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Do-gooder

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• Zombie

Full Name

Michael Afton

Alias

Afton

Eggs BenedictOlder BrotherMike SchmidtTheorized:Fritz SmithFazbear Fright Guard/ArsonistFNAF 4 DreamerFNAF 6 ProtagonistGlamrock Freddy

Origin

Five Nights at Freddy's

Occupation

Employee of Afton Robotics(fomally)

TechnicianNight guard (both formerly)Franchisee of Fazbear EntertainmentManager of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place

Powers / Skills

Nigh-immortality

High intelligenceTechnical skillsMaster of disguisesIntimidation

Hobby

Chewing gum excessively (as seen in the Survival Logbook)

Likes watching soap operas

Goals

Bully his brother (formerly)

Free his dad & sister's souls (succeeded)

Family

William Afton (father)

Elizabeth Afton (sister)Crying Child (Name unknown) (Brother)

Friends / Allies

No information

Enemies

No information

Type of Hero

Undead Scapegoat

“	Father. It's me, Michael. I did it. I found it. It was right where you said it would be. They were all there. They didn't... recognize me at first but then, they thought I was you. (Heavy sigh) And I found her. I put her back together, just like you asked me to. She's free now. But something is wrong with me. I should be dead. But I'm not. I've been living in shadows. There is only one thing left for me to do now. I'm going to come find you. I'm going to come find you...	„
~ Michael Afton talking to his father in the final cutscene of Sister Location.

Michael Afton (also known as Mike Schmidt, Fritz Smith & Eggs Benedict) is the main protagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. He is William Afton's oldest child. Before being scooped, Michael was a Caucasian male with brown hair and blue eyes.

Due to his father's ignorance of him, Michael grew to hate his younger brother, tormenting him constantly. Eventually, In a prank gone wrong, he accidentally murdered his brother by putting him in Fredbear's mouth. (This incident is known as The Bite Of '83)

After learning of his father's actions, Michael took on multiple fake aliases as he began to hunt him down. Michael was offered a job at many Fazbear diners, but was eventually fired as a result of "tampering with the animatronics" (most likely attempting to set the trapped souls free), He and made his way through Fazbear Pizzerias in order to set the souls inside of the animatronics free. Eventually, he made his way to Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental, where he encountered Baby. (Elizabeth Afton's soul.) On Night 5, Ennard lures Micheal to the scooping room, where Michael gets scooped by Ennard, who will take his body. If the player decided to do not follow Baby's indications, Michael will have to survive for the rest of the night from Ennard. He will then go home but Ennard will chase him.

After he gets scooped, his body starts rot until his skin becomes purple. In the meantime, he loses his hair as well, and his eyes become black with white pupils. Later in a minigame, we can see Michael throwing up Ennard into a sewer. He then collapses onto the floor, dead, before being told "You won't die" repeatedly by Baby, before standing back up. His voice can also be heard in the Golden Freddy cutscene.

Michael eventually went on to burn down a restaurant, setting all of the trapped souls free, except for his father, who was at this point trapped in the Spring Bonnie suit. Instead, his father went on to spend the rest of his aftererlife being tortured by Cassidy, until his eventual Resurrection in the form of Glitchtrap. Michael, however, died in the process. (However, it is theorized that Micheal goes on to posses Glamrock Freddy, the Deutrotagonist of Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach)

Contents

• 1 Roles
• 2 Story
  • 2.1 Five Nights at Freddy's 4
    • 2.1.1 Minigames
    • 2.1.2 Night Segments
  • 2.2 Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location
    • 2.2.1 Fake Ending
      • 2.2.1.1 Transformation
        • 2.2.1.1.1 Golden Freddy V. Hard Cutscene
  • 2.3 Five Nights at Freddy's
  • 2.4 Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator and death
• 3 Gallery
• 4 Navigation

Roles[]

Michael is the protagonist of the video games, serving as the protagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's, Five Nights at Freddy's 3, Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location and Five Nights at Freddy's: Pizzeria Simulator, the deuteragonist of Five Nights at Freddy's 2, and it is theorized that he as a child, is the main protagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's 4, although others speculate that The Crying Child is the main character of it. He is also speculated to go on to posess Glamrock Freddy, the deutrotagonist of Five Nights At Freddy's: Security Breach.

Story[]

Five Nights at Freddy's 4[]

Minigames[]

Michael's younger self serves as the main antagonist in the fourth game's minigames from 1983, particularly on the second, third, fourth and fifth nights. It is revealed on Night 5 that he plays the role of the child's bully of an older brother. In the five days leading up to his brother's birthday, Mike torments him in numerous ways, such as locking him inside his room, jumpscaring him behind the TV and under the bed in a Foxy mask, and locking him in the Parts/Services room at Fredbear's. However, on his birthday, Mike and his friends went too far, when they dragged his brother up to the Fredbear animatronic, shoving his head inside his jaws. When Fredbear malfunctioned and crushed his head, Mike and his friends were genuinely horrified.

After the bite, the child begins to die. Michael comes to his little brother's bedside, and apologizes in a brief yet remorseful statement.

Night Segments[]

Michael is confirmed to be the main protagonist of the night segments. While the minigames take place in 1983, the nights are implied to take place after the first game, and thus somewhere after late 1993. In these dreams, Mike is a a scared boy within his childhood bedroom, being haunted by nightmarish versions of the main four Fazbear animatronics. As well as facing them, from Night 5, Michael was also tormented by Nightmare Fredbear, before facing a dark, black bear known simply as Nightmare. Michael manages to survive him, and the nightmares presumably end after this.

Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location[]

Michael appears in this game as the main protagonist. He works as a technician and was sent there by his father to free his sister's soul from Circus Baby. However, it's equally possible that Afton tried to get Mike killed.

On night 1, Michael arrives at Circus Baby's, and HandUnit welcomes him, showing him how to check the animatronics' stages, and if they are not in their proper places, he must shock them to put them back on their stage. Michael successfully shocks Ballora and Funtime Foxy but even though he shocks Baby, she does not appear.

On night 2, Michael checked Ballora and Foxy, but when he checked Baby, the controlled shocks did not work, requiring HandUnit to shut down the system in a bid to restart the power supply. Baby began speaking to him, telling him to hide under the desk. After surviving the Bidybabs, in an optional scene, Michael is told by Baby of what happened to Elizabeth. Michael then crawled through Ballora Gallery, avoiding her by listening out for her music. He then reaches the Breaker Room, where he restarted all the systems while playing audio to keep Funtime Freddy from attacking him. Michael then crawls back through Ballora Gallery, and leaves the facility.

On night 3, Michael returned, checking Ballora and Funtime Foxy. He then ran through Funtime Auditorium while avoiding Funtime Foxy. Michael reached Parts and Service, where he performed a repair on Freddy, and caught Bon Bon in order to get Freddy's second power module. When he returned through Funtime Auditorium, Foxy attacked him, knocking him out.

On night 4, Michael woke up in a spring lock suit. Baby began talking to him, explaining she kidnapped him. Then, two technicians entered the building and sent Ballora to the Scooping Room, where Michael was. He then witnessed Ballora get scooped, and survive an attack of Minireenas.

On night 5, Michael checked the stages, only to see two hanged technicians. He then returned through Funtime Auditorium, and entered Parts and Service, to see a lifeless Circus Baby. She explained that she is pretending and something bad happened that day, and that Ballora's endoskeleton is after him. He then enters a random number sequence into a keypad that flips out of Baby's left central face plate. After entering the passcode, Michael gets a chip from her upper arm plate so she can communicate with him after she's been scooped.

If the player chose to follow Baby's instructions, Michael enters the Scooping Room, where he discovers that Baby was manipulating him, as part of a plan to escape the facility. Michael then has the Scooper used on him by Ennard, which kills him by having his insides extracted, leading to the amalgamation taking his body. This the game's canon ending.

Fake Ending[]

In the non-canon Fake Ending, Michael disobeys Baby's instructions and enters his father's Private Room. Left locked inside up until 6AM, Michel uses the office's resources to fend off Ennard, who uses Baby's voice to guilt him into giving up. When Ennard spoke with Elizabeth's voice, Michael was still unswayed, despite the emotional turmoil he must have been in. At 6AM, Michael was let out of the room and fired, and he returned home to watch the final episode of this season of The Immortal and the Restless. However, Ennard followed him home.

Transformation[]

After beating a Custom Night preset on Very Hard mode, you will be greeted to a secret minigame, which shows the events after Ennard had been stuffed inside of Michael.

In the first three minigames, everything is mostly the same, "Michael"/Ennard having a walk while his neighbors greet him. In the fourth minigame, Michael's skin becomes a darker greenish-brown; his eyes are also now completely black. The last three people he walks by look in confusion. In the fifth minigame, he looks much more decrepit than he did in the past minigames, with a strange glowing in one eye. Everyone around him appear very concerned. In the sixth minigame, his skin has turned a dull purple, now having a white glow in both of his eyes. He also acts to be more senile and less cheerful than he was before. There are much fewer people around him and one of them is hiding behind their house in fear.

In the last minigame, he is hunched over and his skin is a dark purple color. His appearance is now very reminiscent of a literal purple guy. Everyone around him have hid behind their houses in dread. Eventually, his body has a spasm, and he regurgitates the robotic parts belonging to Ennard into the sewer. His body collapses onto the ground, presumably dead. The player then hears Circus Baby's voice repeating "you won't die", and Michael stands up while Ennard's eyes show up in the sewer.

Golden Freddy V. Hard Cutscene[]

After beating V. Hard Golden Freddy mode, Michael Afton speaks to his father William, telling him that he was successful in freeing Baby and the others from the facility, but because they mistook him as William, they used him to escape. However, he somehow was left alive, but horribly disfigured, and because of this was forced to hide in the shadows. He then vows to William the one thing he's got left to do is come find him, darkly reiterating his vow. After this, Springtrap is seen walking out of the burnt-out remnants of Fazbear's Fright for a second before the screen goes black.

Five Nights at Freddy's[]

Michael first appears under the alias "Mike Schmidt" and becomes the night guard of the third Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Mike worked from the 7th to the 14th of November 1993, and found himself fending off the animatronics, who were hostile towards him. On the first night of the job, Mike listened to the recordings made by his predecessor, giving him advice on the night shift, and was given the excuse that the animatronics were only attacking because they saw humans as endoskeletons without costumes. While on shift, Mike suffered hallucinations, caused by all the paranormal activity going on around him. On Night 4, he heard Phone Guy die, and on Night 5, only heard a disturbing message. After Night 6, he was called "Employee of the month", due to his dedication, and praised for overtime. On Night 7, however, Mike tampered with the AI of the animatronics, and was subsequently fired. As well as this, other reasons were cited such as supposed unprofessionalism, and odor.

Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria Simulator and death[]

Michael returns in this game as the main protagonist taking the job of manager of Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place. After buying a Fazbear franchisee package, he was left with $100 as a starter budget, and was aided by Tutorial Unit. As well as working on the Pizzeria itself, he became acquainted with his managerial office, where he would do managerial duties such as ordering supplies, printing flyers and doing maintenance. He was told to prepare for a "big party" on Saturday, which would act as his "ultimate test". Michael was also tasked with salvaging vintage animatronics under paragraph 4 of his contract, which had appeared in the back alley, supposedly for parts. The first of these on Monday was Molten Freddy, the remnants of Ennard which were now led by Funtime Freddy.

On Tuesday, as Michael worked on the Pizzeria, Freddy would enter the vents and began stalking Michael during his managerial shift, so that it could kill him to get to the children in the Pizzeria. Michael managed to keep him distracted with an audio system, and that evening found himself salvaging his own father, now in the form of Scraptrap. Over the next few days, Michael had to also deal with the more mundane struggles of running a Pizzeria, such as having enough money to buy high enough quality and safe attractions and animatronics, and deal with any potential lawsuits. Afterwards on Wednesday, Michael was hunted by both Scraptrap and Molten Freddy, both of which mocked him, but he was able use the audio lure, and his flashlight to fend them off. That evening, he salvaged his sister, who had become Scrap Baby, who joined their father and Freddy in the vents. On Thursday, however, Michael salvaged the mysterious Lefty, who was already purchasable. Unlike the others, Lefty was silent, and Michael found himself dealing with all four, as well as his barely functional office on Friday.

On Saturday, after a hard shift of dealing with the Scrap animatronics, Mike's boss revealed that the Pizzeria was a trap for all the remaining animatronics, with Mike having kept them distracted by luring them around the labyrinth's vents in circles. Henry praised Michael as his "brave volunteer", telling him that, while he was planning a way out, he knew Michael wanted to stay behind to end his own suffering. Henry then lit the pizzeria ablaze in a deadly inferno killing everyone there including Michael, thus redeeming himself for what he did to his brother, putting an end to his suffering and allowing him to rest in peace with his brother and sister in the afterlife.

Gallery[]

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