Divide

Ah yes, the brainrot is developing nicely

What follows was intended to be a brief elaboration, but turned into a progressively more unhinged essay looking at a component of Arthur’s descent into madness. I’m not keeping this shit in my notes app, so if it survives, it will have to be here.

In the Sad Parent Poem -as I like to call it- Arthur tells his younger self that it wasn’t his fault. Growing up in that family structure, at least in my experience, you don’t see your parents as people like you. It’s like feeling weird when you see your teacher buying groceries. They are your world, and you are theirs, and that’s it. So for them to decide to dip- I can only imagine how a child would interpret that.

Maybe after investigation(by family or police) Arthur learned that this happened because his parents were Cultists. It was Their fault and not his. In the Sad Parent Poem, he also tells his younger self to “swallow all the hate.” I first interpreted that to mean ‘don’t blame your parents, the hate will only weigh you down.’ But now it seems like he stopped expressing his hatred, and swallowed it - pushed it down and let it fester for years. But a part of him always believed that it *was* his fault, and in reality the hatred was a way to distance himself from that feeling.

And then he (ostensibly) impregnated his wife and she died in child birth. But hey, at least your daughter survived to be all that’s left of her, to be your whole world, to prove that you are better than your parents… Whoops, you hyper focused on piano for a few minutes too long and now she’s dead and it is undeniably Your Fault.

I hc that it’s at this point he goes to the US to, ya know, Escape the Pain. After a few years, he lets himself get close to another person- his business partner, Peter “Parker” Yang🕷. Whoops you opened a book and now your bestie’s dead. Bonus points, you hid his body and then practically forgot about it due to Imminent Danger.

But hey, at least you have a voice in your head who you can’t possibly lo- Whoops he’s gone too. But hey, at least Cultist Bad. It’s Not Your Fault Because Cultist Bad. At least you have that. Oh wow eye bestie’s back! Something good actually happened to you. Maybe you can hold on to someone! This reminds you of that dead bestie… oh fuck you have a whole dead bestie that you haven’t even thought about. And then you became besties with his murderer. You didn’t even have the courtesy to mourn him. What the fuck is wrong with y- What’s that, Eye Bestie (murderer of Dead Bestie)? You say Cultist NOT Bad? You say ME bad for not helping?! I try to help, but yoU SAY CULTIST DEAD AND IS MY FAULT?!!? SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUTUPSHUTUP I HATE YOU …hence the negative reaction, probably

Arthur wanted an apple because Larson ate one in front of him, yes?

Larson may have escaped being murderized but I hope Arthur WRECKS SHOP before getting outta dodge

LOVE the idea of Larson throwing this starving, injured shriveled twig of a man in a hole to die, then coming home to find aforementioned twig has slashed his bed to pieces and stolen his clothes and raided his kitchen and killed his enforcer and maybe even his pet murder-monster too and tracked mud in his rugs and gotten blood everywhere and OH LOOK all his mind-controlled cultists are running free and have unionized—

I saw a post that described Arthur as a "shaky chihuahua" and they were absolutely correct.

You know you’ve got a premium blorbo when he literally dreams about getting a restful sleep.

The scariest part about Malevolent 26 is the happy-ish ending. So much optimism. Meanwhile, Kayne's out there in his heart-shaped sunglasses, white wine cooler in hand, halfway unbuttoned collared shirt just waiting in the shadows. Shit's about to hit the fan.

ALEX PLEASE

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