BATDR Teaser Analysis



Something evil will be revived, but it will NOT be the Ink Demon



The letters leading up to the title reveal spell out “Benevolent Demon, someone has reawakened the dark”. Benevolent Demon could only be Bendy, as it’s the only demon we know of.



The only person who could be referring to Bendy as “Benevolent” is Sammy. The voice in the video speaks about “cowering before demons”, so Bendy will not be acting as benevolent as the letters suggest. The message in the letters is therefore from Sammy’s perspective - Sammy becomes aware of some evil entity having been reawakened by somebody, and he wants to warn Bendy about it.



The entity, and the “darkness” associated with it, is therefore NOT Bendy or his friend. What’s more, it seems that it has been awake before, and Sammy was there to witness it the first time around. This dark entity seems to be strongly associated with the ink machine.



Despite the Ink Demon not being revived, he will appear in the story

Confirmed via tweet:

This means that the story cannot pick up after Henry killed him. It would have to be happening before that moment, or in an AU, where Henry never killed him.

We can see the ink machine moving down

This is significant, because when Henry arrives at the studio, the Ink Machine was not operational - there were no ritual items on the pedestal, and the power lever was off. What’s more, there was a huge splatter of ink in front of the power lever, meaning that most ink creatures would not be able to come close enough to pull it - the ink would claim them, if they’d tried.



What does this mean? It means that the story of BATDR would have to be happening either long before the items were removed from the pedestals and the power was turned off, or during the time in-between Henry restoring the power to the Ink Machine, and killing the Ink Demon. The ink machine in the video could also be the second ink machine, the existence of which I pointed out in one of my recent posts.

The speaker in the video is an Alice

That means the game will either feature either Allison, or Susie. Considering the letters seem to be from Sammy’s perspective, he will likely reappear as well.



We may see the Heavenly Toys area again



The words: “You may walk with angels or cower before demons, but one thing always remains - the choices you make” are a reference to the choice between Angel’s and Demon’s Path back in Chapter 3. As there are hints in BATIM of both Alices having been to that area, it’s hard to tell which one of them is the speaker here. But Susie’s audio log talking about her role changing all the time implies that she will return, and may be our ally this time around.



The game seems to be in Yellow Vision

This is significant, as Henry obtains a permanent BlackWhite Vision after the secret ending. The reference to the choices and the Angel’s/Demon’s Path in the video specifically brings our attention to that. If Henry were to be the main character of the next Bendy game, that would undo the choices we made in BATIM.



Which means that Henry cannot be the main character.



I doubt the Unknown voice will be the protagonist either - if anything, he might be the thing that was reawakened, or an ally of the dark entity that we will have to fight against.

