Hello everyone. please consider this is only a semi-serious theory. It's one that I've talked about in the past, and have thought about recently. there are more than a couple straws being grasped, so please, hold your insults and accusations.

What if FNaF 4 happens AFTER FNaF 1?

Let's look at the clues.

• 1. The purple guy is still alive.

Not direct evidence, but considering the ole purple nurple is still hanging around means he hasn't been killed in the FNaF 1 location yet (after it's obviously closed down.) an event that can happen ANYTIME before three and still make sense in the timeline.

• 2.Toys from all generations, but they're old and broken.

The toys that all the children have seem a little... crappy. or, are they just old? Scott gave us a hint about Chica's beak being important, about the toy being broken. Exhibit A: The headless foxy. Exhibit B: The Mangle/Funtime Foxy doll missing most of it's parts. Exhibit C: Toy chica herself, and her broken beak. Exhibit D: The spring Bonnie doll, and this one is up for contention, but i believe the doll looks old and greenish like springtrap does, and while all the other toys have features, it seems to be featureless.

If the toys are all indeed old, what if they were from previous Freddy's locations that had failed, each being passed down to the next restaurant in line?

• 3. The animatronics don't wander on their own.

Not one time in all of FNaF 4 do we see either the Bonnie or Freddy animatronics walking on their own. the one that does move has a person in it, the ones on stage do not move at all. Could this be using lessons learned from previous locations? even the back room shows us pieces can be taken out of the suits, so perhaps these aren't springlocks at all (also, the Endo pieces shown in the back room of FNaF 4 have 4 fingers, not 5) and perhaps they aren't allowed to move around at all.

• 4. Phone guy's call

While playing FNaF 4, you may hear some garbled Speech. if pieced together and turned around, it's actually the night one phone call from FNaF 1. This could mean that FNaF one has already occurred.

So what does this all mean, and how can it fit coherently together with the other games?

SO one thing i want to remind everyone of, is, after FNaF 3, we had a pretty clear story. Kids were killed, we get showed the killer killing, and then we get showed the killer's death. open and closed book, right? Well, apparently not, because Scott had to show us something. A bite, but it goes against all things that the bite of 87 should have! why are we at Fredbear's? Why aren't the animatronics walking around, and showing off that advanced mobility that Phone guy was so proud of? They're barely even moving on the stage.

SO, know all of this, let me create a timeline.

1970-1980: The original Freddy Fazbear's pizza opens, and the missing children's incident happens. the place can't recover, and it gets shut down at the end of a time period to...

1983: Be bought by Fredbear's family diner, a rival Pizza company. no gimmicks, no tricks, Fredbear's acquires Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and owns the company until:

1983-1987: the springlock incident happens, and the company has to spend it's money hiding what happened, looking to get out scott free (heh) they sell the company to another buyer, who renames the company...

1987: Fazbear entertainment, acquiring the original characters from Fredbear's family diner, rebuilds the old character as new ones, using pieces of the old. however, again, there is tragedy. Save them shows 5 more kids dying, and the purple man has returned. not only that, but our fabled Bite of 87 happens, forcing the company to close it's doors and reopen...

1993: Now! the event's of FNaF 1 happen, and the company can't keep going. more guards die or disappear, the place looks like it's falling apart, and they can barely afford to pay you for your services, or keep the power on. again, after this venture, the business fails again.

1994-sometime in the future: Purple guy, our killer and all around no good-doer, buy the remaining rights on the cheap, and Re-opens a Fredbear themed restaurant. two characters are used, Fredbear, and a Bonnie animatronic. unfortunately, once more, tragedy strikes, and even though he's taken all the steps and precautions, another death happens, and it more than likely kills the business with it's reputation already bad.

sometime before FNaF 3: at this point, as long as he's been around, purple guy knows the old animatronics are haunted, or have SOMETHING wrong with them. blaming them for the reason his new venture failed, he returns to the old FNaF one location, and attempts to try and end it for good, taking them all apart. this of course, backfires, and get's himself killed, a number of years...

Before FNaF 3 begins.

But that's just a theory.