#tscodj&mh

[wolpatinga]

situation:

you are in your mid forties, and have this friend who's your age that you've known for decades

except you two sort of lost touch a few years ago. he's been busy with work, and now he's kinda famous? good for him!

but now your friend has this... buddy - a man half your age (about twenty years your junior)

your friend tells you he's written a will that says all his estate goes to this buddy. like, your friend is a childless bachelor, so its not like he has a clear heir, but like. this doesn't add up. your friend always was... eccentric, queer if you will, but you didn't expect him to do something like this

and when you finally meet this buddy, you hate him. everyone you know hates him. the buddy is an asshole, and just being around him is enough to unsettle you. something's deeply wrong with him, but you might also just be biased

and also its really vague where this buddy even comes from? neither the buddy nor your friend will tell you. they've asked you to stop asking, and you aren't going to break the law to violate their privacy

also. you keep hearing these weird rumors. your bestie says the buddy is satanic. your friend's staff say that the buddy is nocturnal and doesn't eat. the buddy also seems to be able to travel completely undetected in the city and disappears randomly

[n3cr0m-nc3r]

I WAS READING TSCODJ&MH AND MY LEG HAS GONE NUMB

[coveredincomtempt]

(hello tumblr! take my gwotnlh jekyll/hyde [and compromise... compromise is very dear to me despite not being a character in gw] designs as an apology for almost never being active... i still need to read tscodj&mh and like. all of the books of the gwotnlh characters haha)

(also take an extra jekyll and an extra compromise)

[wolpatinga]

because hedonism isnt necessarily living in filth and only living for short term pleasure. even after turning over to pure hedonism, hyde still wants the pleasure of a cozy little space and a cuppa. they made him out to be entirely monstrous but he just wanted a cozy little space and a cuppa. the house in soho too, its only a mess because they had to leave in a hurry

its about the layers, man. jekyll's house is clean, but spaces that are jekyll's are a mess (the black door, the lab before hyde was trapped in there for a week). spaces that are in the public eye or are hyde's are tidy. jekyll says that when he is hyde, he suddenly has the executive function, and how if it were jekyll having to approach the random switch in regents park, they'd be dead. but it wasn't jekyll handling it, it was hyde

hyde seems to be turned up to eleven at all times, and having a chaotic, messy space sounds nightmarish for him. i imagine the first thing he did after being confined to the cabinet was organize. hyde's big issue is that he's selfish, but cleaning the room so he can be happy instead of going out and, idk, helping someone else fulfills that trait. hyde seems to prefer keeping everything that is his perfect, and doesn't give a shit about anything outside of his personal bubble

and like. why do we associate hyde with messiness? demonization of an unclean room, idk. the fact that people love to pile on every trait that could be considered evil onto hyde isnt fun, and it makes me wonder why untidiness is equated with evil

one of my favourite aspects of jekyll & hyde is the state of the room when utterson and poole have broken down the door. it's the incongruous tidiness, the peacefulness and cosiness of the room despite the fact that - as we learn - jekyll/hyde has spent all his final days in there weeping, pacing, knowing himself to be all but doomed. it's almost like another element of the horror - it would make sense and would match utterson's expectations if it were in greater disarray (broken glass, etc) but instead we get the implication that if it was the end, at least jekyll/hyde decided it would be with dignity, with the kinds of final comforts he was so accustomed to. utterson's very first impression when he comes into the room is how pleasant and neat it is, and only then he sees the body. all that normalcy and in the middle of the room, the dead body. im losing my mind a little bit

[wolpatinga]

in these trying times, take a page out of jekyll's book:

don't let some old bastard tell you who or what you're allowed to be

and a page out of hyde's:

kill that politician with blunt force trauma

[wolpatinga]

okay, i'm losing my mind here. read the whole thing for details about a cash reward

does anyone remember a jekyll and hyde adaptation called Hyde: the Return?

i think i saw a poster for it once that looked like this, but i can't even find the poster anymore...

i think i got the names right... jekyll was Frank Deumoy and utterson was Rowan Miller, i remember that, and i think hyde was Paul? Peter? something like that. and it was by grimm studios

the last recording i saw of it was really shitty, like, someone made a home video of a public screening in some gym. i can't find the site it was on anymore, nor can any of my mutuals, so i'm asking y'all

i will pay $200 USD to the first person can get me this video

thanks in advance

[wolpatinga]

hyde had a buncha headcanons that jekyll didnt agree with

one of my favourite lines in jekyll and hyde is when they mention that he wrote blasphemies all over a book he said he liked. because, like.....WHY! it might just be me being stupid but I always interpreted hyde as being jekylls unseemly urges. like, stuff he wishes he could do but can't because he's a gentleman or whatever. so what's the deal with that book??

did jekyll like that book? did he just tell people he did? why???? does hyde have a differing opinion of the book or does he also like the book and just did it to fuck with himself??????????? or do they both hate the book???????????????????

I'm so tired

[wolpatinga]

jekyll is the sideblog talking about academia or whatever that accidentally becomes more popular than the main blog

and then people discover the hyde acct that's the REAL account. the first one. the personal blog in all its bizarreness and jekyll gets cancelled for defending the hyde account

if you're going to talk about them, get it right

[wolpatinga]

hey why did lanyon diagnose hyde with hysteria

like. maybe im just misled, but isnt hysteria what any misbehaving woman would be diagnosed with? its the catch all feminine mental illness?

hey, hastie

tell me what you see when you see hyde

[wolpatinga]

re: the poll

i still really like the idea that poole is convinced hyde is inhuman in like a vampire/ghost/demon kind of way. like poole's even afraid to say hyde's name, and the "he never *dines* here!" line

so basically

the A plot in jekyll and hyde is utterson being confused and sad

the B plot in jekyll and hyde is jekyll and hyde's adventures

the C plot is poole subtly trying to test every superstition he can think of on hyde. sprinkling salt across the back step by the black door. accidentally leaving iron in hyde's clothes. that sort of thing. poole's playing phasmophobia, 188X edition

and the D plot can be enfield being... the well known man about town ig

E plot is lanyon hosptal drama with a bunch of characters we never see + lanyon

[wolpatinga]

i've long held the opinion that enfield foils hyde. when jekyll talks about how that reckless joy has made the happiness of many, i'm picturing enfield, the well known man about town

i think contrasting enfield and utterson as a way to foil jekyll's inner turmoil, the two lives jekyll could have lead, could really work. like, showing the life of indulgence, the life of mundanity, and trying to have both

and using enfield to humanize hyde. cause they're both the same sort of guy, just that enfield is just pleasant enough to keep polite society, while hyde is just a bit too off to be accepted

i want people shipping hyde and enfield by the end of the series. i want them to see hyde longing to live the life enfield does (and longing for enfield?). but we only get it in snippets, and we keep the canon ending and the tragedy bc heartbreak feels so good

@frostycausedaniceage (sorry if you didn’t want to be tagged)

I do feel like, like Frankenstein, J&H could make a really interesting SERIES. Definitely not a film imo. But a nicely drawn out and faithful series adaptation? Actually would be incredible. It wouldn’t have to be long (unlike a faithful Frankenstein series) but I feel like it would work. Trust.

[wolpatinga]

my jekyll and hyde shrine is complete :3

thank you @frodo-a-gogo for the art, it really completes this

[wolpatinga]

re: my recent jekyll and hyde posts

everything makes so much more sense in the book if you assume that jekyll's crisis started being visible to his friends when he hit 40 and quit his promising career as a professor of law

1. why lanyon hates him so much. its not that jekyll was researching magic per se, its that jekyll made a huge change out of nowhere into a field jekyll knows basically nothing about and started claiming he's an expert in it. to hastie, that looks like quackery

2. jekyll is a fellow of the royal society, which means he's done "great things for the world of science and mathematics". considering he was a lawyer up until age 40, the idea that he's bribed his way in (and that straining his relationship with lanyon further) makes a lot of sense

3. why utterson clings to the protege idea for hyde. jekyll, being still very new to that field and kinda out of his league, taking on an apprentice (probably a uni student or recent grad) to help actually run things makes a LOT of sense

4. jekyll writing his own will, and the things he says when utterson complains again. jekyll knows he's done a lot of weird shit. he also knows civil law like a mfer and knows he has utterson by the balls on this one. but this really explains why he's like "i know this is just the icing on the cake of weird shit i've forced you to endure. sorry :/"

5. jekyll living in that shitty neighborhood. he saw some doctor died and medicine (especially being a famous doctor) is a special interest of his, so he bought that lab and WILL NOT LEAVE IT. HIS LAB

6. hyde going in and pointing out loopholes in biblical passages. that's what he was doing, right? writing blasphemies? he was bored and saw a buncha laws written out and figured he'd do what jekyll used to do - case review

7. why jekyll's notes on the experiments SUCK. once its in writing, you're fucked, legally. also why he won't admit to any real crimes in the confession other than the already-solved case

8. him insisting on putting MD before DCL or any other title. that's the one he wants to highlight. please believe he's a real pharm-dawg. please take his medicine seriously

9. he's basically a conspiracy theorist who decides to get really into, idk, learning how 5G towers work, and has a friend who works for a telecom company, and suddenly friend finds out the conspiracy theorist quit his "real job" to build his own 5G towers or some shit like that. jekyll is those flat earthers who get lost at sea trying to find the ice wall

10. im still not over jekyll suddenly building a state of the art lab on his own just for shits and giggles. so much expensive glassware... and the labcoat again. he DEFINITELY has a custom leather labcoat that he never wears except to flex on lanyon

11. any adaptation that lets jekyll be a respected physician is just repeating the lies jekyll told us

12. im not against people suddenly changing careers as they age and realize more about themselves. that's part of the reason i'm obsessing over this, is i can't stand the workplace i'm in rn and will be making a similar choice to jekyll when i can afford it

13. re:12 i want to highlight how maybe if his friends gave a shit about his mental health maybe things wouldn't be so bad. my poor autistic king who accidentally ruined himself with overindulging in his special interest and bad coping mechanisms bc his social support was nonexistant. #mecore

14. re:13 fuck lanyon and fuck utterson for doing this. this is what makes the story such a tragedy to me. its like looking in a mirror and seeing the man you MIGHT become. hyde is here for me but please don't let him be the only one here for me

15. jekyll and hyde being each other's only true friends, in their own fucked up way. hyde loves jekyll's medical endeavors and hypes jekyll up to lanyon. he insists on calling jekyll "doctor" as in jekyll MD as in he's a fucking real medical doc and you WILL take him seriously

16. jekyll x utterson lawyer yaoi, like ace attorney civil cases edition

17. lanyon trying to figure out if the career change is somehow jekyll flirting

18. i want to see an adaptation that is this. i also want to think that jekyll got his MD just to flex on vicky frankie

[wolpatinga]

mr edward "he took my doctorate in the divorce" hyde

jek says hyde is the cleverer, more analytical, more driven of the two. i think that's hyde's doing, that they have a doctorate, but jek keeps it cause he gets to keep the legal name and og face

[wolpatinga]

if louis pasteur used rabbits for animal testing, its totally plausible that jekyll also kept rabbits

[wolpatinga]

re:tgs hyde hc i just ebogged

nah, he's fine, that's just a headcanon. we see hyde sleeping (next to lanyon no less, but sleeping all the same)

and we see him clearly drunk, which means he can metabolize the alcohol enough, and presumably can digest other substances as well. he eats one of rachel's cookies, the ones she bakes to welcome jasper. i guess its possible that the cookie sat undigested inside him until he next became jekyll?

tgs hyde is impulsive. i wouldn't put it past him to eat a cookie he couldn't digest just to piss off rachel and briefly taste a bit of sweetness. but i also would imagine jekyll would taunt him about this, or this being more clearly shown? i don't remember now if we ever see jekyll dining, but if so, hyde would absolutely be bitching about it

but that post really has me considering og hyde again. og hyde definitely can sleep. he goes to sleep as jekyll one night, wakes as himself, finds it funny, then goes back to sleep.

goes back to sleep. he's fine in that respect

but eating. there's one line in canon that i've long obsessed over - a line from poole. "he never *dines* here"

hyde had existed in some form for years at that point. and when utterson finally comes around, asking about him, poole finally gets to confess the strangest thing he's observed in all that time. he would never disgrace his master by spouting supernatural nonsense to utterson, but he clearly thinks it. hyde doesn't eat. *hyde doesn't eat*

all the untouched wine in the house in soho. untouched. jekyll put it there because he has no reason to assume anything else, but hyde quickly learning that jekyll's mangled organs inside him are not arranged in a way that allows him the comfort of a glass of wine. og hyde is tempered enough to not make that mistake twice

in the last week, poole brings meals for hyde and leaves them on the stair. hyde didn't request them, it was just assumed. hyde, trembling, bringing the tray into the lab, agonizing as he attempts to keep down anything, anything, to sustain himself a little longer

hyde running dual experiments that week - one to recreate the salt, and one to figure out if there is some way to sustain himself. right at the end, right before he died, he was making tea

the final experiment, incomplete - how to live without him. how to live without your other half