#an ernest resurrection au

[bansheeoftheforest]

HHAGFFDHHDBDJGH I FUCKING ADORE THAT CROSSOVER AU IDEA-

Oh my gosh what would it be called? We cant just say "Resurrection Family" because thatd feel like the whole family gets resurrected which is a bit boring

Ooo I think I prefer the branch of Henry not remembering for this branch! I think it adds extra angst. Idk how to explain it but like. Jekyll's parents being distraught and angry because their son died, and Victoria revived him, and she doesn't even have the decency to tell him why everything feels so wrong to him, why hes always needing checkups and why his head always hurts? Yknow?

Oh gosh, Ernest (that's the name right? I cant remember, I'll just call em "E") E just. Immediately subconsciously recognizing how Creature moved when seeing Henry, their beloved son, and just feeling nothing but distress and anxiety, because its associates that behavior with the creature who had caused nothing but hurt and danger to E. And E just being so nervous and scared of their kid and not understanding why but knowing that something is Wrong with Henry. And then they hear that Frankenstein is at the society and it all clicks into place

Whatabouta... An ernest resurrection? Well that would make it sound like Ernest was the one that was resurrected... Hmm... Well I'm going to tag it as such for now because of the pun and until I get a better name idea <3

Maaannnn... The amnesia of this route would be an absolute trainwreck. The thought of Henry having no idea and then either Ernest alone or the entire family comes to visit, he feels tired and exhausted and the first thing his family/Ernest (i'm going to go with the route that only Ernest visit the Society/Henry for now) does is to say that he looks... Incredibly sick. After all the trauma with Creature Ernest recognises the behavior immediately and it makes them sick to their stomach and yet they convinces themselves that it's merely a coincidence. But then Henry explains his head injury and points at the stairs he "fell" from-- Ernest might not be a doctor but they are quite sure no one would be able to survive that fall. And then they hears that their sister is here, and it feels like things click into place. When Henry explains that apparently Frankenstein is the only one that can check up on him and that he has to have those checkups constantly, Ernest knows. Ernest knows and everything in their head screams for them to turn around and run away-- run away from their own son because all the instincts tell him that anything remotely related to the Creature is dangerous, and yet he quietly, shortly, asks Henry to show them to Frankenstein. And Henry doesn't even know that his parent and Frankenstein are related so he doesn't think much of it, so he shows them to the attic. Can you imagine Frankenstein seeing Ernest again, having thought they were dead? Can you imagine when she realizes that Henry is her nephew, realizing that she indirectly killed him too, because she was the one that fuelled the hatred that made Helsby fight with Jekyll? Can you imagine Ernest having to relive their trauma but gladly doing that to confront Victoria of what she did to their son? Ernest having to live with the fact that one of his worst nightmares came true-- his son is dead and yet was turned into a monster? I want Ernest to tear another one into Frankenstein. I want him to have an absolute breakdown because she has brought nothing but pain to all of their families. I want them to, despite being scared of Henry because of trauma, to just hug their son tightly and I want Ernest to apologise to Henry and I want Henry to be confused until Ernest explains that he is dead and I want to angst of Henry realizing that Victoria robbed him of his death and I want the angst of Henry realizing that Helsby killed him. I want the angst of Henry wanting revenge on both Helsby and Victoria and I want the angst of Ernest begging and pleading for Henry to not become what Creature became and just... hddhdndndn <3

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Last movie I watched: In Theaters? Rogue One. Which I loved! Jyn Erso was just...amazing, and while I was disappointed with how few other women were in the movie, I love love loved her, and came out wanting all the AU's for all the characters. I think the last movie I saw all the way through at home was Deadpool, which I liked more than I thought I would – probably the most open minded movie I've seen? Also made me a big fan of Collosus.

Top 3 TV shows:  The three I've been watching in a can't miss way are the Daily Show, Last Week Tonight, and Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. Because...reasons. My all time three are Star Trek: The Next Generation, Futurama, and the IT Crowd, all of which convince me that despite the difficulties in space, life, and society, life will go, and we will laugh again.  

Top 3 characters: Just 3? Ouch. I'm putting a limit on one-per-Fandom, otherwise we'll never get anything done:

- Lee Chaolan from Tekken: I adore him, always. A man who rose from nothing, from an abusive, literally demonic family, to become a self-made millionaire and the only Mishima to ever walk away from the saga. Tekken has plot holes you could drive an entire convoy of semi's through, but I will love it all the same.

- Tali'Zorah from Mass Effect: Clever, brave, and vulnerable all at once; deeply a patriot to her people, but also open-minded to other cultures. Tali is everything I want to be; her ability to open up to people not just like Shepard, but EDI and Legion is just breathtaking. Real'Zorah's daughter will be remembered as the hero of the fleet.

- Leia Organa from Star Wars – Brave, pigheaded, righteous, revolutionary. Leia Organa is, perhaps, every girl's sci-fi fantasy who grew up between 1977 and now, but she was so much so for me. So much of my early fanfic was based on her, so much of her has helped me highlight who I want to be. Leia will always be my fav.

Top 3 ships: UGH HARD. Once again, limiting  it to one per fandom, and trying not to use the characters that I used in favorite characters -

- Female Shepard/ Garrus Vakarian – I'm really a tenderheart for friends-to-lovers, and despite the awkwardness in Mass Effect 2, it's a damn good version of that trope, and I love it. I'm hoping there's a romance that I'll fall for even harder in andromeda!

- Main Character/Canderous Ordo – Spoiler-free here. I'll forever be irritated that Bioware keeps making this merc trope I go weak in the knees for, then leaving them unromancible. But before there was Zaeed, there was this guy, and I will forever miss the idea of Canderous and the Main Character going off into space to kick ass together for all time.

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Ready Player One by Ernest Cline – Wow, I hate this book. I hate this book so much. The only thing stopping me from not reading this is that I hate to leave a book unfinished. The main character is a smarmy nice guy, the references are more cringy than entertaining, and the plot is just “CORPORATE BAD!!!!” which, I mean, they're not wrong but there's no tension since the main character reveals who won the competition in the first chapter. This is an audiobook, and I still have three hours left. Ugh.

Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness – The second in her all-souls trilogy, about a star-crossed witch and vampire falling in love. I really liked the first in parts but felt the pacing was brutal; that's something that seems much-resolved in the second novel. This one, which takes place mostly in Elizabethean times so far, is much faster paced, with entertaining historical tidbits scattered along the way. These are huge books but I am enjoying reading a chapter or so a night. About 110 pages in.

Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist Speculative Fiction Anthology edited by Ann and Jeff Vandermeer. I loved Jeff Vandermeer's Annihilation so I had to read this, given that it combined an author whose style I liked, a genre I loved, and a focus I can't resist. This is really a quite good collection, though a few of the stories have been featured in other books. My favorite so far is the first story, The Forbidden Words of Margaret A by L. Timmel Duchamp (Note: author has released this story online for free), which is a legal history of a woman whose speech is so persuasive as to be banned from speaking.

Songs of Love and Death: All-Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner R. Dozois. I've picked up a few good recommendations to this one; I'll definitively be picking up a book by Jacqueline Carey after reading her story in this collection, 'You and You Alone'. It's a poly love story in a fantasy land, between a princess, her spy-master brother, and the prince of another kingdom they both fall for. Things proceed to get Games of Throne-y, and the results are well and truly devastating. I'm also quite fond of 'Hurt Me' by M.L.N. Hanover (note: Author sanctioned this podcast version!), which is a ghost story, but the ghost is not the one doing the haunting. (Warning: This story features domestic abuse, is dark as fuck, and frequently disturbing. But if you can get past that, it's so, so good and twisted.)

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[bansheeoftheforest]

Y’know what absolute miserable au crossover I just came up with?

The Resurrection au together with the au where Ernest is one of Henry’s parents.

Like, just imagine that. Ernest hearing that Frankenstein is in the Society and absolutely rushing to it to make sure their son is safe, and when they arrive Henry is there but he seems... Off. A bit uncanny. He moves at weird angles and he looks tired. “I’ve had a constant headache lately” he says. His skin is a pale green and his head is bandaged. “I seemingly feel down the stairs” he says. 

Imagine when Ernest confronts Frankenstein. They demand her to explain what she did to their son. Frankenstein trying to play dumb until Ernest grabs her by her collar, begging her to explain. Imagine Frankenstein confessing-- confessing that a Lodger accidentally killed Jekyll and she had no choice but to revive him.

Can you imagine that?

Can you imagine Ernest having to live through and process the fact that not only has his son been harassed by their sister that murdered their entire family thanks to reviving something that should have stayed dead, but now his son accidentally got murdered and Victoria made him into a monster by reviving him, too? Worst part? Henry doesn’t even know and if he does he doesn’t even want to continue to live, he is pissed that they revived him and yet he can’t really undo it. 

Man, I really want to see Ernest confrontation. I want to see the realisation setting in and I want to hear their yelling and I want to see them breaking down because they are reliving their worst nightmare and they lost their son and yet not and it’s all Victoria’s fault and even after so many years of not having seen each other, after so many years of thinking that the other was dead, Victoria still manages to hurt their family? Ernest being torn because he doesn’t want to lose his son but Henry is miserable and doesn’t want to be revived?

God, imagine Ernest having to explain this to Henry and his siblings. Imagine having to explain to that tight-knit family that Henry is dead and yet not. Imagine having to explain everything about Frankenstein to all of them. Just imagine the angst.