#memory joey

They both made mistakes, he just made the first one.

Happy 2 Year Anniversary to Bendy and the Dark Revival! To celebrate the occasion, I have at long last finished my custom doll of our beloved protagonist, Audrey. She's been in the works since I started Joey back in Spring of 2023 at least, and she's been a slow go because I wanted to make sure her details were as good as they could possibly be. Her hair in particular was intimidating to tackle, but it was worth every bit of planning and patience to get this result. She may be my most game-accurate Bendy doll to date, and that's saying something!

Yanno, I've made enough content about Audrey and the Ink Demon being siblings that I decided it might be good to put everything in the same place. Might even call it something official like the "siblinks au" if that's not already taken lol

AO3 link: Read the full fanfic here

Bendy Bites: Also known as the random tidbits about the siblinks that I either can't figure out how to fit into the fic or am too impatient to wait to share. Also includes some fluffy headcanons I have for the siblinks that might not even be story related. Can also be found using the "Bendy Bites" tag.

Ink Demon carrying Audrey

Snack (a slightly different version of this is in the fic now)

Feral Audrey

Kitty (post-escape, Audrey and Bendy adopt a cat)

Sign language

Ghost in the apartment (Since writing this, I've had some new headcanons that changed Audrey's living situation but will keep those to myself unless/until they become relevant)

Unintended consequences

Hunting (how the Ink Demon deals with his bloodlust/kill drive in the real world)

Healing Kisses

Asks: I'm not putting every Bendy related ask here (even though I love them all), just ones that I ended up elaborating on and sharing possible story ideas in the process of answering them. You can see all of them by searching the tag, "answered ask" or "ask" on my blog.

Barrel scene (Bendy getting mad because he figured out Audrey hid from him in a barrel and he still couldn't find her)

Height differences and the resulting sibling shenanigans

Krampus Ink Demon

Slicer/Carly (thoughts on how Bendy would deal with her since I left her out of the fic)

Sammy's reaction Audrey and Bendy's bond

Sammy's and Bendy's reaction to Audrey changing the cycle with The Illusion of Living

What if Audrey was taken by the Keepers instead of Bendy? Also, Bendy's reaction to Malice taking Audrey from the manor

What if. . . Wilson succeeded and made Audrey into his "perfect creation"?

What would happen if Gent found Bendy and Audrey if the real world?

First Aid (Bendy's reaction to injuries in the real world vs the ink world)

Audrey smells like the Ink Demon

Audrey's "sisters" (elaborating on Joey's previous attempts to making Audrey)

Copycat ask (eheheh puns, ask based on the Kitty and Unintended consequences Bendy bites)

Can Audrey sense when Bendy's nearby? (based on events in chapter 16)

Miscellaneous:

Halloween with the siblinks

Sammy vent post (the man made me rewrite a whole chapter and section of my outline)

The Ink Demon wiping his tears with Audrey (I didn't write anything on this but thought it was funny)

Scene description: Audrey sketching with the Ink Demon

Fanart: (also known as the best section) I think I tagged everything under "batdr fanart" if you'd rather use that to peruse all the amazing art people have made of my fic. Huge thanks to @tiredtrashpandaart, @mulligansstuff, @magicicephoenix, and @akiraidraws for their wonderful, wonderful art!

Audrey and Bendy meeting and holding hands for the first time

The Ink Demon tapping his claws on Audrey's barrel/hiding place

The Ink Demon waving at Audrey after massacring lost ones in Artist's Rest

Bendy realizing Audrey hid in a barrel when he was trying to find her as the Ink Demon

Elevator scene

The Ink Demon reveals he's also Baby Benders to Audrey

Bendy clinging to Audrey's leg

The Ink Demon hugging Audrey

The Ink Demon hanging with/comforting Audrey plus offering her a tasty, tasty widow pod

Hotel pun

The Ink Demon listens for Audrey's heartbeat

The Ink Demon tackles Audrey

Audrey gets jumpscared and Bendy laughs at her

The Ink Demon saves Audrey from a Keeper

Fic highlights sketch page

Look at them!

Henry's sketches (fun fact, I was originally going to add a description of Henry drawing Boris to his sketching scene but cut it cuz I felt the scene was dragging on)

Sammy arguing with Audrey

Audrey sketching with the Ink Demon by Mulligan

Audrey sketching with the Ink Demon by Akirai (scroll down to see the art, it was added as a reblog)

Audrey tries to banish the Ink Demon

I'm not adding the sneak peeks or chapter announcements cuz all that can be enjoyed just by reading the fic itself (unless someone REALLY wants me to add them, in that case I guess I can add them on here later).

Lemme know if I missed anything or if any of the links are broken and, seriously, thank you so much for enjoying this story with me. It means the world that so many of you lovely people enjoy reading my work. Thanks for everything!!!! 🤍🖤🤍

Some Bendy characters.

I saw inkylegacy call this version of joeyxhenry "creationship" in the tags of another post aND OH NO THATS SO CLEVER, IM USING IT

Here’s a practice of joey drew I did a while back that I can use for this now!

I'll be honest I'm rusty on Dark Revival lore but I didn't really see any reason why he would lie or withhold certain information...? Other than to make himself/IRL Joey look better?

And the "looking better" point doesn't really hold much water to me because his concept art quite literally has a note stating that his sleeves are rolled up instead of pulled down in order to show that he isn't afraid to get his hands dirty- which seems to suggest that, in the eyes of the dev team at least, he isn't as much of a coward, and that he doesn't care as much about his outward appearance.

We literally don't know if some things he said in Dark Revival are true or not but it seems reasonable to take them at face value. Memory Joey could have easily lied to Audrey about her origins, but we know fuck all about where she came from or who raised her other than taking his word, so...

Bendyposting time, headcanon/theory(ies..) : Memory Joey, soulless ink creatures, etc.

Thank you ORV for this. Thank you ORV for everything I’m about to do and say and for teaching me so many things. So you know how the basic principle of the ink/dark puddles is kinda “you need a soul to create a living thing”, but that seemed oddly retconned in batdr? I have a proposal of a headcanon- what if you don’t need a whole soul to create an ink creature? What if you can break apart, dissect a soul, sacrificing bits of personality or memories, and that would suffice enough to create a living ink being? Think of it like a plant’s budding, except the plant has to sacrifice a part of itself to generate the bud. This would explain why Joey’s personality would become more calm and tame if he kept expelling pieces of himself to create numerous ink children. And perhaps the dark puddles could do the same thing. Since it houses hundreds, thousands, who knows how many souls, maybe over time, the souls could lose just tiny pieces of itself (not enough to completely lose their identity), and those tiny pieces could construct beings with relatively low intelligence (like the spider looking venom things I forgot what they’re called). There is saying that’s very accurate to what I’m trying to say “Every artist leaves a piece of their soul in their work” by George Gershwin.

This brings me to Memory Joey. I know there’s a bit of debate over whether he’s lying or not, but how about this : what if memory Joey really isn’t sure whether or not to call himself the real Joey? Let’s say this : the “real” Joey died, but due to decades of working with the ink, “Joey” had been well incorporated into it. Something not like souls, but more like memories. His “soul”, if we choose to believe in the first theory/headcanon present above, was also scattered throughout the ink. In a way, Joey is in the ink, but it may or may not be everything Joey was, who can really tell? And if someone comes in, and reconstructs him, out of all those memories, those pieces and bits of his soul, would whatever come out still qualify as “Joey Drew”? Ship of Theseus sort of thing. If all the components of an object is replaced, is it still the same object? How would such a being answer that question? Especially someone like Joey Drew? I would imagine he’d initially call himself “Joey Drew” but eventually start calling himself “the memory of Joey Drew” because he doesn’t feel 100% complete and maybe need some verbal reassurance to detach himself from the lingering question of “is he Joey Drew”