#monsterous things

here are. some idea sketches, for my demon (ish) Jekyll au.

closer up one of hyde that should be less blurry

this time, inspired by all those wing au’s, and demons. angel and demon symbolism.

here’s the overview;

Each person is born with an animal attribute that speaks to their future; their personality, omens, etc

To the horror of his protestant parents, Jekyll’s traits were demonic; long horns, wings, and clawed nails. Bright red eyes.

(Wings that were half demonic, but also angelic. Jet black, with a clawed frame. But also with fluffy, soft layered feathers.)

From a young age, these things were suppressed. (Nails and horns filed off. Wings bound. The eyes, unable to be hidden, had to remain, which they did not like.)

Jekyll doesn’t mind the traits at first, but he doesn’t have a choice about whether to keep them or not. He grows to despise them. (Who wouldn’t? When they were always called bad, evil, sinful, something to be hidden away…)

High society expects repression of these traits and the behaviors centered around them (When the standard of high society is someone polite, as human as possible, and restrained, it is not very gentlemanly to be growling at others hmm?) which Jekyll took to well, seeing as he already had to do that.

-Brings new light to Jekyll’s statement of ‘even I have monstrous thing about me!’

-Hyde lets themself show those traits. Cuts holes in their shirts to let their wings out and stretches them out, lets his nails grow out and even paints them, and lets their horns show.

From first sight, everyone knows he’s trouble, and he loves that.

(Hyde is about showing the things they were forced to hide. Those things he repressed, but always wanted to show. So he laughs at that fear! Laughs joyfully! They don’t have to hide anymore! Their wings don’t have to cry out to open at the end of the day! They don’t have to get an annoying crook in them! and no more fighting against a file to get their horns as flat and unnoticeable as possible! he’s having a great time!)

But this also causes Hyde to desperately avoids Lanyon; traits are far to similar to Jekyll’s, who both Hastie and Henry believe is unique. (It’s not, but certainly rarer than others.)

that’s what I have so far!