Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins is the main protagonist of SNaF 3, and works as a nightguard personally hired by Nathan Edwards, his friend, to guard the storage center that Edwards rented out for a couple of weeks in order to store salvaged animatronic characters that he planned to find in Pennsylvania. After starting his first night on the job, Ryan receives a phone call from Nathan, informing him of what to do and how to do things. Ryan also suffers from narcolepsy, which is an extreme tendency to randomly fall asleep, especially at night. Knowing this, Nathan gladly left him a cup of coffee on his desk to keep him awake.

Ryan originally attended Virginia Tech, located within the state of Virginia. His personal group of friends crossed over with a man named Nathan Edwards' smaller friend group, and the two became mild acquaintances. Ryan also had hopes of becoming an aerospace engineer at NASA, according to Nathan's notes in SNaF 5. The two parted ways after graduation in 2001, but Nathan met him again in a bar in 2002. The duo became friends again, but as the years went on and Nathan became more socially alone, Ryan started hanging out with new people, and they eventually stopped speaking with each other in 2008. However, when Nathan's search for the Pennsylvania Adler Repair Center occurred in October of 2010, he contacted Ryan to guard the storage center he was planning to put the animatronics in for what was planned to be 5 nights, but thanks to Nathan's car breaking down, it was extended to 6. Ryan did his job without fuss.

For the next few nights after this, Ryan continues his job monitoring the recovered animatronics, as well as trying to stop them from getting into his office. After each subsequent night, as well, Ryan always seems to bring his own coffee to work, in a plain white mug that reads "World's Best Entry Level Employee" in black text.

On his third night of work, Ryan arrives at his desk to find a cardboard box of cassette tapes. Nathan, now in Pennsylvania, informs him over the phone that those are old tapes from Frank's Diner that they found in the repair center. After each phone call on each night, Ryan listens to the tapes. After his final night of working at the storage center, Ryan receives his paycheck consisting of $261 dollars precisely. After Ryan's sixth night is over, Nathan, now back in Ohio, takes the job of night watchman upon himself, putting Ryan out of danger.

Appearance
Nothing is known about Ryan's appearance other than the fact that he has grayish eyes, as evidenced by the SNaF 3 death screen, which is not canon, but the gray eyes presumably are.

Personality
Only scarce details are given about Ryan's personality, mostly through phone calls. It can also be assumed that Ryan is a man of notable or at least above-average intelligence due to his admittance into Virginia Tech.
 * Nathan constantly refers to Ryan as "buddy" or "man" implying that they're good friends.
 * Nathan also thanks Ryan for "bein' a friend", so it can be assumed that Ryan is dedicated to his job and friends.

Trivia

 * Ryan is stated in the SNaF 3 Night 1 phone call to have narcolepsy. Why Nathan would hire someone whom he knows suffers from it could be questioned, but Nathan also took time to put a cup of coffee on Ryan's desk to help him stay awake.
 * Ryan's coffee mug on the first night is just a blank white cup (presumably because it's just Nathan's own coffee mug), but on the second night and onwards the mug reads "World's Best Entry Level Employee". This mug is most likely to be Ryan's own.
 * Ryan, along with Jim Moore and Rick Marshall, are the only characters in the SNaF series to appear in only one game, with Jim appearing in SNaF 2 only, Ryan appearing in SNaF 3 only, and Rick appearing in SNaF 4 only.
 * Ryan's name is a reference to Ryan Howard from the TV show The Office, which SNaF 's creator is a known fan of.
 * The last 4 numbers of Ryan's Social Security Number are 5491, which is 1945 reversed. 1945 was the year Robert Edwards was born.