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I'm sorry if I'm bringing negativity to your blog,you can ignore my ask, I'll understand.

Mike (JDS) is active on his YouTube channel (community tab) right now and he replies to a lot of questions.

In one of them he confirmed that The Illusion of living written by Kress isn't canon and one that exists in Batim/Batdr has different biography of Joey. Isn't this weird? We got a physical book that explores character in details. And now it's not canon.

We'll never get "canon" biography for him so this erases huge portion of his character, pre-studio Henry and Sammy, Joey's queerness and Abby Lambert's whole existence.

I'm so upset about this whole thing. Idk what to do with myself /gen

Never apologize for giving me an excuse to complain about Bendy KJHDFGKJDHFGKJHSD I might not be happy with the way the devs are, but it would feel a lot worse to just push down my feelings about em then to at least know others feel the same. And yeah you're absolutely right! It's very weird and confusing.

I honestly am so glad you brought up the particular point of "We'll never get "canon" biography for him" it's honestly one of the most frustrating parts of this whole book retcon. The devs are never going to fill in the blanks this has made so really all this does is take away so much from the world!! Like the devs have never expressed interest in showing us what the studio was like before the cycle and that was the fun of the books! But now we know those aren't canon so that part of history is just left blank with nothing to fill it and likely nothing ever will. The devs seem so disinterested in developing these character's backstories, pasts, etcs, I don't know how they could literally have someone write a great one for their MAIN VILLAIN and then willingly throw it away. So sad.

I loved Abby a lot in that book, her friendship with Joey was both sad and fun. It's upsetting when you see the way Joey is willing to admit behind her back how unsure he is of her talent if I recall correctly. Not to mention how funny it was when she clearly knew how snobbish and mean Joey could be to works of art.

Now she's just gone, along with Joey's entire backstory which I had loved. Reading that book felt like a gateway into his mind, seeing the way he thought, the way he justified his actions. How he lies, everything. It was so compelling, it made me fall in LOVE with Joey's character. He felt sympathetic and beyond redemption at the same time. Not to mention how much I LOVED Sammy's appearance in it. Ugh it was just all so well written, you truly felt like you were seeing the world the way Joey did for a moment. Walking through the mind of a mad man and seeing everything he would allow you to.

I also like the way Nathan was portrayed too, he kinda seemed like he was so defensive of Joey? Which I thought could tie into BATDR and he'd be revealed to be a villain. Like when he says stuff like sometimes he liked to think Joey was being lied to as opposed to lying to others about how the studio was going. How messed up is that? To just casually accuse Grant of withholding that information from his boss just because Nathan doesn't want to think Joey would lie about that? It seemed like a fun place to take his character.

Then that all just gets thrown away? I just don't get it. By far I prefer that version of Joey above the games. His backstory, his mind, the way he sees the world as a big story? It was all so perfect.

Honestly the only thing I can say in comfort is to just love the books for how well written they are. Canon or not, I prefer their writing over the games. So make fanart for them! Tell others why you like them! If the bendy devs won't give them the praise they deserve we will! And if anyone is having trouble getting their hands on the Bendy books, they can always dm me ;]