i hadn’t considered age gap gerrymicheal before seeing your art but you know what you are so correct. it’s the only explanation
you don’t understand the hours I’ve spent reading through the wiki and the statements to try and make an accurate timeline to see what their age gap would be
anyway, speaking of age gap, here’s Michael trying to use ‘new’ slangs in conversation:
Okay- so I have 2 cats. And the other one just came in hauling a whole fish that they got from the neighbors 😭😭 like- btch?? She’s eating it in front of her too
Getting into Malevolent, I thought it would be some spooky cool terrifying narrative with some romantic tension.
Now, listening to it, truly, I see that it’s exactly those things I mentioned, but with a lot more “ORTHUR!! ORTHURR THERES A DEAD BODY!! ORTHUR RUN!! ORTHUR!! ORTHUR STOP FUCKING DYING IM TRYING TO NARRATE!!” going on.
Since him and Michael were technically co workers, does Michael tell gerry about Eric?
yep. It would go something like this:
Michael: [managing Gerry’s documents or something] your dad’s name? Gerry: Eric Michael: [types in ‘Eric Keay’] Gerry: no, no. He wasn’t a Keay. His full name was Eric Delano Michael: [stops and turns to Gerry] did he work for the institute? Gerry: … yeah? Michael: Gerry, I WORKED with him! Gerry: :O
after learning that Michael and Eric were coworkers, it would lead to this conversation:
Finally organized the Arthur injury/incident chart into something actually presentable! Red are for things that would definitely leave scars or other noticeable evidence, orange are too unspecified to say but could have left notable marks.
Thinking about how Michael Shelley trusted Gertrude, maybe even seeing her as a friend and was then betrayed by her and then later as the Distortion became the literal embodiment of false friendships and people you trusted betraying you..
i just think it’d be really funny if a homophobe went to the magnus institute to make a statement, and then got mad at one of the archive assistants for wearing a pride pin or smth and started the whole “who’s your boss?” routine, only to find out that the chain of command just gets gayer and gayer.
oh you don’t wanna deal with the friendly gay man just wearing a rainbow pin? then feel free to deal with his boss/boyfriend instead, a gnc asexual biromantic man with a vibe that can only be described as “of course you’re constantly dealing with the horrors. and have pronouns”.
oh, you wanna talk to the manager? have fun complaining about the gay agenda to a guy who gets funding for his institute from his sugar daddy, wears high heels just to make sure people can hear him walking around and know he’s keeping an eye on them, and probably switches his gender up every once in a while just to keep the haters guessing.
Do you ever just get hurt and go, “eh, [character] has been through worse” then proceed to ignore the pain. While the character you used for comparison has been stabbed, shot, had their legs broken, got their pinky chopped off, had near death experiences and has DIED. Like, sir??? that’s not a fair metric for pain???
says so much a out this website that an obscure and disbanded british pirate band is going neck and neck w one of the most popular bands on the planet. anyways vote mechs and also listen to them if you havent!!
The bisexual to aroace pipeline is pretty much having the right idea and coming to the wrong conclusion. Yeah buddy you’re not straight and you’re also not gay. No not like that though, the other way around
There’s only two reasons Malevolent isn’t set in the modern era
Arthur would look less insane by default because he could just keep an earpiece in and pretend he’s on a phone call or has a hearing aid the entire time
Gay marriage is legal and if those two were allowed to be freely in love every episode would be twice as long because we’d have to go through 40 EXTRA minutes of homoerotic banter and they’d never get anything done
Sidenotes on these:
I think it would be supremely fucking funny if it was set in the modern era with the headphone thing because Arthur wouldn’t appear crazy, he’d appear rude which is infinitely worse and would also annoy the fuck out of his villains and also friends because he looks like he’s on a fucking phone call while fighting for his life.
If he pretended he had a hearing aid in he’d be like “I can’t believe you’re attacking me. I’m literally queer and disabled. You’ll get cancelled” and everyone’s like 👁👄👁
Also in the hearing aid situation, someone takes it off him or turns it off (idk how hearing aids work) so he won’t be able to hear them except he still can and doesn’t know how to proceed without his attacker accusing him of faking a disability he was absolutely faking
If they were in a time period where being queer is allowed we’d get Walking Bisexual Disaster Arthur Lester and get acknowledgement that everyone he meets becomes slightly obsessed with him for better or worse and they might (read: are) a little a lot mayhaps definitely attracted to him. a bit.
Arthur Lester would know memes. You guys he’d know what Vine was. He’d be a tiktok cryptid that every one-in-five teenagers in Boston has seen and witnessed doing something absolutely unhinged. A teenager on a train vlogging about their trip when in the background a blind guy is chasing down some random dude and the other guy tries to throw him off the train and the video goes Viral instantly
I’d love to see Arthur, most assuredly up to date with technology try to work with John, who has no idea what the internet or AI is or ARTHUR SOMETHING IS POSSESSING YOUR PHONE IT’S WRITING DOWN EVERYTHING YOU SAY
In conclusion, Modern AU Malevolent would be more comedy than horror-mystery
I’m knee deep in Malevolent brainrot. here’s more sketches. still no idea what I should call these. basically john got a body and Arthur somehow got Faroe back after all the horrors.
I really like the idea that Michael Shelly would adore plants ,have his little garden on a shelf and things. And after distortion, they still really like them. Like if Michael could decorate the corridors they would definitely put some pots with different plants in there and after some time, those plants will start to become distorted too .🕺
Not too short or tall, not fat or too thin. With hair, a nose and eyes. Look, hes hot and sexy because he’s an ambiguous gendered male pronoun character who’s openly gay imminently. His hotness comes from his lack of description and his silly, whimsical nature. As a “The idea of having sex with my physical body is kinda yuck” ace, I would have sex with him irl if given the chance. He is the ONLY exception for my own minds rule. While that might not be real propaganda or whatever it should have weigh of how hot he is.
John Doe/The Entity (Malevolent):
He is literally the hottest character. It’s literally just a hot voice and yellow eyes, the rest is up to your imagination Also funny??? He is so funny please, we love a entity with humor Rip to Arthur but if I would get possessed by John I would do anything he ask no question asked.
De-throned eldritch god who willingly fractured himself because he cared so much about the guy whose body he was originally trying to steal. Literally has control of said guy’s eyes, and eventually one of his hands. The inherent homoeroticism of two people sharing a body and struggling to hold on to their humanity and so on.
Sharing a body with someone is already intimate without being a incomprehensible being from another dimension with memory problems
An amnesiac fragment of an Elder God trapped in a dread tome, and now bound to the eyes of a private detective
#mari is sexiest #john archivist is the most eyeful #cecil is the most narratorly #kass is both sexy and narratory #but john doe is the full packidge baaaaby #he may not be the best in a single category but he’s an even split across all three #i dont know who nickignik is and at this point im afraid to ask so [they get] Sexy Eyes
So…. I created an au in which Tim and Sasha survived their respective deaths, but with big consequences.
They turnerd into fears avatars.
Tim became part of desolation after the circus explosion.
He ended up in coma for 4 months, bc at first he refused to be one of the monsters who killed his brother.
But he stayed for Sasha.
Unlike Jon, his body suffered many more damage, doctors said he would definitely die from his wounds, but he didn’t.
An extra detail that I would like to add, is that after waking up, someone (Anabelle) sends to him a prosthetic mask, which was clearly inspired by the circus.
Tim set it on fire.
I will publish the design and history of Sasha later, (which gives more context to Tim’s history)
(Also,many of his wounds are recovering little by little, thanks to his regeneration and surgeries.)
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