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was thinking abt that last post abt their codependent insecurity again in the shower and it reminded me, well ok it reminded me of a few things, but from arthur's angle specifically it reminded me of another line from the end of 56 that i don't think i ever got around to talking about but that really Hit Me,
JOHN: I’ll miss you, Arthur. ARTHUR (teasingly): Nah. Only for a bit.
like. guy who infamously has a fucking lethal dose of dead-loved-ones trauma, about to die in front of someone who loves him, says this?? because he knows. he Has To Know how big of a fucking lie this is. he cannot be unaware of the potential this moment has to monumentally fuck john up for however long the rest of his life is. and in my mind there are two reasons, maybe working side-by-side, that he would say this:
he is intentionally downplaying it to make this moment seem less scary, or
he sincerely believes that john just needs to go live his own life for a while and he'll forget all about him eventually.
and like, especially given that arthur is transparently putting on a brave face for john during all of this goodbye (gestures at how he is trying so hard to make it hopeful and focus on the positives of john's future when he later confesses that he was terrified the whole time), my inclination would definitely be to believe that (1) is the driving factor...
except that then we get to 58. and arthur is told that john did, in fact, go become something entirely new, and is no longer his friend, and does not mourn him and is not even especially excited to see him alive, and he just. believes that. almost at face value. despite very obvious signs that the KIY is lying. badly. i'm not saying he's not upset about it, obviously he is—but he accepts it. yknow. he doesn't call bullshit.
so like. maybe some part of him did sincerely mean this line in 56, too. maybe he really does believe that, given enough time and distance, john could just. stop caring about him.
i want a second screenshot here to make my point but i can't think of a specific single line for arthur that really makes a good match, anyway. i did laugh out loud at this when i heard it, because john, this man tried to DIE for you, TWICE, you CANNOT still be this insecure and oblivious to how deeply unwell he is about you specifically, but then i thought about it for 5 more seconds and like. man. yeah.
because they are both like this. is the thing. and they have been like this and will continue to be like this. like coming to understand each other and grow as people and practice good communication and all that helped with the arguing but let's not confuse that for like, making the relationship healthy. they are still wildly codependent and it jumps out in moments like this. the insecurity. the immediate assumption that the person who's fought and sacrificed for them might feel nothing at all about them, if they are given the slightest bit of prompting to doubt their bond. the KIY says this bullshit even though yellow has to be in there yelling "what are you talking about he's so obsessed with john it is disgusting have you seen them," arthur hears the KIY say a bunch of lukewarm things about being "whole" and decides to jump straight into "ok i guess my friend is dead and you feel nothing for me now that's fine haha i'm happy for you haha it's not like this is the outcome i once killed myself to prevent or anything hahaha but no it's great that you're happy" so quickly that even fucking larson is like "do your ears not work either now? are you stupid? are you fucking stupid?"
like. it's the same exact dance they did in s4, in the tear, when john was terrified that arthur would dump him if he wasn't Useful and arthur was terrified that john was just being insincerely nice to placate him. tbh i think it is a secret motivator for a Lot of their bigger fights, ultimately, is being afraid that the other's acceptance/affection is conditional and might be taken away. and john consistently reacts by trying to lash out and start fights so he can get ahead of the imagined criticism, and arthur reacts by grabbing for the nearest sharp object to carve off whatever piece of himself he imagines john finds grating or objectionable to exist in. and they are going to continue trying to patch up the symptoms without ever getting at the root cause, because again, they are Both Like This and don't register any solutions other than "entwine our minds and souls even more deeply so there's not enough room to disagree or misunderstand each other ever."
and maybe they will even succeed. i mean they're back in the same body by choice this time which is. something. love that for them. never change just never involve anyone else in what you're doing etc
^ like that.
oh and to be completely clear, i'm not like, judging either of them, i don't think this is a particularly surprising line of thought or a super fixable one, because like. it's easy to say as an outsider "dude what are you talking about he clearly needs you more than air" but you also gotta remember that both sides are very frequently coming at these interactions with this underlying emotion of "my friend is my world, the reason i exist, the foundation that i build on to make myself human... and i'm the piece of useless lint that he continues to entertain for some inscrutable reason. maybe pity." they know their own love for their friend is unconditional and absolute but it's so hard to believe that the reverse is also true when they're so hyperaware of all their flaws and especially the ways in which they restrain and are an obstacle to the other just by existing.
from that pov it may actually improve things somewhat to have had this very deliberate act of rejoining, because now they have explicit proof that this is a choice, that they both prefer this entangled existence over a more conventional one, that this is the way they want to be and not a temporary annoyance they'll eventually be freed from. but that's only one small part of what makes them Like This and given the fucked up cocktail of issues their respective pasts have left them with—arthur being trained to anticipate and live in constant fear of loss, knowing that he is not enough for anyone on some level that he can't ever seem to fix; john existing for so long without any kind of positive contact and now being unable to imagine it as a permanent part of reality and not an ephemeral deviation from the emptiness of the status quo—that i also think the periodic anxiety attacks about "what if the person i love and need more than anything in the world just decides to fuck off and abandon me one day and then i'm alone forever and ever" are. probably here to stay. unfortunately.
Arthur Lester would be a nightmare to meet or talk to in real life, okay? I need us to realize this as a group of people. He wouldn’t be listening, or even trying to pay attention, or looking at you. (Not Not Holding eye contact, that’s normal, I mean he is actively listening to a voice in his head telling him to turn his entire head and look at other things so it can describe the room to him. I am not talking about normal neurodivergent things here. Arthur Lester would be deeply unsettling in a supernatural way.)
You aren’t as crazy as Percival was to demand a story from a stranger. You’re not as driven as Noel, or predisposed to the dreamworld bullshit like he is. You’re not as fucking delusional as Oscar, Jesus Christ. You’re not his dead wife’s dad. Arthur would not feel obligated to complete small talk. He will not pretend that you are interesting. He will not want to talk to YOU.
Arthur will be straight up talking to nothing right next to you. You have no context for this because he doesn’t wear a bumper sticker that says “demon on board”
He is in active danger, and now so are you. This clearly deeply troubled man is going to get you killed.
they are SOOOO chill
"Miles to go before I sleep"
"her brown eyes are so.. bright. sharing a keen intellect like her father's, only unhidden", "but her eyes, her eyes are like her dad's. as are her freckles *the warmest, fondest laugh you've ever heard. heart-eyes laugh even*"
john loverboy doe no one can beat your game, you are So down bad
Hey, you know how Malevolent series 2 is Threshold?
You know what lurks at the threshold? The Lurker at the Threshold. Aka Yog Sothoth.
You know who's the spawn of Yog Sothoth? Hastur.
All I'm saying is that it's time for Arthur to meet the parent
john doe being so anti-dog to the point of wanting to be sent into time-out bc he can't stand looking at it is so fucking funny
Threshold 3 Spoilers!
“This is no wraith or spirit or specter. It seems almost… godlike.”
Malevolent Threshold is making me realize that maybe Arthur "pathetic wet kitten" Lester might not actually be THAT pathetic and that he was going through significant mental hurdles and also getting stabbed and every bone in his body broken and honestly going insane. That being said he does NOT need to whimper that much when he walks up stairs
I cannot believe Arthur is cheating on John with the alleged ghost of his dead partner
This guy did a stakeout, killed a man to stop a ritualistic murder, visited his daughter, visited the morgue, went to the bookstore, divorced and remarried his seeing eye demon, got haunted by a ghost/zombie version of his dead friend, and got tangled up with mob all in a single night. It is no wonder he is falling asleep on the job because he sure isn't sleeping at night.
Drew the Parker design of @pikachic !! Obsessed with his clothes burning like joss paper and him smoking like incense I need to be put DOWN❤️❤️❤️❤️
how to do things that everyone else seems to do no problem
all the other weird fucked up cats are safe and happy and healthy btw
please god watch this right now
The editing of this video is hysterical and genius- they switch between so many editing styles to reflect exactly what kind of thing they're going for in each segment its GREAT.
