Ink Bendy

Beware The Ink Demon

Ink Demon

Figure of Ink

The Demon

> "There are so few rules to our world now... So little truths. But there is one rule we all know and respect down here. Beware the Ink Demon."— Twisted Alice telling Henry to watch out for the Ink Demon.  Bendy and the Ink Machine: Chapter 3
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**Ink Bendy** is the main antagonist of the Bendy Franchise, and a failed attempt at creating the studio's popular mascot Bendy in real life in an attempt to bring cartoon characters to reality by Joey Drew, who turned out defective along with several other physical cartoon characters due to lacking a soul. A demon-like entity of the Cycle, Ink Bendy is a large threat to anyone in this ink world, constantly pursuing them down and attempting to kill them whenever they are caught in his proximity.

As a failed recreation of Bendy, his tall, lanky physique, skinny with a small and big hand, along with his melted appearance, make him vastly different from his original cartoon counterpart.

## Bestiary

### Physical Description

Ink Bendy has a tall, malformed figure, with skin made of black ink resembling tar. His head highly resembles that of the original Bendy, but the top area of his head appears melted, obscuring his eyes. His horns are slightly more curved to bear a shape like a deformed crescent moon, being able to articulate similarly to animal ears. His toothy, Cheshire grin, with sketch-like shadings, is shown to vibrate. His spine appears slightly crooked or curved, similar to the spinal condition scoliosis. His bowtie is also slightly in place.

He has a slightly-hunched back, which induces endless wisps of blackish smoke, also sport spiky spines for demonic features. Ink streams down from him whenever Ink Bendy is running, idling, or walking, making it hard to see him. His left arm is slightly longer than his right, which looks thinner and less human. On his left hand, he wears an oversized sepia glove with four fingers, though it does not sport two buttons like the original Bendy, while his right hand is much smaller and more human-like, with five fingers. His feet are also mismatched: His right foot faintly resembles that of a human, while the left is just a diseased-like stump, which gives him a limp. ( due to Buddy cutting it off in Dreams Come To Life)He also wears a drooping bowtie close on the middle of his chest, appearing almost identical to Bendy's except being larger, and is slightly tilted to his left to give him a misshapen appearance.

In *Bendy and the Ink Machine* and *Boris and the Dark Survival*, Ink Bendy bears a skeleton-like appearance and has only one set of eight teeth, similar to his original counterpart.

In *Bendy and the Dark Revival*, revealed on a Hot Topic T-shirt prior to the game's release, Ink Bendy's head design is slightly different: His long, curved horns are symmetrical and smoother, while his grin is wider, and has a full set of teeth with black gums. His bowtie is also covered in ink

### Behavior

Ink Bendy is a failed result to create Bendy as a physical, living being; he has no soul, which could explain his murderous behavior, and as such, he has no proper emotions. Additionally, he never learned how to socialize due to the workers of the studio locking him up on Joey Drew's orders, preventing him from socializing with anyone or anything. Being locked up may have also caused him to develop his murderous tendencies, as he was non-hostile before he was incarcerated in the infirmiary. Lacking any semblance of human intelligence, he is also incapable of speaking, only making noise through raspy breathing, moans, and grunts.

Ink Bendy has an unnatural ability is manipulate ink at will, such as flooding the studio with ink, control and cover areas with ink-masses to make or make ink rain from the ceiling whenever he appears. These ink-like masses not only to make the areas darker, it also can kill creatures such as the Butcher Gang. He can come out in anyhere by appearing from portals made of ink on the wall. He also "inherited" a little part of the transmustation ability from the special ink, allow him turn into any ink form that more powerful and more evil than himself like his bigger, larger, stronger, and more fearsome form, known as Beast Bendy. In the *Dream Come To Live* novel, Ink Bendy can absorp ink around to regenerate any body part he lost.

Since Ink Bendy's eyes are completely covered with ink, it makes sense that he would be blind during the projectonist fight. He probobly heard the noise, and heard Henrys breathing. In the vent he heard Henrys loud footsteps. so he is blind unlike his beast form, who obviously saw Henry.

In *Chapter 3: Rise and Fall*, Ink Bendy is shown to be fairly narcissistic. He heavily dislikes it when the Bendy cutouts are destroyed, as it will make him spawn and hunt down whoever does so, according to Twisted Alice. He will even react to the broken pieces of the cutouts upon discovering them. If he does, he will look around for whoever caused the cutout to break, although it is noted that breaking the cutouts in *Chapter 2: The Old Song* will not make him spawn.

## History

### Birth of the Demon

Around the unknown date, after the Ink Machine was purchased, Ink Bendy was created from the machine as a failed attempt to bring Bendy to reality. While he had no soul, Ink Bendy was seemingly harmless and made no attempt to hurt anyone other than merely wandering around the studio, though still literally turned out as unearthly, according to Thomas Connor.

Due to his unnatural appearance and behavior, Joey Drew, after seeing the demon roaming around Thomas' office, demanded Thomas lock the Ink Demon out.

### The Demon's Release

In Summer 1946, Ink Bendy was unleased after Buddy hears him sadly moaning and crying out. When Buddy unlocks the door and enters the room, Ink Bendy pushes Buddy down before escaping and running out.

Ink Bendy is revealed to be the entity described by Sammy Lawrence during the "ritual". Ink Bendy chases Buddy and Dot around the studio. He soon appears again on the stage. Instead of killing Jacob, Ink Bendy instead rips a dead Dave's arm out of its socket. Buddy and Dot confront Ink Bendy, though he grabs Dot and squeezes her hard, but not enough to kill her. Shortly after, Buddy rescues Dot from the ink demon’s clutches and Dot cuts off one of his legs. Soon after, he was dropped into an ink-filled trapdoor, seemingly killing him. When Buddy is about to leave, Ink Bendy catches Buddy off-guard and pulls him into the trapdoor where he bobs his head above the ink long enough to kill Buddy by using his sharp teeth to dissect and then drown Buddy, shortly after a vain attempt by Dot to rescue him.

## Disclaimer

> **Ink Bendy is not mine, it belongs to TheMeatly. Half of the things I wrote in here are made up by me CartoonBendyPlayz. (But it’s still very very good if I do say so myself 😁😁😁)**
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## Trivia

### Development

* Ink Bendy was created for *Bendy and the Ink Machine* under earlier concept development for the earliest prototype to subsequent updates until *Chapter 4*. Ink Bendy went through many redesigns and all were archived in the game's archive chapter.

* When *Chapter 1* started its development, the very first "**concept**" of Bendy resembled his original cartoon form with a large, floating head sporting a wide, toothy mouth going vertically around his head, originally designed by theMeatly. His glove hands shared similarly to the original Bendy's early glove design, with three darts each, and his face looks identical to Bendy, but without his grin. He would split his head in half to reveal a terrifying, leech-like mouth. He also supposed to be smaller in the game, but his model in the Archives is almost at Henry's exact height. This design was entirely changed later on and was recycled for the Boris clone's model with a few noticeable changes. The texture file for his face and gloves can be even found in the first prototype's game files, as this version has never appeared in any version of the game and can only be seen in the Archives

* From *Chapter 1*'s early prototype before *Chapter 2*, Ink Bendy's "**alpha**" design is entirely different comparing to his future redesigned builds, having a large body and lack of arms and legs. The shape of his head is very human-like, squarish instead of the later circular one, and sports a smaller grin. His horns are more spread out instead of curved, while his bowtie has a nearly same model as his concept version. He also appears at the same height as Henry. The model was originally designed by theMeatly before hiring Pascal Cleroux to redesign the model. This version is jokingly referred to as “bird poop with a smile” by the development team. It is noted that the alpha Ink Bendy's bowtie in the Archives chapter is missing as a development oversight.

* His concept artwork shows that Ink Bendy's "alpha" form was intended to have fully developed arms and legs but scrapped likely due to time constraints. He also wore both gloves, each sporting two buttons.

* For *Chapters 2* and *3*'s release prior to *Chapter 4* coming out, Ink Bendy's "**beta**" design almost resembles his final build. His body bears a less skeletal appearance, and his left glove hand sported two buttons like the original Bendy, drenched in ink with a humanized pinkie-finger poking out of the side. His left foot was much more puddle-like and flatter, and his grin has a less amount of details. He lacked visible hump spines, and his right human hand was partly painted with white colors. His bow tie is slightly rotated to his right for the same reason it is shifted.

* Until the release of *Chapter 3: Rise and Fall*, Ink Bendy completely lacked the ability to cause ink spreading in areas from his surroundings. From *Chapter 3*'s update where this ability was first introduced, the early version of his ink spreads were simple in design and closely resembled cobwebs. Before October 5 2017, Ink Bendy didn't have a ''wet'' effect, and wasn't shiny or didn't reflect any light. After the patch, Ink Bendy got a ''wet'' effect, and became much more shiny and actually reflects light.