#Malevolent part 40

[potato-lord-but-not]

S4 final was crazzzyyyy like what was that about

[samglyph]

So that last 25 minutes huh.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Straight friend groups are like *The blonde girl* *The funny one* *Chad*

Gay friend groups are like *The Tortured Detective* *The Blind Vessel* *The Fractured Piece Of An Eldritch God* *The Serial Killer*

[godwaltz]

hi guys , i drew the scene. horrified by hearing him mad. [despite the 12 kaynes on this page i am actually his #1 hater]

[callllio]

[frog-in-a-crown]

What if Kayne is the Doulingo owl and the events of part 40 happened just because Noel missed his Spanish lessons

[crocwearingcryprid]

Noel waking up in the hospital in Spain be like:

[donnovien]

I will never get over this

[arthurs-better-half]

Yellow - Acceptance and Alienation

Michael Cunningham, The Hours / Malevolent - Part 21 / Ruth Madievsky, All-Night Pharmacy / Malevolent - Part 21 / @godabhor (Twitter) / Nemakin Aleksandr / Malevolent - Part 23 / Do You? - TroyBoi / Malevolent - Part 22 / Ask Polly / Minotaur Forgiving Knossos - Moonface / Anne Carson, Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides / Malevolent - Part 40 "The Order" II / The Fallen Angel (1847) by Alexandre Cabanel / John Selden / @/rhymewithrachel / Malevolent - Part 40 "The Order" II / Stephen Adly Guirgis, The Last Hours of Judas Iscariot / Malevolent - Part 40 "The Order" II

Reblogs appreciated 👍

Still, there is this terrible desire to be loved. Still, there is this horror at being left behind.

ENTITY: What's your name, friend? ARTHUR: Jesus, it's- it's Arthur. ENTITY: Arthur?

Being a person didn't come naturally to me the way it seemed to for others. People who were sure of themselves awed me. I studied them and tried to mimic their ease.

ARTHUR: Now, you're going to play nice and tell me what we see, or so help me, I will send you back to that empty void you came from. Understood? ENTITY (beaten down): Yes. ARTHUR: Good boy. Now, tell me what's in this room.

if only i were a bird, dark winged, in flight.

YELLOW: What made you... friendly? With him? (A light-hearted piano piece starts.) ARTHUR: What do you mean? YELLOW: What made you... like his companionship.

Do you love me? Do you need me? Do you want me? Do you love me? YELLOW: What do you want from me?!

"You can be better than this," my shame whispers in my ear. "You need to try harder. You need to hide the scary things you carry around. You need to act like you've arrived, even though you're so inadequate and broken that you never will."

You'll never know me None of you will ever see my face No matter how much we long to face the unknown And that's okay

WHY DOES TRAGEDY EXIST? BECAUSE YOU ARE FULL OF RAGE. WHY ARE YOU FULL OF RAGE? BECAUSE YOU ARE FULL OF GRIEF.

YELLOW (loathing): Friends! What a waste.

To preach long, loud, and Damnation, is the way to be cried up. We love a man that damns us, and we run after him again to save us.

ARTHUR: That I... That I... (Quieter.) Failed you.

JESUS: I'm right here. JUDAS: I would have never believed that you could have left me. JESUS: I never left you. JUDAS: That you didn't love me. JESUS: I do love you. JUDAS: Why ... didn't you make me good enough ... so that you could've loved me?

YELLOW: I... I... (Quieter.) Why you, John? What did you have to offer? Why does he care about... you?

[izel-scribbles]

a thing from social studies class

[coralbonezzz]

When you're in a yapping competition and Larson shows up

[fancygremlin]

Arthur and John each have a moment in the narrative where one perform a "leap of faith" and the other saves them. Both moments are quite interesting and serve to help the characters realise thay are no longer alone and that they can truly rely on one another (full analysis here, if you're interested).

However, I think there is a third "leap of faith" that occurs way later on... however this time the focus is neither John or Arthur, instead the character being saved is Noel.

Just like Arthur and John, the detective was forced to learn to be independent and self-reliant to ensure his own survival. He was separated very abruptly, and subsequently lost his only friend before being stuck in the Dreamlands. He was completely on his own against the King in Yellow, who tortured him relentlessly and cruelly for months. Noel was then carelessly spit back out in Arkham, traumatised and alone, and had to rebuild his life back up without being able to rely on anyone else.

How could he ever hope to explain all the horrors he was subjected to when no one could ever even begin to understand half of what he had to endure?

But then, years later he meets John and Arthur, and it seems that they can and do understand him. Noel allows Arthur to share his experiences in the Dreamlands... and the detective allows himself to finally recount his story too.

Then, in Part 40, Noel infiltrated a cultist base with John and Arthur and everything goes sideways. His trust in the characters is momentarily broken when John's real identity is revealed to him. Noel is then weakened by reliving his experience in the Dreamlands and nearly loses himself as the King in Yellow once again controls his mind and nearly kills him...

Noel takes a leap:

Noel was the first character that not only knew about Arthur and John's sharing a body situation, but also the first that wholly accepted them and tried to understand them better. It's only right that both Arthur and John reached out to help him and save him when he nearly lost himself.

As a side note, I think it’s really interesting how Arthur kept calling him out using his real name (Charlie), while John tried to reach him using his chosen name (Noel) during this scene. It's such an excellent, little detail which I really enjoyed.

I like to think that the use of both names is because just as Charlie/ Noel accepted both John and Arthur both as a unit and as separate people, the two characters are doing the same by accepting and recognising both the detective’s (past and present) identities as well. They decide to accept and save any and all versions of Charlie/ Noel.

Of course this is not the only interpretation. For example, the use of one name or the other might reflect how John and Arthur are recognising core parts of themselves within Noel/ Charlie instead.

John is calling the detective by his chosen name because he is honouring Noel's choice to start anew. Noel had been hurt in every possible way and reduced to nothing after his experience in the Dreamlands. The detective found that the only way to move forwards was by leaving all the (too far) damaged parts of himself behind and try to create a new self. A clean slate and new name for a new beginning to start a better life somewhere new. He needed to leave his past behind and forget the parts of himself he didn't want anymore. That was what John did too when he dissociated from the King in Yellow and began forming his own identity.

On the other hand, Arthur is calling the detective by his real name because he is honouring the person Charlie was in the past. Charlie was the part of himself that he left behind because he deemed too damaged and too ugly to salvage. Arthur drags behind his past mistakes like deadweight, he carries all the guilt and sorrow with him wherever he goes. He wants to believe that all the hurt, all the damage and all the scars he deems as the ugliest parts of himself don't make him an utterly repulsive and unlovable monster. I think he is trying to demonstrate that Charlie is just as worthy of being saved as Noel is, weaknesses and broken parts included.

Hm, and I seem to have gone off a giant tangent here... I shall stop blabbering now before I completely lose track of what this analysis was supposed to be about.

[real-life-werewolf]

Where did you send him? Ah, I don't know. Maybe Spain.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Kayne killing The Butcher is a prime example of Theatre kid on theatre kid violence

[franksfishies]

SO THAT FINALE HUH

(Butcher copied from a handsome hat model from a stock photo site cause damn he had the vibes)

[aroacecowboy]

Kayne really said 'transphobes don't get eyes' huh