my idea for a live-action Five Nights at Freddy's TV show

Yooo so this idea popped up in my head last night after another one of my "walking around the house daydreaming while listening to bombtastic music" sessions.

I already have an AU where the novel version of Charlie Emily, who is intact, survives and joins Vanessa, Gregory, and Glamrock Freddy's found family... Nearly forty years after she "died." It takes place after The Twisted Ones. It parallels the "To Be Beautiful" Fazbear Fright story because Gregory finds her charred, torn body in a random junkyard. A very jarring sight to behold because unlike Eleanor, Charlie looks strikingly like a human... Even though she's missing an arm, her skin is ripped and exposing her endoskeleton in many places, and one of her legs is just pure metal.

Vanessa drives by and takes Charlie's body home, and using her engineering experience, reanimates her. Charlie is like a time capsule because to her it's still fall of 1997, not fall of 2035! Slowly, but surely Charlie comes to her senses, and she starts to realize her situation. This is with the help of Vanessa, Gregory, and Glamrock Freddy. So she basically becomes the older sister to Gregory.

That's the premise of my idea for a live-action TV show. The FNaF movie was super good. Whether it was intentional or not, I felt like it took some weird aspects from the novels. The Freddy Fazbear razor killing machine was just stupid but then again, it's probably not that far off from the machine Henry used to kill himself in the novels. So the TV show would be its own distinct universe, but it would be linked to the games and books, too. Probably show some lore and make the FNaF lore even more jumbled up than it already is.

The first few episodes would consist of Charlie adapting to modern life. It would just feel very slice-of-lifey. There'd be an episode of Vanessa showing her how to drive again. An episode where Gregory doesn't do his homework and he's just a general nuisance. An episode where Charlie bonds with Glamrock Freddy on the common interest that they are both animatronics. Charlie is basically avoiding her feelings because she is terrified of the fact that she is just a robot. She puts all that aside to just enjoy herself for the time being. She's mesmerized by Freddy's existence because he's way more advanced than the animatronics she enjoyed watching nearly fifty years ago.

Season 1 will reach a turning point. Charlie sits down and fully acknowledges what she is... A robot. Who supposedly died many years ago. Charlie "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated" Emily. She's a robotic clone of some child who died. She's reminded of her friends... Carlton, John, Jessica, Lamar, and Marla and her brother, Jason... What had become of them?

Gregory takes up a detective role and uses his tech skills to track the old gang down online. He discovers a few of them still live in Hurricane, Utah... But he also discovers a Charlotte Emily and a Samuel Emily living in someplace in Maryland. The woman in Charlotte Emily's Facebook profile looks exactly like Charlie, right down to the face shape, eyes, freckles... Charlotte and Samuel are twins. He remembers what Charlie had said of her twin brother, Sammy, being kidnapped by a yellow rabbit animatronic. Who could forget that the killer had told her she was the one that was taken instead?

Sorry I'm typing on a whim here lol. This groundbreaking revelation just hovers in the air for a bit - That the original Charlie probably didn't die off after all. For Charlie's own sanity, Greg and Vanessa didn't confront that. She was more focused on reuniting with her friends. Carlton and John are the ones that live in Hurricane.

They first visit Carlton. Charlie simply guided the gang to his house using her memory, and to her relief he was still living in that house. With his parents. He's in his sixties. But he recognizes Charlie. "Hey! Charlie! You don't look a day over eighteen!" He say awkwardly, making light of the situation to mask his absolute terror. Idk this part I have to work over.

Then the gang meets John. I think everyone knew Charlie was a robot at the end of the Twisted Ones? John took that fact the hardest. He had always had something of a crush on Charlie. He grew to like her during their childhood, and fell for her all over again when they reunited a decade later. He had to live with the trauma that the girl he had loved... Was nothing more than a robot. It took many years, but he eventually moved on... Lead his own life.

BTW I'm going to rush this all. John is rather disgusted to meet Charlie again, who is just a robot. The day they meet, though, it is made aware that the original Charlie Emily is still alive... Sooo he basically leaves Utah and flies to Maryland to meet her. Of course, he probably messaged her online a few times before doing so. He just disappears and isn't seen in the show until much later.

Carlton had welcomed the robot Charlie with welcome arms; John had shunned her. Charlie gets depressed due to losing John. The next few episodes just surround her and the main cast. She learns Gregory, Vanessa, and Glamrock Freddy will always have her back and she learns the definition of family. Carlton is also there. They probably try to get in touch with the rest of their old friends. I won't stress on that, though.

The season 1 finale... Charlie finally decides to look more into her backstory. Why was she created in the first place, if the real her and the real her's brother were still alive? So many unanswered questions. The episode ends with a knock on the door. Charlie allows Vanessa to answer it. Last few shots show who the man is. Very tall even when he's hunched, very washed-up. He looks sickly. He has messy dark brown hair, and bright blue eyes. Yep. That man is no other than MICHAEL AFTON. He lets Vanessa know it, too. "I'm MIchael." Season is over.

Season 2. Vanessa is not taking it. Some rando just showed up at her front door. She's questioning him about his intentions. Mike's raising his hands up in defense. "Hey, hey, I'm not a human." Just as he says that, he catches the eyes of Charlie, who is standing some feet away from Vanessa.

"He's right," she muttered, and that's when Vanessa finally let him in. I'm rushing, BTW. Well, she didn't let him stay at the house permanently. Idk how to flesh out Michael in this AU. He is supposed to be the version from the games. The Michael that died in the Silver Eyes Trilogy, Charlie's old friend, still died. He's just completely unrelated to the Aftons. He simply shares Michael's name.

Michael did get scooped by Ennard, and he is possessed mainly by Circus Baby and Elizabeth. Michael does have his own self, though. He basically becomes Peter B. Parker as in he's a lazy middle-aged man who becomes somewhat of a mentor to Charlie. Charlie confides in him a LOT. She learns so much about her past from him. There's a reason why the Aftons were told to stay away from Charlie when she was a kid... Because William/Dave knew she was just a robot and he didn't want his kids to get influenced by her. Certainly not Elizabeth too since he had difficulties with keeping her away from Circus Baby.

If Charlie never died, then who did? In this AU, my OC Rosalia Vargas takes up the Puppet/Live Giver role. Quick description for her: Seventeen years old at death. Third generation Filipina-American. 4'11. ESFJ personality type. Tan skin, long hip-length black hair with bangs, brown eyes. Wore a red sweater, blue jeans, and a golden cross necklace. Catholic. Also was Michael's girlfriend! She helped Michael out especially with his siblings after their mother disappeared. Still, Michael continued to torment Evan. Nothing could predict the Bite of '83? When Mike and his friends shoved Evan into Fredbear's mouth and his frontal lobe got crunched.

I personally believe Elizabeth was the first of the siblings to die but in this AU, Evan was. William was so pissed at what his son did and was filled with rage. Although Rosalia had nothing to do with it, he resented her. So as punishment, he went and murdered her. Mike didn't deserve to be happy. Mike was terrified for his life. He knew William had killed his girlfriend. There was no other explanation for her disappearance. Oh yeah, and Mike and his friends def got sent to juvie for that incident.

So it was just William and Elizabeth at the house for a while. William was forced to take Elizabeth to his work. He was currently working on his Circus Baby Pizza World project, and he just couldn't keep Elizabeth away from Circus Baby. Liz became William's favorite kid. He began to brainwash her and mold her into what he wanted. She was eleven years old and she was quite sadistic. Soon she died by the hands of Circus Baby and she possessed her.

Mike came back from juvie, and he had to adjust to the only child life. He was horrified of his dad. He was placed in a different school and he worked his butt off to graduate. The details are fuzzy here since Henry's been long dead... IDK how to work the other restaurants in yet. But he was sent to the Sister Location to retrieve his sister from Circus Baby's abdomen. That whole plan backfired on him and Ennard made its presence inside his body.

Back to the story. I'll rush again. I know I've said that, like, five different times. The building from the third game still exists. Somehow at the same time as the Pizzaplex. The Pizzaplex is weird with its animatronics, but hey, at least there aren't any dead children inside of them! The souls are all trapped inside that restaurant, which has now been repurposed as a freakshow attraction.

Remember how I said Charlie and Vanessa and co had become a family? Mike sort of took her away from them. She started to spend all his time with him. Gregory hates Mike. Something about him just ain't right. The kid doesn't want to lose Charlie.

Remember John? At some point, he calls Vanessa and has her hand the phone to Charlie. He explains to her that he had met up with Charlotte and Samuel Emily, and that they were interested in meeting with her. Mike was trying to pull Charlie to the FNaF 3 restaurant.

So there's two endings.

1. Charlie goes with Gregory, Vanessa, Glamrock Freddy, and Carlton to Maryland to see Charlotte. Here Charlie finds out that their dad was very manic and scary, and his wife took their kids and disappeared off the face of the earth. She took them to Maryland to raise them on her own. That memory she has of Sammy (Samuel) being taken by William? It's a false memory that was deliberately placed by Henry to add to her realism. Henry died from the killer robot when Charlie was seven. I haven't mentioned Aunt Jen at all. She's dead. Died from old age.

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2. Charlie goes with Mike to the horror attraction restaurant. (Mike has innocent intentions of freeing the souls. Elizabeth wants to take the souls as remnants to revive their father, who's rotting in that Springtrap suit. I should have mentioned that when Elizabeth takes complete control over Mike, his eyes turn green. This parallels Circus Baby having blue eyes before Elizabeth's possession.)

Mike and Charlie perform a ritual to summon the souls, but Springtrap comes right out of nowhere. Cue a huge fighting scene. Elizabeth takes over Mike's body to aid their dad, but Mike had handed Charlie a can of gasoline. She sets the building on fire as well as Springtrap's. That's when the souls all come out. They all wear their respective animatronic mask. Then Charlie meets Rosalia for the first time.

Rosalia and Mike share a meaningful conversation. IDK I'll work on it soon. The other souls leave to the afterlife. "I'll see you there," Rosalia tells Mike, but he goes to hell just like his father does. Charlie just stands there, watching as everything unfolds. Rosalia had also spoken to her, and gave her a warm hug. The building is on fire.

Gregory and Vanessa were just outside. Gregory rushes inside, risking his entire life but he knows just where Charlie is. Screaming, he runs towards her and grabs her arm, and drags her out of the building to safety. She's even more ruined than she was when they first met. Most of her skin had melted off... But she's alive.

I apologize for this being all over the place! But that's my idea!