“By diving into the pit and staying under for one hundred seconds, Oswald is able to travel back in time. Interestingly, things from the past are also able to switch places with something in the present.” |
The Ball Pit is an object that first appeared in Into the Pit, the first story of Fazbear Frights 1: Into the Pit, and is a crucial object that plays a role in the Stitchwraith Stingers.
Physical Appearance[]
The ball pit is a large rectangular pen lined by yellow netting and filled with bright red, blue, and green plastic balls. It resides in a building that was formerly a Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, and was kept inside the building as many owners opened their own business ventures over the years, such as Papa Bear's Pancake House and Jeff's Pizza. When Jeff claims ownership of the building, he ropes off the ball pit with yellow rope and a sign that reads "DO NOT USE." The balls have become faded and fuzzy with dust, and Larson later discovers that the balls have a strange sticky substance that smell like copper on them, which is later revealed to be blood.
History[]
Into the Pit[]
Oswald is an ordinary customer at Jeff's Pizza. He comes there every day for summer because the prices for pizza and soda are cheap. One day, Oswald snaps at his father due to how repetitive and boring the summer has been. Wanting to give him a little scare, Oswald hides in the closed off ball pit. He waits for about a hundred seconds and sneezes, so he comes out only to see the pizzeria filled with arcade games, kids running around and animatronics singing on stage. Oswald quickly realizes he's in what Jeff's Pizza used to be and sees artwork calling the place Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. A kid named Chip accidently bumps into Oswald, and he introduces him to his friend Mike. Oswald also notices someone in a yellow rabbit suit, but ignores him. After playing Skee-Ball with them for a while, Oswald heads back into the ball pit and counts to a hundred, then emerges back in Jeff's Pizza with no time having passed.
Oswald returns the next day and enters the ball pit again, returning to Freddy's and learning the year is 1985. He spends more time with Chip and Mike while continuing to ignore the yellow rabbit, which he once sees hiding in a corner. Oswald spends his remaining summer break jumping into the pit and visiting Chip and Mike at Freddy's. On the last day of summer break, however, Oswald arrives at Freddy's to find the place in chaos. He's lead down a private area and into a party room, where he sees half a dozen kids murdered and lined up by the yellow rabbit. Oswald is chased by it back to the ball pit and emerges to see that time hasn't stopped and his father is furious. His dad leans over the ball pit but is pulled in by the yellow rabbit, who then takes his place.
The next day, Oswald meets a new girl Gabrielle during his first day of middle school, and after talking to her Oswald gains the courage to save his dad. He returns to Jeff's Pizza that night and finds his father unconscious within the ball pit. The yellow thing appears and grabs Oswald, but he breaks free. It blocks the exit to the pit, and Oswald knocks it into the ropes and netting. The yellow thing quickly rights itself and pushes Oswald against the wall of the pit. It then unhinges its jaws, revealing double rows of sharp fangs, and lunges for Oswald's throat, but he blocks with his arm. The thing lurches toward Oswald's dad, but Oswald stops it and uses the netting to bounce off and clamber onto its back, hitting its head with his fists and scratching at its eyes. It stumbles back into the netting and ropes, then throws Oswald hard into the pit. Oswald thinks back to Gabrielle which gives him the courage to be brave, but when he emerges from the pit he discovers the yellow thing had gotten tangled in the ropes and netting, with a rope looping around its neck. The rope is securely tied to a metal rod at the top of the ball pit, and the yellow thing is hanged by it. After some struggling it goes still, and when Oswald blinks he sees nothing but a dirty, empty yellow rabbit costume hanging from the rope.
Oswald's dad wakes up with puffy eyes and asks what happened. Oswald lies, telling his dad that he hit his head and lost consciousness. Oswald apologies for things getting out of hand and his father accepts his apology, commenting that Jeff should get rid of the ball pit before he gets a lawsuit. Oswald's dad notices the hanging yellow costume and asks about it, and Oswald answers truthfully saying he doesn't know. As they exit the ball pit, Oswald's dad notices that Oswald's arm is bleeding, which Oswald says came from scrapping his arm trying to pull him out. Once again, Oswald's dad comments that the ball pit should be removed, and the two leave together.
Stitchwraith Stingers[]
Detective Larson, a man investigating an animatronic named the Stitchwraith, had suffered an injury from a stab wound and a deadly infection; both of which were burnt away. The unique properties of the infection and the subsequent burning of it gave Larson lucid visions. He could see, hear and smell the fake environment around him. One of the things he always saw as he transitioned through the random memories was the ball pit of Jeff's Pizza.
Wanting to seek answers, Larson travels around town until arriving at Jeff's Pizza. Jeff allows him in, and Larson sees the pit. It was in the exact same condition as he saw in his visions. Larson steps into the pit, but doesn't go directly under it. Instead, he notices spurts of blood on the balls. Thirty samples of blood were collected, and after DNA examination, were revealed to belong to the same person.
The strange part was that each blood spurt came from a different year, and they all coincided with dates that of incidents involving a strange female animatronic with red pigtails, gray skin and a silver heart shape pendant; Eleanor. It can be assumed that the blood belonged to her, and that she wanted to use the ball pit and its powers to house the souls of all the people she had killed for the past thirty years.
Larson visits Dr. Talbert, an expert who had been called in to study multiple of the cases involving the missing children. When he walks in, he discovers both the Stitchwraith and Eleanor inside his house. Despite Eleanor being in a human disguise thanks to the heart shaped pendant, Larson sees through her and realizes that she is an evil being made from pure negative emotion. Larson is overwhelmed by visions before he can do anything, and is sent to Eleanor's memories to see some of her killings first hand.
Eventually, Larson figures out that he can use the ball pit within Eleanor's various memories to hop between them. Larson kills Eleanor multiple times in the memories, weakening her in real life. This gives the Stitchwraith an opening to absorb Eleanor and dumb her down to nothing, leaving her animatronic body inanimate and the bits of her trapped inside of her worst memories.
After everything that happened, the Stitchwraith, possessed by a young boy named Jake, begins to have visions of the ball pit as well. Jake is eventually able to find Jeff's Pizza and can feel all of Eleanor's victims souls still trapped in there. He decides to go into the ball pit himself, and bring all the souls to peace. He meets Millie, another one of Eleanor's victims who only remembers the events before her death in Count the Ways. Jake leads her back to her grandpa's house, so that they can celebrate Christmas together. Jake is able to put all the souls in a happy space, within the balls of the ball pit. The balls glow to show an image of the souls living happily. While everyone's trapped inside the pit, they can all rest in peace.
Abilities[]
The ball pit has displayed some strange abilities from its appearances.
- Time Travel: The ball pit seemingly has the power to send someone back in time, although it appears to be more of an illusion/memory state since Oswald is able to manipulate reality within it. It's unclear how the process is done, but Oswald is sent back when he dips his entire body underneath the pit. Strangely, while time in the present seemingly paused before, it passes normally on the final day Oswald travels back in time.
- Stasis/Incapacitation: When Spring Bonnie took Oswald's father into the pit, he replaced him while the real dad was trapped in the pit. Oswald's dad didn't travel back in time, but instead remained unconscious within the pit for an entire day until Oswald came back to rescue him. Since he only wakes up once the yellow thing is defeated, it's likely the pit had put him in some form of frozen stasis.
- Vision Connection: Larson can see the ball pit in his visions, and it's quite prominent as it's the transition point to the various memories he sees of Eleanor's victims. It's unclear how the ball pit is able to appear in the vision, especially since Larson never knew of the ball pit beforehand. It can be assumed that this has something to do with its supernatural presence.
- Memory Hopping: The ball pit still works within the visions themselves. Since the ball pit is the transitioning point between memories, Larson uses it to travel through Eleanor's memories while he's still stuck in her head.
- Soul Housing: Eleanor had put the souls of over thirty people inside of the ball pit, presumably trapping them using her blood. The souls remain trapped in the ball pit, unaware of where they are. Jake is able to put these souls at ease, but the ball pit remains their resting place.
Speculation[]
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- It's unclear how, why or when the ball pit was given it's time travel powers, although the most likely explanation was that the ball pit is charged with Remnant and/or Agony.
- The charge in question is most likely Eleanor's blood put inside the ball pit, given that it's the only remotely off thing about the pit. It also couldn't be caused by the murders in the pizzeria, given that Oswald could use the ball pit to head back to the present weeks prior to the incident.
- It's possible that the "time travel" Oswald experiences when he jumps into the pit is actually diving into someone's memories and being able to affect them, similar to how Larson hops through people's memories using it.
- More evidence to suggest this is remnant and agony being the physical manifestation of memories and emotions. The ball pit being a memory is more consistent with what remnant and agony are established to be. More so, when Jake as the Stitchwraith found out souls were trapped in the ball pit and went in to help them, he went to the events of Count The Ways and found it's protagonist Millie. She was unable to remember her death, further connecting the ball pit to memories. He stopped her from meeting her gruesome end, but in the real world she is still dead. If the ball pit was really time travel her death would have been prevented. He even used his memory powers to create happy memories for the souls trapped in the pit, another connection to memories. The pit being a memory explains the dream logic of the ball pit, tokens magically appearing in Oswald's pocket, the yellow rabbit not being human under the suit.
- To address counters arguments: for why Oswald is able to bring things outside of the ball pit and actions in the ball pit affect the real world, remnant and agony are the physical manifestations of emotions and memories and they can change their surroundings. Beings and objects can be created from them, like Blackbird, Shadow Bonnie, and Shadow Freddy.
- More evidence to suggest this is remnant and agony being the physical manifestation of memories and emotions. The ball pit being a memory is more consistent with what remnant and agony are established to be. More so, when Jake as the Stitchwraith found out souls were trapped in the ball pit and went in to help them, he went to the events of Count The Ways and found it's protagonist Millie. She was unable to remember her death, further connecting the ball pit to memories. He stopped her from meeting her gruesome end, but in the real world she is still dead. If the ball pit was really time travel her death would have been prevented. He even used his memory powers to create happy memories for the souls trapped in the pit, another connection to memories. The pit being a memory explains the dream logic of the ball pit, tokens magically appearing in Oswald's pocket, the yellow rabbit not being human under the suit.
Trivia[]
- Jake putting all the spirits to rest in the ball pit is similar to the spirits being given their Happiest Day.
- Other confirmed victims of Eleanor include Sarah from To Be Beautiful, Delilah from 1:35 A.M., Pete from Step Closer and Toby from Hide-and-Seek. It's very likely that all their souls are within the ball pit as well, alongside numerous other unnamed victims.
- In the first Fazbear Frights Graphic Novel Collection Vol. 1, the netting surrounding the ball pit vanishes when Oswald uses it for the first time, then reappears hanging from the ceiling at the end of the story.
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