Game Theory: FNAF, Don't Trust Gregory (FNAF Security Breach)

After years of waiting for five nights at Freddy's, the

security

breach

has finally been released and with it we now have a whole host of mysteries to discuss what's the deal with vanity therapy tapes, why is this sister location room in Pizza Plex is who is the best animatronic? And why, musical man? There are a lot of things to figure out in this huge

game

, as the story hides behind every pirate poster and inside every arcade machine, but the

theory

I have today goes to the heart of this

game

and concerns the character we play. I've spent a lot of time with him, but I don't really watch much, and that's our main

security

breach

character, Gregory, yeah, in a franchise full of dead kids.

I want to focus on the first living child we've seen in the games main story except for the fruit maze minigame but we all know she ends up dead who is

gregory

what is

gregory

and why is he such a callous savage towards roxy and the rest from the animatronic gang I'm so mad that you are driving without my permission oh my god Gregory is brutal my friends, the answers to those questions will recontextualize everything you thought you knew about this series, so let's get started. Hello Internet, welcome to game

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fnaf

lore like girl stuffs her face with pizza and trash, I guess at this point it applies to us too anyway, if you want to fill your youtube feed with

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For a three-part series about the many unsolved mysteries of the security breach, I mean, on the surface, the game seems pretty self-explanatory. Surviving being trapped in a mall for a night, it seems the new team forgot to read the franchise title. but that's not easy at all, once you start looking for secret rooms, secret tapes, secret endings, secret minigames and bother to read all the emails and item descriptions, you learn that there is a lot more stuff here than looking back on the previous series. and four words about what comes next, things that, frankly, I'm still working to piece together This is a great game with a lot of places to hide things, but today I want to focus on a mystery that I feel like I have a pretty solid handle on The relationship between Gregory and Glamrock Freddy What's the deal with this random kid and why is a killer animatronic suddenly trying to help him?

Seriously, the game starts with this amazing scene, everyone is living their best 80's fantasy lives on stage before freddy. It suddenly fails and cuts to Gregory just being there. I guess it's one of the strangest, most jarring introductions to a game and then from then on we're expected to assume everything is perfectly normal, no explanations needed, so. I'm here to give you that explanation because I strongly suspect that this child is not a child and this robot is not a robot and that the story of their relationship attempts to make amends for one of the first and most crucial points of this.

To start off the entire franchise, let's establish what we know about Gregory so we can piece together the rest. So what does the game offer us in terms of its backstory? Nothing, first of all, we know that he is practically under the radar at the beginning of the game. Freddy does a quick scan only to realize that I don't know your guest profile. Similarly, when security guard Vanessa is chatting with Freddy, we hear this part of her conversation. It's great news. He can return to his parents. Turns out he can't. There is no record of him.

Clearly, Gregory is not a guest at Pizzaplex. It also seems like he has nowhere else to go. The bad ending of the game is unlocked by simply leaving the building at 6 a.m.. We see Gregory ending up in an alley sleeping in a cardboard box. he appears to be homeless, he is an orphan, this then explains some of the other things we see around the pizza complex, in a couple of hidden places around the building we find small dens that are filled with drawings, stuffed animals and beds, the most notable being the one that Behind the daycare, Gregory appears to be living inside the pizzaplex, which would explain his lack of a guest pass.

We can't even be sure that his name is Gregory in the game's opening scene. Gregory has no problem talking to Freddie. Who wants to shut up? I said yes, however, once Freddy asks him his name, he stutters, I'm Gregory, why would he stutter with his name when he was clearly fine answering everything else a few seconds before? So what is it? Gregory is just a homeless kid setting up a trap. You shop at the pizza complex and it turns out that you get caught up in Afton and Vanni's plans, yeah, right, of course, nothing in this franchise is an accident, take a look at Gregory, here, notice something familiar, dark eyes, brown hair with a chunk falling between his eyes, shorts. a shirt with two stripes down the middle ladies and gentlemen gregory is none other than the crying boy don't believe me from the beginning we have this weird moment when freddy suddenly stops what he's doing and says this I feel like you're broken y'all We know the language in this franchise is never chosen by accident, everything is meticulously crafted, so is it a coincidence that the word broken is only used one other time in the FNAF series to describe a child in that iconic FNAF 4 clip? with a crying boy and golden fredbear? you're broken, we're still your friends, I'll put you back together the fact that both the crying boy and gregory look alike and are considered broken cries of an existing connection between these two, him being the crying boy, it would also explain why he has doesn't have another place to go your father is an undead zombie who lives inside a yellow bunny suit and your mother is mine there are also lines like this your parents want you to follow me your family is looking for you let me take you to your parents on the side this just sounds like girl saying some generic safety protocol, on the other hand, if Gregory really is the crying boy, the girl lines here take on a whole new meaning because she is literally bringing him into her family, his father lives in the basement, william afton, but obviously there is a big problem with this one that I'm sure all of you are shouting at your monitors or typing aggressively in the comments.

The crying child is dead. He died in FNAF 4 when his older brother Michael picked him up to be bitten and not alone. died, his soul then became one of the two spirits that possess golden freddy, the other being the vengeful spirit cassidy before the puppet finally let him rest in the ending of fnaf 3's happiest day. this boy is fine and truly Once he was written out of the franchise, he is one of the few cards that are officially off the story table, so why then do I dare to invoke his name here because Gregory is a robot?

A reconstructed version of the crying boy. The flame shields activate because it's time for everyone's favorite segment, matpat uses history from various fnaf books to try to explain parts of the game that don't make sense. I'll try to make this as quick and painless as possible for all of us in the books, children who have tragic early deaths. and then being rebuilt as robots by their grieving parents is something that happens a lot, like if I had a nickel for every time this plotline came up, I'd have like three cents, which isn't a lot, but it's weird. which happened three times in the original novel trilogy, the big twist of that was that Henry Emily's daughter Charlie died as a child and that her father put her back together by building robotic versions of her, each of which represents a stage different from its growth.

Furthermore, in the development of Fazbear Frights, we have the character of Eleanor, who is strongly implied to have been constructed as a replacement daughter, as well as Dr. Telbert, who developed the remnant as a way to preserve his sick daughter. and dying, and all this is without me. even going into the numerous stories where children are swapped for robots or fazgoo who, once it has your DNA, basically creates a clone of you, if that is the future of the franchise, we are going down strange paths, my friends, of Anyway, long story short, there is evidence in the broader canon that FNAF 4's lines about the crying boy being broken and needing to be put back together were intended to be much more literal than any of us first suspected, but We don't even have to go that far into the security breach itself.

There is a lot of evidence to suggest that Gregory is not exactly what he seems when Vani sees you and starts to approach, your vision gets a crt effect, basically the horizontal lines that old television monitors used to have and it is worth remembering, given that this its a first person game that represents your vision so why do your eyes suddenly behave like broken cameras unless you know they are broken cameras later in the game once we defeat roxanne wolfe we ​​can take the eyes and improve Freddy our face? The watch tells us that Roxy sees things differently than others, sometimes she stares and talks to the other robots through the walls.

She is able to see things that others cannot, allowing us to see collectibles like secret CDs in a way that she has. of x-ray vision, so when you first install it on Freddy, her comment really stands out: What are your new eyes like? I'm having a hard time adapting. You look different to me. It's almost like I'm seeing Gregory as a normal kid, but. Now that he has these new eyes, he can see through Gregory's skin and reveal something he didn't expect, such as an animatronic endoskeleton. Also, Gregory can be inside Freddy when he's inside the charging stations, which in itself feels strange, as he expected.

You have to jump in and let it charge, but no, we pilot it inside and then sit there while it charges or it could be that those charging stations are just as much for us as it is for him. Remember that secret lair behind the daycare where we assume Gregory lives there, there are a strange number of dismantled security robots and what appear to be salvaged, perhaps for a child in need of a robotic upgrade, the fact that there are no records of Gregory would also make sense if he is an animatronic, there would be no records of him because he is not technically a human, it would also explain why Gregory has no parents, but perhaps the most important point of evidence comes from the beginning of the game, where during the opening scene We see Freddy fail, this leads him to be good. for the rest of the game, but what causes that problem to occur in the first place?

Going frame by frame we can see that there is a security threat on the loose and it appears to be a small child. What is Gregory? He has to be Gregory. The threat here is a robot that poses a threat to Freddy's programming, but why would that make sense? To understand that connection, it's time to pin Gregory and turn our attention to Freddy if you unlock the final secret of the game. As you finish, you end up going underneath the pizzaplex only to discover a former Freddy Fazbear location, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, if that name doesn't mean anything to you, it really shouldn't, most of the restaurants in the series don't have names, but although the name may not. means anything, the layout should be familiar, a large rectangular stage with lights on the edge and large speakers on each side and a smaller semi-circular stage right next to it, it's from the pizzeria simulator fnaf6.

Notice the stools that are placed right in front of the checkered floor, we even have purple striped tablecloths and blue, green and red plates exactly like we saw in the pizzeria simulator as a refresher, this is the place Henry lured all the animatronics to roaming to burn them to the ground one last time, although for One of you, the darkest pit of hell has opened to swallow you whole, so don't let the devil wait, my friend, this is it. It seems that Henry's plan didn't work as expected. We still see almost everyone he tried to burn. and they're all alive and well and thriving underground spring trap is there molten freddy is there like this big black mass and if you look inside that mass you can even see the baby and hell, even the puppet lessens the impact of that wild henry speech fnaf6 but whatever the reason I bring this up outside of this, giving me the opportunity to remind everyone that I totally called something like this happening at the end of the last theory from a year ago is that one character is noticeably absent here, Michael.

Afton, who we are reasonably sure was the guard who worked at the FNAF 6 location and the one who helped burn it down, and for you, my brave volunteer, who somehow discovered that this job offer was not intended for you, although There was an outing planned for you. I have a feeling that's not what you want. I have a feeling you're right where you want to be after they turned you purple and tried to undo the sins of yourfamily place by place. She went down with the ship and burned along with her father and her sister. meaning he should presumably be here somewhere and yet he isn't unless of course he has taken on a new form say maybe glam rock freddy we know for a fact that freddy has been here according to some of the lines he drops during the ending. you know what this is i have been here before she brought me here i have no choice now i have a choice i have changed my friends are here they are very angry confused but i can protect you so he is in a place where he can be possessed we also heard that Freddy isn't acting like his usual self saying "It's not me" and in another fire ending, Freddie is more than prepared to set the place on fire, like Michael Afton did to scare Fazbear at the end of FNAF 3.

Old habits tell, I guess. They are hard to die for and nothing says it clearer than the replica of Mike's Room from the sister location that is hidden inside the pizza complex, yes for those of you who don't know. Hidden inside the mall is the replica exact view of mike's living room from the sister location to the tv lamp to the basket of exotic exotic butters, but here's the trick on mike's wall is a coded message that was solved through an incredible team effort from doco and the rest of the fnaf subreddit reads as follows quote breaking repair i built the breath they hunt now drawn to life it's not real yet me and fritten full of thought and enthusiasm and guessed no hard problems dodge duck flash shoot crawl run crush the vile gang cry don't try, don't wait, I hope your life, your goal saves those who have souls.

I feel like this is a kind of poetry reading. snapshots that everyone takes snapshots yeah man cue the bongos okay basically this is just a bunch of fancy talk all related to Mike's Personal Journey the first line is about breaking and fixing things and at the to do so, create new life, in other words, enerd and baby, the rest is about their commitment to trying to stop the evil animatronics and trying to save any of them with a soul. left on their bodies now, the presence of this room and the poem necessarily means that Mike is Freddy, no, but I think it's telling that we remember Mike's commitment to saving everyone inside a room you must find yourself in. only. the darkness i.e. without glam rock freddy hovering over your shoulders heck during the finale we even get this line from glamrock freddie my friends are here they are so angry confused he's talking about molten freddy the spirits trapped inside the mass it's quite possible that those Were in fact, his friends were captured and killed in the past, perhaps William himself fought back against the children who had bullied his youngest son and now some of their spirits are trapped beneath the surface as part of the mass in this abandoned restaurant. or maybe that's why Gregory is so brutal to all these animatronics at the end of every boss battle, he was killed in 1983 and now it's his turn to show the bullies no mercy by throwing a kart at their faces and gouging out their eyes and, meanwhile, Freddy is sad. because they are literally his friends from when they were alive, but for me, honestly, the biggest points of connection between Mike and Freddie Glamrock are thematic.

The narrative of him Mike has been moving from place to place to try to undo his father's horrible job. This would simply be a continuation of that story as Afton's return after the fire and, more importantly, also completes the arc of the crying boy and his older brother since he accidentally killed his brother in FNAF 4. Michael has been trying to make amends this would literally be their big meeting. The older brother was finally able to protect and defend his younger brother in a way that he had not been able to do before in his life. This is also why Freddy's programming would fail after encountering Gregory in the opening scene.

Mike's soul buried deep in Freddy's code comes to light. Upon sensing his brother again, he activates the system so that Michael Afton in Freddy's body can defend his younger brother and Afton's story does not end there either. In part of the pizzaplex we find a family dinner scene composed of staff robots dismantled a father a mother who looks a bit like Ballora a daughter with rosy cheeks and orange pigtails a son and one with a missing head the boy whose head was bitten off in 1983. this is very clearly the Afton family, there is no doubt that the story continues in this game, in fact, I guess that's why the ending of saving Vani here is so important.

If you manage to find and complete all the Princess Quest arcade cabinets hidden throughout the pizza complex, you will get an ending where we can save Vani from control. from glitch trap this is something we predicted would be possible literally a year ago in theory, but I mention this not to pat myself on the back but to mention the final moment of this finale where we see gregory freddy and vani all. sitting together on a hill, a hill I should point out is strangely reminiscent of the tombstone hill from FNAF 6. It feels significant as if all of these characters have some kind of history.

Why would Vani be there otherwise unless this is the crying boy, Michael and maybe even elizabeth the afton children the three children who literally had their lives stolen from them by their father's evil actions were finally reunited finally able to share a moment of peace on this hill after all Vanessa has green eyes and blonde hair like anyone else we know from the series, but it's probably a theory best saved for another day. To summarize, Gregory is not just any boy, he is not just the crying boy nor is he the reconstructed version of the crying boy, an animatronic designed to fill the void. left by the death of Afton's youngest son, literally rebuilt piece by piece, and meanwhile Mike is also glamorous again, this time continuing to make amends for his past by reuniting with the brother he accidentally killed as a child and protecting him in some way. which he never could before, which leaves us with the question of who Vani is, how she fits into all this, why she fits into all this, and why robot Gregory fails every time he gets close, which my theorists will have to wait for. next episode because this episode is long and honestly I need more time to think about the answers so in the meantime theorists remember to hit the subscribe button so you don't miss how all these clues fit together that you don't want to miss. that next episode mainly because you know that if you do, naflor will no longer make any sense to you, plus, hitting the subscribe button is free and let's be honest, at this point you owe it to yourself to see how it all plays out, but for now remember.

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