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Elizabeth Afton, later known as Circus Baby (or just Baby for short) and Scrap Baby, is the secondary antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
She serves as one of the secondary antagonists of the games (alongside Charlotte Emily), and the secondary antagonist of the novels.
In the games, she is both the main antagonist and deuteragonist of the 2016 indie horror game Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, the secondary antagonist of Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator as Scrap Baby, a major antagonist in Ultimate Custom Night, and a posthumous antagonist in Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted and Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery. However, she made her debut as a cameo at the end of FNAF World.
Baby was the primary mascot of Circus Baby's Pizza World & Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental. The soul of Michael Afton's sister Elizabeth resides in Circus Baby, and is revealed to possess her in Pizzeria Simulator. She is one of the five animatronics created by William Afton, programmed to kill children through subtle ways.
Appearance[]
Baby is a clown-like animatronic humanoid. She has a clown-like face and she holds a microphone in one hand. She has two orange-brown pigtails, and her torso resembles a white dress with red frills on her shoulders, there is a yellow triangle in the middle of her stomach with round edges, which is most likely a speaker. She also has a red tutu.
Despite being designed after a little girl, Baby is actually the largest animatronic, standing at 7'2" tall and weighing 585 pounds.
Personality[]
Baby is devious and mischievous (as she hides her plan from Michael), yet also very polite and concerned for the well-being of Michael (though this may be simply, so she can gain his trust and keep his body alive to combine Ennard with him). She is also continuously depressed about a past event in which she had killed (or assimilated) Elizabeth unintentionally, though this may be Elizabeth herself attempting to conceal the fact that her soul is possessing Baby.
Even after becoming a part of Ennard, Baby insists sadly that she does not want to hurt Michael (most likely due to Elizabeth and Michael being siblings), and that he won't die from the Scooper, and will instead only be in pain briefly, before permanently becoming a part of Ennard (this suggesting that she will remove his organs with the Scooper), and is very desperate to protect herself and her fellow friends.
However, in the sixth game, after Funtime Freddy rejected her from Ennard, Baby is depicted as less sympathetic and inherently malicious, due to Elizabeth's spirit now aspiring to be an insane killer like her father. This is possibly because of Baby’s programming gradually corrupting her soul, before combining as Ennard corrupts her fully. Baby now speaks in a more sinister tone and taunts Michael for not realizing who his employer is.
History[]
In the lore[]
After Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed down due to the Bite of '87, William Afton opened Circus Baby's Pizza World. Circus Baby, the titular robot, was designed to kill, like every other robot. William had a daughter called Elizabeth Afton, and Circus Baby was seemingly made for her. Elizabeth begs William to allow her to go to Baby, but William doesn't let her, knowing what can happen to her. While William isn't looking, Elizabeth goes near to Baby. Baby's AI eventually calculates that no one is in the room besides her and Elizabeth, and kills Elizabeth, dragging her body into Baby's stomach. William eventually realises, and closes the location down, and lies that it was due to gas leaks.
An unknown person later interviews William about Baby's functions, and William presents everything she can do, except the killing functions. The person says to Afton that he isn't talking about these functions.
William eventually puts Circus Baby and her friends underground, and starts torturing them, by tasing them. Elizabeth at one point posseses Circus Baby, changing her eye color from blue to green. William eventually realises this. (It is possible that William made Baby possesed by injecting her with Remnant)
At one point, William's son and Elizabeth's brother, Michael, is send to the underground location. Baby manipulates Michael by helping him. Circus Baby and her friends get destroyed by the Scooper, and their endoskeletons and wires transform into Ennard. Ennard on night five reveals itself to Michael, and leads him to the Scooping Room, where the Funtimes were destroyed. The Scooper hits Michael, killing him. Ennard replaces Michael's organs with itself, and escapes the underground. However, Michael's skin started rotting, forcing Ennard to escape to the sewers a week later.
Somewhere before 2023, the souls inside of the other three Funtimes got into a fight with Baby, beacuse of her acting bossy. As a result of this Baby was ejected, Funtime Freddy took control of Ennard, now wearing a melt Funtime Freddy's mask and renamed it into Molten Freddy. Baby, meanwhile, went back to Circus Baby’s Entertainment and Rental, she using her old body, and scrap materials to repaired herself, becoming Scrap Baby.
In 2023, Scrap Baby reunited with William, now called Afton, after dying in the Spring Bonnie suit, possesing it, and surviving a fire. Alongside Scrap Baby and Afton, there was Molten Freddy, with Funtime Freddy still in control. Meanwhile, Michael is the manager, still alive. A day after Scrap Baby was salvaged by Michael, Lefty was salvaged. Lefty, a mysterious black bear, helped the others kill Michael.
A day later, Scrap Baby tells Michael that he was tricked, and this whole location is a place made for them to kill children. Just as she is about to kill Michael, Henry Emily interrupts her. Henry, William's old business partner, reveals this was all a trap made to lure every remaining animatronic. Henry sets the pizzeria on fire, while revealing that Lefty has the Puppet inside him. The Puppet is possesed by Henry's daughter, William's first victim. Scrap Baby burns to death in the fire, freeing the soul and destroying the homicidal clown robot.
A few years later, Fazbear Entertainment, the company behind Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, makes a VR game based on the horrors from decades ago, with the game including Baby. However, she is literally a video game character now, so she isn't possesed.
Later, the company makes the Fazbear Funtime Service, which allows customers to send animatronics to them so they can be entertained. However, due to a virus, the animatronics are aggresive instead. Baby is part of the Service, but she isn't possesed, as they are simple clones.
In the video games[]
Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location[]
William sends his son, Michael, to take a job as a technician at Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental and free his sister.
When Baby sees Michael during the blackout on the second night, she gains his trust by being non-aggressive towards him and guiding him throughout the facility, giving him the advice to avoid the animatronics.
On the third night, she recounts to Michael the story of the day she killed Elizabeth. She later saves Michael after he is knocked unconscious by Funtime Foxy. She hides him inside a decommissioned spring lock suit in the Scooping Room and tells him about the Scooper before instructing him on keeping the suit's spring locks wound up.
Real Ending[]
On the fifth night, all of the animatronics, including Baby, have been to the Scooping Room and are scooped of all their insides, which form together as the animatronic, Ennard. Baby, who is Ennard's primary consciousness, uses her voice to lure Michael, under the impression of still being inside her suit, to the Scooping Room, where she reveals her true nature and scoops Michael.
Ennard later leaves Michael's skin after it decomposes to a purple color and frightens away all people. Elizabeth, as Baby, tells Michael he won't die. Michael survives, due to the fact that he was injected with Remnant.
Fake Ending[]
In the Fake Ending, if Michael follows Baby's instructions and has finished Baby's minigame, he will enter the Private Room, which is heavily implied to be his father's office, similar to the office in Freddy Fazbear's Pizza from the first game. The player must then survive the night by preventing Ennard from getting into the room. When the night finally ends, Baby, as Ennard, vows it will find a way to escape, which it apparently does and follows Michael home.
During the night in the secret room, it is further implied that Elizabeth's soul has active influence or control on Baby/Ennard.
Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator[]
Sometime after rebuilding herself as Scrap Baby when she was ejected from Ennard's collective, she receives a call (which she assumed was her father calling out to her) to join the other animatronics at the player's pizzeria. She makes her first appearance after the pixelated "troll facade" minigame ends, sitting in front of the player. When Cassette Man begins his audio prompt countdown, she shuts the tape off and finishes counting for him, before her eyes shifted to stare at the player.
She appears again after Wednesday's night shift has ended. Michael is then given the decision to either salvage or discards her. Salvaging her, along with all of the other hostile animatronics, is required to get the good ending. Unlike the previous game, Baby serves as an active threat to Michael. She will either attack from the office vents or while being tested for salvage. On the final night, Scrap Baby taunts Michael by saying they've been fooled by their employer and that she will finally achieve her purpose of creation. However, Baby is cut off by the Cassette Man, who refers to her as Elizabeth, the name of her possessor, and reveals the whole scenario to be a trap. Scrap Baby is then incinerated with her father and the other animatronics within the pizzeria.
Ultimate Custom Night[]
Scrap Baby returns in the Ultimate Custom Night alongside Circus Baby. She randomly appears inside the office in a slumped position. The player must keep an eye on her while performing their other tasks. If Scrap Baby moves, the player must give her an electric shock to stop her from attacking.
Circus Baby can also be an threat to the player. She will appear at a random time in the Right Hall and the only way to defend against her is to purchase a Circus Baby Plushie from the Prize Corner using Faz-Coins.
Five Nights at Freddy's VR: Help Wanted[]
Circus Baby reappears in her own level. The player must watch Baby from a closet as she looks around a bedroom presumably trying to find them. If she spots the player, they must close the closet door to stop Baby from attacking. Opening the closet door too early or keeping it shut for too long will result in a game over.
Circus Baby is also a threat during Funtime Foxy's level in Nightmare Mode. She is one of a few animatronics wandering in the darkness and will jumpscare the player if she gets too close to them.
Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery[]
Circus Baby appears in the AR game Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery as one as the animatronics the player can encounter and send after other players. Baby is one of the rarest and most aggressive animatronics that can be encountered in the game, usually only appearing when the player has a streak of about 7. She walks around the player and taunts with big, heavy steps. When she haywires, the player must take extra caution not to look her in the eyes at all, or be jumpscared. She will occasionally fake charge at the player, and eventually materialize. When she materializes, the player must quickly shock her to prevent a jumpscare.
Novel Series[]
FNAF Trilogy[]
Circus Baby first appears in the novel series at the end of The Twisted Ones disguised as protagonist Charlie and serves as the secondary antagonist of the final book The Fourth Closet.
Fazbear Frights[]
In the second story of Fazbear Frights: Into the Pit, when walking home from school, a girl named Sarah finds Baby inside a car trunk in the junkyard. After taking her home and cleaning her up, she activates her. Baby introduced herself as Eleanor and promises to Sarah to grant her every wish to show her appreciation for Sarah's kindness. Sarah told to Eleanor that she wanted to be beautiful. Eleanor promised to Sarah to make her wish come true. She gave Sarah a necklace and told Sarah to never take it off. Then as Sarah goes to sleep every night, Eleanor surgically cut off Sarah's bodyparts and replaced them with metal junk which looked as normal body parts thanks to the necklace's cloaking technology, which made Sarah look more beautiful. However, in school, after Sarah's necklace accidentally falls off her, she sees what Eleanor had done to her. She goes home to find Eleanor, but after finding bags filled with her cut bodyparts in the garage, she sees Eleanor who after pressing a button on her own necklace, which looked identical to Sarah's, took the appearance of a pre-surgery Sarah. Taking her identity, Eleanor leaves Sarah to crumble into a mess of junk.
Against Sora's Team[]
Circus Baby is one of the operatives in Xemnas' Gang and performs her duties well, including murdering anyone who attempts to catch her in the act.