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“Playing as a child whose role is yet unknown, you must safeguard yourself until 6am...”
— The Steam description describing the protagonist,Five Nights at Freddy's 4
The child using his flashlight to look around in the bedroom.
The protagonist, who remains in the Bedroom, needs to constantly fend off the Nightmare Animatronics. The protagonist must drive all of the Nightmare Animatronics away from his room in order to survive all seven nights. He has fair hearing, especially when considering Nightmare Bonnie and Nightmare Chica's quiet breathing.
Trivia[]
"I was the first! I have seen everything!"
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.
In Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location, the Breaker Room's map reveals that the Five Nights at Freddy's 4 locations, the house during main gameplay and end-of-night minigame areas, are separated in different places, suggesting that there are at least two protagonists.
Additionally, the reason parts of the map were in different areas could be that the some of faded areas on the map are all apart of one building on the surface.
To further prove this, Nightmare Fredbear in Ultimate Custom Night states: "Let me put you back together, then take you apart all over again." This a phrase mostly associated with the Crying Child. Additionally, in the Private Room in Sister Location, one can see the same Fredbear plush that belonged to the Crying Child next to the monitors of the Five Nights at Freddy's 4 house.
The Private Room in Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location heavily implies, if not outright confirms, that he is a member of the Afton family, more specifically the son of William Afton, as it's likely William was talking to him through the Fredbear plush via a walkie talkie that was next to the same plush on the desk, helping him in an almost fatherly way. He also set up cameras in the Crying Child's house to watch him. William could have only done this if it was his own house.
On the other hand, it's never actually confirmed what is seen in the breaker room actually is the crying child's house, and is labeled as an "Observatory" rather then a house. Why only a portion of the crying child's house would be monitored is also questionable. Since William was working the night shift until 1987, this private room was built long after the crying child's death.
William has also never shown to care for anybody, including his confirmed children. He imprisoned his own daughter underground and electrocuted her routinely after she disobeyed him, and then later sent his own son to deal with her and the rest of the funtimes despite knowing full well how dangerous it was.
Also he is shown to be working in Fredbear's - nowhere near the private room while the plush is talking in one FNaF minigame
Despite the heavy implication that the room belongs to the Crying Child, the presence of illustrations of the nightmare animatronics in the Survival Logbook, heavily implied to have belonged to Michael Afton makes this questionable.
Though it's uncertain if the logbook is actually an item that exists in the games, or if it just shows Golden Freddy's name.
