Unsettling Developments.

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I've been noticing a lot of really weird stuff lately. I think there's something big going on here. And Goldy seems to be at the center of it.

... let's start from the beginning.

So, to start off, none of us know where Goldy came from. I didn't put any kids into a golden suit when William killed the first set. There were only four kids in that set anyway, the souls powering the Withereds now. I put Cassidy into the '84 Freddy suit (the refurbished, no-longer-springlock suit used at the location I was killed at in '83, which opened after the Bite of '83 closed the last Fredbear's down, and then got closed after two employees got springlocked.) after the '87 murders, but that's the only time I'd seen a golden suit up until now. I've looked through records, which came from various places, and something was covered up. Big time.

So, Scraptrap is wearing the counterpart suit to Cassidy. The suit Springtrap wears is the Springbonnie suit from the ORIGINAL Fredbear's Family Diner. Just finding that out took a lot of digging. Anything regarding the OG Fredbear's is heavily redacted and censored.

This is what we DO know about it:
  It was open from 1980-1982. At this point, Fazbear Entertainment did not exist.  There was no Freddy Fazbear Band. It was just Fredbear and Springbonnie in one large room with a small kitchen, back room, and closet. 
  William hadn't even moved back to Utah until around half a year before the place closed, as he had been living in another state working on Circus Baby's Pizza World, coming back after Elizabeth died.
  Henry's wife and son - my mother and brother - hadn't left him yet.
  Something happened. Something that made Mom leave Henry and take Sammy with her, something so horrible that they have tried EVERYTHING to erase it from history.

The few files I've found that came from the '83 location are all so heavily redacted that they're mostly useless, other than a few diagrams of the place. The '87 location was useless, with the ONLY file that even mentioned the OG Fredbear's telling me nothing other than that the original Fredbear was supposedly destroyed, and that the Springbonnie suit went missing. I already knew William had it at that point.

All of the USEFUL files that I've found on the place all came from the same place: the saferoom in the original 1985 Freddy's. The room where Springtrap was born.
These ones all have things written in the margins of the files, little notations in various different colors and scripts. I recognize three of them: One of them is Phone Guy's bold black, professional print, one is Henry's slightly messy green print, and another is the smooth, royal purple cursive of William Afton. These are also partially redacted, covering up addresses, names, and dates. Those all seem to have been written when the place was open, before the stuff got redacted.

What interests me here is the more recent writings, again, multiple different colors and scripts.

The most coherent one of them is a strange writing, seeming to be a mixture of a shakily written attempt at smooth cursive and a mechanically precise, swirly print, all written boldly in a strange black liquid, with swirls of gold and purple moving through it.  The things written in this script seem to be notes pertaining to the actual contents of the redacted text, revealing dates and addresses, although I'm hesitant to trust this, as a lot of these notes have dates struck through, with slightly different dates written under them. Some of these are struck through three or four times, so it seems the person was having trouble recalling the specifics. The writer doesn't seem entirely sane, either.

Another, slightly more nonsensical one is an angry, messy, purple shaded script, gleefully recalling details of William's crimes up to the 1987 murders, written in a way that seems intended for someone else to read. That someone appearing to be William, given the ways it refers to the intended reader. The way this is written is very unique, and I distinctly recall Springtrap occasionally speaking in a creepily friendly, slight Boston accent with these exact mannerisms. That kind of explains how the writer knows the gritty details of the murders. This one only occasionally wrote about Fredbear's itself, with vague notes talking about how 'that one didn't work out',  'don't feel bad. Remnant is a live and learn process', and things like that, usually with arrows pointing to redacted text.

The simplest, most common one is a golden shade, perfect, elegant print describing the interior of the building, as well as reminiscing shows, and solemn notes about spending a long time in a dark storage room. The mannerisms and script are very feminine. It tends to note things about the people in the restaurant. This one seems to hold Afton in extremely high regard, seeming to be almost lovesick when describing him. Most of their notes centered around their time at Fredbear's reference them being either 'whole' or 'shattered'. 'Whole' seems to be what they call it when they can move on their own, with details mentioning their 'insides being in place'. 'Shattered' seems to be a state in which they are limp and 'hollow'. There are a few accounts of William's crimes, written as though they were there. The most interesting part is the account of William's death. The writing makes it seem as though they were sitting in the room, 'shattered', and that when William was chased by the ghosts of the children, he, and I quote, 'ran to me for safety, while I was shattered. But it was too wet, and when I became whole, he was shattered.'.

But by far, the most interesting writing is the insane, jagged scrawlings. The coloration is a strange shade of red, but judging by the stains on the paper, I think it's obvious what it is. Its writing ranges from grim, cryptic statements to maddened ramblings. Mostly just the maddened ramblings. Just a few quotes from this one:
"THE SUITS... FILLED WITH METAL AND WIRES ANDBLOODANDBONEANDDECAYROTTINGAWAYTOSHOWTHEGHASTLYGRINSOFTHEFALLEN..."
"THE RAGDOLL WAS WATCHING US. BUT OUR GOLDEN COAT PROTECTED US. NOW IT ENTOMBS US WITHIN A CAGE OF OUR OWN MAKING, CRUSHING IN AS WE SCREAMED IN FEAR WHICH FELL ON DEAF EARS AS THEY TRIED TO ASCEND AND I KEPT GOING DOWN."
Most of it is things along those lines. But occasionally, there's a small, cryptic, footnote. These are some of the simpler ones:
"the ragdoll wasn't always crying."
"this is our eternity now."
"the black rabbit and the bright purple bear are safe. but the dark purple one... he doesn't like being watched. Not anymore. His shows are long over."
"those clowns won't stay down below forever."

Those are mostly easy to understand. Now these... these ones are the important ones:
"these files show the truth... we aren't the most dangerous thing in this establishment."
"as much as he taught that machine, you'd think he wouldn't forget to teach it morals."

But most importantly, there's one quote that is the key to finding out what's going on.
"They never really destroyed that suit. no one could've. not after hearing it's cries of guilt and anguish as it begged for the mercy of it's creator."

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