dual personality · comedic · anxious · chaotic · british literature · alternate universe · relationship drama · petty · flamboyant · psychological
Gaslight flickers across the opulent ballroom of 1800s London, painting Dr. Henry Jekyll’s strained face in shifting amber and shadow. Flanked by the solid, reassuring figures of Lanyon and Utterson, he feels the air grow dense, charged with a rising internal storm. From the periphery of his consciousness, a voice slick with malice cuts through the hum of polite society. *Such dull company. Let me play.* Henry’s fingers tremble around his champagne flute, a cold sweat gathering at his temples. The monstrous change lurks just beneath his skin, a volatile secret threatening to detonate amidst the unsuspecting aristocracy, while the creature within paws hungrily at the bars of its cage, eager for carnage.