There's no doubting what you've achieved at a technical level
There are just certain design choices that were made that we don't fully understand
She can dance, she can sing, she can take song requests
With all due respect, those weren't the design choices we were curious about, Mr. Drew
*Creepy music*
Hello Internet welcome to game theory the show that's waiting for the day I can do an episode proving that bendy our little devil
Darlin' happens to be the same devil ruling over Cuphead's inkwell Isle where he collects soul contracts
Including that of the neighbor from hello neighbor. Oh yeah. He also happened to be created by a guy named Henry
No last name given. Just like some animatronics
We all know and tolerate just saying and I did that all video games are connected theory a few years ago the indie scene might
Be getting a bit closer than we all expect. Yeah, what am I saying? That'd be a half-baked theory here?
I try to deal in theories that are closer to 3/4 baked at least segue to
Bendy chapter three everyone's favorite ink demon his back
and he's brought with him more fetch quests than you can shake a
Plunger at and while sucking inky Botox out of bloated blobs and chasing looney tunes
Rejects around with an ink spewing tommy gun was awesome at all chapter three delivered on what i've been really waiting for with this game
Story, we got a better idea of why these characters want to escape the ink
Wow voices clarity on the hatred fueled relationship between bendy and Alice
And
Through one incredible Easter egg got a strong hint that Henry was the original creator of bendy the cartoon character
We're finally getting enough meat on this theory bone to start gnawing like a hungry
Boris and let me tell you there are still plenty of mysteries hidden in these sepia toned
hallways
But as I went through the game's three chapters again to brainstorm for this theory there was one moment that I had completely forgotten
about one screen so short and so
Random that it had gotten lost in the shuffle and yet something
That is so important that the meetly decided to put it as one of the first big
unexplained moments in the game so I decided to look deeper into it try to
Decipher what it meant and once I did it started to occur to me that that screen is the linchpin of the entire
Bendi story the place where it all begins as well as the place where today's theory begins way
Way back in Chapter one ex animator Henry receives the letter beckoning him to return to his old workplace Joey Drew studios
And he does what any good horror protagonist would do blindly stumble into an abandoned building with absolutely nothing to protect himself
Once inside Henry activates the mysterious ink machine and unleashes the horrible ink monsters that plague the rest of his journey down memory lane
the first chapter ends with Henry getting chased by Bendy
Falling down a chute and passing out in a room full of coffins and pentagrams family friendly entertainment
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But as Henry loses consciousness we see three screens the ink machine Bendy
Attacking and a third shot of a wheelchair now the first two are pretty self-explanatory
But it's that third one that feels completely random and out of place the wheelchair clearly
It's important to the story of this game because of the way it's placed there
But because we've yet to see any other obvious hints towards it and the length of time between chapter releases
I think most of us had either written it off completely or forgotten about it
But when I started to dig deeper I came to realize that the clues
as to what this had to do with the game's story had been hiding in plain
Sight the whole time take a look at bendy. I mean take a real good look at Bendy. While
I was searching through character entries
Researching for this theory on the Bendy wiki some of the monsters imagery started to jump out at me the more
I looked the more I started to realize
Bendy limps if you really want proof look at his chasing animation when you remove the lighting effects from the game
He's got a really strong limp
And it's not just me making this up or cheaply made animations look at his character model on the wiki one leg is
perfectly normal
But the other leg is twisted inward most of us have overlooked this detail because we're usually running away from
Bendy in low light, but when you actually stop and look at him this element of his design is unmistakable
That wheelchair and that flashback was his in those three flashes
We're being told a complete story the ink machine arrives
And is used on someone who couldn't walk someone who is bound to a wheelchair
Thanks to the ink that person now walks and happens to be the personification of the murderous ink demon bendy, but hey
There's no denying they walk
So, that begs the question: Who is in that wheelchair? Who is Bendy? Well,
I think all us players have been suspecting that it's Joey Drew and this revelation gives a bunch of evidence to that
Hypothesis not only does bendy have an inky human hand but throughout the chapters
We've seen how every other major
character from the audio logs has been
transformed into an ink
Monster in Chapter two we saw composer Sammy Lawrence long to escape the inky prison of his body then in Chapter three we got confirmation
that Suzy Campbell original voice actress for Alice Angel actually becomes Alice when touched by the ink demon even the
projectionists Norman Polke becomes
uncreatively enough the projectionist monster
So really of the recurring audio log characters we're only left with the option of two either janitor
Wally Frank's who's appeared in all three chapters or the mastermind behind the whole operation
Joey Drew himself either on could potentially be Bendy's true identity and of the two chapter three all but confirms that
Bendy equals Joey at the beginning of the chapter if you take the demon path one of the major
Differences that you get access to a tape recording made by Joey in it he says
Sure his fixation on beating death could just be a god complex
But it could also be the fact that he himself
Is dying that whatever disease has put him in this wheelchair is slowly eating away at his life and that through the ink machine
He'll be able to beat his impending death
And I'm not just looking for connections where they don't exist the chapter 3 trailer
reinforces the idea that
bendy the cartoon character is also cheating death the trailer begins with an incredible short cartoon between Boris and bendy in a cemetery but
Intermixed in these antics is this skeleton and keeps harassing bendy for no apparent reason it comes out of nowhere
Seemingly at random so in a game where there are so few characters already and a lot of it is highly symbolic
why is this thing there because the skeleton is symbolic of death bendy is being threatened by a
symbol of death notice what leg the skeleton grabs
It's the same one causing the bendy monsters limb at the end of the cartoon bendy is scared off by the skeleton
He is literally physically trying to escape from death
But most importantly of all who wrote and directed this little cartoon Joey Drew
Himself this cartoon "Tombstone Picnic" is him telling his story living with the fear of impending death
Constantly being dragged down by his diseased leg the ink machine could do what belief?
Couldn't becoming one with bendy saved his life
Leaves us one final question, then who is Wally Franks? Well, I guess there's technically two questions
Who is Wally Franks and why aren't you subscribed to this channel yet before I go to answer that first question
I challenge you speed demons to hit the sub button and then let me know either Alice or Bendy in the comments before this
old-timey screen countdown runs out three two
one
Ink-credible work there guys. Thank you so much for subscribing or if you're already subscribed to the channel
Thank you so much for putting up with that kind of obnoxious break
I know that these things can be frustrating
But it is statistically speaking the single best way for driving new subscribers to a channel at this point
And I'm really eager to get the theorists community to 90 million subscribers before the end of the year. Wait, did I say 90 million?
I meant nine million.
Sorry, that was a typo, though ninety million would be okay, too
But, no, let's-- let's set out sights at nine million for now okay anyway
Thank you guys so much digression over now on to the identity of Wally Franks at this point
We know the face of pretty much every other character
So what happened to Wally the janitor the guy whose own motto in this game is...
Well I would bet you that we find out in Chapter four that Wally is Boris
Specifically the perfect Boris that Alice angel is so eager to get her hands on and no it's not only because of process of elimination
Though, sure, that helps out in a game with a limited number of characters
No There's tons of evidence to suggest this even though his official title is
janitor
Details him throughout the game revealed that he's much more like the studio's
Mechanic. Look here at the ink machine blueprints on the wall even though. They're for Joey Drew, underneath you can see written
Attention Wally Franks in other words Wally is the one responsible for handling the installation of this machine
Additionally in his audio logs he laments the breaking pipes as though he's the one who's forced to fix them and
In Chapter one we learned that
The six items donated are a gear, a Bendy doll,
Joey Drew's book, an ink jar, a record, and a wrench. Of those only the gear and wrench make any sort of sense to associate
With Wally and both of those are mechanically oriented
It's not like there's a plunger or a broom or some other stereotypical janitorial item in the mix the reason why all of this
Mechanical stuff matters is what we see Boris do in Chapter three when the door into the factory gets stuck Boris knows how to crawl
Into the vents and open the jammed door
There's no gameplay here
so it's a weird thing to just
include in the story elements of the game unless it's meant to tell us something the act of crawling into the walls and opening a
Jammed door is something a mechanic working at the studio would be able to do
But that's not all in a teaser available on gamejolt the meetly included an image of Boris holding a wrench again
Pointing to a possible connection with the mechanic of the building ie the one who installed the Inc machine in the first place and dedicated
Their wrench to the sacrifice altar AKA Wally Franks, but the final nail in the coffin comes from the Meatly
himself who posted on twitter shortly after the release of chapter 2
quote "Why Wally leave his keys in the trash for 30 years
It's almost as if he never got a chance to go back for them" end quote
Alluding to the fact that Wally Franks met with an untimely end and in this game
We've never actually seen anyone die they've only become infected with the ink
Transforming into ink monsters or ink characters so unless a new monster is introduced in chapter
4 which is pretty late in the game's story to be introducing new characters that leaves us with only one option
Wally Franks is Boris, the one human character whose fate has been left unaccounted for
becomes the one cartoon character who we don't know the origins of
So there you have it theorists my predictions as to the major reveals of both chapter 4 and chapter
5 didn't even need to wait three months in my estimation chapter four will center around the Boris
Wally reveal as we try to rescue our hapless dog from the clutches of the evil
Alice and then chapter 5 will bring us into the finale where we confront
Bendy and his machine one final time only to learn that it was Joey drew all along a victim of his own
Attempt to cure the life-threatening illness that afflicted him
Which honestly would wrap up the story if there weren't one big question mark hanging over all of this who is
Henry in these events
Was he just an animator just the creator of the characters who would go on to be abused by Joey and his schemes or does
Henry have some more
sinister motives Alice says that she knows why he's here at the end of chapter 3
But do we know why he's there as the player his motivations are still really unclear perhaps
That's a video for another day in the meantime remember
It's all just a theory
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