#bendy fan character

[angelofthepage]

Bella Ewe - The Right Hand Shepherd

I don't think I've ever gone back and changed an art piece months after making it, but there's a first time for everything! Decided to follow my heart and gave her new ears, we're committing to the sheep thing. And with that came the thought, I haven't ever like, given her a formal bio on here, so you're getting two for one today! So let's dive into the Depths and give you a taste of who exactly this is.

Name: Bella Ewe

Ink Creature Type: Shepherd (same classification as Sammy and Jack)

Height: 5 ft 5 inches

Age: Frozen at 22 (Technically 32 as of BATDR's events)

Ink Ability: Dive (Dives beneath the ink to bring lost souls back up from the dark puddles)

AU she's from: Searching the Depths

Where you can follow her story: Searching the Depths: The Heart of the Studio, Richard the Keeper: The Studies of 214

Synopsis:

Like so many that came before her, Bella is the latest victim of Joey Drew. Taken under his wing after an unfortunate accident in 1963, she's the first domino to fall in a new plan to revive the legacy of Joey Drew Studios. After accidentally getting locked in the cycle and sacrificed to the ink demon, Bella finds herself as a lowly searcher, accompanying a newly aware Sammy Lawrence and Jack Fain in a desperate attempt to break out of the ink realm. While working together as the ink demon's Shepherds, the group discovers things may not be as set in stone as they seemed, and there might just be some hope of ending this nightmare. As she works through the hellish landscape of the studio (and the loss of hope that comes with it), her first adventure has her evolving, both physically and mentally, to find herself and determine what kind of person she wants to be.

When Wilson gains control over the cycle, Bella finds herself imprisoned with the rest of her fellow Cyclebreakers, assigned the subject number of 214. Desperate to bust her newfound family out and uncover more of the ink's secrets, she reluctantly teams up with Richard, a crudely nicknamed Keeper hellbent on creating a perfect world. While they're at odds to start, the two learn there's more to the other than meets the eye, and sometimes allies can come from the most unlikely of places.

[fr00t-snacc]

Finally posting the reference of my character Cynthia Sherman, a self insert for the Bendy games! The idea is she arrives in the studio before Audrey does, and is also younger than her, but her actual story in a fanfic will explain more of it!

[lunebuna]

Disaster trio

[grape-souffle]

Oooo who's this charming fella?

[webzazes]

twwwick ow tweeetwwtatt can i get bendy or ink demon or alice (any bendy char just not boris cuz I like beating him with the gent pipe)

WHAT THE FUCK IS YOUR PROBLEM!?!?????? KILL YOURSELF???? boris is my BOY.. also you get uh. bendy (ink demon from game 1) in heels.

yes I just rushed to do this mid post you’re welcome

[inkypoppy]

Cw bright colors

Cw gore

[djevelbl]

IMtober days 5 & 6 (bc the power had it fucking out for me)

also ignore the inconsistent font size on the drawings. i'm figuring it out i swear (no I'm not)

anyway so yea. I'll go catch-up with today's prompt now fuck the power going out all my homies hate the power going out

[reel-fear]

Bendy And The Power Of Representation

So those graphic novel pages huh? Seems I posted my cover post at just the right time because literally minutes after I was informed the preview pages came out and uh. This is Buddy and Norman!

Oh dear... I'll put the full graphic novel pages down below but I have so much to say on how awful this is it'll need several posts. However, right now I want to mostly talk about representation and briefly touch on why it's so damn important + inform others about the current shit Mike and Meatly are saying about the books n such.

Now note: All the things I'm saying below are based on my personal experience, maybe some people don't care about seeing the representation of their identities in the media they consume. Maybe some will think I'm merely being dramatic and I might be but I'm not lying when I say I personally believe being represented and seen in the media you consume can be one of the most wonderful feelings in the world.

Look I'm not here to argue with people who think that Norman in particular was never meant to be a person of color, I would argue he is very coded but the points I'm making here are not about how Norman particularly had to be black. The point I want to make is the lack of diversity in our cast in general and how Norman's design has heavily dwindled it considering most people [including myself] rightfully assumed he was at least one of three black characters in our cast. Not according to this though and looking at the the rest of the pages our chances of seeing any kind of decent diverse character designs dwindle more.

So firstly... Buddy a character who has been said to experience discrimination for being Jewish, lacks any kind of ethnic features at all. That's... Cool but yeah I think this shows a rather grim future for the character designs as a whole.

Also, Norman... As I mentioned he was largely assumed to be black due to his southern dialect, his voice, and other factors. But nope, he's a generic white guy. With... Gross looking hair tbh...

Sadly this is not the first time the topic of poor representation has come up concerning Bendy either.

[note how he disregarded the other mentioned minorities and specifically cites LGBTQ+ characters]

This sucks as a response but sadly considering Mike's recent behavior it seems to fall in line with the Bendy team's general lack of care towards representing anyone who isn't straight and white.

So how did Mike respond to all of this? Well...

TDLR - "Who cares if the Graphic Novel we're selling to our fans for full price sucks, we now no longer consider the books canon."

This is horrible, I know Mike and Meatly are only really in this for the money, the fact BATIM is in the state that it is proved that, but they really couldn't have been less obvious about it?

So basically when it benefited them, AKA when it meant people would have to buy the books to understand important lore like Boris' identity... [the character you spend all of chapter 4 trying to rescue] They were considered canon... At least the author sure thought so.

Hell even in the tweet Meatly made here he doesn't say the books aren't canon, he just says they're not needed to understand Bendy's world. Now Mike is using that as a shield instead of doing the right thing and saying "You're right, the poc in our fanbase deserve better we'll have it fixed right away!" Like most reasonable people would considering how his studio has literally been accused of bigotry, poor rep, and general lack of diversity before. Why risk making more people avoid this franchise?

Also just... Imagine how insulting it would be to be an author who helps flesh out so much of this world and gives its characters depth like NONE of the games have managed to do, filling in plot holes, creating a timeline for events, etc... Then because they couldn't bother to change the graphic novel for ur story to be better they instead throw out all ur writing and declare it non-canon.

If I were her to put it bluntly I'd feel insulted and horrible. Why make her do all the work of making sure her works align with the timeline and game's canon if they're not part of it?

I can't speak for her obviously but Meatly and Mike know of her account, so speaking out against this could very much risk her being fired or at least not allowed to work on Bendy anymore... So I would take all her tweets on this situation with a grain of salt. She very much is not in a position where she could be honest if she was against this.

So with all that history now, the question I'm sure many are wondering is... Why does this even matter? Who cares how diverse the characters are when it doesn't affect the story?

Well for one thing, if you think like that consider having more empathy for your fellow human beings but also it does affect the story. One of DCTL's themes is about the bigotry of the period it is set in.

Now the Bendy team has managed to make the discussion of this book centering around their bigotry which is ironic in a way I almost find funny... Though this entire thing is just a bit too hurtful and upsetting to find any humor in, at least for me...

But another thing is representation can bring people such joy when it's done with care. It really shouldn't be understated how far it can go to make people feel more comfortable in their own sense of self to have a franchise choose to represent them and their experiences. I know this from personal experience.

Now if you've been following me for a while, you know I'm a big fan of Transformers. I no longer engage with it much due to baggage from the fandom's awful treatment of me, but before I left I remember being able to witness the release of Transformers: Earthspark first few episodes.

These introduced the Maltos the family who meets the Transformers and serve as our protagonists and guess what?

It's a family of Filipinos!

Now look I'm not Filipino, but I am half Mexican and I have a lot of love for that part of me. So seeing the representation of any Spanish culture in this franchise I loved made me so happy! I remember just watching the first episode I was happily telling my partner how fun it was to see people like me and my family in a world I love!!

But it didn't end with the Maltos in fact... There was another character who spoke to me, their name was Nightshade. Their pronouns are They/Them and they spoke about it on the show! Not just mentioning it and moving on but actually sitting down to speak about their experiences...

This clip in particular really turned them into an absolute favorite among fans and well... I'll let you see it for yourself.

This scene... Fills me with a joy I cannot describe. It is the creators of a franchise I love telling me they see people like me and find the stories of people like me important enough to include in this series. There really is nothing like being able to say there are Non-Binary characters in a franchise I have so much love for. I was far from the only one too.

This is amazing, this is wonderful, this clip and character were moving to so so many people and...

This is a joy the Bendy creators have no interest in giving their audience. They don't care how you feel as a queer and/or black person, which... Hurts...

I... Discovered I was trans while in the Bendy community... It was where I learned the word Non-Binary and started using it for myself. To me Bendy will always have that connection... But the devs themselves seem to hate the idea of being forced to actually represent that in their games... And I still haven't really gotten over that pain or betrayal if I'm being honest.

So...

With Norman now being portrayed as white here, we are down to two black characters. Thomas [who Meatly has claimed is white in the past] based on a vague conversation with Sammy in DCTL they could easily ignore... And Jacob.... A book exclusive character which according to Mike means he is non-canon.

If we don't count Thomas' vague talk with Sammy about disrespect as confirmation he's black [which the devs don't seem to think so] then we have one black character in all of Bendy... And he recently got retconned into non-existence. Great.

Look... The Bendy fanbase has always been full of wonderfully diverse designs for the staff and even more diverse people creating them. Bendy's fandom was built with the work of queer people from all kinds of places.

If the Bendy team continues to show how little they care for anyone who isn't straight or white... I wonder who they are counting on to buy this book or in general financially support their franchise?

I know right now, I am furious, I am hurt and I most certainly don't feel like buying a book that's currently just a massive fuck you to the fans and I hope I've expressed why I feel this way in an easy-to-understand way here...

Either way, I will not be forgetting this anytime soon and I hope the fanbase does the same. Maybe just maybe, if there's enough backlash to this series of horrible decisions they'll learn better.

Right now, it's kinda of our only hope for a better future, and if you know any poc who are into Bendy right now... Maybe consider making sure they're feeling okay.

I know from experience how much this sort of thing hurts, to have the creators of a world you love straight up tell you they don't intend to fix the fact no one in their stories represents your identity or life...

What I'm trying to say is...

This is a really low point for Bendy and its fans... Even more for the poc who have to witness such ignorant and careless attitudes from Mike and Meatly towards their feelings.

Please don't forget them when you discuss these tweets or this situation. That's exactly what Mike and Meatly want right now.

For them to be unrepresented and therefore... Unheard.

[richidunno]

OH!! BATIM!! ☆

Just thought of posting this one here🎀

Made this in 2023 but HERE'S MY BATIM OC IZZY!! (funfact: she's my very first oc that i ever made!! I still luv her so much<3) more info abt her on the alt thingy!!

ALSO STILL VERY EXCITED ABOUT THE UPCOMING BENDY MOVIE OMLL!! 💥💥

[an-inky-cultist]

I guess little post for Sammy's (late) bday? :,]

Little doodle of my silly guy, plus I needed to change his color pallete because I was getting sick of him looking like an eggplant lol.

[fancybendy]

Wane Walker - Owner of the Angelic Sweets Cafe and underground bar. Wane will be introduced for my project but he had taken in Nathan when he had nowhere to go. @so-na-r and I joked that Nathan would bring Andres home and Wane would just be trying to warn Nathan but Andres is quick to tell him to shut it Nathan of course is oblivious as all hell.

Andres belongs to @so-na-r Nathan and Wane belong to me

[a-pen-and-a-nightmare]

Work in Progress: Bendy and the Dark Revival oc - Lizzie

I put 6 hours into this piece so far! This is how far I got last night before I had to give in and sleep. I am super proud of how this is coming out!

Close ups:

ramble: I started off learning how to draw dragons from Jessica Peffer (AKA NeonDragon) in 2013 when I received her *Dragonart evolution: how to draw everything dragon* guide book. From there I’ve learned other techniques that NeonDragon didn’t include in her art, and I incorporated them into mine (such as line weight and colored line art). I am so amazed by what i’m managing with this piece, especially considering I haven’t sat down and drawn a dragon, for several hours at a time, in *years*.

I am also glad to have made a dragon oc that fits into the Bendy universe, so I can draw what I’ve got years of built up skill on (dragons), and my current fixation, going six years strong now, BATIM and all things related to it.

Lizzie’s design was partially inspired by Miya_Hopper’s dragon oc, Danny and partly by the tubes of color before Wilson’s laboratory. Her facial design is inspired by Triceratops and Hornbills, and I gave her ears similar to Wings of Fire dragons to allow for more expression.

Reference sheet:

[fr00t-snacc]

A new character appears! This is Cynthia Sherman, a self insert character I made for something involving BATIM/BATDR >:3

This outfit is very period inaccurate for what era she comes from, but it looks cute on her and the angel wings are kinda significant so imma do them anyways

[lunebuna]

Disaster trio kitchen dynamic

It's a fun headcanon i have

Betty is good at baking but sucks at cooking

Alastor is good at cooking but sucks at baking

and Bendy burns down the kitchen

[grape-souffle]

Guys this is insane!

So to celebrate this momentous achievement, and because I was inspired by someone, here's the guy on the cover of Vogue!

Here's the inspiration btw:

[random-lil-illing]

player appreciation week!!

i dont know if ill manage to do all the days, but i want to post the days ive managed to do (day 1 and day 2). dont expect any more player days, and certainly dont expect any posts this/next week, apologies haha