Description[]
Bendy and the Ink Machine vs. RWBY. Black and white monstrosities born from experiments.
Introduction[]
Wiz: No matter what others may tell you, the truth is that monsters aren't born; they're made.
Boomstick: And considering how savage and driven most monsters are, you can be certain that whatever made them was one sinister process.
Wiz: Bendy, the Ink Demon born from the Machine.
Boomstick: And the Hound, the experiment of Salem. He's Wiz and I'm Boomstick.
Wiz: And it's our job to analyze their weapons, armor and skills to find out who would win a Death Battle.
Bendy[]
Wiz: When Henry Stein, former animator for Joey Drew Studios, returned to the location at the beset of its titular owner, he didn't know what to expect.
Boomstick: He certainly wasn't expecting a fully-sized fully-biological cartoon character strung up on an operating table. Usually, that would have been a sign to book it but his curiosity drove him forwards until he found a mysterious machine.
Wiz: One that, by activating, he would unknowingly thrust himself into a whole world of danger, at the hands of a Ink Demon.
Boomstick: You see, long ago, like any Walt Disney expy, Joey Drew decided to try and create a living mascot for his studio, in the image of their non-living mascot, Bendy the Demon.
Wiz: Somehow, Joey was able to use the Ink Machine to create a living being by running show reels through it. Unfortunately, the one and only attempt to create a living Bendy was fundamentally flawed.
- Background
- AKA The Ink Demon
- Created with the Ink Machine
- Based off the mascot for Joey Drew Studios
- Originally designed with a limp
- Feared by all others in the Studio
- Considers wandering a sin
Boomstick: It lacked the one thing it needed to be a true living being; a soul, and thus Joey locked it away in the deepest parts of the studio.
Wiz: In an example of no good deed going unpunished, its pained cries drew, no pun intended, the attention of the other studio employees, who ended up releasing him. And thus the studio soon became a world of horror, its employees converted into new Ink creatures doomed to wander its halls for years on end. And although some of them formed their own factions, so to speak, they all lived in fear of the Ink Demon.
Boomstick: No kidding! Whilst pretty much all the Ink Creatures have a connection to the Ink, Bendy pretty much is the Ink. Wherever it goes, he can go. And since it's the whole studio is pretty much saturated in the stuff, he can go anywhere he likes with it!
- Abilities
- Superhuman attributes
- Ink connection
- Enables travel
- Heals injuries
- Can spawn massive hands
- Assimilation
- Ink Creature summoning
- Beast Bendy
Wiz: The Ink is also useful in others ways. For one thing, as long as it is present, Bendy can recover from just about any injury, considering that he's made up of the substance.
Boomstick: And that substance is what you'll end up as if you end up in his clutches too long, since it seems that anyone who gets saturated in the stuff will end up becoming ink creatures themselves.
Wiz: He can also use it to summon several Inky creatures, like the unrelenting Seekers that will swarm their targets non-stop, and can also call upon what seems to be a massive hand, perfect for smashing anything Bendy finds pesky.
Boomstick: Not that he needs to totally rely on it, as he's already pretty strong himself.
Wiz: Several denizens of the Studio are strong enough to crack the ground with their strikes. And one such denizen, the Projectionist, is practically bulletproof and Bendy was able to pummel him to death no problem.
Boomstick: Yeah, like most indie game horror character, he can overpower people the instant he catches up to them. But if he feels the need to made himself even more of a Kindly Beast, I mean a regular Beast, then that is what he literally becomes; Beast Bendy.
Wiz: Likely the form that Bendy takes on when he finds himself backed into a corner, Beast Bendy increases his strength and speed and is far tougher now, able to smash through metal pipes with his charges.
Popup: Beast Bendy seems capable of merging through a wall and appearing through another one, although this is likely the teleportation and relocation properties of the Ink coming into play.
Boomstick: And now his teeth are actually teeth, instead of just looking like they were drawn on. God, they are just so uncanny when they're like that. Can you imagine? Having teeth so weird it crosses over to uncanny valley. Can you imagine what a shock it is to see someone with them?
Wiz: I'm sure there are some people that know exactly what you're talking about.
Boomstick: Whilst Bendy isn't the only thing to be feared in the studio, he ought to be the thing that everything there fears, and he is for good reason.
- Feats
- Feared by fellow living toon Alice Angel
- Withstood shots from a Tommy Gun
- Ripped off the Projectionist's head
- Escaped from its confinement
- Defeated Henry Stein, Samuel Laurence, the Projectionist
Wiz: Former composer so Joey Drew Studios, Sammy Laurence, even revers Bendy as a god-like figure and sacrifices whoever he can gets his hands on in the hopes of earning his favor.
Boomstick: But we all know how that song and dance went, pun intended.
Wiz: Bendy is tough enough to withstand bullet fire, hits from an axe, punches from fellow monsters and his connection to the Ink makes him even more dangerous.
Boomstick: He can cover entire building levels with it and as long as its around, he ain't going nowhere. Unless he wants to go somewhere, in which case he'll pop out for those sweet streamed jump scares.
Wiz: What's important to note is that Bendy, although feared by the other Ink Creatures, isn't exactly like them due to one thing; the fact he lacks a soul. You see, when an Ink Creature dies, its soul gets reused by the ink and placed in another body. But since Bendy doesn't have a soul, one kill is all it would take to put him down. Not that it's an easy goal by any means.
Boomstick: Yeah, that Projectionist can come back a load of times but that hasn't stopped Bendy from going toe-to-toe with it. And if all those projection boxes in his lair are any indication, they've tangled a bunch of times and every time, Bendy has come away the victor.
Wiz: Speaking of his lair, there Bendy guards the one thing that could be his undoing and perhaps the source of his hatred for the Projectionist; the reel that shows him his end, for it will cause him to literally break down. But whether its played or not, and whatever is going on with the studio and it's mysterious time loop, one thing is certain; there, Bendy is king.
Hound[]
Wiz: In her goal bringing about the end of the world to alleviate her cursed immortality, Salem made use of the vast legions of Grimm.
Boomstick: Her control over them essentially made her the most dangerous being on Remnant, although the Grimm themselves had a slight drawback.
Wiz: Being so animal-like, they naturally had the intelligence and instincts of animals. Whilst they can get smarter with age, very few survive to that time. To create a Grimm that was as intelligent as the humans its hunts, that was the purpose of the Hound.
- Background
- Height: Varies between 5'9 and 8'7
- Artificial Grimm created by Salem
- Contains a Silver Eyed Faunus
- Which possibly reflects the Fox and the Hound
- Voiced by someone who also voiced another animal-like monster
Boomstick: Salem called the thing an experiment, so it's pretty far removed from your standard Grimm. Especially due to the means with which it was made.
Wiz: The other most prominent weaknesses of the Grimm is the light emitted from the silver eyes of the thusly named warriors. For a long time, it was Salem's goal to eliminate them. But then she found an all new insidious use for them.
Boomstick: So she found herself a silver-eyed Faunus and the poor bastard ended up serving as the quote-on-quote center of a Grimm-based body. Whilst at first this sounds like a case of Venom, what with a slimy outer body being wrapped around an organic host, let me tell you, it's not.
Wiz: Whatever Salem did to the Silver-Eyed Faunus left it as a broken shell of a man, perfectly willing to serve his new mistress as a literal attack dog.
Boomstick: It's not just an attack dog, but also a hunting dog, because when Salem wants something found, she dispatches the Hound to retrieve it. Or often times, them.
Wiz: That's because, given the Hound's distinctive lack of eyes, it relies primarily on its other senses to track down and understand its targets. Mainly, its sense of smell.
- Abilities
- Superhuman attributes
- Adaptability
- Shifts between forms
- Sprouts wings
- Malleable body
- Enhanced senses
- Highly intelligent
Boomstick: One whiff of the Relic of Knowledge was all it needed in order to track down Oscar Pine and when it comes to capturing targets like that poor kid, the Hound has the stuff it needs.
Wiz: Like most Grimm, the Hound is incredibly strong, fast and durable. As a matter of fact, its tar-like body means it can soak up damage with no issue and keep on trucking.
Boomstick: Having such a gooey body also means the Hound can mold it around how it likes. Whilst it isn't completely shapeshifting, it is the benefit of being able to elongate its limbs for a long-ranged whack, summon extra arms and to let it shift between several different body types.
Wiz: Like the tricks of a dog, the Hound can either go on all fours or into a fully bipedal state. Oh, and we shouldn't forget that it can also sprout wings and fly.
Boomstick: The thing is basically designed to be adaptable and that's the added benefit of having a somewhat cognitively-thinking living core; this thing is smart!
Wiz: Smart enough to figure out how to use human shields and to get itself into a good ambush position without being noticed.
Boomstick: It was even able to pull a Cesear and tell our heroes "No", to one of their requests. So yeah, pretty sharp.
Wiz: All thanks to the Faunus within it. And I believe I have a hypothesis over why a Silver-Eyed Warrior is used as a core, instead of some other individual. The sludge that generates the Grimm has been shown to be corrosive and the same could be said for the substance the Hound is made of, to an extent at least. Since the light of the Silver Eyes is deadly to Grimm, it's possible that it keeps the sludge at bay, making it manageable by the brainwashed core.
Boomstick: You know, my own theory is kind of similar. I think it's a living Grimm around the Faunus core, and the Faunus' Silver Eyes keep its drive for destruction at bay, enabling him, brainwashed as he is, to control it.
Wiz: Either way, the combination of Silver-Eyed and Grimm proved to be incredibly dangerous.
Boomstick: Just like most Grimm are, but even more. Hell, several Grimm don't hesitate to turn tail and run whenever its near. That's right; this thing terrifies creatures the feed on fear!
- Feats
- Tracked down Oscar Pine and Penny Polendina
- Survived a blast from Ruby's Silver Eyes
- Made Grimm Sabyrs run
- Outflew HVB Rhinos
- Smashed through a wall of ice
- Defeated Oscar Pines, Yang Xiao Long, Ruby Rose
Wiz: Grimm like the Nevermore are able to smash through giant structures with 4 tons of TNT and don't think that just because the Hound is small it can't replicate the same kind of thing. Far from it actually. It was able to deplete the Auras of individuals who aught to be capable of taking hits from the Nevermore.
Boomstick: And other Grimm can keep pace with lightning timer huntsmen and huntresses.
Wiz: Smart enough to recognize the attachments people have to one another and clever enough to call on reinforcements when it has to, the Grimm truly made use of its uncanny intelligence in its short time.
Boomstick: A time that was brought to an end when it got blasted with Ruby's Silver Eyes and crushed beneath a giant suit of armor.
Wiz: But whilst its existence serves as mainly an example of just what Salem is capable of, that's only because the Hound was able to make itself such a terrifying presence in the first place.
Interlude[]
Wiz: Alright the combatants are set and we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: It's time for a Death Battle!
The Battle[]
Setting: Joey Drew Studios
The Hound prowled down the corridors of the studio, sniffing as it went, searching for the source of a mysterious stench. Its sniffing brought it to a doorway that was blocked up with wooden boards. Without seeing the Ink Machine inside of the room, the Hound sniffed at the cracks between the boards...
...and Bendy suddenly slid into its sightless view, grinning out as it with his frozen smile.
FIGHT!
The Ink Demon smashed through the wooden boards and tackled the Hound, which immediately began clawing at its aggressor's back as his charge carried them both forwards to smash through a brick wall at the end of the corridor. As the dust from the debris cleared, it revealed the two had somehow separated and were now lunging at each other in tandem. In its form canine form, the Hound gripped Bendy's shoulders whilst the latter pushed against its lower body. Bendy was the one to end the struggle, turning himself about and hurling the Hound against the wall. It hit it with a solid thump but was right back up to lung at Bendy a second time, its teeth wide open for a deadly bite. Four times it snapped its jaws in the direction of the Ink Demon's face, and on three of those Bendy merely dodged, but when the fourth got inches away from his face, he reared his head back and slammed it against the Hound's snout, leaving it snarling and shaking its head in pain. Bendy capitalized on this with a series of punches to the Grimm's face, ending with a strike that sent it skidding sideward on its claws. When Bendy lunged at it with another strike, the Hound, almost methodically, stepped backwards to let the punch pass by its head aimlessly before it clamped down on Bendy's fist, using the hold to swing him around and send him flying to crash against the wall. Before Bendy could even fall back down to earth, the Hound had clamped its jaws around his midsection; the Grimm shook the Ink Demon viciously before steadily increasing the pressure to Bendy's torso. The Ink Demon thrashed as he gripped the Hound's jaws with both hands and with all its might began to prize them apart.
Until the Hound's jaws proved stronger and it bit Bendy in half with a single sickening crunch. The pieces of Bendy fell to the ground, which was now suspiciously covered with Ink, and vanished. The Hound sniffed downwards in confusion, its senses alerting it to the fact that its foe's presence now seemed to be above it - on the equally inky ceiling. It angled its head up just as Bendy dropped down from the inky ceiling to latch onto its back. Clinging to the Grimm's back with vice-like grips, Bendy wrapped an arm around its throat to begin crushing it. The Hound snarled and bucked but was unable to loosen Bendy's hold. So it was forced to take drastic measures and changed its body, going from quadruped to bipedal. With a grunt the Hound threw itself backwards and slammed itself into the wall behind itself. Not only did this finally knock Bendy loose, but it also impaled him on its spikes. Bendy writhed and struggled against the impalements, whilst the Hound elongated one of its arms to snag the Ink Demon, tearing it off its spikes to hurl it towards a wall.
Before hitting the wall however, Bendy compelled ink to cover it and he phased through into it and reappeared through the floor beneath the Hound, upper-cutting it in the face as it went on to vanish through the ceiling. The Hound snarled and was quickly pounced upon again by Bendy coming out of another wall's ink, colliding with the rival monster. The two spun about in their grapple which sent them both out into the corridor where Bendy was tossed back by the Hound, who then closed the distance with a bound forwards and grabbed the Ink Demon's face, dragging its head across the ground whilst charging forwards and shearing it off. Upon the loss of his foe's head, the Hound left the body on the ground before turning around after a short time spent going onwards, turning to see Bendy's head reforming and him rising back to his feet. He turned about, sending out a wave of ink with a wave of his hand in the process. The wave collided with the Hound, sending it flying backwards in spite of it bracing itself. As a result, it ended up next to the adjacent hallway, which led towards the Ink Machine in its own private room. A single sniff was all the Hound needed to identify its position. It gave a low growl at Bendy before darting down the other hallway, going back into its four-legged form to dash down towards the Ink Machine, Bendy gliding over the ink on the ground after it.
As the Hound neared the Ink Machine, it lunged towards the device, intending to rip it apart. But before it could connect with its target, a massive hand shot out of the ink on the ground and slammed into the Hound, sending it flying backwards to get grabbed from behind by Bendy, who then suplexed the Grimm onto the ground behind it. Pulling away from the grounded Hound, Bendy commanded his giant hand to come up beneath the Grimm, holding it up before him. Grinning even wider, Bendy lashed out with an extra-powerful punch, but it was stopped by an additional arm shooting out from the Hound's chest, striking Bendy in the face and sending him skidding across the ground. Using an emerged hand from its back to sever the hand holding it, the Hound stalked after Bendy, going into its bipedal state. Bendy looked up at the thing bearing towards him and summoned out of the Ink a swarm of Searchers that, as one, barreled towards the Hound, swarming against it and pushing it back to the end of the corridor. With a roar, the Hound lashed out with a stretched arm, sending the Searchers flying back to smash apart all throughout the corridor. Giving a sightless glare at Bendy, the Hound roared and prepared to jump at him, before the Ink covering the ground finished its job and the floor came apart beneath its feet, sending it tumbling down into a black void.
Bendy peered down into the hole, admiring his handiwork, before the sounds of air pumping drew out his confusion before a now winged Hound burst out through the hole, grabbed the Ink Demon and slammed him into the ceiling. Then, still holding onto Bendy, the Hound dove back down through the hole, bringing the two of them into the caverns beneath the studio.
The Hound smashed Bendy into the rocky bottom of the cavern floor, the momentum of the flight down adding to the impact that left a massive crater. The Hound looked down at the motionless Bendy, who now had a body broken in nearly every area. With a snort, the Hound began flying upwards, before Bendy's contorting hand grabbed its ankle. It barked in surprise as Bendy's whole body underwent a metamorphosis, and he was soon Beast Bendy. With a roar, the newly transformed Ink Demon smashed the Hound all over the floor before hurling it through some stalactites. The Hound twirled itself as it flew, righting itself to try and stop only for Beast Bendy to tackle it to the ground. Acting quick, the Hound grabbed some of the broken pointed rocks and stabbed them into Beast Bendy's chest. The Ink Demon merely grunted before it started to slash the Hound all over its body, ending with a vicious bite to its neck which resulted in some of its gooey body getting torn out. In its place was revealed a silver single eye glaring out. Bendy's monstrous maw twisted into a smirk and he pulled his claw back, ready for a deadly strike.
But the Hound the Hound howled and as Bendy's hand shot out, a Centinel Grimm shot out of the ground and bit through it. Bendy stared at the ink-squirting stump in shock before another Centinel tore through his back and out his chest, leaving a ragged hole. Bendy coughed up ink in pain as the Hound's own injuries closed up and it grabbed the Ink Demon in its claws yet again. A single pump of its wings and the Hound brought the two of them smashing out of Joey Drew Studios and into the night sky. There, the Hound gripped the insides of Bendy's jaws and started to pull with all its might, until, in spite of Bendy's beastly-struggling, there came a wet ripping noise.
In the next seconds, Bendy's body, now missing its upper head, fell back down to earth, smashed through the studio's roof and crashed into the Ink Machine, bringing the supply of Ink to a halt. Bendy's body remained amongst the mangled machinery before dissolving as the Hound hovered overhead, watching the top half of Bendy's head also vanish.
Hound: End...for...you.
KO!
Outcome[]
Boomstick: Just goes to show the Hound's obvious advantage over Bendy; his ink stain's would be visible anywhere on it.
Wiz: Well, it's not just that reason for the Hound's victory. Whilst it is true that Bendy was by far the most dangerous creature in Joey Drew's Studios, the Hound was ultimately an even deadlier Grimm.
Boomstick: Bendy has never shown the kind of strength or speed that the Hound could scale to. Certainly nothing on the cusp of four tons of TNT or lightning dodging, even when he literally went Beast mode. Still, Bendy's connection to the Ink made him a tough feller to put down.
Wiz: Well, sure. At first glance, it's easy to presume that the seemingly endless ink could have just patched Bendy up over and over again. But when you consider he has to actually be close or in proximity to it for such a thing, it's reliability wasn't airtight, especially not against an opponent like the Hound.
Boomstick: With its super sense of smell and the intelligence to read a situation, there's no way the Hound wouldn't recognize the connection Bendy had to the Ink. I mean the guy uses it wherever he goes.
Wiz: Not all of the time though, as his time as Beast Bendy demonstrated. Still, with the Hound's deduction and strategizing skills, it could certainly figure out it needed to remove Bendy from his supply of Ink to definitively put him down. Which brings us to what is perhaps our most important point; the subject of if either one could kill the other at all, considering that Bendy can assimilate others into Ink creatures and if The End reel is really, no pun intended, the only way to kill him.
Boomstick: Firstly, the Hound's Faunus core is already covered by a gooey, slime-like substance similar to Ink, so it's possible that it could have provided a form of immunity. Even then, the Hound's greater speed and strength meant it was unlikely Bendy could get a hold long enough to subject it to any transfiguration.
Wiz: And whilst The End is what ultimately puts Bendy down, there's nothing to suggest that it's the only means to do so, outside of the possibility that everything else in the Studio was much too weak to do anything themselves. After all, all other Ink creatures can be killed and whilst Bendy is different due to lacking a soul, it is because of possessing a soul that other ink creatures are able to eventually resurrect. So essentially, Bendy's different nature was just another nail in his coffin.
Boomstick: Alongside the nails of the Hound's superior strength, speed and intelligence. Bendy has studi-no chance.
Wiz: The winner is the Hound.
Next Time[]
Commanding time
To Stand still
Jotaro Kujo vs. Kiritsugu Emiya
Trivia[]
- The connection between Bendy and the Hound is that they are both goo-bodied black and white monsters who lack eyes that were created as parts of experiments by ambitious individuals for their own goals. Both can also take on more savage and bestial forms in combat, and are feared by other creatures similar to it. Both their series are also endorsed by Rooster Teeth.
- This battle would have been in 3D
- The original music for this battle would have been called 'Grim Machinations', referring to the Hound's status as a Grimm creature and a play on Bendy's home video game