Unfortunately I Don’t Have It Written Down. I Figured It Out By Ear From Mr Guthrie’s Bandcamp: Https://malevolentcast.bandcamp.com/track/faroes-song-piano-only

All that’s missing is someone in the audience coughing at the end.

I’m surprised Malam has any time to slumber considering the child mortality rate of the middle ages.

Also, if Faroe had been “with them” this whole time, that dead toddler has seen some shit.

What follows was intended to be a brief elaboration, but turned into a progressively more unhinged essay looking at a component of Arthur’s descent into madness. I’m not keeping this shit in my notes app, so if it survives, it will have to be here.

In the Sad Parent Poem -as I like to call it- Arthur tells his younger self that it wasn’t his fault. Growing up in that family structure, at least in my experience, you don’t see your parents as people like you. It’s like feeling weird when you see your teacher buying groceries. They are your world, and you are theirs, and that’s it. So for them to decide to dip- I can only imagine how a child would interpret that.

Maybe after investigation(by family or police) Arthur learned that this happened because his parents were Cultists. It was Their fault and not his. In the Sad Parent Poem, he also tells his younger self to “swallow all the hate.” I first interpreted that to mean ‘don’t blame your parents, the hate will only weigh you down.’ But now it seems like he stopped expressing his hatred, and swallowed it - pushed it down and let it fester for years. But a part of him always believed that it *was* his fault, and in reality the hatred was a way to distance himself from that feeling.

And then he (ostensibly) impregnated his wife and she died in child birth. But hey, at least your daughter survived to be all that’s left of her, to be your whole world, to prove that you are better than your parents… Whoops, you hyper focused on piano for a few minutes too long and now she’s dead and it is undeniably Your Fault.

I hc that it’s at this point he goes to the US to, ya know, Escape the Pain. After a few years, he lets himself get close to another person- his business partner, Peter “Parker” Yang🕷. Whoops you opened a book and now your bestie’s dead. Bonus points, you hid his body and then practically forgot about it due to Imminent Danger.

But hey, at least you have a voice in your head who you can’t possibly lo- Whoops he’s gone too. But hey, at least Cultist Bad. It’s Not Your Fault Because Cultist Bad. At least you have that. Oh wow eye bestie’s back! Something good actually happened to you. Maybe you can hold on to someone! This reminds you of that dead bestie… oh fuck you have a whole dead bestie that you haven’t even thought about. And then you became besties with his murderer. You didn’t even have the courtesy to mourn him. What the fuck is wrong with y- What’s that, Eye Bestie (murderer of Dead Bestie)? You say Cultist NOT Bad? You say ME bad for not helping?! I try to help, but yoU SAY CULTIST DEAD AND IS MY FAULT?!!? SHUT UP SHUT UP SHUTUPSHUTUP I HATE YOU …hence the negative reaction, probably

Just thinking about how if Arthur ever plays Faroe’s song again, he’ll have to teach John how to play the melody.

sitting on the floor staring at the ceiling do you think John would like the violin. Do you think John would play the violin. Do you think John and Arthur could duet.

Ok, bestie is a little gullible. A lot gullible. We will have to work on that.

“…who?”

GOT ‘IM. ABSOLUTELY DESTROYED.

Old favorite character divorced, new favorite character acquired.

Oh shit what happened to his daughter for him to react so strongly

What if Kayne didn’t take another piece of kiy, but split john in half. Gave em the old STOS narratively convenient transporter malfunction. Arthur did say John seemed more sensitive way back in episode- what, 24? 25?

couple of days ago i started thinking of more malevolent stickers

so who has Arthur's eyelids? either answer is funny.

1. John does. John is canonically aware and active while Arthur's asleep/unconscious. So who wants to take a shift in the coma ward with the otherwise unresponsive patient whose eyes are open and keep following you around the room?

2. Arthur does. If John pisses him off too much, he can at his discretion say "okay well now NOBODY gets to use the eyes" and close them.