#Heide jekyll

[dreamerwitches]

You’re a woman, a beautiful woman, and no one but you can decide that

[doppel-tournament]

ROUND 1, Part 18

[notnowricky]

Atp I gotta respect the continued commitment to mispronouncing Heidepark. You go, baby! Fuck that extraneous e, make it sound like Dr. Jekyll runs this shit.

[thepmmmwitchproject]

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS MOMENT

The witch of Jekyll and Hyde bc i feel like Heide Jekyll just didn’t work <3

THE WITCHES OF JEKYLL AND HYDE

Formalde, the witch of Jekyll, its nature is be one and the same. A witch who believe they are in no control of their actions, and is totally innocent.

Hyde, the witch of Hyde, its nature is be one and the same.. Hyde is a brutal witch, immoral with their actions, ranging from hedonism, destruction, to all sorts of murder. Formalde as Hyde is very aware of their actions, yet acts as if Hyde is out of their control, like some scapegoat, their cover is flimsy. Exposure, whether literal or metaphorical, is their weakness.

The concoction it hold does not transform Formalde into Hyde, but rather it is an inert ability of the witch. The actual potion itself simply gives one a taste bitter taste in their mouth for days on end.

[ebaeschnbliah]

 Alice and Claire

It's you. You then and you now. You are here and you are there. ... You. It's all about you.   (Jekyll BBC, 2007)

Alice, a woman of the past, the old, victorian world and Claire, a woman of the present, the modern world. Both of one kind, related but not quite, completely identical but not twins (it’s never twins) ... It’s a story that sounds a bit familiar. Somthing similar happens with Sister Agatha and Zoe Van Helsing in Dracula BBC. The same actress plays characters who look like twins but live more than a century appart. And in the Sherlock BBC special episode The Abominable Bride, it is Sherlock, who travells back in time to victorian London ... a man both here and there. 

The solution to the puzzle in Jekyll BBC literally lies in the genes, because the modern woman turns out to be an exact clone of the victorian woman. And then, there are the names - Alice and Claire - both names turn up repeatedly in more than one project created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. 

TBC below the cut ....

Alice

The name derives from the Old French name Aalis, short for Adelais (x), which is a short form of the Germanic Adalheidis, better known as Adelaide (composed of  adal=noble and heid=kind/sort/type ... meaning noble type). The most prominent literary character with that name is Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland ... well known and repeatedly mentioned in connection with Sherlock BBC (x  x  x).

The very first person who comes to mind in Sherlock BBC is, of course, Lady Smallwood. This character is introduced as Lady Elizabeth in HLV but three episodes later, in TLD, her first name suddenly changes to Alicia. At least that’s what can be read on her business card. Additionally the lady shares some interesting similarities with Mummy Holmes (x  x).

When Sherlock walks among the ‘Funny Gravestones’ in TFP, on one of the stones the name Alice Holmes is engraved. Apparently this woman died together with another person (maybe husband, maybe sibling) in 1818, both at a rather young age. 

The name ‘Alice Holmes’ could very well be a reference to the lost and resurfaced silent movie ‘Sherlock Holmes’ from 1916, created by William Gillette who also starred in the leading role as the great detective. In this adaptation, based on the stage play of the same title and authorised by Arthur Conon Doyle himself, Gillette gave Holmes a love interest, shaped (very loosely) after Irene Adler. Doyle’s famous words "You may marry him, murder him, or do anything you like to him" derives from this adaptation. The love interest was renamed into Alice Faulkner .... which of course, would change into ‘Alice Holmes’ after a marriage (strongly suggested by the emotional film-kiss at the end of the story). 

In October 2014 it was announced that a copy of that film had been discovered in a film archive in France. The French premiere of the restored film took place in January 2015, the US premiere followed in May. Among the patrons of the restauration are listed Mark Gatiss, Steven Moffat and Sue Vertue. 

For more detailed informations I can highly recommend this post by @heimishtheidealhusband .

Claire

This name is the French version of Clara .... and, although she has never appeared on screen so far, Clara is a frequently discussed character in Sherlock BBC because she is (most likely still) married to John Watson’s (equally invisible) sister Harry.

Clara and Harry split up three months ago and they’re getting a divorce.

Clara is part of Sherlock’s deductions regarding John’s phone in PILOT/ASIP, based on Holmes’ famous pocket watch deduction in ACDs novel The Sign of Four. As @shylockgnomes already pointed out in 2016 ('A high incidence of Katherines’) the name Clara (bright, clear, clean, pure) basically has the same meaning as Catherine. 

In the early Christian era it became associated with the Greek ‘katharos’ (pure), and the Latin spelling was changed from Katerina to Katharina to reflect this.

Clara could very well be a Catherine hiding in plain sight, one might say. Reason enough to take more than one look at her, because the name Catherine (in a number of variations) turns up eight times throughout the whole story ... nine times if one counts CAT, the gun in HLV (a brand of that name doesn’t even exist). To sum it up once more:

Clara, John’s sister in law (ASIP)

Karen, the woman murdered by her boyfriend/husband Barry ‘Bezza’ Berwick in Minsk (TGG)

Kate, Irene’s PA (ASIB)

Kitty Riley, investigative journalist for the SUN who wrote the exposé about Sherlock (TRF)

Cath, Mary’s briefly mentioned friend (TEH)

Kate Whitney, the desperate mum of a drug addict who wants to find her son (HLV)

CAT, the gun which Sherlock assumes to be the weapon used to murder him (HLV)

Helen Catherine Driscoll, underaged pen pal of Lord Smallwood before his marriage with Elizabeth/Alicia and reason for his suicide (HLV)

Catherine - the name John would like to give to his daughter but Mary disagrees and chooses Rosamund instead (TST)

As @shylockgnomes​ pointed out in the above mentioned post from 2016, the etymology of the name ‘Katherine’ can be debated: it could also derive from the Greek name Hekaterine, which comes from hekateros ... meaning “each of the two”.

But what does that imply? Two of something? But it’s ‘never twins’  Did I accidentally stumble upon a hidden secret? A girl or woman who is hidden. One of a pair? To paraphrase Sherlock    (shylockgnomes)

And then Series Four happened and Eurus entered the stage in TFP and puzzle pieces started to fall into place. It looks like you really stumbled right into the centre of the mystery, @shylockgnomes​  :)  Because in Sherlock BBC the meaning of two/double/pair/twin seems to be a key factor in understanding the story (PairsTwinsDoubleOhhhs)

Each of the two main characters have sisters who are mistaken for brothers by the respective other man when they are first mentioned in their presence. 

JOHN: Harry and me don’t get on, never have. Clara and Harry split up three months ago and they’re getting a divorce; and Harry is a drinker. SHERLOCK: Spot on, then. I didn’t expect to be right about everything. JOHN: And Harry’s short for Harriet.  (ASIP)

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JOHN: Sherlock’s not your only brother. There’s another one, isn’t there? MYCROFT: No. JOHN: Jesus! A secret brother! What, is he locked up in a tower or something? (TLD)

Each of the two sisters have male names. Harriet was shortened into Harry (the name of Dr John Watson’s brother in canon) and Eurus is the Greek name of the God of the East Wind, who is very male as @gosherlocked​ pointed out here.

Each of the two sisters stay invisible for the majority of the story. Eurus appears only by the end of the (for now) penultimate episode. Harry is still a faceless presence and exists on screen only in short references. A good place to remember Mycroft’s advice in The Sign of Three:

SHERLOCK: For one person to be in both groups ... could be a coincidence. MYCROFT: Oh, Sherlock. What do we say about coincidence? SHERLOCK: The universe is rarely so lazy.

Two problematic sisters who are both called by a male name, who appear rarely or not at all on screen and are mistaken for a brother by the best friend of their sibling. And one of those sisters is (maybe still) married to a woman called Clara ... meaning ‘bright, clear, pure, (incandescent?) .... the same as Catherine ... which might also mean ‘each of the two’. What would the universe say to this case?

Alice, Claire & Catherine

In Jekyll BBC everything circles around the characters Alice and Claire. It’s not some mysterious potion ... it’s the potion of love, the chemistry of love, which rises Hyde, the ‘monster’, in Jekyll. “It's you, it’s all about you ....”

Alice, Clara, Catherine (different versions and meanings of this name) seem to play an important, though still mysterious, role in Sherlock BBC. And what's the main theme of this story? In TFP Mycroft says: “This is all about you (Sherlock). Everything here  ...... So who loves you?”

This leaves Dracula BBC. Are there characters included in that story too, named Alice, Clara or Catherine?  Unsurprisingly .... yes! There are Alice and Kathleen (a variation of Catherine). Both characters appear in The Dark Compass.

Alice is one of the girls who accompany Lucy Westenra in the pink limousine on her hen night. She sits opposite Lucy, next to Zev. Alice is the only one of the girls who, like Zev, interacts repeatedly with Lucy. 

Kathleen is the wife/life partner of Bob, the man who gets bitten and locked up in the fridge by Dracula. The Count watches a movie about elephants in Kathleen’s house before Zoe Van Helsing and her team are able to take him captive. 

 And then there is the Dracula-canon ‘Catherine’ ...  she’s a ship

There we find that only one Black-Sea-bound ship go out with the tide. She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle’s Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube.  (Bram Stoker’s Dracula)

Czarina is the female version of Czar, the Russian equivalent of Emperor, derived from the Roman ‘Caesar’. This ship can only be named after the famous Russian Empress Catherine the Great.

Count Dracula travels on the Demeter from Varna (Bulgaria) to England and then, after his plans faile, he boards the Czarina Catherine in London. This ship brings the vampire back to Galatz (Galati) in Romania. That’s a port town on the Danube about 80km from the Black Sea. From here he tries to return to his castle in Transylvania. 

And that’s exactly the point where the stories told in Bram Stoker’s Dracula und in Dracula BBC are linked. In the original story the ‘Czarina Catherine’ brings Dracula to the mouth of the Danube  from which the Count takes the same escape route as Jonathan Harker in Dracula BBC. They travel in opposite directions though. Bram Stoker’s Dracula flees from the sea TO the castle while Jonathan Harker falls into the river and is born FROM the castle to the sea. Two characters ... one escape route. (‘The river bore you out to the sea’)

It’s a hidden link. One becomes only aware of it, if one knows the original story. Therefore it might not be a very relevant link after all. Who knows. But surely, there are people in this world who simply are in love with a certain type of story which they tell over and over again and who also have a great affinity for certain names. :)

September, 2020

[gorochuva]

I looked at her Doppel sprite and went "that's just a straight-up Witch, where is she?" and then I went on the wiki and found out her Doppel's name is "Heide Jekyll" and WE! 👏 FRICKING! 👏 STAN!!! 👏👏👏

[howtomusicmajor]

Places I Hung Posters in the Rain

Shear Chaos: A hair salon filled with the prettiest and most-tattooed ladies I have seen in a while.

Brewed Awakenings: The Most Stereotypical Coffee Shop on the planet. Had a bead curtain separating the kitchen from everywhere else.

6 other coffee shops: I postered a HARDCORE college town okay. I was offered free coffee once. Bless that woman.

A costume store: Filled with decapitated heads of movie monsters from ages past, this store spontaneously gave me the worst case of paranoia I have ever had. It didn’t help that the walkways throughout were about 8 inches wide and there were two light bulbs working in the entire store.

Crazy Sweet: Have you ever been in a store that was decorated like a package of Nerds and a package of SweetTarts had a baby that exploded? I think I got a cavity while there.

The Vintage Garden: Wonderland got a “let-me-speak-with-a-manager” haircut, and discovered a love of fake foliage. The second most confusing store to navigate. There were no clear lines of site to the ceiling or to any wall, in any direction, ever. Smelled good though.

Three separate vegan grocers: Seriously, it’s a HARDCORE college town. They all had cheese that looked about a step and a half removed from the animal it came from, if that. Some of it was blue. Smelled good tho.

The Stone Cellar: A restaurant literally in the basement of a building directly next to a river. Potentially extended underneath the river? Smelled like mushrooms and love. I want to live there, it is my natural, cave-dwelling habitat.

Two separate GORGEOUS 5 star restaurants on the river itself: Okay TECHNICALLY they were on an island in the middle of the river and directly above a dam, respectively, but if I'm ever rich I will eat in those restaurants on the daily, they were gorgeous, I felt v out of place.

Coventry Glass: While this was the most nerve wracking store to be in, due to all of the highly breakable glass and stuff, they had a PARROT. I LOVE PARROTS.

Mr Jekyll’s Bar (right next to Heid Music): Ha puns. Had some nice plants.

[dreamerwitches]

Can you tell im sorting through old mw art?

Heide Jekyll, Ichikishima and Columbina

[thepmmmwitchproject]

Witch of shapeshifting.

What about something interesting? Earlier this month, Ria Ami and Aimi Eri were uncapped, revealing their doppels. These two girls were a special case, since these girls had their doppels leaked way prior to their uncapping, so we had a general idea on what their doppels would look like. But when Columbina and Heide Jekyll were released, they were nothing like the originald doppels, and they feel somewhat disconnected to the girls they're supposed to represent. Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoy both of the doppels, but they don't feel like what Aimi and Eri got from the original leaked ones. So I decided to design some substitute doppels based on the originals! (I'm not retconning the originals though, I have eventual plans for them!)

Cecaelia: The Witch of Shapeshifting

Cecaelia, the witch of adaptation with a vagarious nature. It drifts along a pastel sea, shifting its ribbons into different shapes and forms, like certain creatures of the ocean floor. It was given the ability to mimics appearance, so it changes itself to resemble the things it finds "beautiful" or "cute", but in a way that ends up trumping the original. It's never really happy with its changes, and wants to recreate the first change it ever achieved. Cecaelia, the doppel of Vagary, its form is adaptability. A simple design that hits close to the designs of Ria herself. Expect a post about Aimi's soon.

[thepmmmwitchproject]

Juliet: The Witch of Fantasizing

As I stated in a previous post, I would make a post featuring a remake of Aimi’s doppel, here it is!

Juliet, the witch of fantasizing with an awaiting nature, It wanders a barrier of a western frontier, stuck in a perpetual romantic sunset. The many hearts on its body beat continuously, fueled by the passionate confessions Juliet constantly wonders about. It shoots explosive hearts out of its many “orifices”. In a pinch, it uses the mimicking face of her crush to kiss the foes in a loving manner, which in actuality, is leeching the lifeforce of said foes like a mosquito. Juliet, the doppel of awaiting, its form is fantasizing. I’ll eventually make posts featuring Columbina and Heide Jekyll! Expect them somewhat soon, but not immediately.