Fan CastingBendy And The Ink Machine The Series

In August 1966, retired animator Henry Stein receives a letter from his former friend and employer, Joey Drew, asking him to return to their animation studio and see something important. He finds the studio abandoned, but discovers an "ink machine", installed sometime after Henry's departure 30 years earlier. He finds a tape recording by janitor Wally Franks that suggests Joey engaged in bizarre occult practices while making the machine, as well as a mutilated real-life analogue of Boris the Wolf, one of the studio's cartoon characters. Once Henry fixes and starts the machine, he is attacked by a creature known as "Ink Bendy", or "The Ink Demon" whose appearance is vastly different than the original version of studio mascot Bendy. Bendy appears as a cheerful, mischievous, short, and rather chubby cartoon devil. The Ink Demon is tall, and skinny, almost skeletal. His limbs are out of proportion with one another, and melted ink drips over his visage. The only similarities between Bendy and the Ink Demon are their enormous grins and pointed heads. As the studio begins to fill with ink, Henry flees toward the exit, only for the floor to collapse and drop him into the studio's lower levels. Draining the ink from this area, he finds a chamber whose floor is marked with strange diagrams. He hallucinates seeing the ink machine, a wheelchair, and then the Ink Demon before blacking out. The meaning of these hallucinations is largely ambiguous.