Okay so like, tell me I’m wrong here, but is monster high or is monster high not one of the more accurate versions of Frankenstein’s monster we have seen in mainstream media?
Hear me out here:
- she’s intelligent: Mary Shelley’s Monster was very eloquent in his speech and also successfully frames someone for murder
- The movies explicitly talk about her mother, I.e the monster’s wife, who may not have been completed in the book but definitely existed
- They also mention how her father dislikes her grandfather, Victor Frankenstein himself, similarly to his book self
- she wants to be accepted by human society: Mary Shelley’s monster’s whole thing was he wanted to be accepted by humanity and then decided to take vengeance when we tried to kill him
There’s probably more but I haven’t read the book myself so like, thoughts?? I just think it’s interesting is all
i know I’ve joked about it before but I find it so strange and… mildly infuriating that popular culture has essentially swapped Frankenstein and Jekyll’s personalities around. like these two are in essence a depressed idiot baby and an unhinged little bastard respectively and yet the most well known adaptations switch them around. How did this happen? and most importantly, how do we reverse it?
I have seen and heard SO MANY takes on Frankenstein of “what if the monster is just a hallucination and Victor’s doing the murders lol lmao” that just once I’d like a version where his family and the authorities and whatever successfully gaslight him into thinking the creature never existed and he did kill all those people and the creature crashes the public execution, looking exactly like Victor’s description, and being all “UNHAND HIM IM THE ONLY ONE ALLOWED TO KILL THAT BITCH!!!”
petition for a new frankenstein adaptation that actually makes the creature insanely handsome with just some weird eyes, the way he was made in the original novel
also petition for this adaptation to include victor being a dumbass who has clearly dropped out of college in the name of completing this project, bc i am not aware of any adaptation that portrays him as a young dumbass who literally stopped going to class in the name of grave robbing and building the “perfect man”, it’s just so ridiculous and i really love it and want it to be more called out.
The funniest thing is when Victor fantasizes about fighting his creation one on one. Like the creature is a 8 foot tall super human with enhanced strength and agility who can live in extreme heat and cold and barely needs to eat and you're a sickly recluse scientist who feels faint at the mere thought of him and Victor is still like I might have a chance.
I need Vanitas to become a part of the wayfinder family for many, many reasons, like he deserves unconditional love and to be free of pain and loneliness- but also so we can get a scene of Aqua and Ven putting little bowties on the floods while Vanitas and Terra look on in confusion.
I am constantly thinking about Vanitas from the Novels & the Character Files & the fact that his theme is stuck at the end of the Heroes and Heroines Character Medley from the Kingdom Hearts Orchestra
Vanitas spent years feeling Ven’s love for Terra & then during the Keyblade War decided to follow Terranort around & his unused quotes imply he was even supposed to help Terranort in the fight I CAN’T. I have a lot of emotions about this