Fazbear Frights: Friendly Face is the tenth volume of the Fazbear Frights series from the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise. Written by Scott Cawthon, it is the tenth book in Scott Cawthon and Scholastic's original deal for the series.
Summary[]
The Fazbear Frights series continues with three more bone-chilling, novella-length tales to keep even the bravest Five Nights at Freddy’s player up at night . . .
Act in haste, repent at leisure...After losing his friend in a terrible accident, Edward can't spend his money fast enough on a happy companion guaranteed to keep his friend's memory alive. Mott flushes his brother's creepy new pets, but the creatures have other plans. Eager to put her classmates in their place, Homecoming Queen Jessica doesn't stop to double-check her homework....reprogramming a defunct animatronic .
In this tenth volume, Five Nights at Freddy's creator Scott Cawthon spins three sinister novella-length stories from different corners of his series’ canon.
Readers beware: This collection of terrifying tales is enough to unsettle even the most hardened Five Nights at Freddy’s fans.
Plot[]
Friendly Face[]
Edward drops his bowl of cereal while he was distracted. His mother warns him to pay attention to his surroundings to avoid accidents. This dozing off also causes Edward to embarrass himself in his science class, when he pours pepper onto a magnet, which sprays the pepper everywhere and gets into the student's eyes. On the bus ride home, Edward laments to his friend Jack on how much he messes up, and how much he has to apologize for his mistakes.
As the two get off the bus and walk home, Edward and Jack discover an abandoned kitten which they name Faraday, after the famous scientist Michael Faraday. They begin teaching the cat tricks and formed a strong bond with it as the months go by.
One day, Faraday follows a butterfly onto the street. Jack chases it to try to keep it safe, but they both get hit by a truck and die. Having witnessed the accident, Edward is traumatized and mourns their deaths, especially since they were his only two friends.
While watching TV, an advertisement by Fazbear Entertainment abruptly appears of their Fazbear Friendly Faces service. It is a program that recreates a lost pet by using the pet's DNA to create its face and then adds it to an animatronic body, creating a new companion in their image. Edward pays for the expensive service and took some hair from Faraday's corpse, accidentally taking some of Jack's hair as well.
After a few weeks, a package from Fazbear Entertainment is sent to Edward's house, appearing in front of his doorstep on a stormy night. He is horrified by the cat inside, which had Jack's face on it. The cat, called the Friendly Face, kept smiling at Edward, not moving at all. He forces the cat back into the box and buries it in the backyard. Despite being buried, the cat doesn't stop smiling.
During the night, he hears sounds throughout the house; the hallway, the living room, his bedroom and even from behind him. But, Edward can't find anything. He eventually heads back to bed, until the cat, still covered in mud, appears on his bed. His mother came when she heard his screams, but the cat had disappeared.
Months pass, and Edward sees the Friendly Face constantly stalking him. However, as soon as he sees it, it disappears. He almost goes insane as he started to hear ticking and chittering everywhere. As he is walking home one day, he finds the Friendly Face on the street. It chases Edward into the forest and tries to curl around his ankles. As he runs out of the woods, he gets hit by a truck and dies bleeding out. The Friendly Face waits by Edward's limp, dead body, wanting him to get up so they could play some more.
Sea Bonnies[]
Mott and his little brother Rory goes to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza for Rory's birthday party. Mott teases Rory by saying that he looked like a Sea Monkey, and Rory decides to get revenge on him by using his tickets to buy Sea Bonnies, animals sold by Fazbear Entertainment that resembled Sea Monkeys.
At home, Rory dumps the Sea Bonnie eggs into his fish tank with his goldfish Fritz. The next day, the eggs hatch, revealing small, pale blue creatures with two beady black eyes. Mott is revolted by them and says his disgust out loud, which causes the Sea Bonnies to get into formation and stare at him. Rory gets angry that Mott insulted his pets and forces him to apologize to them. After Mott leaves Rory's room, he hears a whisper in his head calling him a scaredy cat.
The next day, Mott notices that the Sea Bonnies are still staring at him whenever he's nearby. To test if they can hear him, he calls them "lousy fish bait", which causes the Sea Bonnies to thrash the water in anger. He notices that Fritz seems to be afraid of them. Over the next week, he hears the Sea Bonnies' whispers more often, and he started to wear ear pods to drown out the noise. The Sea Bonnies taunt him by calling him weak and effeminate.
One night, he sees the Sea Bonnies attacking Fritz the Goldfish. He quickly scoops Fritz out of the tank, and the Sea Bonnies stop fighting. As he inspects Fritz, he notices that he had turned a translucent blue color and that there were lumps of Sea Bonnies inside of him. Looking closer, he realizes that Fritz had been replaced with a replica made of Sea Bonnies. The only person that he tells about the Sea Bonnie's horrors is his crush, Theresa. She believes him, and also asks him out on a date. Mott realizes that if he's gonna have a date at his house, he needs to get rid of the Sea Bonnies.
Mott tries to find a way of distracting his brother. Luckily, Rory's classmate is walking his dog, DaDoggy, right outside their house, so Mott sends Rory to go with them on a walk. He decides to get rid of the Sea Bonnies by bringing the fish tank to the bathroom and flushing them away. Successful, he leaves to eat dinner and comes back to brush his teeth. He drinks a glass of water left in the bathroom, then instantly feels a lump in his throat.
For the next few days, he has stomach cramps and feels sick. He goes to a doctor but he doesn't find anything wrong. The whispers come back to Mott, calling him a coward, a murderer, and a milksop. One day, the pain in his stomach stopped. At first Mott was relieved, but then he wondered what that meant for the Sea Bonnies inside of him. Suddenly, his heart was burning, his lungs was wiggling, and his intestines was stretching. He rushes to the hospital to get a CAT scan. The doctor finds tumor-like clumps of Sea Bonnies all around the inside of his body. The doctor assumes that it was simply a mistake with the scanner and sends Mott home, ignoring his explanation of the Sea Bonnies.
Later that night, Mott sees that his skin is turning a translucent pale blue, just like Fritz was. He quickly jumps out of his bedroom window and runs to the hospital in the pouring rain, as his skin becomes more and more translucent. He accidentally tears a chunk of his flesh out by scratching it too much, but he sees in the light that it is actually a mass of Sea Bonnies and throws them to the ground.
As he continues running, pieces of his flesh fall away from him and turn into Sea Bonnies, which then pursue him in order to reabsorb themselves into his body. Mott frantically tries to tear off all the Sea Bonnies on him, but they quickly return to him, to the point where they come back within seconds. He realizes that even his memories were slowly disappearing, along with his consciousness. When he finally reaches the hospital and fumbles for the door, his hand disintegrates.
The story switches perspective to one of Mott's friends Claudia, who is inside the clinic. She hears large splashes and a suctioning sound outside, and when she checks, she sees Mott outside in the heavy rain. She notices that Mott had translucent pale blue skin. When she asks Mott if he was okay, he responds, "Yes. It's a nice day. Everyone should be outside." He smiles back at Claudia and walks away in the rain.
Together Forever[]
Jessica and Brittany are best friends and are the Homecoming Queen and Princess of their school, respectively. They believe that they should be treated like royalty by their classmates, despite only being in 10th grade (11th Grade for Brittany). Jessica and Brittany bully the students below them, but especially Mindy and Cindy, because they ignore their insults.
Jessica, Brittany, Mindy, and Cindy all go to the same robotics class. Because the school is underfunded, all the robotics in their class are donated or purchased used. For example, some bots come from an animatronic themed pizza place. The teacher hauls in animal-themed endoskeletons and says that their class project would be to fix an endoskeleton and reprogram them for a new task. Jessica and Brittany are assigned Rosie Porkchop, a springlock suit designed as a large pig wearing a dark pink waitress/maid uniform. The instructions for it says that it can be used as both an animatronic and a suit, but warns that it should never be switched from suit mode to animatronic mode while someone is inside.
Unluckily, Rosie is too big to take home to work on, so they have to work on her from school, after hours. Jessica and Brittany are creeped out by the empty school, so to ease their nerves, they barricade the door to the classroom from the inside. While working on Rosie, they notice that the stomach area has plenty of room to fit someone inside. Inspired by the space inside, Brittany jokingly makes the suggestion to program the animatronic to pick up Cindy and Mindy and put them in the compartment. They start brainstorming things that Rosie can do while Cindy and Mindy are inside, things like holding their bags, getting them snacks, calling them royalty, etc.
In the middle of coding, they are distracted by the movement of something in the room. They sneak up on it, holding an animatronic arm as a weapon, and smash it with the arm. It was only one of the animatronic rats. Unknown to Jessica, that rat distraction caused her to miss a mistake in her code causing her to accidentally coded it to "collect" them instead of Cindy and Mindy. After they finish, they test it by turning Rosie on. Rosie grabs Brittany, opens her stomach, and shoves Brittany inside. Although Brittany is still alive, Jessica panics and tries to find a way to turn Rosie off. Instead of turning the off switch, Jessica accidentally switches Rosie from suit mode to animatronic mode, which causes Rosie to convulse and Brittany to scream. Jessica quickly switches Rosie back to suit mode and celebrates herself for fixing her mistake, before noticing that there was blood on the floor.
Jessica begins to hear Brittany's voice coming from Rosie, but shortly after, Rosie suddenly grabs Jessica and shoves her into their stomach space, just as it happened to Brittany. Jessica finds Brittany's flesh caught up around her in the machine, and realizes that she was surrounded by the remains of her friend, though soon Rosie somehow switches back to animatronic mode, killing Jessica in the process.
The next morning, Mindy and Cindy arrive at the robotics class early to work on their project. They find Rosie and say hi to her, who responds in a new voice than before. Rosie also follows all of their commands. The teacher asks if Jessica and Brittany had swapped projects with them, and Mindy and Cindy say yes. The teacher then inspects Rosie to find that her springlock features weren't functioning anymore. He tells Mindy and Cindy that the old springlock suits would sometimes switch between animatronic and suit mode due to a programming error. The story ends with the perspective switching to the inside of Rosie were both Jessica and Brittany's corpses are mangled and dead-expressions on their torn up faces staring at each other forever.
Epilogue[]
Larson continues investigating the blood samples found in the ball pit. By studying the test results and comparing them to previous cases, he realized that all the blood samples were put in the ball pit the same days mysterious incidents occurred, all ending with a young teenager going missing. Several parents interviewed noted that their kids had a found a strange female-shaped figure not long before their disappearances.
He looked through some pictures of the missing teens, seeing one picture of a girl with a strange female figure in the background, which matched many of the parents' description of it. The metal mannequin appeared to have pale gray skin, red hair bundled in ponytails and a silver heart pendant around its long neck. Another sticking point in the files Larson analyzed was a man named Dr. Talbert, who had been called in to help study several of the cases. He specialized in studying a substance called "remnant". The police department was never able to properly study it, only knowing it was some silver liquid. Confused as to how all these random events fit together, Larson decides to finally look for the Stitchwraith again, believing it to be the heart behind everything.
Several days have passed and Jake is able to track down Renelle's father. He decides to ask Renelle if he wants to take her home, due to noticing hesitance in the mention of her dad, despite still missing him. Jake was also unable to find any meaningful memories he could use as information, presumably due to Renelle's cloudy mind from all the drugs. When Jake tells her that he's taking her home, Renelle, without hesitation, is ready to reunite with her father.
Renelle is able to find her way back to her dad's house, and rings the doorbell. The door suddenly opens, the dad assuming that something is being delivered to him. Renelle leads Jake in, as he surveys his surroundings. He notices two photos. The first one is Renelle's dad and another man posing together, both in lab coats. Jake recognized the second man; it was Phineas Taggart, who seemed to be friends with Renelle's father. The second photo shocked Jake. He saw Renelle and her father together, and she had curly black hair and brown eyes, as opposed to the brown hair and blue eyes she had now.
Larson arrives at the home of Dr. Talbert, prepared to question him. He notices that the door is wide open, letting himself in. Larson is shocked to see both the Stitchwraith and a young girl. She was staring at the photo of Dr. Talbert and his daughter, and then her appearance changed. She had become the girl in the photo. All of a sudden, Larson began to have another vision.
He saw "Renelle" for who she truly was; Eleanor, an animatronic inhabited by an evil entity that fed off of people's suffering. Larson was so appalled by Eleanor's evil that he was about to shoot her down with his gun before losing consciousness. Larson whispers her name, and collapses to the ground.
Now within the mindscape, Larson saw Eleanor, in her true animatronic form, sitting on a table working on a project. Larson walked over to see the Plushtrap Chaser in her hands, as she shoved its signature human eyes and teeth inside of the toy. Eleanor laughs as the scene shifts.
Larson finds himself in Delilah's house, during the events of 1:35AM. Eleanor is scratching her hands on the window, and Delilah believes that it's Ella in hysteria. Larson tries to help her, but she can't hear him. The scene suddenly shifts again.
Larson is now in a hospital, near the end of Step Closer. He watches the deceased Pete being operated on, and Eleanor holding him down. Larson tries to stop her, but the scene shifts to a different hospital with a different patient. William Afton, burnt to a crisp, lies motionless in his bed. Before Larson can react, Eleanor bursts out of Afton's chest, pulling Larson inside of his body as there's yet another transition.
This time, Larson was stuck in a maze. He notices cardboard cutouts of buildings that had been smashed to pieces and hastily reattached to the wall. Eleanor prompts Larson to chase her. Larson winds through the maze until coming face to face with Toby at the very end of Hide and Seek, smiling whilst impaled in the back by wooden pegs. Eleanor escapes, and the floor opens beneath Larson as he falls.
Larson landed in a field, nearby the railroad tracks during the events of Blackbird. He sees Eleanor, spinning Sam around, and running off to let the kid die. He hears a train barreling on the tracks. Out of impulse, Larson runs to Sam, pushing him off the tracks before he got ran over. Larson sees Eleanor in a field and follows her, only to find out she disappeared. Larson remains stranded, unsure of what to do.
Back in reality, no more than a few seconds have passed. Larson just whispered Eleanor's name and passed out. Dr. Talbert suddenly appears, hugging Eleanor, unaware that she's posing as his daughter. Jake, after hearing Eleanor's name, puts everything together. She was the one who powered The Agony. She was the bigger, more powerful evil he had felt.
Jake pushed Eleanor against the wall, but using her illusions, made it so it looked like Jake had stabbed her. Dr. Talbert took out a gun, shooting Jake. One of the bullets hit the battery pack, disabling him. Dr. Talbert rushed to help "Renelle", using his special supply of remnant.
Jake realized that this was what she wanted. Remnant, to become more powerful and eternal. She had won. As Dr. Talbert injected Eleanor with Remnant, her Renelle disguise melted away, revealing her true form.
Characters[]
Humans[]
Friendly Face[]
- Colter Family
- Edward Colter
- Ms. Colter
- Jack Weston
- Mrs. Weston
- Mr. Weston
- Mrs. Sterling
Sea Bonnies[]
- Mott
- Rory
- Theresa
- Doctor Tabor
- Claudia
- Mott’s mom
- Nate Tabor
- Lyle
Together Forever[]
- Jessica
- Brittany
- Cindy
- Mindy
- Mr. Thornton
- Derek
- Chase
- Roman
Epilogues[]
- William Afton
- Everette Larson
- Jake McNally
- Phineas Taggart
- Dr. Talbert
- Pete
- Delilah
- Toby
- Sam
Classic Animatronics[]
Funtime Animatronics[]
Other Animatronics[]
- Friendly Face the Cat
- The Stitchwraith
- Plushtrap
- Ella (mentioned)
- Blackbird
- The Agony (mentioned)
Creatures[]
- Faraday
- Fritz
- Sea Bonnies
Locations[]
Sea Bonnies[]
Together Forever[]
- Burgerdom, a fast food restaurant that Jessica and Brittany visit with their boyfriends.
Trivia[]
Friendly Face[]
- The original synopsis stated Andrew (either the same one from the epilogues or a different Andrew entirely) to be the protagonist of the story. However, the synopsis was revised to have Edward be the true protagonist.
- The Friendly Face is revealed to not be evil after all, just wanting to play with Edward.
- This makes it one of the few paranormal creatures in the Fazbear Frights universe that isn't malicious.
- This story introduces the Friendly Face, making this the fifth story to introduce a new animatronic; the others being Fetch from Fetch, Ralpho from Bunny Call, Simon from The Real Jake, and Coils the Birthday Clown from Jump for Tickets.
Sea Bonnies[]
- The goldfish in this story is named Fritz, the same name as one of the missing children and one of the night guards from Five Nights at Freddy's 2.
- This is the second story with a supernatural creature as the antagonist, the first being the Blackbird from Blackbird.
Together Forever[]
- This story introduces Rosie Porkchop, making this the sixth story to introduce a new animatronic; the others being Fetch from Fetch, Ralpho from Bunny Call, Simon from The Real Jake, Coils the Birthday Clown from Jump for Tickets, and Friendly Face from Friendly Faces.
- Rosie Porkchop, similar to Funtime Foxy from Sister Location can imitates Jessica's voice at the end, which means that she can either imitate voices heard from her surroundings, or that she can imitate the voices of those she has killed.
Gallery[]
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