I'll be uploading the frames this Thursday, but you can see it now if you tip me on ko-fi. Thoughts below!
What drew me to connect this song to al-Hazred is the relationship he has with the eldritch horror that lives in his mind. I imagine the Occultist to be largely misunderstood; he's a man who is very clearly not like the others. He's from a different culture, and beyond that he even deviates from his own upbringing. From this, his only closest companion would be the Beast.
There's a complicated relationship between the two. There's a pact that neither are satisfied with, yet here they are bound in what he's even referred to as 'unholy matrimony'. Even when he appears to be alone, he always has the Beast.
I consider him to be a sort of 'dead man walking'; he's killed parts of himself for a fraction of infinite knowledge and now his body is host to something unfathomable. His body isn't even his own anymore, thanks to this pact. Hence the Y-incision on his torso, a wound only the Beast can open. Inspiration for that comes from having stumbled upon a screenshot of Bruce Campbell in Waxwork 2 and it evolved from there.
Sure, they often butt heads, but if they're forced to live with each other in a confined space, they must get along somehow, right? Their relationship is intimate, but unsteady. The Beast knows more about al-Hazred than he knows about himself.
And despite the fear directed at him from his colleagues or the townfolk, he remains a powerful hero.