i completed the circle therefore i legally MUST dye my hair lol
honory mention for my top three characters with ENTIRELY white hair: jack frost, the giant lady from monsters vs aliens, and sophie (howl's moving castle).
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i did these universal monsters digital pieces in october & had more planned and i need to get back on these bc they were fun
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Been having some thoughts about this gal. How her whole premise is the perfect concentration of the horror and unfairness innate to ‘gifted mate’ myths like Eve and Galatea.
Ramble below:
In Frankenstein, the canon Creature—far more eloquent and capable of sinister works in his lonesome monstrosity than the benign and tragically half-made Creature of the 1930s films—demands a mate to be crafted for his benefit, the assumption being that she would automatically leap at being his tailored companion all her life, questions and consent need not apply. What would have happened if Victor hadn’t halted his construction of her? If she had wakened to her new lot in life and been less than enthused? What would the Creature have done as a result?
In Bride of Frankenstein, the Bride is created specifically as a project for another scientist, Pretorius, who wanted to make her for pride and species-spawning reasons, complete with -10 recognition of the ramifications Frankenstein himself lived and held up as a warning. She’s cobbled together from the dead, dolled up, stuck in a dress, and allowed to hobble around a moment before the Creature appears. Brimming with hopeful expectations and with no sense of personal space, he flings himself at her. All the Bride can do is click, scream, and hiss. Heartbroken, the Creature throws the explosive kill switch to take him, Pretorius, and the Bride out in a blaze.
It's a mournful act and we are right to feel for the Creature. But, God. I feel so much for her.
Another Creature made just to be a predestined companion, to alleviate someone else’s wants, to play broodmare with no thought to what thoughts she may have on the matter. Certainly she can have nothing to say! She can’t speak!
All this getting capped with her destruction when, even wordless, she communicated a very clear, concise, animal-raw, ‘No.’
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