The Problem with Candy Cadet (Soothsayer or Sellout?) 

A quick note but I'm happy to report that I'm feeling much better after my surgery and recovering at a pretty good pace! Not 100% yet, but definitely on the mend. ^_^

Imagine being a child at Freddy Fazbears Pizzeria, seeing Candy Cadet, depositing a quarter, getting some candy, and then it tells you the most disturbing story, then just deactivates.

During the Fazbear Civil war of ‘93, Candy Cadet was awarded a Purple Heart and promoted to Glucose General. He spent his retired days in a care facility, telling tales of the horrors of war to children who wanted lemon drops.

candy cadet is basically the personification of the biggest problem from the series: mystery for the sake of a mystery

Candy Cadet's the kinda guy to tell you a story about a chicken who went on a mouse-killing spree, which is an obscure parallel to WW2💀

To quote DSAF3 "Don't ask for cryptic stories from a candy robot." Or something to that extent.

The problem with candy cadet is that he doesn't actually give any candy.

I will give Candy Cadet this. When he shows up, the atmosphere of the game really takes a turn. Even if it is just for a moment, he does a good job having the player question what exactly is going on in whatever game they are playing.

he’s just a matpat standin. that’s all he ever was.

If I'm remembering one of the TetraBitGaming Ruin Cut Content videos right, Candy Cadet's story originally would have said the woods were full of dangerous animals, and in an earlier version of the map you would have to pass by the original fnaf 1 gang after Candy Cadet's room. What does this add to the conversation... nothing. Just a fun fact

Candy Cadet is representative of FNAF as a whole. A vague mess of ideas that has potential to be a good story but refuses to give any concrete answers, and as a result, we're only left with fan theories that vary so wildly from each other that I wouldn't blame anyone for saying that FNAF doesn't have a story. There's an ancient rule in storytelling call "Show, Don't Tell" that dictates that it's better to show what's going on in your story so the audience can be properly hooked, and doing the opposite, "Tell, Don't Show", isn't going to be nearly as effective since the audience likely won't feel the impact of anything that happens. Candy Cadet however, and by extension FNAF as a whole, take that a few steps backward by opting for a new rule. "Imply, Never Tell". You can't say anything in FNAF is absolute. You can only hint at it otherwise people will get upset. Well, I'd argue that people are already upset by that rule by now. Bendy proved this by opting for that same rule in Ink Machine, and players weren't exactly thrilled. Then Dark Revival came out and went with the "Show, Don't Tell" rule, and everyone was much happier. TLDR; I'm tired of the vagueness of FNAF. I don't want inklings of what could be a story for others to finish writing because Scott is either lazy or too scared to upset anyone. I want a REAL story that means something.

I've been a major supporter of the idea that Henry is much guiltier than the paragon he gets depicted as. He talks about Afton's crimes as if they were something he *allowed to happen.* I like to think that the three stories are, in some way, explanations of just how the murders affected him. The idea that he knew Afton would do it, and that he let him. The idea that Afton had broken in and taken the lives of those he tried to protect. The idea that his efforts to save them only ensured their deaths. Why were they killed at Freddy's? Of course, the security puppet would never let them be taken elsewhere. He had, effectively, locked them in that building with a man who he knew was dangerous. Why did he have the Afton Schematics. How did he get them. *That isn't something you just stumble across, why does he know how they work.*

I wonder if scotts iffyness on book cannon is him not remembering lore he wrote for games and the books, mixing them together Also realizing scott has no idea how snakes work

The mom could've been the Mxes program, too. It warned Cassie to the best of its ability and tried to stop her, but she still went through with following "Gregory".

Candy Cadet is gonna have some real competition when his greatest rival, Steak Seargent walks in

Please be nice to my child. He is perfect and precious. Lovely little man.

Honestly, I’ve always nursed a bit of a grudge against Candy Cadet simply for being yet another non-commital way of delivering us information in a sea of others. I get it, that vaugeness is part of the fun, but there’s a point where there’s too much non-commital information in this franchise. At some point we need something, anything we can hold onto. It’s like we’re building a card tower with a mix of yu-gi-oh, playing, and tarot cards not wanting to fit together really, and we’re not even sure if these are actually playing cards or maybe lego bricks. Imagine if, instead of candy cadet to deliver this information, we got the Player/michael’s notebook, and each night we’d be able to read more entries. Sure, it’s still technically not firm, due to an unreliable narrator, but it’s a far more clear and reliable source than the confusing ramblings of a glorified gumball machine. Not to mention it would give some characterization to a character (Michael or the Player) that desperately needs it. I dunno about you, but that feels like a much more clean and fitting way to deliver the information.

5:16 i think its afton yes, by the fact that afton wanted a "family" in silver eyes, he pretty much makes it obvious that the animatronics with children souls are his "family" but in william's mind, the burglar was henry, but the kind man and the burglar are william afton in reality but as i said, william think its henry's fault, so he places the burglar as henry

I honestly never paid attention to him that much, but he was always a somewhat enigma to me in the franchise. Ironic, I know. 😅

Candy Cadet is honestly one of my favourites. I love the design, the goofy voice, and the weirdly dark vague story hints. I remember getting one around when Pizza Sim came out late at night not knowing what he was or did, and being so confused as to what just left that little robot's head.

Candy Cadet is where Willy has been the entire time, trust me.

Tbh for the Ruin story, it could be about mental growth, rather than physical growth from aging. Like, considering that at the end of SB Vanessa escapes Glitchtrap's control, that'd mean there's a pretty huge mental growth on her part between that and HW/Ruin, even in that short of a timespan. But yeah, I think in times like these, we must remember Mr. Hippo's wise words, sometimes a story is just a story. I mean, it does seem to apply perfectly in that context. Anyways, great vid as always, and glad you're feeling better!

The kitten story to me matched how our boy william had this snake within him (his desire to murder and experiment) that he couldn’t get rid of, at random one of his children got murked by his snake, which was manifested in his animatronics, it wasn’t literally left open but it was in some senses an eventuality that his machines would murder his children as he warned them but never truly put the snake away to stop this from happening in essence allowing it to happen. In his guilt he put her back together in baby.

Decillionth! May I have a reward? I want…a Krabby Patty! Candy Cadet: Now I will tell you a story. There was a sponge who lived in a pinnacle under the sea.

Candy Cadet design is the best one in the entire franchise Change my mind

I’m predicting candy Cadet will probably be in into the pit the game and drop the mimic backstory exposition to Oswald finally killing the Henry Edwin parallel argument. (please)

Like the Mediocre Melodies, Candy Cadet has definitely earned his place in the fandom as both Meme Fuel and a source of Lore (through implications) but I'm kinda over his cryptic with a twinge of EdgeLord characterization. Although, I was also annoyed when he was used as an Exposition spewer in Ruin and HW2 so maybe I'm just never satisfied, LMAO. That being said, The Woman and The Keys story is one of my favorite things from the franchise and I won't take its impact away from him and I like the Letting Go interpretation you shared with us. I still think it's about Charlie and her naivety blended with determination to Save Them led to more harm being done (but she learned! She grew up in the Afterlife like she didn't get to and learned, at least according to Sire Squawks!) but new ideas and Theories are always welcome. Overall, I just keep Mr. Hippo's gentle Roast of Theorists and Occam's Razor in mind when it comes to him and keep it moving.

Huh, Pizzaria Simulator/UCN Candy Cadet has a different head then the Ruin/Help Wanted 2 Candy Cadet(s), Pizzaria Simulator has only a visor with flashing lights, whereas the other (two?) has the lights around the entire circumference of the head. (Another difference is the lack of those four large obvious screwhead/boltheads)

Everytime Fnaf has cryptic lore, my life shortens by one year. I am a ghost now.

The Ruin and HW2 stories could have another meaning if you take out the genders; someone being lured into letting a monster out of the basement? Cassie being lured down by the mimic. Someone returning to slay someone who tried to slay them, being tricked into walking right back into their clutches? Could be the HW2 protag, whether you believe it to be Cassie's dad, previous programmer Jeremy, or some other near-victim of something related to Fazbear Entertainment (especially considering the files suggesting that we were supposed to be following voice logs from Vanessa throughout the game). I also heard someone theorize that the Pizza Sim stories are all meant to imply that the five missing children souls are all in Molten Freddy, basically hammering it in that 5 Became 1. Though it does seem a bit weird that you would need three stories to make the same point.

There's something oddly comforting about Cadet's TTS voice...

Maybe Candy Cadet is like Mr. Hippo telling us that some stories are just stories that don't have a specific meaning? 🤔

As much as i love candy cadet his stories are confusing as hell

I think it's possible that Candy Cadet was made by Fazbear Entertainment to cover up the events of the past by telling stories that are 1:1 opposite versions of the events that actually did happen. For example, in the keys story, instead of it being a women, it's a young child (since the spirits are children, not adults), and the key, or "piece," are split into five, five "pieces." This ends up saving five children, at the expense of one, the Crying Child. When read like this, it seems to be a variation of ShatterVictim. I figured this'd make more sense. As for the HW2 story, it seems to be about Glitchtrap, who was lured Vanny and trapped by the one they're working for. Glitchtrap was said to have only a fraction of their code remaining, so, instead of being a young girl who aged, they'd be a fully grown entity that was stripped down into a small piece. They young boy would be a grown woman, Vanny, who leads Glitchtrap into a trap, as we see in HW2's ending, with the old witch being a young boy, most likely being TOYSNHK, or whoever the Nightmarionne imagery belongs to, who Vanny works for. That's just a barely in-depth example of two of the stories, I figured it'd be a pretty interesting angle to look at.

I'm so glad you're feeling better after your surgery ❤

That has to be the most threatening "Candy. Candy. Candy." I have ever heard. Anyway I'm going to pick this guy up and shake him aggressively until he gives me a straight answer. And then fix him up because being ruined for two games in a row seems like a disservice to his goober-ness. The pizza with fries and mozzarella sticks does sound good though, but I'm not paying $50 for that.

Kinda crazy that the 8-Bit mini games were the clearest FNAF ever got about telling it’s lore… AND THAT WAS ALREADY VAUGE AS HELL!!!

I haven't watched the video but the title and the tumbnail is very promissing edit: i watched the video and YES candy cadet's stories always felt somehow weird. Like they fit the stories in-game but there was just something either extra or missing. "Is this detail important? Is this just added to make the story sound more real? is this story about this event or the other one?" I kinda felt like he was theory bait to keep fans busy after fnaf 6 until scott figured out where the series should go from there

I was watching this, and I asked myself the silly little question of “How did Ruined Candy Cadet get where he is?” Little did I know this would lead to me realizing that Security Breach shows the vent system FNaF 6 takes place in is BELOW the Pizza Place, a detail I have never thought about at all and I have so many questions but it is past midnight and I am too tired to answer them myself.

I've been so excited for this! Glad you're feeling better!

I'm glad your surgery went well and you're recovering okay! I love your content and I always watch your new videos when I see them. My only note, which I hope doesn't come off too nitpicky, is that you say "perchance" when the word is "penchant" - I've noticed it in a couple of videos. "He has a penchant for doing that." Perchance is used more like "Could you do this for me, perchance?"

candy cadet the lore keeper and the most sweet thing in the whole series

By the way candy Cadet story about the the man burying the child in the knock at the door is talking about molten Freddy because one of molten Freddy’s lines is “ knock, knock I’m here” Molten MC as weird as it is most likely true

With the woman and the 5 keys, I agree with it probably being about charlie, but I wonder if it meant that she could of brought one kid back like baby presumably did for Michael. For the ruin story, it works for Gregory being the mother and Cassie the little boy too The young woman and witch I read as Cassie's dad, if he's hw1 Jeremy- his first escape being with surviving the guillotine slicer but left with a scar but dies the second time

i dont think Candy Cadet is meant to be taken too literally. I think we're only supposed to take the general idea from it. the Pizza Sim stories are 5 things becoming 1 thing. i think it's referring Molten Freddy. Who is the present day version of the original 5 kids being killed... or at least what's left of them in the present day (present as of Pizza Sim) as the other remnants of the 5 children have since passed on. Molten Freddy being all that's left. The ruin story is about being tricked by a familiar voice. foreshadowing that Gregory... wasn't Gregory. And the Help Wanted 2 story, if generalized, is simply someone who was fooled once, is fooled again with a different tactic. which i think is probably a reference to the fact that help wanted 2 ends with the player character being taken by the AR world... just like what happened to Vanessa in help wanted 1. i think that story is a bit more meta in the fact that we have the potential to do the same mistake we did in the first game with the 2nd game. which of course is doomed to happen anyway cus ruin proves the bad ending is the true ending. i think that's what Candy Cedet's HW2 story is all about. as for the last story... i have no idea XD honestly that one showed up out of left field... but to generalize it... a group of people missing out on something and died because of it... who knows... maybe it's another meta jab at the community XD

It's cool to see someone taking this angle, rather than the "We SoLvEd FnAf" route, but no hate to those creators either, it's just refreshing to find something different! Thanks for the vids!

This unrelated to the topic of the video, but I really appreciate that your video is segmented into specific parts. So many videos I watch are either not at all, or when they are the segments don’t make any sense and are just labeled in chapters.

Let's go, new video! Also, I just realised candy cadet uses the generic male text to speech.

Based on how the kids/animatronics viewed William in the FNAF movie, the first story could be game William’s version of events that he told the kids before they turned on him

7:10 One thing to note is that the snake is only said to eat one kitten, with no repetition of the action claimed or implied, only that time passed. Snakes don't eat very frequently, only once every several days, so that one kitten would sustain it for a weak. Plus, the boy is only said to put THE kitten together, being the single one that was eaten.

If anyone remembers Identity V's Melodas Estate Investigation/Stormy Night Surprise event, you'll remember that the characters told stories. I feel like the Candy Cadet stories are like that. They vaguely parallel each of the characters with a fantasy story, but remember: the monstrous bird was the woman telling the story about the girl that got ate by the bird. That's how I take these stories. Especially the Ruin and HW2 stories. Cassie is probably the basement monster, and Vanessa is 100% the witch (we even see the 'witch' get her meal in the PQ4 ending, with Vanny crushing glitchtrap). Also, the kittens might not be kids, but security guards. It's about Henry letting William keep hiring night gaurds, despite knowing that they will die. He lets William hire a guard, the guard dies. Though this may also be about Michael and the Fazbear's Frights guard, as the story of the woman with the keys is an oddly prophetic parallel to Henry burning everything at the end of FNAF 6. But the keys story may likely be about Micheal burning down Fazbear's Frights horror attraction, believing it to be the way to free the kids, only resulting in that not being the means to their freedom and the kids being stuck or free being based on the minigames, not the fire. The story about the man adopting fivr kids is more likely about Charlotte. She kept the dead kids safe after the location closed, but William broke in and destroyed the animatronics. Charlotte probably made molten Freddy or the amalgam.

My favorite interpretation of the third story is that its about afton, in an attempt to put his son back together, he ensures the deaths of 5 kids

Tbh, I think the end of the first story is about Henry and the Pizza Sim itself, because he lured everyone to the pizzeria (their coffin), where they become one thing after the burning.

The second story could be about William as the boy, and a metaphor for his research/curiosity/urge to kill. William doesn't want to give up that curiosity, because the secrets it might crack open could be amazing, but he can't bring himself to choose a victim. Ultimately, he just *goes* for it and kills whatever kid he kills. But he feels bad afterwards, and either tries to put the body back where it died at Freddy's (remember that "nothing was ever proven in court" thing from HW1?), and that just keeps happening until he goes through all five victims.

I suspect the FFPS Candy Cadet is a meta reference to Scott's frustrations over trying to reconcile the fragmented lore up to that point. But in Security Breach and its sequels, CC is there to shed light on the events leading up to the game. So in Ruin is tells how Gregory was lured down to the Mimic when it impersonated Vanessa. HW2's Candy Cadet clears up the confusion about who the protagonist is. It's the same exact protagonist from HW1 lol. Vanessa/Vanny had escaped the oven aka the chamber Glitchtrap locked her soul in, then came back and found herself trapped yet again in the mask.

I just though of a solution to the key problem 1) save the children 2 create a mold of the exit key 3) exit the room with all the children 4) profit :D

I've always had a theory that candy cadet's stories are purposely vague so in the future Scott can apply them to anything and then pretend the story has been planned out all along. I also apply this to pretty much all of fnafs story telling post sister location.

Looking back this now knowing Michael was the Crying child Candy Cadet makes a bit more sense The Crying Child considered the 5 main animatronics as his friends, as in people he cared for

if you switch the genders around in the monster in the basement story, it sounds like Elizabeth and baby's story. A father tells his daughter not to go into the basement, and the monster lures the daughter into it, and kills her. Baby being such a manipulative character I feel like the monster learning the lullaby could symbolize baby's manipulation.

now i shall tell you a story. a story of a person who became obsessed with a candy dispenser and its secrets. that person longed to know the dispenser's secrets or if it had any at all, so they broke it until it could no longer perform its task and beat it further. the person finally found all the secrets of the broken candy dispenser, and in turn all the candy turned sour. that person, fed up with the candy dispenser, turned to leave. as a thank you for ending its torment, the candy dispenser gifted the person a crisp five dollar bill that was just five one dollar bills taped together and therefore completely worthless. the person was pleased and moved on to greener pastures, and the candy tasted sweet again.

OH HECK YEAH! I'm early to the video about Candy Cadet! Candy Cadet has one of my favourite designs

Candy Candet:🤖😊🍬 Candy Candets stories:💀

i do find it interesting that his first three stories involve melting/merging five kids/objects together, then placed in a box. … i really hope i’m looking too deep into it but what if that’s literally what’s in the box? (like originally). william (or henry after finding what william did) took all the kids’ bodies from the animotronics (since they were never found) and he “put [them] back together”, just ALL together. agony or remnant or whatever attached them to the animotronics but their body (yes) is in a box in the woods. this could’ve been foreshadowing ennard and molten freddy and stuff? especially with the first story. william is the burglar that killed five kids. henry found them and put them together best he could and buried them. “later that night there was a knock at the door” could’ve been alluding to the time he was arrested and charged

Wait, the "kind man" was worried about "someone breaking into "one of their five homes." Candy cadet is warping the story. The kids' adoption was actually five kidnappings. There weren't five orphanages that housed one orphan each. There were five abductions of children who weren't orphans. The "burgler" was probably somebody who came to free the children. And somewhere in the untold part of the story, the kids were killed and put into suits. The kind man interprets the destruction of the machines as his own children being murdered. And he melts the machines together.

10:33 if I recall correctly candy cadet was planed to be a threat in unc as he appeared in the og line up Scott teased tho I can’t find why he was cut or what he would’ve done. 19:25 im sorry wth you can’t just say something like that and expect no back up questions. First off why was a cat on (I assume) your windshield? Was it your cat or a stray, and where you driving threw a flower field in spring to get said windshield covers in pollen? My god I’m so confused and I’d greatly appreciate backstory

My head cannon is that Jeremy is the woman, and he has the scar from his previous dealing with Glitchtrap (the witch)

The main reason I am watching your videos is that I like your voice, but I enjoy the fnaf conent as well.

The most popular interpretation ive heard of The Kittens and the Snake story is that its an allegory for William and Henrys relationship. The kittens represent children and the snake represents William. Henry loved children but he also loved his friend William. And just like the boy knew that the snake could be dangerous but loved it too much to get rid of it, Henry knew something was off about William but he didn't want to lose his friend. His inaction and willful ignorace led to the death of the children.

So my take on the Help Wanted 2 story, at least for the Vanessa angle, is this. Vanessa likely is an Afton or Afton Parallel. Considering Micheal would have been old father or grandpa age, maybe a cousin or something that shared an abusive household cycle... Tangents aside, Vanessa as a little girl could have been scarred by her father mentally, making her have daddy issues and obey under threat of grave consequences. As she became an adult and got taken over partially by Glitchtrap, which itself was a mimicry of Afton himself (also no doubt an abusive dad), so Vanessa obeyed but still fought control. Gregory, being a small boy into video games, and likely someone who before Security Breach had a family (because how would he become Patient 46 without a parent having a connection with FE?) and probably got his brain more thoroughly hacked by Glitchtrap. Then he helped the Mimic take over Vanessa the rest of the way, and then Gregory somehow got released from control or both have an alter ego. After SB, Vanessa adopts Gregory and the rest is basically history. Also, it could be Cassie's Dad/Bonnie Bro. He may be an old dad but men can have kids when they're basically 80 so it's not impossible. He was probably one of the employees who was killed by Gregory, and was scarred for life from Fredbear's (or even the bite of 87 if anyone goes by that logic). If Bonniebro was a technician he likely was in similar situations as Micheal except with less actual idea of what was happening. Plus with the Fall fest situation, it makes sense that if William wanted to cheap out on fire hazard prevention in the Circus, Bonniebro likely was the laser tag kid along with the other bullies. (while Crying Child would have been the kid on the Ferris Wheel as we read in the survival Logbook.) And (both) attractions, as well as every other thing at Fall fest caught fire. Bonniebro, Micheal, the bullies, Crying Child, and more were likely traumatized by such a massive burndown of Fallfest, with Fredbear's, Freddy's, Circus Baby's, and more all just compiling trauma for everyone around.

My favorite part of FNAF lore is that Michael canonically bought him

I read the second story like this: Henry knew William for a long time, and through that time he realized that deep inside William was a troubled man who had terrible desires. But even still Henry also knew that William had some good in him, he was very smart, he could charm his way out of a bad situation, William was far too good at looking good in public. So as a way to keep William bound to a place, a way to keep him from doing something terrible, Henry opened Fredbear’s with William. He knew very well that William had a voracious appetite when it came to things, from machines to business, William was always after more, bigger and better prospects. Fredbear’s was like a giant cage, a place where William could release his inner machinations without letting his dark impulses take over. Fredbear’s for a time was successful, no doubt in part because of William’s charisma and the many machines he made. But eventually William grew too big for that cage and it was only a matter of time before he tried to get out, then one day an opportunity presented itself, a way for William to free himself both metaphorically and physically. After he killed Charlie, and the Crying Child died, William was no longer allowed at Fredbear’s due to the police investigation. He was free, and that one child wasn’t enough to satisfy his cravings, he needed more, so that’s what he did. Now freed from Fredbear’s and Henry’s watchful eye, William went to Freddy’s and the MCI happened. Maybe it was willful ignorance on Henry’s part, but for whatever reason he felt regret for his choices and tried to make it right in the end, but his definition of making it right wasn’t what was desired by those he was trying to help. In the end it was self servicing, a way for him to relieve himself of the guilt he felt without questioning whether or not he should simply leave things alone. Ultimately his efforts creating a monstrosity that desecrated the graves of those he wronged through inaction. He created a monster in an attempt to bring peace to those who died. I think that by reading into the last bit we can gleam some of the story we didn’t see, for example what tearing the snake open represents in universe would be Henry found all of the broken animatronic parts that William left before he got springlocked and he put them together. IE; maybe Lefty was created using pieces of the old animatronics melted into new shapes, it would also explain why Charlie felt comfortable enough around it to let her guard down and get caught. Or given new lore, it could also mean that those old pieces are stuck in the Tangle/Blob. Granted this is just how I read it given the context of Pizzeria Simulator’s story.

21:36 I think that story is about the FNAF 6 gang, the family is known as Molten Freddy, Scrap Baby, Scraptrap and Lefty. The meal is known as the kids. Their opportunity that they missed as to kill the kids and they missed that bc it was a trap that Henry and Michael set up. And they died due to the fire. So that story is talking about FNAF 6 ending.

Anyone else notice that in ruin some worker just decided to re-design candy cadet even thought HE WAS LITTERALLY BURNED 😂😂😂😂😂 Edit: in 8 hours, IT GOT A HEART

Further along and a new thought... If Candy Cadet is being programmed with these "Stories" who and why are two Questions you really need to answer before you take his words for anything.

Hey, just a quick hint for the "figurative key" part. The "she" is actually refering to baby, and the "melting the keys to save them" refers to molten freddy. Molten freddy has the souls of 5 victims, and they were convinced to merged based on baby's suggestion that it would make freedom easier.

I've always interpreted the key story as someone failing to save one because they wanted to save 5, about how sometimes too much compassion is bad, a short explanation tho

“Not every story has to be about something Orville. Sometimes a person just wants to talk, why does it have to be a story?” - Mr Hippo

My guess is that Stan's budget tech is a company made by henry to give insight to the manager on why this has to be done, with fruity maze, midnight motorist and candy cadet to give backstory.

I like the idea that agony is what posses CC. He’s not haunted, but filled with the thoughts and feelings of those around him. Imagine if the 5 things becoming one WAS CC. Like he’s all the original souls. I don’t thinks it’s happened in canon, but it’s a fun thought

Fnaf's lore/implications sometimes makes me shrug aggressively. Glad to hear you're feeling better tho!

“Basically exposition hidden behind a riddle built on a wibbily wobbily foundation that someone else could easily misunderstand the details” is literally the entire lore design ethos post fnaf3.

Dude, why did they change his design when moving him to Ruin? He looks so much better in Pizza Sim. (I'm not talking about him being damaged).

In a way, he is a soothsayer who sells candy and hints via his stories. He was somehow tuned into things as the overall “Greek Chorus” to the series over story for the player.

Okay so I haven't listened to the full story but the story that Candy Cadet tells in the basement during Ruin kinda gave me an idea. I agree with the idea that it's Vanny/Mimic/Gregory, that whole shebang, but it also could be read as the Afton family, to me. Ignoring timeline, specific. William was making things in the basement. His children heard them moving. He told them not to worry. His wife sang them a lullaby to sleep (assuming Ballora is based on the wife, it'd make sense if she sang a lullaby, and that's why Ballora has one) and then the creature learns it. Then the rest of the story happens. Again, this is ignoring the timeline and probably key details, but it's just interesting to me, to think about.

After cross-referencing all of his stories, I've noticed a reoccurring quality to them - not every inch of each story is reflective of the events they're alluding to. There are placeholder elements in each one that are essentially red herrings. After cutting out certain elements from each story, each one ends up nigh-perfectly reflecting an event that actually occurred in the canon. So they're stories for people who are already in the know of what they mean - the only people who know what to cut out and interpret in the first place. Or, at least that's the intent. Which means they're probably not stories that provide new information and more stories that make you think; "Wait, why does this random candy dispenser robot know about that?" It's sort of in the same vein as the fruit punch and lemonade clowns occasionally threatening to cut your throat, it's an attempt to unnerve and perplex, as well as to give Candy Cadet his own character as a being who knows things he has no right knowing. The only times he gives information on something that we 'shouldn't' already know is in Ruin when he talks about the Mimic.

As someone who has been a fan since the beginning when I was about 12 and I stopped paying attention around sister location because things got way too confusing hearing the nice man story for the first time absolutely blew me away wth

The problem with Candy Cadet is that, in a game where lore is hidden EVERYWHERE, I don't like that it's hidden in a robot that tells stories... Is a take? It's one I don't get, but the video was entertaining regardless~! Kinda wanna see more now.

We were so close to getting a modern day fnaf video essay that doesn’t have the princess quest song in the background.

11:50 that pronunciation of "lullaby" is so satisfying.

Great video! Love the interpretations too! Regarding the story in Ruin, do you think the moment Mimic tricked Gregory with Vanessa's voice was towards the end of SB, when Vanessa says something like "What are you still doing here? The doors are open! ... I think you deserve a reward. Go to the main stage..." I know it's hard to tell since there was so much cut content, but I did always find it strange that Vanessa's tone shifted from annoyed to, coaxing? In that one line. Just a thought...

I honestly like Candy Cadet. He does not tell us anything new or exclusive, he just recycles some pre-existing bits of story in a way to make us think about how it all goes together. It's the coolest thing in the series because it provides us the fun of speculation without the downsides. If only the rest of the storytelling was this nice to us, lmao. Everything else seemingly has to give us a new angle and it completely wrecks everything because some bits just can't logically extend, but it is pushed to.

I love Candy Cadet and his cryptic stories. Probably the best addition to the series. Hope he comes back later to tell us stories for quarters. Stories that may or may not be a summary of what happened in the series or not.

Hmm... What if Vanessa was an attempted victim of Williams, who got away? That would be her escaping the oven, only to come back later as an adult. It's just a small thing. I also have no clue what the time between these ganes is so idk.

when the candy cadet ad story was going I was fully expecting NotAName to segue into a sponsorship with a company that's like hellofresh but only for pizza. Like, a pizza subscription service or smth

Candy cadet is my lover.

Candy Cadet probably has the mimic 01 programming which makes his ruin funnier because he’s basically exposing himself. Also under glitchMXES mimic is trying to stop mimic His greatest enemy is himself

Regarding Gregory “meeting” the mimic I’m sure it happened but it can’t have copied his voice/actions in that time alone, the first thing he says when Cassie enters the room is “I’m Gregory” in the exact same tone that Gregory did to Freddy at the beginning of security breach, so he can’t have copied his character post game with lines he specifically said (in a weird way mind you so we would remember it). Either way we see his bag down there but also a concrete wall as well as faz-wrench spots and we have not seen either Gregory or Vanessa with a faz-wrench but it’s still possible we just can’t confirm HOW the mimic is mimicking Gregory yet.

I do like the idea that Candy Cadet is like he 8-bit minigames. A spirit is able to interact with electronics and reuse parts to tell a story. The 8-bit minigames always felt like hijacked arcade games trying to communicate with the player. I would guess the versions of the games that were released by the "Indie Dev" were probably the main games, without those mini games. If Cassidy, the princess, is the 'video game' spirit, it's possible she has been trying to reach out the the player(s) of those games to tell them the truth, and FNAF World is sort of the culmination of that video game hijacking. The Logbook showing us a similar power being used by the Bite Victim, able to alter the text of the book to interact with the real world. The Bite Victim, whoever was 'attached' to Golden Freddy, etc don't have functional bodies to interact with the world, so they use other ghostly powers to do so, by altering existing things to try to communicate. They are limited in what they can do by the medium through which they are trying to communicate. They can't just make something new, it has to be fashioned out of existing stuff. ------ On the kind man story: If we go with Henry, the home is the restaurant. He felt that kids would be safe there, but he was wrong. The single coffin thing could be describing the actual gameplay of FNAF6. Henry is going to bury all of the children in one place.

LONG ASS COMMENT WARNING: Candy Cadet revels a major problem with Fnaf's story since arguably even fnaf 2s release, but has been getting more and more of a problem since then. It never really gives a direct answer. Think about it, even now, we STILL don't know who did the bite of 87, we STILL don't know the crying child's name, and we STILL don't know what's in the box, and we'll probably never know the definitive answer to any of these questions. All we can really do is try and do Sherlock Holmes level guesswork to try and come up with an answer that MIGHT, keyword MIGHT, be correct. "Oh, well it's PROBABLY mangle", "Well, It MIGHT be Evan", "I mean, MAYBE it's the puppet". We can only really go off with a bunch of maybe's, probably's, and might's. I think the worst has to come from help wanted 2. In the first help wanted, there was "tape girl" who was a basic exposition character to explain the origins of glitchtrap and explains what his deal is while also giving basic story info (I.E how help wanted was a game made to help freddys image, etc) , however, in help wanted 2? No tapes, no explanation, no story info, no dice. A lot of stuff just kind of "happens" in help wanted 2 and your just left their to kind of just "guess" what's even going on. Who where playing as, what the endings mean, what vanny's deal is, not a damn thing. It's a mystery, with no clues to find, or rather, their are a few clues to find, you just need to get the books to find them, and even that is becoming harder to decipher as time goes on. Of course, I'm not saying we need everything spelled out, one of the reasons fnaf got so big was in part due to the mystery of the first game after all, but it just becomes frustrating when if feels like every single plot point has 5-6 cryptic hints that only vaguely gesture towards it, and about 2-3 of them are complete dead ends. Again, it's a mystery, with no clues to find.

Snake and the kittens, sounds a bit like Henry and William's relationship, like Henry knew his business partner was fucked up, and he was so spineless that he was willing to let William have maybe one or two kids. Little did he know one of them would be his own daughter.