The Scariest Part About Malevolent 26 Is The Happy-ish Ending. So Much Optimism. Meanwhile, Kayne's Out

have we done this yet

(id in alt)

…and it was to make a gift for them. If I hear this friendly helpful rotting head slandered one more time istg

“Surely you can’t expect me to climb a 30ft pole and take the already loose eye out of a dead man’s skull!” -the guy who scaled a vertical shaft dozens of feet tall, shimmied around the exterior of the nth floor of a mansion on a cliff during a storm, has survived an elevator drop from inside a hotel to the bottom of a massive underground cavern, stumbling into an eldritch meat pit in the bowels of another world, and being thrown down a mineshaft, and has killed “I don’t know, seven?” people, two of which by shoving his thumbs through their eyeballs.

Y’all will do fuck all for Yorick smh.

HOW YOUNG AND INNOCENT WE WERE

So when “miles to go before I sleep” was first mentioned, I recognized it immediately. Had no idea just how important that reference would become.

Spoilers through Part 26: Bedrock.

When someone inevitably makes an edit of this episode’s great lines such as

“And I ate,”

“My king, you manifest,” and

“You thrive, King,”

please tag me. Thank you.

“John, I can get you close to Arthur, but you’ll be in someone else’s head.”

“Larson, I will put a fragment of an elder god in your head, but he’ll be an absolute pussy.”

i am considering the sickening possibility that john's truthful answer to arthur's question "where did you go [when yellow was in my head]?" is "in larson's head"

What about cameras in front of the Arthur’s eyes that feed the video to the John in another room wearing a vr headset?

Dumb idea: escape room, Malevolent-style.

The puzzles are built for two people; one person is blindfolded, the other isn't allowed to touch anything. Non-blindfolded one has to tell blindfolded one what they see and what to do next.

Bonus points if some Eldritch Nonsense is introduced every so often via holograms, sound effects, animatronics, etc.

**All of the Malevolent spoilers (up to 25)**

A Record of MC’s Meat Suit

@neutronbutt

This will by no means be comprehensive, but here are some of the things I noted:

Day 1:

Has a fight with Eddie the Maintenance Man and is nearly strangled to death.

Gets in a car crash. Sounded bad, but even the baby was fine, so…?

Gets stabbed in the abdomen and is in a coma for over a month

Day 2

Is running for his life within an hour of waking up from a coma. That can’t be good for you.

Smacks his head on a boathouse

Gets beaten by cops

Gets shot twice in the gut and once in the chest. Saved by ghost.

Day 3

Smacks head on dock.

Gets blood drawn by cultists. Probably no long term effects. hopefully.

Falls in an old elevator from an unspecified height. Uneven footsteps for some time afterward.

Larvae starts burrowing into arm, burns it out with a lighter

Big river monster draws a substantial amount of blood from abdomen with apparent anti-clotting abilities.

Extraplanar entity attempts to destroy soul. Don’t know if that left a mark.

Bites off the tip of his pinky

Day 4

Sandstorm removes skin from right(?) side of face and damages right(?) eye. Presumably damaged any other exposed skin.

Fights an electricity snake.

Blows up the boat the snake is in

Falls into a big nasty pit. Specifically mentions injuring his back and being unable to walk on his ankle

Falls over a smaller drop of some kind

Gets crushed under a rock- mentions leg and arm are injured

Resets dislocated shoulder with no medical training, being instructed by a being that can barely remember possessing a physical body.

Has fight with own hand. I think another attempt at strangulation

Starved and tortured in a prison in the world of a god of suffering and madness for 3 months

Day 5 ✨

I think he managed to avoid serious injury until leg snap x2 + throat stab, which Kayne fixes

Edit: oh yeah I forgot about frostbite.

“In wind chill of minus 16.6 F (minus 27 C), frostbite can occur on exposed skin in less than 30 minutes.”

So what if like most of your skin is exposed and ur severely underweight and losing copious amounts of blood and occasionally falling unconscious in the middle of a snowstorm on a mountain? 🤔

Day 6

Then there’s just the unspecified leg injury that causes him to pass out. Wow he was really on a roll these past 2 days

An indeterminate time passes, but I’ll call it

Day 7

That’s right, folks, we’ve almost spent a full week with Arty and John

Now it’s just the recent stuff. He says his leg just feels stiff now, and ponders over the drastic recovery 👀

Ear monch

Fall down what sounds like a really long mine shaft. He encounters a lot of shafts huh

Aaaand we’re caught up

Let’s see we’re 2.5 days of strenuous activity (+however long he was unconscious) without food. I suppose that is nothing outside his norm.

Those are most of the major injuries. In the intervening time, he engages in plenty of activities that would result in cuts and bruises. If you want to get real nuanced with your blorbo-crushing you can research the physical effects of chronic stress, coma without proper recovery, and of long-term starvation.

At this point I’m convinced that John is affording him boosted constitution.

my turn on the ship dynamics 👉👈

okay the thing is Kayne literally speaks abt the fucking patrons and i picked this up last night and it’s been driving me mad bc he. He Is Talking About Us.

Well, us as in the patreon users but ykwim

Ep 20, when they’re talking about Destiny and Choices and blah blah blah, This is what Kayne says

“Nooo nononono its not your choice, or his choice”

and then he says a bit later

“okay it’s not a choice, it’s fate, it’s allll predestined”

what he’s Saying is, it IS a choice, but not for Arthur and John. It IS a choice, for the patrons, but it’s fate for Arthur and John. So talking to them, really, it’s not a choice, for them it is destiny.

There’s also another one that MIGHT be a stretch ?? but idk. This is in Coda

“and there’s nothing in it for me ? yknow, someone outta tell them that coins don’t land on their sides, your friends SUCK at following the rules”

Idk I kinda think the “friends” are the Patrons, and not following the rules could be. the ties in votes, which i think people said gives John another limb ? or could even be the patrons getting Arthur killed with their choices, and he still gets back up.

I only drew this conclusion bc Arthur doesn’t have friends so this is the last thing i could think of.

ANYWAY Kayne knows the patrons exist this motherfucker does the office stare of podcasts and it’s great

An old photo forgotten (or left) in some drawer...