#dave dctl

[cochranella]

So i finally gave myself a kick up the ass and made myself draw something for my batim au. I haven't made designs for everyone and the designs i do have are insanely old and need a bit of rework. The first one i did was for Dave, who is originally from the book Dreams Come to Life.

Some basic info about Dave is that he works as a bartender and is a pretty bad smoker. (L smoker.) Other info i have about him, i would like to incorporate into drawings :"")

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more batim book characters! this time some of my favorite side characters, some important ones, and some that literally could not have a smaller role with still being in the book.

the first picture is my personal favorite strange side character from DCTL, the infamous Violinist. i support women's wrongs. the second is the Art Department whom i love <3

the third pic is mostly TLO side characters! Plus Miss Rodriguez from the other two books, and Toby from DCTL. as you can see i am normal about Miss R and Scott

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[cochranella]

Omg guys, look at whos making friendship charts for my au

Henry:

•He's closer friends with Abby, which is a nod towards the Illusion of Living. Abby is the reason why Joey actually let Henry in on the project for Bendy.

•Before Henry left the studio, i imagine Norman and him got on quite well. Which continued to be the case after the incident at the studio.

•His late wife being Linda, he then went on to marry Sammy a long while after.

•He doesn't know Dave, Jacob and Shawn that well as he had left the studio by the time they started working. Even now, he hasn't had many chances to interact with those three and has only seen Shawn briefly when he is with Wally.

•After the events of BATIM thomas had continued to keep his distance from Henry.

Sammy:

•His actions during Dreams come to Life went on to really harm his relationships with people. (Norman, Dave, Abby and Jacob.)

•Norman and Sammy were friendly with each other before Sammy had sacrificed him. Sammy still hopes there's a chance they can rekindle their relationship.

•Abby and Dave are both in the 'it's complicated' area, as neither attempt to talk to him or try to hold a conversation when Sammy attempts one. Out of both of them, Dave seems more tense around him.

•Sammy has not seen Jacob in *years*, so he hasn't had the chance to talk to him at all.

•Unlike the others, Thomas refuses to engage with Sammy at all because of a mixture of the events that happened during batim and dctl.

Abby:

•Sammy was quite hostile and rude to her during the events of dctl. Even though it wasn't as serious as being 'killed', she still struggled to relax around Sammy and actually become his friend.

•Her and Henry have always been close, even before the studio was founded.

•After running the art deparment after Henry left, she become familiar with some of the workers there. Some of those being Dave and Jacob.

•Other people she was familiar with were Norman and Susie, as they were some of the 'original' employees.

•She *knows* who Wally is and has had a few polite chats with him from time to time, though it wasn't enough to consider him a friend.

•With Shawn, Tom and Allison, she never had an excuse to interact with them during the studio.

Allison:

•She has been happily married to Thomas for a few great years now.

•Before the events of batim, she was already familiar with who Wally was. A few incidents of Wally losing his keys in a bin opened up a few chances for them to make conversation.

•She began to bond with Sammy and Dave after the events of batim, though she was already familiar on who Sammy was before this.

•There was never an excuse for her to talk to Abby, Shawn and Jacob. However, she is aware of who Jacob and Shawn is through Dave and Wally.

•After the events of batim, she begun to really bond with Henry after they had teamed up during the events of chapter 5. On the other hand, she was already familiar with Norman while she began to work at the studio.

•Though she has no ill blood towards Susie, Susie doesn't enjoy speaking to her.

Thomas:

•After the events of dctl and batim, Thomas refuses to acknowledge Sammy. Regardless of how much Allison encourages it.

•For a reason that he hasn't opened up about yet, he is very wary around Henry.

•He has interacted briefly with Abby and Shawn when he had to enter their departments to fix something, but it was not enough to get close to one another.

•Before the events of batim, he never had the opportunity to talk to Susie as she was already terminated from the company.

•Before the events of batim, he had to work with Wally quite frequently. Even though he got on his nerves a *lot*, Tom could still tolerate him.

•Norman and Dave are the people he interacts frequently with and has been seen hanging out with.

Dave:

•He's quite unfamiliar with both Henry and Susie, as they were both gone from the company when he joined it.

•After working for Abby before the events of batim, he had plenty of opportunities to get to know her. However, he doesn't talk to her as much anymore.

•Allison, Shawn and Wally where all people he started to socialise with after the events of batim. He had seen Wally countless times before that, though didn't attempt a conversation.

•Norman had a habit of showing up at the bar Dave worked at, which allowed them to slowly get closer.

•After making friends with Allison, he was then able to meet Thomas because of it. They ended up clicking very well.

•Because of the events of dctl, he has been unable to trust Sammy fully.

•He only has one remaining relative, which is his son, Jacob.

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The second batch for my friendship chart :DD

Jacob:

•He isn't close to many of the other main 'cycle breakers'. He tends to stick with his other friends (dctl characters), as he finds it hard to socialise with the main cast due to being so young in comparison and slightly due to the fact some of them still believe in the "kids should be seen, not heard."

•Due to working for Abby in the art department before the events of batim, he finds it hard to see her as a friend and not just an old boss.

•He's never met Henry before, but he finds him very interesting.

•With Norman, Shawn and Wally being Dave's friends, he's started to talk to them more and more after being dragged to the one off social event here and there. He doesn't engage with Thomas as much, as he finds him intimidating.

•It's quite common for Dave's opinion to become his own. He has very mixed feelings on Sammy due to the events of dctl, but Dave told him to stay away so that's what he will do.

•The only parental figure in his life, Dave.

Wally:

•He's quite friendly and sociable, resulting in him becoming familiar with a majority of the main cycle breakers.

•Before Henry had left the studio, Wally loved to stop and chat with him. After he left, Henry's absence was well missed and Wally found it harder to want to socialise with Abby when she took over the art department. Leading to him becoming quite unfamiliar with her.

•Out of all of them, Wally finds socialise with Thomas to be the hardest. To him, it always seemed like Tom was on the verge of snapping at him. Especially when they used to work together before the events of batim.

•Around the same time Susie got replaced, he started to avoid socialising in the music department as much due to growing tension amongst workers. The only time he had encountered Allison was outside the music department, which didn't happen often.

•Ever since he met Shawn when the toy department first got added, he's always had a small crush on him.

Shawn:

•While working at the studio, he's had very little to no conversations at all with Abby, Susie, Allison and Thomas. This mainly stems from being very busy with his own department and didn't have any excuse to talk to them.

•Both Henry and Sammy were relationships he built after the events of batim. He never had the chance to see Henry before he left the company and with Sammy, he was very unpleasant to be around.

•Norman and Jacob were met through his relationship with Dave, Jacob being his son and Norman being a close friend.

•Originally, Dave was just someone who he would bump into on a strange regular basis, to the point they started to talk because of it.

•Wally has been one of his closest friends ever since they met before the events of batim.

Susie:

•Originally, her and Sammy were close friends. That was until Sammy didn't show that much compassion to her being replaced, causing their relationship to wilter. They were only able to get close again after the events of batim.

•Before she was replaced, she was good friends with Henry, Norman and Wally. She would frequently come in with food such as donuts for them to share. Obviously, there's not many opportunities for her to show up with gifts like that, but she still makes sure to keep in contact with them.

•It took a while for her to finally meet Abby, what drew her in was Abby's art. Susie didn't realise how much she was interested in fine art before she met her.

•Thomas, Dave, and Jacob were new additions to the studio that she wasn't there for, having been replaced by the time they started working.

•When she heard about the toy department being in development, she was so excited to go down and see it. However, her termination stopped her from seeing it. Also making it so she never got to meet Shawn either.

•After all this time, she can't talk to Allison. A mix of shame and embarrassment stops her from doing so. Every time Allison attempts to talk to Susie herself, Susie immediately makes up some excuse to leave.

Norman:

•From a mix of being a people watcher and quite a sociable guy, he knows quite a lot of people.

•Before the events of batim, he was quite close to Henry. Even after Henry left the studio, they stayed in touch.

•There was a time where him and Sammy were quite friendly with one another. Though, Sammy slowly started to become more and more bitter, angry and not exactly nice to be around. That already effected their relationship, but then Sammy's actions in dctl really sealed that coffin for Henry.

•From working in the studio, he interacted with Allison, Abby, Wally and even Susie before she got replaced, many times.

•He never ventured down to the toy department, but Shawn being the head of that department meant that he heard his name a few times.

•Dave was someone he meant entirely by chance. After he lost both his wife and son, Norman was in a pretty dark place, which resulted in him being a frequent visitor to the pub that Dave coincidentally worked at.

•Before, the conversations he had with Thomas were very quick and passing. They only started to get close after the events of batim.

[cochranella]

I know that dreams come to life and the books in general aren't that well known within the bendy fandom, but I still enjoy the books a lot and am really interested in developing all the characters further in my au. I just love playing around with them as they feel like a blank canvas that I can do basically whatever I want with them while they still classify as a 'canon' character.

I love Buddy, Dot, and Abby. But I still want to show some love towards the more obscurer characters like Jacob, Dave, Richie, and the rest. :'))

A while back, I wrote a fic on ao3 about Dave and even drew a piece of art to accompany it, which is what this is. I'm still incredibly proud of accomplishing both of these things, especially due to how big both of these projects were. (Well, at least in my eyes lol.)

In my AU, I want to give Dave and some other characters a bigger spotlight, which is why I dedicated so much time to developing him and creating a small story and some art for him :)))) (If anyone is interested in my fics, my username on AO3 is BeansAndGravy :DD)

[cochranella]

Lighting practice (Old drawing)

I haven't drawn Dave (dctl) in ages and I was missing him lmao. I mainly did this to practice with lighting but then i started getting carried away and made plans to include Norman next to him. (It's been months and I still haven't drawn him in, I don't even have a full design for him yet hhh)