The Two Types Of Humanity Majors:

big fan of liars. big fan of characters whose entire existence is a facade. love it when everything's stripped away from them and the lie is the only thing left of their identity. love it when the lines between an act and the truth are blurring. are they even them without the lie? the lie doesn't become the truth per se, but it's now such an intricate part of them it might as well be.

the fact that hyde is short because jekyll didnt let him grow. that hyde is rail-thin and underdeveloped because jekyll never fed him. that hyde is unhealthily pale because jekyll never allowed for him to see the light.

jekyll spent all of his life shunning a side of himself that had he let it develop naturally would have become fully part of him. but he didn't because as an upper class man without a nobility background, it's his reputation what keeps him at the top.

what happens when you lock a part of yourself up, forever in darkness?

the darkness won't let you see how ugly it has gotten.

hyde is an entire lifetime's worth of all the evil jekyll could have gotten away with. the desires he has to keep locked. all the things he's done and later recalled in shame, like a vicious circle. hyde is this vicious circle, once again, only this time jekyll doesnt need to cover up after himself, because who could ever trace a straight line from the gentleman scientist to the monstrous gentleman?

and so, precisely because jekyll wants to live this contradictory life, he suffers a contratictory fate. he gets further and further away from humanity, but at the same time, he comes to embody that humanity in the most twisted ways. so, then, is hyde more or less human than he ever was?

does it matter? hyde is jekyll, anyway.

no wonder he was so hungry; he had been starving himself.

The cheval glass scene completes the mirror imagery in Jekyll and Hyde, with the third incident highlighting the cruel irony of Jekyll’s fate. The cheval glass, displaying the hellish glow of the fire while facing heavenward, mocks Jekyll’s statement that the potion is “neither diabolical nor divine.” The mirror appears both diabolical and divine in this moment; the potion, in being merely a chemical mixture and not a magical cure, is too exactly the opposite of the diabolic or divine—it has no power whatsoever over the self. Just as the mirror distorts the laboratory room, failing to accurately reflect Poole’s and Utterson’s images, so has the potion warped Jekyll’s reality, driving him to suicide. What Jekyll has mistaken to be a problem of industrial commodity standardization—an inconsistent batch of chemical salts—actually demonstrates, through his inability to divorce his addictive desires from his otherwise respectable identity, the self’s fundamentally unitary nature. Stevenson positions this basic human truth as the ironic tragedy of Jekyll and Hyde, using addiction to establish that despite discordant desires, on a fundamental level the self is inescapably unitary.

-Jessica Cook, The Unitary Self in Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

assigning gravity falls characters fnaf 1 animatronics

mabel is chica. she's a party girl, she loves confetti, and who else would be the one carrying around a cupcake sidekick?

stan is freddy. leader of the group, not as active, but will b-line it to you if you lose power

dipper is bonnie. blue and purple, matches with chica, teleports because he's anxious about being seen moving

fiddleford is foxy. it's possible to forget he's there, but he's unpredictable and you need to keep an eye on him without keeping too close an eye on him. he scurries REAL quick

ford is golden freddy because

he doesn't exist. it's just a hallucination, sherm. it's me, it's not me, don't pay him any mind. look away. look anywhere else. pretend he isn't there cause he isn't. just focus on your job

Hiii I am soo normal doctor don’t mind my mental breakdown decor (drawing based on the song Streak of Madness from the musical)

au where every time Dr. Henry Jekyll introduces himself he attaches all his degrees and doctorates to his name and by au i mean this is absolutely canon and you can’t convince me otherwise.

Dr Jekyll voice hey sorry for roping you into my horrors those were meant for my eyes and my eyes only

what part of Light Yagami being an attractive Japanese student that is preppy and kempt are ppl not fucking grasping? 😂 the whole thing about Light’s character is that he’s an attractive highly intelligent young man and it matters in the way that he is “attractive”, as in he’s the last person you would ever suspect of being a killer. He’s supposed to be extremely charming and seemingly approachable, which is exactly why so many people trust him with little to zero effort on their part.

it’s like.. a huge part of his character that cannot be fucked up or else he won’t be believable. He is not meant to look rugged or like some kind of loner lol. You can’t just cast any guy you personally think is hot and assume that they will work for the character 🤣 especially not a damn white guy

Light’s entire character is “how could a good boy like me possibly be Kira uwu” lol. Literally no one believes he could be aside from L because he is completely unassuming and the Chief of Police’s perfect son

“Charlie Heaton should play Light!” “Joe Keery should play Light!”

WRONG!

REN NAGASE 🗣️🗣️🗣️🗣️ 🔥🔥🔥🔥

also i think people forget that light’s personsona isn’t some snobbish elitist. people see him as just an extra smart guy. he’s a genius and he’s good at tennis but it’s in an endearing way. he’s the guy who you’d ask to help with your homework and he’d smile and say ‘sure!’ and he has a lot of friends even if nobody actually knows him deep down. he wouldn’t get caught as kira because he’d have a meltdown over trans people’s deadnames or whatever he’s good at reacting to new situations. he’s humble and people like him for a reason. he’s uncontroversial and easygoing. he respects authority but is down to earth enough to make jokes. that’s how he survived as kira. his camouflage was actually good. even before kira. you wouldn’t be “put off by his repulsive vibes.”

let’s put it this way. if light had a social media platform he wouldn’t be posting unhinged political takes, no matter his actual politics. he probably wouldn’t be posting about politics at all. he’d probably be posting about organizing or studying or something. hell, maybe he’d be an online tutor that people would love. point is, you think he’s unhinged because you see his inner thoughts. other people don’t.

you see the thing about ford is that he doesn't necessarily believe he is better than everyone. he believes he has to be better than everyone. and the fact that he holds himself to such a ridiculously high standard is arrogant in the sense that obviously he wouldn't be holding himself to a higher standard if he didn't see himself as more capable, but it gets realized more often as self-loathing than self-aggrandizing.

notice how when ford pushes people away, his reasoning is almost always doubt that they genuinely want him around. he starts with "there's no way this person is actually just being nice and enjoying my company, they must want something, they must have ulterior motives," and then moves on to "they'll just drag me down anyway, i don't need them, i don't need anyone."

and how he makes excuses to spend time with his family. the cycloptopus. fixing the light. the apprenticeship. bill's funeral. clearing up the aftermath of weirdmageddon. if ford isolates himself because he thinks other people aren't worth his time, why does his behavior suggest it's the other way around? shouldn't he be prancing around like the other pineses should be grateful for his presence? why would someone who isolates himself out of a (real) belief in his own superiority feel the need to overcompensate like that?

it's like that post where it's like....he would fucking say that but he would say it as part of a façade that he obviously doesn't actually believe and you guys are interpreting it way too unironic and genuine. ford thinks the only options are that he's isolated either because he's above society Or he's isolated because he's unworthy to be included in society so of course he'd rather tell himself it's the first one.