Technician crew 13

Before I say anything, I created my design for Arnold and his ex back in early July whilst I was on holiday. Me and the other artists who independently decided to draw Arnold kinda like this all share a genius braincell.

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Team 13: the skeleton crew.

Back when Arnold and Odette were teenagers, the duo had a happy relationship. They weren't married, but were together, and things were going well. Even after having their first kid very young, the only-just-not-teen parents were happy. Then Odette's parents got involved and pushed the duo into marriage because it was 'embarrassing' for Odette's parents to admit that their daughter was happy raising her own kids outside of marriage.

Five years later, the duo felt their relationship crumbling, and figured out that the whole marriage shtick wasn't working out, so they managed to leverage each others worst traits and were able to convince a lawyer that they needed a divorce and that it was equally both their faults.

The plan worked: they were happier than they'd ever been, and things went as back to normal as they could. Whoever wasn't on shift would watch the kids, and if neither of them could watch the kids, they'd go to Odette's grandparents. They were happy, their kids were happy, Odette's grandparents were happy, and Odette didn't care what her parents thought.

Then, Fallfest happened. 1975. After the fire subsided, the missing were totaled. Alongside the names of Fiona Murray and Fiona Muras sat the names of four of team 13's six technicians. Odette had almost been a fifth name among them, but she had managed to escape with only major burns on her legs.

Fazbear Technician crew 13 had been reduced to two technicians from the usual six; aside from thier Dispatcher, who went by 13 as a name, there was only the happily divorced cohabiting duo left. Fazbear's didn't seem keen on hiring anyone new, so the team of two techs and a dispatcher handled the workload of over twice as many people, with 13 sometimes having to don his old technician jacket if one too many jobs arose.

It also meant that they handled several man jobs solo.

However, being divorced also granted Arnold and Odette certain opportunities. As much as 13 drove them up the wall, they couldn't deny that he did a lot more for them than a Fazbear Dispatcher should, and they both enjoyed his company as much as they enjoyed each others. And it wasn't like 13 was living that much differently to them: his shift lasted until Arnold and Odette's shifts were over, so if one of them was doing a 40 hour day, he'd be there on the other end of the line, so 13 not actually hearing what was said and replying with a "good to hear" whenever the techs said that they almost died isn't unheard of.

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Arnold Anadem - Emergency Technician

27 at the time of the MCM factory recovery mission incident.

Arnold is far too passive for his own good: it doesn't take much to push him into taking another shift, into pushing onwards into danger, into keeping his mouth shut. However, his tenacity is unmatched: he will make it through no matter what.

Despite how passive he is, sometimes he will disobey. His tenacity will pull through ahead, and if he has a hunch that he's being tricked, he can bite back and make his own choices.

When he was at the MCM factory with the task of recovering the Fazbear Entertainment property, his passive yet tenacious nature made him a perfect target for the ghosts of the technicians that had died attempting to recover the schematics; whenever he passes one of their bodies, no matter if he realised it or not, thier ghost would possess him. By the end of the night, every Technician who had died prior to his arrival at the factory had stowed away inside his body. During Arnold's escape, they had forced barriers to drop open so that Arnold could even escape the house, they helped keep the burned remains of the rollercoasters running so Arnold wouldn't get stuck at a dead end, and they kept the retail showroom shutters open so that he could flee the building. After M2 caused the van to flip, the ghosts pushed Arnold to get out of the van, as the cold would kill him slower than what the fire would, and after he passed out in the snow, the ghosts were vital to his survival as they kept his unconscious body alive whilst waiting for help.

But not all of the ghosts always care that this body belongs to someone else: the ghosts are more than happy to commandeer control over Arnold's body if there is something that they need to do.

When he awoke a week after Odette found him in the snow by the wreckage of his van, he was immediately thrown back into the factory as 13's supervisor not only wanted to silence team 13, but also take credit for the recovery of the schematics. During the team's escape from the burned out wreckage, the ghosts within Arnold took over as one of the ghosts - a woman from team 11 - realised that the star orphans were all based on failed 'Davids', and that her son who had gone into foster care and was then adopted by Ed was one of many ghosts that created a spirit known as 'White Tiger', and that Ed's neglect had gotten her son killed: the ghost wanted revenge regardless of how much fighting physically hurt Arnold. It took a full group effort from Ed, 13, Odette, and the White Tiger to get the ghosts to stop attacking the sleepytime moon that Ed possessed, and even then, the reckless tactics used by the dead technicians had caused Arnold's left arm to become severely injured.

Fortunately this was the only major complication of the team's escape, and they got away with their lives.

His ordeal at the factory - both his property recovery mission and the later team escape - left him mentally broken and rolling over like a dog at the slightest hint of an order more often than not, but his tenacity still sometimes pulls through.

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Odette Tapper - Boiler Technician

28 at the time of the MCM factory recovery mission incident.

Odette is foolhardy, but it certainly serves her well. It served her well enough to escape the Fallfest fires with only major burns on her legs, but not well enough to save anyone: the fire started in one corner where team Fiona had been working with four of team 13's technicians, Odette was working in the centre of the festival, and the van where 13 was patching up Arnold, who had fallen unconscious after taking a nasty fall, was in the furthest corner from the origin point of the fire. By the time Odette had ran to the van, her legs had been badly burned, and the four technicians who hadn't made it back to the van were already dead.

The survivors guilt of not being able to save her coworkers eats away at her, but she masks it well with a grin and a rough-and-tumble attitude.

Despite having similar shift lengths to Arnold, she is able to 'pressure' Dispatch enough using the right legal jargon for corporate to allow dispatch to give her the legally mandated breaks that she's owed. Despite trying to get Arnold to realise that he has to push to get the breaks he's owed, Arnie always rolls over at the first hurdle (not helped by the fact that 13's supervisor keeps on threatening to dock Arnold's pay specifically, which 13 has the misfortune of reiterating whilst running on just as little sleep as Arnold is).

13 sent her to Murray's Costume Manor after Arnold, not with the mission to recover the data diver, or even get to the manor: she was sent to scour the roads for any signs of Arnold, and she found both him and the endoskeleton freezing in the snow. Arnold was alive, but barely, and the endoskeleton was moved to her van's mini fridge. Whatever happened to that Endo after Fazbear's took her van isn't really her primary concern, or secondary concern, as saving Arnold opened her up to the cut-throat reality of how Fazbear's keeps its secrets, but at least herself, Arnold, and 13 escaped with their lives.