Bendy and the Ink Machine Analysis/Theory
I know we’re only in Chapter Two, but something that I noticed. The difference between the depiction of Bendy and Boris. Boris, though he hasn’t spoken yet, walks with an air of character as opposed to Bendy, who we’ve only seen lashing at you. (No, I’m not counting Sammy or the cut outs). Even then, the main thing I noticed, is faces. In story telling, and very commonly, animated story telling, the act of covering a face, or half a face, particularly the eyes, implies loss of personal control or possession; it’s a visual demonstration of ones lack of self, as the eyes are the most personally expressive feature and a very important aspect of identifying identity.
Look at Boris as he appears at the end of Chapter Two:
Boris is whole, solid, clear to see, and most importantly, his face is fully visible and expressive. He looks as if he stepped right off the page, and the manner in which he stands does not present danger.
Bendy, on the other hand, is not whole, never do we see his form in the entirety, or without a puddle of ink, he is constantly dripping ink, from all appendages, his head especially, and of course, his eyes are covered.
What I’m trying to say, is that it’s NOT Bendy, or at least, not the personality or personified character of Bendy. Yet. The monster we see is possibly a primitive version of him, not yet whole, but in need of a soul to be complete.
The downstairs of the building is chalked full of demonic summoning circles, literally, you can’t miss them. But who stands along side each of those circles, or at least the vast majority of them? Bendy, or a cut out of him. Past a certain point, there is not a single corner you can turn where there is not at least one cut out or picture of Bendy watching you, and if there is, than you see one peek the corner of the hallway for the second. It is clear that Bendy, as the main character, and most popular, was used as the host. What better souls to collect for a character, than those of it’s own creators? A person puts a piece of their own soul into their work, that’s why Joey needed Henry to “come and see”, that’s why he needed the articles from everyone’s workstation to “appease the gods” and why you needed to get it to get the machine running again. Even Sammy didn’t like the machine at first, but as we see, eventually became literally consumed by the ink, and coerced into becoming the “Prophet” for “Lord Bendy” who will inevitably “Free” him from the “Inky prison I call a body” worshiping Bendy as if he were the Judeo-Christain God, or, as if he were Satan, and we know that much because of how heavily Judaic the sacrificial language was that he used.
Joey writes a book, The Illusion of Living (Yes, it’s an easter egg reference to the animation textbook The Illusion of Life) , than he builds an Ink Machine, needs to appease some unknown gods, but using artifacts from people, who created the characters that were to eventually come to life. In the process of piecing their souls together, the creators souls are fractured, and what’s left of it; well that’s the ink monsters that sludge at you. He does this by summoning demons to help. Bendy, as you see him, is a literal demon.
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