Afton Family

Afton Family is the family ship between William Afton, Michael Afton, Elizabeth Afton and Crying Child from the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom.

William Afton
William is the father of the family and the murderer of the children, kickstarting the events of the franchise. He's also subsequently the sole reason for the death of two of his children.

Michael Afton
Michael is the oldest child of William. When both of his siblings die, William sends Michael to Circus Baby's Entertainment & Rental to bring Elizabeth back and he subsequently gets scooped on the fifth night in the bunker, something William presumably knew would likely happen. After Michael gets scooped, the animatronic Ennard uses Michael as a skin suit to escape CBPW. After a while, Ennard quickly leaves Michael's body due to it slowly decaying overtime and Michael miraculously survives due to apparent sheer will, now roaming the earth as a walking corpse. It is not very known what happens to Michael afterwards, but it is possible he went on with the new goal to fix each of his father's mistakes by travelling to all known Freddy Fazbear establishments and burning them all to the ground. He would then come face to face with the grotesque form of his father in a Fazbear Horror Attraction, with the reunion ending with Micheal also burning down the establishment hoping to kill his father once and for all which fails. Eventually, he goes to "Five Nights at Freddy's Pizzeria Simulator" as an employee and eventually burns within the fire of the establishment alongside his sister and father, aware and uncaring of it being a trap laid by William's former partner, finally content with now being free of his burden and being laid to rest.

Elizabeth Afton
Elizabeth is the daughter of William Afton. Once William made Circus Baby's Pizza World, Elizabeth begged her dad to go to the mascot Circus Baby that was designed in her likeness, but he refused to let her go, as William had secretly built the robot in order to satisfy his desires of killing children, as he could no longer do it in person now being a suspect of his previous crimes. However, Elizabeth disobeys her fathers commands and goes anyway. Once she got close to Circus Baby, the robots programming kicked in and offered Elizabeth ice cream from a contraption within her stomach and once Elizabeth tried to take it, a claw emerges from inside Baby's stomach cavity and grabs onto her, dragging Elizabeth in killing her. Elizabeth's spirit then goes on to reside within Baby which William discovers. Eventually sending his son down to the facility to free her from her prison. Elizabeth, now as an amalgamation of other CBW animatronics become the being known as Ennard. They successfully escape the facility by hijacking Micheal's body via The Scooper, though the other animatronics in Ennard banish Elizabeth out of the Ennard-body. She resembles herself from trash and other gears she finds, eventually taking on the form of Scrap Baby. She goes to "Five Nights at Freddy's Pizzeria Simulator" and finds her brother (presumably) and father, who were also lured there and which the place is soon burned down by Henry as a final act of ridding the world of Williams abominations with Elizabeth trapped inside. After this, Elizabeth's soul is now set free.

The Crying Child
The Crying Child is the youngest of William's children who was subjected to frequent experiments by his father, exposed to hallucinogenic gas that would cause him to see nightmarish and monstrous versions of his fathers restaurant mascots, in order for William to measure and test his fear levels. He was also unknowingly manipulated by his father who spoke to him through a microphone he had sowed into his sons toy bear, under the guise he was talking to him as the bear itself, turning his sons against each other thus ultimately resulting in Michael's bullying to reach it's boiling point, who would prank his little brother by lifting him into the jaws of one of the robots to scare him, which resulted in the robot clamping it's jaws into the boys head and crushing his skull as Micheal looked on in horror. Michael apologises to his comatose brother as he slowly begins to die, with William then speaking to him, now in the form of his toy bear, saying he is still here and will "put him back together." He then slowly disappears as The Crying Child is left alone within the darkness of his subconsciousness, breaking into tears and then fading away himself as he finally dies to his wounds.

Fanon
Afton Family is one of the most popular ships in the Five Nights at Freddy's fandom, considering that the whole franchise is basically about The Aftons. In AO3, this ship has 226+ works.

Afton Family is usually focused on the platonic relationships within the family, however, some romantic ships between the Aftons are popular as well.

Fandom
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Variations

 * Afton Brothers refers to the family ship between the Crying Child and Michael Afton
 * Afton Siblings refers to the family ship between Michael Afton, Circus Baby and the Crying Child
 * CircusAfton refers to the family ship between Circus Baby and Michael Afton
 * CryingBaby refers to the family ship between the Crying Child and Circus Baby
 * PlushDad refers to the family ship between William Afton and the Crying Child
 * ScrapDad refers to the family ship between Scraptrap and Scrap Baby
 * SpringDad refers to the family ship between Michael Afton and Springtrap