- Not what you were looking for? See the book of the same name or the titular creature.
“To avoid confronting an ugly truth, Nole falls prey to a monster that punishes past transgressions.” |
Blackbird is the first story in Fazbear Frights 6: Blackbird and chronologically the Fazbear Frights series' 16th story. It was written by Andrea Waggener.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Markham Family
- O'Neil Family
- Wilber Family
- Grimmly
- Darla Stewart
- Amber
- Floyd
- Valerie
- Ian
- Steve
- Lois
- Claire
- Unnamed Frat Guy
- Unnamed Campus Cop
Animatronics[]
Locations[]
Plot[]
Nole and Sam are sophomores in college working on a short horror film for their film class. Sam thinks the film needs the creep factor, but Nole insists that it needs to be bloody. Nole remembers Freddy Fazbear's Pizza, which gives him the idea to make the film about a creepy animatronic. Sam thinks of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe and suggests the animatronic be a blackbird. With that, Sam and Nole come up with the plot: the Blackbird animatronic will make a person confess their darkest secrets, then punish them. They tease each other, saying the Blackbird will make them tell. Three days later, Sam begins working on the Blackbird costume. Eventually he gets a call from Nole who reveals that a girl in their class, Amber, asked him out, and he asks about the costume. Sam finishes the costume and puts it on, accidentally scaring himself when he looks in the mirror.
The next day, Nole and Sam meet up to design their film set. Sam shows Nole a picture of the suit, which freaks him out but he pretends not to be. Later, Nole asks Sam what his darkest secret is. Sam says he doesn't have any, and Nole confesses that, in junior high, he ruthlessly bullied a girl. Sam demands to know more, so Nole explains that the girl, Christine Wilbur, was awkward and fat and wore stupid clothes. Nole called her Second Hand, SH for short, and would say "Shhhhh" whenever she passed by, and eventually others did too. Nole laughs at this, but Sam is upset, which Nole makes worse by telling him about throwing burrs at her. Sam explains that he was bullied for his height until freshman year of high school and doesn't appreciate seeing Nole laughing. Nole makes a joke about Sam's height and Sam storms off.
The next day, Nole arrives at the studio and falls asleep waiting for Sam. Amber wakes him up and tells him that they found feathers all over the train tracks so they think Sam was hit by a train. Nole leaves the studio and runs to the train tracks to see cop cars and Sam’s parents. Sam’s mother explains that the cops think that the train grazed him and he was thrown. Nole looks at the tracks and notices a big smear of blood on the rail on the opposite side of the tracks. Multiple search parties are sent out but Sam isn't found by the end of the afternoon. Nole starts heading back to his room, but he spots a large black shape at the edge of the trees that disappears when he investigates.
Nole sees something following him throughout the day and hears sounds similar to wet feathers being dragged. Nole stays in his room, seeing a large shape pass by his window a few times, and he gets a call from Amber, who recommends he get some sleep. Nole begins falling asleep, but then he feels as if he's being pummeled by stiff feathers. He hears his door open, but it isn’t when he looks. Nole grabs a softball bat and returns to bed, thinking of Amber to help sleep. He eventually falls asleep, but in his dream he hears a screeching squeal and sees the Blackbird, which wakes him back up. He finds himself paralyzed and feels a force pinning him to his bed. He breaks free and swings at the Blackbird, but it disappears into feathers. He burns off a rush of adrenaline for two hours before trying to sleep again. When he does the screeching and paralysis return.
Once free, Nole runs out of the house and towards the quad until he trips on a tree root. He closes his eyes in pain but the noises start again so he gets up and runs in a circle, screaming apologies to Sam. A campus cop questions Nole, to which Nole answers that he pissed off a friend and he needed to get his feelings out, and the cop lets him go. Nole continues running until he runs into Amber, which relaxes him. They run together and end up at the cafeteria, where Amber notices how tired Nole looks. Nole asks a question about guilt, and Amber explains that she thinks you need to apologize to the first person to make amends with the second. Nole returns to his room and decides to find Christine, but he discovers she has zero social media presence.
Nole decides to take a nap. When he does, the Blackbird appears with an intense combination of keening and buzzing. It spreads its wings as it leans over Nole, crushing his chest and aiming its beak directly at his right eye. The sounds change into a combination of static and a loud hum, along with a ZAP. Nole struggles to breathe but he is pulled out of the nightmare by Ian, one of his frat brothers, who explains that he heard Nole making grunting sounds along with thuds and thumps, so he broke down the door to save him. Nole is touched and asks what he would do to track someone down if they weren't online, and Ian asks if he knows their parents. Nole does and heads off to Wilbers' Eats.
Black storm clouds abruptly appear when Nole learns that Christine is in a music-and-arts college up in the mountains. Nole begins to feel nausea, and when he reaches the campus the storm starts. He also hears the Blackbird's feathers as it approaches him, along with the air currents shifting around him. Nole enters the dorm sweating, as the nausea has grown and is joined by a headache. He runs through the lounge, noticing that his vision has gone blurry, and finds Christine's room. He is shocked by her physical appearance and general atmosphere. Nole's legs are weak and he feels something pushing against his back, so he just stares at her before crying as he explains who he is. She gets up and hugs him as a thank you, explaining that all of the bullying forced her to step up and love herself.
Nole no longer feels the Blackbird's presence and he makes his way outside, where gets a phone call. Sam is waiting for him at the film studies building. He explains that he was walking with headphones on so he didn't notice the train. He jumped out of the way, but he gouged his arm against the train and lost his balance, causing him to fall down the embankment and break his leg, and he slipped and slid all the way down into the culvert. Nole apologizes to Sam, and Sam reveals his darkest secret: just before freshman year, he got revenge on one of his bullies by bullying them back. Sam offers to get pizza and talk over Nole and Amber's relationship, which Nole agrees to as he hasn't eaten since noon. Sam questions him and Nole simply says that it's a long story that he'll tell later. Sam says the Blackbird will make him tell, which freaks Nole out before Sam laughs it off.
Speculation[]
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This section archives a lot of theories and speculation, which usually occurs from pre-release media, or just things that are still unknown, so please keep that in mind while reading. The page will continue to be updated with the most accurate information as more solid evidence is supplied. |
- This story may show how Afton uses illusion discs in action. The titular Blackbird of the story is often accompanied by screeching sounds and low whines. It also takes place at a college, which mirrors the setting of The Twisted Ones and The Fourth Closet, where the illusion discs were introduced. It may show that the disks can adapt to your own fears and problems and turn them into horrid monsters of your own creation.
- Alternatively, the story has a strong connection to the lore of Ultimate Custom Night where it's believed the game is about William Afton's eternal punishment orchestrated by Golden Freddy. Nole was stalked by the Blackbird and even had nightmares of being sent to a different realm, which could parallel William and Golden Freddy's relationship. However, unlike the story where Nole is redeemed for his actions, William never repents.
- Since Eleanor was involved in the events of this story, it's possible that she was responsible for the Blackbird that hunted Nole throughout the story.
- One possibility is that the Blackbird was Eleanor herself, since there was a high-pitched sound in every Nole's encounter with Blackbird, meaning she used illusion disc or the heart pendant to change her appearance to look like Blackbird.
- The other is that Blackbird was a creature, created by Eleanor out of Sam's pain and anger when she spun him on the train tracks before being hit by a train and Nole's guilt out of thinking that he was responsible for Sam's seeming death.
Trivia[]
- This is the first story to have a supernatural creature as an antagonist.
- This story has a similar plot structure to Dance with Me, where Ballora keeps stalking Kasey until she returns the glasses back to the woman and her daughter that Kasey had stolen earlier in the story.
- Nole's girlfriend is named Amber, the same name of Stanley's ex-girlfriend from Room for One More.
- Interestingly, she uses the phrase "Do you have room for one more?" in a conversation with Nole.
- This is the fourth story with a happy, uplifting ending. The others being, Into The Pit, Out of Stock, and Coming Home.
- This is the tenth story to take place in Stitchwraith Stingers, the others including To Be Beautiful, Out of Stock, The Real Jake, 1:35 A.M., Fetch, The Man in Room 1280, Step Closer, Into the Pit and Hide-and-Seek.
- In the #10 epilogue, Detective Larson visits in one of his hallucinations the train tracks in the morning when Sam was nearly hit by the train, revealing that Eleanor was responsible for this incident, and that Larson saved his life.
- According to Scott Cawthon, Blackbird is based off of a sleep paralysis demon he had.