FIGHT!

Utterson: I incline to Cain’s heresy; I let my brother go to the devil in his own way.

Jekyll: *leaves all his earthly goods to Hyde in the case of his disappearance*

Utterson: ...Nevermind I'm gonna hunt down this devil and tear Henry Jekyll out of its grasp with my own bare hands

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.

1995 Pre Broadway Tour: Philip Hoffman as Utterson, Robert Cuccioli as Edward Hyde

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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

not over the fact that Jekyll only cries after having committed bloody murder but straight up dissociates after having traumatized Lanyon…

thinking about Dr. Jekyll and the war he’s fighting within himself and how he’ll always lose because all he can do is desire the lack of desire. Anyway.

WHAT'S IN YOUR HEAD?

*in a confession booth* i enjoy making jekyll a pretty boy so i can watch him ruin his life and cry and scream and whither and be beautiful while doing it. i enjoy giving him features i find very attractive and distorting them whenever he transfers into hyde.

i enjoy his outer beauty meaning nothing in the face of the ugliness inside himself

I've seen a few people questioning if Jekyll knew about Lanyon's death at all seeing as it's never mentioned. I feel that as a long-time friend, there's no way he'd never find out what with people probably sending their condolences his way. I'd say a reason why he wouldn't mention it is that it's unspeakable.

He's rather blasé about his other known crimes. Trampling a child? Dammit, the family saw, but this is easily solved with money. Murdering a man? This is awful, but he didn't know him, he could just as well be any other man. And besides, this provides the perfect excuse to abandon the experiment forever.

Causing the death of one of his best friends? Unspeakable.

This is when he starts disassociating from Hyde altogether, trying to convince himself that he isn't Hyde, that no part of him is Hyde. He didn't just fatally shock his friend for a gloat! That was Hyde.

He won't even mention the consequences of Lanyon's horror, he cannot bear to think of it. He refuses to think of it because it wasn't him- it wasn't even real, it was a dream where Hyde acted of his own accord to turn one of Jekyll's dearest friends against him. The disdain with which Hyde treated Lanyon wasn't his own, he swears.

He doesn't attend the funeral- he's too worried that he'll turn into Hyde in public and doom himself. But the real reason is that he's afraid of facing the truth. If he doesn't attend the funeral, if he rejects visits from people trying to give their condolences, if he refuses to even write the words on paper, he never has to live in the reality where he killed his friend. Instead, he can pretend that Lanyon is just angry at him again, but it soon shall pass. It always does.

Utterson visits. He comes too often to be bearable, he's too genuine in his grief. He's breaking the illusion, send him away, Poole! He stands outside Jekyll's door, begging him to come out.

"He's gone, Henry. It's only the two of us now."

And Jekyll does not answer. Utterson stops visiting.

Only Gravity Falls fans with media literacy interact with this post pls ok ok ok so do you think some of Ford’s resentment towards Stanley was in part because he felt like he had to “protect” him from Filbrick as the golden child? Like can you imagine if everytime you got mad at your brother, no matter how justified, your dad would verbally abuse him at best and kick him out of the house at worst? How much that fear would weigh on a kid? He loves Stanley, of course he does, and OBVIOUSLY Stanley isn’t the one at fault, he’s a victim, but what is a little boy supposed to do when he’s stuck being “the good twin” and any strike against his brother, no matter how small, could result in him getting hurt? How much anger did he bottle up? How many times did he force himself to turn the other cheek just to keep him safe? How horrible that night must have been, when everything he’d spent his entire life trying to prevent ended up happening anyway? How his dreams were crushed, a promising future was snatched from him, and the one time he actually lets himself get angry about it his brother is permanently disowned? Imagine how he must have felt looking down from that window. How angry at himself he must have been. How ashamed. Man I’d close the curtains too. Torn in half between feeling responsible for the suffering of someone you care so much about and feeling rage at them for being the reason you had to stifle yourself for so long. He probably let himself believe Filbrick’s words just to bring himself comfort. Anyway I love nuance I love analysis I love when characters are flawed in ways that aren’t excused but are still tragic and understandable I love critical thinking