Is the Crying Child Cassidy?

the crying child's name has been found that's right we finally have an answer for a question that has stomped this community for a literal decade and the craziest part of all of it it was solved by a Channel with only one video Matt must be rolling in his retirement grave we'll just see about that hello Internet welcome to Game Theory the show that's happy to let someone else s that for a change since the release of security breach it feels like there's been a massive new wave of FNAF theorizing on YouTube we've seen the rise of people like John FNAF Ry toast ID's fantasy and dozens more all joining us in the good fight to try and solve the infuriating law of this franchise and just over a month ago a new Challenger or should I say Challengers entered the ring the channel dual process Theory and they went big for their first outing making the claim that they'd solved the entirety of FNAF in their very first video and not only were they laying down a timeline for the whole series they also claimed to have a particular mystery that has been bugging us theorists for a long time what is the name of the crying child after nearly 10 years we still just call him the crying child despite the fact that every other character in this franchise seems to get a name Mike Elizabeth Charlie even the missing children got names so why is this kid's name left blank well according to jeel process Theory it's not that he doesn't have a name it's that we just missed it we've had the name all along we've just been giving it to someone else say suggest that the crying child name is Cassidy the name we found all the way back in the word search of the survival log book the same name that for the longest time we have given to the vengeful Spirit from ultimate custom Knight the one afon should not have killed not only that but they claim that the child we thought was Cassidy doesn't even exist for years we've assumed that there are seven dead kids five missing children's incident victims including Cassidy Charlotte Emily the puppet and the nameless crying child but instead they claim that there have only ever been six with the final missing kid and the bite victim being one in the same Cassidy Afton it's a bold claim but when you get into the meat of it their argument is actually quite compelling so I went back to the drawing board and started mapping out the pieces myself to see if I could come to that same conclusion is the crying child actually Cassidy ladies and gentlemen it's hey Tom what you doing oh hey Matt I'm uh kind of in the middle of solving FNAF yeah okay I'm sure you have a theory that changes is everything a clue that we missed kind of yeah perfect well before you fire up the old golden Freddy thumbnail and then slap A Dark Truth on that I've got another puzzle for you to solve ly it's the music based mystery project that I've been working on basically it's what you get if you have Loi girl but you mix in a murder mystery because who hasn't ever wondered that I know but the good news is you don't have to wonder anymore because episode one is finally ready on one level you could just study and relax and sleep to the music that you're listening to then in fact you've been listening to one of the tracks this whole time and there's going to be new music releasing every week on our lfi Spotify Channel but you know what if you want to go level deeper hidden within some of that music and the videos that exist here on YouTube there are Clues pointing at the story of a missing kid a missing kid named Gregory Gregory seriously Matt yeah yeah hear me out hear me out yeah I got nothing I just wanted to meme on the name good news though my Gregory not a robot yeah sure for now I assume you put a link in the description on your way in I did indeed and people should definitely click on it because like I said there's going to be new Secrets waiting to be discovered every week over on Spotify and a new animation dropping roughly once a month month and a half here on YouTube all as we help a new character Taylor solve the deadly game that she accidentally finds herself trapped in do I really have to solve this I kind of got my hands full with all the FNAF stuff coming down the pipeline I was actually just about to do a Morty on Dual process theories Theory oh I remember that one it's a great video but uh you do realize the m in stands for Matt Pat right Matt Pat occasionally reviews theories yo huh didn't think about that say Matt I know you're kind of retired and everything but seeing how dual process theories video was a two person effort and you're already here how' you like to tag team this FNAF Theory I mean it's a little cramped in the recording closet with the two of us but uh sure why not awesome and now I don't have to change the theme song Hit It Yosi leave your theories in the comments below I'll pick my favorites in the next episode of Mor first things first it's probably a good idea that we recap the main evidence points dual process theory has for the crying child being Cassidy their video is nearly 2 hours long after all who has that much time well except for you considering you took over 4 hours to react to it look I'm retired now I've got nothing but time but I think you're right so let's quickly recap starting with the first major Point how we got the name in the survival log book now this book has been a Cornerstone of the FNAF franchise since its release inside we have three separate people speaking to us Michael Afton who writes in red pen a spirit that writes in faded text and a third person that alters the text of the book The Faded text writes the words my name on a number of the pages and on those pages there's always some sort of weird number take all those numbers and turn them into coordinates for the word search and Bam you get the name Cassidy it sounds so simple now but I remember ripping my hair out over this at the same time you were but the key to the whole thing was one very important usage of my name on one of the pages the my name appears on a grave Stone just like the gravestone missing a name from FNAF 6's ending which it should be remembered released around the same time as this book so it seemed pretty darn obvious that these Clues were revealing the name of that final character the fifth missing child which is why for the longest time we've been calling the fifth child Cassidy and this is where dual process Theory throws their first spanner into the works you mean wrench look you chose a British guy to take over this is what you get W yes my name appeared on every page the clues were hiding notice what's on the opposite page of the word search a mirror and under it the spirit leaves a message what do you see well what's on the other page a crying child using altered text in the word search it's me Cassidy God so good it is pretty compelling especially cuz in all honesty the placement of that mirror always felt suspicious to me so I really like them using it for their Theory but if crying child is Cassidy then who else is speaking in the book you need a second Spirit to act as the FedEd text well according to them it's Charlie the puppet doing what she's been trying to do the entire series help the Lost Spirits find themselves and again I got to say I really like that narratively that's really satisfying because it brings together the three main characters from the franchise all in the same place Mike with his red pen crying child Cassidy as the altered text and Charlie guiding the conversation as the ghostly faded text it's cool and it feels complete but is there actual evidence to support this or is it all hypothesis and that's not all dual process Theory weren't just satisfied with crying child having ced's name they went further to suggest that the crying child is Cassidy as in Cassidy is an afon and the fifth missing child on the gravestone and the spirit within golden Freddy the only spirit inside a golden Freddy as opposed to most of our theories where the crying child is one/ half of our best Golden Boy they also have the evidence to back it up the first point is that golden Freddy doesn't speak in plurals when you take a look at the one line we ever get from Golden Freddy what do we see it's me me singular implying that there's only one spirit in there compare that to what we see in the books throughout the series there have only been two in instances of animatronics possessed by multiple people the first is the Stitch wraith from the Fazbear fr's epilogues the second is Rosie pork chop from the Fazbear fright story together forever and while the Stitch wraith isn't able to speak until the second soul is gone Rosie pork chop speaks while still containing both spirits and refers to itself as ladies in waiting it's using plurals showing the two Spirits we're going to come back to that point right yeah don't worry we're going to come back to all of this okay great cuz I have thoughts on that one the second point they bring up is everyone's favorite FNAF 3 classic happiest day this is the final miname where we see the puppet giving cake to the birthday child surrounded by their friends in animatronic masks once the puppet delivers the cake the child stops crying puts on their golden Freddy mask and all the children's Spirits move on well except for Charlie because she's still got to show up in FNAF 6 yeah because nothing can ever just be as it seems with this franchise but there is one thing that I think we can both agree is very straightforward there are only six kids at this party the five children and the puppet if there were supposed to be two Spirits inside golden Freddy why isn't there a seventh kid which ties in perfectly to point number three the glowing eyes at the end of FNAF 3 this one's personal so I'll take it as a reminder if you beat FNAF 3 without doing the happiest day mini game get the game's bad ending this gives us a screen where our four main animatronics each have one glowing eye symbolic of the fact that their Spirits haven't been released yet seems pretty self-explanatory right but then look who we have in the back golden Freddy with not just one glowing eye but two this was always the backbone to the whole two Spirits debate the idea that unlike all the other animatronics who each had one kid's spirit inside of them golden Freddy was different he had two both the innocent crying child Spirit and the vengeful Spirit Cassidy the fifth victim it was a theory that was further supported by the books specifically the Stitch WTH Stingers where we see an animatronic possessed by two Spirits a nice wholesome kid named Jake and an evil angry Spirit named Andrew one who dies in a hospital setting like the crying child and one who dies by a brute murder from afon I mean the parallels are hard to deny however dual process challenges this by calling out the fact that if there were indeed two spirits in the body why then do both eyes go out once you complete happiest day especially since we've believed that the Cassidy Spirit lingers on to torture Afton in ultimate custom night only one light should have gone out to which I have one answer redcon but obviously that's a bit of a cheap explanation if we can avoid it which brings us to duel process's last Point how can the crying child be the fifth missing kid when very CLE clearly he's not missing like he's literally right here in front of a large room of people well they make the assumption that this was all part of William's scheme after the bite of 83 William pulls his child out of the hospital and while experimenting with harvesting Remnant has the bright idea to stuff his son into golden Freddy whoops bad idea will it doesn't work and the spring locks kill him which is why we see golden Freddy twitching in ultimate custom night in the same way William does during the FNAF 3 teaser this mistake devastates him and and in a drunken stuper he lashes out at Henry's daughter Charlie killing her last this then aligns with what we see from the gravestone puzzle in help wanted to to solve it you have to light the gravestones marked by the six dead children in a specific order presumably the order in which they died Chica the first she has seen everything followed by foxy Freddy Bonnie then golden Freddy and finally the puppets later when the police start to investigate the disappearances at the restaurant William claims his child also went missing to throw them off the scent that he may be the killer now while I don't really love the logical jumpster explanation takes there one thing I really do like about the crying child being the fifth missing victim and therefore the only spirit inside golden Freddy is that it really does help clean up the numbers for years five was the magic number in FNAF when it came to dead kids then around FNAF 3 it evolved into six with the inclusion of the puppet and yet FNAF 4 shows us what was presumably a seventh kid dying in the form of the crying child and while help Wana does eventually give us seven Graves and a hidden out of bounds Easter egg it always bug me that there was never a bravestone for him in the FNAF 6 ending I always just assumed that it was because he ended up being different he wasn't a victim of aftons and thus he wasn't included in that final image but if crying child is in fact the fifth kid it helps explain why there was never an additional grave for him because he was always there to begin with he was the one hidden behind the grass they also don't mention this in their Theory but in F 3 look at the Spirit who gets afon spring locked they have tears streaming down their face just like the crying child we never see the other Spirits faces was specifically being shown that this one has tears revealing that this isn't a separate Spirit from the crying child they are one in the same Scott even used the same model in FNAF World specifically for the crying child to be fair tears are everywhere in the series though I mean the puppet is shown crying literally all the time so are we done did they solve FNAF can I retire now too no you still have to solve poppy no and lfi okay and ban B no but secondly well this theory is really satisfying from a narrative standpoint it helps to simplify a lot of the confusing elements that have built up over the years there are a few pieces of evidence that they didn't mention that might poke a few holes in their Theory oh yeah so Tom what's this sound it's a flatline and when does the Flatline happen well a flatline is typically Shand to show that someone has died usually in a hospital exactly and during FNAF 4 we see things like IV bags pills and flowers surrounding the bed all things that you would see in a hospital crying child was in the hospital for his injuries and then we hear a flatline right after Afton says that he's going to put his son back together Aton leaves represented by psychic friend Fred Bear fading away which then leaves crying child alone in the dark he's lost in the darkness he's dead he's alone everything about this cut scene seems to be suggesting that he died in this Hospital could you potentially make the argument that William pulled his son off of life support in the hospital and brought him back to an underground bunker where he's going to do experiments on him until he's able to bring him back to life and and that's why we hear a flatline here sure you could make that argument but it feels really over complicated just for the sake of your theory and even still if he did do all of that there's a room full of people that saw afton's Sun get bit that make it pretty darn hard for Afton to convince anyone that his sun went missing as part of some random Killer's murdering spree there's also that whole speaking in plurals thing I know you had thoughts on yes thank you I brought up earlier the huge number of parallels between the two Spirits inside the Stitch Wraith in the books and the two spirits that are potentially inside of golden Fred in the games now say what you will about book based evidence but the epilogues at the end of these things tend to be very important for storytelling I mean we saw that explicitly with the reveal of the mimic so to focus on this character of the Stitch wraith comprised of two Spirits across 11 books yeah that feels pretty darn important and in The Stingers each spirit inside the Stitch wraith speaks in the first person so it would then make sense for one spirit inside of golden Freddy to say it's me singular it's me the crying child your brother but let's go a level deeper and The Stingers the Stitch wraith is made up of a mix of Parts Andrew the angry one is established to not be able to see because his part forms the body Jake the nice one can see because his spirit is trapped in the head part as such he reports what's happening in the world back to Andrew in the body and what do we see happening in the log book well it's a similar sort of dynamic one Spirit asks what do you see and the other one responds I can't see it's a direct parallel even down to the happiest day mini game there's a point in The Stingers when Jake is given the chance to move on and pass into the Afterlife but he chooses to linger back in order to help Andrew eventually one of them moves on while the other is kept to Earth held back by Afton sound familiar it should it once again parallels a lot of what we're seeing happen with golden Freddy in the games on top of that dual process Theory reminded me of this moment in FF fors mini gamess where the crying child is locked in the back room with a golden Freddy costume they pointed out the toughs of hair coming out of the suit explaining this to be an employee who bled out however in one of our old videos you made the valuable point that this head is just sitting too low in the Torso when adults wear it we see their heads fully out even when they're sitting this is something that is explicitly shown to us in places like the graphic novels which tells us then that the person in the suit here it's got to be a child again we see this in the books in Fazbear frights we have scenes where kids reach into the golden Freddy's suit and see black curly hair sitting inside this is a dead kid a dead kid that we know was put inside of golden Freddy presumably this should be the fifth missing child this is why crying child's fredbear plushy tells him remember what you saw he has literally seen the deaths of other kids huh you ever thought that maybe that's the answer what do you mean well is it possible that the story is actually way simpler than we the FNAF Community have made it out to be I mean look at the scene like really look at the scene it is pretty darn self-explanatory a kid is locked in the storage closet and literal tfts of hair are sticking out of the suit I remember when I first saw this scene I overthought this thing to death assuming that it had to be more than just hair sticking out of the suit maybe they were wires or tfts of suit hair or something like that because this was 1983 and by all accounts it was the first location it was fredbear's Family Diner the beginning of the timeline the missing children's incident didn't happen here it was at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza clearly these Brown pixels had to represent something else but in retrospect the scene is pretty explicit there's a kid dead in the suit done cut and dry remember what you saw you saw a dead kid we as theorists are so often desperate to search for narrative satisfaction we bend over backwards to try and justify timelines where afon is killing kids because of Elizabeth's death or because he's trying to put his son back together and he wants to run experiments to harvest Remnant from other kids but what if he's just a weird sick dude who just started killing kids one day no over complicated backstory required I didn't get to talk about this before leaving the channel but in help wanted to if you light the final gravestones in a very specific order you unlock a huge lore clue in the form of the Bonnie mask this is the moment that basically confirms that we're playing the game as Bonnie bro but the order of the gravestone it feels very intentional they explicitly give us an order of events chica first then foxy Freddy Bonnie golden Freddy 5th puppet last it was really confusing because Charlie dying last didn't make any sort of sense what about this a wound first inflicted on me and yet this gravestone evidence is what the games are telling us it's also kind of what we're seeing in FNAF 4 if that TFT of hair is to be believed and really why wouldn't we believe it that gravestone timeline could probably be right Aton was just killing kids because he could he was a der CH a serial killer man retirement really has taken a toll on you but I also think I see where you're going with this crying child Witnesses the dead kids in the suits and then gets bit by fredbear on the day of his party Aton would be devastated by this promising to put his son back together he'd be furious at his business partner Henry because it was his engineering that did this to his boy then one night an opportunity presented itself Charlie was locked outside by some bullies and so Aton in a fit of rage killed Charlie unlike all the other killings that were premeditated this was a crime of passion and so it broke from all of his usual methods and that allows this new order of deaths that Ste will has given us to make way more sense chica was always the first but not just of the MCI of all the deaths that's why Henry made security puppet in the first place because there were a bunch of kids disappearing from the Pizzeria and Henry wanted to protect his daughter which brings us back to the beginning where did we land with the whole dual process Theory did did they solve FNAF is Cassidy the crying I think the answer is yes but also no there are two sides to this coin right is crying child the fifth missing kid that we've called Cassidy for all these years I'm just not sure it would simplify a lot especially the the three mini games where there's only five kids but then we see a kid already dead inside the golden Freddy suit before crying child even dies and then there's the dozens of people that watch him die and Flatline at the end of FNAF 4 which would make it hard for him to be considered missing let alone considered one of the missing children specifically it's true as much as I like it from a narrative standpoint there's just as much evidence against it as it is supporting it typical FNAF you know well not completely because there's the second side of this question sure crying child might not be the fifth missing child but based on what jeel process Theory presented I think they might be right that crying child's name is Cassidy William Aton a deranged serial killer hiding in plain sight until one day his son Michael decided to play a prank a prank that would kill his youngest son Cassidy afon it has a nice ring to it I've got to admit maybe and I I definitely see it it's just a frustrating Catch 22 you know we either get to have the crying child's name and in the process we lose the established fifth missing kid name or Cassidy is the fifth missing kid and crying child remains his nameless as he ever was I mean the answer's got to be in here somewhere surely the altered text opposite the mirror Returns the spirit's questions with who are you what's your name and with Cassidy not being the fifth missing kid that leaves the my name gravestone clue wide open honestly my money's on the foxy grid we never did solve it and there's ghostly text written at the start maybe we should take another look no no no no there's no we here my friend I did my time with that foxy grid this is all on you man oh well then I guess I better get started it's not like I had a billion other FNAF things to worry about regardless I suppose I should thank you for helping me out with this episode Matt I know lfi has kept you pretty busy oh yeah lfi nearly forgot that I was on here to promote that just got so caught up in the FNAF discussion anyway I should probably get back to working on that the team and I have worked really hard to make this project as great as it can be an episode one just launched today here on YouTube so if you're in need of some chill beats for studying working or sleeping May sure you check out the laifi project over on Spotify we've got new music releases dropping every week or so with Clues hidden inside so make sure you follow us there to listen as soon as they drop but if you want to level up your experience you can always head on over to the YouTube channel and try to piece together the clues to help Taylor solve the mystery surrounding this definitely not a robot kid Gregory we've got new animations coming each month that are full to the brim with that sweet sweet L you just couldn't help yourself could you hey I'm retired I don't get to say it that much anymore true do you know what else you don't get to say much anymore but hey that's just a theory a game theory thanks for watching

the crying child&#39;s name has been found that&#39;s right we finally have an answer for a question that has stomped this community for a literal decade and the craziest part of all of it it was solved by a Channel with only one video Matt must be rolling in his retirement grave we&#39;ll just see about that hello Internet welcome to Game Theory the show that&#39;s happy to let someone else s that for a change since the release of security breach it feels like there&#39;s been a massive new wave of FNAF theorizing on YouTube we&#39;ve seen the rise of people like John FNAF Ry toast ID&#39;s fantasy and dozens more all joining us in the good fight to try and solve the infuriating law of this franchise and just over a month ago a new Challenger or should I say Challengers entered the ring the channel dual process Theory and they went big for their first outing making the claim that they&#39;d solved the entirety of FNAF in their very first video and not only were they laying down a timeline for the whole series they also claimed to have a particular mystery that has been bugging us theorists for a long time what is the name of the crying child after nearly 10 years we still just call him the crying child despite the fact that every other character in this franchise seems to get a name Mike Elizabeth Charlie even the missing children got names so why is this kid&#39;s name left blank well according to jeel process Theory it&#39;s not that he doesn&#39;t have a name it&#39;s that we just missed it we&#39;ve had the name all along we&#39;ve just been giving it to someone else say suggest that the crying child name is Cassidy the name we found all the way back in the word search of the survival log book the same name that for the longest time we have given to the vengeful Spirit from ultimate custom Knight the one afon should not have killed not only that but they claim that the child we thought was Cassidy doesn&#39;t even exist for years we&#39;ve assumed that there are seven dead kids five missing children&#39;s incident victims including Cassidy Charlotte Emily the puppet and the nameless crying child but instead they claim that there have only ever been six with the final missing kid and the bite victim being one in the same Cassidy Afton it&#39;s a bold claim but when you get into the meat of it their argument is actually quite compelling so I went back to the drawing board and started mapping out the pieces myself to see if I could come to that same conclusion is the crying child actually Cassidy ladies and gentlemen it&#39;s hey Tom what you doing oh hey Matt I&#39;m uh kind of in the middle of solving FNAF yeah okay I&#39;m sure you have a theory that changes is everything a clue that we missed kind of yeah perfect well before you fire up the old golden Freddy thumbnail and then slap A Dark Truth on that I&#39;ve got another puzzle for you to solve ly it&#39;s the music based mystery project that I&#39;ve been working on basically it&#39;s what you get if you have Loi girl but you mix in a murder mystery because who hasn&#39;t ever wondered that I know but the good news is you don&#39;t have to wonder anymore because episode one is finally ready on one level you could just study and relax and sleep to the music that you&#39;re listening to then in fact you&#39;ve been listening to one of the tracks this whole time and there&#39;s going to be new music releasing every week on our lfi Spotify Channel but you know what if you want to go level deeper hidden within some of that music and the videos that exist here on YouTube there are Clues pointing at the story of a missing kid a missing kid named Gregory Gregory seriously Matt yeah yeah hear me out hear me out yeah I got nothing I just wanted to meme on the name good news though my Gregory not a robot yeah sure for now I assume you put a link in the description on your way in I did indeed and people should definitely click on it because like I said there&#39;s going to be new Secrets waiting to be discovered every week over on Spotify and a new animation dropping roughly once a month month and a half here on YouTube all as we help a new character Taylor solve the deadly game that she accidentally finds herself trapped in do I really have to solve this I kind of got my hands full with all the FNAF stuff coming down the pipeline I was actually just about to do a Morty on Dual process theories Theory oh I remember that one it&#39;s a great video but uh you do realize the m in stands for Matt Pat right Matt Pat occasionally reviews theories yo huh didn&#39;t think about that say Matt I know you&#39;re kind of retired and everything but seeing how dual process theories video was a two person effort and you&#39;re already here how&#39; you like to tag team this FNAF Theory I mean it&#39;s a little cramped in the recording closet with the two of us but uh sure why not awesome and now I don&#39;t have to change the theme song Hit It Yosi leave your theories in the comments below I&#39;ll pick my favorites in the next episode of Mor first things first it&#39;s probably a good idea that we recap the main evidence points dual process theory has for the crying child being Cassidy their video is nearly 2 hours long after all who has that much time well except for you considering you took over 4 hours to react to it look I&#39;m retired now I&#39;ve got nothing but time but I think you&#39;re right so let&#39;s quickly recap starting with the first major Point how we got the name in the survival log book now this book has been a Cornerstone of the FNAF franchise since its release inside we have three separate people speaking to us Michael Afton who writes in red pen a spirit that writes in faded text and a third person that alters the text of the book The Faded text writes the words my name on a number of the pages and on those pages there&#39;s always some sort of weird number take all those numbers and turn them into coordinates for the word search and Bam you get the name Cassidy it sounds so simple now but I remember ripping my hair out over this at the same time you were but the key to the whole thing was one very important usage of my name on one of the pages the my name appears on a grave Stone just like the gravestone missing a name from FNAF 6&#39;s ending which it should be remembered released around the same time as this book so it seemed pretty darn obvious that these Clues were revealing the name of that final character the fifth missing child which is why for the longest time we&#39;ve been calling the fifth child Cassidy and this is where dual process Theory throws their first spanner into the works you mean wrench look you chose a British guy to take over this is what you get W yes my name appeared on every page the clues were hiding notice what&#39;s on the opposite page of the word search a mirror and under it the spirit leaves a message what do you see well what&#39;s on the other page a crying child using altered text in the word search it&#39;s me Cassidy God so good it is pretty compelling especially cuz in all honesty the placement of that mirror always felt suspicious to me so I really like them using it for their Theory but if crying child is Cassidy then who else is speaking in the book you need a second Spirit to act as the FedEd text well according to them it&#39;s Charlie the puppet doing what she&#39;s been trying to do the entire series help the Lost Spirits find themselves and again I got to say I really like that narratively that&#39;s really satisfying because it brings together the three main characters from the franchise all in the same place Mike with his red pen crying child Cassidy as the altered text and Charlie guiding the conversation as the ghostly faded text it&#39;s cool and it feels complete but is there actual evidence to support this or is it all hypothesis and that&#39;s not all dual process Theory weren&#39;t just satisfied with crying child having ced&#39;s name they went further to suggest that the crying child is Cassidy as in Cassidy is an afon and the fifth missing child on the gravestone and the spirit within golden Freddy the only spirit inside a golden Freddy as opposed to most of our theories where the crying child is one/ half of our best Golden Boy they also have the evidence to back it up the first point is that golden Freddy doesn&#39;t speak in plurals when you take a look at the one line we ever get from Golden Freddy what do we see it&#39;s me me singular implying that there&#39;s only one spirit in there compare that to what we see in the books throughout the series there have only been two in instances of animatronics possessed by multiple people the first is the Stitch wraith from the Fazbear fr&#39;s epilogues the second is Rosie pork chop from the Fazbear fright story together forever and while the Stitch wraith isn&#39;t able to speak until the second soul is gone Rosie pork chop speaks while still containing both spirits and refers to itself as ladies in waiting it&#39;s using plurals showing the two Spirits we&#39;re going to come back to that point right yeah don&#39;t worry we&#39;re going to come back to all of this okay great cuz I have thoughts on that one the second point they bring up is everyone&#39;s favorite FNAF 3 classic happiest day this is the final miname where we see the puppet giving cake to the birthday child surrounded by their friends in animatronic masks once the puppet delivers the cake the child stops crying puts on their golden Freddy mask and all the children&#39;s Spirits move on well except for Charlie because she&#39;s still got to show up in FNAF 6 yeah because nothing can ever just be as it seems with this franchise but there is one thing that I think we can both agree is very straightforward there are only six kids at this party the five children and the puppet if there were supposed to be two Spirits inside golden Freddy why isn&#39;t there a seventh kid which ties in perfectly to point number three the glowing eyes at the end of FNAF 3 this one&#39;s personal so I&#39;ll take it as a reminder if you beat FNAF 3 without doing the happiest day mini game get the game&#39;s bad ending this gives us a screen where our four main animatronics each have one glowing eye symbolic of the fact that their Spirits haven&#39;t been released yet seems pretty self-explanatory right but then look who we have in the back golden Freddy with not just one glowing eye but two this was always the backbone to the whole two Spirits debate the idea that unlike all the other animatronics who each had one kid&#39;s spirit inside of them golden Freddy was different he had two both the innocent crying child Spirit and the vengeful Spirit Cassidy the fifth victim it was a theory that was further supported by the books specifically the Stitch WTH Stingers where we see an animatronic possessed by two Spirits a nice wholesome kid named Jake and an evil angry Spirit named Andrew one who dies in a hospital setting like the crying child and one who dies by a brute murder from afon I mean the parallels are hard to deny however dual process challenges this by calling out the fact that if there were indeed two spirits in the body why then do both eyes go out once you complete happiest day especially since we&#39;ve believed that the Cassidy Spirit lingers on to torture Afton in ultimate custom night only one light should have gone out to which I have one answer redcon but obviously that&#39;s a bit of a cheap explanation if we can avoid it which brings us to duel process&#39;s last Point how can the crying child be the fifth missing kid when very CLE clearly he&#39;s not missing like he&#39;s literally right here in front of a large room of people well they make the assumption that this was all part of William&#39;s scheme after the bite of 83 William pulls his child out of the hospital and while experimenting with harvesting Remnant has the bright idea to stuff his son into golden Freddy whoops bad idea will it doesn&#39;t work and the spring locks kill him which is why we see golden Freddy twitching in ultimate custom night in the same way William does during the FNAF 3 teaser this mistake devastates him and and in a drunken stuper he lashes out at Henry&#39;s daughter Charlie killing her last this then aligns with what we see from the gravestone puzzle in help wanted to to solve it you have to light the gravestones marked by the six dead children in a specific order presumably the order in which they died Chica the first she has seen everything followed by foxy Freddy Bonnie then golden Freddy and finally the puppets later when the police start to investigate the disappearances at the restaurant William claims his child also went missing to throw them off the scent that he may be the killer now while I don&#39;t really love the logical jumpster explanation takes there one thing I really do like about the crying child being the fifth missing victim and therefore the only spirit inside golden Freddy is that it really does help clean up the numbers for years five was the magic number in FNAF when it came to dead kids then around FNAF 3 it evolved into six with the inclusion of the puppet and yet FNAF 4 shows us what was presumably a seventh kid dying in the form of the crying child and while help Wana does eventually give us seven Graves and a hidden out of bounds Easter egg it always bug me that there was never a bravestone for him in the FNAF 6 ending I always just assumed that it was because he ended up being different he wasn&#39;t a victim of aftons and thus he wasn&#39;t included in that final image but if crying child is in fact the fifth kid it helps explain why there was never an additional grave for him because he was always there to begin with he was the one hidden behind the grass they also don&#39;t mention this in their Theory but in F 3 look at the Spirit who gets afon spring locked they have tears streaming down their face just like the crying child we never see the other Spirits faces was specifically being shown that this one has tears revealing that this isn&#39;t a separate Spirit from the crying child they are one in the same Scott even used the same model in FNAF World specifically for the crying child to be fair tears are everywhere in the series though I mean the puppet is shown crying literally all the time so are we done did they solve FNAF can I retire now too no you still have to solve poppy no and lfi okay and ban B no but secondly well this theory is really satisfying from a narrative standpoint it helps to simplify a lot of the confusing elements that have built up over the years there are a few pieces of evidence that they didn&#39;t mention that might poke a few holes in their Theory oh yeah so Tom what&#39;s this sound it&#39;s a flatline and when does the Flatline happen well a flatline is typically Shand to show that someone has died usually in a hospital exactly and during FNAF 4 we see things like IV bags pills and flowers surrounding the bed all things that you would see in a hospital crying child was in the hospital for his injuries and then we hear a flatline right after Afton says that he&#39;s going to put his son back together Aton leaves represented by psychic friend Fred Bear fading away which then leaves crying child alone in the dark he&#39;s lost in the darkness he&#39;s dead he&#39;s alone everything about this cut scene seems to be suggesting that he died in this Hospital could you potentially make the argument that William pulled his son off of life support in the hospital and brought him back to an underground bunker where he&#39;s going to do experiments on him until he&#39;s able to bring him back to life and and that&#39;s why we hear a flatline here sure you could make that argument but it feels really over complicated just for the sake of your theory and even still if he did do all of that there&#39;s a room full of people that saw afton&#39;s Sun get bit that make it pretty darn hard for Afton to convince anyone that his sun went missing as part of some random Killer&#39;s murdering spree there&#39;s also that whole speaking in plurals thing I know you had thoughts on yes thank you I brought up earlier the huge number of parallels between the two Spirits inside the Stitch Wraith in the books and the two spirits that are potentially inside of golden Fred in the games now say what you will about book based evidence but the epilogues at the end of these things tend to be very important for storytelling I mean we saw that explicitly with the reveal of the mimic so to focus on this character of the Stitch wraith comprised of two Spirits across 11 books yeah that feels pretty darn important and in The Stingers each spirit inside the Stitch wraith speaks in the first person so it would then make sense for one spirit inside of golden Freddy to say it&#39;s me singular it&#39;s me the crying child your brother but let&#39;s go a level deeper and The Stingers the Stitch wraith is made up of a mix of Parts Andrew the angry one is established to not be able to see because his part forms the body Jake the nice one can see because his spirit is trapped in the head part as such he reports what&#39;s happening in the world back to Andrew in the body and what do we see happening in the log book well it&#39;s a similar sort of dynamic one Spirit asks what do you see and the other one responds I can&#39;t see it&#39;s a direct parallel even down to the happiest day mini game there&#39;s a point in The Stingers when Jake is given the chance to move on and pass into the Afterlife but he chooses to linger back in order to help Andrew eventually one of them moves on while the other is kept to Earth held back by Afton sound familiar it should it once again parallels a lot of what we&#39;re seeing happen with golden Freddy in the games on top of that dual process Theory reminded me of this moment in FF fors mini gamess where the crying child is locked in the back room with a golden Freddy costume they pointed out the toughs of hair coming out of the suit explaining this to be an employee who bled out however in one of our old videos you made the valuable point that this head is just sitting too low in the Torso when adults wear it we see their heads fully out even when they&#39;re sitting this is something that is explicitly shown to us in places like the graphic novels which tells us then that the person in the suit here it&#39;s got to be a child again we see this in the books in Fazbear frights we have scenes where kids reach into the golden Freddy&#39;s suit and see black curly hair sitting inside this is a dead kid a dead kid that we know was put inside of golden Freddy presumably this should be the fifth missing child this is why crying child&#39;s fredbear plushy tells him remember what you saw he has literally seen the deaths of other kids huh you ever thought that maybe that&#39;s the answer what do you mean well is it possible that the story is actually way simpler than we the FNAF Community have made it out to be I mean look at the scene like really look at the scene it is pretty darn self-explanatory a kid is locked in the storage closet and literal tfts of hair are sticking out of the suit I remember when I first saw this scene I overthought this thing to death assuming that it had to be more than just hair sticking out of the suit maybe they were wires or tfts of suit hair or something like that because this was 1983 and by all accounts it was the first location it was fredbear&#39;s Family Diner the beginning of the timeline the missing children&#39;s incident didn&#39;t happen here it was at Freddy Fazbear&#39;s Pizza clearly these Brown pixels had to represent something else but in retrospect the scene is pretty explicit there&#39;s a kid dead in the suit done cut and dry remember what you saw you saw a dead kid we as theorists are so often desperate to search for narrative satisfaction we bend over backwards to try and justify timelines where afon is killing kids because of Elizabeth&#39;s death or because he&#39;s trying to put his son back together and he wants to run experiments to harvest Remnant from other kids but what if he&#39;s just a weird sick dude who just started killing kids one day no over complicated backstory required I didn&#39;t get to talk about this before leaving the channel but in help wanted to if you light the final gravestones in a very specific order you unlock a huge lore clue in the form of the Bonnie mask this is the moment that basically confirms that we&#39;re playing the game as Bonnie bro but the order of the gravestone it feels very intentional they explicitly give us an order of events chica first then foxy Freddy Bonnie golden Freddy 5th puppet last it was really confusing because Charlie dying last didn&#39;t make any sort of sense what about this a wound first inflicted on me and yet this gravestone evidence is what the games are telling us it&#39;s also kind of what we&#39;re seeing in FNAF 4 if that TFT of hair is to be believed and really why wouldn&#39;t we believe it that gravestone timeline could probably be right Aton was just killing kids because he could he was a der CH a serial killer man retirement really has taken a toll on you but I also think I see where you&#39;re going with this crying child Witnesses the dead kids in the suits and then gets bit by fredbear on the day of his party Aton would be devastated by this promising to put his son back together he&#39;d be furious at his business partner Henry because it was his engineering that did this to his boy then one night an opportunity presented itself Charlie was locked outside by some bullies and so Aton in a fit of rage killed Charlie unlike all the other killings that were premeditated this was a crime of passion and so it broke from all of his usual methods and that allows this new order of deaths that Ste will has given us to make way more sense chica was always the first but not just of the MCI of all the deaths that&#39;s why Henry made security puppet in the first place because there were a bunch of kids disappearing from the Pizzeria and Henry wanted to protect his daughter which brings us back to the beginning where did we land with the whole dual process Theory did did they solve FNAF is Cassidy the crying I think the answer is yes but also no there are two sides to this coin right is crying child the fifth missing kid that we&#39;ve called Cassidy for all these years I&#39;m just not sure it would simplify a lot especially the the three mini games where there&#39;s only five kids but then we see a kid already dead inside the golden Freddy suit before crying child even dies and then there&#39;s the dozens of people that watch him die and Flatline at the end of FNAF 4 which would make it hard for him to be considered missing let alone considered one of the missing children specifically it&#39;s true as much as I like it from a narrative standpoint there&#39;s just as much evidence against it as it is supporting it typical FNAF you know well not completely because there&#39;s the second side of this question sure crying child might not be the fifth missing child but based on what jeel process Theory presented I think they might be right that crying child&#39;s name is Cassidy William Aton a deranged serial killer hiding in plain sight until one day his son Michael decided to play a prank a prank that would kill his youngest son Cassidy afon it has a nice ring to it I&#39;ve got to admit maybe and I I definitely see it it&#39;s just a frustrating Catch 22 you know we either get to have the crying child&#39;s name and in the process we lose the established fifth missing kid name or Cassidy is the fifth missing kid and crying child remains his nameless as he ever was I mean the answer&#39;s got to be in here somewhere surely the altered text opposite the mirror Returns the spirit&#39;s questions with who are you what&#39;s your name and with Cassidy not being the fifth missing kid that leaves the my name gravestone clue wide open honestly my money&#39;s on the foxy grid we never did solve it and there&#39;s ghostly text written at the start maybe we should take another look no no no no there&#39;s no we here my friend I did my time with that foxy grid this is all on you man oh well then I guess I better get started it&#39;s not like I had a billion other FNAF things to worry about regardless I suppose I should thank you for helping me out with this episode Matt I know lfi has kept you pretty busy oh yeah lfi nearly forgot that I was on here to promote that just got so caught up in the FNAF discussion anyway I should probably get back to working on that the team and I have worked really hard to make this project as great as it can be an episode one just launched today here on YouTube so if you&#39;re in need of some chill beats for studying working or sleeping May sure you check out the laifi project over on Spotify we&#39;ve got new music releases dropping every week or so with Clues hidden inside so make sure you follow us there to listen as soon as they drop but if you want to level up your experience you can always head on over to the YouTube channel and try to piece together the clues to help Taylor solve the mystery surrounding this definitely not a robot kid Gregory we&#39;ve got new animations coming each month that are full to the brim with that sweet sweet L you just couldn&#39;t help yourself could you hey I&#39;m retired I don&#39;t get to say it that much anymore true do you know what else you don&#39;t get to say much anymore but hey that&#39;s just a theory a game theory thanks for watching

Transcript for:Is the Crying Child Cassidy?

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Is the Crying Child Cassidy?