FROM OBLIVION

I need to finish redoing frans icons, been busy and just kinda tired in life.

But something I've been thinking about is the fact that the Victor and his Monster dynamic is an ouroboros. They cause each other a cycle of suffering, and I think that's something that a lot of people gloss over in the grand scheme? Like the Monster is the original victim- Victor made the monster and abandoned him; the monster was chased away and treated like a freak. A monster.

But that doesn't mean the monster isn't guilty. Like revenge fantasies are great and all, but the Monster burned down Victor Frankenstein's entire life by dragging down innocent people with him. He killed Victor's best friend, his little brother, his wife. Victor's (essentially) adopted sister was hung after being framed by the Monster.

The Monster is the living embodiment of all of Victor's flaws, his hubris, his punishment. His shame.

Victor is the Monster's humanity. His father, his creator. His love and his despair.

I'm in a Fran headspace atm. If anyone wants a starter from her hit that ♡

One thing I want to note that pretty much differentiates my Fran from seemingly canonical Fran is her lack of hate. Her want for love, but her mistaking the love she wants as being romantic. That's not what exactly she wants. In general, Fran wants to be loved. Platonically, familially, romantically... Any love will do.

She wants to love and have it reciprocated back to her.

The other thing is her regret. Though, based on the light novel and flashbacks of Apocrypha I don't think this is necessarily not canonical. Fran loves Victor. Wanted him to love her, despite his violent and abusive behavior with her. At Victor's death, Fran realizes she can't ever be forgiven. She's just a monster, filled to the brim with regret, with a father who would never forgive her, and never smile at her, no matter what.

Which translates into Shakespeare's use of the First Folio, both showing the past of him hurting her and Fran begging for the one thing she wanted. Then flipping between showing exactly what she wanted, Victor to smile at her, to treat her gently, like a father would any daughter. But she knew this was wrong. This wasn't right. And showing that is exactly what caused her freakout and breakdown.

SCREAMS