Anonymous: Okay but the names "Buddy and Dot" sound more like cartoon character names or nicknames than actual names for people like who names their girl as "Dot"? I know there are children with rather weird names but it's oddly suspicious that these two working at Joey Drew Studios have names more fitting for toon characters plus isn't there already a toon named Dot in the Animaniacs? Is that just reference or something more for that character to be named from an actual toon character?

I think it’s a foreshadowing to their ultimate fate. The description makes it sound like they discovered the ink creatures. Yet they couldn’t have escaped the studio, or else Joey would’ve been in prison and BATIM never would’ve happened. So they must have become victims of ink.

As for what they went on to become, well…

Kudos to the Secret Vision Hunter discord for pointing it out to me!

As for Dot, it’s an obvious reference to the Animaniacs, so her fate is sealed. My best guess is that she may have been the “uncle Joey” girl at the end - even a grown woman’s voice can imitate that of a child, and we know that something left the workshop at the end of Chapter 1.

The studio was open for 14 years by the time the ink creatures were created in 1943. Dot may have been the daughter of one of the older employees, in which case she would’ve known Joey since she was 3 years old. She may have grown up calling him “uncle Joey”.

Another possibility is that she is the thing hiding inside the locked toilet stall in Boris’ safehouse. It mysteriously opens up by itself after we open the door to the safehouse, and something appears to have left a lit candle inside.



There’s also a tiny piece of clothing drying inside the safehouse, which couldn’t possibly fit either Boris or Henry.

Notice how much smaller it is, compared to the overalls drying to the right of it. If Boris is Buddy, then this tiny creature could very well be his friend, Dot.



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