Song to carry the plot: https://youtu.be/sigcoByW18E?si=W3cWICaXtQriVibP
It’s Alive!!
So basically I just got gifted for my birthday a copy of Jekyll and Hyde, a full history of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein in pop culture, AND I’ve been listening to Jessica Law on repeat on top of that and I feel like writing something realllllllly self indulgent and dumb.
Ma’am you’ve came to the right place, let’s make haste I’ll use electricity; to set her nerves and muscles quaking thus making her whole!
Victor Frankenstein is not a doctor (or at least, no longer licensed) but that won’t stop him on operating the dead to life!
Sir; if I am not mistaken, you’ve taken her body to awaken; I intend to set in motion, with potion, her soul!
Dr. Henry Jekyll likes to keep up appearances, more than most men, but in the form of Edward Hyde (his gremlinsona) (canon and real) he can take on the world!
Watch the glass glisten, see the sparks fly! Sweet Galvanism, Elixir of Life!
Despite their differences, with Jekyll being more of a repressed madman desiring guts and hedonism and Frankenstein desiring the appraisals of scientists everywhere, but they manage to make a great team and also are gay lovers because of course, have you met me????
Anyways the basic plot is stupid gay mad scientist shenanigans in the modern day, paired with some vampire drama because I hate hate hate vampires omg whyyyyy are they so ugly but I like to dunk on them lol anyways….. let us begin!
Oooh muah ha ha! Mad scientist noises! Anyways, shall we talk characters? And who will play who?
Sure. I am open to like anything … i am just suuuper bored.
Lol ok
So what’s your general knowledge base on these characters, and who would you feel more comfy playing? I’d kinda hoped for Frankenstein, and maybe you could be Jekyll?
I know like, the general idea of them. I know more about Jekyll from a movie I watched but I can't remember the name of. And also the Five finger death punch song 'jekyl and hyde'
Ok cool! That works then! My main idea for Jekyll was that he would be this unhinged maniac disguised as a classy member of upper society and that Frankenstein would be this disgraced scientist basically couch mooching on Jekyll’s property plus gay scientist sex idk something something I’m stupid and gay
Im stupid and gay also lol
Oof lol but does that sound good?
The way you said that just makes me think of like a mad scientist convention that they are hanging out at and Jekyll is like in the lime-light with Frankenstein in the background sulking.
Oof yeah pretty much! But also raising the dead together and drinking wine by candlelight and being overall just a pair of pretentious idiots who like experimenting on corpses lol
Dark and romantic. I love it.
Yep lmao it is pretty much exactly that! Shall we do templates or just jump in??
Idk I’ll go for just jump in then? We can establish characters later I guess??!!
Sure. I mean, we have the basis right?
Yep! Let’s go!! I’ll get up a starter!!
Victor Frankenstein, the disgraced doctor-scientist and re-animator extraordinaire, apparently was staying in the laboratory of the famous and respected Doctor Henry Jekyll, who had oh so graciously taken him in when he was practically living off the streets drowning in alcohol and his own sadness. Victor was certainly grateful for the opportunity to have a new laboratory, but disliked how pretentious that Jekyll was and how he talked and his stupid, handsome face and how “science is supposed to be used for good, not evil” even though Victor knew his dearest Henry had a secret evil extra personality by the name of Edward Hyde. Ultimately it was all a sham, the “goodness and light” persona, but Jekyll was nothing if not dishonest with everyone and everything including himself at every turn.
Currently, Victor was working in Jekyll’s laboratory resurrecting a child. He’d taken pity on the poor woman who brought her emaciated and ghastly child to him begging for her daughter back and willing to pay her life away for the child to be brought back. Victor denied all payment, he did this because he loved it. But he did ask that she not question his methods, which included a lot of electricity and some old alchemic procedures once thought lost to history. Victor knew if he wanted to, he could create a whole Philosopher’s Stone as Flamel and the like foretold. He was a genius, dammit!
But he needed Jekyll’s help on this case. For all his trying, he couldn’t get the kid to stay alive for even half a minute. He was simply unable to bring back the brain, the soul, which was something Henry was uniquely prepared to do. With the Hyde Formula, Victor theorized they could resurrect not just the body, but again the mind and soul instead of having to create a whole new concept of a person, a whole new consciousness. Lord knew how that went last time.
“Henry, get your sorry ass down here, I need your ridiculous potion.” he shouted up, he knew Jekyll was in his parlor entertaining guests which was conveniently just down the hall from the laboratory in Henry’s giant penthouse apartment.
Henry Jekyll was entertaining guests, chatting away when he heard Victor call for him. He had taken in Victor because he felt bad for him, although despite his efforts, the man didn't seem to understand how science was for the greater good. He politely excused himself from his conversation, setting the drink down on a nearby table as he exited, going into the laboratory. "I am a bit preoccupied at the moment, Victor, what do you need?".
(I hope I am doing this right by the character-)
Victor scowled. How dare his host treat him like he wasn’t worth attending to? “I need your Hyde formula.” Jekyll kept the Hyde formula a secret from everyone, even Victor. It was purely an accident that Victor had even found out. But Victor had met Hyde, they ended up having some heated and unsatisfactory sex, and the two never spoke of it again.
(You’re doing fine dude!)
Jekyll narrowed his eyes at Victor, "for what? And what makes you think Id give it to you" He crossed his arms, appearing to be slightly annoyed.
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