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[askmafiabobvelseb]

grompy >:[

[thebekashow]

Somethings never change..

[insert-the-4thwall-entity]

silly stuff i drew for my 'A script at stake' AU -

Main trio on the run

2. Main character(s) energy

3. He's quite the bastard, innit?

4. BREAKING NEWS - Local Big rig monster truck gets stuck in a shopping cart at a mall. More at 9pm.

[inkdemonapologist]

nobody asked but since I've seen a lil chatter on the DCTL Graphic Novel on tumblr too, here's the thread I posted on twitter, speaking as someone who's done a little freelance work as a comic artist, under the jump:

Main thought about the DCTL graphic novel preview is: yeah, I've made designs like that when I was being paid by the page and expected to just throw in extra design work for free and I have a deadline and no time to scour the source material or really put my heart into the design No shade to the artist; every complaint I have about the pages we've seen is that this looks like someone who was just working (quickly) from a script. The artist is likely not a Big Fan, so they only know the info and descriptions they're given. And the artist's portfolio shows they're capable of the kind of designs and dynamics this comic needed. its possible they phoned it in for no reason, but feels more likely to be "not enough time/not paid enough/not given enough info to give it that level of care." Which, don't get me wrong; an important level of craftsmanship and care is missing and im not gonna blame the artist but i AM gonna be a hater abt it lmao It's not just about designs; the convo with Joey is another good example. It's a literal illustration of the things Joey said and did in that scene, but it's missing the point -- that scene is our introduction to the way Joey throws Buddy off-balance. That energy is missing. And that's the sort of thing that needs the script to convey this purpose well to the artist, that needs the artist to have time & freedom to invest in portraying it, that needs time & investment & knowledge to ask for adjustments at early stages and get the page right one more note: begging batim fans 2 think abt the plot of DCTL and realise why "maybe we will not make the creepy guy who dies at the end a black man in this" is perhaps a reasonable choice. like im a fan of poc norman headcanons too but pls recognise this would be a tough call!! anyway, genuinely cannot wait to see how off sammy is gonna be in this lmao. will he be a mid non-design like norman or will he be conventionally handsome or will he get graphic novel dave miller vibes b/c hes an antagonist? will we get the fabled black hair sammy??? i cant wait

TL;DR I strongly suspect this was an issue of not enough time/not enough money. That design looks nothing like the description of Norman, right? Like, there's hundreds of different AU designs of all shapes, colours and sizes that you could create that would still look like Norman Polk, but somehow they managed to make a character that isnt ANY of them, lmao??? So... how could that happen, unless nobody gave the artist a description of Norman? Or if they did, how did that design make it past anyone else, unless there wasn't time for revisions or a system worked out for revisions, unless whoever was managing the comic project thought it was fine if the designs didn't fit with the descriptions in the book? If everyone is doing their job, then the artist is given the information they need without having to go do unpaid YA novel research before they can start drawing. That's why you have a writer adapting it!!

("they should hire fans, a fan would've done a better job" OK BUT THATS B/C FANS ARE MORE LIKELY TO ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE EXPLOITED AND DO EXTRA UNPAID WORK B/C THEY CARE!! THATS NOT A SOLUTION!!!! THATS A JOEY DREW STRAT!!!!!!!)

Anyway I could yell about this for 15 years so I'm going to shush for now BUT I JUST FEEL VERY STRONGLY ABOUT IT LMAO.

[rapono-writes-stuff]

Projects I'm working on or am actively planning:

Red red red, why am I not dead? ch.7 (Carrion)

Started

Finished the first chunk of the chapter (everything leading up to perspective change). Having some difficulties deciding if I should scrap some scenes that were supposed to happen before the end of chapter 6 (changed order for better pacing), or try to rework them into it. Also dealing with the fact I've had to go wildly "off-script" since some stuff the original to doesn't fit with the fic retelling/doesn't make sense imo.

Out of your depth (Subnautica)

At least 70% done

Same Subnautica fanfic I was working on before, just changed the title. Old concept that's been a brainworm for years, that I've been slowly chipping away at. Nicknaming it the Transfuser AU. Getting close to the end of fic, just currently trying to write a high action scene while making sure what happens both makes sense and is easy for the reader to follow.

Your Coworker is a monster ch.4 (FNAF)

Started

Accidentally forgot this existed (thanks ADHD, very cool) until someone recently left a comment on it. Currently trying to figure out the pacing for the next chapter (how much should happen without ruining the pacing or making it boring), as well as planning how to pace the rest of the fic. (I am not the best at pacing long fics/not very good at slow builds so please pray for me 😭)

Nightmares do come true [title not final] (BATIM/BATDR)

40-60% done

Also accidentally forgot this existed (thanks ADHD, very cool). Sequel to Keep your friends close, and your demons closer. Got stuck forever ago and then unintentionally abandoned it. Despite not leaving any notes to self, managed to recall a bunch of my plans while ranting to friends about having not left notes for future me. Replaying/rewatching bits of the game to try and make sure I don't make them ooc before I start writing again.

The Graveyard Shift ch.3 (FNAF)

Still in editing/art piece not started

Massive roleplay I did with my partner being converted into a fanfic. While everything is technically already written, still in the process of editing the next chapter-sized chunk into fanfic material. Currently dealing with rewriting a scene that is inconsistent with things later established in the story, and with it also trying to fix a plothole that comes up multiple times throughout the story.

Are you one of us? [title not final] (Pizza Tower)

Planning

One of the fics from the poll of Pizza Tower fic ideas (Peppino loses the boss battle chase and gets adopted by the clones). Probably the most likely to be finished out of the remaining 3, but I've put it on the backburner in favor of working on the above.

My cell can fit two [title not final] (Pizza Tower)

Planning

Another more dark leaning fic (like Peppino's Day Off, but probably darker?). Without spoiling too much, Fake is locked in their boss room, and has been horribly mistreated. Peppino enters to retrieve the key, but is then locked inside until he finds said key. Peppino is forced to deal with the mistreated Fake whether he wants to or not, trapped inside with them. Also on backburner in favor of working on above fics.

[the-therapist-is-ace]

(VERY LONG POST!!!)

Hello everyone!

I'm sorry for the people that follow me for other things than BATIM because this is my new hyperfixation at the moment, please bear with me xD

I suddenly decided to share my ideas about some BATIM AU I had for... a while since BATDR just came out and the fandom is back from the dead x)

So basically this is a Power AU. With everyone of the main cast having particular abilities. (I actually had the idea from the fanfiction "Magic cleaner is more than just an advertisment" by @hello-im-not-a-possum on Ao3, go check it out it's awsome!) I just thought it would be funny because why not xD

Those with powers are: Henry, Joey, Wally, Jack, Sammy, Susie, Norman, Thomas and Allisson. Let's go in that order!

Henry Stein: Do I really have to say? Bringing drawings to life of course!

Pre-Ink: At the beginnig it wasn't much; just a little drawing moving on the page here and there. That's actually what gave Joey the inspiration to start cartoons, seeing his old friend's drawings moving on their own on the pages. But when begining animating Bendy, and by his love for the characters he created, it started to become stronger. Strong enough that the Little Devil Darling would sometimes pop up to reality with his friends for several hours in a row. That is until he got drafted for the war and left the studio. As the years passed by after the war, he discovered that he could even manipulate at the manner of an elemental bender the ink. But it wasn't really strong; just enough to make some shapes and forms when he had trouble visualizing an idea. His powers continu to grow after he returned home, but he became a master at hiding them.

In the Cycle: Joey sealed away (I'll get to it on his part) almost all of his powers before throwing him in the Cycle. He knows that Henry have the strongest magic out of everyone in the Studio, so he went through several sealing and bending rituals before sending him in it. But even that wasn't enough, because Henry can still do a few things; the Golden Ink is one of them. He can create it, manipulate it, make it last for as long as he want, and hide them from Joey's view. He's also capable of using the globs of ink to shape them in the form he need them to -there's no handy machines like in the game in this AU, Henry do that all by himself-. And despite Joey's attempts, he's little by little breaking free from the script's influence...

Joey Drew: Devil's deals and rituals. He can make rituals -often satanics but can be both... well could be at the beginning- contracts and deals with people and they CAN'T go against it after "signing" them. He can also easily persuade them if he feel a weakness in their heart.

Pre-ink: Nothing too bad -compared to what he did next- using his deals and contracts to make sure the Studio and Bendy were growing and becoming more popular and loved. Henry was often his impulse control and moral compass. At that time he would never had the idea of using his powers against Henry.

After Henry left: Oh boy. He took it BADLY. He made a deal with GENT Corporation to create the Ink Machine as a way to "replace" Henry's talent, and to prove to him that the Studio didn't need his "temporary bringing the characters to life"; after all the Ink Machine would bring them to life FOR GOOD.

We all know how that sorted out though. -he had to make a deal to every employees to forbiding them to quit-. However, seeing his former -magical- employees having a (very understandable) grudge against him, he made another deal this time with the Machine itself to trap its ink-corrupted inhabitants locked up: by reducing and warping their powers into something else entierly, something twisted. Exploiting a weakness in their minds to bend them and theirs powers. However, a time loop isn't a type of magic that he could hide from magic users, even as weaken as can be. So after throwing Henry in the Cycle to torture him, he made sure that they would forget the loops. But against Henry's magic it's starting to wear off...

Wally Franks: -I took the idea from hello-Im-not-a-possom fic here ^^'- Telekinesis Fantasia style. Only on cleaning supplies and light objects in general; he's still young, it needs time to develop and he's happy for now with the janitor job.

Pre-Ink: Was absolutely oblivious about why every magical people he could feel and see in the studio were trying their damnest to hide theirs powers from the CEO of the place (to each other's too, but not as much as Joey). Wally personally didn't have a problem to admit that he had magic on his own when Drew caught him in the act -it was the equivalent in real life of the Fantasia scene really; brooms, buckets, rags and feather duster flying around in an organized chaos- because he figured that ("Well he got magic on his own! Can't be all that bad right?") He's the one that accidentally revealed the existence of magic to Joey. (well the existence of his employees' magic) He's also one of the very firsts that Drew made the deal to be unable to leave with. So despite what he loved to say, he couldn't even with his magic "get outta here!"

In the Cycle: He's the one that Joey reduced the most. In a Boris body (this is my AU again) he was unable to cast any spell; he's one of the most vulnerable and sensitive to magic now. But it doesn't stop him from being able to change some of his cards to another color or shape in his games with Henry (to this day he had never been caught.) As time pass by though, he have a nagging feeling that he should... Get away from this place... And it's only getting stronger.

Jack Fain: This one doesn't really have a precise name for it. Jack is a litteral muse; mostly to Sammy but he can inspire others musicians and artists if he write lyrics -or poems-. He brings inspiration and motivation wherever he goes, and as such everyone in the Studio appreciate him.

Pre-Ink: He was just the geniune positive energy of all the studio. No matters the crazy deadlines, the inhumane amount of work, or later on the pipes bursting everywhere, Jack Fain always had a smile and tried to give everyone the strenght and will to continu creating. His lyrics never failed to move the audience, and together with Sammy they gained several awards. (all under Joey Drew's name however...) His powers weren't visibles; he was the one that gave everyone creativity behind the scene, the strenght to move forwards and continu despite it all. He wasn't the animator that could bring the drawings into the real world, nor was he the janitor who make brooms and buckets fly to clean after hours. He was the quiet voice in the back of your mind that whisper to you a new idea or a new song. As such, Joey didn't think it was necessary to twist his powers more than the ink did.

In the Cycle: It's more or less the same but without a lot of his memories from his life before the Studio. Asides the moments with Sammy it's pretty blurry. But since there's not really a lot of people to inspire these days (oustide of Sammy when he was lucid enough to remember how to compose) he's quite powerless. But even in his form of a Searcher, he can still bring a bit of joy and strenght to the others Searchers and the Lost Ones that are under Sammy's wing back at the village.

Sammy Lawrence: Can be seen as telekinesis as well, but stronger than Wally's; if he's angry enough (which already happened) he can throw a person across the room with a wave of his conductor stick (it was Joey.) Technically it's more wind control. It's a tangible force that you can feel contrary to Wally's telekinesis.

Pre-Ink: Prodigy. In music and magic both, the guy was already capable of playing an entiere orchestra with his magic at the age of seventeen. He is seen as one of the strongest air-bender (not the last one thankfully) of the century in the element-bending community. As such he didn't had friends in said-community. He left them to meet his best friend, and musical partner Jack. He used his powers several times when Joey's deadlines weren't humanly possible (he prefer to have the band rehearsal his songs before recording them though; he already wrote songs that were impossible to play without magic before. Only realizing when the band looked at him with bewildered eyes when seeing the sheets he had written.) While he very much did not tell outright that he was an air-bender, he didn't tried to hide him from the band members, Jack, Susie or Norman -well Norman was more him discovering Sammy's abilities because he's just spying on everyone than Sammy telling Norman-.

After Susie was fired and Jack went "missing", he went to confront Joey about it. Only to get drugged without his knowledge by an ink coffee served by his boss (I don't believe you can get dependent by only having an ink pipe burst above your head and some drips of ink getting in your mouth sorry ^^') and got bend by a deal at the end of it. Joey wasn't stupid; he knew that Sammy's magic wasn't going to be weaken and twisted as easily as the others; so he went to poison him slowly but surely to erode them.

In the Cycle: His air-bending abilities were completely burried under the corruption of the ink. Now, his connection with the Ink Demon and the Searchers is taking all of his capacity. He can feel when the Ink Demon is coming and hear him talk; call upon the Searchers and communicate with them, ordering them to attack or not, as well as the Lost Ones. All of this as in the game. The only trace of his wind abilities is his capacity to walk through walls. And the feeling that his mind is trying to fly away from the ink trapping it. And what's with the deja vue feeling?

Susie Campbell: There isn't a real name for her powers either; it's more or less emotion-based. If she's happy, her voice -especially when she's singing- will send you a feeling of happiness as well; when she is sad, you will feel upset upon hearing her. And when she's angry... well if she was angry enough at someone, the nearest people around her would have taken a swing at that person's face. She brings emotions to people by mere hearing.

Pre-Ink: Nothing really out of the ordinary at first; the voice actress was appreciated and loved by everyone. She was with Jack, the sweetest person there is in the Studio, as well as the one that bring the most emotions in her acting. Nobody realized exactly that she had power, until she was -for an episode- rehearsing a song where Alice was angry about the latest prank Bendy had pulled on her. The acting was perfect! So much so that the other voice actor voicing Bendy started to get angry at the toon demon, under everyone's confusion. Upon seeing that, Susie immediatly apologized ans shyly explained that it was probably because of her.

However... The day she was fired, everyone remembered it. She was so upset, angry and betrayed that the music department didn't got out unscathed.

In the Cycle: Joey took the opportunity to use Susie's despair as a way to persuade her to make a deal with him; to become Alice. She accepted, and we all know how that played out. With the ink corruption, her voice cannot make people feel emotional anymore. But she gained something in exchange; the ability to lure people with it, like a true siren, and to put them in a transe... However an Angel is patient. And Susie shall wait for her time to take control back of her twisted body, which she was forced to share with a corrupted version of the character she loved.

Norman Polk: Darkness/Shadow manipulation, and noctural vision.

Pre-Ink: Norman definitely didn't tell his coworkers his abilities. Firstly because he didn't want to be called out for his sneaking habit, and secondly because his element doesn't really have the best reputation. The only things you hear about shadow-benders are how cruel they are of stealing light away, how creepy it is for them to roam around in the darkness and how they are all secretly serial killers. Not the best resume to work at an animation studio, you'll admit. However, he used his abilities a lot; he fused with the shadows when he heard something that he wanted to investigate, turn off the lights in the Studio with a mere snap of his fingers -nobody understood what the heck was going on until Joey investigate throughly every employees' abilities before using the Ink Machine- and of course, played a lot of pranks by suddenly making a projector that he had previously covered the lense with his powers, go off. So for an outsider's point of view the projector suddenly turned on without anyone near it. (he scared a lot of animators that day).

In the Cycle: After he eavesdropped a particularly worrying conversation between Thomas Connor and Joey Drew about the Ink Machine, he got caught, without him noticing himself. Before he could warn others however, Joey called him in his office and used a binding circle to keep him in place before decapitating him. As with Henry, Drew used a lot of seals, and others rituals to reduced and corrupt Norman's abilities; but since dark-benders are not bend by the usual spells as others elementals, Joey had the idea of using its own opposite: light. He switched Norman's head with a projector, and activated the Machine. Then the Projectionnist was born; forced to see only in the limited range of its own light. A perfect way to make his former employee unable to use his magic.

But since he refused to lose his mind that easily despite the ink's influence, Joey directly throw his soul in the -ironically- darkest depths of the puddles, leaving his body a roaming dangerous husk. But a shadow-bender soul's isn't going to be imprisonned in the darkness eternally. Especially with a new golden light in the Studio...

Thomas Connor: Metal manipulation. More particulary morphing it into a different form.

Pre-Ink: As part of the GENT Corporation, he used his powers on a regular basis. Touching some pole of metal to change it for a wrench, use it for a few screw loose, then change it back to a pole... Oh he need a screwdriver? Another touch ans here you go! His colleagues liked to call him "portable toolkit" but that was it. But he didn't used them nearly as much as when GENT had this new client: Joey Drew. The man clearly had powers of his own, and not pretty ones from what he saw. But that's the thing: while he made that Machine, when that... thing came from it, and what Joey decided to do afterwards... Well Thomas was here. Saw everything. And metal morphing capacities or not, against pentagrams, rituals and bending spells he didn't stand a chance.

In the Cycle: As a Boris clone like Wally, he really don't have a lot to work with either; however, even if the ink had weakened his powers greatly, it didn't changed them... Too much. He can't change metal that he's touching anymore, but he have a mechanical arm. And THIS he can act upon. He can morph it however he please, however he can't solidify it more (which led to many broken arm but he never complained). But that's enough to protect his dear Allisson. Poor Allisson that don't remember anything... He will protect her. Through all those blasted loops. Mark his words Mister Joey Drew.

Allisson Pendle: Waves control. It's a seperate branch of magic users who decend from the air-benders, specified in airwaves. In Allisson's case, it's mostly about soundwaves.

Pre-Ink: Allisson didn't used her magic much, asides from messing with Tom when they were working away from each other. She used airwaves to carry sweet loving messages, whispered teases, or reminders that he forgot something. She was honestly a bit surprised that the Music Director was an air-bender (quite powerful too, or so she heard. Then again rumors have a tendency to being exagerated -she quickly changed her mind seeing him sending Joey flying with a movement however-) but she didn't try to pry. Air-benders and the decendants of mutations in their magic weren't exactly friends after all. So they kept their distances -after Susie's replacement it was for the best- until Joey came to her. Asking her a little favor some years after the Studio closed for good, and that the majority of the employees had either quit or dissapeared.

In the Cycle: As she doesn't remember anything, her magic isn't something she reclaimed back from the ink. As such, Joey didn't even take the hassle of twisting it to a weaker version of it. But as the loops are passing and Henry's influence more and more the script, Drew might realize he made a mistake...

And it's all detailled! It took me ages to finish this xD

If you have questions about it, my ask is opened! I'm in the middle of my BATIM hyperfixation, I'd love to talk about it xD (Also no, I didn't really took the books in consideration sorry)

[mercifulnugget]

Something I've been wanting to get to for a while qwq

Welcome to my Batim AU: Toon Crazy!

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About the "Toon Crazy!" AU:

This version is after Henry dies in this AU with the canon ending in the OG Batim Universe, and the studio burns down due to the tapes malfunctioning and a stray spark lighting the mountains of scattered papers around the studio on fire. This sets all the trapped souls in Joey Drew's Studio free.

Also in this AU Bendy and Co. fall through the Ink Machine again and "die" but come back due to (another character's) art pages that fell in with them as well. This revives them almost permanently and with some left over soul fragments entering each character, it brings them back to life.

Additionally, the Inky toons don't really consider Henry to be a father-like figure to them, rather, they think of him as a friend.

In a way the same happens for all the other miscellaneous toons and the Inky Crew help them out with getting their own spots.

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For all the toons something goes wrong with all their studio's ink and they all would fall apart in some way like Joey Drew Studios. This is what makes them come back and be more "real".

Each in their respective show won't exactly be aware of what they are, just the animation script they follow.

Except for the Inky Crew. They were the only ones temporarily brought to life due to some meddling that Sammy and Mr. Drew did. But even though the Inky crew were brought to life temporarily obviously Drew wanted a way to give them more permanent life.

And obviously (in the game) it didn't work right.

~Beni (Bendy), Alex (Alice), Horace (Boris) aren't mine just the designs i thought up for them are.

~The "Toon Crazy!" AU is mine tho >:3

[owlclawstudios]

hey if your still looking for voice actors in your gacha Batim au I would gladly do it if I can I would like to be susie campbell if that is fine

yes :3 i can make the script for susie campbell :3

[star-going-supernova]

Um, would it be wrong to ask for an explanation of the lore of Bendy? I’ve seen the wiki page, but going from my experience of FNAF lore, it’ll take more than a few videos to truly get it.

A tall order, friend, but I like a challenge! My disclaimer, before I even start to get into this: I don’t know everything about Bendy, the timelines, the characters, etc. There are three games (Bendy and the Ink Machine, Boris and the Dark Survival, and Bendy and the Dark Revival) and some books. I know only BatIM and BatDR. So this is not comprehensive and probably isn’t completely accurate. Much like with fnaf, I also tend to cherrypick my favorite bits and pieces, and also I’m an old timer from when all we had were loads of theories about the lore. So in some aspects, I’m kinda set in my ways and thus haven’t fully absorbed canon that goes against my preferences.

Now, I haven’t watched all his BatIM videos, but I highly recommend SuperHorrorBro’s BatDR Story Explained. It’s about 45 minutes and he does a very good job of contextualizing a lot of the timeline and stuff, imo. His playthrough of BatDR is also very good, if you feel like going through the whole game. 

And here’s the final thing: so sorry if this is presumptuous, but if you’re asking with the intent to read my own stories, I largely use non-canon stuff as of the end of BatIM. So I do mention some differences between canon and my fics. Should go without saying, but there are a hecking ton of spoilers ahead. 

(Much like trying to explain fnaf, there’s no real short answer here. Bear with me, friend.)

Let’s start with some important characters: 

Henry Stein

My personal favorite character (which is HEAVILY reflected in my fics, lol), he’s who you play as in BatIM. He’s an animator who once worked on the Bendy cartoons before leaving the studio to spend more time with his family. He’d been expected to put a lot of crazy hours in, which understandably wasn’t working out. Now, in the games, he doesn’t have a ton of characterization (again, can’t speak as to the books), but he comes across as a pretty chill dude. What little dialogue we get from him in BatIM paints him as someone who’s friendly, optimistic or at least not easily beaten down, and concerned with the overall state of affairs. I personally write him as someone who upholds kindness above all else, whose determination gives him a spine of steel, and who sees the toons and goes into Dad Mode almost immediately. 99% of my BatIM stories feature dad!Henry, and he’s a very, very good dad. 

(Something else of note, and I’m genuinely not sure where it falls in terms of being canon or not, is I consider Henry to be the Creator. This has a pretty similar meaning across all the fics I use the concept in, but even with the differences, it boils down to him having a certain influence over the ink and often using those “powers” to help the toons. It’s got a little bit of a “chosen one” trope to it, and AU background stuff can influence how meaningful it is vs how symbolic.) 

At the end of BatIM and further confirmed in BatDR, we find out the Henry you play as is not the real Henry Stein. He’s merely an ink copy created by Joey Drew so Joey could work his frustrations out on a fake version of his old friend. 😐 The ink version of Henry is trapped in the inky realm created by Joey in an endless loop of repeating the same script (the game) over and over again. I don’t use this piece of canon. In any BatDR fics I’ve written/am writing so far, Henry is the real deal. 

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As a quick side note, any time I talk about the loop/cycle, I’m referring to an actual different world. Joey created this world and gave it a set script that all the creatures in it have to follow. These are the events of the first game. Everything resets after the end, and none of the characters remember/are aware that this is happening. You could argue that Henry now remembers if you start the game over, especially if you have something called the Seeing Tool (why did I think it was the Viewing Tool?? oh well) you get in the last chapter that reveals a lot of hidden messages. The set script is broken by the time BatDR takes place.

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Joey Drew

The boss of Joey Drew Studios, he came across throughout BatIM as constantly pushing his employees past their limits, being a very obnoxiously cheerful dude, and not particularly caring when his delusions of grandeur began to affect the studio and employees. Speaking of which, he took a fair amount of his employees and sacrificed them and/or turned them into inky abominations. I’m not sure if it’s canon that all of the implied toon-ified employees are really them or if any of them are inky copies like Henry. I typically treat it like he full-on ruined a lot of people’s lives. We find out in BatDR that he didn’t work alone, though. There was some extremely shady stuff and lots of delightful implications of human experimentation expanded upon in BatDR regarding the Gent corporation, who I believe helped with the Ink Machine and ink supply and whatnot. 

Joey makes a proper appearance in BatDR as a ghost-like memory of himself. But in the human world, Joey has died.

I’ve personally written Joey in a lot of different situations and personalities. Sometimes, he’s an absolute monster in my fics. Sometimes, he and Henry are like brothers. I don’t know if I’d call him one of my favorite characters, but I love playing with him. 

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Bendy 

The titular character, Bendy is either: A) a very cute little demon cartoon character who many fic authors write as mischievous, silly, and gosh dang adorable (he never actually appeared in BatIM but boy do we pretend he did), this particular side of Bendy is almost entirely fanon, B) an intimidatingly tall, lanky off-model form of the former who hunts Henry down, often written as either plain old evil or just misunderstood (I’ve done both), also referred to as “Bendy” with the quotation marks or as Ink Bendy; he’s one of the main antagonists in BatIM and is an instant death if he catches Henry, or C) an actual demon-looking character more commonly referred to as the Ink Demon, who is one of the main antagonists in BatDR, and he has a bit of a split personality deal going on where he becomes small cute Bendy and is friendly (this is the result of torture), but it should be noted that this small Bendy is somewhat childlike and mute, which I consider to be very different from the fanon version A. 

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Twisted Alice Angel (sometimes called Malice or “Alice”)

Much like version B of Bendy, Twisted Alice is an off-model version of Alice Angel the in-game cartoon character (who never actually appears as a character in the games). She’s got some Two-Face vibes, in terms of appearance, and she’s mad about it. She wants to be perfect and has dissected a lot of poor toons to try and fix herself. She’s the result of Susie Campbell, Alice Angel’s voice actor, being sacrificed and toon-ified. She’s one of the main antagonists of BatIM and a minor antagonist in BatDR. Fandom’s biggest gripe with her is that she took our friend Boris, mutated him, and made him attack Henry. :(  Very rude. Her obsession with being perfect gives her a bit of a crazy vibe, but make no mistake, she’s cruel for fun too. 

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Boris (also called Buddy Boris because of one of the books, I think)

Boris the wolf is Henry’s friend in BatIM who gets kidnapped and ultimately killed. Of the main trio (Bendy, Alice, Boris), he’s the only one on-model. Without having played/watched Boris’s game, I don’t have much to say about him other than he’s a very good boy. Silly, helpful, nice to Henry, scared of “Bendy.” My understanding is that someone named Buddy was sacrificed and toon-ified to become him. Fandom gets pretty creative with Boris, imo, and I usually treat the three of them like siblings and give him a voice even though he doesn’t speak in the game. 

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Edgar, Charley, and Barley (The Striker, The Piper, The Fisher)

The Butcher Gang! They’re some of the only other named toons that exist, and I personally like them a lot. The trio have been mutilated and copied a lot of times over. They’re recurring enemies you have to fight in both BatIM and BatDR, though more so the former. It’s unclear who, if anyone, was sacrificed to make them. In BatDR, we find out about a potential fourth member, Carley (The Slicer), who’s a ghost girl. 

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Notable Employees: 

Sammy Lawerence: He becomes a cultish inky man who calls the Ink Demon his lord, and is a minor antagonist in BatIM. He was the music director in life and comes across through his tapes as a no-nonsense perfectionist who is extremely Done with some of his coworkers. I’ve always thought of him as long-suffering, sarcastic, and always just on the verge of strangling someone. They did him so dirty in BatDR, lol.

Susie Campbell: Alice Angel’s voice actor who was eventually replaced. Pretty self-centered and dedicated to her role, from what I got from her tapes. I don’t actually know much more about her than that, as far as canon goes. 

Norman Polk: He was the studio’s projectionist and then became The Projectionist (I love his design). He’s a minor antagonist in BatIM who roams one particular floor that’s laid out like a maze before having his head ripped off later by “Bendy.” Bit of an eavesdropper in life. Can’t talk but sure does make some heart-stopping screeches! 

Wally Franks: The iconic “I’m outta here!” line comes from Wally (I throw it in to fics whenever I can). He was a janitor/handman, and I believe he escaped the studio unscathed. 

Allison Pendle: She replaced Susie as Alice Angel’s voice actor and inspired Joey to be a better person (His “be a better person” bit that he talks about in BatDR doesn’t actually portray him in that much better of a light). She becomes Allison Angel in the inky world, who is an ally to Henry in BatIM (mostly; a lot of us had mixed feelings on her to start with). She has a machete, which is cool. 

Thomas Connor: I think he actually worked for Gent technically, but he’s important because he was toon-ified into Tom, a Boris clone. Tom is mute, and he and Allison are a team in BatIM and BatDR. He’s also got a prosthetic arm. 

Shawn Flynn: A toymaker in the studio who also escaped unscathed. He’s in a medium-amount of fics because he’s voiced by jacksepticeye he was one of the handful of names we got in BatIM and we needed all the employees we could get, lol.

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The Searchers

Faceless, moaning ink people who lack legs and drag themselves around after the player character. Recurring enemy in BatIM, but I think I only remember them in one place in BatDR. 

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The Lost Ones

Ink people with glowing eyes. In BatIM, they were a group of mostly mute, shivering victims. Very tragic, big gut-punch moment. In BatDR, some have names and personalities and talk! Most of them are hostile, which I’m not a huge fan of, but it’s fine. The two notable Lost Ones are Porter, who gives you a teleporting ability and is a silly dude, and Heidi, who helps you get through a locked door after you play hide and seek with her. 

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Audrey Drew

The player character in BatDR, Audrey gets dragged into the inky realm and has to survive and escape (this is the same premise as BatIM). She’s a young adult who’s an animator for the company that bought Joey Drew Studios and the Bendy cartoons after Joey’s death. She’s got a good sense of humor when she’s not understandably panicking about being dragged into a whole new world, she’s friendly and willing to trust others, and she is not happy about the Ink Demon stalking her. She’s even less happy to find out she’s not human! Joey’s memory shows up and tells her that she was created by the Ink Machine by the real Joey Drew to be his daughter. It’s established that she doesn’t remember most of her childhood or her parents, though I personally am unclear as to what happened. Joey only died about a year before the events of BatDR, so it wasn’t like he died when she was a little kid. How or why did she forget him? I don’t know. 

Anyway, Audrey obtains some cool powers during her journey, most notably Flow (a teleporting ability gifted to her by Porter). Her legs get ripped off in the final battle, and as a result, when the Ink Demon tries to convince her to give up, she surrenders and they become one. Soon after, she takes control of their body and ultimately resets the cycle, undoing everything. The last we see of her is her back in the human world with little Bendy. 

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Wilson Arch

I hate him, he’s creepy. He tricks Audrey into helping him set up the Ink Machine before dragging her into the inky realm. He (falsely) claims to have defeated the Ink Demon and acts as the ruler of that world. He’s also the son of the guy who bought Joey Drew Studios. We find out toward the end that he wants to yoink Audrey’s soul and use it to bring his OC to life, lol. Instead, he ends up getting torn apart and becoming the new toon himself before Audrey and the Ink Demon sort of tag-team kill him. 

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The Keepers

Monstrous toons created by Wilson who slither around and are much faster than they look. They talk slow and glitchy, like Daleks from Doctor Who. They work for Wilson and actively hinder Audrey several times during her adventure. 

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The Signal Towers

Not a character but important to the lore of BatDR and deserving of a mention. They kinda look like plasma balls without the shell and have colored electricity zapping around them. They’re set up around Wilson’s headquarters, the Gent building and his retreat, to keep the Ink Demon out. They also actively hinder ink-related powers, like Flow. 

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The Basics of the Main Games: 

Bendy and the Ink Machine

You play as Henry, who received a letter from his old pal Joey asking him to come back to the old studio. After turning on the Ink Machine, he progressively ends up deeper and deeper in the studio even as he tries to escape. He has to fight for his life against a multitude of enemies, ranging from intelligent to mindless. If he dies, he travels through an inky tunnel full of voices until he pops back up, alive. This game has my favorite mechanic. In Chapter 3: “Bendy” roams around and chases Henry if he spots you, and it was terrifying to play and I loved that. After  solving puzzles and completing fetch quests for Twisted Alice, Henry ends up in a final confrontation with “Bendy,” and if he makes it through the boss fight, he plays a reel with The End written on it, ending the loop and maybe killing “Bendy.” That doesn’t really matter, though, because Henry then finds himself in Joey Drew’s home, where a much older Joey rambles at him (Henry totally deserved to punch him), before Joey sends Henry through the front door and right back into the studio. It reveals Henry is stuck in an parallel dimension featuring an endless loop of him arriving to the fake studio, turning on the Ink Machine, fighting those same enemies, solving those same puzzles, going on those same fetch quests, all to make it to the same boss battle, where upon winning, he will start it all over again. 

It makes my heart hurt for him just to think about it. 

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Bendy and the Dark Revival 

You play as Audrey, an animator who’s staying at work late to finish up some scenes. On her way to get coffee, she encounters Wilson, which ultimately leads to her being dragged into the inky realm. Upon waking up, she has to fight for her life against a variety of enemies. She meets some friendlies, too, like Allison who has forgotten she’s Allison, Porter, and baby Bendy. Over the course of her journey, she learns more about the state of the studio and its employees and how everything fell apart. She also meets Henry, who’s imprisoned in the Gent building with a few others. At the end, she finds out the reason Wilson brought her to this world: to serve as some soul fuel for him to create a new god-like toon to replace the Ink Demon, kinda. Obviously not down for that, she struggles and Wilson ends up being fuel in her place. She has to fight the spider monkey abomination thing with Wilson’s head sticking out of the middle (it’s… delightful). Before she can bring it down, it tears her legs off. The Ink Demon intervenes before she can be killed, destroying the monster as Audrey bleeds out. He convinces her to join him in the darkness and they become Beast Bendy, who is very large. Joey shows up with the The End tape. Beast Bendy promptly kills Joey’s memory (not sure if that’s a permanent thing or what) before Audrey takes control. Henry, who among others has been freed by Allison, gives her Norman's projector head to play the The End tape from BatIM on, and by playing it, she resets the cycle once again. 

I have yet to write a BatDR fic where she actually resets the cycle. I’m not a fan of that, tbh. 

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And those are the basics! I think once you know the characters and the general idea of the main games, you’d be able to adjust pretty quickly to fic, if that’s your goal. Especially since a lot of fics do use their own not-canon-compliant rules. If you have questions about anything I mentioned or about things I didn’t mention, I’d be happy to try and answer them. Like I said, I don’t know the full story, having only played/watched a fraction of the available material. But only knowing BatIM/BatDR has gotten me this far, haha! I do hope this helped you understand this fandom at least a little more, friend! I promise, it’s a fun playground we’ve got here!

[fazkins]

MEDIA LIST

we are willing to do any media!! even ones we arent quite as familiar with ^^ this is just a list of ones we are most familiar with, but just because your media isnt on the list does NOT mean you arent allowed to request stuff for it <3

also, just because we are fnaf themed doesnt mean we are fnaf exclusive! anyone from any source can request anything :]

that being said, media lists for each of us as individuals are under the cut!

-🧸💤

EVI'S MEDIA

bold is high interests of mine!

FNAF

Dream SMP

Outsiders SMP

Rats SMP

Omori

MCYT Life Series/Traffic Series

Attack on Titan

Assassination Classroom

My Hero Academia

Heathers (Movie + Musical)

Pokemon

HFJONE

Avatar: The Last Airbender + Avatar: Legend of Korra

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

Rick and Morty

Pokemon: Starter Squad

A Silent Voice

Death Note

My Little Pony

Hamilton the Musical

The Promised Neverland

more tba when i think of it LOL

FIZZ'S MEDIA

FnaF

Old FnaF fanbase [Rebornika etc]

FnaF HS (+/-)

FnaF [Pole bear AU]

FnaF [It's All Scripted AU]

My little Pony

Hamilton: an American musical

Six: the musical

Heathers

Dear Evan Hansen

Les Miserables

Warrior Cats

Wings of Fire [first five toms]

The Promised Neverland

Kaichou wa Maid-sama

The Amazing World of Gumball

Over the garden wall

Shera

Bluey

Heartstopper (serial only)

Helluva Boss

Hazbin Hotel

more tba(?)

SOOS'S MEDIA

tba ^^

HEN'S MEDIA

Five Nights at Freddy’s

The Magnus Archives

Persona 5 Royal

MCYT (Empires SMP + Dream SMP)

Dayshift at Freddy’s

Ace Attorney (only the original trilogy + first two second trilogy games for now!)

Arcane

Welcome Home

RWBY

Hatchetfield Universe

Portal

Undertale/Deltarune

Spider-Verse (ITSV/ATSV)

The Owl House

Gravity Falls

Markiplier Universe

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Hamilton

Hazbin Hotel/Helluva Boss

Lackadaisy

Stranger Things

Team Fortress 2

Bendy (BatIM/BatDR)

MIKEY'S MEDIA

bolded r faves, unbolded are just things i know a lot about

fnaf

spooky's jumpscare mansion

monster high

doki doki literature club

hatchetfield series (starkid musicals)

markiplier universe

Bendy and the ink machine

Omori

Vocaloid

danganronpa trigger happy havoc

hazbin hotel

[miksykat]

most batim stories:

sammy: You look familiar to me... That face...

henry: :(

batim stories where henry gets turned into a bendy:

sammy: You look familiar to me... That face...

henry, sarcastically: nooo, really? you don't say! you sure about that or do you want to take a closer look? I'm sure it'll come to you eventually!

[askmafiabobvelseb]

his mom

a small little view on Beka's life before ben died. :)

[thebekashow]

Biggest fan :D

Alice after the lil mini war. Don't worry, she's fine!

Sorta-

[insert-the-4thwall-entity]

Felt like drawing the main duo of ASAS -

[ieo-pio]

Your art is amazing! It’s so cute and pretty! 😄❤️

Awwhh ily thank you ~ ❤️❤️❤️  

[artnerd1123]

How To Goop Your Protagonist 101 by Joey Drew. ft. how to ungoop if you happen to be a protag, an addendum by Henry.