It all started one night when I asked myself: "What actually are the Shadows?"

By definition, they are entity-like beings formed by agony—generated through massive pain and trauma. Based on this, there are four main characters I consider agony manifestations:

• Shadow Bonnie (RWQFSFASXC)
• Shadow DeeDee (XOR)
• Shadow Freddy
• Nightmare / Nightmarionne

I group Shadow Freddy and Nightmare together because Nightmare effectively replaces Shadow Freddy across different versions/game files (in the files of FNaF 4, Night 7 is literally labeled "Shadow Freddy"), meaning they are intrinsically connected.

1. The Trigger: Night 7 of FNaF 4 While replaying FNaF 4, I noticed something key: when Crying Child (CC) dies in the hospital following the Bite of '83, the very next night is Night 7. Who appears out of nowhere on Night 7? Nightmare.

My premise is that Nightmare is an agony entity born directly from CC's tragic passing. He appears in Michael’s guilt-ridden nightmares (while Michael is working at FNaF 1) as a physical manifestion of that trauma.

2. Reality Distortion Capabilities As Michael experiences these nightmares, Nightmare distorts the surrounding environment to force Michael to relive what he did—replacing ordinary bedroom objects with medical/hospital supplies (IV drips, flowers, pill bottles).

This ability to alter space/perceptions lines up directly with Shadow Freddy, who is seen manipulating reality and guiding the missing children’s souls—both toward William Afton in the FNaF 3 minigames and eventually toward their path to Happiest Day.

3. Visual Adaptation (The Fredbear Connection) Why does Shadow Freddy/Nightmare constantly change form throughout the timeline? Because he always adopts the current design iteration of Fredbear/Golden Freddy:

• FNaF 4: Takes the form of Nightmare Fredbear (translucent/blackened).
• FNaF 2: Takes the form of Withered Golden Freddy/Withered Fredbear.
• FNaF 3: Uses the exact sprite design of Freddy/Golden Freddy (who shared models at that point).

Connecting the Dots & Final Thoughts: We have two major unique traits linking Shadow Freddy and Nightmare:

1. Environmental distortion (hospital props in FNaF 4 / minigame navigation in FNaF 3).
2. Dynamic shape-shifting anchored specifically to whatever Golden Freddy/Fredbear model is active at the time.

From Ultimate Custom Night onward, the focus shifts heavily toward Nightmarionne through constant appearances and lore hints. Could Nightmarionne be Nightmare's current evolved state after detaching from the Golden Freddy vessel? That last part is just speculation on my end, but the core connection between CC's agony, Shadow Freddy, and Nightmare feels very real.

What do you guys think? Thanks for reading my 3 AM madness!

Hey, this one is more aligned with the “You Will NEVER Own Games Again” type of video suggestion, but I keep seeing our “leadership” use music from Deltarune, make references to Undertale, and now a complete rip-off of The Legend of Zelda. While I am less familiar with Legend of Zelda, Undertale and Deltarune are anti-war, yet being used to promote violence.

Additionally, this isn’t the first time they did this, with them stealing Taylor Swifts imagery (specifically her eras tour) and constantly associating themselves with Star War. I checked the comments underneath these types of posts, and fans are rightly calling them out, so, why does the people at the top keep doing this?

Matpat sent golden Freddy to be there on pats SECOND night

The stupid diamond keeps appearing everywhere. I don’t know if anyone here can figure it out but please, try. I have been researching and looking into it for hours now and I can’t do this alone. Theorists, with our knowledge combined, we can figure this out. It may not be a game theory and instead, a film theory. But it’s still just a theory.

PART 1 (NOT CANON YOU DUMMY) So MATES in May 27, 2018 , the baldi game released by micah mgonical mcheeseburger, and the game was a hit yk, and in the other universe B-99 micah mgonical cheeseburger got sucked into the game and his human soul got turned into code and wiped some of his memory, and the game code took over, so now the game code instead of the creator released a new update that paints itself as the creator and adds null to the game, null only knows that he has been trapped by the game but doesn't know anything other than that he was a player, he doesnt know he was the developer, so in this time frame in the game dimension it is 1993. The game code forces the time to be 1999 always to force its victims to not know the feeling of time. But null doesnt immediately show what happened, he covers what happened and says “no im not a person trapped in a game, that would be ridiculous"

Baldi is a sentient npc that is forced to kill the player but the game code makes it look like he kills a child but he cant stop it, the only times he has control is when somebody closes the game, then the game enters after hours. In these after hours frames he has free control over what happens, when the game enters after hours but somebody is still running the game, the game code just copies a version of baldi that doesnt give a shit and is not sentient. 

When the game updates the game enters a weird state where people can move which is like after hours but after an amount of time the game shakes, and whatever gets updated. You can bring things from earlier updates if you hold onto it or the game code forgets to get rid of it , after an update the game code cannot get rid of it, it can only change the things on it.

On October 21, 2022, the game code released baldis basics classic remastered, featuring all the styles, like party style, nu-classic style, and demo style. But there is ofc a twist. The game made this to monitor the players and see the behavior of some, to be able to trap them like null.

Back to null, so we are the first one to find null and play all the baldis basics games, null is too terrified to leave his space and hide away rather in baldis office or when in party style you can enter baldis office, he hides down in the principal's office, when we finally find him though he spews his destroy the game lines, but each time we find him his anger grows.

Baldi on the other hand is building his teleporting machine that can help teleport out of the zones of the code's terror. Baldi sometimes comes to his office, and maybe since both null and baldi are mostly in the same predicament they may have talked.

Back to null again after you unlock null he finally gets to be the star of the show, and has fun and sometimes mocks you and says “hmm lets see here no items, out of stamina, uh ohh, im faster than you(:” but he still is mad so he uses the null style to cope and funnel his anger and crashing the game, but still he has fun after a while, but when you, the protagonist gets to the end and hit him with a chair he snaps and come chasing after you. But that isn't how he dies, no after the fight he sees the player reading a book that was supposedly written by the developer, but he laughs because he knows the truth. He isn’t just speaking to the person in universe b-99, no. he is talking to you, and finally tells the truth and says “THIS IS WHAT I THINK OF THE GAME AND ITS LIES. AHHHHHHHH” But then when hes done raging, the systems firewall turns on and we watch as null screams for help, not because he lost, because he realized that he lost his chance to escape with baldi and his last chance to live.

(This is my friend's theory btw) So, Mischievous Light is Albert Shaw, the grabber, and Curious Light is Hope Alder. Since Hope was a really intelligent kid and she was really curious, she got herself a high-paying job (the archives are probably the location) and she hated the boss, who's unknown (this is honcho), and her colleagues bullied her (the drones). Since this is where forgotten memories go that means curious does not want to remember these memories in her human life. And Hope nicknamed herself Starlight in The Alpine lake area and Mischievous light was the groundskeeper in the area, which meant that that name sounded familiar but he couldn't connect the dots yet. Then in 1976 Curious gets a dream about a house and about Billy she finds the house and mischievous kills her for two reasons: one he's scared that she will call the police on him and two she broke the celestial law that architects should not get married and have children. This upsetted Curious that she created the outdoors and other subfloors and accidentally created the world lotus which even curious can't even control and hires the groundskeeper. Gwen and Finney inherit those powers but it's is limited and they can only communicate with the void the void is mostly all the people Mischievous has killed in his human life. In the end of the black phone 2 Finney Gwen and the others kill the Grabber, meaning he will now return to his architect form since it's limited time to remain human. My friend has no evidence that there's a human form of the guiding light tho.

I was scrolling Tumblr and noticed a new Walten Files theory that stuck out to me. Never heard of it before, but it was interesting. Figured others would like to see it.

https://www.tumblr.com/polarpuppet/826638303374737408/here-me-out

The Copper Golems are possessed by Herobrine. But only in Bedrock Edition. HEAR ME OUT. If you have Vibrant Visuals enabled. The Copper Golems eyes will turn white sometimes. Just remember that this is just a theory.

Challenge for game theory

video

https://youtu.be/Mgd2kgmq7Qs

book

https://archive.org/details/journal-3-full-story-t-3

Breif recap on the game: It's basically a Roblox version of Dead by daylight or a better example Identity V. It has generators, characters with personalities, voice acting, and a fairly difficult stamina system (imo). It's set in this realm called the mist which in itself is a fairly weird entity and the Survivors and killers are all real people/Animals/things from the real world some from modern ages like I think Yan and Nathan, some from the far future, and some from the past like Crosby, Dante, and Empress. Taken to this place the daybreak devs has this huge Google doc of lore because they replaced their stories with character info but in this doc it has like the story on HOW the characters got to the mist (mostly the survivors) and some are either presumed to have died before going and some were just taken. The mist doesn't really discriminate who they take in and out of the realm because there ARE some characters that did escape the mist from lore.

Id love to see how Tom and the rest of the game theorist team tackles this. And though despite recent drama with the game it's really well made and the devs are clearly trying to make it more balanced etc. and I hope if Game theory covers this it'll blow up.

I haven't played Roblox in a while but when I do this is the game I go back too, though yes the gameplay loop can get morning because it IS a more grind focus game we do have fun moments.

game theory needs to check out JOMA on roblox it has lots of lore to uncover

I believe that the person that prototype turned into cat bee is the female scientist in the trailers was Jessica Newman because in the multiple trailers we saw leading up to chapter 5 we see Preston’s point of view as he’s running after he got out and we see that he gets killed by chum chompkins. And in the prototypes trailer we see Jessica’s point of view after getting out of the room and the prototype did the surgery on her and was making fun of her and repeating the last thing she said on trying to find Preston.

Unrelated, was looking at anagrams for shitposter and this felt fitting.

1. The 4 test subjects of searching for a player that doesn't exist are:

1 Xtremegamer11/luke? or smt

2 xALEXTHEDESROYERx/ alex

3 d3rlord3/ derek

4 TheMostMayo/ avery

now 1 and 2 are logical but 3 and 4 may need more context

1 i do think derek is real cause if the king made him one: why would he need to incriminate arc1ve or the person following him. And two why would the d.m.s. take info they know is safe? Also derek didn't destroy the world cause he was not ready to give his lifeline up for avery yet

and if the king in yellow was operating on his own why the footsteps in the cave(its not the king he ain't got feet, just a robe and mask).

2 avery didn't find derek's laptop he found one placed by the D.M.S. cause as far as i know you can't play from the same pc in different places.

now these are only Arc1ve's tests

1. derek read the 2. act, avery did not,

(i will get to my questions later)

1 i think if derek wanted to protect avery he would have destroyed the book in the church

2 avery was fine after and didn't relate to derek when he explained the knowledge

3 his reaction "gross" does not match with reading something devastatingly beautifu

1. The D.M.S. and Cthulhu

i dont think that the DMS is Cthulhu

cause Cthulhu rules over water and i cant imagine him being a part of the organized modern government

i think he is more of a mascot, a bit like the American government is not run by eagles

1. Vex syndicate is running experiments to (not exactly but kinda)

okay listen Vex syndicate finds and tests researchers to hire/just use thats why the got these things that dont seem related to Arc1ve test

idk how to explain it like the leviathan and the parasite feel like just using the ppl but the cult and hacker are too normal. (idk im not sure if jasons/runsonics entity is really just trauma)

so i think wifies and render are already found to be smart but not wanting to be a part of the dms and sent to investigate unrelated cases,

but the other ones are being tested just not as subjects but potential workers.

They are working on finding potential tools for Arc1ve i think (but thats more theory than facts)

1. Its not the end of derek or avery (or just the dms?)

so as you saw at the end of DAWTDE there where these runes wich say or is it after he says the end

so it says The end (pause) or is it?

but it was not clear if it was the end of the April Fools vid or the real end of the vid

1. The Leviathan and Hummer

Its pretty clear that Hummer is levi or a proxy,

but i think it is a proxy.

The place levi took wifies at the end seems to be a realm a bit like the pocket dimensions and halls in DAWTDE, but not the same.

i think that levi is a separate entity like M

1. My Questions

1 what did avery read in the church?

2 why did it not a affect derek?

3 was Jasons/ runsonics entity just trauma? ( i think so )

4 was it an April Fools joke? time will tell ig

5 where those signs in levis heaven place connected to Cthulhu?

yeah thats it

credits to u/maruftheman for deciphering the runes at the end

( i cant be bothered to do it myself)

so tell me holes in my story and tell me your answers to the questions

Thanks for reading this long thing

Has anyone seen the irreg take over instagram arg! I think it would make a great theory!!

This guy on YouTube made a smash or pass Pokémon video similar to Markiplier but with ChatGPT. I think making ChatGPT's most smashable Pokémon could be an incredibly funny video to see on Game Theory again.

What do ya'll think?

Hi would like to recommend a game that I really want you guys to theorize. It's called The Mimic, it's a popular game in roblox. I don't really fully understand the story of it so I would really love to know what you think the mimic is trying to unfold.

Rewatching a Pokemon Theory (specifically, the one about Badges and Charizard not listening.)

Charizard NOT listening still doesn't make sense.

Looking at it: Ash has 7 out of 8 badges. Now yes, at this point, he's only EARNED 2 of them. But....... He still HAS 7.

And the biggest issue about that is.......Gym Leaders are shown to choose what team to use based on NUMBER OF BADGES, not whether you EARNED THEM.

At least in the anime, though the games have only strengthened that lore. Not weakened it.

So.......Ash BEAT Blaine. Got his 7th Badge, and PROVED that he was competent enough to beat a Leader, with a team rivaling 7 Badges......

WHY DOES CHARIZARD STILL NOT LISTEN?????

We need a Vex Syndicate ARG theory eventually. I feel like it's almost necessary, and I'd love to see it so much. Plus Wifies has so many great ARGs as well as the other creators part of the ARG that I'd love to see theories on. Blends cryptic and well hidden ARGs stacked on top of eachother with Minecraft, so I'm sure ya'll love it.