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“Arthur” John’s warm soft voice echoed into the ragged depths of Arthur’s broken soul, soothing scars and promising that which he had long denied himself being worthy of: love.

Image description: There is a single black and white digital illustration of Arthur and John. Arthur is standing facing forward his head raised, expression relaxed and smiling every so slightly, eyes closed. John is standing close behind him, so close his cloak is draped around Arthur’s shoulders. His left arm is curved around Arthur’s shoulder and he is cradling Arthur’s jaw in the palm of his hand. He is kissing Arthur’s crown eyes looking down fondly.

arthur lester has to be made of fucking steel or have some venom-esque regeneration shit going on because if you're telling me that some one handed hook stitches performed on the FLOOR OF A COAL MINE with utensils that had been previously stored in the PRISON PITS are enough to entirely heal arthur's wound of entire stomach gutted and vital organs ruptured with NO OTHER medical care or outside influences at all, im going to go fucking apeshit. how does this man not have staph at the very least

guy that has seen one movie and is so annoying about it

a man holding the hand that once belonged to him is something that can be so personal

[Image description: a digital painting of a pair of hands with fingers loosely intertwined. the hands are pale and dirt-stained, and the nails are chipped and dirty. the left hand is loosely wrapped in a thin stand of yellow cloth, and its pinky finger has been replaced by a tangle of sharp, thin branches, with dark veins extending into the hand. the background is smoky and dark, with a golden circle in the center of the canvas behind the hands. curved around the contour of the circle and the hands are the words, "everything I am, I learned from you" in gold text. End ID]

Took a break from con prep to draw a guy who sucks

Commissions & Tip Jar

Non transparent version under the cut

[VD: A small roughly animated gif of Arthur Lester, initially neutral and standing. John's hand then reaches for his face and abruptly grabs him by the cheeks, pulling him forward, and then pressing his palm against Arthur's lips in a kiss. A little heart fizzles above the kiss. As John starts to pull his hand away, Arthur catches it and holds it closer to his face. Another heart fizzles above the kiss as John's fingers press into Arthur's cheek. Arthur is drawn in blue lineart with gold eyes, and John is drawn with black lineart to distinguish the two. End ID.]

FUCK IT WE BALLLLLLL I'VE STILL GOT IT!!!! on a whim i gave myself 3 hours to animate whatever i could and post whatever the end result was to try and force myself to animate something and lo and behold!!!! we got something!! :D

I'm actually really happy with this. smudge frames and anticipation my beloved. look at them. they r keesing. 🥰

a malevolent fanart? on a blog with a malevolent reference in the username? it may seem unlikely.

(doctor who quote my beloved)

[id: a coloured image of arthur lester from malevolent, drawn waist up. he is a white man with short brown hair and a moustache, wearing a white shirt with some red splashes. his skin is covered in scars which resemble cartoonish yellow stars and his left pinky is wooden. he is gently kissing his left hand while standing half-turned back to the viewer. next to him a text in big white letters reads “do you think i care for you so little that betraying me would make a difference?”. the background is yellow. end id]

The spark of every fireplace

“Are you ok?”

“I’m having difficulty John”

Image Description: there is a single digital illustration of an exhausted and coughing Arthur slumped forward against a wall. His body is supported against the wall by his right arm, his feverish forehead leaning against his right forearm. John’s hand is resting in the hollow of his throat, his fingers touching Arthur’s neck gently.

mini malevolent meme dump

orthur and joe

My humble offering to the fandom. Can't believe they haven't explored some abandoned church yet. I'm never drawing gothic architecture with coal again.

I just know if John could manifest without killing him, Arthur “walking off cliffs is my favorite hobby” Lester would be scruffed 24/7.

Commissions & Tip Jar

another malevolent (inspired) piece

[ID: Several black and white digital drawings depicting Arthur, John, and Noel. Arthur is drawn as a skinny man with light hair, Noel is drawn as a more muscular man with darker skin and hair, and John is depicted as a grey cloaked figure with long dark hair, a large light eye, and light eyelashes.

1. Arthur sits at a table, his forehead braced on his steepled hands in embarassment as John leans over his shoulder, wide eyed and says: "Arthur!!! Tell Noel I like it when he calls us doll." When Arthur does not respond: "Arthur? Oarthur listen to me-!!!"

2. A different scene where Arthur leans in to grab Noel's face and kisses him. Noel appears surprised. John narrates: "yes Arthur YES you did it Orthur‐ hehe his face is kinda funny this close." We see a doodle of John's POV, which is Noel at a 0.5 angle from right above, emphasizing his eyes and nose and minimizing his chin.

3. Arthur by himself. He brings John's hand to his face and kisses it sweetly. John's wooden pinky rests on his cheek.

4. Noel brings John's hand to his mouth, bows his head, and kisses it gentlemanly.

5. Arthur and Noel naked in bed, their waists covered by a bedsheet. Arthur lays still, expression furrowed as he says: "I can't believe this is my life now." Noel responds: "idk doll, not the weirdest thing to happen to me this week." Noel is comfortably reclining and smoking. John has his left leg thrown over Noel's and his left hand curled up under his arm and over his shoulder. Little black hearts hover over where he clings. End ID.]

They are so normal I love them

[ID: A digital drawing colored in a style with thin, textured, sketchy lines. It depicts Arthur and John sat at a piano, visible from the chest up while Arthur plays, and John has his head tucked over his shoulder. Arthur sings in cursive script: "I really can't stay..." and John sings along in all caps: "But Orthur it's cold outside!!!" "I've got to go away..." (in even bigger text, being cut off by John's shoulder: "But Orthur it's cold outside!!!"

The drawing under the cut is a small, sketchy doodle of John's full body. He has six arms and two legs outstretched beneath his yellow cloak, his eyes wide, and he has a santa hat. He says "but ORTHUR!"

Character designs: Arthur is a thin white man with blond hair, a scarred right eye, and a thin mustache. He wears a sweater with a Christmas tree. John is a humanoid, grey-skinned entity with long curly hair falling from his yellow cloak. His face has limited features, but his eyes are yellow half moons that trace lines of gold down his face. End ID.]

What a year huh

But orthur!!!!

[ID: A digital painting of Arthur in Castle Kerringford, drawn like a cover for Clue the boardgame. The painting shows Arthur standing by the common room's fire with Barnabas, as the background is overlayed with a map of the castle, showing "the hall", "the library", and "the chapel". Overtop the painting lay two dice, a ring, and two cards: one for 'the chapel', depicting a crucifixion, and one for 'the dagger' depicting a dagger. At the top of the painting is written: "The Castle" in a Clue-like font.

Details and character design: Arthur is a lean white man with stubble, scars, and yellow eyes. He wears medieval clothes the Prince's armor, and gloves. He has a skeptical look as he wipes his mouth with the back of his hand and his left hand rests on his chest. Barnabas is pale with dark eyes and hair, and wears a fur coat. He holds a tankard and eyes Arthur with suspicion. End ID.]

Mr. ______, in the Chapel, with the Dagger

Can I offer you an Arthur Lester Prince Warin (ofc) sketch in this trying time?

The end of 2022 severely kicked my ass health-wise, so I decided to start the new year off by binging a podcast. And uhhhh Malevolent is really good you guys 👀

“I won’t let you drown”

direct action

[ID: a two-panel comic of Arthur Lester from Malevolent. The background of the first panel consists of scribbled black strokes, on which John’s yellow dialogue is written. It is largely obscured by Arthur, but visible pieces say, “Oh, God, Arthur, they’ve skinned–” “Blood–” “Rotten–” In speech bubbles that further hide this text, Arthur is saying, “All right, that’s– JOHN, stop, that’s enough!”

In the second panel, Arthur has slapped his right hand firmly over his eyes. The black background has been reduced to a small, angry shape looming over Arthur’s shoulder, with slitted yellow eyes and a sharp-toothed open mouth. John is shouting, “HEY!” /end ID]

Finished now:) yippeeee

[ID: traditional art in ink and water color pencil, depicting Arthur Lester and John Doe from Malevolent. John is wrapped around Arthur in a way that makes it unclear where one man stops and the other begins, flowing together, and their shared arm is held in a position where it could be attached to either of their bodies. John's right arm is around Arthur's shoulder and chest, so that his hand is guarding Arthur's lower face and neck. His head is very close, and he may be whispering to Arthur or kissing him on the cheek; it's unclear, since he has no mouth. Arthur is leaning back into him, resting his head on John's arm, and gently holding the wrist of their arm. His eyes are closed and he appears anguished, with a tear sliding down his cheek. John's expression mirrors his. John himself is a deep purple in color, and is cloaked in a fiery yellow. He appears to have a glow to him, as everywhere they touch has Arthur bathed in warm light. They are enveloped in dark grey, which itself is haloed by a pale yellow. This same pale yellow extends down to back a single line of text: And many miles to go before I sleep. END ID.]

I may be an Arthur enjoyer however i am always thinking about Yellow. Artie get it together.

Arthur and John in Dreamlands, a first piece about the new obsession, the Malevolent podcast. My life's still at the "horror is my comfort genre because the reality is worse anyway" level, and these two are keeping me sane, as wild as it sounds. And the beautiful picasso jasper with desert-like pattern

My first fanart of ✨them✨

the wound man

anyone here fw malevolent the podcast?

Thinking a LOT about John's body and identity relating to that.

John has no ability to see himself, to conceptualize himself for a very long time. He looks down at his body and it is not his body, he is a passenger in human flesh and limbs that bend in angular, strange ways and loud clicking teeth and wet eyes and horrible, fragile red innards. He does not know his own name at the start of the podcast, knows even less of what he looks like. He finds a mask of his worshippers and cannot place the attachment he feels to it, running his hand over the face, familiar, but not knowing it is the image of his own. His name crackles through the depth of his godhood when he first reads it, but even then he is fractured, lost, grasping helplessly for the ability to understand what the sensation means.

By the time we reach season 2, he knows what The King looks like, enough to guess they likely share some similarity of form, but it is not a form John belongs in anymore.

When he is ripped out from Arthur's body, is he given another form to hold? Is he spread thin into nothingness; empty vocal chords and fear, or does he slip back into his old one; formerly familiar tendrils and masks and golden yellow? Does it still feel familiar, or does it now feel foreign – his own body stretching in ways he had forgotten it could, missing the simplicity of Arthur's flesh containing him? Is it freeing? Is it terrifying?

Is it his true form that experiences the Dark World again, that falls, that suffers suffers suffers begs for any deal to release him– what body meets terror there?

Does he know the shape of himself by season 3? 4? By the time he sees Yellow pull himself from Larson, magnificently filling space with horror and madness, by the time John follows suite? It makes me mad to think that it takes four seasons for John to be seen by any eyes, and even then, what does he look like there?

Does he have any control of the image he projects? Does he project the image of himself that he envisions as a protector? A friend? Has he crafted that image, that version of himself? How similar does it look to the version of himself that haunted the Dark World alone?

What does John look like? And how long has he known?

Nonverbal communication :0

Finished season one of malevolent