I Know the Secret of the Mimic!! (And @dmuted Doesn't) | FNAF Theory

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I CANNOT believe I'm already making another video about the secret of the mimic this close to my first but PAX WAS HUGE for Steel Wool and Five Nights at Freddy's so here we are
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Timestamps:
00:00 Preheating the Oven
01:40 What did the teaser tell us about Secret of the Mimic?
02:12 What was the Steel Wool PAX West Booth like?
02:52 TOAST PLUSHIE GO PLEDGE!!!
03:28 What does Jackie's model tell us?
03:58 What was in the Secret of the Mimic demo?
10:15 What will Secret of the Mimic tell us about the FNAF timeline?
12:51 Will Secret of the Mimic de-confirm TalesGames?
15:40 DMuted is wrong, but I guess I'll let him speak
19:49 Letting it cool
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[Spookworm]

Why does "I know the secret of the Mimic" feel like some sort of equivalent of "do you know the muffin man?"

[GA-djwt]

6:47 I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM, IN THE TERRIBLE HOUSE FIRE AT THE FAMILY REUNION
So now I know the secret of the Honk Legion

[Rad]

“Time to play” is very clearly what Jackie says when she pops out of the box.

You can literally hear the music box and the sound of her popping out before she says it.

[theforgottenscribe]

I am a very heavy believer of Jackie = Puppet Prototype/Precursor. In the same vein of Fredbear = Freddy. The puppet is a recreation/rebranding of Jackie. The puppet still has jack in the box adjacent programing and implications.

[SnaxxHaxTV]

Theory: Jackie and the Mimic are separate animatronics, Jackie sometime gets scrapped and the Mimic takes the worn down costume or the Mimic just attacks Jackie and takes the costume. If you look at both versions you can see the face looks the same except that Jackie's face is more stretched and doesn't fit the shape of the Mimic.

[nikknight]

I don't know why but I feel like Jackie could be her own character seprate from the mimic. Then somewhere down the line, the Jackie animatronic is broken or gutted, and the Mimic squeezes itself into Jackie's hollow body (especially if it's a springlock suit of somesort) and uses that empty animatronic as a disguise of sorts during Fall Fest, maybe hiding out in Jackie's box before Fall Fest begins, which would be why we see it as it is in the trailer: slightly broken and having the mimics eyes (as if Jackie's eyes were taken out or broken)

Not sure, just throwing ideas out there. Any thoughts?

[Dj-btyp]

AT FIRST I THOUGHT “oh the titles really funny haha” AND THEN WHEN DMUTED STARTED TALKING I LOST IT
TOP TIER LEVEL CROSSOVER 😫😫😫

[Gonk]

Looking at the secret of the mimic trailer, it looks like its the Mimic wearing the skin of Jackie. The eyes look deeply recessed and different sized compared to the Jackie seen at PAX

[IDsFantasy]

Jumpscared by a photo I took at 16:20 lol
I'm hesitant to say for sure if Secret of the Mimic will definitely prove or disprove TalesGames, but yeah, from what I saw I do lean towards Rye's side of the debate. Assuming TalesGames to be true, even though Edwin does have a factory where he worked on stuff and his company was owned by Fazbear Entertainment, the Mimic definitely wasn't Jackie during its time there. If Jackie's the Mimic, that implies that either Edwin put the Mimic in the Jack in the Box animatronic after he tried to destroy it, or some secret person pre-Team A or post-Team B would have had to do it, which seems like a stretch in my eyes.

Either way, great video! It'll be interesting to see where the story ends up going

[GJames-Legend]

Things I think.

1. I fully believe that this game will finally and officially confirm whether or not the tales from the pizzaplex books are canon to the games.

2. I think theirs a 50/50% possibility that we will see who created the MXES System.

3. If we see fall fest 1970 I think the mimic is the one who’s gonna be responsible for the fire.

4. Theirs a slim chance we may play as either William or Henry during secret of the mimic.

5. SPOILERS IF YOU HAVEN’T READ TALES FROM THE PIZZAPLEX. In the tales books it’s said that fazbear entertainment once had an entire line of mimic endoskeletons but they were all decommissioned for mimicking human behavior in ways they weren’t suppose to, I don’t think Jackie will be the only variant of the mimic we’ll see, their might be multiple mimics as different characters we may encounter.

6. We might see fredbear’s family diner or fredbear’s singing show as an Easter egg.

7. I think that the Puppet/Marionette, Fredbear, Springbonnie, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, Balloon Boy, Baby, Mangle, Mr Hippo, Orville Elephant, Happy Frog, Neddbear, Pigpatch, Mystic Hippo, Sun/Moon were all the characters who originated from fallfest 1970 and possibly others.

[samm]

ok i think jackie will be swapped with the mimic, i think we will have to determine when that switch happens, the design in the teaser and the design of the model at pax are far to different for me to think otherwise

[michabrookshire]

17:44 OR, hear me out, the mimic just transferred into a new body. We already know the mimic is capable of possessing an ENTIRE pizzaplex. why is it so outlandish that the mimic while in jackie, who knows that no legs = bad time, just transferred into a different machine?

[ihateurguts.]

10:47 Jackie really reminds me of Ennard. her party hat, split face, creepy smile, bright red nose, and lady bug button on her bow are almost exactly like Ennard’s design. she’s clearly the first model of Ennard, but what implications does this have on the lore? will there be beta/prototype versions of the funtime animatronics in this new game?

[Iwoqvossik]

Ruin Mimic looked cobbled together in the first place. As a learning AI I wouldn't be surprised if it learned how build/repair animatronics from watching its creator and cobbled together/stole legs from another animatronic.

[wiz.jerboa]

Damn I guess this toast doesn’t know the secret of the mimic

[mykephoon]

I personally prefer if the Tales books stay in their own adjacent continuity, like the Frights books do. I’ve always just assumed that Scott intended for things in the books to parallel things in the games. Not be 1 to 1. Similar to his usage of the Silver Eyes trilogy.

My personal theory about the FNaF games(Steel Wool era) timeline is that Edwin doesn’t exist, and is just a parallel to Henry Emily and Edwin’s son, David, is a parallel to Charlie. Game Henry is implied to be an engineering genius, doesn’t seem to have a wife (anymore) and has a kid who died in a car related incident while Henry was too busy working on his career. I also think that the mimic was initially written as a parallel to how Henry made the Puppet to watch over Charlie, but Scott liked the evil AI idea and made it a part of the main continuity of the games. Henry and Edwin also disappear from their respective timelines after the death of their kids and pop back up in an attempt to fix the problems they feel responsible for allowing to take place. Afton & the Mimic ai, respectively.

Wether or not I’m right about Edwin being a Tales stand in for Henry, I really hope that ‘The Secret of the Mimic’ name drops one or both of them and gives us some actual details on the early parts of the story. I know Scott is so secretive about giving actual details that he let SB be made with nothing but bullet point notes for objects, but after stating he learned his lesson and HW2 giving us way more specific details, I think we might get a properly lore heavy entry into the series this time.

I believe this game will take place right around the time Afton kills Charlie. Henry will already have made the mimic to distract Charlie, and the game will take place in Henry’s warehouse/factory that Fazbear Entertainment gave him to create animatronics and costumes for Freadbears’ Diner, Fallfest, the future Freddy’s Restaurants and possibly more establishments. The significance of Charlie’s death happening right before the game or even during is that Charlie’s possession of the puppet plays a narrative foil to the mimic’s infecting of the animatronics. Assumedly the Mimic was made to distract Charlie at home or the warehouse while Henry worked, while the Puppet was made to keep Charlie from leaving Freadbear’s while Henry was working at a diner or at the warehouse. Both made to keep Charlie busy, but one failed and became her vessel while the other was attacked by Henry and infused with his Agony of Charlie’s death. Both the Mimic and Puppet would be created by Henry and thrusted into major roles as a result of Charlie’s death. Charlie then “helped” the MCI victims by having them posses Henry’s animatronics, while the Mimic “possessed” the animatronics with its corrupted AI. The Puppet seeks to save kids and get in Afton’s way while the Mimic harms others and later tries to become like Afton (Glitchtrap/Burntrap is the mimic theory) Both the Mimic and Puppet are such narrative foils that it only makes sense that Charlie is the games equivalent to David. The trailer even has the Puppet’s music box play during it. I seriously doubt that was just to mess with fans or because it’s now an iconic song for the series. I think it is specifically telling us the Puppet, and Charlie, are going to play major roles in this game’s lore.

Extra details/thoughts that might or might not be related to the game, I just wanna throw them out:
-If Edwin is going to be made canon to the games, I think him and Henry are going to be working hand in hand at the factory and relate to each other over the passing of their children and other things. I really doubt Edwin exists in the game’s lore, but if he does he’d have to work directly with Henry for the timeline to make sense. I just truly don’t think the Tales books are 1 to 1 canon to the games.
-While the SE trilogy says Henry’s wife left, I think all of the adjacent continuities are just places for Scott to test ideas, and game Henry’s wife died during child birth, like Edwin’s wife. I just think that grief makes far more sense as to why Henry would have left it to his creations to watch his kid. If he was just divorced, his wife would have 100% tried to take full custody if she learned he wasn’t watching their daughter.
-The “secret” minigames kinda imply Afton was hands on with the murder of Charlie, but with how she was just laying in the alley, I think it’s possible Afton drunkenly ran her over, probably on purpose, then just tossed her in the alley to make it seem like a hit and run. Prevents Henry and the police from having real proof that it was an intended murder, especially committed by Afton, and would be a good reason as to why Scott chose to specify David was killed by a car.
-I kinda like Matpat’s timeline so I’m still working with the idea that Afton came up with the characters, but Henry was such a genius engineer the people Afton sold his ideas to recruited Henry to make their animatronics. It’s even possible that Fazbear Entertainment was (and will be in this game) called something else. The Freddy’s gang’s popularity might have led to a total rebranding for the larger business that already worked with Henry, before Afton came and sold them his ideas. Maybe Henry being the one given all the glory for the success of these ideas is why Afton seems to hate him so much, and was gloating so much about his own engineering genius in Sister Location. Henry being overworked by the company was seen as Henry stealing credit to Afton. Also explains why the higher ups gave this guy a whole warehouse. (Saying this because of the new game and Edwin having a whole warehouse in Tales) They saw just how much they could exploit Henry’s grief, genius and work ethic to propel their company upwards.
-If David truly was just a stand in for Charlie, I think that the Pupppet/Nightmarionne is the stand in for the Tiger plush and animatronic head. Charlie might have had a sock puppet toy she played with, that Henry used as the concept for the security puppet. It makes sense that if he wanted her to stay put in the pizzeria, he’d design the thing meant to stop her from leaving after her favorite toy. It also could be why we see so much Nightmarionne imagery in SB despite it not being canon till Help Wanted. The Mimic might have saw that Fazbear Entertainment made their own corrupted version of the Puppet and jumped at the opportunity to make that the symbol of its control over the pizzaplex. The Mimic would have already known about Charlie’s love for the Puppet, but because either Henry beat it for holding her toy puppet, or Charlie’s possession of the real puppet keeping it out, the Mimic decided to use the warped version of the puppet as its Story Teller persona. Also just further ties their fun house mirrored nature together. Charlie Puppet watches over the pizzerias and injects animatronics with kid souls to make them act different. Nightmarionne infects animatronics with the corrupted Mimic AI to make them act different. The Mimic/Story Teller is literally an evil and warped version of the puppet

I’ll update if I can think of anymore details for my Theory/Headcanon. Thanks for reading, if you did! Have a good day everyone, and I hope we all have a blast when the next game drops!

[tsuki-no-akuma]

So hear me out.
In the game, you'll eventually do something that damages, or destroys Jackie.
And then the Mimic takes her mask and starts mimicking her... which is why what we see curiously popping out of the music box doesn't line up with the Jackie at PAX

[ReeceConnor.]

It’s very interesting that Steel Wool have been so secretive about this game that really tells me that this game is going to be absolutely something crazy for the series

[setster]

I had a thought related to the whole mimic legs thing. What if the legs are an accident? What if Jackie ripping the box off happened, and then information was lost over time, and they added legs to a character that wasn't originally designed to have them?

[malo]

7:22 looks like the dreadbear hallway am i crazy or?