Day 14
William Afton 🐰🔪
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''I always come back. Let me out.''
Appearance:
Springtrap is William's first incarnation, appearing as a reanimated corpse sealed in a heavily damaged Spring Bonnie animatronic/springlock suit. This version first appeared in Five Nights at Freddy's 3.
The suit is a drab olive color, with darker colors on his stomach and the insides of his ears. A great portion of his right ear is missing, with a single red wire sticking out of the stump. Springtrap's entire body is torn and tattered, with gaping holes bearing exposed wires and caging throughout, making him appear much more macabre looking than any of the other animatronics from any previous installments in the series. His green/brown/black nose has an irregular squarish shape due to deterioration. While both of Springtrap's hands and feet are attached and generally intact, his legs are entirely stripped from the mid-shin down, fully exposing the endoskeleton wiring and metal. Several of his finger joints from each hand are missing their suit overlays. The middle and little fingers of Springtrap's right hand are notably missing their fingertips (this is no longer the case for his model in future games). A single black button can be seen on the middle of his chest. If one looks closely at the large hole in Springtrap's chest (which is located under his button), William's broken body can be seen. Springtrap has a wide, permanent grin, as the material surrounding his teeth has deteriorated. His jaw can be seen moving on occasions, such as during his second jumpscare, on CAM 15, his first rare-boot, along with Scott Cawthon's "Thank You!" image. Springtrap's endoskeleton feet appear wedge-shaped, with each sporting five toes. As of the 8th of October 2016, images of an early Springtrap model show his visible endoskeleton torso in the shape of an upside-down triangle. It has six "ribs", which almost act like actual animal ones.
Both of Springtrap's eyes are properly set inside of his head and appear to be pale gray in color. The eyes themselves as multiple blood-vessels can be seen in them. They also appear to be glowing, suggesting that William remains alive as a result of a paranormal event. Out of his whole body, only his head, bits of flesh and blood-vessels can be spotted. This is due to Scott not seeing a purpose in adding details in places not visible to the player during normal gameplay. His head can be seen more clearly in three rare-boot images depicting Springtrap trying to tear his own mask off.
As seen in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, Springtrap also walks and crawls with a limp. The arm joints also appear to be loose, though this may simply be due to the deteriorated condition of the original suit. Help Wanted also alters his general design, the suit itself being a lighter color. The biggest change between the Help Wanted model and the original is William's body. The eyes are now bright green with black pupils, looking more animatronic than human this time. While the corpse's head is a dark purple in color, the rest of the flesh on the body is a dark brown. Parts of the flesh are missing, such as the strands of flesh on the lower legs, or the flesh that goes from the torso to the pelvis. His endoskeleton is rustier and seems slightly less detailed.
Springtrap's design in Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery is a lot closer to the Five Nights at Freddy's 3 design, with some very slightly different textures from his original look. The biggest difference is William's mouth, which moves alongside his jaw. Like most other Special Delivery animatronics, the more damage Springtrap takes, the more broken he is, gaining more dark burn and dirt marks over time.
William returned once again in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator with a new design, dubbed Scraptrap. While he does retain some key physical details from Springtrap's design, there are some major differences. Unlike the previous design where his interior was mostly machinery, it is now almost entirely organic, and shows his human skeleton as well as flesh, with five bony fingers as his right hand. The reason as to why William is much more detailed this time is probably because his full body can be seen in one of the rare-boot screens. There are more torn patches in his suit with multiple metal-wires, and he has lost his left forearm, half his left ear, and the rest of his right ear. His feet now have fabric over them, with three large, round toes on each foot. His eyes no longer glow and now look completely metallic.
The mask also has significant differences, with much larger eye sockets, a black nose, a square muzzle, a singular pair of buck teeth at the top row and small sharp needle-like teeth at the bottom. Afton's mummified head is clean of blood, now with ears, thicker lips, rigged teeth, and a dimple. Upon closer inspection, there appears to be exposed muscle tissue on his forehead and cheeks.
Glitchtrap is a digital manifestation of William Afton and first appeared in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted.
Glitchtrap takes on the form of a man wearing a cartoonish Spring Bonnie costume based of Spring Bonnie’s appearance from a poster advertising Fredbear’s Family Diner - being a grinning, bipedal, golden-yellow rabbit. He is wearing a purple star-speckled vest, a purple bow tie, and two black buttons near the top of his chest. He also has stitches stretching across his waving hand. He initially appears translucent, progressing into a less-spectral form over time.
He also possesses vivid purple eyes with small pupils, which are the first thing visible when he starts to appear to the player's right. In Blacklight Mode, his eyes will turn blue with white, circular pupils. He also has large whiskers on each side of his face, three eyelashes on both of his eyes, and large arching eyebrows.
Glitchtrap was shown to be able to hack into the majority of the animatronics' systems to become hostile towards children like Gregory, and was even able to control Vanny. He is also the main antagonist in the Princess Quest minigame.
William appears as the optional final boss in Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, named Burntrap. He only appears in the Afton Ending. This form is likely the result of Vanny somehow downloading William's digital consciousness from The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience into his old hybrid abomination of an animatronic suit, endoskeleton, and the little remains of his corpse.
Burntrap's new form appears to wear his old but modified tattered greenish-brown Spring Bonnie suit that has become even more severely withered, tattered and burned, with the entire lower jaw ripped out, revealing his skull, covered in blood with some burnt flesh remaining, and metallic black eyes with small purple pupils. The suit is missing fur, with exception of his chest, hips, left foot and upper left leg, which were all burned away, revealing more of his corpse's charred remains. His old endoskeleton seems to have been fixed using some parts from the new Glamrock Endoskeletons, rebuilding his left forearm and sharp claws.
Personality:
Although seeming very cryptic at first, William's character traits and nature can be seen via silent actions within retro-graphics and by reading between the lines throughout the games.
William Afton is the textbook definition of evil. He is the sadistic and depraved serial killer who sparked the downfall of his own company, Fazbear Entertainment. He murdered almost a dozen children in cold blood, and started the tragic chain of events that leads various players throughout the series.
Extra Information:
It is heavily implied in the games and books that William Afton is highly intelligent.
William Afton was initially known as Purple Guy by fans due to his purple sprite in the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 death minigames "Take Cake to the Children" and "Foxy Go! Go! Go!" He would go on to appear in Five Nights at Freddy's 3 and Five Nights at Freddy's 4 using a similar sprite in other pixelated minigames. This was most likely to portray him as a "shadowy" character, since the background is already black. It wasn't until Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location that the name "Afton" would be used, finally tying Purple Guy to the William Afton in the novels.
Unlike most human characters in the series, William Afton speaks in a strong southeastern British Accent. Afton's voice provider, PJ Heywood, mentioned in an interview that he based Afton's personality upon Anthony Hopkin's portrayal of Dr. Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs.
Most of his actions throughout the series imply that he is right-handed.
William's most famous line "I always come back" is reflected in his refusal to die; no matter how many times he is seemingly killed, William always finds a way to return in some shape or form.
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