"If you ever see a girl walking alone at night, don't walk towards her. That may scare her and it's really creepy. Instead, spint on all fours at her. This makes you resemble a friendly dog (girls love dogs). She will know you're there to protect her and she will feel safe." Ballora: *And I took that literally*

"I assure you, having a sexy ballerina robot is necessary for this pizzeria" -William Afton after being questioned by his investors, circa 1989

Ballora has always been the most terrifying animatronic to me. Her endoskeleton is just- unsettling. Her humanoid appearance makes her stand out against the more wacky and animalistic designs of the other Funtimes. Her smooth and calming voice makes her seem almost motherly, which is probably the scariest part about her. It’s kind of like how the Beldam from Coraline speaks in a soothing tone, yet is far more despicable than the caring parental figure she pretends to be. Ballora had a lot of potential and could have been one of the most horrifying villains in the franchise, but, much like Baby, she was wasted. A real shame honestly.

Ballora is one of the giant question marks of fnaf, is she possessed? Who’s possessing her? Is she even important? WHAT ARE THIS GAMES!?

I honestly love Ballora, ironically, because of the condescending way Baby treats her, hearing Baby say “Ballora never learns” just made me say “she just like me fr”. We don’t get such layers of dynamic with the other funtimes, that “toxic family” vibe that I think adds to Ennard. Because a big thing with the best of the funtimes is also the juxtaposition between their appearance and actual behavior, I.E. Funtime Freddy is the big to Bon Bon’s little, but Bon Bon is seemingly his “protector”, Funtime Foxy behaving like a showman in UCN, but also being shy, Baby, despite her name, being the most coordinated, functional and “grown up” of them. Also the bluntness and deadpan of her speech, and how inappropriate some things she says are is like the thing ever (“flesh and bones”, “I can hear you breathing”). She’s a hot mess, I love her.

One reason a lot of people think Ballora is possessed is that both her and Baby's voicelines sound sentient, whereas Funtime Freddy's sound like prerecorded voiceclips.

I don't think Ballora IS Mrs. Afton but I do believe she is meant to symbolize her. Just for the fandom or because Willam wanted to recreate his (ex?) wife.

Honestly my favorite headcanon is that the Daycare Attendant is taken from Ballora's specs. Moon does Ballora's spider crawl, in exactly the same manner. The lower torso twists so that the legs move backwards allowing them to crawl *very* well. Add that with the tutu element, the non-animal appearance associated with stage and theatre, the grace of both Sun and Moon, and I think Ballora being the Daycare Attendant's predecessor makes a lot of sense.

One of the main reasons people think Ballora is Afton's Wife, is because of the lyrics of her song. It makes total sense if you assume they are being sung by his wife. Why do you hide inside your walls, (her husband spending so much time in laboratories) When there is music in my halls? (she wants him to come spend time with her instead) All I see is an empty room, (a reference to Elizabeth's empty bedroom perhaps) No more joy, an empty tomb. (she knows she's dead, but her spirit is stuck in that animatronic) It's so good to sing all day, To dance, to spin, to fly away. (and now all she does is sing and dance all day long)

Ballora had great potential similar to Funtime Freddy, a shame she wasn’t expanded upon, there could have been a vent repair section in Help Wanted showing Ballora’s spider walk, or something, and in Fazbear’s Frights she could have been replaced with PHANTOM FREDDY in the story that she’s supposed to feature in. Definitely could have done more with her character

to be completely honest, I think it would've made more sense if Ballora was the one who took control of Ennard after Sister Location. while I love Funtime Freddy, it's clear that the only reason he suddenly had so much importance in FNaF 6 is because Scott knew how much people loved the guy. Not because he was particularly interesting. With Ballora, it's clear that she at least has a fair amount of intrigue to her character, what with her very vague song lyrics and generally mysterious presence. It feels like they WANTED to do more with her, but just didn't know exactly how to flesh her out. So now she's just a weird little side-mystery, I guess.

I love Ballora, it's a shame she never gets used like ever. She should've been the antagonist of To Be Beautiful imo

I always personally thought that Ballora wasn't possessed but more just based on Afton's wife. The man wasn't exactly normal so it seems plausible that he based it on her but then her songs are a product of grief?

Based on the lack of evidence that Mrs Afton possess her and the sudden Staffbot that looks like ballora in place of Mrs Afton I’d argue it’s less of confirmation bias that she possess her and more of like a symbolical moment. I’ve always seen ballora as this dance figure who also has a tad bit of motherly symbolism, which is even more evident in the frights where she plays a role in a story almost certainly focused on mother/women figures I feel like she could definitely play out as a more intriguing character if Scott implemented her character more often (i.e. faceplates and spider-like movement), she’s honestly one of my favorite characters and I can definitely see the polar opposites between F.Freddy and Ballora

I would prefer the idea of Ballora being based on William's DECEASED wife rather than being possessed by her, which gives the purple guy even more reasons why he tried to achieve the immortality/resurrection technology and the like (before going absolutely bananas/revealing his darker, more sinister side).

I never really believed the Ballora Afton theory, though I think the reason at least some people made the connection was through UCN. Given that her lines suddenly became a bit more flirtatious when compared with SL, and given who the protagonist of UCN is, I could see why some people might assume things. Doesn't prove it though, if anything it just lets us get a look at Will's weird thoughts pertaining to his ballerina murder-bot. Honestly she's always been such a weirdly interesting character, especially her night 2 appearance. Going in she's this threatening hunter, stalking you through the room, stopping whatever she was doing to go find you. Then, when you leave, she just let's you go. She hears you scuttling around but instead of getting up again she decides to leave it be. Is it because she genuinely thinks it's just a draft or something? Is Baby telling her there's nothing to worry about and pacifying her? Or is the reverse true, was Baby the reason she was so aggressive in order to paint a scarier picture and help Baby's 'guardian' narrative, while the calm and gentle woman is the original? I wish they'd given her more proper screen time. I think she and Mango would have worked well as a duo, stuck in a large, dark room with both of them able to crawl anywhere. You can track both by noise, but since both sounds are active it'd be harder to track one while listening for the other. Like a mix of the vent repair and dark rooms.

I think one of the dumb reasons why I fully believed that Ballora could be (an inspiration to) Mrs. Afton would be some of these ballet-related headcanons that I made back then (buckle up guys, this is gonna be long, also, I am not a ballerina). - If you played FNAF 3, there is a Golden Freddy secret mini-game with a music box song playing on repeat. The title of that song is "Swan Lake". Swan Lake is a ballet/theatre performance that tells the story between two lovers, Odette and Siegfried. Odette and her fellow maidens were cursed by an evil magician named Von Rothbart. Rothbart has cursed Odette and the other ladies to turn into swans by day and humans by night (you guys see where this is going?). In the end, Odette managed to break the spell by drowning herself, to be followed by Siegfried. In some versions, the fellow swans dance around Rothbart as he died. (which kind of gives off FNAF 3 ending vibes) - In "The Immortal and The Restless", people have implied that Vlad and Clara could be William and Mrs. Afton. You see, "Clara" was constantly the headcanon name given to Mrs. Afton, but the name Clara isn't just that. Clara is also the main protagonist in a ballet/theatre performance called "The Nutcracker". Clara also has a brother named Fritz (we have several Fritzes in FNAF). But perhaps the most interesting among them all is Drosselmeyer, a toymaker who brought dolls to a party one Christmas night (some said he brought 4 life-sized dolls, and other said it was 2), and as far as I know, these dolls can sing and dance on their own. Let's not forget that in FNAF AR, Ballora's frozen ballerina skin allows her to play "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", one of the most important dances in "The Nutcracker".

I always liked the idea of Ballora being modeled after Afton's wife, but never assumed she was *literally* possessed by her. We know for a fact that Baby was based on Elizabeth and that possession was accidental/coincidental. Wouldn't be shocking if William's human designs all derived from people he knew.

My theory is they didn't use Ballora as much all of a sudden because she's ACTUALLY kind of scary and would scare the kiddos , which the games started to lean towards annoyingly for sales of merch etc Where Freddy even when jump scaring you is still cartoonish enough to get away with it.

This is something that has always confused me in this series. The Funtimes thought Baby was too controlling and dominant, so they kicked her out. But in Fnaf 6, Ennard is just called Molten Freddy, implying he has basically full control. Did he dominate and force them into submission after Baby was kicked out? That can’t be the case because Molten Freddy can barely hold itself together! Are the other animatronics just ok with this? That can’t be true either because if the plan was to pretend to blend in then Baby at least could pretend to not be crazy, meanwhile Freddy can barely control himself and just wants to kill things! I don’t know, I feel like Molten Freddy should have just been a redesigned Ennard with a new voice. Sorry I’m complaining about this on a video about Ballora.

Ballora has always been one of my top favorites solely for the reason of her spider-crawl. It’s a horrifying thing Fnaf VR could have really utilized, and separates her from how the other animatronics move around.

I wished she was used more in the main series like as a side character in the pizzaplex like music man. Or even a modern styled ballora paired with dj music man.

Even if Clara Afton’s spirit does not inhabit Ballora, I think that Afton programmed her AI based on her personality…

I like the idea of her being not literally Mrs. Afton, but something made to "represent" her The thing is, we've been following this family for so long and yet I feel we know so little about them Since we never heard of her, maybe she died before William became a serial killer, or she divorced him because he was a terrible father/husband Maybe william was so abusive to his family that he ended up killing his own wife. It could be a heated argument - she could have found out about the deaths and the hidden laboratory - and the situation escalated. This could put more layers on William's character and also show the impact it had on the kids and the way they see their father (especially Michael since he is the oldest) In any case, I think it would add to William's manic behavior if he somehow tried to replace his wife, even if it wasn't a conscious decision

Ballora has to be my favourite, her design is breathtaking and matching it with the terryfing aura she emanes its just perfect. Her voice couldnot be better, michella did an excellemt job with the way her dialogue and tone was brought, she gives of a strange confort aura, menacing and in top of that the scariest jumpscare of fnaf in my opinion. I like to believe she was modeled after Mrs. Afton because in my hdc she died in an accident which ended up tearing the family apart making william too obssesed with the robots giving the kids loneliness, liz's desire of bein good enough and Micheal bullyng Cc (one of them was moms favourite) . I just really love her that much and this video made that love stronger

I can see why people theorize about Ballora because she’s a big odd ball like the puppet she doesn’t fit in with the others, she’s very humanoid and isn’t an animal. Having such a different character really brings up a lot of questions

For “dance with me” it makes sense too use ballora as the main antagonist, everyone views her as the guilt trip animatronic afton made based on his wife and a pit of dispair she left in him so the fact she represents the thief’s guilt for stealing is the best connection they could have picked

Ballora is unironically my favourite FNaF character of all time. The 'spider crawling' theories, the Mrs Afton theory...I just love this ballerina robot.

Okay, so since uncanny stuff tends to get under my skin, Ballora is one of the more effectively disturbing animatronics to me. Her movements, those closed eyes, and elegant appearance, concealing that honestly really disturbing endoskeleton face underneath really gets to me. I just wish they would've done more with her. Interestingly enough, I don't think she's as aggressive as Baby would like you to think she is. After all, Baby partially controls her, so why wouldn't she attempt to make her seem like a threat, meaning you trust Baby more? Though, her design is very strange compared to the rest of the SL cast. Baby is just a large, childlike robot meant to be the main attraction for children to interact with. Freddy seems to be meant to put on little comedic shows with Bon Bon, Foxy reprises his original role of having his own show stage, though I'm not sure what his performance would be like. But Ballora? I can't tell what her purpose seems to be from her design. She's not as kid-friendly looking as the rest, I mean, just look at her, especially the outfit, so I'm not sure what her purpose would be. Gotta admit though, her voice is actually quite calming, except for one thing that loops her back around to being terrifying again. Listen to her singing. There's a very clever way of making you have that fight or flight response in there. She'll sing familiar sounding tunes, but the last note will always be discordant, dissonant. Something isn't right, and you can immediately tell. It's really smart, and very uncanny. So yeah, they really didn't do enough with this character lol.

I'm pretty sure that the whole “Ballora is possessed by Mrs. Afton” thing comes from a misinterpretation of The Game Theorists' theory about the character being based off of her in the same way that Circus Baby is based off of Elizabeth.

Ballora in the cleithrophobia story for tales from the pizzaplex #3 is pretty terrifying especially she try to help Grady to get out of the tubes but cause her to bend his limbs rather brutally

As a ballerina, im sad ballora wasnt used more as was just always there or just the theory of being Mrs Afton Also if actual pointe shoes were shaped the ways hers were, it would be so painful. It kinda hurts to looks at lol (from someone whos been on pointe before but not recently bc im not sure if my feet are ready for pointe work again just yet)

Ballora definitely is one of the most unique characters in FNaF's lineup. The spider-crawl, the noise-based tracking on _both_ sides, and her generally creepy appearance when she moves, whether gracefully or rapidly, towards you while never once opening her eyes. The humanoid design, with a completely unmoving face devoid of changing expressions, and her dance taking all of her body language away (as well as her crawl doing the same) means she has pretty much the least visual tells of what she's thinking at any given time until she actually does it. But, we simply don't see a lot of it. I do wish she was in Help Wanted... but I wish a lot of things about Help Wanted, and I know it too appears on closer inspection to be rather rushed. Or, at the very least, full of evidence of ambitious projects cut short, even if its gameplay style allows for easy removal of concepts that don't pan out during development, and addition of extra content after-the-fact. You could really just keep going with a title like that, even without the VR as the main thing - that just makes it that much better. Funnily enough, if Yenndo were in the game, literally all of the SL characters would be had Ballora made it in. The Minireenas and Bidybabs have cameo/easter egg appearances (presumably cut content, or replaced by the Plush Babies for the Bidybabs as well), Lolbit appears in the Funtime Foxy Dark Rooms segment where he also appears, Funtime Freddy and both Bon-Bon and Bonnet show up in his Night Terrors level (as well as in the Funtime Foxy one, alongside Baby, when Lolbit does), and Baby herself in her own Night Terrors level. And Ennard has his Vent Repair section. Other than the even _more_ obscure easter eggs of SL, or, if you want to go that way, some of the Nightmares (rather, only the Nightmare Endoskeleton and Nightmare Mangle don't show up throughout HW), every big character in SL shows up.

Something that immediately debunks the "Ballora is Mrs. Afton" theory is how Scott Cawthon himself, ***I*** believe, said that Mrs. Afton plays no major role in the story. In Security Breach, the staff bots dressed as the Afton family's dialog strongly implies what actually happened. What ***I*** got from it was Mrs. Afton probably divorced William, or just left. If anything, Ballora just symbolizes Mrs. Afton, and Ballora maybe even shows how she felt towards William. "Clara" also potentially serving as another symbolization for Mrs. Afton (Just to add onto this, I am not trying to spread any rumors, or lies. But at some point in my time, I saw a post about Scott saying how Mrs. Afton plays no major role in the story. I do not remember where I saw this post at all, I saw it only once. If anybody can tell me where this post is, or if it's real or not, or if I remembered it wrong, anything, please tell me. I'll update my comment to be more accurate. I'm just basing it off of what I've personally seen and believe, you are COMPLETELY free to believe what you want, this is just what I believe)

I think a huge missed opportunity is connecting music man and Ballora. I mean they’re both music based, they both craw around like little spiders and music man just kinda appeared in pizzeria simulator, then was deemed important enough to be featured in custom night. It would be cool if the little music men in security breach were actually like a prototype idea for the mini rinas or vice versa and Ballora has control over them, meaning baby has control over them since she has control of Ballora. Would’ve been cool if they’re was a connection there or something

I feel like if Mrs. Afton did posses Ballora, she would be more…protective? There’s no proof yet if Mrs. Afton is as evil as her husband, and if Elizabeth is right next to her as Circus Baby then wouldn’t Ballora be more protective of her?

I think… Ballora is the ONLY main animatronic not possessed. But she has sentience. I think all the Funtime animatronics were given some sentience. I think Ballora does not work as intended. Rather, she is a good “person” who doesn’t ultimately want to hurt people until Baby forces her to by taking control of her. I think Baby hates that about Ballora. Ballora will jump you if you intrude on her room but to be fair, she can’t see. She’s blind.

I really wish that there could be confirmation or some cool easter egg in the games about ballora being Afton’s wife, because that’s such a horrifying concept! The idea of her being afraid and concerned about his actions, but being k*lled and melted into an animatronic before she could leave him could’ve added so much extra horror to sister location and william afton’s character as a whole.

I think the real appeal of Ballora being Mrs. Afton is that the entire Afton family would have converted into animatronics. Mrs. Afton is like a loose hanging thread and it makes it a nice headcanon for some people.

While I don't think there's any possibility of Ballora being possesed by Mrs. Afton, I think she was supposed to be modeled after her. It isn't unrealistic to consider the nootion that one possibility for William's wife to leave him is him focusing entirely on his work to the point of isolating himself from his family. When she left him and/or died, he built Ballora as a sort of twisted way of expressing his guilt. It makes me think all the Funtimes were modeled after the family that fell apart before his very eyes: Baby as his daughter, Freddy as his son with his little "protector" (Fredbear plush) Foxy since his son wore the foxy mask, Ballora as the wife that left him. I agree with you that Ballora is her own entity and not Mrs. Afton, but that doesn't exclude the theory that she may have been a tribute to how William drove her away.

i think that ballora being built in the image of mrs. afton after she left makes more sense. like she is meant to represent her and they are still separate people here.

also if Ballora *was* Mrs. Afton it seems unlikely that she would be so willing to kill her son and also agree to dump her daughter out of Ennard in Sister Location.

Regarding Molten Freddy, it’s always been odd to me how Funtime Freddy was the one leading them and being the voice of Molten Freddy, when Ballora seemed the most conscious out of the 3. Funtime freddy’s lines seemed pre recorded and party related, funtime foxy didn’t have a voice until UCN, whereas ballora’s lines seemed to be conscious like baby’s. At the very least I wish Molten Freddy had a Distorted Voice that was a Blend of all their Voices together.

ballora would have killed in help wanted, especially the vr version. Imagine seeing this tall, terrifying mannequin-esk animatronic crawling around in a dark room.

Remember. she *Dances to forget* Certain events

8:58 I always just took Immortal and the Restless more metaphorically than literally. I read a comment once explaining how it may be metaphorically showing the relationship of William and Micheal. Micheal is constantly trying to get his father to take responsibility for the kids he murdered (Clara trying to get the vampire to be a father, because the baby is obviously his). But William never takes responsibility ("The baby isn't mine"). In the 3rd game of the series Micheal tries to end it once and for all and burns the place his father trapped in down (in the 3rd episode, Clara literally sets their house on fire) Maybe the things the baby does are also references to the victims but I haven't figured that out yet. As for Ballora, I never believed that she was/was possessed by Mrs Afton. But I do have kind of a head canon? So in SL once the narrator gets the angsty teen voice, when we crawl through a vent the narrator tells us a fun story about someone having died in that vent. In the Fazbear Fright books, I think it was the 1:35 am one, the woman escapes into an office building, climbs into a vent and dies there. I thought this was super random?? Because, ok, someone died in a vent. And? It cant be anyone too important. Well, since Baby and Ballora are th only animatronics in SL who seem sentient, who say specific stuff and not pre-recorded lines like Funtime Freddy and Foxy, I though maybe they were somewhat possessed. Yknow since we know Baby was directly possessed. We also know (?) that after William and his wife got divorced, she k!lled herself. So maybe after the divorce, she went down into the SL location, climbed into a vent, died there, and her spirit somehow possessed Ballora. Again if I remember correctly, the woman from 1:35 climbed into the vent because the Ella doll, the image of a child she never had since her boyfriend left her, kept following her. Maybe Mrs Afton did it for the same reason. The fact that she didn't get custody over her children and the husband that divorced her kept following her? I admit this is far fetched and not definitive, but it's the only way I can make sense of those plot point repeating.

I wish Ballora got a much bigger role in sister location or any other game she was my favorite.

Ballora and Baby have always been more of my favorite animatronics. I feel like she has so much potential and I hope that the help wanted sequel does her a bit more justice.

Ballora is one of my favorites from the entire series. I feel that she's really underrated, and I don't often see her talked about in the fandom.

I love Pizza Mom. Her musicbox, her poem, and her two modes as graceful dancer and nightmare spider clown. A trend I've noticed from watching your videos is that most of my favorite characters tend to get tossed to the side. Mangle, Puppet (and Nightmarion), Bellora, Enard, and even Baby. All those characters have interesting, unique and super creepy elements that make them really interesting to me, but because everything has to be Wills fault, he gets the spotlight and they get pushed off. I think what I'd like most out of FNAF in the future is more spin offs/side games just centered around underused characters, like AR was.

I don’t know how true this is, but I have my own opinion on the mother theory. (Honestly what I’m about to say might have been said by MatPat already but I don’t remember honestly) I think Ballora could be Williams wife, but not literally (as in it’s not possessed by her). What if during (one of the many moments in William’s life) his wife left him. William in grief over his wife leaving him ends up making Ballora, as it reminds him of her and a complete family he used to have. This could cause the line of “Admit it, you wanted to let me in” to feel more like she’s talking to William in UCN, instead of Ballora making a joke about how hot she looks.

Ballora is one of the spoopiest animatronics to me(she is really uncanny)

Clockwork Ballora kinda gives me Beast Wars Blackarachnia vibes.

Wasn't really expecting a video today! Loved it as always. Ballora has always intrigued me especially since we don't know much about her personality and such. Might be why she kinds unnerves me a bit. And god I forget she crawls like that. 😭

been thinking the same, that Ballora is possesed by their mother. I was thinking the whole gang was a twisted reflection of what William Afton wishes their family could be.

she deserves better 😭 she’s one of my favorite animatronics

One idea I had for Ballora in help wanted is she’s actually the one responsible for Ennard being in game with her ai being used to dictate how Ennard was supposed to act in their games. This is entirely unconfirmed but its weird that lolbit and bonnet get their own appearances but no ballora

ballora really was robbed, i think it‘s a shame how ballora was underutitilized or barely adressed at all with how molten freddy was executed

I've always thought of Ballora as a representation of Mrs. Afton rather than the actual person herself. This is reinforced for me by the Staffbot family in SB, but idk. Maybe we're all wrong and the writer of this series just doesn't want to make a girlboss slay. Oh well

Ballora is my favorite character. Her name just rolls off the tongue and I love her theme and design.

Also. Scott had confirmed that Afton's wife exist. But that's she's just a minor character (or at least when he said it, now there's no telling if he changed plans somewhere along the line)

I’ve always had this headcanon that William Aftons wife left him after the death of the crying child / Evan, and as a weird messed up coping mechanism he decided to sort of recreate his wife, resulting in ballora. I don’t think she’s actually possessing the animatronic.

Ah, this is a nice way to wake up! This was a great analysis for a character that didn’t have much if any characterization, so nice job. Bonus kudos for sounding so confident, you’ve come a long way from the ai voice in a pretty short time and that’s awesome! Can’t wait for the next video!

the most I can see Ballora being used for is a ballet school. (please don't bite my head off(

The theory is based on her songs more than her design. At least that's the impression I got

A nice little summary of her. A small fact about me is that I was actually terrified of her because of her jumpscare. Her sound and her endoskeleton creeped me out.

My thoughts: well, there's proof in her songs that she might be the mother, however, this would mean fun time foxy, and Freddy, are the only ones possessed by the MCI kids, which explains their very chaotic, Spacratic behavior, hence why bonbon exists in the 1st place. I think it's about an 87% chance of her being the mother. Especially from the cut nanny bot lines in the post it room, nanny bot mentions a divorce, which gives us Williams motive to killing her, there's a lot of evidence you kinda skimmed over, but not everybody can find everything!

Let's be honest, The best thing about Sister Location was it's characters

I subscribe to the Ooftroop Undeniably Canon interpretation of Ballora's relation to the Aftons. William Afton's ex-wife pissed him off so much that he made an animatronic specifically to spite her by being better at ballet than her. William Afton's ex-wife was an accountant with no interest in ballet, so this wasn't particularly difficult.

i never believed that ballora was mrs afton i feel like if she was she would have a more important role ballora just feels like a side character just like funtime foxy that makes up ennard/molten freddy also love your content and your one of the people who inspired me to talk about fnaf on my channel.

Im pretty sure ballora was named after the balor, a type of demon with its eyes sealed shut

I’m so happy you made a video about her!! She’s my absolute favorite fnaf character

I don't think his wife possesses ballora, I just think ballora represents her. William was clearly deranged and was more focused on the restaurant and animatronics than his family (see fredbear plush). Wouldnt be surprised if his wife left and he made ballora to cope.

I am so glad I happened upon your channel! The things you say sound like something I would come up with myself, but your way of wording them is MILES better than mine would ever be. I'd also like to point out your approach to theory building, it is very rational and never really goes overboard or trails too far away from the topic. Keep it up, and best wishes!

So glad I became a fan recently, i think an extra long special of all these character analysis would be awesome! Hope you do more!

I been wanting this for a while 😅 THANKS

idk why but this style of video has such a nostalgic vibe, your voice is also pleasent to listen to while explaining things 👍

Ballora is my favorite animatronic for some reason. I find her so intriguing, and the fact that we know like nothing about her makes her so mysterious and cool to me. Love her color scheme too 💜

Ballora has so much potential both story and horror wise and i feel like shes never done proper justice, her FF story honestly sucks and misuses her, im glad to see lots of ballora love in this comment section she honestly deserves it

I'm not sure how I stumbled across your channel, but your content is really consistently good. Keep it up

Personally, I really like the theory that Ballora is Mrs. Afton as I feel it adds a lot of substance to her and her relationship with Baby, who is her daughter. Even more so if we take into account the theories surrounding her death- did William kill her? Did she commit suicide out of grief from losing her children? Was it a complete accident? She represents everything I love about FNAF- the mystery and the open-ended questions that lead people to come to their own conclusions.

Ballora being based on the supposed "Mrs. Afton" kind of bothers me... given that the context of the theory is MatPat insisting that she MUST be because why else would a woman exist unless she's a mother or for fanservice. Which, wow, I hate it! Horrible take! (Also, like... you don't have to marry someone to have kids. William would never pay child support so of course he'd just take the kids to avoid it entirely.) I love Ballora's design and haunting voice, she's such a great small mini-boss. She's got a small appearance, but she sticks out in a good way. It's so frustrating to see how she's just written off as a "Rule 34" animatronic when she's literally just a spooky ballet doll who did nothing but exist with Barbie-like proportions. She is literally just dancing here.

Thank you so much for making this. I’m just re-entering the FNAF theorizing world, and I was dying to hear someone talk about Ballora. “She might be Afton’s wife” really seems like a thread that should be untangled. Mrs. Afton doesn’t really come up much, and we’ve (probably) never seen her, but I’m not ready to write her off as a Dead Disney Mom who logically has to exist for some characters to be born but isn’t really a character herself. Frankly, in a story like this, a mother doesn’t have to exist. The story could’ve been that William kidnapped and maybe brainwashed 3 kids to make his own family and it wouldn’t even come close to being the craziest thing he got away with. If William had a wife, she probably did things that influenced the story other than birth children. That said, I don’t believe she’s possessing Ballora. I think all 4 of the animatronic from Baby’s band are representative of the Afton family (Ballora was inspired by Mrs. Afton, Baby was inspired by Elizabeth, and the Funtimes are new iterations of Michael’s and CC’s favorite animatronics, Foxy and Fredbear), but Baby is the only one who is truly possessed. The others are infused with Remnant to make them more “alive,” but I assume the process of isolating Remnant sanitizes it of any memories or personalities of a particular person. Still, she can probably tell us something about who Mrs. Afton is/was.

I couldn't believe she wasn't in help wanted the thought of a humanoid metal dancing mom crawling around like a spider would make me cry

a video from you makes my night better. Wonderful! :3

I don't care who's mom she is she's my mommy I have issues

Love your analysis! I'm always exited when a new video comes out.

Negl I’ve been binging tf outta your fnaf videos lmao

Great video! Around when SB came out I thought I had found evidence for the 'Ballora is Mrs Afton' theory (Even tho I never really liked it), but I'd made a bunch of assumptions then it fell apart at the main seam. Theory in case anyone was interested: * The Vanessa therapy CDs heavily imply that her mother committed suicide after the divorce. * I believed that the family back story is not Vanessa's but Afton spinning a tale using his kids experience for inspiration. * In SL after the night in the springlock suit, the workers who scooped Ballora are found hanged in her room. Hanging being an unfortunately common method of suicide. * So Ballora killing in the way she died was the link. Issue is the workers are actually one each in Ballora and Funtime Foxy's room, so it's not exclusive to Ballora, and no one's arguing that Funtime Foxy is Afton mom.

Ballora never learns...

Ballora's big question reminds me of Vanny, feels so obvious in a way that you just can't help but doubt it.

That was pretty awesome! Great video.

I'll reiterate what I said on the wiki months ago: Clara is the main character of the Nutcracker. A ballet. Make of that what you will. Maybe it means nothing. Maybe it's a nod.

Ballora has always reminded me of the Other Mother from Coraline, with the calm voice and motherly energy contrasting her appearance and motives.

I love ballora’s voice and design and I think she can do so much more if given another chance in the games

nice and informative video, i kinda stopped looking at fnaf after fnaf 3~4 so i missed a lot of stuff relating to SL, so this is helpful in catching up on details i missed

I still to this day get shivers down my spine after listening to Ballora singing in Sister Location

i feel like we gotten robbed of a possible antagonist in SB like she seemed to fit better as the daycare attendant and/or fitness instructor like sure sun and moon do fill and fit in the job they are given but it's not wise to leave kids with only 'one' animatronic like we all saw what happened to Toy Foxy now known as mangle. Also don't get me wrong I love Glam rock Chica but she seems more of a kids cove and theater tailored animatronic with her personality. I don't want to replace Sun and Moon but they could've had more of a threating presence if Ballora was also in daycare patrolling the hall on the upper floor and theater alerting Sun of the player being in the daycare area. for fitness instructor idea she could teach children to be fit through dancing and jazzercize. Am I basing this on the fan made Glam rock Ballora yes I am but it's still stands for a could of been with how the moved like she chase you through the vents in mazercise or be the patrolling animatronic for daycare instead of Monty. Or the patrolling animatronic for the fitness center instead of Roxanne. (i am sorry for the rant)

i love your channel so much!!!!! love hearing these while i draw or play games!! thank you!!!

Perfect timing! I just finished playing through Sister Location!!