Not To “babyfi” A Literal Demon But I Thought Him Being Nervous To Be Called John Was Sweet

[ID: A digital painting of Arthur in Castle Kerringford, drawn like a cover for Clue the boardgame. The painting shows Arthur standing by the common room's fire with Barnabas, as the background is overlayed with a map of the castle, showing "the hall", "the library", and "the chapel". Overtop the painting lay two dice, a ring, and two cards: one for 'the chapel', depicting a crucifixion, and one for 'the dagger' depicting a dagger. At the top of the painting is written: "The Castle" in a Clue-like font.

Details and character design: Arthur is a lean white man with stubble, scars, and yellow eyes. He wears medieval clothes the Prince's armor, and gloves. He has a skeptical look as he wipes his mouth with the back of his hand and his left hand rests on his chest. Barnabas is pale with dark eyes and hair, and wears a fur coat. He holds a tankard and eyes Arthur with suspicion. End ID.]

Mr. ______, in the Chapel, with the Dagger

Thinking a LOT about John's body and identity relating to that.

John has no ability to see himself, to conceptualize himself for a very long time. He looks down at his body and it is not his body, he is a passenger in human flesh and limbs that bend in angular, strange ways and loud clicking teeth and wet eyes and horrible, fragile red innards. He does not know his own name at the start of the podcast, knows even less of what he looks like. He finds a mask of his worshippers and cannot place the attachment he feels to it, running his hand over the face, familiar, but not knowing it is the image of his own. His name crackles through the depth of his godhood when he first reads it, but even then he is fractured, lost, grasping helplessly for the ability to understand what the sensation means.

By the time we reach season 2, he knows what The King looks like, enough to guess they likely share some similarity of form, but it is not a form John belongs in anymore.

When he is ripped out from Arthur's body, is he given another form to hold? Is he spread thin into nothingness; empty vocal chords and fear, or does he slip back into his old one; formerly familiar tendrils and masks and golden yellow? Does it still feel familiar, or does it now feel foreign – his own body stretching in ways he had forgotten it could, missing the simplicity of Arthur's flesh containing him? Is it freeing? Is it terrifying?

Is it his true form that experiences the Dark World again, that falls, that suffers suffers suffers begs for any deal to release him– what body meets terror there?

Does he know the shape of himself by season 3? 4? By the time he sees Yellow pull himself from Larson, magnificently filling space with horror and madness, by the time John follows suite? It makes me mad to think that it takes four seasons for John to be seen by any eyes, and even then, what does he look like there?

Does he have any control of the image he projects? Does he project the image of himself that he envisions as a protector? A friend? Has he crafted that image, that version of himself? How similar does it look to the version of himself that haunted the Dark World alone?

What does John look like? And how long has he known?

YOU do the math, who’s looking at you

it is. done.

Didn't we fucking all.

[ID copied from ALT: a digital illustration of Arthur Lester standing in the rain. he looks upset. John, manifesting part of his crown and seeming to grow larger, lifts his hand and looks at it while shadowy claws appear. he says "I have more... options." Arthur and John are connected by golden thread around the neck and left hand.

A digital illustration of Arthur Lester and John Doe with Alexander the owl. Arthur is laughing and smiling with his head falling back. John looks embarrassed. Alexander stands neutrally on a wooden beam. He is a large horned owl with big yellow eyes, staring at the pair. John and Arthur are connected by loose gold threads around their necks. End ID.]

A malevolent entity realizing he can gain more autonomy by threatening yours-> he does not know what an owl is

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Nonverbal communication :0

Do not fear the dark, fear what darkness brings

[ID: Several drawings of Arthur Lester and John Doe from Malevolent, from the chest up. Arthur is portrayed as a midsized white man with short, disheveled brown hair that is hanging partially over his face. He has some stubble and wears a brown sweater over a gray button down. His eyes are yellow.

The first drawing shows Arthur in profile with a neutral expression, with John depicted as an audio wave over his head. The second drawing depicts John as a floating disembodied mouth with sharp yellow teeth. Arthur has his eyes shut and yells: "You tried to kill me!!" to which John yells back: "Get over it!!"

The third drawing shows John as disembodied teeth again, this time making a confused expression as he says "Why are you so happy. We almost died." Arthur is smiling, his hair swept out of his face as he answers: "I get to move forward. It's brilliant!" The final drawing depicts John as a large negative black space in the shape of sharp teeth, with the inner maw bright yellow. He is large enough to entirely surround Arthur as he yells "Arthur, RUN." Arthur gasps in horror and looks back over his shoulder in panic. In his eyes there is a small audio wave where his pupil should be. End ID.]

listening to malevolent 💛 this podcast makes me want gnaw off my arm 🥰

been experimenting with some designs for these two. I picture Arthur very clearly but still debating how to depict John 🤔🤔

[Doodle of Arthur and John from Malevolent. Arthur has his eyes closed, kissing the back of his left hand. his right arm is wrapped around him. He says: “thank you, John.” Next to him is John, represented by a shapeless fog, wide eyed and blishing, stammering: “Arthur. Jesus Christ. Arthur is a white man with shoulder-length hair, wearing a dress shirt under a jumper. End ID]

little doodle for @dickwheelie :} i feel like this would make John just blue screen tbh dgjsdf