#i've been rereading frankenstein for spooky month specifically on audio

[balaenabooks]

Adam "The Creach" Frankenstein is one of my all-time favorite characters, one of my original beloved high school blorbos, basically a perfect anti-hero who strikes a fine and delicate balance between sympathetic and monstrous (in the true moral sense). He incites sympathy in the reader due to his initial innocence and his desire for compassion and understanding (which all living thinking beings deserve), but he also does things that are truly reprehensible and in the end he realizes that after all the murders and all the death, he finally did become the monster everyone thought he was (and he was made in his father's image so that tells you a lot about Victor Frankenstein's monstrosity but that's another post).

(also Creach is not conventionally attractive or "classically beautiful" and I will die on this hill)

So seeing him reduced by the fandom to "soft handsome goth boy who did nothing wrong uwu 🥺💖🌸" makes me want to bite people.