In Five Nights at Freddy’s 1, you play as the night security guard Mike Schmidt.

Who you play as

  • The main playable character in FNAF 1 is Mike Schmidt, a human night guard working the 12–6 AM shift at Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza.
  • His name appears in the paycheck screen you receive after surviving the week of nights at the pizzeria.

Brief story context

  • Mike’s job is to monitor cameras and conserve power while hostile animatronics roam the building and try to reach the office.
  • The game never shows Mike directly, keeping him mostly as a faceless protagonist whose identity is expanded on through community theories and later series lore.

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