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“ | I always come back! | „ |
~ William Afton's most well-known quote. |
William Afton, also known as the Purple Guy, is the overarching antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's fanfiction Mike's New Ghostly Family, by Archcommander-Tenebros.
He's a former friend and business partner of Henry Emily, co-founding Fazbear Entertainment franchise, Fredbear's Family Diner and Freddy Fazbear's Pizza with him, also living a double life as a child-murdering serial killer, responsible for the death of Henry's daughter Charlie and the Missing Children Incident. He's also a father of Michael, Evan and Elizabeth Afton, as well as a founder and CEO of Afton Robotics who created Circus Baby and the Funtime animatronics, designed to kidnap and murder children, and conducted experiments on the liquid metal known as the Remnant, which possessed an ability to trap souls in it, in hopes of discovering the secrets of immortality. Following his death in the unstable Spring Bonnie suit, he would be revived as Springtrap, later known as Scraptrap, before finally meeting his end in the trap pizzeria made by Henry Emily, as his soul was condemned to eternal torture in Hell.
Despite the fact that his fate was sealed, Afton's influence would continue to make an attempt to ruin the lives of his ghostly victims who formed a new family with Mike Schmidt, either by proxy or directly, appearing as behind-the-scenes antagonist of "Nightmare's Attack" arc that lasted from Chapters 20 to 26, and returning as a direct antagonist of "William Afton's Return" arc that lasted from Chapters 70 to 86, escaping from hell as Nightmare Springtrap, determined to make Mike and his adopted ghostly children suffer for his torments.
Appearance[]
As William Afton[]
William Afton's appearance is hard to pinpoint, as his appearance was not described in detail. His most significant feature was the fact that he wore a purple security guard uniform during his workshifts at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, a trait that ghostly children memorized the most, which fueled their hatred for all nightguards who worked at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza establishments during the time when their souls were trapped inside animatronics. He also frequently wore a Spring Bonnie suit, especially when he committed the murders. It was also noted that his son Michael bore strong resemblance to him, meaning they had lots of shared visual features such as brown hair and face shape, which even resulted in Fritz briefly mistaking Michael for Purple Guy before he was corrected.
As Springtrap/Scraptrap[]
After his first death in Spring Bonnie suit, William Afton became known as Springtrap. He was a broken, mutilated corpse wearing a rotten, torn, greenish Spring Bonnie suit which he was unable to take off. As Scraptrap, he was damaged even further, with all flesh burned off and his left arm torn off, with sharpened dagger taking its place.
As Nightmare Springtrap[]
His Nightmare Springtrap form, gained by absorbing the essences of the younger Nightmares (Plushtrap, Nightmare B.B. and the Freddles) harvested by Vucarik, heavily resembles Springtrap, but more nightmarish and demonic in appearance. His mouth is now full of razor-sharp teeth, and his belly, shoulders and knees feature additional mouths, also full of sharp teeth. His hands and feet end with claws, and his eyes are fiery orange, while his entire body flickers with infernal essence, which he can form into fiery aura around himself to attack everyone.
Personality[]
William Afton is a cold-blooded, ruthless, sadistic and sociopathic serial killer who takes great pleasure in murdering children. He was able to mask his true colors from the many, from his own business partner Henry to the children he murdered, by pretending to be a humble engineer and Fazbear Entertainment employee and a caring father of the three. Once he discovered the Remnant and its properties of trapping souls inside it, he started craving immortality to be able to indulge in his dark pleasures whenever he wanted without fearing the consequences. After the discovery of its properties, he started conducting experiments on it to discover the way to make himself immortal, resorting to murdering children for his experiments. Starting his crimes by murdering his business partner's only daughter, he was also responsible for the Missing Children's Incident, murdering Cassidy at her birthday along with her four friends, stuffing their bodies in animatronics to see whether they'll be able to possess them. He also used Remnant for Funtime animatronics in hopes of trapping their potential future victims' souls inside to study the metal's effects.
Though he used to grow up with an abusive father, knowing nothing but pain through his entire childhood, the tragedy does not justify his actions, because he never woved to not repeat the mistakes of his father, instead embracing the darkness that defined his childhood and allowing it to twist him into a monster he became in the present, eventually becoming an even worse monster than his father could ever hope to be. Due to perceiving his childhood experiences as a lesson that "no other life holds value since the only one who'll care about you is yourself", William Afton is extremely selfish and arrogant, and sees every single life that is not his own as worthless.
Not even his own children are spared from his selfish cruelty; he deliberately neglected his youngest son Evan's well-being, forced him to celebrate his birthday at Fredbear's Family Diner against his wishes, fully aware of the fact that Evan hated and feared the pizzeria, and allowed Michael to abuse him, resulting in the Bite of '83 happening. Though the injury was non-lethal in nature, William Afton chose to unplug him from life support due to not wishing to deal with raising a disabled child and to make sure Evan won't be able to tell anyone about Elizabeth's death and the true nature of Circus Baby and the Funtimes. He also sent Michael into Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental to retrieve Elizabeth whose soul was trapped in Circus Baby, which resulted in Michael dying and coming back to life as a zombie due to the Remnant injected by the Scooper.
Though it may seem that he cared for Elizabeth at one point, forbidding her from approaching Circus Baby and sending Michael to retrieve her from CBEAR, it was eventually made clear that he simply viewed her as a tool for his plans, trying to corrupt and manipulate her into becoming another child murderer like himself during the time when she was Scrap Baby. It was also revealed that he did nothing to save her or release her soul when she ended up possessing Circus Baby after her death. When confronted by the ghost of Elizabeth, now adopted by Mike Schmidt and going by the name Liz, he tries to convince her to take his side, but when she refused and rejected him in favor of Mike and her new siblings, he decries her as useless and a waste of time and attempts to kill her, stopped only by ghosts of Michael and Evan, the latter having taken the form of Shadow Freddy, both of whom he immediately tried to manipulate into joining his side, only to be rejected by both. The cruel treatment he showed to his own children managed to evoke disgust even from Nightmare, a demon lord who claimed his soul, as the demon understood a value of family and was appalled by the way Afton treated his own children as disposable puppets.
While he used to be crafty, cunning and intelligent, he lost such qualities after returning back to life as Springtrap, as he succumbed to his bloodlust completely, becoming nothing more than a murder-obsessed brute. His loss of intelligence was best exemplified when he learned of Henry's trap pizzeria, as he, despite clearly suspecting that it was a trap, still wandered into the place, his desire to kill children overriding his doubts, which was a mistake that costed him his second life. Even when he escaped Hell as Nightmare Springtrap and invaded Mike Schmidt's mind, engaging him in battle, his tactics didn't go anywhere beyond using as much brute force as possible, without any sense of tactics and strategy. While he did manage to come up with several good plans like trying to tire Mike out or summon legions of demons to outpower him, in the end, his lack of actual battle skills ended up costing him victory, even without the fact that the battle against Mike inside his mind was never winnable to him in the first place due to the man's lucid dreaming, strong will and powerful imagination.
Due to his ego, William Afton is utterly remorseless, and even from Hell, he still seeked to attempt to ruin the afterlives of his victims by making a wager with Nightmare in an attempt to ruin the family they formed with Mike Schmidt, both to make them suffer and to spare himself from torture for 1000 years. When Mike Schmidt learned of this and left Nightmare suggestions on how to worsen his torture after successfully repelling him, Afton was furious and tried to take his revenge on the former nightguard. When the opportunity presented itself in the form of Vucarik, he immediately agreed to form an alliance for a chance to return to Earth and track Mike down to possess him, mutilate his soul and leave him in vegetable state to ruin his new family's lives and to take his revenge on Schmidt for worsening his torments in Hell.
History[]
William Afton used to grow up with an abusive father who ruthlessly punished him every time for even the minor slights, with all pain he endured being what defined his childhood. However, instead of learning from father's mistakes, he ended up embracing his darkness and grew up to become a selfish, remorseless sociopath who saw no value in anyone's life except his own.
William Afton was a former friend and business partner of Henry Emily who co-founded Fredbear's Family Diner with him. Though Henry was unaware of William Afton's true colors, his friend Nelson noticed there was something off about William that he wasn't able to pinpoint. His fears were proven right, as William Afton designed Fredbear and Spring Bonnie to be more dangerous and unstable than they originally were supposed to be. He also founded Afton Robotics, LLC., and created Funtime animatronics which were designed to lure the children away from their parents and kill them when they are alone, his first creation being Circus Baby. At the day of her birthday, his daughter Elizabeth wanted to play with Circus Baby, one of the Funtime animatronics, but William strictly forbade her from approaching it under any circumstances. Despite his warnings, she still sneaked out to play with Baby anyway, and got torn apart and murdered by an animatronic, her soul eventually possessing the machine that ended her life.
Noticing the oddities in Baby's behavior and realizing that Elizabeth somehow managed to live on in animatronic's body, he ignored her plight and began to experiment with the Remnant, a liquid metal formerly used to stabilize old animatronics' structures, hypothesizing that it possessed an ability to trap souls inside, and seeked to use it to uncover the secrets of immortality. He also used the Remnant for Funtimes in hopes of trapping potential victims' souls inside them. After Elizabeth's death, William murdered Henry's daughter Charlie, who'd end up possessing the Marionette. Later, he murdered five more children at Fredbear's Family Diner at Cassidy's birthday while wearing the Spring Bonnie suit. To cover up his crimes and to see whether they'll possess other Remnant-coated animatronics, he hid the corpses inside the bodies of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza animatronics, eventually leading to his victims' souls possessing the machines. The only trait of him his victims memorized was the fact that he was a security guard and wore a purple uniform, which fueled them with murderous rage against all nightguards. This incident would later be known as the Missing Children Incident.
At the day when Elizabeth died at the hands of Circus Baby, Afton's youngest son Evan oversaw his sister's demise and ended fearing all animatronics as result, which gave his older brother Michael a material to bully him with, constantly scaring him with Foxy's mask. Despite Michael's cruelty, William Afton did nothing to prevent the bullying, and did nothing to get him out of the Parts and Service room of pizzeria. At the day of Evan's birthday, William Afton took his children to Fredbear's Family Diner, ignorant to the fact that Evan hated the place, and Michael and his friends decided to prank him by stuffing his head into Fredbear's jaws. Due to William's indirect machinations, Fredbear's jaws shutted on, crushing Evan's head, an event that would later be known as the Bite of '83. Not wishing to deal with the pressure of raising a disabled child, and to keep Elizabeth's death and Circus Baby's true purpose a secret, he unplugged Evan's life support, ensuring that he would never recover from his injury despite its non-lethal nature.
At some point of time, William Afton informed Michael of the fact that his sister Elizabeth still lives, and ordered him to retrieve her in his stead, which eventually led to Michael being scooped by Elizabeth-as-Circus Baby, who merged with the other Funtimes to form Ennard and used his body as a skinsuit for themselves until they fled his body and Michael was revived as a zombie thanks to the Remnant inside the Scooper.
While Michael would later try to find a way to end his father's evil, William Afton would return to pizzeria of 1993, seeking to dismantle the animatronics who were possessed by Missing Children Incident victims' souls, hopefully to discover a missing component that would help him achieve immortality through Remnant. However, once they were dismantled, William Afton would end up being surrounded by the released ghosts of his victims. To save himself, he tried to hide inside the Spring Bonnie suit, only for springlocks to set off and kill him for the first time. Despite his death, his children would not be able to pass on until much later.
Thirty years after his death, the Remnant would bring William Afton back to life. Now known as Springtrap, he was moved to Fazbear's Fright, a new horror attraction modelled afted Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, to serve as its main attraction. Realizing that, if attraction would ever be opened to public, there would be nothing that would stop William from killing people there, Michael Afton went to apply for work as the nightguard for Fazbear's Fright to keep Springtrap at bay, eventually burning down the attraction, though that didn't stop Springtrap permanently, as he resurfaced in the new form, known as Scraptrap. Arriving at Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, he found Elizabeth, ejected from Ennard and trying to repair herself as Scrap Baby. Explaining to her that he was her father and feigning remorse for leaving her to die, Afton began to convince her to take his side and start a new Afton era, instructing her to bring together the souls of Missing Children Incident's victims, which she did, putting them into Ennard, now known as Molten Freddy. Soon, he, Elizabeth and Molten Freddy came to Henry's trap pizzeria, salvaged by Michael Afton. Even though he knew that the pizzeria was most likely a trap, he couldn't resist a temptation to continue his murder spree, a mistake that proved itself to be fatal as Henry burned the pizzeria down, this time putting an end to his threat for good, as Charlie, in Lefty's body, oversaw his final death.
With his death and the tally of sins he committed, William Afton's soul was condemned to eternal suffering in Hell, his soul claimed by the Nightmares, a clan of demons who took nightmarish forms of Freddy Fazbear's animatronics as a testament to the corruption of innocence Fazbear's franchise was formerly associated with. Once his torments began, he learned that the souls of his murder victims formed a family with Mike Schmidt, a former nightguard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza of the 1993, and decided to make a one-time wager with Nightmare that would set him free of torture for the next millenia in case of his victory, but would cost him minimal protections granted by the Heaven that would lessen the severity of his torments in case of loss. He believed that if the dark truths and secrets kept hidden between Mike and his ghostly children would be revealed then they would turn on each other and tear their new family apart from within, while Nightmare believed that it would only strengthen the bonds between them. The wager was made, and Nightmare would come to attack Schmidt's family, revealing their dark truths and crushing them with guilt only for Mike to stand up for his children against the demon lord and counter all of his arguments, strengthening the bonds between their family, meaning that Afton lost his wager. Once Mike Schmidt learned of William Afton's role as the one behind Nightmare's attack, he went furious and gave Nightmare personal suggestions on how to make his torture worse, which Nightmare accepted.
Afterwards, Nightmare and William Afton continued to observe the family for a while, since William refused to concede defeat, to see whether it gets broken apart or not. Once it was made clear that Schmidt's family still remained loyal to each other, Afton accused Nightmare of not putting a full effort into trying to break them apart, to which the demon responded that William never clarified how he should carry out the assault when making a wager and that it was Afton's own fault for leaving the details in his hands. William Afton stated that Nightmare should've gave it his all when breaking them apart, as they're both evil monsters and should work together, enraging the demon who stabbed him into throat and proceeded to describe in details about how much he despises the child murderer for being a coward and for treating his own children as disposable puppets, and initiated a torture session, with the first torture being a springlock device that reenacted his death in Spring Bonnie suit, a method suggested by Mike, with springlocks imbued by poison and the device setting him aflame to worsen his pain.
As his torture continued, no longer restrained by the Heaven's mandates, William Afton could only wish for revenge against Mike Schmidt for letting his victims find their happy ending and for worsening his tortures. His thoughts were overheard by Vucarik, a demon lord unaligned to Nightmare who wished to overthrow Lucifer and become the new ruler of Hell. In hopes of keeping Nightmare sufficiently distracted from his attack, he decided to strike a bargain with a child killer; in exchange for demonic power and means to return to the world of living and take vengeance on Mike Schmidt, he must escape Hell as soon as possible without any hesitation. Afton accepted, and prepared to enact his vengeance.
Per Vucarik's terms, he imbued William with demonic essences harvested from the younger Nightmares, turning him into Nightmare Springtrap, also granting him ownership of a part of his forces, and sent him into the mortal world while he and his allies would start a civil war in Hell. Once he returned to Earth, Nightmare Springtrap went to Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental to find some of the old animatronics to assist him or some Remnant to use for revenge, only to find it completely destroyed. Realizing that Mike Schmidt was responsible for its destruction, he rushed to his mansion, sensing him and his ghost children, and began his assault.
Finding what he thought was Mike Schmidt in the living room, he tried to strike him down, only for "Mike" to turn out to be an illusion. Afterwards, Nightmare Springtrap was immediately ambushed by the ghost children possessing Rockstar animatronics, who managed to injure and disorient him, but the demonic murderer was able to turn the tide of battle into his favor by striking them with a wave of demonic energy. Sensing Mike in the bedroom on the second floor, he tried to go after him and carry out his plans of revenge, either by severely and permanently mutilating him or possessing his mind to attack his soul and leave him a mindless vegetable for a very long time, but the Rockstars refused to let him carry out his plans and continued their assault, though this time they were unsuccessful in beating him, with their bodies being destroyed and their souls being forced to escape.
With Rockstars out of the way, Nightmare Springtrap turned his attention towards Charlie, possessing Security Puppet as a body, and tried to strike her down so that she won't be able to restrain his demonic powers, but was stopped by the ghost of Elizabeth, now known as Liz Schmidt, who left Lefty's body and took the form of ghostly Scrap Baby to combat him. Afton tried to convince her to take his side, but Liz refused, aware that William always saw her as nothing but a tool for his plans and having found a new family that shows her all the love and care she wanted. Furious at her betrayal, the demonic murderer insulted her by decrying her as useless and as much of a disappointment as her brothers were, and prepared to kill her, as her former daughter fought against her birth father. However, despite her best efforts, she was still outpowered and suffered severe injuries.
It was at this point when the ghost of Michael Afton interfered in the fight, together with Shadow Freddy, the ghostly animatronic form of Evan Afton, though William wasn't able to recognize his youngest son in his new form until Evan revealed himself. After seeing his youngest son again, Afton tried to convince him to take his side under belief that he still holds the grudge against Michael and that he doesn't owe anything to murder victims, but Shadow Freddy refused, having made clear that he forgave Michael and would never hurt innocents even if he didn't, and pointed out that William Afton was as responsible for his suffering as Michael was, bringing up how Fredbear's jaws were intentionally designed to be able to crush a human's skull, how he always allowed Michael to abuse him, how he intentionally brought Evan to celebrate his birthday at Fredbear's Family Diner, fully aware that Evan hated and feared the place, before finally revealing that, as he learned at the Crimson Lake from Old Man Consequences, he deliberately unplugged Evan's life support in the hospital, both due to not wishing to raise a disabled child and to permanently silence him on Elizabeth's death and Circus Baby's true function.
At these revelations, William Afton continuously either deflected his blame or used worthless excuses to not take care of Evan, accusing him of being a "whiny brat", also mockingly thanking him for not revealing the information about Liz's death. Shadow Freddy answered with the statement that Afton won't be thanking him for long, revealing his indirect contributions to Michael Afton's success by showing him the depths of Fazbear's tragedy and William's depravity and by guiding him to foil Springtrap's plans before they would succeed, also mocking him with Michael about William foolishly falling for Henry's trap pizzeria, finally enraging Nightmare Springtrap into attacking Shadow Freddy. Afterwards, the Afton siblings began to fight the demonic form of their father, but despite their best efforts, they were unable to stop him, and Liz suffered worse injuries than before.
It was at this point when Mike Schmidt interfered, demanding Nightmare Springtrap to confront him in his bedroom. As the demonic murderer rushed into his bedroom, Mike was lying on his bed, fully expecting him to visit. As William Afton mocked him for not even trying to defend himself, Mike beckoned him to make his move, and Nightmare Springtrap possessed him directly, entering his mindscape. However, he discovered that Mike was fully expecting that the demonic killer would try to possess him, and turned his mindscape into the arena, initiating the fight. Thanks to his lucid dreaming, Mike was able to fight Nightmare Springtrap on equal terms, with Afton being subjected to the rules of Mike's dream world and feeling pain from his attacks. William was more than pleased to discover that Mike was the first victim to show worthy resistance, which, as he boasted, would make the kill much more satisfying. And soon, the battle between the ghostly children's murderer and their new father began.
However, despite William's best efforts, he wasn't able to land a single hit on Mike, with the former nightguard continuously dodging his attacks in a quick motion and countering them with his own, all while judging him for all the crimes he committed, even confessing that he and his ghostly children had destroyed CBEAR. Though Nightmare Springtrap noticed that Mike was getting more and more exhausted throughout the battle, and eventually, he was able to land a successful hit at the former nightguard's chest, and laughed at his seeming triumph...only to realize that the battle was still far from over. As the floor of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza-styled arena broke apart, Nightmare Springtrap fell down to another arena, modelled after the landscape of Hell, as Mike's form changed into that of a shadowy grim reaper and his attacks became much stronger and more painful. After hearing Mike's boast that a wild animal in the desert could've done a better job at hurting him that Nightmare Springtrap did, Afton realized that his words were true and started using demonic powers for his attacks. The two were still locked in the battle, though William's attacks didn't faze Mike much, and as the battle raged on, Mike boasted that the murderer is running out of time and will soon be sent back to Hell. However, Afton revealed that he still had one more card to play and opened a portal to Hell, allowing Vucarik's legions to enter Mike's mind. Mike wasn't bothered by this turn of events and responded by summoning his own army of his inner darkness, taking form of shadowy creatures of all kinds.
As the armies approached each other, Mike and Nightmare Springtrap ordered both armies to attack. The battle quickly turned into the bloodfest, with Mike's shadows initially overpowering the demons, slaughtering all of the cannon fodder, thus forcing William's demons to cooperate with each other to overpower the foe. Soon, the demons were able to deal the significant damage to Mike's shadow armies, though they also faced significant losses among their ranks. As their numbers decreased, several members of both commanders' armies broke off to kill the commanders themselves, only to be met with death as both Nightmare Springtrap and Mike effortlessly destroyed each others' stray soldiers. The stalemate of the battle between demons and shadows was seemingly broken when the further reinforcements from Hell had arrived in the form of five battle beasts ridden by demonic tamers who were able to overwhelm the shadows, but Mike countered it by summoning the equal number of shadowy versions of Olog-hai, which were even stronger than demonic beasts and their riders. Realizing that the battle would end in his forces' defeat, Nightmare Springtrap decided to interfere by personally attacking the shadow Olog-hai, managing to successfully kill one. Mike responded by interfering into the battle as well, casting the deadliest spells to annihilate one third of William's demonic armies before finishing off the infernal steed with another spell.
However, the demonic armies brought a second wave of reinforcements, almost as large as the first wave, which would've easily turned the battle into Afton favor. As he gloated to Mike that the former nightguard has ran out of shadows to fight on his behalf, Schmidt revealed that he was actually capable of destroying the army from the start and proceeded to back up his claim by destroying the Hell portal that William opened before calling his shadow army to make their retreat. As soon as the shadows retreated, Mike casted his deadliest spell to completely incinerate the demon army in a fiery inferno, their innate fire protection no longer being able to save them. Nightmare Springtrap avoided the attack by hiding behind one of the columns, protecting himself from the worst effects of the spell.
As the army was destroyed, Nightmare Springtrap noticed that Mike's form has changed, making him look even more enraged than before. The demonic murderer and the former nightguard in shadowy reaper's form once again began to fight, with much greater ferocity than before. Though William was able to inflict the grievous wounds on Mike, but Schmidt was still able to ward him off and inflict injuries on demonic murderer by himself. Soon, Mike Schmidt made Afton a proporal: a duel to the death with claw and blade. Nightmare Springtrap accepted the proposal and both began their fight. However, Mike made several graving mistakes during the fight, and the demonic murderer was able to land devastating hits on his victims' protector, with Mike's shadowy form exploding, leaving Afton alone in the hellish landscape of Mike's mind.
Despite this seeming victory, William still sensed that Mike hasn't died yet and his presence was still around, as if he was never defeated at all. Soon, he noticed that Mike had managed to regenerate himself into the form he took right before their final stage of battle, much to Afton's disbelief. He tried to attack Mike again, but to no avail as Schmidt instantly regenerated all the damage done to him in seconds and then proceeded to viciously maul and smash him against the landscape. Soon, William Afton realized just how dangerous Mike is in his mind, and tried to escape into the real world, only for Mike to keep him trapped inside. As Afton was struck with a dark lightning, the floor collapsed once more, sending the demonic murderer into the abyss below once again, with him noticing that Mike's shadowy reaper form faded away into nothingness, though he knew that Mike was still present.
Soon, William Afton found himself in the pit of darkness, right before he saw the new form Mike took, utterly unrecognizable as a human and resembling a titanic demon that towered over him. Nightmare Springtrap tried to fight the demon that Mike became in his mind, but to no avail, as none of the attacks could've hurt him in any meaningful way. And soon, Mike began to inflict gruesome tortures on William Afton, with the murderer being completely unable to fight back, left only to beg for mercy which he wouldn't receive. As Mike inflicted one torture after another in quick succession, not letting the murderer take any rest and using the simulacrum of Scrap Baby to cut off his claws, William tried to defy Mike one last time by trying to breathe hellfire on him in defiance, only for Schmidt to catch it and drain the fire from his throat, using it to imbue his scythe with fire before starting to flay off Nightmare Springtrap's metal and skin. Afterwards, Mike let the simulacrums of animatronics finish the job by torturing and mutilating Afton's weakened shade, with Bonnie tearing off his face, Chica breaking his limbs, Freddy delivering crushing punches to his face and body, Foxy wildly and viciously clawing at him, and Golden Freddy gouging his eyes out with a microphone and breaking his back against his knee.
When Nightmare made his appearance, William Afton started begging for the demon lord to take him back to Hell, but the demon, amused by the fact that the murderer considers Hell to be more merciful when compared to the torture he suffers now, decides to allow Mike to continue his job. After being tortured by animatronics, William faced a devastating electric torture that completely burned him down to a charred corpse. The child murderer could only beg for mercy and try to apologize for his actions, only for Mike, who was aware that this insincere apology was merely a futile attempt to get him to end his tortures, prepared to hack Afton's soul into pieces. But before Mike could perform the act, he was stopped by the soul of Serene, his mother, who was appalled by the cruelty her son had displayed that was no longer justifiable as vengeance.
As the mother and son were reunited, William Afton tried to crawl away, but was stopped by Nightmare who stomped on his back, crushing his insides. Soon, Nightmare drained Afton of the last traces of stolen demonic essences within his body as well as the essences of demonic armies that met their end in Mike's mind before lifting Afton's broken shade and mocking him for making his own suffering worse as he lost his limited Heaven's protections not for another thousand years, but for eternity due to him bringing Lucifer's personal attention with his escape attempt. As Nightmare took his broken, mangled shade out of Mike's mind, he carried him to outside of Mike's mansion, opening the gateway to Hell in his pool, in which he threw Afton into, condemning him to Hell for a second time, where Lucifer himself would inflict gruesome tortures on his body.
In Hell, thanks to the conversation with Old Man Consequences, Nightmare realized that, to break Afton completely, they need to strike right into his arrogance, so they decide to make him the Hell's laughingstock by forcing him to relive the experiences of all nightguards that perished at animatronics' hands by sending all animatronics that were ever created by Fazbear Entertainment or Circus Baby franchise at him, all while allowing all sorts of demons to make wagers on whether he'll survive through all six hours or not. When the torture chamber was finished, Nightmare decided to let Mike Schmidt and his family be the first ones who'll decide what animatronics will attack them first. With Charlie deciding to send animatronics that represent their past selves first, William Afton suffered his first death at the hands of Chica, who banged him with a pot until he died. Later, Nightmare sent all Nightmare animatronics at him, with Molten Freddy and Scrap Baby as inclusions, also giving Afton some fundamental knowledge of the office's functions to allow him to survive and put effort into protecting himself since watching him struggle would be much more entertaining than watching him fail before the first hour passes. Despite the knowledge, Afton still failed the night as Nightmare Bonnie entered the office and gruesomely murdered him by gouging out his eyes, tearing off his face and then crushing his skull with foot. Afterwards, Nightmare informed the Schmidt family that, with a wide array of animatronics to sic on Afton, the possibilities for his torture are endless, as he continued entertaining them with a new method of torture, even making occasional visits to the Schmidts to entertain them further with Afton's suffering.
Though Afton's fate was sealed permanently and he would never escape Hell again, his influence would still continue trying to hurt people on Earth. At it turned out, the revived version of Fazbear Entertainment scanned Afton's remains for their new game, with the Remnant on his body that contained fragments of his soul creating Glitchtrap, an anomalous fragment of Afton's soul taken form of malicious virus with the powers of possession that could steal the players' bodies or attempt to corrupt their souls into doing their bidding, with each copy of the game containing its own Glitchtrap that could've accomplished this very goal. When Nightmare found out about this, he tried to retrieve information about him from Afton's mind, but was incapable of finding desirable answers from his mind. Though all copies of Glitchtrap were destroyed by the Nightmares, there was still one that managed to escape and possess a human, slowly corrupting their soul into doing their bidding.
Eventually, Nightmare arrived at the Schmidts' household, ready to show them one last torment of William Afton and revealing his true motivations behind his evil to Mike and ghost children, requiring them to set every single animatronic on 20 AI level. As the torture session began, William Afton was confronted over his sins by the replica of Mike Schmidt's dark form, a form the former nightguard took in their mental battle, who judged the killer for his sins, with the real Mike Schmidt and his ghostly children discovering everything about William Afton's true motivations. After the judgement has passed and his motivations were revealed, the replica of Dark Mike summoned every single animatronic of the Ultimate Custom Night torture, and William Afton was torn apart by every single animatronic, one of the many tortures he'd end up suffering through in Hell for all eternity.
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“ | Nightmare: A HAPPY ENDING FOR THEM, AND A HAPPY ENDING FOR ME... THERE IS NO DOUBT ANYMORE. YOU HAVE FAILED. YOU THOUGHT THAT YOU COULD BREAK APART THE FAMILY THAT YOUR VICTIMS CREATED WITH THE NIGHT GUARD. BUT IF ANYTHING, YOUR ACTIONS HAVE ONLY STRENGTHENED THEIR BONDS INSTEAD. YOU HAVE LOST OUR LITTLE WAGER, AND IT IS TIME FOR ME TO CLAIM MY PRIZE. William Afton: You didn't even try, did you? You could have gotten into their heads deeper, stirred their doubts up harder, before going in for the kill. But you didn't do any of that! You just went in and talked to them for a couple of minutes! Nightmare: YOU NEVER SPECIFIED HOW I WOULD CARRY OUT MY ASSAULT, ONLY THAT I DO IT AT ALL. YOU LEFT THE DETAILS IN THE HANDS OF A DEMON, AND YOU ACT SURPRISED WHEN THINGS DON'T GO YOUR WAY? YOU ARE A FOOL. William Afton: Why? Why wouldn't you try your hardest to break them apart? We're both evil monsters! We should be working together! Nightmare (clawing at William's throat): DID YOU HONESTLY THINK THAT JUST BECAUSE I HAD MADE A DEAL WITH YOU, OUR AGREEMENT SUDDENLY MADE US INTO ALLIES? OR PERHAPS, EVEN FRIENDS? YOU HAVE NO IDEA JUST HOW MUCH I DESPISE YOU, WILLIAM AFTON. YOU ARE TRULY A MAN IN LOVE WITH VIOLENCE. PERHAPS, IF YOU HAD EARNED YOUR KILLS IN BATTLE, THAT WOULD EARN MY RESPECT. BUT, NO. YOU ONLY EVER TRIED TO SHED BLOOD WHEN YOU WERE UP AGAINST WEAK LITTLE CHILDREN WITH NO WAY TO FIGHT BACK, OR IN THE BODY OF ANIMATRONIC WITH METAL AND STEEL TO EMPOWER YOU. AND EVEN THEN, YOU ACCOMPLISHED NOTHING. YOUR ENTIRE LEGACY BURNED TO ASH AND OBLIVION WITH THE TRAP THAT YOU WANDERED INTO LIKE AN IMBECILE. THE ONLY THING YOUR MURDERS ARE A TESTAMENT TO IS YOUR OWN COWARDICE. AND I HAVE NO RESPECT FOR COWARDS. BUT THAT ISN'T THE ONLY REASON WHY I DESPISE YOUR EXISTENCE, WILLIAM AFTON. IT IS NOT EVEN THE MAIN REASON. I DO NOT PERSONALLY CARE HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU TRY TO KILL. BUT YOUR CRIMES RUN DEEPER THAN SIMPLE VIOLENCE, DON'T THEY? I KNOW WHAT YOU DID TO YOUR OWN CHILDREN, HOW YOU TRIED TO MANIPULATE THEM INTO DOING YOUR WILL. I KNOW HOW YOU SENT YOUR SON MICHAEL TO DIE IN YOUR PLACE AT THE DEATH TRAP YOU DISGUISED AS A PIZZERIA. AND I KNOW HOW YOU TRIED TO CORRUPT YOUR DAUGHTER ELIZABETH AND TURN HER INTO A MONSTER AND A MURDERER JUST LIKE YOU. MAYBE YOU MIGHT HAVE CARED FOR YOUR CHILDREN AT ONE POINT. I DO NOT KNOW, AND I DO NOT CARE. BECAUSE IN THE LAST MOMENTS OF YOUR EXISTENCE, YOU NEVER SAW EITHER OF THEM AS ANYTHING MORE THAN TOOLS TO CARRY OUT YOUR PERVERTED WILL, DIDN'T YOU? I HAVE PLEDGED MYSELF TO EVIL FOR OVER A THOUSAND YEARS, AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO UNTIL THE END OF TIME. THE MORALS AND PRINCIPLES I POSSESS ARE FEW AND FAR BETWEEN. BUT NO MATTER HOW DEPRAVED I MAY BECOME, AT LEAST I UNDERSTAND WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PART OF A FAMILY! |
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~ Nightmare telling William Afton why he despises him. |
“ | Remnant...such a fascinating substance. A substance, seemingly innocuous and mundane, may very well prove be so much more than anyone believed. If I am correct, then this Remnant may very well be the key to immortality. It may hold the secret to life after death itself. Those childish mascots in my fool of a partner's pizzeria chain...there is more to them than just artificial intelligence now, isn't there? More to them than just mechanical flesh and gears churning in their minds. Perhaps those little brats I slaughtered and stuffed in those metal bodies have become one with their new bodies, though how this occurred even I do not know. The animatronics that I have created, the machines I have created to kidnap and kill in my stead, they were created with this same Remnant. Perhaps the victims they claim will be able to live on through them as well? If that is so, then the possibilities are truly endless, and eternal life may be within my grasp. | „ |
~ The journal entry on Remnant, written by William Afton |
“ | Vucarik: THERE IS A WAY... William Afton: Who...are you... Vucarik: ONE WHO HOLDS NO ALLEGIANCE OR FRIENDSHIP TO THE ONE YOU ARE ENSLAVED TO. Afton: What...do you want...from me... Vucarik: I HAVE...PLANS...FOR THE INFERNO. PLANS TO OVERTHROW LUCIFER AND REPLACE HIM WITH...SOMEONE FAR MORE SUITED TO THE LEADERSHIP OF HELL. NIGHTMARE WOULD NEVER JOIN ME, SO I MUST MAKE SURE TO KEEP HIM...SUFFICIENTLY DISTRACTED... Afton: And how...do you seek...to accomplish this? Vucarik: I WILL NOT EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU NOW, BUT KNOW THIS. I CAN GIVE YOU THE MEANS TO ESCAPE FROM THE CHAINS THAT YOU ARE SHACKLED TO. AND I CAN GIVE YOU THE POWER WITH WHICH TO SEEK YOUR REVENGE ON THE MORTAL YOU SO DESPISE. ALL I ASK IN RETURN IS THAT WHEN I COME FOR YOU, YOU AGREE TO ESCAPE INTO THE MORTAL WORLD IMMEDIATELY, WITHOUT A SECOND'S HESITATION. Afton: And why...are you helping me? Vucarik: SIMPLE. BETWEEN THE METHOD WITH WHICH I WILL GRANT YOU POWER, AND YOUR ESCAPE INTO THE MORTAL WORLD, NIGHTMARE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO INTERFERE WITH MY PLANS, OR AT LEAST NOT UNTIL IT IS TOO LATE. LUCIFER WILL SUFFER NO DAMNED TO ESCAPE THE INFERNO, WILL TOLERATE NO SUCH INSULT. AS I HAVE SAID BEFORE, I AM NO FRIEND OF NIGHTMARE'S, AND HE WILL NEVER JOIN MY SIDE IN THE WAR THAT IS TO COME. SO I WILL MAKE DO WITH THIS, AND CONSIDERING THE MALICE THAT NIGHTMARE BEARS FOR YOU, YOU ARE THE PERFECT SOUL TO CHOOSE AMONG THE MANY THAT ARE UNDER HIS IRON GRIP. THE ONLY QUESTION IS...ARE YOU WILLING TO ACCEPT? Afton: I accept. |
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~ William Afton teaming up with Vucarik to escape Hell. |
“ | William Afton/Nightmare Springtrap: WELL, WELL, WELL... THIS BRINGS BACK SO MANY MEMORIES... I SEE THAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN A COORDINATED ATTACK THIS TIME AROUND, INSTEAD OF BUMBLING IN TO YOUR DOOM LIKE YOU DID SO MANY YEARS AGO. VERY CLEVER...BUT IT WILL NOT SAVE YOU. (Nightmare Springtrap looks around, finding Mike Schmidt in his bedroom, seeing him through the ceiling) AH...SO THAT'S WHERE HE IS. HIDING AWAY LIKE A COWARD WHILE HE SENDS HIS CHILDREN TO FIGHT FOR HIM. I WONDER...IS HE NOT ENOUGH OF A MAN TO MEET ME FACE-TO-FACE? Gabe/Rockstar Freddy: He's not a coward! The only reason why he's not here is because we refused to let him come even near you! Nightmare Springtrap: AND YOU THINK THE MERE DISTANCE OF A SINGLE FLOOR WILL BE ENOUGH TO SAVE HIM FROM MY WRATH? FOOLS. THERE IS NOWHERE FOR HIM TO RUN, AND NOWHERE FOR HIM TO HIDE! Jeremy/Rockstar Bonnie: You're not getting anywhere near him! We'll smash you down to a pile of scrap long before you ever get the chance! Nightmare Springtrap: (laughing) IS THAT SO? AND HOW DO YOU PLAN TO SAVE HIM...WHEN YOU CANNOT EVEN SAVE YOURSELVES? EVEN AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, YOU ARE STILL THE SAME IDIOTIC BRATS. I HAVE ALREADY SLAUGHTERED NOT ONCE BUT TWICE, AND THIS TIME WILL BE NO DIFFERENT FROM THE REST. SO COME! (scratches the table) LET US REPEAT THE PAST ONCE AGAIN! |
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~ William Afton mocking his ghostly victims in Rockstar animatronic bodies that he'll defeat and destroy them for the third time. |
“ | William Afton/Nightmare Springtrap: ELIZABETH...SO GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN. WHY DO YOU ALIGN YOURSELF WITH THESE BRATS, THESE WEAKLINGS WHO NEVER HAD A CHANCE TO BEGIN WITH? COME, JOIN ME, AS YOU DID IN THE PAST. AFTER ALL, ISN'T THAT WHAT YOU'VE ALWAYS WANTED? TO MAKE YOUR DADDY PROUD? Liz/Scrap Baby: Did you really think I couldn't figure it out? All those promises you whispered into my ear when I first met you...they were nothing more than empty lies! You never cared about me as anything more than a tool to serve your ends, any more than you ever cared about Mikey. I know what love feels like, now. I know what it means to be loved and cared for, and to give that love and care back. I finally know what being part of a family feels like now, AND YOU NEVER GAVE ME EVEN A SECOND OF IT! You almost destroyed everything good about me just so you could try and kill more kids like us. You didn't deserve my love or loyalty then, and you don't deserve them now. I will never listen to a word you say ever again! Nightmare Springtrap: ...A TOOL? YOU WERE TOO USELESS TO SERVE EVEN THAT PURPOSE! YOU COULDN'T EVEN KILL A SINGLE VICTIM IN SIX DAYS, A LIVING CARCASS WEAKENED BY THE YEARS WITH BARELY THE STRENGTH TO MOVE! YOU ARE JUST AS MUCH OF A DISAPPOINTMENT AS YOUR WORTHLESS BROTHERS! I WAS THE ONE WHO GAVE YOU LIFE, YOU PATHETIC LITTLE INGRATE! AND I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO UNDO THAT MISTAKE! Liz: And I'm going to do what I should've done from the very beginning! |
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~ William Afton trying to tempt Elizabeth/Liz into joining him, only to be rejected. |
“ | William Afton/Nightmare Springtrap: YOU ARE AS WEAK AND AS PATHETIC AS YOUR BROTHERS. THE SUM OF YOUR ENTIRE EXISTENCE, DEFINED AS ONE FAILURE AFTER ANOTHER. DID YOU FORGET WHO GAVE YOU THAT POWER TO BEGIN WITH? YOU ARE WORTHLESS! Liz/Scrap Baby: Wrong. I became a better person, and I broke your chains. That's all the worth that I ever need! (Nightmare Springtrap prepares to strike her down one more time.) Mike Schmidt: (over the intercom) Enough! Nightmare Springtrap: (turning to the camera) YOU HIDE AWAY IN THE DEPTHS OF YOUR HOME WHILE FORCING CHILDREN TO FIGHT FOR YOU? WHO IS THE TRUE COWARD HERE? Mike: If it were up to me, I would have waited for you in the living room, ready to face you like a man. They were the ones who insisted I stay up here while they tried to fight you off. And I was happy to honor their request as long as the animatronics were the ones taking the damage...until I saw you attack Liz the way you did. I wasn't going to stay silent after that. Nightmare Springtrap: YOU CAN HAVE HER. I HAVE NO USE FOR THAT DISAPPOINTMENT OF A DAUGHTER ANYMORE. YOU SHOULD HAVE LEFT HER TO HER FATE AND KEPT SILENT. I MIGHT HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT YOUR PRESENCE HERE...BUT NOT ANYMORE. I KNOW WHAT YOU'VE DONE TO ME. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE THE REASON WHY MY EXISTENCE IN HELL BECAME SO MUCH WORSE THAN WHAT IT ALREADY WAS. AND I WILL MAKE YOU PAY FOR MY SUFFERING! Mike: And what is there to fear? A blithering imbecile who walked into his own death? A helpless weakling who had to suck the cock of another demon lord just for the mere chance of revenge? Come, then! Come and face me, like you planned. Let's settle this between the two of us, once and for all. I'll be waiting. |
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~ William Afton baited by Mike Schmidt into confronting him, distracting him from attacking Liz. |
“ | William Afton/Nightmare Springtrap: (laughing) IS THAT IT? IS THIS THE ONLY RESISTANCE THAT THE GREAT AND MIGHTY MIKE SCHMIDT CAN MUSTER AGAINST ME? A WEAK OLD MAN SITTING ON A BED, WAITING FOR HIS END? YOU CALL ME A FOOL, AND YET YOU DO NOT CARRY EVEN A SINGLE WEAPON TO DEFEND YOURSELF! OF ALL THE BEINGS IN THIS HOUSE, YOU ARE BY FAR THE MOST PATHETIC. A GNAT THAT DARES TO ROAR LIKE A LION, A CORPSE THAT DOES NOT KNOW THAT HE IS DEAD! Mike Schmidt: So... William Afton. The murderer of my children, and the betrayer of his own family. I don't know what exactly I was expecting, but you're less intimidating than I was expecting. Are you going to kill me? Go right ahead. I didn't fear death more than thirty years ago, and I don't fear it now. Go ahead and get the revenge you so desperately want. It won't do you any good in the end. Nightmare Springtrap: (laughing again) KILL YOU? DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE ME SO EASY TO DECEIVE? I KNOW WHAT WILL COME TO PASS IF I SPILL YOUR BLOOD NOW. WITH YOUR DEATH, THOSE BRATS WILL BE FREED FROM THEIR DUTY TO YOU, AND ALL OF YOU WILL PASS ON TO HEAVEN WHILE I LANGUISH IN THE ABYSS ONCE NIGHTMARE AND HIS MERRY BAND OF MONGRELS BEGIN THEIR PURSUIT. NO... I HAVE A FATE FAR WORSE THAN DEATH PLANNED FOR YOU! |
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~ William Afton and Mike Schmidt's banter before the former enters the latter's mind. |
Trivia[]
- According to the author's notes in the end of Chapter 74, William Afton's Nightmare Springtrap form is based on the commonly-used Nightmare Springtrap design, drawn by Tomycase and modelled by YourOgrelord, but with fiery orange eyes and demonic essence flickering from his body. When his powers are not supressed, Nightmare Springtrap's emanating demonic essence is outright replaced with burning hellfire aura.
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