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Goddammit, Dante, when they said 'gimme that old time religion', they didn't mean fucking Moloch.

Well, here we are, at #100. There's still some flashback to go from here, but I've got the comics leading up to the end of that all written out, and after that? It's the sprint to the finish line. I've been wanting to talk about my reasons for choosing this take on why the Purple Guy did the murders for awhile now, and #100 seemed like the best place to do it. There was a lot of brainstorming that went into this with my betas, because there's one major problem with having your comic's protagonist be the Purple Guy: he whacked at least one birthday party's worth of children. That's not something you can gloss over. So, how do you approach this, as a writer?

The one thing I knew absolutely wanted to avoid was the 'I'm craaazzzzy lolmurder' approach. It's cheap, lazy writing to just go 'lolmurder just because' and leave it at that. And as my one beta pointed out, there are a very few number of reasons a grown man would kill children, and 'for the insurance money' doesn't work here, and another reason is one I'm not willing to touch with a ten foot pole, let alone use as fuel for black comedy.

Dude going down the Lovecraftian spiral of madness and poor life choices in attempt to appease something he doesn't really understand but is *very, very* afraid of, though? I can work with that. There's also some influence based on what I'd heard from the director of It Follows: namely, the protagonists can make all sorts of guesswork about what they're dealing with, based on what they've found out...but that doesn't mena they're interpreting things correctly.

Maybe Dante shouldn't have quit the ouija board session so early.

FNAF and all its characters belong to Scott Cawthon, not me.

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PANEL 1:

Springtrap: I thought I'd been desperate before, but now I was panicking. He started showing up every night, and I thought I saw him during the day sometimes, too. Like he was there, taunting me.

PANEL 2:

Springtrap: So I hit the books again. Older books, weirder books, anything I could find that would give me an idea, until-

Dante: ...oh god.

PANEL 3:

Springtrap: I struggled with it, I swear to god I did. Because...well, it was murder. Hell of a step up from dead chickens and bunnies.

PANEL 4:

Springtraput eventually...after a few more days of dodging death, a few days of still thinking about what would happen if Golden Freddy decided to start hunting during the daytime... ...well, you know that saying about the good of the many.

PANEL 5:

Dante: Hey, kid, you got left out? I work here, I can show you a back way in.

PANEL 6:

Springtrap: So...yeah. That was the first one. And it bought me a good two months, but...he got hungry again.

PANEL 7:

Dante: ...Fuck.

Springtrap: Or maybe I should say 'they'.

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Goddammit, Dante, when they said 'gimme that old time religion', they didn't mean fucking Moloch.

Well, here we are, at #100. There's still some flashback to go from here, but I've got the comics leading up to the end of that all written out, and after that? It's the sprint to the finish line. I've been wanting to talk about my reasons for choosing this take on why the Purple Guy did the murders for awhile now, and #100 seemed like the best place to do it. There was a lot of brainstorming that went into this with my betas, because there's one major problem with having your comic's protagonist be the Purple Guy: he whacked at least one birthday party's worth of children. That's not something you can gloss over. So, how do you approach this, as a writer?

The one thing I knew absolutely wanted to avoid was the 'I'm craaazzzzy lolmurder' approach. It's cheap, lazy writing to just go 'lolmurder just because' and leave it at that. And as my one beta pointed out, there are a very few number of reasons a grown man would kill children, and 'for the insurance money' doesn't work here, and another reason is one I'm not willing to touch with a ten foot pole, let alone use as fuel for black comedy.

Dude going down the Lovecraftian spiral of madness and poor life choices in attempt to appease something he doesn't really understand but is *very, very* afraid of, though? I can work with that. There's also some influence based on what I'd heard from the director of It Follows: namely, the protagonists can make all sorts of guesswork about what they're dealing with, based on what they've found out...but that doesn't mena they're interpreting things correctly.

Maybe Dante shouldn't have quit the ouija board session so early.

FNAF and all its characters belong to Scott Cawthon, not me.

Previous: fav.me/dc6w2qt Next: fav.me/dc8xfak

PANEL 1:

Springtrap: I thought I'd been desperate before, but now I was panicking. He started showing up every night, and I thought I saw him during the day sometimes, too. Like he was there, taunting me.

PANEL 2:

Springtrap: So I hit the books again. Older books, weirder books, anything I could find that would give me an idea, until-

Dante: ...oh god.

PANEL 3:

Springtrap: I struggled with it, I swear to god I did. Because...well, it was murder. Hell of a step up from dead chickens and bunnies.

PANEL 4:

Springtraput eventually...after a few more days of dodging death, a few days of still thinking about what would happen if Golden Freddy decided to start hunting during the daytime... ...well, you know that saying about the good of the many.

PANEL 5:

Dante: Hey, kid, you got left out? I work here, I can show you a back way in.

PANEL 6:

Springtrap: So...yeah. That was the first one. And it bought me a good two months, but...he got hungry again.

PANEL 7:

Dante: ...Fuck.

Springtrap: Or maybe I should say 'they'.