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“Orphaned from a young age and recently divorced, Delilah escapes deeper into her dreams each night, in desperate need of a wake-up call.” |
1:35 A.M. is the first story in Fazbear Frights 3: 1:35AM and chronologically the Fazbear Frights series' 7th story. It was written by Elley Cooper.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Delilah's Family
- Delilah
- Delilah's Parents
- Mary
- Nate
- Rianne
- Richard's Family
- Richard
- Richard's Father
- Richard's Mother
- Richard's Sister
- Harper
- Ali
- Gerald
- Phineas Taggart
- Hank
- Mrs. Jeffrey
- Grace
- Glen
- Jackie
- Rudolph
- Manny
- Raul
- Kate
- Julia
- Unnamed Woman
Creatures[]
Animatronics[]
Locations[]
Plot[]
Delilah is a 23-year-old woman who is down on her luck. Her parents died when she was 11, and she had been in and out of foster homes. Her therapists told her she has an obsessive personality; once latched onto a perspective, it’s incredibly difficult to unlatch from it. She's recently divorced, and since she signed a prenuptial agreement, she only got enough money to get an apartment, some secondhand furniture, and her old tan compact sedan. With a juvie record and having dropped out of high school, Delilah’s only job is a shift manager at a nearby diner. One day, her alarm clock doesn’t work and she’s woken up at 6:25 a.m. by her neighbor, Mary, singing. The diner’s owner, Nate, informs Delilah that she has to take the two to ten shift. She goes out for a jog and when she returns home she discovers that she’s out of cookies and milk.
After a visit to the grocery store she spots a garage sale sign. Delilah browses it and comes across Ella, an elaborate “helper doll” manufactured by Fazbear Entertainment (which Delilah hasn’t heard of) in the 1980s. The doll reminds her of the baby she wanted to have, Emma. Although the only working function is the alarm clock, she purchases it after narrowing the price down to $15. Delilah returns home and sets the alarm for 1:35 p.m., but it doesn’t go off and she gets an angry call from Nate at 2:25 p.m. She grabs Ella and throws her away in the trio of dumpsters outside. Nate opens the back door of the diner right as Delilah is throwing Ella away, so she misses which dumpster Ella went in.
Delilah’s shift goes quickly, but when she goes to sleep she’s woken up at 1:35 a.m. She reasons that she accidentally set the alarm on Ella wrong, but she’s too tired to go look. In the morning she meets with her best friend Harper. The two met six years prior in foster care, working together to get through life with Gerald, the ex-military husband of the couple who took them in. Harper is upset to hear that Ella was thrown out, as she believes she could be valuable. At the diner, Nate has permanently set Delilah up with the two to ten shift, which she is thankful for. That night, she hears whispering and wakes up at 1:35 a.m. She tries to find Ella, but the dumpsters have been moved. The next night she’s woken up again and she remembers that the dumpsters are emptied on Thursdays, so Ella should be gone in the morning.
When Delilah is woken up at 1:35 a.m. once more, she goes and checks the dumpsters, discovering that they have been emptied. The next morning she calls Harper to ask if she recovered Ella from the dumpster, but Harper is confused. Later, Delilah drives back to the house with the garage sale only to discover it empty. She tells herself that they probably moved away, but she still feels creeped out and returns home. Doing some research on the doll reveals production was discontinued for undisclosed reasons, but the only other thing she finds is an online ad by a user named Phineas, who wants to pay a premium for the “special Ella doll" and its energy.
Over the next few days Delilah is forcibly awoken at 1:35 a.m. She hears something in the wall between her and Mary’s apartment. In the morning Delilah begins to tell Mary about the garage sale, but Mary cuts her off to say that secondhand things bring secondhand energy and garage sales are awful. Three more nights make Delilah certain Ella is retreating into Mary’s apartment, so when Mary leaves at 4:30 p.m. Delilah breaks in, uncovering Mary’s tragic backstory but not Ella. Delilah begins physically reacting to getting in bed, and on the fifteenth night Delilah calls Harper. Harper tells Delilah that she’s having a panic attack, but she has to go perform, so Delilah looks up ways to deal with panic attacks. Later, Delilah explains that she believes Ella has defective programming. Harper doesn’t think that’s possible, but Delilah doesn’t want to believe Ella is haunted.
Delilah tries to sleep on the sofa and in the bathtub, but after four nights nothing changes. She thinks that Ella can't get her if she isn’t sleeping, so she asks Nate if she can have the night shift. Nate agrees to make the switch. On her first night she hears an alarm, but no one else does. On the third night she thinks she sees Ella playing on a stool, but it’s just a customer's purse. On the fifth night she thinks she sees something bright blue flutter across the parking lot, and in her rush to get outside she accidently breaks salt and pepper shakers. Delilah cries for the first time in the 23 nights Ella's tormented her. Glen, the chef working the night shift, comforts her as he calls Nate. Nate leads her to his office and fires her. He tells her that she’s a good worker, but she needs to work on her problems outside the diner.
Delilah calls Harper to ask to stay with her, and she agrees. Harper gets rid of Delilah’s watch so she wouldn’t focus on the time, but when 1:35 a.m. hits she hears Gerald’s voice. She remembers that Harper can do an accurate impression of Gerald and she accuses her of having Ella. Delilah only gets three hours of sleep before she’s woken up by Harper at 10 a.m., who seems to have either forgotten or forgiven Delilah's behavior. Delilah decides to leave while Harper is at the theater, and she checks into the Bed4U Motel. She hears crawling on the roof and she’s paralyzed, but when she sees that it’s 1:35 a.m. she’s able to move again. Delilah jumps to the floor, but a red neon light outside reveals nothing on the ceiling.
Leaving the motel the next day, Delilah decides to drive around the city, hoping Ella’s circuits haven’t noted the make, model, color, and license plate of her car. She thinks about driving into the country, but stops, believing a populated area would keep her safe. After going to a drive-in movie theater, the final film ends at midnight and the line to get out gives her an idea. At 1:33 a.m., Delilah drives onto a big bridge, where there’s tons of cars, but when 1:35 a.m. hits the passenger door unlocks and unlatches. Just as quickly as it opened, it slammed shut. Then, something hits the roof of her car, causing Delilah to speed off and take the first exit, following a river.
Delilah eventually reaches a well lit, boarded-up factory. She runs to a drainage pipe at the far side, hiding her purse in a stack of railroad ties in case Ella is linked to it. Once inside the drainage pipe, she begins keening. Her entire body is violently shaking and the fear she feels is beyond comprehension. Believing Ella will find her, she runs away, eventually coming across a seemingly abandoned construction site. Certain it will help her, she enters it and finds an uncovered vent opening. Delilah wiggles her way in, using her flashlight to lead her to a downward turn. Her flashlight slips, falling and breaking. Left in darkness, Delilah confirms that she’s stuck and relaxes, certain that Ella will never find her again.
Trivia[]
- This story features Ella, a returning character from the novel trilogy. While the original Ella was a doll created by Henry Emily, this Ella has more features, was mass-produced by Fazbear Entertainment, and is the story's main antagonist.
- 1:35 is another way of seeing the date 13/5 (May 13th) which is Charlie's birthday from the novel trilogy.
- There was an illustration made for this story, but the illustrations were ultimately scrapped for the whole series. Although it was reused for its own page in The Ultimate Guide.
- The illustration shows Delilah at the garage sale, spotting Ella standing in the pile of toys.
- This is the fourth story connected to Stitchwraith Stingers, the others being To Be Beautiful, Out of Stock and The Real Jake.
- In Stinger #3, we meet Doctor Phineas Taggart, a man who was mentioned as a user looking for Ella on the internet.
- In Stinger #5, a homeless man Grim sees the Stitchwraith pulling Ella's arm out of trash bag in his hideout.
- In Stinger #10, Detective Larson visits Delilah's apartment in one of his hallucinations, revealing that either Eleanor infected Ella with agony or that Eleanor herself was the one who terrorized Delilah every night.
- This story alongside The Man in Room 1280 are one of the two stories to feature numbers in the title.
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