Mick’s Shenanigans

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I never really draw Griffin and Hyde together as much as Griffin and Jekyll mostly because I like Jekyll more than Hyde but also cause the only reason Hyde interacts with Griffin is cause Hyde initiates the interaction 9 x out of 10

Griffin endlessly fascinates and intrigues Hyde on in both mind and body. Hyde may be a wild man with the instincts and will power of a teenage boy who just discovered what his body is capable of but Hyde has a scientists mind as much as Jekyll so when he gets a subject as fascinating and unique as Griffin he tends to hyperfixate on it until something else grabs his attention (which can happen quickly if he doesn’t get the results he wants)

Griffin doesn’t care or have the patience for Hyde’s antics most of the time and the lack of personal boundaries Hyde has for everything and everyone (no matter how times Griffin threatens and punches Hyde away he slithers back eventually) is a one way ticket to be ignored by Griffin, leaving Hyde to pout on the other side of the room until he gets bored and decides his time is better spent chasing a catch that will actually give him a nibble (he only has a certain number of hours he’s let out at a time so he makes sure he’s using damn near every second to the fullest extent after all)

On rare occasion Griffin will indulge in Hyde and what he is though. It’s mostly out of curiosity (he is, too, a scientists at heart and enjoys figuring out the curious case of Edward Hyde as much as Hyde loves to figure Griffin out). And perhaps there is something else to it too. Something Griffin doesn’t like to acknowledge but Hyde is well aware of which is why he keeps coming back to the very cold and distant Griffin.

Baby Griffin and his mother

Nearly forgot to post this here but enjoy this bit pic and maybe a bit of lore for my Griffin and the mother who died not long after he was born

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Okay now for the lore ramble-

I like to think that there is at least one photo of Griffin and his mum together that Griffin knows exists somewhere but it’s with his mother’s family because Griffin’s dad took him away to be raised as a ‘proper lady’ and Griffin doesn’t really feel connected enough with his mother or her family to bother looking for them let alone the photo itself when he’s an adult.

As a kid though he didn’t have an identity of his own so would’ve killed a man to get a once of something to attach himself to. He was different beyond his albino skin and white hair, and had no culture or people to call his own. All he had was his dad who was just a selfish narcissistic arse with a gambling problem and a drinking habits and was more a warden than a father.

Ego and stubbornness is something he and his father had in common though so if the world wasn’t going to give a place to live in he was going to carve one out for himself even if it meant the rest of the world would suffer.

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Actually now that I have it typed out I could absolutely still make the baby au work and still have Griffin be the selfish prick he is.

Cause Griffin is/would be a shit parent. No doubt about that. Jekyll, however, can more than make up where Griffin fails. And Griffin would at least attempt to be decent if only not to be outperformed by Jekyll in taking care of his own kid.

A bit of a scene to show my point:

Griffin: Ugh- is that thing crying again?

Jekyll: She’s tiered Griffin. If you just soothe her l she’ll go to sleep. (Picks up the baby and starts to rock her back and forth) like this… see?

Griffin: Wait- how’d you do that!?

Jekyll: I’m just rocking her in my arms.

Griffin: No- f-ck off it can’t be that simple. let me do it!

Jekyll: If you insist

Griffin: how the hell do I hold it?

Jekyll: Put your arms around her like this- support here head- yes- and there we go. Just back and forth- gently now.

Griffin: Oh… it really is that simple

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Griffin: Shut up.

Jekyll: I didn’t say anything!

Griffin: your smug grin says enough!

Jekyll: it’s not smug! I’m just… happy… to see you… holding her like that.

Griffin: Like a live explosive?

Jekyll: Like she’s your child! …. But also yes that too… You really needn’t hold her so stiffly.

Griffin: Pft- you’re one to talk! You, my dear doctor Jekyll, are the casebook case for Victorian Stiffness.

Jekyll (rolling his eyes and smiling): Yes, yes, a very ‘clever observation. But at least I know how to hold my own child heh

Griffin -unimpressed-: Hardy Har

Don’t mind the pic I’m actually just going to ramble on now

Anywho- continue reading if you like ✨lore✨

Still here?

Good, means you don’t mind if I ramble

Now- after my most recent comic post thing- I feel it important to say it’s no secret my Jekyll and Griffin have become the main stars of the story I’ve had flinging around in my head for about five years.

“What kind of story can you make that’s vaguely based on gothic literature?” You may be asking-

Well the basic run down is two (and a half if you count Hyde) men outside the norms of their time but one does not need a second personality to embrace it but the other sees the consequences of embracing one’s less socially acceptable nature and thus stores that part of themselves into a tiny gremlin man that runs about every weekend

And they have a connection between each other, this man and man and a half man, a line of thin string sewn between them in their University days that take Griffin faking his death and returning on Jekyll’s doorstep asking for a place to stay while he finds a cure to invisibility about ten years after not speaking to each other for the string to grow taught and pull them back together again!

I’m getting lost in the metaphor I think but I’m sure at least some of you will get it

Long story short- these two buggers got a lot to talk about but the problem is neither of them is good at talking and Hyde is a problem child but he’s just the right type of problem child to bring everything out into the open and make them face their feelings both for each other and themselves

I made a fursona of myself and it’s a Jackalope bc I couldn’t decide between a rabbit/hare and a deer of some kind so I chose the both option

Feeding you Franken-Fans with a Creature and Victor sketchy

This is the second time I’ve drawn Victor curled up in a ball in pain in as many months, I think there is a pattern in how I draw him at this point

I made this last month after rediscovering I -in fact- have a Frankenstein design I can use however I please, and finally having an excuse to use this meme