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“Sarah wishes to be beautiful.” |
To Be Beautiful is the second story in Fazbear Frights 1: Into the Pit and chronologically the Fazbear Frights series' 2nd story. It is also the second story in the first graphic novel collection and chronologically the graphic novel series' 2nd story. It was written by Elley Cooper, with illustrations done by Anthony Morris Jr. and coloring done by Ben Sawyer.
Characters[]
Humans[]
- Sarah's Family
- Lydia
- Jillian
- Tabitha
- Emma
- Blair Family
- Abby's Family
- Unnamed Cashier
- Unnamed Stylist
- Unnamed Saleslady
Animatronics[]
- Eleanor
- Freddy Fazbear (Plushie)
Locations[]
Summary[]
Sarah finds an animatronic named Eleanor in a junkyard. Eleanor promises to grant any wish that Sarah wants; Sarah says she wants to be beautiful. Eleanor gives Sarah a heart-shaped pendant and she wakes up every day more beautiful. One day, she trips and the pendant falls off. Her body turns into junk. Eleanor reveals that she had been replacing Sarah's limbs with junk while she slept. Eleanor takes back the pendant and escapes, leaving the real Sarah to fall apart into trash.
Plot[]
Sarah considers herself "flat and fat". She wants to be like Lydia and the other three girls she refers to as the Beautifuls, and she wants her crush, Mason Blair, to notice her. Sarah is constantly obsessed over makeup and surgeries to make her prettier, which upsets her best friend Abby. One day, after arguing with Abby over the Beautifuls, Sarah decides to purchase Pure Platinum hair dye so she doesn’t have to sit at the loser's table. She tries doing it herself, but her hair turns sewage green instead. Sarah cries herself to sleep and when her mom gets home she takes Sarah to the hair salon at the mall. She leaves an hour and a half later with her normal brown hair, although a few inches shorter since the stylist had to cut off the dead ends.
The next day, Sarah sits down at the Beautifuls’ table, but she isn’t able to follow their conversation. She gets up to leave and accidentally bumps into Mason Blair, getting salad all over him. After school, Sarah decides to walk home and passes by a wrecking yard. She notices a thin, delicate arm sticking out of a car’s trunk and enters the junkyard to pull it free, uncovering a beautiful clown robot. Sarah takes it home and while cleaning it finds an on-off switch on its back. It springs to life and introduces itself. The robot, Eleanor, thanks Sarah for rescuing and cleaning her up, and to show her appreciation she’ll make Sarah’s wishes come true. Sarah wishes to be beautiful, and since it’s a large wish Eleanor has Sarah wait twenty-four hours while she plans a way to make it come true.
Sarah wakes up the next day thinking it was all a dream, but when she gets home from school Eleanor activates and gives her a necklace with a large, cartoonish silver heart pendant on it. Eleanor instructs Sarah to never take it off, as if she keeps wearing it she’ll wake up each morning a little more beautiful. Eleanor then instructs Sarah to get in bed so she can sing her to sleep, which is the only way for the necklace to work. When Sarah wakes up the next day, she discovers that her arms, hands, and nails have changed. At school, one of the Beautifuls compliments her nails. That night, Eleanor again instructs Sarah to get in bed early after she eats dinner and does her homework, and when Sarah gets up her legs and feet have changed. At school, she apologizes to Abby and makes amends.
Sarah wakes up the next morning and discovers she’s now more slender and feminine, and she’s in need of more fitting clothes. At school she notices boys staring at her and bumps into Mason Blair again, but this time he’s friendlier towards her. When Sarah tells Abby, she isn’t surprised and tells Sarah there’s something different about her lately. That evening, Sarah gives Eleanor a hug and thanks her. Eleanor is glad to have made her wishes come true, but Sarah says she’s still far from pretty. While Eleanor can give her a new face, she warns Sarah that looking at a new face will be a shock. Sarah insists, so after dinner Eleanor once again sings her to sleep.
Sarah wakes up with a new, beautiful face. At school, she can feel everyone staring at her and notices the Beautifuls looking at her with interest. At lunch, Lydia invites Sarah to sit with her and the other Beautifuls, who think she’s a new kid. She lies to the girls about how extravagant her life is and tells them she has a crush on Mason Blair, and Lydia explains that they go to the mall Sundays and they’ll see if she fits in. Sarah then talks to Abby, who was watching the conversation, and the two get into a fight again over the Beautifuls. Later, as Sarah’s heading for the bus, Mason stops her and takes her on a date, having heard from Lydia about her crush. Afterwards, Mason offers to walk Sarah back to her house, but she’s embarrassed. Instead, he offers to take her on another date Saturday evening. Once home, she excitedly tells Eleanor everything that happened.
Sarah’s mom drops Sarah off for her date with Mason Blair. They eat pizza and Mason reaches out and holds Sarah’s hand while watching a movie. Mason invites her to a basketball game next week, and she races home to tell Eleanor. The next day, Sarah asks her mom to drop her off at the mall. Shocked to learn she has new friends, her mother talks about how much she likes Abby, but Sarah quickly changes the subject. At the mall, she finds the Beautifuls trying on lipstick. Sarah doesn’t have enough money to buy anything, so she watches the Beautifuls buy a ton of makeup with their parents’ credit cards. They then try out dresses for prom, which they intend to go to with older boys, but run away when a saleslady gets annoyed. The Beautifuls mock her, and Sarah laughs despite feeling bad. That night, Sarah dreams about her date with Mason, but he turns into Eleanor and smiles, showing a mouthful of sharp teeth. Sarah wakes up to find Eleanor standing over her bed, which Eleanor reveals she does every night.
In the cafeteria, the Beautifuls make fun of Abby’s clothes, which makes Sarah feel bad. As she’s getting her food, she slips and falls to the floor. As Sarah’s pulling herself up she hears clashing and clanging sounds inside of her and begins shaking and jerking. The Beautiful’s laughter turns into screams and Sarah realizes her necklace is gone. Abby helps pull her up and Sarah discovers her body from the waist down is turning into a jumbled collection of parts from a wrecking yard. Abby hands Sarah the necklace and she thanks her as she runs home, her body still changing and getting stiffer. Unable to put the necklace back on, she searches her house for Eleanor. Eventually Sarah checks the garage and opens a storage cabinet thinking Eleanor is inside. Instead, clear plastic bags fall out, and Sarah discovers surgically amputated body parts belonging to her.
Sarah hears a laugh and drags herself around to face Eleanor. Sarah notices a heart-shaped button similar to her pendant below Eleanor’s throat, and as Eleanor tells Sarah she made her wish come true she presses it and turns into the old Sarah, which hadn’t been so bad-looking after all. Eleanor puts on a pair of Sarah’s old clothes and leaves through the garage door, giving Sarah a little wave. Then, Sarah begins to fall apart into a pile of junk. Looking in a mirror, Sarah feels sad, then scared, and then feels nothing at all.
Graphic Novel Differences[]
- Rather than having a Mrs. Mix-and-Match doll as a kid, a commercial for the doll plays as Sarah is examining her appearance in the mirror.
- Sarah's mother arrives home right as Sarah mistakenly dyes her hair green instead of seeing Sarah asleep with the green hair.
- The Brown Cow is renamed to simply Ice Cream, and Mason never takes Sarah on a date there.
- Eleanor immediately gives Sarah the necklace after she makes her wish rather than having Sarah wait a day to receive it.
- Sarah's mother doesn't notice Sarah's new nails, and their interactions are much shorter.
- Instead of being asked what her parents jobs are by Emma, Tabitha comments that they must be rich, leading to Sarah accidently revealing her mother's job. When she notices looks of disapproval from the group, Sarah lies about her father's job.
- Sarah telling the group about her crush on Mason Blair is omitted, and thus Lydia doesn't tell Mason about it. Instead, Mason approaches Sarah after her fight with Abby and asks her out.
- Numerous events leading up to Sarah's date, including her speaking with her mother over what to wear and getting dropped off at the Pizza Palazzo, are omitted.
- Some of Sarah's body parts fall out of the bags, and blood pours from them as well.
- When Eleanor transforms into Sarah's old self, she's the one to comment on her not having looked as bad. Additional dialogue is added between Sarah and Eleanor about Abby.
Trivia[]
- The heart-shaped pendant given to Sarah by Eleanor seems to function similarly to the illusion discs from The Twisted Ones and The Fourth Closet.
- The button below Eleanor's throat seems to function similarly, although this button was later retconned in the Stitchwraith Stingers to be a heart-shaped pendant.
- While Eleanor's design closely matches Circus Baby and her name is similar to Elizabeth Afton's, the two are considered separate entities.
- Despite this, Eleanor deceiving Sarah and running away disguised as her is similar to the plot of Sister Location, where Baby deceives Michael Afton in order for him to get scooped so the Funtime animatronics could wear his flesh. These plots differ in that Michael Afton survived being scooped and while Sarah was replaced entirely.
- Several things and people from the real world are mentioned in this story:
- Sarah consistently watches make-up tutorials on YouTube.
- Sarah and Abby used to play with Barbies and Play-Doh when they were little.
- Abby mentions Marie Curie and Rosa Parks, a scientist and civil rights activist respectively.
- When asking what Abby would do with a million dollars, Sarah adds that she can't give it to the Humane Society.
- Sarah wears a red dress by Saks Fifth Avenue.
- There was an illustration of Sarah putting on the necklace as Eleanor watches, but it was rejected from the novel's final release due to the lack of color. A black-and-white print could still be found in prototype copies of the book, however.
- The illustration was later repurposed for this story's own page in The Ultimate Guide.
- This story was the start of the story connections throughout the book series, mainly in Stitchwraith Stingers.
- In Stinger #1, Sarah's disappearance and its circumstances are mentioned by Detective Larson.
- In Stinger #11, Detective Larson visits the junkyard where Sarah found Eleanor in one of his hallucinations.
- In later Stingers, Eleanor returns with her heart pendant. Eleanor is revealed as main overarching antagonist of epilogues and connected stories, and heart pendant's origin is also somewhat explained.
- There is an error in the passage of time between when Sarah finds Eleanor and when she is fully transformed. Sarah finds Eleanor heading home, gets the necklace the following day, and is transformed each four days following this. However, Sarah's final transformation occurs on a weekday, and her date with Mason occurs on Saturday, making the earliest Sarah gets Eleanor Sunday.
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