[ 📄 ] William Afton

Appearance

Afton is a tall, middle aged man with light skin and taupe hair, blue eyes, and a Van Dyke beard. He wears golden vintage aviator eyeglasses, a yellow long-sleeved dress shirt with blue stripes, and either a purple tie with thin blue stripes or a blue tie with white dots.

Personality

William Afton is very calm and calculated individual. Every outcome of every move he makes is thoroughly thought out and determined. He is careful with his murderous rampages and recalls details about them well, as he quickly recognizes Mike Schmidt as the brother of one of his earliest victims, Garrett Schmidt, from their shared last name alone. William is shown to be cunning and plotting, since he keeps this to himself, changing his tone from being abrasive and dismissing, to being congenial and pretending to be helpful in order to convince Mike to take the security job at Freddy's. He later reveals to Mike that he knew all along who he was and that Vanessa was supposed to keep an eye on Mike and kill him if Mike figured this out, to prevent Mike from reporting him to the police. Under the guise of Steve Raglan, he is shown to act relatively normal and casual, offering Mike coffee and occasionally joking about with him, despite Mike not adhering to his humor. William smiles when on the phone with Mike, telling Mike that the owner of Freddy's (himself) is sentimental about the restaurant and does not want it to be torn down, showing that William has a sentimental side pertaining to his work. This is further supported by an employee training video that Mike watches, in which the virtual trainer says that the owner speaks highly of his creations. In this universe, Henry Emily does not seem to exist, as he is never mentioned and William tells the animatronics that he created them. However, he is in truth a sadistic killer and manipulator. He proved quite skilled in it as well. William shows no qualms with using others for his own ends, not his victims nor even his own daughter Vanessa. As in the books, William is shown to use his own daughter for his own selfish gain, without any regard to her safety or emotional well being. William is also shown to be manipulative towards his daughter, using mind games to control her, and as Mike points out when he tells Vanessa, "He (William) messed you up." The manipulation

story

William Afton is a serial killer who primarily abducts and kills children. Early in his murderous career, one of his victims included Garrett Schmidt, the younger brother of Mike Schmidt, who would be haunted by the memory for several years. At some point during the 1980s, he would establish Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, and use it as a front to murder five more children while wearing a yellow rabbit suit, stuffing their corpses inside the restaurant's animatronic mascots to avoid further detection. His daughter, Vanessa, would become traumatized by her father's actions, and eventually the incident caused Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place to be shut down. The current movie does not reveal his motives for doing so, and will likely explain this in potential sequels.