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Edwin Murray is one of the protagonists of The Storyteller and The Mimic, the second story of Tales from the Pizzaplex #5 and third story of Tales from the Pizzaplex #6. He was one of the board members and former engineer for Fazbear Entertainment, as well as the creator of The Mimic.
Physical Appearance[]
Edwin is 5'5" and slight, remaining skinny no matter what he eats. With his round nose, slightly slanted big gray/blue eyes, and too-large ears, Edwin compares his looks to that of a gnome. He has an insubstantial jawline and a weak chin. During his senior year of high school, Edwin grew a full sandy brown mustache. He wears a flannel shirt and a watch. After David's death, Edwin becomes skinnier and lets a scraggly beard grow on his face.
As Edwin aged, he decides to play into his gnomish appearance. He lets his thick head of hair grow long and grooms a short, pointed beard to go with his full mustache. By the time Edwin is 64-years-old, his sandy-brown hair has turned white and his eyes are bulging. Despite his poor living conditions, Edwin has remained relatively fit.
Personality[]
Edwin Murray is an intelligent and clever person, as shown through his ability to create the Mimic and the Mimic1 code through random machine parts and code scattered throughout the factory. However, he's also shown to be quick to anger and aggression, even towards his own son at some points. Despite this, Edwin did care for David and loved him. When Edwin has his mind set on something, he'll work non-stop to achieve his goals.
History[]
Early Life[]
Edwin's fascination for machines began when he was around the age of four, where he began to take apart his mother's small appliances to see how they worked. By the time he was eight, he knew he wanted to build useful machines that would change people's lives. Edwin believed in automating life’s most mundane tasks and was sure he could create robots to replace most household chores. Sometime around his senior year of high school, Edwin met a woman named Fiona, and the two married as soon as they graduated. In the early '70s, Edwin started his company called "Murray Co." He received his first patent on a robotic vacuum cleaner, they sold well enough to fund a good life for Edwin and Fiona, who acquired an abandoned lace factory to house Edwin's new business and an old Queen Anne mansion. They had planned to restore the mansion to its original grandeur, with Fiona planning to use the lace still within the factory. However, Fiona would die giving birth to David shortly after.
The robotic vacuum cleaners didn't have the longevity customers expected and complaints began to roll in. Edwin, however, was unable to focus on working on a fix or replacement to the vacuum due to David's constant need for attention. Edwin would spend the next several weeks functioning off an hour or two of sleep as sales began to fall off. After Fiona's passing, Edwin chose to live out of his factory, unable to manage a house and his business property at the same time. Using his knowledge as both an engineer and an architect, Edwin converted some of the factory's offices into a small apartment with a compact sitting area, a tiny gallery kitchen, one bedroom, and one bathroom with an old clawfoot tub.
As Edwin and David continued to live in the factory, Edwin continued to make adjustments and changes for David's sake. He created a wooden white tiger bed which mimicked David's favorite toy, a plush tiger named "Tiger." Edwin also found a secondhand slide and bolts it to one wall of the secondary stairs between the first and second floor, placing mattresses at the bottom. Without a proper yard to play in, Edwin and David play catch in a vacant gravel lot and Edwin teaches David the makes and models of cars that traveled on the four-lane highway the factory is located next to. They also visit a nearby ice-cream parlor. While Edwin knows a five-thousand-square-foot factory isn't the safest spot for a young child, David hasn't defied Edwin's orders to stay away from the abandoned machinery, although he's noticed that David has began to get more adventurous.
The complexity of the machines required thousands of hours of work, as well as expensive parts and tools. Raising David on his own had left Edwin in a state where these long hours weren't easy to address, and when his finances ran dry he had no choice but to sell his company to Fazbear Enterprises. For the past year and a half, Edwin has been working for Fazbear Entertainment. His job is to work on endoskeletons and attach them to the costumes that the company provides.
The Mimic[]
It is early March, and 24-year-old Edwin is now on his eighteenth animatronic character, a bright yellow chick, when four-year-old David interrupts. He gets hyper and accidently damages the animatronics head, making Edwin frustrated. As Edwin picks up his son to give him a nap, he realizes that his fast growth might be an issue in the future, and ponders creating an robot to help care for his son. Edwin's idea grows further once he reaches David's bed, remembering how it mimics his son's toy. Over the next three weeks, Edwin creates a robot and its computer from leftover parts around the factory and his abandoned projects. He uses a combination of Pascal and C to create a thinking mind that learns by mimicking what it observes. When asked what its name is, Edwin decides to call it Mimic after the name of its program, Mimic1. Once turned on, it begins to mimic David's actions. David is quick to learn how it functions and begins to play with it.
Over the next few weeks, Edwin feels energized and ready to work. He takes notice of what David is teaching Mimic while he works, such as special hand movements to communicate things such as wanting ice cream. Edwin continues to tinker with Mimic so it can move faster and better for David, and even considers using the Mimic1 program to help restart his company. Mimic and David spend all of their time together, playing together, sitting together during dinner, and brushing their teeth together. One day, David asks Edwin if he can buy Mimic his own tiger plush, since it had begun to mimic the way David held Tiger. Edwin doesn't have the money to, so while he's busy working on a pirate fox, David and Mimic create their own makeshift plush from lace and string. Edwin is amazed to discover Mimic not only mimicking but also responding.
Now even more confident in leaving David in Mimic's care, Edwin throws himself into his work. He finds construction paper for them to draw on, and over the next two days they make odd drawings surrounded by strange markings, which David says is all made up. One day, Edwin snaps at David for getting toothpaste all over his new clothes and for him and Mimic playing in costumes Fazbear Entertainment had sent, getting them dirty. He notices that David is beginning to get more restless and tinkers with Mimic more. The next day, while Edwin is making breakfast, David runs outside to play. Edwin realizes David is missing and runs after him as he chases his ball into the road and is hit by a white van. Edwin's world begins to blur together as he mourns the death of his son.
For the next two weeks, Edwin disappears into a fugue. In this time, he lives through having buried his only son, has to wrestle Tiger away from Mimic, and continues to work. When he comes out of it, he considers deactivating Mimic, but doesn't have the energy to. He continues working on a blue bunny endoskeleton when Mimic climbs up onto the table and asks for ice cream using the hand movements David taught it. Seeing it use David's code overwhelms Edwin with fury and self-recrimination, and he repeatedly strikes Mimic with a metal rod, badly damaging it. Edwin continues to beat Mimic purely out of self-hatred until he runs out of strength. His anger turns into regret as he cries. Edwin Murray runs away, and by December his property is reverted back to Fazbear Entertainment due to a breach in contract.
The Storyteller[]
Sometime between the next 40 years, Edwin runs out of money and is forced to return and demand that Fazbear Enterprises honor their buyout agreement. With this, he is placed on Fazbear Entertainment's board of directors. Most members of the board do not treat Edwin with respect, and he doesn't enjoy them back, especially Mr. Burrows, who eventually becomes the youngest ever Fazbear Entertainment board chairman. When Mr. Burrows has the Freddy Fazbear Pizzeria signboards' removed, Edwin rescues them and takes them home, even though it feels like a form of self-punishment. He tries to make himself useful, but he is stuck reminding himself of the past. Edwin has to visit doctors and therapists. Despite his limited power, Edwin often finds himself the only level headed thinker in the room, with the others having a tendency to act on instinct.
One day, during a meeting with an accountant, Mr. Burrows decides to downsize creative development due to the Mega Pizzaplex not making enough money with its current setup. Edwin, now sixty-four years old, tries to argue against the decision, claiming that Fazbear Entertainment is driven by story. Mr. Burrows suggests automating the creative process, creating a computer program to combine various tropes and characters to come up with stories. Mr. Burrows calls the program "The Storyteller." Edwin tries to object but he is ignored as Mr. Burrows continues to expand on the idea with support from the rest of the board. Mr. Burrows decides to make Edwin a consultant on the project, having some input on what story elements are programmed into The Storyteller, and immediately returns to ignoring him.
Despite Edwin's attempts to stall, The Storyteller quickly leaves the concept phase. Edwin also never actually consults on the project, instead been kept on the periphery of the engineering process. Whenever he does attempt to give input, it goes ignored. Just days after the approval of it's creation, Edwin was present while the design team argued over a design for it's tree. Edwin suggests a baobab tree since they're one of the longest-living trees, one of the hardest, are very large and somewhat bizarre looking, and has all sorts of legends associated with them. The team agrees with Edwin's idea, which is one of the only visible contributions he makes to it.
When Edwin discovers he isn't allowed inside the tree's trunk, he confronts Mr. Burrows about it only to be told that the construction crew are the only ones allowed inside. Determined to find a way in, he scavenges for memos and discovers that the larger parts of The Storyteller were being transferred into the tree trunk at 11:42 p.m. on a Thursday night. Edwin sneaks through the loading dock and hides in Monty's Gator Golf. The sight of what's being carried into the tree gives Edwin flashbacks to David's death and he has a panic attack. He comes back to his senses and continues to watch three men carry a large, animatronic tiger head into the tree. The next day, Edwin confronts Mr. Burrows to ask what program was being used to create The Storyteller's stories, but he doubts the answer he gets and decides he needs to see its programming himself.
Edwin tries his best but is unable to get his hands on any of The Storyteller's programming specs by the time it's brought online. Edwin begins to hang around various Pizzaplex venues and observes numerous issues with the animatronics. He brings up the personality changes to Mr. Burrows, but he is dismissive of it. Not long after, the Pizzaplex is beset with strange malfunctions. Edwin decides he needs to get inside The Storyteller's tree, however the door is locked. Due to the Pizzaplex being opened late on weekends, Edwin has to wait until Monday to sneak in. Midmorning on Friday, Edwin goes to the Fazbear archives building to look at The Storyteller's project plans. He discovers that the door can only be opened using a hidden palm scanner that only accepted Mr. Burrows' and two others' palms. However, stored within the network of rollercoaster tracks and maintenance stairs is an extendable catwalk that allows maintenance access to the tree.
On Monday, at 11:22 p.m., Edwin enters The Storyteller's tree and sees The Storyteller in its fully glory for the first time. The sight of a large white metal tiger head with one eye painted a deep emerald green and the other a brilliant blue, a bust mounted on the trunk's walls, and four arms emerging from its neck gives Edwin another panic attack. He calms himself and finds a small inset in the wall with a compact computer terminal. The start screen tells him that his worst fears are true: The Storyteller is running the Mimic1 program. For the next five nights, Edwin continues to sneak into the tree with large sheets of construction paper in an array of colors. Using a plain black marker, Edwin covers each sheet with with odd stick drawings and strange symbols, as well as the words "I'm sorry." He then sticks these papers on the interior of the tree's trunk, going as high as six feet.
On Saturday, Mr. Burrows visits the Pizzaplex in hopes of catching Edwin. Instead, he discovers how he's getting into the tree, and by the following Tuesday has a control pad installed in his credenza that gives him command over all of the tree's functions. When Edwin sneaks in that night at 11:26 p.m., Mr. Burrows locks him in. The interior of the tree is airtight in order to maintain the optimal conditions for The Storyteller's processors, and with no venting system Edwin only has the oxygen that had entered the room available to him once locked in. In his final moments, Edwin continues to draw on the construction paper he had brought with a crayon, writing "I'm sorry." His body is later found by Mr. Burrows buried under a mound of blank construction paper.
Trivia[]
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- Edwin's vacuum cleaners are referenced on a billboard in Midnight Motorist in an upcoming patch of Five Laps at Freddy's that was shown in Dawko's Thankmas 2024 charity stream.
- It is speculated this is the same cleaner used in Mr. Hugs' design.
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