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.
[MALEVOLENT 25 SPOILERS]
“WhAT The FUCk IS WRONG WITH YOU, ARTHUR?” I said those words aloud, and I have never meant them so earnestly😞😤 I get it, the absurd amount of trauma is finally catching up to him, but?? ‘You seem more sensitive than before, let me tear into you with the most vicious and personal insult I have thrown at you yet, which is saying something, directly after a deeply traumatizing event.’ APOLOGIZE RIGHT NOW ARTHUR. John honey he didn’t mean it, he doesn’t really think that 😭😭😭
And this is only going to get worse, unless Mr. Guthrie decides to take a U-turn on this character arc.
😞🎶 You call it madness… 😞
An old photo forgotten (or left) in some drawer...
Actually, I decided I should have it written down. Here: (if you can decipher it🙃)
Ah yes, the brainrot is developing nicely
MALEVOLENT SPOILERS like up to ep 20 or so
Pardon if this is a wholly unoriginal thought, but
So we have learned that Arthur’s parents did the sewer slide. Both of them? In this universe? That sounds like cult shit to me. It would explain his abject hatred of “Cultists”.
With all this talk about “ram-like” people, I think we have neglected the potential of Sheep Friend. I want a Sheep Friend for Arthur (maybe even John too)
You ever get into a specific piece of media and when someone says they'll start watching you get excited for them?
I finished the Malevolent podcast in the span of 3, maybe 4 days because I got that invested in the what's next, the characters, the mystery... I can't say enough good things about this show.
These are early listening doodles as I explored what I wanted John might look like. As I continued the series, I wanted to push for something with a sort-of mask, but unsettlingly creepy and a touch alien. Also TEEF.
And then John kept being John with his expressiveness and I would die for him, your honor.
There's an additional sketch beneath the cut, but spoilers for season 1. :)
All that’s missing is someone in the audience coughing at the end.
Maybe interesting historical context: Malevolent takes place during the Great Depression and also a time in The Golden Age of American Animation in which rubber hose animation was prevalent.
Arthur: We are of two minds and more and more, I’m realizing, two souls, as well. There is a bleed over effect but… you are something entirely your own, John.
John: Doe.
Arthur: Yes… John Doe.
Audience: John Malevolent it is.
Arthur: parker used to say that... "you look like youve hit bedrock, friend..."
Me: [gasps] hes a minecrafter...