Five Nighta at Freddys: The Silver Eyes

Disclaimer: Everything on the pages that follow is my personal adaptation of the story behind the Five Nights at Freddy's series, based on information collected from all the games and the book. It is not however fact or an official story confirmed by creator Scott Cawthon.

Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver Eyes

what the book tells us

We are going to be discussing the book in great lengths on this page, so it should be obvious, but there will be spoilers!

So, the book, if I could ask for a show of hands of people who love Five Nights at Freddy's who actually read the 'The Silver Eyes' book, I bet I'd find a lot of you didn't, and that's fine, here on this site we're trying to solve the mystery of the games, so why talk about the book at all? Well because of the fact the story itself is actually canon to the games story, and I'm one of the hand full of people probably in the world that managed to make it through the book not just once, but twice... dedication right? When I say that I don't mean to say that the book was bad, I actually really enjoyed it both times and I was surprised at how much I missed first time round when I revisited it purely because I wasn't looking. The first time I read this book I read it for enjoyment, I didn't try to solve anything and I was just interested in seeing how the story of the games could possibly be translated into a readable for story for people who have never heard of the games series. Although at this point if you haven't heard of Five Nights at Freddy's you basically confirm you've been living under a rock, there are people that are completely unaware of the series because of a lack of interest in games, that will inevitably have an interest in reading and give this book a go, so for that reason there had to be a very delicate balance between providing for people who are completely new to the story and for people like me who knows these games inside and out. Personally I think Scott did an amazing job at managing that balance and like I was I was able to read it and enjoy it huge amounts the first time I read it, despite it's occasional lapse in writing quality I personally thing its a very well put together story. So why do people from the FNaF community as a whole seam to be dismissing it? Lets take a look at what Scott said officially when the book was released...

So What does this mean? Well its quite simple really, as I explained previously the book had to please both people who have and haven't heard of the Five Nights at Freddy's series, not only that but the book had to introduce actual characters, plots and motivation for the story to be successful in this form, we cant have a book release where the main characters are called 'Crying Child', 'Purple Guy' and 'Phone Guy' after all. So with that in mind and with the upcoming movie release confirmed, Scott created a different version of the story that would be understandable, expandable and movie translatable for the whole audience. So is the book canon? Yes. But does it directly follow the complex story line of the games? No. Why? Because the story behind the games is not complete, yes Scott might have finished telling it, but the finished story is not complete, that's why still to this day, years after the first games release, people like me are still theorising about what happened.

So what does that actually mean for the book? well quite simply it means that while the main story for the book differs from the story of the game, the similarities are there and the links are there to be made my fans of the franchise willing to look just a little closer. I've told you about my experience with the book the first time I read it, but the second time I went in with the mind set that I wanted to find links, having already read the book I knew the main story didn't match up completely, so I reread it paying meticulous to details that I'd previously missed and like I've already said, I was surprised at just how many things I had missed first time round. What Scott said about the book not being used to fill in gaps or as a guide it accurate, the things I found didn't reveal anything we didn't already know, yes some dates were revealed and because they match up with previous dates from the games, all the new dates are being used in my Location by Location complete theory, but aside from that I paid little attention to anything bar the small details, and what I read were the most intricately woven in links I've ever read in a book. Instead of revealing new information, what it revealed was new perspective, yes I know the book was a new perspective on things anyway so why should that matter? Well because the details are so minute that unless you're looking really hard for them, they're not there. These details are Scott's way of making sure the already existing community around the games get something out of the book, and the details made things that had been staring us in the face make actual sense, as well as revealing more obvious information that became valid with the release of Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location. While I wont be going into detail about the details I discovered in the book on this page because they are over on my Location by Location complete theory, I'm going to tell you in an overview, what was solvable thanks to the book, first though lets just get a perspective of when and where the book is set in relation to the games.

So, the book was set at the same point in the game series that Five Nights at Freddy's 1 took place. How do we know this? Well aside from cover of the game showing the original representation of Freddy from the first game, there is other evidence to prove this. 1. the only animatronics mentioned are the original 5, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Golden Freddy, so that rules it out from being based around Five Nights at Freddy's 2 because not only were the animatronics labelled as 'Toy Animatronics', but foxy has his original name, Mangle is the official name of Toy Foxy, that's how Scott refers to him in any menu or other comments regarding the second game. So that rules out that game completely. 2. It has pirate cove, the only location with pirate cove is the first location in the time line, also where the first game is set. 3. The murders of the 5 children have already happened at this location. The book is based around the main characters going back to Freddy's after the murders took place, so that rules it out from being based in the first games location before it got closed down for the first time. This information also allowed us to confirm the date in which the first set of murders happened, in 1985, with the book being set in 1995, a while ten years later, which allowed us to confirm when the events

of the first game took place. So we know from that, conclusively, that the book is an alternate story to the original Five Nights at Freddy's game. But just how different if the book from the games story? Well the similarities are obvious, its just how they're put across through the characters that make it so different. The book is based around 7 kids, Charlie, John, Colton, Jason, Lamar, Jessica and Marla. Charlie is the main character for the sole reason that It's her father Henry that made the animatronics, as well as being one of the owners of both Fredbear's Family Diner and Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria. In 1985, 10 years before the main story for the book, but coincidently the reason the main story exists in the first place, 5 children are kidnapped and murdered by someone reading the Golden Bonnie Suit. 3 years before that in 1983, Charlie's twin brother Sammy is kidnapped from Fredbear's Family Diner also by someone reading a Golden Bonnie suit, meaning the owners child was kidnapped by someone wearing one of their animatronic suits. In the book this causes Henry and his wife to close down Fredbear's, his wise/ Charlie's mother leaves and Charlie is left to grow up under her fathers care. When the murders happen at Freddy's in 1985, riddled with guilt Charlie's dad builds an animatronics specifically for the purpose of committing suicide, leaving Charlie to be taken away to live with her Aunt and not return to back until 10 years later. The reason she and the others returned (except Colton who remained in town) was because one of the 5 killed children was a good friend of there's and on the 10 years anniversary, that kids (Michael) parents decided to hold a dedication ceremony. Obviously curious about what happened to Freddy's the 7 of them return to it to find it built over by was would have been a shopping mall, but it was abandoned after no businesses would agree to set up there due to what happened at Freddy's. The restaurant though still remained in tact and they managed to find a way in to explore successfully on more than one occasion. There final venture into Freddy's however takes a tragic turn when they get caught by the patrolling guard in the mall who agrees to go into the restaurant with them. After the animatronics comes to life with a lot of near death experiences for all of the characters bought on by the guard dressing up in the Golden Bonnie suit, they all make it out alive, the guard id revealed as the killer from 10 years ago who we now know as William Afton and he dies when Charlie triggers the spring locks in his beloved Golden Bonnie Suit. Now that's just a brief description of what happens in the book, but the similarities are there even in a brief description as well as the differences and as you can see the story has been altered to fit the format of a book as well as the eventually move to a feature length film. So basically none of that means anything as far as the games go, nothing apart from William Afton being the murderer as he goes on to be mentioned in the Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location game, making him and everything he did 100% Canon to the story of the games series. But what about the original 4 games? What can we solve from them? Well actually the only reason I have a plausible complete theory for the entire series with evidence is because of this book and its little details. So what have I managed to solve thanks to the book?

1. For starters having dates for when the first chuck of the story took place for was vital. I was able to identify when each incident at each location took place and that was crucial to figuring out the story as I was able to see the time gapes in between each incident and work out when and why locations opened and closed.

2. What happened at Fredbear's Family Diner. Because of the small details woven into the description of Fredbear's in the book as well as Charlie's memory of it, I was able to work out which of the mini games from which games were and were not a representation of Fredbear's. As it turns out, Fredbear's representation in the games had been staring at us in the face for over a year and in fact drive the backstory behind the Five Nights at Freddy's 4 game.

3. The incident at a Sister Location that caused the spring lock suits to be discontinued. As an extension of the things the book told us about Fredbear's Family Diner, I was able to work the recordings of Phone Guy from Five Nights at Freddy's 3 into a workable timeline indicating that Fredbear's was in fact the Sister Location to Freddy Fazbear's.

4. Most importantly, I have been able to identify which characters are who within the game. From the killer to person you play as in each game.

As you can see, pretty much all of the things I managed to work out from the book effect the beginning of the story, but when you consider that we have never really had a clear and official representation of what happened as far back Fredbear's Family Diner, being able to work out the beginning of the story was a massive step in the right direction for solving the rest of the game. With previously unconfirmed information now put into place, it lets me with a clearer and more directed path to solving what happened later down the line but ruling out things instead of adding more things to the equation.

While the book may seen like a weird addition to the franchise at first with its rethought out story and new perspective, I'm here to tell you that its more relevant to the story than most people think, and with the release of Sister Location it has become more important than ever. I strongly urge anyone interested in Five Nights at Freddy's to give it a read and you never know, you might even find something that I missed, all you have to do is look a little closer!

For more information on just how much the book affected my version of what happened during the Five Nights at Freddy's games, go check out my Location by Location Complete Story, including detailed comparisons, direct quotations and all the things mentioned above!