History WMG / BendyAndTheInkMachine

Joey wanted to make sure he got it right when he brought his "star" to life, so he tested it on another character, one he didn't care about. Boris was imperfect for some reason, so he brutally tore him apart to see where he'd gone wrong, so eh could make sure that Bendy was absolutely perfect.

[[WMG: Bendy is a Metamorphosis Monster.]]
His "Inked" form in Chapter Two looks rather different than how he looked in Chapter One. And perhaps by Chapter Five, he will be even more horrifying...

[[WMG: Bendy is a [[Metamorphosis Monster.]]

[[WMG: Bendy is a [[Metamorphosis Monster Metamorphosis Monster]]]]

* Maybe that note from the start of the game was the last bit of communication Henry ever got from Joey, and after a funeral for the man, who seemed to have died from natural causes, he decided to come see whatever it was that had been left. This would explain why when the game starts he says, "Alright, Joey. I'm here. Let's see if we can find what you wanted me to see." This implies he knew Joey wouldn't be there to show him in person for some reason- and the most likely reason is that he's already dead. Of course, when he sees the dead Boris, that would horrify him, but also drive him to find out what exactly happened even more. But then Inked Bendy [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere showed up]], and now he just hopes to escape alive.

* Maybe that note from the start of the game was the last bit of communication Henry ever got from joey, and after a funeral for the man, who seemed to have died from natural causes, he decided to come see whatever it was that had been left. This would explain why when the game starts he says, "Alright, Joey. I'm here. Let's see if we can find what you wanted me to see." This implies he knew Joey wouldn't be there to show him in person for some reason- and the most likely reason is that he's already dead. Of course, when he sees the dead Boris, that would horrify him, but also drive him to find out what exactly happened even more. But then Inked Bendy [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere showed up]], and now he just hopes to escape alive.

* Bendy had wanted to be human when learning he was but a cartoon character. Joey kept up the act by mass producing ink from the machine, presumably using it on other creations, but the lie came to fruition once the studio closed without any closure for Bendy. He is attempting to still make a humanoid form in the form of Inked Bendy, which is notably more humanoid than cartoon Bendy.

* The main clues behind this? The letter you receive looks realistic, but once you get to the studio, it looks like it had come out of a cartoon. So maybe the Ink Machine was used for, in fact, bringing the cartoon world into ours, and Bendy and Boris came with it.

* Joey used rituals to try and give life to his characters but in doing so they came with a cost. A cost in blood that he had to pay using his other employees, the dead, personal objects, and eventually himself. It worked, but not the way he had expected because the classic slapstick cartoons of the age given the real world rules did not act funny and laugh it off, they tormented him with there playful sadistic antics until he made an example of Boris. Bendy was not happy and slowly the darkness that had spawned him started to consume him, he decided the creator had lied to him and returned the favor.

* Surely ink can't be a very effective way to create and sustain life, occult or otherwise, and going from a world like a cartoon to the real world would be terrible in ways we can probably barely understand. The way I see it, "Inked" Bendy's behavior for the brief moment we see him suggests confusion and desperation - more than anything, it seems like he's trying to make sense of his surroundings.

* "Inked" Bendy looks a liiiitle too anatomically proportionate to be a cartoon character....

* Related to the guess above, Joey wanted to become Bendy but the whole ritual went wrong and the creature we see isn't Bendy (who is actually the cardboard piece that follows you) but Joey. The writings make more sense if they where done by Joey but with him believing he's Bendy.

* The cartoon studio went under before Bendy could make any lasting imprint on the cartoon world. Bendy, [[IJustWantToBeLoved seeking the popularity he was told he was going to get,]] WentMadFromTheRevelation of wasting away without any acknowledgement and began to lash out, ways including disembowling Boris under the assumption he was part of what crippled his stardom.

Fleischer Studios, the company that created Betty Boop, had a series of shorts called "Out of the Inkwell" wherein a character named Koko the Clown interacts with the real world. He was mistreated a lot in these shorts by his creator, Max Fleischer. Things Max has done to Koko include shocking him with electricity, setting his paper world on fire as "thanks" for rolling Max a cigarette, drawing Koko onto a very steep mountain with a small area to stand on to "keep him quiet for the night," and cramming Koko back into the small cramped inkwell solely because Max had a nightmare about him. Koko may have had his moments of mischievousness, but treating a sentient being in such a way is cruel and unusual, so it isn't too far-fetched that Bendy was experiencing similar treatment and wanted to end it once and for all. Bonus points if Henry just stood by and let it happen, whether he felt bad or not.

[[WMG:Going off of the above three theories, this game ''never'' involved humans or the "real" world.]]

Fleischer Studios, the company that created Betty Boop, had a series of shorts called "Out of the Inkwell" wherein a character named Koko the Clown interacts with the real world. He was mistreated a lot in these shorts by his creator, Max Fleischer. Things Max has done to Koko include shocking him with electricity, setting his paper world on fire as "thanks" for rolling Max a cigarette, drawing Koko onto a very steep mountain with a small area to stand on to "keep him quiet for the night," and cramming Koko back into the small cramped inkwell solely because Max had a nightmare about him. Koko may have had his moments of mischievousness, but treating a living being in such a way is cruel and unusual, so it isn't too far-fetched to guess that Bendy was experiencing similar treatment and wanted to end it once and for all.

And Henry has been lured there because Bendy/Joey wants to use him to do the same to Boris. Boris hasn't had his heart cut out, his body is there waiting for a heart to be put ''in'' it so that the life-giving ritual can be completed.

[[WMG:Joey's body was used during the creation of bendy]]
* "Inked" Bendy looks a liiiitle too anatomically proportionate to be a cartoon character....

* Surely ink can't be a very effective way to create and sustain life, occult or otherwise, and going from a world like a cartoon to the real world would be terrible in ways we can probably barely understand. The way I see it, "Inked" Bendy's behavior for the brief moment we see him suggests confusion and desperation - more than anything, it seems like he's trying to make sense of his surroundings.

* Joey used rituals to try and give life to his characters but in doing so they came with a cost. A cost in blood that he had to pay using his other employees, the dead, personal objects, and eventually himself. It worked, but not the way he had expected because the classic slapstick cartoons of the age given the real world rules did not act funny and laugh it off, they tormented him with there playful sadistic antics until he made an example of Boris. Bendy was not happy and slowly the darkness that had spawned him started to consume him, he decided the creator had lied to him and returned the favor.

* The main clues behind this? The letter you receive looks realistic, but once you get to the studio, it looks like it had come out of a cartoon. So maybe the Ink Machine was used for, in fact, bringing the cartoon world into ours, and Bendy and Boris came with it.