She can pick up on things very easily, though, because she points out that Michael shouldn't have known Scott's name because Scott never said it. She is very scared, and has some of the most violent deaths seen in jumpscares for any TJOC version or game. She doesn't try and fight off any animatronics, unlike the living room beta version that had Scott as the player, because he can be seen trying to stop Foxy slashing and grabbing Bonnie's jaw in the jumpscares. She is shown to be very much of a pacifist. She was modelled in avatar creator program Fuse. She has medium length hair tied back, although some hair at the front is messy in style and neatness.
Prior to Nikson's TJOC:SM anniversary video, we had only seen Val as a silhouette in the living room through an image accessed in the extras menu. The player controls her in the Living Room memory.
She is the wife of the creator of the game franchise, Five Nights at Freddy's, Scott Cawthon, and is the second accidental target of Michael and The Ignited.
Val Cawthon is the first of the tertiary protagonists of The Joy of Creation: Story Mode, and the mother of Nick Cawthon.