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Listen - I don't give a fuck if you prefer Batim more than Batdr or Batdr more than Batim

I don't give a fuck about your opinion on this game or character

Reblog it if you are actually still in Bendy fandom or at least remember being in it

I need to know how many of us are left in the world...

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What's the point of the coffins?

Something I've been thinking about recently are the coffins. Susie, Norman, Bertrum, Grant, and Lacie all get coffins- but why?

Let's start with Susie. Out of all the human characters we meet, her story is one of the most developed. She grew attached to her role as Alice's voice actress, and, after being replaced, was devastated. Joey took advantage of this, and made a deal with her. We don't learn the details, but in Chapter 3 Alice sometimes refers to herself as Susie, and we get a coffin with her name on it. It's easy to assume that she was killed to bring Alice Angel to life, but considering what we know now about how ink creatures are formed, that seems odd. If the Ink Machine can create cartoons without the use of souls/bodies (like Allison Pendle becoming Alice, Thomas Connor becoming Tom Boris, etc) what's the point of Susie's death?

Norman is another odd one. We don't know much about his past, but he knows so much about the studio. He knows about the Ink Machine and almost everything else. He dies at the end of DCTL, but we don't know exactly how. Joey also says that the ritual didn't work because "the ink had infected them for days." I'm not sure if he's referring to Dave and Norman, or other people Sammy lured. Either way, we don't know how he gets turned into the Projectionist. There's a lot of missing pieces here. Plus, with the books no longer being canon, we don't know for sure if this is how he died.

Bertrum becomes even more strange with context. We learn that he's famous, so why would anybody (Joey, Gent, or otherwise) risk killing him? There was a dispute over the ownership and the formation of Bendyland, but I'm still not sure that would warrant murder. His audio log suggests that Bertrum willingly turned himself into an octopus ride to haunt Joey, but even ignoring how that was possible, it begs the question of what happened to his body.

Also, the Ink Machine's purpose was to make living cartoons. Even if Bertrum's transformation was deliberate, what about the Projectionist? Was his transformation deliberate-- if so, who the hell came up with that? You could make the case that he was supposed to become the Cameraman from the comics, but that feels unlikely. The whole transformation thing is very unclear.

Grant's case is especially frustrating. He's important, even for a side character. We get several mentions of him in the books. He gets two tapes (one in BATIM, talking about something big Joey's planning, and another in BATDR, talking about Gent and Mr. Grey). Joey's tape in the Administration Department denying financial difficulty feels extremely directed at Grant as well, even if it doesn't name him specifically. But that's not all; Kay Lee says he hid some of Joey's more priceless assets, so even if he didn't know exactly what was going on, he was close enough to Joey to be useful.

But the most frustrating part of all of this is that we don't know what happened to him; we only know that something happened. His secretary mentions how he's constantly getting sick. Thomas calls him mangy, so he wasn't looking good at the end. His office is a mess and his last audio log is of something happening to him. The two popular theories are he was attacked, or he violently transformed. Grant even gets a coffin in the Music Department. He's as close as we get to a confirmed death.

But that's... it. That's all we get.

If he was attacked, we never learn what attacked him; if he transformed, we never see what he transformed into. Considering how bad the financial situation at JDS was, you'd think we would hear more of him, but we don't. He just... disappears.

And then there's Lacie. Out of all the Bendy cast, she was the last person I'd expect to get a named coffin. She has one tape in Chapter 4 talking about an animatronic, and that's it. Nothing really becomes of the animatronic, and (as far as I can tell) that's all we get of her. Once again, if she became an ink creature, we never see it. She's a one-off character, given importance for some reason we never hear about.

But it doesn't end there.

As we all know, there's the real world, and then there's the ink world. So are the coffins even real? Did these characters actually die? The books tell us they did, but now that the books are no longer canon, that doesn't mean much. Did they die outside of the ink world, and their coffins were added in retroactively? Circling back to Susie's case- could this mean she didn't die at all?

As much as I love the Bendy franchise, once I actually start thinking about its lore and story I get frustrated. It doesn't seem like the devs had a solid story at any point before they started writing. Characters and plot lines change, and there's not enough solid, consistent evidence to really support a lot of theories. If I had to guess, there was a significant lore rewrite between BATIM and BATDR, with the books trying to make sense of it. I would even wager that the lore got rewritten between BATIM Chapter 4 and 5- because, let's be honest, the whole "time loop pocket dimension" thing came totally out of left field.

I hope the next games (or books, or whatever installments we get next) actually take the time to address this.

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very cool!

does anyone know wtf this is about

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does anyone know wtf this is about

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Scribbles and doodles

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This blog is STILL ALIVE :D and I am super hyped for The Cage! I'm super excited to see what story they have to tell, and what hijinks will ensue. Maybe justice for ol' Sammy? Who knows lmao

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Yes DAGames!!! He’s standing up for our main man! Surely meatly takes note, we need more canon mangy accountant content

Hes not biased actually its the truth (is also biased)

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page for new answer

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And the second part with Joey, but now in less color

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Little meow-meow, painted in oil. And the intermediate stage of the work, which I liked a little more than the result in some places. It's still drying, but I can't wait to show it anymore!!! The oil dries for a toooo looooong time in breaks from the stages of work.... I drew oil for the first time in my life at the institute a couple of weeks ago and my master said that I get oil from all the materials I tried here, as if I was born for it. So of course I decided to draw a little fanart when I came home, hahaha

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Listen you cannot tell me that man wasn’t seeing shit when his office looks like THAT…also yay shawn and wally!

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(Original under the cut)

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Joey, watching his employees: I feel like a proud mama hen whose baby chicks have learned to fly.

Grant: Interesting analogy. Chickens are famously bad at flying.

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Rest your head. It`s time for bed.

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DUDES I FOUND PHOTOS OF MY VERY OLD PROJECTIONIST COSTUME THEY ARE FROM 2018. God, what a bad quality. I must have had to throw out all the parts when I moved in. I don't even remember how old I am in these pictures, hahahahahahah. so small, and already a victim of the cycle

I'll leave it here for the memory of the past and fun (Look at this dude he is so cringe). And, by the way, Boris's costume is almost ready

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Yeah gang wars never stop in ToonTown, sometimes the bosses get along, sometimes they don’t, the smallest action can change everything. Dolly will be pregnant! I will think about the design of the baby ♥♥♥ AND also, as I said, Oddy has a lot of children, well Tayem (mentioned in the doodle on the bottom right) is a son of Oddcat. Oddy had an affair with Fortuna a long time ago, before Abraham, he never knew he had a child with her, she hid it from him to protect the baby from all these mafia stories. She ended up cracking up and telling him, his past is getting to him… Alice, too, is hiding a secret that Bendy must not discover ouch. Decor inspired by the song SCH - Marché Noir.