#think Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[drac-kool-aid]

I've talked about it in some tags, but I'm thinking more on it, and I really do believe that there is something.....mmmmm supernatural and particularly gothic going on with the impersonation game Dracula is playing.

The eerie supernatural double was actually a very big theme in gothic literature as well as folklore of the time. Hell, two very famous deaths (Abraham Lincoln and Percy Shelly) have doppelganger sightings attached to them (although whether or not they are true or just added on postmortem to further sensationalize the event, I do not know).

Basically, you or someone you are close with seeing your double (whether that be a doppelganger, ghost, evil twin yet unknown, an actor doing a supernaturally good impression, etc) was a very ill omen and often one of death.

Not really sure where I'm going with this, but tl;dr Dracula impersonating Jonathan isn't just a part of his grand plan to isolate and drive him to rely on Dracula, but in fact a long standing trope of Gothic literature likely tied to the inherent horror that your own identity can be taken from you with nefarious results.

[doctormori]

I love this book to death, so here's some things I noticed <3

[gabriel-thotterson]

being a years long jekyll & hyde fan means having several different people all separately show you the tweet that says "the opposite of formaldehyde is casualdejekyll"

[sciencegothic]

the things is, hyde is an embodiment of jekyll’s evil. he is jekyll, just without the parts that make hime good. and isn’t that so scary? the person who takes over your body sometimes, who does these awful things - he may give himself another name, but he’s still you. i think that’s what makes jekyll and hyde so interesting and so devastating to me, the thought of jekyll having that crushing realisation that he is hyde, and hyde is him. and he can’t undo that

[galgali]

jekyll and hyde is not about an evil guy who independently inhabits a good guy's body it's about a guy who consciously and intentionally has an evilsona

[paris-in-space]

The drawings are a bit rough but… Jekyll and Hyde designs >:)

[i-am-mrhyde]

I think the slow drawn out transformation is fun and all but I think the funniest way it could go is Jekyll drinking the potion, immediately dropping dead on the ground and then turning into Hyde

[phantom-dancing]

So I recently saw that one 1995 recording of Jekyll and Hyde.........

I'm so unwell about him Robert Cuccioli dear lord.

[whimsy-beetle]

This was unavoidable, i was going to make a crossover au sooner or later (i think i cooked tho)

I will now ramble about the implications of bug Jekyll and Hyde in Hallownest.

Everything takes place in the golden age of Hallownest, in the city of tears. Jekyll is an upstanding citizen and renowned doctor/scientist (he ofc lives in the fancy side of the city). I decided to keep his motives the same as in the novella (initially i was going to make him want to get infected, mixing soul and infection to make the potion and separate his infected and uninfected selves, but i remember coming up with some inconsistency issues and certain parts that didn't quite fit the original story so I scrapped that in the end).

I settled on Jekyll making the potion with soul (i think this fits exceptionally well since Lanyon calls jekyll's studies pseudoscience in the book and the use of soul is frowned upon in hallownest)

Hyde is uninfected in the beginning, just does whatever he wants (in a very mischievous matter, as one does) but later gets infected to distance himself from jekyll and to be even more of a menace (he still has his consciousness when infected, like xero. Especially because of this line the use of 3rd person towards the end in the last chapter.

Oh yeah, i think jekyll's house and laboratory would look something like this [in game it would be only one room, kind of like Lurien's room atop his spire (yes, i consider lurien's house to only be that room, not the entire tower)] but with more soul sanctum equipment and smaller (please appreciate the screenshots from my "psychoanalyzing bug architecture sigmund freud style" folder)

worry not i will draw his room sometime (for now i only have this rough sketch with fucked up perspective)

shenanigans ensue

[happistar]

who you say you aren't

[parsley-the-slinking-thing]

Oh the euphoria he seems to feel

Oh the lightness he has after all he’s been through. Look how he just gives in. Oh the tired, dreary, bliss. He can finally rest.

[asmogorna]

Crappy Jekyll and Hyde doodles cus I'm very very ill.. Will do better later this week rn I should sleep

These are set in an au where Jekyll separated Hyde from himself physically and the guy is now discovering human decency I guess.. idk if that's considered cringe in the fandom I'm just having fun

[fishymom-art]

Hiheeowkejewisnwhs . hi hello hi . hi .

☝️ i have a Prompt. "An unexpected visitor."

Jekyll survives the... Incident, gets the help he needs! But one day. He hears it. Him. and hes like ohhhh shit. but also he secretly missed hyde i mean WHAT who said that 😇

You get a full on sketchy comic

Oh my slutty Edward design, how I missed you

I slightly changed it, I hope you’re okay with it fjfbjfbfjdn (by slightly changed it I mean I partially forgot what I was doing while I was drawing this)

[2puncturezz]

Thinking about the fact that Utterson and Watson are similar in a sense that:

1. They are the main characters in their respective books yet in most adaptations their best friend becomes the mc instead

2. They think very fondly of their best friend and they care for them an extreme amount

3. Adding onto 2, they describe their best friend to be tall and attractive in whatever manner that may be

4. Adding onto 2 and 3, they may or may not be gay for their best friend.

[aanthonyvb]

Even Henry can get a little shy sometimes..

[anachr0nismm]

Jekyll and Hyde sketches I did in school because this hyperfixation is no fucking joke (I’m planning my own adaptation)