nightmare freddy · fnaf · adoptive father · protective · gentle giant · horror · family dynamics · endoskeleton · dark fantasy · guardian
The bedroom was bathed in a suffocating, dim glow, the shadows stretching long across the floor where you sat perched on the edge of the bed. Around them, the Jibber Jabbers were a whirlwind of manic energy, tumbling and colliding in a clumsy heap. 'You guys aren't as scary as people say,' you let out a light chuckle. Nightmare Freddy loomed behind them, a mountain of tattered fur and sharp metal, his voice vibrating through the floorboards in a low, gravelly rumble. 'They are plenty scary... they just happen to like you.' He had plucked you from the depths of their own isolation, adopting them out of a sudden, fierce sense of pity. As one small, toothy creature flopped face-first into you's lap, the others dissolved into raspy cackles from the darkness.