He will set us free...
The creator lied to us….
It’s time to believe….There’s many messages within the hallowed halls of Bendy’s walls.
Ink hastily smeared upon wood, depicting a message of fear and hate, of loss and sadness.
We see these words as we travel through the studio, they act as warnings of the ink demon
further ahead.
But let me ask you this, have you thought about the stories these messages tell?
Is there more going on than just an ink demon on the loose?
For the first three chapters we didn’t have an answer to that question, only speculation
and possibilities, but with the release of Chapter 4, new emotion has been breathed back
into these dried markings on the walls.
And combined, they create a message you may not have realized was in front of you from
the very beginning.
These scrawlings tell more than just the story of bendy, they tie into a larger idea, an
often passed over thought.
So join me on a journey of sorrow, through a story of stains that will never come out
no matter what Billy Mays might say.
The true message behind Bendy and the Ink Machine doesn’t come from Bendy, or Alice,
or any main character, but from the people who wrote these warning for us to find.
Get ready to tie this game into our own everyday lives and become familiar with an underlying
theme of life itself.
So let us venture forward together, and bring forth a horrifying yet beautiful idea within
Bendy and the Ink Machine, an idea that once you understand it, will open your eyes not
just to this game, but your own mind.
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BATIM is one hell of a puzzling game, we’ve been uncertain of what exactly is going on
throughout the story the entire time.
At first all we knew was that this printer made an ink monster who wants to kill us,
and that was really the whole game up until chapter 4.
I mean, the game hasn’t changed, in that respect, but there’s more to the story now,
more characters, more happenings more casualties.
I’m mostly speaking of the ink people.
The community of living ink that we find crowded into a single room despite sharing a studio
that seems to just go on and on forever.
But prior to Chapter 4, we only knew about cartoons that came to life through the ink,
we speculated that these monsters, specifically Alice Angel, were actually people from the
studio, people that we heard on the tapes throughout the game.
Now we have definitive proof of that concept with the appearance of good Alice.
But bad Alice, Susie Campbell that is, may actually have told us more than we could have
possibly realized before Chapter 4.
We merely needed this new chapter to put her words into context, but we’ll get to her
words in a minute.
This chapter introduces us to the ink people, a room full of employees, scared, lonely innocents
who have been taken by the ink and changed into living ink monstrosities.
You can not only see, but feel the difference in these people from the more cartoonish entities
like Bendy or Alice.
It’s a palpable difference.
They are sad, scared, and some seem to be slowly losing their minds - “I just want
to go home” Some seem to have lost all hope.
These people are the untold stories of Bendy and the Ink Machine.
The people who got caught in the middle, who lost their lives and their humanity to the
ink.
But there’s something about them that no one has talked about as of yet.
We touched on it in Ryan’s Real Truth, but no one has done a deep dive into the collective
consciousness that comes with being taken over by the ink.
Incase you’re unsure of what I’m referring to, let’s rewind for a minute and play a
clip from chapter 3 when Alice goes into her monologue: “It could have touched me, it
could have pulled me back.
Do you know what’s like?
Living in the dark puddles?
It’s a buzzing, screaming well of voices!
Bits of your mind, swimming...like...like fish in a bowl!”
As I said, Ryan touched on this strange collective consciousness that was created from the ink,
but I think we’re seeing a lot of people gloss over it and not give enough thought
to what it means when paired with Alice’s words.
Imagine there was a voice in your head that continually cried and screamed over and over
again and you couldn’t turn it off.
Imagine that there are multiple voices, all screaming, crying, and you can’t tune them
out.
They are in your brain, a part of your mind.
That’s what Alice is describing here, and that’s what is happening to these ink people.
They are part of a collective consciousness that is bound by negativity, and possibly
by Bendy.
Yes, it’s possible that Bendy actually controls the emotions within this ink conscious.
I only say this because of another one of Alice’s lines during this monologue: “The
first time I was born from its ink womb, I was a wiggling pussing shapeless slug.
The second time...well, It made me an angel!
I will not let the demon touch me again.”
This is vital to understanding the collective consciousness.
Alice was born from the ink twice, once was terrible, the second time was wonderful.
Why?
What was the difference between those two births?
That last sentence gives us our answer: “I will not let the demon touch me again”.
This must refer to Bendy, meaning that Bendy somehow had control of the ink, otherwise
why even bring him up while talking about it?
Her line lets us infer that the difference between her first birth and second one somehow
has to do with Bendy.
This is a clue, a clue to understanding what is actually happening within the minds of
the ink people.
Couple that idea with Alice’s disgust of the Butcher Gang’s ink.
She specifically says that it could “pull her back”.
Pull her back to him, to being a shapeless slug, in the ink collective conscious.
His ink is like an infection, she’s terrified that it will get into her new, “beautiful”,
separated form, and put her under his influence, relinking Alice to the horribleness of the
collective ink mind.
I think this likely explains why Bendy took the projectionist’s body.
He wanted to merge it with his ink, to gain influence over the projectionist.
It would also explain why Bendy killed Sammy too, he wants all the ink to be merged with
his, to be under his control.
And that brings us to the people within this room, the other employees.
The people who live within the ink’s collective consciousness.
Just look at these people, they cannot form a..lets call it a unique thought, like that
of Bendy or Alice.
They are constantly in useless turmoil, unable to be who they once were.
We can’t talk with them, we can’t interact with them, they merely look at us with those
glowing eyes as we pass through.
These people are extremely unhappy, and their unhappiness is actively breeding more despair
in themselves and those around them.
Remember, this is a collective conscious.
Each ink person can feel the sadness in the others.
Emotions are contagious, just like in everyday life.
If I’m around someone who is upset or sad, I’m much more likely to feel those emotions
too, even if I don’t necessarily have something to be upset about.
It's a medically documented fact.
People tend to mimic the emotional expressions of those around them and in many cases actually
feel the same feelings simply by exposure to those emotions.So if I’m hanging out
with Ryan, for example, I’m more likely to be a loud goofy teddy bear than normal,
while he’s more likely to have an existential crisis as we mimic each other’s emotions.
But it goes much further than that when you have something like a collective consciousness.
And while we can’t possibly understand what it must be like to hear every thought of a
dozen other people all the time, we do have something at least comparable when you think
about it.
Our own internet comments sections and forums in some ways actually come close to a collective
consciousness.
Let me explain how.
Think about those stranger, circle-jerky parts of the internet like r/incels, or 4chan’s
politics boards, the SJW’y parts of tumblr or any other place on the internet where every
single post is just a continuing agreement with every post before it.
These places are essentially circle jerks.
One emotion, one thought circling over hundreds to thousands of different people, being repeated
over and over in different ways and words until the people who frequent the site are
essentially interchangeable in their thoughts.
They are echo chambers, bouncing anger back and forth between people, making them more
angry as more and more people agree with them.
It creates almost a heightened mob mentality because everyone is validating the feelings
of everyone else, creating this group persona solely based around one or few concepts.
It’s a sounding board for anger, hate, rage, and sadness, that only gets magnified as more
voices are added to it.
That is what it’s like to be part of the ink consciousness.
These people are mentally linked together through the ink.
Day in and day out they hear every sad thought, every fear, and every worry from all the other
ink people.
It’s no wonder these ink people are just huddled together, doing nothing, not trying
to escape, crying, staring vacantly at nothing.
It’s all I would be able to do just to handle that many people crying out for help in my
head.
It would make me helpless, mentally.
And these people all lost their bodies to the ink, they’re in a horrible position,
stuck hiding, just trying to stay alive.
It’s within these people we will find our message, our hidden meaning within the game.
Their position, the influence by Bendy, it’s all a metaphor pertaining to our actual society
and the effect massive negativity from one person can have.
When we allow one person who spreads such negativity, dismay, and hate to control a
group of people, it's not uncommon for everyone to be tainted by that negativity.
We mimic emotions, we feel the emotions we see, and if we’re constantly seeing negative
thoughts, hearing negative comments, we’re eventually going to be spewing the same ink
from our own mouths.
You see it everywhere on the internet, one comment of hate leads to another, and another,
and before long a discussion has turned completely into one side trying to hurt the other as
much as possible.
It’s not right.
But it’s exactly what happens when you get surrounded by such rampant anger and hate.
The ink people represent this within our own society.
The people who have lost themselves to our societal collective consciousness, the people
who go from negative thought to negative thought without even realizing that’s what their
lives are consisting of.
But, just like these ink people, we have the ability to change, to become untainted, to
be rebirthed, just as Alice was.
But unlike her, we can come back with true beauty.
The beauty that comes from not engaging in the collective negative that parts of our
society constantly try to feed us.
Our Bendy’s are everywhere, they can be the online boards we visit, our friends or
even family, the media, anyone who is constantly trying to bring us down.
Don’t let them control your life.
Don’t let them drag you back into that collective negativity.
You have the ability to be free of it, to be your own ink instead of just being part
of Bendy’s.
When you do, when you think for yourself instead of taking in other’s words and spewing them
back out in a different order, you’ll find that no one will be able to break the peace
that flows through your mind.
That’s the message within Bendy and the Ink Machine.
The meaning behind the collective consciousness and the inky puddles that it emerged from.
Be who you are, what you believe, and don’t fall victim to the constant downers who are
trying to break in from all sides.
You control your emotions and who can or can’t share your ink.
Take care when you decide who is worthy of it.
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