#malevolent season one

[greentea-and-honey]

season one of malevolent is hands down my least favorite but you gotta respect it for what it is. and what it is is pure chaos. the boys are at each others’ throats constantly and plotting each others’ downfalls. there’s like a minimum of three monster attacks per episode. every single person they meet is a cultist. there’s a world war one veteran who’s insane and also sings plastic jesus and also always wears a gas mask. the cult takes arthur’s blood and we just never really addressed that. we have a moment of character development and then either arthur or john will say something that’s ever so slightly bitchy and the other will immediately say “kys”. we don’t know who john is so we can only assume he’s the meanest ghost to ever exist. no one knows what’s going on least of all harlan guthrie, we’re running off a handful of dice, a redbull, a subscription to adobe audition, and a dream.

[rosesofenvy]

2m43s of Arthur Lester Falling (S4)

Tag you favorite fall! Mine is when he falls through the stairs <3

SEASON 1 FALLING COMPILATION

SEASON 2 FALLING COMPILATION

SEASON 3 FALLING COMPILATION

[maddisandy]

what do they fill horror podcasts with i swear. its like i start one and i blackout and suddenly its a week later and i've listened to eight hours of episodes every day since then

[derangedfujoshi]

"If you suddenly found out that I was something, maybe even worse than a wraith... What would you do?"

"I would've forgiven you."

[blueberyboy]

In the last one, Noel sucked his teeth or whatever while talking to Arthur but I thought he had kissed him and I got really scared and I think it’s hilarious.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

Love how Arthur hesitated before saying Stanczyk because someone pointed out to Harlan that he was pronouncing it wrong

[mysteryequationart]

got a new favourite!

[daredevil-vagabond]

Oh, lay my curses out to rest, make a mercy out of me

Alts:

[therainbowtea]

Day 4 of @tmaappreciationweek: Crossovers!

"Which is why you bring a homeless man covered in blood and lord knows what else into the Archives!?"

FINALLY have an excuse to draw these guys! Behold! A Malevolent and TMA crossover that EVERYONE asked for! Been writing this bad boy for a while (can be found here on AO3) and would highly recommend if you enjoy some goofy shit, Malevolent, and fix-it AU's ;)

Prompt list

[elegantmarigold]

This episode drove me slightly insane, so to form any coherent thoughts I decided to annotate the transcript like it's a required reading assignment

[rosesofenvy]

2m25s of Arthur Lester Falling (S3)

Tag your favorite fall! Mine is "a long, long fall (reprise)"

SEASON 1 COMPILATION

SEASON 2 COMPILATION

SEASON 4 COMPILATION

[72graves]

I've been wracking my brain trying to find out who exactly Detective Noel might be and I think I have a vague hand wavy idea.

I know people want it to be Parker, Kayne, or even the KIY but I think Arthur would have recognized Parker's voice even if John struggled to recognize him, Kayne was pointed out to have never known about the lighter, and the King seems like a long shot, but not altogether impossible. However!

Way back in season 1 we learned that the book that had once held John was actually addressed to Roland Cummings, a retired private investigator who owned 13 Mosby Avenue (Arthur and Parker's office) and as of now is MIA after the police found the body of his wife in the freezer and the neighbors suspected he fled to Canada (Part Two: The Missing Girl). He's also the father of Amanda Cummings, one of the missing girls who was later killed by the King (because of Arthur, whoops). Now, his office was leased out to Elijah Strong and his partner, Teddy Caine before being taken over by Arthur and Parker. Elijah had committed suicide in prison and we later find out that the Butcher was the one who actually killed him. As of right now we have no definitive answer as to what became of Teddy Caine.

Arthur's engraved lighter came from the desk of their office.

My reach is that Detective Noel is either Roland Cummings or (less so) Teddy Cain. I'm leaning more towards Cummings simply because he had seemed the most knowledgeable about The Horrors™️ and was in fact sort of the catalyst to the entire series being the original receiver for John's book. And it's also possible he and Arthur never really met. It would also make sense as to why he's working under a different name because he would still be under suspicion after what happened with his family near Arkham. Teddy Caine I'm less sure about because all we know is that he worked at the office for a time and had a run-in with the Butcher.

Detective Noel could also literally be none of these people or someone else entirely and I'm just thinking too hard. But ooh the possibilities! They make me [stick figure gore]

[fancygremlin]

I am rotating Arthur Lester inside my head so fast.

In Part 31 Arthur admits to not love Bella, describing their relationship as wrong.

We know Bella is a religious woman, her dad is a Freemason after all. In fiction, religion is often linked to purity, absolution and unconditional love and acceptance. Hence, we can deduce that Arthur saw Bella’s love as boundless, forgiving, pure and absolute in his regards… And he felt deep down that it was wrong, that he didn’t deserve it and shouldn’t have even been offered it in the first place.

However, if we go back to Part 28, we have this scene:

Where we find that Arthur is fully ready to accept (dying and) a whole eternity of torture and damnation in the Dark World, as long as his (one and only) friend will meet him there.

It’s insane that he cannot conceive of someone genuinely and unconditionally loving him, but is certain that the only form of affection he deserves must be woven in punishment or suffering.

I think it makes everything about him slowly learning to accept Oscar (a clergyman)’s friendship a whole lot more significant… and makes it a whole lot more painful how he presented it as an offering for the King in Yellow to take away and erase from his memories in Part 40.

[arthur-lesters-right-arm]

No Larson, the boys have a warriors bond they are NOT taking that damn Separate Yourselves machine !!!

[sunshine-girl-shines]

Uuuhhhhhh guys???

There was a Noel mention in the beginning of 45 and in the transcript there was a “Noel theme” mention

[koszmarnybudyn]

I wish they got to grow up happy :(

Anyway this is probablly part one of four where i draw the teens post canon/older.