No I have not, but I had somebody explain to me how Mary's constant experiance with death & similar unpleasantness caused much of the mood & ideas in the novel. I really should do some more feminst reading on Frankenstein, sounds intressting :3
My version does make Victor not an ideal man for his society (which I'm planning on worldbuilding into something not quite Earth). In this version he'd be a bi transmasc autist. He gets viewed as a changeling by his parents who replaced their "daughter" & he has interalized how few people would genuinely accept him for not being a neurotypical cishet guy.
In my au he wants to make Adam & later Eve to start off humanity off a blank slate (no he did not think through on how'd he get rid of the old humanity). Basically he almost starts a cult of patchwork zombies till Adam later runs away with Eve, who helps choose the name Beth.
Victor in this au is pretty misanthropic and feels that (with few exceptions), humanity is helpless. Also he just generally goes trough periods of hopelessness himself. Though he's not alone in that as Elizabeth & Clerval also go through their own mental health arcs. My current plan for Victor is a bastardization arc followed by learning on how to actually take care of himself. Learning on how to communicate with his loved ones & processing his trauma caused by his parents.
My current arc ideas for Elizabeth is an exploration of trauma of having been shouldered as semi-mom by Carlina very young & the general isolation of being a semi-house-wife of nobody. Clerval's for now is learning to balance his own needs from what his friends need. Of course tweaks & changes will be made here and there as I figuer out more stuff.
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Date: 2024-03-27 08:25 pm (UTC)From:My version does make Victor not an ideal man for his society (which I'm planning on worldbuilding into something not quite Earth). In this version he'd be a bi transmasc autist. He gets viewed as a changeling by his parents who replaced their "daughter" & he has interalized how few people would genuinely accept him for not being a neurotypical cishet guy.
In my au he wants to make Adam & later Eve to start off humanity off a blank slate (no he did not think through on how'd he get rid of the old humanity). Basically he almost starts a cult of patchwork zombies till Adam later runs away with Eve, who helps choose the name Beth.
Victor in this au is pretty misanthropic and feels that (with few exceptions), humanity is helpless. Also he just generally goes trough periods of hopelessness himself. Though he's not alone in that as Elizabeth & Clerval also go through their own mental health arcs. My current plan for Victor is a bastardization arc followed by learning on how to actually take care of himself. Learning on how to communicate with his loved ones & processing his trauma caused by his parents.
My current arc ideas for Elizabeth is an exploration of trauma of having been shouldered as semi-mom by Carlina very young & the general isolation of being a semi-house-wife of nobody. Clerval's for now is learning to balance his own needs from what his friends need. Of course tweaks & changes will be made here and there as I figuer out more stuff.