What do they mean by the one you shouldnt have killed FNAF?

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• The mini-games give us glimpses into the life of the Child. So far, he has been locked in his room, scared by his brother wearing a Foxy mask, and left behind by his brother at Fredbear's Family Diner, a place his brother knows he hates. Poor kid definitely has a crappy life.
  • Even worse is that this kid ultimately gets accidentally killed. His brother and brother's friends shoved his head into the Fredbear animatronic, which bit down and crushed his head. Right before the child was shoved inside the animatronic's mouth, his brother said that he wanted to give Fredbear a big kiss, while in reality, he didn't want to be forced into this. A classic example of a prank gone wrong.
  • What everyone is forgetting is... on the day the Bite happens, it was the Child's birthday. He was badly injured on the day he should have been having a good time.
    • That alone is heartwrenching. Out of all the characters of the restaurant, he at least keeps his Fredbear plushie near. Even if the real deal scares him, it's perhaps the one aspect of the place that he can get close to. Unfortunately, Fredbear himself, although accidentally, is the one who deals him a crippling injury he will suffer for the rest of his now drastically-shortened life.

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  • The post-Night 5 cutscene proves the kid is the victim of The Bite of '83, a seperate incident from The Bite of '87. Thanks in part to his brother.
  • The Bite of '83 was also the reason of why Fredbear Family Diner was shut down and why Fredbear and Spring Bonnie were left to rot for 40 years. And as Fredbear was singing when all of this was taking place, he didn't realise that the child's head got stuck in his mouth because of that prank until it was too late. Remember, Fredbear and Spring Bonnie have a springlock suit that can be worn by humans, but the springlocks get loose if you breathe directly on them, touch them directly, make sudden movements or make the suit wet. It's also possible that the child's tears caused the springlocks in the costume to get loose, causing Fredbear to accidentally bite him. Fredbear didn't mean to bite the child, but if this was the case, he wouldn't be able to keep his mouth open to prevent it.
    • Not to mention that because of William Afton just two years later, Fredbear, now known as Golden Freddy, was possessed by one of the five children that Afton killed. He became like a paranormal ghost, an empty shell, and for decades, he was consumed by hatred, even worse than the others, refusing to rest and punishing Afton by torturing him over and over in his personal hell in UCN. Fredbear and Spring Bonnie have a pretty tragic story: the child's brother caused Fredbear to accidentally bite him, the child dies, they are left abandoned for several years, a Spring Bonnie suit is used by William Afton to kill children, Afton ironically dies inside of it for black irony, and Golden Freddy's spirit won't rest in peace, unlike Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and the other souls. After all, he was The one you shouldn't have killed. Only Old Man Consequences managed to convice him to stop.

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  • The final nail in the coffin: As soon as night 6 ends, a scene shows the child is in the spotlight of death, as each of his plush friends fade... and as the scene ends, he does, too...
  • In this same vein, look at the poor boy while he's being dragged over to Fredbear. He's shaking harder than Purple Guy did after setting off the Spring-Bonnie suit, and unlike Purple Guy, this child has not been injured yet.
  • But here's the worst tearjerker: who's to say the brother wanted to kill his brother? Imagine just trying to prank your little brother...and it goes horribly, horribly wrong.
    • The teens are laughing to themselves when they place the kid into Fredbear's jaws — and then stop laughing when the poor boy stops moving.
    • Night 6: The grey text at the beginning is the same as the brother's in the previous night. What is he saying? "I'm sorry."
  • The whole situation gives off serious Teens Are Monsters vibes. In the end, one of the scariest things in the whole series isn't the animatronics, or the child murderer, but the sheer despair and depths of cruelty that kids can do to each other.
    • Possibly averted under the terms of the 6th Night Ending. Fredbear states that the animatronics are still the Child's friends and that he'll fix him in a tear jerker of the Heartwarming fashion.
    • But at the very end...listen briefly. Someone is flatlining... which makes it all the more heartbreaking as it implies that while the child did initially survive the bite, he eventually passed away after a week, meaning that his brother and his friends will all have to live with the fact that they may have accidentally killed a child, let alone his own brother.
  • The situation gets even worse when you realise the layout of the home in the cutscenes is radically different from the actual game. A very odd inconsistency. It's not clear what this means until Sister Location — going off the security footage, the Child was possibly locked up in Circus Baby's Pizza World and wasn't at home the entire time. Small wonder the poor thing was having nightmares, considering CBPW is also a facility for creating animatronics!
• It is implied that whoever has the nightmares isn't the Child. While it does make the child's life easier, it's implied the one who has the nightmares is the Child's brother. He is haunted by the greatest mistake he has ever made.
• Seeing that there's a town around the diner makes something hit home when you realise that the minigames seem to take place in Summer, and that the MCI happened on June 26th: In barely a few months, five children go missing and one is killed by an animatronic. Not to mention that there was also the Puppet, somewhere before June 26th. And one of those children could be yours.
• Although the animatronics scare the Child, he describes his Freddy plushie collection as his only friends. That's sad enough, but one of his friends, Foxy, is missing his head. Three guesses whose fault that is. It seems nothing the Child cares about is safe.
• When we finally get to see the party, there are no other kids. It's just the protagonist and his brother's gang. That's terrible enough, but something even worse happened. The five murdered kids, while laughing at the Child, promised to go to his party anyway. It's incredibly likely that they just didn't come in one time to stop the Bite, but there is this extremely small chance that they are the Missing Children. Which rubs in how much of an utter monster Purple Guy is: he took away the only chance the kid had at actually having fun at his party, and if the other kids were there, the Bite could have actually been prevented.
  • Worse still, those five kids were now possessing the Withered animatronics and Fredbear when the Bite happened. Whoever was now in Fredbear had to watch as a kid they might have considered a wimp, but still wanted to be nice to, was forced into their mouth and dealt a brutal injury. It goes a long way to explaining how ruthless Golden Freddy is in FNAF 1 and 2, breaking Mike's mind when spotted and possibly killing Jeremy like the others.
  • Also doubly worse is the fact that the Purple Man is the Crying Child's father. You can see the Purple Man as an Easter Egg, and how he spares the Crying Child from the gruesome fate of his victims. It might show that Even Evil Has Standards or Pragmatic Villainy, depending on if you consider the child as a Morality Pet or not. Due to the Purple Man's sadistic actions, he robbed his son of friends that wouldn't bully him and left him with a bunch of kids that caused a fatal accident. It would also explain the Parental Neglect present and why the older brother is such a Jerkass.
  • The theory seems to be jossed: The MCI happened way before the Bite, and the child saw it. It doesn't help at all, and makes everything worse!
• The game's ending itself is sadder than the third one, but wanna make it even sadder? The real Tearjerker in this: None of this is real. None of it, including the aforementioned ending. Fredbear promising to fix the child? A pure figment of his imagination. He wasn't planning on fixing him. He probably didn't even know what had happened. The closest these things have had to emotions is artificial A.I. and the spirits of dead children. Unless either the A.I. itself reached out to him or one of the kids went into his dreams, it's likely that promise wasn't real. The child even flatlines at the end of the final minigame. Fredbear isn't real. Fredbear is nothing. Just a pure, unhaunted hunk of metal that was made to bite a young child and was used as a scapegoat for the teenagers. The poor kid didn't even get a promise from the real Fredbear... at least his dying dream was happy.
  • It is highly likely that the Fredbear plush is possessed by the same kid who possesses the Puppet or Golden Freddy. So this stops being sad, thankfully.
• The last game had "Don't Go" as the title of its ending music. What's the name to the ending music this time? "Hard To Say Goodbye".
  
  Oh, Scott...
• In fact, forget the ending music. The normal ambience of the game is already tugging at the heartstrings. Unlike the first three games, which have straight-up freaky ambience and/or Drone of Dread as the BGM, this is
  
  what you hear for the majority of the game. It's still undoubtedly scary, but the chimes give it a melancholic and nostalgic feeling. Almost as if you are relieving your life from afar or seeing it flash before your eyes. A subtle Foreshadowing to the fact that the protagonist is actually going through Adventures in Comaland while he is hospitalized.
• Crosses with Fridge Brilliance as well as heartwarming. But the statement in one of the clippings of Five Nights at Freddy's acts a lot more harsher in hindsight now that the series has reached its end as if Scott put the line there because he knew the series would come to an end eventually.

  Management: "These characters will live on. In the hearts of children, they will live on."

• And now, we have another image on Scott's site
  
  . This time featuring all the animatronics (minus the Phantoms and Shadows) gathered around in a group photo with the words Thank You
  
  ◊, with even the more grotesque ones looking more photogenic and endearing. It's as though they've all come out to say goodbye...
  • What makes this sadder is that this might be the last time we see Freddy and friends officially...until the DLC, the film, and the recently announced FNAF World come out.
    • And then the animatronics started to transform into smaller forms, as if they're coming to say hello instead of goodbye. And it seems to be updating every day.
      
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    • It's also sad if you realize that the original horror animatronics that we know and love are slowly fading away to make way for their FNAF World forms, like it's saying that Five Nights at Freddy's as a horror series is officially done; a great era has ended.
    • After the Halloween update, Both FNAF World's site and Scottgames went completely dark. And then, this
      
      ◊. Poor, poor Mangle...
    • This no longer depressing because a new FNaF game is in development and it's going back to the horror that the series is known for.
• You know how after Nightmare Fredbear shows up that he starts using a very unnerving rendition of Freddy's laugh from the first Five Nights at Freddy's? Note that this laugh sounds like Fredbear is crying
  
  and considering how he was forced to bite a child who loved him, this turns from Nightmare Fuel to tear jerker real fast. This becomes even worse when you consider that the Fredbear plushy actually acts like it's sentient and tries to help the child deal with his animatronic counterpart....
• The fate of the animatronics. They were built to entertain children, but instead ended up becoming a nightmare that would go on for 40+ years before Fazbear's Fright burnt down. And then you consider all the sequels, which makes it worse.

Can you hear me?

I don't know if you can hear me.

...I'm sorry.

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