Crow Mauler

William Afton was the main antagonist of the Five Nights at Freddy's franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the Clickteam Series.

He was the co-founder of Fazbear Entertainment and Afton Robotics, LLC, and a serial killer directly and indirectly responsible for most of the incidents and tragedies throughout the series, including being the culprit involved in The Missing Children Incident. Thirty years after the events of the first game, Afton returned as Springtrap. After the fire at Fazbear's Frights, Afton returned once more as Scraptrap, before being ultimately burned to death staged by his former friend, Henry Emily, and his son, Michael Afton. However, after his death, it's presumed that his soul was tortured endlessly by Golden Freddy.

While Afton is no longer alive, The Mimic (who may have also been Glitchtrap and Burntrap) carried on his legacy and replaced him as the main antagonist starting with Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted.

Lore
"'He was set on killing children and turning them into robot furried for shits and giggles. Little did he know that he would become a deceased robot bunny himself.' -The New Gods"William Afton was a British businessman, entrepreneur, and robotics engineer who founded Afton Robotics, LLC and co-founded Fazbear Entertainment, Inc. William was married to an unnamed wife and they had three children: their eldest son Michael Afton, their daughter Elizabeth Afton, and their youngest son, Crying Child.

At some point before the year 1983, William met a man named Henry Emily and the two became good colleagues. In presumably 1982, they opened their first location together, Fredbear's Family Diner.

In 1983, the duo opened their second location together, Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. William, for unknown reasons, murdered Henry's daughter, Charlotte Emily, outside of one of their establishments. Before or after this incident occurred, Afton's youngest son was accidentally killed by Michael after being shoved into Fredbear's operating mouth, which crushed the child's skull. This caused Fredbear's Family Diner to close its doors.

On the night of June 26, 1985, William killed five children: Gabriel, Jeremy, Susie, Fritz, and Cassidy at Freddy's wearing a Spring Bonnie costume in order to gain their trust. However, he was caught on camera and arrested, but was apparently let go by the authorities, likely due to the bodies never being found, and thus leaving no concrete evidence to prove that he was culpable. This allowed him to get away with his horrific crime. However, the five children would later go on to possess the pizzeria's animatronics: Freddy Fazbear, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and the elusive Golden Freddy, with the help of the Puppet, who was possessed by Charlie. The spirits would then gain vengeance towards their murderer or any adult like him out of confusion, thus causing their homicidal behaviors and actions towards anyone who enters the pizzeria after dark. Customers started noticing blood and mucus coming from the animatronics, which lead to the pizzeria closing down and the company being sold to unknown buyers.

After the pizzeria's closure, William hosts a private party for his own restaurant called Circus Baby's Pizza World with a new set of animatronics called the Funtime Animatronics. One in particular, Circus Baby, was seemingly made in honor of his daughter, Elizabeth. However, William didn't design these robots with the intent of entertainment, but to capture and kill children to obtain Remnant, a supernatural substance which he discovered from the haunted robots at Freddy's. It's presumed Afton wanted to use remnant in order to become immortal. Elizabeth was warned not to go anywhere near the animatronics, especially Circus Baby. However, she disobeyed his orders, which resulted in her death. This led to the cancellation of the pizzeria's grand opening and the incident to be masked as a gas leak.

William then opened Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rental, which is a service that lets customers rent out the Funtime Animatronics for private parties. He then sold the rights of his independent company to Fazbear Entertainment. At an unknown time period, William sent his son Michael into the facility to locate and "free" Elizabeth, whose spirit was possessing Baby.

In 1987, William, apparently as a security guard under a new alias, proceeded to kill five more children at the New Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Location, who are implied to haunt the Toy Animatronics. Afterwards, William once again vanished.

Sometime in the early to mid 90s, William, went to the abandoned lower-budget Freddy's restaurant to dismantle the original animatronics. presumably to collect their remnant. However, he awoke the ghosts of the five children he murdered all those years ago and unintentionally freed them from their metal endoskeletons that trapped their souls. This resulted in them trying to attack William. Fleeing from the spirits, William escaped into the safe room where Spring Bonnie had been placed for storage. He donned the suit as a means to fool them.

In his arrogance, William stood and laughed at the ghosts while inside Spring Bonnie, believing that his plan had worked. However, the springlock mechanisms within Spring Bonnie went loose due to the rain leaking from the roof, resulting in the endoskeleton parts and gears to be sprung back into place with him inside, severely mutilating his body and causing his slow, agonizing, and ironic death, as he faced the same fate that befell his victims. William was then permanently trapped in the Spring Bonnie suit.

Three decades later, Fazbear's Fright: The Horror Attraction was made as a homage to the Missing Children Incident and other incidents that made Fazbear Entertainment infamous. Employees found the withered Spring Bonnie animatronic in the old safe room and reused it for the attraction. There, William's corpse was reanimated inside the suit, allowing him to come back as Springtrap. He remained there for less than a week, stalking and hunting the night guard during the night, until the building burnt down.

Springtrap was later revealed to have survived the burning, as seen from the final cutscene in Sister Location.

His fate after the fire was revealed in Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator. He left the remains of Fazbear's Fright, and because of the damage he sustained in the fire, he presumably repaired himself, becoming Scraptrap. He eventually ended up in the Back Alley outside Freddy Fazbear's Pizza Place, where he was brought in, salvaged, and later defeated in the burning of the pizzeria, which was part of Henry Emily's revenge against his old friend as well as his ultimate plan. While the rest of the souls were laid to rest, only two remained; William, and the vengeful spirit. Ever since then, William Afton's spirit suffered endless torture by that same spirit, who refused to move on to the afterlife.

Locations
The Purple Guy guards the ourple bed, which is likely the first bed the player will run into in the dungeon of fear & hunger. Sleeping in the bed for the first time is safe, but attempting to sleep the second time will trigger a coin flip. Failing this coin flip makes the Purple Guy appear at the player's bedside and engage in an unescapable battle. The bed is only safe to rest on after the Purple Guy is dead.

The Purple Guy also starts slowly chasing the player after entering the Mines or the Thicket, suddenly appearing near room exits. The player is always alerted with the message "A terrifying presence has entered the room" and an eerie sound effect when The Purple Guy enters the area. It will also try to lure the player in with moldy bread and a piece of lettuce. If Le'garde is found alive and joins your party, the Purple Guy will become much more aggressive in pursuit and can show up on any level of the dungeon. If you die to the Purple Guy, you will be stuffed in a fursuit. In one of the map layouts, The Purple Guy can be seen beforehand in the Level 1 Dungeons within the area where Trortur resides, standing behind large bars down the hallways leading to the Blood Pit. Interacting with The Purple Guy in this part will only give the message: "There is something waiting for you on the other side of the bars...".

There's a stronger, double-headed version of the Purple Guy that can be encountered in the Level 9 Gauntlet. It appears to have the same attacks and behavior than the original Purple Guy but you'll have to cut both of his heads in order to kill him since destroying his torso is almost impossible due to his very high HP.

Strategy
The Purple Guy is one of the most difficult opponents in the game as he has a very high HP pool, possesses an insta-killing attack, and deals massive damage coupled with very dangerous status effects. It is not advised to engage him unless the player is ready to take him out quickly enough and/or has enough party members.

The Purple Guy has two main attacks - Peck and Maul, and a less frequent attack, Flock of crows.

Maul is his standard attack, done using his mace-wielding arm, which inflicts the broken bones status effect while also doing heavy damage.

Peck will peck attacked party member's head, insta-killing them. This attack makes him notorious for being able to wipe an entire party, one-by-one, in just a few unlucky rounds. Targeting the Purple Guy's head with a Red Vial item in battle will Blind him, making his Peck attack miss. However, if you Run from battle and reengage him after, he will no longer be Blind.

Flock of Ourple seems to occur at random and causes the blindness effect (which, if inflicted upon the player character, makes your screen turn completely black for the remainder of the playthrough). Having strong head armor reduces the chance of this attack working, and the Iron Mask prevents it entirely. Dismembering his human arm will stop him from using the spell.

The most effective way to get rid of the Purple Guy is to aim for his head as the massive HP pool of the body makes him practically invincible. The head is very difficult to hit however, therefore saving up on items like throwing knives and throwing darts and learning offensive spells seems to be the best way to get rid of him without heavy losses.

It is also worth noting that the Purple Guy is immune to out-of-battle damage: arrows will not harm him and bear traps will only hold him still, giving the player more time to escape.

Loot
The Purple Guy has no random loot but carries the Pizza emblem key, which allows the player to access the Staff Only room and obtain Miasma.

Using a soul stone on his corpse will give you the Purple soul (*1.3 Attack multiplier).

Dungeon Nights
The Purple Guy also appears in the Dungeon Nights easter egg game mode as one of the main characters in the plot.

Trivia

 * He is just a silly little guy
 * Nothing more
 * The character is seemingly inspired by Pyramid Head from the Silent Hill series. Both wear similar clothing, have a large weapon they wield, and their human head is covered (Pyramid Head has a large metal pyramid like cage covering his head, while the Purple Guy has a head of a crow). Beyond that, the Mauler's potential early appearance standing ominously behind bars just north of Trortur's lair, is a direct visual recreation of Pyramid Head's iconic first-ever series appearance doing the same in the hallway just outside room 208 in the Woodside Apartments.