who/what is bendy?

[BonesJohnson]

is it a mindles ink being or a ACTUAL person? we dont know but we mite find out...

[Infinite]

his is own entity but not a human i think

[MR.BENDY]

Bendy is not a real figure, but it kinda represents joey drew himself. If Bendy was real it could just leave the studio and try finding Joey, but if you played chapter 5 to the ending,you might see something before after the credits

[Ink Hyaena]

He can be seen as 2 things, from theories I've been reading.

1. The tapes clearly say he is a soulless abomination that was created wrong that wandered and was locked up. Relatively harmless at the time, it seems, until he got loose later. So basically a blind mindless entity wandering the studio.

2. A representation of Joey. The throne room showing he is in charge of everything, enhanced by the image of the Demon himself actually sitting in it. A lot of people believed him to be Joey as well, given the fact he is the biggest threat and Joey was nowhere to be seen in the entire game until the very end.

[egy csík marbi]

Bendy is an animation created by Henry (our character) and sttolen by Joey Drew. Joey created the Ink Demon (Bnedy in the game) and invite us to die in the workshop. Or he wants it...maybe

[Fierce1]

There's a lot of confusion concerning this subject (seeing as Chapter 5 decided to throw the built-up lore out the window I'm not surprised). Suppoooooosedly... the Inky Bendy we encounter in the studio is a failed... doll/figure/entity that was created using the Ink Machine in an effort by Joey Drew to bring the characters to life, and supposedly this Bendy was the only one ever produced. The reason it was deemed a failure however was apparently due to it lacking a soul, yet for some reason they decided to keep trying to use the ink machine to make more but doing so caused things to basically fall apart. And 30 years later, we see the results...

HOWEVER there's plenty of questions left unanswered by the ending concerning Bendy himself:
1- If the creatures and characters created by the ink machine are just that- creatures created by the ink machine, why do some of them seemingly have memories or persona fragments of actual people from the studio if they were created seperately instead of being fusions of real people with ink?
2- If Bendy was made by the Ink Machine from scratch as just some sort of doll/figure/statue-ish entity and was alive, sure that's fine I guess, but then... Where did he get his powers from? (Powers like being able to walk through walls by opening "ink portals" at will, being nearly invincible to all physical harm, and causing the walls, ceiling, and floors to "pulse and bleed" ink wherever he is....?)
3- IF Inky Bendy had a powerful final form from the get-go, why did he wait until Henry reached his throne to finally bust it out?

[AMERICA'S NUMBER ONE SOLDIER]

From the audio logs in chapter 5 It seems like bendy was made straight frome the ink machine. You can also say the same with alice but she was made with a person Susie Campbell.

[Mimes]

a demon