Nathan Edwards

"'Hey, man, uh, it's your friend Nate here. You remember me? Heh. I'm sure you do. We just haven't seen you around in a while.' - The introduction of Nathan's first phone call to Ryan Collins, SNaF 3 Night 1"

Nathan Edwards is the main protagonist of Seven Nights at Frank's and the deuteragonist of Seven Nights'' at Frank's 3. However, he was also revealed to be the main antagonist of the series, as at the end of SNaF 3'', he was arrested for double homicide, and he was also found to have tampered the with animatronics located at Frank's Jukebox Diner, in order to cause them to malfunction drastically, so that Funhouse Entertainment, the owner of the robots, would throw them out, allowing Nathan's corporation to take them and steal their technology, as well as improve it.

Besides that, Nathan was the CEO of tech megacorporation Edwards Technology Restoration, Incorporated, which was founded in the early 1980s as a tech support program, but when Nathan inherited the company in the late 90s, he made several drastic changes that benefited his company and hurt competition companies, such as Funhouse Entertainment.

Little is known about Nathan's early life, other than the fact that he was born in the United States in 1978, and that he had a mother and a father, Robert Edwards and Carolyn Edwards, respectively, the former of which founded E.T.R in 1983. Also, according to Robert, Henry Edwards, Nathan's grandfather and a World War II pilot, was a hero to Nathan when he was young. On May 26, 1986, while Nathan was at school as a child, his father murdered his mother, Carolyn, as the two had been fighting for some time. All Nathan ever heard of it from his father was that his mother died of a heart attack.

From 1992 to 1996, Nathan attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Virginia from the ages of 14 to 18. He enrolled here thanks to his talent with machinery. In 1994, Nathan got his first car at 16. In 1997, Nathan's father, Robert, stepped down as E.T.R's CEO and Nathan took over just out of high school. Also in 1997, Nathan began attending college at Virginia Tech.

In 1998 (one year after Edwards Tech. Restoration began to build animatronic hardware), during SNaF 2, when Nathan was 20, he applied for a job at Frank's Jukebox Diner as a nightguard, with the intentions of tampering with the animatronics in order to get a hold of the supposed state-of-the-art technology that the children's eatery robots had. However, at some point during his night watchman career, he was fired for unprofessionalism and replaced with Phone Guy, who himself was then replaced with Jim Moore on July 19, 1998.

After getting fired, Nathan was apparently walking by Frank's late at night on July 12, 1998, when he saw teenager David Williams spraypainting on the side of the building. Nathan got the idea to murder the teen in order to shut down Frank's for good.

However, it appeared that his tampering with the robots worked to an extent, as on July 25, 1998, Frank's Diner was closed down after a birthday party involving Philip the Dog apparently went wrong, as well as a handful of other incidents that occurred during the open hours of business. Just days before this, however, the Frank's characters and building were purchased by the Adler Corporation, a small company that didn't really have a core message other than to manage other, independent companies. Nathan, seeing this, hoped to be able to acquire the scrapped animatronics. However, those were taken apart and shipped to an unidentified location, except for Philip, who was transported to the Adler House, along with the newer, less dangerous animatronics. According to a newspaper clipping in SNaF 2, in August of 1998, Nathan stood trial as a suspect for the murder of Williams, but was let go based on lack of evidence.

On March 31st, 1999, Nathan and Robert went to the movies together to go and watch the popular action-thriller The Matrix. This would be the last time they interacted with each other until 2010. 2 years later, Nathan graduated from Virginia Tech with a degree in computer programming. During Nathan's time in college, he was loose friends with Ryan Collins, a young man with aspirations of becoming an aerospace engineer at NASA. About a year after graduating, in 2002, Nathan met Ryan again in a bar. About a year before working at the Adler House, Nathan scrapped his old car and used E.T.R's funds to buy a new one, a 1970 Buick Gran Sport.

6 years after the initial closing of Frank's, in 2004, the time of SNaF 1, the Adler House officially began its business of letting families rent out the animatronic characters for parties during the day. Three of them, Lionel, Harriet, and Frank, were new, but Philip, still rotting away from the old location, sat in the back room. Seeing this as another business opportunity, Nathan applied for a job as the night watchman yet again. However, Nathan was the second guard to work at the Adler House, with the previous one being Phone Guy, who apparently stuck with the animatronic business after 6 years. Nathan continued his job as the nightguard for 6 more nights, tampering with the robots yet again, and yet again causing more incidents with children. However, the characters were again shipped off to the unidentified location. However, Nathan learned that it was a repair center in Pennsylvania thanks to Phone Guy. On Nathan's sixth night of working there, he was involuntarily fired for the closing of Adler's entertainment venues, giving Nathan everything he needed.

Nathan does not appear as a nightguard in SNaF 4, though he does appear in the Night 5 phone call. On November 19th, 2004, just days after Nathan worked at the Adler House, Phone Guy reopened his personal investigation into Nathan's tampering. But, Nathan broke into Phone Guy's house during the call, all while Rick Marshall listened, unable to do anything. However, Phone Guy managed to contact the police, who arrived just after Nathan escaped. According to a newspaper clipping in SNaF 4, after the break-in, the police conducted an investigation of E.T.R, Inc, but came up empty.

By 2008, Nathan had become more socially isolated and had almost no one to talk to. Ryan Collins, according to Nathan, also began to meet new people and friends around this time, leading to the duo no longer being in contact with each other.

6 more years after that, during SNaF 3 in 2010, Edwards Technology Restoration, Inc. was well on its way to becoming a Fortune 500 corporation. In that same year as well, Nathan began a venture to head out to the Pennsylvania repair center to salvage what was left of the animatronic characters, in order to see what made them so advanced. Doing this, he also rented out a small storage center in the town of Greenville, Ohio to keep the robots there. Nathan, with no one else to turn to, called up Ryan Collins and asked him to act as the night watchman there. As said in the phone calls in SNaF 3, Nathan apparently brought two other people with him to search the place and salvage some robot parts. On his second night at the center, Nathan shipped two animatronic characters back to Ohio for Ryan to guard, and on the fourth night, he shipped back the remaining six. On the third night there, he sent back a cardboard box full of cassette tapes about what occurred at the original Frank's Diner location. Nathan was oblivious to the contents of the tapes, and had always thought he'd gotten away with tampering with the robots.

On Ryan's fifth night as the guard, Nathan called him to let the watchman know that he was returning to Ohio, and would be back at around 9 or 10 in the morning. However, Ryan returned for a sixth night, and Nathan called him again to let him know that their car was broken down about 72 miles east of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and that if he wasn't back by tomorrow, Ryan wouldn't have to come for a seventh night, but if he was back tomorrow, he'd just take the nightshift himself. Nathan apparently kept his promise, as it is confirmed that the character you play as in SNaF 3's Custom Night, AKA Night 7, is not Ryan Collins, but is Nathan Edwards. However, right before taking his shift, Nathan murdered the two people that accompanied him to the repair center, as he was afraid that they would betray him and steal "his" technology. He then stuffed them into a Philip the Dog costume, and a Frank the Frog costume, respectively.

30 minutes after Nathan's shift ended (his shift ended at 6:00 AM) the CEO was attempting to drag the two stuffed bodies of his former accomplices out to his car. However, a police officer who happened to be on patrol in that general area noticed this and requested to inspect Nathan's car. Nathan refused to comply, so the officer cuffed him and looked at the car, finding the two bodies stuffed inside the suits. A newspaper from October 25, 2010, the day after Nathan's arrest, stated that the man was currently incarcerated in Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio.

Nathan's life after the events of SNaF 3 are detailed in the book ''Seven Nights at Frank's: Rebirth. ''In it, it's revealed that Nathan's hallucinations have taken full force over his mind. He now hears the voices of those he killed speaking to him directly. However, on his second day in prison, he receives a phone call from his father, Robert, who just wants to talk to him. But, Nathan tells Robert about the visions and ghosts, and how they won't go away. Robert becomes disappointed in his son, and hangs up. A prison guard has to pull the phone away from Nathan. Later, Robert actually drives over to Southern Ohio Correctional, where he gets a visit with Nathan. It's here that Nathan finally tells Robert, who'd been investigating Nathan's obsession with Frank's, about what he was doing this whole time. Robert, surprisingly, leaves the prison proud of his son. Later, Nathan is alone in his cell again, when a voice he's never heard before asks him why he did it. Nathan brushes it off as one he just made up, but it was actually his mother's, Carolyn Edwards, spirit.

Appearance
Little is known about Nathan's actual physical appearance, other than the fact that he is a fair-skinned adult male that wore a white button-up shirt with a tie, a yellow badge, black pants, and black shoes during his nightshift at the Frank's.

Personality
Nathan is a manipulative and quite unfeeling individual who was no problem with killing or ruining other people's businesses. Despite this, he manages to keep a dry sense of humor in the SNaF 3 phone calls. He also seems to care about Ryan Collins a little bit, since he left the narcoleptic man a cup of coffee before he left for Pennsylvania. Nathan also seems to be a very paranoid and schizophrenic individual, going so far as to kill his two business partners in the fears that they would steal his ideas. As evidenced by Seven Nights at Frank's: Rebirth, Nathan appears to be a fan of rock music from the 1980s, as he has a CD in his car featuring songs such as Corey Hart's Sunglasses At Night.

Trivia

 * Nathan's name is revealed on his paycheck in the first game.
 * He is the Phone Guy in SNaF 3. 
 * According to SNaF 3 's Night 1 phone call, Nathan knows that Ryan Collins suffers from narcolepsy. Why he would knowingly hire someone like that for a 12 AM to 6 AM job is unknown, though it may be attributed to his schizophrenia. (one of the symptoms of it is making irrational decisions)
 * He seemed oblivious to the fact that the audio cassettes in SNaF 3 contained evidence that his company committed crimes against Funhouse Entertainment, but this can probably be attributed to the fact that he didn't bother to listen to the tapes before shipping them off, most likely due to time constraints.
 * In SNaF 3, Nathan is revealed to be the first nightguard at Frank's Jukebox Diner, who was mentioned in the second game without a name.
 * Nathan likely suffers from schizophrenia.
 * The last 4 numbers of Nathan's Social Security Number are 7891, which is the year 1987 reversed. This is obviously a reference to Five Nights at Freddy's.