#monstrous things

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!

Monstrous Things: my camp nano project!*

*All information here is subject to change!

Genre: Urban Fantasy

Format: Third-person narrow, standalone novel

Status: We're still heavily in the feeling-things-out stage

Word Goal: 7500 by the end of April (trying to go very easy on myself this camp lmao)

Tropes: Slowburn romance, multiple queer characters, enemies to friends to lovers, found family (of monsters), gratuitous misinformation about how circuses and childcare work, no research we die like men

Warnings: Physical violence (no blood/gore/guts), traumatic backstory (is not sexual assault, but may bear similarities that people may find uncomfortable), basically if you can't watch an episode of Criminal Minds you probably should be careful with this one.

Molly Reid had an extensive bucket list -- against her therapist's advice, but what did he know? Of all the things on said list, though, working at Fairyland was not one of them. What was one, however, was having a conversation with Bigfoot. Doing it as an employee was sure to be less humiliating than buying a ticket as a single adult to a children's attraction.

Plus, twenty dollars an hour was too good too pass up, even if her schedule would be inconsistent at best. And they willing to overlook her college dropout status. But most importantly, the work uniform included a mask that would cover her mouth -- and her scars.

It was honestly the last detail that had compelled her to apply in the first place. Up until now, she'd been staying afloat as a barista. But no amount of free coffee made the stares worth it. Besides, if she had to make one more latte with so many customizations it was barely a latte anymore, she was going to scream.

So she was actually almost excited to start this new job.

Major Characters

➔ Molly Reid: Human. she/her. One the edge, swears a lot, Mommy Issues™

➔ The Dragon: Dragon. he/they. Works in Fairyland's daycare. A lovable menace with so many secrets it'll make your head spin.

➔ Benny Bigfoot: Sasquatch. he/him. Fairyland's mascot. Big dad vibes, big imposter syndrome.

➔ Pearl: Mermaid. she/her. Does visual entertainment (underwater dancing, storytimes, singing) as well as birthday parties. Keeps to herself during off-hours.

➔ Maggie: Tree nymph. she/her. In charge of mini golf and the trampoline park. Unhinged, but good at hiding it; weird girl icon.

Shout out to @wildswrites and @writingamongther0ses for both tagging me in one of these! Sorry it took so long <3

From Monstrous Things:

Here There Be Dragons.

Two of those were not uncommon nightmares for Molly; the last one, though, was new.