the semester is finally over so now I can get back to my (ir)regularly scheduled oc shitposting :)
meet anneliese jekyll she’s their sister and she’s a badass florist and she has no clue that Henry fucked himself up in the name of science so when she walks into jekyll’s lab and sees this strange angry man who looks kind of familiar she is Very Confused
fun lil tidbit her nickname is Lisa and their mother's name is Emma because I thought that would be a cool thing to do
Maybe it's because I was a PBS kid and the Jekyll and Hyde episodes of Wishbone and Arthur stood out to me more than the Frankenstein one, but I was floored when I got to school, made friends, and realized that Jekyll WASN'T the iconic mad scientist in pop culture.
I definitely think there's Something (TM) to say about the portrayal of "off-human" characters in modern media adaptations as having (particularly facial) deformities and/or learning disabilities.
Robert Louis Stevenson was fully like "this is my OC, Hyde, who represents the impact of a complete apathy toward your fellow man. There is nothing extraordinary about him except that his rancid vibes make people uncomfortable which adds to the core theme of the role of morality in humanity, so its really important that he's physically normal so the audience can recognise that it's what's inside that's most important," and every film adaptation was like "mmkay. Yeah, no, I've got it. We can show that he's evil by using prosthetics and making him non/semi-verbal, which, as we all know, are the True Measures of Evil."
"classic literature is too dense and boring for me" you say
if he be mr. hyde i shall be mr. seek is an actual real line from robert louis stevenson's seminal gothic classic the strange case of doctor jekyll and mister hyde