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I want an Isekai but from the perspective of the people left behind, which might sound odd but let me set the scene.
It starts with generic anime high schooler (Shinobu) getting ready for the first day of school after summer (either year two or three). On the way they start talking about how their friend (Hikaru) and the rest of the club they were in went missing right before summer, and stuff like the realities of life they've learned from it. Shinobu meets up with a couple friends on the way and when they get to the school gate they say school won’t be the same without their dear friend, but then...
BOOM!, huge flash of energy, just needlessly over the top entrance.
The club returns in full adventuring gear with all the fantasy classes present , all using magic and stuff, along with an elf or something that wanted to see their world, and to top it off Hikaru as the hero of that world. There's a huge freak out, everyone has to figure out what to do, like do they just go back to school?, how do they deal with a magical world that people can just piss off to?
Guys, I had this dumb hypothesis at 5:00 a.m.
FNAF is just Vaporwave: The Video Game Series.
Hear me out.
Vaporwave may be known for its weird environments and use of pop culture/products from the 1970s-2000s, but it has a satirical edge. Vaporwave often focuses on motifs of soullessness and false grandeur to poke fun at capitalism and consumerism.
What about FNAF?
The weirdness has always been there with the hallucinations/Easter eggs (Golden Freddy, secret death screens, etc.), even if the environments aside from the Pizzaplex don't lean too hard into the 80s aesthetic. The characters do, though. ShowBiz Pizza Place, which operated between 1980 and 1992, was known for featuring a group of animatronic animal characters. Chuck E. Cheese's Pizza Time Theatre followed suit in 1981. The FNAF crew may not be entirely realistic, but their theme fits right into this relic of the 80s.
Then there's Fazbear Entertainment. Fazbear Entertainment was greedy from the start, paying Mike minimum wage to fight for his life with limited electricity and no access to the restrooms. Help Wanted kicks it up a notch by having the company actively try to cover up the murders that have happened at their restaurants, and Security Breach bumps it up to cartoonish levels. VIP-only fire escape? Needing a pass to enter the building, then one to enter the atrium, then one to visit one of the attractions? Only selling Faz Cams in Monty Golf, where flash photography is banned, just so you can confiscate them and sell them again? Fazbear Entertainment might just be run by Mammon.
Let's not forget about the soullessness and false grandeur. The FNAF 2 location, for example, looks all shiny and kid-friendly, but the employees can't even be bothered to fix Mangle anymore. Some people believe that the bodies from the SAVE THEM minigame may be hidden just out of view of the cameras, too. FNAF 3? Fazbear's Fright capitalizes on the rumors of the murders and hauntings instead of treating the matter with respect. Sister Location? Shiny and futuristic animatronics, but there isn't even a pizzeria. It's just a dark, empty warehouse. Security Breach? The Pizzaplex is basically a monument to Fazbear Entertainment's properties and profits--four stories of neon lights and wall-to-wall Freddy Fazbear. There's also a room perpetually on fire, a slew of generic S.T.A.F.F. bots in place of actual employees, and a mountain of forever-ignored complaints. They aren't hiding anything. They're too rich to care.
In short, FNAF features strange imagery and characters reminiscent of 80s pop culture. It also heavily criticizes corporatism through its story and darker humor. If that isn't vaporwave, then...well...it isn't vaporwave. I just kinda wasted my time. But this was still fun to pick apart.
I've been practicing Among Us for an upcoming club meeting, and it spiraled into me making some FNAF character crewmate beans.
As a special challenge, I stuck with preexisting cosmetics and made sure everyone got a unique color. In order, they are:
Freddy, Bonnie, Chica
Foxy, Golden Freddy, Toy Freddy
Toy Bonnie, Toy Chica, Mangle
Balloon Boy, Puppet, Springtrap
Picturing Beelzebub being cute and sweet as he follows MC around the school, and whenever they lose something like a little eraser or a pencil he can’t stop himself from holding onto it and keeping it for himself.
Beel getting silent and angry whenever the other brothers find the odd stash of stuff he’s saved from MC and simply demanding they leave his stuff and his room alone, unless they want a big mess started.
No one used to the lovable giant demon making such serious statements, so they leave him be, and don’t dig too much deeper. It’s just some trinkets he’s collected! It’s cute! It’s not harming anyone!
Except if they looked even deeper into his room they would’ve found more disturbing things. Such as pictures he’s taken of MC while asleep or some random demons with their faces crossed out, names on a sheet of paper that have been marked out and scribbled over.
Very disturbing behavior indeed. As time goes on the brothers even notice Beel growling under his breath in class at anyone who goes up to MC, and that students keep their distance from him rather than try to befriend him like they used too.
Anyway-just a dumb imagine. Feel free to add to it or tell me what you think !
-Mommabean
So, here is a bad idea. A.sales tax coin. Each of these coins is worth a dollar's worth of sales tax, whatever the local amount happens to be. This seems like a terrible idea.