As someone whose fav book is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I am in LOVE with this characterization of Victor! Like yes, he is in fact a lame loser who was potentially gay and would 100% make a monster(or three) versions of his lover! I also really love that the author kept both his inferiority and god complex in their reimagining of Victor. Those are such important characteristics of Victor that unfortunately most media that do decide to portray victor(and not just his monster) leave out. Like he has no respect for life nor death and thinks he is above the laws of nature and is still a little bitch boy and I so so love that the author made him not only a little bitch boy but also a twink lol. I do think this story falls under the sliiiiight pedophilic portrayals of bottom in gay relationships but I think it works with Victor’s character to really show that despite his feats in cheating death, he is still just a little man. I also like that the author took creative liberties when it comes to Henry cuz in the original book he’s just kinda there and I’m a fan of how the author decided to portray him in this story. I also feel that interpreting either Victor or Henry as “sluts” in this story is to completely miss the point in how the author has decided to write them. Both of them are lonely men who have an inferiority complex but decide to deal with it differently, Victor by obsessing over Henry and Henry by filling himself with others admirations. The fact that both of them also have dead parents plays into the inferiority and isolation they both deal with and for Victor, that’s heightened with Henry’s death and instead of dealing with it like a normal person(something he was never taught how to) he instead does what he knows best, which is create.
As someone whose fav book is Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, I am in LOVE with this characterization of Victor! Like yes, he is in fact a lame loser who was potentially gay and would 100% make a monster(or three) versions of his lover! I also really love that the author kept both his inferiority and god complex in their reimagining of Victor. Those are such important characteristics of Victor that unfortunately most media that do decide to portray victor(and not just his monster) leave out. Like he has no respect for life nor death and thinks he is above the laws of nature and is still a little bitch boy and I so so love that the author made him not only a little bitch boy but also a twink lol. I do think this story falls under the sliiiiight pedophilic portrayals of bottom in gay relationships but I think it works with Victor’s character to really show that despite his feats in cheating death, he is still just a little man. I also like that the author took creative liberties when it comes to Henry cuz in the original book he’s just kinda there and I’m a fan of how the author decided to portray him in this story. I also feel that interpreting either Victor or Henry as “sluts” in this story is to completely miss the point in how the author has decided to write them. Both of them are lonely men who have an inferiority complex but decide to deal with it differently, Victor by obsessing over Henry and Henry by filling himself with others admirations. The fact that both of them also have dead parents plays into the inferiority and isolation they both deal with and for Victor, that’s heightened with Henry’s death and instead of dealing with it like a normal person(something he was never taught how to) he instead does what he knows best, which is create.