Five Nights at Freddy's

Alternate Universe

One time I told someone I was working on some writing. She asked what. I said it was fanfic.

She said, "Oh, is it Sonic?"

"Worse," I said, like someone with bad self-esteem.

Immediately, she asked, "Five Nights at Freddy's?"

I have yet to recover.

My FNAF AU was initially conceived circa 2016, shortly after the release of FNAF3. It's from that time period of FNAF fandom that I considered perfect; everyone was making their own AUs (or playing in a handful of really popular ones and also I guess there was a book I don't know I still haven't read any of them) and there was a decent amount of creativity. This AU was my contribution.

The initial version is still somewhere on FFN, and will quietly remain there, as the fandom also had plagiarism issues at the time. I don't know if it still does but heh. Heheheheh. You know?

This version is nearly 50k words at the time of writing this page, and the damn thing has been sitting like that for a year, but it's already a much better version. And one would hope after nearly a decade, but I only picked the damn thing back up two years ago and I write at the speed of smell, so.

As I am unsure of the current state of fandom, I do not know if it will ever see the light of AO3, but we shall see.

In this version of events, Mike Schmidt is a young man with his own struggles simply struggling to make ends meet and lets the mystery of Freddy's consume him to the point of hunting down key players in the restaurant's history. At the start of this journey, he meets Callum Divelbiss, a dishelved former night guard who takes a keen interest in Mike when he refuses to let things die...