#ernest frankenstein

[ancient-me]

The Frankensteins 🥰

[who-do-i-know-this-man]

Just finished reading Frankenstein (it's good btw) and I can see why someone submitted Ernest, even if he lost round 1. He was mentioned like 2 times in the whole book, and then just kinda disappears. I honestly wonder I missed something cause of how strange it was.

[5-turtleducks-in-a-trenchcoat]

I'm thinking about Ernest again.

Imagine you grow up surrounded by a loving family (we'll ignore the kind of fucked up things going on there as well). Then your mother dies and your older brother leaves for university and sure that’s sad but eventually live goes on. But a few years later your younger brother gets murdered, seemingly by the housekeeper who is also your cousin's best friend; someone you thought you could trust. She gets executed for it, maybe you think she deserved it, maybe you wonder if she really could have done it, especially since your brother and cousin are convinced she didn’t.

A while after that your brother's dearest friend, who you likely know very well –he visited so often during your childhood that your house is probably like a second home to him– gets murdered somewhere in Ireland. Your brother is accused of the murder and ultimately aquitted, but when he returns he is like an empty shell of his former self. Maybe you wonder what exactly happened back in Ireland, but even of you do, you will never know.

Your brother and cousin get married as your parents had always wished they did but on the wedding night your cousin gets murdered as well.

Shortly after your father dies broken-hearted.

Now you and your brother are the only ones left. You should stay together, work through all the grief and support eachother after everything that happened, right? Afterall you only have eachother.

But your brother leaves. Packs his bags one day without telling you why. Maybe you ask him to stay, maybe he leaves at night when you're sleeping and you wake up to him being gone.

He never returns. The house is empty, you're the only one left there. Halls that used to be filled with laughter are now echoing the sounds of your footsteps as you wander around them feeling lost and alone.

Maybe you find out what happened to your brother. Maybe one day you receive a letter from Russia or England, signed by someone called Robert Walton, telling you your brother died up in the arctic on his ship.

You wonder what brought him there, what was there that led him to desert you, was there any reason he left or did he just run to leave everything behind, to even leave his only living brother?

Maybe you find out, maybe the letter tells you the entire story, your own brother's narration of a horrifying tale, you wonder if you can even believe it. Maybe he has truly gone mad, but it fits with the events perfectly. You don’t know what to think.

But maybe you never find out, maybe you never even get that letter. Maybe you'll spend the rest of your live wondering what happened. What went wrong, so that you are now alone on this earth, robbed of all those you loved? Maybe you'll never know, maybe you'll never find your peace.

[sandwichhour]

Ernest Frankenstein...if u even give a care,,,,🐠

[suddenly-frankenstein]

the tragedy of being Ernest Frankenstein is the tragedy of being the only one who survived.

[agathaviolin]

One of my favorite jokes of life is when someone who is younger, a lot taller that someone who is older.

Victor would be probably considered as youngest while he was standing with his brothers, lol

[sirgawainofgalifrey]

Me reading Frankenstein and consistently forgetting that Victor's meant to be the eldest child of 3 brothers in his family because he literally completely composed of the overcompensating jealous neglected hubris of a middle child.

[haanahaki]

Frankenstein designs!

(Victor Frankenstein, The Creature, Elizabeth Lavenza, Henry Clerval, Justine Moritz, William Frankenstein, Caroline Frankenstein, Ernest Frankenstein, Alphonse Frankenstein)

[the-real-dev]

my and my boyfriend assigned frankenstein characters fruits & veggies on call here's what we've deduced:

victor -> sad pathetic green apple

henry -> aesthetic red apple

adam -> deformed carrot

elizabeth -> crisp raspberry

william -> small banana

justine -> unpicked blackberry

ernest -> normal lemon

alphonse -> guacamole avocado <- according to bf

caroline -> already ripped open pomegranate

old man de lacy -> sour grape

felix -> not too lumpy potato

safie -> dark pink & cut in half dragonfruit

whatever the other de lacy's name was (the girl) -> sweet grape

[stilettomafiosas]

more little critters

[frankenfartstein]

ernest !!!!

[incorrect-frankenstein]

Henry: The floor is lava!

Elizabeth: *helps Justine onto the counter*

Ernest: *kicks Victor off the sofa*

Victor: *lays on the floor*

Henry: ...Are you okay?

Victor: No.

[hurr-my-mind-palace-or-whatever]

Idc abt any frankenstein characters except him

[sykovamp]

Ernest after his whole family died

(ty @slimyturtles-cryptidcabin for the vid )

[dathen]

@grimogretricks replying here since it’s shifting subject from the original post

I had heard a lot of fuss about that mentality before reading so kept an eye out for it, but Victor didn’t say everyone he loved was dead—he said that everyone who could bring happiness to his life was dead. It’s still a selfish way to describe it, but it wasn’t a statement that he didn’t love Ernest or that he forgot Ernest exists.

As one of Ernest’s caretakers and teachers, Victor would feel responsibility for making him happy rather than expecting the reverse. Recall how much responsibility for others’ moods is emphasized in the Frankenstein household—to the point that Alphonse scolded Victor for his depression, since it would bring the mood down for others, and it’s his duty to be cheerful and have a stiff upper lip for them, etc etc.

With that in mind, Victor would see his relationship to Ernest with just more guilt for the tragedy he blames himself for bringing to the family, and his own inability to care for him like he used to. The most he can do for him is leave and draw the murderer away, like he wished he’d done before marrying Elizabeth.

(also as a side note Victor’s always had “out of sight out of mind” tendencies with his relationships even before Every Mental Illness set in, like how he didn’t visit his family or even Henry while in university. I think Ernest is getting some of this by the end of the story, but don’t see it as a sign of Victor not loving him)

[bluehourskyeli]

You know what? Robert should look for Ernest after his return home, and tell him all that happened to his brother so he can finally get some answers and closure