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āI'll bet you think you're real clever, Gregory. Yeah, I know your name. You're in big trouble! This is not the night to be wasting my time. So, you are going to wait right there in Lost and Found until your parents or the police arrive.ā |
āAre you having fun yet?ā |
Vanessa A., also known as Vanny[2], is a follower of Glitchtrap, a digital virus similar to that of William Afton, and is the secondary antagonist of the Cooperative Series of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise.
She is a minor antagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach. It's revealed in the Princess Quest minigames that she was the main protagonist in Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, where she was first corrupted by Glitchtrap. In Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery, she goes by the name Ness in the e-mails.
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Is Vanessa also known as 'Vanny' in the Five Nights at Freddy's universe?
Physical Appearance
Vanessa is a young woman with pale skin, shoulder-length blonde hair, freckles, green eyes, and glossy lips. As revealed in the e-mails in Special Delivery, she used to wear rainbow streak hair extensions[3], and is seen wearing purple nail polish. Her former co-worker, Luis, describes Vanessa as someone who could brighten up the room[3] in the scrapped e-mails.
While working, she wears a dark gray cap labeled "SECURITY" with a white button-down shirt, two small single-chevron collar pins, simple black shoulder marks and an oval patch featuring a silver police-style badge. This is paired with black oxfords, black slacks and a belt, where she wears a gold-tinted badge on her right hip.
As Vanny, she wears a white bunny costume that has stitching all over it, with a large pink tartan stitching on her left hip. The costume also has a light-tilted blue bow on the chest and its hands and feet have pink paw pads under them. Her bunny mask has a wide, creepy smile with small buck teeth, a pair of long whiskers, small eyebrows, and big glowing red eyes that appear to be spaced out.
Personality
In Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, Vanessa has some uncertainty in her voice when being confronted about her task implying she at first wasn't fully ready to kill victims. However by the time of Security Breach, she had apparently killed at least nine children at the PizzaPlex, as seen in a newspaper article in the Alley Ending for Security Breach.
In Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach, Vanny is shown to have a sadistic personality hidden behind a childlike flamboyance. This is shown through her casually and gleefully skipping after Gregory as he runs from her before running with arms outstretched if Gregory is too close. She also happily orders the S.T.A.F.F. Bots to disassemble Glamrock Freddy and constantly laughs as she is about to murder Gregory. Despite this, she is capable of showing fear, especially when her plans backfire. This is evident if Gregory makes the Staff Bots kill her the same way she did to Glamrock Freddy earlier.
As Vanessa, as shown by the e-mails, she has a very stereotypical feminine personality, showing an appreciation for fashion with her rainbow streak hair extensions. She also likes baking, having ordered cupcake cookbooks, and likes puppies, as she purportedly owns a glittery pink journal with pictures of them. However, Vanessa also appears to be very lonely. Luis mentioned that she once ordered chocolates for herself and pretended they were from her imaginary boyfriend, Brad. She is shown to take her job seriously, making an effort to find Gregory to keep him out of trouble and even threatens to have Glamrock Freddy scrapped if she finds out he is helping him cause any type of trouble. She also reveals that she knew Gregory's name via hearing Freddy's voice coming from the Fazwatch. She also claimed that all the other animatronics were aware of Gregory's presence. She is also shown to be hot-tempered at times, as when she finally finds Gregory and takes him to the Lost and Found, she is seen admonishing Gregory for his actions before her face glitches into Vanny.
Through her therapy session recordings we learn that Vanessa has struggled with severe anxiety, depression, and past trauma. Contrary to her in-game appearance, she seems despondent and has a self-critical attitude during therapy. Her low self-esteem makes her prone to manipulation, as her therapists suggest. Something traumatic happened to her and as per her admission in the CD logs, she's attempted to compartmentalize it as a coping mechanism.
History
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
Vanessa is the protagonist of the game as a beta tester hired to play the The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience. Her voice can only be heard after completing the Curse of Dreadbear DLC. In order to hear it, the player must:
- Obtain Glitchtrap's plush after collecting 16 Tapes in the basic hub's levels.
- Obtain the grinning white rabbit mask from the cellar while completing the Afraid of the Dark mode's "Corn Maze" level from the Curse of Dreadbear hub.
Back in the main area of the Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience, the rabbit mask will be found in the Prize Counter. The player must wear the mask and hold the Glitchtrap plush to hear the voice. While holding the plush, Vanny can be heard saying the following:
āYes, I hear you. I know... No. There's no miscommunication... I understand... Yes, I have it. I made it myself. I think you would like it... No, no one suspects anything... Don't worry, I'll be ready, and I won't let you down. It will be fun.ā |
Special Delivery
In the unused E-Mails, Vanessa was an employee of Fazbear Funtime Service working as a security guard for the company. After she was contacted by one of the game developers from Silver Parasol Games, after they accidentally created a virus from one of animatronics' PCB. She pretended to be a Senior IT Representative from Fazbear Entertainment to trick them into giving her full access to their company to get rid of the virus. After believing that Vanessa got rid of the virus, Silver Parasol started working on the The Freddy Fazbear Virtual Experience again, only for Vanessa to give unauthorized commands to their system, gaining full control over their system. She locked every employee out of their account. It's implied that she got everybody at Silver Parasol's warehouse killed by the animatronics.
After receiving an e-mail from Vanessa's fake credential, "_pizzaplex", it is revealed that Vanessa was researching the company's records of the Fazbear Entertainment Floor 3 employee, and that she transferred from Fazbear Funtime to work as a security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Mega Pizzaplex.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
Vanessa acts as the night guard for the location, and the boss for the animatronics. Throughout the game, she attempts to capture Gregory, at one point stating that this is "not the night to be wasting her time."
As Vanny, she first physical appearance at just before 1:00 AM during the first power diversion. After Glamrock Freddy is taken to the Recharge Station in the hallway leading to the Superstar Daycare, she will casually skip across the hallway from left to right, heading towards the Superstar Daycare, distorting Glamrock Freddy's vision in the process. Once she leaves, Gregory alerts Glamrock Freddy of what he saw, only for it to turn out that he didn't actually see Vanny despite Gregory being able to do so.
Later on, at 1:45 AM when Vanessa catches Gregory, she stores him in Lost and Found so that his parents or the police can pick him up, talking to him through the monitors once he reawakens at 2:00 AM. After talking to him via said monitors, the screen displaying Vanessa switches to Vanny asking Gregory, "Are you having fun yet?" before she physically appears outside the door to the room. Once there, she waves to Gregory and comes inside to attack him. The player can use a screwdriver given to them via a nearby Wind-Up Gift to escape her. If the player does not escape in time by using the screwdriver on the vent nearby, the player will be unable to escape, causing Vanny to attack the player. However, even after escaping, Vanny will advance by continually roaming the atrium of the Pizzaplex. Whenever Vanny is near, Gregory's vision and hearing will distort. It is unclear if this is due to a special ability of Vanny's or simply just a stylistic design. The possibility of this could be a Animatronic Transmitter Earpiece in her mask that interferes with animatronic optic sensors, allowing her to briskly wander past the other animatronics, as when Gregory asks Glamrock Freddy if he saw her which he replies that he didn't.
Vanny makes appearances in various other events. These include:
- If the player takes too long to allow Glamrock Freddy through the doors after acquiring the showtime disk from the backstage security room. Her appearing on the screens as the event starts also has her say she is coming for Gregory, which is what the event will lead to if Freddy cannot get there in time (this is marked by the timer visible during that segment).
- After starting the showtime disk in the sound booth.
- At the end of the Dumpster Diving mission, spawning behind Gregory after he climbs up the stairs to return to the S.T.A.F.F. Bot Silo.
- During the Vanny option used to obtain either the Disassemble Vanny or Redemption Endings, she can be found in Fazer Blast, due to Fazer Blast being the location of her lair.
- She will sometimes appear on screens around the Pizzaplex while saying, "Are you having fun yet?"
She will normally move towards Gregory with a slow, nonchalant skip, but if Gregory is too close, she will sprint toward him. If Gregory attempts to blind her with the Fazerblaster or Faz Camera, she will turn her head and be effectively immune to their effects.
Then at 6:00 AM, Vanessa says through Gregory's Fazwatch that he deserved a reward for everything, saying that he should go to the main stage.
RUIN
Vanessa does not appear in most of the game, however, Gregory mentions that he has a friend who has maps of the Pizzaplex, which could be Vanessa. Additionally, Vanessa can be seen in the background eating ice cream in Brazil Ending.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2
Vanny makes a small appearance during the "Princess Quest" ending of Help Wanted 2. After the player enters the Sister Location elevator and makes their way inside of the large crane machine, Vanny can be seen looking inside from the front of the machine. After the player hands Moon the same Glitchtrap plush seen in the original Help Wanted, Moon sends the plush down the machine's prize chute and Vanny retrieves it. However, Vanny seems to summon a version of Glitchtrap directly from the plush before crushing it, waving towards the player, and leaving. She can also be obtained as a prize after completing the "Princess Quest" ending.
Theories and Speculation
"I was the first! I have seen everything!"
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- Vanessa's last name starts with an "A", which has led to speculation that she could be an Afton.
- Vanny might be Vanessaās sister, as she is still on the rooftop even after being knocked off by Freddy in the Fire Exit ending.
- It has also been theorized that it could be Vanessa's soul, now tied to the Pizzaplex, looking down on her corpse.
Trivia
General
- Vanessa is the first playable female protagonist of the Five Night's at Freddy's series.
- Despite Vanny initially being referred to as "Reluctant Follower", meaning a person who unwillingly follows one's commands, Vanny doesn't seem to take commands reluctantly. This could mean that "Reluctant Follower" was the first stage of when Glitchtrap was corrupting Vanessa.
- Yet, it is still unknown how Vanny was able to get fully manipulated and corrupted to become as sinister and evil as Glitchtrap.
- However it was confirmed that Vanessa/Vanny is the protagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted, meaning that she was corrupted when Glitchtrap attempted to take control of her body. Although he failed, he may have been at least influential on her due to the merge being semi-complete.
- Vanny could have also been influenced by Glitchtrap's motives, and wanting to become immortal like he did.
- Vanessa/Vanny is the fourth human character in the franchise to have merchandise based on her, the other three being the Five Nights at Freddy's 8-bit Mcfarlane toys of William Afton, Michael Afton, and the Crying Child from Five Nights at Freddy's 4.
- The Vanny rabbit costume may in reference to the Killer Rabbit.
- She is the first security guard of the franchise to be physically shown without being obstructed.
- With the release of the Security Breach trailer, this also makes her the first fully modeled human to be seen in a main FNAF game mode.
- She is also the first confirmed female security guard of the franchise.
- In Five Nights at Freddy's 3, the security guard's identity and gender are still unknown.
- Vanessa was born in September as seen in Special Delivery's unreleased e-mails. She is also stated to be 23 years old.
- She is the first human character in the franchise to have a jumpscare.
- Oddly enough, her jumpscare as Vanessa still features the Screech sound the Glamrock Animatronics make, ignoring the fact that her mouth is also completely shut while it happens. However, this is most likely a bug in the game or a gameplay mechanic.
- During gameplay it is revealed that Vanessa has no idea who Gregory was. Vanessa explains that she learned his name through Glamrock Freddy's communications with him through the Faz-Watch.
- It is possible at the end of the Princess Quest Ending, Vanessa adopted Gregory, following the events of the game.
- While Vanessa normally has green eyes, later in the game and in the teaser in the fourth episode of Freddy & Friends: On Tour!, they appear to be yellow. The reason for this is unknown, but it could be due to overall image quality or lighting, as the entire image has been pink-shifted from her normal coloration.
- While Vanessa normally can only jumpscare the player during the sequence in which Gregory looks around Rockstar Row for the Party Pass, through hacking it can be discovered that Vanessa can be triggered to jumpscare the player during the sequence when she walks outside Freddy's room at the start of the game and during the scene where she talks to Freddy in Parts and Service.
- If jumpscaring the player during the start of the game, the game skips directly to the Lost and Found sequence rather than giving a Game Over.
- Vanessa currently has an unused animation for being stunned by the Fazerblaster, wherein she recoils and blinks rapidly before recovering.[4]
- This ties in with the Fazerblaster S.T.A.F.F. Bot's advice to blink rapidly, if hit in or near the eyes by a Fazerblaster shot.
- She also has several groans of pain unused in the game files, which were likely meant to play when stunned by these weapons.
- Vanessa is the character with the highest number of unique voice providers in the franchise, at a total of four.
- Scott really liked Vanny as a character and he doesn't think she was utilized to her fullest potential.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted
- The character's name is shown on voices.com where her voice actress posted a feedback to Scott Cawthon's page.[5]
- Vanny's rabbit mask is referred to as "
strangemask
" in the files. - In Flat Mode, Vanny's voice can only be triggered at the Prize Counter. In order to trigger the voice, the player must immediately pick up the Glitchtrap plush after pressing the Prize Counter button.
- It is also possible to throw the Glitchtrap plush across the hub area, making it reachable from the Prize Counter.
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
- She is the first living human of the entire franchise to jumpscare the player, as normally only animatronics have this role.
- As shown on Vanny's teaser "OBEY" and other teasers/posters linking to Security Breach. It is unknown why she's wearing a different outfit, apart from the mask in Help Wanted.
- Although it's implied that Vanny may have made her own disguise.
- Despite being the main antagonist of the game, it is extremely rare for Vanny to appear during gameplay.
- Although according to the debug menu, there was originally a "Vanny meter", a mechanic that, once the meter was filled up, would spawn Vanny (if the player stayed in one room for too long), but this feature was scrapped during development. The meter can appear with a debug tool, but it can only turn Vanessa into Vanny.
- Vanny has two handprints on the back of her mask and one on the back of her torso.
References
- ā * In Special Delivery's unreleased e-mails, she is stated to be 23 years old.
- ā Five Nights at Freddy's Character Encyclopedia page 218-219
- ā 3.0 3.1 "Hey, Ness, Is everything OK? I came by your desk to say hi today and I don't think you even heard me. You had your face so close to the screen, that can't be good for your eyes (I know, I know, I sound like somebody's grandma). I waited for a second to see if you would turn around, but it was like you were in another world. It must be useful to be able to shout out the world and focus like that, I wish I could do it. I thought you were on a conference call at first because I heard voices. Ness, if you ever want to talk about anything, I'm always here for you. I thought your hair looked nice today, the rainbow streaks brightened up the office - and the office is always in desperate need of some brightening!" - Luis, Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery
- ā https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQTymT3nPBk
- ā Imgur
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