Blood and Ink

Blood and Ink is a book written by Alexander Fletcher White, an author from Alabama. It is considered one of, if not *the*, classic WITEAT, and has been read three times on the channel. This page was compiled after the third reading, and references it.

## History

Alex and Stef were both into the Animaniacs, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Underdog fan-fiction communities. Alex took his fan-fiction and turned it into an full original book which was edited by his boyfriend at the time Fouad. He also started a Kickstarter for the book, asking for $30,000. The kickstarter failed with only $50 pledged, likely by the author. Despite this, he self published the book online, and Stef bought a copy for $30.

The story is memorable for its blatant mary sue main character, Blinko, who is a Toon god split from a superbeing which has both traits of "light and evil." Other major issues are the nonsensical plot, pointless characters, bizarre detours and non-sequiturs, cringeworthy songs, tons of telling instead of showing, and two blatant self-insert characters in Alex and Mike--literally the Author and his best friend at the time. In fact, Blinko is Mike's OC, originally a half-saiyan version of Wakko Warner. The story starts in third person, but transitions suddenly into first person from Alex's perspective on page 60. Despite having an editor, the book is also full of typos.

After reading part of the book, Stef sent Alex some criticisms of the story, and he revealed that despite "improving" over the course of writing the book, he apparently had no intention for any rewriting earlier segments, despite working on it for 5 years. After reading the completed book, she sent further critique, but after he continued pestering her, she eventually blocked him. This lead to the first WITEAT of the story in August of 2014. This was followed by a second reading, in 2016 during the development of RPaGa, which lead to the creation of three videos featuring the RPaGa cast making fun of the story:

1. Wander Won Punch
2. Purgatory
3. Blood and Comments

The third reading of the story was in 2022 for a Subtember incentive after a donation of $260 from a community member:

* Part 1
* Part 2

## Summary

Alex and his brother Mike arrive in a city populated by Toons and humans. Alex is known for getting into fights with random people on the street, and Mike is known for always being right. They have come to see the city's superhero Blinko, who can fly and is extremely powerful, and can also go Super Saiyan in a pinch. After they help save Blinko's wife Trudy and getting accosted by a mobster, Blinko gives Alex and Mike superpowers. They then gain more powers from ancient artifacts while defending a museum as their first mission as part of Blinko's superhero team, the "League of Junior Heroes." Blinko then gives them a secret base where Mike and Alex build their own laboratories, as they are also genius scientists.

The gang of criminals come together and meet Blinko's purged evil half, Bleeko, bent on the destruction of the universe. We stan. After explaining Blinko's backstory a few times, Blinko introduces Alex and Mike to the other superheroes at the Fortress of Might, an impressive sight. Bleeko uses his power to nuke half of a city, but is beaten by Blinko, though Alex gets utterly discombobulated in the crossfire. Mike then becomes king of the Wolf kingdom of Lobosia, but is challenged by Rogue, the deposed former king, but defeats him in a "dual" [sic] using the Full Moon League of Heroes Assault. Mike gains the magical sword Lunacaliber as his reward, and knights Alex and Blinko. Suddenly, Bleeko attacks the kingdom but is driven off.

They return and learn that Rancor dropped a gas bomb in the Fortress of Might, and Alex resolves to return the favor with some stink bombs. With the help of some of Master Sohi's dank tea, Blinko frees the toon children from Bleeko, but Blinko is drained of energy and disappears; everyone except Sohi is convinced he's dead. The next day, Blinko confronts Mike about Mike being his creator, but they quickly make up. We also learn that Bleeko still lives as a gas in an orb held prisoner by his former lackeys. After Mike marries a wolf, Alex and Clyde head into another dimension and meet Lightthorn, the good version of Blackthorn and fight the evil version of the League and kill alt-universe Bleeko.

Bleeko is resurrected and reveals that Mike was actually paid by his racist boss to create Blinko to kill all Toons, Mike only did it reluctantly after seeing a corpse. It's then revealed that Alex was also drawn by Mike to be his friend. Blinko and Alex are taken aback, but get over it once Bleeko defeats Mike. Blinko and Alex fight Bleeko, but Clyde is killed saving them from Bleeko's unstoppable attacks. Alex then kills Bleeko using a soul ball.

In the epilogue, Alex and Blinko head off to find Clyde out in the stars, while Mike stays behind, as his wife is expecting a litter of puppies.

## Running Jokes

The story spawned several running jokes in the community:

* The book.
* "ABOVE YA, DUM DUM!" (A "one liner" from Blinko during a fight with Bleeko)
* Spinning Spinning Spinning (Referencing one of the songs)
* Masta Sohi (From a paintshop based on a character from the story, Master Sohi, who gives out drugged tea and bizarre advice)

## Quotes from the Book

* "Do...do you really think Scrapona was telling the truth? That he has people on this side that...you know...could whack us off?" - Alex [14]
* "It is far worse when the bleeding toon has a look on his fface that makes you want to pack your bags, buy a one way ticket to a far off mountain, and eat nothing but soy fro the rest of your life" [65]
* "'Oh, they went someplace.' said Clyde as if he were talking about a lost pair of pants rather than a pair of brave brothers." [67]
* "I've seen things that have filled me with anger, joy, love, pride, and confusion. But when I saw the Lobosian palace for the first time, I was filled with something else; I was filled with awe..." [70]
* "...bah dragons. Dragons have always been inferior to wolves. They are common...insolent beasts with no minds." - Rogue [73]
* "No...It can't be. That was a legendary sword! Legendary swords don't just break in battle!" - Rogue [82]
* "He had never exactly been the bravest kid at the Inkementary School [sic] Perhaps it was the constant pranks being played on him by his fellow students. Perhaps it was just a feeling of inferiority at not feeling as funny as the others. But Theodore was still a good kid, sweet, loving and kind. He also had a brain that could crack a safe just by staring at it and thinking open thoughts." [86]
* "Lunaria took in a sharp intake of breath and for a moment could not speak..." [89]
* "Bleeko stepped into the light and his mouth widened into a fang filled grin that would make babies cry and suns fall." [91]
* "Fang could feel the power radiating off of this creature. It was not a good power. It felt sick and wrong somehow. Like power that had been placed on an oven burner and allowed to blacken." [91]
* "Somewhere in the universe a baby cried." [92]
* "...elsewhere a baby cried..." [99]
* "If you don't tell us, I'll EAT you, candy boy!" - Mike [110]
* "He could not risk being discovered by Blinko or his brothers before he had climaxed his power." [115]
* It is a far split off dimension where Bleeko resides, a world of his own creation full of madness and hate. And the parking is terrible." - Master Sohi [119]
* "Picture a void so empty that it can't even be called dark. In this void, pitch darkness would be as bright as the sun. A void so empty it can only contain nega-darkness, inside which no light can survive." [129]
* "Our tears did it. Don't you all understand? That's what the salt water is, our tears. We were crying for Blinko to come back and our love and sadness did it." - Alex [131]
* "Alright! Alright! I'll go back to the dumb cliche-ridden story. Just be quiet. And don't blame me when your readers show up and beat your own cliches over your head." - Clyde, to Alex (the author) [132]
* "Nothing was making any sense." [134]
* "This was the absence of anything, except Blinko of course. In short, it was dull. Extremely and horrifyingly dull." [135]
* "The secret to inter-dimensional travel is peanut butter and jelly? What?" [150]
* "I felt my brains leaking out of the top of my head." [161]
* "Well go ahead...HARNESS ME!" - Bleeko [166]
* "...even the deer began making...deer sounds." [167]
* "Inside Bleeko's room, he could sense the presence of his other half. He laughed liquidly [sic] to himself." [171]
* "His scrawny legs grew larger and thicker, huge veins rising like advancing soldiers in an alien kingdom." [171]
* "I'm talking about TOONS boy. Toons! They want to take over every job here at the studio, even the ones held by the humans. Eventually, even we will be out of the job. We'll both be replaced by those cackling nauseating, clowns!" - Bloot [181]
* "'What's the point...I might as well die." - Blinko [188]
* "Yes, you are all fools, for you persist in this folly that you call life. Something I will release you of which I will release you from soon." - Bleeko [193]
* "Many innocent lives had been lost and yet more miracle survivors would need to be searched for. But as they say...time heals all wounds." [197]

## Quotes from the Community

* "Is this another of those "What the hell are we reading?" streams?" - noomi1987
* "This is THE "What the hell are we reading"? stream." - Arkia, responding to noomi1987
* "He loved beating her more than beating life itself!" - Don0oduf
* "This man gets a middle finger from me, dude." - Don0oduf
* "Sunny had a whole song? Well I had a freakin' brain aneurysm and you don't see me gloating about it." - Don 0oduf
* "Yo sick, we're just drugging kids now." - Don 0oduf
* "Sorry Trudy I'm leaving you for a black hole." - Arkia
* "From what I can tell, this story is basically "Who Framed Son Goku" but even dumber than it sounds." - Stripeback
* "And yeah pretty much, Stripe. But also with wolf sex." - Don0oduf, responding to Stripeback
* "I think the depressing thing is that this isn't the worst thing we've read on WITEAT anymore." - Arkia

## Trivia

* The story features a blue bear and a character called Lunaria, proving the curse of PureZC will follow us forever.
* The word "worm" is used as an insult ad nauseum throughout the story.