Do you have a genuine idea why Wally's recorder in the last chapter is so out of character from the rest (he mentions a chocolate cake)? Something is wrong, almost unsettling about it but I don't have the slightest idea and it baffles me that no one, not even MatPat questioned the oddity of it.
I’m not surprised everyone is ignoring Wally, because when you really start looking into him audio logs and what they’re saying, you realize that he’s probably the most mysterious and perplexing character in all of BATIM.
It’s enough to say that every single one Wally’s audio logs in the game contains some detail that doesn’t quite make sense.
Chapter 1 - Wally tells us the pedestals are in the break room. They are nowhere near it!
Chapter 2 - Wally’s audio log ends with “I hope nobody tells Sammy!”, yet we find it right outside Sammy’s office. What’s more, there is a splatter of ink behind it like the recorder was placed there already after the leak began.
If that wasn’t weird enough, Wally’s closet contains the same items we find on Bendy’s shrines. Was he running a cult, while he was working for JDS? Also, why didn’t he pick up the keys for 30 years? Why did he have an audio log with detailed instructions on how to get inside Sammy’s secret sanctuary? So many questions!
Chapter 3, Level K - We hear Wally arguing with Thomas, and in that argument Wally acts as if he didn’t know anything about how the ink machine works. Yet, the design plans for the ink machine credit him as the person who designed it.
Chapter 3, Level 11 - Wally complains about people not smiling enough. If you listen to the background noise in the recording, you can hear loud sounds of working machinery. There’s just one problem - there is no such sound on Level 11! The audio log couldn’t possibly have been recorded near the place we found it in.
Chapter 4 - Wally audio log has the same issue as the one in Chapter 2 - he mocks Bendyland workers in it, yet the audio log is standing in the place they would be sure to find it. He refers to himself as “the real genius” pulling the strings behind the scenes, which is a callback to Grant’s tape about “the genius upstairs” aka Joey. That’s na odd little detail!
And then we get to Chapter 5. Firstly, the audio log itself - not only does Wally find a cake at random, in the middle of the night (what was he doing inside the studio at 2 AM?), but more importantly, take note of the fact that he claims to have found the cake on a chair. Now, take a look around the room and tell me if you can see what’s wrong with it:
There are no chairs in there!
There is, however, something else. Something that doesn’t belong - one of the boxes from the vault. What is it doing there? There are no boxes outside the vault anywhere else in the administration. Isn’t that weird?
There’s a Not Monsters handprint outside the door of this room. A matching handprint can be found inside the vault room. The same vault room, which was supposedly not visited by anyone other than the Ink Demon. Then who left the handprint?
What can we gather from all these logs and the weirdness surrounding them is that someone is messing with us. Someone is using Wally’s audio logs, moving them around the place and leaving them behind for us to find. My bet is on the Unknown.
But that’s not the end of the mystery - Wally’s letter contains more of it.
According to the letter, Wally is alive and well outside the studio. How can this be, if he participated in the ritual? How did he get away unscathed? And when did he get away? His audio log mentions that the ritual was performed at the time when the company wasn’t doing well. Yet, his letter expresses surprise at the fact that the studio closed down. When was the ritual performed, then? The meetings board in the administration shows Susie as the last person, who came to see Joey before the studio’s closure. This would imply that the studio closed on the exact same day that the ritual was performed. How could Wally be unaware of that?
Conclusion? People are ignoring Wally best they can, because he makes things complicated. He puts dents in our theories. It’s easier to ignore the mystery surrounding him, and continue to think of him as a cute comic relief character, than to try working him into our theories.
