#alphonse frankenstein

[tmprometheus]

Family portrait.

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[can-of-w0rmz]

Very serious and high quality f:tmp posts. your adaptation is in good hands. truly the spirit of Mary Shelley lives on in me.

[someylette]

Happy Pride month! Victor Frankenstein himself possessed me to draw these. He told me

[kitsu-katsu]

Honestly I've never had a bigger want to become a movie director than when thinking about making a Frankenstein adaptation THAT ACTUALLY KEEPS EVERYTHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE SOURCE MATERIAL

I daydream about this

I NEED an adaptation that actually goes into it. Show the fucked up family stuff while Victor narrates it aa idyllic, SHOW VICTOR BEING 19-21 WHILE MAKING THE CREATURE, show the Creature learning to speak from the Delaceys, show his worldview being entirely shaped by paradise lost and the ONE romantic relationship he saw giving him the bride idea, show Victor being ill, disabled, traumatized, go into his internal conflict, show the fucked up nature of Justine's trial, how Victor becomes more aware that he'll be perceived as crazy if he speaks up every second of it, how the law is corrupt and sentences by a judge can have been coerced and say nothing about the moral standing of the victim, especially when also bringing religion into the mix, how the law continues to be fucked when Victor is jailed after Henry's death, a shell of a man he used to be, and taken out by his father because he has influence, show Victor's bond with Henry, with Elizabeth, explore the messy and disturbing relationship of Victor and Elizabeth where they always saw each other as siblings but were also promised to one another by Caroline ever since Elizabeth arrived, how Caroline manipulated Elizabeth to basically relive her own trauma, how her dying wish left them tied into something that neither of them expresses real want for in the whole book

THERE'S SO FUCKING MUCH

[dross-the-fish]

That Caroline portrait is so fucked up, man.....

It is and while most of my interpretation is speculation and based on a fairly pessimistic reading of Alphonse's character I can't help but think of the implications. It's his favorite portrait. But he's not the only one who has to look at it. Caroline would have had to see it every time she went into the library. There in plain view, in painful detail. Her as a child weeping over her father. I wonder if that might have been painful for her? I know it would be if were me. Having a picture of any of my family member's funerals would hurt me every time I had to look at them. Alphonse is described as a protecting spirit who came to whisk Caroline away from death and poverty but he keeps a reminder of that death and poverty hanging quite literally above everyone's heads at all times. Not only would that be a constant reminder for Caroline but also for Elizabeth (in the 1818 version at least) who was also rescued from a precarious situation by Alphonse. Maybe I read him as worse than he is but in a lot of ways Alphonse reminds me of people I've known and gestures like that were always deliberate. They needed to be your hero and would remind you daily of where you'd be without them. They didn't want to be loved, they wanted to be worshiped. They wanted adoration and to maintain the appearance of a happy and functional family. You were not a person with thoughts or needs, you were an extension of them. As if they were the main character of some story and you were just an NPC who's needs or wants were side quests they could ignore. Which, if we look at Victor as someone groomed to be Alphonse 2.0 as Elizabeth is being raised in Caroline's image, it's not surprising he says this about his race of creatures. "A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me. No father could claim the gratitude of his child so completely as I should deserve their’s."

Gratitude. Not their love, their gratitude. The Creature cannot give him that. The creature is rebellious. Victor is not a "Protective spirit" to the creature the way Alphonse was with Caroline and Elizabeth. In his state of deprivation the creature has something the women in Frankenstein do not. Freedom. The agency to reject his creator's power over him and even turn the dynamic of parent and child completely upside down. “Slave, I before reasoned with you, but you have proved yourself unworthy of my condescension. Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master;—obey!” Caroline has to think of Alphonse as her savior and her protector because if she doesn't think of him as that then all that's left is her captor and her warden. Without Alphonse she has nothing. She has no where to go, no family, no money and no friends. So she has to look at a picture of her self weeping over her father's death every day and tell herself and her children that her husband is her savior. She has to build a fairytale out of it because the reality is that Alphonse is a rich old man with power and money and she was a vulnerable child with nothing but the clothes on her back and a dead father. In the real world that combination is never benevolent.

[greentrickster]

In my research for the more formal version of the Victor Ruins His Own Life and the Creature Just Watches AU, I have come across the hilarious fact that this novel contains both the worst parent in the world (Victor) and, apparently, the best parents in the world. Ie, Victor's parents.

Like, Alphonse Frankenstein apparently devoted his life to public service and believed it his duty to wield the power and influence he had as a member of the nobility for the service of all... you know, right up until he became a father. At which point he, I can only presume, bowed politely, apologized sincerely, and retired from this role. Because his duty now lay in Being a Father to his Children, and he committed. He personally oversaw their education, and was a strong presence in their lives.

Then there was Catherine Frankenstein, who apparently the most maternal person in the world and also was in charge of ensuring her children had really enjoyable leisure time as well, and adopted Elizabeth and loved her dearly, and took in Justine, who was raised really close to the family and became a dear friend to Elizabeth.

And then there's Victor Frankenstein himself, who openly admits he had the world's best parents and a fantastic childhood. And none of this transferred. He had, by his own admission, probably the best possible example of what good parenthood for those of his station could look like, and he's still just Like That.

[dr-victor-frankenstein]

sooo what's next?

I shall rejoin the Count. We begin our final labour. This iteration of myself shall expire, and a subsequent self shall reawaken—blissfully ignorant of my past misdeeds—amidst the newly immortal forms of his beloved friends and family.

[tortoise-n33ds-purpose]

Frankenstein 1831 Edition Fancast

Victor Frankenstein (James McAvoy)

The Creature (Jacob Elordi)

Elizabeth [Lavenza] Frankenstein (Judi Bowker)

Henry Clerval (Matt Smith)

Justine Moritz (Catrin Stewart)

William Frankenstein (Ryan Smith)

Ernest Frankenstein (Christian Convery)

Caroline [Beaufort] Frankenstein (Audrey Hepburn)

Alphonse Frankenstein (Donald Sutherland)

M. Beaufort (Claude Rains)

Professor Krempe (Danny DeVito)

Professor Waldman (Cristoph Waltz)

M. De Lacey (Bill Nighy)

Agatha De Lacey (Anya Taylor-Joy)

Felix De Lacey (Sam Claflin)

Safie De Lacey (Zhaleh Vossough)

Mean-Lady-Who-Nursed-Victor-in-Prison (Una O'Connor)

Mr. Kirwin (Barry Fitzgerald)

Robert Walton (Paul McGann)

I know there's no possible way for this entire cast to actually work as well onscreen as it does in my mind. This list is just a guide for visualizing and/or hearing the characters as I read through the novel.

I actually picture Caroline, Victor and William as black-haired. Meanwhile I imagine Ernest and Alphonse (in his youth) as auburn-haired. This is based on the hair color of Elizabeth from the 1818 edition/timeline where she was the daughter of Alphonse's sister. In the 1831 edition/timeline, Elizabeth's mother was German instead of Swiss (and presumably blonde, like her daughter) and was not related to Alphonse.

EDIT (February 15, 2026):

New/Alternative Fancast for

Henry Clerval (Dave Hearn)

His character Max Bennett from The Goes Wrong Show is a warm, fun-loving stage actor who just reminded me of Victor's recollection of Henry from their youth, with him coming up with stories and reenacting them with Victor and Elizabeth. (First screenshot is Max dressed as Michael Darling and understudying as Peter Pan in "Peter Pan Goes Wrong". Second and Third screenshots aren't of the Max Bennett character, they're from the improv show "Mischief Movie Night In"... but I feel they still have the Clerval vibe. Third screenshot is Max dressed as young Ebenezer Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong".)