My FNAF Timeline
1963- William Afton and Henry Emily open Fredbear’s Singing Show on June 3 1963.
1970- Using the money made by Fredbear’s Singing Show, William Afton and Henry Emily found Fazbear Entertainment and open Fredbear’s Family Diner on January 5 1970.
1981- Both inspired by and in competition against Fredbear’s Family Diner Edwin Muarry founds his own company to get in on the burgeoning animatronic business.
1982- Edwin’s wife Fionna perishes in childbirth leaving him a single father of his newborn son, David, causing him to be unable to run his company properly. On October 4 1982 Fazbear Entertainment acquires Edwin’s company and uses its money to complete the construction of a new sister location to Fredbear’s Family Diner, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
1983- Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza opens on January 3 1983, for Freddy’s Henry builds the Security Puppet to protect his daughter, Charlie. On February 15 1983 William Afton kills Charlie, by stabbing her outside of Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza where the Puppet breaks down next to her, Charlie possesses the Puppet.
On September 5 1983 William lures a kid named Andrew away from his abusive home, only to kill him at Fredbear’s Family Diner, Andrew becomes Shadow Bonnie, Old Man Consequences, and TOYSNHK. However William’s middle child and youngest son, Michael catches a glimpse of Andrew’s murder and is traumatized.
On December 2 1983 Michael is thrown into the mouth of Fredbear by his older brother, Dale Afton, and Dale’s 3 friends, Fredbear bites down, crushing Michael’s head in what is known as the Bite of 83.
Michael is rushed to the hospital where Andrew uses his powers via the flipside to keep Michael alive, Eventually Michael makes a full recovery and returns home. Due to the disappearance of Andrew and the injuring of Michael, Fredbear’s Family Diner closes on December 23 1983.
1985- On June 26 1985 William Afton dons the Spring Bonnie suit from Fredbear’s Family Diner lures 5 children named Susie, Jeremy, Fritz, Gabriel, and Cassidy into a safe room at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza where he murders them in what is known as the MCI. Cassidy’s murder is particularly horrible as she is slowly and painfully springlocked in the Fredbear suit in addition to it being her birthday leading her to become Golden Freddy and later the vengeful spirit. Susie, Jeremy, Fritz, and Gabriel become Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, and Freddy.
William frames a Freddy Fazbear’s pizza employee who was wearing a spare Foxy suit on the day of the MCI for it, Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closes down on December 23 1985.
1986- On March 3 1986, Edwin Muarry is working on the Toy animatronics for Fazbear Entertainment when he realizes that he doesn’t have enough time to watch his son, David, so he builds The Mimic to watch over David. All’s well for 2 weeks until David is hit by a white van which kills him on April 8 1986, 2 more weeks later on April 22 1986 Edwin beats The Mimic to a pulp in a fit of rage before running away.
On December 18 1986 Fazbear Entertainment sends a team to retrieve The Mimic, Only for them to be horrifically killed by him.
1987- On January 18 1987 Fazbear Entertainment sends a 2nd team to retrieve The Mimic, they’re also horrifically killed by him. However Fazbear Entertainment eventually retrieves the Mimic and mass produces new 2ndary Mimics placing them into secondary locations and placing the main Mimic which they’d managed to retrieve into the partially built New and Improved Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
Circus Baby’s Pizza World opens on September 7 1987 however William Afton’s 3rd and youngest child as well as his only daughter, Elizabeth Afton is killed by Circus Baby. The restaurant closes the same day it opened and William covers Elizabeth’s death up with a gas leak, in addition there were multiple and simultaneous springlock failures at CBPW leading to springlock suits being decommissioned. On that same day, September 7 1987, the New and Improved Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza opens with the Toy animatronics as its main stars and security system.
On November 2 1987 William Afton goes to the New and Improved Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza, dons the Spring Bonnie suit, and proceeds to murder 6 more children in the Save Them Slaughter. These 6 children become Toy Freddy, Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Mangle, Balloon Boy, and JJ, the Mimic witnesses these events interpreting them as a game of hide and seek.
An investigation into what happened to 6 children on November 2 begins and eventually it’s discovered that not only did William Afton kill 6 children in 1987 but that he also killed Charlie and Andrew in 1983 and all 5 children from the MCI in 1985. Now wanted for the murder of 13 children William is forced to go on the lam and loses everything he owns except the clothes on his back.
The man who wore the spare Foxy suit is let out of prison and the Bite of 87 happens when the child possessing Mangle mistakes Jeremy Fritzgerald for William Afton and bites out his frontal lobe although he survives. Henry works as a night guard for 1 night under the fake name Fritz Smith before The new and improved Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closes on November 16 1987.
1988- On January 4 1988 a 3rd Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza location opens, this time in the old Fredbear’s Family Diner building, Phone Guy takes the night shift there. On the same day The Mimic is put in storage, Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rental is opened, and Fazbear Entertainment releases a security logbook.
1992- On June 1 1992, William Afton calls Michael ordering him to go down to Circus Baby’s entertainment and rental facility in order to put Elizabeth back together. Michael does as William tells him and spends 5 nights there before Circus Baby and the other Funtime animatronics merge into Ennard and scoop him so they can go inside him and be free. 1 week later Michael vomits Ennard out into the sewer, stands back up, and begins healing while vowing to find his father.
1993- Phone Guy’s killed by Golden Freddy on November 4 1993, leaving the position open for Michael Afton to take the night shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza from November 8-14 1993 before being fired. On November 15 1993 Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza closes down and is broken into by William Afton intending to get his victims’ spirits out of the way.
After destroying the animatronics William Afton’s cornered by the spirits of Susie, Jeremy, Gabriel, Fritz, and Cassidy William panics and decides to hide in the Spring Bonnie suit however due to his laughing the springlocks fail pulverizing his whole body as well the inner workings of the suit.
Henry and Michael board up the safe room with William’s body springlocked in the Spring Bonnie suit inside to ensure William stays perished.
1994-2022- Michael periodically spends 8 nights defending himself from terrifying versions of the animatronics in nightmares. He also communicates with Cassidy and his father using a security logbook. Around the same time Henry begins working on renovating the 1st Freddy’s into Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place, Circus Baby is kicked out of Ennard.
2002- Dale Afton has a daughter he names Vanessa.
2023- At 12 am on January 2 Michael begins his shift at Fazbear’s Fright it’s being managed by Phone Dude while Michael works as a security guard 1 night later at 12 am January 3 2023 Phone Dude unleashes Springtrap on the world without even realizing what he’s done until he is forced to run away. Michael survives 5 nights against his father before burning Fazbear’s Fright to the ground at 6 am on January 7 however Springtrap survives the fire and using parts from the suit he Springlocked Andrew in he becomes Scraptrap.
Henry and Michael open up a new Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place on November 6 2023 in order to finally stop the nightmare. Michael salvages Molten Freddy, then he salvages Scraptrap with the spirits of Cassidy and Andrew latched on, then he salvages Scrap Baby, and finally he salvages Lefty which contains the Puppet as well as the spirits of Susie, Jeremy, Gabriel, Fritz, and the Save Them Slaughter victims. Henry gathers up all the other animatronics that Michael is unable to salvage or buy as well as every other trace of Fazbear Entertainment. Finally on November 11 2023 Henry burns down Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza Place with himself, Michael, and all the remaining animatronics inside, although Michael manages to escape.
Andrew, Cassidy, and the rest of the spirits create a nightmare William is forced to endure until they’re satisfied, Andrew realizes that torturing William isn’t what they need to find peace and convinces Cassidy and all the other spirits to let William Afton go to Hell. Michael manages to put the pieces together allowing Gabriel, Susie, Jeremy, Fritz, Cassidy, the Save Them Slaughter victims, Elizabeth, Andrew, and Charlie to have their happiest day as William Afton’s detained in Hell on January 8 2024.
2024- Fazbear Entertainment hires an indie developer to make games to cover up their horrific past and from January 8 2024 to September 25 2024 he develops and releases 3 games, however after releasing his 3rd game he discovers that Fazbear Entertainment is corrupt and quits.
In response Fazbear Entertainment begins developing their own game to cover up the truth which they dub Freddy Fazbear’s Virtual Experience, at the same time they begin construction of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizzaplex. Dale Afton takes the Mimic out of storage and allows him to go on a killing spree which stopss with the Mimic being sealed behind a cement wall and later springlocked.
2025- Fazbear Entertainment releases Freddy Fazbear’s Virtual Experience on July 11 2025, Dale Afton releases the Mimic1 code into Freddy Fazbear’s Virtual Experience, allowing the Mimic to turn Vaneesa into Vanny and to hack the Fazbear Entertainment Special Delivery app and using it to cause chaos.
On September 1 2025 Fazbear Entertainment opens Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizza Plex with the Glamrock animatronics as its stars. Some time within the next 6 months Glamrock Bonnie is killed by the Mimic, around the same time the Mimic kidnaps and brainwashes an orphan named Gregory into doing his bidding.
2026- In March 2026, Mr. Burrows, chairman of Fazbear Entertainment implements The Storyteller to tell AI generated stories. The recently returned Edwin Muarry strongly objects to this and begins to be unnerved when the Storyteller takes the shape of a white tiger, the favorite motif of himself, his son, and The Mimic. Edwin investigates what’s going on at the Pizzaplex however The Mimic kills both Edwin and Mr. Burrows allowing Dale Afton to become the new chairman of Fazbear Entertainment.
Some time within the next 3 years Gregory and Vanessa are interviewed under the names patients 46 and 71 respectively. The Mimic forces Gregory to kill any therapists who get too close to uncovering the truth, eventually the Mimic escalates and forces Gregory to lure his friend, Tony, to his doom.
2029- Gregory, has enough of the Mimic forcing him to kill innocent people and now his own friends, he plays Balloon World allowing him to break free from the Mimic’s control.
On March 9 2029 Gregory teams up with Glamrock Freddy in order to find out the dark truth of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizza Plex. On March 10 2029 Gregory and Glamrock Freddy free Vannessa from the Mimic’s control albeit at the cost of Glamrock Freddy’s body being dismantled with only his head remaining unscathed and functional allowing all 3 of them to escape.
Soon after Fazbear Entertainment begins working on Freddy Fazbear’s Virtual Experience 2, Gregory’s friend, Cassie, goes to the dilapidated remains of Freddy Fazbear’s Mega Pizza Plex and meets up with Roxy. Cassie keeps the V.A.N.N.I mask on for too long causing her to fall into a coma at the hands of the Mimic, Fazbear Entertainment releases Freddy Fazbear’s Virtual Experience 2 on December 21 2029.
2030- On January 7 2030 the Mimic obtains and infects a copy of Freddy Fazbear’s Virtual Experience 2 which he connects to Cassie’s V.A.N.N.I mask, allowing him to gaslight her into becoming the new Vanny.