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William Afton was a businessman, entrepreneur, and robotics engineer who founded Afton Robotics, LLC and co-founded Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. He was married to an unnamed wife and had three children: his eldest son Michael, his only daughter Elizabeth, and his youngest son, who was not named.
At some point before 1983, William met Henry Emily, and the two became close colleagues. Around 1982, they opened their first location together, Fredbear's Family Diner. In 1983, they opened a second location, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. William murdered Henry's daughter, Charlotte Emily, outside the establishment for reasons that remain unclear. Not long after, William's youngest son was accidentally killed by Michael, who shoved him into Fredbear's mouth during a prank, crushing his skull. This led to Fredbear's closing and may have deepened William's resentment toward Michael.
On June 26, 1985, William killed five children—Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie, Fritz, and Cassidy—at Freddy's while wearing a Spring Bonnie costume to gain their trust. He was caught on camera and arrested, but the bodies were never found, and he was released due to lack of evidence. The children's spirits later possessed the animatronics: Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Golden Freddy, with help from the Puppet, who was possessed by Charlie. The spirits became hostile toward adults, causing the animatronics to attack anyone in the building after dark. Customers began noticing blood and mucus seeping from the animatronics, leading to the restaurant's closure and the company being sold.
After Freddy's closed, William opened Circus Baby's Pizza World with a new line of animatronics called the Funtime Animatronics. One of them, Circus Baby, was designed in honor of Elizabeth. However, William did not build these robots for entertainment; he intended them to capture and kill children in order to extract Remnant, a supernatural substance he discovered from the haunted animatronics. Elizabeth was warned to stay away from Baby, but she disobeyed and was killed. The pizzeria's grand opening was canceled, and the incident was covered up as a gas leak.
William then opened Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which allowed customers to rent the Funtime Animatronics for private events. He later sold the rights to Fazbear Entertainment. At some point, he sent Michael into the facility to free Elizabeth's spirit, which was possessing Baby.
In 1987, William, using a new alias, killed five more children at the New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza location. Their spirits are implied to haunt the Toy Animatronics, though these children are never mentioned again. William vanished once more.
In the early to mid-90s, William returned to the abandoned Freddy's location to dismantle the original animatronics. However, he awoke the spirits of the five children he had killed, and they pursued him. He fled into the safe room, where Spring Bonnie was stored, and put on the suit to hide. Believing he had fooled them, he laughed at the ghosts, but the springlock mechanisms failed, causing the suit to snap shut around him and mutilate his body. He died a slow, agonizing death and remained trapped in the suit.
Thirty years later, Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction was built as a tribute to the franchise's infamous history. Employees discovered the Spring Bonnie suit in the old safe room and brought it to the attraction. William's corpse was reanimated inside the suit, allowing him to return as Springtrap. He stalked the night guard for less than a week before the building burned down.
Springtrap survived the fire, as shown in the Sister Location cutscene. His fate was later revealed in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator: he left the ruins of Fazbear's Fright and repaired himself, becoming Scraptrap. He was eventually salvaged and brought into Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, where Henry set the building on fire as part of his plan for revenge. Most of the souls were laid to rest, but two remained: William and the vengeful spirit of Golden Freddy, Cassidy.
Cassidy refused to let William die and trapped him in a nightmare construct of his past, where he was tortured by apparitions of his victims and creations.
William later escaped and returned as a digital virus known as Glitchtrap. When the developers of the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience scanned Scraptrap's circuit boards, William's consciousness was uploaded into the game. He invaded the mind of a beta tester and brainwashed her into carrying out his work at the Mega Pizzaplex.
Residing in the ruins of the old pizzeria beneath the Mega Pizzaplex, William transferred his soul into his original, burned body, which Vanny had repaired and modified. He became Burntrap and attempted to take control of Glamrock Freddy through security monitors. He also sent Glamrock Chica, Roxanne Wolf, and Montgomery Gator to kill Gregory. Gregory reactivated the burning room trap that Henry had used before, and as William tried to escape, a massive animatronic amalgamation known as The Blob grabbed him and dragged him into the ceiling. His current fate remains unknown.
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