The true purpose of the Ritual



Joey asked each and every employee to donate something and put it in the Break Room.



How come there are only 6 pedestals inside it? How come these pedestals have images of objects to be donated above them, if Joey didn’t specifically ask for wrenches, books, or ink jars, but for any random object that the employee held dear?

How come we find 6 of the same objects inside Joey’s desk in his office, and 6 more in his apartment? They’re obviously meaningful in some way.



My initial theory was that the ritual happened at the time before the studio expanded, when it had only 6 employees. However, we know now that the Bendy dolls weren’t produced before 1934, and the ink machine was built in the 40s.



So the only other explanation is that Joey hand-picked 6 items out of the hundreds his employees donated, and threw out the rest.

Why these 6 items though? It’s the same number as the number of characters in Bendy cartoons. It’s possible that he chose items belonging to people that he felt resembled the characters the most.

DCTL preview states that Buddy has another mind inside them, one that resembles cartoon Boris - but many people pointed out that cartoon Boris strongly resembles Wally, and Joey states in The Illusion of Living (note the title) that the cartoon characters are based on employees.



The pedestals have pipes leading through them, as if something was siphoned out of the items placed on them - pieces of the 6 chosen employees “essence” as Joey put it?

