I never thought Malevolent would play with my truest biggest fear: Dementia.
I watched people forget and slowly undo themselves until they were nothing but a shell of themselves, seeing John forget things this way, the outbursts of anger when confronted about it, it makes me truly fear.
I do not fear them dying, bleeding, losing humanity, killing, monsters or killers, what I do fucking fear is something slowly undoing all your life experiences you so much cherished and being utterly unable to do anything to stop it from consuming you at all.
y'all know the "no beta" tag in ao3? like, how fandoms will make little jokes like (for example) the TMA fandom will usually do no beta we kayak like Tim
What would it be for the malevolent fandom??
...no beta we die like Faroe
Well if you play the piano you should actually be pretty used to hammers Arthur I don’t know why you’re so upset about this.
For fucks sake not in the middle of my investigation fic, I NEED TO KNOW WHO KILLED THE WAITRESS
Anyway go listen to Malevolent, it has lots more Arthur Pain Noises to offer
John Doe but he is a little Tamagotchi pet
what if when john gets himself a body, arthur stays blind but john’s voice still can’t be heard by others except for arthur, basically making him a mute.
and they become private eyes
like, from an outsider’s pov:
There are these two private detectives, right? But one is this huge man who’s mute and the other one is blind. When the two are working on a case, the big guy collects evidence, and somehow the blind guy just. knows what the other one wants to say.
the big guy does the muscle work and guides the blind guy and the blind guy does most of the deducting.
idk this concept felt so scrumptious in my head.
this is my design
edit: more sketches!!!
im working on a short comic for this concept
Finally organized the Arthur injury/incident chart into something actually presentable! Red are for things that would definitely leave scars or other noticeable evidence, orange are too unspecified to say but could have left notable marks. [Image ID in Alt]
A collection of nicknames/names/titles Kayne has called John and Arthur:
John:
- Hastur
- King
- He Who is Not to Be Named
- Lord of Carcosa
- Your (Arthur’s) better half
- Hastur’s Heart
- This yella fella/yellow fellow
- Lovable curmudgeon (who just wants a second chance)
- Darling
- Narrator
- Fair weathered friend
- Golden Boy
- Lemon Head
- Honey
Arthur Lester:
- My love
- Artie
- The little boy from Arkham that made it so
- Kiddo
- The kid
- The Investigator from Arkham
- Our little English rose
- Canary in a coal mine