#<- technically right there hi Jekyll

[foodlesoodlesdoodles]

modern crossover aus are truly something because I feel like all of these gothic men are a single thread away from having the craziest gay sex imaginable and we’re just lucky it was a bed this time

[screams-of-the-damned84]

(flops on stage) i now present to you my very silly swap au,,,

essentially jasper is now the co-leader of the society who was bitten by a werewolf and is trying to hide it, jekyll is the uni student who got kicked out due to his experiments and then picked up off the streets, etc. jasper and rachel can’t communicate and jekyll and lanyon are living the world’s weirdest horror romcom you’ve ever seen. more info under cut hehe (feat. bad explanations and doodles)

in simpler terms, jekyll and lanyon swap narrative positions (?? is that the right term) with jasper and rachel respectively. (lanyons and rachels swap doesn’t technically work as well as Jekyll’s and jaspers does but shhhhh). Frankenstein becomes the mad scientist that attacks the society and moreau becomes jaspers idol.

longer explanation but WARNING!! it is 3am when i am typing this and i am terrible at explaining. it may be slightly incomprehensible.

so like jasper and rachel founded the society after jasper publishes his research and gets semi famous. two years before current events jasper is out on a research venture and gets bitten by a werewolf. he doesn’t want to scare rachel or the lodgers so he keeps it a secret (to his own detriment). flash forward to now and jasper gets a call to investigate a “creature” terrorizing the streets of london only to find hyde.

before jasper can process the dumpster man he is looking at hyde transforms back into jekyll. jekyll explains that while trying to prove his theory of spiritual alchemy at his university he may or may not have split his own soul. and got kicked out. and is now living on the streets.

jasper, not really knowing what else to do and kinda relating to the poor guy, takes him back to the society. he introduces his co-leader rachel, who pretty much keeps this entire thing up and running. (rachel and jekyll still become friends but she especially takes to hyde. that little brother shaped hole in her heart is still very much present!) then theres the lodgers (idk how they all swap) and then there’s lanyon, a university student at the society because it was mandatory for one of his courses. he is not enjoying it and would very much rather be breaking boy’s hearts back at school. lucky for him tho, there’s jekyll!

this goes about as well as you would expect. lanyon then spends the rest of his stay at the society trying to understand (and woo) the conundrum that is jekyll and hyde. it’s very fluffy and they learn to communicate like jasper and rachel in canon (yippee!)

unfortunately for jasper and rachel, they have been playing the “just friends” game for the last decade. im having a bit of trouble trying to flesh out swap rachel so i don’t really know if she’s in a lavender marriage like canon lanyon is or is estranged/divorced or just single but whatever the case is she likes jasper but thinks he just sees her as a friend while jasper is madly in love with her and is too scared to tell her. this problem has only worsened since jasper got bitten. everyone else tho is aware of how they feel about each other and are stuck witnessing their tortuously long slow burn.

(hyde and lanyon at some point probably come up with a scheme to try and get them to confess. it goes horribly wrong.)

so yeah. this au has been floating around in my head ever since i read the comic for the first time. it mainly came to be because of how well jasper and jekyll parallel each other and because i wanted to draw stupid fluff and older jasper lol.

if anyone has any ideas/questions/etc TELL ME!!!!! this is just a rough idea if you have a better concept go for it awhdvgevd

[echooefrost]

we’re so back chat

Lanyde interaction

UNIVERSITY flashbacks

HYDES FACE in panel 2 is itching my brain in ALL the right ways I can’t explain why

The interactions and expressions (adorable)

Warm Colours

I really wanna see Lanyon get pissy with Jekyll and end up defending Hyde at some point later on because Jekyll basically called quits and also gave up ON Lanyon on a technicality- both Hyde and Lanyon have every right to be pissed at Jekyll and I wanna see this man have to deal with the consequences of his actions and not just run from them.

[fuck-you-upmusicbracket]

An Elegy For One Roderick Usher/The Haunted Palace (Chonny Jash)

Insufferable, the sight of such a miserable wretch as he/A friend at once alive and stone-cold dead/A musician of the string, he compelled his guitar to sing and at last/And for the first – I heard such frightful, dreadful, doleful, dismal, intensely conscious dread/He said:

"GODD. Okay, okay. OKAY. So this song is sung by the albums narrator who is also the protagonist for the Edgar Allen Poe story, The fall of the house of Usher! Where he retells said story. It quotes from / recites the poem in the story 'The haunted palace' several times in it's lyrics. The first thing that REALLY fucks me up about this song is that the songs narrator (In the small fandom, called the fanon name 'Matthias' for simplicity) is the creator of the fictional band that performs this album, almost all are characters from classic gothic story; ie Jekyll and Hyde, Frankenstein, Dracula.. And you could gather that in doing this there's a therapeutic element to it, relieving the guilt and trauma they gained from those stories. In the song (and the story) Matthias and Roderick Usher recite each other poems and tell each other stories to try and relieve the pressure of their situation. However, Roderick (and his sister Madeline) still die. So, the implication here is that the band (Named Gothic whore) is in memory of Roderick, in some way. (In the album there's the 'Fallen motif' which, in my own interpretation- mind you, marks the beginning of a part of a narrative or something important to a narrative. In this song it plays right at the end) But that is all fandom backstory that fucks me up, let me get more into the sauce of the song itself. Between original verses, 'The haunted palace' is recited by Roderick usher. The recital of this getting more and more intense and stressed as the song continues. After he dies, Matthias takes over reading it. It's a small difference, since it's all technically sung by the same person with only a difference in audio effects between characters, but once you know it's there... It fucks you up. The only instruments in this song are string instruments because in the story, it's mentioned that Roderick can only stand the sounds of certain stringed instruments!!!!!"

Poet and the Pendulum (Nightwish)

Forgive me, I have but two faces/One for the world/One for God save me/I cannot cry ‘cause the shoulder cries more/I cannot die, I, a whore for the cold world

"This is a mental health crisis in a song. The despair, the anger, the healing- it’s all here. The writer once said that he wrote his own suicide into the song so that he wouldn’t kill himself for real. It starts at “the end” and ends with “the beginning”, taking the listener on a cathartic journey all the way from the depths of anguish to the renewal of hope."

Roderick Usher submitted by @hydemercats

[vivi-nica]

My Favorite C-Drama Characters

My favorite c-drama characters includes:

Ning Chuxi & Xiao Xinghang 💅🏽(Money is Coming); total boss couple; I love how they support & appreciate each other's dark sides. #smooth af #green flags #best c-drama ever

Xu Qi'an 🌟 (Guardians of the Dafeng), lovable, goofy genius w/ puppy energy; absolutely loved it when he went on a violent revenge spree in the end (totally understandable tho) #pure fucking comedy #best male lead imho

Xiangyun & Chukong 💞 (Love You Seven Times) sweet, wholesome couple; absolute cuties #why must you torture me like this #this is why older brothers suck

Li Bing 😺 (White Cat Legend), our fave cat boi #just our ml & his motley crew of silly men #shit got dark really fast #the ending had me crying

And my faves from shows that I'm not done watching:

Tantai Jin 🖤 (TTEOTM); perfect, did nothing wrong & deserved much better #fine as hell ngl #nah that ain't love that's stockholm syndrome, Sir

Wei Wuxian 💋 (The Untamed); absolute genius gremlin #I'd break the rules too if I went to gusu

Orchid & Dongfang Qingcang 🤣 (Love Between Fairy & Devil), the way that oblivious fairy annoys tortures the (comically helpless) Demon King™ from day 1 got me cackling #man was struggling lol

Wang Yue 😈 (The Journey of Chong Zi); all he had to do for 20+ episodes/years was sit & watch the immortal bigots fuck shit up for themselves. I loved his shameless way of saying "I'm a good man". Not that he was wrong, but he wasn't totally right either. For a shitty series, I really enjoyed this sneaky pot stirrer & his snidey diva of a girlfriend. #cheeky bastard #he had a point tho #this hot mf was kinda the only thing that lured me in to watch (& keep watching) this clown-ass show

Li Tongguang 🧨 (Journey to Love), obsessive pathetic hot mess w/ mental issues #devoted puppy #pathetic yearner #bro needs therapy #his obsession for his cold-ass master had me questioning his mental health & tastes in women

Zhu Yan, Zhou Yichen, Ying Lei, Bai Jiu, Pei Siheng & Li Lun (Fangs of Fortune): #of course 99% of them had to die #WHY CAN'T WE HAVE NICE THINGS

Zhu Yan 🐒 suicidal gremlin, cheeky badass & sassy fashionista. With a... scantly clad... evil inner demon that he must... resist or something (Jekyll & Hyde vibes). He definitely did a great job cuz I'd not be able to resist after 1 minute even with all that was at stake (forgive me, i am but a simple girl) #my man need therapy #tf was his crazy inner demon on

Zhou Yichen 🗡️ pouty traumatized tsundere/baby; he's already lost so much - DID MY CUTIE-PIE HAVE TO SUFFER MORE?!? #his jealous moments had me snickering #his younger self was so freakin' adorable

Pei Siheng 🧿 precious softie; he just wanted big sis to be happy *sobs* #best lil bro #he never deserved to die, & not thrice at that #deep-voiced ethereal beauty

Bai Jiu ⚕️ petty kid w/ LUNGS; Zhou's biggest fanboy #yapper #certified lil brother #dude HAD to snub everybody but Zhou #the plot twist near the end tho...

Ying Lei ⛰️ warm-hearted sweetheart; I loved his antics w/ Bai Jiu! #silly cinnamon roll w/ no rizz #the fuck was up with that beard in the start #glowup

Li Lun 🚨 very possessive/jealous (but redeemable) villain; like damn holy shit he didn't need to threaten his ex-boyfriend Zhu Yan w/ the lives of his friends #wild-ass mf #kinda red flag but we don't talk about it ;) #tf were his clothes at for 50% of the show😳#he technically married zhu yan #so how bad was the divorce to drive him to such lengths of... yearning🤣

[afkphorabit]

made it to the end of part two of the cliffs of insanity — I’m sorry this is so fucking funny. Jekyll honey who the fuck kidnapped you and forced you to walk 4 hours through the mountains of Switzerland. You’d rather be doing anything else? Ffs go home, man. He’s such a dramatic prick in this it’s incredible

Frankenstein and Jekyll clearly have some deep seated history here and they know each other so well, and they’re so fucking MEAN about it. Creature you are so strong for putting up with them

Jekyll and Frankenstein <- besties who hate each other

also the double entendres!! Jekyll out here like “my primal side? Let me ask him what he thinks” pause “well he’s being oddly silent today :)” (<- face of man ready to kill or cry)

YEEEEEEE you get it!! they suck so bad, i love them so much. tgs jekyll is repressed and polite because his Cliffs Of Insanity version used up the entire well of bitchiness i fear /j

who needs enemies when you have best friends am i right??? (r.i.p. creature, i will never be as strong as them lmao)

and yeah!! i really like the way Cliffs Of Insanity plays around with the characters' gimmicks. it's so fun. the dialogue is also so silly some of it technically made it to TGS- my personal favorite line is jekyll using elizabeth to jab at frankenstein, which is also a scene in tgs LMAO

(a close runner-up is the "this. is. switzerland." line because i did not expect the fondue,,, you never expect the fondue man)

KWHKSJFJ glad you're having fun, rain!!! this storyboard is so funny i love it and it makes me happy to share it with someone else :D

[puzzleglum]

Got more TGS thoughts to share! Now that my theory on Jekyll's plan has been proven right (holy heck??!!), I wanted to talk about Hyde being in trouble, for a bit. Once again, this was originally posted to the comments section of this week's new page. Enjoy!

*****

IT’S ANOTHER DAY! And I want to talk about something I don’t think anyone else pointed out yet (but correct me if I’m wrong): Remember this moment from the beginning of Chapter 9? Hyde threatened Jekyll with this whole plan to basically make him his mind slave. Just a mere puppet to be steered by the whims of Hyde:

So like…this happening, Jekyll going away for (seemingly) ever, is the most bitterly ironic thing to ever happen to Hyde, right? Technically, he “won!” Jekyll finally gave up! He said it himself!

Hyde doesn’t just NOT have to deal with Jekyll anymore, all his rules, fears, his “wretched respectability," now he doesn’t have to SHARE anymore. He’s got total control now of their life, their body!

He’s finally free from Jekyll!

And it’s the worst thing ever!!

Because, and Hyde hates to admit this, but he’s ALWAYS relied on Jekyll being there. He’s the bandit’s cavern, the perfect hiding place. He takes care of the repression side of things. Without ANY inhibitions at all, it’s just a matter of time before Hyde becomes a MESS of emotions, spiraling out of control!

Another irony? He rejects Jekyll’s offer of help. But Hyde DID seek Jekyll’s help, only a chapter ago from the time of that page:

This is also the very first time where we saw Hyde’s anxiety ridden thoughts emerge:

Later, after spiraling again during his talk with Lanyon, we see Hyde worry over this exact moment where he panicked earlier:

Hyde thought he could make it without Jekyll, but it got harder and harder, over time. He couldn’t control himself. Which circles RIGHT back to Jekyll’s warning that Hyde’s form is unstable. The reason Hyde never had to fight his emotions before is because he’d never been out for longer than a single evening!

Things are a bit different, now, of course. Back then, their body was also severely sleep deprived, thus the persistent nightmare creatures. But even if Hyde got a full night of sleep every day (and we don't even know if he's capable of falling asleep!), who KNOWS what being actually alone would do to Hyde, over the longterm?

My whole point is, Hyde needs Jekyll. Without him, well…let’s just say that I’m VERY WORRIED for our boy Edward here. D:

EDIT: Turns out Hyde can't sleep!! Oh no!! I wrote a tiny bit more about it here, and here is where Sage stated it in an old FAQ.

This is even worse than I initially worried. If Hyde can't find a way to get Jekyll back somehow, he's, to put it simply, a dead man walking. D:

[puppycak3s]

Run While You Still Can | James Sunderland/ Pyramid Head x Reader Part Two | inspired by @scratchingcatfics658 for their Jekyll and Hyde AU

TWs: HEAVY Dubcon, power struggle, chasing, cheating(technically), groping, fingering, PinV, written with afab anatomy in mind but no terms are used, monsterfucking, and slight blood. All of my works are intended for adult audiences🫶 (also yall i suck at proofreading so be warned) p.s. listen to this song its the same vibe

As you went to go back to the bed, he followed you. Like a dog on a leash. As you sat down, he stood next to you, awkward and fidgety. You cocked your head at him.

"James, honey?"

You could see something almost dark flash across his eyes. You feared that maybe you had crossed a line. But he said nothing, patiently waiting for you to speak.

"You're not going to wear that jacket to sleep are you?"

You gestured to him. "It's kinda, well.."

He looked down at himself, as if he was just now realizing the state he was in.

"Oh I- yea I should probably.."

he started to take off his jacket, revealing a rumpled dress shirt underneath. He folded his jacket, most likely an old habit, before draping it across one of the chairs in the room.

You took a second to take him in. You knew he was strong but without the bulk of his jacket you got a better picture. Broad shoulders, stocky build. You could only imagine what he looked like under the shirt. You'd pay to see that.

He brushed off the chair, making to sit down there. You huffed at him.

"James, you are not sleeping on the chair".

He stopped what he was doing, looking like a deer in headlights. Like he had been caught doing something he shouldn't have. You patted the blanket next to you.

He opened his mouth to speak and then shut it.

"I... I'm not sure that's a good idea" he hesitated, not moving from where he was.

"I don't bite, James" you teased. "Plus you'll mess up your back sleeping on that chair, we both need to be in the best condition we can."

He looked from you, back to the chair and back to you.

"Yes, but I still don't think- I mean we-" he sighed to himself, pinching the bridge of his nose. "This isn't a good idea, you- you've only known me a couple of weeks."

He shook his head, slowly meeting your gaze.

"Why aren't you scared of me? I...can't figure you out."

You returned his gaze, a bit quizically. The man who had been protecting you at all costs, always putting himself in line with danger to keep you safe, was saying you should be scared of him.

You didn't say anything, you being scared of him had crossed your mind, in the beginning but now.

You trusted him.

He waited a beat, waiting for you to come to your senses, to tell him to leave and never come back. He let out a breath as he started to absentmindedly pace.

"This whole.." he gestured vaguely with his hands. "Situation that we're in right now, this" he scoffed "this place, this town. It's crawling with monsters, with danger" his pacing stopped as he turned his attention fully to you.

"It's incredibly reckless to trust me, I- I'm just a stranger, a random man you met and I just don't understand why..why you.."

He gave you a look that was hard to decipher. Longing, anguish, but overall a want- a NEED for you to push him away. You didn't. You would only draw him in.

You reached and grabbed his hands. They were warm, always so warm, calloused and blood stained but you didn't care. You cared about him. You rubbed your thumb across the back of one of his hands, to soothe him and to ground yourself.

"James" you started quietly.

"I've never had someone who would stand in the way of threats," you glanced up at him, his gaze had considerably softened. "Had someone to put my safety first, care about if I get hurt."

You could feel a lump start to form in your throat, but you weren't going to cry. This wasn't the time.

"Everyone that has said that they care for me, their actions never match, I always end up..hurt in some way or another." You fully met his gaze now, searching his eyes for anything. "Your actions, the way that you treat me, it's something I've never felt from another person."

You took a shaky breath and you could feel James come closer, kneeling down to your level.

"I was wary of you at the beginning but.. James?"

He nodded his head softly, acknowledging you.

"I think you're..a good man."

That darkness flashed across his eyes again, as he looked down at his hands, your hands

. Would you think that he was a good man if you knew what his hands were capable of. Would you feel safe with him then?

"I'm.. not a good man." He said softly.

You moved one of your hands to cradle his face, the stubble scratching lightly at your palm. He froze completely. It was like ice, fire, a shock that went through him entirely. His eyes slowly met yours.

"You are to me." You murmured. His hand shakily went up to cover yours, pressing it softly into his face. "You are a good man to me James."

You both gazed at eachother, the tension was heavy, but neither of you were acting on it.

You wanted to kiss him.

Wanted him to use his big hands on you, move you where he wanted you.

Feel him on you.

You wanted him, and it made you feel guilty.

You both were in this place, this town, looking for someone else. Someone who was important to the both of you respectively. You shouldn't be feeling this way, you knew it was wrong. But that didn't stop the want. The need for comfort.

James groaned softly and took your hand from his face, looking away.

"I...can't."

He avoided your gaze as he stood back up.

"This isn't..you're here for someone else, I-I'm here for someone else this just isn't..."

his eyes met yours and they said everything. He wanted to.

By god did he want to, but it just wasn't...

"it's just not-"

"Safe?" You interupted, a resigned but understanding look on your face.

You let out a small sigh. "It's okay James, I wasn't trying to pressure you into anything, I get it."

He let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding.

The longing in his eyes remained, but you were pretty sure yours had the same.

You looked out the dirty window.

"It's getting late, we should probably try to get some rest."

He nodded his head slowly.

"Yea.. yea that's probably a good idea."

You shuffled onto your side of the blanket as James followed suit, rather timidly.

He was staring up at the ceiling as you lay on your side facing him. Watching his chest rise rythmically made you all the more tired.

"James?" You said looking up at him.

"Hmm?"

"Will you stay here, please?"

The springs of the mattress creaked as he turned to face you.

"I'm not going anywhere." He said softly rubbing your arm.

The first physical contact he had initiated.

"Now get some rest, we don't know what we'll stumble into tomorrow"

You smiled sleepily as you tucked your arm under your head, a makeshift pillow.

"You better... rest too.. James.. or else.."

You could hear a small chuckle as you finally drifted off to sleep.

You awoke with a start, a loud scraping noise echoing down the hallway. Your heart lurched as you reached to wake James. Nothing. Your stomach dropped. He wasn't there.

The urge to cry resurfaced but you pushed it down yet again. This was possible life or death, there wasn't time. You scrambled up as the scraping continued. It was closer now. You had to think, but you just.. you didn't have time.

You crept quietly to the floor, searching blindly in the darkness for anything you could defend yourself with. Your hands fumbled across the lead pipe James had been carrying earlier. As you grasped it you winced in horror as it made an agonizingly loud scrape against the floor.

Fuck.

Whatever was after you knew you were here now. You rushed over to the corner by the door. If- when the monster came in the room, at least you would be covered. You waited with bated breath as the scraping drew closer and closer. The sound of heavy footsteps accompanying it. Your brain felt frenzied, all of your nerves on fire, your muscles taught, ready to run.

Silence.

The scraping, the footsteps, had stopped.

You let out a shaky breath as you strained your ears-

only for the door to slam open. It struck you, struck the wall, as new waves of panic coursed through your veins. You could hear your heartbeat in your ears as the trudging footsteps entered the room. Through the space in the door, illuminated by the moon, was a great, hulking beast. A man shaped creature with a sharp polygon atop its shoulders. You could feel your blood freeze in your veins. You knew it was looking for you, knew you needed to run, but fear had rendered you immobile. Your brain was screaming at your body, desperate to leave the threat behind and just fucking RUN. But your limbs wouldn't listen.

The floor creaked as the creature drew it's arm back, only to plunge it into the mattress, the very spot you had been moments ago. The mattress imploded on itself, the springs screeching against the enormous blade, clinging on to it, as the figure withdrew it from its carnage. Your hands flew up to your mouth in horror and you dropped it.

You dropped the lead pipe.

Fuck.

It clattered dully against the floor boards as the great hulking mass turned it's attention to you.

Run. Run. Fucking RUN.

Panic sprung your muscles into action as you scrambled out of the room, the door once again banging on the wall, echoing down the halls. You stumbled over your own feet as you caught yourself. Your knee had made contact with the uneven carpet, scraping along it, but you didn't feel it. The adrenaline coursing through you as your brain repeated its screaming mantra.

Run. Run. Run.

As your breath came in short spurts, your muscles pushing themselves beyond their limit, you weaved through the seemingly endless hallway. In the dark it was impossible to see anything, all the doors looked the same, a seemingly neverending labrynth.

You turned your head over your shoulder, trying to catch a glimpse of your attacker, only to fully fall onto the ground. Your face hit the floor, dingy carpet doing little to soften the blow as you felt everything stop for a second.

Your ears were ringing, blocking and muffling any sound around you as you struggled to breathe. You stumbled forward trying to get up, to get away, only for a sharp pain in your head to bring you to your knees. You curled up in a ball, sobbing bitterly as you cradled your head in your hands.

You didn't care anymore. If the monster was going to get you, then let it. That's what you get. That's what you get for trusting someone to protect you. James was right, you shouldn't have trusted him.

You lay there, as the thundering footsteps and rough scraping grew closer. Let it. Just end it already.

It stopped. You lifted your head to see the hulking mass standing above you. It's breathing laboured and heavy through the metal contraption affixed to its shoulders.

It didn't move.

He didn't move, you assumed it was male, its sweat drenched bare chest gleaming in the light of the moon. Ending with a rough hewn canvas halfhazardly draped across it's waist. He shook with every breath, like it pained him.

You glared as you managed to sit up, leaning away protectively.

"What do you want?" You spat.

No response just more heavy breathing.

"GODDAMNIT WHAT DO YOU WANT!" you shrieked, your voice breaking as tears started to stream down your face again, the saline stinging where the carpet had rubbed your flesh raw.

As you sobbed the creature remained motionless. Like a heaving statue. The silence was broken by a shearing metallic sound as a rough, gravelly noise escaped the helmet.

"W..AN...T"

Your eyes widened as your breath caught in your throat, causing you to choke. It was trying to talk, this bastard was mimicking your last words and using them against you. You slammed your fists against the carpet as you sobbed.

"James..J-ames please, help me!" You doubled over on yourself as your body was wracked with sobs.

The shearing noise echoed in the hallway.

"J..AM..E..S"

You shot a glare to the beast, sniffling and heaving.

"Don't. DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE!" You swiped at your nose with the back of your hand, unnoticed blood smearing it. "You leave him the FUCK ALONE, YOU HEAR ME!"

It still didn't move, he didn't move. More grating metal.

"W..AN...T."

He lurched forward, blade clattering to the floor, its heavy breaths and pants echoing through it's adorment.

"Y..O..U.."

the last word was nearly intelligible, the sound of grating metal drowning out the guttural noise. It was beyond unnatural, alien. Your breathing was erratic, just a step away from hyperventilating as the creature stumbled his way toward you. Why had it dropped its weapon, didn't it want to kill you?

You felt your heart stop when it grabbed you. Its hands...his hands they were..fused? Some of the fingers connected together with sinewy flesh. Grotesque and large, but... familiarly warm. You stared, fear coursing through you as it pinned you to the wall. Not with the force you expected. Why wasn't it hurting you.

His laboured breathing rasped through the helmet as the metal creaked and whined. One of it's hands held you to the peeling wallpaper, splayed across your sternum, making your breathing slightly more difficult. As the other..started to touch you. Firmly tracing your body as you stared, glass eyed in shock. Your stomach felt sick. Here this creature was, manhandling you, groping at your skin and you couldn't stop thinking about-

"James.." you whimpered.

Without warning the creature leaned closer, replacing its hand with its chest, pressing into yours, metallic husk above your shoulder as its hands continued to roam. You could hear its panting echoing in your ear now, so close to you. Maybe this was for the best. Whatever it had in mind to do to you, you couldn't see it. You could just..pretend it was-

"J-ames" you breathed, your hands reaching to grasp his shoulders, fingers digging in.

You heard the creature groan, rumbling through it's chest and into yours. You pictured it in your mind, the only way you would make it through this. James holding you against the wall. His hands, not fused, as they roamed your body, setting your skin ablaze. Your nerves reacting to his rough touch. You whined as its- no his hands started to trail along your pants. You could hear him in your mind

"we shouldn't be doing this.." he would pant out, as his body betrayed his words. "I just..need you- need to touch you..god".

He was just as desperate as you were. Your body ached. Fuck you needed him so bad.

"Please..." you wheezed out, pressing yourself into the creatures hungry hands.

Another rumbling groan, it sent shivers down your spine.

Fabric ripping.

A shock of cold air across your sex.

Before thick, warm, warped fingers started to slip into you. Your body didn't resist as you gasped out, mouth agape as the creature started to work into you relentlessly. It was strong, just like he was, it only aided in your fantasy.

It was obscene. The noises your body made as the hulking figure rasped and panted against you. It didn't matter. In your mind it was him. Using his big hands as he whispered praises against your shoulder.

"Oh g-od..taking my fingers so well sweetheart" "gotta- fuck- gotta get you ready for m-e... i need you.. need to feel you- all of you".

You moaned his name shamelessly. There was no one to hear you.

The creature had started to rut against you. You could feel its cock against your hip. So fucking warm, even through the canvas. A metallic groan and a raspy whine.

" W..AN.T.."

You clamped down on its fingers, it had used its fused ones, filling you up.

"T-ake what you want" you panted against its skin. "Use me...how you need".

A growl reverberating as it removed its hand. You gasped out a breath.

Once.

Twice.

Before you felt the head of its cock spearing into you, ripping the air from your lungs in a choked scream. Him, think of him. No one else.

His breathy groans as he pressed his forehead against you shoulder, whining pants as he thrusted up into you wildly. So pent up.

"God...please-please..p-lease"

The creature shook with effort, the metal planes of its head scraping into the wall as it ravaged you. Its pace merciless. Its hands leaving a bruising grip on your hips as it fucked up into you. It stung, but fuck it felt so good.

You tried in vain to match its thrusts but you couldn't. There wasn't a rythm, a pattern, it was animalistic.

Tears began to stream down your face anew as you felt a familiar heat coil in your stomach, wrapping around the base of your spine. Too much, but you couldn't get enough.

"P..LE..AS..E.." the creature rumbled, drawing the syllables out in a low whine.

Your mouth hung open, the force ripping the moans and air out of you each time it rammed its body into you. It didn't matter if it was only copying the words you had said, your mind was too far gone at this point. Every movement bringing you closer.

"That's i-it" you manged to breath out. "Just use m-e."

Your legs started to shake as you clamped down on him. Imagining James. Crying out his name as the coil finally snapped and you vision went white.

Your scream echoed through the halls as the creature roared.

It shuddered against your limp body as you felt it drip out of you, onto the carpet below. The peeling wallpaper sticking into your back where your shirt had ridden up. All you could hear was creaking metal and ragged breaths as you felt yourself fade from consciousness.

You awoke again, feeling air moving around you. Your hearing was muffled as you realized your face was pressed against something. An arm as you were being carried. You could barely make it out.

"-'ve got you, its okay now, its okay."

James.

He held onto you, rushing you back to the safety of the room. Your mind was hazy as you blearily looked up at him. Panic across his features.

"You're gonna be okay, you're safe now."

Ajsbsjdbdh my contribution to the monster fucking community yall thanks so much for all your support ily🫶

[t0rturedangel]

if it's not much, some yandere jekyll and/or hyde hc's? can be both sfw and/or nsfw 🤭 anyways take care

╭ . . . 𝚕𝚘𝚟𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚝𝚘𝚘 𝚖𝚞𝚌𝚑 ੭

𝐃𝐑 𝐉𝐄𝐊𝐘𝐋𝐋 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐌𝐑 𝐇𝐘𝐃𝐄 𝐗 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐄𝐑 ➤ 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘺𝘰𝘶, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘩𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘴

❏ warnings : love-sick ('yandere') themes, dark themes, a Victorian doctor, mentions of torture, mentions of blood, murder, Hyde.

I have SOOOO many requests LOL, and i got so much homework- this shit is more important- ILY MY LOVELIES

✩ ⊱ Jekyll likes to think that he's the gentler, sweeter and more loving version of the two (technically one) men obsessed with you. he's not.

✩ ⊱ He's manipulative, and knows how to get his way with you- you try to leave? Why? do you hate him, do you want to see Hyde take control of him and never let the face of Jekyll be shown to the world ever again? You're the only thing that's keeping him in power.

✩ ⊱ He also, sometimes, has a brutal side to him too- if someone he doesn't approve of gets a bit to close to his lovely dear spouse (Either your parents arranged a marriage with Jekyll, for money obviously, or Jekyll had manipulated you to marry him) well he's just gained a new test subject- how sweet right? right?

✩ ⊱ Don't worry though, he'll save you from watching- he doesn't want to ruin your little head (anymore than he already has.)

✩ ⊱ Jekyll likes to believe that you're a pure little thing, how could you not be? He could only love someone as pure as you- dont even thing about how he's a terrible man- you dont need to at all! Just keep being you're little angelic self

✩ ⊱ unfortunately for you, Jekyll is a Victorian man (a doctor no less) so therefore he has the mentality of one too, i hope you can see what I'm trying to say

✩ ⊱ Jekyll views you as his property is what I'm trying to say, right? I know it sounds horrible and it is, but that's his mentality- I am not going to sugar coat this for you, my lovelies

✩ ⊱ Don't worry though! Jekyll does have his sweet moments, on some occasions he'll let you roam the house! Though the servants will either be busy or away from you, after all who needs to see them, hm? all you need is him!

✩ ⊱ The doctor is deadly scared of loosing you, to either death, or someone else so therefore, he locks you up in a lovely little room he had made and decorated for you- the walls are your favorite colours, he got all the decorations he knew you would love, makes sure the room is constantly clean and you have a lovely large bed the two of you sleep in (whenever Jekyll is not busy, and is not Hyde- though Hyde will also visit you) though you are shackled, again he doesnt want you to leave

✩ ⊱ Hyde, on the other hand, is some how more gentler- though he's a monster, he's artificially made his soul is full of nothing but hate and rage but somehow he never lays a hand on you

✩ ⊱ He, actually doesn't to much to you. Sometimes he'll only sit on a chair in your room and just stare at you- sometimes he smiles at you (or what seems to be a smile) which is either more horrific or sweeter than what Jekyll does.

✩ ⊱ Sometimes Hyde loves to sit next to you, and let you rest against him, he'll also play with your hand or hair, if it's your hand it will be near the shackle so your aching skin could have at least some relief- you're the only person he will ever be gentle with.

✩ ⊱ Whenever he knows Jekyll is not mentally there, he'll let you out of your room and take you outside (in the night of course- there's less people, and much like Jekyll, Hyde hates having people any closer to you than at least a street away) and show you around, sometimes you'll be lucky and he'll take you to his house.

✩ ⊱ Hyde can cook, shocking I know- but he loves to cook for you whenever he can, and hey- it keeps you full and Jekyll never knows.

✩ ⊱ Unlike Jekyll, Hyde (despite loving you so much) does not really care if you saw something horrific, it just means you'll see what he's capable of, how much he's willing to protect you and how much blood he can shed.

✩ ⊱ though don't you EVER think, EVERRRRR that he'll lay a hand on you, he may be evil but he'll never do that, no Jekyll does that (sometimes, after he's sob and beg for your forgiveness)

✩ ⊱ Overall, yeah no, I beg- do not fall for this man (men?) your life will not look so pretty but they'll love you, at least they'll tell you that they do.

[ja9-animations]

Thought of this tgs au where Hyde meets a mind version of kid Henry and Hyde sort of- doesn't know what to feel??? He thinks that although he experienced the same exact things as a child, it's technically Henry's childhood and not his. Hyde doesn't really want to interact with this kid version of Henry, but the kid version is like obsessed with Hyde and wants to do "science" with him (like in the memory when he shows the dead bird creation to his mom.) Slowly, they become friends, but when Jekyll's mind begins breaking (like how it is right now in the comic), kid Henry begins breaking too, and Hyde doesn't want that to happen. Just a thought I had I thought would be interesting.

[gorgon-goddess-of-chaos]

Terror

Damien is absolutely a scaredy cat and I mean that in the most affectionate way possible. Also the irony is not lost on me for the reasoning for hating horror movies.

Damien x GN!Reader, TW: none Words: 583

Damien sees you sifting through DVDs on the couch and he groans, wiping his face with his hand.

“It is that day, gosh darn it…”

“Mhmm. You promised!”

“And I am starting to wish I had not…”

He had promised to watch one horror movie with you, which is more than you thought you were going to get from him considering how much he hates horror. You’re not going to be cruel about it since you don’t really want to psychologically scar him, but it’s going to be a little scary. You flip through your DVD binders, looking for a B-rated movie, or something that will hopefully get more laughs than actual scares. 

“Why do you hate horror movies so much?”

“Darling, I saw Jekyll and Hyde when it came out, and after that I decided it was not for me. Not to mention I was not particularly a fan of the idea of one man having an inner battle between two people on whether to be a hero and save people, or a villain that harms innocents.”

“Well, alright. Here, this one didn’t get great reviews and should be a little funny. Ease you into horror.”

Damien sighs with relief.

“I appreciate you not throwing me into the deep end, dearheart.”

“Why would I? I’m hoping this won’t be the only time you’ll watch one of these with me!”

“Oh dear…”

You stand up and give him a quick kiss, putting the DVD into the video player. After the player whirs to life, you return to the couch, throwing a blanket over your legs as Damien sits next to you. On the table is a small spread of snacks, and you pull the bowl of popcorn into your lap. Damien puts a blanket around his shoulders, trying to relax into the couch cushions. His arm rests over your shoulders, and you can feel how tense his muscles are against your skin.

“Deep breaths, Damien. I’ll turn it off if you get too scared.”

“No… I am a grown man. I just- dislike uncanny humanoids…”

“Well you’re not alone, otherwise they wouldn’t use it as the premise for the movie.”

“Fair enough.”

As the movie continues, you hold one of his hands in yours while he uses the other to occasionally hide behind, peeking between his fingers. All things considered, the occasional chuckle at the jokes eases your chances of convincing him into another movie. You do eventually get him to lay his head in your lap, combing your fingers through his hair and turning his head away from the screen when something scary happens on screen, pulling his focus back to you. He opens his mouth for you to drop popcorn in, and he laughs as you comply.

“If this is the treatment I receive just for participating in a scary movie night, perhaps I can be convinced into a second date.”

“Oh can you now?”

“Unless I start shaking in terror at the spooks on screen, I will be alright.”

Damien takes your hand and presses kisses to each of your knuckles, resting your palm against his lips as his attention turns back to the screen. You feel him jump and hide under the blanket as a jumpscare happens, and you can’t help but laugh a little bit as you calm him down again with some scalp scratches. 

“Alright, the monster’s gone, Dames.”

“I dislike the scares immensely.”

“That’s not terribly surprising considering you’re hiding under the blanket right now.”

“Technicalities.”

[luc1ferian]

"Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil."

(The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Chapter 10)

HERES MY HYDE DESIGN!!

I really do like this design on him! I wanted to make him more accurate to his book description (that being disturbing, somewhat ugly, and short) rather than the tumblr-sexyman designs of many. (Don't get me wrong I love the Glass Scientists and I know it's separate from Strange Case, but Hyde would NOT look like that 😭)

I technically have multiple designs for him because my personal headcanon is that, the more and more Jekyll becomes Hyde, the more human he appears as he grows used to wearing the skin of Hyde. The first night (which I WILL draw) he's basically a gremlin and borderline animalistic, wheras the Hyde I've drawn right now is more towards the end of his life; undeniably human, but his mere presence fills everyone he comes near with the feeling of something being wrong.

Speaking of Jekyll, I think I'll post some art of him next. I don't have a proper full body drawing that I actually like but I have a meme I made on a Whiteboard that I like lol

He's got a sharp nose, yellow scleras, green pupils, tons of body hair, sharp teeth, a simple outfit, and his favourite murder cane. Before he, y'know, murdered with it.

I'll post some sillier drawings/memes I made with him later on, but for now enjoy!

If you say he looks like The Onceler I will beat you to death with a wooden cane

[cosmic60s]

Some thoughts about The Nutty Professor (1963)

I recently wrote a film journal for a class that focuses on the auteur theory. The assignment is basically a less formal space to discuss a film/director - so of course I chose The Nutty Professor. The maximum word count was 1000 and I managed to stay right above that. I've been thinking about posting this but hesitated to do so, because I'm not too confident in my writing abilities, but I finally got some solid feedback from my professor today so I decided to go for it! Thanks for reading <3

It has been a long-running notion that the French love Jerry Lewis. Although, as Lewis would point out in interviews, France actually ranked eighth in all of Europe in terms of box office success and general support. In any case, it is clear that the French embraced Jerry Lewis and Jerry Lewis embraced the French. During a career lull in the 1970s exacerbated by personal struggles, Lewis visited France often, giving extensive interviews and personal appearances. While many have speculated why France became so widely associated with fondness for Lewis, it would be impossible to pin down a specific answer. Their adoration could certainly be attributed to a wide variety of factors such as the genius of his physical comedy or the commentary on American life which can often be found in his films. However, I believe the truth lies largely within Lewis’ particular style of filmmaking. As a precise, often obsessive perfectionist, his approach to directing falls in line with the Auteur Theory.

In course materials and discussions, the Auteur Theory has been described as positing the director of a film as its principal creator. Lewis’ approach to filmmaking often meant that he was directing, writing, and starring, all at once. While it is not necessary for a director to wear all of these hats to be considered an auteur, I believe it certainly strengthens the idea that the director is largely responsible for a film’s style and overall content. Given that the Auteur Theory originated with the French, it makes sense why they flocked to see Lewis’ films and treated him as a serious filmmaker (not in the sense that all his films were considered serious, but that they respected him as an artist and viewed his films in totality). Particularly in the 1970s, comparisons can be drawn between the ways in which the American and French media treated Lewis as a public figure. American interviewers preferred poking at his personal life and image, often antagonizing him by calling him an egomaniac or patronizing him by asking for funny faces. Meanwhile, French interviewers were much more interested in exploring his humor and style of filmmaking. While many factors are at play, I would suggest that this approach largely differs due to varying attitudes regarding filmmaking and the obligations of filmmakers. Where American critics accused Lewis of trying to ‘do it all,’ French critics applauded his audaciousness and lauded him as the total filmmaker.

One aspect that certainly strengthens Lewis’ directorial efforts is the way in which he understood filmmaking both as a business and as an art form. He knew what it took to make a film commercially successful (thus appeasing the studio) but also how to be meticulous about the technical and creative facets. With that in mind, it is clear to understand why The Nutty Professor is one of his most successful and enduring films. The story is a relatively simple Jekyll and Hyde plot in which awkward chemistry professor Julius F. Kelp creates a concoction that transforms him into the suave yet discourteous Buddy Love, in order to romance beautiful Stella Purdy. The film features stunning technicolor work, absurd visual and auditory gags, and wonderful costume design by Edith Head. In many ways, it serves as one of the most pertinent examples of how a director’s very intentional vision can result in a unique and inimitable picture.

One of the things that fascinates me the most about The Nutty Professor is the dichotomy of Professor Kelp versus Buddy Love, a lot of which has to do with Jerry Lewis himself. Throughout his earliest nightclub performances with Dean Martin, their numerous appearances on The Colgate Comedy Hour, and the sixteen films they made together, Lewis had particular ways of subverting gender conformity. Often, the purpose of his hyperactive and sometimes feminine persona was to reinforce Dean Martin’s masculinity. Of course, in many sketches Jerry is explicitly playing the role of a woman, but more generally his persona was unpredictable and uninhibited. For example, when Martin and Lewis appeared on a telethon in June of 1952, Jerry entered the stage by running and jumping into the arms of Bob Hope and ‘kissing’ all over his face. By comparison, Dean had a far more relaxed entrance, demonstrating him as the ‘normal’ half of the duo. Not only that, but by default he is being positioned as the relaxed, masculine ideal. Jerry’s onstage characters commonly lack restraint and seem to have no pretenses regarding how a man is ‘supposed’ to act.

This sets the foundation to examine the ways in which Lewis’ characters perform masculinity in the absence of Dean Martin. As his career evolved, so too did the complexity of the personalities Jerry portrayed on screen. Professor Kelp is timid, shy, and prone to causing explosions in his classroom. Buddy Love is rude with an overwhelming ego, but still irresistible to the men and women around him. While many have speculated that Buddy Love is an amalgamation of the Rat Pack or specifically an imitation of Dean Martin, I would suggest that Kelp and Love are different facets of Jerry Lewis. He hinted as much in 1971 when he wrote of the character, “…I was playing a dirty, lousy bastard…How do I know so well how to be a heel? Was I leaning to a side of me that really existed? Certainly I was. There was truth in him. It was also in me” (page 62). On that note, I believe this helps illustrate why it was important to Lewis to have control over his pictures—he had very specific ideas as a director and felt that he was the only person who could bring his vision to fruition (in the case of The Nutty Professor, he was the writer, director, and star).

[oscconfessions]

whenever i see people do ship names with yin-yang in it like 'cabyang' or something it makes me uncomfortable because yin-yang is TECHNICALLY TWO PEOPLE it should be YINCABYANG not *just* cabyang

maybe i'm mainly upset by this because i have DID and it feels like erasure of a DID character's- well- pluralness(?) but yin-yang is TWO PEOPLE in ONE BODY you NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT

if yin-yang GETS INTO A ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP, BOTH OF THEM SHOULD BE ON BOARD WITH IT, BECAUSE THEY ARE A SYSTEM IN A CONSTANT STATE OF COFRONTING (unless one of them decides to be the main fronter for a while, seen in iii)

also a probably unpopular opinion of yin-yang being a truly good or at least DECENT dissociative identity disorder representation because holy SHIT is it demonized in media (I BLAME PEOPLE WHO READ JEKYLL AND HYDE INCORRECTLY!!!! I REALLY DO!!!! I REALLY FUCKIGN DO!!! but that's a whole different topic that shouldn't be discussed here cause its not on topic) because literally, the two of them, even right from the start clearly have been actual good DID rep imo, because while yang is at first seen as 'evil and bad', as ii progresses, you can quite literally see that he's Just A Guy! sure he's edgy and stuff, but his relationship with yin is treated really well! he's more seen as a mischievous chaotic guy rather than a "villain"! AND in iii, he even mends his relationship with yin with the help of candle!! and they become more functional together!! and more balanced!! you get to see GROWTH!!

i'm just glad yang wasn't another 'evil bad guy' """alter ego""". and yeah, sure, some alters don't do good things, not all alters are good, but by god does the media really like to focus on that and make only the 'bad ones' seen.

i don't know or care on how exactly they became a two-member system, i'm not going to start that flame of discourse about systems because it simply isn't worth it, i'm just happy that the ~"ooooooo evil person in the same body as good person" DID """representation"""~ stereotype in media is finally broken by a black and white sphere

anyways i ship mephone with yin-yang because i kin mephone and i want to kiss yin and yang

~ mephoneAnon

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[the-sparks-of-creation]

OC Introduction

Since this is an OC blog, I should probably introduce the OCs it's about. So here they are!

From left to right their names are: Henry Stevenson, Victor Shelley, Mary Robert, and Laura Le Fanu.

There's also another character named Edward, but I don't have a drawing of him. He's a rat.

Henry and Victor have known each other since highschool. Laura becomes Victor's girlfriend in college. And Mary is a mishmash of corpses brought to life with chemicals and electricity.

Fun facts about their names: Henry Stevenson's first name is taken from Henry Jekyll, and his last name is taken from Robert Louis Stevenson (the author of Jekyll and Hyde). Victor Shelley's first name is taken from Victor Frankenstein, and his last name is taken from Mary Shelley (the author of Frankenstein). Mary Robert's name is made up of the first names of the authors who wrote Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde. Laura Le Fanu's first name is taken from Laura in the book Carmilla, her last name is taken from Sheridan Le Fanu (the author of Carmilla). Edward's name was taken from Edward Hyde.

They're all in their early 20's and go to college together (excluding Mary and Edward). Henry is majoring in Chemistry, Victor in Engineering, and Laura in some sort of Art.

The time period is the 1980's bc I like that aesthetic. Most of the story takes place in 1984.

Of all of them, Mary is the tallest at 6'3. Victor follows closely behind at 6'0. Henry is next with 5'6, and Laura is the shortest at 5'4. (technically Edward is the shortest but he's a mouse)

Their story is inspired by the song Weird Science by Oingo Boingo. There's also clear inspiration from Frankenstein.

I could probably write so much more information about them all, but I feel this is long enough already. And so here are some close-ups!

[the-violet-galaxy]

On the topic of Ruin

EDIT: Just for reference, with further updates a few of these opinions have changed, but a lot of the sentiment is the same. (I also hadn't watched everything from the show yet, so my knowledge of some of the lore was spotty).

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So. We just learned a lot about Ruin, didn’t we? The big twist and who he was all along.

Let me say, I adore this show! The story has been incredible and I’ve been at the edge of my seat the whole time. It’s been fascinating going back and forth about Ruin, listening to the arguments about whether he was good or evil. And when he was revealed to have built Eclipse all along, it was a matter of whether he did so knowingly or not.

But. Now we know for certain that Ruin did it willingly, and he was 100% aware, and faking being nice the whole time; and even if I WANT to hold out hope for him, there keep being less and less ways for Ruin to somehow be good or redeemed at the end of this. It seems Ruin might be confirmed 100% to be evil through and through, no Jekyll and Hyde, second personality, or return of the virus, like a lot of us had hoped.

And… I don’t know if I like this twist.

… Sadly, I can't say I do.

And I’d like to give my thoughts why! I have a lot to say, both from the perspective of a Ruin fan and from a storytelling perspective. So there's lots of analysis and personal feelings mixed together down here!

(And of course, there is still more to be revealed, but this is how it stands now.)

My first point is that it loses the show of a very good character.

Ruin was a great character! He was so unique in his personality, traits, and mannerisms compared to the rest of the cast, and his interactions with others were tons of fun.

It also just made a ton of sense to have him around: he is basically Canon Eclipse from the Ruin DLC, so letting him be here is just a Big Brain move.

There was so much potential for where he could go, given his backstory. He was a person who had 50 years of his life stolen from him, his entire world and everything he ever knew was destroyed, HIS BODY was the tool used to do it; and here he was, waking up in a new world his evil self tried to destroy, after being saved thanks to the kindness of several strangers who had every right to kill him but risked so much just to give him a chance. And now, unmoored here, he’s just trying to rebuild anything resembling a life --

There were SO many things you could do with this, SO many interesting ways Ruin could have developed… the angst; the sheer guilt of having killed so many people and destroyed so much; the fear of what he would see, if his memories from his time with the virus ever got uncorrupted; the TERROR he feels that his virus self might not actually be fully gone, and the desperation to NOT turn back into his other self and hurt anyone ever again -- the feeling of being excluded by everyone in this new dimension, he stays out of their way because he feels somewhat responsible for his Virus self hurting them, being the Weird Person who tries to fit in but really has no place anywhere, just wants to have a new life and new family with these people… (His relationship with Solar in particular was so interesting to me.) Ruin could have made up with Sun, after a long time of Sun being uncomfortable with him.

He was just one of the most fun characters to have around, including his streak of doing weird things. (And this is just personal, but I’m autistic, so I read that into a lot of his mannerisms. I loved him.)

And he paralleled many characters too!! In a way, you could say he was similar to New Moon: Ruin was created when his Sun and Moon fused, meaning Ruin is technically an incarnation of them, but he’s NOT them -- the way New Moon is an incarnation of Moon, but he’s not Old Moon. Ruin and Moon could have had formed a connection through that, at some point.

(And in this new arc, if we go with the idea that Ruin is innocent and a second personality was the one doing everything, then Ruin would be a parallel to Eclipse himself!! Eclipse is fabricated and nothing about him is “real” – the same could be said for Ruin in this event, where his second personality is literally messing with his brain, making Ruin also a "fabricated" personality of some kind. There is a line Ruin says when Eclipse kidnapped him that I always found interesting, where Ruin offered to heal Eclipse’s mind like therapy, which Eclipse shot down… I always liked that idea, that Eclipse and Ruin could bond. If Eclipse learned RUIN wasn’t to blame and it was a second personality, then, well, it could have happened. Why would the writers throw that idea out if they knew they would never do anything with it?)

As it was, Ruin had an entire WORLD of potential. And his existence made sense on a meta level, with link to the DLC's Canon Eclipse.

But that’s all gone now. Ruin being 100% evil just loses all that.

I think they did too good a job of making Ruin an enjoyable character to have around, if they knew he was going to be evil the whole time and were going to kill him in the end. (At the same time, they also didn’t utilize him in certain ways, like how Ruin never got a therapy session with Earth and was excluded from some of the group events, which logically would have been good for covering his tracks.)

Could there have been both a Good-Ruin and Ruin-Remade-Eclipse-Twist at the same time?

I’ll talk more about it in the next point, but I genuinely think the writers could have had it both ways if they had wanted to. They could have let Ruin be a good and innocent person who can stay around as a member of the cast, while STILL having him be the rebuilder of Eclipse and the source of other evil things. How?

The Two-Personalities theory! It’s been a theory for a while that Ruin has more than one personality inside of him, the second personality usually theorized to be his Virus Self. When he slips up and says stuff like “OUR head’s spinning a little bit” when getting the memory scrub from Moon, for instance. Ruin would be innocent and unaware, while his Virus/Other Self takes over when he’s not mentally present and does the bad things.

(Or alternatively: Ruin as an innocent person WAS real for a while, but his virus came back at some point.)

If that is what happened, they could have their cake and eaten it too.

And I think that would have been a better utilization of the worldbuilding given to us. Elaborated further:

I feel they could have utilized the worldbuilding in better ways.

One of the most interesting parts of the Show is how it plays with the concept of identity for these robots. There are several characters that are new incarnations of previous characters, but are distinctly different people from their previous selves. Bloodmoon, Moon, Eclipse, etc. 

Look closer at Moon. Even if they are incarnations of the same person, Old Moon and New Moon are completely separate individuals. New Moon lost his memories and remembers nothing of being Old Moon, which is WHY he is a new person. It would be completely unfair to blame New Moon for what Old Moon did – New Moon did not kill those children, New Moon did not abuse Sun, because he does not remember it. Because he does not remember it, he shouldn’t be punished for those things, because HE did not do them. What this means is that MEMORY is one of the key aspects in a robot’s identity, and their identity can change depending on those memories.  

Now take that, and apply it to Ruin: how interesting would it have been if RUIN, the one we saw in the videos, was actually fully innocent and completely unaware of what his body was being used to do the entire time? Because his evil past self/second personality had been controlling him and literally editing over top of his memories while his body was building Eclipse and preparing the Arcade plan, so that Ruin had no idea anything was going on? For all these months, Ruin GENUINELY believes he is innocent, and doesn’t remember doing anything that brought Eclipse back; he’s in distress when suspicion falls on him because he “knows” he did nothing wrong, and he’s relieved when Moon scrubs his mind and finds nothing there; phew, now they can trust him. But then! Along with Moon, Solar, Sun, and everyone else, he would find out he WAS doing it all along. Ruin could be utterly HORRIFIED and aghast that his worst fear (turning back into his evil self) had come true. And imagine the angst for that too, “my memories have been messed with so much – I’m basically a fabrication of a personality, DO I EVEN COUNT AS TRULY EXISTING!?” 

This could even lead to an interesting moral conundrum for Sun and Moon too. Moon is already on the warpath and has less patience for Ruin’s life (especially with how much harm Ruin seemingly did to them), so would Moon be eager to KILL Ruin (or if not kill him, then at least give Eclipse permission to do it)? Or would Moon be talked through it, sort of realize “Ruin doesn’t remember any of it and didn’t do it himself. It’s not his fault. The same way Old Moon’s actions are not mine. It would be unjust to kill him because RUIN wasn’t the one who did any of it.”

Many possibilities.

...But no, none of that ended up happened.

Instead Ruin is a “was always evil, all along” kind of guy. Which is… pretty disappointing considering the other possibilities. It genuinely feels like “the most obvious option.”

Also, Eclipse has literal command orders built into his head.

So in theory, maybe the innocent Ruin could have had something like this too. Imagine: His second personality, doing things whenever Ruin is mentally asleep, also embeds Ruin's AI with those command prompts that force Ruin to do unusual things. Ruin builds his own body and he doesn't really have a good reason? The commands subconsciously forcing him to. He goes down into the bunker? He has this weird, pathological obsession with doing things with arcade machines he can't quite stop? THE COMMAND LINES, BABY.

Then when it comes time for Moon to memory-scrub him, the second personality could just. Corrupt the lines, hide them with the rest of them.

(Then OO DRAMA later on when everyone realizes Ruin's condition. Just as Eclipse knows he'll die if he differs from his plans, Ruin realizes he's being forced to do things and will die if he doesn't. Hey that's another connection the two could share.)

Eclipse has been right about everything, but this twist sort of invalidates a few of the things Eclipse has said.

Eclipse honed in on Ruin and was correct the whole time. But let’s look at a few episodes, to hyper-analyze some of the things Eclipse said.

The episode where Eclipse kidnapped Ruin:

Ruin: I was far too busy elsewhere to have any, uh, meddling with your being—

Eclipse: You see that’s the funny thing. I don’t think you realize what you’ve DONE. Or what you ARE going to do.

This implies Eclipse ALSO believes Ruin doesn’t remember his actions.  So if Eclipse has been right about everything so far, why would he be wrong about THAT?

In the same episode, after Eclipse tells Ruin: "I'm going to torture you" and leaves, Ruin is left all alone. Because Eclipse has left, Ruin has no reason to keep up the facade of being scared any longer, and YET, he still sits there hyperventilating for a few seconds before saying:

"Oh GOD...."

why would he do that, if he knew he could drop the act?

There’s also the episode where he confronts Ruin, he says:

“What did you do, huh? Changed a bit of your memory? Wiped your whole brain with a magnet? What did you do, huh?”

And I still just feel if Ruin genuinely changed his whole memory and brain, that his entire Ego/Personality should change. 

There’s also just the amount of Eclipse’s “Are you terrified of me?” and scaring Ruin that whole episode.

If Ruin WASN’T in a different, innocent personality at that moment, Eclipse would know he’s not scared. If Ruin BUILT him, he wouldn’t be scared.

Ruin offered to “repair” Eclipse’s mind at one point, comparing it to therapy.

Which Eclipse shot down, of course. If Ruin was 100% faking and knew what he was doing the entire time, and he knew he was never going to do anything of the sort with Eclipse, why would he EVER offer this to Eclipse? Why would the writers throw it out if it was never going to go anywhere?

It loses a perfectly good redemption arc.

One thing about the Show is how its redemptions rarely stick, at least for long. Lunar is like, the only one who has gotten a redemption arc and stayed alive. Killcode died shortly after his redemption. Old Moon tried to change, really he did, but he died before he could ever make the changes he needed to.  Eclipse is currently being worked on in a way, but that is still a LONG ways off. Etc, etc.

Then we had Ruin, who was another successful “redemption”, and it was pretty good to see!! …Which is now ruined (hah) because he was never good to begin with.

LEADING INTO ANOTHER IMPORTANT POINT:

It makes all that effort the other characters went through for nothing.

Sun and Moon tried so hard to help Ruin, they took a risk for him to cure him of his virus – but in the end, this was the Wrong thing to do.

The characters did the right thing!! And they are being punished for it!!

And elaborating on that further:

This is going to negatively affect all the characters going forward.

This entire arc, Moon has been dealing with negative thought patterns and paranoia, and a lot of that paranoia manifested when he was investigating Ruin. He acted pretty cruel to Ruin in many ways, especially during the interrogation. This is why I thought it was very good for Moon when he did the memory scrub, found nothing, and realized he was being kind of a jerk, so he apologized to Ruin and pulled back a bit. He didn’t STOP LOOKING INTO HIM, but it was a lesson for him, to not to let his aggression reign over him when dealing with people he was suspicious of.

(One of the most concerning parts of Moon’s paranoia was how he said he didn’t trust ANYONE. He says so directly to Eclipse: “trust is a FARCE.” Despite this, in some way or form, he DID let his guard down around Ruin and began to trust him just a mild amount.)

WELL NOW THAT’S ALL GONE! Moon will never trust anyone ever again. The last person he gave the benefit of the doubt to turned out to be a multiverse-destroyer. Moon now has every reason to double down on his aggression, his paranoia, his mistrust of other people; in the future I doubt he will ever be so kind or lenient with people. He would probably be more likely to “attack first” when seeing a potential threat. And Sun as well; Sun will have much less reason to want to be kind or to take a chance to help a villain, because one time he helped Ruin and it blew up in his face.

So… good job. :/

It just kind of feels like the most obvious twist that could have written with the pieces on hand.

It’s like… There are a million different moving parts for this mystery -- multi-personalities, the virus, ways to play with memories that change identities, command orders embedded into robot's skulls – and then they chose the most straightforward way to use them.

Over the course of the storyline there were SO many signs pointing to Ruin (one of the Thumbnails even had a Creepy Face hidden in the corner) that it felt there HAD to be some kind of twist involving personalities or memories or someone else controlling him. I don’t want to say bad writing, but….

It almost makes Ruin a little too powerful.

I feel it’s almost cheating in some ways. Ruin is able to edit/corrupt his own memories so Moon couldn’t access them…… but RUIN still know them? Why didn’t Ruin literally forget those things, himself? It feels a little TOO powerful, a little too unrealistic, for him to be able to fool all these scanners and all these people SO easily. ESPECIALLY because we know Moon and Solar (and Eclipse definitely) went snooping around Ruin’s stuff before and looked at his computers; how did they, two galactic supergeniuses, never find ANY hint that Ruin had tampered with the security camera broadcasts when they were doing it?

When Ruin is supposed to be acting, he sounds just a little too sincere.

This is more of a minor thing, but in some of the episodes, when something dramatic happened to Ruin, it doesn't feel like he's acting in-universe; he sounds very sincere.

Just some examples: when he's interrogated by Moon and sounds so sad about being threatened. When Eclipse menaces him several times he's so scared. And many just other instances just. (And again, since I'm autistic, I read some of his stranger mannerisms as just being through that lens. Even if he acted strange sometimes that doesn't automatically equal fakeness.)

And I dunno, maybe he should have had more instances where it didn't feel so sincere.

This makes Solar the only person from another dimension who is good.

Pretty much everyone else from the other dimensions is bad or evil in some way, (aside from like one Sun from the one-off dimension where Moon never existed.) And I love Solar, but for some reason, it just doesn’t feel RIGHT that he’s literally the only person who is totally cool with the Celestial family.  Does anyone else feel that way?

Minor thing: When Moon apologized to Ruin, they said they would make Ruin a bedroom out of one of the alcoves.

Then they didn't.

Petty reason: Ruin was my comfort character, my personal one.

Lol, lmao even, my poor heart. It's broken.

And there are some various other thoughts, but this is also really long, so I'm going to stop here.

At the end of the day, I was really passionate about this character, and I’m disappointed to see it go the route that it did. There WERE ways to have Ruin still be good while also being a villain, just by giving him a second personality. And giving Ruin a second personality, to play around with the worldbuilding of robot memories and how Ruin isn’t responsible due to his memories being different, I personally think would have been more interesting.

Is there ANY hope for Ruin still being around after this? I’m not sure at this point. It’s looking less and less likely that there is a way out for Ruin. It’s looking less and less likely that there are two personalities, or even that Ruin was infected to begin with. 

If he somehow makes it out I’ll be ecstatic, but until then, I have a feeling we might be saying goodbye to him soon.

I still love this Show very much! And the story isn't over yet. So we'll just have to see if it can pull something off with this. But as it stands, I just have to respectfully say I think a mistake has been made in the direction they are going with it.