#faroes song

[mydirtyvalentine]

i just think this format works perfectly for arthur actually

[soupdwelling]

faroe’s song

[cosmic-horror-statements]

Happy Birthday Malevolent

[thatstargazingaquarius]

Me when Faroe’s Song comes on while I’m watching the jazz band practice so I can’t hear it

[no-tengo-ojos]

PSA: DO NOT listen to Faroe's Song after 4 Blood & Sands

[oliversgarden]

Guys…guys my wife is learning Faroes Song on the piano- Im. She hasn’t even finished malevolent, this is hilarious.

[bones-edition]

POV you're alone in the church and they got a piano

[witchywhys]

I fell in love with the Malevolent soundtrack only to discover I can’t listen to it anywhere

[unknowingdice]

heres me attempting to play faroes song on this very out of tune thrift store piano 😼

[currenthyperf1xat1ons]

that feeling when the hyperfixation hyperfixates so much that you pick up an instrument that you’ve never played before and fixate on leaning to play songs from said fixation to calm the demons

does this happen to anyone else

[arsonstick]

i dont knkw if i ever uhhhh. posted this

[nerdywren]

this is beautiful im crying

Hold on tight to this time, this place 'Cause everything you know will be erased You were born inside your head And that is where you'll be when you are dead You're just a boy, you are no man And nobody you know will understand You're just a boy, you are no man And nobody you know will understand

[soupdwelling]

a memory

[potato-lord-but-not]

SIN EATER

[no-tengo-ojos]

I am completely normal about Harlan putting Faroe’s Song on Spotify

[arthur-lesters-middle-c-key]

I’ll forever be annoyed that Malevolent doesn’t stop to recognize the significance of a PIANIST choosing to bite off part of his PINKIE FINGER. No matter the hand, the pinkie is maybe the second most important digit for piano playing, behind the thumb. (Second and third fingers, SIT BACK DOWN.)

Your pinkies are hyper-attuned to hit the right notes in a root chord, pick out an overall melody while the rest of your hand is playing a harmony, hell, it’s the start of most scales. As a pianist, I’ve put years of procedural memory into training just my pinkie fingers to do their jobs and if I lost part of one I would be devastated, even as a hobbyist.

There’s so much symbolism potential there, too! I love that John in general has control of Arthur’s left hand, which on piano controls the low notes, the accompaniment to the melody, and the root and stability of almost anything you play. It mostly supports, though can sometimes intertwine with the right hand or branch off into cello-like melody of its own (chopin does this a lot it’s great). That conceptually fits John SO WELL. Not to mention the idea of Arthur being so guilt-ridden with Faroe’s death that he distances himself from being a pianist at any opportunity, only to be reeled in by an Eldritch force that explains EVERYTHING to him as piano… the possibilities make me scream.

…Unfortunately though, I don’t buy the ‘the symbolism is there’ argument for this one, it’s FAR too niche to expect the average audience to know what exactly a professional pianist would value (besides the ~oooooo no don’t break my hands~ beat that every pianist character in a thriller/horror/action story ever seems to have gone through at some point), and malevolent goes out of its way so often to explain symbolism.

I think my frustration is that Arthur having trauma surrounding piano, losing direct control of his left hand, and losing/replacing his top pinkie joint, doesn’t have many narrative consequences. (Didn’t even talk about how a wooden pinkie would probably fundamentally change the sound/timbre of your playing, which would be cool to see reflected.) Arthur seems to be able to play piano fine even with John controlling his hand, and enthusiastically does so at several points post- starting to process Faroe’s death in the dreamlands. It’s fine as a narrative choice, there’s a story to tell after all, but I’ll always miss the character intricacy that could come from exploring these consequences and backstory specifics.