John Doe - Blog Posts

Guys you are going to love what my brother made me on art class!!!!

Decided to draw my take on a human John Doe (and he’s chibi because I said so >:3)

“Arthur” John’s warm soft voice echoed into the ragged depths of Arthur’s broken soul, soothing scars and promising that which he had long denied himself being worthy of: love.

Image description: There is a single black and white digital illustration of Arthur and John. Arthur is standing facing forward his head raised, expression relaxed and smiling every so slightly, eyes closed. John is standing close behind him, so close his cloak is draped around Arthur’s shoulders. His left arm is curved around Arthur’s shoulder and he is cradling Arthur’s jaw in the palm of his hand. He is kissing Arthur’s crown eyes looking down fondly.

guy that has seen one movie and is so annoying about it

mini malevolent meme dump

I just know if John could manifest without killing him, Arthur “walking off cliffs is my favorite hobby” Lester would be scruffed 24/7.

Commissions & Tip Jar

[ID: Several black and white digital drawings depicting Arthur, John, and Noel. Arthur is drawn as a skinny man with light hair, Noel is drawn as a more muscular man with darker skin and hair, and John is depicted as a grey cloaked figure with long dark hair, a large light eye, and light eyelashes.

1. Arthur sits at a table, his forehead braced on his steepled hands in embarassment as John leans over his shoulder, wide eyed and says: "Arthur!!! Tell Noel I like it when he calls us doll." When Arthur does not respond: "Arthur? Oarthur listen to me-!!!"

2. A different scene where Arthur leans in to grab Noel's face and kisses him. Noel appears surprised. John narrates: "yes Arthur YES you did it Orthur‐ hehe his face is kinda funny this close." We see a doodle of John's POV, which is Noel at a 0.5 angle from right above, emphasizing his eyes and nose and minimizing his chin.

3. Arthur by himself. He brings John's hand to his face and kisses it sweetly. John's wooden pinky rests on his cheek.

4. Noel brings John's hand to his mouth, bows his head, and kisses it gentlemanly.

5. Arthur and Noel naked in bed, their waists covered by a bedsheet. Arthur lays still, expression furrowed as he says: "I can't believe this is my life now." Noel responds: "idk doll, not the weirdest thing to happen to me this week." Noel is comfortably reclining and smoking. John has his left leg thrown over Noel's and his left hand curled up under his arm and over his shoulder. Little black hearts hover over where he clings. End ID.]

They are so normal I love them

[ID: A digital drawing colored in a style with thin, textured, sketchy lines. It depicts Arthur and John sat at a piano, visible from the chest up while Arthur plays, and John has his head tucked over his shoulder. Arthur sings in cursive script: "I really can't stay..." and John sings along in all caps: "But Orthur it's cold outside!!!" "I've got to go away..." (in even bigger text, being cut off by John's shoulder: "But Orthur it's cold outside!!!"

The drawing under the cut is a small, sketchy doodle of John's full body. He has six arms and two legs outstretched beneath his yellow cloak, his eyes wide, and he has a santa hat. He says "but ORTHUR!"

Character designs: Arthur is a thin white man with blond hair, a scarred right eye, and a thin mustache. He wears a sweater with a Christmas tree. John is a humanoid, grey-skinned entity with long curly hair falling from his yellow cloak. His face has limited features, but his eyes are yellow half moons that trace lines of gold down his face. End ID.]

What a year huh

But orthur!!!!

The end of 2022 severely kicked my ass health-wise, so I decided to start the new year off by binging a podcast. And uhhhh Malevolent is really good you guys 👀

“I won’t let you drown”

direct action

[ID: a two-panel comic of Arthur Lester from Malevolent. The background of the first panel consists of scribbled black strokes, on which John’s yellow dialogue is written. It is largely obscured by Arthur, but visible pieces say, “Oh, God, Arthur, they’ve skinned–” “Blood–” “Rotten–” In speech bubbles that further hide this text, Arthur is saying, “All right, that’s– JOHN, stop, that’s enough!”

In the second panel, Arthur has slapped his right hand firmly over his eyes. The black background has been reduced to a small, angry shape looming over Arthur’s shoulder, with slitted yellow eyes and a sharp-toothed open mouth. John is shouting, “HEY!” /end ID]

Finished now:) yippeeee

[ID: traditional art in ink and water color pencil, depicting Arthur Lester and John Doe from Malevolent. John is wrapped around Arthur in a way that makes it unclear where one man stops and the other begins, flowing together, and their shared arm is held in a position where it could be attached to either of their bodies. John's right arm is around Arthur's shoulder and chest, so that his hand is guarding Arthur's lower face and neck. His head is very close, and he may be whispering to Arthur or kissing him on the cheek; it's unclear, since he has no mouth. Arthur is leaning back into him, resting his head on John's arm, and gently holding the wrist of their arm. His eyes are closed and he appears anguished, with a tear sliding down his cheek. John's expression mirrors his. John himself is a deep purple in color, and is cloaked in a fiery yellow. He appears to have a glow to him, as everywhere they touch has Arthur bathed in warm light. They are enveloped in dark grey, which itself is haloed by a pale yellow. This same pale yellow extends down to back a single line of text: And many miles to go before I sleep. END ID.]

Arthur and John in Dreamlands, a first piece about the new obsession, the Malevolent podcast. My life's still at the "horror is my comfort genre because the reality is worse anyway" level, and these two are keeping me sane, as wild as it sounds. And the beautiful picasso jasper with desert-like pattern

My first fanart of ✨them✨

anyone here fw malevolent the podcast?

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?

Nonverbal communication :0

Finished season one of malevolent

i was bored

image id: a pen drawing of Arthur lester and john doe. Arthur is walking down the street next to a brick wall. the collar of his long coat covers the bottom of his face. his hands are in the coats pockets. the light coming from the direction of the viewer casts a sharp shadow on the ground that morphs into johns silhouette. he is a dark shape, vaguely person shaped, with long hair and a white mask. the ends of his hair curl up like flames. John looms over Arthur, his mask is looking down at him. the pattern of the bricks continues behind John. end image id.

guess what i just started listening to

[ID: A digital drawing of "mossy-rainfrog's Malevolent season 4 boys", featuring a spread of designs from the bust up of various characters: Larson, Oscar, Noel, and John and Arthur.

Larson is a thin, white man with green eyes, brown-blond hair and a handlebar mustache. He has his chin tipped up and grins cruelly as he looks down, saying "Well, well." He is wearing a red suit with a purple tie. Oscar is a midsized, light skinned Black man with short, curly red hair, a goatee, and freckles. He looks right at the viewer with downturned brown eyes and an earnest, sad expression. He wears priest garments and has a cross necklace. Detective Noel is a skinny, older white man with tanned skin, greying dark hair, and dark eyes. He wears a gray hat and a gray suit with a brown tie. His mouth is set in a hard line and he looks suspiciously off to the side.

Arthur is a stout white man with short disheveled brown hair and various scars, including a scar across his throat. He has gold, unfocused eyes, and wears a brown vest over a yellow tie. John is looming over his shoulder, slightly obscured by Arthur in front of him. John is portrayed as a humanoid monstrous figure with a cracked pallid mask for part of his face. Beneath the mask and his golden-yellow hooded robe, his skin is empty blackness. The characters are all drawn against a maroon background. End ID.]

some doodles before I finish ep 40 and inevitably die a thousand deaths. I really like my designs of these guys tbh I think they're fun! I like Larson being unsettlingly young-looking and just the absolute worst. I also think Noel deserves to be old and Oscar deserves to be so kissable💘💘💘💘. also shout out to john who is pookie and my favorite jealous bitch 💛 i love podcast 💛

unconditional love.

Do not fear the dark, fear what darkness brings

Some tragic eldritch gays for you, as a treat

Back on track

John hasn't known peace since Arthur figured out that the heart candies fit perfectly between his horns... Happy Valentines!

ID below cut

[ID: A painting of small creature John. He's depicted as a mostly amorphous blob with a vague animal shape with ripples of smoke around him, four small horns, bright gold eyes and marble like markings, with his left large horn being broken off. John looks slightly disgruntled and annoyed. On his head is a pink candy sweetheart with "You & Me" in red on it. It fits perfectly between all of his horns. /End ID]

[ID copied from ALT: Arthur Lester, a man with short, curly, brown hair, a thin mustache, the top part of his right ear missing, and visible scars next to his right eye and on his neck, stands on a dark corridor, holding up a lighter with his left hand, facing towards the viewer. He is wearing a dark blue pinstripe three-piece suit, a muted red tie, and a long brown coat. The corridor he is standing in is dark and tilted strangely to the right. At the end of the corridor behind Arthur there's a door hanging slightly open, with bright red light spilling out through the crack. On the wall to Arthur's left there are two framed silhouette portraits of two young women facing each other. A swirling dark mass filled with eyes and grinning teeth that seems to be coming out of the crack in the door is clinging on the ceiling and spilling down the wall towards the two portraits. On the wall to Arthur's right there is a dark shadow that seems to be cast by him, looming tall with two shiny yellow pinpricks of light positioned as its eyes. Right against the shadow's elbow there is a dusty mirror, and reflected on it is an arm clothed in tattered yellow robes, ending on a dark inhuman hand holding a lighter, mirroring Arthur's left arm. End ID.]

Neglected to post this earlier because of life stuff going on, but belatedly here's my piece for the @malevolent-fanzine, inspired by the early episodes of season 4 and the boarding house.

[ID copied from ALT: Arthur and John standing in front of a lancet window, pictured from the waist up. Arthur is wearing a henley undershirt, suspenders, and slacks. John is portrayed as a tall, dark, skeletal figure with a cracked white mask. His left forearm is attached via stitches. Both figures are slightly turned away from one another. Arthur's hand is over John's mouth while John's hand is over Arthur's eyes. The piece is colored in shades of yellow. End ID.]

yknow that post about there not being enough art of Arthur covering John's mouth

[ID copied from ALT: a digital painting of arthur, wearing a warm orange coat and standing in front of a snowy, mountainy background. his hands are behind his back, index fingers hooked around each other. End ID.]

the inherent eroticism of hands