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There was a post I saw a day or so ago talking about MOTM’s color theory, especially when it came to Bendy. I don’t remember the OP, but if I find them I’ll make sure to credit them, as they had wonderful points. Like how Bendy is portray with white light when given the option to save Dyle, and yet despite the lighting depicting him as a savior, Bendy chooses to leave Dyle for dead in favor of himself.

OP had also showed the flip-side, where Boris is depicted in red lighting, which symbols typically evil and/or danger. Yet, despite that fact, not only does Boris go back to save Shelly, both of them are completely ok (or as ok as it gets).

So that post got me thinking a lot more about color theory, and my own personal theories based on that, so I’ll apologize now for being all over the place. So I’d like to go back to Bendy, and specifically the fact of him being portrayed like a savior. You know, we got some “I loved you like a god and you betrayed me like a man” vibes going on. But that cannot possibly be the actual case, right? However, Bendy’s signature color is yellow. That’s stated time and time again through asks to both Nort and Fly. Do you know what else is yellow? The map. The SAME map that only Bendy can see. Coincidence? I think not.

Because you know what ELSE is associated with yellow in this comic? The Celestials.

So, the map is related to the Celestials, and Bendy is obviously related to the Celestials! Actually, no. I don’t think it’s that simple. While I do believe that Bendy is definitely tied to the Celestials, due to the yellow motifs and his religious background, I don’t think Bendy is solely a Celestial. The reason for that is actually because of the asks given to Fly specifically. Fly had this thing where they answered cute asks like how the main characters would (really love that btw it’s so fun). But a key thing stuck out to me. All the characters’ text colors were based on their fav color/the color assigned to them in their ref sheets. For example, Mugman is blue, Cuphead is red, Boris is green and Shelly is orange! The outlier here, however, is Bendy.

Despite being so obviously connected to yellow in the comic, and yellow being his assigned color on the ref sheets, Bendy’s text color is black. Now, this may be because yellow can be hard to see on white! Maybe I’m reading too much into this! And I’m totally betting on the fact that I am. But I’ve seen so many people sharing their cool theories and I wanted to try putting my thoughts into the pile too. And you know how I mention Bendy being portrayed in white lighting earlier? Well, the opposite of white, is black. This choice of text color might be to show Bendy’s true nature. A character who is so often associated with yellows and whites, both of which being positive and even holy colors, having their text color be black to show their true self is actually really genius. Also, that black might represent ink in its purest form, being black. Again, I could be totally wrong. But it makes so much sense to have his text be black instead of yellow. This piece also leads me to believe that whatever Bendy is, he is not, at least not fully, Celestial. While he is most definitely important and connected to the map, and I believe he is connected in a way that actually surpasses Celestial. Looking way back to the prologue, we read that the Celestials, for whatever reason, took apart the ink machine and scattered the parts amongst themselves. And just like in the game, we see almost all the parts of the ink machine. All except one.

The game of Bendy and the Ink Machine has a total of six parts you need to find in order to turn the ink machine on. In this image we see 5 of them, with the 6th one noticeably missing. The 6th one is the bendy doll. At this point, I cannot confirm 100% what this means, but I can suspect that Bendy is not just able to read the map, he’s what the ink machine physically needs to run again. To end this theory off, I want to stay at the prologue and talk about how the Ichor that the Celestials came from is actually alive. The Celestials came from Ichor, also known as God’s Blood. However, we find that the Ichor isn’t an inanimate object, but a living being. It’s unclear whether or not the Ichor meant to create the Celestials, but my final point is this. Whether or not Bendy is a Celestial or not, I believe that Bendy is created from the unfiltered ink of the Ichor itself AND that he is the one of the only intentional creations of the Ichor. I don’t have enough evidence to support this fact, but if we look at the Ichor and Bendy side by side, we see a lot of similarities.

Their shapes are similar. Both the Ichor and Bendy have a seemingly round shape. Exactly how you might imagine old cartoon characters. And when the Ichor is portrayed as evil, the resemblance is actually even more prevalent.