (as suggested in AR) and Golden Freddy took a forced dive and was taken to the river and dropped into the water. But the symbolism is used repeatedly, only around them. I agree with eveything in this video, minus what was in the box. I think we have seen into the box. I think we see into it when we, too, drowned in FNaF World. The pieces are a family reunion and a favourite show. Also, one question. Do you think it is possible that Cassidy either shared Goldie with BV or gave it to them?
I love this, for one cause it’s my favorite version of this story that I’ve always thought was true/wanted to be true, and it’s just beautiful and sad at the same time
It would be great if we had CC backstory that if he ever knew Andrew, Cassidy, and the other missing children and that he was a normal kid before he became the known as the crying child which makes me think is the reason he doesn’t have many friends
You watch ONE eight hour essay on the five nights at Freddy's lore and suddenly that's all that's on your feed. I don't mind though 😁 I loved these games from the very beginning, it's hard to think I was a middle schooler in 2014 and that 9 years have actually passed.
I honestly love the idea that Cassidy was able to put the Bit3 Victim together I also think that this helps to further support the idea that both the Bite Victim and Cassidy were both inside of Golden Freddy at one point or another I do think this supports the idea that the books are a parallel to the games, at least somewhat. It would sense that the Stitchwraith parallels Golden Freddy, and this is further supported with Andrew paralleling Cassidy, Jake paralleling the Bite Victim, and one of the two spirits sharing an animatronic being blind
a well done video, I never noticed thought about the twitching being a connection thus making Cassidy fall under 2 different type of revenge ("Simple Revenge" and "Collective Revenge" (the Latter falling for all animatronics)).
Personally I think Cassidy and the bite victim were best friends when they were alive. And the reason Cassidy is “the one you shouldn’t have killed” is because by killing Cassidy, William had taken away his son’s only friend. Which would’ve lead to the inevitable bite. But that’s just how I interpret “the one you shouldn’t have killed” since realistically William shouldn’t have been killing anyone🤷♂️
Great theory! My best guess for needing to put the pieces in place for "him" was that maybe whoever we're playing as in FNAF World is setting up the hints for Michael in FNAF 3 somehow. I guess it doesn't make sense from a realistic point of view, but then are the things you have to click on to access the minigames just gameplay stuff and Mike didn't actually do anything? Were the minigames just happening in some other realm while Mike was dealing with the real world stuff (a.k.a. Springtrap)? I like the idea you had of the "pieces" being the friends/party stuff for him to move on. I kind of hope Steel Wool makes a game someday that actually shows what's in the box. Maybe if they had a flashback segment or if you went to the Afton's house or something. That'd be cool, but maybe unlikely, lol.
This is a great take on Cassidy. I mean actual good stuff but there’s a few questions I got about this. Mainly what IS the relationship with between Cassidy (plus other MCI,) and the Crying Child? Why do they care so much about CC? A kid that’s NOT original part of MCI. He died way before the other 6. If we are going with route that Happiest Day and Fnaf World is for the Bite Victim. Trying to put him back together and trying to help him. If anything wouldn’t it make more sense to go through all this trouble for someone in the Original kids group? Not to mention him also being the Son of the man that murder them. I mean maybe Cassidy doesn’t know he’s an Afton. But still why treat him so well? Heck why is the Bite Victim so Important in general for the other kids to move on!? Also another one last thing, how does Cassidy know so much about CC life? Were they there when it happen? The only way I think justified or explain is the MCI, Charlotte, or Cassidy knew the Bite Victim before he died. But the evidence for that is very lacking. Considering There was No one at CC birthday besides FoxyBro and his bullies. Unless it is a situation with Cassie backstory in SB Ruin. Where the bite victim DID have friends but they just didn’t show up the party. And I know a very common headcanon I’ve heard. Is that Charlie/Charlotte knew the bite victim and was friends with them in life. If y’all don’t know the idea behind this is simply. Their Dads worked with each other so their kids also knew each others. Personally I am NOT the biggest fan of this. Mainly because realistically that’s not completely how that works. I mean yeah sometimes this happens in real life. But just because your parents work with other adults doesn’t mean you know their families and stuff. Yes, I know am using the term realistically in a series about Ghost Children and killer robots. Bear with me. Hehe BEAR. Lol. Plus this video is using Cassidy as the one behind Fnaf World and Not Charlie so it wouldn’t fit anyway. Plus again, you figure the Happiest Day stuff would only really be for the MCI plus Charlie. The kid that was actually murder. So how does CC fit in the group to make it work?
How Cassidy knows who the BV was is a mystery, but I think it's specifically because he's an Afton that he's the focus of Cassidy. Not only is he basically a blind ghost in the void meaning he objectively needs more help than the others, but also if William's goal at all involves bringing him back it steals that chance from him. Plus, I think the BV is one of the few spirits who's sort of inherently free of revenge, even Charlie starts the series as scared of William and willing to attack guards, but BV never wanted to hurt anyone, so I wonder if that lack of hate is needed to help the others move on.
@@siresquawks Hmmm, that’s interesting idea. Hate the father but love the son to move on. Actually since I got your attention. One of my friends that watches your channel actually came up with another MCI theory. I figured why now tell you and let me know what you think. Now the evidence for this is also kind of lacking and I am a bit mixed on it myself. This is what if the kids of MCI and the bullies from Fnaf 4 are somehow more connected? This idea is basically the MCI kids are the younger siblings of the three Fnaf 4 Masks Bullies. The idea is that MCI victims wouldn’t completely random victims that ran into William. But he specifically sought out these 5 and a act of revenge for his youngest kid that died due to them. It’s a same principle of Charlie murder. Which we know was more so a way to hurt Henry. Now there is one flaw with this is it has to due with the kid possessing Foxy aka Fritz. Which makes him the odd one out as the only kid that randomly murder. Again a bit mix on this theory myself and just wanted to get your view point in.
ugh i feel so late to this! it's been awesome seeing how excited u were about the process making this video, and cassidy is one of the coolest characters in the game!!! i agree with everything u said in this, u totally nailed it!
I like to believe that Cassidy from her beginnings as a spirit to UCN is similar to the idea of William’s actions in MCI, she did it correctly in her task to get vengeance and free the other 4 kids but in UCN, she gets carried away like how William got carried away killing Cassidy by brutally torturing and killing her.
This is such a good video. Narratively it is just so satisfying and makes so much sense for the story at the time. I love it, I miss old FNAF sometimes 😂 this makes me miss it
So, some interesting connections I made in my brain regarding this. Building on GoldenDuo and MoltenMCI Alter-S, not only does it explain why those two spirits specifically are in the logbook, they're present in FNAF 3 inside Springtrap, but it also provides some interesting extra context to Glitchbear's line about the Flipside being a "safe place". The implication here is that FNAF World and UCN are happening simultaneously, and FNAF World is a safe place that Cassidy made for Evan inside of UCN. I don't know if you still believe in GoldenDuo (or even if you did in the first place and I'm just misremembering) but I feel like that's a pretty interesting thing to consider.
IDK if you will answer, but let me see if i get what you're saying: Cassidy creates FNAF World so that BV memories(AKA the pieces) are put back together, BV then helps the souls using his memories and when they are all brought together, CC gets his happiest day, the party he never got, with his new friends. Is that it?
Stitchline believers move on, this is a Cassidy channel. In all seriousness though, I really find the notion that Andrew is the vengeful spirit unbelievable. Not only is the evidence for it scanty, but he simply doesn't have the same gravitas as Cassidy. He's clearly meant to be a parallel, but he's an inferior knock-off as far as I am concerned. As soon as Jake wakes up, he was able to usurp control of their body and prevent Andrew from doing most things. Cassidy is much more powerful and much less easily appeased.
Bro please do a timeline video, I’d love to see all your thoughts and opinions on it! Absolutely love the theory, everything lines up so cleanly 💯, please keep making more content
God damn, this interpretation is why I fell in love with the games when I got into the series years back. It’s a story about loss, revenge, and ultimately acceptance. You feel like you went on a journey with these kids that got senselessly murdered in their innocence by a sick person, their anger in chasing their murderer and getting revenge, and ultimately getting their happiest day that they never got and being released after DECADES of suffering. I wish the games ended at UCN at least, but we can’t have nice things.
I love the irony through cassidy and william that fredbear and bonnie went from best friends and costars to sworn enemies
SAME it’s fucking hilarious
“No books, no short stories, no modern games.” - music to my ears.
The first three books are pretty good, though.
@@juliabp6057 Course, not saying they aren’t, I’m a fan of the FNAF books as a whole…well maybe not as a whole, but I do like a lot of them. But I think I speak for everyone where I can say that overall, the books have largely done more to complicate and confuse matters for the fan base than solve things.
All alone
@@juliabp6057 i commonly hear the opposite, the newer books are better and the old ones were kinda bad (specifically the second and third of the novels, afaik people didnt mind the first. they're also like obsurdly long for a book that should not be that long nor has the writing quality to sustain that length)
@@Sopsy_Hallowwho the fuck have u been hearing from
I like that you gave Cassidy that human side in the first half. Most people only see her as the bloodthirsty vengeful spirit out for Afton and nothing else. I'd like to think that she made sure The Bite Victim got to move on (somewhat) peacefully before fully focusing on the Afton's revenge and torture in UCN. Like, by that point it's only her left in the suit.
I agree 100%. I love the psychotic little girl trope, but most of the time that’s ALL people see in her which just isn’t fair. She can be a sadistic, bloodthirsty little girl AND care for others.
I like that you gave Cassidy that human side in the first half. Most people only see her as the bloodthirsty vengeful spirit out for Afton and nothing else. I'd like to think that she made sure the Bite victims got to move on ( some what) peacefully before fully focusing on the Aftons revage and torture in ucn. Like, by that point it's only her left in the suit
The funniest part about fnaf world being created by Cassidy is that either Cassidy created scott cawthon, or Cassidy found Scott's pocket dimension and took it over.
Imagine Cass created an oc that is an avatar for middle age guy, and made back stories like:
"This guy is a game developer, he's actually our god, and we're just video game characters."
@@WalterUndergoI unironically want this to be canon
@@WalterUndergoimagine Cassidy is that one character that makes 4th wall jokes and references to cope
Scott Cawthon created Cassidy, who created Scott Cawthon, who created Cassidy...
@@pedroivog.s.6870and Scott Cawthon died in fnaf world
What I like in this interpretation, is that it puts the focus on what I think the story of the original games was: the murdered children possessing the animatronics. In all honesty, at least in the first games, William was never the main plot point.
Plus the less supplementary material with dubious placement in the games' continuity, the better.
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Thats so true. Just him explaining the happiest day like that made me feel genuine emotions. Thats what art is meant to do right? I wish the story would be more focused on the kids, cuz comparing this concept to the william family bs is night and day. Im realizing i couldnt give less of a f*ck about william and his family drama 😂 id much rather the kids and the animatronics themselves be more of a focus.
Its like comparing a family sitcom with magical soul goop, to a real, genuine, and human/emotional story.
"William was never the main plot point"
I dunno, FNaF 3 kinda disagrees with you... Actually, FNaF 2 and 1 disagrees with that notion, since it was William who started all of this. William killed the kids, William said "you can't" to Freddy in FNaF 2, William is Springtrap, the original trilogy ended with us killing William, the Scott era ended with us burning William and him suffering in hell. William is just as much as part of the story as the kids. The story of the original game wasn't just murdered kids possess the animatronics, it was murdered kids possess the animatronics in search of _revenge._ If you remove William from the equation, FNaF can not happen, simple as that.
@@L1z43vr FNaF3 really depends if you look at the gameplay or the minigames. The minigames clearly show the souls getting their revenge. The main gameplay shows us the consequences of that revenge.
FNaF 1 and 2 barely use William. In FNaF 1 he is barely even mentioned, appearing only in the easteregg news clippings. In FNaF 2 we do see him a bit more, but at the same time we are still basically given nothin about him other than he murders. We are given way more bout the children (Give gifts give life, give cake, post night cutscenes).
And even if William did murder them, it doesn't immediately make him the main point of the story.
I am not saying that he doesn't matter in the story, I'm just saying that the original story was way more focused on the kids. The game took a more William centric story only in FNaF:SL, and even there (at the time it was released) he wasn't really the main plot element.
@@L1z43vr william didnt. the spring bonnie killer did. it never mattered who it was, there were never any motive, there were never any higher position at the company, no explanation on how he got the suit. barley any indication the suits were used for anything other than corpse disposal. purple guy was just some normal serial killer that targetted the freddies restaurant chain using regular serialkiller methods. yes, the kids, the animatronics wanted revenge but it was mindless revenge on all adults and especially security guards.
Cassidy being the one to make fnaf world, and thus just being able to create all of UCN makes SO MUCH SENSE in context, like this theory is one of the few I've watched where I can't find much I can disagree with, like it's very much a storybook ending of sorts, but works REALLY WELL with the rest of the series.
Cassidy can make pocket worlds in code. She is a little author.
I kinda like it.
@@Hex.A.Decimal Don't know much about the books but I remember how William dies there, would make sense that if she made fnaf world and the minigames with the arcade cabinents (hence the 8 bit) that she made UCN from all the electronics william fell into.
sounds pretty satisfying thematically speaking
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For real life that is so awesome.
At this point I think this is what “solving FNAF” should be about.
Less complicated/insane theories and more using what information we have to interpreted details to form a cohesive and satisfactory narrative.
This has to be one of the best structured theories I have come across un a while, well done :)
I also love the idea that William’s first victim and his most violent victim doing what he was never able to do (putting BV back together). I think another aspect might be that Cassidy needed BV out of the way to have full control over UCN and be able to properly torture William. I also wonder if the “multiple and simultaneous springlock failures” mentioned in Fnaf 3 could refer to Cassidy on the tail end of the MCI
This is honestly really heartwarming. I feel like too often in this franchise both the creator(s) and the fans get so caught up in brutality and murder, and I love the idea of CC getting to grow, to find friends, and find his happiest day. I want to believe this so bad.
I'd always assumed Golden Freddy was pissed because I genuinely believe Cassidy's death was far more brutal and violent than the others, but the idea of a spring lock death? That just makes everything even more f-cked up than it already was.
And when you pointed out the way Springtrap twitches in FNAF 3 and the Way Golden Freddy does in UCN, something just clicked. I can't even imagine how frustrated Cassidy would have been.
Imagine going through one of the worst fates a game series has ever created, only to be stuck and not be able to move, almost as if you have a sleep paralysis demon keeping you from moving.
It's so sick and twisted. And yet, it really would explain a lot. My biggest problem with Cassidy being more of a violent death was that I couldn't come up with a death more violent than what happened to the MCI kids. It never even *occured* to me to come up with a springlock death. Yeah, that'd make me pretty mad.
Something else about this theory that works is the explanation for FNAF 3. I always thought it odd that Golden Freddy wasn't around lore wise.
It makes sense Cassidy isn't there. She thought William was dead.
Im assuming the MCI kids were just stabbed to death, while with Cassidy, William did much worse to her than just stabbing a few times
I like to think Cassidy was a bit of a fighter, maybe taking a few other (non-fatal, possibly running into stuff in a panic) blows before William finally caught her and decided she deserved worse.
@calip7446 that's what my thinking was. I just wasn't sure what could be more brutal than that. Didn't even cross my mind that a deliberate spring lock failure was what William chose as his method for Cassidy
@ZirconiaGacha that would be- really messed up
@@intuitionedits2.032 She nearly got away. She thought she would make it and maybe tripped. But William thought she tried a bit too hard to get away to go out like the others.
This is PHENOMENALLY well written. I loved every second of it. The only thing it's missing is the part where Cassidy herself finally decides to move on
I’m not sure it’s happened yet. I’m willing to bet she will after torturing Afton for a while. I doubt she’ll be that vengeful to keep at it forever.
considering Freddy fazbears was located in a small town in the middle of Utah back in the early 80s, it kinda makes sense that Cassidy would know CC at least slightly. The son of one of the more successful men in town and all that
The fact that’s Fnaf worlds map is shaped like brain tells us how Cassidy’s powers work. It’s a type of possession/dream possession/ dream walking, she can make constructs in this spirit dream world. This also explains how she kills, she gives people brain death
I recently saw a video that went deep into Burntrap's design in game, and when looking at it up close, it made me realize that the suit itself looked almost organic. The "mask" looked like it was his skull, there were purple veins all over the inside of the suit, two of the fingers were made out of bone, and most hauntingly of all was that it looks like it was actively changing the Mimic to be more like Springtrap.
There's a lot of aspects to this theory that I'm calling "the Afton Parasite," but one of the biggest parts of it is that I think that Cassidy is the Blob, and that the Mimic is still around in Ruin, now mostly free of Burntrap, and why the Blob is inactive, is because Cassidy literally ripped the Afton Parasite off of the Mimic and then dragged him back into her torture chamber. What we see in Ruin is either her torturing William, or, a more terrifying scenario, perhaps William starting to infect the Blob, and Cassidy trying to stop him from taking over her.
This might be my favorite interpretation of Burntrap, that gives us the best of both worlds, both being the return of Afton and the introduction for the Mimic, it gives more characterization for the Mimic and Cassidy, with the whole experience having some massive negative effects on the Mimic's mind, and showing that Cassidy either is crazy or went crazy after decades of just sitting around torturing her own killer, and it shows how far Afton's gone, to the point where he's unrecognizable as a human.
I’m aware of the Ooftroop video.
@@siresquawks *Happiness*
This is one of my favorite theories. It treats Cassidy as an actual character instead of a plot device for the story, and the same with the crying child, their stories and feelings and emotions are far too important for the story.
This is a rlly great video overall !
Ah yes, Cassidy. Either the most or least important character in Fnaf
I think they’re pretty important by this theory
I'd say both considering she's kinda a confusing Character
To me... Just a character. Influential, but not the center.
@@chaoraiser2338 like most pre HW characters, she has the problem of barely being a character or being put in after Fnaf 4 so there wasn't much time to explain motivation, same thing happened with Mike, William, Henry, etc, Cassidy in particular is very egregious since she's supposed to be so important thanks to the context of UCN, just it was never explained properly since there wasn't enough time, along with not having too many (THEORETICAL) book parallels outside of Andrew.
@@JustABroom well yeah tho I wouldn't say barely a character I think she probably has a lot more going on then we know about that's probably even already been listed but we just didn't make a connection
I didn't expect this theory to go from fascinating to super sad. Like it's genuinely sad. But it all makes so much sense somehow. I have always believed that every game is connected somehow and BV and Cassidy duo fixes quite a few issues imo.
I love that you made a point that BV and the MCI kids helped each other
great theory. i do question how charlie fits into this, though, since she clearly has a lot to do with happiest day and the sheparding of the souls. it feels a little weird if she just comes in right at the end and cassidy was responsible for setting up everything else
I mean that’s where stuff like Puppet stuff comes in and adds a lot more of an arch to her actions. I think first and foremost in this theory she’s the guardian who actually wants to help the kids purely out of kindness, and I think still plays a part in everything. I think Charlie herself is the one with the power to put the final cake on the table, given that they just sit there until she does it.
This is now my personal favourite interpretation of FNAF. Regardless of this being proven or disproven i believe this is the best story contructed from FNAF.
Genuinely same
This is really great. I've honestly never looked at Fnaf World like that but it makes a lot of sense. This explanation just feels very satisfying to me. I really love the idea that Golden Freddy took the Crying Child's life so now Golden Freddy is going to make it right and help him reach his happiest day. It feels very poetic.
I like the idea that (kinda llke Cassie and Gregory), Cassidy was a friend of the bite victim in life. It makes the rest of your theory all the better because by the time of pizza sim, Cassidy would have known William in life from when she was friends with BV, and then helped his son move on from the trauma that William never would have helped with. Cassidy would have all the more reason to hate William.
Maybe, but who knows.
Hm, I actually like this conclusion. It fits nicer than anything else and doesn't rely on the books (except for the logbook but that's the only book that matters) or anything post UCN. It actually feels complete as a story.
This has to be one of the best theories I’ve seen in the recent years of FNAF. It gives a perfect explanation to UCN while also giving happiest day the weight it deserves. It also makes Cassidy a really great character and not some asshole who decided to prevent the other kids from passing on because she was angrier than the rest of them. Her being able to make constructs of the spirits instead of trapping them with her fits so much better and also fits so well into the original supernatural aspect that made FNAF so scary in the first place. Top tier writing on this one if I do say so myself, Sire.
This is probably the most bittersweet and satisfying theory I've seen in a long time. You managed to tie everything together so nicely. It gives the MCI/BV a whole new meaning and depth I never even considered. I've never wanted to believe in a theory being canon this badly lol.
I know this is technically a theory video but IMO you really have a knack for character analysis and truly understand these characters. Its a shame that while FNAF has some great fan animators, the idea of Michael, Cassidy, Charlie and the rest of the MCI kids all coming together to give Mike's little brother his happiest day back allowing him to move on, while Springtrap tries to kill Michael in the background would be amazing and heartwarming to see.
I love this theory, pretty much perfectly lines up with how I’ve always personally viewed things happening
I have no idea why I decided to put off watching this video for so long. This is amazing! I've always been fond of the idea of Cassidy wanting to help BV, but seeing it told like this really just puts into perspective on how amazing and heartwarming it is from a narrative standpoint. Not to mention a bit mind blowing in some areas. I never thought about the symbolism of BV being hurt and killed by Fredbear, only to be helped by the spirit of that possesses that same animatronic! Nor how since Cassidy can create entities in UCN, she's the glowing eyes in FNaF World, since I always thought it was Charlie.
It's also just nice to see Cassidy be a more in depth character here instead of just "the angry one who wants to torture William" and nothing else. She has motives and goals. She does want to make Afton suffer of course, but before she does that she needs to help out her friends. And then that part where you talk about Afton having his power and control taken away due to Cassidy caring about and helping their friends is just...ahh! It's so good! This is FNaF! This is why I love FNaF's story! If this theory doesn't make Cassidy, this little, most likely younger than 10, year old girl seem like the most badass little girl you have ever then I don't know what will! Definitely my most favorite video from you by far. Need to catch up with the rest of them now lol
Love that you gave Cassidy and BV (still dumb we have no name for him) compelling arcs
I am gonna call BV Timmy until we get an actual name for him
@@smt64productions40or Chris Evan Kenny afton/Riley afton/Daniel afton/Garrett Schmidt/Garrett afton/the bite victim/The Crying Child
I love your theories, honestly, I think this works much better than Charlie being the Glitch Fredbear
THIS GAVE ME GOOSEBUMPS OH MY GOD. This was show stopping, amazing, phenomenal, never been done before. Like THIS is truly how to tell a story with FNAF, this was what FNAF was always meant to be. You truly did put the pieces all together
I wonder if Cassidy's ability to create things like World and UCN is also tied to accessing other the memories of other spirits. The reason for the FNAF 3 minigames and World having normal endings that aren't important might be because she pieced them together from real arcade games she and the other MCI kids played.
This might even be how we access the secret minigames in FNAF 6. Cassidy is at that location somehow (source: they burn us), and she uses the arcade games to show Michael memories. And these would all be memories that Michael would especially want to know.
With Fruity Maze, she glitches the same game Susie played and shows us Susie's memories.
In Security Puppet, she shows us Charlie's memories.
And in Midnight Motorist, there's a normal way to play the arcade, but if you go a different and secret route, she's able to show us William's memories. (William has technically been dead and a spirit since Follow Me)
As for FNAF World, it's possible the reason for the normal ending and Adventure Fredbear is that it's a limitation of her ability to create "spaces" using arcade games. Arcade games aren't designed to be esoteric ghost worlds, they're supposed to be played through normally, so to construct it using memories, Cassidy has to put the ghost stuff into secrets and easter eggs. Which is why Adventure Fredbear does seem to know some things, but is guiding you on the normal ending. That's Cassidy limited by programming, but all you have to do is wait for it to glitch and she guides you the right way. And for the FNAF 3 minigames, she can put the pieces in place, but it's up to the BV to find them himself. Granted, there is the "puppet-master" so it might not just be a natural limitation, but maybe that's Shadow Freddy and RXQ is the player character in FNAF World? It would tie into Shadow Freddy being around in FNAF 3 and RXQ being a character in the minigames.
And then for UCN, she might use memories from the other spirits to create it, but maybe not since they've moved on. But there is one spirit who has a lot of memories she can use: William.
I really appreciate seeing a good post-Dream Theory explanation for the ties between Psychic Friend Fredbear and Glitchbear. That's a big selling point of this narrative. The Charlie/MCI and Cassidy/CC parallelism also works brilliantly. It's even tempting to suggest that Ewan/Andrew was supposed to be a parallel to this relationship between Cassidy and CC.
Your point from the earlier video about interpreting Cassidy's death as a springlock failure also helps to solve the problem of the MCI-era FNaF 3 phone call mentioning "multiple and simultaneous springlock failures": I've always been convinced that it had to mean William getting springtrapped, and that's a nightmare from a timeline perspective. Even if you squint at the wording and make it mean the Bite of 83, it's hard to see how that works. The death of the one you should not have killed, on the other hand, works.
I think Cassidy was either a spring-lock incident like explained in this video, or they was an experiment victim [Dittophobia], which would give them basically a huge reason to get revenge in the way they did in UCN, and not seem like an overkill because William basically manipulated Rory into staying in the experiment chambers, or the fnaf 4 house. Although its a cool theory, I dont think there's much connection other than the fact that it justifies UCN and her vengance.
This has gotta be THE best interpretations of the bite victim and Cassidy I’ve ever seen. Practically everything lines up perfectly
I liked this, you are a good theorist
Thank
@@siresquawks yw, I've tried making theory videos, but they're not very good
Squawks, I found you just over a year ago. I don't know if you will see this but I whole heartedly enjoy your videos, your live streams, everything. This theory has genuinely brought me to tears. Be proud of the work and effort you put into your theories / videos - Your storytelling, explanations and humour make them worth the hour, 20 mins, 10 mins or whatever the length is every single time. Thank you so much
This theory completely rocks. Cassidy taking the main character role of the mci freeing everyone and still staying behind as a vengeful spirit. Obviously not what scott intended but this IS cannon for me
How is it “obviously not intended?”
@@siresquawks meant to say is that i don't think scott had any of this lore in his mind when making the first 4 games and after that the lore kinda focused on william. As someone who has recently come back to see fnaf theories, the mci plotline never really struck me as having this much potential. Good to be proven wrong
Ah I see, I get that. And I agree. I think Scott’s a bit like Akira Toryiama (Dragon Ball Manga creator) in how he’s more of a consistent improviser and can achieve pretty solid stuff with it (with some missteps along the way).
the classic sire “f you! fnaf world still matter.”and I love it so much.
To me this is the original FNAF story, i was blown away watching this, how things make so much sense, i was kinda like the crying child, having to put the pieces together and you through this video helped me put it together and finally understand it all, from all this years learning the lore but only in separate pieces and not something consistent like in this video, i thank you for that, now the pieces are finally together.
The idea that Cassidy was spring locked when shoved into the suit is such a gruesome idea but makes so much sense. Like you said it explains the twitching the ghostly presence the indomitable will similar to Aftons. They say that agony is what powers remnant one of the reasons springtrap it's so resilient in my mind is the amount of agony he's been able to endure therefore powering his amount of remnant whenever you apply this to Cassidy it all kinda clicks. Mind blowing in my opinion thanks, I always wondered what people meant by she had the most violent death and never thought of her being springlocked because it was never outwardly implied if she was or wasn't shoved in a suit, at least not that i ever saw.
This is so good I think this is one of your best ones yet.
I like the emphasis on the contrast between the cute fnaf world select screen made by cassy, to help someone.
And the grim realistic fnaf ucn select screen, made by cassy, to torture someone.
All this really works to the point that I'm sure this has to be how it really went
The bite victim is a very interesting character because they're an outsider They're the only spirit not killed by William or by his creation specifically designed to kill somebody if he's mad at anybody, it's his brother, not his father which I feel like puts him in the perfect position to help the other spirits move on because he's not holding on to that anger
Cassidy is my favourite character and this is one of the only interpretations that really gets what I like about her and what I think was intended by them. It really is about that full circle moment of revenge. She’s angry and vengeful but the best revenge is to help the mci move on ucn is like her own inability to move on it she’d sacrifice she must continue with her purpose. A great video for a great charcater
I think this basically solves every issue i've had with previous theories. Cassidy not being important. Andrew somehow existing even though he doesnt feel like he thematically fits into the storytelling of the series. Having cassidy and BV's relationship make since through fnaf world and the logbook. This us how i will intrepret the franchise from now on amd nobody can tell me otherwise.
Me to I'm making this theory cannon in my head forever
even if I disagree with the UCN portion of the video (because of Stitchline lol), this is exactly what i think cassidy is and i feel SO vindicated that someone came to the same conclusion, because people called me crazy for thinking Cassidy had any character at all.
really really great stuff!
This was one of, if not your best video up to date. The theory itself, the editing, the narration, the emotion, everything about it was amazing.
I think this is my favorite "theory" (it's 100% canon, I will not be hearing otherwise) about the subject of Cassidy. It's a almost bitter sweet ending
I'm making this theory cannon in my book forever now cause it gives Cassidy And CC a Arc and a Purpose
I often put on fnaf videos in the background because I love this community, but this was the first time i’ve had a jaw dropping moment because of a fnaf theory. I’ve never thought about Cassidy being springlocked, which makes complete sense as to why she would be the vengeful spirit. There are just so many things about this theory makes sense. great vid
I personally think the metal on the bowtie and hat is black but painted purple, but the paint wore off after it was abandoned
That’s a possible explanation
This was awesome and very well put together, though I feel Cassidy wasn't alone in this plan as Charlie is the most likely candidate to talk to BV after he dies, is there wherever Golden and is around, is the one who tried to help Cassidy along with the other MCI victims and is the only main animatronic besides Golden and to act self-aware in both UCN and FNAF World.
I personally feel that the Puppet was in on it the while time and wanted the same but just to try get Cassidy to move on and to help the others in the process and not to kill William.
Charlie isn’t the mostly likely candidate for the plush or the final scene. The only two characters to have any connection or awareness of Psychic Friend Fredbear are Mike, William, Crying Child, and Cassidy.
In the final scene with the BV we can hear a flatline as he fades out, and Mike talks to him earlier in the scene, meaning that moment occurs in a hospital with human characters capable of interacting with him. William has Psychic Friend Fredbear in SL, and instructs Mike to put Elizabeth back together.
Charlie shares one scene with the BV on screen and that’s happiest day itself. In fact, Cassidy is the only character post mortem to ever interact with the BV directly prior to happiest day to our knowledge.
I do agree that the puppet is there along the way helping the spirits and protecting them.
Out of every FnaF video I have seen in my entire existence, this might be the most poetic, balanced, and overall satisfying.
"Well done SireSquawks, well done mate'." -CM
That intro explaining how you’re not interested in using other peoples theory was golden. Ytbers like you are primordial in a sea of people just criticizing matpat or dawko etc. thank you for such great content 👏
Cassidy > Andrew
btw great video, this is really well made and I 100% agree with this
I agree. I like Andrew but Cassidy is just so much better.
the art on these thumbnails is so 2014 core
"Even if he escapes he will have nothing and be robbed of everything, the perfect revenge."
**then Security Breach undoes all of that**
IDK, he gets robbed of competence, power, and aura
Sounds a lot of things still got taken away
Gitchtrap and burntrap are the mimic
This is the best analysis video ever made for FNaF
Andrew is only in the books
Yes?
@@siresquawksIngore him and the fazbear frights books when you're making a game theory.
Cassidy may be the spirit behind everything but Purple Guy is the man behind the slaughter
I’m surprised nobody else said that yet.
Fantastic video. I'd imagine this is how Scott intended for this to be solved.
Holy shit this was phenominal.
Absolutely my favorite interpretation of the FNAF story by a LONG shot! Keep up the amazing work!
Wonderful video as always, Squawks. I have two remaining thoughts which still lay in the back of my mind on Cassidy although maybe they're just because of ignorance.
1. Not super important but the age-old debate on Cassidy's gender. Primarily a girl name (although can be unisex), referenced as 'he' by Withered Chica, appearance and VA description could go either way. The way I think of it, Cassidy the child is female but, as Golden Freddy, referred to as male; not so different from the Puppet.
2. Has the theory of the BV and Cassidy sharing the body of Golden Freddy died down? I always found it curious and plausible but I haven't heard much about it lately. If they don't share the same host, it makes me wonder what Afton meant by "putting him back together", what caused him to (seemingly) abandon this goal, and the state of the BV's spirit and why it seems so unique compared to other spirits - although perhaps its because the BV isn't possessing an animatronic? Somewhat related and likely unanswerable right now, I'd love to know what shifted Afton's focus from the BV to seeking personal spiritual control and immortality.
1. I might need to do an updated version of my Gender rant. IMO it doesn't matter as much, plus there's just as much evidence in game for Cassidy being a Boy.
2. Yeah it's not as popular as it was when game theory used it. It's not implausible just kinda mixed on evidence. I don't consider it required for this video, it just the difference between "BV floats in soul void" vs "BV is part of golden freddy".
@@siresquawksDoing some reflection, I guess there isn't anything game-wise which necessitates BV and Cassidy both in GF. The closest thing is "It's Me" but such a vague statement can mean anything. Anyway thanks for responding, I've always appreciated your interactivity with your community ^-^
It is fascinating.
Cassidy, in inflicting endless torment on William, ironically becomes infinitely more evil than William himself.
There is no doubt that William is a vile, despicable man, and I see no qualm with letting him experience every bit of torment and misery that he inflicted upon all of his victims.
Ultimately though, the torment that William inflicted was finite. Those souls did eventually move on and find peace.
Even at his worst, William never had the power to inflict infinite pain on any of his victims, and thus, genuine karma would not warrant an infinite punishment.
As awful as he may have been, I can't feel comfortable saying that he deserves to be brutally tortured for eternity. He is to suffer for trillions upon trillions of years, only for his torment to not have even begun, as is the scale of eternity. I think that's far crueler than anything that William himself ever did, even if he was a horrific monster.
I heavily disagree honestly. Should Henry and others have not stepped in- the suffering of the kids would have been infinite. William hurt people for reasons that even under the most sympathetic of theories become quickly unjustifiable at the scale he'll continue onto.
William in UCN gets dealt the hand he tried to deal to others- to suffer forever while he maintains power over them forever effectively. William was never going to show mercy- Cassidy won't in return.
@@siresquawks I expected that sentiment.
By no means was William justified. His actions were evil and cruel.
As for the children, while their suffering would have endured longer, even exponentially longer, had Henry and Michael not intervened, it would not have been infinite, as eventually the remnant containing their souls would have been destroyed by some means (i.e, the destruction of the Earth by the sun in 7.6 billion years, though something else would probably destroy it before that).
Their suffering might have lasted an incomprehensibly long time (and I see no qualm with William experiencing all of that pain), but, by the nature of the material world, it could never have been infinite, even if William had wanted it to be.
And even assuming that William had intended for the spirits to truly suffer forever, I can hardly call the ending of Cassidy torturing him permanently to be appropriate as a punishment. At best, Cassidy is sinking to the same level as William in the afterlife.
What William did is monstrous and inhuman, but in our real life conceptions of justice, an evil act, while worthy of punishment, hardly warrants another evil action. For example, If, hypothetically, a man kills my daughter, it would not be just for me to kill his daughter in return.
William wouldn't have shown mercy, and that's unjustifiable, but it is similarly unjustifiable for Cassidy to act that way.
That isn't to say that I disagree with the theory. I do agree with it for the most part, but I think that Cassidy becoming like William is a tragedy.
This, in my opinion is your best video to date, Sire.
True lab for this was an impeccable choice. I keep thinking of 'bad memories' from Memory Head when I think of Cassidy and BV.
I left a long post about the connection between Shadows, Code, and Cassidy (Oh My!) on your last video. But it kept getting shadow banned by YT. So I gave up.
((I personally think Bite Victim didn't die until after the MCI. Maybe he was in a coma for a decade, semi-aware of what happened at Freddy's. Maybe he even saw the MCI... Or at least ONE of them.
I think he had 'the sixth sense' if you will. The children moved on using his memories of them. They all stuck 30 years around for him. They were his friends.
But it doesn't really matter for your theory.))
Cassidy drowned. I don't understand when or where or the significance. I don't know if this is metaphorical, and they drowned in code, in vengence. Or if this is literal (as suggested in AR) and Golden Freddy took a forced dive and was taken to the river and dropped into the water.
But the symbolism is used repeatedly, only around them.
I agree with eveything in this video, minus what was in the box.
I think we have seen into the box.
I think we see into it when we, too, drowned in FNaF World.
The pieces are a family reunion and a favourite show.
Also, one question. Do you think it is possible that Cassidy either shared Goldie with BV or gave it to them?
This is genuinely one of the best fnaf theories i’ve heard in so long, it fits so many pieces together and it’s actually so beautiful.
I’m actually gonna cry because of how good this is
what a magnificent "byeeee" that was at the end, you really do outdo yourself each time, i'm looking forward to the next one
I love this, for one cause it’s my favorite version of this story that I’ve always thought was true/wanted to be true, and it’s just beautiful and sad at the same time
It would be great if we had CC backstory that if he ever knew Andrew, Cassidy, and the other missing children and that he was a normal kid before he became the known as the crying child which makes me think is the reason he doesn’t have many friends
This is the best video of fnaf ever. No joke, I loved every bit of this. Big bird with big brain finna get big money in the future
Got into FNaF when the movie came out
This helps me understand the story and characters of it a lot more ^^
You watch ONE eight hour essay on the five nights at Freddy's lore and suddenly that's all that's on your feed.
I don't mind though 😁 I loved these games from the very beginning, it's hard to think I was a middle schooler in 2014 and that 9 years have actually passed.
Really good take on not just Cassidy but also happiest day, really well done!
I'm not crying over cc, you are
But this was a beautifully poetic take and I love it
I honestly love the idea that Cassidy was able to put the Bit3 Victim together
I also think that this helps to further support the idea that both the Bite Victim and Cassidy were both inside of Golden Freddy at one point or another
I do think this supports the idea that the books are a parallel to the games, at least somewhat. It would sense that the Stitchwraith parallels Golden Freddy, and this is further supported with Andrew paralleling Cassidy, Jake paralleling the Bite Victim, and one of the two spirits sharing an animatronic being blind
a well done video, I never noticed thought about the twitching being a connection thus making Cassidy fall under 2 different type of revenge ("Simple Revenge" and "Collective Revenge" (the Latter falling for all animatronics)).
Personally I think Cassidy and the bite victim were best friends when they were alive. And the reason Cassidy is “the one you shouldn’t have killed” is because by killing Cassidy, William had taken away his son’s only friend. Which would’ve lead to the inevitable bite. But that’s just how I interpret “the one you shouldn’t have killed” since realistically William shouldn’t have been killing anyone🤷♂️
Great theory! My best guess for needing to put the pieces in place for "him" was that maybe whoever we're playing as in FNAF World is setting up the hints for Michael in FNAF 3 somehow. I guess it doesn't make sense from a realistic point of view, but then are the things you have to click on to access the minigames just gameplay stuff and Mike didn't actually do anything? Were the minigames just happening in some other realm while Mike was dealing with the real world stuff (a.k.a. Springtrap)?
I like the idea you had of the "pieces" being the friends/party stuff for him to move on. I kind of hope Steel Wool makes a game someday that actually shows what's in the box. Maybe if they had a flashback segment or if you went to the Afton's house or something. That'd be cool, but maybe unlikely, lol.
this is enough to make a grown man cry..
This is a great take on Cassidy. I mean actual good stuff but there’s a few questions I got about this. Mainly what IS the relationship with between Cassidy (plus other MCI,) and the Crying Child? Why do they care so much about CC? A kid that’s NOT original part of MCI. He died way before the other 6. If we are going with route that Happiest Day and Fnaf World is for the Bite Victim. Trying to put him back together and trying to help him. If anything wouldn’t it make more sense to go through all this trouble for someone in the Original kids group? Not to mention him also being the Son of the man that murder them. I mean maybe Cassidy doesn’t know he’s an Afton. But still why treat him so well? Heck why is the Bite Victim so Important in general for the other kids to move on!?
Also another one last thing, how does Cassidy know so much about CC life? Were they there when it happen? The only way I think justified or explain is the MCI, Charlotte, or Cassidy knew the Bite Victim before he died. But the evidence for that is very lacking. Considering There was No one at CC birthday besides FoxyBro and his bullies. Unless it is a situation with Cassie backstory in SB Ruin. Where the bite victim DID have friends but they just didn’t show up the party.
And I know a very common headcanon I’ve heard. Is that Charlie/Charlotte knew the bite victim and was friends with them in life. If y’all don’t know the idea behind this is simply. Their Dads worked with each other so their kids also knew each others. Personally I am NOT the biggest fan of this. Mainly because realistically that’s not completely how that works. I mean yeah sometimes this happens in real life. But just because your parents work with other adults doesn’t mean you know their families and stuff. Yes, I know am using the term realistically in a series about Ghost Children and killer robots. Bear with me. Hehe BEAR. Lol. Plus this video is using Cassidy as the one behind Fnaf World and Not Charlie so it wouldn’t fit anyway. Plus again, you figure the Happiest Day stuff would only really be for the MCI plus Charlie. The kid that was actually murder. So how does CC fit in the group to make it work?
How Cassidy knows who the BV was is a mystery, but I think it's specifically because he's an Afton that he's the focus of Cassidy. Not only is he basically a blind ghost in the void meaning he objectively needs more help than the others, but also if William's goal at all involves bringing him back it steals that chance from him.
Plus, I think the BV is one of the few spirits who's sort of inherently free of revenge, even Charlie starts the series as scared of William and willing to attack guards, but BV never wanted to hurt anyone, so I wonder if that lack of hate is needed to help the others move on.
@@siresquawks Hmmm, that’s interesting idea. Hate the father but love the son to move on.
Actually since I got your attention. One of my friends that watches your channel actually came up with another MCI theory. I figured why now tell you and let me know what you think. Now the evidence for this is also kind of lacking and I am a bit mixed on it myself.
This is what if the kids of MCI and the bullies from Fnaf 4 are somehow more connected? This idea is basically the MCI kids are the younger siblings of the three Fnaf 4 Masks Bullies. The idea is that MCI victims wouldn’t completely random victims that ran into William. But he specifically sought out these 5 and a act of revenge for his youngest kid that died due to them. It’s a same principle of Charlie murder. Which we know was more so a way to hurt Henry. Now there is one flaw with this is it has to due with the kid possessing Foxy aka Fritz. Which makes him the odd one out as the only kid that randomly murder. Again a bit mix on this theory myself and just wanted to get your view point in.
I've never thought about this perspective, it makes sence that Cassidy is the one talking to crying child.
ugh i feel so late to this! it's been awesome seeing how excited u were about the process making this video, and cassidy is one of the coolest characters in the game!!! i agree with everything u said in this, u totally nailed it!
i love this. Especially how you called out how golden freddy always seems to speak in the void. It just majes so much sensw
I like to believe that Cassidy from her beginnings as a spirit to UCN is similar to the idea of William’s actions in MCI, she did it correctly in her task to get vengeance and free the other 4 kids but in UCN, she gets carried away like how William got carried away killing Cassidy by brutally torturing and killing her.
This is such a good video. Narratively it is just so satisfying and makes so much sense for the story at the time. I love it, I miss old FNAF sometimes 😂 this makes me miss it
That "BYYYYYEEEE" was glorious
beautiful storytelling :0 this is great!
You are the BEST Fnaf UA-camr I’ve ever seen! At this point I don’t care if I’m d riding. YOU DESERVE THE D RIDING!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Hot take: Books shoupdnt be canon. It complicates every detail to add fazgoo and andrew, lets stick to the games, shall we?
Survival Logbook is canon
easily my favorite fnaf theorist. I always knew Squawks would solve the puzzle that is fnaf
I think there’s one more involved in the happiest day Michael afton
It's the fact that folks see the void scene in UCN as Golden Freddy "passing on". I really don't think that's what's going on there.
I don’t think so either. When the other characters move on they become inanimate and immobile. GF never ceasing twitching implies he never moves on.
So, some interesting connections I made in my brain regarding this. Building on GoldenDuo and MoltenMCI Alter-S, not only does it explain why those two spirits specifically are in the logbook, they're present in FNAF 3 inside Springtrap, but it also provides some interesting extra context to Glitchbear's line about the Flipside being a "safe place".
The implication here is that FNAF World and UCN are happening simultaneously, and FNAF World is a safe place that Cassidy made for Evan inside of UCN. I don't know if you still believe in GoldenDuo (or even if you did in the first place and I'm just misremembering) but I feel like that's a pretty interesting thing to consider.
Really good theory love how you explain the stories and how you tell them
IDK if you will answer, but let me see if i get what you're saying:
Cassidy creates FNAF World so that BV memories(AKA the pieces) are put back together, BV then helps the souls using his memories and when they are all brought together, CC gets his happiest day, the party he never got, with his new friends.
Is that it?
More or less yeah
@@siresquawks cool
Stitchline believers move on, this is a Cassidy channel.
In all seriousness though, I really find the notion that Andrew is the vengeful spirit unbelievable. Not only is the evidence for it scanty, but he simply doesn't have the same gravitas as Cassidy. He's clearly meant to be a parallel, but he's an inferior knock-off as far as I am concerned.
As soon as Jake wakes up, he was able to usurp control of their body and prevent Andrew from doing most things. Cassidy is much more powerful and much less easily appeased.
Very nice. I love the non-ranty vids a lot, and I bet they feel better to make too.
Wow, thia interpretation makes the story of FNAF so poetic. Bravo, genius👏
Bro please do a timeline video, I’d love to see all your thoughts and opinions on it! Absolutely love the theory, everything lines up so cleanly 💯, please keep making more content
This is a level above of your other videos it’s phenomenal and it’s satisfying and simple (in comparison to other theories) fantastic job sire 🤩🤩
God damn, this interpretation is why I fell in love with the games when I got into the series years back. It’s a story about loss, revenge, and ultimately acceptance. You feel like you went on a journey with these kids that got senselessly murdered in their innocence by a sick person, their anger in chasing their murderer and getting revenge, and ultimately getting their happiest day that they never got and being released after DECADES of suffering. I wish the games ended at UCN at least, but we can’t have nice things.