#thank you ao much dor the ask you are a saint and also my family

[aftout]

Ok but WOULD penny somehow invent NFTs like I joked abt eariler

for a more serious question HOW did Lanyon find his crew, like where did he stumble upon these fuckers, if you have that plotted out <3

I’m about to sob into your shoulder /pos

1. I know you jest but I genuinely think that she somehow could. Like the internet and pdfs sure as hell didn’t exist back then but I’m sure she’d accidentally create whatever the steampunk equivalent of a bored ape is. Problem is (even though it’s not a problem at all), the modernness of it means it’s destined to blow up.

2. Hastie Lanyon (loud booing) is an esteemed gentleman before all else. The man lives in Cavendish Square, which at the time meant that you were like hot shit, and he’s well known in the field of medicine, so naturally he sort of just?? Gets around simply by talking to rich people.

He ran into Marian Halcombe first, actually, at a party she had snuck into with the intent on finding him and asking about a potential cure for Anne Catherick’s disease. Sure the way she got into the field of science might’ve been a tad bit unconventional, but she had this charm to her; as well as a lot of blind-sighted determination. Her adoration and protectiveness over her sister was as obvious as ever, so when Lanyon agreed to helping her out in one way or another her trip into submission was almost immediate. He first met Dagny Faust (including Fernand Wagner for that matter) not too long after down by the harbor, and Faust’s unhinged demeanor was something he latched onto almost immediately. They’re the person who introduced him to the concept of body mutation making a person stronger, so he pretty much hired them on the spot and rolled with that whole concept from there on out.

Everyone else was sort of a “right place right time” situation. Anne was brought in as a first official tester, as promised by Halcombe. He paid to have her freed from the asylum and vowed to keep her under control (when in reality he just used her violent tendencies for his own benefit). Lucy Westenra, being devoted to Anne and her literal wife, promised to find her the second she was let out; which is what she did. He had a casual run-in with Dorian Gray at a party, who was fascinated by how similar they were in nature. Codrin Dracula was desperate for a place where he could do his research in peace, and Henry Clerval fell into Lanyon’s hands like putty the second it was revealed that they both had gripes with Victor Frankenstein. The point is, everyone who ended up in ties with him initially had some sort of genuine benefit from this body-morphing serum of his (Anne’s heart disease, Dorian’s youth, Faust’s experiments, etc), but that benefit was so quick to warp into dependency due to addiction.

Hastie Lanyon is an esteemed gentlemen, and that fucker knows how to find what makes people tick and run it into the ground until they kill themselves over it, and all he has to do is sit back and watch.

#thank you ao much dor the ask you are a saint and also my family #juliette’s draft #gothic lit au #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #hastie lanyon #asks