i just think oscar and parker deserve to make out a little 🤏 as a treat! and as a birthday present to my beloved mutual/friend/fwoomf @deadbaguette! + some more canon typical angst bc i'm evil
the lineart was commissioned from the lovely @potato-lord-but-not and the colours were done by me ^^ i need everyone to start seeing the oscar/parker vision IMMEDIATELY 🔫
me when im a depressed and suicidal widower and this random detective guy is trying to cheer me up and get to know me . also i need everyone to go read what harlan said about them on discord
rough human john (?) doodle bc saw an image on pinterest and felt inspired by the sillouhette and had to draw human John (i know he's his own etc but let him use the kiy title to aurafarm okay?) og image below the cut:
what cool aromantic besties :) i hope nothing bad happens to them!!(anglo-burmese! arthur lester and filipina-american! bella saltzman,,, can anyone hear me,,,)
Rambles :
I've kind of always headcanoned them both as ✨️ambiguously brown ✨️ in my head and it wasn't until like 3 days ago that it occured to me that like I Can literally just be self indulgent and make Arthur Anglo-Burmese (aka wasian aka mixed British Burmese which was actually common during the British colonialism of Myanmar from 1885 to 1948 <- but Anglo-Burmese people have been recorded as early as the 1820s) BUT THEN I WAS LIKE "?? am I REALLY? going to give my main fandoms protag an ethnic headcanon that's like. One step away from my actual irl ethnicity?? Isn't that a little TOO indulgent??"
And then I remembered Burmese Days by George Orwell came out in 1934 (year Malevolent Blackstone takes place in) and the idea of John reading it to Arthur endeared me so hard I folded. Bella being Filipina occured to me when I was looking into Asian American history
Anyways Arthur's Anglo-Burmese and has like zero material ties to Myanmar because his parents killed themselves when he was 7 and his family was pretty assimilated (I actually have been debating if he has one British parent and one Burmese parent or if they're both mixed themselves <- I COULD GENUINELY SEE EITHER OR TBH) but maybe he knows like a few words of burmese from his childhood even if he feels disconnected from it
I do think he kind of latches onto any and all pieces of writing and literature about Myanmar whenever he stumbles across it though (because it makes him think of his parents) <- cue John being like "OURTHUR!! I FOUND THIS BOOK!!!"
I actually would not be surprised if him and Parker had probably encountered some Burmese American immigrants while doing their detective work but I feel like Arthur would feel too disconnected from that part of identity (and yknow language barrier😭) to try to establish any connection with them
He probably has a medium spice tolerance. Bella's spice tolerance is a bit higher
I feel like Bella's a tad more in touch with her culture, on account of growing up with living parents, but I feel like her family's almost equally as assimilated (actually debated if she's also mixed and am still low-key debating but I'm leaning more towards the idea that both her parents are Filipino and they just assimilated like crazy and have also just been in America for a while)
Honestly, since racism in Malevolent is canonically in a weird grey area where it functionally doesn't exist, EXCEPT for Irish people specifically/hj, I'm like. Soooo curious about how assimilation and colonialism factor into things <- I do think it probably does to some extent but Harlan doesn't feel qualified to acknowledge (which valid to a degree but also eh?) so it's basically up to personal interpretation
I am already in the process of monster draws, but I feel like queuing up something for after I'm done with that. The finale happened and I dunno, I'm kinda itching to do something with other fans of the show, SO.
Bring me Lillith designs. D: I'm gonna draw some after I get done with my current set of monsters.
and then i go and spoil it all by saying somethin' stupid like i love you .
(Aka WOW. I'VE HAD CHAPTER 6 OF STATIC BY Rustycookies || @mak3morn ROTATING IN MY BRAIN FOR THREE WEEKS. PLEASE GO READ THIS FIC. I BEG YOU) + alt verison of this
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