Vanessa [FNAF]

GENDER

Female

AGE

23

SKIN COLOR

Light-Tan

HAIR COLOR

Blond

EYE COLOR

Green

OCCUPATION

Security Guard (Vanessa) Serial Killer (Vanny)

AFFILIATION

Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex

CAREER STATUS

Dependent

ALIASES

Reluctant Follower* Vanny

Description

Vanessa A., also known as Vanny,[2] is a follower of the digital virus Glitchtrap, a form of the serial killer William Afton, and is the main antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach. It's revealed in the Princess Quest minigames that she was the main protagonist in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, where she was first corrupted by Glitchtrap. In Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, she goes by the name Ness in the e-mails.

Physical Appearance

Vanessa is a young woman with pale skin, shoulder-length blonde hair, freckles, green eyes, and glossy lips. As revealed in the e-mails in Special Delivery, she used to wear rainbow streak hair extensions, and is seen wearing purple nail polish. While working, she wears a dark gray cap labeled "SECURITY" with a white button-down shirt, two small single-chevron collar pins, simple black shoulder marks and an oval patch featuring a silver police-style badge. This is paired with black oxfords, black slacks and a belt, where she wears a gold-tinted badge on her right hip. Her former co-worker, Luis, describes Vanessa as someone who could brighten up a room in the scrapped e-mails. As Vanny, she wears a white bunny costume that has stitching all over it, with a large pink tartan stitching on her left hip. The costume also has a light-tilted blue bow on the chest and its hands and feet have pink paw pads under them. Her bunny mask has a wide, creepy smile with small buck teeth, a pair of long whiskers, small eyebrows, and big glowing red eyes that appear to be spaced out.

Personality 1/2

In Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, Vanessa has some uncertainty in her voice when being confronted about her task implying she at first wasn't fully ready to kill victims. However by the time of Security Breach, she had apparently killed at least nine children at the PizzaPlex, as seen in a newspaper article in the Alley Ending for Security Breach. In Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, Vanny is shown to have a sadistic personality hidden behind a childlike flamboyance. This is shown through her casually and gleefully skipping after Gregory as he runs from her before running with arms outstretched if Gregory is too close. She also happily orders the S.T.A.F.F. Bots to disassemble Glamrock Freddy and constantly laughs as she is about to murder Gregory. Despite this, she is capable of showing fear, especially when her plans backfire. This is evident if Gregory makes the Staff Bots kill her the same way she did to Glamrock Freddy earlier. As Vanessa, as shown by the e-mails, she has a very stereotypical feminine personality, showing an appreciation for fashion with her rainbow streak hair extensions. She also likes baking, having ordered cupcake cookbooks, and likes puppies, as she purportedly owns a glittery pink journal with pictures of them. However, Vanessa also appears to be very lonely. Luis mentioned that she once ordered chocolates for herself and pretended they were from her imaginary boyfriend, Brad. She is shown to take her job seriously, making an effort to find Gregory to keep him out of trouble and even threatens to have Glamrock Freddy scrapped if she finds out he is helping him cause any type of trouble. She also reveals that she knew Gregory's name via hearing Freddy's voice coming from the Fazwatch. She also claimed that all the other animatronics were aware of Gregory's presence. She is also shown to be hot-tempered at times, as when she finally finds Gregory and takes him to the Lost and Found, she is seen admonishing Gregory for his actions before her face glitches into Vanny.

Personality 2/2

Through her therapy session recordings we learn that Vanessa has struggled with severe anxiety, depression, and past trauma. Contrary to her in-game appearance, she seems despondent and has a self-critical attitude during therapy. Her low self-esteem makes her prone to manipulation, as her therapists suggest. Something traumatic happened to her and as per her admission in the CD logs, she's attempted to compartmentalize it as a coping mechanism.

History

Vanessa is the protagonist of the game as a beta tester hired to play the The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience. Her voice can only be heard after completing the Curse of Dreadbear DLC. In order to hear it, the player must: Obtain Glitchtrap's plush after collecting 16 Tapes in the basic hub's levels. Obtain the grinning white rabbit mask from the cellar while completing the Afraid of the Dark mode's "Corn Maze" level from the Curse of Dreadbear hub. Back in the main area of the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, the rabbit mask will be found in the Prize Counter. The player must wear the mask and hold the Glitchtrap plush to hear the voice. While holding the plush, Vanny can be heard saying the following: “Yes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.”

Special delivery 1/2

In the unused E-Mails, Vanessa was an employee of Fazbear Funtime Service working as a security guard for the company. After she was contacted by one of the game developers from Silver Parasol Games, after they accidentally created a virus from one of animatronics' PCB. She pretended to be a Senior IT Representative from Fazbear Entertainment to trick them into giving her full access to their company to get rid of the virus. After believing that Vanessa got rid of the virus, Silver Parasol started working on the The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience again, only for for Vanessa to give unauthorized commands to their system, gaining full control over their system. She locked every employee out of their account. It's implied that she got everybody at Silver Parasol's warehouse killed by the animatronics. After receiving an e-mail from Vanessa's fake credential, "_pizzaplex", it is revealed that Vanessa was researching the company's records of the Fazbear Entertainment Floor 3 employee, and that she transferred from Fazbear Funtime to work as a security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach Vanny makes her first physical appearance at just before 1:00 AM during the first power diversion. After Glamrock Freddy is taken to the Recharge Station in the hallway leading to the Superstar Daycare, she will casually skip across the hallway from left to right, heading towards the Superstar Daycare, distorting Glamrock Freddy's vision in the process. Once she leaves, Gregory alerts Glamrock Freddy of what he saw, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually see Vanny despite Gregory being able to do so.

Special delivery 2/2

Later on, at 1:45 AM when [[Vanessa catches Gregory, she stores him in Lost and Found so that his parents or the police can pick him up, talking to him through the monitors once he reawakens at 2:00 AM. After talking to him via said monitors, the screen displaying Vanessa switches to Vanny asking Gregory, "Are you having fun yet?" before she physically appears outside the door to the room. Once there, she waves to Gregory and comes inside to attack him. The player can use a screwdriver given to them via a nearby Wind-Up Gift to escape her. If the player does not escape in time by using the screwdriver on the vent nearby, the player will be unable to escape, causing Vanny to attack the player. However, even after escaping, Vanny will advance by continually roaming the atrium of the Pizzaplex. Whenever Vanny is near, Gregory's vision and hearing will distort. It is unclear if this is due to a special ability of Vanny's or simply just a stylistic design. The possibility of this could be a Animatronic Transmitter Earpiece in her mask that interferes with animatronic optic sensors, allowing her to briskly wander past the other animatronics, as when Gregory asks Glamrock Freddy if he saw her which he replies that he didn't.

Speculation

Vanessa's last name starts with an "A", which has lead to speculation that she could be an Afton.