Hello, Internet, welcome to Game Theory,where today's episode is perhaps

the single most important that we've doneon the final floor in a long, long time.

Today, my friends, our goalis to solve Golden Freddy.

That's right.

For now, Fred, I am justified in usingmy favorite golden boy in the thumbnail

today because thisepisode is all about him.

It's them, which I got to be honest,is probably a good thing because I've run

out of ways to make Old Yeller overhere look interesting in a thumbnail.

I mean, the dude's only got like two

decent quality images in the entiresix year history of this franchise.

Say what you will aboutmilking this franchise.

Right?We've milked that image, right.

If only every other characterin this franchise was clickable.

But seriously, with the recent releaseof Buddy Call

the Fifth Fassbach Fright Book,I think we have enough information now

to finally put together a quasi definitiveanswer on who is in that iconic golden

suit, which, got to be honest, is like thebiggest mystery to me in this franchise.

At this point.

Solving this one is like obtainingthe first of three massive holy grails

when it comes to the lureof this franchise.

But in order to do it,

we're going to have to look at the games,the books and the spin offs.

And by the end,

we'll have ourselves an answer that notonly fits with the established lore

of both game and book,but also an answer that satisfies pretty

much everything about this characterand answer that irons out all the wrinkles

and frustrations that I've had whenconcocting past theories about this guy.

Oh, and it also just takes a little bitof the scabbed overwound of a past theory,

OpenNet just enough that itmight get infected.

So are you ready to have your mind blown?Are you ready to finally have the answer

to this mystery that has beensix years in the making?

Well, then let's beginwith the stitch rave.

For those of you who've missed it,the stitchery story is happening in small

chunks at the end of eachFassbach Fright book.

It's kind of like an MCU post creditsteaser minus the color shifting Thanos.

It's about an animatronic suit piecedtogether from the haunted spare parts

of various toys and robots given lifethrough the power of human agony.

Now that it's alive,the creature is wandering the city,

collecting more haunted toys and killingpeople with its zappy hands,

sucking their bodies dry and makingthem cry oily black tears.

And up to this point, that's prettymuch all we do about this monstrosity.

Lead me to conclude that the reason we'remeeting this thing is to prove

the existence of remnant and how itworks via negative human emotions.

Maybe set him up as the new villainfor that upcoming game security breach.

Or at the very least,that's what I thought.

Oh, no, dear theorist's the stitchery this

far more important than wecould have ever imagined.

In the epilogue of book number four,Step Closer, we meet Andrew and Jake,

the two souls who find themselvestrapped inside the stitchery.

And the conversation that they have whenthey first meet starts to give us some

of the lower drops that we have beenwaiting years to hear quote from the book.

Now, Jake was inside a metal thing.

He didn't know enough about anything

to understand what it was,but he did know that he wasn't alone.

He was sharing this strange place.Oh, hi.

Jake said, I'm Jake.Who are you?

I'm Andrew.The child's voice was rough.

He sounded a little like a boy Jake usedto know in school,

a boy who was always talking back to theteacher and getting himself in trouble.

Jake thought Andrew sounded angry,very angry, end quote.

We're told that even though both theirsouls are infused into the same

endoskeleton, Jake is the only oneable to move the stitch wreathes body.

He's also the only one capableof seeing the outside world.

Andrew is blind to it all.

It's kind of like thosetwo man horse costumes.

You never want to windup being the button.

Those things, especiallyon Chappellet days.

It's no wonder Andrew so mad.

I'd be, too, if I was forced to spend aneternity looking at someone else's soul.

But however, it's when they start talking

about their former lives that thingsstart to get really interesting.

Quote again, my memoriesare kind of fuzzy.

Jake said fuzzy.Yeah, so are mine.

Andrew responded.

But I do remember wanting to getback at someone who hurt me.

I think I attached myself to him.

I got into his soul, made sure he couldn'tmove on when he should have died.

I remember I wanted him to sufferthe way he made me suffer.

I remember they tried to kill him,

but I wasn't going to lethim go until I was ready.

With a story like that,you could almost say that Andrew is

a spirit wanting revenge,a literal, vengeful spirit.

Perhaps now loyal Fanaroff theoristshave an idea of where this is all going.

Right back when Ultimate Customer firstcame out, we theorized that the entire

game was William Taft,entrapped in a fiery Xscape,

a constant cycle of torture and tormentat the hands of his past victims.

Or should I say one victim in particular,the spirit of Golden Freddy.

Sure, he was called by many names,

the one you should not have killed,the vengeful spirit.

But in the end, by doing the impossible

of that game and beating 1020 mode,it's revealed that Golden Freddy lingers

on, twitching with rage,refusing to move on into his afterlife.

And here Andrew is pretty muchconfirming exactly that sound.

The party horns the children celebrating.

It looks like we got one rightor should I say mostly right.

What's interesting about this wholeJake Andrew conversation from the book is

that back with ultimate custom night,we assumed that William Aften was dead

and that this was justhis afterlife and purger.

Or or each double hockeysticks or whatever.

He died in Henry's fire,the one that was set at the end of NAFT

six, the one meant to bringthe whole series to a close.

I mean, how could he not be dead?

Henry even had that awesome final linefor him, although for one of you,

the darkest of hell hasopened to swallow you whole.

So don't keep the devil waiting.

Frank, you don't just surviveone liners like that.

And yet here Andrew says that he was

actively keeping his killer aliveagainst everyone's attempts on his life.

So does that mean that afternoon?Still.

No, no, no.

I always come back.

He attack he Protech he always come back.

But just because William may have beenkept alive in the book law doesn't

necessarily mean that he wasleft alive in the game law to.

Well, it shouldn't, but I think it does.

Fast forward to this month and our newestbook, Bunny, called what was originally

supposed to be the fifth and finalinstallment in the Fast Bear Fright

series, a literal five books at Freddy'suntil, of course, it got extended.

Now we have ourselves the bonussixth and seventh night books.

And while the first two stories in thisnew book are interesting and certainly

worth talking about on a different day,it's the third one, the man in room 12 18

that ties into ourGolden Freddy mystery today.

Stop me if you've heard this one before.

It's about a mysterious man in a hospital

burned well beyond the point of death,and yet somehow he remains alive.

Quote from the book, Man had no face.

A hole in his skull indicatedwhere his nose used to be.

Dark, cavernous pits,lacking eyes looked at nothing.

A toothless mouth gapedwithout lips to protect it.

We'd be remiss if we didn'twarn you, the nurse said.

We know what he what that is evil.

Father Blythe evil.

In fact, the hospital staff is so

convinced that he's the embodiment of evilthat they tried to kill him multiple times

via injections,via smothering, via séances.

But nothing will do it.

He cannot be killed, but notfor the reasons that you would expect.

It's not an iron will to live or

the remnant that's flowing throughhis veins that's keeping him alive.

It's a ghost.Each attempt on the patient's life is

thwarted by the ghost of a boy with curlyblack hair wearing an alligator mass.

In fact, the two seem to beintertwined with each other.

The story informs us about the patient's

brain patterns, and they well,they're a bit unusual.

Quote, According to the hospital's sleep

expert, that particular REM patternindicates nightmares, horrific nightmares.

See there and there.

The nurse pointed at onepart of the brain scan.

Two signals means two livingthings, two entities.

They're both vying for control

of the brain, but they'reat odds with each other.

We think they're tormenting each other.

Sounds a bit like Andrew, right?

Andrew attached himself to the manwho killed him and refuses to let him die

so he can torment him,which is the exact relationship between

the vengeful spiritand William Aften in the Games.

And if there was any doubt about who thismysterious man in the hospital is,

the patient wants to go to a father'sbeer distribution center.

And we're told that the stitchery mysteryis somehow tied to a mysterious fire

involving Freddy's and the former ownersof the business every which way to Sunday.

This is our William Aften.

Stand in for these books.

Andrew is our vengeful spirit.Stand in.

And it feels like the book is trying

to tell us that custom night wasn'tpurgatory or heck,

it was after living nightmare as he waslaying in a hospital bed recovering.

William Aften may still be alive,

or maybe he was alive and thenhe eventually explodes.

Yeah, the story ends with William'scarcass being wheeled out to the beer

distribution center and then itliterally blows up like a bomb.

It is just as gross and gory anddisgusting as you would expect it to be.

Maybe it's a good thing that thesebooks don't have pictures.

My personal guess is that this is whatreleases the angry spirit of Andrew

into lots of other toyslike Fetch and plus trap.

And it may also be how Grafton's soul gets

itself into a computer chip thateventually gives life to glitch trap.

OK, this has been a lot about aften and I

promise that this would be a megatheory about Golden Freddi.

So how does it all connect together?

Well, notice how I described Andrew's

ghost, a boy with curly blackhair and an alligator mask.

It's the same hair as the mysterious dead

body found inside Golden Freddy'ssuit back in fase birthrights.

Number three quote from that book,Downlow passed his arm.

Devon could see a body, a dead body,

but it wasn't exactly like he thoughthe'd find this one had curly black hair.

The lure of the series doesn't tend

to give us a lot, but one thing ittends to keep relatively consistent.