IM, just like Myth, originates from Quest, but neither IM or Myth ARE Quest. IM and the IM team, myself included, are not affiliated or related to TheGreatRouge, nor do we condone what they've done.

The posts in question were showing contempt for artists for not participating in Myth, and were attempting to connect IM artwork to Quest in posts equating them while ignoring they came from a completely different AU. Anyone that's been in my corner of the Quest AU space knows I don't have any patience for behavior like this.

Bendy and Boris in the Inky Mystery is a fanfic based off of Quest and has grown and changed far beyond the original work. It's a fandom that's been here for 9 years and has had hundreds of works both written and drawn based off of it, including its own fan wiki.

Yes, it’s true. I really thought Inky Mystery would only be forty chapters when I started. A LOT has changed since then lol.

I like basing magic systems off of science.

My fight scenes are inspired by anime. I am the type of person that ‘watches a movie’ mentally.

Music really helps my writing.

I love that a couple of people have noticed a few of the things in the story I left there years ago.

The fanart would have you think this story is full of romance and not the pile of messes that they are.

I have like three or four original works I’ve started or am researching so even when Inky Mystery is over I’ll still be writing.

I have based some characters off of real people. The latest “irl” addition was my cat Secret. Yes she is a menace. We love her.

One of my favorite hobbies is flipping a trope.

I devour books like candy. My main genre is horror, closely followed by fantasy.

Inky Mystery could have ended up on Fanfiction.net but I didn’t trust that Joey Drew Studios or Disney wouldn’t try to get it taken down.

Inky Mystery would have been more popular as a comic but it would have been to the quality of One Punch Man for art style and we’d probably still be in New Orleans with how slow I am.

I will not write another epic fanfic after this. Inky Mystery is the one and only. If I ever write something this long again, I’ll be getting paid for a series.

One person has guessed the ending of the series. Just one in its totality.

Rereading this series shows a lot of foreshadowing I do. I adore hints like that in good mysteries.

I have so many silly ideas for the future. My poor co-authors are just listening to me gab on and on. (They have fun too. I promise)

I have flipped a coin on the fate of some characters. I’m not joking.

I want to get better at descriptions. Really give a location personality.

Also, I wonder what would happen if one of them lost their soul or got it shattered? Like, if it was lost or locked away, could the other find it where it is? And if it got shattered or destroyed, would the other feel pain afterwards, would the bond get shattered or would it have a strand to somehow get the soul remade?

Alice could feel Cup’s emotional reactions to Bendy’s emotions. But it’d be like listening to one side of a phone call. She still can’t feel Bendy’s emotions.

The bond would most likely break too. It really depends on what you mean by ‘lost’ there. Like if the Devil made Cup soulless, Bendy would probably be able to find it. Maybe. If he could survive the shock first. That’s a bit questionable since neither of these boys are exactly healthy. Assuming Bendy does survive feeling Cup get his soul ripped out (and it doesn’t trigger an ink attack), he should be able to find the soul. And vice versa. (Though I have no idea what situation would make Bendy lose his soul.)

I was sent this and told to contact this support person through discord.

If you want to contact tumblr support do it through tumblr! Don’t fall for this and don’t panic.

I write her like I do Bendy and Cuphead and any of the other characters I don’t own. It’s a fanfic from a fan comic. I started it before the scandals and the freaky stuff came out or I wasn’t aware of it. And I decided to continue the fic after too because the og creators mess isn’t my mess. Rouge is far from the first creator’s media I’ve liked that’s turned out to not be a great person. Coraline, Sandman, and Good Omens would fall under that category. Anything Lovecraftian. Harry Potter too. I don’t fault the fans. The creators did bad. Their reputations should be marked. The fans didn’t do anything. They just liked a story. I liked quest, I had ideas, I wrote them. That’s about it. As for the OC stuff, the entire concept of the quest was rouge’s. I acknowledge that. I took it. I had different ideas and wanted to explore them with that same concept. Just like Myth of the Machine is doing. I don’t separate characters like Dovil from the story since the concept of an ink machine quest is also rouge’s. Now I did ask permission for other OCs from other artists that gifted them to the comic like Finley and Sammy since they hadn’t been gifted to me. Dovil I didn’t since she and the idea of the quest were one and the same to me. That being said I feel like I need to give a warning here.

The fact of the matter is this: if you share something online, it’s now something others are aware of. You can’t own an idea but you can own making money from that idea. If an OC gets super popular, other people will draw or write about that OC. Sometimes it doesn’t go well. Harpy Hare and Welcome Home! are examples of that. Something getting too popular too fast and the creators suffering from what their fans are putting them through. That’s the risk of sharing something online. Anyone can see it. Some will run with it. If you aren’t ready for that risk with your characters, don’t share them with the open public. I’ve seen it happen a number of times.

Now one last thing. The line between books and fanfics. I can do what I do with my fanfic because I don’t make a dime off it. AO3 has a team to protect my fanworks as long as I don’t try to monetize it. We have edited the first ‘book’ so people can print it for themselves if they want a physical copy of it but again I don’t make ANY money from that. Those that are selling book copies of fanfic are breaking the law and endangering those of us that just want to share our stories and further explore our favorite worlds outside of canon. This is different than the others that decide to change their works into og stories and then sell them. A few folks have done that and changed their stories enough that it obviously isn’t fanfic it once was. But still—it’s iffy.

Ancient fic history, Anne Rice went of a witch hunt for fic writers touching her vampires and a lot of fics were deleted because of it. A number of fics would disappear because of pressure from authors, companies, and even governments before AO3 and the few laws we have to protect fanon spaces stopped it. You’ll still see arguments spring up over whether one fic or another deserves to be deleted or not. It’s a slippery slope. My advice, if you want a physical copy of a fic, print it, bind it, have it on your shelf but DON’T BUY IT OR SELL IT! And if you want to sell a story, make it an original work. No one can come after you if you do.

Okay. That’s it. I’ll get off my soapbox now.