-My Hideous Progeny-

Over the summer for an AP 3ngrish: British Literature assignment; I read Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and absolutely adored it. This is one of the first school-assigned books that I've actually /liked/ (Except for The Great Gatsby, last year; rather liked that one. ._. Eh, I liked GATSBY, rather. He was bloody cool. Hot pink suits for the win, Old Sport!), much less /LOVED/ and had it become my newest fandom-obsession.
I was struck by how very different the book is compared to the numerous movies and parodies that have been made of it, and just the general ideas we have of it - it's beautifully written and very powerful, I believe. There are no angry mobs with torches, no bolts coming out of the Daemon's neck, no hunchbacked assistants, and Victor is most certainly not a wild-haired and cackling mad scientist sequestered in an ominous tower - his 'project' took place in his dormitory while he was a college student. Heh, while the other boys were having keggers, he was messing with dead body parts. x3 I find that funny in a weird way.
I really liked Victor - but most of all I loved the character of Frankenstein's Creation - or rather the Daemon as I call him. Victor refers to him several times in this way, and I really like the name better than 'Monster', as it only implies a 'lesser spirit', like a ghost or something, which while I don't think of him as being 'less than' human, he is something different and I think the name's appropriate. Better than 'Monster', anyway, which he certainly is not, at least in my opinion. He proves several times to be sensitive, articulate and damaged - he began life as an innocent, and through the cruelty of humanity based only upon his fearsome appearance, he was hardened and hurt so much that this caused him to turn against humanity and his creator - a hatred born of abandonment, witheld love and hurt, not an ingrained 'monstrosity'.

I'm sorry if none of this has made any sense at all - it's not even late (or early) at night, so I have no real excuse if my ramblings are full of holes or hard to understand. I just love this book and character and hope you like my idea of him. I tried to make him look put-together, but not quite rightly (the blind right eye, lopsided mouth, mismatched skin tones, protruding veins) but not 'monstrous'... I hope his left eye shows you that he is quite literally 'more than the sum of his parts'.

Mechanical pencil, Photoshop for the border.

Frankenstein's Creation = (c) Victor Frankenstein, I guess, and
Victor Frankenstein, Book, Concept = The Awesome Mary Shelley