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John fights tooth and nail against the King. Hastur, unable to make his missing heart fit again, casts him out into the Dark World as punishment. There John slowly loses himself.
Kayne comes to him with Arthur's face, offering to lend a hand.
A hand John is foolish enough to ignore.
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01 Mar 2026
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John realizes what’s happening on the sixth loop.
In retrospect, it’s fucking embarrassing that it took him so long to figure it out—that this isn’t an illusion, and it’s not him finally going mad, and it’s not a dream or a trick or a torment devised by the King to fuck with them. It’s not like he doesn’t know that time is as malleable as clay in the hands of gods. The Dark World taught him many lessons that he’d like to forget, and that’s one of them.
It’s just been a little hard to concentrate when Arthur keeps fucking dying.
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When John decides to stay with Arthur as he bleeds out on the King’s plateau, he expects them both to die. Instead, they find themselves brought back in time to the first moment they stepped onto the plateau—and Arthur has no recollection of their confrontation with the King. John soon realizes that they’re stuck in a time loop that restarts every time Arthur dies.
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17 Jan 2026
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After the events of The End (ep 12) John and Arthur wake up back in Arthur's office in Arkham, having apparently started their time together over. But only John remembers what came before and after, to his frustration, and everything is...very off.
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17 Jan 2026
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He opens his mouth to ask what’s going on but all that comes out is a pained groan.
Don’t … don’t talk, Arthur, John says and Arthur’s head is swimming, mind a maelstrom of distant sensations and half-finished thoughts he can’t be bothered to sort out. But John sounds worried. He notices that much.
And you, stay the fuck away from him! Worried and angry, Arthur manages to think.
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Let every knee be bent and every tongue confess by Stringgoblin
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
26 Jan 2024
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Arthur talks in his sleep.
Not every night, but most nights. Usually it’s nothing coherent, just mutterings and murmurings and bitten-off half-words. Little clues to whatever’s occupying his sleeping mind. John gathers these scraps and spends his nights piecing them together: a pleasant dream, or a nightmare? Remembered or purely imagined?
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In the prison pit, John can't help but listen when Arthur talks in his sleep. His mistake, in the realm of the King of Dreams, is trusting what he hears.- Language:
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16 Jan 2026