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independent Victor Frankenstein as written by Charlie

[creaturemade]

Hi! Welcome to this independent RP blog for Victor Frankenstein from Mary Shelley’s novel “Frankenstein”. My name is Charlie, and I’m excited to be here. Below, you will find a couple of links I recommend / you might want to check out.

My carrd, for those of you who use mobile. You will there find my about page and my rules, which I politely ask you to read.

My other blog, which is Grantaire from Les Misérables.

[creaturemade]

low-key thinking about just. making a huge change and putting all my muses on a multimuse finally bc it’d be easier welp

[creaturemade]

update: i did it bc i suck

[creaturemade]

low-key thinking about just. making a huge change and putting all my muses on a multimuse finally bc it’d be easier welp

[creaturemade]

in my reread, i’m approaching the part where victor freaks out over the creature potentially reproducing if he goes through with it and makes a female one. i can’t believe i’m actually asking myself this question, but:

how far exactly did victor go the first time? in the sense of: did he somehow fuck around and create a way for his creature to produce his own sperm that does, in fact, carry the dna of all of these put together body parts? or is it just gonna be the dna of whoever was the (un)lucky person who got his dick cut off?

i mean, considering his fear that the creature’s offsprinng would be just as horrible and ugly, we’ll have to assume that he actually sat down and... did this extra work on the reproductive system. and honestly, that thought is both amazing, horrifying and ridiculous at the same time.

[the-headless-horsedude]

Victor Frankenstein: *builds a creature and brings it to life*

Victor Frankenstein: 

[nemeyuko]

What’s up I’m Victor Frankenstein

And this is another unboxing video

*opens coffin*

[creaturemade]

hi, i’m charlie and my toxic trait is making a roleplay blog and then disappearing because my brain is small? i’ve been... really getting back into my french obsessions again (les misérables and arsène lupin), so at this point, i’m kind of taking lots of notes for an arsène lupin blog instead of, yknow, looking much after my favourite college drop-out. y’all can totally add me on dis.cord if you wanna for some reason (scepticiism#1236) to talk all things frankenstein & others. and do also feel free to hit me up and enable me in case a french gentleman thief is somehow up your alley bc... i’m weak.

[the-epitome-of-pretense]

Whenever I’m reading Frankenstein and I get to a part where Victor says something like “I attacked the foul creature, but he eluded me,” I can’t help but picture The Creature holding Victor at arm’s length (probably with his hand on right on that little twerp’s face) while Victor is wildly swinging his fists and missing every time

[frankensteinthecollegegraduate]

alright at one point on frankenstein the creature mentions he took one of victor's shirts when he fled the lab and (presumably) wore it. knowing that the creature is seven/eight feet tall, this leaves us with two options:

1. mary shelley just forgot that she gave the creature inhuman proportions

2. victor is built like a brick shit house

I don't know which bothers me more

[moon-riptide]

Have you considered the idea of The Creature wearing a crop top?

[frankensteinthecollegegraduate]

okay valid

[creaturemade]

My dad just asked me why Frankenstein didn’t simply get one corpse, reanimate that person and be done with it. And that certainly is a good question and would have been the more logical approach... in a world where Victor cared more about that part of his studies and work.

The world we’re in, though, is one where the bigger part of him wants to create. He says it himself: “A new species would bless me as its creator and source”. Getting just one regular human being who’s died and reanimating them isn’t creating. For all he knows, the result of this reanimation is just human again.

Only by piecing together different bodies, even working with animals where he sees fit, he ensures that he’s truly making something new, something that hasn’t existed before – a new species indeed.

At least these experiments, this work of his isn’t meant to defeat death (though immortality is something he’s interested in) or to figure out how to prolong a person’s life or anything even remotely noble. This entire process is about creating and playing God.

Also, getting a corpse and reanimating it is kind of like getting a Sim off the gallery and playing with that instead of making your own. Sure, it’ll look nice and you can immediately start playing without having to worry about all the other stuff first; and yes, it’s definitely going to be fun. But sooner or later, you’ll wish you’d made your own because look how well it’s going, I wish this were the Sim I’d thought about but never made because I wasn’t confident in my abilities.

[creaturemade]

“This guy isn’t a tragic Dr. Frankenstein with noble ideals who believes he’s doing the right thing.”

On the one hand, I’m aware that characters in fiction are allowed to not know things.

On the other hand, this is easily one of the most hilarious things I’ve read recently.

[creaturemade]

astwisted​

@creaturemade​ //​

“what was that?”

            “Ah, nothing of importance,” Victor replied, yet immediately found himself flinching at his own words. Truly, how unimportant could it really be if it made him check his phone mid-conversation? He offered a smile and continued, “Just a small update about some supplies for my current studies. Excuse my impoliteness – you were saying?”

[creaturemade]

i just realized that my papa victor verse is basically the mad scientist version of the hunchback of notre dame and i’m not sure if i want to laugh or cry

[creaturemade]

Frankenstein, digging up a half decomposed body on the graveyard: Such a waste! I don't understand people. Why would you throw this away? It's in a perfectly fine condition!

[creaturemade]

Victor: I’m using old bones for this creation of mine, as well as bodies which have been dead for a while; in fact, I will even use dead animals for this project of mine. I will spend monts, almost an entire year, arranging this human-like frame, meaning these body parts will continue to decay. My creation shall be eight feet tall.

His creation: Doesn’t end up aesthetically pleasing

Victor:

[creaturemade]

“[...] I, with childish seriousness, interpreted her words literally and looked upon Elizabeth as mine – mine to protect, love and cherish. All praises bestowed on her I received as made to a possession of my own. [...] my more than sister, since till death she was to be mine only.”

I’m only on page 27 of my reread and I already want to punch Victor in the face. Not because he, as a child, misinterpreted his mother’s words (”I have a pretty present for my Victor”), but because he never fully realised how wrong he was. He notes now, in hindsight, that it was a misinterpretation of a child, but he also makes clear that in his mind, Elizabeth stayed his until she died. He never stopped thinking of her as his.

[creaturemade]

One thing that I know we all make fun of but that I think is incredibly important and tells us a lot about Victor as a scientist, is the fact that, after making the deal with the “Monster” to make him a female partner, one of his concerns when finally getting to work is that they might have children, and “a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth”.

This tells us two things:

When making the original creature, Victor made it possible for him to reproduce.

He doesn’t even consider not doing the job on the new one properly and simply letting out this part of the process.

We know that he was passionate about his first creation, back when his work didn’t horrify him and he considered it a good thing; the fact that he worked in the ability to reproduce also supports his idea that “a new species would bless [him] as its creator and source”. At that point in the process, he genuinely wanted to make more of them and allow them to reproduce.

The truly interesting part is that all this time later, when he thinks of his work as not necessarily failed, but at least bad and dangerous, he still cannot bring himself to corrupt his own work. He cannot bring himself to do half of the job. Victor could easily leave out the ability to reproduce for his female creature; if confronted, he could simply claim he couldn’t figure it out and didn’t want to make the “Monster” wait. He could even insist that there is no proof even the first creature can, in fact, reproduce – he could have failed there, too.

But none of that occurs to him. To him, it’s go big or go home; do it properly or don’t do it at all. Despite everything that’s happened and the negative feelings he has toward his creation, he still values his work and what he is (theoretically) capable of too much as that he could corrupt it.