it's personal discussion
150+ views
>
~Look Down, You're Talking to Your Highness~[R]
That makes a lot of sense. 
Their personalities don't change much throughout the story aside from them getting a bit more mature as they age, but they're still into pretty much the same things. I took Child Development! It shouldn't be this hard for me to judge whether my eight-year-olds are realistic or not!
Well it all depends on the individual...some are far more mature than others.
The most mature one of their group is definitely their 'leader', Fred. He tends to remain calm and prevent the other three from getting into fights with each other, although he became really excited about finally getting to have his birthday at the pizza place. There's Connie, the only girl and she's really bubbly and cheerful, she loves princesses and everything girly. She and Michael are usually at odds since she never wants to play pretend with him what he wants her to play as.
There's Billy, who's a fem-boy and kinda the wimp of the group. He wants to be a bass player when he grows up and keeps his hair long and secretly wears nail polish, and is close to Connie since they're both girly. He's also got a weak stomach.
There's Michael, who's very hot-tempered and fairly distant from the group. He loves pirates and gets easily annoyed by Connie, since she dislikes pirates and always wants to play something other than pirates.
Then there's Michael's little sister, Georgia, who giggles a lot and follows Michael around where-ever he goes. She has a bizarre talent of running so fast it seems she disappears and reappears elsewhere. She's the youngest and thus not considered part of their group, but she still goes to the pizza place for Fred's birthday.
How much of that is canon, or did you make up those things about them?
I made up their personalities. We don't know anything about the kids who were murdered, we just know there were three boys, a girl, and a fifth one whose gender we never find out.
Ah. I love it when characters' history aren't well known so you can go wild with what they were like before.
That's why I'm sad the fandom never does anything with the kids. There's so much we could explore about them and what they were like when they were alive, but nobody wants to. We explore the murderer more than we do the kids, but I personally don't think we should focus on the murderer so much. We don't need to justify the murder of five children in cold blood. But we should explore the kids more. But that's just my opinion.
Are they *trying* to justify the murderer, or just show what their story was?
Show what his story was, but we already know a lot about him from the games alone. I don't think we need to speculate anymore. We know he's an employee that used to work at the pizza place who lured five kids into a back room during a birthday and murdered them in cold blood, stuffing their bodies into the animatronic suits. He went into hiding for a while, eventually coming back to the pizza place to dispose of the evidence, only to hallucinate and think he was seeing the kids' vengeful ghosts, so he quickly hid from the ghosts in a springlocked suit, which crushed him to death. His corpse and presumably spirit are gone by the end of the third game when your character burns down the attraction with the murderer inside. We also learn in the fifth game he has two children of his own. Really the only thing we don't know about him is his name.
So is the third game the last one chronologically? If the murder is gone forever wouldn't the children be at peace?
It is chronologically, yes. If you do everything correctly, you get the game's 'good ending', which shows that their spirits have moved on and are finally at peace.
Ah. Well that's good that they can find peace.
Yeah, there were lots of people who got that ending for the first time and cried.
What do you mean "for the first time" ?
You know, when they were playing the third game for the first time, and they got the good ending and found out the children were finally at peace after thirty years, some people cried.
Elizabeth♛ Smart Girls Love Trashy Books♛ wrote: "You know, when they were playing the third game for the first time, and they got the good ending and found out the children were finally at peace after thirty years, some people cried."So there's more than one ending?
Yeah, there's also the bad ending which is what you get if you don't meet all the criteria in time. It basically shows you that the children haven't moved on and are still trapped inside the animatronics.
Ah. So other than that part is it relatively the same?
It plays a different song, but yeah, pretty much the same. The good ending is called 'They're Free', and the bad ending is called 'Save Them'
What makes you think I know a lot about people dying realistically? :pI think it seems realistic.
I'm sure you know more than me, I can't write people getting murdered to save my life :P And my debut novel features lots of people getting murdered :P
I'm still searching for the fanfic's glue. Hmmmm....
Good luck
I can try asking Mom when she wakes up since technically the fanfic was her idea, but I feel like she won't be willing to help me. She hates helping me since according to her I shoot down all of her ideas, which is so not true. I do sometimes, but a lot of times even if I say the idea isn't very good, I still end up doing it since I have no other ideas.
Mm. I'd help but since almost evrything I know about it has come from you-
Technically, it's the same for my mom. But she's more into it since even though she hasn't actually played the games, she liked their retro feel and the creepy storyline,
Me: "I was so surprised when I found out he was attractive," Mom: "I figured someone who made a series like that would be hot,"
Me: "He's like 46 or something and already has four kids,"
"Mom: "Is he married?"
Me: "Uhhhh....I think he's divorced, actually,"
Mom "Meet your new step-father! And your step-siblings! You all can be the Brady Bunch!"
She's awake now, I'll ask her in a minute.
I asked her and she said to make it more retro than I already have and to really submerge the readers in all the 80's goodness. Although to be fair, they're still little kids. When I think of the 80's I think of really sexual music and crack and AIDs and stuff like that, which children wouldn't really know about. But maybe there's still something I can add. After all, the 80's had all kinds of cool toys and cartoons for kids they'd like that are definitely retro. She also said I should make one of the kids black, which I'm considering.
I'll ask her more about it once she recovers since my baby brother has done literally nothing but scream his head off for the past two hours and she has a migraine from it.
Do the games say anything about the race of any of the kids?Wow......
Nope, like I said, all we know are four of their genders.
Ohhh. Not even their names?
Nope, we know absolutely nothing about them. I wouldn't be writing this fanfic if we knew a lot about them, or even knew what they looked like.
It's just so weird writing stuff that takes place in the 1980's or even the 1990's, fanfic or not. A lot of books coming out recently take place in one of those decades, and I always tell Mom: "I have no idea why, it's not historical fiction," She always gets annoyed by that haha. She says she remembers the 90's fondly and says it was different from this decade, but she also says she'd much rather live in this decade than the 90's, since it's a lot more peaceful and advanced than the 90's.
My dad loves to remind me that "when [he] was a kid [he] would go outside until dark then come back in instead of be inside all the time"Well good for him. I'm not him. When he was a kid there was also probably a lot less airport security and hatred towards Muslims. Times change, society changes with it.
LOL Mom says: "When I was a teenager, I was on the Internet all day long! There wasn't much to do on it yet, but there were chat rooms, which was how I met your dad. I also watched TV a lot, but we didn't get cable until 1996, so I watched a lot of public broadcast programs. Of course, when I was your age, I had a kid, so I never ended up going to college," I keep telling her I'd much rather live in the 90's though and she keeps responding with something bad that happened in the 90's.
I'm going to use that as my argument! "Even in the 90's there were people online all the time!"Aside from Columbine and Princess Diana's death I cannot think of ONE horrendous think from the 90's that's still mentioned today. What has she brought up?
Well there wasn't anything to do on the Internet in the 90's :P When did your dad grow up, if you don't mind me asking? The World Trade Center Bombings, which was a precursor to 9/11 done by the same group. She says they tried to drive a car bomb into the garage to bring the building down, but it failed, so they thought of something else. She says there were lots of wars and genocides in the developing world, America had some bad race riots, inflation was pretty bad in the first half of the decade, there were some diseases that broke out in the 90's since medicine still wasn't that good yet...
Mom's the kind of person to ask about the darker side of the 90's :P
He was born in...78? Ohhh right those. All I ever really hear about regarding 90's history is Persian Gulf War, Bill Clinton's scandal and the fall of the Soviet Union. Then the two things I mentioned.
Really?! 1978?! Seriously?!
it's personal
Books mentioned in this topic
The Kingdom of Little Wounds (other topics)Anastasia's Secret (other topics)
The Crown's Game (other topics)
Cinder (other topics)
Mechanica (other topics)
More...
And I don't want to make them older since the whole reason WHY they were murdered in the games is because they followed an employee in an animatronic suit into a back room because he promised them birthday cake. The older a child gets, the more likely they are to say no to that and run away, so I need them to still be young enough that they'd follow him.