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Day seven of Pride Eridians: Pansexual and Nonbinary
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Pansexual: romantic and/or sexual attraction a person without regard for their gender or gender identity
Nonbinary/Enby: a person that does not identify as male or female and does not conform to the binary gender system; under the trans umbrella
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“this time…FOR SURE, it’ll be back up when I check…”
can we talk about dustin henderson for a second
there is a consistent pattern with this kid that i don't think gets appreciated enough. dustin always, always defends the people nobody else is willing to defend, and he does it before it's safe or popular or easy.
he defended eleven when she was new and genuinely terrifying and nobody knew what she was. he defended eddie when the entire town had already decided he was a villain. he grieved dart, a creature that literally endangered the people he loved, because he doesn't love things halfway.
oh and erica. lucas's little sister who had zero respect for d&d or the people who played it. dustin recruited her anyway. saw something. was correct. as always.
and then there's steve. steve was kind of awful at first and dustin just... believed in him anyway. brought out a whole side of him that probably never would have existed otherwise. that's the dustin effect.
what gets me is that he's not just kind, he's perceptive. he sees the humanity in people before they've even proven themselves. he takes the risk first, every time.
he's also somehow more emotionally mature than most of the adults in the show, which is wild for a kid his age. the one exception is when he was grieving eddie and snapped at steve but honestly that just made him more real. even the most emotionally intelligent person falls apart when they lose someone they love that much.
Steve Harrington // Lucas Sinclair STRANGER THINGS
The concept of the Hawkins gang forever being a little unsettling to outsider’s eyes.
There’s the obvious, of course, the fact that they are dangerous people who handle tense situations with off putting ease.
One parent gets a little violent mid baseball game and Steve is there, steady, voice firm, shielding the teen referee with his own body and there’s something about it that makes the man back off. Only after the fact does he seem to realize that he’d grabbed a bat, casually, as if ready to swing it if necessary.
They send little naive intern Nancy Wheeler to cover a student protest and actual war reporters think she’s one of their own within seconds of seeing her on the field. There’s something haunted in her eyes and a firmness in her stand, the way she eyes the riot police’s weapons carefully… like she’s ready to take them.
Robin seems like all rainbow and sunshine’s upon first meeting her but the first time her new friends take her to the club the can’t help but notice how her demeanor changes under the flickering lights, how her eyes dart to the exits and her body tenses as if expecting a fight. They assume there just aren’t any gay clubs in Hawkins, that maybe she’s still on edge.
It’s the teacher that notice something off with Jonathan, because he mostly keeps to himself. But there’s something in his scripts, in the images he pitches, in how he portrays horror and violence and pain that makes them worry. It’s the way he doesn’t flinch away from it, actually, that he forces you to look. It’s not even cruelty but normalization. But then he’s the nicest to other quiet or shy students, and makes a point to ensure everyone is accounted for after a night out with his few friends. They don’t know what to make of it.
The kids aren’t exempt of this either.
Mike’s is almost a given, as a writer, the horrors he builds in his world attract thousands of readers, but his mentors squirm and wonder where sharpness of his descriptions come from. People have commented on how he can describe the exact smell of fear and spilled blood.
Lucas’s is more quiet, the steadiness of a foot soldier. He’s all smiles and warmth with his new group of friends until he sees someone being pushed around from the corner of his eyes and he’s stepping in, a firm hand on a shoulder, a steady shove against a wall, a whispered warning that doesn’t require repeating. There are no empty threats there.
There’s something more eery about Will and his new friends definitely notice the way he seems to know where everyone is at all times, how you just cannot sneak up on him, how his eyes go distant sometimes like he’s searching for something he can’t quite reach anymore.
It’s Dustin who catches people off guard more often, because his outgoing and easy demeanor stands out the most amongst his nerdier colleagues, but he’s warm and sunny and makes a point to make everyone feel welcome up until the moment a line is crossed. That line is simple and it’s kindness and the moment it’s lost there’s a fire in the kid that turns him into the protector of the shy ones around him. It takes watching him throw a single punch to know it isn’t his first brawl.
Max on the other hand has always been ‘a handful’ according to every adult in her life and if they thought a year and a half in a coma would smooth down her edges they were dead wrong. If nothing else, she seems more reckless, more forward, particularly in the skating world she gains the reputation of being a little too fearless, like she forgets sometimes that she can get hurt, that she’s not immortalized in someone’s dream.
No one would dare mess with the girl from the cabin at the edge of town. She’s quiet and reserved and sweet… she still manages to make friends at the local tavern and becomes an excellent teacher particularly for kids who are struggling with language and learning, but there’s a sharpness in her eyes, like she can peek into your soul, that makes grown men weary and older women whisper about shadow dreams and dark paths.
And then, and then, things happen when you put them together in a room.
Most people wouldn’t be able to put into words what it is about them that sets their primal instincts off, like they are suddenly in the presence of predators. Hunters. Something in the way they eye the exits, how they stands shoulder to shoulder, how all their heads snap as one towards any surprising noise in the dark, how they seem to communicate with a look, how they fall in line like a platoon. A pack.
If they weren’t so young, some might think they are veterans, old war buddies.
But they are so young, from a small sheltered town in Indiana. What war could they have fought?
so..! to recap !!!!
we don't know why will was taken specifically
hopper and joyce just happened to conveniently forget going to school with henry
the painting lie hasn't been addressed
we don't know why el recognized will in season 1 without having ever seen him before
we don't know who opened the door the night will was taken
mike and will's colors just HAPPEN to be blue and yellow and the cast, crew, and WRITERS THEMSELVES telling us to "pay attention to detail" was deadass just generational queerbait
after everything, mike STILL couldn't say i love you to eleven
patty newby is non-existent and creelby just happens to parallel byler for literally no reason 🩷
will was about to FORGIVE henry.
the duffers genuinely forgot their OWN MAIN CHARACTERS BIRTHDAY AND AGE MULTIPLE TIMES
the russian involvement in s3 and s4 was never explained so it was prob just capitalist propaganda except they don't want us to realize that so they gave jonathan an entire anti-capitalist film storyline for the sake of "screwing conformity" i guess
ohhh but! critiquing society???? fuck that! because they also didn't show us vickie in the epilogue at all, giving her and robin a completely ambiguous ending in which 90% of the fandom believe they broke up off-screen!!!!!!! A+ for representation !!!!!!
not only that, but will doesn't even have a CONFIRMED epilogue boyfriend. that is full well a cute lil headcanon that MIKE has for him.
terry ives, lonnie, enzo, max's mom, suzie, argyle, dr kay, the turnbow family, the school counselor with the clock necklace, and dr owens just vanished into thin air, ALONG WITH ALL THE DANGERS OF THE UPSIDE DOWN???? where were the demodogs, the demogorgons, the demobats????
max's letters were just completely insignificant and had no reason to be mentioned again i guess
november 6 just happened to be a funny coincidence
they ALSO happened to forget that nancy had a vision of mike being killed by vecna in s4 bc that boy wasn't even remotely in danger at all while every other wheeler was put through hell
dr brenner's obsession and fascination with the upside down and abyss stemming from how his father was involved in project rainbow was also not addressed
not to mention that the dude is literally horrendous at drawing animals but when it comes to the flipping hexcore he's da vinci
melvalds, the general store, just happens to sell milkshakes
will adores getting lost in the woods because that's such a fun activity for him
henry just gave holly her favorite song because he was feeling kind
they never actually defeated the mind flayer !!!! which is wonderful
we actually never find out whether or not will lost his powers
el's water tank in the upside down being completely full although there has literally NEVER been water in the upside down before
mike is somehow the only one who has ever understood el even though she was 10x happier with max. could they not have just admitted that they made the elmax reunion so incredibly lackluster because they refused to let ANY gay ships win regardless of how much chance they had of being canon?
the 'lovebirds' parallel between jonathan + steve and mike + eleven??? what was that even for
all the dick jokes, mike listening the a band called the BUTTHOLE SURFERS, the camera panning to mike 7000 times during will's coming out scene, mike not being able to touch will, all just happened to be fun coincidences
not only that, but the mike-will-eleven and nancy-jonathan-steve love triangles were resolved by none of the couples working out! wow.
they really just made us wait 3 whole years for something BEYOND mid.
henderhop nation where we at !!!
my epilogue
Every year baybeee.
“Despite everything, it’s still you.”
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Frankenstein AU where the Creature, upon returning to seek terrible vengeance on Victor after realizing the tragic existence he's been forced into, takes a few days extra to actually, you know, observe Victor and see what he's like, to learn how best to enact his revenge. And he comes to the conclusion that, "Actually, I don't need to do anything, this idiot's going to ruin his own life without any outside interference, and I kinda wanna see how he does it."
Victor then proceeds to continue with his previously demonstrated levels of making good life choices, while now also constantly looking over his shoulder for his Creation and having the vapors at every little thing because oh noes, it's The Monster come back to Get Him-!!!
The Creature: (watching all this unfold through binoculars like it's a soap opera while sneaking in to help himself to Victor's larder and library when he feels like it, and also occasionally hiding small but vital objects, like Victor's keys or shaving blade, in weird spots in the house) Wow, it really does take an incredibly smart man to be quite this stupid, doesn't it?
At one point, Victor finally starts to unwind and relax a bit, has a string of good luck, looks like he might actually be at risk of Getting His Shit Together. So that year the Creature sends him a birthday present - a bible with 'To my father from his beloved son' inscribed on the inside and 'Your me!' written next to a little arrow pointing at the first use of the name 'Adam' in the text.
He does nothing else, just sits back and lets the carnage unfold as Victor proceeds to regress into full-on post-Creature-creation breakdown and no one else knows what the fuck's going on, because he refuses to tell them, because No One Can Know My Terrible Deed, even though he's certain They All Suspect.
They Do Not, in fact, Suspect, the actual main theory is that he just fucked around in a normal manner for Young Aristocracy of Standing in the era and now some no-better-than-she-should-be chit is trying to shame him for knocking her up.
Another running theory is that Victor actually sent the bible to himself in an attempt to become more interesting again, because he's cringefail like that and can't stand the idea of not being seen as interesting or special.
The Creature is drinking hard lemonade and having a jolly old time watching the proceedings. He's got a 'when do I get to meet step-mother?' letter all planned out for next time Victor seems to be at risk of becoming chill, and, while still lonely as hell, is definitely enjoying this much more than the murder spree he initially had planned.
@someoddmix #adam frankenstein engages in psychological warfare against his creator and has A Great Time #because Victor is pretty good at psychologically torturing himself lol #MEET STEP-MOTHER LMAOOO
Psychologically torturing Victor is great, because it's basically revenge on easy mode. This is the revenge equivalent of one of those mobile games that plays itself for you, and all you need to do is let it run in the background and check in for daily log-in bonuses.
Also, because people have always been people, eternal loneliness is sad, and probability means he's bound to luck out eventually, I'mma be kind and say that at some point in all this, Adam gets caught sneaking food in the kitchen by one of the maids who's also an old maid (so you know, like... early thirties). And he's frozen in place, because Oh No, this is generally When The Screaming Starts, and she's also frozen in place, because she's experiencing an Awakening (because people have always been people and if tumblr existed back then this woman would have three accounts and a The Shape of Water poster).
Then she notices that Adam's got like... half a loaf of yesterday's bread, a couple of apples, and one of Master Frankenstein's scientific journal-type books, and asks, "Wait, are you the reason Master Frankenstein thinks someone's out to get him?"
Adam: ...yes?
Maid: Well done you, then, he's insufferable. Here, let me get you some ham to go with all that, a big, strapping fellow like you needs some proper meat in his diet if he wants to keep his health.
Adam has never encountered this sort of reaction before and doesn't quite know how to handle it. Thus he ends up just standing there silently as she bustles around, gets a basket and puts his bread and apples in it, adds ham and some cheese and a nice jar of pickles ("You'll need to bring the jar back when you're done with them, though, jars don't grow on trees, you know"!"). By the end of it, she's introduced herself as Gytha, and he's introduced himself as Adam for want of having any other name, and he's somehow agreed to meet her in a specific clearing in the woods not far from the house on her next day off so he can tell her what his (she (accurately) presumes to be extremely justified) deal with Victor is.
Gytha has gained one (1) life-long devotee who has never before experienced the warmth of human kindness like this.
Adam has gained one (1) co-conspirator on the inside.
Victor is about to lose ten (10) more years off of his ever-dwindling lifespan.
Life is good.
@baggebythesea #Gytha deserves a little bit of Adam. As a treat
Gytha: (staring up at Adam, all eight canonical feet of him, formed with the intent he be a physically perfect specimen, only then he actually got brought to life and now he's got kinda yellowy-transluscent skin and weird eyes that are also yellowy, and is frankly considered by most to be very uncomfortable to look at)
Gytha: ...
Gytha: ...Gytha deserves a lottle bit of Adam as a treat...
She is also of the mindset, "Well, I've already spent a most considerable amount of time with him completely unchaperoned, enough to be a thoroughly ruined woman by this point. Therefore I see no reason not to show him my ankles and let things progress as they will."
Things take awhile to progress, mostly because Adam has an understandably difficult time just internalizing the fact that not only is Gytha willing to spend time in his presence, she actively enjoys his company. That she may wish to commit sins of the flesh with him due to finding him genuinely desirable is too anathema to all he has ever experienced for him to even consider. But progress they eventually do, because Gytha's no quitter, and they progress to a most definitively mutual pleasure at that!
(Father Thomas over at the church had been under the impression he'd weathered the worst of what life/Gytha had to throw at him by the time she was twenty-five and that he mostly had how to handle her visits under control by now. He was Very Wrong, and not only that he's having to deal with it while young Master Frankenstein is having yet another continuous crisis of everything.)
Father Thomas, unwilling participant in The Drama XD
XD XD XD Accurate!!! He thought this was going to be such a nice, quiet parish, the Frankensteins are such a nice, respectable family and then Gytha happened, then Victor happened, then things calmed down a bit, and now Here We Are and he Wishes We Weren't.
@someoddmix #I LOVE GYTHA!!!!!!!!! #she is gonna climb Adam like a TREE!!! later. eventually. maybe #'well done he's insufferable' LMAOOOOOO #Adam has an inside woman to help with his psychological vengeance!! #they're gonna bond over pranking Victor! #he's gonna drive himself mad while these two watch holding hands and eating popcorn!
Thanks, Adam also loves this tiny woman (she's 5'10", he just happens to be Huge)!!! (As do I, naturally. ;) ) And the only reason Gytha hasn't already climbed him like a tree is that she's a good, Christian woman in the 1800s. She's already putting out ankle (and even, when they get to that point, pre-marital forehead kisses), and, regardless of if she's inclined, she doesn't really dare do more than that, she needs Father Thomas to stick around long enough to officiate the marriage. And that's going to be some time in the future - they're going to have a long, leisurely courtship, then Gytha's going to request leave time to wed and spring the news on Victor at juuuuuust~ the right time.
Adam's not at the 'the best revenge is living well' stage of things yet, though, so yes, very much bonding over pranking Victor, following him around and hiding in the bushes with binoculars together to spy on him when he goes out on Gytha's days off, making new plans, Gytha filing Adam in on all the latest household and town gossip, Adam soaking up the camaraderie like a big cat in a sunbeam.
It's going to be amazing once they do get there though. Gytha is so incredibly looking forward to putting a ring on that.
(Also, didn't start this planning for it to take such a romantic tilt, but eh. Why not. Don't know how she'd feel about me giving the Creature a normal human partner, but I feel certain that Shelley would approve of me bullying Byron's fictional counterpart like this, so I take comfort in that.)
@baggebythesea #Gytha's no quitter #Does it really counts as sins of the flesh if the flesh is second hand? Something for Father Thomas to consider #Because Gytha considers it A LOT
Father Thomas: Gytha's flesh is still first-hand, so yes, it counts. (takes a hit of the communion wine)
baggebythesea: #Due to shenanigans - the gossips (who quickly picks up on the fact that Gytha seems to show a lot more ankles these days) - #decide that she must be Taken Advantage Of by Master Frankenstein #Which - while not unheard of - is supposed to be handled with a certain level of finesse #Since everyone in the parish knows perfectly well Victor's level of chill they take upon themselves to educate him in The Ways Of Gentlemen #This does exactly nothing to reduce Victor's stress level
XD I love it, but even Gytha's not that scandalous - it's still the 1800s, she could absolutely get let go without reference for that sort of thing (not at all a good state for a single working-class woman in her thirties to be in that era, she'd likely never find another position after that). The showing ankle is happening by adjusting her skirts juuuuuust~ that much higher if she sits down on a stump next to Adam in the forest to luncheon together, or if she has to go through a muddy bit and hold up her skirts to keep them clean. Gytha may be thirsty as hell for this man, but she's not going to stop being respectable about it just because she's technically a ruined woman!
The frustrating part is that Adam, due to his everything, doesn't actually know any of these social cues she's throwing at him. This leads to her encouraging him to start borrowing Mistress Elizabeth Frankenstein's novels - she has some works of Austin that, for all they are somewhat older, are still quite popular.
He ends up misunderstanding this slightly as well, and ends up reading several of them aloud to Gytha, allowing progress to be made in a somewhat unorthodox way, but, nevertheless, progress! Gytha does get a little swoony over Mr. Darcy, because he's awkward, grumpy, and quite the sweetest gentleman alive beneath all that, much like her Adam.
Also handsome.
Mustn't forget that.
Adam: (an understandable combination of grumpy and hurt by the last one) You are having cruel fun with me.
Gytha: I most assure you, I am not.
And that's when the first forehead kiss happens. It's not a quick dart in and back sort of kiss either, it's a good solid one, and even once it's done she's slow to draw back, just taking a moment to enjoy seeing him so close like this.
This is also when it first clicks to Adam that, Oh. I think she might... actually like me like me. And he notices a little wisp of her hair has come loose and is falling in her face, so, in a very hesitant attempt to check if he's reading the signs right, he slowly reaches out and tucks it behind her ear again, and she leans into his hand a little, and-!
-and he needs to find someone to talk to about this beyond Gytha, because God as his witness, he has no idea what he's doing or how to handle this.
Gytha: I think I know just the person!
Which is how, a few weeks later, Father Thomas comes to find a Truly Enormous Man, wearing a large cloak and with his face mostly hidden by an equally large hat and scarf, sitting in his confessional.
Father Thomas just starts leaving the communion wine in the confessional after that one. It's easier for everyone.
The entire parish gossip chain is also now alight with the fact that Father Thomas is giving Master Frankenstein fairly routine dirty/disapproving looks now, and oh, what must he have done now?
Victor: (meeting Father Thomas's gaze with terror and (for once) the correct assumption that he knows)
Father Thomas: (does indeed knows, and wishes very much that he did not knows, he handled Adam's everything better than pretty much everyone else who isn't Gytha has so far (in part because of prolonged exposure to Gytha, in part because Gytha herself helped Adam prep on how to handle this) but, God as his witness, seminary did not prepare him for this, what is with this parish?!?)
Father Thomas: On one hand, that is a walking, talking, Crime Against God.
Father Thomas: On the other hand, the Crime Against God is somehow the one committing the least amount of sins out of everyone involved in this.
This is, indeed, his tragic truth at the moment, and one of the key reasons for the communion wine's new location (with the communion wine its recent abuse being why Father Thomas is also including himself on that list of people sinning more than Adam at the moment). Communion wine doesn't even taste good, it's nasty as heck, but it's the only way Father Thomas is going to make it through this without breaking the sanctity of confession (or possibly Victor Frankenstein's sinful hands).
To his credit, he does manage not to scream when Adam eventually shows him his face, but it's in a bug-eyed, rigid sort of manner as he reaches for the communion bottle and takes a chug straight from it without breaking eye contact. And then suggests that maybe Adam should be baptized, just to be on the safe side. This is still the second-best reaction Adam's ever gotten from a sighted person, Gytha is obviously a good judge of character, so he agrees to it. And also doesn't burst into flame or show any signs of discomfort from being exposed to holy water or being on ordained ground, so that's... probably something. Father Thomas isn't exactly sure what sort of something, but it makes him personally feel a bit better about the whole situation, so at least there's that.
@someoddmix #aaaawww the extremely soft moment between Adam and Gytha! I'm LOSING it I LOVE it!! #and then Father Thomas GETTING EVEN MORE ENTRENCHED IN THE DRAMA LMAOOOOOO #kahfkshfj Victor has a new person tp fear! XD
Thanks! And yes, Adam may be a Crime Against God And Nature, but the more that Father Thomas gets to know him, the more he slowly realizes that he is also a Good Man. Years of Gytha exposure have also left him a little more open-minded than others of his vocation and era might otherwise have been (out of self-defense if nothing else), meaning he's relatively swift to come to the conclusion "It is as it is said, that none of us may help how we are made," and that this especially applies to Adam here. And, for once, he thanks God for the tribulation that is Gytha, because she may be a trial, but she has a good heart in her, and who knows what might have happened to a man as unhappy and unfortunate as Adam without it. (Gytha: ...yes, that is exactly what I was thinking of the first time I saw him. Completely pure, innocent, and virtuous thoughts of good Christian charity.)
Now Victor, on the other hand, is completely without excuse for any part of this situation, and frankly Father Thomas is wondering why he isn't bursting into flame every time he steps into church.
Victor is on the edge of a nervous breakdown, especially since his wife commented on how there seem to have been a lot of sermons on the subject of not thinking you know better than God lately.
Can. Can someone light Victor on fire in the church and not get caught? Just so Father Thomas thinks Victor is now spontaneously combusting via God/Church presence?
Come now, let's be reasonable... this is Victor Frankenstein, he doesn't need anyone to set him on fire in church, at this point he's probably going to do it to himself by mistake during a candle service or something. It's the talk of the town for days, especially because it elicits a deep, pained sigh from Father Thomas that only Gytha usually manages to elicit.
@j-snapdragon #GIGGLING I LOVE THIS #WILL VICTOR EVER FIND OUT...
Yes, because Gytha makes sure to give notice that she'll have to leave for a short period to get married, and Elizabeth insists on meeting her young man to ensure that her household staff isn't consorting with riff-raff.
There's a lot of screaming in an array of emotions, and the men servants get called in, and Father Thomas gets called in, and it's a huge hullabaloo, which results in:
The rest of the maids going, "This is the guy Gytha was hugging her pillow and kicking her heels over because he knelt down to kiss her hand?!?" while simultaneously going, "Of course this is the guy Gytha has decided to marry, she would."
Gytha and Adam getting a tremulous approval for their union after Father Thomas acts as a character witness (and a mutual 'Stand back, I'll protect you!' from Gytha and Adam to each other when things started looking like they might go all pear-shaped). They are planning for the ceremony to be in late Spring.
Adam getting relocated from the slightly-renovated-cave he's been residing in to the groundskeeper's house on the Frankenstein estate, since he's technically Victor's acknowledged offspring that wasn't born of wedlock or infidelity so he's... technically legitimate? No one's quite sure on that front, Father Thomas is considering whether or not it's worth getting the Vatican involved. Point is, it feels in poor taste to have him sleeping in the woods at this point.
William Frankenstein (Victor's kid brother who didn't get murdered in this timeline, and who is having a stay with his brother for all this) being unnerved by Adam's appearance, but willing to overlook it on the grounds that Adam being Victor's son means he's also William's nephew, meaning William's an uncle, which far takes precedent over appearance or manner of birth to a young lad. He is the first family member to willingly accept Adam as family, Adam is more than happy to acquiesce to referring to the boy as Uncle William.
The townsfolk Adapting to Adam's everything, because Father Thomas said he was good people, and if you can't trust your parish priest who can you trust?
Victor falling into the social doghouse (because it's the 1800s and he's rich, that's about as far down as he can go), being forced to be in forced proximity to that thing he created. He is also expelled from Elizabeth's bedchamber for the foreseeable future on the grounds of committing Crimes Against God, playing God, child abandonment, not telling anyone what he did, not telling Elizabeth specifically what he did even after marrying her, not making Elizabeth specifically aware that their family could be in danger as a direct result of his actions, and being of overall far weaker character and moral fiber than she had previously believed him to be.
Gytha and Adam living happily ever after, in their own way, at their own pace.
Father Thomas: On the other hand, the Crime Against God is somehow the one committing the least amount of sins out of everyone involved in this.
This is absolute gold. Please put this story on AO3 so I can subscribe.
Father Thomas rereading the bible: There *nothing* in here for how to handle polite kindly soft-spoken abominations. If it was a demon i'd know that to do. If it was a ghost i'd know who to call. But this......
Honestly, Father Thomas has many, many nights of this sort of thought going through his head, and even more spent wondering if perhaps Victor Frankenstein himself is possessed or consorting with demons (it would all be so much easier for Father Thomas if he was, but alas), but Adam is just... a guy. Who came into this world in an extraordinarily horrific way for everyone involved, but through no fault of his own, but, just- what is he supposed to do?!?
He eventually settles on baptism because he literally can't think of anything else to do with the situation, and he... thinks it should work? Maybe? His Nonna once told him that trolls will trade their children with human ones in order to get them an education, and that baptizing the traded child meant the trolls couldn't take it back, maybe the same concept applies here just in case Adam really is an Abomination from the Pit? And it doesn't seem to have any negative effects that any of those who witness it can see, so at least God doesn't seem to have been upset over all this enough to smite anyone, which is probably a good sign...?
The only real hiccup in the baptismal process actually is in regards to Adam's surname, or lack thereof. Because he may not technically be illegitimate, due to not being the child of an unwedded or at least not-wedded-to-his-father woman, but he's also not a legitimate, recognized son of the Frankenstein family, either, since, you know. Victor's an unfit father who abandoned his child at birth. And Adam doesn't really want to carry his father's surname, because of the aforementioned reasons among others, but he also doesn't want to not be connected to him, because that's the only family he technically has and he doesn't want his creator to be able to just sweep him under the rug, so to speak...
Gytha: What about 'Victorson'?
Adam: (considering expression)
Father Thomas: (just can't be bothered to put up any sort of resistance about appropriateness at this point, because what if they actually make him defend his position? he doesn't want to do that. he's tired.)
@mobgabriel imagine father thomas reading some old king arthur stories where merlin is said to be a spawn of satan who got baptized when he was born and this is why he is magic and this is where the idea of baptizing adam comes from XD
XD Absolutely delightful alternative reason for why Father Thomas decided to go the baptism route, love it! <3
@grammar-beane #but do they tell the vatican??#and if yes #does anyone actually do anything or do they assume its some weird prank being pulled on them
He does indeed consider that for a brief time, followed by a brief consideration of what might happen if they doen't believe him, also followed by a much longer consideration of what might happen if they do believe him and send someone over. What if they encounter Gytha? What if they ask about the communion wine? What if they decide Adam's the problem? Sure, Adam's a problem, but he's not the problem, and, strictly speaking, while he's a fully grown and sapient man, he's also kinda still and innocent child who doesn't deserve any of this! In fact, none of them deserve any of this (except Victor), especially not Father Thomas! Yet here Father Thomas is, having to deal with it anyway-!!!
After a week or so's agonizing, he finally comes to the decision to just super casually not tell anyone back at the pope house anything, and if anyone comes to do a just regular stop-by-and-see-how-it's-going visit, he's just going to pray really hard that they don't run into Adam or Gytha and, should God decide that Father Thomas is his strongest soldier and thus up to his greatest challenges, he's going to use 'the sanctity of the confessional chamber' as his excuse.
@thelibrarian1895 so, just tossing this out there, if adam and gytha are going to be together then adam could be a stay at home spouse, true, or, and stay with me here, adam might perhaps be taken under father thomas's wing, let's say that father thomas is protestant, adam might get a proper education, adam might become the new priest of the parish when father thomas retires, victor frankenstein will have to go to church and see his creation give sermons, and gytha gets all the good tea as the priest's spouse
...that's absolutely adorable, and I can see it as a totally viable way for things to turn out! Personally, I rather see this Adam as being a very hands-on fellow who wants to learn and ends up something of the village's jack-of-all-trades as a result. It lets him go around and see people and be directly helpful, and still have all the good tea to bring home to Gytha. It'd also be fun to see Elizabeth, William, and Victor's parents put their feet down that Adam is a direct member of the family and he's going to be raised to be a proper gentleman, dash it!
I think which one works best mostly boils down to which you, personally, think Adam would look best in: a cassock, handyman clothes, or a suit.
I got inspired!
Here's Gytha and Adam.
Might do some more, y'all are so great.
Agadsshaadlisdlaialisdhalial, get a room you two, frig, you can see the plans Gytha has for this man in her eyes, I love this, I wish I had more for you, but alas, I can only offer these two posts and the AO3 compilation, which have a li'l extra (and also the other piece of art this AU has received, radasfj, you all spoil me)! Perhaps an odd detail to latch onto, but I love Gytha's lace-edged collar, she put on her nice outfit to come see him, it's so pretty and so period-appropriate! Also Adam's bishonen hair, 10/10, fantastic, and a really cool design for him all around!
Thank-you so much for doing this, I really enjoy seeing peoples' interpretations of characters I come up with, especially OCs like Gytha, because I purposefully tend to keep the descriptive details for OCs like her on the light side for this format of storytelling (I did the same thing with Beloathed and Darling), I love seeing how the same words inspire such different images in different people, it's wonderful! <3 <3 <3
dying @ the fact that Blackest Night: Batman #3, where tim has to fight off the evil reanimated corpses of both his parents and their murderer, Adventure Comics (2009) #3, where tim sees kon for the first time after his resurrection and has a nervous breakdown in the parisian sewers, and Red Robin #5, where tim almost gets assassinated & loses his damn spleen, all came out on the exact same day. october 14 2009 first international tim drake fucking struggles day
happy tim drake fucking struggles day
tim drake's no good very bad day
always reframe your mindset !!!! and never stop thinking about the character
"things are getting bad again" -> "im just like the character"
"i dont feel like myself" -> "the character is here"
"i dont feel connected to reality" -> "i am immersing myself in the character's world"
"who am i" -> the character! the character.
i dont know where i was going with this . have you ever thought about riding horses.
