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... It's possible for Christians to portray mythological realms and mechanics in fiction, but it's also possible to take these things entirely metaphorically and use them in mere analogies: "I'm going through hell" when somebody is still alive, "godforsaken place". I think that before we make theories we have to recognize that FNaF is mostly a secular work full of metaphors. Andrew, in the books, is not in the afterlife, which is part of why tormenting William Afton could ever be a bad thing; he literally has not moved on.

Where everybody is in FNaF World is a little confusing — are they actually in a level of the afterlife, or is it something else? — but it becomes a lot easier to interpret everything if we realize the series prefers not to actually tell us about the afterlife and prefers either metaphors or fictionalized NDEs full of animate spirits. The NDEs may well be supernatural but they operate like fever dreams, generating anything and everything. Why is there such a wild array of animatronics in the afterlife? Because it's not the afterlife, not the full one at least. It's just an adventure for ghosts, possibly generated by their minds or what remains of them. I think there is a reason Henry puts so many "maybes" in his speech when he talks about good and bad afterlives. None of the characters actually know what the afterlife is. If Henry becomes Old Man Consequences, this could be Henry going through an experience of metaphorically "being in hell" because Cassidy (or whoever) won't move on and effectively is giving him trouble. I think all of FNaF World _is_ characters' inner experiences and the metaphors in their minds. But either way, even if Henry is seeing visual imagery of a final lake of fire, what I'm saying is that can be a metaphor his mind conjured up to populate the dreamscape, not actually related to the afterlife itself.

... what I am feeling is that FNaF is a secular work full of metaphor and this is why it has so many science fiction elements and so many "maybes" and funny metaphors like wrong wrong easter bunnies coming back to life. We are supposed to read the religious metaphors as poetry, almost as if they were inserted by an atheist, even if there are tiny moments an actual afterlife is mentioned.

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