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Ella is a humanoid animatronic created by Henry Emily. She resides in one of three closets in Charlotte's room, only coming out when a wheel is turned at the foot of her bed. While Charlie believed Ella was yet another toy made by her late father, she would later uncover the truth behind Ella's creation and learn she's far more complex than initially assumed.
The Ultimate Guide Description: "(Spoilers) A highly complex humanoid animatronic, the youngest incarnation meant to house Charlie's consciousness. After Charlie "grew out" of Ella's size, Henry reprogrammed her as a plaything for Charlie. She occupied a closet, and would exit it on a track to serve tea."
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Physical Appearance[]
Ella is a child-size animatronic doll standing at 81 centimeters tall with delicate features. She also has shiny, synthetic brown hair and wide, glassy eyes that are said to look realistic. Ella wears a dark, crisp plaid dress and shining patent leather shoes, an outfit identical to one Charlie wore when she was her height.[1] She also holds a teacup and saucer in her tiny hands like an offering, although in The Twisted Ones and The Fourth Closet she holds a tea tray in front of her. Since Ella mostly resides in her closet, she is the most intact of Charlie's toys.
When Ella's illusion disc is turned on, she turns into Charlie at about three years old. She has short, frizzy brown hair and a round face set in a happy smile, with her chubby hands gripping the tea tray.
In The Freddy Files, Ella has curly light brown hair, pink rosy cheeks, pink lips, and blue eyes. She wears a light blue wide brimmed hat with pink ruffles and has two pink bows on her hair. Ella also wears a light blue dress with puffy long sleeves ending with pink ruffles and a big pink bow around the waist, and has dark brown leather shoes with white socks, pink bows on the sides, and four light blue wheels. The graphic novel adaptations portray Ella with a similar design, although she has dress short sleeves and no bow, light brown shoes, and a tray with milk and cookies.
History[]
The Silver Eyes[]
Ella seemed to be one of many toys Henry invented for his daughter Charlie, staying in one of three closets in her room. At the foot of her bed is a wheel made of patched-together metal, and upon being turned it will stick for a moment before rotating. This causes the smallest closet door across the room to open and Ella to sail out on her track until the wheel unwinds. Charlie's friend John had once asked why she needed three closets, which Charlie had brushed off and simply said the smallest is Ella's anyway. After Henry's suicide, Charlie left Hurricane with her Aunt Jen and left all her toys at her father's house.
Ten years later, Charlie returns to Hurricane to commemorate the anniversary of the death of Michael Brooks. Before visiting her old friends, she first visits her old home and finds all her old toys. Charlie turns the wheel at the foot of her bed and watches as Ella comes out of her closet, seemingly protected from the elements within it. She also remembers having worn an identical outfit to Ella when they were the same height.[1] Charlie then leaves the room and accidently leaves her keys next to Theodore, but when she returns to collect them the deterioration of her toys becomes much more apparent and she feels a need to flee. She accidently trips over Stanley's track and her foot catches on the wheel beside the bed. Charlie raises her head to see shining patent leather shoes and looks up to see Ella standing above her. She carefully gets up and leaves the room, making sure not to disturb the doll and the rest of the toys in her room.
Later, Charlie and John revisit the house to investigate. John stays in Charlie's room while she looks in Henry's room, and when she returns John ponders on if Stanley's been lonely. Charlie simply responds that he has Theodore and that Ella is the lonely one, all alone in the closet. She then tells him to watch as she turns the wheel, and the two sit in silence as the little doll comes out from the closet, only speaking once she's returned inside.
The Twisted Ones[]
A year later, a tornado rises up from nowhere and rips through whole towns, including Hurricane. Henry's house is heavily damaged by the storm, trapping Ella within the closet. Just before Charlie began her college classes in St. George, she returned to her father's house to get Theodore and other random parts. She considered taking Stanley and Ella too, but she instead ran in and out without pausing to examine the damaged property.
Charlie and John later return to Henry's house, with Charlie having constant visions of a sealed door and wanting answers. She finally gets a look at the damage done to the house and once in her room instructs John to turn the wheel at the foot of her bed. Charlie waits for the littlest closet to open and eventually forces it open when the crank doesn't work, discovering Ella still attached to her track and entirely undamaged. She greets the doll and asks if Ella can tell her what she's looking for. Charlie brushes at her dress and asks if the doll just wants to stay in the closet for now on, saying she doesn't blame her and closing the door again without saying good-bye. John then finds a photo of Charlie when she used to be the same height as Ella.
The Fourth Closet[]
Following the destruction of Henry's house, Ella is discovered amongst the rubble. Clay decided to keep her while the rest got hauled away, offering her back to "Charlie." She claimed not to be interested, however, so Clay instead tucked Ella away between the end of a bookshelf and the wall of his study.
Six months later, Clay convinces John to gather information from "Charlie," as both are rather suspicious of her. After an afternoon with her, John visits Clay's house to relay how their date went. There, he spots Ella in the study and grabs her, learning that "Charlie" had zero interest in taking her back. John is alarmed to hear this, as she cherished her father and his inventions. Clay tells John to let her know the doll is there, but before he can Clay is attacked by an intruder and rushed to the hospital. The next day he gives John and Jessica photos and says there's a "maximum range." The two then use Theodore to find a house in Silver Reef, Utah, where Jen had been keeping the real Charlie.
Once back at John's apartment, he reveals that Clay had kept Ella at his house. Jessica calls the doll creepy, reminding John of when Charlie incorrectly assumed she would like the doll and instead scared her, and ponders how Charlie could have ever slept with the doll in one of her closets. John tells Jessica that the other Charlie had no interest in keeping Ella and why he found that odd, and then remembers an old photo he kept when he and Charlie were investigating Henry's belongings. Jessica finds the photo and doesn't see the significance, but John points out Charlie's having a tea party and decides to return to Clay's house. Once there, he finds Ella undisturbed and almost concealed behind a standing lamp. John asks if she has something he wants to tell her and if she knows what he's looking for while rummaging through the scattered mess in the study, and eventually he finds a thin disc. When he turns it on, Ella is replaced with a human toddler staring blankly ahead. John tries to communicate with her and touches her cheek, shocked to find her skin is warm and pliable. When he turns it off, he watches the toddler shimmer and blur for a second before turning back into Ella. John thinks he finally understands what Clay meant by "maximum range" and quickly calls Jessica to take a closer look at the photos they were given. Before he leaves, he grabs Ella and puts her in the trunk of his car.
The next day, Charlie fully wakes up in John's bed. Carlton and Marla rushes to her aid while John arrives shortly after looking grim. He sets Ella down in the living room and Charlie asks how he found her, but she is ignored. John instructs the group to keep their eyes on the doll as he turns the illusion disc on and off, changing Ella into the little girl. Charlie and Marla are scared while Carlton is fascinated, and John demands answers from Charlie. Charlie doesn't have any, but she does point out that the disc works differently than previous ones. John keeps turning the disc on and off, which gets a scared reaction out of Marla each time, until eventually stopping. Carlton continues to stare at Ella, fascinated by how the technology works, until he's pulled away by John to retrieve the earpieces from Charlie's college experiment.
Later, Charlie and John return to the house in Silver Reef to investigate and get answers. Eventually Charlie finds a box with Henry's name on it and begins searching through its contents. She uncovers a letter written to Jen before his suicide where he tells her to keep the closets shut, and once John reads the letter who questions Charlie on what he meant. Charlie dismisses it and says they were empty except for Ella's, but John isn't fully sure of that. They then find multiple blueprints of different versions of Ella that Henry drew. Charlie and John are confused, with Charlie at first questioning if he wanted her to have a companion. She then examines her own hand and John tells her that he saw her bleed, assuming Ella doesn't have blood in her. He then states he saw Charlie die, and when Charlie tells him she's alive he takes both of her hands. Before he can speak, they hear footsteps outside and go investigate. They are then attacked by the imposter Charlie, who manages to knock John out. She then reveals her true animatronic form and runs her fingers through Charlie's hair, firmly grasping her neck and allowing her to experience their memories.
The animatronic girl, who wants to be called Elizabeth, shows her own memories first before going into Charlie's. She shows Charlie a happy memory of her and Henry in a field of grain together watching the sun go down, only for it to change into memory of him crying alone during a thunderstorm with a cheap rag doll in his hands. Charlie is confused, so Elizabeth reveals the doll is the real Ella. It was all Henry had left of Charlotte after William Afton had murdered her and he cried over for two months, pouring his grief into it until he began treating it as though he still had a daughter.[2] Elizabeth shows the first memory again, revealing Henry alone in the field with the doll. She then explains that he made more bodies so Charlotte could grow up, showing Charlie a memory of Henry creating the animatronic Ella and turning a brass knob in his workshop until the illusions activated, which turned Ella into a little girl. Elizabeth then shows another memory where Jen pleads with Henry to let go and return to his wife and son. Henry insists Charlotte is in the doll, gesturing to the animatronic Ella while the little rag doll sat in a wooden chair in the corner.
Elizabeth explains that once Henry learned the rag doll was sentient he started putting it inside the Charlies he built. He made a total of four Charlottes, with the current Charlie being the third and Elizabeth the fourth, each simulating a stage of life (a baby, a little girl, a sulky teenager, and an adult woman). Each Charlotte reflected how Henry was when he made them, with the first constantly crying while the second hopelessly desperate for her father's love. The third Charlotte was when he began to realize he was mad and questioned everything, making her a bit strange, while the fourth was never finished and instead was made alive with his fury and rage. Elizabeth reveals neither of them are the real Charlotte before driving her hand into Charlie's torso, tearing Ella out and showing the rag doll to Charlie before she loses consciousness. Charlie slowly regains consciousness and takes the doll back as Elizabeth explains her hatred and jealousy towards Charlie comes from Elizabeth still not being enough for William. Eventually Charlie regains her strength and fights back, escaping into a closet with the robot Henry made to commit suicide inside. She tricks Elizabeth into coming closer and hugs Ella as she activates the robot, allowing the knife to go through all three of them. Charlie takes Elizabeth's hand and pulls it up to the rag doll, closing her fingers around it. She pushes with the last of her strength and slides Ella over to Elizabeth, leaving it resting against her chest.
Trivia[]
- In The Twisted Ones, the photo John finds in Charlie's room is said to be a school photo showing Charlie with a missing tooth. Graphic Novel #2: The Twisted Ones, however, simply shows a simple photo of Charlie standing still in Ella's clothes and omits the missing tooth.
- When John finds the illusion disc in Clay's office, he sees "Afton Robotics, LLC" written on the edge. When Charlie looks at the disc, however, she claims Afton Robotics isn't written on the disc.
Gallery[]
The Silver Eyes: The Graphic Novel[]
Graphic Novel #2: The Twisted Ones[]
Graphic Novel #3: The Fourth Closet[]
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach[]
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References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Silver Eyes | "Charlie had had an identical outfit, back when she and Ella were the same height."
- ↑ The Fourth Closet | " “He cried over that cheap store-bought rag doll for two months,” Elizabeth snarled with disbelief. “He cried into it, he bled into it, he poured his grief over it. Very unhealthy. He began to treat it as though he still had a daughter.” "
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