I'm (half of) the current host, the one and only Edward Hyde! Jekyll's here too. Hi Jekyll Go read The Glass Scientists, I'm in that.
Absolutely no doubles. Can't stress that enough.
I’m an amalgamation of every interest I’ve ever had and I will make that clear through my blog. Some fandoms I’m in are The Glass Scientists, Gravity Falls, Welcome to Night Vale, Fnaf, and Wings of Fire.
I love kissing scientists, drawing, reading fanfiction, and playing silly video games in my free time.
That is all!
people in my brain (who have spoken):
#🧪 - Henry Jekyll / Edward Hyde (TGS) (@hydeseeks)
i wish i was bleeding out sexily right now. then lanyon’d probably take care of me. not that i need taking care of, it’s just nice to get the respect i deserve as the spirit of london at night.
what if i killed everyone and then myself because i was mildly uncomfortable
haha my lips are so dry lanyon should come here and give me a snog ahahaha jk unless…?
fuck me i don’t even feel like doing anything right now. besides eating raw cookie dough. i’m not doing that i just think it’d be great
this place sucks big sweaty balls. i oughta be back home hopping rooftops, getting into all sorts of danger, you know what i mean, living large. it’s too hot here i tell you. everyone’s ugly and boring and mean. too much work to be done too. christ my eyeballs hurt
what’s all this for anyways?? i ain’t seeing a robert lanyon at the end of any of this. Not a single hair, no.
I just remembered I don’t need him or anybody. I’m Edward bleeding Hyde, spirit of london at night, I don’t need a reason for going on with all this. Like anything, I do it cause I want to and I can.
i do think we could use to stop making new guys to run around in our head. it’s just a load of trouble w
lost my train of thought, i’m tired. im gonna go kiss a lanyon. mwah. he’s nice and i like him a lot hhhmm
one thing i wish tgs touched upon or expanded upon more is how hyde’s self esteem has been impacted by everything.
i think it’s relatively clear now that despite him and jekyll being incredibly mentally and emotionally intertwined, there is still a level of individual autonomy that they each possess. hyde is essentially all of jekyll’s more raw impulses and desires, not personified, but given consciousness. they share a lot of wants and desires and thoughts but ultimately there are things hyde does and wants that jekyll doesn’t. and vice versa. we’ve seen that hyde truly isn’t as confident as he pretends to be (i.e. his little rambling panic attacks) and either jekyll is that much of a self-loathing baby that he doesn’t think to address it, or he doesn’t know about them at all. so i think they’re more separate than they know or are willing to admit.
the entire comic hyde is frequently dehumanized and looked down upon. he’s infantilized at best and demonized at worst. i don’t think that anyone, throughout the entire comic’s run, anyone has seen hyde as a person. jekyll maybe at the end there, but again, only at the very end. aside from that he’s discussed very frequently as an obstacle, a child, a monster or demon, and even sometimes as an object rather than a person. the latter of which i find jekyll does the most. and while they’re semi-separate, there’s no possible way that hyde doesn’t know how he’s regarded or spoken about.
it’s a perspective that is never really touched upon in the comic, though i wish it was. hyde is a little bitch a lot of the time but it seems to come from a combination of his own ego (wanting to be some Big Bad in london) and expectations placed upon him by jekyll, who frequently describes hyde as the “bad” parts of himself. i can’t help but wonder how much of hyde’s desire to be a Big Bad in london comes from this perceived expectation of his “role.” does he truly want to be a monster? or was he trying to twist a label placed upon him by his own creator into something he could claim as his own?
the reveal scene as well hurt to read through tbh. jekyll calls him a mistake, an experiment, and lanyon compares him to a sickness and a demon. and granted hyde had fucked things up severely for them and nobody was happy with him at the moment. but i have a very hard time believing that hyde did not hear all those things and let them stick. at the end he admits he was wrong, he admits he was overly dramatic and contrarian and made things difficult. but now we’re at the end (and i’m gonna keep this spoiler free) it is never brought up again??
regardless of if you thing jekyll was insulting himself there, he and hyde are separate enough to be seen as individuals by most of their friends/acquaintances. i love lanyon but he absolutely sees hyde as less than jekyll. maybe all of them do, now. i wish we knew how hyde felt about it.
you can't come to my birthday party? aw dang, (remembers it's bad to guilt trip people) this doesn't matter to me at all (remembers to demonstrate that i am affected by you to affirm your positive presence in my life) but while you're away i will die (remembers not to guilt trip again) unpreventably. unrelated to you. don't worry about it. (remembers to express care through actions and not just words) you're in the will.
Transformation animation of @glass-scientists, done is my best imitation of the comic's style~
I wanted to try animating the super fast switches Jekyll and Hyde do towards the end of the comic. I usually prefer my transformation sequences drawn-out and dramatic, but I like the idea of these casual ones happening in a blink. Also, the background transitioning colors was a suggestion from a friend (it reminds me of Danny Phantom, haha).
The Glass Scientists displays the titular characters initially believing in the Christian concept of the duality of the soul applying to them = Jekyll is good, Hyde is evil, as distinct, separate states,
and shows in the story and characters a nuanced understanding that Jekyll and Hyde's (and by extension that of other characters') mind / soul works more like the Taoist concept of yin and yang:
A complex, ever-shifting system of mental processes, feelings, and thoughts that are all interconnected, interacting with and perpetuating each other, most of it unseen. A system that can skew to different extremes, even several ones at the same time, upsetting the entire balance.
Jekyll denies that it's his own desire to go to Blackfog. Instead he insists it's Hyde tempting him with a break. He denies that he still has childlike wonder for Rogue Science and science in general. He has trouble showing unpleasant emotions until they burst out, because he's distilled himself into the perfect gentleman.
All of which ties into Jekyll's denial that his role and his responsibilities are crushing him. He fears losing the rest of his freedom, and he wishes he could stop being Dr. Jekyll, Perfect Gentleman and Leader of the Society of Arcana Scienes. He wants the Society to fail so that he can be free of the pressure slowly killing him, even if it means disappointing other people.
This need to be free, consequences be damned, clashes with his care. Which comes out through: a) As doubling down on his reputation in self-punishment and feeling that he has to keep going, intending to imprison Hyde permanently, and b) Hyde sabotaging his reputation when their selfloathing self-destruction is reaching its peak.
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Hyde denies that he cares about the Society and the Lodgers, the social hubbub. He has trouble showing vulnerable emotions and attachment, unless his facade's broken, because he's distilled himself into the evil of humanity.
He insists he's only in it about the Society for the entertainment and harrassing Jekyll about its coming failure. Which is true - it's also true that he's afraid, at the same time, of the Society failing and the Lodgers having no support anymore and feeling frustrated with them. He feels guilty about the fire, although it was an accident, and the Lodgers getting arrested in the wake of the fight with Moreau.
This care about other people clashes with his desire to be free. Which comes out through: a) As doubling down on harrassing, then intending to imprison Jekyll permanently, visiting Blackfog despite the dangers to them, just following his impulses consequences be damned, and b) Jekyll sinking into the Void of their mind to preserve his reputation = the Society and leave Hyde to take the fall at the peak of their selfloathing self-destruction.
last night i dreamt that i was dreaming that there was a huge black dog and it could speak telepathically and it was telling me how much it loved me while it bit into my arm and twisted it and mauled it until it disappeared halfway down its throat. i didnt move because i had to fully complete the dream for it to end. then it lunged for my face and its teeth hooked into my skull and its fangs gouged my eyes out and i died so i woke up from my dream inside of the dream
