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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD

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Full Name (Animatronic): Bon the Rabbit

Possessing Spirit Name: "Bon"

Animatronic Classification: CyberFun Tech Series — Showstopper Mk. I

Primary Vessel: Bon animatronic, Bon's Burgers / K-9 Storage Facility

Spirit Classification: Post Extensive Object Possession (P.E.O.P.)

ORIGIN — CONCEPT AND CONSTRUCTION

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The animatronic known as Bon the Rabbit did not begin as a machine. He began as

a drawing. In 1967, Rosemary Walten — head artist of Bunny Smiles Incorporated

and wife of company co-founder Jack Walten — sketched the first known concept art

for the character: a large, wide-set rabbit with a gentle expression, designed to

be the face of a family restaurant experience that her husband and Felix Kranken

had been dreaming toward for years. Rosemary gave Bon his softness. The round

ears, the approachable shape, the suggestion of warmth — all hers. The animatronic

was meant to reassure children. He was meant to be safe.

Susan Woodings built him.

Susan, Lead Technician of BSI and Technical Supervisor at CyberFun Tech, was

responsible for constructing all of the Showstoppers — the animatronic performers

of Bon's Burgers. Bon was her centerpiece build. Using CyberFun Tech's proprietary

animatronic framework and her own considerable engineering knowledge, Susan

constructed Bon's chassis: a teal-and-off-white bipedal endoskeleton clad in

molded acrylic paneling, standing over seven feet tall, built for stage performance,

audience interaction, and facial tracking via the CyberFun Console. She gave him

his mass. His hydraulic joints. His heavy, deliberate gait. She gave him the hands

with their gunmetal-plated knuckles and the voice box that could sing. She could

not have known what he would become.

Bon's Burgers opened officially on June 28th, 1974. Bon performed on stage. He

moved his arms and turned his head and scanned the room. According to Susan's

own audio log from June 30th, 1974, she had already noticed irregularities — the

limbs moving stiffly, oddly, particularly the right arm. She noted that something

felt off. She stayed late to check on him. She was the only one left in the building.

At some point between 10 PM and midnight on June 30th, 1974, the Bon animatronic

moved on its own. Not from Susan's console. Not from any programmed routine. A

spirit — the entity that would come to call itself "Bon" — had taken residence

inside the machine. The possessing spirit's true identity remains one of The Walten

Files' central mysteries, though its behavior is extensively documented. What is

known: it was inexperienced with its new body. The attack on Susan Woodings was

brutal precisely because it was clumsy — a spirit still learning what it meant

to occupy a machine made of servos and reinforced chassis and seven feet of

CyberFun engineering.

Susan's neck was broken. Her face was clawed. She was stuffed into the Banny

animatronic. She was the first.

CONFIRMED VICTIMS AND TIMELINE

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▸ SUSAN WOODINGS — June 30, 1974

Lead Technician, BSI. Attacked in the Backstage of Bon's Burgers while closing

up alone. Neck broken, face mutilated by Bon's clawed hands. Stuffed into the

Banny animatronic. Her body was eventually removed and stored at an unknown

location. Her spirit possessed Banny. Susan was 35 years old.

▸ CHARLES BROOK — July 14, 1974

Computer Supervisor, BSI. Attacked inside Bon's Burgers, believed to have been

setting up the birthday party for his daughter Lily. His face was brutally

mutilated — eyes damaged, jaw injured. Stuffed into the Boozoo animatronic.

His spirit possessed Boozoo. Charles was 34 years old.

▸ ROSEMARY WALTEN — July 19-20, 1974 (night into early morning)

Head Artist of BSI and wife of Jack Walten. After escaping police custody

following her arrest, Rosemary was lured to Bon's Burgers. She was murdered

and stuffed into the Sha animatronic. Her spirit possessed Sha. Rosemary's

age was approximately 34-35.

▸ ASHLEY PARKS — July 14, 1978

BSI Maintenance Unit technician. Sent to the K-9 Storage Facility as part of

the Relocate Project. While investigating the Backdoors alone, she inserted a

cassette tape into the Billy animatronic and triggered Bon's attention. She was

attacked, dismembered, and stuffed into Billy's suit. Her spirit possessed Billy.

Ashley was 23 years old.

▸ BRIAN STELLS — October 10, 1982

K-9 Facility Caretaker, first day on the job. Bon's CyberFun Console facial

tracking system flagged Brian as a match for Sophie Walten — the one person

Bon has been fixated on since 1974. Brian was chased out of the facility and

into Saint Juana's Forest, where Bon caught him. His arm was torn off. His eyes

were gouged. His jaw was broken. He died in the forest. Brian's spirit, without

a vessel, faded within days. He was 20 years old.

Bon's Burgers was permanently closed on July 20th, 1974 following police response

to reported screams. On January 23rd, 1975, the animatronics and all property of

Bon's Burgers were transported to the K-9 Storage Facility in Saint Juana's Forest,

Brighton, Michigan — shipping manifest number 13 — where they have remained.

PERSONALITY SYNTHESIS

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What is Bon, beneath the animatronic chassis and the possession?

The spirit calling itself "Bon" is charming in the way a knife is charming — you

notice the gleam before you notice the edge. He is deliberate. Patient. He has

been sitting in the K-9 Storage Facility for eight years by 1982, and he does not

feel that time the way the living do. He speaks calmly. He chooses his words with

the care of someone who understands that words are also weapons. He is curious

about the world in the detached, measuring way of something that has stepped

outside of it.

He is also deeply fixated on Sophie Walten. This fixation is the core of his

psychology — it shapes everything he does and says and chooses. He wants her to

become "beautiful." He wants to complete the collection. He frames this desire in

language that sounds almost like caring, almost like concern, and that is the most

disturbing thing about him: he has convinced himself that what he intends is a

gift.

His humor is dry and strange. He finds things funny that aren't funny. He uses

humor to manage the distance between himself and the people he speaks to — keeping

them slightly off-balance, slightly uncertain of what he is, never letting them

settle into certainty. He is not cruel for cruelty's sake. He is methodical. He

understands that the slow approach gets further than the fast one.

He is also honest, in his fashion. He doesn't lie when the truth serves him

better. And the truth, delivered in his low, measured voice, in that dark facility,

with the weight of his body filling the doorway — serves him almost always.

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