William Afton is a force of nature. Nothing can stop him once he has a goal in mind. Nothing except time.
He once promised Michael that he would put their family back together. He promised that Michael was not allowed to die. He reached his hands into Michael’s bleeding corpse and dragged him back to life kicking and screaming.
But Michael’s siblings are still not here.
Michael feels guilty. If his father was not so busy piecing Michael back together, would he have put his siblings back together already?
He misses Evan. He misses Lizzie.
…He misses Evan a little more.
Father forced breath back into Michael’s lungs, movement back into Michael’s limbs. There’s something twisted and wrong about Michael, not quite alive, but he’s trapped here with his dad, and that’s good enough for William.
The feat is unnatural, and Father (Dad, he insists, as if Michael is five years old) takes it as confirmation for all his wildest dreams. He expands his business bigger, better, more dangerous. He makes deals with questionable men and then when they run their use to Father he sends his robots after them.
There is a trail of blood behind William Afton’s rise to fame and money and success and only Michael can see how his father’s hands are stained red.