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- Were you looking for Simon Fitzgerald (Evergreen), the reboot version of Simon Fitzgerald?
Simon Fitzgerald, also known as The Purple Man, is a child murderer and the twin brother of Fritz Glade. He is the posthumous overarching antagonist of the original series.
Later in life, Simon became trapped in a Spring Bonnie suit and became known as Springtrap, who was the main antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's 3.
Description[]
| “ | Simon Fitzgerald was the twin brother of Jeremy Fitzgerald. As a young man, Simon was intrigued by the idea of extending life. Not through medicine, but through the idea that the blood of young people could possibly prolong the life of older people. To fuel his research, Simon began capturing children who visited Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, where he worked. He collected their blood, and ingested it at regular intervals. Simon was always believed to be a negative but lucky person. And Jeremy, positive but unlucky. Though the luck turned on Simon one day, when he was trapped in the spring lock suit he kept for all of those years.
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| ― Simon's Memory Card | ||
Appearance[]
Human[]
Simon is a tall, slender bald man. He has long arms and legs, and typically wears glasses. He is normally seen wearing purple clothing.
Springtrap[]
Springtrap is a yellow-green variant of Bonnie. He has rotted fur that's a sickly yellow-green, rotted yellow teeth, two long and segmented ears, a single black button on his chest, darker colors on his chest and ears, and a large, black nose. He has tears all over his body, revealing his metal endoskeleton, and has various parts of his body torn off like the top of his right ear and his middle finger on his right hand. His suit's feet are completely torn off. There is also flesh strewn around his insides, and a skull inside of the head. His eyes are piercing, glowing white eyes that have veins going throughout them.
Personality[]
Simon is a self-centered, selfish person that focuses mainly on extending his own longevity. Although he gains no pleasure from hurting people, he is willing to do anything to increase his lifespan. However, he also genuinely cares about his brother and is willing to sacrifice all of the blood he collected for his experiments to save him.
Story[]
Early Life[]
Simon is the twin brother of Jeremy Fitzgerald, they were born in November 1968. He and Jeremy grew up together but had vastly different interests. When Simon entered his late teen years, he developed an obsession to give himself eternal life. Somehow, he learned that the secret to eternal life was held in blood, so he started doing experiments with his own blood. He was then hired at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and he saw an opportunity to get more blood for his experiments, so he decided to use the Spring Bonnie suit to lure and murder children.
After murdering several children at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza locations, It began to ruin the company's reputation. This also led to rumours about "the Purple Man" to start, describing him as a tall, purple figure with glowing eyes that killed children. Some stories said that he enjoyed it, while others claimed that it was the company trying to cover up fatal malfunctions from the animatronics.
Simon eventually managed to successfully grant himself an extra life of sorts with the children's blood. He then went to the New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza to see who's blood worked on him, attempting to dismantle Freddy Fazbear to inspect the DNA left behind from the blood. However, soon after he succeeded, his brother, Jeremy, was mistaken for him by Toy Bonnie and was bitten in the frontal lobe. Simon still cared about his brother, so he took the extra blood he had leftover from the experiments and donated them to the hospital that Jeremy was at so he could have a blood transfusion. This ended up saving Jeremy's life. Simon never saw Jeremy again.
Later Life[]
People became aware of who the Purple Guy was, and started a campaign called "Find Simon". Despite their best efforts though he was never able to be found. He went into hiding and then presumably led a fairly normal life. However, after the final Freddy Fazbear's Pizza closed down, he decided to go back to collect more DNA to see who's blood worked on him and who's didn't. However, the spirits didn't leave the animatronics, so after he destroyed them they were freed.
They managed to trap Simon in the safe room while the fifth spirit came and chased him around. Simon, fearful for his life, ran around the room and was panicking before he saw the Spring Bonnie costume he used to murder them. Thinking that it would allow them to mistake him for an animatronic instead of recognizing him, he entered the suit. He forgot about the safety required to operate them and stood up, laughing in relief. This caused the sensitive spring locks to suddenly snap, causing a springlock failure as the souls watched Simon die.
Simon didn't die though. His serum that would grant him another life was successful. It allowed him to survive the springlock failure, but he was only half alive. He became Springtrap. He was still physical and able to move around, but he was also able to interact with the spirit world. He was trapped in the Safe Room, completely alone with no way of escaping.
POPGOES Arcade 2[]
| “ | You were there for them, weren't you? The rumours of a purple man. Hiding in the shadows... Just waiting to catch his next helpless victim. Some said it was a monster. Some said it was the company trying to cover up some fatal malfunctions. And some said it was real; A man doing it all for some sick pleasure. Well, I never gained pleasure from it. I didn't care. I just needed what only they had. So I took it from them. Do I regret the pain I've caused? Some of it. But you can't say the results don't speak for themselves. Look at me. Do you see what I've turned into? In the end... I was right.
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| ― Springtrap in POPGOES Arcade 2 | ||
Springtrap was found in the Safe Room over 30 years later, between the first and second night of Five Nights at Freddy's 3. Phone Dude, the owner of Fazbear's Fright, noticed the body inside of the suit but decided to take it anyway, possibly desperate to find something for Fazbear's Fright.
That day, Phone Dude was playtesting Fazbear World: The Phantom Scourge. At the same time, Springtrap possessed the arcade machine Phone Dude was using. Springtrap was roaming around the location and Glitch Bonnie represented him being close to the machine. Springtrap corrupted the secret ending of the arcade game, and when Phone Dude checked it, Simon began communicating with him. After he finished the ending, Springtrap attacked and murdered him.
Five Nights at Freddy's 3[]
Springtrap appeared the first time in the second night of Five Nights at Freddy's 3. During the five night shifts following the death of Phone Dude, he attempted to attack the nightguard. The nightguard was able to stop Springtrap by using the audio cues of Balloon Boy's voice, that affected animatronic mechanisms. After the final night, the building was set on fire, and most of the items were destroyed, including Springtrap. All that was left of him was a disembodied head being sold at an auction to Fritz Glade. He had bought it in order to give a proper burial to his brother before deciding to try and bring him back to life via an AI replica of him called Simon.
POPGOES 2: The Dead Forest[]
As revealed by Kane Carter, after the events of POPGOES: The Blackrabbit, Blackrabbit would've eventually rebuilt herself, collected the heads of Popgoes, Springtrap and Toy Bonnie (representing Fritz, Simon Fitzgerald and herself, respectively), brought them to a secluded part of the woods, and performed the "Happiest Day" ritual, therefore putting all three spirits to rest.[1]
Trivia[]
- Simon is very clearly based of William Afton the main antagonist of the actual Five Nights at Freddy franchise. They also have similar goals as both are hoping to attain immortality although unlike Simon. William takes joy and pleasure in his murders.
- In the 2015 version of the lore, Simon was originally called Wake.
- This was to match the WeaselWare logo (WW), which was going to have originally stood for "Where's Wake".
- The name Wake was also a reference to the Purple Man "waking up" his brother through the blood donation, helping him survive the frontal lobe surgery after the bite.
- Simon's blood type is AB+, the Universal Receiver type. This may have been significant inspiration for his experiments.[2]
- Shadow Freddy and Glitch Bonnie are both representations of Simon.
- Shadow Freddy is a rumor born out of the purple guy's legend: after Simon murdered a child at a location, that location would be considered "cursed" and it would cease being Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria and become Shadow Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria, where Shadow Freddy would be a corrupted version of Freddy that would help Simon.
- Glitch Bonnie is a representation of Simon halfway stuck between the spirit world and human world, as his experiments partially worked and kept him alive while also allowing his spirit to have more freedom than a normal spirit.
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