#john doe character

[missrommydolly]

I love john doe i love john doe i love john doe i love-

John doe best male yandere ever fr fr

[izukuer]

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

[growingdark]

Arthur and his critter

[potato-lord-but-not]

put all the podcast guys in a room together for group therapy

[mx-paisley]

PRIVATE EYES AND DANDELIONS RAHHH 💥💥💥💥

close up shots below

I rendered it sketchbook style !! honestly i really love how this turned out. I'll make more art in this style again

[genesisguidline]

three of my favorite pookies

[wojtekaneko]

John design, based on this post. He's a worm, he's a bird, he's a tree, he's whoever he wants to be. But most importantly he is a kitchen faucet! Love drawing him! Closeups under the cut c:

[samglyph]

Careful boys, you’ve got a tail.

Commissions and Tip Jar

[thesunnys1deup]

I'm currently doing a redesign for all the Malev characters how I see them! :D First up is John Doe :]

[worldwright]

Malevolent Yellow thoughts have been fermenting for months now. It's the nature versus nurture of it all. Is a good person born or made? How much can they choose it in the face of a world that won't let them?

When John first woke up with Arthur, he was terrified. He had no idea who he was, where he was, he had no control over his form or direction, he had no purpose. He defaulted to the survival tactic most familiar to him: manipulation. He wanted to control Arthur -- and thus, his own situation -- without leaving himself vulnerable. It worked, for a time. But his own memory loss made him slip up, and it turned out Arthur was more canny than he anticipated. And yet, when gaps opened in his defenses, Arthur responded with kindness. Understanding, sympathy. He didn't take advantage of that vulnerability. Honestly, even without his month with Lily, I believe John would have opened up to Arthur.

But John's relationship with Arthur had begun on even footing. Neither of them had any memory. Both were lost and confused and desperate for answers. Both were wary of each other, but forced by circumstance to work together. Another place where they could sympathize. They both made compromises along the road as they settled in with each other.

But Yellow?

Yellow is the exact same as John was. Terrified, alone, with no control and no memory. But he was greeted with someone who KNEW him. Someone who his manipulation didn't work on. Someone with all the power over him while he was left with no leverage and no escape. And this person told him who he was supposed to be. Said, I know you. No you don't! The person who you love was grown, not born!

Of course, Arthur realized this eventually. But the damage was already done. Instead of learning to fit together organically, it was stilted and forced, tainted with the expectation that Yellow would eventually be someone he knew nothing about -- someone who both he and John himself would have recoiled from upon first waking!

John and Yellow have a fascinating dialogue about strength and weakness. Yellow claims to know the meaning of strength. Maybe he does. It's all he's ever known. John claims to have earned the power of weakness. Vulnerability. Trust. Yellow never got a chance to find that. It took John time and love and reciprocated weakness to find that meaning for himself, and to embrace it. Yellow was under threat from the first moment he existed. And when -- suddenly, without warning or countermeasure -- he was trapped with Larson instead, he had no choice but to continue using the tactics that kept him safest.

Yellow is a prisoner, first and foremost. He never had autonomy, not even to decide what he wanted. Arthur told him that he wanted to become someone weak. Larson told him that he wanted to be an all-powerful god. One of those tends to have more control over their circumstances, and Yellow chose accordingly.

[watcherglowcloud]

okay “fuck me? fuck your eyes” was objectively horrifying but i think “oh, fuck my eyes? how’s a murder-suicide sound, bitch?” was the funniest possible way to regain control of the situation

[g0g0at]

Hat John, my love

Plus another design idea

[evergoesmyway]

i feel like some readers misinterpret the meme lines in locked tomb as just tamsyn trying to be funny and modern, like they're breaking the fourth wall just to get a chuckle or a cringe out of you. but many of those lines primarily come from john, whose fatal nostalgia for a dead world has mentally destroyed him - and just like he remembers everything from that world, he remembers its memes and repeats them ad nauseum to comfort himself over what was lost. but no one remembers that world but him. he's telling these jokes to no one but the reader - because it's the reader who occupies the world he's remembering. these are memes from our time, because john is from our time. we, the reader of the story, are essentially long dead ghosts peering into the grim future being laid out in the narrative - the future that john created. he's telling those cringe jokes for us. they're fossils.

[growingdark]

Malevolent art dump 🏃‍♂️

[potato-lord-but-not]

EPISODE 48 MY BELOVED 💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥💥

[pewienkot]

Blind Faith doodles for today <33