BATIM x Reader (Bendy and the Forgotten Dream: AU)

A/N for 1000 Reads!

This gorgeous piece of art is by Cloud the Cat on Batim Amino XD

Hello everyone! Welcome back to another author's note by, well, me obviously lmao. Normally I don't like to do these too much because I personally know seeing 50 author's notes in fanfictions annoys me. I know you all want more of the story and so do I with other fanfics- in fact I'm working on Chapter 10 right now- But at the same time if there's just a bunch of chapters it makes me seem.... antisocial? As someone online? Kinda too serious? Idk, either way I wanted to put this in so it didn't seem that way.

First of all... Thank You!!! That's right- you! For reading this far first of all and taking your time to enjoy my story. Over 1000 of you people out there chose to read at least the tiniest bit of this book in some way and that means a lot to me. A lot. Seriously! I don't write just for votes and likes and reads and features because I do genuinely have fun writing this, but your support is appreciated peeps uvu

Second, I thought at this point I should tell you all what the story is about... in a way. I would kinda hope you semi read the description and know what it's about mainly, but I mean why I chose to make it, wrote it, etc.

So basically it has to go back to 2017, when Bendy and the Ink Machine actually came out. Now, due to me being a huge baby because of my friend showing me FNAF in 2015 and causing me to have at least 7 nightmares which still come back sometimes to this day.. I was scared af of all things horror related. If I saw a picture of Springtrap I was literally staring at it and freaking out thinking I was gonna die. I was very very wimpy when it came to night falling too lmao. But Batim intrigued me too much for me to quit watching it. I think back then I either saw the first chapter playthrough on either Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, or DanTDM's channel. Yeah, I was... me. I watched DanTDM back then don't jUDgE mE-

The kind of funny thing is I thought Batim was older because younger me didn't like checking when videos came out. And I actually liked the game! And if you've been a fan of the game for a while you'll remember how long it took for Chapter 4 to come out, right? Since it was being updated and everything. I basically forgot about Batim and thought I just pushed it aside for so long and Chapter 4 came out sooner because if I'm being honest 2017 was probably the most stressful year of my life. More than this year actually lmao, but anyway-

I was still terrified of horror stuff by the time Colossal Wonders came out and I remember watching it like 6 ft away from the computer XDDD
But I definitely loved the game! The lore, the ideas behind it, everything. And dark Disney stuff didn't even interest me before really. But I guess I just developed a love for the game overtime..? Anyway, I love this fandom. The most, actually, out of the others. And over time I got a lot of ideas for what I thought would be an "epic" story for Batim. Mainly that was from Watching TayaKnight's animatics of Batim, you should check them out! Look up "Ready as I'll Ever Be Batim" on Youtube and "Good For You Batim" on YouTube and you'll see the gorgeous masterpieces that inspired me. What mainly also inspired me to make this story was... well, I wanted to also make something I considered to be my dream fanfiction. But don't worry, I still have a lot of ideas for other things.

And now we're here! Thank you so much for reading my explanation of this book in my messy ways lol
Hope you have an awesome rest of your day/night! 🌹
-Natalie