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I don’t know if anyone pointed this out yet, but something has more than two limbs.

It could be its feet, but I doubt anyone would climb up a hatch with two of their hands, and then one of their feet without their head up first. This brings me to a completely random thought/theory I had.

While binge watching Steven Universe.

Could ink monsters fuse!? I mean, technically, they’re ink. Liquid. Even Alice had to use swollen ink for herself in batim chapter 3. Here’s what I think next, it’s a really, really minor detail, but one of the hands, if you look SUPER closely, had a cuff and a wire similar to that of Projectionist’s. It could just be an ink drip, it could just be an extra swollen wrist. It could just be someone else, but here’s this.

Wild, crazy, thought I had. Could Sammy possibly.. fuse with the projectionist?

That crucified lost one at the beginning.. the message next to it. The lost one wasn’t dead, it simply was immobilized, it was twitching. Could it be that Sammy (he’s the main suspect because of symbolism) put Norman temporarily up like that so he could figure out how to enhance his own strength?

Me and my friend Gacha Maria UwU had an impromptu theorizing session last night with the topic being

“What are Wilson’s motives?”

We cooked up a hypothesis that I figured made the most sense. 

“Wilson’s trying to obtain Audrey’s powers.”

He seems to be acting sort of like a higher-up but doesn’t look like he has any powers of his own. He wanted the lost ones to bring Audrey to him (“bring her to me”, he didn’t say he wanted her gone or d3@d, he just wanted her as a whole), perhaps for the reason of harvesting her powers for his own gain? By putting her through the studio it could potentially enhance and test Audrey’s powers, and at the end Wilson could just extract it without doing the dirty work himself. He wants a dark revival, well Audrey’s glowy power could definitely bring a revival alright.

Maria pointed out that Audrey must’ve accidentally stumbled into Wilson doing his evil schemes, and that might unfortunately be how she does end up inside the machine in the first place (“A pretty girl like you shouldn’t be wandering around all by yourself”). By that we could possibly tie Porter in too, he might’ve been what Wilson intended to be Audrey in the first place, but failed. He’s implied to have powers of his own by his bio, perhaps he was one of the failed conduits for the “revival”, having powers too weak to be used. Maybe that’s why he still retains some of his humanity because of that. 

The dark revival’s meaning is still somewhat vague honestly, but whatever it is, seems like Audrey would be crucial to it.

Ah yes, antagonist putting protagonist through a series of events to at last earn what the protag has gained. I am eyeing you aggressively, TMA and Kagepro.

Constantly moving cycle theory (Bendy)

Here’s a Bendy theory. There’s something I wonder about a lot about the ink realm/cycle, which is its deterioration that spans across the games. In batim, the cycle was straightforward. Think a film reel constantly playing. It just kept looping, that was it. No one can break apart from the script (well I guess except the weird mysterious yellow messages that still has an ambiguous meaning). In batdr, Wilson can forcefully hop dimensions, stop it, mess with it etc etc, and by the end of it, when Audrey receives the book, she outright said that the cycle is leaking into the real world. So, say there’s like, a space between the cycle and the real world. And from the looks of it, a hole is gradually opening in between them.

Why? How? It definitely kickstarted from when Wilson began to hop dimensions, or at least after batim’s (god knows how many)’th cycle.

What if the Cycle was supposed to remain a cycle?

The Cycle runs on its own rules, what if one of them is that [it must be stimulating]. If we take Joey’s creation of the cycle in FTB as a reference for canon, he built this world like some mind-fucking hellscape memory lane, and the cycle idea was added later. All in all, he was going to add some kind of script to it later. The ink world operates that way, a story that starts, and ends, and starts again, with a definite storyline and script. But when someone deters off that script, stops time from moving forward, everything becomes stagnant, and begins to crumble. Maybe it’s built like something that should always be used/moving, and if it doesn’t, it’ll speed up the deterioration process. Maybe, it’s like a record that’s always meant to be playing, and if it stops, it’ll begin to break apart. That’ll add an interesting stake to Audrey. That trying to make the cycle better for everyone comes at a price— which is the ink world slowly eating into the real world. She needs to pick between keeping everyone inside or bringing everything out, including the horrors the real world may not be able to handle.

BATDR : Memory Joey and the Soulless Theory/Headcanons

Bendyposting time, headcanon/theory(ies..) : Memory Joey, soulless ink creatures, etc.

Thank you ORV for this. Thank you ORV for everything I’m about to do and say and for teaching me so many things. So you know how the basic principle of the ink/dark puddles is kinda “you need a soul to create a living thing”, but that seemed oddly retconned in batdr? I have a proposal of a headcanon- what if you don’t need a whole soul to create an ink creature? What if you can break apart, dissect a soul, sacrificing bits of personality or memories, and that would suffice enough to create a living ink being? Think of it like a plant’s budding, except the plant has to sacrifice a part of itself to generate the bud. This would explain why Joey’s personality would become more calm and tame if he kept expelling pieces of himself to create numerous ink children. And perhaps the dark puddles could do the same thing. Since it houses hundreds, thousands, who knows how many souls, maybe over time, the souls could lose just tiny pieces of itself (not enough to completely lose their identity), and those tiny pieces could construct beings with relatively low intelligence (like the spider looking venom things I forgot what they’re called). There is saying that’s very accurate to what I’m trying to say “Every artist leaves a piece of their soul in their work” by George Gershwin.

This brings me to Memory Joey. I know there’s a bit of debate over whether he’s lying or not, but how about this : what if memory Joey really isn’t sure whether or not to call himself the real Joey? Let’s say this : the “real” Joey died, but due to decades of working with the ink, “Joey” had been well incorporated into it. Something not like souls, but more like memories. His “soul”, if we choose to believe in the first theory/headcanon present above, was also scattered throughout the ink. In a way, Joey is in the ink, but it may or may not be everything Joey was, who can really tell? And if someone comes in, and reconstructs him, out of all those memories, those pieces and bits of his soul, would whatever come out still qualify as “Joey Drew”? Ship of Theseus sort of thing. If all the components of an object is replaced, is it still the same object? How would such a being answer that question? Especially someone like Joey Drew? I would imagine he’d initially call himself “Joey Drew” but eventually start calling himself “the memory of Joey Drew” because he doesn’t feel 100% complete and maybe need some verbal reassurance to detach himself from the lingering question of “is he Joey Drew”

But that’s just a theory! A bendy theory! Until next time! :]