#madness combat the machine

[arandanoedgy]

Emplolings

Little round Employers with small paws to walk

[capribornio]

This is going to be disorganized as fuck, I don't actually have a point, but I just rewatched MPN Story Mode and I'm going crazy, so I'm going to word vomit on this post

Ok so we all know the meeting scene between Jeb, Doc & Hank, right?

Fantastic scene, go watch it if you haven't (and if you did, rewatch it. It's just great). Anyway.

So, one thing from that is that we get this

So, ghoulish huh? A quick search on Merriam Webster tells me:

1: : a legendary evil being that robs graves and feeds on corpses

2: one suggestive of a ghoul

especially : one who shows morbid interest in things considered shocking or repulsive

Which... interesting. Of course, we already knew this, didn't we? After all, we had Krinkels' poster:

Bit hard to see, but right under NOT A DOCTOR, where I marked it, says: MORE OF A GHOUL

So that's curious, right? But, well, nothing too out of the ordinary. I mean, ofc Doc would have morbid interests, absolutely nothing surprising in Nevada.

EX - FUCKING - CEPT

You see, usually in the stage before a flashback cutscene, we have something slightly leading up to it. Hofnarr notes before a Hofnarr flashback, meeting Jeb before a Jeb flashback, etc. You get the point.

...But the stage right before this is The Last Leg, a Deimos & Sanford stage. Now, the other stages before this one did have plenty of Christoff's back and forth notes against Dr Crackpot. ...But there's none in this chapter. In fact, the only not-S&D main character is Tricky, who is notably absent from the flashback.

And here's where it gets weird.

Because The Last Leg is only focused on introducing robot enemies. The only note we have is from an employee, complaining about the things turning against them:

They are specifically complaining about insolvents:

(From the Merriam-Webster site again)

1

a: unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business

b: having liabilities in excess of a reasonable market value of assets held

2

: insufficient to pay all debts

(Bolding mine)

What it is to say, they are more dangerous than they are useful.

Alright, but what does this have to do with the flashback?

Well you see, The Last Leg has a boss fight. Against something, very, very interesting:

VERY interesting design, isn't is? Red eyes, fucked up mouth, a black mohawk...

Ok, ok, but surely I'm reaching. I mean, what could this thing have in connection with Doc at all?

...Oh.

Yep. This enemy shares design, as well as a ghoulish connection to 2BDamned.

In fact, in concepts designs (from the wiki):

Earlier concepts of the Ghoul depict it as a feral Mag zombie, and then later on a quadrupedal Mag unit with cybernetic augmentations. Early concept images assigned him the subclass of "Carrion Eater"[1]. This, combined with how early concept artwork of it depicts it holding a corpse with it's head eaten, implied that it would have eaten corpses in the middle of battle.

And sure enough, it's the first definition of ghoul.

All of this? Means the connection to the flashback wasn't neither Jeb nor Hank. It was Doc.

So. What the fuck does this mean? Well, first of all, fuck me if I know. This is the bare facts, and I hope anyone besides me can gather anything from this, because I'm stumped.

...Sort of.

You see, I have another connection to make. This one, I recognize I might be reaching (but then, maybe I'm not?) (Idk man)

After all, as we come to find out from Arena Mode, Doc is very much meddling in the godly affairs of Nevada.

And, well. Those are Nevada's gods. The Maker, who's Doc benefactor, and...

The Machine.

And now, I'd like to point out your attention to the fact that, while I called the enemies in The Last Leg robots, the only way they're called in game is...

(From the Insolvents log)

And the only other time (as far as I remember, correct me if I'm wrong) we fight waves of robots, and the final boss is a giant robot is...

(also, notice the Grand Steward has a grunt-like face with its faceplates closed off)

...when we meet The Machine itself.

So. Once again, what the fuck does this mean?

Ultimately, I just don't know, really. But I have a very strong feeling there is something very, very important we don't truly know about Doc's connection to the Machine.

[flameofthescorpion]

mmmm i love posting old art-. Anyway want my version of a nevadean form of the Grand Steward? no? well now you have it anyway because i fucking love that angry metallic crab. It moreso really works like an "avatar" like a videogame, it can possess this body to move around outside the Nowhere and stuff-

Also i saw the reblog haze recently, and if you see this (idk if youll do or not ._.) - idk how to respond yet im very new to tumblr as i mostly post on Insta- but ahhhhh thank you thank you thank you <33 it made my day as soon as i woke up and saw the notifications <3

[ecliip]

been listening to miracle musical lately. does anyone see the vision!!!

[mark-demolition]

[hankintime]

bendy and the ink + madness combat

I need to learn how to draw bendy

[yourlowkeyidiot3]

Anyone else who absolutely HATES when people characterize ONLY HANK as an 100% evil psychopath murderer but then make the others seem soft??? Like okay do whatever you want with how you characterize them but why make Hank the ONLY bad one?? They all have killed hundreds, and they also enjoy doing it!! Deimos and Doc are killing their fromer colleagues!! Sanford is wanted for TORTURE for fucks sake! Hank's not the only one who's done terrible things. They all have.

[nevadakincentral]

Hank stimboard with heavy machinery for @fightingtrim.

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[n1ckelpistol]

Hank's psyche deteriorating throughout the show, driving him away from any hobbies and activities he signed up for previously. Dying so many times it doesn't matter which version of him is revived because any of them is violent enough to carry on with the killing. Doing what comes natural. Man I don't fucking know

[mark-erre]

[guard-en]

You've Got Mail! @killing-machine

[arandanoedgy]

the best siblings

[stuffy-just-doodles]

If I could put any fictional character I know to put in Genshin Impact, I'd pick... Hank J. Wimbleton!

It's wishful thinking if im being honest -

I might make some for other characters in madness combat it was pretty fun to do jxjxjxjxjsksk -

Also, heres a constellation :)

I couldn't think of anything ° _ °

[questintheskies]

Eddie picks Tomohiro Ishii!

[mersei47]

my 2022 madness day art finished

[mark-demolition]

He's gonna experience one heck of a ride!