#mr. jekyll answers

[williamjekyll]

Greetings William. Glad to see you did not turn out as... obsessed with the sciences as your brother and I.

@dr-mad-prometheus

Our father said same thing, once ...

You must be Dr. Frankenstein, correct? Henry mentions you from time to time

[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

[kusnechik]

How do you interpret Jekyll’s relationship with Utterson & Lanyon? (Or I guess a better way to phrase this is what is Jekyll’s relationship with Utterson & Lanyon in your AU?)

I hc that all three knew each other for a pretty long time, perhaps they met in boarding school or something (now imagine them in their little uniforms avdbsb).

Utterson, as said in the book, exhibits a deep affection towards Jekyll and I like to think that it has been that way even in Henry's rarher...rambunctious phase in youth. Utterson is an absolute ride-or-die friend once you've managed the rare feat of becoming a part of his close circle. He'd be loyal to Jekyll to the point of bending the law for him. Of course that takes a turn once he percieves Jekyll to be in some way threatened by the mysterious Mr. Hyde and goes to great lengths in order to protect him (dude implied he'd bend the law for him afaik).

On the other hand this can lead to him being comparably lenient with Henry's antics. Henry of course can only appreciate it, but can't help but still feel guilty at times, thinking that it's in some way arduous for Utterson to put up with him and that he could never truly accept "all of Henry" no matter how much Utterson insist he does.

Lanyon on the other hand, is a little closer to Utterson in this constellation and less so with Henry. Their friendship, though it has always been genuine, was usually "tainted" with a kind of rivalry, both being ambitious scientists and all. I also love your hc that Lanyon at least once decked Jekyll in the nose lmao. Lanyon has always insisted on not straying too far from both the societal and scientific norms, something that Jekyll has never really been d'accord with, but tried to mask for the sake of convenience and safety. When he thought he could confide in Lanyon he was met with rejection and that caused him to withdraw. They have tried multiple times to kind of mend their friendship, they both genuinely WANT to get closer to each other, but alas, the events of the book tell a different tale.

[ange331]

i see you also like 1931 hyde :3 (this exites me so much i love him with all my heart)

*throws this horrible meme i made at you*

The meme is fire, love it

[ghostynightmare]

Utterson hcs?

John Gabriel Utterson headcanons!!

Idk why but he gives me pansexual vibes 

Dad joke extraordinaire 

He was married before but his wife passed away

He attends the theatre whenever he can

Autism

He doesn’t like to break his routine at all

He wanted to be a detective but settled for being a lawyer because detective seemed too dangerous

He met Jekyll through Lanyon at a gathering

Go Bradley give us nothing!

[whimsy-beetle]

I absolutely love that you like both Hollow Knight and Jekyll and Hyde because those are two of my biggest interests. Every upload you make is a guaranteed hit for me bc I love everything you post about, from Jekyll and Hyde to tgs to hollow knight to your ocs! Your art is amazing and I’ve been gushing about you and your art to my friends since I started following you

aaaaa thank youu :D (i feel like I never know how to respond in a non awkward way to this kind of asks, but i really do appreciate it ahh)

literally, when i first checked your blog and I saw that you liked both hk and jekyll and hyde i said to myself "there is no way, hello?? same fr :3"

[the-pea-and-the-sun]

looks like ur jekyll & hydeing it up......... so what do think of the repressive victorian culture turning jekyll's true wants and desires sick and violent..? :3

HIII ANON THANK U FOR THE ASK!!!!

OK SO. I NEED TO RE-READ THE BOOK CUZ ITS BEEN A FEW YEARS. BUT OOOOHH MANN I HAVE SOOO MUCH TO SAY ABT IT!!!

i kinda wanna compare the book to the 1931 adaptation (the best adaptation, the musicals rly good too though) bcz it sort of ends up combining victorian sexual repression w/ the recent sexual revolution AND THESE LEADS TO SOME REALLLYYY FASCINATING STUFF!!!! (and also, theres probably something to be said abt how a new moral panic/cultural repression in the form of the hayes code was on its way at the time, but i wont get into that... for now...)

i feel like. in the book there definitely IS this idea that like. societal repression is what made hyde (or rather jekyll, theyre the same guy in the book. well i mean. more so than adaptations at least) as fucked up as he is. but its kind of more implicit? also whatever desire jekyll has been keeping repressed is incredibly vague. presumably its not nearly as bad as murder since when hyde murders someone he freaks out. but we dont ever rly find out what it is, or if its something that a different (maybe, more modern society) might allow him to indulge in w/o endangering himself and others.

IN THE 1931 MOVIE HOWEVER. JEKYLL IS SOOO HORNY HES SOOO FUCKING HORNY ITS CRAZY!!!!! HE JUST WANTS TO HAVE SEX SO BAD !!!!!!! and like. in both the '31 movie and musical his stated reason for wanting to split ppl in half in the first place is that he wants the good halves to b free from the evil halves (and i mean in the musical this is def at least partially the truth) but his real reason is still the same as it was in the book, he wants to use it to help himself, and so that his evil half can be free from his good half. and in the context of a 1931 movie taking place in the victorian era, you're ABSOLUTELY supposed to view his "indecent desires" as pretty tame in actual badness compared to the way everyone treats them. he just wants to get married early! (to have sex w/ the woman he loves! whats wrong with that?) and he liked it when a pretty woman kissed him! (its miriam hopkins! who wouldnt?) so whereas the book could be interpreted as a warning abt the dangers of indulgence, the movie is much more clearly about the dangers of repression. im reminded of this clip:

it ALSO makes the indecent desire that goes unnamed in the book explicity sexual! imo its definitely easy to see it as implicity sexual in the book (and given victorian standards of sexual deviancy this makes it very easy to see a queer reading) but the fact that the thing he feels so guilty abt indulging in that he needs a whole separate identity to engage in it, and the fact that in the '31 movie that thing is just. innocent hetero horniness. like he just really wants to have sex w his fiance. and the only thing preventing this is her weird asshole dad w his arbitrary rules puts the movie firmly against sexual repression, and attributes (victorian) society's repressive influence to the cause of the tragedy. it almost becomes romeo and juliet-ish, where the arbitrary and stuffy expectations of a group of people end up ruining love and causing a tremendous tragedy. societal expectations about sex, like a family feud, end up being a completely meaningless barrier to happiness and we're absolutely supposed to see it that way. basically, if the couple was just allowed to get married sooner, or if jekyll was able to have sex before marriage, none of this would've happened.

ALSO. what i rly love abt jekyll and hyde is that even though they're constantly saying that jekyll is ALL the good parts and hyde is ALL the bad parts (in the book jekyll straight up decides himself which parts he thinks are good and which parts are bad, in adaptations its uh. less clear) HYDE is the one thats HAPPY. like, other than being evil in some vague way thats probably his most consistent trait. it would be another thing if hyde was grouchy and mean and miserable or something, but since hyde is absolutely DELIGHTED by his own evilness and jekyll spends all his time wallowing in shame, that means that for jekyll, to be good is to be miserable. its fun to think about how long this way of thinking had been ingrained in him, how this eventually led to the creation of hyde. how long has jekyll spent being suspicious and guilty over every little thing that makes him happy? its rly what sets jekyll and hyde apart from more explicit victorian morality tales, like in the coquette (pre-victorian, but whatever) and daisy miller, sexual over-indulgence leads to misery, and so the story is saying that moral (and especially, sexual) purity is the ONLY thing that can lead to happiness. whereas jekyll and hyde says that morality will not lead to happiness, and that for people like dr jekyll, they have to make an explicit choice between being good and being happy, and trying to be both will end up destroying them.

[starisinsane]

🌻

Tuberculosis was a beauty standard at some point apparently. Which I think is interesting. And slightly disturbing

Also daily Gothic lit headcanon just because I can: Jekyll and Frankenstein had A Thing in university. They parted on good terms and all but it was sort of 'right person, wrong time'ish.

Doesn't change the fact that jekyll/hyde/utterson/lanyon is my otp though :P

+ more yappery because evidently I wanna infodump about my sillies now: Jekyll has a thing for vampires. And he probably would meet Dracula and literally go "so if you wanted to bite me I wouldn't say no-" cause he's stupid like that.

Whenever Hyde is sick he is very dramatic about it. Enfield is also very dramatic about being sick and routinely drags himself to Utterson’s house whenever he catches a cold just to inform Utterson that he is very miserable right now. Utterson just makes him tea. When Jekyll is sick, he just lounges around looking like a sickly Victorian child. Poole has gotten used to this and probably sends someone to get Lanyon or Utterson to distract Jekyll lmao

I have the capacity to yap about these guys for hours lol

[haiisx]

okay hang on PLEASE tell us about the all might jekyll and hyde au

I'm so glad you asked! Now, just a little disclaimer before i start rambling: I read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde AGES ago, so all of this is written with references to litcharts/sparknotes/etc. feel free to correct anything or add your own ideas (because this is just some concept I've had for a while). With that, allow me to push up my nerd glasses and ramble on about this au :))

I'll start with the supporting cast because they're the ones I have the most definitive roles for. Mr. Utterson (described as reasonable, reserved, and loyal to his friends): Sir Nighteye. The case could also be argued for Aizawa to fill this role given his rationality, but Utterson is notably a close friend of Jekyll's, which I feel applies to Nighteye more.

Dr. Lanyon (described as a former close friend of Jekyll's, who has a strong preference for science and rationalism): David Shield or Gran Torino. I'm thinking that David and Toshinori work together to separate the "good" and "evil" from Toshinori to create a Symbol of Peace. The other option for this one would be Gran Torino, but that sacrifices the scientific trait for the fact that Gran Torino and Toshinori actually had a falling out (which, as far as I remember, Dave and Toshinori did not) and that could be likened to the falling out that Lanyon and Jekyll have.

Mr. Poole (Jekyll's butler, who cares very deeply for his master's wellbeing): I'm a little unsure for this one actually. But I do know that if Torino takes the role of Lanyon, then this one goes to David Shield. Otherwise, I'm thinking Izuku? If this takes place in a similar setting as the original text, then Izuku could be studying under/working for Toshinori. Then again, I'm not entirely sure. It's not a big role so it doesn't matter too much, but still.

Mr. Einfield (a longtime friend of Mr. Utterson and similar in nature. Rational, reserved, scornful of gossip.): Either Naomasa or Aizawa. Either could fill the role, but (and correct me if I'm wrong) I think I remember Naomasa being closer to Nighteye than Aizawa was. Also not a big role, so this could be Centipeder if I really wanted. Then I could make Naomasa Mr. Poole...

Mr. Guest (the clerk and confidant of Mr. Utterson and an expert in examining handwriting): Mirio. Clerk = works for. Mirio worked under Nighteye (internship, same thing) and was close enough with Nighteye to be considered his "confidant."

As for All Might and Jekyll/Hyde, I have a few options I'm entertaining:

Toshinori Yagi is Dr. Jekyll and All Might is Mr. Hyde.

In this option, Hyde remains a force of evil to contrast Jekyll's good nature. Toshinori attempts to separate the "good" and the "evil" from himself, which creates All Might and leaves behind the sickly (and rapidly decaying) Toshinori Yagi. This option incorporates the themes of good and evil and the duality of man from the original text, as well as incorporating the tragedy of trying to do something to benefit humanity at large only to fail miserably. While All Might is supposed to be the "evil" inside Toshinori, it's still like,,,, Toshinori we're talking about. So, All Might's probably just murking bad guys left and right, and only when All Might crosses the line (because when those lines of judge, jury, and executioner are drawn, where do they stop?) does Toshinori realize what he's done was a mistake.

Toshinori Yagi is Dr. Jekyll and All Might is Mr. Hyde (but good).

In this option, Toshinori tries to separate the good and evil inside himself, and ends up creating All Might. Toshinori himself doesn't change at all, so he thinks that All Might inherited the evil and he thinks he's failed; however, every time Toshinori turns into All Might, All Might just goes out and does good. This option is more a comedy route because I think it would be really funny if you just black out and when you woke up you had saved kittens from trees and pulled kids out of burning orphanages. The only problem is that this option doesn't have much in the way of conflict.

All Might is Dr. Jekyll and Toshinori Yagi is Mr. Hyde.

In this option, the whole "separating good from evil" thing works and All Might is born, and True Form Toshinori inherits the evil. This idea mostly came about from how grumpy True Form Toshinori is in season 1. This option implies that the experiment (or whatever Toshinori does to separate him into True Form and All Might) worked the same as his injury he got from AFO in canon, and that his True Form didn't get all skinny and emaciated until after the separation thing.

The one I'm partial to would probably have to be the first option because it makes everything work out nicely, but I'm always hesitant towards AU's that make All Might evil just for the sake of it (looking at you, Villain All Might Au's. But my beef with Villain Might is a different topic for a different day). HOWEVER, this AU manages to abide to my specific criteria for "Evil All Might," which is that he wouldn't be bloodthirsty just for the sake of it and that his path of villainy began from his path of heroism (wherein some event occured that pushed him just slightly off course. It's still the character Toshinori Yagi at the core, but his actions are misguided.)

As for the plot of the AU, it closely resembles the original text of Jekyll and Hyde (which I'll link somewhere if I haven't already), just with the characters swapped out where I've specified.

Now that I've rambled for effectively 961 words (and counting) I'll draw this to a close. Thank you for asking about the Au!! This was fun to explain!! If anyone has made it this far (for which I'll applaud you) and you have suggestions/questions/additions, feel free to leave them in the notes or even in my askbox.

The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (the Project Gutenberg)

[williamjekyll]

YO WHADDUP WILL HOW YA DOIN

I'm doing good, my dear fellow! How are you doing? :)

[electro-sweaters]

you should draw more men kissing 😡😡😡😡

(this is definitely not Zonk)

Haha yea I'll do that

[ad-al-ai]

1-What is the plot of Substance?

2-When was it released?

3-How is Substance a modern retelling of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde?

I’m about to spoil this whole movie, but it’s a really good and has some great practical effects and costuming. So if you can handle some seriously intense body horror, I really recommend! Also I haven’t read any outside articles about the production of the film, and these are all my opinions based on one viewing. And I’m apologizing in advance because you gave me an inch and I yapped for a mile, but thanks for the questions!! :)

Released September 2024, The Substance follows famous woman, Elizabeth Sparkle, who is fired from her show because she’s “too old” (50). She discovered a new drug/injection that creates duplicates your cells and makes a younger clone. The rules are that you must swap between the old and new version every week to replenish the spinal fluid that maintains the clone. Elizabeth, as her new identity of Sue, auditions for the show and becomes mega famous. Sue, as her young self, enjoys the thrill of youth and fame, but at the price of Elizabeth’s OG body. It then becomes an ‘internal’ struggle between who gets to be in control and explores themes of female beauty standards in Hollywood.

The obvious parallels to Jekyll and Hyde is the magic potion that creates a younger, more chaotic, body/alter ego that is directly tied to the older, host body. Where in J&H, Hyde’s action negatively affects Jekyll status as a pillar of the community, Sue’s actions negatively affects Elizabeth’s body directly (since her career/status is already non existence and Sue needs her spinal fluid to live since she’s the clone.). The comparison could also work in reverse. Sue could been seen as the Jekyll counterpart by doing the more socially acceptable/expected activities, like working on her show/career and partying with friends. While Elizabeth would be Hyde, acting on grosser, “base urge’ activities, like spending her week doing nothing but watching TV and cooking/eating- activities she was likely never able to do during the height of her own fame.

Now here’s the big spoiler part. In the first 2 acts it really isn’t clear how consciousness works with the clone. The phrase “You. Are. One. You can’t escape from yourself” is used by the company that supplies the substance and is a main theme throughout the movie. In the first 2 acts, we’re lead to believe that Elizabeth is switching consciousness/control between her og body and Sue; just like how Jekyll is fully in control of Hyde.

However, there are several time Elizabeth complains to the company about how Sue isn’t respecting the balance, and vise versa. Whenever one refers to the other they use “she,” or “her,” showing that there is a discrepancy between identity. At first this can be interpreted as a mental separation; that Sue doesn’t want to associate with her past life as Elizabeth, but at her core they are the same person. This divide becomes more and more clear; as they continue to complain about the other, we realize they aren’t aware of anything the other does during the week they aren’t in control.

This comes to a crescendo during the end of act 2. Elizabeth decided to stop using The Substance, which means she must kill Sue/the clone body. However she doesn’t go through with it all the way and tries to switch back. In the process, Sue becomes conscious while Elizabeth is also conscious. This completely changes our understanding of how consciousness works regarding the clone. Since both host and clone are awake at the same time, it kind of breaks the idea that they are “one,” because they are clearly acting independently of the other. Here is where the comparison falls apart, because Jekyll and Hyde, even towards the end, can never directly harm/fight the other since they are technically 1 guy with 2 bodies. Even towards the end of the book, when Jekyll and Hyde are acting more independently, it more-so shows the different perspectives on their situation. Sue and Elizabeth start physically fighting each other in a ‘there can only be one,’ fashion.

By the end of act 2 Elizabeth is dead. Sue, who can’t sustain herself without Elizabeth, takes The Substance. Since she’s a clone, this doesn’t create a younger clone, instead makes a Blob like monster combining her and Elizabeth (Called Monstro Elizasue).

Here’s where the movie looses me a bit. Act 3 plays into classic monster movies tropes, with people calling Elizasue a monster and a freak while she, in her monster form, tries to quell the panic. Sue was set to host the New Years show (so The Substance is technically a holiday movie, A La Die Hard). Elizasue only knows that she must perform, that she must play the part, regardless of her grotesque appearance. While on stage and live on air, in the midst of all the chaos, Elizasue gets cut (or shot, I cannot remember) and starts spraying blood on the audience.

Now there were alot of scenes that were very long, but I thought it added to the horror. The blood scene went on a bit too long for my own taste. I think it’s because most of the other long scenes were so intensely focused on Elizabeth/Sue and their body horror. This scene had the entire audience of the New Years show acting chaotically. To me it felt too different in the broader context of the movie. It fits with the classical monster movie vibe the final act is going for. I think the blood connects back to the overarching theme of womanhood— either how blood is connected to several aspect of the traditional female experience (menstruation and pregnancy/birth) or how women in Hollywood give so much blood, sweat and tears to fight to stay in the industry.

All that being said, I don’t think it was a bad ending by any means. It’s just that the first 2 acts were so strong that it didn’t hit as hard. I did think the final scene/shot was really good, and the makeup/effects used to make the Elizasue costume were crazy in the best way possible. So if you sat through all of this and my crappy summary didn’t put you off, I really recommend this movie if you can stomach it!!

[ange331]

Hehe, I see that you really like crunchy monster men🖤👹

Have you watched other film adaptations of Jekyll and Hyde? Do you have another favorite version of Edward Hyde? Or is the 1931 version your favorite?

Well i’ve seen some JnH adaptations, movies(ofc), games and one comic

But my favorite Hyde are 1920s version and 1931 version

List of JnH in the first picture :

-Jekyll and Hyde 1913 (idk which one tho ☹️)

-Jekyll and Hyde 1920

-Jekyll and Hyde 1931

-Jekyll and Hyde Musical

-Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde

-Jekyll and Hyde (NES)

-Jekyll and Hyde - Weinfeld & Szyszko

-Mazm: Jekyll and Hyde

[ghostynightmare]

Any Lanyon headcanons?

Hastie Lanyon Headcanons!!

Doctorate in biology

Bisexual (the closet so deep you think there’s nothing in there)

He met Jekyll at school and they were studying buddies (like one of them reexplained the lecture to the other in a way that the other understood)

Keeps everything but his laboratory clean

Met Utterson through a messy testament issue involving Jekyll and a dead mentor they shared

Enjoys social gatherings and often thrives in them

Cardiac problems

Messy handwriting (barely readable)

Owns a personal journal to track his sanity

Goes outside at least once a day to not go insane from the loneliness of his day to day life 

Does some medical treatments for the lower class folks against favours like cooking or cleaning his house

A hugeeee fan of salty food

Regularly goes to assist surgeons 

Later in life he became a part time teacher at a university 

He ate grass as a kid 

Unironically loves hats and has a huge collection of them

Was genuinely concerned for Jekyll’s well being and Jekyll constantly pushing him away is what made him give up

Him and Jekyll were roommates in college (omg they were roommates)

He likes them autistic (men and women)

I did with what I found for the image so it is what it is I didn’t expect to have that much tbh

[scarperseus]

oh dear, he’s turned neon..

[leonenjoyer69]

May I hear some HCs in regards to Jekyll and Hyde? 🤣

Of course!!

I read a fic where Hyde played the piano and I absolutely live for that. Jekyll probably got lessons or something when he was younger, but quickly dropped it on account of focusing on his studies. Hyde though? He ABSOLUTELY whips out some killer ragtime songs at bars (or anywhere with a piano OR reed organ, honestly) when he feels like showing off or bringing up the mood. Like, I imagine him to have the same energy as Will Wood when playing (speed and enthusiasm wise, here's a good video for reference lmao)

On the flip side, Jekyll sings/hums to himself when mindlessly doing things (like cleaning up) and when bathing. Usually Scottish ballads, but he's also picked up some more popular British ones from Hyde. Hyde also sometimes asks Jekyll to sing to whatever he's playing, and if Jekylls in a particularly good mood, with some coaxing, he'll give in.

Jekyll had to give Hyde his own little journal so he would stop defacing the journal he kept his experimental logs in. Hyde still uses it, and is actually on his second journal of shitty doodles. He likes to leave it open on pages with mean doodles of Jekyll, or obscene things he knows will make the other flustered, just to get a little rise out of the man.

Hyde has tried bringing some of the nicer street rats back to the society to keep as a 'pet' (he wanted to try and train one to attack and do things he says) but Jekyll has thankfully put a stop to that every time.

Jekyll's eyes before the potion were just a really pretty brown and only got that deep red color after. Surprisingly, no one really asked about it because of how his eyes already shone in the light.

Jekyll starts slipping into his Glaswegian accent when he's super drunk or angry (and when he's more sleep deprived than usual). It also slips into Hyde's voice a bit in high stress moments. At one point, Hyde got hit pretty nasty in the head and could only speak Glaswegian for a good few hours. Jekyll forced him to isolate, as to keep it a secret, and led him through brewing something to help. He didn't complain much about the few things that got broken, but he did scold Hyde for biting off more than he could chew (and for leaving him with such a horrible headache that he couldn't get rid of).

Hyde is surprisingly clumsy when he's not roof hopping. He's the type of mf to fall up the stairs. I'm also a firm believer that he does that ADHD walk thing where he just twists his body around tables and corners and such, along with drifting a bit while he walks (which has made him bump into many people, causing fights). Jekyll on the other hand? Yeah, he's got that high society gait and is super thoughtful about how he moves, but he also just runs into shit. Generally it's when he's alone and/or working (or super tired and weak), but there have been a handful of instances where he did it around Lanyon or Rachel that he still gets embarrassed thinking about (the bloody nose he had one time in front of Lanyon was not fun).

Anyways, that's all I really have rn, thank you for asking!!! :33