I don’t know about you but when I saw the end of Chapter 4 I basically exploded internally
and spent the next week processing what the Boris happened. I neglected my interpersonal
relationships, I sulked in melancholy loneliness and developed several unhealthy habits…
all in an effort to understand this spoopy chapter. I mean, Alice stabs Alice but she’s
actually good Alice and she’s teamed up with Boris WHO HAS A BIONIC HAND (which Grant
neglected to mention what an idiot). But what do we DO with this information? And also you
can get a plunger. A plunger!!! Boy howdy I can’t stop sweating. Maybe I should get
that checked out. BUT NOT UNTIL I GET SOME ANSWERS!
Grant, in his story you didn’t not not know delved into a lot of interesting information.
He asked you to comment with anything he may have missed and like the mailman, ya’lls
delivered. Like ohmygod did you deliver!
During my smarty induced, sleep deprived, lonely and neurotic daze I combed through
every comment and combined it with my memory of every nook and cranny of Bendy Chapter
4 and the updated previous chapters. This was quite the ordeal people! I’m here to
fill in Grant’s gaps ;) and distill all this mumbo jumbo into an even clearer picture
of reality than was previously thought possible. Fear not, confused viewer. I’m here to make
sense of this goopy nonsense! What’s the deal with good Alice? Grant said she was Allison,
the girl who replaced Susie for the role of Alice Angel cause Joey think with his. But
is it true??? And what’s the deal with mecha Boris over here? Why did they kill Alice?
How did evil Alice make an evil Boris? Why did Bendy let us live even though he totally
knew we were there when he rekt the projectionist?? What’s with the pile of ink hearts? Why
is there a plunger??? I can’t take it anymore! We’re going in people! This is the TRUTH!
The Real Truth. OF BENDY AND THE INK MACHINE HIT IT
Good lord, this chapter was amazing. After the fetch quest BS that was Chapter 3, theMeatly
really needed to pop back with a banger...and boy did they! We were streaming Chapter 4
at 3PM Pacific Time on twitch.tv/treesicle and I got SHOOK!
Why the hell did I just say shook. When do you ever need to channel your inner bro…
I really don’t like what, now that I’m saying that out loud. Maybe we should just
cut that joke out.
But regardless you know this ending blew my mind so let’s start with that. A “not
evil” looking Alice Angel and a mecha-Boris. But who are these characters? Well let’s
start with the easy ones. Alice and...Alice. We’ve been introduced to the two people
who had the job of voicing Alice: Susie Campbell and Allison Pendle. Susie, based off her tapes,
progressively got crazier and crazier as she lost the favor of Joey Drew in favor of Allison
who, despite having no tapes of her own, seems to be pretty normal. At least in comparison
to Susie. And based on all of our confrontations with Evil Alice throughout the game thus far,
and considering Susie kinda sorta got off more than just a little bit to Joey calling
her Alice. It’s safe to assume her delusions, combined with the evil ink, morphed her into
the evil Alice Angel we see before us. I mean, hell, there’s even a painting in that final
room of an Alice Angel looking woman with an evil ink blob morphing her. Check and Mate.
But then who would be the yang to Susie Angel’s yin? Allison Pendle. And considering the game
data reveals to us that “good” Alice’s name is, in fact, Allison Angel...well...I
think that settles that.
Now, to Good Boris. As with Allison Angel, his ‘real’ name isn’t found in the game
itself, but within the games’ files. Thanks for the comments telling us about this everyone!
Good folks of the internet, allow me to introduce to you: Tom. But who is Tom’s real life
counterpart? The answer...is Thomas Connor. He first appears in new Chapter 1 complaining
about the godforesaken crummy pipes and spoopy ink machine. Then he appears twice in Chapter
3, once complaining about the crappiness of the elevator. And again trying to convince
Wally to stop being an idiot but Wally just pulls his whole “I’m outta here” crap.
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT!?! He wasn’t “outta here” quick enough. Because let’s take
another look at post-op Thomas at the end of Chapter 4. Looks just like a Boris clone.
Except…is that arm mechanical? Yup. Tomris is missing an arm. But what happened? Well
the giant arm in the Chapter 4 “now in production” trailer and the giant arm hanging above the
butcher gang in Bendy Land are both right arms, potentially even the same arm, considering
they’re both giant. And, well, Tom is missing his left arm, so it probably wasn’t Susie
Angel that took it. My best guess here is that our dumbass friend Wally tightened the
safety bolt instead of loosening it, blowing a bunch of the pipes around the studio causing
Thomas to lose an arm in the process and (potentially) killing Wally, and finally allowing him to
“get outta here”. Hehe.
But upon losing that left arm, Tom went to work getting a new one, taking the arm off
of the Bendy animatronic that we find near the Butcher Gang in Bendy Land in Chapter
4 and taking it for himself. TURNING HIM INTO SUPER BORIS! Or...just Tom. Huzzah! If you’re
wondering how human Tom became Boris Tom...I’ll touch on that in a bit.
But what the hell happened here? Well, (as you know) I’ve been doing a lot of thinking.
Well, not JUST me. Me, Grant, Tyler, Mike and I have been brainstorming and we’ve
come up with some ideas. Hell, I thought our Story You Never Knew on Chapter 4 killed it
- you should watch it after this if you haven’t. But the big thing this Chapter taught us is
the good versus evil battle that is happening within Joey Drew studios. It’s not just
us as the protagonist trying to escape Alice Angel, The Projectionist, Bendy and all their
evil minions. There’s another faction of characters that are battling the evil entities.
There’s an evil Boris. There’s a good Boris - with a mechanical arm and a name,
Tom. There’s an evil Alice Angel. There’s a good Alice Angel. There’s the mysterious,
havoc-wreaking entity that is Bendy. Some have even speculated that WE are a good Bendy.
We’ve never looked in the mirror have we?
So to dive into this, let’s make an outline for what we’ve learned here.
We start the game by the broken elevator where Evil Alice stole our good ol’ buddy Boris.
We meet a bunch of inky people who are quite...docile...and in a very sad state. Unlike most of the other
inky beings we’ve encountered thus far, the only one who seems even remotely dangerous
is just hitting his head on a wall. Over. And over. And over again.
We then discover Bendy Land, a glorious...theme park? Created by Benedict Cumberbach. Belmont
Piedmont. Bertrum Piedmont, an ego-maniac who put his own face inside a carnival octopus
ride. Next up is the Projectionist. A dudey dude
who gets a bit angry when we take a pokey poke at his pi le of ink hearts. But after
chasing us and trying to project our guts into another dimension, his head is ripped
off and body taken by none other than the ghostly entity Bendy himself. THAT SMILE IS
THE THING OF NIGHTMARES. WHOEVER THOUGHT CONSTANT SMILES MAKE CARTOON CHARCTERS SEEM MORE FRIENDLY
COULD NOT HAVE BEEN WRONGER. Wronger? Wringer? More wrong? Whatever.
We proceed and go for a little ride, meet evil Boris, do the dance and yada yada yada
meet good girl Alice. But let’s focus on evil Boris. Where did he come from??? To answer
that let’s look at what’s next on the agenda: it’s time we address those ink hearts
in the projectionists...area down there!
What - we’re not gonna talk about the pile of organs just sitting on a table? I don’t
know about you but the last time I saw a pile of organs casually sitting on a table the
walls were covered in cellophane and there was a sweaty guy in a mask asking what my
favorite part of the human body was. His was the appendix. He collected them. Weird guy
but we’re cool now. Anyway as a critical thinker myself, I have to wonder what these
ink hearts are for exactly. In the previous chapters we see Boris and pals strapped to
surgical tables with their chests ripped open to reveal an empty cavity where a heart used
to be. We know evil Alice harvested those hearts to make her so beautiful. Beauty is
subjective but idk Alice I’m not into it. Also in Chapter 3 Alice has us do her bidding
and retrieve 5 ink hearts from the projectionists other lair.
This leads me to two questions. One, why are these hearts always found with the projectionist?
And two what are these things for?? That’s actually the second time I asked that question
so lemme answer that first. We know Alice collected these things and we know these hearts
can only be extracted from a body that used to be human. These aren’t just organs that
formed from the ink, these are inkified human hearts that used to be part of human bodies
before said bodies were converted into inky cartoon characters to suit the needs of Alice!
If you’re wondering where these bodies came from, they used to be employees here at the
studio. Now they’re cartoon characters. This is how Thomas became Tomris! ...Boris
Tom...You get it. These employees’ modified bodies are strapped to these tables and their
souls are trapped in the ink. You can see their souls manifested into ink early in Chapter
4...crying and miserable and wanting to go home. Grant went into more detail about that
in the story you never knew, so let’s focus on these hearts. We know Alice has been collecting
them and we know she sicked evil, roided out Boris on us as the end of Chapter 4. Clearly
our no longer loveable Boris is no longer a standard “print” like the other ones.
There’s something different about him...somehow Alice breathed new life into Boris and made
him into a monstrosity that is custom made. He is no longer an off-the-shelf cartoon character
that the ink machine can just pump out...this Boris is a new, unique being. If we want to
know how Alice was able to create such a unique kind of life, we need look no further than
the ink hearts.
These hearts came from bodies made of flesh, from bodies that had life-force and so these
hearts contain within them the complexity and life-force that can catalyze new life
into existence. Alice Angel collected hearts to make herself “so beautiful”, yes but
she also did it to build a minion...a terrifying, unique one that mindlessly serves her and
has its own skills, attacks, rage, and strength that normal enemies do not. Of course, once
the heart is used to create new life, that life will dissolve like any standard enemy
does when it’s defeated. The flesh is no longer lasting...it has been used as a catalyst
for new life and it can do no more than that. This is why evil Boris dissolves instead of
sticking around like the dead employees and like evil Alice (I mean Susie).
So hopefully that explains what the hearts are for. But let’s not forget about that
other question...why is the Projectionist collecting them?? For now we can assume he’s
either trying to build his own army OR he’s trying to stash them away from Alice or Bendy
so they can’t be used for evil. At this point, we really don’t know what side the
Projectionist is on. He clearly hates us and Bendy clearly doesn’t like him, and Alice
didn’t like him either...because we basically stole the hearts in the Projectionts area
in Chapter 3 in order to serve her. The Projectionist is still a bit of a mystery to me...maybe
let me know down below what you think he’s here for. Up to you.
Personally I’m content with the secrets and explanations we’ve got in this video
so far...hopefully you are too. If you’re still not impressed I’ll go over them again.
We know from the character model in the game files that this mechanical-armed Boris is
Tom Connor and we have reason to believe he lost his arm in an inky explosion thanks to
Wally Franks not knowing how pipes work. Also Wally Franks died from that same explosion.
RIP you sassy janitor, you! He really did “get outta here”. Theeeen we know good
Alice Angel is actually Allison Pendle (also thanks to the game files). All of this tells
us there’s a clear battle between good and evil going on...we’ve got evil Alice, good
Alice, evil Boris, good Boris, and last but not least we now have a speculative understanding
of how exactly these ink hearts work and that they were used to mutate our happy pal Boris
into evil Boris. After playing through Chapter four and ALL the new and improved previous
chapters on our stream, reading your comments and racking my brain these were the answers
I could conjured up. Some hopefully that fills in some of Grants gaps and sprinkles upon
you the golden bits and pieces that together in their glittering, beautiful majesty make
up the truth. THE REAL TRUTH.
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