#malevolent part 45

[lostenzz]

//spoilers for Malevolent part 45

Light in the Dark

[tinamisu]

Faroe as a little firelight :,)

[connaroo]

the yapper has been sentenced to the bag

[toastydumpster]

ep 45 dropped yipee I can post the doodle dump

[g0g0at]

Ok so

John isn’t really being literal here but I have noticed, especially in recent episodes, that Arthur’s voice has shifted a bit.

I have “thanks yorick” and “owls don’t eat people boys” ricocheting in my head, where it sounds like he’s speaking more from his chest than ever.

Whether this is just the way his voice has changed (a thing that happens a lot in voice acting) or it’s intentional I can’t be sure but.

I like to think is shows him being more honest with himself and others I guess. I think about part 45 and how Arthur knows that he doesn’t deserve to die for what he’s done, and he struggles to admit that to himself because the whole “I would want him dead” monologue.

His voice early on always struck me as something akin to a customer service voice, very gentle and polite, tho it quickly slips as the events of the series completely disintegrate his psych. It was a facade, to a point.

Idk it was just something I noticed and liked

[pidgefudge]

faroe never left. even though she had every right to feel upset and angry and betrayed. even though malam would have fucked arthur up in an instant for her. she loves her dad so much and believes in him and has stuck with him this whole time. she is the fire of hope that burns inside him and will not be extinguished and not even kayne can take that away from him

[croweofthebog]

faroe in ep 45:

[mydirtyvalentine]

oh you guys i love malam so much he was such a fascinating character to hear in the new ep

[capesch-arts]

Malam doodles and other things akdmssmdd

[fancygremlin]

Who’s the fire lit for?

In Part 45 we are introduced to Malam, a mysterious character who seems to enact justice for children who die unjustly.

He approaches Arthur, and seems surprised when he discovers that he is the one who lit the fire, as he expected a child to have done so.

I don’t think Malam’s expectations are completely unfounded, as it is not really present Arthur who lit the fire... but the child that went to the Boys' Brigade who did:

I think that Arthur unknowingly lit the fire both for Faroe and himself (or more correctly, his past child self). Malam was not called in by the fire to bring justice to just Faroe, but also to Arthur.

Arthur had been forced to metaphorically kill his child-self and his innocence and forced to grow up too quickly for his own good. His childhood had been cut short so suddenly and brutally by his parent’s death, a grief too big and complicated for a young child to understand and work through.

Even now, on the inside, Arthur is still that wounded and timid child. He is still carrying that pain with him. However, the hostility he had to live throughout his life only granted him more wounds and bruises. The soft, childlike and gentle parts of himself were hardened under layers and layers of scar tissue. Arthur had to learn pretty quickly that it was never safe enough for him to be kind and patient with himself. He was never given the time to process his traumas. No one taught him or showed him the love and care he so desperately needed and cried for so long for.

The hurt was drowned by more hurt and it was never tended to, never really cared for. But it never really disappeared or healed. It always stayed deep within him.

But now (finally), for the first time, Arthur’s most devastating traumas (the loss of his daughter, and the loss of his own innocence) have been recognised.

His childhood cry has been finally answered.

The kid Arthur was can finally rest now that Malam stopped by his fire.

[dragonfruit2017]

Malevolent part 45 “The Fire” releases publicly on August 27th btw, they mentioned it at the end of their most recent spooky stream.

Not worried about that name at all…

[asthecrowtries]

"Arthur. Whatever happens. I’ll never forget you."

John kept his promise. Despite spending immeasurable time back in the Dark World, compared to the few months he had with Arthur. That short time was enough to fundamentally change John so much he couldn’t fit back with the other part of his soul. When he came back he remembered Arthur and Faroe and everything they had went through.

In season 4 when he started to have memory problems, Arthur always brought him back. Even when he forgot Noel and then himself as he got overwhelmed by Yellow, he always knew who Arthur was.

And in Part 45, he recalled Arthur's time in the Boys' Brigade, a small bit of trivia that Arthur told him before the Dark World, before even the prison pits. It was something Arthur had forgotten telling John himself, but John remembered.

[blackmetalbats]

arthur asking if it’s only in england cracks me up. like “is mother darkness a uk thing or….?”

[lighthouseshepard]

okay now that the episode is out i can post this - apologies if this is already out there somewhere, but did anyone else make this connection?

[nonbinarytoast]

Enough of the “Faroe is a sweet little girl!!!” Talk. I want more Faroe being a genuine menace.

Stop talking about her cute little smile, or her light blue little dress, or her bouncy auburn curls; SHE IS A TODDLER. DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY ANKLES SHES BITTEN?!? HOW MUSH HAIR SHES PULLED?!?!? THEY CALL IT TERRIBLE TWOS FOR A REASON AND Y’ALL BETTER START FIGURING THAT OUT BEFORE I DO IT MYSELF.

Malam said she was the fire? Tell me the last time Fire wasn’t chaotic. Go on. Do it. Tell me the last time the fire you were sitting next to wasn’t daring you to touch it just to laugh at your stupidity. Tell me the last time a spark went where you expected it to go. Where you thought it would do good.

Faroe is a little shit and I want more fanart of her trying to eat John’s toes. GIVE ME MY LITTLE GREMLIN BABY. GIVE HER TO ME.

[g0g0at]

So I’ve seen a few people theorising that Malam is future Arthur or John or some kind of mash of them in one person. The similar scars, inflection, knowledge of Faroe “OUR day of wrath”

But I have one to add. The fact he knew what a palindrome was when that word won’t exist for another 400 YEARS!!