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| NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of William Afton from Fazbear Frights. The mainstream version can be found here. |
| “ | I am Agony. | „ |
| ~ William mocking Larson in Epilogue 7- his only spoken dialogue. |
| “ | (Laughter, followed by the sounds of unbridled agony and metal crushing skin) | „ |
| ~ A hidden phone call in Into the Pit showing Afton's (first) demise. |
| “ | I think the stuff in the compactor came from the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center and also from the site where the serial killer William Afton, the one notorious for wearing a rabbit costume, died. I don't believe in ghosts, but after what I just saw, I'm not so sure about anything anymore. I mean, from where I stood, I swore it looked like the Stitchwraith was an animatronic contraption - and there was some supernatural light coming out of it. Like, a ghost? Like the animatronic was haunted by ghosts. Maybe the ghosts were kids Afton killed? Or maybe it was Afton himself. | „ |
| ~ Detective Larson in Epilogue 6. |
William Afton is the overarching antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's: Fazbear Frights anthology novel series.
He is a serial killer of children who was forcefully kept alive by one of his victims, Andrew, so he could be tortured as punishment. After being taken to Heracles Hospital and becoming the Man in Room 1280, Afton first tricked Andrew into letting him go before following the boy to continue his murders.
Eventually, Afton merged with all the objects he corrupted to become The Agony and, with help from Eleanor, planned to continue his killing spree before being stopped and killed by the Puppet.
In the 2024 adaptation of Into the Pit, in a hidden phone call, he was voiced by Patrick Hickey Jr., who also voiced The Yellow Rabbit in the same game, Sugamechanger in The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, a clown in Joker, and Professor Kindly in Moville Mysteries.
Appearance[]
William Afton[]
William's human form seems to reflect his Novel Trilogy counterpart's appearance as Dave Miller, being a slender and tall man with a long neck and dark brown hair. His face is mostly scribbled over in the picture Oswald finds, obscuring most of his facial features. He wears a purple long-sleeved collared shirt, a yellow/olive tie, and a black vest.
The Man in Room 1280[]
Physical form[]
Falling victim to a fire and being burned alive resulted in William Afton becoming horribly disfigured: his entire, charred skeleton is exposed, along with translucent skin that looked like most of its layers had burned off. Afton has functional organs, as his desiccated and blackened heart pumps, while his shriveled lungs expand and contract. His face is missing, with empty pits replacing his eyes.
Spiritual form[]
His spiritual form is similar to his physical one, with the notable difference that he's able to reform his bones' structure so as to give himself rabbit ears and a claw.
Afton's Amalgamation[]
The Amalgamation is a man-shaped structure made out of items infected by Andrew. It contained animatronic parts formed in a hayware-ish way, each part misplaced. It has two bunny ears and, like Afton, two gaping holes as eyes. It was nearly 15-feet tall and twice as tall as a normal man, lacks any part of the Stitchwraith, ejecting it out of its own body, and contains the limbs and circuitry of three animatronics, in a disorganized fashion. They were later confirmed to be the Fazbear Gang, which are still singing. It had animal corpses on it.
Personality[]
Judging by his actions and the way he is described by other characters it can be assumed that like every other version of Afton, he is wicked, cruel, sadistic, remorseless and arrogant. He murdered six children at Freddy’s just to satiate his own bloodlust and planned on killing even more once he regained his strength and transformed into the Agony. He even spitefully attempted to prevent Andrew from ascending to the afterlife as revenge for torturing him. He also used his power to channel Andrew’s anger and kill anyone the Stitchwraith came into contact with for no other reason besides his own bloodlust.
He also shows himself to be fairly intelligent, manipulating Father Blythe into taking him to the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center so he can escape his torment at the hands of Andrew. He also bided his time when he inhabited the Stitchwraith and waited until Jake had gathered all the agony infected items to pounce and assimilate himself into them. His arrogance and ego is on full display when he fuses with the various items infected by Agony even proclaiming himself to be the embodiment of it. However it’s soon revealed that Afton is a major coward and a weakling. He completely relied on the aid of Eleanor in order to become the Agony Amalgamation and even looked at her pleadingly when she left him, seemingly knowing he is nothing without her.
Biography[]
Background[]
William and Henry on a scratched photo found in the files of the Into the Pit game adaptation.
Like most versions, William Afton was the co-founder of Fazbear Entertainment alongside his friend, Henry Emily, as well as a serial child murderer notorious for wearing a rabbit costume to lure his victims. In June 1985, Afton had gone on a killing streak in his own restaurant that had left the grand total of five known victims, and a forgotten one named Andrew.
As it's usual, Afton would later forcefully become one with the yellow rabbit costume he had been so obsessed with as its springlock mechanisms turned on when he was inside the suit, fusing himself with it.
At some point in this continuity, William was exposed as a killer to the public, since people knew and remembered him as such in the present day, so much so that the Agony of the memory of his misdeeds manifested themselves physically as an organic and aggressive version of his suit who lurks Eleanor's ball pit realm.
Eventually, William was caught in an unknown fire (heavily implied to be the FFPS fire) and left horribly disfigured. The spirit of Andrew, in a fit of rage, attaches his soul to William so he will suffer, Andrew kept him alive and made him go through nightmares for years. William was sent to Room 1280 of Heracles Hospital. Despite this, no one recognized him due to the damage on his body. The staff at the hospital called him "the Man in Room 1280" while everyone believed William died in the fire.
The Man in Room 1280[]
Father Arthur Blyte goes to Heracles Hospital to meet the infamous man in room 1280, which is William Afton himself. The nurses explain how he's been in the hospital for years, and with no family claiming him as theirs and no possibility to heal him from his wounds, they decided to unplug his life support, but Afton lived anyway. They also explain how Afton still shows brain activity, and, based on his REM signatures, is experiencing horrific nightmares every night. The nurses are convinced there is evil inside this man, showing to Arthur a TAC where each of the lobes of the patient work independently from one other, as if another entity had been leaving inside him. Arthur, however, refuses to believe them, saying there is good in every living creature. Arthur is then left with alone with William, who starts to communicate with him by "drawing" letters in the air with one his fingers. Arthur is able to deduce that he wants to go to the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center, and, wishing to give him some comfort, tries to get permission to let Afton leave. The nurses, however, think something bad will happen if he's released in the outside world, and employ various methods to try to kill him, such as injecting morphine inside his veins, suffocating him with a pillow, and taking the air out of his lungs); in each of those instances, they are stopped by a shadow kid, Andrew.
Ultimately, Arthur is allowed to take William outside the hospital. Once the two reach the entrance of the Distribution Center, a series of buildings where toys and suits built by Fazbear Entertainment are delivered to venues and stores, William starts to convulse and dies once and for all. Arthur hears some footsteps and comes to the conclusion that Afton's death has released the malicious entity inside of him, Andrew, into the world. Andrew goes on to infect numerous toys in the center.
Becoming part of the Stitchwraith[]
After his physical death, William's soul followed Andrew's one, becoming part of the Stitchwraith. After awakening, it can be presumed that William took control of the Stitchwraith and killed the robot's creator, Phineas Taggart. It's implied that he's partially responsible for the Andrew-infected toys being evil.
Epilogue 4[]
The concept of a hitchhiker was proposed by Jake while trying to explain why everyone the Stitchwraith touches is killed. The hitchhiker, as explained in a future book, was William.
Epilogue 6[]
Detective Larson is in the lab of Phineas, and sees the Stitchwraith in person. The Stitchwraith, not caring about Larson's presence, starts sorting all the trash bag and throws a Foxy the Pirate into a trash compactor. Larson pulls out a gun after the robot is done sorting, and then it switches to the POV of the spirits inside the Stitchwraith: Jake is trying to let Larson live while Andrew tries to kill him. Jake, taking control of the body, throws it straight into the trash compactor to finally end it. Jake and Andrew try to escape the body and ascend, but Andrew is being hold by someone and Jake tries to help him and realizes that someone else was in the body all along, and Andrew realizes who the third soul is.
Suddenly, out of the junk, the shape of what appears to be a burned skeleton thrust upward. He looked like a creature straight from Hell itself. The creature takes shape, bones cracking, folding and reshaping into rabbit ears straight from the back of William Afton's skull. Jake tries to help Andrew, but William keeps holding his victim, vengeful. Jake went back into the endoskeleton and faced William in the compactor. William shifted his attention to Jake, the boy feeling like he was being mauled and pummeled by a force filled with the never-ending need to inflict pain. Jake knocked Andrew loose from William's hands. Andrew was sucked away and vanished, ascending to the afterlife. Jake, meanwhile, fell back into the junk and was engulfed with blackness.
Larson escaped to his sedan and left a recording saying that the Stitchwraith is dead, destroyed itself, and the stuff from the trash compactor came from the Fazbear Entertainment Distribution Center and the site where William Afton died. Despite not believing in ghosts, after what he just witnessed he wasn't sure about anything. Stopping the recording, he sighed, asking who will believe what he just said. Behind Larson, the compacted trash started moving, rustling so quiet he didn't hear, and rose from the trash compactor and began arranging itself into an upright being. It sucked all the remaining trash and debris in the factory, but rejected some of the waste. The vaguely man-shaped structure shuddered for a few second, and ejected a part of itself. A mutilated mass of robotic endoskeleton and crumpled fabric spewed through the air and landed several feet away. Parts that were rejected hit the concrete and laid still, while the rest of the trash from the compactor continue transfigurating out of animatronic body parts.
However, they weren't forming in any logical way. They were joining all haywire. Heads used as joints, arms as legs, legs as arms. A torso formed from hips, chest and belly of three animatronics, each part in the wrong place. Hands inserted at random all over the structure. Woven through all the misplaced pieces were wires and gears, creating a labyrinthine circulatory system and connecting hinges to gears and screws and nails to eyes, noses and mouths. With each additional piece clamping into place, the miscreation stood taller and taller until nearly fifteen feet tall. Looming over Larson, it leaned to the site and lifted a macabre head up to a neck made from shins. The head was made from animatronic parts, specifically fingers, toes, wires and hingers. Within those parts, two gaping black holes looked out at the world with pure malevolence. And from the top of the structure, two rabbit ears made from even more animatronic parts unfolded and canted forward. The rabbit ears were aimed right at Detective Larson.
Epilogue 7[]
Larson heard the Amalgamation before seeing it, and was surprised that he didn't hear the creature before, the sounds being ear-splitting. Larson didn't even process what the Amalgamation was, and just ran away, leaving behind his sedan and garbage bag, which had some stuff from the fire site where William "died". However, he went back into the building, crouching next to a forklift. Afton's Amalgamation wasn't chasing him yet, deciding what form to take. Larson saw as the Stitchwraith climbed out of the trash compactor. Jake was so tired after his battle that he just wanted to sleep somewhere safe. But he couldn't, as the detective was still in trouble. Jake also knew he was in trouble. Against his will, the Stitchwraith's body was being dragged into the Amalgamation slowly, and Jake tried to save any parts he could from being sucked into the thing. However, something wanted to be dragged inside the thing. Jake saw as Eleanor was crawling away from the other rubbish. Jake said to Eleanor that he could save her, but she laughed and her crawl turned into disturbingly quick slither as she shot towards Jake and punched him. Eleanor's face stretched into a anything-but-friendly smile as her eyes glowed white. Eleanor's been pulling out the evil from the Amalgamation from Jake into herself, with the evil being stronger than the one inside the Amalgamation, like it was the core of what Jake sensed in the Andrew-infected items. Jake also realized that the evil he was battling was also inside him, and that while Afton hitched a ride in Andrew, he burrowed his way into Jake's soul. He was glad that Eleanor sucked out the evil out of him, and after finishing, Eleanor winked at Jake and flew backwards, straight into Afton's Amalgamation.
The Amalgamation started staring right at Larson and taking a step forward. Larson realized that it was Afton, with the creature's face even partially looking like the one of Afton's. Larson could escape into the building to the north, but he'd realize it would just get Afton closer to the nearby neighbourhoods, filled with children. Larson reminded himself of his deceased son Ryan, and how he said that that Larson isn't a superhero because they don't break promises. Larson decided to be Ryan's superhero by keeping his promise: protecting the city. He wouldn't run away, and he would stop Afton, but wondered how until the Amalgamation turned away and went deeper into the factory. Larson grabbed the bag next to him and followed the noises that kept changing. At one point, he saw unexplained shadows that felt alive. He ignored them and continued as Afton's Amalgamation literally crashed through a interior wall with the speed of a race car and strength of a battering ram. Larson was hurled through the other wall in the hallway he was in and hit something, now feeling nothing.
Now fully integrating Eleanor, the Amalgamation ignored the Stitchwraith, seemingly satisfied with the amount of trash it was made of. The Stitchwraith decided to follow the Amalgamation, while Larson was thinking he might have cracked a rib or two, maybe more. Or maybe it pierced his skin. Or something sharp cut him. He was barely aware of leaning against something jagged and hard. Now reminding himself just how he got into this situation, Larson held children whispering to him and saw the words "OPEN YOUR EYES" before him. He did so, and saw the Amalgamation standing over him, just too close. He realized that corpses of animals, such as a rat's skeleton or a bird's foot, were part of the Amalgamation. Larson tried to dodge Afton, but the sharp foot Afton was using as a hand impaled Larson, but the detective managed to jerk off him and escape. Jake tried to call out to Larson, but he didn't hear the child. Jake knew that the problem with Larson was that now, a piece of Afton's soul was inside the detective, not the fact that he was impaled. The Amalgamation tried to catch Larson, so the Stitchwraith followed him.
Afton's Amalgamation hounded like a demented hound from Hell. After Larson went where he wanted to go, the Amalgamation crushed through a wall to catch him. Larson managed to get to the forklift without Afton realizing, to his surprise. Larson grabbed his bag, and surprised by it moving, he opened it and has seen that the thing inside it was nothing else than the Puppet. The Puppet's mask, being cruddied and mudded, wailed something unintelligible. Larson realized what the Puppet was thinking: She said "Bring me to him". After hearing a crash, Larson grabbed the bag and hung it on the forklift's prongs. Larson put the forklift in gear and drove it into the wall, impaling Afton. Larson saw the bag open but now, he cared only about getting Afton to the lake. Afton didn't go down without a fight, planting his hand/jaw/joint-constructed feet and leaning it into the forklift. Suddenly, pieces of the forklift were slowly sucked into Afton, including the Puppet. Larson jumped out of the forklift and began crawling away. Now the forklift fully consumed, Larson called out Afton's name. The creature responded with "I am Agony", with the dock juddering. Every part and mouth of the Amalgamation started singing. Larson stoup and shouted "Enough!", with all the parts stopping the singing.
Larson and Afton prepared for what seemed to be their final battle. Meanwhile, Jake was watching this all and thinking what to do, Larson closed his eyes, and at the very same moment, Eleanor jumped out of the Amalgamation, seperating herself. Jake, thinking Eleanor was scary, went into the shadows to avoid another encounter. Eleanor started crawling into the vent. Larson opened his eyes and saw the Amalgamation looking at Eleanor, almost pleadingly. Eleanor entered the vent and disappeared. Afton was now in despair, as the Amalgamation started shrinking inward, seemingly becoming weak and frail. Afton's expression changed from defeat to puzzlement. He was looking at his body's right side, where the Puppet's mask seemingly looked satisfied and victorious. The Puppet seemingly took control as the Amalgamation started pulling itself apart, every arm grabbing something and pulling it out. It only took a minute, and the Amalgamation was a roiling lump of body parts and connective pieces. Blood started pouring from the Amalgamation's mouth as the creature changed from something horrifying to a pile of trash. As the last piece fell onto the pyramid of waste, William Afton screamed as the entirety of the trash fell back off the dock. After a minute, Larson looked at the lake and realised that the serial killer is no threat now. The parts sinked until all that remained was the Puppet's mask.
The Stitchwraith started walking towards the detective, and although Larson thought Jake is as bad as the now-deceased William, Jake sent energy from the battery pack that powers the body onto the endoskeleton's arm. It glowing red, the Stitchwraith touched Larson's belly. He tried to burn the infection away, even if Larson would be in pain. Jake successfully healed the detective, and Larson passed out. Jake knew he had to leave, as help was coming and it wouldn't see him as a good guy. Jake ran into the factory, trying to escape from the other side, but then realized something. Jake was close enough to Afton's soul to realize that it wasn't that strong, barely hanging into reality. Jake wondered how Afton was able to battle the detective if he was that weak, and as he escaped the factory, he realized the horrible truth.
William wasn't the only thing controlling his Amalgamation. And whatever the other entity was, it was worse.
Epilogue 10[]
Jake followed Renelle to her father's house, revealed to be Dr. Talbert. While in the house, Jake sees a vision of Eleanor, whom was the true identity of Renelle as well as the Other Evil whom helped William form his amalgamation.
Other Stories[]
In the Flesh and What We Found[]
- Main article: Springtrap (Fazbear Frights)
Springtrap appears in both of those stories. However, the In the Flesh character is very explicitly not William and instead a digital entity. Additionally, while the What We Found Springtrap is real and has a corpse inside, the In the Flesh version is a video-game character with no corpse in it. Its possible the In The Flesh version was inspired by legends surrounding William Afton.
Coming Home[]
Susie was murdered a year ago at Freddy's by a mysterious killer, who can be presumed to be a version of William Afton.
The Scoop[]
In this story, William Afton (also known as the Purple Guy) is referenced as an in-universe videogame character, who, just like in the real world, is the main antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's series. Mandy draws parallels between William Afton and a mysterious and unnamed man in purple who was reportedly spotted in the same building in which a child named Stevie Robins disappeared.
You're the Band[]
It's mentioned that, thirty years before the events shown in the short story take place, several children were murdered at Freddy's by a mysterious killer, who may be presumed to be a version of William Afton.
Relationships[]
Allies[]
- Arthur Blythe (formerly)
- Eleanor (formerly)
- Fetch
- Ella
- Plushtrap Chaser
- Foxy the Pirate
Enemies[]
- Andrew
- Nurse Ackerman
- Nurse Beatrice Thomas
- Nurse Colton
- Mia Fremont
- Arthur Blythe (possibly)
- Greg (possibly)
- Dr. Phineas Taggart
- Flynn
- Jake/The Stitchwraith
- Detective Everette Larson
- The Puppet
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- He's not the same person as the Springtrap from the In the Flesh or What We Found stories or the murderer from the Coming Home story.
- Some fans thought the Man in Room 1280 was Michael Afton before it was confirmed to be William.
- As the sixth epilogue showed that the police assumed Afton died in the fire, it's possible that the founder of Fazbear Entertainment connected to the fire mentioned in the fifth epilogue was indeed him. However, that's not confirmed.
- This is arguably the least evil version of William as his malice and crimes are outranked by Eleanor a being who is described as a black chaotic force that fed on human suffering. Whereas in the games, the original Novel series and films no other character ever managed to be as cruel and sadistic as Afton.
- This is currently the weakest version of William Afton to be featured in an official media, barely clinging onto life and managing to battle Larson only because another entity was sustaining him.
- However, the Novel Trilogy counterpart was also weak during the events of The Fourth Closet.
- This is the only version of William Afton which is never shown to have children.
- A few easter eggs in the Into the Pit videogame adaptation seem to allude to the existence of both Michael Afton and the Crying Child in this continuity, such as the inclusion of a Foxy head mask and the Exotic Butters in the prize corner, as well as the mention of a pizza named "The Golden Bite" that has exactly 83 slices of cheese.
- The canonicity of the Fazbear Frights books is still a topic of debate within the Five Nights at Freddy's fanbase, it's still unknown whether William Afton from the Fazbear Frights series is the same as the one from the games' series.
- In the 2024 videogame Into the Pit adaptation, if Oswald calls the number 777-4648 (spelling out SPRINGT), he will hear William's springlock incident from Five Nights at Freddy's 3 that turned him into Springtrap.
External Links[]
- William Afton on the Pure Evil Wiki
- William Afton on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
- Agony on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki
