How Does POSSESSION Work in Five Nights at Freddy's? | FNAF Theory

Fazbear Frights is a huge series to cover and fittingly enough, even when I've whittled it down to JUST the essential lore, Five Nights at Freddy's demands a two parter. But this video will focus on what we learn about Remnant, Agony, possession, and even transformation. So strap in!
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Timestamps:
00:00 Preheating the Oven
01:20 Are the Fazbear Frights books in the game continuity?
04:16 What is Agony in Five Nights at Freddy's?
11:26 What do we learn about Remnant in Fazbear Frights?
18:08 How is human possession handled in Fazbear Frights?
20:05 What is human transformation in FNAF?
24:10 Letting it cool
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The style of this video is similar to Fuhnaff, Pastra, FusionZGamer, and uhyeah. A large influence on this channel has been Wendigoon, Game Theory, Markiplier, and Dawko.
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[NicolaeHolley]

Scott's comment being "ultimately unhelpful" is a funny statement, because the actual meaning is "when you get right down to it, it doesn't actually help us", but I like to interpret as "he phrased it in the most intentionally unhelpful way he possibly could". The ultimate expression of unhelpfulness.

[jademonas]

the "kids at play" was an INSANE read ngl you're right
the part where he suddenly stops seeing out of his left eye and just hears a wet * plop * on the ground is a horrific description
i think the only saving grace here is the fact that he couldnt feel any of it, making it less horrifying

[cheyennewhite]

it’s interesting to me that the idea of water being changed by emotion comes up and we also have been theorizing on a character drowning and have the pond with old man consequences in the games

[bubbleshock]

I know this isnt the point of the video, but stories like Kids at Play and Together Forever are just so gruesome it kinda makes me laugh that they had to cut Vanny's knife and a line anout Gregory bleeding from SB

[AloneTheorist]

Michael Brookes (Golden Freddy) in the silver eyes trilogy tells Carlton not to give him the remnant back as he'll die if he does and he doesn't want his old friend to die. He says that Carlton should have a nice life and that he can 'give it back the next time they meet.' implying that this spirit will linger on while Carlton lives his full life.

[captainaverage]

You may be aware of this already, but Scott confirmed that the Talbert files stuff is a fake leak. It's not part of the story and never was.

[genocidegames]

One thing to note about agony and black tendrils is there there is one animatronic that is known to manifest black tendrils, that being nightmarionne. Interesting since puppet plushies (both base and nightmare) were all over security breach.

[samm]

I actually really like that explanation for the wet floor bots. idk I feel like it's not the weirdest thing this franchise has done

[ThePuff]

18:36 GOD that cat is adorable. The little stretch, I don’t know how you can focus with a ball of simultaneous angst and love like that in front of you

[SkeldarkUmbras]

The agony introduction theme song got a chuckle out of as it legit went from the starting of an essay to a “Broadway musical”, a 0-10. It was pretty good.

[littlegreensunflower]

WAIT! No, you're definitely cooking with the sign thing because of the way the wet floor signs have the screams of children. That could explain that. Holy shit

[trashx]

THE INTO THE WOODS CUT. 😭 You’re the best, Rye.

[Sej-]

Wake up body, we gonna animorph into a fuckin sign

[ShinyRowletGuy]

You know its bad when we have to argue about grammer and speech patterns to decipher the lore

[thefourthdymensionmusic]

"black tendrils" you also cant forget about the discovery john made about all of the nightmarione plushes littered throughout the pizzaplex and its wires scattered throughout too, as well as just the general design of nightmarione. black tendrils? even the regular puppet has SORT OF the same design, just a lot less extreme. imagine nightmarione is the representation of pure agony, that could potentially explain a lot if given a lil more thought.

[bluegold]

9:54 awww reminds me of my childhood cat, my father held her like that a lot. You could tell she loved it. Her purring was loud.

[Momo_Minomo]

Thank you for the Into The Woods section. I always feel at home amongst my fellow musical theater fans. And thank you so much for this breakdown. I'm gonna watch it again immediately to hopefully absorb more of it because this ish is ✨COMPLICATED✨. I really appreciate you going through all this work to explain it and I can't wait for the next one.

[ax.olotls]

16:13 could that explain Michael after getting scooped? Everyone possibly perceiving him as normal until Ennard left his body, maybe even afterward as well? I know in those 8-bit cuts, the people slowly start staying away and it's mainly to help show how he's decomposing despite still functioning normally, but how else would he have managed to stay a protagonist in the games? Surely, if a corpse walked in wanting a job, you'd call the authorities. But if they're perceiving him as still being alive and maybe just having a peculiar odor, that would make a little more sense. But that also ties into the placement of SL

[mistingwolf]

If only Phineas realized that intelligence ≠ wisdom.

[DraconianBS]

I think that in the case of the possessing animatronics, you don't just have remnant. You have both remnant: derived from the souls themselves which contain memory and positive emotions from childhood before the murder, and agony: produced by the murder itself. Ths agony is what makes the animatronics especially aggressive, and has to be expelled in order for them to find peace. That's why the Puppet is seemingly more benevolent and aware. They've had the longest to expell their agony, their death wasn't as violent as the others, and have they have essentially mastered remnant abilities. They now guide the other unfortunate souls of the kids to let go of their hatred and expell their own agony through happiest day and FNAF World. Cassidy, Golden Freddy, TOYSNHK is the flipside of that coin. They have gone full into agony, and refuse to just move on.
TLDR my theory is Agony is produced from particularly gruesome deaths and needs to be expelled before the souls can move on.