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Published: 2020-08-14 02:31:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 1175; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 0
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(Warning: Large description ahead)
He's been looking in the mirror for half an hour now.
The drawing of the smiling little devil next to one of his big hands was the only thing he looked away from. For a moment, he looked at the mirror, then turned his attention to the drawing, and then to the mirror again.
He was trying to recognize himself again.
He cannot understand.
After the "incident", the only question that had been going through his head for the past few days was:
"Who am I supposed to be?"
He remembers his past.
He remembers who he was ... or rather, what he was.
A failure.
A freak.
... a weird abomination.
He remembers the day he was "created".
There were people around him. Everyone's direction went to him.
"They" were afraid of him. "They" feared him.
He remembers the first time he was caged.
The cage was small and weak. It didn't take any effort for him to get out of that cage. For someone like him, it didn't take any kinds of effort to get in and out.
But when those "people" started to discover that he could do that, "they" built a new cage. Larger than the previous one, and stronger as well.
And "they" caged him again.
But even the new cage cannot hold the animal.
Every time those people found out that he was able to get out, they built another cage, bigger and stronger than the last one,to make sure he couldn't get away.
And it happened over and over again.
He remembers how he felt during that time.
In the beginning, after his creation, what he felt: confusion, curiosity, and a bit of loneliness.
But during that time of being caged, being treated like a monster, and being neglected by "him", what he felt: more confusion, loneliness, denial, sadness, and especially, anger.
It was an explosion of emotions. Everyone around him treated him like a freak and like a monster. He was not loved, at least, not by the vast majority.
And then... he remembers the day things started to change.
It was an accident, he swore it was. But ... it didn't look like it was. He just got angry. Just that, but when I realized what he did ... blood and flesh everywhere. He didn't want to do that, or at least part, of his head said that. He didn't want to.
But ... in a way ... it was satisfying ... and, fun? The way those people fearing him... was something that started to be ... good? That was a way to let off steam, and maybe have fun.
After all, he was already tired of the way they treated him. Tired. No longer able to withstand this repression and ill-treatment.
They treated him in the worst possible way, and what if ... he did the same for them?
They saw him as a monster, why didn't he show them the real monster then?
Time has passed.
The substance that his body was made of began to strengthen.
The feeling of anger continued to grow.
The people who treated him began to be increasingly scared.
And the cages started to get stronger, bigger, and more resistance.
That was when it happened.
One day, everything changed.
He had something inside him,it was like a burning flame, that for the first time in months,or years,made him alive.
He felt more than one presence in his head.
Voices echoing. Their thoughts echoing through his head. A big explosion of emotions that he never felt before.
And after a long time later, feeling like he was more than one, one day: the voices stopped. The thoughts stopped. The explosion of emotions stopped. "They" came out of it. "They" weren't with him anymore.
And now he was alone again. This time, totally alone.
He felt that that burning flame was different now. Before, he felt that it belonged to someone else, but now, it seemed that it belonged to himself.
And now we have reached the moment of now. He is alone, confused, and trying to understand who he is.
Since "they" left his body, his memories started to change. He started to remember things that never happened to him.
On the one hand, several of the memories seemed to come from.... that man.
And of the others, the memories came from that little being.
First, the man.
That same man was his “creator”, in a way.
He remembers the first time he met the man.
He remembers the days when the man shouted at him, calling him imperfect, and an aberration.
And he remembers the day that fate made him and the man merge into the same body.
And he also remembers the day that they finally split up. He remembers the moment after the separation. The moment when he saw the man again, after a long time. The man was very weak, tired, and afraid. After the separation, the man ended up escaping to one of the rooms of that big facility. And he is still there. At this very moment.
He doesn't miss the man, obviously. After all that man had done for him, he wanted nothing more to do with that being, and the only thing he wishes for man is death.
But even without the man near him, he still has several of the man's thoughts.
Drew ...
That was the name.
That evil "Drew" man.
Meanwhile, we have that... strange and small being.
He had seen the face of this little being in many other places before. That being is in the entire place. Wherever he goes, that little being is there. Many of the memories of that little being with some un-familiar faces, some similar to the little devil, and others faces that were similar to Drew.
And he remembers that on the day of the incident, he had meet the little being for the first time. And he remembers the moment when he….when.... * sigh * I better not go into that part too much…
According to several posters, that being was called “Bendy”.
Bendy, huh?
It was when he found out about these posters that he started to question himself more. He and Bendy are not so different from eachothers. The shape of their heads was very similar, they wore the same kind of clothing, and even the same damn smile was the same.
Was he supposed to be like Bendy?
The more questions he had in his head, the more confused he became.
Its very existence was being questioned. Was he supposed to be like the little devil on the posters? Was he supposed to be his own being? How could he be someone else he doesn't even know he is?
And Drew? Who he is? Why did he bring him to life? How could someone like Drew be his "creator"? What was the importance of man for his creation? Drew had similarities to Bendy. Did he happen to have some similarities to the man too?
Who was he to supposed to be?
Drew?
Bendy?
Was he his own being?
Who was he?
or actually..
What is he?
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Day 9 of the Ink Demonth, and today's theme is "Mirror", with my version of the Ink Demon that i called/code-name him Red.
(I finally decided to edit this description! After 10 days after i post this pic. I told you that this description was big.)
This is for my second BATIM AU called Return to the Studio AU. It's kind of a "Bad-Ending" AU version of the Toon City Adventures AU, where to a certain extent, the events on the timeline are the same, but there is an event that changes the course of everything, and that leads to RTTS events.
RTTS events follow the main events of the game, but in a different way. Like a canon-divergence AU.
And Red is the version of Ink Demon in this AU. Based on the theory that Joey was the Ink Demon (and is still based to this day), from a complete failure in an attempt to create a version of Bendy, to an allegory of a demon, a cartoon and a human, Red is the "king" from Joey Drew Studios (or also known as The Cycle) and a creature that contains "parts" of both Joey and Bendy.
And as much as I still like the idea of Joey and the Ink Demon being the same, I had an idea that, as strange as it may be, makes Joey the Ink Demon, but at the same time, not. (I already had another 1 (or 2?) idea that were very similar to the current one, but I wanted to change it to something more different)
Is it possible that this idea will change? Maybe, because after all, while I was writing this description, I ended up having a new concept for the AU, so, who knows?
But yeah, I hope to talk more about this AU eventually. I have a picture from 1 year ago that I did that kind of introduces more of the AU concept. I hope to post it soon.
But until then? I hope you enjoy it!
Bendy and the Ink Machine (and the "What am i?" texture) by JoeyDrewStudios.Inc.
Art,Red,and the Return to the Studio AU by me.
