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1. Who Let the Protagonists Meet? The King in Yellow Did, That's Who by WaffleKatt89

   Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist - Wifies (Web Series), The King in Yellow - Robert W. Chambers  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen, Other
   • Work in Progress

   06 Mar 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist) & Arthur Lester
   • John Doe & Arthur Lester
   • John Doe & d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • Arthur Lester
   • John Doe (Malevolent)
   • d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • The King In Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • The King in Yellow (Malevolent)
   • genuinely did not expect to find a tag for d3r and arthur
   • Not planned
   • just going as i listen to the podcast
   • started this on the desert episode
   • if it wasn't obvious
   • Insane d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • Traumatized d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • Blind Arthur Lester
   • John Doe and Arthur Lester Share a Body
   • POV Arthur Lester
   • might switch up POVS sometime
   • Desert
   • One-Sided d3rLord3/The King In Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • d3rlord3's in the dreamlands as punishment cause he keeps fighting the King
   • Mentioned The King in Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • He/Him Pronouns for The King in Yellow (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • but they're all capital He/Him pronouns
   • John Doe says stranger danger
   • Arthur says new friend
   • d3rLord3 Needs a Hug (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • Arthur Lester Needs a Hug
   • POV d3rLord3 (Searching For A World That Doesn't Exist)
   • Self-Harm
   • d3rlord3 doesn't like being able to feel the King's eyes on him so he scratches and pulls at his hair
   • Touch-Starved
   • both d3rlord3 and Arthur
   • they get their hugs with each other

   Summary

   Arthur Lester, the man, investigator, and partially possessed vessel is trapped in the blistering hot desert of the Dreamlands and instead of encountering the three ghostly soldiers, he comes across a strange man that John describes as "draped in gold."

   (also known as: the crossover between king in yellow fandoms because the idea wouldn't leave my head and I like the idea of these two protagonists with pretty different King in Yellows meeting.)

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

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