We need to talk about Allison

A while ago I posted a list of things Allison does and says in the game that don’t quite add up. The DCTL book did nothing to improve her image in my eyes. In fact, her behavior is even more suspicious now.

Buddy meets her only twice in the book, both times Dot isn’t with him. When Allison walks away the second time, she says “take care of that writer girl, she’s swell!”. How does she know Buddy is friends with Dot? Was she spying on them?

When Allison and Buddy meet for the first time, they’re inside an elevator. Buddy gets off at the art department level, but Allison keeps going up. The music department is under the art department. The only thing up is Joey’s office, but… Joey was missing at the time. He disappeared. And when we see him again, he completely forgot who Buddy is, Buddy notes that the office is more messy than the last time he saw it, and Joey explains that he was absent due to being busy with the ink machine. The mess in his office could be from someone going through his papers while he was gone, or from Joey getting high off ink and drawing his visions. Either way, it’s a suspicious timing for Allison to visit him.

When Joey fires her, she laughs in his face and says “We’ll talk about that in the morning, Joey!”. She’s acting like she has the upper hand against him.

She knows about the ink demon, but when asked about it she tells Tom “What you helped create is astonishing!”, and Tom replies “What I helped create is monstrous, and you know it!”. She clearly doesn’t mind that her husband created a monster.

When describing the ink machine she says “Think of it as a printing press but for… people”. Tom tells her to not use the word “people”. It’s like she knows humans will be used as test subjects. Not even tom knows this at the time.

Not even tom knows this at the time. She tells Buddy that Joey owns all of their inventions. Yet, in the game, she continues to send Joey her recipes, that according to the handbook are her inventions. Why would she do that, knowing he would steal them from her?

Scratch that: why would she ever want to stay in contact with the man who cheated her husband out of his achievements? And that’s despite the fact that Joey clearly didn’t want to keep in contact with her, as evidenced by him rejecting her wedding invitation

And that’s despite the fact that Joey clearly didn’t want to keep in contact with her, as evidenced by him rejecting her wedding invitation What’s more, in the letter to Joey, Allison pretends to not know about the ink machine, calls it “some dusty old invention”. She’s lying!

She’s the only character with a detailed description. And a large part of that description is her face, with one eye covered. This is either a reference to Malice, or to the One-Eyed Bendy, either way, it’s disturbing and an obvious foreshadowing of something dark.



The novel strongly implies that Joey didn’t invent the sentient ink - he stole it, just like he stole the characters and the machine. In the Handbook, when talking about how the ink is made, he uses an analogy with a female chef cooking things. And Allison is a chef who invents recipes in her spare time - recipes that she sends to Joey. Coincidence?

And that’s only for the novel! If we include the game, there’s more shady behavior from her. Look up my Theory Masterlist for the posts I made before, listing every single thing she and Tom are doing and saying in the game that hints they are hiding something from us.

