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| “ | Alright, Joey. I'm here. Let's see we can find what you wanted me to see. | „ |
| ~ Henry's first words in the first chapter and final words in the last. |
"Henry Stein" is the main protagonist of the Bendy franchise. He is an ink recreation of a former animator and co-founder of Joey Drew Studios, created by the studio's titular owner to live out his revenge fantasies on the real man.
Appearance[]
Henry appears to be an aged sepia toned man, wearing a jacket with rolled up sleeves, jeans that are stained with ink, a light shirt with a loose tie, and wore black shoes. On his face, he has bags under his eyes, likely due to lack of sleep.
Personality[]
Henry is a soft-spoken man, and rarely expresses emotions stronger than minor shock and/or annoyance upon experiencing the events of the cycle.
Outside of him having skills in animation, he also uses art to cope: he makes small doodles while being in the cycle. It can be seen in Bendy and the Ink machine chapter 5 (when he's imprisoned by Allison Angel and Tom) and in Bendy and the Dark Revival (when he's imprisoned by The Keepers)
When Henry does talk, he mostly focuses on his objectives instead of talking about what he has on his mind; In Bendy and the Ink Machine chapter 5 his ally, Allison Angel, is the one who usually talks.
Henry is portrayed as somewhat sarcastic. He's also shown to be proud of being important in the studio's past (judging on his comment from Bendy and the ink machine chapter 1)
He prefers to look for compromise and avoid conflict when it's possible, which can be seen with him becoming Twisted Alice's "Little Errand Boy".
He also has a caring side which was shown with him cooking soup for Boris the wolf and making sure that he won't get lost in the dark.
Boris the wolf is important character to Henry's arc. In one of tapes that were used to promote Bendy and the ink machine chapter 5 Henry expresses that his presence was comforting and made the cycle look less hopeless.
Through the events of Bendy and the Ink Machine he's determinated to fullfil his two main goals: try to save Boris the Wolf from Twisted Alice and try to find the way to leave the cycle (both failed)
In Bendy and the Dark Revival while talking to Audrey Drew he acknowledges that he did figured out that he's not a human (Bendy and the Ink Machine has hinted on this a couple of times; Henry didn't had this knowledge in the original cycle)
After years of trying to change something (and being forced to do so by Joey Drew) & experiencing 414 cycles Henry's attitude has changed to more pessimistic.
History[]
Past[]
"Henry" is an ink recreation of an artist and former best friend of Joey Drew, created as a way to torment him as revenge for the real Henry abandoning Joey to spend more time with his wife. He was originally the main point of the Cycle, with it existing solely to torment him.
Bendy and the Ink Machine[]
Chapter 1: Moving Pictures[]
Henry arrives to Joey Drew Studios after receiving a letter from Joey that he needs to see something, and upon entering the workshop, his task is to locate the Ink Machine and then activate it. As he restored the ink pressure and switch it on, Henry then goes back to the Ink Machine room, only to be jumpscared by Ink Bendy. He now tries to get out of the workshop, but falls down in a trapdoor into a secret room that leads to a place called the Pentagram Room. Once Henry goes there, he then felt an unknown tremor alongside with flashbacks before collapsing into unconsciousness.
Chapter 2: The Old Song[]
Still being in the Pentagram Room, Henry regained consciousness and started to find a new exit out. Along the way, he has to find a sanctuary found by Sammy Lawrence, the former music director at the Workshop, as an objective. Later, he was knocked out again and kidnapped by an ink creature. This ink creature is revealed to be Sammy himself, who took Henry to a room to sacrifice him to Ink Bendy, the Ink Demon. However, he was presumably killed by the latter in the procedure, and Henry managed to escape the Ink Demon. He locked the door from behind before entering a vault to meet a perfect creation of Boris the Wolf.
Chapter 3: Rise and Fall[]
Henry wakes up from sleep in the safe room, somewhere that Boris has apparently been living and hiding from the Ink Demon in. After a quick meal and opening the door, Henry travels with Boris into the depths of the studio.
Henry discovers the entrance to Heavenly Toys, a merchandising section of the studio that he has no memory of. Wading through the machines and discarded plush toys, he stumbles into a room dedicated to displaying the shorts and toys of Alice Angel, one of the studio's characters. As Alice's signature theme song begins to play, Henry is startled by the appearance of an inky and half-deformed woman, screaming that her name is also "Alice Angel". After she questions whether Henry is fit to walk among the angels, Henry reunites with Boris and the two search for her while escaping the disfigured forms of the Butcher Gang.
Entering Twisted Alice's den, Henry and Boris discover numerous corpses of other cartoons all over, many of them being copies of Boris with their hearts removed. Alice explains that she has been taking pieces from the other failed cartoon creations in order to make herself "perfect". Claiming that she will help Henry escape if he does favors for her, she sends him out into the complex to find items for her.
Along the way, Henry must avoid the Ink Demon, who frequently appears without warning and whenever Henry makes too much noise running. Henry can only escape him by hiding inside the Little Miracle Stations scattered through the halls, or closes the gate after entering the elevator. He also discovers the fate of Norman Polk, the former projectionist of the studio who has literally turned into his job role as an ink monster with a projector for a head.
A hidden audio log from the real Henry, recorded only two weeks after the studio opened, can also be found. It confirms that Henry helped to set up the studio with Joey as a co-founder. He complains that Joey is only an "ideas man" rather than a worker and that the constant flow of work has kept him away from his wife, Linda. The diary ends with Henry remarking that he's come up with a new character that he thinks people will love.
After doing Alice's bidding and finding her required items, she allows Henry to enter the elevator and ascend to the surface. However, just before he reaches the top, Alice betrays him and sends the lift falling, screaming that she knows who Henry is and why he came back, yelling that the Boris travelling with him is the most perfect one she has seen, and that she needs his insides to become beautiful.
Shortly after the elevator crashes on Level S, Boris starts trying to wake Henry up. Although Alice soon arrives from the hallway, then snatches Boris into the darkness by force and Henry is left unconscious in the broken remains of the elevator.
Chapter 4: Colossal Wonders[]
Directly after Alice takes Boris away from Henry, He wakes up in Level S where the elevator crashed. Henry now has to save Boris from Alice before she takes him apart.
After getting up from the incident, Henry finds the entrance for the Archives, but the valve for the door is missing so he has to find it. Once Henry finds the valve, he places it in the bolt and opens the door to find a stage where some of the Lost Ones are stuck in a pose. Henry then turns around the stage and goes into the library where he gets a sudden memory flashback from the past. Henry then pushes some books back inside, that were falling out, and they somehow open a door to a secret passage.
Henry comes across a bridge, as he follows it, he notices that the lever for the bridge is missing a few pieces. Henry grabs a small Ink Blob and uses it in an Ink Maker and makes a cog, which he uses to repair the lever. Henry then uses the bridge to get to the other side.
As Henry enters through a door, he gets another vision flashing to him. In the vision, lots of ink covered arms are pleading for help. As Henry gets through the hallway, he sees another bridge area, and Alice notices him coming up the bridge.
Chapter 5: The Last Reel[]
Henry awakes in Allison Angel and Tom's safehouse, listening to a song that Allison was singing as she paints ink messages on the wall. Henry starts talking to her, then she says that she doesn't remember her name and that people call her Alice, and she states that she is no angel. When Henry wakes up, he sees Tom being asked by Allison to keep an eye on Henry as she leaves. After that, he sits on a chair and begins to hit his robotic arm with an axe, silently threatening him. In the next scene, Allison gives Henry some Bacon Soup in a bowl after stating that is the only thing edible that she could find and that she thinks that Henry might be hungry. After she leaves, Tom breaks it by shoving it onto the floor and begins to publicly show his dislike for Henry. After that, Tom leaves to confront Ink Bendy. In the next scene, Allison scolds Tom for his reckless actions, while Allison repairs his mechanical arm, stating that it's just a matter of time before Ink Bendy finds them. After that, he and Allison realize that the Ink Demon is right outside their base. Allison stated that they can't just leave Henry there, but Tom refuses to listen. Allison tries to break the wooden planks that Henry is trapped behind, but Tom places a gentle hand on Allison's shoulder, silently reassuring her that she did all she could.
Henry then uses the device that Allison gave to him to find a secret room in the prison and finds a Gent Pipe that he uses to break the plates in the door. Henry then escapes his prison, traversing through a series of tunnels where he is attacked by multiple Searchers. Henry then witnesses Allison and Tom departing on a barge across the Inky River. Henry follows in pursuit and boards the second barge, forced to navigate his way through while avoiding the giant hand that emerges from the ink and chases him. Henry arrives at the Lost Ones' Village, where he encounters the now-insane Sammy Lawrence, who escaped Ink Bendy, and was violently attacked. After knocking off Sammy's mask, Henry is thrown to the ground by Sammy and was almost killed. Fortunately, Tom sneaks up behind Sammy and digs his axe into Sammy's head, killing him for good. Henry, Tom and Allison then proceed to fight a horde of Searchers and Lost Ones. After an intense battle, Allison cuts down a door and the three continue on. Not long after, they come across an unstable-looking set of planks. Henry starts to cross them, but the plank breaks and falls down. He lands in the administration maze area and realizes he needs to obtain three pipes from the maze of offices and hallways. Within these halls, the Butcher Gang (having left Bendy Land) are lurking and searching for Henry, much to his dismay. He sneaks past them collecting the Ink and bringing it back to the Ink Maker where he constructs three pipe pieces. After he has fixed the ink circulation, Henry proceeds to the Vault.
As he enters the Vault, Allison and Tom arrive after descending the chasm, using Allison's trusty rope. Henry reveals that he is going to Ink Bendy's lair, which was where the Ink Machine was descending to, causing Allison to reluctantly agree. The three of them follow to the Ink Machine to a path that resembles the starting location from Chapter 1 (with Henry's old desk) and encounters Ink Bendy, who slowly walks by a hall with a wall made of glass. Henry is forced to enter the Ink Machine alone because of the ink river that surrounds the machine, which would cause Allison and Tom to die. Before parting ways, Henry admits to Allison that he has no idea why he is in this.
After entering the machine, Henry finds a throne room where Joey Drew's final audio log to him is located. During the log, Joey seemly communicates to Henry, saying that Henry is their last hope in stopping Ink Bendy and saving the lost souls. At the end of this, Joey reveals to Henry that although Ink Bendy saw the beginning of the Bendy show, he never saw how it ended. Henry takes a reel named "The End" and encounters Ink Bendy. He undergoes a gruesome transformation into a beast version of himself that attacks Henry. Henry then runs from this new form of Ink Bendy from all over the Ink Machine, turning on switches and breaking tubes where ink flows by. Henry returns to the throne room, where he places "The End" in a projection that makes all the screens change into the final, lost episode of the Bendy show. Beast Bendy is then caught by the reel and a strange and strong light coming from the projector, killing it once and for all.
Henry ends up in Joey Drew's apartment, where he talks to his old friend that says how Henry has a perfect family and he only has a ruined empire, how he ended up doing terrible things to his studio, his workers, and himself, and how Henry's acts finally convinced him to do the right thing. He states that Henry might see how the studio ended after all those years and Henry opens a door, where he reenters the studio, going back to Chapter 1.
In a post-credits cutscene, the camera zoom from across the other side of Joey's kitchen to a nearby photo frame of Bendy, Boris, and Alice, with Henry's signature, revealing Henry's surname to be Stein. Shortly after, a young voice of Joey's niece was heard telling Joey to tell her another story.
Bendy and the Dark Revival[]
Somewhere within the Cycle, Henry was captured by Wilson Arch’s minions, known as the Keepers, and locked away for an unknown amount of time (though, it has been years). All he has is his drawing board, and his memories. He remembers his name, and the way to reset the cycle. He meets Audrey Drew, and after explaining some things, states how to reset the Cycle, before going back to drawing.
In the final chapter, Henry helps Audrey, who has fused with the Ink Demon, find the tape needed to defeat the ink creature.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Before the release of Bendy and the Dark Revival, pretty much everyone believed that the Henry we played as was the real Henry, with only the sequel revealing he's a recreation of Henry.
- It's implied that Henry eventually figured out he's a copy due to asking Audrey if someone is human after not eating for years.
External Sources[]
- Henry Stein on the Pure Good Wiki
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