Dave Miller // William Afton!!!

Welcome to my Neocities Shrine™ for Purple Guy of Dayshift at Freddy's!!!
On the fanart shared, click the images for the source. At the top is a playlist I put together of some tracks from the games, if you're so inclined! I also have linked my playlist for him, as well as my Pinterest board, and of course a link to download and play the games if you wish to experience The Boy™ yourself! Be warned, while this tab is fine, the others DO have some spoilers for the series! I strongly recommend going into it blind, but that's just me! Do what you want.

TELL ME ABOUT THE BOY !!!!

Dayshift at Freddy's is a RPGMaker triology of weird-and-bastardcore-esque visual novels serving as an AU to the Five Nights at Freddy's series. It is both very silly and wacky, as well as very dark and serious (I would describe the vibes as similar to Moral Orel, Bojack Horseman, or Undertale/Deltarune - which is an inspiration for it). The games have some outdated or uncomfortable humour at times due to its age (especially the first game), but I still recommend the series to anyone insterested in a FNAF AU that focuses on the employees rather than the animatronics. It's a cult classic for a reason!

In this universe, William Afton, better known as Dave Miller, is the only "canon" FNAF character, and even then he's very different in a lot of ways (he's not even British lmao). His role in the games is either the antagonist or deuteragonist depending on the player's choices. In the first two games he approaches the player character with an offer to team up to murder five children at the game's Freddy's location. The player may choose to side with him, actively work to stop him from killing, or simply blow him off and do what they want.

It isn't until the third and final game where Dave gets a lot more focus as a character, and we learn about his backstory (which was really only hinted at before). The third is commonly considered to be the best in the trilogy, and for good reason!

Why is my kokoro so in lourve
with this bicth???

The simple short answer: he's my strongest kintype; he just like me fr fr and I'm him irl. The longer answer: Dave means a lot to me because he is unapologetically weird. The series never goes out of its way to "tame" him, and in fact he's shown to be disliked by a lot of the supporting cast, yet Jack sees his value and cherishes him. As someone who literally made this website due to trying to embrace my weirdness, I find him to kind of be an inspiration. It's why I've kind of adopted him as my internet persona: it's a comforting way to keep anonymous while also still being myself. I'm not gonna vent on my blorbo webpage here, but I think the timing when I played these games had something to do with it as well. I was going through a really really really upsetting and stressful time, and these games cheered me up and gave me comfort - especially Dave's character. I found myself relating to him a lot, and identifying with him in the third game. Replaying DSAF or looking at fanart is something which feels very cosy in a way my typical cosy interests like art or Stardew Valley are not. It may sound cheesy to say, but The Flipside feels like home.

I also find his character - really, all of them - to be surpringly complex. He's written in a way to just be uniquely his own character, while also still definitely being The Man Behind the Slaughter (a lot of his lore contrasts or pulls from TSE' Dave Miller, which I think is neat). I'm 100% dead serious when I say he is absolutely my top favourite interpretation of William Afton's character (sidenote: if I DID have to pick one following FNAF's plot, gotta be VHS Afton or TSE Dave/William)

Also he's just really, really, really fucking funny to me.