Part 1: The Monster Encyclopedia

The Encyclopedia was a great addition to the game! But there's something that's missing... a question left unanswered, basically. Who's writing it?

We know the Pokédex is written by itself as it encounters Pokémon, but we're talking about a book here, not about high tech equipment. In other RPG games, there's always somebody who takes notes on what has been encountered. Who is that somebody here?

Let's look at the animatronics available. A grand total of none from the original game would fit the role of encyclopedia caretaker. Truth be told, nobody among the original playable animatronics might care to do that, for one reason or another. So let's look at the new additions. Ok, now we got something better! Here are the possible animatronics that could fit in this role:

• Helpy: the name says it all. He's there to help you out! He would gladly record creatures for you! But oh god he's in FNAF 6. That would take eons to reach. Or perhaps, perhaps he's in a start-of-game area. But he'd be boring while writing it, it would be just standard descriptions

• Lolbit (the shop keeper): Lolbit's a shop keeper. They must be used to categorizing goods! But would they want to do this for you too? I'm sure they would if money was involved. Would you want to pay for an entry though?

• Mendo: ah yes, Mendo. An even more boring caretaker than Helpy. From "technically a piece of software" to "a literal robot", I'm sure the entries would become even more boring to read. But technically this is a choice too

• DeeDee

Ah... here we are at last! But why would we get DeeDee? She's childish after all, no? Well, here's why I think DeeDee's a good choice:

• she's a start-of-game character! You don't want to get an encyclopedia 3 hours into the game: you want it fast, it needs to help you out while it still can! You don't need it when you have the Unscrew Crew or the Slasher Dasher team assembled!

• she's a fisher! Fishers need to catalogue their catch: she's used to cataloguing, so she wouldn't be too much bothered to write the descriptions!

• she's mischievous! Would she pass up the opportunity to add her own twist to an innocent project? No! She would absolutely trash talk the enemy in any way she can: why not do it in a journal, where the insults become permanent burns?

• imagine the sass in the descriptions! DeeDee would give a bit of life to the journal and give a reason to the player, even the more experienced one, to come back to read descriptions, otherwise left alone later in the game (probably already from mid-game)

And so here we are: this is why DeeDee should write the journal! How would I call it? Why not:

"The DeeDeescovery Journal"

Pretty cheesy, am I right? But I think DeeDee's the kind of character who wants others to know she's doing this, she's on top of this: she insulted the enemies, not you, so don't take the credit she deserves!

Part 2: Redesigning fishing when with DeeDee

You got DeeDee on the team. I have no clue why this happens in every other fan game, it's stupid: imagine being friends with a shopkeeper to the point of going on a quest where you might get killed... and the shopkeeper still makes you pay for bubblegum from their own store. Heck, the shopkeeper decides to pay for the bubblegum when in their store too. Why? What's the sense in this?

No, of course if you have DeeDee with you, it would be natural to see these changes happen:

• no more tokens to pay for fishing! Why the heck would you pay? DeeDee's on your team, why would she pay the tariff she imposed? Who would benefit from this: DeeDee putting the money to herself?

• no more cooldown between fishing sessions and no more timer! Why would there be? She handles the fishing rod now! (If DeeDee is unlocked, you should change from Freddy on the boat in the mini game to DeeDee, to show the absence of cooldown/timer too)

• perhaps... perhaps be able to fish wherever there is a body of water? Stuff like a barrel of apples in the Pinwheel Circus, Lilygear Lake or wherever else you thought. I think, however, that the local fauna should not change. Why? Cause the fish are an invasive species, they just colonized Fazlandia (Faztropolis? Animaworld?) as soon as they were introduced, so at least no hassle in designing new fish. So, perhaps... change the treasure at the bottom to something else in different locations, something more valuable too to make it worth your time! Maybe this can give way to other different unlocks to characters or to story events...?

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So... what do you think? Would you like to see more of DeeDee? Could what I proposed fit the game or would these be unfortunate additions?