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There hasn’t been a time in Arthur Lester’s life when he didn’t think about death. Not once has he woken up without his first thought moving onto death, nor does the thought leave him as he goes to bed hours later. The morbid, grotesque nature surrounding the subject had vanished completely for him years ago- Maybe when his parents died. Or his wife. Or…
His thoughts have drifted to ever more dark places once death had first touched him. At first, he feared death. Anytime he might be in even the slightest bits of danger, Arthur’s heart raced with horror, imaging gruesome ways his demise might play out. Over time, it became a fascination. Death still terrifies him, but now, a revelation plays in his mind whenever he thought of the end of his road.
That revelation, though. It has a heavy cost. A heavy cost in corpses and rotting dead organic matter.
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Arthur Lester builds John himself; tragedies ensue.
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“I really thought I could do it this time. I did! But every time I think about popping that pretty head of yours like a grape I just—I don’t know! I. Don’t. Know.”
Kayne pressed his palm to Arthur’s mouth as he leaned closer.
“Soooo…congratulations, my little gumdrop. We get to play it your way.”
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Or, instead of giving Arthur and John a one way ticket to the Dark World, Kayne has one last game to play.
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John and Arthur are finally free. They've outrun the horrors that have followed them for so long, escaped into some semblance of a normal life.
Unfortunately, as Arthur knows all too well, nothing gold can stay. And John doesn't believe he's what Arthur needs.
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Arthur's returned from the Dark World. Now he has to adjust to John being a cat – and being with Noel.
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- Part 2 of Nyalevolent
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You own a little pub in good NYC in the late 1930's. A very strange man and his friend pop in on a lonely rainy night, and you find yourself in good company.
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Faroe and Arthur might aswell kidnap the child by Arris2653
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast), Malevolent (Podcast)
14 Aug 2025
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Arthur and John makes a deal with Kayne and now John has his own body and Faroe is alive now but their stuck in an unknown dimension now with their creepy neighbor and her grandson who John has to stop Arthur from accidentally kidnapping.
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“I want to let him be human a little longer.”
The boys are building a life in the city full of night shifts and coffee that tastes of regret- but something is watching, and it's not done with them yet.
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- Part 2 of This Too Is Love
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Would you love me any less, for the shape my humanity has taken?
John breaks upon his own antlers. Arthur helps him find his own light.
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He doesn’t need to ask this man, this voice, who he is. Though it may be one he’s never heard before, that cadence, these words, that touch, that care….is not unfamiliar, it’s the opposite of it. Way too familiar. What used to be a constant in his life for the past few months. Much too far away from him. Outside of him now. He doesn’t want to, wants to hold on and on and on to that familiar darkness, and that comforting voice telling him everything they’re seeing.
He’s seeing.Post 43. John never gets to ask Yorick to bring Arthur back from the dead. Instead, Kayne does it for them, eager to move their little trip across time and space along. In a present day setting, John and Arthur have to live with the aftermath of the events that unfolded within the hag's den. With John thrust inside a body of his own against their will, tasked with a mission that is as illusive as ever. Keep looking for the black stone. Overcome all the horrors and obstacles. And never forget about the carrot and the stick.
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Arthur & John have succeeded. They have their own separate human bodies, escaped the eldritch horrors, returned to New York, and even managed to admit to their feelings for one another. The worst is over. It should be. But, how are they supposed to behave as though those horrors never happened? And after all that time trying to find home-they never considered horror could be there too.
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- Part 2 of Freedom in the Flesh
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“For the first time in a very long while, Arthur is alone, truly alone. He wants to call out for John, to beg him to come back (crawl back into my skull and never leave), but God how pitiful that would seem. Arthur is being enough of a burden already, and John in his new body has to take care of everything.”
A chance encounter with a power-hungry cult (is there any other kind?) separates Arthur and John. Arthur should be ecstatic to regain his vision and the control of his entire body again. After all, isn’t both of them in their own bodies something they have been striving for this whole time?
Well. It’s not that simple.
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The man draped in yellow by Mandura
Fandoms: Chorus of Carcosa (Game), Malevolent (Podcast), The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers
10 Aug 2025
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A king who lost his crown.
A child who dreams in yellow.
Years later John Doe is living alone in an apartment-complex on the 12th floor and receives mail that he didn't order and with a long-distance relationship on his hands.
But when the house is suddenly changing and his neighbors are going insane, John needs to survive and stay sane. Will he ever make it out and find comfort in his boyfriends arms again? -
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It turns out separation brings with it a whole of host of its own issues. John and Arthur learn to live in spite of these.
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“This isn't my pinky." There was the sound of an angry thud as John hit his fist against the counter. It echoed in the air as John let out a growl. “It’s too…”
Arthur felt his hand, his left hand— the one not around the cane— as John picked it up. His new digits, the ones that weren’t shaped like Arthur’s hands— human, barely, and longer— ran over every callous as if to memorize them by touch alone.
“…smooth.”
There was silence for a moment. Just skin buzzing against skin.
“Sometimes,” John said, “I think about asking you to bite it off again.”
He said it like it would be a gift.
“Jesus Christ, John.”
“Yeah.”
What’s worse was that Arthur would be willing to do it for him, too.
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If I Could Choose You, I'd Do It Again In A Heartbeat by StarsWhisper
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
08 Aug 2025
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Arthur is struggling with his feelings. John is struggling with his feelings. What better way is there to deal with that other than talk about it and then do something about it?
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John remembered too well what it meant to be inside Arthur’s skull. To be housed. Cradled, even, in the confines of it. And if it could no longer hold him—if Arthur was gone, or shattered, or unreachable—then this would have to do: a shape like a mind, a structure like a thought. Not quite a home, but something adjacent. Scaffolding to hold himself together, made of the only material he had left.
Or, what if John found something better to do with all those versions of Arthur he came across in the Dark World?
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Under Worse Circumstances by IAm30RatsStackedInATrenchCoat
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), Dracula - Bram Stoker (Novel 1897), Dracula & Related Fandoms
07 Aug 2025
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A gasp broke through still air, followed by coughing, sputtering, and some frankly over-dramatized wheezing.
Arthur! You’re awake! Are you okay? What happened!? Where-!?
“Jesus, John,” a break for more coughing, “I- I don’t know, okay? My head feels fuzzy, I can't- I can't think.”
His arm and John's angled behind them to prop up his torso. Had he sat down? He must’ve at some point. Or he’d fallen again. Actually, on second thought, it was almost definitely falling.
What do you mean fuzzy? Like you hit your head or-?
“No! No I-,” he shook his head, then the nothing of his vision began to swim and he quickly reevaluated, “Well, maybe actually. But no, I mean my thoughts. Everything’s coming through a bit jumbled, just give me a moment.”
He sat there for a minute or two.
"Where are we, John?"
We’re at the edge of a dark forest.
The man sighed, "Again?"
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They're in Dracula now.
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"Sorry," Arthur apologizes again. "I… I don't know why I'm reacting so strongly." He exhales. He's still trembling.
"Do you think…" John pauses, searching for the words. "Do you think all the stress of… Our time together is only catching up to you now?"
Arthur tenses, good shoulder coming up to meet his ear, almost like he's trying to hide.
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Arthur dislocates his shoulder (again) and has a PTSD reaction, hurt comfort (for both of them) ensues. -
Warm These Bones by darkbitchithic (comfycouchcat) for coulson_is_an_avenger
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
06 Aug 2025
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John is an Alpha without the teeth needed to claim his mate the way his instincts scream at him to, and Arthur is an omega whose subconscious has shaped his Alpha into the perfect possessive bastard.
It’s nothing a little creative problem solving can’t fix
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John spots a flock of birds; Arthur can't help himself when he mentions they're crows.
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John being John, as I imagine Arthur experiences him. (This has become my Malevolent sketchbook. I plan to keep updating as I keep drawing!)