Joey sighed quietly in frustration. Alice had been so close, even if he had to use both of her actresses, but yet so far. His attempt at a Bendy was laughable, as he didn't want to use himself as a host and Sammy was smart enough to avoid both Joey's office and anything that had anything to do with the ink machine. His last shot was making a perfect Boris.
But who was he supposed to use?
At first he'd thought of Wally Franks, but quickly realized that he was too annoying to be a good Boris. Then his mind went back to Sammy, but there was the aforementioned problem with that, as well as the fact that the music director lent himself far easier to Bendy, even though the overalls the cartoon wolf wore had been a cue taken from him. What about Norman? No, Sammy would miss him too much and start complaining even more than usual. After that there was the idea of using someone expendable, like Grant Cohen, Thomas Conner, or Shawn Flynn, but he wanted this one to be as good as possible. He'd thought of using Henry, but he'd have to somehow lure him back to the studio after only a few years of departure, while the animator's parents were surely still alive.
Then it hit him. He could use Murray Hill.
Murray Hill was almost a perfect fit- intimidatingly tall and a loner, the man almost never spoke, often attempting to duck out of conversations by claiming the ink machine was running louder than usual or that he thought a pipe had broken again, rushing off as fast as he could to be rid of the situation, usually hitting his head on the comparatively short doorframe. He even knew how to play clarinet. And best of all? He worked the nightshift, making it so that he almost never interacted with anyone, usually being too tired to realize when people were talking to him.
Yes, that could work. And if it didn't work right off the bat...
Well, he'd just have to make it work.
a/n- Soooo, in case you haven't noticed, everything in these oneshots will probably be incorrect by the time the final chapter is released. Oh well, I'm sticking with it, at least for now.
My main AU