Five Nights at Freddy's 1

The animatronics in the game Five Nights at Freddy’s used to be able to roam around in the day time, but not anymore due to the Bite of ‘87. Now, they are only allowed to roam around at night.

Within FNAF lore— William Afton, (AKA “The Purple Guy”), killed attending children and stuffed their bodies in the suits. The souls of those children began to possess the suits, becoming hellbent on revenge against the night guard, who killed them initially. Since they don’t know that you’re a different person than the one responsible for their murders, they want to kill you anyway. When the song says they just want to play, it refers to their desire to kill you, as well as actually play at the same time. They are children after all, just spiritually tormented.

The animatronic children have been there for many years and the other night guards where either not there or really bad at there job

“Uh, the animatronic characters here do get a bit quirky at night, but do I blame them? No. If I were forced to sing those same stupid songs for twenty years and I never got a bath? I’d probably be a bit irritable at night too.” – The Phone Guy, Night 1, FNaF 1.

During the Night 1 phone call, the Phone Guy talks about how the animatronics have been forced to sing the same songs for twenty years. The children possessing the suits are also forced to do this because they have been possessing the suits ever since they died in Freddy Fazbear’s.

A murderer disguised himself with an animatronic suit (presumably golden freddy’s suit) and lured kids to the backroom to kill them and stuff them into suits. Since then, Freddy’s Fazbears pizzeria hasn’t been the same.

They have no choice but to stay at their pizzeria for a long time, and because of this, the animatronics, which haven’t been given baths in twenty years, started to decay. The children have also been decaying inside the suits.

Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are trying to tell the night guard that they are not murderous and insane at all and they just want to play with you. Mike Schmidt doesn’t believe them for a second, so the door is getting shut on their faces.

The animatronics are only trying to kill you because they think you’re the murderer of the children, and they’re just trying to protect them, they’re not monsters after all.

This line refers to the fact that Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Golden Freddy, the five antagonists of the original FNaF installment, are possessed by William Afton’s victims.

The poor little children are pissed off and are forced to possess the animatronics in an attempt to find the one that murdered them and bring him to justice.

The animatronics supposedly started going out of control since an incident involving Fredbear, known as “The Bite of ‘87”.

“The Bite of 87” was a fictional incident that occurred in the Five Nights at Freddy’s lore. The incident happened during the events of the second game in the year 1987, and it is explained in detail through mini games in the fourth game.

The incident occurred when an old animatronic suit named Fredbear (not to be mistaken with ‘Golden Freddy’ as many fans and the second game’s custom night have named it) bit into the frontal lobe of a child— rendering him practically brain dead, causing him to have extremely harsh nightmares about the animatronics.

This incident is what led Fredbear’s Family diner to be closed down. Later, the company was bought and reopened as “Freddy Fazbear’s Pizzeria”, (The chain of restaurants you work at in the first game).

If you get murdered in FNaF, you essentially join them by being stuffed mercilessly into an animatronic suit.

The animatronics are basically telling you that you have two choices. You could either

Do it the easy way and let them get into your office and become one of them.

Do it the hard way, stay inside your office, and “defend” against the animatronics.

Despite being referred to as “only” the actual game has two extra nights

There is a double-meaning to the title drop here. Obviously, at face value, Five Night’s at Freddy’s is the name of the game. When put into context with the previous line, however, it becomes a question as to why you would want to spend that much time working at a place so run-down and life-threatening, when the alternative is to quit and leave after the first night.

The Animatronics are quite surprised. They’d figure after one night, you’d leave and never return. Instead, Mike Schmidt is persistent and keeps returning for unknown reasons.

Risking your life for just 120 dollars a week is not worth it at all, any other job would be a lot better.

The animatronics probably confused your face with Purple Guy’s face or someone else’s (which could be why they are attacking you in the first place, as they want revenge on Purple Guy).

They remember the face of their killer. They say this because it is theorized that, after Ennard left Micheal Afton’s body, he was purple and looked just like his dad, William Afton, the murderer.

After three or four nights of staying there, you become acquainted with the office’s features. Mike has figured out every character’s weakness and knows how to defend himself against all of them.