#I'm also convinced that he would find louis completely fascinating and would make it a personal mission to coax him into murder

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the idea of hannibal as loustat's marriage counselor is soooo funny bc on the surface he would have to agree with lestat's attempts to corrupt louis's nature and have him embrace murder and killing and consumption but on the other hand I strongly believe that hannibal would find lestat's general personality and shallow theatrics in incredibly poor taste and would feel obligated to kill and eat him despite agreeing with him completely

[noknowshame]

Have you read The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? If you have I would love to hear your thoughts on it but only if you want to.

I've just read it and been thinking about the idea of good vs evil and how, if you think about it, both Jekyll and Hyde have certain sense of moral bankruptcy, much in the way that Flint behaved with pardons until his introduction to the maroons, and it's given me brain worms.

I LOVE Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde – it's definitely one of my favorite books ever. I love the content itself, but what I also find really fascinating is the way it's completely misinterpreted in popular culture. The real point of J&H is that they are fundamentally the same person. In the original text, drinking the potion is NEVER stated to actually change Jekyll's personality, just his appearance. Hyde isn't inherently evil any more than he is inherently good – which he isn't. Disguising himself just allowed Jekyll to explore whatever unnamed sinful desires he had been deeply Victorianly repressing (which is why, btw, there is a quite plausible queer reading of the novel).

As for comparing it with Flint, I'm just going to copypaste word-for-word a post I wrote like a year ago (you came to the right place):

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Essay I will never write: James McGraw/Captain Flint and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde

Both are characters originally from Robert Louis Stevenson

James McGraw and Henry Jekyll both create a second identity that allow them to justify their actions (Important: the original text of J&H never implies that Mr.Hyde is any different from Dr. Jekyll personality-wise. The potion doesn’t make him evil, it just changes his appearance. Everything else is a result are his own voluntary decisions.)

Despite seeing this second self as a means to an end, the real purpose is to protect their own sense of self. They need to convince themselves that they didn’t do these things, this ‘other person’ did (“I am not a murderer, that’s something Flint had to do for the greater good” or, “I didn’t trample someone, Mr. Hyde did that and I am free of guilt”)

Both identities were created as a result of a repressive society with expectations that neither could live up to (insert “freedom in the dark” reference). Flint is invented in reaction to institutionalized homophobia and classism, and depending on how you read J&H, Mr. Hyde is created for the same reason (We never learn what “sins” Mr. Hyde was specifically committing, but there is a lot of subtext that implies Dr. Jekyll may have been queer and was using the guise of Hyde to finally act on this, as well as delve into "lower" parts of society he could never be seen in as an upstanding upper-class gentleman)

Both become anguished as they lose themselves to the second identity (e.g., early season 3 Flint) and become increasingly desperate to prove that those two identities really are separate in the first place.

I’d argue they are not in both cases. The whole point of J&H is that they aren’t separate, and as for Flint, I guess that depends on whether you believe Silver that he “unmade” him. Personally, however, I think that by the end of the series McGraw and Flint are integrated selves in a way that Henry Jekyll never truly got the opportunity to acknowledge

Once again, insert “freedom in the dark” reference