Buddy Boris

Race: Anthropomorphic cartoon wolf

Career: Helper/Ally, Friend

Status: Transformed into a monster by Twisted Alice; Deceased

## General Description

### Physical Appearance

A tall, dog-like being with pie-cut eyes, Buddy Boris appears almost perfectly identical to the original cartoon character, other than having a taller and almost human-like appearance. Unlike Tom and most cartoon characters, the opening of Buddy Boris' pie eyes are always facing right, like Boris' eyes in the "*Sheep Songs!*" poster.

In *Bendy and the Ink Machine*, his texture looks cleaner while in *Boris and the Dark Survival* it features sketchier and has detailed lines.

### Personality

With his human mind completely swept away, Buddy Boris is completely mute, since he never spoke or made any kind of noise. As he and Henry explore the studio together, he is shown to be timid in nature whenever an enemy lurks nearby, most often seen when Ink Bendy prowls the halls. He is also shown to have a fear of darkness (likewise known as "nyctophobia"), which is seen if Henry walks too far away from him inside the dark hallways. However, Buddy Boris is far from mean-spirited, giving Henry a safe place to recover in his safehouse and helping him navigate the lower floors.

## Biography

### *Dreams Come to Life*

After Buddy Lewek was dragged down into the ink, he was later reborn as a Boris clone. When he was found by Joey Drew, he ran and disappeared into the building.

### *Boris and the Dark Survival*

Buddy Boris is the main protagonist of *Boris and the Dark Survival* as the game itself takes place before the events of *Bendy and the Ink Machine*. It's said that he's living in a dangerous world surviving on anything he could find and fearing the Ink Demon stalking his every move. The main goal is to collect six supplies needed by Buddy Boris from different floors and bring them back to the safehouse. After collecting the additional seven scraps found in the lockers, Buddy Boris uses them to create a picture to depict what he used to be.

### Boris Revealed

In *Chapter 2: The Old Song*, after narrowly escaping from Ink Bendy just after escaping Sammy's clutches, Henry enters the S3 vault and notices a can of Bacon Soup roll from around the corner out of view.

As Henry demands that he knows someone is in there and that whoever is there should show themselves, he is shocked to discover a seemingly living Boris, which is Buddy Boris, walking up from the hallway to meet him.

## Safe Haven

In *Chapter 3: Rise and Fall*, sometime after the conclusion of the previous chapter, Buddy Boris takes Henry to his safe house where he has apparently been living to escape Ink Bendy. After waking up, Henry makes Buddy Boris a bowl of bacon soup in exchange for the lever to open the main door, and the pair of them venture out into the studio.

## Navigating the Darkness

Entering the dark corridors, Henry calmly tells Buddy Boris not to be afraid while having the flashlight near him. Henry must keep close to Buddy Boris, otherwise, Buddy Boris will shiver in dread if Henry walks far away from him. As they navigate the hallway, Buddy Boris became puzzled while both himself and Henry heard running steps from someone. Finally reaching the end of the dark hallway, Buddy Boris crawls to the air vent for opening the gate to the Heavenly Toys area after borrowing a flashlight from Henry. Subsequently, they are briefly separated until Henry reaches the small area where the door leading to the toy storage is found after the "demon path" or "angel path".

## Work Together

Reuniting, at last, Henry slightly said that he was scared to death when he thought he would lose Buddy Boris during their separation and then ask if there is any way for defending themselves with if danger comes before taking the Gent pipe from him.

After passing the toy storage, Henry tells Buddy Boris to pull the lever from one hall next to Bendy's statue while Henry himself goes to attempt activating the other lever in order to open the main Level K area's door, but interrupted by the disfigured Butcher Gang enemy Piper. Once Piper has vanquished, Henry managed to pull the other lever along with Buddy Boris activating the first one together, opening the door to the next location.

## Meeting the Angel

Both enter the elevator as Buddy Boris accompanies Henry to Twisted Alice's inner sanctum on Level 9.

On Level 9, when the pair enters the flooded warehouse, Buddy Boris discovers a nearly identical copy of himself near the entrance, strapped down to a table and cut open, just like the one Henry found in the main studio. The warehouse has many of the Boris clones, along with dead members of the Butcher Gang. As Buddy Boris stares at "himself", Twisted Alice reveals that she used the clones of Boris to make herself "beautiful", using their insides to try and repair her broken state. The corpses left behind were simply the remains of anything she did not need. The nature of the death of all these clones with their insides torn out also hint at the one responsible for the death of the Boris clone on the upper floors.

## Waiting in the Elevator

Throughout the quests, Buddy Boris will wait inside of the elevator as Henry travels to the various floors to do tasks for Twisted Alice. Whenever Ink Bendy or any other aggravated enemies appear within a certain radius, Buddy Boris cowers in fear until they are defeated or disappear, or moving to a different floor with the elevator to flee from the enemies.

## Stolen Wolf

At the end, with all of Twisted Alice's quests accomplished, she double-crosses Henry after promising to let him escape, causing the elevator to plummet downwards. She screams that she wants Buddy Boris' insides to make herself beautiful, claiming that he is "the most perfect" one she's come across. The elevator crashes on Level S and knocks Henry out. As he comes to, Buddy Boris tries desperately to wake him up as Twisted Alice approaches from behind. Buddy Boris is then dragged into the darkness by Twisted Alice.

## Loss of a Friend

### *Main article: Brute Boris*

In *Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders*, Buddy Boris was captured by Twisted Alice and it was up to Henry to make his way and save him. Once reaching the entrance to the spiral stairway, Twisted Alice's voice remarks Henry about looking for Buddy Boris to rescue then told Henry deviously to hurry, because Buddy Boris was having "trouble staying in one piece".

After accomplishing the first Bendy Land minigame, Twisted Alice's voice assures Henry that Buddy Boris does not mind waiting for his rescue to arrive while Henry was focusing on playing minigames.

Henry has now successfully activated all of the switches to open the entrance to the Haunted House. Unfortunately, towards the end within the ballroom, Henry's mission of saving Buddy Boris' life was ultimately in vain, as Buddy Boris, now appearing as a massively monstrous version of himself named "**Brute Boris**", comes out of the darkness and throws the roller cart Henry was using away from him. Henry is forced to confront the monstrous Boris in a battle and kills him off at the end, ending the suffering for being used by the angel.

## References

1. ↑ *Dreams Come to Life* | Chapter 23 | Page 283-284
2. ↑ *Dreams Come to Life* | Chapter 24-25
3. ↑ "QUESTIONS ANSWERED #1! | Bendy and the Ink Machine" - 5:08
4. ↑ "*Now the important thing to know about Boris in "Chapter 3" is... Oops!! Sorry! Out of Twitter characters for this post! Maybe next time!! :P*" - theMeatly. July 12, 2017. Twitter.
5. ↑ "*So I wanted to add a new character to #BATIM, but @themeatly thought he was too "radical". SO here he is for all of you! This is Borkis, he's the chillest dude and ain't afraid of nothin!*" - Matt Goles. May 3, 2018. Twitter.
6. ↑ *Hmm... I wonder what Boris was doing the whole time before Henry showed up?*" - theMeatly. December 2, 2017. Twitter