Gent Corporation/novel

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This article refers to the contracting firm. For other uses, see Gent (disambiguation).

"Gent. It's a contracting firm based here with offices all over the Eastern Seaboard." — Allison Pendle, about Gent.

The Gent Corporation, simply known as Gent (stylized as GENT), is an American corporation and a contracting firm based out of Atlantic City, New Jersey, and has offices across the Eastern Seaboard. The company is known for publishing installments, including tools and machinery, for a wide plethora of purposes, mostly utility and other menial tasks. Adjacent to that, the company's dark and disturbing side reveals itself to be abducting people in poverty for malicious experiments to turn them into ink-made monsters for scientific research.

History

Early life

The Gent Corporation was a contracting firm originally founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The only piece of direct involvement with Joey Drew Studios is a sponsorship of the animation studio's Construction Corruption cartoon, after which a partnership with Joey Drew Studios was established.

Afterward, Gent installed many contraptions to the studio; including the Ink Makers that used specialized ink to create items out of nothing.

Partnership with the studio

During the partnership, Gent became a primary actor in Joey Drew Studios' maintenance and inner workings. Ultimately, the firm was commissioned by studio president Joey Drew to build a machine that would bring cartoons to life. With the design of manager and engineer Thomas Connor, they invented the Ink Machine at the Gent headquarters, Atlantic City. The machine was installed in the Joey Drew Studios building on Broadway, Manhattan. However, after the Ink Demon's failure, Joey stole the machine using patent ownership. He kept the machine and temporarily fired Thomas Connor from Joey Drew Studios. Meanwhile, Gent expanded their operations and established offices along the Eastern Seaboard.

In fall 1946, after the Ink Machine was deemed broken, Thomas Connor—now rehired—and a group of movers retrieved the machine to Atlantic City. Due to Gent's unique facilities and connections in Atlantic City, the repairs would presumably be easier. In Atlantic City, Gent used an abandoned meatpacking factory from the Prohibition era to keep the Ink Machine.

In October 1946, Bill Chambers was hired as an intern employee for the Gent headquarters. However, Bill, Constance Gray, and Brant Morris took apart components of the Ink Machine to be disposed of after discovering its malicious purpose. Despite this, it is implied that Gent and Joey successfully captured and silenced the perpetrators, including Gent handyman Scott, who previously had gone insane.

Reclaiming of assets

After Joey Drew Studios closed down in 1948, the Gent Corporation took back the Ink Machine and the experiments from the studio to continue its research. The firm gathered multiple people in poverty to the Gent factory and placed them into dorms. Gent gave the test subjects injections that led to painful transmutations into ink-infected human forms. Archie Carter was the only test subject to escape the factory after the dorms began being locked at night. What happened to the remaining test subjects is unknown. Gent's ultimate goal with experimentation was to "bridge the divide", linking the ink realm to the real world.

Shutdown

In October 1952, the Gent Corporation, along with the factory, was shut down, allowing Joey to reclaim the Ink Machine and the experiments from the firm to continue the work left off by Gent.

Employees

There are currently 5 known members of the corporation altogether.

• Thomas J. Connor (Manager, Ink Machine handler)
• Scott (Handyman; unknown date–1946)
• William Chambers (Intern employee, handyman; October–November 1946)
• Evan (Unknown; unknown date–October 1952)

Test subjects

• Archie Carter (Unknown date–unknown date)
• Numerous other unnamed research subjects

Branded material

The Gent Corporation possesses or distributes multiple branded material, such as contraptions and tools, including;

• Ink Machine - A large machine that not only produces ink but is powered by it.
• Flashlight - A tool used while exploring in darker areas.
• Pipe - Three pieces of Gent-branded piping fashioned together to form an improvised bludgeon. Originally a part used inside the Ink Machine.
• Valve panel - A panel consisting of three tubes filled with ink. To make the lids unlockable for obtaining the valve cores, the ink's measurement from all three tubes must reach to black circles in the middle.
• Elevator - The main transportation. Its function is opening and closing the gates, along with transporting to different levels.
• Ink Maker - A machine requiring thick ink to create various items, such as a mug, gear, radio, bone, Gent pipe, and plunger.
• Vaults - The vaults are used throughout for the Archives and the cavern.
• Measuring tape - In the Construction Corruption comic, Bendy is seen using Gent-branded measuring tape to take measurements in an attempt to build a cedar birdhouse.
• Handsaw - In the Construction Corruption comic, Bendy is seen using a Gent-branded hand saw to cut pieces of Cedar wood in half before being interrupted by Charley.
• Trucks - The Gent Corporation workers are shown to possess their personal Gent trucks. They are said to be early models with the "GENT" branding written on their side.
• Name tags - The Gent employees possess name tags. They contain the employee's name alongside the company's, stylized as "GENT".

Offices and facilities

As a contracting firm, Gent had offices all across the Eastern Seaboard of the United States. The corporate offices are located in different cities while there are also different types of facilities that are owned by Gent, including:

• Gent factory - An office located presumably in New York City, which is a factory building where Gent gathered their volunteered test subjects for experimentation. The factory was shut down alongside the company in October 1952.
• Gent headquarters - The headquarters of Gent in Atlantic City that was behind an empty storefront with dusty windows. Most of the early workers moved to offices in bigger cities later on.
• Prohibition factory - An old facility in Atlantic City that was used by bootleggers during Prohibition for alcohol bootlegging. Upon taking it in October 1946, the Gent company stored various sensitive items in the factory.

Behind the scenes

The Gent Corporation is the antagonistic corporation of the novel series. It was first mentioned in Bendy: Dreams Come to Life, appeared in Bendy: The Lost Ones, and acted as an overarching antagonist in Bendy: Fade to Black.

Gallery

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  The warranty of the Gent Corporation.

Dialogue

• "Gent Corporation Warranty

A Special Promise to Our Customers

At Gent Corporation, we strive to make the best products possible for our customers. With quality craftsmanship, friendly staff, and expert machinists, we're certain you'll be satisfied with our products and service. If you follow our service manual to the letter and suffer a malfunction with your Gent device, we will be happy to send one of our qualified staff members to assist you, for as long as it takes to make things right. The warranty is valid for ten years of service, no matter the issue, big or small!

See also

• Gent storefront, the company's headquarters in Atlantic City.
• Gent factory, the company's office likely in New York City.