#simon stride

I really like the idea of having a Hyde design that resembles Jekyll A LOT. I really love the designs where they directly contrast, but i also love the idea that Hyde is just a younger, scruffier looking Jekyll.

This, from a plot standpoint, would be a bad idea, cuz it could potentially ruin the plot twist in the original book. But, i do think that maybe it wouldn’t. Hear me out.

I think that maybe, definitely, a lot of characters already have their implied biases on a lot of eachother— ESPECIALLY Jekyll. He’s good, he’s charitable, he’s friendly. Unable to do wrong. I think that it’d be really interesting that these biases could impact the way that the characters view Hyde: like sure, he looks like Jekyll, but he isn’t. He couldn’t be. So they turn a blind eye to the idea. It would say something not only of Jekyll’s character and people like him, but would comment on the public as well and their inability to see what they don’t want to believe, even if it’s right there in their faces (like a certain someone we know.. cough Jekyll)

Even people Jekyll knows and loves dearly could fall victim to this line of thinking. Utterson, mainly. I do think that a few people would see through it and suspect more, but not a lot (Maybe Lanyon, or if we want to involve the musical, Stride. Or actually maybe NOT Lanyon because he doesn’t want to believe that Jekyll’s experiment could work anyway. I dunno, it’s whatever you wanna interpret with whatever is going on with their beef in the book). it could cause a lot of potential tension anyway between Hyde and these suspicious characters, with Hyde (and maybe even Jekyll— actually, scratch that, definitely Jekyll) having to do something to shut them up.

Also Vampires

I know it’s so Hyde can have his ~*dramatic entrance*~, but it’s really funny that Jekyll collapses and all his loved ones just stand here, it’s only Stride who goes to check on him :D