Thread:LostGod2000/@comment-27818776-20141213161348/@comment-1762629-20141213205101

As I'm now affirming, nothing's really apparent with the Marionette. FNaF is absolutely drowned in speculation, and the Killer is the only one we can really measure based on his actions, namely due to the fact we have no idea who or what anybody else is, especially the Marionette. Aside from the extremely brief snippets of the plot the game gives us, and even those are vague as all hell (the distrust of adults, the haunting of the dead children), which raises a ton of questions on their own. What was the Marionette doing "giving life" to the children? Why was Old Freddy, who was purportedly haunted by a child himself, trying to stop the Marionette? Who is the crying child, and what relation does it have to the crying child hallucination in the original and the Marionette? And lastly, who the hell is the Purple Man and Golden Freddy? The game only gives us the bare minimum to go with. It seems most apparent "IT'S ME" is the Marionette, but let's face it, that tells us almost nothing new about it. If anything, it shrouds it in even more mystery.

As for the Killer, if we're counting the minigames, at least eleven children have died. There are eleven animatronics in all (not counting the Shadows or the Endoskeleton, who may not even exist anyways) but this really doesn't give any insight on the Puppet and especially the existence of Golden Freddy. And one last thing: even if we are going with the whole haunted by dead children origin story, the animatronics, namely the old ones, still attack you. This is, presumably, before they've been haunted, and as far as I'm aware, the whole "distrust of adults" is narrowed down to only the Toy animatronics.

And this still doesn't provide any answers.

So the Marionette may be pulling the strings, but there's most likely other forces at work here. FNaF is exhaustive to understand, and besides, Scott's all but confirmed a third game, so there may be some answers coming soon.