#waltonstein

victor frankenstein submerges his hand in cold water before jerking off so he can pretend it's walton after saving him from the ice

My favorite part in Frankenstein is when Victor finishes telling Robert Walton his tale and he's half-dead sleeping in Walton's office and then Walton's men walk in and they're complaining about the expedition and telling their captain to call it off and go back to England and before Walton can even think of saying something Victor suddenly wakes up, scolds the men in a fat ass paragraph saying shit like they should be ashamed of even considering letting their captain down like that and they should have more courage and keep going and then after that whole rant he falls asleep again and Walton (as startled as everyone else) addresses his men like "you heard my woman go back to your work" like dude

walton is a stronger man than me because if i found the man who was the culmination of my lifelong dreams of true connection and everything i could possibly want in a friend, who talked to me about my interests at length and encouraged me and told me i would be successful in my endeavors, who wept for me after i confided my deepest desires and ambitions to him, who used the language of my heart, who sympathized with and loved me, and who told me all of his greatest flaws and mistakes and his harrowing several-hundred-pages long life story including the murders of his entire family, upon which i treated him with nothing but understanding and kindness and would do anything to return him to happiness and shoulder his woes, all while tenderly nursing back him from the brink of death while expecting nothing in return, even despite my growing concerns of a mutiny going on, and after all this he told me "I thank you, Walton [...] but think you that any can replace those who are gone? Can any man be to me as Clerval was?" i would just walk off the boat