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The eastest example is the way Jon behaves towards both Peter Lukas in the Lonely and Helen in her domain when he realises that they can't do anything to him. He gets fairly predator-like, way more threatening, he genuinely reads as malicious at times, both the way he tells Peter that he can see where he is ["I wouldn't try to leave if I were you. I can see you now, I can find you wherever you go"] and how he tells Helen that he's going to kill her, and his words afterwards ["I'm not scared of you" "Helen, was that... a lie?"]. He gets so Hunt coded that it's honestly quite scary, and I doubt anyone would enjoy being on the receiving end of his words in that moment.

Other examples are in general how characters take advantage of other Fear domains to boost the effect of their own. For example Nikola telling Jon not to turn on the light, with the scary effect being both "trapped in a room with murder mannequin that is probably grotesque and horrifying" and "in a room with murder mannequin I can't see since it's dark". When you can't see what you're facing but you know whatever is in front of you is scary, your brain will create any sort of horrible mental images for it that are probably way scarier than it actually is, plus the fact that you can't see where it is and so it might jump at your throat at any moment doesn't help, so it just combines the Stranger and the Dark fairly well (and a bit of the Spiral). Or, another example: nobody can tell me the Unknowing is not also Spiral coded. You quite literally can't understand anything, can't know anything, everything is wrong. That's not only the Stranger, that's the Spiral too, but the main one, the focus remains the Stranger, that uses the twisted perception of reality to be even more uncanny.

And also I noticed the fact that nobody else acknowledged Hummer and I noticed his lack of death message but I never noticed until it was pointed out that he’s never shown arriving, and that he has not hitbox. I do think he’s the Leviathan; in a sense. My personal headcanon was that when the entities jumped from 2 to 3 that was Hummer placing and recalling the tropical fish to spike Wifies’ belief and drag him deeper into the idea of the Leviathan. But I do also agree that the Leviathan is him.

The King in Yellow was written by Robert W. Chambers for the anthology of the same name for his own personal stuff. The Yellow Sign, Carcosa, all that good juicy SFAWTDE stuff came from that original text. It’s been a while since I saw SFAWTDE and DAWTDE but from what I remember, there was no mention of the name Hastur, so really, just original non-connected universe text.

However! The main thing that seemed to popularise The King in Yellow’s connections to Hastur was the role-playing game, Call of Cthulhu. This seems to be what really got the idea going of The King in Yellow being one of Hastur’s avatars. And Call of Cthulhu would get a metric shit ton of supplements across its existence but one of the most popular is the Malleus Monstrorum. The 2006 version of which, spoke in detail about several Avatars, including the King in Yellow as one of Hastur’s, but also, the Father-Of-All-Sharks as one of Cthulhu’s Avatars.