Hey Matpat! Here's that very underrated theory I told you about.

Greetings, HereForMyBATIMTheory

DemonBendy here guys! And as the title says, I might have figured out most of the story around Bendy and the Ink Machine.

First it's important to know which people worked in the old workshop. These are

Joey Drew

Henry

Sammy Lawrence

Wally Franks

Thomas Connor

Norman Polk

Susie Campbell

Shawn Flynn

Grant Cohen

And Alison Pendle as far as we know from the audiotapes.

Now, in which way are these workers involved by the main problem of the game? At first Joey Drew.

I found out myself that Joey can be the main character Bendy and later saw that the "Joey Drew is Bendy" theory exists. I believe in this theory that Joey Drew is indeed Bendy.

So Joey is Bendy and Norman Polk is the projectionist we see in chapter 3 (this is confirmed).

We also see Alice Angle in this chapter and I believe that this is Susie Campbell, who even felt Alice Angel as a part of herself as she says in her audiotape. Some believe that Susie and Alison both are the Alice Angle we saw in chapter 3, but more on that later.

There were also many audiotapes from workers who're telling how crazy Joey can be against them and because of this some of them are speaking about leaving the workshop.

Henry also worked for Joey, but he came back after 30 years.

When Henry enters the old workshop again he has no idea of what happened and it also doesn't sounds like Henry holds a grudge against Joey so we can say that the workers weren't held hostage by Joey. This makes me believe that some of the workers were able to leave before the problem with the ink machine happened.

These people are Wally Franks (wanted to quit), Thomas Connor (wanted to quit), Shawn Flynn, Grant Cohen and Alison Pendle. Out of all their audios Franks is the only one literally saying "I'm outta here" and not only once, all the three audios we got from him are ending with this exact sentence. Big chance Franks was the first (maybe only) one who stopped working for Joey. I think these workers were able to escape or something else happened...

Leaves us with Sammy Lawrence who called Bendy his savior. Sammy seems to get killed by Bendy as far as we know.

What makes Sammy different from the rest of the workers are his audios. Every audio makes it clear how the worker thinks about Drew and his ideas about the ink machine except for Sammy.

Sammy is contradicting himself the whole time! First he talks about praising Bendy, but later he tells Susie how Alice Angle will become as popular as Bendy someday.

Polk talks about how Sammy would run to the recording room and sitting there with the projector turned off. Sammy also talks about how he hated Joey for bringing the pipes of the ink machine through his office even saying "these stupid cartoon songs don't write themselves you know?" Which is a totally out of character sentence for someone who calls a fictional figure a savior and even wants to be noticed by him.

I believe Henry doesn't find the audiotapes in chronological order throughout the chapters and knowing that, Sammy's behavior makes a lot more sense.

But I come back on Sammy later. Let's take a look at the differences between the characters we saw so far.

The creatures we saw in physical form are Bendy, Alice, Boris, Sammy, searchers, the projectionist and The Butcher Gang.

And these guys we can put in separated groups which are

-Bendy, Alice and Sammy

-Boris and The Butcher Gang

-The searchers and the projectionist

And the fact that they can be put in those groups is very important.

So what are the differences? Well, let's call Bendy/Alice/Sammy 1, Boris/The Butcher Gang 2 and searchers/the projectionist 3.

The really important differences are the following.

-Except for Bendy 1 can talk 2 and 3 can't

-1 is fully human formed 2 and 3 aren't

-2 can be cloned 1 and 3 can't

There is one thing the makers of BATIM let us forget the whole time and it's funny, because in real life we are all aware of it and this fact is the following:

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS AREN'T REAL

Keep in mind that this game is based on a realistic world with realistic people.

Creatures out of cartoons can't exist in the real world and yet we believe that cartoon character Bendy is mad on Joey, because he was turned into a real life creation. But it's not like Bendy can talk about a happy life when he was 2D, because that would mean that he was a real living creature capable of thinking when he was on paper and that's just not possible.

But somehow there's still a humanoid Bendy walking through the old workshop and at this point it is only possible that this "Bendy" is a realistic person. This makes the theory "Bendy is Joey Drew" that much more believable.

So that means that all the physical creatures we saw during the 3 chapters were human once? Well no, some of them actually are fictional characters brought to life.

As far as we know, Joey brought an ink machine into the workshop and nobody was happy with this as we can hear on the audiotapes. We also know that Joey wanted to "cheat death itself" and this gives him a good reason to turn himself into his own cartoon character Bendy, because fictional characters never really die.

But was Joey really that stupid to throw himself immediately into the ink machine before testing it?

No, Drew needed to know that the ink machine would turn him into Bendy without mistakes so he began to test it.

Of course he wouldn't begin with a human as a test subject so he tried to make a living thing out of the ink machine without a human subject. First he tried to create The Butcher Gang. These characters came out full of mistakes so in the end these guys are cloned many times as the result of many failed experiments.

In this period the workers began to notice that Joey started to act crazier and crazier and they became angry at Joey for not telling them what he was doing.

Sammy, known as a cranky stressed musician by the other workers, needs to know what Joey is working on and he finds out about that Joey is trying to bring fiction to life. Sammy who is so stressed from his work sees Joey's plan as his way to finally be free and from this moment Sammy starts to help Joey.

Joey told Sammy that he would turn himself into Bendy and because this project had to stay a secret between Joey and Sammy, Sammy couldn't praise Joey as his savior so he started be praise Joey in the name of Bendy and that's when Sammy started to get obsessed.

Around this period they also needed a voice for the new character Alice Angle with the idea that when the ink machine was save enough, this woman would turn into a humanoid Alice Angle. This woman would be chosen by Joey, would know about the ink machine and this woman was Susie Campbell. While Joey kept working on the ink machine, Sammy would keep an eye on the other workers and Susie in special. This was also the moment that Susie started to feel Alice as a part of herself.

Meanwhile Joey kept working, and knowing how the copies of The Butcher Gang turned out, things didn't go well.

But then suddenly, one experiment went right. Without any mistakes...

Boris the Wolf.

Boris was the first fictional character who was created as a perfect real life model.

This was the moment Joey started to have faith again and he started to use some of his workers as test subjects now, but sadly this went terribly wrong many times and these workers became the searchers from BATIM.

Sammy, knowing about the workers becoming searchers, is unsure about Susie's situation when he sees all the human ink puddles.

Remember how Susie calls Sammy 'handsome'? It's possible that Sammy started to have feelings for Susie. So to save Susie from a horrible plan he replaces her with Alison as the voice of Alice Angle.

Alison was also told about becoming a humanoid Alice, but Sammy didn't told Susie his reason for firing her.

Susie needed "a way to fix this" as she said so herself and without thinking she throws herself into the ink machine, becoming an inky slug. When Sammy sees this he is desperate to help her. Sammy takes Alison with him and he combines Susie with Alison.

"The first time I was a useless wiggling slug. The second time. Well...it made me an angle."

This makes sense knowing the second time she combined with Alison and this made Susie a bit more humanoid.

But something went wrong. Joey enters the room and sees a half humanoid, half inky, Alice Angle. This is when he realize that Sammy can't be trusted and out of anger, Joey pushes Sammy into the ink machine giving him the inky body he wants to get rid of in chapter 2.

Joey lost his mind that moment...

And he saw how the outcome of Sammy, Susie and Alison was better than that of the searchers. He also tried with Polk and that also went well enough for Joey...

So well, that Joey couldn't wait anymore and turned himself into Bendy...

But what happened to the others after Joeys transformation?

I think that the following happened:

-Susie/Alison AKA Alice Angle started to clone more Boris the Wolves to make her beautiful again

-After 30 years Sammy is honoring Bendy in obsessed ways. Good chance that this is his way of surviving, because Bendy is now the only one who can free them all from their suffer. If Sammy is also the one who wrote the inky text on the walls it might be good hints to how Sammy feels.

"He will set us free" that one is obvious

"Dreams do come true" Sammy's suffer used to be his dream and it came true

"The creator lied to us" Joey's plan which ended up completely wrong.

- The Butcher Gang works for Bendy, these guys were made with the personality of the bad guys and with Bendy as their creator they teamed up with him and fight against Alice Angle and Sammy.

- All the Boris the Wolf clones also having the same personality as the cartoon character itself so Boris is mostly in his save house trying to keep away from danger.

Players were wondering why Boris doesn't talk in the game, that's because he simply can't. The Boris clones were only given the necessary organs to stay alive, like a heart.

And then we are left with Henry, because why would Joey ask Henry for a visit to the old workshop after 30 years?

Remember the 'new character' Henry tells about in his audiotape?

And wouldn't it be exciting how this unknown character would be like in real life?

I believe Joey's plan is to turn Henry into his own created character.

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