The Golden Era 02: Battle of the Hats 1

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The story begins, with a page I actually roughed out well over a year ago.  Scavenger hunt time: can you find said rough?

Midnight brings a paradigm shift to these robots.  Their daytime programming shuts down, but they have no preprogrammed instructions for the night, so they are free to do as they please so long as they don't break any of the "commandments" built into their code.  You know: Don't go into the security room, don't leave the building, there is no such things as a Safe Room, don't touch humans, et cetera.  Well, that last one isn't a problem at night, as the security guard has struck an agreement with them.  They keep watch over the place and don't make a mess, and he goes home and leaves them in peace--and often gives 'em things to amuse themselves with.  Nice guy, isn't he?

Anyway, when midnight strikes and for six hours the characters have free will, they are drawn as they see themselves, which is to say the cartoon characters that the animatronics represent.  When they are in daytime mode and can only follow their scripts, they are drawn as the animatronics they actually are.  Make sense, right?  We're following their points of view.  Fazbear & Friends takes a similar approach: the animatronics appear to themselves as cute cartoons and to the terrified guard as horrifying robots.  Go watch it if you're confused--or if you just want a good laugh.  It's funny!

I mentioned before that the engineers who built them put in more quasi-biological functions than most would deem necessary or even sane.  What were they thinking when they programmed Fredbear with a gag reflex?