Dross The Fish

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I mean when I read their work it's entirely obvious that the writer has never spent time with children or had to take care of them because they have a 6 year old speaking in broken sentences like a toddler. Their version of a child feels less like a character and more like a satire of children. Real children are complex. Children are messy, sometimes gross, sometimes awkward, often weird, little people. A six year old can have a pretty impressive vocabulary and articulate themselves well. They are fully capable of understanding if a situation is unfair but have no idea how to emotionally regulate and lack the experience to react. They may melt down, shut down, or even become violent if pushed and their little brains are quick enough to come up with pretty...interesting ideas but they are usually not the best ideas for the situation. One kid I took care of when I was a nanny tried to make himself vomit in protest of putting his shoes on. When he realized no shoes = no going outside he tried to negotiate me down from his sneakers to his rain boots, which I allowed because letting him run around in rain boots was a harmless compromise. At six years old my youngest sibling had a baby doll that she glued a pair of sunglasses to and named "Paraxis the space baby" he had a full backstory that was mostly coherent. She was also old enough to recognize that she did not enjoy hugs and preferred fist bumps as her way of showing affection. People who write child characters often forget that children are human beings with the full spectrum of human emotions. They just experience them differently from adults and their world view holds less nuance. There's a weird perception that an alarmingly large portion of fandom has that children are helpless, cutsey little dolls that will win over some stern caretaker by being the most twee and adorable little cherub but their version of children and childhood is so idealized it's ridiculous.

Yeah, I really don't see the appeal of giving him an alter that's a child or childlike. It's not a facet he has in the book and he never expresses the desire to revert to being a child. The activities he wants to participate in are pretty firmly not child friendly. Giving him an alter that regresses him to some version of his "inner child" is not something that I feel adds anything to him as a character. Especially because half of the time people in fandom have no clue how to write child characters.

I tend to avoid it because he doesn't fit the criteria for a DID diagnosis and doesn't present as a system within the novella. As far as what I think of works that do use the split personality trope. I generally find them to be varying degrees of ableist. They almost always split Jekyll into "good half" and Hyde into "evil half" or present Hyde like he's some kind of inner demon with his own will who's tormenting Jekyll for reasons reduced to "I'm the evil half" which isn't even how people who are systems work. It's so reductive to the character both as Jekyll and as Hyde. I kind of hate it. If you strip Jekyll of his bad qualities and make Hyde an entity divorced of Jekyll's then you reduce Jekyll to a victim and remove any culpability he has for Hyde's actions. Jekyll creates Hyde in the first place because he can't come to terms with the fact that he has overwhelming sadistic urges. He is pleased when he turns into Hyde because now he can act on them without consequences. Hyde is nothing but Jekyll without his inhibitions and restraint. There would be no point in him having additional alter egos because Hyde is already expressing everything Henry represses. There's nothing for another identity to do. It serves no purpose. Hyde isn't even a real alter. Jekyll is fully aware of what Hyde is doing and is in control of the body, just not all of the impulses and his emotional thresholds are lowered. The same way you don't magically become a different person when you're high or drunk but you might still blame he alcohol or refer to it as "Drunk me made bad choices last night that sober me never would." My own behavior is very different when I'm medicated vs unmedicated but unmedicated me vs medicated me are not different people, just different state of me with different chemicals affecting my judgment and the thresholds at which I experience depression and anxiety. I guess I'm just not into the concept and I feel like I've never seen it done in a way that I think is any kind of an improvement on the canon novella.

Decided to put the whole family tree together. From the top. Jekyll's parents. Jekyll and Hyde himself Alice Liddell and Jekyll's children, Louis and Robert.

She can with caveats. While they still function as regular eyes she loses her enhanced powers of insight or perception outside of OZ. Her eyes also stop working all together in areas that are guarded against magic. Households with wards, hallowed ground or if a witch or wizard nullifies that spell that makes them work. Once dispelled the spell that makes them work has to be re-cast so Jane has to return to Oz and have Dorothy restore her sight or seek out Merlin. Jane is a decent unit and has access to a few good spells but her handicap means players have to take a few extra precautions outside of Oz and investigate new areas for wards or hostile occultists/witches before they deploy her.

Sorry anon I don't know enough about pokemon to be able to give a good answer. The last pokemon game I played and finished was Pokemon Gold on the game boy color and I stopped watching the series once I hit double digits. I was honestly more of a Digimon fan as a kid.

Colored a drawing of Watson. I like to think in his late middle age he's taken to wearing comfy sweaters and dressing down more often.

Mairead did grow to love her son as he grew older and began to have a personality. She could see he was bright, ambitious and filled with so much potential. It made her hate herself for not being able to be the kind of mother Henry needed. After a particularly nasty event where she lost a large sum of money Hamish finally had to put a stop to her activities. He cut off her access to the family's funds and hired a nurse to watch her and keep her from going out. Mairead vacillated between hysterics and fits of catatonia. Hamish was forced to spend more time at home. Henry retreated even further into his studies. While he was at university his father died of a stroke. His mother improved a bit after his father's death. But Henry couldn't shake the feeling that she hadn't "gotten better," she'd simply given up. She was listless and made only the barest effort to function in her life. Henry watched her fade a way bit by bit until she too died.

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Here's a quick doodle.

That's how Robert has black hair and Louis has green eyes, the genes comes from Jekyll's side of the family.

I write it down in notebooks and sometimes draw little maps and doodles to help me keep track of locations and building interiors.

You aren't wrong. Jekyll is exactly the type of person who would feel slighted if someone flirted with his wife/girlfriend, especially if they insinuated they'd be better for her than Jekyll was. He'd only go so far as to retort angrily as Jekyll but later as Hyde he'd probably go seek them out beat them up. It's not even because that's a thing his partner would particularly want or benefit from he's just that flavor of toxic deep down without a filter to curb it. There's also a chance it's not even completely about the wife/girlfriend. He's just inclined to look for a flimsy justification to hit someone because he's projecting all of his insecurities onto one target.

It's not so much that he has a fear of needles and more that seeing somebody sew his skin up gives him the heebie jeebies and makes him feel some kind of weird way. It also makes him ruminate on his creation process, which makes him think of what he is, which makes him think of Victor and that takes him down some unpleasant places.

He's not quite at the point of turning himself into a bug for shits and giggles. He understands bugs are resilient compared to humans and think if he can emulate that in some way it might give him a healthier body.