#creature frankenstein

[annehalford]

My dearest husband asked for me to plan out a fragrance for him based off of Creature from Guillermo del Toro's 2025 Frankenstein!! And of course I simply had to oblige because I love my darling husband very very dearly

[chronic-calamity]

🎶Its more than a feelin' 😍🎶

[tinseltrinkets]

I think the true horror of Frankenstein (1818) is that we are not always the victims of what we fear, specifically in regards to how white people have feared black people despite having oppressive power over them.

Womanhood is absolutely part of the story too, but I think a lot of the time white women hijack the conversation regarding this book as a way to present their womanhood as the ultimate victimhood, and overlooking how their privilege of living as WHITE women specifically is also relevant to the discussion of this novel.

Frankenstein was written at a time in which black bodies were used as science experiments, and when white people didn’t find a way to use them for their own benefit, their very existence was a scorn.

Many black babies were used to lure alligators, and it was gleefully depicted in art and postcards.

But when slave revolts started to occur and black slaves killed their white captors for freedom, it was presented as unreasonable acts of violence.

Suddenly there were “two sides” and black slaves crossed the line of two communities that were only then presented on an equal playing field because it was convenient.

The creature is viewed as inhumane, a being beyond conventional ideas of gender or race.

From birth, he is only treated with abuse and torture, no matter what he does. Acts of kindness and malice are met with the same scorn, because it has nothing to do with who he has and everything to do with what people think his existence represents.

He exists in a body that survives suffering meant to kill a human because humans are not supposed to take it. Over and over and over.

He’s hurt by people who go on with their lives without guilt, like it’s just the way it is in a way he never could without facing repercussions and viewed as inherently monstrous. He understands cognitively it’s not right, but mentally he’s running beyond thin.

Suddenly, when he kills, he’s humanized, but only to be held to the standards of humanity, only as a way to be scorned again. He’s paradoxically viewed as an otherworldly being without reason or humanity AND viewed as a fully reasonable individual who deliberately made these choices with no nuance.

At no point is he provided the mercy and understanding of either implications, only the worst of both. He is a being that contains multitudes. He’s not a hero but he doesn’t HAVE to be.

Revolution was never pretty and wasn’t always led by these perfect heroes. Victims don’t need to be heroes to deserve basic rights that people of privilege have by default regardless of if they prove their “moral worth”.

White infants were shot in their cribs. They may not have been involved, but how can that matter to people who since infancy have been viewed as criminals, as less than?

It’s not about these individual actions, it’s about them stemming from systematic oppression.

William was a white, upper class child who was not responsible for the acts of his family. But the creature only experienced being viewed as a part of a monolith of the uncanny.

Is it really such a surprise when he similarly sees William as an extension of the oppressive humanity he’s a part of?

Not to mention, the creature was a child too. He was at most six years old. Even regardless of that, it’s the content of the years lived that make someone an adult and not just the time frame itself. The creature learned a lot but he did not have a childhood.

The creature was extremely cognitively intelligent, but he was developmentally stunted mentally. He couldn’t really be expected to use that cognition without guidance.

Similarly, black children are often adultified. They often have to grow up faster than white children, because if they express natural toddler emotions, they’re viewed as violent and threatening. They’re made to walk on eggshells, because if they show too much of any sort of emotion, they’ll be viewed as a threat and risk facing violence. Police officers have shot literal children because they thought they were threatening.

Even now, black children and teens are viewed as uncivilized, unintelligent, inhuman, but once they get into trouble, even just the trouble most teenagers are expected to get into, suddenly they’re “young men” or “young women” who know exactly what they’re doing and should have known better.

That’s not accountability. That’s not acknowledging autonomy.

It’s not proving anything when people you’ve abused into believing they’re inherently violent lash out.

There is a genuine fear of black people from white people. It’s a fear of the unknown, of the unfamiliar.

It’s like seeing an uncertain figure in a dark hallway, but being unaware that, from that figure’s perspective, you look the exact same. Except you have the power. You have the weapon. You can hurt them in a way they cannot. You view your acts of violence as fearful defense without realizing you were never the one at risk.

[raccoonclubhouse]

Creature with minor design tweaks and a mousenstein for whimsy and fun

[neuvilletteswife]

WHERE ARE THE sub!Creature x Reader? I need them so badddd.

[a-smokin-silver-cowboy]

After rewatching Frankenstein (2025) for the fifth time, I just want to say I think it's funny Creature (Adam? I just call him Bugs/Buggie in honor of Elizabeth) sounds like a bear after that whole "Would you rather be in the woods with a man or a bear" debacle on TikTok a year or two ago. Del Toro knew what he was doing.

Any way here's some sketches I did of Buggie/Creature

[sketch-kenyy]

Cant we all agree that he needs all the foehead kisses ݁ ˖ ִֶָ ⊹

Hes just a baby, a 6 foot huge baby <3

[ra-is-making-art]

Victor: In you I have created something truly horrible. Creature: Not something, someone. You have created someone.

Frankenstein (2025)