You Guys Are All For Arthur And John Going On A Date Until They Get To The Bar And It’s Just Arthur

Fandom: Malevolent (Podcast) Rating: Mature Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: John & Arthur Lester Characters: Arthur Lester, John (Malevolent) Additional Tags: Canon Compliant, Post-episode 25, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Arguing, Crying, Panic Attacks, Trauma, But Also!, Communication, and additionally:, Hopeful Ending, Queerplatonic Relationships, Minor Character Death, intricate discussions of the nature of humanity, Fix-It of Sorts, (as in now at least they’re talking) Content Warnings: minor character death, knife violence, blood, arguments, minor suicidal ideation, minor religious guilt, minor suicidal ideation, dissociation; mentions of minor character death, child death, cannibalism, ritual sacrifice, eye trauma, suicide attempt, minor child abuse, period-typical gender roles, body decomposition Summary:

Arthur grits his teeth and fumbles around for the soap. It’s a small bar, but it will have to do. “Look. I get that you’re angry, but this really isn’t the time for—”

“I’m not angry.”

Arthur scoffs. “No?”

“No. I’m … let’s call it grieving.”

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After killing Larson, Arthur and John leave Addison. They end up in a motel for the night, and when Arthur’s emotions and traumas from the past few months bubble over into an inevitable breakdown, he finally communicates with John just what has happened the past few days and why Larson’s blood has ended up on his hands.

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There’s blood on Arthur’s hand. He can feel it between his fingers, tacky and warm, sticking his skin to the handle of the dagger.

But he’s had blood on his hands since the day he cradled his daughter’s dead body in his arms. At least now, the literal matches the metaphorical.

He forces his fingers to uncurl from around the dagger. It clatters to the floor, loud in the silence that has overtaken the room. The echo of it is long, but Arthur thinks he imagines it longer. The room is large, the ceilings of the front hall of the manor vaulted and glittering with an intricate glass chandelier. The sound pings from surface to surface until it fades beyond human perception. (Inhuman perception as well, he supposes. Monstrous perception.)

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“Arthur, stop!”

“What?”

“There’s a young boy in the alley.”

“A child?”

“He has a mop of brown hair and large, brown eyes. He wears a dark blue polo shirt with two lighter blue stripes across the chest, and beige pants that cut off before the knee. His shoes are…very strange. Several Band-aids are visible on his body.”

“He sounds like he needs help.”

“No! It is not human.” [dramatic sting]

“How do you know?”

“I just do. It is having a strange effect on me. I am unnaturally drawn to him, like…”

“Like what? Should we run? Confront h-”

“…we need to adopt him.”

“I beg your pardon?”

i just realised that John kinda sounds like Freddy Fazbear at times and i've never been more upset in my entire life

i haven’t even drawn normal john yet what am i doing.

Brian David Gilbert is a gift to humanity and a curse on mankind.

I just had to get that off my chest.

What about John waking up completely alone with full control of Arthur's body

*rings town bell*

HEAR YE, HEAR YE! NEW FAN FAVORITE CHARACTER!

What if Kayne didn’t take another piece of kiy, but split john in half. Gave em the old STOS narratively convenient transporter malfunction. Arthur did say John seemed more sensitive way back in episode- what, 24? 25?

LMFAO INCREDIBLE. IMMACULATE.

Thank you, Harlan, you feed us so well.

“…who?”

GOT ‘IM. ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED.

Old favorite character divorced, new favorite character acquired.

sitting on the floor staring at the ceiling do you think John would like the violin. Do you think John would play the violin. Do you think John and Arthur could duet.

He has synesthesia? That’s so cool!

:O I have a garage band file playing around with combining the two on my phone. Well, it’s mostly just the first song with music box’s melody sprinkled on top. Oh and I tried to mash some of Faroe’s Waltz into it too. I mean, it’s not good, but still- [theres supposed to be a readmore after this. Pls tumblr im begging you]

I… never noticed the final iteration was different🙃

Malevolent soundtrack is like “I live with minor, but I visit major on the weekends”

I’ve always wanted to hear a more complex version!! Oh man, when you want to create a thing but don’t have the skill, then someone else does it 🤌

Edgy and pretentious is the name of the game lmao. There’s a kind of …camp? to the podcast that makes it so fun to listen to.

Did you transcribe these from the actual podcast? I salute you sir(ungendered). The bandcamp version of music box/lullaby has some more chords and such in it and, listen, I can transcribe one note at a time and that’s it asfjbejfks

faroe's song and faroe's music box transcriptions (themes from malevolent)

google drive link for the PDFs: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/4/folders/1mxV-rkZCAHuHTNVeMoiOc91PIsW6CEp2

EDIT: i made some errors in the music box theme, they've since been corrected!

composed by the incredibly talented harlan guthrie, transcribed by me! for the music box theme, i've included instructions for both playing it as the original music box version as well as kayne's solo variation. i used musescore to notate these.

some thoughts below the break!

i agree with harlan in picking b minor as the flagship key for this podcast; it's always struck me as a particularly black and morose key in colour, even if i don't have synesthesia myself. i think it's worth remarking that he chose b minor for both of the themes. it really makes me want to try and meld the song and the music box themes together (and makes me wonder if harlan already has that idea in the wings).

i find the structure of faroe's song to be especially compelling, the way that the first two iterations of the theme's second half meld together in the third and final iteration. it makes me really wonder about the narrative structure of malevolent—if we'll see john and arthur merge and hybridize in similar ways, perhaps...

i really have to commend harlan for communicating something so distinct about arthur's musical voice. these themes are very simple, very repetitive, and yet they carry within themselves this kind of understated melancholic beauty. i want to try my hand at doing a more elaborate and reharmonized arrangement of these, but it'll be difficult to do so without losing sight of the core of the piece, i think.

i also took some stylistic liberties with how i notated some of the expressive directions. i know you're not supposed to add periods to the end of everything, but it felt appropriate? it looks cool. maybe a bit edgy and pretentious, but who gives a shit.