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“Repulsed by her spoiled stepsister's lavish birthday party, Angel exacts a hasty and ill-fated revenge.” |
Gumdrop Angel is the first story in Fazbear Frights 8: Gumdrop Angel and chronologically the Fazbear Frights series' 22nd story. It was written by Andrea Waggener.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Angel's Family
- Dominic
- Nancy
- Tammy's Family
- Tammy
- Tammy's Father
- Ed
- Julie
- Unnamed Announcer
Creatures[]
Animatronics[]
Locations[]
Plot[]
Angel is an 18-year-old who is a month away from graduation. Ever since her biological father abandoned her when she was very young, her mother had been looking for the perfect husband and father to support the family, and last year she married a wealthy man named Myron. Angel wants to be an actress, singer, and dancer, and her drama teachers agree that audiences will eat her up and she's unlike any other, but Myron doesn't want to pay for the performing arts college as it isn't a normal college. Luckily, she's able to qualify for a student loan thanks to her mother's low income. Instead, Myron spoils five-year-old Ophelia, and Angel hates her stepsister for being spoiled and always wanting to play with Angel.
Ophelia is having an extravagant birthday party at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Ophelia tries offering Angel a slice of pizza, but Angel slaps Ophelia and she accidentally drops the pizza on her. Angel yells and causes a scene, but the animatronic band starts their show, taking the attention away from her. She gets up to clean herself off, accidentally bumping into a Freddy's employee that she finds to be rather cute. Angel lets him lead her to the waiting area. The boy, Dominic, is an assistant manager and helps clean her up, wiping down her face and letting her clean the rest. Dominic’s called back to work, and they exchange numbers so they can talk later.
After the cake is handed out an announcer calls Ophelia back onstage for the most important part of the party: the Birthday Gummy. Angel watches as a vaguely girl-shaped gummy is lowered, finding its movements weird, gross, and slightly cool. The announcer explains that Ophelia gets to have the first bite out of its toes, and only Ophelia can take the gumdrop nose. The kids begin to devour the gummy and Angel looks away, feeling queasy watching it flail around. When the head is nearly consumed, the announcer stops everyone and lets Ophelia take the nose home.
The family leaves around 6:00 p.m. Myron reveals that Ophelia has a big birthday surprise and they drive to a huge barn with horses. As the rest of her family go into the barn, Angel stays behind and the daughter of the barn owner, Tammy, reveals that Ophelia is getting both a pony and a horse, as well as private lessons. The two do the math and Angel discovers they'll be spending thousands in just a year. They finally get home after 8:30 p.m. and Angel gets a phone call from Dominic, but Myron interrupts the call. He turns Dominic down and runs downstairs to yell at Angel for giving the number out. Her mother walks in with a letter, revealing that they're rescinding her student loan offer because they updated their records and discovered Myron.
Angel calls Myron out on his hypocrisy of buying expensive items for Ophelia but not for her. She also exclaims that Ophelia stole all the attention in the family, and that her mother should have never married Myron. Angel angrily storms upstairs to cry in her room, but her eyes land on Ophelia's gumdrop nose. Angel decides to take something from Ophelia since her dreams have been stolen, so she storms into her room, ignoring Ophelia when she asks to play, and eats the gumdrop nose. It tastes like sugar and something else, but Angel still boasts to Ophelia how delicious it is and locks herself in her room when her parents hear the commotion Ophelia makes. Angel feels good about making Ophelia cry, but also feels ashamed of being so triumphant. Ignoring Myron, she puts on her headphones and goes to sleep.
Angel abruptly wakes up at 11:00 p.m. Her neck and jaw get itchy, and when it spreads to her chest she looks in the mirror to see that those areas are mottled bright red and an unnatural pale white. At first she thinks it's a rash, but it feels squishy and begins to spread up her cheek, so she makes her way to the bathroom and sees that it’s spreading fast. Angel thinks it may have been from the substance Dominic used to clean her at Freddy's, so she steps in the shower and scrubs her body until it bleeds. She looks again only to see her cheeks and most of her chest covered and it spreading to her shoulders. Angel tries using calamine oil to stop it, but she can see the rash spreading on her upper arms. She looks in the mirror and sees red, gray, and pink gelatinous scales growing on her body, and they feel like wet gumdrops. Angel hopes it's an allergic reaction from Freddy's, so she takes three antihistamines, but it doesn't work.
Angel decides to call Dominic and demand to know what he did to her. Angel explains that she has putrid scales spreading all over her, and after some silence Dominic tells her to come back to Freddy's so he can help her. She quickly gets dressed and gets in her mother's car, noticing her stomach is so elastic that it's nearly collapsing in on itself. As she's driving, she notices that her fingers are turning into segmented chunks. At a red light a driver pulls up next to her but doesn't notice her condition and she makes it to Freddy's with no other issues. Dominic steps outside and Angel notices that he's been crying. Angel begins to feel dizzy, her vision starts to get blurry, and her hearing gets worse as Dominic leads her to the back. Eventually he puts her in his arms and continues going, and once in the room she can hear and see again but can't speak and think clearly.
Dominic lowers Angel into a shiny wood box and all of her concerns go away. Dominic starts crying again and tells her it will just be a few hours at most. Angel closes her eyes and goes to sleep. She abruptly wakes up later and instantly tries to check on her rash, but realizes she's in a box. Angel tries to call out but she can't get her lips to part, and her nose feels plugged. As Angel begins to panic, the box opens and she is lowered down. She hears the sounds of children talking and laughing, and also hears an announcer saying something familiar. Angel flails her arms, kicks out her feet, and flexes her hands and feet. As the announcer continues, she tries to do a somersault but learns that something is attached to the top of her head. She then hears the announcer say "Ready, set, go!"
Julie, the birthday girl, runs up to the gummy girl, Angel, on the stage as her parents cheer her on. When she takes a bite out of the gummy's big toe, the announcer lets everyone else join in and they start eating up the squirming gummy candy that's unlike any other, unaware they are consuming an actual human.
Trivia[]
- There are numerous instances of foreshadowing in this story.
- Angel's drama teacher says that "Audiences are just going to eat you up, Angel."
- In an argument with her mother, Angel sarcastically responds, "Yeah, and I'm a piñata."
- On her way back to Freddy's, a catcaller calls Angel "honey."
- It's implied that the original Birthday Gummy for Ophelia's birthday party was also made from another person.
- It's further implied that Dominic or the restaurant has created a cycle where people are turned into candy and served.
- The animatronics in this story appear to be left in "free-roaming mode" at midnight, as Dominic attributes the weird sounds to an animatronic doing "daily maintenance."
- This story has a similar plot structure to He Told Me Everything, where Angel and Chris are unhappy with their lives and what they have, plus they have huge desires. They expose their cells to a substance from Fazbear Entertainment (a gumdrop nose from a large candy statue for Angel and Faz-Goo for Chris) and then become that thing later in that story and die from it.
- Furthermore, this story also has a similar plot structure to Lonely Freddy.
- The Italian translation of the book translates the story's title to "L'ultimo compleanno", or "The Last Birthday".