the modern prometheus

Dr Whale or Victor Frankenstein. Call me whichever you prefer. I am a scientist and now doctor who can bring back the dead with an enchanted heart. Although they won't always be as they where remembered. FC: David Anders Tracked Tag: notthemonster

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WARNING ABOUT THIS RP

There is a blog called Shield State that is an Avengers RP. Whatever you do don’t join it! 

The moderates are pretty much every character except three. They do not like it when a character they do not control does something that they would not the character to do. Despite not even running the character blog. 

When speaking to the mods over concerns I was issued two warnings.

Not only that but I was told if I didn’t do what they wanted with my character I would be asked to leave.

They use god modding as way to further their own plots instead of communicating with other characters. Now I’m no expert but  god modding is not a tolerated thing with rp, am I right? 

The admins refuse to acknowledge bullying and punished the victim in the situation which is just not right. 

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!

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Belle & Victor

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"You say that because they aren’t your items," Belle replied, stopping in front of him.  Who knew what Rumple had in the shop that someone could get into trouble with.  “Magic is unpredictable here and I’ve already told you it comes with a price.  People are scared and desperate," she explained. “It isn’t a good combination."

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"Fine," Victor said with a sigh moving out of Belle's way so she could get to the shop, "I'll come with you." Just as he was about to head over to the shop he saw three people leave. Two of the faces he recognized as Emma and Henry but the third he didn't know. Even though he assumed the unknown was trustworthy because he looked to be working with the sheriff he had a feeling in his gut that told him otherwise. 

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Belle & Victor

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"Then they’re trespassing," She said ignoring him and quickening her pace toward the pawn shop. “Come with me or don’t," Belle threw over her shoulder, “But I’m not going to let Rumple’s things be rifled through."

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Victor moved quickly in front of Belle to stop her moving closer to the shop. "Look, we don't know who is in there or what their intentions are." He looked at the shop then back at Belle. "You could get hurt. Your safety is more important than a few items."

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Belle & Victor

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Belle shrugged, “You would think so, but I imagine people from our land are more used to magical phenomenon than we tend to remember."  She guessed that most people were holed up in their homes trying to stay as far away as possible, thinking it was Rumple or Regina and it was best if they were out of the way of either’s wrath.  As Belle neared her library she could make out Rumple’s shop and she squinted. “The door is open!" She breathed out, hoping he was safe inside.

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"And how many of them do you suppose has seen a portal? Especially one at this size." Being unfamiliar with the people from the Enchanted Forest and exactly what they where used to confused Victor a little, not that he would admit it. His eyes wandered to Gold's shop as Belle had pointed out the door was open. He knew she must have thought it was Rumple but Victor knew that she would have found him. "We don't its him. It could be anyone."

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Belle & Victor

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Belle decided not to press the issue.  She knew they would never see eye to eye and surely those better equipped to argue with him had done so and failed to change his mind. Being neither a scientist or spiritualist, she could only claim the title of concerned citizen and that was doing no good in this debate.

Standing, Belle patted the debris from the side walk off of her skirt and turned again in the direction of the library and Rumple’s shop. She waited patiently for Dr. Whale to follow. “It feels too quiet," She noted looking around at the eerily deserted environment.  Not even birds were chirping.

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Victor looked around when Belle said it was too quiet. He had been too busy thinking about his work to even notice how quiet the town had been. It was strange considering just how hectic it been a few hours before. There was only a few people around and they didn't seem to be too fazed or even worried. "It's practically dead," he observed, "I thought with a portal in the middle of town everyone would be a little more excited."

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Belle & Victor

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"That is the point I was trying to make," Belle said softly, not trying to berate him. “If they couldn’t be asked, perhaps it shouldn’t have been done."  She shook her head and finally put a tentative hand on his shoulder. The issue with his brother was unknown to her until now and she had to admit, it did garner him much sympathy. However, at the moment there was a gaping hole in the middle of Storybrooke and they really didn’t have time to discuss past sins. Belle didn’t know how to get off the topic after they had gone begun, though.

"It’s not my place to judge you," Belle finally apologized. “You have a gift.  And you used it to ease your pain."

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Victor looked up at Belle and thought about she said. He knew he couldn't have asked his subjects if they wanted to come back from the dead or not but he could no imagine any situation where if asked, they would have no to his proposal. Except his brother. Gerhardt seemed to want death after he killed their father. "Most of them would have said yes." He said still believing his work to be right. At least for the most part. "We need to check Gold's shop.

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Belle & Victor

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Belle sat next to him on the sidewalk and bit her lip.  She didn’t move to touch him, though. Not sure if that contact would be welcome. They really didn’t need one of the town’s only surgeons having an existential crisis right now, and Belle mentally kicked herself for not letting the matter drop.

 She shook her head at his question and murmured, “But you didn’t ask them if they wanted to be saved."

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"They where dead!" Victor said lifting his head up out of his hands and putting his hand to his forehead. "How could they have asked?" He didn't even want to bring back the majority of his subjects, other people had asked him to bring them back for him and of course he complied when the price they offered was one he couldn't refuse. "I only wanted to bring back my brother. The rest where jobs. And he turned out the worst."

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Belle & Victor

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  Belle sighed and rolled her eyes slightly. “There’s no set price," She tried to explain. “And the wielder might not always be the one to pay it.  That’s partly why Rumple makes deals.  If the price is set before the magic is done, there’s no chance he’d have to pay the price for someone else’s benefit."  She realized that her feeble arguments were not going to sway him on this.  Belle could only hope that someone else didn’t pay the price for Victor’s experiments. Whether he was using magic or not, the doctor was playing with fire and she didn’t like the feel of the whole situation.

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Once Belle had explained the way magic was paid he felt his brain had exploded. "Oh God," he said sitting down on the sidewalk with his head in his hands, "you're right. I...I haven't paid the price for my work but they have." He first thought of his brother and how his normal calm and civilized way was flipped into a personality made of violence and anger. Then, to the huntsman. The chest pains he had suffered after his resurrection where almost fatal. Daniel's memory had completely gone from the first two times he had bought him back. "I..but I saved them?"

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Belle & Victor

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  Belle stopped walking and faced him. She bit her lip as she chose her words very carefully. “I think that everything comes with a price," she answered finally. “And I think you have good intentions," She admitted. “But I also think, whether you believe in a higher power or not, there is a balance to the world and what you’re doing…what you have done…is not natural." She hadn’t had the opportunity to see the fruits of Victor’s labor personally, but she’d heard the resurrections were remarkable.  Belle, however, was practical and she was just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Playing God like this never turned out the way one hoped.

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"I am giving life," Victor said stopping as Belle did, "that is natural. And something even our Creator could not do either. It is my method that causes concern but I barely use magic in my work." If magic did come with a price as Belle said it did the doctor gave a seconds thought to what he would have to pay. It didn't matter much to him so long as he got his work done. "What is the price for using magic?"

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Belle & Victor

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Belle shook her head in slight disbelief.  Her first thought was that he was arrogant thinking he could bend the laws of nature to his will, but then she considered what he’d said.  He asked if she’d ever lost anyone.  She had, her mother. But would Belle really want to bring back a woman who’d suffered so much in her last hours?  Could Belle be the woman she was now if she’d not lost her? No.  But that wasn’t the crux of this issue was it?

"You lost someone," Belle finally said, with understanding.  It did not make what he was doing right in her mind, but it was plainly the reason he was so passionate about his work.

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Victor was puzzled by Belle shaking her head when he said he thought that death was wrong and not his work. People always questioned his morality and even his ego when he spoke of his work and he normally didn't pay much attention to it but with Belle he felt as if his ego was wounded slightly. He could tell she had lost someone and because of that it made him even more confused that she wouldn't want to have that person back in her life.

He froze for just a second when she asked if he lost someone. "I have," he said swallowing a lump that had quickly formed in his throat, "my mother, brother and father." Victor mumbled feeling a pang of sadness and guilt for his mother and brother. Mostly for his brother though. "And there is nothing I wouldn't do to bring them back. Don't you see what my work offers?"

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Belle & Victor

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Belle hesitated for a moment, but decided to go ahead and ask what had been on her mind. “You don’t think it’s wrong? Bringing back what should be dead?”  She had known the Huntsman back in their world and though she was sad when she’d found out he’d died here in Storybrooke, Belle felt strongly that it was not wise to play with science or magic. She was a little surprised that Rumple had helped in this endeavor.  He was usually adamant that dead was dead.

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Victor saw Belle hesitate but was relieved when she spoke her mind. He had heard her question posed many times by the few people who knew of his work. "I think it is wrong that people die," Victor said truthfully. "Tell me, is there anyone in your life who has gone that you wished hadn't? Perhaps someone that you cared for. Someone close to you. Maybe they died when you where too young to establish a real relationship with them. What I do is bring people back together. Take the huntsman. He was murdered by our Mayor and your Queen. He never had his chance to find true love or even build a real relationship. Now he is back and I suspect living life to the fullest. Even Daniel. He wanted to marry Regina but her mother killed him before he could leave the stables. Now he's back as well. That is a minimum three people I have helped." Victor was proud of his work even if some of his subjects had troubling side effects from being revived back to life and both had a new chance of happiness and of that promised happy ending. He couldn't fully grasp why not everyone understood his work or was concerned by it. "So no, Miss French, I do not believe bringing back the dead is wrong I believe it is death that is wrong."

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Belle & Victor

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Belle blushed slightly at the use of the term ‘lover’.  While it was accurate, she and Rumpelstiltskin had been intimate for some time, it made it sound sordid. Perhaps it was just the old fashioned thinking from their world seeping through. Storybrooke and the world they were now in, was much more free when it came to relationships between men and women. Belle liked it for the most part, but Rumpelstiltskin was still very chivalrous in his way and she melted at that.

“Teaching you?” She asked surprised. “I thought you didn’t care for magic?” Rumple had told her a little of the dealings between himself and Victor in the old world and in the new.  Belle seemed to recall they had a small rivalry going as to the benefits of magic versus science.

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"He taught me some things but I did learn what I wanted by myself for the most part," Victor said with his tone being almost a bit too defensive for such an innocent question, "it was a deal." He sighed. "I told him how I managed to perfect my work and bring the sheriff back. At that time it wasn't just me involved in that though. I didn't have the magic part." Even though he used magic now the thought of it still repulsed him. "Magic is not as good as science though. It merely supplied me with one ingredient for my work. That was all." Victor had thought that maybe that was why he felt so strongly for Daniel, because he was the first person that he bought back without any side effects but there was a nagging feeling that he thought there was more to it.

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Belle & Victor

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“Then maybe they need to know they’re not going to get answers from him,” Belle replied mildly.  She felt like she could handle herself and frankly she was tired of everyone seeing her as only an extension of Rumple. “Dr. Whale, I know you’re trying to keep a calm head, but I’m trying to find the man I love.  And as you said, if people are descending on his shop, and he’s not there…I owe it to him to keep the place in order until he gets back.”  Belle was determined to protect him the way he would protect her. She did not alter her direction toward the pawn shop.

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Victor felt a new found respect to Belle and it was something that helped him see why her and Mr Gold where a good match. She could handle her own and he thought be brave enough to stand up to the Dark One himself. "I'll go with you to the shop, you could use some help and your, er, lover has been teaching me a few of his tricks."

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Belle & Victor

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She nodded at that, softening a little at his concern. “I appreciate that, Dr. Whale,” Belle admitted, and truthfully she did.  She relished the chance to stand on her own merits, but Belle knew that Rumpelstiltskin protected her, probably more than she knew.  While she bristled at it often, her stubbornness sometimes making her feel as if he was possessing her like one of his many trinkets, She knew deep down he was doing it from a fear of losing her…again.

“I’d like to check his shop, just in case,” Belle noted heading in that direction, though she could feel that he wasn’t there.  Since their first kiss had confirmed it was True Love they shared, she could always sense him.

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Victor wasn't too glad to hear that Belle wanted to check the shop to see if Rumple could be there. Although he didn't think it wise as that would be the first place everyone would look for answers he wanted to have a close look at the many trinkets he had hidden away in his little shop. "I don't think that is wise Belle," he said deciding to put her safety before his own curiosity, "like I said before people will e looking for answers and Gold's shop is the first place they will look." <\p>

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Belle & Victor

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“Belle,” She huffed out, not impressed with his fatalistic attitude.  Many people tended to underestimate Rumpelstiltskin and it was a grave mistake.  Belle was certain that if this was a portal, then he would have made it to the other side.  He was nothing if not a survivor.  “What do you suggest?” She asked a little irritated at his condescending tone.

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"Well Belle, I suggest we make sure no one harasses you over where Rumpelstiltskin is. People know how fond of you he is so there is no doubt they will turn to you for answers and solutions."

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Belle & Victor

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“But it means he’s safe,” Belle said with a relieved breath.  She knew Rumple could take care of himself, but that didn’t stop her from worrying.  “We should see if we can find Emma,” She suggested, and added begrudgingly, “or Regina…”

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"There is no certainty of his safety Belle," Victor said not wanting Belle to get her hopes up, "is it Belle or do you prefer Lacey?" The issue of a name was complicated in Storybrooke. As a doctor Victor had to remember which of the two names to call his patients. "Anyway, I haven't seen Regina around so the chances that she fell into that portal are pretty high."<\p>

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Belle & Victor

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“I don’t know,” Belle replied with concern in her voice. It wasn’t like him not to check up on her when something like this happened.  The only other place he could be was the shop, but even then he would have been right across the street from the library, and likely would have come over or called. She bit her lip, “What do you think it is? The portal?”  Belle prayed it was just that, a portal to somewhere else and that everyone who had disappeared was safe.  She had heard of several other disappearances while she made her way to the center of town earlier.

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"I think it's a portal. I've seen only one before and it looked quite similar." He remembered the one that himself and Jefferson jumped through and even though the colour and the size was different he knew a portal when he saw one. "I don't know where it leads though."