THE MIMIC'S CURSE | FNaF: Ruin Theory 

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In the books, the story “The Mimic” shows the mimic has a strong connection to tigers. Since Edwin’s son likes them, this might show why the mimic would be a tiger.

The people that say the books aren't canon or relevant at all to fnaf are probably livid over this game

Also interesting idea that no one has really brought up but Princess Quest really showed us that people can get trapped in arcade games. Maybe Gregory's high scores were his attempts to find the missing children or even measure if a child get stuck in the games.

I think the Storyteller is in the VANNI, a device Vanny probably made. It is also implied even if you are Infected by Glitchtrap that the original personality is still under the Mimic1. So, Gregory is still watching under GGY.

I was writing a theory called "Oops, all Mimics!" but gave up. However there is a lot of overlap with what you have here, so I'll share some of my relevant notes to support what you have here. But the gist of it is that I think there a multiple versions of the Mimic program running simultaneously, each one different because of the different things they have learned, which is why you have Grimic and Melpy arguing with each other at one point even though they are both clearly the Mimic: - From CD 16: "the source of the glitch shifted. You'll have to excuse me, I'm not all that familiar with computer programming, so I might get this wrong, but what I understand is that the glitch stopped being a glitch and turned into an intentional set of subroutines that were aimed at creating the same thing the glitch created." This sounds to me that even though the technicians tried to remove the glitch, the Mimic OS had already observed it and intentionally started mimicking the glitch, hence going from a glitch to intentional subroutines. - After the VANNI mask implants the occipital transponder into Cas, she begins seeing things that aren't there even with the mask off. The most obvious thing is the messages from Helpy/Melpy, but also the fact that the mask "removes" physical obstacles only makes sense if those obstacles were never there in the first place and were placed by the implant. Vanessa and Jeremy likewise seemed to be hallucinating after their exposures (according to the CDs and AR emails), and as you pointed out, the books have a recurring theme of people not being able to tell what is real anymore after connecting to the VR/AR system. (Even the next book coming out, "B7-2" is going to be about the same thing according to its synopsis). Also, I feel like its a hint that Melpy has a purple "vein" running from this eye to the back of his head, where the occipital lobe of the brain is. - The endos underneath the Pizzaplex all seem to be running on Mimic software. Instead of being programmed, they're kept in a sort of endo daycare where they learn from observing. Since these endos are apparently used by ALL animatronics in the Pizzaplex, this means all animatronics are running off of a Mimic program. - This might just be an aesthetic choice, but I noticed that the computer terminals in the endo "daycare", in parts and services, and in the basement connected to the MXES are all very old computers, almost identical to a model from the early 1980s I found with a google image search. Every other computer in Pizzaplex is a modern computer. This seems intentional. Perhaps for some reason they need a computer from the early 1980s (when the Mimic was first made) to interface with all these mimics due to compatibility issues?

at the end i think it really is gregory speaking, considering the fact that cassie is likely being controlled by the mimic a little bit, and will be controlled more. gregory is probably trying to keep cassie from the mimic so she doesn't die, but doesn't want her to follow him incase she gets controlled.

So I guess this means old willy boy truly is gone and it's just the mimic now? Definitely a new era for fnaf.

gregory is a child, but he is definitely highly intelligent. his analytical mind makes it difficult for possession to take hold. even though it didnt seem like his therapy sessions werent going anywhere, they likely were. i always wondered why freddy couldnt find gregory in the system, but he probably erased himself, probably to evade banishment. it would also explain why vanessa and gregory would work nonstop to keep the mimic from influencing anything

After everything happend in Security Breach the Glitchtrap still existed in Vanny's mask and that's how Mimic still had access to the surface, get an access to Cassie.

The security Owl from Fnaf world have simaler eyes too Tiger Rock. One of Tiger Rocks forms is an owl

There's one more element I'd like to pose. The Mimic program is able to mimic people, but what if portions of this program grew independent of it's central mass? What if Cassidy was a part of the Mimic that the whole of the Mimic found inconvenient? Think of it like multiple personalities. Some parts of the Mimic want to help, some want to hurt. It's locking away parts of itself that will stop it from hurting others. Who knows? Maybe Gregory is one of those fragments?

And to add more to your theory why would the mimic specifically choose Gregory well it seems like it had its eye on him for awhile during the build-up to help wanted VR there was a conversation going on in scottgames where the mimic and Vanessa was having a conversation about selecting a chosen one or something

Couple of things i feel worth mentioning. The headsets are like the Vanny mask since Cassie is trapped in the false reality in the Brazil ending. Why would the mapbot rip out his head to make bunny ears and keep the mask with him unless something other then the Mimic wants the mask to be used by Cassie. And the story's literally say the Mimic is in multiple forms across multiple things and the game heavily implies some form of William is back from the parts from the animatronics used for HW so both are right the books and games are just showing the 2 sides of the same coin, The Mimic doing his own thing while Glitchtrap is part of the Mimic1 programme that evolved on it's own by what remains of William. Glitchtrap is the remains of William's spirit/his agony taking control of the part of the mimic1 program which Vanessa and Gregory was taken control by and when Vanessa spread Glitchtrap across the Pizzaplex it unintentionally awaken the original Mimic and M.X.E.S was made to stop the Mimic from ruining Glitchtrap's plans and when Glitchtrap was defeated he went down to Burntrap as well as the mask to try and survive and when the Blob defeated Burntrap then what little remains of Glitchtrap finds it's was down to the M.X.E.S system as a last ditch effort to remain in control while the mask is there waiting to be used again as why would a map

The reason Freddy’s head is gone is because of the ending where venessa Gregory and Freddy’s head are on a hill eating ice cream/ the princess quest ending

This is a great theory, I think it makes a lot of sense

Been watching your channel since your DHMIS series and have loved it ever since

Subscription well earned! You have theories that I've never seen why other theorists discuss. I do have a question for you. The whole 'taking over the pizzaplex' stemmed from the puppet wires and Nightmarion plushies everywhere. The puppet and Charlie have to tie into this somehow too, right?

Yesss loved last episode! Can’t wait for more of this series!

Oh! Now the cutouts of Cassie’s party meeting Gregory make more sense! I was always so confused about that, but they were probably hallucinations caused by the mimic.

21:03 the fact it just cuts off at Freddy saying "yes" after what Gregory said kills me XD

i wonder if gregory knew the princess quest games would free vanessa because he or someone else used the bb world arcade game to free himself? idk just guessing.

great theory!

Fazbear entertainment should be an example on how not to cut cost

Here's my dumb theory, I really hope someone replies! How did Gregory free himself from the Mimic's influence? He never did...Vanessa freed him. How? When we play Help Wanted, we're playing as Vanessa. When we collect all the tapes, we are given instructions on how to "trap the glitch" but end up getting locked away in that room at the end. Well, what if this was all Glitchtrap/the Mimic's plan? It was in control of Gregory at the time, but decided it needed a new body/pawn and Vanessa fit the bill. When it has you go through all the steps to stop the glitch, what you're actually doing is freeing Gregory so the Glitch/Mimic can take over you. Just a thought.

I think you are building an amazing theory!!! Everything makes sense now

Looking forward to the next one! I highly reccomend checking out AskError87's vid on how Monty was framed to be Bonnie's killer. It has to do w the mimic as well and I think it's such a good theory + would be interesting to see your take on why the mimic might’ve wanted to do what it may have done in that theory

I thoroughly enjoyed this even though I haven’t been keeping up since sister location 😅 you do a really good job at this!

Dude. My wife is a native hawaiian, They primarily speak english or sometimes Pidgin which is still mostly english.

Not me watching your Ruin theories when I haven’t watched or played the game 👀

Matpat's protege

Been hyped to see this!!

Wasn’t Vanessa the one that made the MXES program? Gregory says his friend did it or something like that

what if Gregory used Princess quest game to transfer his Mimic. And maybe Mimic can possess him most of the time and when he's not possessing Gregory he transferred Mimic to Princess quest. When Vennessa saw Gregory doing something to Princess quest machines or Mimic knew other parts of him were there he reinforced his connection with Vennesa finally taking over her body.

Yeahhh...... I think Gregory & Vanessa are trapped in the VR World. Having "multiple endings" now makes more sense with Ruined... I still think the "Brazil Ending" is the real end. Cassie never met Vanessa nor did she even know she knew Gregory, yet she is there in the VR world ending.

what if the mimic was made by william and since it's stuck in springtrap, which wouldve learned to mimic william's movement, thats why the mimic takes the form of golden bonnie, and would also explain why its in help wanted

Do you think Prototype Freddy in RUIN is GlamRock Freddy from SB? Because while wearing the mask on Fazerblast in RUIN, Freddy’s voice can be heard. Also In The Daycare in RUIN, when Gregory is encouraging us after finding the second generator and going to find the last one …..am i the only one who notices that His Voice Changes….not In the creepy way….I mean his voice changes…to almost like the voice of another boy or something?????

my own ruin theory: a week or two ago i thought about the mimic and i made up a theory about ennard being the mimic. ennard had learnt to mimic circus baby and probably the other funtimes so that is a huge similarity that only those two characters have. after ennard escaped to the sewers, he may of lost the mask. yes, i am indicating that the mimic was trying to disguise as a funtime. this theory is (so far) going nowhere but i will think about it more and edit this comment.

Wait there is four arms connected to the white tiger head? I never read the actual book myself, only seen the live reading on the freddit discord, and i don't remember that detail, only that it was a head connected to shoulders (wow nevermind, it has those when in the tree. Thanks for making me go back and figure that out, that's interesting.)

25:18 even if was the princess quest ending was the answer. Than where did the earthquake came from?

plot twist: everybody was miemiec the whole time

A theory with so many facts backing it up is practically a fact itself.

I did a drawing of my animatronic vampire dragon named Glamrock Fire back in 2022 before ruin was released and on her right arm had deep cuts like she was injured.

if there isn't a mega pizzaplex in my lifetime istg

when Freddy scanned Gregory maybe it meant something?

I have a weird feeling Gregory from FNAF and doll from Murder drones would get along

I feel that the burntrap ending isn't entirely retconned. I think a bit of it trickled into the real princess ending for Ruin. A big example is the earthquake

15:28 if I was her therapist I would've assumed she was a furry

YEah it makes sence why its truing to escape. The mimic from the start watched Gregory truing to escape, so its coppying it. Vany probably put him together truing to revive grlichtrap burn trap, but it didnt work for some reason.the mimic was there all this time

Yes there are a lot of questions from RUIN, but answer me this: why is the Mimic a thing? Like, why did we go from haunted animatronics to AIs? It just feels so off and like a total 180° shift in story telling, at this point this isn't even FNAF

The Mimic sweeps or should I say IT SOLOS

Rem games your missing one thing only one person wore it most of the time its vanesa the security protocols leads back to vanesa only she wore the mask other then cassie who nearly died to the mimic from its lies. So the security system was created by vanesa and has anyone notice the faz bag. how did the mimic get the bag to the lower levels and also get the walky talky?

I think people have been jumping over the “lion” suit that the mimic was wearing. What if that is the tiger rock suit and not a lion.

Wow

Видео только вышло, а субтитры тут как тут, спасибо, очень приятно что я могу полностью понять о чём говорят в видео.

Better than Matpat. Literally the only news I care about in the world. Phenomenal detective work.

11:31 you... :D

20:00 nah, Gregory is just a bad manipulative person, were you not paying any attention to the actual things you do in security breach, Gregory brutally destroys multiple sentient animatronics for no reason, and lies to Freddy about it, he lies to Freddy about a bunch of things, they easily could've camped out in Freddy's greenroom until 6am but instead Gregory went on a massacre, there's no vast shift in personality, he's just putting up a front to manipulate freddy, and unintentionally, the player, if Cassie knew that it was Gregory who did most of that damage to the animatronics I don't think she'd wanna continue being friends with him

here for it.

Next video please talk about the scooper ending bro, shit made no sense and I feel like no one has given a satisfactory answer behind it

How can the mimic over the Vanny mask mimic things in Cassy#s mind if Cassy has never seen or heard some of these things?

The Burntrap ending is canon or at least happened similarly as it is the *true ending* and still is in the game files. It never said that it is the canon ending just that the events in said ending are canon along with The Princess Quest ending

but what about the blob because the made a cameo in ruin and darko says that even tho the afton ending is not canon the blob is canon i think the blob is molten freddy what do you think

In the CDs, client 46 isn't Gregory. In Spanish, and many other languages, client 46 is referred to as a female child. So it can't be Gregory, but I'm sure it isn't Cassie either

Problem with your theory tho isn't the mimic Vanessa has different from the mimic in the underground? As in like two different mimics that don't know about one another?

waiting for the next vid

Me realizing that FNAF was out when I was 2 💀

I wish aftons rotting burnt corpse would make a comeback

Nothing is matching from past to present the only thing is that Afton is glitchtrap to revive himself

Mimiculated

I’m confused where you got the Gregory tapes from all I can find is vennesa tapes

Did bro for get that there is a balck balk with gregory's name ?

It the burn trap ending it literally says so in the cide

THE MIMMICCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC

Wen part 4 of murder drones ?

lesss go

You misspelled access in the 1st question 😂

Pls do the complicated dhmis linguistic video

Greg as 46 makes no sence and it was solved who 46 is and it's not Gregory

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The makers of the book actually said they are canon

Early

I was first!

Gotta say, is it really that important to solve the mistery of fnaf when the story mostly sucks?

Slowly but surely I'm permanently blocking all Fnaf channels that treat the books as canon. One more down. ✌️