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Bendy AU Designs!

Here are the designs for my BATIM AU, Bendy and the Ink Well Islands (BATIWI)! I added Carley to this AU because she’s cool and nobody’s talking about her. Also, more doodles of Jack Grimm because I love him. He’s so fun to draw, but it was a struggle to find a way to draw his hair down.

Here’s a summary of this AU:

Joey Drew is the man behind the world of the Ink Well. Or at least, that's what's rumored. No one actually even knows who he really is. But one thing that is known, however, is that he is the whole reason why the so called "Ink Machine" exists. It is one of the, if not, the most complex hierarchy of crime. The only way people are safe is because of the Protectors, the leaders and the system put in place by the only people who were brave enough to stand up against the Ink Machine's hierarchy. Unfortunately for Jay, she was brave enough to take part of this system. And now, after the disappearance of the Ink Well Island's Protector, the Ink Demon himself, she must manage crime in the city while finding out what exactly happened to him...and also putting up with the annoying Detective Benjamin "Bendy" Franks.

Idk if you saw my last AU post, but on one of the pages, it explains how the Ink Well is basically this huge sea of ink, and built upon this sea is the different towns/islands. The ink that makes up this sea is very erratic, and if a human were to fall into it, they would turn into either, the more common form, a Searcher, or a toon. Children are the only exception to this rule, as they aren’t fully affected by the ink, but they can develop mutations and such, like features similar to toons.  Toons are more rare when it comes to a human falling into the ink, but toons can also be formed by relationships between humans/toons or toons/toons. Searchers can’t really have children because they are malformed, and so is their mental state, so they tend to not want children in the first place.

The ink is why there are different iterations of the same character, such as Alice Angel, Alice, and Allison Angel, or like with Benjamin, The Ink Demon, and Bens (mini Bendy). Jack Grimm, Jill Widows, Benjamin, and Carley are all toons, but Alice Angel would count as a Searcher, as her face is still deformed because of the ink, and her mental state was also affected by the ink.

Jay is a human with toon features, as she got affected by ink as a child. She has the features most similar to a bat, having a pair of bat wings on her back, and has small, almost unnoticeable enhancements, such as having keen hearing, but poor eyesight. She uses a harness to press her wings against her back to hide them, as they can get quiet tedious when she’s indoors or just in the general public.

Jack Grimm is a vampire, but he only needs to drink ink once in a while, or he kind of goes haywire and actually wants literal blood. He usually carries a small amount of ink on him, usually in a small bottle. He has to be careful, though, as drinking too much ink ends up with him still craving literal blood. In the AU, he starts out as more of an antagonist, mostly because he was blackmailed into working for a certain group affiliated with The Ink Machine. Later on, Benjamin and Jay help him get out of his situation. He can “...either go into house arrest, or work with us...”, as stated by Benjamin. He ends up taking up the offer and ends up working in Jill’s Café.

Jill Widows owns a café, which Benjamin and Jay like to visit often, mostly because they know Jill, as they help her find her brother in the beginning of the story. Alice Angel works at this café as both a bodyguard/security member, and a waitress. Alice uses a mask throughout this, because of her face. Allison works at this establishment, as well, and their relationship is much like of that of sisters. This café is where most encounters and meeting between the characters happen.

Carley, much like Jack, starts out as an antagonist. She used to be part of a gang, The Butcher Gang, which later kicked her out because they thought she was too much of a risk-taker. This prompted her to report them, but it only got herself in house-arrest. While in house arrest, she did make a few getaways, but she always returned because she knew the system  would track her down eventually if she didn’t pay her time. The other islands/cities weren’t much of an option because they weren’t too fond of strangers. Although she does have a lot of connections with other criminals and gangs, she never really had a motive to use her connections as she felt like The Butcher Gang had already tainted her name. Carley first enters the story when Jay is looking through files of potential intel members for the criminal investigation group. She views Carley as the most potential member, as Carley has both connections and knowledge, and even has the right abilities to infiltrate potential criminal areas because of her ghost-powers. When Jay makes the offer of exchanging freedom from house arrest for working in her group, Carley views this as a potential way to actually rebuild her name and as an opportunity of escape. Throughout the story, however, even if Carley does get certain opportunities to get rid of Jay and Benjamin, she’s already built a bond with them that reminds her too much of the Butcher Gang. Because of her last “betrayal”, she does tend to not trust her teammates at times and is even paranoid of Jay getting rid of her. At some point in time, though, with the help of Jack, she realizes that Jay and Benjamin wont do those things to her, and she learns to trust them wholeheartedly.

Jay works for the Protector of her own city, Tar City, located on Ink Well Islands. The Protector of this city is the Ink Demon, who works to fight against Joey Drew, despite his sinister nature. In the beginning of everything, he hires Jay and puts her on the place of manager, mostly because he wanted someone else managing most of the paperwork and meetings between him and other Protectors and such. Unfortunately for Jay, this means she’s working for most of her time, as their is a lot of work being set in place in the whole island.

Benjamin is a detective who’s working for Joey Drew, mostly because Joey has manipulated him to do his bidding. Mostly all of the Bendy versions were made by Joey in an attempt to make the perfect Bendy, and, well, Benjamin doesn’t look like the cute little cartoon devil that Joey had accepted to appear when he started his experiments. This means that the other “Bendys” were also made by Joey. This includes the Ink Demon, who has now been turned into the innocent little Bendy.

The Ink Demon can turn into “Bens” at random times, but this time, he permanently turns into him after he gets poisoned (most likely by Benjamin and because of Joey’s orders). That’s why in the story, he’s gone and Jay has to take over the role of the Protector while handling different case.

Hope you like the first batch of designs! ^^