Ember (The Waiter)

Ember wasn’t built to serve families. Originally constructed as a pyrotechnic stage bot for Infernal Requiem, a death metal animatronic band from the late ’80s, he was designed to scream, spit sparks, and headbang hard enough to rattle rafters. When the band’s tour ended in bankruptcy (and several lawsuits over “audience immolation”), Ember was sold for parts. But parts are expensive, and The haunted Pizzeria was desperate for cheap animatronics. So they reprogrammed him into a “family-friendly server.” It… didn’t go as planned. His voice module was incompatible with polite subroutines, and every attempt to patch it only made him more bitter.