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bindi-the-skunk · 1 year

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Review of MK's The strange case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

I have been wanting to do this for a while and just now got enough thoughts and motivations together to do it 😳

A review of @mk-wizard Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (this will be mostly ramblings and is not in anything that resembles orderly)

With more love for the lxg versions of the character rising up (as it should) I want to put more love out there for some webcomics on the subject of J+H to give some artists that worked hard on their interpretation of the story some attention

And upon learning our dear Ms. Wizard will soon be working on a webcomic based on "Frankenstein" I pray all of you will show her support with the comic and show her some love with her older ones ^^

I was a little late to the party with finding this webcomic (but that tends to be a habit of mine anyway lol) And I am sad to admit I was almost put off because of the art style not fitting the type I was into at the time, but I thankfully ignored that bias and gave it a read...and boy am I glad I did!

The story tells you right up front it is only a loose interpretation of the tale, as it does have Jekyll and Hyde serve as separate entities, almost as polar opposites instead of Hyde being a reflection of Jekyll's own wickedness and simply being a mask for him to wear.

And well the story does take a more light-hearted tone, it still brings up important issues that fit the story, as what SOCIETY might consider moral, ultimately might not be, and trying to please people en-mass only leads to pain and trouble for those who you should be supporting.

Jekyll as most adaptions offer, is much kinder than his source, though he is different in that Jekyll does not use the formula for selfish reason like most adaptations, Hyde in contrast to his original counterpart being a full on villain and a murderer, is very wild and selfish in the beginning, but ultimately has moments where he is very much a gentleman, (see his conversation with Lucy) So this is a consistency that is interesting to watch.

(And Utterson being baby boy throughout all the webcomics I have read is a consistency I will never get tired of )

The whole theme of the comic is being opposites, but not necessarily one person being good and the other bad. There are different kinds of good and bad people in the comic. Jekyll is openly good, but doesn't have the courage to always do what is right. Hyde claims he cares only for himself. but, has been shown to feel sympathy for those who get hurt or used.

Now that I have gushed a bit, I want to go over some things that I wished had been given more focus (this is by no means me being overly critical, this is just my opinion)

I do wish we had gotten more with Lucy and Hyde developing their relationship, as him saying "I only want to be with her" does come on rather quickly though their relationship is fun when it does become offical.

Jekyll's health condition is brought up early on, used once for drama, and not brought up again, it would be interesting to see how he gets around this (similar perhaps to how Eda's curse is treated in Owl House) or how his niece and nephew might react to seeing him become ill or SPOILERS: .....

His new girlfriend (I will not reveal her name to preserve it for those who wish to read the comic ) who also had a sickly relative who died from their condition and how she might react to it.

SPOILERS FOR THE VILLIANS OF EARLIER ARCS

If you do not wish to be spoiled for two of the bad guys in the comic do not read below this line and go read the comic for the full experience ...

ok...

we good?

Lanyon and Carew, I am still on the fence about the fact these two were made villains, I understand why, but still, it is a bit of a mind-bender that Hydes canon murder victim is not only one of the villains, but also alive at the end of the tale, and Lanyon being a false friend to Jekyll is an interesting take, but again, one I am on the fence about.

Anyway I hope you all enjoyed my ramblings and go give the webcomic a read, you won't regret it.

#webcomic #webcomic recommendations #Jekyll #hyde #henry jekyll #Mk strange case

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rebeltigera · 2 months

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Mk cannot be save from macaque theatre kid.. Well we try- LOL

*hums Jekyll and Hyde intensifies*

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yellowloid · 2 years

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hello dear! i just read your songs analysis and i think they’re really insightful and clever! i would be so happy to read other song analysis from you (both from tlsp and am)! also i love that you wrote the analysis from a personal view but not under the milex lens (although i would love to read your take on that version)!

hi anon, and thanks!! i'm happy to hear you appreciated my analysis, i love overanalysing lyrics so i'd be 100% down to make more. just drop the am/tlsp/mk songs you want me to analyse in my inbox (and whether you want the analysis to be strictly personal or you want me to go Full Milex Demon TM), and you can bet i'll end up writing a long-ass analysis post. i have so many theories (sometimes even different ones for the same song lmao like in this case) and they're just waiting to be put on paper.

now, since we're on the topic...

✨️mr. schwartz and body paint milex analysis✨️, by yours truly

(once again, this is just fan analysis. it's just as valid as any milex fanfiction i've ever written - meaning that it's completely fictional and i'm not in any way shape or form implying anything about them as real people. just having fun with lyrics and possible interpretations!)

(+ as i said in the other post, i'm analysing them together because there are so many interesting analogies between them and i think they might be connected. brace yourselves because this is gonna be long)

so in the other post i talked about anyways (and the ultracheese, but we could also add star treatment to the mix) as an introduction to the new album, how from what we've seen so far of the car it seems to be a very self-reflective album.

the vibes are quite similar, but if the tbhc self-reflection was done on purpose, almost calculated, the one that seems to characterize the car appears to be almost... annoyed. there's this subtone to it, a faint hue that gives it a sense of reluctant introspection. he's not doing it willingly - he's almost forced to do it, incapable of bottling his thoughts up any longer. like he finally understood he can't run forever (could be the effect of the pandemic, who knows). Also, the tbhc lyrics were absolutely cryptic, and even though the car ones are just as cryptic in some instances, we also find very straightforward, concrete lines ("come here and kiss me before it gets too cute / [...] and if we guess who i'm pretending to be / do we get a prize?" from Mr.S. as well as "watching your every move i feel the tears are coming on [...] and i'm keeping on my costume [...] and if you're thinking of me, i'm probably thinking of you" from BP). if tbhc had ten layers of mysterious metaphors covering it, the car has like... eight, i'd say. still very cryptic, but with a tiny bit more clarity to it. there’s still a lot of smoke covering it, but we can make out shapes a bit more clearly than we did in tbhc.

speaking of anyways specifically, i'd like to focus on that for a moment. everyone knows how it's a very, very personal song - but i don't see enough people talking about the evident parallels with see ya when i see ya:

"what a place for both the opposite sides of my double life to finally collide"

"you're feeling alive, a jekyll and hyde / [...] leading that double life"

like. do i even need to say anything. see ya when i see ya as a whole just screams of alex, but those lines? that's just miles telling everyone "yeah, this is about my absolutely platonic no homo bro", except it’s full homo and he knows he couldn’t make it any clearer even if he tried

also special mention:

"spilled the unspillable beans" (from the bourne identity)

"i put myself on mute before i spill the beans / oh, not again" (from SYWISY)

like. are you getting the vibe? because i sure as hell am

now, taking into consideration the whole discourse about double lives, masks and façades, let's get to Mr.S. and BP. as i said in the other post, in both songs it feels like he's talking to two different 'you's: himself (alternating it with 'i') and a mysterious interlocutor who appears to be someone he has history with. you and i both know who i’m thinking about lmao

body paint comes before mr. schwartz in the tracklist. he starts off strong, straight to the point:

"for a master of deception and subterfuge / you made yourself quite the bed to lie in"

these first two lines seem to refer to him not being able (or not being allowed) to be his true self; this is also confirmed by the 3rd and 4th lines, which are all about the need/urge to keep up (false) appearances and the misery that comes from it: "do your time traveling through the tanning booth / so you don't let the sun catch you crying". the sun could be spotlight, the media and the world's eyes on him, watching his every move. this whole “façade” aspect could easily be interpreted as him hiding his sexual orientation from the world for fear of being judged.

in the second stanza, this awareness also translates into self-deprecation (possibly internalized homophobia):

"my teeth are beating and my knees are weak / it's as if there's something up with the wiring / you can poke your head behind the mountain peak / you don't have to leak that you've gone into hiding"

he blames himself for this situation, for "having gone into hiding": the guilt takes up the form of physical symptoms and he asks himself whether there's something wrong with him ("something up with the wiring"), but at the same time he won't "leak" it, he refuses to admit it.

then there's a turn and he seems to be talking to the other person: "i know what you're thinking", which has Big Milex Telepathy energy, because who else could he share that kind of connection with?

now let's consider these lines from mr. schwartz:

"might be half a love song in it all for you / timing wise it's probably for the best / come here and kiss me now before it gets too cute"

at first he seems to be considering the possibility of giving himself and the other person a chance - the timing is right, they should just live in the moment without dwelling too much on anything else ("kiss me now before it gets too cute"). but then, after the chorus, this happens:

"gradually it's coming into view / [...] as fine a time as any to deduce / the fact that neither you or I has ever had a clue"

it's a bittersweet realisation slowly hitting him: right after he's almost been able to say fuck it and just live in the moment, he realises that neither he or the other person really knows what they're doing - what they've been doing all this time, maybe in terms of how deep they were really in, or how getting that deep would only inevitably end up hurting them both. he’s justifying them and at the same time almost criticising them, because they didn’t know what they were getting into and they really had no idea what they were doing (although, may i add, the other person might disagree on that. they certainly did know and he's just looking for excuses).

and then we have these lines from body paint, which seem to continue on that same route:

"watching your every move i feel the tears are coming on / it won't be long / it won’t be long"

he can't stop lingering on everything the other person does, almost obsessing over them - and at the same time this makes him even more miserable, because of two possible options:

a) he considers giving their relationship a chance, but fears it won't last

b) he feels like he's running out of time, and he needs to make a decision because the other person is still moving around, they won’t wait for him forever, and he feels "it won't be long" until they'll eventually move on. (may i add 2.0, if he thinks miles could ever move on and forget about him then he's even dumber than expected. oblivious king 😔)

however, stubborn as he is, he's choosing to keep up the façade despite his pain ("mr. schwartz is staying strong for the crew"; "and i'm keeping on my costume" in BP), keeping up his appearance ("wardrobe's lint-rolling your velveteen suit"), because he knows that's just how the industry works ("mr. schwartz is having tea with the grips / asking after all the wives and the kids / it's at the heart of what the business is"); he can’t live freely – he’s committed to the role he plays in the industry and he’s convinced breaking character and living his truth is simply not an option. neither he or the other person can change that, it’s just how things work ("there's not one god damn thing that you can do about this"; this also reminds me of these lines from star treatment: “i found out the hard way that / here ain't no place for dolls like you and me”).

but deep down he knows that, no matter how hard he tries to ignore his and the other person's feelings - it doesn't change the fact that those feelings are there, they exist and they can’t just pretend they don’t ("and if you're thinking of me, i'm probably thinking of you"). because that's what they've been doing for years – thinking of and obsessing over each other.

i also find this very interesting:

"and if we guess who i'm pretending to be / do we win a prize?"

it feels like he's responding to miles' attempts at deciphering him, of reading through his behaviour over the years after 2016 (through the entirety of coup de grace + some change the show songs). all these years, miles has been telling him through the veil of song to drop the façade and just be who he is, to stop being afraid and give them a chance, because no matter what he'll always be next to him. this is alex's reply: cynical, because the rose-tinted glasses (the same "rose tint" he mentions in mirrorball, perhaps) are gone, he can't see things the same way he did in 2016 because he forced himself to wake up from that dream. because he's convinced it was just that, a dream - one that could never come true.

but he knows the facts are there, he hasn't forgotten about the past and he knows miles hasn't either. and they can pretend everything is absolutely platonic on the outside, for the sake of their public image, but they both know what used to happen behind closed doors: "straight from the cover shoot / there's still a trace of body paint / on your legs and on your arms and on your face"; photoshoots representing their public side, and the two of them being the only ones who are able to see through each other's public façade. they marked each other in some way, and that mark is very much still there - but it's only completely visible to them, because they're the only ones who really know what happened. it's between them, a secret hidden in plain sight.

(+ these lines sound 100% fully sexual, i'm sorry it's the truth. we all thought about it and i won’t hear anything else about it) (also shout out to @haonsworld for speaking the truth about this part. you're braver than the us marines)

and yeah, alex may be skeptical about the possibility of them ever being something again ("having attempted twice, both incorrectly"), at the same time he can't let go of a tiny spark of hope, asking both himself and miles: "do we get a third try?"

this could also be interpreted as the other anon was saying - that is, them discussing the possibility of tlsp3, and how to make it happen.

either way, although a bit scared of failing, he's asking for a chance. he's hoping for it, despite maybe not knowing exactly how to handle it. but miles has been waiting for him all these years, hasn’t he? and he's ready to stand next to him in that journey.

after all, miles says it himself in caroline: "let me save you from yourself because / caroline, you're living on the edge this time / [...] take my hand / and go and lead the life that you've planned / 'cause you're gonna be just fine / my caroline" ❤️

#please @ am fun police don't come at me #i'm just having fun being a crazy demon 😔#answered #milex #my theories

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purble-gaymer · 6 months

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i frogor you were also into phantom of the opera. wait you have a. phrathrom og the ophjjera kirby au. wait why is this perfect. like. ok dedede is not an ideal fit here but for something relatively old i am cryin in the club rn this is brilliant.

i meant to make more with that au but never really did. mainly i just wanted to draw him in his cool red death outfit or whatever from the masquerade but i couldn’t get a sketch i liked. we also played with the idea of a jekyll & hyde au since mk/dmk is so obvious. i kinda dropped it after a while since i didn’t know who i wanted lanyon to be. like galacta would be a good fit for “worried friend” but also he, jekyll, and utterson are all gay for each other or something and as you may know metagala is the opposite of my thing. anyway meta knight is a very easy character to put into gothic aus

#asks #camachine #i still haven’t read poto i kept meaning to and then forgetting #maybe someday #mostly i just like the music #but the phantom is very silly in the original story #so he gets points for that

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300iqprower · 1 year

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Full list of servant rank ups in my backlog:

(Ones already posted (as best as i remember) will be marked with *)

[warning, it's a long list]

Artoria

Salter

Nero

Siegfried

Caesar

Gilles

CasGilles

d’Eon

Gilgamesh

Atalanta*

Eurayle

Stheno

CasCu

Proto Cu*

Cu Alter

Benkei*

Benkei again

Leonidas

Romulus

Medusa

Gorgon

Ana

Lu Bu

Georgios*

Blackbeard

Columbus

Bartholomew

Drake

Boudica

Ushi

Sushi

Kiichi

Alexander

Iskandar

Marie

Martha

Ruler Martha

Medea

Hans

Shakespeare

Mephistopheles*

Waver

Cursed Arm

Hundred Personas*

Serenity

Gramps

Jing Ke

Sanson

Mozart*

Phantom

Mata Hari*

Carmilla

Heracles

Zerkerlot

Saberlot

Spartacus*

Kintoki

Rider Kintoki

Vlad iii*

Vlancer*

Asterios*

Asterios again

Caligula

Darius

Eric

Catamamo*

Jeanne

Artemis

Castamamo

David

Hektor

Anne&Mary

Nobu

Bigger Nobu

Scathach

Diarmuid(WIP)

Sabeuid(WIP)

Fergus

Santoria

Nursery rhyme

Jack

Mordred*

Tesla

Lalter

Lartoria

Paracelsus

Babbage

Jekyll/hyde*

Frankenstein*

Summer fran

Arjuna*

Karna*

MHX

Fionn

Brynhildr

Summer Brynhildr

Beowulf

Nero Bride

Shiki

Shiki saber

Amakusa

Astolfo*

Bunstolfo

Ko-Gil

Casgil*

Casgil SSR edition

Dantes

Nightingale

Rama

Li Shuwen

Bruce Li

Edison

Geronimo

Billy*

Billy again

Jason*

Jason again

Jason SSR edition

Touta

Jalter

Kerry

Edgya

Shuten

Ibaraki*

Ibaraki again(WIP)

Tomoe(WIP)

Kotarou

Danzo

Musashi

Nitocris

Medjed

Moolah*

Moolah again

Schez

Tristan

Gawain

Gareth

Bedivere

Lancer Tamamo

Summer Marie

Kiyo Lancer*

Cleopatra

Enkidu*

Jaguar Warrior

Quetz

Samba Quetz

Moriarty

Hessian-Lobo

Doppelganger (Yan Qing)

Arthur

Hijikata

Chacha

Suzuka

Bunyan*

Rishtar

Paraiso

Inshun

Yagyu

Weebat*

Mecha Eli MK II

Circe

Ne zha

Abby

Semitruck

Nyalter

Anastasia

Avicebro*

Achilles

Chiron*

Sieg*

Izou

Ryouma

Napoleon

Sigurd

Valkyrie x3

Skadi

MHXX

Xiang Yu

Lanling

Qin Liangyu

Qin Shi Huang

Yu Mei Ren

Red Hare

Bradamante

Beni Enma

Murasaki

KP*

Junao*

Asclepius

Mori

Paris

Chen gong

Charlotte

Salome

Soakkie (summer weebat)

Wu Zeitan

Carmilla Sandiego

Mandy

Europa

Caeneus(WIP)

Quirinus

Boyager

Santa Altera

Janta

Erice

SAbby

Ralter

Katsu

Penthesilia

Kagetora

Odysseus

Yang

Morgan*

Bao Sith

Jiang Ziya

Assassin Valkyrie

#fgo #hypothetical rank ups

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noctilionoidea · 10 months

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Blorbo list. Go.

Jonathan Harker from dracula, Penthesilea from the post homerica specifically, Jekyll and Hyde from strange case, Jed and Octavius from the night at the museum movies, bagheera from the jungle book (meaning the actual book), Ichabod crane from the legend of sleepy hollow (I am once again talking about the book)JFK from clone high, Max Dennison from hocus Pocus solely because he’s such a loser, Shinazugawa Genya from demon slayer, Orpheus from Hadestown, Rochelle Zimmerman from the Craft, Veronica Sawyer from heathers 1988, Edward scissor hands, MK from Lego monkie kid and Twyla from monster high.

These are all I can think of at the moment. I realise this is an extremely weird selection but uh yea

#I don’t really talk much about most media I like solely because I try to not get into fandom very deep #That does not mean I do not enjoy this stuff deeply lmao #It’s just a mental health precaution

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strangestcase · 1 year

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Every time I read the MK adaptation I keep thinking "TGS could never do this". Every character feels spot on and it has Jekyll and Hyde be different people without being ableist about it.

There are lots of stuff in other adaptations I look at and go oh, TGS could never pull this shit off. I mean it TRIED to pull the LXG mirror scene but it made it unnecessarily long so.

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gingermcl · 2 years

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Mind control symbols

Monarch butterflies - an perverse inversion of the transforms process. The MK ultra program transforms one into evil or breaks a spirit; not rebuilding it into something more beautiful

Black and white - checkerboards, stripes, pandas etc. represents duality and the choice between dark and light within, Jekyll and Hyde

Masks, covering the eye, or shh symbol - hidden persona, losing individuality, being a slave and complying with the system.

Fractured mirrors and dolls - represents shattered personality and selling fractals of the soul

Animals print is symbolic of beta sex kitten programming. Trigger words turn the individual into a sex slave with no inhibitions.

White rabbits. Symbolizes Alice following the rabbit down the rabbit hole, symbolizes being hypnotized and following a handler. Symbolizes adrenochrome. The molecular structure of Adrenochrome looks like a rabbit.

Rainbows

Roses - relate to Rosicrucians

Keys - masters hold the key to your mind

Cages - symbolizes enslavement

Bluebirds - project bluebird

Clocks, hourglasses - again about control, the malevolent ones control this realm. Time included.

Eyes - all seeing eye, always being watched.

One of the goals of MK Ultra was mind control. Through a combination of hypnosis and hallucinogenic drugs, along with torture, a human being can be programmed to do anything. When the human subject is activated by pre-hypnotic suggestion, the deeply planted programming takes control and the subject then executes a mission in secret. When the mission is complete he will have no memory of it.

The pre-hypnotic suggestion is also known as a "trigger". The sleeper agent is activated by his controller, or handler. The handler may use a trigger word or trigger symbol, at which point the unwitting subject becomes a robotic slave, also known as an "alter", that is, an alter ego. The trigger may be delivered in person, or over the telephone, radio or TV.

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notyuta · 2 years

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love how onf has hyojin and mk main vocals. dr jekyll and mr hyde

#actually love all onf voices and how they fit in the group !

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gerrysherry · 1 year

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FAVORITE CANON SYSTEM CHARACTERS

Moon Knight: Popularized by the 2022 tv show the 80s comic character was always coded some DD before being confirmed to have DID in volume 8. The system that is Moon Knight consists of Marc Spector, Steven Grant and Jake Lockley and occasionally others such as introjects of other superheroes. In the original run the original four complemented each other and worked together to solve mysteries and right wrongs. What's touching is how Marlene, MK's love interest says she loves all four of them. I believe Layla is the same in the show.

Mark Vorkosigan: back to the Vorkosigan Saga (see Favorite Non-binary characters part 1) Mark and the black gang are always shown sympathetically. Even Killer, the protective alter who does killing is shown as the most stable. He later goes to therapy and learns to be a functional system. Like Marlene before her, Mark's love interest Kareen says she loves all 5 of him. (Honestly before I knew about MK, I knew I wasn't like Split, I was like Mark Vorkosigan and Alistair Crompton.)

Jackson Jekyll/Holt Hyde: These two grow up not knowing about each other with the reality serving as the twist of the cartoon season 2. However in the subsequent media they are shown attempting to communicate and help each other, just like any teenage system would. The charm of Monster High is despite the cast being kids of horror monsters said kids are extremely relatable. You should see all of Leo's Holt cosplays. They were obsessed. Nowadays they gravitate to Lockley (above) and Loomis (below)

Crazy Jane: Yes, she has superpowers but she's a great example of a system that switched hosts several. Created by Grant Morrison she is named after the Yeats poem. Her systemhood is celebrated and treated as a superpower itself. She has also changed hosts three times and this is not shown as bad but as something that happens

Alistair Crompton: An obscure one. infected with an alien virus at 11, Crompton developed DID symptoms so severe they had to take the alters out and put them in robot bodies. This procedure, dubbed Massive Cleavage, is experimental and risky. if it works it is unlikely the parts can either merge again and the parts often develop severe personality disorders so reintegration can mean insanity (listen this novella is pretty albleist at times, I'm sorry). As a precaution the two others in cyborg bodies are sent to other planets. Undaunted Alistair Crompton feels incomplete and at 30 the age he is legally allowed to reintegrate, he sets out on an interplanetary journey of self discovery. But Edgar Loomis (his lost creativity, impulsivity and love of life) is perfectly happy as he is and Dan Stack (his lost anger and violence) is trying to isolate himself in the jungle and live a peaceful life alone. Will he convince them to rejoin and will they integrate into one whole?

#moon knight #mark vorkosigan #vorkosigan saga #jackson jekyll #holt hyde #monster high #doom patrol #crazy jane #alistair crompton #the alchemical marriage of alistair crompton #lois mcmaster bujold #grant morrison #robert sheckley #charlie likes

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