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Everything Is All Right #4
New Faces, Old Bones
Five Nights at Freddy's Fanfiction
Located on Archiveofourown. org
Forth in a five part series
It’s true: Freddy Lives. And Ana Stark soon realizes that she can live with knowing that. The pizzeria has become her home, and Freddy and the other animatronics have become her family. But there are still plenty of other secrets left for Ana to discover, some of them buried below the pizzeria itself…and the worst of them wants to be found.
This is Part Four of a 5-Part Series.
For Part One, please read Girl on the Edge of Nowhere.
TRIGGER WARNING! This book contains strong adult themes, including adult language, drug and alcohol references, depictions of child abduction, violence towards children and adults, graphic gore violence and sexual content. You have been warned.
Words: 755885
Located on Archiveofourown. org
Forth in a five part series
It’s true: Freddy Lives. And Ana Stark soon realizes that she can live with knowing that. The pizzeria has become her home, and Freddy and the other animatronics have become her family. But there are still plenty of other secrets left for Ana to discover, some of them buried below the pizzeria itself…and the worst of them wants to be found.
This is Part Four of a 5-Part Series.
For Part One, please read Girl on the Edge of Nowhere.
TRIGGER WARNING! This book contains strong adult themes, including adult language, drug and alcohol references, depictions of child abduction, violence towards children and adults, graphic gore violence and sexual content. You have been warned.
Words: 755885
2481 pages, fanfic
First published June 2, 2018
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November 17, 2022
Soon this will be the longest book I have ever read.
Before, my longest book ever has been Diana Gabaldon's The Fiery Cross, which has a over 500 k words spread over 1400 pages in the mass market paperback. It was huge. It was long. I wish it had been shorter.
I have read several behemoths in my life: The Dark Tower, The Count of Monte Cristo, although I am not a fan of long books. I find 1000-page long fantasy epics incredibly tedious and despiriting. If the first novel in a serious is more than 1000 pages, I find that prospect daunting and unnecessary. I am voracious reader, but somehow, long books intimidate me more than reading a whole entire series of 400-page novels (even though reading 5 of those is absolutely longer!).
There is no logic to my long-book-phobia.
Because the first 3 books in this series were shorter, it was easy for me to get into. Now I'm in the 'flow' and I will probably breeze right through this instalment, despite the ridiculous page count.
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People will say stuff like "I'd read [insert favorite author's name] phone book/grocery list/drunk ramblings" and then slide into said authors DMs to harass them about the fanfics/passion projects/essays/haiku poetry they ended up writing.
R. Lee Smith wrote a ton of amazing books without ever getting the awards she deserves and her FNAF fanfiction is 1.4 million words long. And I'm grateful, because she didn't choose an internet pseudonym like "FluffyFreddy123" to upload the fic, because then I never would have found it.
Is it necessary to have played/enjoyed the actual games? Nah, I didn't and it's still a great story. I'm also pretty convinced the games never had this depth of characterization.
There are also a ton of original characters that aren't from the games at all but sprung clean and shiny from RLee's imagination.
I love Ana Stark as a character. She's gritty and pretends to be heartless, but she is actually still super hung up on her childhood best friend David disappearing, 20 years ago.
I'm nearly done with Book 1 and I am having a blast.
Before, my longest book ever has been Diana Gabaldon's The Fiery Cross, which has a over 500 k words spread over 1400 pages in the mass market paperback. It was huge. It was long. I wish it had been shorter.
I have read several behemoths in my life: The Dark Tower, The Count of Monte Cristo, although I am not a fan of long books. I find 1000-page long fantasy epics incredibly tedious and despiriting. If the first novel in a serious is more than 1000 pages, I find that prospect daunting and unnecessary. I am voracious reader, but somehow, long books intimidate me more than reading a whole entire series of 400-page novels (even though reading 5 of those is absolutely longer!).
There is no logic to my long-book-phobia.
Because the first 3 books in this series were shorter, it was easy for me to get into. Now I'm in the 'flow' and I will probably breeze right through this instalment, despite the ridiculous page count.
------
People will say stuff like "I'd read [insert favorite author's name] phone book/grocery list/drunk ramblings" and then slide into said authors DMs to harass them about the fanfics/passion projects/essays/haiku poetry they ended up writing.
R. Lee Smith wrote a ton of amazing books without ever getting the awards she deserves and her FNAF fanfiction is 1.4 million words long. And I'm grateful, because she didn't choose an internet pseudonym like "FluffyFreddy123" to upload the fic, because then I never would have found it.
Is it necessary to have played/enjoyed the actual games? Nah, I didn't and it's still a great story. I'm also pretty convinced the games never had this depth of characterization.
There are also a ton of original characters that aren't from the games at all but sprung clean and shiny from RLee's imagination.
I love Ana Stark as a character. She's gritty and pretends to be heartless, but she is actually still super hung up on her childhood best friend David disappearing, 20 years ago.
I'm nearly done with Book 1 and I am having a blast.
March 22, 2022
I love Freddy and Ana's relationship so much, And Faust too. Their fatherly need to protect is so perfectly done.
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Smith writes the best villians I've ever read. They are so offputting, so alive and real and just the perfect amount of wrong. They are always just crazy enough, and their unpredictability is what keeps me unable to look away even when my skin is crawling. Blue was done so well, and holy shit, the purple man is going to be sickening. I can't wait for the chills.
Book is finished as of Jan 22nd. Smith said she will be taking a long break, to go back to writing books she can publish, before she starts writing the 5th and final work. which KILLS ME. But I still understand. I'm dying to know what happens though, its going to be so hard to wait.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/148...
"his paw swept in from behind and slammed it shut. She turned impatiently to face him “I don’t have time for this, Freddy.”
“Then don’t argue, You’d better come back with release papers.”
“Yeah, yeah.” Again, she tried to lift the door.
Again, he banged it down “Prove to me,” he said in a soft, ominous growl, “that you care about your safety, Ana. Or be prepared for the lengths to which I will go to keep you safe.”
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Faust was still there, only somewhat less formally dressed, sitting beside her bed and watching her monitors.She didn’t think she said anything, but it was a dream and he looked at her anyway. “Are you awake?” he asked in that detached, distracted way of his. She nodded. “No,” he said, brushing the hair back from her brow. “No, you’re dreaming. I see you dreaming. You’re quite safe, you know, when you dream of me.” She nodded again, comforted, and drowsed to the feel of his thin, cool fingers tracing every line of hurt carved into her face.
“Ana, will you do something for me?” he inquired. “Here, in your dream, where it doesn’t really matter.” She mumbled something vaguely affirmative. Her throat hurt too much to form words.
He understood and suddenly his face swept in close as he leaned over her. His voice—Freddy’s voice—was a thunder in her skull, a whisper in her ear: “Tell me who did this to you.”
Smith writes the best villians I've ever read. They are so offputting, so alive and real and just the perfect amount of wrong. They are always just crazy enough, and their unpredictability is what keeps me unable to look away even when my skin is crawling. Blue was done so well, and holy shit, the purple man is going to be sickening. I can't wait for the chills.
Book is finished as of Jan 22nd. Smith said she will be taking a long break, to go back to writing books she can publish, before she starts writing the 5th and final work. which KILLS ME. But I still understand. I'm dying to know what happens though, its going to be so hard to wait.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/148...
August 14, 2023
"But they can illicit an empathetic emotional response…and I guess that’s why I do it. Because a good story is really just a shared experience, whether it’s about having friends or going on adventures—” She looked at the TV with a wince. “—or being eaten by dinosaurs. The fact that they will never actually happen only makes the story more important, because some of us will never share those experiences any other way.”
Thanks, totally wanted my life explained to me by a robot chicken. Right in the feels with that one.
She lapsed into a short silence, cracked a thin smile and said, “Most people wouldn’t believe that. They hear the way he talks and think he expresses himself too much and at all the wrong times. They don’t understand him. He uses words because he can’t give feelings, you know? The way some people give flowers instead of tears at a funeral, because they can’t cry anymore or don’t want to be stared at, or just because it seems like the appropriate thing to do.” Another silence, longer than the first, and another smile, even smaller. “Freddy and his obsession with good manners. He knows he’s awkward, that’s the worst part. He knows, but he can’t understand how or why or what to change, but he knows, and he truly believes if he could just figure out the rules, he’d finally fit in. It’s so painful to see him trying, because he honestly thinks he’s succeeding and he never will. You think I’m making fun of him, don’t you?”
I'm just going to put a bunch of quotes in this review apparently. Either I'm just a sap this week or this one's extra heart wrenching.
He patted her like she was a child, the child so unhappy and desperate to be loved that she used to pretend a singing bear at a pizza parlor could save her,
Ok, so that's a wrap on part 4 of 5, and boy am I looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. Smith's endings on her novels never seem to land quite where I think they will and she's certainly not shy about not leaving everything hearts and roses. That's one thing I absolutely love about her work. Not to say there's anything wrong with happy endings, or that Smith's books don't have them. It's just that even when they're happy there's a good chance I'll be having a good cry before we get there.
Should you happen to see this review, thank you for what you do. You are brilliant, your stories are amazing, I love your stories and the characters you write. I read hundreds of books every year and if anyone ever asks about my favorite authors you are always mentioned.
Thanks, totally wanted my life explained to me by a robot chicken. Right in the feels with that one.
She lapsed into a short silence, cracked a thin smile and said, “Most people wouldn’t believe that. They hear the way he talks and think he expresses himself too much and at all the wrong times. They don’t understand him. He uses words because he can’t give feelings, you know? The way some people give flowers instead of tears at a funeral, because they can’t cry anymore or don’t want to be stared at, or just because it seems like the appropriate thing to do.” Another silence, longer than the first, and another smile, even smaller. “Freddy and his obsession with good manners. He knows he’s awkward, that’s the worst part. He knows, but he can’t understand how or why or what to change, but he knows, and he truly believes if he could just figure out the rules, he’d finally fit in. It’s so painful to see him trying, because he honestly thinks he’s succeeding and he never will. You think I’m making fun of him, don’t you?”
I'm just going to put a bunch of quotes in this review apparently. Either I'm just a sap this week or this one's extra heart wrenching.
He patted her like she was a child, the child so unhappy and desperate to be loved that she used to pretend a singing bear at a pizza parlor could save her,
Ok, so that's a wrap on part 4 of 5, and boy am I looking forward to seeing how it all pans out. Smith's endings on her novels never seem to land quite where I think they will and she's certainly not shy about not leaving everything hearts and roses. That's one thing I absolutely love about her work. Not to say there's anything wrong with happy endings, or that Smith's books don't have them. It's just that even when they're happy there's a good chance I'll be having a good cry before we get there.
Should you happen to see this review, thank you for what you do. You are brilliant, your stories are amazing, I love your stories and the characters you write. I read hundreds of books every year and if anyone ever asks about my favorite authors you are always mentioned.
July 10, 2023
I have read over a million words of this story and I still want more. If that doesn't tell you how much I love this series.... I don't know what will.
I just want to reiterate-- I am not a Five Nights at Freddy's fan. I don't know the lore. I don't really care about it. BUT I love the characters that Smith has created. They are based on the FNaF characters, but I can guarantee the game does not have the depth that Smith has created with Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, and Chica. (And obv Faust, Ana, Rider, etc because those are completely from Smith's mind).
Anyway. I just think this was really good and if you already know that you are a R. Lee Smith fan, you will love it. That is all :-)
I just want to reiterate-- I am not a Five Nights at Freddy's fan. I don't know the lore. I don't really care about it. BUT I love the characters that Smith has created. They are based on the FNaF characters, but I can guarantee the game does not have the depth that Smith has created with Freddy, Bonnie, Foxy, and Chica. (And obv Faust, Ana, Rider, etc because those are completely from Smith's mind).
Anyway. I just think this was really good and if you already know that you are a R. Lee Smith fan, you will love it. That is all :-)
January 1, 2023
Phenomenal book, but ending on a cliffhanger - with the next book not even having a release date which really sucks …
July 9, 2023
Can't wait for the last part of this fanfic.
November 14, 2024
I've just finished my fifth...possibly sixth...readthrough of this series and am legit DYING for the last installment. Okay, so maybe I'm being a drama llama - but seriously, this is one of my all time favorite series. I've read everything R. Lee Smith has written...multiple times (to the point where I've lost count for some books). There's just something about her (his? their? idk) writing that speaks to my very soul. I never played the FNaF games before reading these books. This series actually prompted me to try playing the games - but I was all "pfft...the books are way better".
I probably shouldn't admit this because it's almost certainly a copyright violation - but I loved these books so much that I created my own epub file of each one by manually extracting & compiling the chapters from FanFiction so I could read them more conveniently on my Kindle. That's how much I love them. It kills me that this is fanfiction and the author isn't being paid for it. It's that phenomenal. I recommend it (and all the other books by this author) to everyone I know who loves to read (regardless of their preferred genre).
I probably shouldn't admit this because it's almost certainly a copyright violation - but I loved these books so much that I created my own epub file of each one by manually extracting & compiling the chapters from FanFiction so I could read them more conveniently on my Kindle. That's how much I love them. It kills me that this is fanfiction and the author isn't being paid for it. It's that phenomenal. I recommend it (and all the other books by this author) to everyone I know who loves to read (regardless of their preferred genre).
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