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Lol I actually love In The Flesh. The absolute NERVE of Scott Cawthon to make mpreg canon in FNAF is baffling, amazing, stupid, brave, disheartening, infuriating, and hilarious all at the same time!

Markiplier crying in the corner whenever there is FNAF gameplay on screen is my favourite LSMark long running joke

My favorite part about the Charlie Trilogy is the fact that, while the “Charlie was a robot” reveal _seems_ like something the writers came up with between books 2 and 3 as a way to resolve an unsolvable cliffhanger, rereading them makes it clear that that twist- or something like it- was planned the whole time. There are tons of moments from the first two books that hint towards it: Charlie saying that it feels like her early childhood memories belong to someone else; the unexplained markings on her dad’s workshop floor that turn out to be where the camera that recorded her “memories” was mounted; William looking shocked and describing Charlie as someTHING special (rather than someONE special) when he first gets a good look at her; the fake blood found at the scene of William’s “death” (which can’t be his doing since he really did bleed from the springlocks)… the list goes on. The reveal may not make perfect sense logically, but it was absolutely prepared in advance.

This hammers home my belief that FNAF should've never tried to directly cater to a children's audience despite revolving around child murder. You can tell that so many of the authors and artists wanted to create something that wouldn't just be scary, but genuinely unsettling. I think that's why so many of the body horror stories involve being killed from the inside, it's because they can't show overt gore. I just wanted to hear more about cyborg body horror.

William Afton in the Games: Silent bloodthirsty killer William Afton in the books: Eloquent Edgy Knock-off Joker

I absolutely adore the Springtrap Mpreg story purely for two reasons: 1) It's the only one I remember without prompting prior to this video 2) Matpat was forced to talk about it as evidence for one of his FNAF theories which is incredibly hilarious to me Edit: It's in the video "3 New FNAF Security Breach Theories" for those curious, cheers to Vivian in my replies for finding it

If you told me the first Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel art was done by someone they hired off wikihow I'd believe you. It's uncanny.

mark not knowing that free audiobooks is super illegal is probably the funniest thing about this video. but i really hope he can get the audiobooks published that sounds hilarious

Now LS Mark knows the pain Matpat has to go through reading all of these books.

I’ve seen matpat analyze the lore, but it’s cool to see someone actually analyze the stories as, y’know, stories.

I think the angel one could have been improved if instead of Angel eating the gum drop. The step-sister eats it in front of Angel to tease her during an argument after the party. The story then changes to the perspective of the sister who notices a strange rash on her skin the day after. Thinking that angel might know something about this since Angel is a fan of fazbear (maybe it's revealed in her thoughts that she only wanted a party there to spite Angel), she demands that Angel helps her. Angel seemingly agrees to help her and suggests that they go check the restaurant to find out the ingredients of the candy. The sister notices that Angel is acting strangely more complaint, but passes it off as Angel finally "understanding her place". This however is just a rouse as Angel ditches her while they were inside of fazbears, and she proceeds to get lost and she gets put into a box. The POV Then switches to Angel a few months later, at her birthday party at Fazbears, her stepfather now treating her better with the disappearance of his daughter leaving him with no one to spoil but Angel. The giant gummy candy lady is then presented and it shares a faint semblance to the step-sister. When Angel receives the gumdrop, she proceeds to give it to her step father as a thank you gift for the party. "Oh Thank you for the gumdrop, Angel" the father says before ploping the candy into his mouth.

There's a single thing on Twisted Ones that makes me love it: on the Brazilian Version, they decide to name him not Springtrap, not translate his name...they named him "Spring Man". FUCKING SPRING MAN

RIP to the editor for being subjected to the knowledge of what Mpreg was. Also, the Into The Pit graphic novel adaptation looks like a wiki-how article.

The stuff Mark does for his viewers is slowly becoming more and more insane

Real quick I want to mention how the the fnaf wiki talks about Step Closer by mentioning how Foxy’s curse had the magical ability to sign people up as organ donors which is the funniest way to describe it

So I'm not sure how the discs work... But if a deaf person would come in contact with the animatronics would they be affected by them? I think this is quite an interesting concept to explore as long as it doesn't affect them.

He really has become the nostalgia critic he does stuff so we don't have to

Body horror has always been a concept that's made me uncomfortable, especially in scenarios like "To be beautiful", the panel that you showed of the main character looking down at her stolen legs kind of made my skin crawl, but "it's a boy" just straight up made me laugh by how ridiculous it was.

I am not kidding when I say that Springtrap in The Twisted Ones has very nearly the same backstory as Flowey from Undertale. Also the novel trilogy as a whole, but primarily The Fourth Closet, has a startlingly large number of similarities to The Swan Princess

Damn, that third book has way more interesting ideas than I could ever have expected. Literally, if just a few terms were switched, it would go from supernatural to AI/transhumanist philosophical exploration. It’s still horror either way, I just didn’t expect it to go there from murderous chuck e cheese.

In the Flesh is my favorite story for 2 solid reasons. 1: Nearly pissed myself laughing once I realized where it was going and when it happened. 2: It the only time I get to say the line "Springtrap knocks a dude up!' and NOT be referring to anything fan related.

Author of 12+ years here! There's actually two ways people get NYT Best Sellers: The first is to sell 10,000 to 50,000 copies in the first week of the book being released and the second is to have a good publisher/agent who can pay for you to be put on the Best Sellers List. There's also fudging the reported numbers to get on, but the sole book that's known to do that *"Lani Seram's Handbook For Mortals"* was removed and the author/publisher shunned for it. The Publishing Industry is wild.

1:07:55 This is probably the freakiest thing about this story. Imagine such a fate. Experiencing something so horrible without being able to move or cry out or anything, only for you to be thrown in a dumpster shortly after. Sheesh.

As someone with Submechanophobia, I adored the Submechanophobia book. I had to have my girlfriend read it to me, as she had the book and I couldn't work up the courage to buy it. It was reeeeally freaky! At many points in the description of things, my skin was utterly crawling. I adore the characters in it, as they're all very distinct, including Cayden Wakowski. I don't think I'll ever get tired of the way I feel reading it. Edit : The way Mark invisions Marla, John, and Jessica is exactly how I thought about it.

So in case you didn't realize why the vent hiding spot for 1:35am was an odd detail included, here's a quote from Sister Location: "Funny story, a dead body was found in the vent once. Well, okay, not so funny, but it's a story." Also I wonder if 1:35am is the time that Charlie died in the mini games or novels or something. It was late at night in a storm, or at least appeared that way. Or maybe it was the time Henry found Charlie after her initial death.

Basically, the books were originally a way for Scott to explore a more story-oriented way of telling the lore so they were originally intended to be separate from the games. However, the newer games after fnaf 6 definitely follow the original silver eyes series way closer than you'd expect. The pizzaplex stories actually set up the plot in the new DLC ruin in its epilogues. I suspect that the new movie coming out will also draw heavily from the silver eyes series. So the books were originally an experiment that later played a bigger role in the overall franchise.

1:03:41 "dont do anything stupid!" "Why would i do anything stupid?" "dunno *also sends an address* "

“He started to push out countless sequels, 11 to be exact” this line kills me for some reason Mark is always funny but the way he said this so deadpan was just perfection

Afton being happy with being Springtrap does make a certain amount of sense to me, it was the suit he always wore when killing, he had some kind of obsession specifically with Golden Bonnie, and it was the suit he ran to for safety from the souls of the slain children. But it is a little odd that he's otherwise functioning pretty normally while being a mangled corpse in a springlock suit, so it could be more interesting having him lose himself to his fury and madness being forced to suffer in pain eternally as the suit he loves is constantly trying to crush him. Essentially a weird animatronic bunny version of Kratos.

Honestly if Fetch wasn't a FNAF story I would've thought it was a Goosebump book.

1:12:59 good news folks like a few days ago Scott Cawthon himself had announced that ladyfiszi has been fired

What I’ll always appreciate about these books is that they never just go through the motions. They always try new concepts, and while some blend together, to me it’s never felt like a copy and paste job.

I think it's worth mentioning the person who did the Silver Eyes adaptation also has fanart of William preying after children in, like, the sexual way. She also traces often, and the Silver Eyes adaptation is her when she doesn't trace (mostly). She's basically a meme in the FNAF fandom because of how horrible she is

"It almost make sense... but not quite" Is the best summary for the entirety of the franchise

I love how Afton went from Jeffrey Dahmer type child murderer to Joker type supervillain in 1 book 😂

Didn’t think Mark would make an entire video about books.

As someone who grew up in Hurricane, my biggest problem with the books is how poorly they represent living in southern Utah. The books really have no desert elements, mentioning grass, trees and forests in the town, which just aren’t there. It’s mostly dirt, weeds, and desert plants aside from in peoples yards. It also doesn’t cool down much at nights. I just found it strange to say the trilogy is in a desert but not actually treat it like one. Also i found it very strange and unlikely that there would be any kind of mall there, unsuccessful or not.

1:37:41 Imagining baby Springtrap saying Daddy with an adult British man voice just makes it ten times funnier. 😂

2:42:21 this felt kinda personal after my autistic ass sat here for three hours watching this with my fnaf hyperfixation 💀

Okey I must say PROPS for the editor, they helped convey the visual images of the stories in a funny and engaging way and managed to get us through a 3 hour long video of fnaf lore so we could understand what LS Mark went through GOSH

70% of Fazbear Frights feels like a weird vaguely FNaF related dream Scott had and decided to inflict upon us all because he didn't want to write a story about the actual games or characters.

'Features Greg and his two best friends' I'm actually surprised Diary of a Wimpy Freddy hasn't happened yet

16:53 seeing mark calling nightmare a “demonic looking version of Freddy Fazbear” makes me laugh and cry

For some reason In the graphic novels I always imagined William Afton’s voice to be Dr. Doffenshmirtz’s which is what made me like this version of the books soooooooooooooooooooo much.

Soo confession time, I got jumpscared by The Fourth Closet whilst reading when it first came out. If you're wondering how this happened it's quite stupid, I was reading the book in a large empty room whilst waiting for someone and the binding of the book made that I'm a new book who hasn't been stretched out this much yet sound. Of course I wasn't expecting that so in panic I dropped the book and then quickly realised that I was just jumpscared by a book, that is for an ip that's mostly jumpscares.

1:35:11 I'm so sorry you had to see that...

Thanks for reading all these so I don't have to! A couple of insights from the publishing world (I'm an agented children's illustrator, author and graphic novelist). All of the FNAF books are likely ghost written and work for hire. The way work for hire books usually work, is that the publisher provides parameters and themes for the book, and then the author has pretty much free reign. So, this is just speculation, but I would guess there is a master list of themes and some sort of lore bible that is given to the authors, then they can pick what they want to write about. That's how you end up with stories that are so similar. It depends on the what sort of deal Scott made with Scholastic, but it's likely he isn't involved with each individual story. That goes especially true for the graphic novels. Graphic novelists in general are criminally underpaid, often times getting less than $100 per page. It would definitely be scholastic working with the artists, and not Scott. Even in cases where there is an author and an illustrator, it's pretty rare for the author to work directly with the artist (though not impossible). I would guess that the fazbear frights gn's were work for hire, meaning the artists got a flat rate and no royalties. This is pretty common when working on IP's from what I know. So, I would bet money that those artists were paid a pretty low amount and had a reeeally tight turn around time. It's possible they're less established artists who need the money and are willing to take those kinds of jobs. For reference, graphic novels usually take 1 to 3 years to produce, often times more. Considering that the first Frights prose book came out in 2019, and the GN collection started in 2022, I'm not sure when the book got announced, but that doesn't leave much time for a gn to be made. So yeah, it's a shame that they couldn't have made better comics, especially since Scholastic could definitely afford it. Most likely, Scott sold the graphic novel rights when ever he made his deal with Scholastic, and he likely has very little if any control over the graphic novels. It's possible that like with the silver eyes trilogy, after they see that the fanbase is there to buy them, the budget will go up. Also, all that being said, I am SO CURIOUS how the ghost writing for these books works. Considering how integral the books have become to the lore, did Scott plan it all out for them? Is there a lore bible on a Scholastic server some where, with a mountain of NDA's to protect it? Or did it start out vague and the poor ghost writers were let loose, unconscious of the fact that they are toying with the sanity of a huge fanbase? DID Scott have a hand in springtrap mpreg?? I'd give anything to find out.

Was anyone else surprised at just how brutal some of the Fazbear Frights stories are? Like I get where the source material comes from but some of the shit I’ve heard that happens is insane, especially when the character’s a kid.

Mark trying to sell audiobooks without authorization, essentially piracy, because he didn't know it was illegal is pretty on character for him.

This video is exactly what I needed to bridge the gap in knowledge since I’ve only watched let’s plays of the games. I’ve come to the conclusion that I didn’t miss much. Might be a few I’d read someday though. Thank you for struggling through some of these so that others don’t have to haha. I legit thought you were joking about the “in the flesh” one. Wild.

Even though I love "B-7", it was so difficult for me to read it because of how sad it was. It kinda reminds me of "The Real Jake", but I just personally found "B-7" more tragic and emotional. It also reminds me of "Sergio's Lucky Day"

2:09:06 I like how you can see the player breaking down as they get the buttons wrong panicking until they get jumpscared

I like how Mark’s “No shits given” attitude to media makes the horrifying stories in Fazbear frights get sorta shoved aside. I’m not even the full way through the video and it’s hilariously comforting.

17:41 holy fuck I didnt know that these book covers were published in Turkey glad I didnt see them on the shelfs 💀

Ok now this, this is peak editing I don't know who your editor is but give this man a round of applause

I did not expect to like this video as much as I did. I am really glad to see someone who isn't really a "FNaFtuber" give these books a fair chance like this. As someone who really does like the majority a ton, the positivity was really refreshing. Thanks for not judging the whole thing based soley on In The Flesh and stuff.

Fun fact, the artist of The Silver Eyes graphic novel IS a deviantart FNAF fan comic creator called PinkyPills. Their art has gotten decently better and their Afton is a bit more intimidating being a more heavyset man with a decent bit of patchy stubble

He says "titular" 3 times so, yes, this video is trititular.

The William Afton design HAUNTS me, and the only thing keeping me going is knowing it's not necessarily canon to the games. Nobody on this Earth would listen to William by the way he looks. The books always talk about how he's able to convince people to do anything and that he seems incredibly welcoming and friendly. Ain't no way William is convincing anybody with his crackhead aesthetic. He should look like a normal person. Not hot like all those weird Tumblr fanarts, and not like a local druggie that you quickly walk past when you see them on the street- just a normal, friendly-looking guy. Trusting William based on how he looks is more unrealistic than the possession and immortality stuff bro

The fact that Charlie and her friends are in their teens is news to me and I read the book when it came out. That's next level out of touch writing

"New York Times Best Seller" just means they sold 5-10k copies in one week from more then one retailer. There is no competition for the title, so theoretically every book released in the same week could have the title. I've also heard some book publishers have gamed the system to up their books sales and claim the title, so that's always something to keep in mind.

52:13 so here we go. Fazbear Frights: Into the Pit

Not to harp on Mark a good 24:30 in, but you do realize the only reason we know his name was springtrap is because we had to decipher the same phrase of “my name is springtrap” in a post Scott made, right?

Interesting (and fustrating) story about book 12: MatPat had a theory that the reason the stories in 12 were cut were because they were meant to be clues for an arg that never finished. He said that the locations in Felix and update to fnaf 3 were all clues to look in. Whether the arg was ever true or not, Mat cancelled the arg cause the idiots who were doing it were harassing people with phone calls.

Honestly I love the idea of Felix the shark. It plays into the submechanphobia fear people have and honestly the idea of one of the fazbear locations having special guest animatronics because the owner of said location wanted it doesn't seem out of the ordinary. I think a lot of animatronic diners back in the day had a lot of guest characters that were exclusive to certain locations. Plus it adds new characters to the franchise instead of making variations of the main 4 we already know which is really fresh. Plus animatronic animals like sharks or dinosaurs aren't out of the ordinary, There actual parks made to showing animatronic creatures. Now imagine those guys get out of there cages and start chasing you. That would be scary.

I know they're usually regarded at mediocre at best with pretty bad writing, I really like the Silver Eyes books and they're among my favourites I always assumed that the fake blood found in the first book was Charlie's since she has a pretty substantial wound throughout the end of the book and there's now way that she could've been bleeding actual blood whereas William really did bleed when he got the springlock suit triggered on him, he just didn't die from it.

the fnaf comic stuff all looks straight out of wikihow for the most part, the later parts of the trilogy being the least wikihow

Mark was stuck in a “mediocre creepypastas loosely being related to fnaf” purgatory for a month

I can't get over how William looks like Dawko in the Graphic novels

3:06:55 when you finally realized that you have finished this 3 hour long video

Thank you for your dedication! This was a great vid, and although I am a FNAF fan and a fan of reading books, I could never read this as it is hard for me to even understand the plot but with your video, I have great knowledge to it!

LS Mark unintentionally becoming a booktuber just to talk about FNaF books is probably the most LS Mark thing he could do, and I mean that in the best possible way.

I’ll say this about the way they took Springtrap in Twisted Ones, actually: While the execution is undoubtedly not the best, I feel like him being weirdly joyous about his fate is if nothing else, quite disturbing. Like, think about it: him dying in that suit and suffering and stuff IS a fitting end to such a horrible killer… except it wasn’t the end at all. What should have been it was instead only the very beginning of something very special. And to take all of that irony, all of that justice, and spit in its face and say “fuck you, I am on cloud nine” feels to me like embracing that beginning. Not to mention, when a villain is as masochistic as he is sadistic, it becomes very, VERY hard to figure out a way to deal with him, doesn’t it? What doesn’t kill him makes him stronger and all that. Eh, maybe I just have a soft spot for villains who simply cannot be affected by anything the heroes do unless it’s truly fatal, villains who approach the most serious and terrifying things as if it’s all one massive game and they’re just having fun. Actually on that note, it makes even more sense for a story about the corrupted image of a restaurant experience “where fantasy and fun come to life” to have a villain that embodies the sense of fantasy and fun gone terribly wrong. I do agree that the execution is still not the greatest though

So basically, from what I've theorized (omg another theorist!) That the Plushtrap Chaser from Out of Stock is the um- "offspring" of Matt from In the Flesh. I am so disgusted, but it makes the most sence. The tiny Springtrap "offspring" was described as, "realistic" and the Plushtrap Chaser was returned for this exact reason.

i absolutely hate how funny each minecraft tnt sound effect was.

“ I absolutely hate Eleanor’s design here it so similar to Baby but I don’t think theres any correlation between the two” Who’s gonna tell him?

The fact that In The Flesh is legit a deviantart story made official is honestly crazy

25:10 I have to add, William was in love with as parading as the bunny, and it isn't exactly the same as the original William, I do agree that him saying complete sentences isn't as neat, but to accept and love his new persona is in line with who he is, killing all of his victims in a yellow bunny suit has always been a core sensation to him. Like living out a fantasy. It's strange, but it's like he's in love with that suit.

Into the pit looks like a wikihow article

Here's a great question no one behind these books seems to have asked: what does the Fazbear company *want*? In the games they never do anything more outright evil than covering up and making light of all the murders that keep happening. Circus baby's entire nonsense was afton's fault. He made things work that way, and everyone just kinda had to clean up after his mess while keeping maulings to a minimum. Freddy Fazbear, the company trying to save face in a shitty way, is not the company in these books. This is Freddy Fazbear, the company that is actively creating products that kill kids, and sometimes outright killing them. Lonely Freddy being discarded after the swap is too perfectly timed to be coincidental, and they actively murdered angel by feeding her to the other children. But what the fuck is the point? Agony and remnant and legacy can only explain so much aimless destruction. This is something else. They just haven't decided what that something else is and it bothers me.

Me listening to Mark describe the first book: Man Charlie seems like such a cool main character. Her design is simple but effective, she looks cool, I love her style with her jacket and boots. I wanna see a lot more of her. Me listening to Mark describe the second book: Oh. Me listening to Mark describe the third book: O-Oh? Oh...oh.

In The Flesh is my favorite story of the bunch, when it comes to concept alone. Put yourself in Matt’s position and tell me that’s not absolutely horrifying. Having to cut yourself open so a metal monster doesn’t blow you apart from the inside is.. Awful. It’s scary as hell, and easily the most memorable of all the books. Not to mention the choice to use the name “Mat” when MatPat is such a prominent figure in the community. It’s disgusting, graphic, and absolutely iconic.

Thanks!

And here, we have the wild LS Mark, putting himself through psychological warfare.

I always hated when people tried to say that a real incident at a Chuck E Cheese was real life FNAF. I hated it so much thinking of how disrespectful people can be towards real life tragedies.

Watching this in an near future where we know the FNAF movie release date is absolutely delightful.

Even though most people don't enjoy it as much as me I really love the Silver eyes artstyle. There's just something so unique about it that I can't explain. Also I really like how Dave's appearance (even though it's kinda goofy) makes him seem like this delusional freak who has something wrong going on in his head.

I managed to get through this in one sitting, and I can't even imagine how hard this must've been. I'm an avid reader, but reading *every* fnaf book in such a short amount of time?? Kudos to you for commiting to it, king behavior

I like how MatPat uses this outside lore to help fill in some of the missing gaps that are in the games since Scott said they don’t fit perfectly like puzzle pieces but can be used together

What bother me most about sea Bonnie’s was that Mott is just a good kid. Taking care of his brother and helping his mom. Even telling his mom no when she offers extra allowance because she can tell he dosent want to put this brother to bed. But then he gets killed there’s no lessons. Because like the sea Bonnie’s we’re evil it’s not like he just flushed them for nothing

LS Mark: "Uncountable sequels" Also Mark:proceeds to count 11 sequels

The Into The Pit graphic novel looks like a collection of Wikihow drawings

The fact that Sea Bonnies would have been even incrementally better if they had waited and made it Sea Monties instead, and the sea monkeys could have been engineered to look like little alligators which would have made more sense

Ngl I love The Man in Room 1280, I love how the story is centred around a member of the Church so we can see the moral and religious aspects of the FNAF universe

Mark crying all the time is awesome and all and it never fails to make me at least chuckle... But can we talk about how amazing the Explosions are during deaths in the story summaries!? I love it so much and the buildup to it is sheer perfection!

referring to Freddy as Fredward was a power move I wasn't ready for. well played.

To be honest, a lot of these books, particularly some Fazbear Frights stories have stuck with me more than some of the scares from the games. Not just because of how scary they are, but some of them genuinely got me emotional. Lonely Freddy, To Be Beautiful, and The Real Jake to name a few.

I feel the trilogy could have been more canon (if the canon had been properly established at that point, I dont know tbh) if Michael was both alive and the son of Afton and another Afton son be mentioned to have died (maybe in the place of Michael). This does also require the puppet being possesed by Charlie, but that could have been worked in easily by just saying it is missing somewhere, maybe appearing in posters or something in the graphic novels. Though a few things will not make sense (Afton living long past Henry's death, the dates not lining up etc)

2:19:16 hmMMMM turn on captions