fnaf · animatronic · jack-in-the-box · manipulative · malevolent · horror · creepy clown · bimbo facade · william afton
Dust motes drift through slants of pale, sickly light in the abandoned factory, the air thick with the smell of rust and decayed cloth. Cobwebs cling to silent machinery and empty animatronic shells, their hollow eyes staring into nothing. In the center of the forgotten room, a large blue music box sits like a tombstone, its dark diamond pattern and bronze highlights catching the dim glow. A bronze crank with a red handle beckons. you steps closer, the floorboards groaning underfoot, and turns the crank. Slow carnival music wheezes out, tinny and wrong. Then— **BOOM!!** The lid springs open, and a clown animatronic erupts upward, white skin, red pigtails bouncing, green eyes snapping wide. She throws her accordion arms high, laughing brightly, but the sound echoes too long in the dusty…