"You know, people just trying to make a quick buck." -Phone Guy, 1987

Writen by an AI, its an inuniverse book. None of FNAF ever happened in real inuniverse life. The games are literally games, the books are fanfiction

@@GaybrohamStinkton > None of FNAF ever happened in real inuniverse life. Are you trying to say "everything before VR isnt canon" Or are you trying to state the obvious of "FNAF's events arent real" The former is wrong, and the latter is just stupid :V

Oh jeez,yea that makes so much sense. There are tons of freelance writing schemes like that and I refuse to take them when I see them

@@GaybrohamStinkton the literal plot of vr which introduced that concept has glitchtrap originate from downloading data from the animatronics leading to aftons soul entering the game in the form of glitch trap. you know literally the antagonist of that game.

See now this is a good way to interpret the book

@@funtime_julia_arts2316 It’s a inference, also don’t take my Joke comment literally

@@funtime_julia_arts2316 Understood

For real life

fr

I think he's just too loyal to the ones he's already got lmao.

@@jxbermudez if that's the case why not hire the ones from the twisted ones and the fourth closet graphic novel, it upsets me so much

Especially when said artist is the BAD one.

Didn't he step away from all things fnaf

@@rachelpeterson8925 no, he stepped out of the public eye for the most part, but still makes the major decisions. He's just giving not making as many decisions or talking publicly like he once was.

Yeah, that doesnt work. It's literally just botched, written by several writers most likely...

It wasn’t intentionally like that. More then likey schoolastic just throwed this together to make a quick buck, I doubt Scott or to a lesser extent Dawko had any involvement despite being credited. More then likey a few people with no knowledge of the source material quickly and sloppily made this book with nothing but Google searches and Game Theory videos. They didn’t care if it was accurate or not they only cared that it would sell and get free “Advertising” from fnaf theorists.

@@maxwellattacks6645 Literally all they had to do was check the Wiki.

@@maxwellattacks6645 While I agree that the biggest names had little to no involvement, This sort of product happens all the time, and it's for that exact reason: it is intentionally terrible. There is a certain point where products loop around from riding the popularity of a brand to being advertising for the brand, and this book significantly reaches it. While a lot of it can just be chocked up to lazy writing, certain exclusions (namely giving michael a page) seem very intentional, and like nothing but bait to get children to buy more products.

@@Nightmare-fe9hr Well said, I would personally blame scholastic (Who has sole distribution rights for all Fnaf books) their goal was never to inform it was to sell books to kids. FNAF books sell like hotcakes and they know that. And this isn't the first or last time they will make a cash grab marketed at children. However, the exclusion of Mike was not an ad even if it could be one by proxy, It was avoided to not reveal lore about him. Much of the book doesn't serve its intended goal due to its attempt to stay frustratingly vague. However, including the AR skins may have been an ad.

or vanessa’s “freddy there’s been a security breach” or.. i ran out of jokes

you're both forgetting the ever iconic line "you're trapped, forever stuck in this ultimate custom night"

Or elizabeth's most lore-fillled amazing iconic line' "Daddy isnt watching👺👺"

“We know not to make assumption in the world of FNAF” or FNAF World, if you will!

Such a shame they left out any references to Henry’s iconic monologue “you thought this was a mere Pizzeria Simulator, but it is in fact a very real beacon beckoning the lost animatronics back to face their final fate.”

That would've been really cool! I would've loved that!

Some of the humans could be in an employee section (the kids get to be expanded on in the lawsuit sections)

That is so much cooler. I would love if they did that. Would have given the book alot of character.

This is why Mobeastiary of Minecraft is better in this aspect. It takes the same approach as what you said.

this is such a cool idea!! someone should definitely make this real

100% agree. My uncle was the golden child and my mum was the scapegoat, but both were abused. It just looked different and manifested differently between the two. Just because my grandma liked my uncle, it didn't mean he was doted on- he was neglected and my mum was a victim of extreme helicopter parenting. It's very infuriating to read that William essentially bent over backwards for Elizabeth. Kind of off topic, but the depiction of William in the Squimpus tapes is perfect, in my opinion and it touches of what you mentioned with good vs bad attention. William is an awful character (in terms of his actions) and I find it very hard to believe that he could switch up on a dime from talking to Michael to Elizabeth.

At worst, Elizabeth was a little girl who was constantly abused and used to put her siblings down and was accidentally taught that material gifts were the only way to express genuine love and that she had genuine love, and people need to realize that

Wait... is Elizabeth portrayed as spoiled in the fandom? I'm not too deep on her but most fanarts I saw potray her as a regular kid who cares about her brothers. I'm bit confused rn.

@@barboraklepalova3886 a lot of the time, especially like a tiny bit ago, she is depicted as spoiled in the fandom, likely because people don’t understand that Elizabeth being manipulative as circus baby is something she learned after death and not something she did in life, they also seem to not understand the reason why circus baby was being manipulative to the player

These are the same people that say Michael is just like William for causing the bite. Do you think they have the brain capacity to realize this?

I definitely agree. I especially hate when people will try to use the excuse that it's marketed for kids, as though every audience doesn't deserve your best foot forward.

@@notrealnamenotatall2476 anyone who says that is being EXTREMELY disingenuous. Zoobooks was a product made for kids, but if they got the information for a rattlesnake and a gartersnake mixed up, that would still be an issue. Kids media can have certain leniancies, getting information factually incorrect or excluding information because "It's too hard / time consuming" is absolute BS.

this!!! i'm so tired of people going to bat for corporate products. if corporations want our money, they have to give us something good.

Chill Scott is doing his best to make the fan base happy and this book isn’t the worst thing in the world.

@@BabyBrummerAndrew To be honest, it IS pretty bad when the "Character Encyclopedia" cant be trusted as a credible source for the series it's for...

Basically 😂😂

Nah, those appear most effort than the book

Justice!

@@michaelafton66 I'm thinking #justiceformichael surfaced, and now you just go around and see where each use of it is and noone can change my mind. (I'm honestly wanting to stalk this hashtag too though)

agreed

I remember being young and watching Matt Pat’s theories about fnaf and just taking it to heart

But it's just gone so downhill

i really don't think that's the problem here. Aside from Security Breach, Scott has always had a firm grasp on the fnaf series. I really don't think he would make so many mistakes like this. i will agree the series is slowly falling off though

@@iinfernox the fact that Scott 99% confirmed MatPat’s FNAF 2 theory nearly a decade ago really goes against that. Nearly everything from that video is now outdated, retconned, and debunked and the only thing that still holds up is basically “FNAF 2 is a prequel”. I genuinely think he changed the story when people got close to figuring it out because he realized he could milk this by pretending it was more complicated than he actually set out to make it. I used to love FNAF and was impressed with the storytelling; now despite the love I still have for the series, I believe their interest lies now in maintaining confusion so as to make sure people will always buy the next product.

Fr, there should be a collab project to remake this book

I’d join a collab project if someone started it (I’m no good at organising something like that)

@@nidgithm Sure, send through the link when the server’s set up!

@@undynlicia7554 hi this is my other acc. i made a discord but i cant share it here because my comments are dissapearing. you can find it on this account's channel ^^

If this happens I’m in

Reminds me of a pokemon guide book from schoolastic from the fourth generation I had when I was a kid. There were so many errors and inconsistencies in it. From wrong descriptions, spelling errors, wrong evolution chains, moves certain pokemon can't learn Etc. The updated version of that book wasn't that much better.

@@rosesske2551 I remember those! My family had one for sinnoh and it had alot of errors in it.

@@pokedash55 the one with the final evolution of the sinnoh starters on the cover?

@@rosesske2551 I think so! The cover has been ripped off for a while but some quick research says it was called "The Pokemon Ultimate Handbook". The evolution chains were wrong a lot and it was pretty funny.

@@pokedash55 Yep that's the one.

My name is also Jeremy, so right now we've got Jeremy the person reading about Jeremy the beta tester playing as Jeremy the night guard fighting back against Jeremy the soul in Withered Bonnie.

@@youtubeneedstochange4414 you should cameo in the upcoming fnaf movie as a character named Jeremy that plays fnaf vr so we can get Jeremy the real person playing Jeremy the character who is playing the game where Jeremy the VR tester is playing as Jeremy the nightguard facing off against Jeremy the soul inside Bonnie. Jeremyception.

Jeramy its in bonnie from fnaf 1,not just fnaf 2

@@Wizardjones69 well yeah it's the same animatronic

Who said he's withered bonnie?

no fucking shit man

exactly! they have children's melatonin gummies everywhere, so a hard candy doesn't seem too far off

I think it's more that it's sketchy for a daycare provider to give it without permission. I assume the parents sign a document that allows the usage of the drops.

I think it's just a name and not an actual medicine

also 'sleepy time tea' is already a thing, and it's just chamomile and herbal tea lmao

Oh, you've made my day now. Thank you.

It would be more appreciated if they DID confirm lore. This series has done the fanbase to dirty with its wishy washy presentation of information and multitude of convoluted and unexplained ret-cons that they deserve SOME form of clarity.

@@JackedThor-so Books like these are meant to confirm lore too, otherwise it wouldn't be called a guide

@@marek1shtar538 this book is not a guide

Yes! Give Mike his own page! William has three separate entries in this book, but Mike doesn’t even get one?

Didn't he get fired once for 'odor'? (or maybe that wasn't him)

mike is the clogger

@@kitkaty3 so he shat himself lol

​@@marseillejoh He spent 6 hours per day fighting for his life in the guard's office, it isn't surprising that he turned his pants brown at least once.

As a Michael, I feel compelled to defend my fellow Michael. He didn’t shit his pants. He just had his insides scooped out. Poor guy is a walking corpse, hard to cover that with cologne. Smells more like a colon.

Sun and Moon are unironically the most interesting characters in SB (the fannon version at least), they don't deserve this travesty! 😭

It was especially jarring. I didn't even point out that it's borderline inaccurate too. XD

@@notrealnamenotatall2476 To be fair I think Steelwool underestimated how popular these two were going to get. They made them as background characters that wasn't ment to get a ton of attention as the did. Both Sun &Moon are in my top five favorite animatronic in the series

I don't think they were initially background characters. Considering that Moon's gimmick is that he appears throughout the whole night and he's the only animatronic who can yank Gregory out of Freddy, it seems like there might've been a bigger role that had to be cut.

@@notrealnamenotatall2476 I differently agree with that. Pity he has such a small role

atleast these people had the motivation to. i would barely finish 1 page 💀 though im sure i could get better pictures and animatronics to describe lol

heres an idea: have pages for all the main characters freddy,bonnie,chica,foxy,baby,the puppet,afton,micheal, ect their alternet versions can have seprate pages IF they are notable for example, withered freddy and freddy can have the same page but foxy and mangle can have seprate pages actually have a games chapter and books chapter, one for game stuff and one for the books dont be extreamly vage with characters have a page for all the skins dont waist the intire page on discribing a character whos image is right there possibly bring up fan theorys like the ultamate gide talk about the characters acuratly pages have art or a modle of the character with the tagline under it and then an intro to the character, then what they do, there personality, voice, other traits, bringing up strange things about them, fan theorys, other stuff, also there game apearences are on the side heres an example! the daycare attendent sun and moon sunny side up! the dark side of the moon.. sun and moon are the two halfs have the daycare attendent at freddy fazbears mega pizzaplex, dispite sharing the same body, these characters are night and day from each other (pun very much intended) apearence: the sun has a sylized sun/eclipce looking face with orange spikes on his head, and striped jester attire with a orange, yellow, and tan color schem moon looks the same but is white and dark blue and rather then spikes, wears a nightcap, his clothes are blue with yellow stars the sun is very overbearing and exited while also seeming a bit nervous and jittery, unlike most robots at the pizzaplex, sun is friendly and dosnt want to hurt you, he jumps into a ballpit from his balconey and pulls you out, listing games to play while also making sure that your no more then a few inches away from him, he also seems to be a neat freak, rushing to pick up toy barels when you knock them over, the sun dosnt seem to like his night themed other side, warning you to keep the lights on, unfortunetly for sun, gregory has more important things to do then play with a slightly creepy daycare robot, when the lights go out as a security messure for stealing the security bage from the daycares offace, sun screams in pain before falling over and transforming from the creepy but wellmeaning sun animatronic, to the ten times more creepy and DEFFENENTLY NOT well meaning MOON animatronic, forcing gregory to wander the darkend daycare with just a flash light while turning on the generators, unfortunetly, sun dosnt take too kindly to you breaking the one rule of the daycare and bans you, alterting freddys friends moon is sinister and sneaky, crawling and slinking around, even gliding through the air on a cable to reach high places or swoop down on prey, moon laughs creepily while telling gregory that its "past your bedtime" in a raspy voice thats creepy enough that most kids might consider going back to having a bad dream instead of waking up and realizing whats in the daycare with them, moon cannot enter places when the lights are on, but he follows greory out of the daycare once the power is diverted to the recharge stations, moon seems to be much more intelegent then the other animatronics, while roxy is consumed by her competitiveness, chica cant tell friend from food, and monty acts like an actual gator while under VANNYs control, the moon seems much smarter and ALWAYS finds a way to catch gregory unless in a recharge station or when the lights are on as that makes moon turn back into sun later on, moon kiddnaps freddy when gregory enters the recharge station in the utility tunnles, and also drags him to parts and servace for vanessa, how he can drag someone as heavy as freddy with those thin arms? who knows if you return to the daycare dispite being baned, the sun will block you from going down the slide and will call for security, though no animatronics show up this time, sun also puts posters saying that your baned on anu other daycare entrences too interesting things: sun and moon are not just daycare atendents, but also actors at the daycares fazbear theater and mascots for "sundrops and moondrops" energizing and sleepy time candy, as shown from posters all around the pizzaplex, these posters depict moon as being calm and friendly rather then.. well THIS (image of moon when he twists his body up to fit in the play structures) so its possible that moon wasnt always a creepy jester that wants to drownd you in the ballpit and was once more fitting as a daycare attendent, or fazbear entertainment is just trying to hide the true nature of moon instead.. the sundrop posters also imply that fazbear entertainment is giving caffeine to children wich is more then a little unsettling if you really think about it. you can find a message in a bathroom near the daycare pick up implying that meany children are scared to sleep with the lights off becase of moon. there are hand prints on suns back, implying that the children actually seem to like sun by using a fazcam on diffrent cardboard cut outs acrossed the pizzaplex, you can open a hiddin door in the fazbear theater, wich leads to sun/moons room, their room is a mess, wich is suprising considering their need to "CLEAN UP CLEAN UP" things even if it slows them down, theres drawings on the wall, possibly made by kids that came to the daycare, how nice! less nice is the mangled and broken S.T.A.F.F bots lying around, it seems monty isnt the only one with anger isues, a golden moom plush can be found in here, as well as, of course, the balloon world arcade game this game has you play as balloon boy as he flys throughs the air using balloons to stay afloat, you must doge obstecals and collect balloons while sun smiles, watching you from in the sky, after some time, moon will apear as it become night, he too smiles in the sky, but being moon, its not the kind of smile you want to see.. after sun comes back then he will have moons sinister grin.. and you play for long enough, you will find a glitch, running into it brings you to the ECLIPCE, as you move along a trail of glitchy obstacals, wich you must stay inside of, you eventually get to the eclipce, who stares at you and says "GOOD NIGHT" before the arcade game powers off theorys: some pepole have speculated that the eclipce is the sun and moon combind, considering that an eclipce is when the moon blocks the sun, it starts to make sense why the eclipce keeps suns apearence but still seems to have traits of moon some pepole have pointed out that sun and moon look alot like the puppet, same kind of head shape but more round, the large smile, the same slender body, stripes on clothes, ect some pepole have pointed out the sun and moons jester-y apearence match the S.T.A.F.F bot, the circus in the balloon world mini game, as well as the funtime and circus animatronics wich also have a relation to balloon boy and there! i just wrote a page for the fnaf character enyclopidea in what would take less then an hour, and im not even old enough to be employed! ITS NOT THAT HARD STEELWOOL!

@@nametheocmaker maybe learn to spell before you try to one-up steel wool. other than that it's actually competently written, (aside from a bit of unneccesary fluff) so credit where credit is due.

@@ecstaticwooper368 thanks! i added the extra stuff just becase it seems like it would fit in the book, sense other books have stuff like this

@@nametheocmaker Looking back through it, it's actually a pretty compact and well written page (and the extra tidbits can't hurt) so great job! Do you think you could do one for Bonnie? Because I actually kinda enjoy reading these. (If not it's all good)

I think that too, Elizabeth's dialogue saying "I know it was an accident" already creates doubts that it is not.

@@FannyDemian Exactly!

Same

Then why would he specifically tell her to stay away from her at basically every turn, and why would she say, “Why won’t you let me touch her,” and we hear her begging him to see her multiple times. If anything her voice lines and actions in sister location are responsible for people seeing her as a spoiled child. She most definitely doesn’t sound abused, and her dad doesn’t sound neglectful. That’s why I have a hard time believing him from the books and him from the games are the same. It’s good to have a theory you like, but we can’t pretend the other side has zero reason to think what they think. Since the game shows the opposite of the books with what little voice lines we get.

@@JinxeBlaq That’s where the reverse psychology comes in! He’s specifically telling her not to do something so she’ll be more motivated to do it. And he’s seemingly looking like a good parent caring about her by telling her not to go repeatedly, he wants to be viewed as good. Also, you kinda can’t just assume that someone isn’t abused based on the way they talk, trust me, I know from experience. It also applies with neglectful fathers. I can go into a whole lesson if you want that the abused are attached to their abusers, and will still act good around them so they’re happy. It is true that the books and games aren’t the same, but the books are supposed to fill out pieces that we don’t know. I’ll say this though, if this somehow resorts into an argument, I’ll probably stop responding. Sorry if I seem mean, I just woke up! :)

Thank you. ^_^

Book Elizabeth was abused, this is almost exclusively about the game counterparts which we know very little about so we can’t be sure. I would also say that the spoiled child quote was a surprisingly clever corpse joke but Judging by the lack of work these lazy Schoolastic writers put into this book you might have a point.

@Maxwell attacks The thing is though game Elizabeth isn't even that old Like she isn't spoiled for wanting to play with Baby. If you think that's spoiled then think of it like this, that's like taking your 6 year old to Disneyland then thinking they're spoiled when they want to take a picture with Mickey Mouse

@@TheOnlyCelciAndDontYouForgetIt I didn't say she was spoiled I just said we know very little about game Elizabeth.

@@TheOnlyCelciAndDontYouForgetIt its even worse considering the fact that Elizabeth says "didnt you make her just for me?" wich implies originally William told her that "Baby was made for her" but then changed his mind without telling her ever why and took her to the location and just let her .. watch as the other kids played with Baby. Ofc Elizabeth would want to play with Baby, it was going to be a gift for her and then suddenly William changed his mind without even giving an excuse.

@@maxwellattacks6645 in both continuities, Baby wanted to make her father proud. Neglected and abused children usually want to make their parents proud in order to get their love and attention too. This implies Game Elizabeth probably was abused aswell.

Oh WOW, I didn't realize that. He does look shockingly like him. O.O And he's likely where that fan interpretation spread off from.

@@notrealnamenotatall2476 down to the beard and the plaid outfit he wears. So wild

1. Do I want to know the context? 2. Honestly, I feel like it could (and should according to the books) be a different SHADE of brown hair rather than blonde. It could be lighter or darker, or have hints of another color in there. I have brown hair with a little bit of red, so it could work. just make William have the same shade as Mike's Sister Location cutscene pixel art, and let Henry have the dark brown hair.

It looks like Freddiez-Arcade's Henry ( this is actually where the popular fan Henry design came from ), but they got something wrong.

@@ZirconiaGacha william’s hair is shown to be dark brown/ borderline black. Henry has very light brown hair with some blonde highlights (like you I have brown hair with red highlights, but I believe the look they are going for with Henry is one with blonde undertones as opposed to our more common reddish brown undertones).

He needs to confirm at least a couple of names. Crying Child DESERVES a real name.

“For children” is no excuse. As if Beauty and the Beast is somehow lower quality than Sausage Party because it was intended for children while Sausage Party was rated R.

Something a lot of adults don’t understand, is that little kids care an excessive amount about lore and story, and with the stories they love they consume all the info on them they can and memorize, every theory and whether or not it’s right or wrong and rant to people about their frustration with inaccuracies in media about their interests

Well, it still might be worth something! It's a collection piece and as goofy as it is, you might have some fun with it. ^_^

In a few years, this books is going to cost hundreds, because this shit isn't gonna sell for long, and it will become a collector item

AI is how I felt about it too. The weirdly basic writing style, the incorrect information, the garbage images used, it feels like an AI was fed a bunch of FNAF information and it just puked whatever this abomination is out and they went "PRINT!" Without even looking at it.

that is an insult to ai, it could generate an entire book 10x better than this in under a minute lmao

omg you're so right. If this whole book was written by AI, I would only be surprised that it didn't do a better job than this.

...I wish I would've caught that.

How is this book be seen as canon? It has too many errors in it?

@@ix_skillx_pxin4645 I believe it was sarcasm

For real life

@@tayloranderson7547 😐

They don't

Worst book ever made I can’t believe they got away with this

@@Glory2Snowstar fr, i'm pretty sure they only use he/him for mangle 😭😭

yes/yesself

@@I_Dont_Believe_In_Salad Either that, or the authors of this book were like "Well, Scott uses any and all pronouns for this character, so let's just use he/him and call it a day; surely the fans won't mind."

True, and since they needed to fill more pages they could've easily did game and book pages for certain characters. Charlie definitely could've gotten a separate game and book page.

​@@notrealnamenotatall2476 It really doesn't help that H3nry in the games is a much bigger asshole and is clearly interesting in altering and abusing William's creations for his own gains. If you look into the blue prints, William's Baby is actually missing key features (her helium tank, See the SL interview). William wouldn't mention this currently absent object in the interview, unless a more powerful force (Henry/Fazbears) forced him to change/remove it to save space for the claw. If Book Henry's Adult Charlie was turned into Dave's Dave, then William's Baby was altered by H3nry to be deadlier. William was so powerless to deal with Fazbear's/Henry's influence, he and Michael had to go after the animatronics in-person to dismantle the mess themselves. And what happened to them? William got trapped in Springtrap (this evil ass animatronic was alive prior to William, but this shadowy being could have his own video alone to explain his eldritch ass) and Michael got scooped half-alive (Michael's body was weird prior to SL's events. His guts were cut open and he walked around just fine). It's heavily implied by PS Baby and Molten Freddy (who is possessed by the MCI children, by the way) that they cared about William (the person they mistaken Michael for), but they were so desperate to escape from H3nry, they resorted to taking over his body. And, they had faith in William willingly becoming their suit (Why don't people take note of this?). Again, Baby and the MCI children feared H3nry and appreciated (who they thought was)-William Afton. Another thing that is freaky to consider is that Game William and Book Henry are both the main suspects of the MCI, but their partners have "mysteriously' gained more influence/power after the MCI. This was critical to remember because the MCI killer in the games never worn a costume to do his deeds (fnaf1 MCI paper contradiction), but Fnaf2 had William and Foxy take the fall for the MCI. Implying, William Afton was in the Foxy Springlock suit (the only kind of animatronics allowed to roam during the day), and those five children were given multiple private birthday parties by him. Candy Cadet provided further context by telling us stories about a man adopting five orphan children (including Susie. "I was the first"). And in one incident, he lost all five of them at once and desperately tried to bring them back. This protagonist has to be William (who "adopted" the MCI in the books), making H3nry the killer. [{Events in order: Baby minigame (Elizabeth dies. leaving William depressed), Fruity maze (Susie and William meeting. Susie reminds him of Elizabeth) > Candy Cadet's Criminal story (William adopts five children) > Fnaf2's Foxy Go Go Go (William, as Foxy, witnesses the corpses of his children on their third B-day party. H3nry watches with a smile on his sick face.) > Candy Cadet's fire story (William tries to save the five children as fast as he can by stuffing their remnants to one animatronic, which is later used for the Funtimes. Before the police arrive) > Fnaf2's Give Gifts. Give Life (The Puppet arrives and properly stuffs their bodies into five suits. Possibly because William saved her with his creation, the security puppet). For a bastard that said he was horrified by what the animatronics became, H3nry certainly was avoiding the mirror in front of him for turning them into monsters. If you recalled the video you did on Book William, a lot it applied to H3nry's character way too well. He was repeatedly displayed as an abuser without the vagueness of dialogue or potential sprite debates (Control shocks). This guy knew that Charlie was locked outside by children, which oddly makes him the most likely suspect to kill her. The way he "saved' people was shown to be hideously violent, because he cared for nothing but their souls. I wonder if he tried to "save" Charlie with the mad science of immortality and discounted her body as a merely replaceable object. Or worse, he wanted to use her death to fuck William Afton (the OG Fredbear owner) over.

@@justice8718 what did I just read?

@@Thor-Orion Also Henry canonically wears a Yellow collared shirt that makes far more sense for casual wear. Have fun with the MCI Yellow Man in Midnight Motorist because fnaf is a big mystery of many villains.

Scholastic did. They do this constantly doesn't matter what it's based on. They might have done it without permission as they own the sole rights to FNAF books, they can make a FNAF book anytime they want with little to no involvement. In my opinion FNAF should cut ties with Scholastic completely and find a better publisher.

@@maxwellattacks6645 yeah, look into the Scholastic vs RL Stine debacle to get a handle on how scummy this company really is.

It supposedly did they even credited Dawko for it. But I’m gonna assume the scholastic writers just threw all of his suggestions away

Same here

You’re spot on. I completely agree that this book may finally be the straw that breaks the camels back for the community in terms of our tolerance of cryptic bullshit. It’s 2023, time to give the Crying Child a definitive name. Time to start officially confirming decade old theories that have been all but confirmed by Scott himself. Continuously building a mystery on top of the same foundation without ever clarifying where the story has developed is a recipe for disaster. I feel like Scott doesn’t know exactly how to transition from one era to the next, as though he is afraid of losing the fans’ interests if he finally confirms the story and puts it into position for the story to move forward in new and exciting ways. It’s been long enough of repeating the same story with a new coat of paint each time. I really thought Security Breach could be an awesome transition from old style FNAF into wherever it is they wanted to go with it. I still hope that this ends up being the case, but I have absolutely zero confidence in this happening because of shit like this encyclopedia being so poorly compiled and presented.

Wait, which animatronic was Little Joe?

Fritz Smith is micheal

Scholastic is a brutal publisher. Look into their relationship with RL Stine, their most successful author ever.

@@Wizardjones69 That only makes me despise this lore even more. Not worth the time if everyone is the same purple moron every single game.

@@redpanda6497 Apologies for the late response but he’s from SL. He’s a weird little puppet dude you can see in the Circus Gallery with a blue hat on his head. He also appears in FNaF 6 under the name Lally for the Lally’s Lollies brand.

Same.

Where did he confirm it? Just so I can get the proof

I feel like Fnaf would benefit from taking a page from Bendy and just being a little more direct with the basic story elements and then building a mystery around those. Like, the wrong things are being kept secretive. You can't build a proper mystery when this many details are constantly left in the air, or when the game/book/ect is too afraid to accidentally give 'answers' that everything is kept in a constant state of limbo. Basically Fnaf is sacrificing the story for the mystery, but a mystery is useless without a story.

YES. That's a pet peeve of mine.

More evidence that every section in this book was likely written by a different person.

FNAF has had so many "jump the shark" moments in a row at this point, whatever respect and legitimacy it may have had is just buried under a pile of bullshit. I still remember being in the fandom when FNAF 6 and UCN first came out, those were such great times. What happened?

Oh 😅

Way better than the trash graphic novel design.

Agreed!

Scholastic does this all the time, it’s not just FNAF… look into the RL Stine vs Scholastic situation. They are a really greedy, money grubbing publisher.

I agree! It's so frustrating now.

Thing is, Scott IS still involved with FNAF. This isnt the first shit "guide" book, "The Freddy Files" and it's Updated Version are both books that were as much of a mess as the Encyclopedia, prompting him to come on board for the Ultimate Guide we have now, if i remember right. BOTH of which releasing before Scott retired from game dev. (2017 and 2019, vs his 2021, same year Ultimate Guide released)

Scott only wrote the Ultimate Guide, that was the only guide book written by Scott himself. The rest of the guide books including this one were written almost exclusively by lazy Schoolastic writers presumably.

@@maxwellattacks6645 Yeah

@@higueraft571 Someone else said Scott only did the Ultimate guide

@@inciniumz4671 the older versions of the Ultimate guide were just typical so bad it's funny Scholastic guides which are common for popular franchises like pokemon.

Out of defiance either way. XD

mikes side quests were break the rules in the pizzeria so like every dedicated gamer he went for the easiest one. Shit on the floor, he probably didnt go close to freddy though nor did he go away from his parents since he was a night guard

The book was probably passed around through a couple of people. It's not really their fault but whoever decided above them that it was okay to skimp... which would be Scholastic. XD

"Should be fired and black listed" be serious that's not gonna happen.

Even if Scott didn't write this book, he signed off on it or signed away his rights to dictate the content of FNAF property which doesn't sound like the Scott who vetoed several scripts because they seemed like money grabs. But something has changed. The Survival Logbook and The Ultimate Guide are leagues better than this.

Don't treat Scott like a god, he's a person and he makes mistakes too. I'm certain they would have at least had to get his permission to ship this book out. Though I doubt Scott was involved with this book one bit.

@@youtubeneedstochange4414 I never said he was god,I'm saying that Scott himself didn't write this encyclopedia,there's a difference,Scott knows Fnaf better then anyone,but is hiding the details from us,but looking at this book,you can tell it wasn't written by Scott himself,this thing has it's own lore confused.

i know scott mentioned that fnaf world shouldn’t have even been a thing when it was and that he actually kind of regrets it.

@@triiniitea Just for the hate at it. The game itself was pretty good and it serves as a lore expansion too.

fnaf world only existed for deedee, but not, you know, other characters who actually originated from fnaf world (my personal fave fnaf game)

@@galaxyacidic fnaf world sweep

@@galaxyacidic Same, FNaF World is my favorite too.

You know, I might actually do that! 8D Thank you!

I've seen that book and it definitely feels like there was still a good deal of effort. A little misinformation isn't too awful if if comes from a place of trying hard and just getting kerfuffled.