Eleonor Schmidt

The origin of the conflict: All the family tension begins because Eleanor, an accountant by profession, is extremely strict with numbers. After the divorce, she doesn't let William get away with a single debt and relentlessly pursues him legally to make him pay every last penny for child support for Michael, Elizabeth, and their younger brother. William's paranoia: William is so afraid of Eleanor's demands that he lives in a constant state of paranoia. In Part 2, when the Funtime animatronics merge into Ennard and see Michael (whom they mistake for their father), Circus Baby vividly recalls the family trauma and remarks that the last time she saw her mother so angry was "when she found out she had to pay child support because of William." Hatred of William as fuel: When Ennard decides to attack and drain Michael's body, believing him to be her ex-husband, Eleanor (Ballora) supports the plan with absolute enthusiasm. For her, any suffering that might be inflicted upon William is an act of poetic justice for all the years he spent evading his financial responsibilities. The Reset of Peace: At the end of Part 4, when reality returns to 1983 thanks to the cosmic reset, the obsession with money dissolves. With no deaths or tragedies, Eleanor drops the lawsuits and the family court case, allowing everyone to sit down and eat pizza in peace.

The youngest son in the family is the one Eleanor spends the least time with in the original timeline, but their relationship is mended at the end of the saga: The Cigarette Trauma: When the Crybaby was young, Eleanor was almost entirely absent due to the divorce. The boy suffers his traumas alone in the original Fredbear's Pizza (such as seeing the bear smoking a cigarette), while William and Eleanor fight in court over child support. The Reunion in the 1983 Reboot: At the end of Part 4, when Ferdinand von Bernard reboots reality and erases all the tragedies since 1983, Eleanor regains her human body and her sanity. In the final scene, she is seen happily reunited at a table with Michael, Elizabeth, and the Crybaby, finally acting like a normal, peaceful family, leaving behind the child support claims and spring suits.

Her relationship with Michael is marked by mistaken identity and a complete estrangement caused by the family's lies: The "look-alike" problem: When Michael goes down to work in the underground bunker of Sister Location, Eleanor and the other Funtime animatronics constantly mistake him for William because he looks identical to his father. For this reason, Eleanor feels no guilt when Ennard decides to use the Scooper to drain Michael's body and use his skin as a disguise; for her, he was simply giving her annoying ex-husband a well-deserved punishment. The belated regret: Decades later, at the Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator, Eleanor and the neighbors finally realize that the purple, decomposing body that had been walking through the neighborhood was Michael's, not William's. Upon learning that their own innocent son had been disemboweled just to play dress-up, they feel a little guilty, but by that time Michael has already learned to regenerate his organs inside a magic refrigerator and decides to ignore his mother.

With Elizabeth Afton (Circus Baby / Scrap Baby): The relationship with her only daughter is the most competitive and dysfunctional of all, especially when they both become animatronics. The trigger for the divorce: Elizabeth is, indirectly, the reason Eleanor goes to William's house the day she becomes Ballora, as she had only gone to pick her up to fulfill her shared custody week. Mutual manipulation: In Sister Location, when the animatronics try to escape the underground bunker, Eleanor (Ballora) doesn't want to hear anyone's plans. However, Baby knows her mother perfectly and uses reverse psychology, telling her, "I bet you anything you can't help us escape." Knowing that Eleanor hates being challenged (and being called "stupid"), she immediately agrees to lead the escape. The expulsion of Ennard: After everyone merges into Ennard and lives in Michael's body, living together becomes unbearable. Eleanor, furious at having to "babysit" her own daughter and the souls of four other unknown children within the same wired body, decides Elizabeth is old enough to be independent. After conspiring with the other souls, she pulls a wire and ejects Baby from Ennard on her first attempt, forcing her to rebuild herself from junk (Scrap Baby).

As a human: In the spin-off "Eyes Like Sapphires," she is seen in her youth as a young and attractive woman. William compliments her appearance, telling her in a cheesy way that she has sapphire-colored eyes. As an animatronic (Ballora): She maintains the stylized and elegant silhouette of a blue and white ballet dancer, but with the personality of a divorced and stressed accountant who doesn't hesitate to use force if necessary.

Intimidating and formidable: She has absolutely no respect or fear for William or Henry. In fact, Henry is so terrified of her that she's the only one he doesn't dare put a shock collar on. Obsessed with finances: As an accountant, she's extremely strict with money, budgets, and legal payments. Resentful and competitive: She takes things very personally (like the fact that the robot danced better than her) and lives to make William's life miserable.

When Henry Emily takes over Circus Baby's Entertainment and Rentals, he proves completely incapable of handling money. Ballora (Eleanor), fed up with such financial incompetence, ousts Henry and takes charge of the company's accounting, proving herself to be a brilliant administrator. Later, when her daughter Circus Baby devises a plan for the Funtime animatronics to merge into Ennard and escape to the outside world, Ballora joins the scheme primarily because "any attempt to upset or ruin her ex-husband William's life is totally worth it." In the sewers, tired of having to "look after" the other four children's souls who got into Ennard, she decides it's time for her daughter to become independent and ejects Baby from the wire body in one swift motion.

William Afton harbored a deep resentment towards Eleanor. Since she worked as an accountant, William tried to wound her pride by creating a robot in his workshop that was "better at ballet than she is" (a ludicrous joke, as Eleanor had nothing to do with dance). One day, Eleanor went to William's house to pick up her daughter Elizabeth for the week. Upon entering the workshop and seeing the robot, Eleanor became so enraged by her ex-husband's ridiculous logic that she willingly merged with the animatronic Ballora in a fit of anger. From that moment on, William was stuck with a "robot wife" who danced ballet all over his workshop.

Eleanor Schmidt was married to William Afton, but their marriage was an absolute disaster due to William's eccentricities and stinginess. They eventually divorced, and Eleanor became a constant thorn in his side, especially when she legally demanded child support payments for their three children.