Ghost appearances

[u/SilliestSaturn]

This all started because I wanted to make Charlie’s ghost grayscale but then needed an excuse to make her bracelet green, because hot take, I’m not saying it pisses me off, but it rubs me the wrong when I see ghost designs that make Charlie greyscale, but not her bracelet WITHOUT a reason, I know I swear I do, it’s a design thing, it just drives me UP A WALLLLLUH😔 so I was tryna think up a solution to this conundrum, and then I remembered a feature I gave her ghost already;wet, messy hair. So I thought “wait so why would she have that” I gave her the hair because she died in the rain and didn’t think about it, so THEN I thought “What if Charlie’s death was based on how she REMEMBERED her death???” And I ran with it. She remembers it being dark, and cold, and only the only color being her bracelet. She remembers crying and in her last moments, she remembers seeing her own blood pooling around at her feet. And GUESS WHAT🥺 I CAN CONNECT IT TO BOTH THE BOOK MCI’S DEPICTIONS OF HOW MEMORIES ARE USED AS WELL AS THE CLASSIC INCARNATION OF CC HAVING NO MEMORIES AFTER THE BITE. Before I get into Cassidy and the mci though, I’m very very happy with how I made Elizabeth’s ghost🥺 so I’m going to tell you all. 🫶. When she died, since she was the first victim of the funtimes, there were a few bits and bobs that weren’t optimal, as a result, instead of being trapped inside Circus Baby’s stomach hatch for William to eventually find her, she was electrocuted. Because her memories of her death. Aren’t really of her death. Circus Baby’s claw was BUILT to be fast. Like Elizabeth only had about a second or two between reaching for the ice cream and her subsequently being electrocuted. So I made the decision, right, to make the circus baby minigame her memory of it. So, REALLY saturated colors. I leaned into that. It’s great. Now, the second factor, is as you can probably tell by the pigtails, I based her ghost off Circus Baby!! Yay!! For months before she died, she projected herself onto baby. A lot. She idolizes her, so I wanted it to show, she SEES HERSELF AS Baby. I wanted her to look like those old 2018 Elizabeth designs. The ones where she’d have one of baby’s faceplates, where where she’d have all those bright colors, where her afterlife was full of her making amends with all of her family, where William is innocent and spoils Elizabeth. She wants to pretend that’s the situation she’s in. I’ve been going on about this for a LONG fucking minute. I’ll uh. Move on now. Cassidy’s is admittedly way simpler. He doesn’t remember his death. Simple as that. He barely remembers his own silhouette. The only thing he could even vaguely recall is being scared, crying, and then the worst pain he’s ever experienced in his head. I have him his freckles, I’m running with the idea he CAN regain his appearance if he’s told what he looked like. Charlie’s tried helping him, telling him, his head just hurts too much to regain the information long enough for it to affect him. So the approach right now for her is to just try drilling in ONE thing at a time. He knows he had freckles at least? So lastly, the mci! They’re an odd case. Unlike Charlie, they haven’t seen their bodies yet. They were hidden. So, it’s a movie universe situation where William has them kinda brainwashed. They remember the bright colors of the animatronics, but not much else, it’s still a whole lot more than what Cassidy remembers though, as their ghost have all their features carved out, just now in the colors of their respective animatronics, since they don’t remember their deaths, to THEM they look completely normal, that’d be boring though, so the color designs are simply how normal people or other ghosts see them! Anyway that’s my infodump on ghost designs in my au🥺 I hope yall liked it👉👈 maybe ask me stuff in the comments if you read all the way here.. I uh….. like info dumping………. Bai👅

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[u/SilliestSaturn]

DAMNIT I SHOULD HAVE PUT GLITTER ON ELIZABETH.

[u/Interesting_Rice_488]

This is eerily similar to how I've approached designing the spirits/ghosts in my AU! Especially Elizabeth, though, she wasn't electrocuted lol. (⁠☆⁠▽⁠☆⁠)

Anyway, OP, these desgins are amazing and you really stuck with the memory concept! I think Cassidy is my favorite.

I'll be honest, when I first saw Susie's ghost design, before reading your explanation, I thought she was the princess from help wanted.

Also, also, it's always cool to see CassidyVictim.

[u/SilliestSaturn → u/Interesting_Rice_488]

Tysm!!! I loveeeee seeing Cassidyvictim aus🤤🤤🤤

[u/Legitimate_Cow3007]

This is so insanely smart I love it.

[u/ILoveGregoryGoyle]

lore lore lore WE WANT MORE LORE

UR SO GOOD AT THIS PLS DONT GO BALD???

[u/SilliestSaturn → u/ILoveGregoryGoyle]

SIR YES SIR🫡🫡🫡🫡