Michael Afton: Facing the Horrors of the Past // FNaF Theory
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2024
- In this Video I take a deep dive into Michael Afton's Character and see how he evolved throughout the franchise.
The Nightmare Experiments:
• FNaF Sister location's...
00:00 - Intro
00:33 - FNaF 1
01:31 - FNaF 4
03:41 - What do we know so far ?
04:12 - Is Fritz really Mike ?
04:43 - Sister Location (Main Game)
08:44 - Sister Location (Immortal and the restless)
09:47 - Sister Location (Experiments)
10:57 - What do we know so far ? (2)
11:52 - FNaF 3
13:12 - FNaF 6
14:35 - Security Logbook
19:09 - IF Mike was Fritz then...
19:55 - Michael's Character (Summary)
20:45 - Outro
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I do like the ideal of Mike keeping the book throughout the years and continuing to write in it.
It’s like his journal or diary at this moment
This is an amazing video, but like, unrelated, imagine just walking in your neighborhood when you see a decomposing corpse walking on your same sidewalk, too, before it’s just vomiting out the mechanical iteration of spaghetti and then just collapsing into an empty meat sack and then stands up and walks off like nothing happened
Yeah, maybe he was fired for tempering with the animatronics and for surviving
The town's therapist will have enough money to retire in his mid-30s to early-40s.
I'm glad you don't brush off the illusion disks, ik they're a weird plot device lol
I kinda love how Scott made Mike have an actual character lol.
Smith is another word for Schmidt, just in a different language
Interesting take on the fanf 4 nights, at this point there are so many different interpretations that basically any theory can be the truth
mike is probably alive considering that from what we see in books and games william knew less about remnant than he thought, plus the blueprint says it only might deactivate remnant, we see robots with remnant being literally melted so i don't think a fire would kill a human with remnant inside them, this remnant would also be constantly healing him as seen in the books, and one unreleased email in fnaf ar is addressed to mafton and nothing says that they are not canon
Maybe you could play as mike in fnaf AR?
@@_Addum not really, the ar protag seems to not be profesionally involved with faz. ent. in any way
Great vídeo! I really like how you go over Michael character in detail, and made me realize why I still love mike as a character. Although as for fritz Smith, I do think he is fritz Smith, but there are other reasons for them rather than then getting fired for the same reasons.
Notherless, great job on the video, and I can't wait for your next one.
I know there were more reasons that just the pink slip. But honestly, I couldn't be bothered talking about it, since the video was long enough.
@@sambar2772 ah, understandable. Have a great day for you.
@@sambar2772 I think it's Evan having nightmares because of how they get more aggressive every night referring to him slowly dying while having nightmares until after we beat night six. Before we die we hear Michael's speech. But we all have our own opinions on it.
I imagine that the nightmares were real as we see the fnaf 4 map, with dots representing animatronics meaning it’s implied to be real. I believe William made them to torment Micheal for killing his brother, that’s just me tho.
While I feel inclined to agree, I feel compelled to point out how the items next to the bed change. It's highly plausible that he used physical endos or even real animatronics, and attached the illusion disks to them. So, I imagine it was halfway real, but what he was perceiving wasn't 100% reality.
Regardless if Mike is Fritz or not, one other candidate for Fritz is the Phone Dude. Phone Dude could definitely hear rumors about Freddy's by the time the FNAF 2 location is around, and being a nut about urban legends and having that surfer dude accent, he could have been unprofessional and tampered with the animatronics on a night 7 that should have been in an already closed Pizzeria by the phone calls in FNAF 2. Jeremy should have either already gotten bitten or the Pizzaria should have closed officially a good deal of time ago. Perhaps he worked as the night guard to prevent Vandals (his real reasons being perhaps figuring out the hauntings), but the location seems way cleaner than FNAF 1. But considering the Survival Logbook and FNAF 3 hints that Mike was in both locations, even if not a night guard in the 87 location, he would still know about the animatronics considering most likely he was still one of the main founder's family members.
Why would they rehire him for Fnaf 1
Hmm I have an idea regarding the fnaf 4 minigames and this might sound crazy, however I think this is Micheal realiving not just the nightmares but also the accident that led to his brother's death and hearing the voice of fredbear he heard while his little brother was still alive
6:10 The Scooper injects remnant, so that's why he survived.
capitalist michael afton is the best thing i know exists
I just always assumed Fazbear Frights was filled with asbestos or something and that's why you hallucinate so much. lmao
no airflow jumpscare
Michael is such a chad. Not many people would come back after the first night, even to save their sibling's ghosts 😄
I'm not sure about your theory for the timeline, but I like it! Like you said, it's narratively satisfying. I also think it's possible that Mike identifying with Clara means he's in the role of Clara on the show, and the baby is an allegory for Circus Baby and William not initially wanting to reveal what happened to her, or where she was.
"Michael you killed Evan holy shit what the fuck is wrong with you?!?"
"Sorry Fatha he slipped and fell into Freddy's mouth not my fault."
"....."
"Get the fuck out my house"
*canned laughter plays*
“Father it was a cannon event”
Who the fuck is evan😭
@@BucketIHead the crying kid on fnaf 4
@@BucketIHead fanon name for CC because it gets tiring refering to him as CC all the time
I love your sprites, it makes the video more engaging
Great video! However somethings I'd like to add.
Thank you for subscribing. Really appreciate it :)
Mike seeing balloon boy in his nightmares doesn't really proof he had to deal with balloon boy. He never had to deal with plushtrap before and he's in Mike's nightmares. And if he was in fnaf 2, then why did Scott make nightmare mangle and Nightmatrionne non Canon. They would make more sense if they were in the nightmares than balloon boy.
Also, the hallucinations are caused by springtrap so it doesn't matter If Mike worked at freddy's anyways.
Sister location takes place after fnaf 1, as the souls of the 5 kids are in the funtimes and by the time of SL, freddy's is shut down for good and the only time freddy's shuts down for good is fnaf 1.
Also, Fritz's and Mike's name similarities are most likely a coincidence as fritz is just a one time character and a proper name wasn't needed.
@@sambar2772 Hi! Thank you so much for replying to me! ^^
You have a good point about the balloon boy and plushtrap thing.
Where I disagree is Sister Location being after FNAF 1.
We never get specified which location is closed, and infact, we know that FNAF2's newspaper says that the location is a ''Grand Re-Opening'', meaning the location closed down before, and handunit never specifys it was a permanent close down,
I'd argue that remnants of the 5 missing children are inside of funtime freddy, which very well is plausible pre FNAF2, considering the withered animatronics are missing parts of their costumes (Which wouldnt be logical, considering the Toy Animatronics are made out of plastic whilst the withereds/classics have felt costumes)
Remnant in the game and books works in different ways, and in the games it seems to be able to split apart the souls into mulitple, or at the very least is just basically life juice.
Major reasons why I also believe this is because the logbook does infact contain as you mentioned, drawings of casual bongos and exotic butters, and Michael couldnt have taken the logbook with him, as after he got fired from Fazbears, his logbook would have been confiscated along with his uniform.
It's also likely why the sticky note is in the first page, whilst It may just be a random detail thats meaningless, it seems to imply that even if Michael was the last person to work in that location before it closed.
Similarly to Dave in the Novel trilogy, someone must have still watched over the now abandoned fazbears building.
Which I personally believe might be William Afton, and is why he's able to conviniently enter the pizzeria.
(I'd also like to add that William couldnt have dismantled the animatronics for the funtimes because William wouldnt have gone to Circus Babys Rental to put the remnant into the funtimes and then back to the Pizzeria to get springlocked)
In a narrative sense, there's also problems with William getting springlocked before SL, being that William would neither be able to actually ask Michael to go down to SL, nor that Afton Robotics could still be functionally open, operating and still hire new employees if it's owner was considered missing or possibly dead depending on how many years after FNAF1 someone assumes for it to take place.
But that's just my personal opinion!
Btw I would love to have your thoughts or opinions as to the safe room regarding FNAF1 :)
We know Phone Guy dies the week before FNAF1, but William is likely sealed after FNAF 1, since it's a run down version of the fazbears pizzeria, but Phone Guy has a phoen call in FNAF3 mentioning the safe room getting sealed, he would have been dead by then, so how could he make a report about this? And then again it could be that William got sealed before FNAF1 even opened, but the animatronics got destroyed didnt they?
Perhaps this could be a great video suggestion if you think it's too much of a hassle to respond to in the comments ^^
Regardlessly, have a great day!! Xo
@@circusbabysgallerysl Mike's logbook wouldn't be confiscated, it's already been used, why give it to a new guard if it's already written. And yes we see that Mike eventually loses the logbook, but that could've happened at a later date.
Henry, in the insanity ending, specifically says that William lured the kids again and overpowered them again and took the only thing that they had again. Which we see happen in follow me, William lures them to the safe room again and kills/dismantles them again and takes the only thing that they have, which is their soul and freedom again.
Then he says that the 5 kids have a "new purpose". Which would mean that they ended up in the funtimes. Even candy cadet always mentions 5 things becoming one, which references molten Freddy having the souls of the 5 kids, I think this was the reason Ennard split from baby in the first place, she is the daughter of their killer and she also wants to make him proud, so they kick her out. Also, in the fourth closet we see the same thing again, the funtimes have the souls of the Missing kids, then when they merge with the molten amalgamation they become essentially molten Freddy.
Afton returning to Freddy's after dismantling the robots, is most probably because to either get more soul metal or to get spring bonnie.
Dave Miller didn't dismantle the robots while he was a security guard. He liked having his own Twisted family of Haunted robots, but after the Twisted Ones. He destroys and merges them together for their remnant. So even if Afton did become a security guard at Freddy's after fnaf 1, then he had a reason to dismantle the robots.
While I think a lot of FNaF is very specultary and un-confirmed, MoltenMCI is one of the things that, I think, is truly confirmed. The funtimes has the soul of the 5 kids, this has been shown to us time and time again. It's as solid as Susie being lured with the promise of seeing her dead dog again.
Afton is also most likely not the owner of Afton robotics anymore. While yes it's his company, it's still owned by Fazbear Entertainment. So they most likely let go of William because of his bad reputation. But of course that wouldn't really stop William, since he has 3 other entrances to the facility through his houses.
Also, William could've just re-open the safe room after it was sealed in 1985. Phone guy's phone call about the safe room is Highly likely shortly after the MCI to hide all evidence and to avoid more murders. Afton could've just re-opened it and it got sealed again by a random guard or something, I don't think it really matters, if it did Scott would've told us more, but he didn't.
Anyways thank you for commenting :)
@@sambar2772 I do very much believe in MoltenMCI, but I can't drop the fact that it's just extremely weird why the Withered Animatronics are in their Withered state, because whilst it makes sense for them to perhaps be missing some endoskeleton parts, missing parts of their costume doesnt, since again, those are filt whilst the toys are plastic.
So I think remnant also possibly attaches himself to material aswell as metal.
(i also believe this is what could explain the FNAF1 animtronics ultimately using the Endo1 type instead of Endo 2 like they did in FNAF2)
I think it's possible for the MCI to both exist in remnant form, and also as souls who possess the animatronics, similarly to how William can exist as a physical person and a seperate digital version of himself.
We know he lured them into a familiar place to take the only thing they had left, their souls and freedom, but whats taking from you isnt automatically lost?
Especially since he wanted to return to the location again to get even more remnant, hinting at the fact that there was still a soul attached to these animatronics :P
Oh and also!
With the Dave comparisn I was also leaning on the fact that William was able to work at Fazbears despite possibly being blacklisted, I shoudl have specified that ^^
Though now I wonder, if SL were to be after FNAF1, and Michael still lived in the same household as William (judging by the fact that the living room in SL matches the fnaf4 nightmare room)
Why wouldnt Michael ask William about the animatronics? Infact, even if they didnt live together, Michael should have absolutely been in the position to ask William, or even Henry, what was going on with the animatronics, and also it doesnt really explain why Michael would have to take on a fake alias at all to make a quick buck at FNAF1, sure, he could possibly be blacklisted pre SL, but why specifically Freddy Fazbears? Especially if he was still to live with his father, judging by the fact that Michael has knowledge in mechanics and was able to tamper with the animatronics, wouldnt he have just gone to mechanics engineering and went down a similar path to his father (like in ffps)?
Whilst I really do respect FNAF1 after SL, I'm still as it is quite skeptical, but things can change!
Also thank you for the explanation about the safe room! I did consider that before but I just wanted to know what others thought because It really did make me question some things :P
@@circusbabysgallerysl Withered are withered because there was FNAF1-like pizzeria before FNAF2 that had only withered ones in their functional condition. Withered ones have different mechanism than the rest, the same mechanism seen in Medicore Melodies and Lefty which means first full animatronics after springlock ones were created solely by Henry Emily. It's also stated after FNAF2 ended the withered one were stored for later use which is FNAF1.
i mean who'd turn down free pizza at a job to basically sit and watch screens all night?
the idea of Mike having the loogbook not only in FNaF 1 but also in other games is just so cool, and I want to ask a quick question what in your opinion is the chronological order of FNaF games, because for me its: FNaF 4 (minigames), FNaF 2, FNaF 1/FNaF 4 (nights), Sister Location, FNaF 3, FNaF 6 (im not going to include the newest games)
My chronological order is basically the same as yours. Except fnaf 4 would take place after fnaf 1 as the nightmares happen from 12 am to 6 am. Not between Mike's shifts
we see fnaf 3 office in the logbook, considering that it's an activity book it most probably was just that a children's activity book sold at fazbear's fright capitalizing on past tragedies and how well known they are, fazbear's fright was most probably created by fazbear ent.
and there is no reason why the ghost writing wouldn't appear in the logbook in fnaf 3 considering that cassidy was attached to william and the bite victim was possibly attached to mike considering the fredbear drawing
Ive not seen someone connecting "tampering with the animatronics" to 4/20 mode but it makes sense. You literally do tamper with the animatronics activity levels
oh thank god, a good video of michal afton, everyone on yt are going coo coo crazy when is to talk about mike on fnaf lol
I totally get why you’re skeptical of Mike being Fritz
just wanna share two evidence points I haven’t seen anyone else bring up
(the most common arguments are Nightmare BB, some of the phantoms resembling the withereds, and reasons for our termination)
1. The end of night “Freddy POV” cutscenes in FNAF 2
According to the game files, they’re dreams…clearly had by someone who has visited both restaurants; we’re in the FNAF 1 building next to classic Bonnie and.Chica, yet during the final cutscene the Puppet appears. Now, at this point in the series only three characters had direct ties to the original restaurant - Phone Guy, the as of yet unnamed killer, and Mike Schmidt. But only *one* of those characters is confirmed to have seen the “IT’S ME” message that appears *right at the end of your dreams* in FNAF 2…Mike Schmidt. And if the Puppet is haunting his dreams, he must have visited the 1987 pizzeria.
2. “Four Games. One Story.”
Looking back, it’s pretty clear that Scott’s livestream hints were aimed at tackling three of the big misconceptions/debates surrounding 4…
- The timeline (“why would the tiny Toy Chica be missing her beak” = the toys were based on action figures like those we see in the minigames, thus placing them before 1987)
- The reason crying child is afraid of the animatronics (“what is seen in shadows is easily misunderstood in the mind of a child = he saw a worker getting dressed in a dark backroom, not anything sinister like a springlock failure or the missing childrens incident)
- Who we play as in the nightmares (“four games, one story”)
If the first three games were all about the missing children, the addition of FNAF 4 makes it instead the story of *Michael* and his path to redemption for killing his brother due to coming from a broken home…the home of the infamous Purple Guy himself.
If Scott had already designated Mike the overarching protagonist of the first four games, that must mean he was somewhere in FNAF 2.
And of all the characters in that game…no one fits the profile better than Fritz Smith.
this is actually really good
@@Auubreygraham thanks!
FNAF1-4 was all dream story. Whatever we saw in FNAF1-4 it was a dream of a crying child being bullied by his Foxy brother, scared by other kids, by whatever happend around him.
Purple nightguard helping one employee to put on springsuit - that has to be purple guy murdering kids and stuffing them into animatronics!
One kid scaring him about animatronics became alive and going after him - possessed animatronics by kids and going after me being nightguard!
Foxy brother locking him in service room - animatronics suffing him into Freddy, making him one of them! (just like the fnaf movie references it with Abby)
Weird kid with baloon - this weird balloon boy stealing my flashlight batteries!
Plastic animatronics toys where chica doesn't have her beak - toy animatronics, Toy Chica loosing her beak!
A girl with plush green rabbit - the weird same rabbit going after my flashlight
Hearing grandfather clock whenever he ends night in FNAF1-3 - it's me waking up from my nightguard nightmares!
Hearing hospital beep whenever he ends night in FNAF4 - I am in a hospital!
The lamp changing to flowers and the bed to hospital bed - I am in a hospital!
Nightmare animatronic, specifically Nightmare Fazbear and literal Nightmare in FNAF4 - I was eaten to death, I don't want to die, help me!!!
All of FNAF1-4 were dreams of crying child, the nightmare of his dying moment. There never was a murderer, no William, no Michael, no Charlie, no Elizabeth, no Henry, no Afton family. All of it was the imagination of confused, scared, bullied child.
But it was all changed when Sister Location showed up. Scott Cawthon retconned it all.
Now all FNAF1-4 games happend in real world of FNAF. Crying Child still doesn't have a name when at that time no character supposed to have one. Puppet became a girl named Charlie Emily. Foxy brother became Michael Afton. His imaginary murderer became his father William Afton. His simple nightmare when he was dying got changed to his Foxy brother Michael Afton's experienced experiment done by William Afton using illusion disks. His imaginary friend plushy Fazbear now it's real plushy by which his father William was talking to him from Cirus Baby Servise and Rental. All this remnant and scooper stuff. Simple story of New Hope became entierly something else as whole big Star Wars universe just like FNAF1-4 games.
I still think mike is fritz but you do have a good point
Wait the Funtimes have the souls of the 5 children? What about the original fnaf1 animatronics? How did the souls transfer?
17:24 I was literally chewing gum when I saw this
I really like how Mike (basically) helps in:
Freeing the MCI
Freeing Elizabeth
Making Lefty burn so badly that all that’s left is The Marionette’s mask
Make William Afton end up in UCN
Obviously, he’s not entirely the reason, but he helped in doing it even if it was unintentional. He’s obviously not perfect but he’s still a good person.
And even if I don’t agree with MikeGuard and I find HudsonGuard more likely, I think I see it happening but ONLY if Mike didn’t know what Springtrap was and prevented FF from burning and the only reason it burnt was just faulty wiring. As seen in FNaF 3, we can see we were TRYING to prevent the place from burning and it explains why the phantoms are so burnt.
Love the video btw!!!
(And just in case, I’m the question mark pfp person lol.)
I know I’m a month late, but why do you think it’s clear that Michael is the unnamed guard?
already was subbed
Ok see the only problem i have with this other then the plcaement is, if mike is in fnaf 3 then he has to be fritz becuase how else would he know about bb and mangle since the way they look is from fnaf 2 same with chica shes from 1.
Fazber frights is next
Honestly I think CC is the one having the nightmares I doubt Micheal is even played in FNAF 4 and found out about the nightmares and technically that's possible because when he's going through sister location after night 2 he could have looked around to try and find the nightmares
Illusion disks are a retcon. It was originally a dream from CC's perspective.
@@MechaKnuckles ...i know that lol
how do you explain him drawing nightmare freddbear tho?
@@vaevvolfz i can't really, unless you want to count fnaf 4 in help wanted a perspective of micheal but that's a leap. either way that's not the best evidence either considering micheal really could have seen it at any point. in fact if he just explored the house and area after night two of sister location he probably could have seen something idk it just don't think it's micheal, not just because the evidence is just lack luster but also because we are directly told it IS the crying child. but also because i feel like everyone tries to associate micheal with everything just so he looks like the hero and stuff.
@@chaoraiser2338 That's the point, you can't explain it under any other context without leaps in logic.
there's actually nothing actually stating CC is the one with them unless you want to use the ultimate guide, witch Scott didn't even actually write and is filled with Inconsistencies,,
or use the steam page saying "kid" but even then that's dream logic and redundant given the dreams are based on experiments where the subject is made to see themselves as a kid.
playing as CC in the minigames isn't proof either given you definitely aren't an animatronic in FNAF 3,,
The logbook also actively states it's Michael given he drew Nightmare Freddbear under the "recent dreams prompt",, it's less of trying to insert him in everything and more so it's what's actively being stated, if this was the case of trying to insert him in everything Mike being the FNAF 4 protag would if been as easily accepted as the theory that he's Fritz.
Scott did mention he changed FNAF 4 story a bit, it's possible CC was the original intention.
😢😮Very good.
Oh man, the comments are already spicy lol
Not spicy enough
While I do agree with the nightmare experiments theory. When does it happen in reference to Charlie's death?
Probably after, if we assume that Midnight Motorist portrays the same night William kills Charlie, then it would be after CC dies and Fredbear's closes and is renamed to Jr's, but before he comes up with the idea of punishing Mike for running off to his brother's grave.
I’m pretty sure it’s not AI. AI did not exist back in the 80s, nor did walking robots. It has to be the remnant.
neither does literally any of the technological advancements, like facial recognition and criminal databases, the funtimes(especially Circus Baby) is capable of taking song requests, singing, dancing and a whole icecream machine in her,
the technology was always advanced for the time period
@@vaevvolfz ik
I like the video but how can the children be in the funtimes when they are supposed to be in the fnaf 1 animationics
When William dismantled the animatronics in the follow me minigames. He took their possessed metal and melted it down. And then injects the Remnant via scooper to the funtimes
Who doesn't love watermelon gum?
i actually don’t think moltenmci is right (i think rockstarmci makes more sense, i recommend sire squawks videos on both subjects to see why) and i think immortal and the restless is just about william (vlad) gaslighting michael (clara) into believing everything is fine at fazbears despite everything michael sees. aside from that, i pretty much agree, this is a solid analysis of michael as a character.
I've seen sire squawks video. I don't agree with it at all, Henry says he has to lure them "all" back, and throughout the insanity ending, hes been talking about Afton and the 5 kids. Why would he need to lure them if they are already there. Also, if the rockstars had the Remnant of the missing kids, then they would try and hunt us down, but they do nothing.
No hate towards sire squawks of course, I really like his videos.
Also thank you for liking the video :)
@@sambar2772 i think that the insanity ending is just prerecorded message, so i would just guess he’s just explaining his plan and motives before acting on anything. i would also just guess that the original mci kids at this point know that michael isn’t william since they saw him him die in the springtrap suit, so they have no motive to attack him.
i think both theories are equally valid tbh. the funtimes being possessed by the kids they themselves killed just makes more sense narratively to me.
i think figuring what the hell actually happened to the mci kids post the destruction of their suits is one of the weirdest mysteries to me, since it seems like they should be around in fnaf 6 based on the gravestones. the thing is i still feel like both rockstarmci and moltenmci leave a lot of questions/plotholes and i don’t know if that’s because scott didn’t care so much about rules and logic as we do, or if we just haven’t found the exact explanation that would prove where they are.
The mci kids' souls were all set free in the FNAF 3 fire. The funtime animatronics were possessed by other victims, presumably those killed by the funtimes themselves or captured and experimented on by William.
Mike is the best character in FNAF
ExOtIc BuTtErS
Rick Ashley silluete
Btw mike is not the crying child in FNaF 4
I never said he was. I said he was the older brother.
First to comment!
Um its actually Evan un fnaf four but ... wait you make a good point hmmm
Blud. Mike isn't the protagonist in fnaf 4. It's the crying child it literally says it in the character book.
And the logbook says otherwise. Literally confirming that Mike had nightmares at some point. And, in FNaF 4, we hear an Easter egg of the FNaF 1 phone call. Implying that they are the same person. That confirms that it’s Mike and not the crying child.
@@nationalpv fnaf 4 was still using the dream theory Canon. That's why you hear the fnaf 1 phone call. All of fnaf 1-4 was just I'm the crying child's head until Scott changed it
@@ri13h44 yeah, “until he changed it”. New evidence today proves that Mike is the player. Back then, it may have been the CC, but now, it’s definitely Mike. Scott retconned the story after FNaF 4, so, it’s not CC anymore. Especially when evidence today, like the logbook, confirm that Mike is indeed the player
@@nationalpvthat game has been retconned so many times it’s crazy. I think that whatever is the newest evidence that comes out should be the one that’s correct, which would be the character book that says CC was the protagonist.
@@tigerlillystar6143 The Character Book also says that Bon Bon is in fnaf 3 and Lefty is in AR. Care to show me those? Also, why would they say the player is Michael when he’s not even in the book itself due to lore reasons. It is a confirmed FACT that Michael is the protagonist of the fnaf 4 GAMEPLAY. Bite Victim is the player of fnaf 4, but only the MINIGAMES which happen at the beginning of the timeline while the nightmares happen short after fnaf 1. I rest my case
The FNAF Movie clearly tells us Michael journey was: FNAF1->FNAF3->FNAF:SL->FNAF:PS because he still looks like a human while meeting Springtrap.
And It makes more believable Fazbear Entertainment hired Mike fo FNAF1, FNAF3, FNAF:SL when he still was a human and when FNAF:PS begins, Henry wouldn't care if his employee looks like a zombie because he saw enough of this pizzeria horror bullshit, he wants to end it anyway..