Hey Everyone, It's been a while since my last Pure Evil Proposal. But I have returned with a new candidate! Dr. Little, from the Fazbear Frights story "He Told Me Everything". This story is one of the weird ones of the bunch and even that is saying a lot with "time travel ball-pits", "remnant harvesting teddy bears", "dolls entering the body through the mouth while they sleep", but not to the point of "Chestburster-ish Springtrap". I did enjoy this story honestly! But with that out of the way, let's get into the proposal then, Shall We???!!!
What is the work?[]
The Fazbear Frights books are a series of spin-off horror novels based on the famous indie horror game series "Five Nights at Freddy's" by Scott Cawthon, each book has three short stories and an epilogue at the end, that serves as a separate continuity from the games. "He Told Me Everything" is the third story of the 7th book of this series; Fazbear Frights: The Cliffs, released on March 2nd, 2021. This story was written by Elley Cooper, and it's about a new high-school freshman student called Chris Watson who joins a cult-like science club and participates in a deadly experiment.
Who is the Candidate & What have they Done?[]
Dr. Little is the main antagonist (?)/ a character(?) in He Told Me Everything. He is the West Valley High School’s Science teacher and the head of its science club.
He starts a School Science club where he locks students in a classroom and makes them do an experiment with "faz-goo" where they pull out one of their own teeth and put it inside faz-goo as well as sticking a finger inside which makes the goo feed off the blood cells, in the façade that the goo will tell them something that they will never forget, but in reality, this later knocks the students out, and themselves turn into goo in their sleep and die and the goo itself feeds on the student's vitality and organs, which turns into clones of the students, while Dr. Little doesn’t let them leave until the experiment is done, only seeming to let them leave once the students say the words "He/She Told me Everything". It gets worse when he does this experiment every year.
One year, an aspiring science enthusiast student Chris Watson joins the club. where he is ordered by Dr. Little to do the experiment along with the rest of the class on a Friday afternoon, all the other students pull out their teeth and do the experiment while they are all successful within a few hours or so, but Chris didn't want to pull out a tooth but instead uses one of his baby teeth that he kept when he was a kid, the consequences of that however was that the experiment happened much slower to the point of lasting the entire night, Chris wonders if he should quit the experiment, but Dr. Little manipulates him saying that quitters never get anywhere and it's all about patience and determination, so Chris stays, but at the same time, Chris feels all the pain such as his eye literally being gouged out from the inside and going inside the goo and being in pain when he tries to cut off the connection between his finger and the goo, eventually Chris melts into the goo, while the goo itself finally turns into a clone of Chris, Before Chris dies he tells the clone to be nice to his family, his dog and his neighbour and turns into faz-goo, The Chris-Clone scoops the gooey remains of the real Chris into a biohazard bag and leaves the room telling Dr. Little "He Told Me Everything".
Dr. Little isn't mentioned again after this story so safe to say, he gets away with his crimes.
Mitigating Factors?[]
He doesn't really have a whole bunch of mitigating factors. Although he was friendly to the students at first, by putting up a comedic façade & having a pet-the-dog moment by giving them pizza, It's very likely that all of this is just an act to manipulate and charm the kids to get them to follow along and do as he says, it doesn't help that he eventually kills them at the end so he basically subverts the pet the dog moment. While he does show concern for Chris's experiment being slower than the rest it's very obviously fake and even manipulates him into not giving up when the experiment.
While there is some fridge horror due to it being ambiguous as to how much he knows what's happening to the students, However the implications are extremely heavy enough, due to him saying the experiment will be along the lines of "transformative". So it's very heavily implied that he knows he is killing his students, but doesn't care.
Heinous Standard?[]
Five Nights at Freddy's has a very high heinous standard, the same can be said about the Fazbear frights continuity. with the Big Bad of the Franchise Eleanor killing 30 people including turning a girl named Sarah into Scrap metal while stealing her identity, and trapping all the souls of her victims in a ball pit while making them replay their worst memories. William Afton killing children and attempting to genocide a town, The Announcer & Dominic turning people into candy statues and serving them for public consumption while continuing the cycle.
In the end, serial child/teen murder isn’t exactly anything new in this franchise, if anything it's small potatoes, but with that being said though, the way Dr. Little kills students in his class is a very unique and brutal way of killing them, even if the students never felt anything, turning them into goo and melting their bodies, while cloning them at the same time and the clones live on, is messed up even for Five Nights at Freddys. and it's also implied that with this experiment happening every year, he also has managed to kill dozens of students beforehand.
Verdict?[]
I'm giving this guy a weak yes, what do you guys think?