<p>Here's the thing, if someone proves something couldn't have happened (such as my deconstruction of the time periods, and how in none of them SAVE THEM could have happened during Jeremy's week), just the fact that something /suggests/ it happened, won't undo the proof.
</p><p>The thing is, Phone Guy NEVER mentions the 5 Missing Children. He mentions SOMETHING doing wrong. Something tragic circling as rumour (since when, we don't know, could have been a long time). And the animatronics starting to act weird around adults after someone "used one of the suits" the spare yellow one in the back.
</p><p>The funny part of that being, we never actually get any conifrmation this has anything to do with five missing children, or even a single one. Someone simply used one of the suits. Did Purple Guy use one of the suits? He isn't seen using it in SAVE THEM, infact, Golden Freddy appears active at this time, since he sometimes appears, sometimes he doesn't, so it would have been especially difficult to use him.
</p><p>And when did someone use that suit, in a way that everybody knew that someone did? If this happened during the night, then we would have again, seen it, but we didn't. So whoever used that Golden Suit, did so during the day, meaning once again, that it wasn't to kill the children, because you can't just kill five diferent kids in five different locations in broad daylight, in a clumsy yellow animatronic suit, and get away with it.
</p><p>So here's the questions, who used that suit and for what? Think about it, why do they even have that Golden Freddy Suit? It's limp, so apparently the animatronic parts of this particular Spring-Lock suit have been taken out. Plus, they keep hauling it around, despite not putting it on full display. What could this mean? The most likely answer is rather simple: They ARE using the Golden Freddy suit. Sometimes. Someone put it on to entertain kids, since there are four party rooms, but only 3 animatronics (The Puppet, Mangle and BB don't really count in this sense, because they all have their special little location they are tied to by theme.) Why not put on that extra one in the back when they have a full house?
</p><p>Except of course, unknown to them, they each were haunted. And the very last time these spirits saw someone wear one of the suits around children, those children were them. And they died. And they can't very well just have that, can they?
</p><p>There above is another explanation as to the thing Phone Guy mentions. In fact, if we go by the idea that all info given by Phone Guy in FNAF 2 is current (which it has to be, since there are way too specific things mentioned that wouldn't make sense to be re-played to later guards), as mentioned above, the yellow suit's use couldn't have been any different, since, again, we know that whoever used it, didn't do so during the night. Because we are there during the night, and we would have seen them use it. AND in SAVE THEM the Purple Guy quite obviously isn't using Golden Freddy.
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</p><p>Also, remember how I said that IF SAVE THEM even happened? What proof do we really have of it having happened?
</p><p>That the animatronics show you it happened? Good point. But again, you have to play it into the timeline somehow.
</p><p>It couldn't have happened after FNAF 2, because the animatronics "Remember it" during FNAF 2.
</p><p>It couldn't have been during FNAF 2, because then the animatronics still can remember it on days it hasn't happened yet.
</p><p>But of course, at the same time, it also couldn't have happened before FNAF 2. Why? Think about it: The animatronics don't start acting weird, until Night 4, when we hear that the toy animatronics started acting weirder than usual, and then on Night 6 is when someone "uses one of the yellow suits" and suddenly all of them are acting weird.
</p><p>While there was something that mildtly irked the animatronics before Night 4, but the height of their hostility in response to it was shooting off glares at random adults. And only before Night 6, do they actualy start to ALL act weird. Meaning that the use of the Golden Freddy suit (which again, had to have happened during day-time as we would have seen it otherwise, and thus had to have been to entertain kids), was enough to send the animatronics into a rage. Even without any murders, they became completely uncontrollable, and this came as a surprise to the company and Phone Guy.
</p><p>Now think about it, if five kids DID get murdered on the week before Jeremy's shift, then wouldn't the animatronics have acted even worse already by Night 1? Leading up to Night 4, they were already growing agitated, but frankly it was that single use of the suit that ticked them off, without anyone dying then. So imagine their wrath if kids actually were dead before.
</p><p>Of course that raises the question: If it couldn't have been before, after, or during FNAF 2, then when did the SAVE THEM minigame happen?
</p><p>My answer is going off course here, but it simply is: It didn't.
</p><p>Think of all the things wrong with that minigame:
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- No Jumpscare at the end, while each of the other minigames end with a jumpscare from one of the dead spirits, whose death was involved in that memory. Puppet for the Puppet's death. Foxy for GO GO GO and Golden Freddy for Give Life. But no jumpscare for the SAVE THEM minigame. No spirit seeking vengence at the end of that game. Perhaps because there is no spirit that died yet in the events of SAVE THEM?
- Purple Guy just leaves the kids out in the open, unlike his murder in GO GO GO where he had them all nice and packed together in front of Pirate's Cove. Why would he change his attentiveness to the corpses?
- None of the Animatronics aside from the Puppet, Freddy (and possibly Golden Freddy) are active during all of this. Wouldn't the animatronics be interested in what's going on?
- Purple Guy takes on Freddy face to face, while he had to use the safe room glitch to take the animatronics down one by one in FNAF 3's minigames. What makes him confident enough to take him on face to face, while any of the other animatronics may just come to Freddy's rescue while he's doing his thing?
- There is no goal or score to show your progress in the memory like in every other game. You're not working towards the completion of a tangible objective, you're just wandering about the FNAF 2 location, seeing all the horrors and possibly following the Puppet out of this nightmare.
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</p><p>And that is exactly what I'm proposing SAVE THEM is.
</p><p>It isn't a memory. It is a nightmare. It is the Animatronics' nightmare. The eternal torment of the spirits haunting the place.
</p><p>They don't care who the night guard is, to them, every night guard is the enemy. They aim to kill each and every one of them. But why? Look at SAVE THEM again. What is that guy wearing? A badge. And there is no other night guard on duty, so it HAS TO BE the night guard. But not one particular night guard. ANY night guard.
</p><p>They cannot differnetiate between them. To them, every single night guard is evil. Every one of them has to die.
</p><p>Each, and every single one of the night guards is the Purple Guy in the animatronics' mind. And the Purple Guy is a killer. The Purple Guy will kill again. He's right there. Each and every single night. Sitting behind that desk. Taunting them. Watching them from the cameras. Flashing lights at them. Putting on a mask, just as he did before, terrifying them (with the occaisonal exception, like Foxy). You can fool Freddy himself, by pretending to be Freddy, despite that there are no spare freddy animatronics anywhere in the FNAF 2 location. Obviously they don't leave you alone because they think you're one of them. Freddy at least would have to know you're not. But they still back off. They still leave you be. Because the last time someone looked at them from behind such a mask, it was their end.
</p><p>The Puppet doesn't care either, if you think about it. And why would he? He wasn't killed using a suit. To him, the mask is not scary.
</p><p>SAVE THEM to put simply, is the reason the Animatronics come after YOU. It shows that in their mind, you ARE the Purple Guy, even if you're not in reality. For them, the Purple Guy is immortal. He keeps coming back no matter what happens. Despite their best efforts. Because the Purple Guy wears many faces.
</p><p>He wears the face of the "Pink Man", he wears the face of Phone Guy, he wears the face of Mike, Jeremy, Fritz. The only constant, is the death he leaves in his wake.
</p><p>The animatronics need him to die. And that is exactly what happens in SAVE THEM.
</p><p>Freddy comes across the Purple Man, the Night Guard and the game ends.
</p><p>Did the Purple Guy destroy Freddy?
</p><p>Did Freddy kill the Purple Guy?
</p><p>It doesn't matter. No matter what, "You can't save them". Even though the Purple Guy is dead,
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He will come back.</i>
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He always does.</i>
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</p><p>That is my theory.
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