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Observation
In case you don't know, Tangle is a character, or more accurately, a lot of characters, that is the result of countless animatronics merged into one. They briefly appear in FNaF: Security Breach.
Something that has bothered me for a while is that the description on the Five Nights at Freddy's Wiki, in Personality, starts with "Tangle's mind is that of a mindless monster...." I, personally, heavily disagree with just this smallest detail. Sure, the Blob is pretty monstrous and hideous, and does act impulsively, but at the end of the day, it is full of the souls of children. Children who had families and lives in the FNaF universe, and I personally can''t stand when people, instead of bothering to explain that the animatronics are actually alive and traumatized, reduce them to simply "evil animatronics." They might be evil, sure, but that's because they were lured away from their families and viciously murdered. And then, even after that, they were simply labeled as "missing," and their families had to hold on to the hope that one day, they could be found. Even though they never would.
What I'm trying to say is, I've seen the "mindless" description in more places than just the FNaF Wiki, and I wanted to make a point that the Blob isn't "mindless." It is sentient, and alive, and always thinking, and the children's souls have been possessing the animatronics inside for too long. They deserve for their suffering to be ended, and the man who killed them deserves to suffer until the end of time.
I feel like the Blob should never be considered "mindless," because they are so much more than that. They are actual human beings, children at that, and their conciousnesses, traumatized and tortured in the dark. They should never be written off as "mindless," because they have their own thoughts and feelings. They are only "mindless" toward the horrible person that caused them decades of pain and suffering, of which they are completely justified.
So, in short, before thinking of them as "mindless," or without concern for their actions, think about how they saved Gregory from Burntrap, which could either be the Mimic or William Afton, some of the most sinister beings in the franchise. They definetely had concern for Gregory. Comment "banana" if you made it this far, because the whole thing was rediculously and probably unnecessarily lengthy.
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Tangle/The blob is not the missing children, those kids are gone.
Tales shows us what he is, hes the pile of corpses and dismantled robots the mimic was stacking up. The book repeatedly calls that pile "Tangle" and at one point a character even focuses on it and describes it as "pulsing with malevolence"
It is possessed by dozens of construction workers and teenagers the mimic caught and ripped apart
Even assuming that is all the tangle is, that doesn't make it any more of a mindless monster than it being dead children which is what OP takes issue with.
Its not mindless per say, but it is like... feral? I don't think a group of rationally thinking adults and teenagers would all come to the conclusion that murding random wandering children is the right desicion to make
That's why I'm more inclined to say it's their agony rather than their souls, since it has more of the behavior of an agony creature. Hell, it's even partially organic, being able to breathe with its chest contracting and expanding as it does so.
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That makes sense. I was wondering about the repetive "tangle" description, but I never made the connection. However, if it is still possessed by innocent people either trying to do their jobs or just being at the Pizzaplex, I still feel bad for them.
Yeah, that's pretty much my issue.
"Feral" is a much better description, thank you. I was trying to find the right word, and I believe that "feral" is perfect.
I never even thought about the Tangle's loud snoring in depth, but that makes so much sense.