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• A New Golden Age (driven by two 80's ghost kids) by Threebark

  Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's  

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  06 Jul 2024

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  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Cassidy & The Crying Child (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Michael Afton/Jeremy Fitzgerald
  • The Crying Child & The Five Missing Children (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • The Crying Child & Charlotte "Charlie" Emily
  • Cassidy & Charlotte "Charlie" Emily
  • Michael Afton & Henry Emily
  • Michael Afton & Jeremy Fitzgerald
  • Charlotte "Charlie" Emily & The Five Missing Children
  • Cassidy/The Crying Child (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Elizabeth Afton & The Crying Child
  • Minor or Background Relationship(s)
  • Cassidy (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Michael Afton
  • Jeremy | Missing Child
  • Fritz | Missing Child
  • Gabriel | Missing Child
  • Susie (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • The Crying Child (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Elizabeth Afton
  • Charlotte "Charlie" Emily
  • Henry Emily
  • William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Jeremy Fitzgerald
  • The Five Missing Children (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Masked Bullies (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Original Characters
  • Phone Guy (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
  • Somebody Lives/Not Everyone Dies
  • The Crying Child is Named Evan Afton
  • Michael Afton is The Crying Child's Older Brother
  • The Crying Child Needs a Hug (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Cassidy Needs a Hug (Five Nights at Freddy’s)
  • The Missing Children Incident (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Crack
  • Crack Treated Seriously
  • Fluff and Angst
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
  • Period-Typical Homophobia
  • Bad Parent William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Implied/Referenced Character Death
  • Character Death
  • Original Character(s)
  • Original Character Death(s)
  • The Afton Family (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Phone Guy Lives (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Phone Guy is Named Scott (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Past Child Abuse
  • Fix-It of Sorts
  • Pre-Game: Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location (2016)
  • Post-Game: Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2014)
  • Pre-Game: Five Nights at Freddy's 1 (2014)
  • Blood and Injury
  • Abusive William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Cassidy is a Little Shit (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • cassidy rubbed off on evan a bit too much
  • Golden duo - Freeform
  • Alternative Timeline
  • because obviously
  • what happens when ghost kids have too much time on their hands
  • Remnant (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • Paranormal
  • abusing ghost powers
  • there should be a tag for attempted world domination
  • Cassidy is a bit OOC
  • but then again no one has any characterization in fnaf except for like two epithets

  Summary

  Remnant, agony, soul energy, generic plot device, whatever epithet or descriptor one uses- ultimately it was just condensed suffering and pain from something sentient made manifest.

  But just because it’s most concentrated and most easily extractable from the pain of human children doesn’t mean that is the only potential source. Nor is living after death the only potential use case.

  ***

  Or Evan and Cassidy get bored of sitting around waiting in an old dusty pizza place in the vague hope that a serial killer will return to the scene of his murder spree and decide to start applying some scientific experimentation to their situation. This somehow evolves into a plan to dismantle the Soviet Union.

  Series

  • Part 1 of Quantifying the Paranormal

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  English

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