Malevolent ep 21, “The Unconquerable” Music Timestamps
John: You Call It Madness (I Call It Love) (Russ Columbo, 1932)
Arthur: Faroes Song, Faroes Lullaby (Original pieces by Harlan Guthrie)
Reminiscent: Category for all piano pieces that are not Faroes Song or Faroes Lullaby
Ep 21, “The Unconquerable”
Addison
-2:12 “Reminiscent”
The meeting is reminiscent to the first episode. Arthur tries to play along, but he gives in and tells the Entity he knows what he is. The Entity is skeptical, but Arthur tries to explain anyway
-3:34 “Faroes Song”
It’s light, slow and airy.
Arthur explains everything to the Entity. He tries telling him that he wanted to be so much more than the Kinf, to be human. He calls him John, and the Entity is confused. He laughs, and says the game is up.
-5:39 “Reminiscent”
Arthur finds his leg is fine. He realizes Katne did it on purpose to ensure he lives. He curses at the Entity for calling him friend. He is pissed.
-6:21 “Faroes Lullaby”
Arthur talks about Lilly. How John could forget who brought him humanity, had changed him. The Entity tries to threaten Arthur. It does not work.
-7:24 “Reminiscent”
Arthur is unfazed by the Entities threats. He threatens to send the Entity back to the Dark World, saying that the Glass of Cana can send him back. This is a lie. The Entity finally complies with Arthur and tells him what he sees.
-8:04 “Reminiscent”
The Entity describes their surroundings, notably a rifle mounted on the wall.
-10:42 “Reminiscent”
Arthur jumped the gun, tried to make the Entity remember anything, to no evail. This isn’t John. “You’re just Yellow” Arthur says. Yellow tells hom to send him back, but Arthur says he can’t, because he owes his friend to try and save him. Yellow says they owe each other nothing, that he’s a prisoner trapped in Arthur’s eyes. Since Yellow remembers nothing, Arthur says he’ll send Yellow back after he hels him find Anna Stanczyk.
Arthur says he was foolish to think Yellow was anything but a monster.
Yellow says Arthur is nothing but a mortal.
-14:22 “Reminiscent”
Yellow asks what happened to Arthurs hand, and he tells him about the forest. The wood looks like dark bone. Yellow asks if it hurts, and laughs when Artur says he would like that.
-14:55 “Faroes Song”
As Arthur changes, Yellow points out he is thin. Artur says he was nearly starved to death, and Yellow says that sounds like something he’d do. Yellow asks condescendingly if Arthur really beat him, and Arthur says he’d do it again.
-17:02 “Reminiscent”
Arthur says John used to be more appreciative of “this aspect of the job.” Yellow calls him weak, but Arthur says he was the farthest thing from it. He says weakness isn’t wishing to be mortal or enjoying life, but to think power makes you more valuable. Yellow says Arthur has the power to send him back, making Arthur valuable.
17:29 “Faroes Song” begins.
Arthur says power is not making him valuable, thats Yellow needing something of him, needing a mere mortal.
Yellow calls his logic stretched. He says his power makes him valuable, not who he is or his capability. He says he only needs him because of what he can do for him.
Arthur asls if weakness is needing someone for no other reason than who they are, and Yellow answers yes.
Arthur says that’s what happened to John, and Yellow calls him weak.
Arthur asks Yellow if he wonders why John yearned for humanity, and Yellow says it was because he had no other options.
Arthur says the fact that Yellow doesn’t question himself shows how limited he is compared to John.
Arthur says John is a better person than Yellow ever could be. Yellow points out that Arthur doesn’t question his own beliefs.
-19:05 “Reminiscent”
Jack Larsons name is on the paper. Yellow says the illegible handwriting is sad and pathetic. Arthur asks if he pities him, and Yellow denies.
-22:28 “Reminiscent”
Arthur is annoyed at how hard Yellow tries to win over every argument. He calls him a petulant child being told no for the first time. Arthur says, the first time around, he was scared, and thats what Yellow wants again, so hes saying things in hoping they stick to hold over his head. He tells him to just do the smart thing and work with him, and that gods shoudln’t care about arguing with a mortal.
-24:39 “Reminiscent”
They find a lamp in the storm, still hot. The snow beside is trampled, as if fallen on and then running. The tracks lead deeper into the forest. Where they stop, blood paints the snow, as if the person was dragged.
-27:12 “Reminiscent”
They fight over the fact that Yellow hardly remembers being the King. Arthur says he chpse this life, that he was helping Yellow. Yellow says Arthur imprisoned him. Before they can argue more, wolves enter the scene.
-28:44 “Faroes Song”
Airy, slow and light.
Arthur says he may be being unreasonable and unable to see Yellows perspective. Arthur says he did what he did for their frienship, and that it was easy to take away the parts of John he hated, especially when he hurt him. Yellows representation reminds him of the pain from both John and the King, but he says he may not be being fair. He apologizes.
Yellow is confused.
Arthur says he doesn’t know what Yellow knows or if he’s truthful, but he did force him here.
-30:28 “Reminiscent”
They come across a tavern, the Red Right Hand, three dead wolves hung by their feet at the front of the building.
-36:46 “Literal Hell”
A man in the tavern hits the piano. This cannot even be classified as playing it. After a moment, he actually begins to play an eerie tune as the rest of the tavern bangs on the tables.
The song speeds up as the people of the tavern dance.
Arthur begins to laugh, and the people begin looking at him. He begins to spiral as if being poisoined. The Bartender says there is a room upstairs, bed and bath for a dollar.
Yellow tells him they can’t sleep here, but Arthur makes his way to go anyway.
-42:30 “Reminiscent”
Yellow is at a loss for words from seeing the dancing. Watching people move without reason, simply to express. Arthur asks if he likes music, and Yellow says sure. Arthur says he played music, Yellow doesn’t care. Arthur says he knows, but he can hope he will. Yellow says humans hope so much, wasting so much on it, and that is why they are weak.
Arthur says hope is what gives people strength. Hope is about having the will to press on.
44:14 “Faroes Song”
Arthur recites a poem.
It goes as is:
“Out of the night that covers me.
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance,
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul.”
Yellow asks if he wrote it, and Arthur answers no, someone more human than he, did.
Yellow asks why he shared it, and Arthur answers because its beautiful, it makes him feel strong. Yellow tells Arthur to sleep off the sick feeling. As Arthur yawns, Yellow says
“This, too, shall pass.”
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soapghost circus au
ghost’s an extreme motorcycle stunt performer - globe of death, riding on his back wheel along tightropes, that sort of thing
soap’s a fire breather/dancer. he’s a roaming performer; he just finds empty spaces or bored people and starts twirling
he pretends not to notice the way he always wanders towards a certain tent every night to watch a certain masked daredevil defy gravity. he thinks he's slick and that ghost won't notice him in the crowd, completely forgetting that he's carrying something that happens to be on fire
ghost couldn't miss him if he tried
one day off, soap's trialing fire whips; he loves the loud crack and the way the flame licks through the air and maybe he's a little too impatient to practice with non flaming whips first, even though he's never used one before
he's covered in soot and fine welts where the tip of the whip keeps flicking back up at him, cutting through his shirt and stinging his skin but he doesn't let that stop him. it starts to stick to him, damp with sweat and blood and he's quick to strip it off; throwing it to the side to keep practicing
when soap finally gets a few good cracks in a row and breaks to celebrate, he almost jumps out of his skin when he sees the masked rider leaning against a trailer watching him
of all the times he's wanted ghost to talk to him, this is not one of them
he wanted to impress him, dance for him with his flaming batons and be mesmerised by his fluidity and skill
not catch him filthy and struggling with something as basic as a whip
he's ready for ghost to ream him out for not having control over the whip - he's known throughout the circuit for expecting utter perfection in his routines - but when ghost finally does speak, it's only to ask if he's done for the day
soap falters for a moment. he wanted to get some consistency with the whip before he stopped, but he's starting to feel the hours of practice; muscles aching and skin blistered with minor burns
he says he is and ghost pushes off the trailer, nodding his head to make soap follow. he brings him back to his trailer and tells him to clean up then takes out his personal med kit to treat the grazes on soap's skin
soap's shocked; for all that he loves to watch ghost perform, they've never really talked before
part of why he joined the circus was so he wouldn't be a burden on anyone, the oldest in a family with too many mouths to feed and not even time to nurture, and here he is taking up ghost's valuable practice time be he wasn't good enough to handle his own discipline. he tries to brush him off, downplaying the burns and tries to leave before half them can be treated but ghost just glares and orders him to sit back down
ghost does expect perfection from himself but it isn’t out of any malice or ego; it's bc he knows if he isn't perfect, he could very easily die. he’s picked a dangerous profession and he gives it the respect it deserves. there isn't any shame in being a novice or failing at something; he thinks there's a lot of beauty in having the courage to get back up again and again
so every day he watches soap practice and bullies him into his trailer to put him back together bc he knows he won't do it by himself
and every night soap wanders over to ghost's section of the fair grounds, in awe of his skill and wishing he could be worthy of the care he gives him
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