| “ | I've always liked it when it rains... The rain makes the silence go away. It feels comfy and relaxing... I don't like the silence. The silence means they're hiding. If they're hiding, they're coming closer, and if they come closer, they'll hurt me, for what I did- didn't do... For what I couldn't do... | „ |
| ~ Mary in the Game Jolt summary for Five Nights at Candy's 3. |
| “ | Now I've really done it. I thought to myself, as I sat in the darkness. No power, no lights, nothing. No danger, no worries, no fun. Just me, alone in the dark. All I can do now is wait it out. And think about what I've done. | „ |
| ~ Mary in Five Nights at Candy's Remastered when she runs out of power with ever single animatronic at the lowest difficulty during Custom Night. |
| “ | YOU FELL ASLEEP. IT IS YOUR FAULT. | „ |
| ~ The posters at Candy's Burgers & Fries on rare secret screens, blaming Mary for the twins' deaths. |
Mary Schmidt is the main protagonist of the Five Nights at Candy's series. She is the main protagonist of Five Nights at Candy's 3, and the overarching protagonist of Five Nights at Candy's 2 (while her daughter, Marylin is the protagonist), and the main protagonist of Five Nights at Candy's (as well as its 2019 remaster). She is a timid young girl who witnessed the Puppeteer murder his co-workers in the Rat & Cat Theatre in 1962
She later grew up to become a worker for Rowboatics Corp., where she fell asleep on the job and unintentionally let two twins be killed there. Afterwards, she became a nightguard at Candy's Burgers & Fries in 1987, where she was attacked by haunted animatronics.
Appearance[]
Mary appears as a little girl wearing a black dress and bright green sleeves and pantlegs with black shoes, with her dark hair tied in pigtails. As an adult, she wears a sweater and trousers, and her hair is tied in twintails.
Biography[]
Background[]
Mary was born to her two parents sometime before the 1960s, with her younger brother being born a few years afterwards. Not much is known about her childhood, although it is known that she crafted the Origami Cat with her mother and that she had trouble sleeping, which her father would remedy by giving her a cassette player of ambient sounds to calm her to sleep. Sometime after her brother’s birth, Mary’s mother died. The family would move houses afterwards and Mary would bring along the Origami Cat as a keepsake.
Five Nights at Candy’s 3[]
One summer, while her brother was away at a summer camp for a week, Mary and her father would dine at a dinner theater restaurant called the Rat & Cat Theater, where she would play hide-and-seek with the Rat and Cat's actors and meet the Puppeteer. On the final day of that week, Mary would hide in the restaurant’s office closet during a hide-and-seek game with the Rat’s actor, only to secretly witness him and the Puppeteer arguing.
The argument quickly turned violent, ultimately culminating in the Puppeteer pushing the Rat’s actor into a metal table, breaking his neck and accidentally killing him. The Cat’s actor walked in to see the aftermath and went to report the incident to the police. However, the Puppeteer, fearing for his career, strangled the actor to death, before falsely reporting the two actors’ deaths to the police and closing the restaurant to the public.
While the Puppeteer got away scot-free, Mary was gravely traumatized by this event and received nightmares of monstrous versions of the Rat and Cat hunting her in her bedroom. After taking therapy sessions from Ms. Sherwood, she repressed her trauma for about a year.
In 1962, the Rat & Cat Theater would reopen with animatronics made by Rowboatics Corporation. Mary and her family would visit the theater, though she was scared of the animatronics. During the animatronics’ performance, Mary’s brother excitedly ran towards the stage to marvel at the Rat animatronic, unbeknownst to the fact that it, now named RAT, was possessed by his actor’s ghost. RAT proceeded to attack and injure him, much to Mary’s horror.
Although her brother would recover from his injuries, the incident caused Mary’s trauma to re-emerge and she was once again plagued by nightmares at night, leading her to return to her therapy with Ms. Sherwood, who told her that she had to face her fears and remember what happened on the day with the actors’ murders. At night, the Origami Cat allowed her to explore her mindscape to find clues and memories of her past, and mentored her in combatting the nightmares.
Eventually, by the end of the week, Mary finally remembered the incident fully and revealed it to her therapist. With Mary as a witness, the authorities reopened the case of the murders and the Puppeteer was found guilty of killing the actors, leading to his imprisonment and eventual death. That night, his monstrous spirit, now named Vinnie, attacked her in her dreams, only for Mary to defeat him. Following this confrontation and a battle against RAT’s spirit, Mary was finally rid of the nightmares.
Five Nights at Candy’s[]
In 1964, the Rat & Cat Theater was reopened as Candy’s Burgers & Fries, with the Cat animatronic’s successor Candy the Cat as the mascot. RAT was kept in the restaurant’s storage closet while the Cat animatronic, also possessed by his actor’s spirit under the name CAT, was kept in the Rowboatics Corp factory, although his spirit often haunted the restaurant in the form of Shadow Candy. The restaurant ran for 23 years until 1987, when Candy caused an incident under Shadow Candy’s guidance, resulting in him getting retired and replacements being issued.
Meanwhile, Mary was now working at the factory, monitoring its animatronic assembly line. One day, she fell asleep on the job, allowing for two twin children to sneak into the factory. The twins were caught by CAT and were placed onto the assembly line, brutally and fatally converting them into animatronic endoskeletons. After discovering the aftermath, Mary was grief-stricken and presumably retired from her work. She was also tormented by hallucinations of Vinnie blaming her for their deaths. Elsewhere, the endoskeletons were made into the second incarnation of Candy and his twin sister Cindy, leading to their twins’ spirits possessing them.
Later that year, following the closure of Freddy Fazbear’s New Pizzeria due to the Bite of ‘87, Mary was hired as the nightguard for Candy’s Burgers & Fries, where she was attacked by Candy, his previous version (now named Old Candy), Cindy, Shadow Candy, Old Candy’s co-star Blank, Candy and Cindy’s co-star Chester, the restaurant’s animatronic penguin waiter, and RAT over the span of her work week, before being fired on Sunday for tampering with the animatronics and overusing perfume.
Five Nights at Candy’s 2[]
While Mary doesn’t appear in the game, aside from a minigame of her seeing RAT attack her brother, she is revealed to have married and given birth to a daughter Marylin in 1990.
Quotes[]
Said by Mary[]
Five Nights at Candy's 3[]
| “ | I don't have to go. | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the door to the Rat & Cat Theater's womens' restroom. |
| “ | That's the boys' restroom. | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the door to the Rat & Cat Theater's mens' restroom. |
| “ | It's Vinnie... | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the Vinnie puppet in the Rat & Cat Theater's office. |
| “ | There's two drawings in the trash bin... the first is of a boy and the Puppeteer with the words "BEST FRIENDS" written above them. The other drawing is of a boy and the Cat, also as "BEST FRIENDS". | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the office's bin. |
| “ | So many boxes... There's just boring paper stuff in there. | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the boxes in the office. |
| “ | It says DIPLOMA... and something about acting. | „ |
| ~ Mary reading the Puppeteer's diploma. |
| “ | It's a telephone. | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the office's telephone. |
| “ | It's the script for today's show. They are going to reveal the Rat and Cat's names. It says here that the Cat's name is... Candy? Candy the Cat... I kinda like it! | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the show's script. |
| “ | I have to hide. | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the office's door after entering it. |
| “ | ... | „ |
| ~ Mary's tearful silence as she inspects the Rat and Cat's actors' corpses. |
| “ | He put the diploma in the box... but why? | „ |
| ~ Mary inspecting the boxes after the Puppeteer places his diploma in one of them following his murder of the Cat's actor. |
Five Nights at Candy's Remastered[]
| “ | Now I've really done it. I thought to myself, as I sat in the darkness. No power, no lights, nothing. No danger, no worries, no fun. Just me and the Penguin, alone in the dark. All I can do now is wait it out. And think about what I've done. | „ |
| ~ A variation of Mary's "power runs out with all animatronics on easy mode" monologue if the Penguin is active and enters the room before the power runs out. |
Referring to Mary[]
Five Nights at Candy's 3[]
| “ | How are you feeling today? It has been two weeks. I understand that it was a very traumatic experience, but luckily your brother wasn't seriously hurt. You have to remember. They weren't real. They were just machines. They are not capable of harming anyone, what happened was just an accident, he was just....broken. But it's ok now. You're safe here. You remember them from the theater? Ah, yes the old one were you and your father went to a year ago. right? Your father has told me about what happened while you were there. You got separated from each other that day when the incident happened. Have you still had nightmares since we last met? We're they about those monster you drew for me? You're a very creative girl, but you can't let your fears takes control of your imagination. In order for your nightmares to end, you have to face your fears. You have to face the monsters. Show them you're not afraid. Do you understand? It's the only way. | „ |
| ~ Ms. Sherwood talking to Mary in the game's opening. |
| “ | Hey, you shouldn't be here! Oh no! You were in there the whole time? I'm so sorry! (To the Puppeteer) I though you said the place was cleared out. (To Mary again) Don't cry missy, where are your parents? | „ |
| ~ The policeman upon seeing Mary. |
Five Nights at Candy's/Remastered[]
| “ | You're one of us now! | „ |
| ~ CTC Entertainment's message to Mary on her paycheck. |
| “ | Notice of termination Employee: 07 Effective Date: RIGHT NOW Tampering with animatronic equipment, potentionally damaging the facility and/or animatronic equipment. Too much perfume! I am really disappointed in you ☹ |
„ |
| ~ Mary's pink slip at the end of Custom Night. |
Five Nights at Candy's 2[]
| “ | Marylin’s friend later revealed that Marylin was spending the nights in the abandoned factory on Saint Antonia’s Road, and that they had lied to Marylin’s parents. | „ |
| ~ Mary mentioned on the newspaper on the Game Over screen. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- In Five Nights at Candy's 3, Mary seems to be based on the Crying Child from Five Nights at Freddy's 4.
- Despite sharing surnames, Emil Macko, the creator of the series, has confirmed that Mary isn't related to Mike Schmidt, the protagonist of Five Nights at Freddy's, in any way.[1]
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