#inspired by jekyll and hyde

[pearl484-blog]

Bee in the Bonnet

Chat Noir has saved Paris countless time. He was a loyal teammate for Ladybug for numerous battles. He has fought and bled for Paris over and over. For that alone, Chat Noir thinks he deserves to live. He deserves to exist, but his team doesn't think so. If he wants to keep his former team from killing him, he's going to need allies, so he turns to the one person who could possibly understand what he's going through right now: Chloe Bourgeois.

Sequel to Sweet Walker. Part 3 of the Jekyll/Hyde Inspired series Entry for Adrien AUGreste 2023 Passion

Chat Noir pulled out the Bee Comb from his pocket and examined it, thinking as Pollen hoved next to him, trembling in fear. For a moment, Chat Noir felt the urge to pet her with a finger so as to comfort her, but he dismissed that thought as easily as it came. He was the reason she was afraid. Doing that would only freak her out more, and if he tried to say anything, she’d only see it as a lie. 

Kwamis had been misused in the past, and now that he’d taken it from Vesperia, or rather Zoe Lee, he was sure that Pollen was having flashbacks to darker times, more menacing times. In a way, Chat Noir supposed that Pollen was right to be afraid. Chat Noir was taking her from everything, her friends, her guardian, her fellow kwamis and he was trading her away for a potential alliance.  

Chat Noir hadn’t seen any other option though. Catwalker had wanted to give Zoe his Miraculous, and if he’d done that…Chat Noir didn’t know what would happen if that happened. Would he die? Would he just be trapped forever with no escape? Would he become a ghost? Would he possess the next person who wore the ring? Whatever happened, Chat Noir was sure that it’d be awful. 

Chat Noir wanted to live. He wanted to survive. He just wanted to exist. He deserved to exist. Surely, after everything he’d done for Paris, he deserved that much? Well, apparently not. 

So, Chat Noir had stolen the Bee. Mostly out of necessity. If Catwalker couldn’t find Vesperia, he couldn’t give her the Ring, now could he? Still, if Chat Noir was being honest with himself, he could admit that he’d also done it a little out of spite too. 

He’d just been so angry. He knew that if Catwalker had managed to talk to Vesperia, she would’ve sided with him. She would’ve helped him get rid of Chat Noir permanently because she sympathized with Cat. She thought he was a good person. She would’ve eradicated Chat Noir the same way she was slowly erasing Chloe from her own life. Except, Chloe had her own body. Chloe couldn’t be wiped away without a trace, so if she was willing to do that to her own sister, where did that leave Chat Noir?  

Chat Noir wasn’t stupid. He knew that he couldn’t keep control forever. Sooner or later, Catwalker was going to get their body back, and he’d try to get rid of him again. Chat Noir was going to have to do something about it, and soon. Even more than that though, if Chat wanted to survive, he’d need allies. 

The first one was easy. Chloe Bourgeois. It wasn’t surprising that Chat Noir had thought of her, given how often she dominated his thoughts lately, but if there was anyone who might understand what was going on with Chat Noir, it was here. Or at the very least, she wouldn’t turn him in to the heroes. There was no love lost between them. 

The Bee, of course, would be a starting gift, a bribe to get her to help him, but before he could give her that, he had to figure out what he wanted, what he needed to get himself free. 

First things first, Chat Noir would need to buy himself time. Catwalker couldn’t hide the Ring from him on his own. At least, not without being very irresponsible about it and risking it getting into the wrong hands. He’d need someone to hold onto it. Someone who he could trust…Chat Noir grinned as the first part of his plan slid into place, and even better, it’d help Chat get even more time to scheme. 

All he’d need was for Chloe to be Chloe.  ~*~ Chloe laid on the couch examining her nails, looking for any flaws. There weren’t any of course. She was Chloe Bourgeois, but it helped to reassure herself that -if nothing else- her nails was still perfect. 

A knock came from her balcony, and Chloe frowned as she tried to imagine who it could be? A hero? No, none of those goody two-shoes wanted anything to do with her anymore. An akuma? No, those losers didn’t have the patience to knock. They always just barged in like they only the place, screaming about how Chloe had ruined their pathetic lives. As if they didn’t ruin it themselves. Maybe it was Shadow Moth then. He was probably the only person who could even tolerate Chloe right now, but she was still smarting from the last time she’d dealt with him. 

“Go away!” Chloe called out, not even bothering to get up. She had more important things to do, like getting someone to buy rockets to the next XY concert for her. 

The door unlatched and Chloe sat up so you could glare at the intruder over the back of her couch. To her surprise though, it was Chat Noir of all people. The pathetic sidekick who’d probably been fired for being so useless ages ago. 

“Aww,” Chat Noir said, a teasing lilt in his voice. “And here I was, coming to bring you a gift.” He pulled out the Bee Comb, and Chloe’s eyes immediately honed in on it, almost against her will. Was…was this another chance to be Queen Bee? Had that moron Ladybug actually decided to give her another chance?

“I can always come back later,” Chat Noir said, turning the comb so it shone even in the dim light of the storm raging outside. “If you’re busy.”

“I’m not busy!” Chloe cried out, then immediately, she recomposed herself. It was never good to look desperate in front of the enemy and make no mistake, Chat Noir was the enemy. Him and his precious Ladybug. 

“Thankfully, I have some free time in my schedule,” Chloe said haughtily. “I suppose this means Ladybug is willing to talk?”

Chat Noir cackled. “Oh, no. Ladybug? That ship has sailed.” Chloe glared at the mangy stray. Then why had he come here, just to taunt her? She was Chloe Bourgeois, not some carnival attraction. “I’m here to make a deal.”

Chloe laughed scornfully. “A deal? With Ladybug’s sidekick? That is ridiculous, utterly ridiculous. Come back when you have someone real to bargain with.”

“Ladybug’s former sidekick,” Chat Noir said, and Chloe rolled her eyes. As if that made anything better. “The one that she replaced with Catwalker.”

“Then how did you get the Black Cat?” Chloe snapped. She wasn’t an idiot. She knew that there was only one type of each Miraculous. There was no way that Ladybug would just hand over a Miraculous to someone she got rid of. 

“With a lot of luck and skill,” Chat Noir answered, deftly avoiding actually answering Chloe’s question. The sly look on his face though made Chloe believe that maybe he’d actually managed to steal it somehow.

“That’s not why I’m here though,” Chat Noir told her hastily. “I’m here because I need your help, and I’m willing to trade you this,” he flashed the Bee Comb at her, “to get it.”

Skeptical after her last dumpster fire of a deal, Chloe asked, “And if I get the Bee, what do you get?”

“Two things,” Chat Noir said, holding up two fingers. “1. I need Adrien angry and alone. I’m going to need to be on him, spread as much as doubt as you can about as many of his friends as you can.”

“Fat chance,” Chloe said, rolling her eyes. “He won’t listen to me.”

“He listens more than you think,” Chat answered. “All you need to do is watch them and call them out anytime they do anything even slightly immoral. Stealing, hiding, sneaking, lying, keeping secrets, whatever. Then, whenever Adrien’s around, if there’s a chance to bring it up, do it. Don’t just stick with recent stuff either.” He gave Chloe a shark-like grin. “If you can remember times when they’ve messed up before, bring that up too. Don’t lie, but always cast them in the worst light possible.”

Chloe tapped her fingers against the sofa as she thought. That was doable, and really, was it so different than what she was already doing? 

She already knew that some of her classmates had been made heroes, had been given a chance to be after she had, and even worse, their Miraculouses had been returned to them even after their identities had been exposed. 

Which meant that the entire time, when Ladybug had told her that the reason she couldn’t be Queen Bee was because her identity had been exposed was a lie, and if that was a lie, what else had been a lie? 

All those times that Ladybug had told Chloe that she could be a good hero, that she could be exceptional, was that just Ladybug’s way of using her? Of manipulating Chloe? Then, once she had better pawns, more useful pawns, she’d tossed Chloe away like trash. 

Well, if Chloe was going to be treated like trash, then she’d find a way to make the others feel like garbage too. No, she’d make the entire class feel like trash for mocking her, for helping Ladybug play her like a fool, make her feel loved and wanted before ripping it away. So, she had. She’d made them pay…or at least, she’d tried as much as she could. Part of her was missing that spark, that talented bite that made the entire thing feel good. 

Maybe Chat Noir’s plan would be a good thing. Maybe it’d serve as inspiration to finally help her get back in the game, finally restore her back to her rightful place as head of the class. It couldn’t hurt to try at least. 

“Alright,” Chloe said, “and what’s condition #2?”

Chat gave Chloe a Cheshire grin as he pulled out a list and set it in front of Chloe. “Together, we’re going to get revenge on Ladybug by ruining the reputations of the heroes.” Chloe’s eyes widened as she realized what the list was: a list of each of the heroes’ weaknesses and mistakes. 

“We’re going to write scathing articles about each of the heroes and publish them on the Ladyblog,” Chat Noir said. “Then we won’t let anyone forget about them.”

Chloe snorted. “Yeah, like that lame-o Ladyblogger is going to just let us do that.”

“Chloe, Chloe, Chloe,” Chat Noir said, shaking his head at her, “You’re thinking about this all wrong. We don’t need Alya’s permission. We just need her password to get her admin privileges. We publish this stuff, lock her out, and in the time it takes to get her site back, enough people will have seen this stuff that even if Alya deletes it, it’ll be impossible to get people to stop talking about it.”

Chloe’s eyes widened as she realized the plan. “You want Adrien to betray her. You want to make him so angry that he’ll turn against her, and so distrustful of her friends that he won’t listen to anything good they have to say about her.”

Chat beamed, “See, I knew you were exceptional. No one else would’ve gotten it. I mean, if we try to isolate Marinette, she’ll just get angry and stick to Alya like glue. Nino worships the ground that Ladyblogger walks on, but Adrien, Adrien’s close to her often enough that he’d be able to see it, and his father already does most of the work for us. So, why not take advantage of it?” 

“Let me guess,” Chloe said, narrowing her eyes at the list, “you want me to write articles about all this stuff?” 

“Whichever parts interest you. I just gave you as big of a list as I could. I’d do it myself, but,” Chat Noir shrugged, “everyone knows I was always the brawn to Ladybug’s brain.”

“What even happened to you two anyways,” Chloe asked. 

“Ladybug decided that she didn’t want a plaything anymore. She found new friends, better friends, and so…” Chat Noir shrugged. “To Ladybug, everyone’s replaceable after awhile, I guess, even her so-called-partner.”

Chat Noir stretched, his feline instincts on full display, before placing the Bee Comb beside her.   

“I’m feline like we’re running out of time. So I’m going to leave this to you. I trust you’ll make the right choice. I have faith in you, Chloe.”

Then he meandered to the balcony and launched himself into Paris’s skyline, leaving Chloe with the Bee, and a difficult choice.

[mcmarb]

I was really proud of this piece that was supposed to be a practice sketch in preparation of artfight but I got carried away

It's a drawing of my tomodatchi life look alike and a genderbent version I added to the island because narcissm and gender queerness.

The genderbent version was inspired by Jekyll and Hyde. He's got slightly different features and the opposite personality traits!

[doctormori]

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

[kittyypyre]

A Man and His Brewing… 🧪

[oreoflesh]

Regarding WOTFI 2024, I bring you…

My first ever smg4 related fanart, yippee!!

[origami-butterfly]

I think what a lot of j&h adaptations get wrong, is that ultimately, Jekyll is, at heart. A Cunt. Lots of adaptations like to write him as an innocent scientist, who got more than he bargained for when he drank the potion, and unleashed a monster, but in the novella, the only thing the potion really does, is change Jekyll's appearance. He created Hyde, and I think he had the opportunity to make Hyde into something good, but, because he's a cunt, he chose to use his alter ego as a force for evil and chaos. "Edward Hyde was alone in the ranks of evil"- of course he was, you never allowed him to be anything else. And Jekyll is fully aware of what he does as Hyde, he says it himself in his full statement, and he feels no remorse. He didn't create Hyde accidentally, he made Hyde because he wanted to do bad things and get away with it, without damaging his reputation.

Fuck Dr Jekyll, all my homies hate Dr Jekyll.

[elvis-official]

Elvis‚ opinion.

On jekyll and hyde.??

Woah mama he's a crazy cat, with a crazier cat in his brain, hummina hummina hummina

[quartzteph]

i don’t draw very often but the sonic movie brainrot commanded it so uh. here’s tgs hyde as chaos emerald robotnik

[kusnechik]

Jekyll and Hyde are each other's armor and what is an armor but a cage that you wear?

[renonv]

Confrontation

Flats :3

[pearl484-blog]

Fragile Ties That Bind Us (New Beginnings)

Alright, last entry for Adrien AUGreste. A bit late, but I got sick. Because of its length, you guys will only get the summary this time. Sorry. Ladybug and Chat Noir adjust to their new lives, but a fight between Catwalker and Chat Noir inadvertantly reveals some insecurities and the cracks in their relationships. Ao3. Full Jekyll/Hyde Series.

[thatmoththoth]

I fear I May have hyperfixated a bit too close to the sun and now it is way past my bedtime and I can’t sleep because my blorbos have a chokehold on me. Anyway I’m loving The Glass Scientists. Im really sad that my wife (Mr. Utterson) didn’t really show up and was only mentioned on a piece of paper, but I do really Lanyon’s character, much more than I did in the original book. (He’s sad and pathetic but not in the good way. Can’t handle gazing upon man made horrors beyond your comprehension without dying a week later? Weak. Imagine lmao.)

But this is remedied in TGS with Lanyon being an absolute chad who can handle some green goop. Love this guy. I still want my boring old man back though. I know he would have zero purpose to fulfill in the plot but still.

[strangecase-comic]

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[chickennuggetofchaos]

that one mirror scene from twin peaks or whatever i never watched twin peaks

[swhhdr-wthhr]

i AM going to make a sanders sides jekyll and hyde au and it IS going to be heavily inspired by the glass scientists. but just different enough to count as a jekyll and hyde au and not a tgs au

[quartzteph]

Random render of my Jekyll sculpt. Hoping to finally finish and color him next week :)