William Afton



William Afton (also known as Purple Guy) was the co owner of Fredbear’s Family Diner, the former C.E.O of Fazbear Entertainment and owner of Afton Robotics Inc., and is a serial killer, responsible for The Missing Children incident mentioned in the original games. He is the creator of the Circus Baby's Pizza World and is the owner of Afton Robotics Inc. (Incorporated). William was killed in the old Spring Bonnie suit in FNAF 3, becoming the zombofied Springtrap then later becoming burnt twice. After epcaping from hell, he became Glitchtrap (The Anomaly in Fnaf: Help Wanted).

Backstory
William Afton met Henry Emily in sometime in 1970’s and then, they started their own restaurant chain, Fredbear’s Family Diner. The two main mascots of the Diner resembled its owners : Fredbear was the star of the show and very outgoing, just like Henry. And springbonnie was the best friend of the main character and a more discreet figure, just like William Afton.

Role
William Afton is the murderer of the many children that sparked the downfall of Fazbear Entertainment, and started the chain of events that leads the players through the series. Judging by his actions and appearance within the minigames, William Afton is cruel and cold-blooded, taking pleasure in his crimes with an unceasing smile.

Following the growing of Fredbear’s, William Afton started to be very jealous of Henry, since he was the one who got the most attention and credits for the success of the diner.

Henry, noticing the sadistic and envious behavior of his business partner, created the Puppet to keep his daughter safe.

But, in one fateful night, Charlie was locked out of the dinner by some kids, who trapped the puppet inside the box, in order to stop him from searching for Charlotte in the rain. Some minutes later, the puppet was able to get out of the box, so Charlotte started to jump up and down to get its attention. Unfortunately, William Afton came from his car and murdered Henry’s daughter.

The Puppet went after the girl, crawling through the rain. In consequence, his circuits started to collapse. When he found the daughter of Henry, the puppet hugged her corpse, allowing Charlie to posses the animatronic.

Some time after this tragedy, William Afton realized that his first victim was possessing the Puppet. He discovered Remnant, an essence of the soul which contains human emotions. Afton started to became fascinated with the concept of life after death and found remnant as an opportunity to get immortality.

This led him to commit the missing children incident on June 26th, killing Gabriel, Fritz, Jeremy, Susie and Cassidy and hiding their bodies inside the main mascots of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza. Some time after the MCI, William collected the white remnant from the five possessed animatronics in order to give conciseness to his new creations : The Funtime animatronics.

These animatronics were created by Afton Robotics in order to kidnap and kill children for William, extracting even more Remnant. In order to eject the remnant from the original 5 children inside the Funtimes, William created the scooper, a machine capable of keeping the remnant at an appropriate temperature.

When his daughter, Elizabeth, disobeyed his orders and got killed by Circus Baby, William Afton sold Afton Robotics to Fazbear Entertainment, as seen in the sister location intro cutscene.

Some years later, William told his older son Michael to go to Circus Baby entertainment and rentals, in order to free his little sister’s soul. However, the Funtime animatronics mistook Michael for William and scooped his body to escape from the facility.

Michael Afton was able to survive the scooper, since the machine ejected remnant inside his body, allowing Mike’s soul to possess his own corpse.