#batim ch5 spoilers

[hntrgurl13]

Tom and Henry’s relationship in Chapter 5 basically...

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[licoriceblackaliceangel]

This is the ending of ch5 right.

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[slightlyconfusedbaconsoup]

Am I the only one that doesn't want the entirety of BATIM to just be some story Joey told to some kid? Because it kinda reminds me of the whole "It was all just a dream"-trope. It's boring and cheap. :/

I much prefer the Time Loop-theory over this one.

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[crookedhalc]

Oh, you didn’t ask for my theories? You’re getting them anyway!

Joey Drew IS (still) the Ink Demon.

Well, at least partially. Honestly; like everyone else, I was confused as all hell at the finale. However, after thinking it over? It makes sense that Bendy/The Ink Demon is connected to Joey spiritually.As we all know, the huge theory up until now was that Joey Drew himself was Bendy. To a degree, it still makes sense, seeing as a sacrifice is still required to summon a demon or animate a toon. Meeting Joey’s modern, human form at the end of ch5 threw most of us for a spin, though. Personally, I believe that the human Joey we saw was all in Henry’s mind; it was a mere hallucination and construct, giving Henry and us an elaboration on what Joey’s intentions were regarding the letter he sent and what he actually meant behind the simple, cryptic “Come visit the workshop... There’s something I want to show you”.Joey had written Henry to lure him into the studio. He knew only Henry could take down Bendy, just as Henry was the only one that could have kept Joey on the right track and preventing his twisted, downward spiral if he had left. We know this to be true due to Joey himself stating so:

Also... Remember this?Well, they confirmed that it belonged to Joey. The fandom took Bendy’s leg deformity and limp as proof of he being his. Hey, we weren’t wrong. Still, we now have more proof to back that theory up further. Look at the legs on Bendy’s final form. Small, seemingly fragile, possibly even useless. Clearly, his strength would come from the upper half of his body. Funny... It’s almost as if he would need a wheelchair.  The Ink Demon was, or still is, Joey Drew to some degree. Perhaps cheating death and living forever wasn’t worth it after all, when you have to spend it in an eternal hell. tdlr; The Ink Demon holds part of Joey’s soul or spirit and is the representation of his greedy, obsessive and evil traits of his past. The Joey that wrote Henry the note years later was his remorseful half that wants Henry to kill -- and finally stop -- the monster he had created as well as became. Henry was the only one that could have kept Joey on the right track in the past, so Joey knew it had to be Henry to take the demon down. 

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[problematictart]

unpopular batim theory

the hidden messages are.........not written by henry

#at least not all of them #like some of them do make sense from his perspective! #some of it seems kinda odd for him to write though? #my main one here is the You Draw Beautifully #like im all for henry #feelin positive abt his art bc he does!!! he does draw beautifully! #but it just seems. odd? for him to leave that message for himself? #also the cute stars covering the walls #there's no way henry would express that cutely in CERTAIN DANGER #well he might #okay that one you could argue for #it's just. a little odd imo #batim #bendy and the ink machine #bendy chapter 5 #chapter 5 spoilers #batim ch5 spoilers

[a-vast-horizon]

so I made a playlist based off the ending of Bendy and the Ink Machine

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[esthyradler]

so,uh... new take on that undertale crossover that no one wanted to consider?

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[aceofintuition]

First Impressions of Chapter 5

I’ve spent roughly two and a half to three hours now pulling my thoughts together following finishing Chapter 3. I’ve long said that Bendy and the Ink Machine is my favorite game; I became very enamoured of it shortly after joining the fandom after the release of Chapter 2. But following Chapter 5, and thinking over the core concepts of this game, I can safely say that all my expectations were blown out of the water. This has gone beyond one of my favorite games--it is one of my favorite stories. I think it’s a work of art. And here, approaching 6 AM, i’m going to attempt to lay out some of why I feel this way, from my perspective as a soon-to-graduate fine arts student in college.

Forgive me if it’s a bit scatterbrained; I have yet to revisit Chapter 5 and form more cohesive thoughts. It’s way past my bedtime but I just need to have a go at voicing my thoughts!

Bendy and the Ink Machine is a self-aware story. It is a self-aware story in multiple ways. It is a story that has crafted a fiction around the idea of fiction itself, and explores what it means to tell fiction. It’s a story about the relationship of creators to their creations, and a beautiful depiction of how a creator and their creation are not parent-child but rather closer to an ouroboros, or a yin-yang. Two halves of something that are always influencing each other. And in this case, these two halves are the very title itself.

Bendy

and the Ink Machine.

This game has structured itself level upon level around the idea of these two halves, creators and creations. Every single piece in this game I suspect could be traced back to either a creator or a creation, with quite a few overlapping into both categories. And it all comes back to the two titular characters, which serve as symbols for creator and creation.

So let’s start with Bendy.

Or rather, Henry.

First of all, the theory that Henry is perfect Bendy is right. The Player’s Henry is perfect Bendy, metaphorically speaking. And what I mean by that is that the story of the majority of Bendy and the Ink Machine--it’s his episode. It’s his book, it’s his story. Every time you replay and go back to the beginning, you are “rewinding” the tape, so to speak, returning to page 1. Henry is a cartoon character who is aware of his existence as a cartoon character, one that is fundamentally different from ours--he only exists in that loop of time, a timespace which is fundamentally different from our own. One where instead of a infinite thing that never moves backwards or forwards, time is instead a set definition. Henry is literally each frame of the game, he is a creation who is aware of his own creation. From your perspective, that of the person playing, Henry is the star of the show, the lead man, the protagonist. Henry. is. Bendy. Henry has always been Bendy, at the very least in the sense of a metaphor, a foil.

Whether that applies in appearance or not is up to you to choose.

Which is why the game is titled Bendy and the Ink Machine, because it’s about Henry, as told through the metaphor of Bendy. Bendy in turn exists as a symbol for the idea of the creator. Which brings me to my other point. The Ink Machine. The Ink Machine is both literally the studio, in that its pipes are built into the very fabric of the building, and a metaphor for the studio as a concept. That’s what studios are, in reality, are just ink machines. As in machines composed of a multitude of different pieces that spit out drawings--ink. The Ink Machine is a metaphor for the studio. The studio is a metaphor for the process of creation itself. But so they are also inversed: after all, Bendy is the creation of the Ink Machine, which is technically his creator.  So this story has in every detail it has ever put together been a story about the relationship of creators and their creations, and the way these two halves respond to each other. And that’s really what it’s about. Alongside one third element:

The audience.

See, in being a video game, Bendy and the Ink Machine uniquely engages you, the audience, as part of this too. It’s you making the choice to send Henry through his paces again. You pushing him forward, you engaging his story. I don’t mean that the player is ever spoken to directly in the dialogue (to Henry, yes, to you behind the screen, no) but rather that in acknowledging itself as a work of fiction, it also recognizes that it has an audience. And it chooses to allow the audience to contribute to the story, rather than shut them out.

In fact, every aspect of this story presents itself as knowing that it’s under your interpretation, and that’s what I love about it. It embraces the audience, the fans’ response as part of the story itself. It takes itself and leaves itself ambiguous specifically *so* you can finish it in the way that you choose. That’s why so many things are left up in the air. You, the viewer, can step in and choose to fill in those gaps the way you like. You can join Henry and Joey as a Creator, because your understanding of the story contributes to its creation. And whatever you choose will be right, for you, the viewer, and that’s all that matters.

 And in the way that this story functions, everything that you all, the fans create, is an extension of this. An extension of what it means to have the power to create. Every single interpretation is valid. You can write whatever you want to fill in the cracks and that’s alright. In fact, I’d even say that ambiguity is crucial to Bendy’s story, because it makes you fill in the gaps. It wants you to fill in the gaps. It wants you to contribute your voice. You can see this as a real hell that Henry is suffering through. You can see this story as a look at life from the perspective of a cartoon character. You can see this as a fiction within a fiction, crafted by Joey and perhaps based on his experiences. You can see it as all of those, or none at all, or something else entirely. It can be a horror story for thousands of employees or it can be a happily ever after if you want to and it’s all...up to you. And it all works, because fiction is limitless, and the game--the game’s story--knows that it’s fiction.

I have been asked, in turn, what this means for fanon. And my interpretation is this: Bendy and the Ink Machine embraces it. That’s the beauty of all the ambiguity for me. It’s that everyone can fit their narratives in somewhere, if you want to. Because what it does is embraces the way everyone understands a story differently, and when you create an AU, that’s what you’re doing. It embraces and accepts you, as a creator. Everything has the possibility to be a story under Joey Drew Studios, because that’s the thing they all have in common. They’re all...stories. Because Joey Drew Studios is about the passion of creating, and that’s what you do. That’s why the Meatly and co list the fans and the community as their biggest support so often. That’s why the chapters are dead cheap, that’s why chapter 5 was free to everyone who bought the previous, that’s why they put fanart and fan music into the game, that’s why they animated from that fanart to bring things to life.  That’s what it wants to encourage--and it wants to encourage you to do the same. To love not just your own take but also marvel at the hundreds of different interpretations of everyone else. To be kind to each other, as creators. 

This is a story about what it means to be a creator, told through a creation.

This is a love letter about what it means to create, about what it feels like to put your heart and soul into your work, for better or for worse, a love letter to the beauty of fiction itself.

It’s a story about understanding the power that you wield as a creator.

How you can use it and how it changes you as a result.

It’s a game about what it means to write your own story.

And to help you understand that, it offers you its own story to finish first.

A gift, from one creator to another. A work of art.

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[urjha]

The voice at the end of BATIM ch5 is... (SPOILER!)

Henry’s voice. I think that he is Joey’s nephew. I read some comments where people said it is the voice of a girl, but I think it’s Henry’s voice when he was young. Maybe Henry even inspired Joey to make cartoons!

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[packook]

I hadn’t seen anyone else post this yet but I found Chester from Nightmare Run in Chapter 5.

He’s a little inky but I’m pretty sure that’s him. I’m so excited that they added something Nightmare Run to the main game. And also I wonder if there are other characters hidden around that we haven’t found yet.

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[instrumentsofcyanide-archive]

Okay,   I've   said   this   a   few   times   before   but   considering   how   close   it   is   to   the   release   date   of   BATIM   CH5,   I'll   say   it   one   more   time.

Tomorrow,   I'm   getting   two   wisdom   teeth   pulled   out.   I'm   probably   going   to   try   to   keep   off   Tumblr   and   remain   on   discord   that   day   because   I   can't   guarantee   I'll   be   in   the   right   state   of   mind   (   as   when   my   friend   got   hers   pulled   out   years   back,   one   of   the   first   things   she   did   was   text   me   happy   soup   day   ).   Mutuals   are   definitely   free   to   ask   for   my   discord   though   !

I'll   PROBABLY   watch   an   LP   of   BATIM   CH5   once   it   comes   out   since   the   friend   who   I   watch   it   with   isn't   off   until   Sunday   and   given   this   is   the   final   chapter,   it's   DEFINITELY   a   bigger   deal   to   not   be   spoiled   unlike   when   CH4   or   any   of   the   other   chapters   came   out.   

After   CH5   comes   out,   I'm   going   to   try   and   integrate   whatever   CH5   brings   into   Bendy's   story.   I'm   probably   going   to   stick   as   close   to   canon   I   can   though   with   only   small   divergences   UNLESS   CH5   brings   some that   that   completely   destroys   my   blog   like   BENDY   BEING   JOEY   or   BENDY   BEING   WALLY   or   idk,   SOMETHING.   I   may   shitpost   or   something   but   until   the   new   blog   is   up   (   which   I'm   hoping   will   be   a   week   after   release   or   something   ), I'll tag the hell out of spoilers.  

#✟ · OOC * . ᵞᵒᵘ ᵖᵃᶤᶰᵗ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˡᵈ / ᴵ'ˡˡ ᵖˡᵃʸ ᵐʸ ᵐᵉˡᵒᵈᶤᵉˢᵎ

[hntrgurl13]

Happy Halloween!

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[girlwiththegreenhat]

anyway time to ramble, it scares me that those achievements are already on steam. (no spoilers ahead for anyone wondering)

how close are they to being done with ch5?? how hard have the poor devs been working?? what kinda crazy-ass deadlines are they on, and why tf would they leak those achievements with release so far away? unless its not far away, though i hope it is, because BATIM needs to pull Some Crazy Shit to have a satisfactory ending (imo) and i dont think they can hit that in only two or three months of devtime. plus, this is the last chapter, once it’s over... shit’s done man. that’s it, game over. literally. and i dont want this to be over already ; w ;

point is im getting nervous. Very Nervous. and i am Not Ready.

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[slightlyconfusedbaconsoup]

This ending is so confusing wha-

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[fictionkinfessionsarchived]

/batim ch5 spoilers kinda/ Ah, son of a bitch. Every time I catch wind of a character stuck in a time loop I catch all these feelings. Here’s to all my old coworkers. That sure was fucked up, huh? - Henry Stein 🎞🖋

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[a-vast-horizon]

Tag your Bendy Chapter 5 Spoilers

hey yall! please tag your bendy spoilers! i’m hoping to be able to play it right away but might be stuck waiting for a playthrough to watch and if one of you fuckers spoils me ill flip a table

I’ll be tagging chapter 5 spoilers with all the following (courtesy of xkit quicktags):

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