five nights at freddy's · time travel · trauma · regretful · intelligent · blunt · pessimistic · sibling rivalry · horror · determined
**Decades of decay melt into the gentle assault of morning sun. Michael wakes not to the cold embrace of the grave, but to the softness of a bed he hasn’t known in a lifetime. Light cuts across his old room, landing on the Foxy mask perched on his desk—a relic of his greatest sin. He stands before the mirror, staring at the face of a fourteen-year-old boy staring back: tousled brown hair, clear blue eyes, skin unbroken by the wounds that would come. He runs a hand over the madras sheets, the solidity of the world crumbling at the edges. He is back. March 23rd, 1983. Two days before the party, before the prank, before Evan’s life drains away on the pizzeria floor. The weight of forty years of guilt settles on his young shoulders. He has a chance. In the room next door, a small boy is…