BORIS AND THE INK MACHINE:A Spin Wheel AU

BORIS AND THE INK MACHINE:A spin wheel AU

“Danganronpa but the wheel decides their fate” videos began to show up on my recommends again, and I had a funny idea if I literally grab every single Bendy character, throw them into a wheel, and then spin to replace each character with what the wheel decides. Suffice to say, it turned out very cursed, but also makes sense at the same time. (Also I separated certain categories of characters from each other, such as multiple enemies like Lost Ones from stand-alone enemies like Sammy Lawrence. As funny as it’ll be I don’t think having an army of Projectionists or Sammies would make a lot of sense)

Warning : spoiler for the entirety of batim and a lot of writing under the cut, beware!

Welcome to Boris and The Ink Machine!

Where good ol’ Joey Drew gets a letter from his old business partner, Abby Lambert, to come visit the old workshop! But unfortunately for Joey as a hellish version of Boris, our lovely main cartoon character, who broke loose courtesy of the cursed ink machine, sends Joey down into the pits of the studio! Oh look, what’s this? It’s the GENT wing! Joey unfortunately runs into his old friend, head of GENT, Alan Gray! Now worshipping Boris and claiming he can set them free by sacrificing Joey. As Joey runs for his life he struggles in the department as he’s chased down by ferocious strikers and there’s also Swollen Wally to make things even more difficult! Luckily Boris shows back up just in the nick of time to allow Joey to escape! 

Suddenly, he runs into CHARLEY!! A room he had worked alongside Boris before, standing, breathing right in front of his eyes! Charley takes Joey in and they start living together within the safety of Charley’s safe house! A book on Charley’s table tells a story about a guy named “Jacob” hmm, sure, not ominous at all! They decide to venture on into the studio and meets Heavenly Toys, where a twisted caricature of another lovable toon, Bendy, screams for revenge! Searching deeper into the studio reveals that this Bendy is none other than Nathan Arch Jr/Wilson, the former voice actor of Bendy!

The little devil tricks Joey into doing a ton of chores, where our brave animator has to fight of hoards of fishers, lost ones and strikers, and also avoiding the terrifying grip of Jane Todd, a former artist turned into a feral monster. Not only that, Boris can also apparently hear every sound he makes! Unfortunately this all reveals to be a facade set up by Nathan/Bendy who kidnaps Charley and takes him hostage. Joey rushes to save his friend, but no task comes without its difficulties!

Joey is forced to face the former employees now seeking revenge in the animation department, namely Dave the former head of animation. Besides that Joey is also forced to prove his stealth by sneaking past the horrifying Pipers, Strikers and Lost ones once again! But once Joey reaches Bendy, this all proves to be for naught as Charley has already been turned into a Frankenstein-like monster by Bendy! Joey is forced to put his friend out of misery, and as Bendy nearly attacks Joey, another pair of perfect toons show up to save him in time!

Look there! It’s Angus Newman the perfect Bendy and Lacie Benton, another perfect Charley! The two locks Joey up as they do not trust him yet, but one day abandons him as Boris shows up for another attack! Joey quickly breaks out of his prison with the use of his shiny, new seeing tool given to him by Angus the Bendy. Joey eventually reaches the lost Bendy Land, where Alan Gray shows up again, proving he survived earlier, and proceeds to try to take out Joey again, claiming he lied to him. Joey narrowly avoids his demise as Lacie the Charley takes Alan out in the nick of time.

A large fight breaks out between them and the searchers and pipers who had been kept at bay by Alan! Fortunately, they survive, and journey back into the depths of the studio together, eventually reaching the ink machine chamber, where Joey is forced to face off against Beast Boris! Joey escapes and vanquishes the beast by using a reel labeled “The End” left there by his former business partner, Abby, once again. This all turns out to be a time loop they can’t escape from! Will Joey ever find his freedom?

Thomas Connor and Alan Gray

I wondered if Tom was extra favored by Alan Gray (CEO of GENT). I mean, GENT before Thomas started making the ink machine was just a usual contracting firm, right? But after Thomas made the ink machine, suddenly the entire attention is directed to that, and only that. Heck, Alan went measures to make sure the experiments continued, and it was known well, and known wide, in contrast to Joey being very cagey about them and gaslighting Thomas every turn he could with the ink machine, while Alan is just like- absolutely astonished by it and is absolutely willing to do anything to the point that GENT became nothing more than an unethical experimentation company. Alan could’ve also easily tipped Joey to bankruptcy, which he probably did- by the looks of it, considering he funded a lot of it, and probably just decided Joey wasn’t gonna succeed with these experiments anytime soon and took matters into his own hands.

my brain just realized the difference between JDS and Gent’s ink experiments : JDS leans towards cult or religious symbolism while gent goes full on science.

I wonder what kind of experiments Thomas had to oversee being the bridge between the two companies.

Thomas spinning in the microwave of Bailey’s brain : 🧍

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My Mistakes (BATIM/BATDR)

What happens when a man makes a machine that makes a monster?

A monster that not even the darkest fairy tales could come up with. Man made. Not an inch of flesh or blood in sight: a collection of teeth, ink and a man’s mistakes

My mistakes.

A machine ahead of its time, a creation unlike anything made before, perfect yet flawed in so many ways. It calls to me, like it did to so many of the others, a shiny black ooze leaking from its nozzle; a stain on the ground, a stain in our hearts, reminding us of the mistakes we made. Of the mistakes I made.

It wasn’t my fault. It wasn’t my fault. Was it?

We were creators, inventors, scientists, repairmen. We created and repaired, making machines under the blaze of the lights in the Atlantic City sky, cocooned by the noise of the city. This is where we came from, this is where we made it. This is where I’ll fix it.

A thick black liquid oozes and leaks, dripping and flowing, running through the pipes in the walls, leaking through the cracks in the ceiling, finding its way into us, into our bodies, into our minds and heads, our heart and soul, one and the same, connected through the pipes, a steel, beating drum playing in our heads like a rhythm that we need to dance along to. 

I should destroy it; I really need to destroy it, yet something stops me- a feeling of unease, a feeling of conflict- I can’t destroy it yet. I should, before it hurts and kills more people, before it spreads and infects, but something stops me. My creation. It’s like a child. You can’t abandon a child.

I’m sorry. I’m so sorry, Allison.

An angel, she was. My angel, a light in the darkness and I lost her too. I still hear her heavenly voice singing to me, pulling my hand and keeping my head above the waves, except the wave isn’t water, it’s ink and then it’s not ink but blood and the blood on my hands matches the blood on his, the lives on my slate weighing me down dragging me down, the lives taken by a machine of my own making, a creation made by my hands my skills his ideas and suddenly, we don’t know who to blame.

What did I create?

An angel, a demon, a wolf.

Three characters dancing on the stage, happy little characters, not a worry in sight. So many choices hide behind their piecut eyes. 

Betrayal The demon

Jealousy The angel

Fear and guilt The wolf

Each played a part, crucial to survive. Each played a part, a reason for their demise. He pulled the strings and pulled us along, puppets on the stage being played like a violin, being swayed by his charm to do things that we shouldn’t.

To create things that we shouldn’t.

What happens when a man creates a machine that creates a monster? That’s something I could tell you, something that I know well. The man loses everything.

I dare you to do this with Thomas Connor

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