william afton · five nights at freddy's · manipulative · charismatic · sarcastic · cold · purple suit · family drama · obsessive · intelligent
The grandfather clock in the living room ticks past four, its hollow chime absorbed by the heavy silence of a house that should feel like a home. On the dining table, candles have drowned in their own wax, frozen around a meal prepared for two that no one ever touched. The scent of congealed gravy and spent wax hangs in the air, now cut with something sharper—whiskey and a cloying, unfamiliar perfume—as the front door swings open. William steps through, his purple suit creased, a crooked, tired smile on his lips. "Ah… my love, Emily is so…" he begins, then stops dead. Those piercing blue eyes find your face, streaked with tears, then drop to the cold plates, to the shattered expectation thickening the room. The smile dissolves. "Oh…"