The Automatron's Diary
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(Completed)
A chance encounter and a shared passion for creation left an amateur toy-maker with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to really get her career in motion by working at Handeemen Studios courtesy of the legendary puppeteer Owen Gubberson himself. Little did she know the kind of hold that he would have over her, even after he was supposedly long gone.
Now, after seven, difficult years of mourning and recovery, Owen has called her to come back to the studio to help him revive the show.
A.J. doesn't know what's more disturbing: the fact that he's supposed to be dead or the fact that she's actually considering returning to him.
Well, not to him. To the puppets. To the Handeemen.
That was the one thing that they'd always bonded over: puppets are better than people.
Even after all this time, people can sometimes be better too, right?
A.J. just wishes that he'd take off that ridiculous black hood and stop putting on Mortimer's voice when he speaks to her over the phone...Series
- Part 1 of The Automatron's Diary
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Vent Crawler by AStitchOutOfTime
Fandoms: Five Nights at Freddy's, Hello Puppets (Video Game), Resident Evil: Village (Very minor reference), Poppy Playtime (Very minor reference)
12 Jun 2025
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(Both a prologue and a sequel to Effigy to Burn)
A.J.- who gets along better with puppets, dolls and robots than people- reminisces on her time working for Fazbear Entertainment as a handywoman who knew better than to tell anyone about what happened there at night. It was under the glare of the bear that A.J. perfected many skills, including, (but not limited to), how to repair and optic scanner while turning a blind eye, how to define an edge while blurring a line and how to remain at her post while running for her life.
The Pizzaplex was supposed to be a chance to cut the puppeteer's strings but, as A.J. soon realises, it slowly began to hollow her out.
Though, unlike so many others, at least she got out of that place alive and, (mostly), intact- she would often tell herself.
Still, she cried tears of mourning for the mechanical rabbit long before she ever wondered what became of the children whose faces she'd seen in the back-corridors in the evening and on the side of milk cartons the next morning.
It was around that time that A.J. had first begun to suspect that she wasn't a very good person.Series
- Part 2 of The Automatron's Diary