I think we need to close the gestalt with murdered children, otherwise some particularly gifted people do not accept the game version of ITP as an argument.
Since The Puppet himself is a man, then his nightmarish counterpart remains a man. In my opinion, everything is logical here. What does this have to do with the Nightmare?
In the novels, he thanked the main characters for making him new. He only shows his strength in a duel with Charlie, and then he loses. But after taking off the suit, he turned out to be weak and sluggish, so that's it.
Tiger from SOTM.
I don't remember a single moment in the franchise where William was shown as a broken antagonist. We're talking about a character who was called a monster and a demon.
That's right, if he wanted to, he would have let Cassie live. But he decided to throw her to her death to save his life.
William was called an evil man by many, and in Fazbear Frights he is compared to a man from hell. It is an absolute evil without any positive qualities and sincere feelings. And he didn't take care of his children.
It has not been confirmed that Glitchtrap controlled Gregory. This theory has not yet been revealed. And in Ruin, Gregory throws Cassie off in the elevator, showing his villainous qualities.
So Scott didn't really control the game. In the original, the patient is not referred to by any particular pronoun at all.
I thought people realized that after GGY came out, not two years later, but okay.
There is nothing strange in the recordings. Female pronouns are a mistake, because at that time no one knew who patient 46 was. As a Russian user, I will say that in our translation, in general, all the people of the game are referred to by feminine pronouns.
2015.
What does Roxy and the Wolf have to do with it? These are two different mascots of the same species. And here we have a variation of the mascot.
The Puppet/Marionette is a male, which was confirmed at UCN. The gender of the soul does not affect the mascot, because Bonnie in the books remained a male even with the soul of a girl.
An animatronic with functioning organs? Well, well.
He's living person in a suit.
Unwithered never existed. They've always been classics.
William is an absolutely horrible father. He beat his daughter Elizabeth, sent Mike to a certain death and tried to kill Vanessa in the movie. Henry is not perfect either. He disassembled the toy in front of his daughter, leaving her with a childhood trauma. Then he abandoned her altogether, leaving everything to his sister. In the games, the situation is not much better, because he created the animatronic Lefty, which held Charlie inside and beat her with electricity. Even in the story, Edwin did not show himself in the best way: he snapped at the child and entrusted him to a dubious robot. However, his inattention to his son led to the tragedy. Oswald's father will clearly be the best of them, because he really tries for the sake of the child, and all the problems between them are unfortunate circumstances in life (not only of their family, but of the whole city). Moreover, the father also blames himself for what is happening.
It seems that the spring animatronics are still his creations, and Edwin just modified them. I can say about the classic ones that Edwin didn't finish them, so Henry took care of them. That's the only thing that comes to mind.
There is no such thing as a "half canon". The books are completely canonical. But the game is just less trustworthy, because it does not reflect Scott's vision. There is a greater emphasis on books.