Five Nights At Freddy's: The Hidden Souls

Background Events

So this chapter is where I'm covering some of the more important events that happened before the story took place, just to help piece it together more efficiently.

I already said that this story would deviate from the game's canon, so I'll try to explain some of the timeline here as best as I can.

(SPOILERS AHEAD IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE ENTIRE FIRST VOLUME YET!)

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The first volume takes place in 1976, which is around seven years before The Bite of '83, so that means that Fredbear's Family Diner is still in business. In this story, Fazbear Entertainment is a statewide chain corporation, so they own the Fredbear's Family Diner and the Circus Baby World chain attractions, as well as a few other brands. The early versions of the main four animatronics (Foxy, Bonnie, Chica, Freddy) exist, but they're not featured in Volume 1 because I thought it would've been random if they made an appearance(Hence the "Fredbear and Friends" commercial seen in FNAF 4).

Also, to clarify, the animatronics Fredbear and Spring Bonnie exist already, too. At this point in the timeline, Fredbear is the lead mascot of Fazbear Entertainment.

(The Springlock Failure of '74)

This event took place at a Fredbear's Family Diner location two years prior to the events of the first volume. We're first introduced to this event by Baby in Chapter 17, though she never mentioned the date nor who the victim was. Dave Miller tells William in Chapter 24 that he was the victim of this accident. There were several documents in Chapter 21 that gave a few more details about this event. It said that an employee (Dave) was trying to put on a Fredbear springlock suit. His reasons for doing so are unknown, but what is known is that the springlocks in Dave's suit weren't tightened enough. Police were unsure if this was sabotage or if this was a complete accident.

While Dave put on the mascot helmet and the torso, the springlocks snapped inside, leaving his body heavily scarred. The medical report stated that the sharp pieces of metal and plastic dug deep into a lot of his tissue, damaging his skin and internal organs. The accident also mildly damaged the back of his brain, but it wasn't severe. Dave lost a lot of blood as a result, and took him months to fully recover from the event.

It was also this event that caused Fazbear Entertainment to recall the early springlock suits and replace them with updated versions, particularly so that the springlocks would stay much more firmly bound so that another incident like this wouldn't happen again. But that didn't stop Dave from salvaging a few of them afterwards. The springlock suit that Dave traps William inside of in Chapters 17 and 18 is one of these recalled suits.

Shortly after the springlock failure, the Circus Baby World establishment that we see in Volume 1 began construction. Dave started working there after he recovered from the springlock failure, and was put in charge of designing and managing the animatronics there. It was here that he first decided to start building the "claw" design inside of Baby and Funtime Freddy, and soon enough decided to give it to Funtime Foxy and Ballora, too. He was also responsible for designing the unusually strong bite force that some of the animatronics had, too.

(The Body Found In The Vent)

There was another report in Chapter 21 that talked about a dead woman being found cramped in the air vents of Circus Baby World in 1974, while the building was still in construction. To be clear on this, this woman was not Angelica Warner. While Dave did murder Angelica, she died of much different causes, which I won't get into now. This woman is someone much different, and doesn't relate to Dave. This dead woman is actually a reference to the Fazbear Frights novel "1:35 A.M.", where in the first novella, we are introduced to a woman named Delilah.