Skywalker’s Wife

Before diving into headcanons, here is my baseline interpretation of the Creature:

​While his origins are deeply sympathetic, his canon actions are those of a cold-blooded serial killer and psychological torturer. He is neither a mindless beast nor a soft baby who needs to be coddled.

​He is a highly articulate, self-aware being who understands right from wrong and actively chooses evil as a weapon against Victor.

​However, I believe he felt immense guilt for the lives he ruined. Weeping over Victor’s body and promising Walton he will destroy himself shows how deeply his innate sense of justice was corrupted by isolation. Ultimately, his entire existence was wrapped up in making Victor miserable; once Victor was gone, he had no purpose left.

ANYWAY ONTO THE REAL HEADCANONS:

Continuing on from where the novel ends off, I'm going to pretend that the Creature's attempt on his own life failed

Before the fire can destroy his vital organs, the intense heat melts the ice beneath him

He falls into the icy abyss, and the fire is extinguished

When he washes ashore days later, scarred by fire and half-frozen, he feels a cold, venomous fury

He has left the artic, trudging back inland believes God, or Fate, is forcing him to endure a life he no longer sees worth living

Until you

It's likely he comes across you when you are having a moment of vulnerability

Maybe you are sitting by a thawing forest stream, weeping quietly as you bury a half-starved, frozen stray dog you found too late, maybe something else

Either way, should you be showing genuine sorrow or pity for a creature deemed worthless by most

In his fractured, traumatized mind, he instantly aligns himself with that animal

"For the first time in my cursed existence, I dared to imagine what it might be like to rest my own abhorred head in your lap."

The suicidal ideation vanishes, replaced by a terrifying, hyper-fixated epiphany that he isn't being forced to live as a punishment, but to be your keeper

However the memory of the De Lacey family beating him and Victor fleeing from him is seared into his brain

It would keep him from revealing himself to you initially out of pure fear of your rejection

He'd likely default to the only way he knows how to show affection: invisible labour like chopping wood, clearing the path of snow, etc

Though this quiet, unrequited love won't last forever

The Creature has never truly experienced love or romance

His understanding of love is entirely academic, stitched together from books he's scavenged and what he's watched enviously from afar

These things will impact how he shows his affections like:

His curiosity curdles into a hoarding obsession because if he can not have you yet, then he'll settle for takeinv pieces of you

Stealing trivial things you won't immediately miss: a dropped handkerchief, a wooden comb, a button that fell off your winter coat, strands of hair caught in the brambles

He spends hours staring at them in the dark, speaking to them in his French, or reading poems

He knows from reading that a smile is meant to convey warmth, so he manually forces the stiff, heavy muscles of his face into a grin

The result is an exaggerated rictus

As weeks turn into months, his boldness grows

He starts standing outside your window at night

Follows you deeper into the villages in daylight

He leaves gifts for you on your porche like Sun bleached bird skulls, flowers, pieces of materials, and pages of poems

The longer he watches you, the more his tragic backstory twists into a dangerous sense of entitlement

In his perspective, he has suffered more than any being on earth; therefore, he deserves compensation

You are that compensation

Therefore, he knows he can not hide forever, so he is meticulously planning the moment he reveals himself

There are one of two ways I image he'd act:

Possibility A:

​If you have a life, a family, and friends, he knows he can not just walk into it

Instead, he will systematically destroy your world so he can become its only remaining pillar

He remembers how easily he framed Justine Moritz and ruined Victor's life so he will use that exact same calculated malice to isolate you

Your crops will blight

Your home might mysteriously catch fire in the dead of night

Any potential suitors will either flee town after a terrifying encounter in the dark, or they will turn up dead

When you are completely destitute, grieving, and abandoned, he will offer an ultimatim

"Look at what your kind has done to you. Cast out, shivering, left to die by the very people you called family. Take my hand. Walk with me into the mountains, and I shall be your tireless servant, your guardian, your god."

Pathway 2:

If you are too unobtainable, perhaps well-protected, wealthy, or preparing to leave the region entirely

His fragile patience snaps into absolute panic and he'll abandon the long game

This lonely bastard knows his own strength, he's lived with it all his life, he knows no door, or man, could stop him

Therefore me would simply break into your room in the dead of night

Before you can even process the horror of his face in the moonlight, he will muffle your screams and carry you away into the wilderness

He will provide for you perfectly, bringing you furs, books, and food, but he will never, ever let you leave

He views his captivity of you not as a crime but as saving you from a cruel world that doesn't understand the profound, violent love he has to offer

​"Fight me if you must. Strike my chest, curse my name, weep until your throat is raw. I can endure it. Eventually, the hatred will burn out. And I will still be here, waiting for your love."

​Once he has successfully isolated you or dragged you away into the wilderness, the dynamic shifts into a bizarre, paradoxical mix of absolute worship and absolute imprisonment

He will kneel at your feet, rest his massive, scarred head in your lap, and beg for your touch

However, the moment you attempt to leave or ask for your freedom, he will gently, but immovably, block the door

Reminding you that gods do not belong among the wretched mortals below

Because he feels immense guilt for forcing you to be with him, he tries to compensate with what he considers overwhelming luxury

If you break down and cry from the isolation. He does not get angry at you

He gets violently, dangerously angry at himself and the world

He will agonise over the fact that his hideousness and his love are causing you pain

Yet, his solution is never to let you go; his solution is to demand you try harder to love him

If you threaten to starve yourself, or even threaten to take your own life to escape him,

He won't panic

He will simply smile a stiff, unnatural smile. He kept Victor’s journal. He knows the secret to life