Oh my goodness gracious this is absolutely stunning

This is probably because I'm personally not big into complex sci-fi magic systems and prefer to keep the supernatural vague and more a reflection of the characters and their emotional states. Your interpretation is probably closer to what Scott intended. :D

Less that the supernatural causes Henry's decline, and more that it is in response to him. That he manifests this recreation of his daughter by willing her into existence, then creates the illusion discs and hones the robotics to convince everyone else. Which then makes it worse for himself.

That's neat! I guess when I engage with his increasing loss of grip of reality, I see it as a much more internal struggle. He cannot cope in a world without Charlotte, to the point his mind starts to convince him she must have never even died. The tech he's meddling only reinforces his delusions.

Ohhh I'm curious :0 !! What's your read on book henry?

I feel like a lot of Henry's behavior in the books has symptoms of both bipolar disorder and schizophrenia and realizing that explains a lot and helps him feel a lot more human.

It also feels sadly realistic: ofc the guy with the untreated psychiatric disability is the one who gets outcast.

HENRY EMILY

BEEN SAYING THIS FOR YEARS.

oki I'm done, I promise to never talk about fnaf theorist culture again, it turns activates my pretentious art student side like a sleeper agent. and it is a biohazard

Unless people FULLY COMMIT to making every detail meaning something, I care not for it. I may not personally like maximalism, but I can respect when it's well done and done with passion and not out of cynicism.

this is very over-worded way to say I disagree with most FNaFtubers on a fundamental level because the way they engage with media and art makes me gnash my teeth and I think TalesGames is and always was stupid.

But when everything is compressed into one frame and distilled with individual meaning, your central focus can blur, and you can lose sight of what the actual subject was. In some ways, it feels too limiting.

It removes the opportunity for the audience to interpret outside of the author.

That's not to say that trying to capture all those details isn't impressive - it is! It takes a lot of attention, and effort, and I respect the effort to capture as much as you can in a composition. If that's the objective, it's a worthy one, and I love how passionate people are about it.

I think if you try to grasp for meaning in every fiber of a story stretched out across every medium, you can lose sight of the core. In capturing every detail, your depth of field is increased, but you clutter the picture. At a certain point you gotta wonder if some details are worth keeping.

My firmest belief is that the spinoff books are mostly single one-off stories with very little bearing on anything and would be more loved if they were regarded as such. I respect people trying to find meaning in them but ultimately they are isolated spooky Goosebumps books to me.