I feel like after FNaF SL and 6 many Five nights at Freddy's fans have been sticking to the same general story beats. Not wanting to deviate form the preexisting narrative that has already been provide to us by Scott. Only gingerly touching the concepts that the books had to offer. And I'm left wondering: Why? Why are we as fandom refusing to get weird with our AU's now? Like, do things that don't at all align with the timeline whatsoever.

Do weird crossovers, hell have The Afton kids be virtual assistants that become sentient and wish to escape the confines of their limited reality using animatronic bodies and illusion discs. Have Cassidy or Evan be a menace. Have Evan express literally any other emotion other than 😢.

Just anything that isn't :The entire FNaF timeline, but in my art style!: Get crazy with it, get messy with it. It's your AU, you should use elements of the five nights story yes! But at the end of the day it should still have your mark.

I'm not trying to rag on anyone's AU with this, or say you can't follow the lore if you want to. I just miss when this fandom used to take the concept of haunted robots to weird and wacky places.

Places that absolutely no one would expect fnaf to go. Then William and Henry got their names dropped, and suddenly every au became Toxic old man shipping with family drama on the side.

Again, don't take this the wrong way, I'm just venting.