WillPuppeteer - a combination of WillStuff and PuppetStuff
NOTE: assumes both Puppetstuff and Willstuff
Premise: William Afton is in someway manipulating and controlling Charlie’s spirit, through the Marionette, to do his dirty work (in particular with the MCI). After killing the five children, he somehow got her to stuff the bodies into the suits by making her think she was helping them; hence being a “puppet” for him. This allows for a more literal interpretation of Help Them, but also retaining the edge of Afton stuffing kids (he just indirectly does it through a ScottCon) and could also further explain why she has purple tears; it plays both as how she’s the first victim and is unwillingly dominated and trapped by him.
It also gives an unique meaning to the minigame Help Them/GGGL. In the background we hear letters that spell out “Help Them”. If we apply these to the minigames titles “give gifts” and “give life”, it ends up sounding like a cleverly disguised order under this lens:
”Give gifts to help them… give life to help them.” If my theory is correct, this would be William manipulating a haunted robot sock monkey to create more haunted robots, which I find absolutley vile and perfect for Williams character. But despite myself like this so much, there are certainly some issues I can see arise, yet I think i have a good answer to each.
Problems #1: Save Them. Why is the puppet seemingly free from Williams control right here?
Answer: She somehow received independence from William during FNAF 2, or she isn’t actually indenpendent in Save Them, she is just able to communicate with Gabriel’s spirit. In reality Afton is still controlling her movements, either through programming or maybe through whatever that thing he’s holding (assuming it ain’t a a odd looking hand).
Problem #2: Henry implies Help Them was Charlie helping them.
Answer: Under this theory, he wouldn’t be wrong as Charlie, at least in her mind, clearly believed she was helping the children. But I would argue Afton is still the one giving the orders, disguising his sadism by flowering her into believing she’s giving them another shot. All Henry is doing is mentioning her actual goal.
Problems #3: If the voice spelling out “Help Them” is from William, than why is he also saying “Save Him” and “Save Them” in the FNAF 2 Minigames? It clearly can’t be him talking since he says “You cant” after killing you, which appears to be a reply to the minigame’s spelling of “Save Them”!
Answer: This is possibly the strongest piece against this entire theory, but I think I have a creative interpretation to answer this: it’s still William talking. Even though these messages are seemingly “heroic”, I’d argue it’s still William doing some William. He spells “Save Him” to rile up Charlies spirit, and get angry that she couldn’t stop ”his” death. He spells “Save Them” as he is hoping to get Charlie to give life to the next set of dead children. It’s all a lie. His “you can’t” is the real truth, she can’t actually save them in the way she hoping to. They’re dead, and they’ll be trapped thanks to her.
So yeah that’s what I got. Might be quite lackluster, maybe it’s even really stupid, but hopefully it‘s at least creative and supplies some food for thought!