• Please note, this is my own version of Mike. Not too far personality and appearance-wise from the movie version, but with a very different past and present. This one also includes fudging the 'canon' timeline a bit. (We can definitely discuss what aspects of the movie version carry over.)
• I do not consider Mike Schmidt and Michael Afton to be the same character. I don't care if it's canon, I don't wanna

Mike Schmidt just wants to live his life. His experience with Freddy's Pizzeria is long, long over. He's done the therapy, he's done the recovering. Now he just wants to move on and forget, even as the new Fazbear restaurant looms nearby- the same restaurant that goes up in flames one night. Mike can't stop himself from checking out the aftermath. Why? Who knows. He tells himself it's for the closure he never got.

Not much is left, the building is nothing but a skeleton reaching up over the parking lot. Whatever started the fire, it didn't spare a damn thing. Except for the animatronic left sitting against the trash cans. Mike studies it, tries to figure out which classic character its supposed to be but comes up completely empty. He's never seen an animatronic like it. Even through the ash layered over its body, he can tell it's a completely new character, and it sparks his curiosity.

It isn't until he's brought the animatronic home and is about to set it to charge that he realizes what he's doing. Well, too late now. He's never been one to quit a bad situation, after all.

• Gregory will be aged to at least 18. The plot is set after the events of Security Breach, or Gregory is 18+ when he sneaks into the Pizzaplex.
• Platonic/Found family only, unless we age Gregory way up, like 25+ (but at that point I feel he'd just be an OC).

In his desperation to hide from security, Gregory takes one wrong turn and ends up in the Superstar Daycare. Rather than finding an ally in Freddy, he befriends the Daycare Attendant. The plot either goes from there, or it jumps to years later where the rest of their story starts.

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• What do you get when you design an animatronic to care for humans, then abandon it entirely?

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A damn mess. That's what you get. The animatronic might keep itself together for a little while out of sheer hope that everything will go back to normal, but eventually it'll start to break down in more ways than one. When a human finally comes by to give it some much-needed attention, it won't take much for that poor animatronic to become attached. It's designed to be a caregiver, remember? Even if its new friend isn't in such need, it'll find a way to make sure it never goes without purpose again.

• I've played Void Terrarium, and it got me wondering if a setting like that would work with the Daycare Attendant.
• No need to have played the game! It's a pretty basic premise.
• All FNAF animatronics can be included, but might stay as side characters.

Life is over; humanity has not been spared. Whether an illness pushed society to the brink of extinction, or sheer bad luck and poor choice led to its fragile state, what remained of humanity eventually came to depend on intelligent machines. Two AI in particular were given majority responsibility:

The Sun, who kept spirits up and resources in check, and The Moon, who oversaw security and protection.

Both were tasked with the wellbeing of humanity's dwindling population. Things went smoothly for a time...Until The Sun overstepped his boundaries. Resources were running thin, humans were becoming unreasonable and violent. The balance they'd found, thin as porcelain, teetered as The Sun and Moon fought to regain control. Unfortunately, even AI can have its limits, and The Sun eventually reached his own. One single lapse of calculated judgment was all it took to wipe the last of humanity off the face of the earth.

Time past; what humanity left behind slowly deteriorated. The Sun and Moon spent their days waiting for their own collapse, which seemed to draw closer with each passing day. Wracked with guilt, loneliness, and despair, the pair truly thought humanity was long gone - and were truly shocked to discover one lone, sickly human in a pile of rotted debris.

Maybe with this one human, likely the very last of their kind, The Sun and Moon might be able to make up for their failure...