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?
My first fanart of ✨them✨
The spark of every fireplace
[ID copied from ALT:
1: screenshotted tumblr post by @bOnkcreat. text: babygirl is a beautiful name for a bloody traumatized man
2: screenshotted tweet by Skoi @e4rthgrl. text: what if we are both red flags what then
3: a black and white drawing of someone sitting cross-legged reading a book in nature. text surrounds them, reading "Did You Know? You can read a book of dark, forbidden knowledge practically anywhere!"
4: a still of Brian David Gilbert, staring directly into the camera as he points to flashcards on the wall behind him. he is wearing glasses and has a moustache. he's half-smiling. subtitle: And getting possessed, which is a classic mistake.
5: screenshotted tweet by Beans After Dark @goodbeanalt. text: ur fighting ur demons im crying in mine's arms
6: screenshotted tiktok, which cuts off all but the top of the creator's head. overlaid text: I accidentally bumped into a lady once and apologized. She responded with "oh don't apologize to me, I'm actually like a really awful person" and walked away. I think about that interaction randomly all the time
7: a text conversation between the sender (Blue) and the receiver, whose contact is labelled "Bae ❤️". BAE: Babe close your eyes ❤️ BLUE: okay ❤️ BAE: What do you see? ❤️ BAE: Babe? ❤️ BAE: Do you see anything?❤️ BAE: Babe? ❤️ BAE: Hello? ❤️
8: screenshotted tweet by ely kreimendahl @ElyKreimendahl. text: "this too shall pass" ok but could it pass a little more quickly
9: screenshotted tumblr post by @soapoey. text: *clearly covered in blood and guts but trying to act normal* Ok. Maybe i did awaken my inner beast. So what. Fuck you guys.
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Shitty Arthur Lester aesthetic: everyone always wants to be the narrative's favourite until it turns out that this is actually not a good thing for them. this goes double for when the narrative is lovecraftian in nature. guess what buddy there is yet more plot coming your way and it's in the form of tentacles, cults, and intestines
working out a kayne design - he's lowkey based off jim carrey bc i think he emotes similarly
[Start ID: Two sketches of Kayne from Malevolent. Kayne is a thin man with dark eyes and dark hair. He's wearing a black suit with a collared shirt and tie in the first then a bowtie and ribbed shirt in the second. His hair is neatly pulled back into a small low bun with a couple stray hairs sticking out at his forehead. He has pronounced cheek lines, smile lines as well as forehead and eye wrinkles. In the first sketch Kayne is tilting his head up and to the left, his mouth is open with a toothy smirk. In these second sketch Kayne is in a similar position but holding up an eyeball between his fingers. End ID.]
an embrace on the staircase - a meeting on the turret stairs
hi! is there any chance you have a drawing of your oscar in color? couldn't find it and i need it for.. reasons (reference) no worries if not tho!
surprisingly no! (well, not Yet) BUT here’s a quick thing I did for ya for color refs <3 they don’t have to be 1 for 1 accurate either go crazy
This scene tickles me
Also I am 100% not ready for the season finale
a malevolent fanart? on a blog with a malevolent reference in the username? it may seem unlikely.
(doctor who quote my beloved)
[id: a coloured image of arthur lester from malevolent, drawn waist up. he is a white man with short brown hair and a moustache, wearing a white shirt with some red splashes. his skin is covered in scars which resemble cartoonish yellow stars and his left pinky is wooden. he is gently kissing his left hand while standing half-turned back to the viewer. next to him a text in big white letters reads “do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?”. the background is yellow. end id]
[ID copied from alt: A digital painting of Parker from the chin down. He is standing in front of a bathroom mirror with one hand on the sink and holding a razor in the other. Shaving supplies are piled along the back of the sink. In the background of the mirror is a doorway, and through that we can see Arthur sitting at his piano, staring distractedly at Parker with a blush on his cheeks.]
do you think parker and arthur ever—
This was inspired by a discussion in the Dreamlands server of Parker being Arthur’s gay awakening as they shared that tiny apartment.
details under the cut!
I started this last October and Procreate tells me i spent 45 hours on it 😭 i feel like my rendering skills were completely different at the start from what they became by the end
Malevolent blog dedicated to accessibility in fanworks 💛! || read my pinned || free Palestine || [Icon ID: A digital drawing of John Doe as a figure in a yellow hooded robe with a cracked mask for a face. Teeth protrude diagonally from his mask. End ID.]
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