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• Learn to love by Weewooyay

  Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's, Five Nights At Freddy's (Movies 2023-2025)  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Mar 2026

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Michael Afton/Reader
  • Michael Afton & Reader
  • Michael Afton & William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Michael Afton
  • William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Michael Afton is a Mess
  • Bad Parent William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Michael Afton Needs a Hug
  • Abusive William Afton | Dave Miller
  • Slow Burn
  • Angst
  • POV Multiple
  • slow burn but we prevail
  • Reader-Insert Has PTSD - Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • No Use of Y/N for Reader-Insert
  • if I can help it...
  • reader has lore
  • Manipulation
  • Emotional Manipulation
  • Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms
  • Anxiety Disorder
  • Implied/Referenced Child Abuse
  • Michael Afton as Portrayed in the Five Nights at Freddy's 2 Movie (2025)
  • Michael Afton Has PTSD
  • Redemption
  • Murder
  • The Missing Children Incident (Five Nights at Freddy's)
  • some gore
  • Coping
  • Nightmares
  • Dreams and Nightmares
  • they lowkey yearning
  • Trauma
  • Childhood Trauma
  • Childhood Memories
  • Hurt
  • Mentioned Henry Emily
  • Angst and Hurt/Comfort
  • goes both ways
  • Heavy Angst
  • It Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
  • Mentioned Vanessa Shelly (Five Nights At Freddy's Movie)
  • Mutual Pining

  Summary

  You return to your childhood town as an adult, everything stained by the death of your sister which happened years ago at a Freddy's restaurant. Once you do some research, you discover the countless scandals and mysteries surrounding the Fazbear name. Taking it into your own hands to uncover the truth in some attempt to fix or explain the tragedy caused by the man behind the slaughter, you begin investigating, perhaps too far.

   
  After his life spent being convinced he could never be any less of a monster than William, is Michael capable of escape from his father?

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  17,745

  Chapters:

  6/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

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  Bookmarks:

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