more frightfully interesting

if it isn't obvious, I like Five Nights at Freddy's quite a bit, in addition to being a very unique and fun horror game, it's fascinating in it's subtle story telling and deep lore, but that's not why we're here today, I used a picture of Bonnie because he's a brilliant example of an idea I had. This is Bonnie as he appears in FNAF4, and his new look includes several rows of long, sharp teeth, glowing eyes and long, needle like claws. In a previous post I argued that some behaviours and emotions are evolutionary, focusing on fear. Spiders are a good example, and so is the dark; something that I am scared of myself, but I think there are certain things humans fear that are evolutionary. Bonnie has sharp teeth and long claws, these are things that are pretty standard on monsters, but why is that? Think back a few thousand years, put yourself in the situation that you are out hunting for food, now think what has long claws and sharp teeth; predators, animals that are bigger and meaner than us and that have these characteristics, that could be why so many monsters today have these characteristics, because these are the characteristics of a predator. In the dark there maybe hiding predators which is a possible reason for humans being scared of the dark, and spiders are venomous, these fears could have evolved to keep us safe from these animals. what's more crucial with Bonnie here is that in FNAF4 he and the other animatronics are hallucinations, the nightmares of a traumatised child, which maybe be the reason they look so monstrous, and why they now have these predatory characteristics, the scared kid's nightmares are only limited by his imagination. Ever noticed that? say you're watching a horror film, and something happens off screen, you don't see it, so your mind starts going nuts, concocting the most terrifying possibility that is could possibly be, you've heard people say they thought it would be scarier than it was, but that's because they imagined something far fouler than what the monster in the film actually was. It's possible that this is evolution too; you're out hunting and suddenly you hear a noise behind you, you can't see it, so you're brain processes all the possibilities. At that point there are 2 options; fight or flight, this is something that still exists in us, and it's from a time where we weren't top of the food chain and the decision to fight or flee might have meant life or death.

Not entirely sure, but this might not be the last of these posts, there's a lot of scary things in the world, hell, I could write a dozen of these of FNAF alone, but there's so much more overthinking to be done and of all the emotions humans feel, by far the most interesting is fear. but for now, so far humans associate predatory characteristics to scary monsters because of thousands of years of human nature and a need to survive, and this is aided by our overdrive brains dreaming up terrible things in the absence of information, or as a result of trauma, fear is fascinating.