#* ouat

now , i know jekyll was in ouat but i had some uh . issues . with how everything was handled there so toss that right out i’m doing my own thing , or at least making major edits to what was done before . 

henry jekyll still originates from victorian london , & he still performs a stupid , stupid experiment , & yes , he does have someone he adored . no , he was not pressured by anyone to make the hj-7 , henry jekyll wanted to escape what society demanded of him . while not totally miserable with his life , jekyll enjoyed the freedom that came with being hyde , growing distant from his friends & his paramour — never telling them what was going on . of course , as all horrid experiments go , henry loses control of the transformations , writes a letter to a certain gabriel john utterson , & vanishes to the land of untold stories . 

as a person is essentially in a time loop when in the land of untold stories , fleeing to it in the form of jekyll did stop the uncontrolled transformations , although symptoms associated still occurred ( sharp aches & pains , some dizzy spells , nausea ) . it was in the land of untold stories that jekyll learned some forms of control , fully aware that if ever he should leave , his inner demon would come back full force . at some point , he does encounter rumple , the encounter is messy & does involve a conversation about the elixir — where jekyll sets rumple straight because the elixir is not really splitting good from evil , it’s a form of escapism . admitting this to someone also sorta put things in perspective & jekyll ends up in a fairly depressed slump for an indefinite amount of time . 

yes , jekyll does have an encounter with the heroes , where he’s just really exhausted & at this point he’s hit a point of ‘ well ok yolo ’. he’s left behind his old life , people he cared deeply for , because he managed to throw in his lot with both jekyll & hyde — suppressing all of his dark desires & also isolating himself ( he has literally no coping skills ) . 

jekyll does not split hyde from his body , because he knows that’s stupid , nor does he want to . if anything , he just wants to be a whole person . still , he travels to storybrooke , where as expected , the horrible backlash from hyde happens & he sorta just runs off for a while , eventually coming back when he’s calmed down , but he tells no one where he went . he just tries to uh . move on . & of course , that’s really tough when he’s asked to tamper with the elixir for someone else’s sake , because it’s not MEANT for that .

no , he doesn’t try to kill belle , because he doesn’t blame rumple / the dark one for what happened to him . he knows he did it to himself . if he blames anyone , he blames hyde , which is like blaming himself . 

It was bad for the first 50 min....then it got all better :)

That’s what I read! And knowing how it turns out makes the previous stuff better too. :) It’s the first time in a while when the tags weren’t all ‘fuck you rumple’ at the end of the episode.

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