| “ | I’ve been a master of all these creatures... All the animatronics are linked together; it was a system designed to control the choreography for the shows. Now I control the system. I control the choreography. All of this is mine. | „ |
| ~ William Afton. |
| “ | Jessica: Everyone is afraid to die, Afton, and you should be afraid more than anyone else, because if there's a hell, there's a hole at the bottom of it reserved for you. Afton: In time, I'm sure that's where I will find myself. But the Devil has knocked on my door before, and I've turned him away. |
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| ~ Afton talking with Jessica. |
William Afton is the main antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's novel trilogy.
He is the co-owner of the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza restaurants, alongside his colleague Henry Emily, the father of his arch-enemy Charlotte "Charlie" Emily. He is secretly a serial killer, murdering children to harvest paranormal "remnant" to create malicious animatronics and achieve immortality.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- William Afton is overall a sadistic, heartless serial killer who murdered and tormented innocent people for both the fun of it and to achieve his twisted and selfish goal of immortality.
- While it is implied that he lived a very miserable and meaningless existence before the events of the trilogy and he ultimately lacked something essential in life. It was never expanded upon nor made clear enough to make him a tragic character, even then the book frames it as a petty excuse for his crimes and sheer sadism. It’s even highlighted that Afton may have believed life owed him for his sadistic behavior, meaning he refuses to take responsibility for his own actions.
- As a show of his utter inhumanity, his eyes are eerily described as being dead, dull and flat, like whatever was behind them died a long time ago.
- Kidnapped and murdered his best friend Henry's three-year-old daughter, Charlotte, which is implied to have been done in an act of petty jealousy towards him. This led to Henry's wife divorcing him and taking their son Sammy, which caused him to go insane and build four robotic duplicates of Charlie to cope with his grief and pretend she is still alive.
- What's worse was that because of William's actions, Henry eventually committed suicide out of grief and left the duplicate Charlie without a father.
- Unlike in the games where it’s only implied, here he is explicitly shown to be an abusive and neglectful father, striking his daughter Elizabeth not once but twice for simply disturbing him while he was working on Circus Baby. Eventually, William's actions would lead to Elizabeth dying at the hands of Baby and possessing the animatronic.
- Using the Fredbear suit, he lured five children into the backroom at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza and murdered them in cold blood, one of whom was Charlie’s childhood friend Michael Brooks, which left his parents utterly heartbroken and scarred the town of Hurricane, Utah. He did this by stuffing their unconscious bodies inside the animatronics, having them suffer a slow and painful death. This was also to hide the evidence of his crimes and get away with his murders, a plan that actually worked. This incident would lead to the children possessing the animatronics and killing all adults who were caught in the pizzeria after hours.
- Changed his name to "Dave Miller" and took a job at the abandoned mall at Freddy's to keep his victims trapped there as his "family".
- When Charlie and her friends snuck into Freddy's ten years later, he attempted to kill them all for no other reason than pure bloodlust. This is in spite of the fact that they were not even an active threat towards him, as they didn't even know his true identity or the fact he was the man who killed the five kids.
- Although he acts affable and comedic towards Charlie and her friends, taking them on a tour of the pizzeria and even activating the animatronic show for them to enjoy, this was nothing more than a façade that he quickly drops. He even later claimed that he hated said façade.
- Wearing the Spring Bonnie suit, he kidnaps Carlton in front of Jason, an act which seemingly traumatized the young boy.
- When Carlton's father Clay sends Officer Dunn to Freddy's to investigate his son's disappearance, Afton savagely murders him by stabbing him to death.
- He traps Carlton in a springlock suit and sadistically describes in great detail the painful and agonizing death he would suffer if he moved and caused the springlocks to malfunction.
- It's likely that even if Carlton didn't trigger the springlocks, he still would have been trapped in the suit indefinitely and died regardless by starving to death. Thankfully, Charlie rescued him.
- When Charlie and her friends interrogate him and call out his actions, he takes no responsibility for them. He even sadistically taunts them by claiming that the animatronics will kill them all and he’ll walk over their corpses one by one and leave the next day, essentially trying to make Charlie and her friends scapegoats for his actions.
- Although he claims that the spirits of the children are like a family to him and he feels as though he is one of them, it’s nothing more than just a delusional obsession rather than any genuine care. Besides, he is still the one responsible for all their suffering in the first place, with Carlton outright pointing out he imprisoned them in the animatronics.
- Once he escapes from Charlie and her friends, he locks the door to the security room so they can’t even hide or have a place to protect themselves from the animatronics and even watches with sadistic glee as they are attacked by Chica.
- When his plan to have the animatronics kill Charlie and her friends fails, he cowardly takes her hostage and threatens to murder her if they do not comply with him. Chances are he would likely have killed her regardless as well.
- Although his death in the Spring Bonnie suit is described as extremely agonizing and painful, it is not played for sympathy, as he deserved it for his actions, something that Charlie takes into consideration before allowing him to die. It's also important to note that he tried to kill Carlton in the same manner earlier and had killed multiple children eleven years prior.
- After his reanimation as Springtrap, he ordered the Twisted Animatronics to kill Charlie, which led to the deaths of several people who even remotely looked like her or got in their way, such as a woman named Tracy Horton and an unnamed man.
- He has the Twisted Animatronics kidnap Charlie and transport her to an underground pizzeria, presumably to kill her or experiment on her.
- Although he claims he would be willing to let Charlie’s friends go so long as she complied, it's most likely that he was lying and would have killed them regardless. Besides, he drops this and has the Twisted Ones try to kill her friends anyway.
- He goes out of his way to insult the late Henry by claiming his robots were poorly built compared to his own.
- He taunts Charlie over her belief that he killed her brother Sammy and vaguely hints that she was the one he killed.
- He opened Circus Baby's Pizza and had Baby kidnap several children to painfully experiment on. He was even shown to have killed one child offscreen.
- Despite Elizabeth becoming Circus Baby and faithfully serving him, he is still emotionally neglectful and sees her as nothing but a tool, even telling her that she is a disappointment which causes Baby to commit various atrocities just to gain his approval.
- He somehow captured the original animatronics and fused them into one endoskeleton to find out how to become immortal. What's worse is that the whole time the spirits were in immense pain during the process, which he shows no guilt for and even coldly states that he doesn't care.
- Once he removed the Spring Bonnie suit from his body, several pieces of it were still buried in his flesh, leaving him in a constant state of agony and pain to the point where he was bound to a wheelchair. However, this is not played for sympathy, with Jessica even saying he deserved it for his unspeakable atrocities.
- Forced Jessica to watch and help Baby perform a crude and gruesome surgery on him, something which was not only traumatizing for her but spiteful, as she was forced to help save her worst enemy.
- Ordered Baby to kidnap and bring him Charlie for study and experimentation, and if what he did to the other animatronics was anything to go by, it would have likely been agonizing for her.
- This also makes him indirectly responsible for Baby killing Henry's sister Jenny in her attempts to capture Charlie.
- Painfully injects Carlton in the heart with a syringe of hot concentrated remnant, and when he faints and doesn’t get the desired result he wanted, he shows no remorse and morbidly calls it “trial and error”.
- Tricked his victims' souls into thinking he was their friend Spring Bonnie to manipulate them into doing his dirty work, completely abandoning his earlier beliefs that they were like a family to him.
- When he feels as though his time is running short, he decided to try and murder Jacob, the only child that hadn't yet been rescued, noting that even if his plans don't work out, he will at least enjoy killing him, just like he enjoyed murdering Charlie and the five children all those years ago.
- Although he suffers a horrific end by being dragged into a furnace by his victims and burned alive, like every horrible thing that happens to him, it is fully deserved, considering how irredeemable and monstrous he was.
External Links[]
- William Afton on the Villains Wiki
- William Afton on the Ultimate Evil Wiki
- William Afton on the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Wiki
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