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His friend strangled him to death and bound him to a strange book. Later, the very same friend abandons his bruised and bleeding body on the side of a road outside Arkham. Parker vows not only to find Arthur, but to take his vengeance against his former best friend. After he tries to wreak just that in New York, he realizes that things are more complicated than they seem... and the man he wants to kill may be dead already.
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31 Jan 2025
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Parker and Arthur are invited to a city hall fundraiser, where the Arkham elite and well-connected bump elbows. It's an excellent opportunity for Lester & Yang, private investigators. However, an unexpected encounter sends Arthur reeling, and the two end the night at a familiar diner and a familiar bed.
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30 Jan 2025
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Sometimes he forgot he was supposed to be dead. He thought about Arthur as little as possible.
All in all, he was getting by.
That was, of course, until someone called emergency services for Lenox Hill Hospital.
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26 Jan 2025
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between the tendons and the teeth by bluejayblueskies for AlanTheToadOfTheWoods
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
16 Mar 2024
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The thing that Arthur remembers the most from the first time John consumes him is the darkness.
He’s blind, of course—the complete sort, where there’s never anything but nothing. Still, when Arthur casts his mind back, all he can recall is how the world grew somehow, impossibly, frighteningly black. Blacker than black. The sort of black he imagines one might find at the center of a great, yawning void. Madness-inducing black.
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Or, in the Dreamlands, John discovers that he’s able to manifest physically. This is not without consequences for Arthur.
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26 Jan 2025
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The World is Too Much Without You (or, Not Enough) by A_Mossy_Amethyst
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
26 May 2024
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John and Arthur are back in New York, and slowly settling into having their own bodies. Noel has offered to help them get used to being away from each other. It's not a burden, really. If anything, it's nice to be able to spend one-on-one time with them.
The separation seems to have taken a larger toll on John than he'd rather admit. Luckily, Noel is a patient man.
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25 Jan 2025
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it's strange, but it's such a delight (to hear your voice again) by handsofink
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
08 Dec 2024
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“He should wake soon.”
That’s what Yorick had told him. After Arthur had initially awoken, screaming in agony and gasping with terror. He’d told John that, assured him of that. Because the talisman had brought him back and would heal him, would make him better.
Fucking load of shit, John seethes and taps his claws on the same rotten wooden table he’s been tapping for the past five hours.
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The aftermath of the boys' encounter with the Witch, wherein John struggles with his new body and worry for his partner.
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22 Jan 2025
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(Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves— And Immortality.
We slowly drove—He knew no haste, And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too, For His Civility.)Death and Arthur Lester have a rather tense relationship. They flirt constantly, send each other so many gifts—and yet, they never seem to end up going home together at the end of the night.
Or: after dealing with the Butcher on the train, Arthur has a friendly conversation with another passenger, and somehow, for once, nothing bad happens.
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21 Jan 2025
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After the events at the palace in the Dark World, John and Arthur are separate but not alone-- and if they're going to have any chance of finding their way back to each other, they're going to need help.
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- Part 2 of to make a heaven of hell
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30 Dec 2024
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the darkest evening of the year by borogue for littlebluecaboose
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
24 Dec 2022
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The Skating Pond at Rockefeller Center will see its Grand Opening this very Christmas Eve. Admission 99c per session; rental of figure or hockey skates 50c. Skate when you feel like it… Laugh at the Weather Man!
(John, Arthur, and Christmas Eve, 1936.)
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27 Dec 2024
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Lilly was never given a proper funeral in the massive grave of Carcosa. Arthur goes to the cemetery with a stuffed elephant so John can send her off.
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27 Dec 2024
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you can never tell the truth (but you can tell something that sounds like it) by peregreen
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
08 Nov 2024
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It didn’t matter the topic, didn’t matter that John was trying to make amends, trying to be better, wanting to be better, desperately—even going so far as to try to apologize, to really apologize, to Arthur. It didn’t fucking matter, but that was fine. That was okay. They were fucking trapped there together, and John was going to make it work for the both of them if it killed him.
John is still trying to get used to humanity, to being a part of Arthur Lester. To making mistakes and paying for them. To being John Doe.
He doesn't make it easy on himself.
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26 Dec 2024
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In the brief instant before his feet left the ground and he was free-falling, Arthur truly thought he had made a smart decision.
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Arthur nearly drowns. John makes sure he doesn't.
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- Part 1 of Arthur Lester Has Multiple Bad Days
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26 Dec 2024
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From What I’ve Tasted of Desire/I Hold With Those Who Favor Fire by Tanwyn
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
20 Dec 2024
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When Larsen changes his mind about wanting Arthur and John dead, he sends the Butcher to retrieve them and bring them back to Addison. The Butcher uses the opportunity to satisfy his curiosity about the voice in Arthur's head.
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26 Dec 2024
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“She was such a wonderful little girl. I often think of her - wait, did you say eight?” She asks in confusion. Her time within the Lester household had been well over a decade ago - Faroe would be closer to fourteen if she were here -
“Faroe, darling!” Arthur turns and calls behind him, making Tess startle once more. “Come say hello to Tess.”
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24 Dec 2024
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“Are you going to kill me now?” his Arthur asks, shocking them both into another moment of tense, breathless apprehension. The question lingers in the air, Arthur’s hand remains inside that bag, and John’s eyes remain fixed on the other’s face. The other Arthur meets them with just about the same indifference he always has. Until at last, his eyes shift over to their bag as well.
“Are you?” he asks, and John can feel the way his friend’s fingers tighten around the cool metal of that gun, itching for that trigger, contemplating the question. It really would be so easy for him, wouldn’t it? To pull it out of that bag and aim it at his chest, knowing that John would not dare try to stop him, even if he wants to.
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An alternate version of "The Fire" where John and Arthur meet Darkthur instead of Malam. Testing John's loyalty and devotion while asking Arthur the question of all questions. Does he deserve to die?
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- Part 3 of So Eden Sank To Grief
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24 Dec 2024
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The door is open a crack, just as they’d left it, and he pushes it the rest of the way.
Blond curls barely peek out over the rim of the porcelain tub and, without the roar of the faucet, gentle splashing can be heard reverberating off the tile floor.
Blegh, too much white, these bathrooms. Too white and too bright and far too easy to stain.
She looks happy enough. Content, even; no concern whatsoever marring her round face. Large cerulean eyes meet his and the splashing halts. She stares at him for a long time, long enough that he feels his legs itch from antsiness.
“Hello.”
The greeting startles him for a fraction of a second, like he’s watching a kitten amble innocently into shark-infested waters. But he’s proud to say he recovers quickly.
“Why, hello there, kiddo!”
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After dropping Arthur and John off on their fetch-quest in the 13th century, Kayne decides to pay another visit to the newly-rescued member of the Lester family.Bookmarked by PrototypeLQ
23 Dec 2024
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As long as he’s known Arthur – as long as he’s hated and tolerated and liked and loved him – John has wanted his own body. An identity all his own. When he and Arthur find a way to make it happen, it should be perfect. It needs to be perfect. But Arthur still can’t see, and John makes some unfortunate discoveries about his new body, and they’re both having a hell of a time of it. They aren’t alone, but it’s hard to remember that when you don’t share the same moral frame anymore. Hard, but not impossible.
Written for the 2023 Malevolent Big Bang!
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- Part 1 of post-canon malevolent
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19 Dec 2024
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But things really were going smoothly, and they really were beginning to settle into their respective bodies, even with the occasional road bump. Even if there was still quite a lot John needed to learn about the world now that he was an active participant in it—social niceties and clothing and keeping up appearances.
Yes, he had to wear shoes.
Yes, he had to keep his napkin in his lap.
Yes, he had to wait for the cab to pull up to the curb instead of running into the middle of the fucking road to fetch one himself and Arthur, why have you never done this before—
And, goddamn it all, he needed to stop touching him.
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Arthur slowly comes to realize that maybe his apprehension surrounding John's touch isn't entirely because of the opinions of the public.Bookmarked by PrototypeLQ
18 Dec 2024
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It looks like the entity and Arthur have to leave Arkham in order to solve their problem. Fine, it isn't as if the entity has any say in the matter, but Arthur insists they have to make a stop elsewhere first. Though Arthur initially tries to disguise the reason for their visit, it eventually becomes clear: he has to say goodbye to his young daughter, Faroe.
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18 Dec 2024
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Even now, Arthur acquiesced to him wondering around a bit on his own, content to tuck into some lunch at a diner further in town, which was precisely how John found himself frozen before the double doors of Edith Mordent Memorial Hospital.
Alone.
This is why he had come here to begin with, wasn’t it? To check.
To check what, exactly? That she was still working here? That she hadn’t been fired after Arthur had stumbled from his room on trembling legs in the middle of the night, effectively proving the ineptitude of the hospital’s staff and security? That she hadn’t been injured or possessed or devoured by some otherworldly creature left in their wake?
That she would remember him?
John grasped the delusion by the tail before it could carry him away with it. That’s all it was. A delusion cleverly disguised as a dream.
So why the fuck was he entertaining it?
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After months of acclimating to the world in his own body, John somehow manages to convince Arthur to take a trip to Harper's Hill. It is here that he looks for someone.Bookmarked by PrototypeLQ
17 Dec 2024