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• William and Henry had known each other for a long time. Maybe through college or they had worked together before. 

• They wanted to make a restaurant, a family friendly one where the kids could play games and the parents could sit back and not worry. The kids were safe after all, weren't they?

• Together they worked on two animatronics, Spring Bonnie and Fredbear, who would be the main attraction. 

• While William worked on making the animatronic suits wearable, Henry went looking for a good location.

1962 -

• 'Fredbears Diner' officially starts getting built. 

• William meets Clara and after a couple months they get into a relationship. 

1966 -

• The diner is officially open to the town and it quickly becomes popular over the year. 

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• William and Clara have been married since 1968.

• Michael Afton is born. 

• Henry and William celebrate the success of the diner and the new member of the Afton family. 

• They decide to start designing more animatronics. 

1971 -

• Charlie Emily is born

1973 -

• Four new animatronics begin to be built.  (Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy)

• William had originally planned to expand the restaurant but after talking to Henry about it they changed the plan for a new restaurant to be built. This also may have been because they couldnt decide who was the manager of Fredbears. 

1976 -

• Elizabeth Afton is born

1977 - 

• Evan Afton is born

• Michael starts being neglected, he isnt too fussed about it but is annoyed there's no attention on him. 

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• 'Fazbears entertainment' starts getting built. 

• The orginial four get scrapped, their parts used to create the toy animatronics. Their withered remains are placed in the parts and service room. 

• The progress of 'Fazbears entertainment' is paused to keep up with 'FFD' and also give more time for the creation of the toy animatronics. 

1981 -

• Henry creates the Marionette and a wrist band he gave to Charlie. If anything were to happen to Charlie the wristband would alert the puppet and it would go and find her. 

• 'Fazbears Entertainment' now continues to progress after all toy animatronics are built. 

• William brings his kids to 'Fazbears Entertainment' one day. When walking into the parts and service he left the door open, this caught Evans attention so he peeked in. After seeing the withered animatronics he began to cry and went to hide. 

• Evan starts to have nightmares

• Michael starts to scare Evan, William encourages this behavior. 

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• Evans 6th birthday is coming up. 

• The party is planned to be at 'Fredbears Family Diner' but Evan doesnt want it to be there, no one listened though. 

• Michael manages to convince his parents on bringing his friends to the party. It was mainly Clara who agreed to let them join as William didnt care. 

• On the day of Evans birthday everything went badly. 

• Evan cried for most of it.

• Michael and his friends locked Charlie outside. 

• William arrives to the diner, spotting Charlie outside in the rain he approaches and asks why. Finding out why she's out there he becomes slighlty angry but then he realises something. 

• Michael and his friends are looking for Evan, they eventually find him under a table crying. 

• William walks with Charlie to the back door which leads to the staff room. 

• Michael begins to joke to his friends that Evan wants to see Fredbear. They begin guiding him towards the animatronic. 

• William suddenly stops causing Charlie to slightly bump into him, he proceeds to grab a switchblade from his pocket and kill Charlie. 

• The puppet awakens and begins to move out the box. 

• With one final joke Michael and his friends lift Evan into the mouth of Fredbear, due to the tears the animatronic malfunctions causing it to clamp its jaw shut. 

• William enters the room and he's met with screams and people running out of the diner. 

• Henry upon seeing whats happening immediately looks for Charlie, he notices the open puppet box and begins to worry. 

• Michael takes off his Foxy mask and drops it when he sees a small splatter of blood on it. He attempts to try and grab Evan but hearing his dad call his name it stops him in his tracks. 

• The friends ran the moment they heard William, they did not want to hang around any longer. 

• Henry eventually goes outside and upon turning to his left he spots a damaged Marionette idly sitting next to a dead Charlie. 

• Evan is taken to the hospital, he sort of survived but is in a coma. 

• The police begin to search for suspects for Charlies murder. 

• William begins to work on Afton Robotics. 

• In the hospital Michael and William go to visit Evan. 

• Michael apologises

• "Fredbear plush" tells Evan he will 'put him back together'

• Evan flatlines

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• 'Afton Robotics' has its grand opening. William and Henry decided to take a break but in reality William spent it all creating a new location. 

• Circus Baby was built for Elizabeth but she wasnt allowed near her at all. Elizabeth found her way to see Baby through a small group of kids walking in. 

• Baby's always aware of how many kids are in the room so when all of them but Elizabeth had left, Baby made an ice cream. Upon trying to grab the Ice cream  a claw grabbed her and forced her into the Baby suit which killed her. 

• The kids went back into the room thinking something exciting was happening, the second they entered the room the fear filled screams sounded. 

• William slightly blamed himself but soon blamed Elizabeth for being stupid and not listening. 

• Once he got home and broke the news to Clara and Michael it didnt go to well. 

• Clara broke down, blaming William and leaving the room. 

• Michael just zoned out not knowing how to react. 

• Clara ended up killing herself. 

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•'Freddy Fazbears Pizza' had been built behind the scenes without anyones knowledge (Henry didnt take the break either) It had its grand opening.

• Missing kids incident

• A suspect is arrested sometime after, released due to lack of evidence. (Probably was William)

• The spring Bonnie suit is hidden into one of the back rooms. When cleaning 'FFD' out Henry noticed it was gone and asked about it in which William said it must've been put away already. 

• Along side 'Freddy Fazbears Pizza" opening 'Fazbears Entertainment' also opened. 

1987 -

• 'Fazbears Entertainment' gained more popularity due to its arcade. 

• Jeremy Fitzgerald applies for the night gaurd shift. He gets the job. 

• By night six Jeremy is informed by Phone Guy that he will be moved to the day shift. 

• The animatronics face recognition is messed with by William. 

• During the day shift Jeremy walks into kids cove where he notices Mangle on the ceiling rather than the floor. 

• Mangle proceeds to attack Jeremy, the bite of '87.

• Fritz Smith works the night shift (custom night) he is then fired for "tampering with the animatronics" and "odor"

• The location is closed for good. 

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• At ‘Freddy Fazbears Pizza’ William goes into the back room where the Soring Bonnie suit is. 

• He starts to see the 5 kids he killed, four of them stand in front of the doorway as if to show that he can’t escape. The fifth one (most likely Cassidy) follows him around. 

• William puts on the suit and laughs thinking he won and they can’t get to him. A droplet of water from a leaking pipe above falls into the suit causing the spring locks to go off, crushing William inside. 

1992 -

• Michael Afton (aged 21) decides to try and redeem himself by going to work at ‘Afton Robotics’ 

• Michael after working the five nights ends up in the scooping room, where his insides are scooped out so Ennard can use the body to get into the real world. 

• After sister location Michael decided to go straight to ‘Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria’ to work the night shift. 

• Michael starts to decay turning purple and throwing Ennard up, in which it disappears into a sewer drain. 

• Under the name Mike Schmidt, Michael begins his new job. 

• After the fith night Mike is fired for “tampering with the animatronics” and “odor” 

• over the years Henry finally figures out it was William who killed Charlie. 

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• 'Fazbears fright' opens 

• Michael, who is somehow a living corpse, hears about the horror attraction and realises he didnt finish things properly. 

• William, now Springtrap has awoken and became active after 30 years. 

• Michael finds an opportunity to be the night guard and takes it. He gets the job. 

• By the third night Michael realises Springtrap is possessed by his father and believes by getting rid of him everything will be okay after. 

• Michael makes a plan to burn the place down. 

• On the sixth night he proceeds with the plan and it is successful. Springtrap doesnt die though. 

2022 -

• Henry (aged 75) tries to stop it all, he makes a "new pizzeria" (the abandoned fredbears diner) 

• Michael finds out about it and goes to help. Their reunion is short but very sweet. 

• Many animatronics find their way to the pizzeria. 

• The place was opened to the public, reviews being somewhat positive. 

• Once all amimatronics were successfully in the building and trapped. Henry begins his speech as the place goes up in flames killing him and freeing all the souls including Michaels. 

• Scraptrap/William still lived 

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• Help Wanted the VR game has been made but needs testing. 

• You (VANESSA) are the new tester to see if there's any bugs or glitches. 

• After finding a random tape and listening to it, you find out about 'Tape Girl' and 'Jeremy' the previous testers. Unknowingly this releases Glitchtrap. 

• Glitchtrap is an AI version of William (somehow added a piece of his mind into the game)

•  Jeremy had apparently cut his own face off with a paper slicer. 

• After completing the game along side collecting all the tapes, Glitchtrap attempts to merge with you. 

• The merge is successful and Glitchtrap is freed creating 'Vanny'

• You collect the Vanny Mask and Glitchtrap plush (curse of dreadbear dlc)

• Your soul is trapped in 'Help Wanted'

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• The pizzaplex mall has its grand opening. 

• A few days after the opening Glamrock Bonnie went 'missing' although workers tried to convice people Bonnie had just malfunctioned and was no longer funtioning, no one listened and theorised that Montgomery had gone rouge and destroyed Bonnie. 

2031 -

• Gregory goes into the pizzaplex. 

• Freddy Malfunctions on stage (maybe glitchtrap trying to take over)

• Gregory gets stuck inside for the night. 

• Vanny shows up. 

• Gregory survives the night. 

• Afton Ending = canon???? (still trying to figure that one out)