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I wanted to get more consistent with the way I draw Creature and Victor, so here's a ref sheet I made for my beloved monster boy.

I've mentionned before, but the 'Victor is a begrudent dad and Creature is his angsty son' is my favourite way to approche the story, so I have all these real heartwarming headcannons in my head between the two. But also some just silly ones. Which, I'm justing gonna write here for fun, instead of doing school stuff.

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So fun fact - in the book Victor is 17 when he goes off to University and 19 by the time he cracks the secret to creating life. Meaning that he's around 20 when he makes Creature, and by the time he goes back to Geneva, he's 22-ish (because his brother Ernest is 16 and his younger brother William is 6-7).
Anyway, all this to say, Creature is 2 years old when he first meets Victor.

Which I just find hilarious.

Imagine getting pwnd by your two year old son.
2-YEAR OLD DESTROYS DAD WITH FACTS AND KNOWLEDGE

I feel like Victor was a real sickly kid.
Like, he'd stay up night after night reading and eventually his body would just 'shut down' and he'd fall into days of sleep (hence, why he keeps falling into angst-comas in the book).
Anyway, I feel like while being bedridden, Elizabeth would just sit and sew with him, keeping him company, and that's where Victor learned to sew and stitch so well. He also kinda got into knitting.
He's never told anyone though, especially not Henry (Lord knows he'd tease him to no end).

Kinda stated in the books, but Victor loves thunderstorms. Creature hates them.

Sad headcannon time (more based off the musical, but eh, I do what I want).

So, Victor, instead of dying on the ship, just falls into another one of his coma-things, but the crew all think he's dead.

Creature drops by, gets real existiential when he realizes his dad is dead so he picks him up and carries him off, into the arctic, absolutely devastated.

After wandering a bit, still clutching Victor to his chest, he looks up and sees the sky alive with lights. Green and white and purple.

'Nordlichter' comes the muffled voice in his arms. Northern Lights.

Creature looks down. Victor is starring at the sky, bleary eyed, the ghost of a smile on his cracked lips.

Gently, ever so gently, Creature sits down. He holds Victor like a father would his sick child. Tender and soft and so, so afraid.

He doesn't know what to do.

'Es tut mir leid', comes the voice again, barely a whisper. I'm sorry.

It breaks halfway through, and Victor starts quietly sobbing, holding onto Creature.

Creature had never been held before.

'Sie verdienen besser', Victor hiccups, curling into Creature's chest. You deserved better.

Creature looks down at the bundle in his arms.

This man. This boy. His creator.

The cause of his suffering, the cause of his pain.

The only being in this wide, wide world that understands him, in some small, terrible way.

His father.

Suddenly Creatures wishes things were different.

Suddenly the whimpers stop.

And suddenly Victor Frankenstein is gone.

His Creature left alone with the dancing sky.

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Description
I wanted to get more consistent with the way I draw Creature and Victor, so here's a ref sheet I made for my beloved monster boy.

I've mentionned before, but the 'Victor is a begrudent dad and Creature is his angsty son' is my favourite way to approche the story, so I have all these real heartwarming headcannons in my head between the two. But also some just silly ones. Which, I'm justing gonna write here for fun, instead of doing school stuff.

-

So fun fact - in the book Victor is 17 when he goes off to University and 19 by the time he cracks the secret to creating life. Meaning that he's around 20 when he makes Creature, and by the time he goes back to Geneva, he's 22-ish (because his brother Ernest is 16 and his younger brother William is 6-7).
Anyway, all this to say, Creature is 2 years old when he first meets Victor.

Which I just find hilarious.

Imagine getting pwnd by your two year old son.
2-YEAR OLD DESTROYS DAD WITH FACTS AND KNOWLEDGE

I feel like Victor was a real sickly kid.
Like, he'd stay up night after night reading and eventually his body would just 'shut down' and he'd fall into days of sleep (hence, why he keeps falling into angst-comas in the book).
Anyway, I feel like while being bedridden, Elizabeth would just sit and sew with him, keeping him company, and that's where Victor learned to sew and stitch so well. He also kinda got into knitting.
He's never told anyone though, especially not Henry (Lord knows he'd tease him to no end).

Kinda stated in the books, but Victor loves thunderstorms. Creature hates them.

Sad headcannon time (more based off the musical, but eh, I do what I want).

So, Victor, instead of dying on the ship, just falls into another one of his coma-things, but the crew all think he's dead.

Creature drops by, gets real existiential when he realizes his dad is dead so he picks him up and carries him off, into the arctic, absolutely devastated.

After wandering a bit, still clutching Victor to his chest, he looks up and sees the sky alive with lights. Green and white and purple.

'Nordlichter' comes the muffled voice in his arms. Northern Lights.

Creature looks down. Victor is starring at the sky, bleary eyed, the ghost of a smile on his cracked lips.

Gently, ever so gently, Creature sits down. He holds Victor like a father would his sick child. Tender and soft and so, so afraid.

He doesn't know what to do.

'Es tut mir leid', comes the voice again, barely a whisper. I'm sorry.

It breaks halfway through, and Victor starts quietly sobbing, holding onto Creature.

Creature had never been held before.

'Sie verdienen besser', Victor hiccups, curling into Creature's chest. You deserved better.

Creature looks down at the bundle in his arms.

This man. This boy. His creator.

The cause of his suffering, the cause of his pain.

The only being in this wide, wide world that understands him, in some small, terrible way.

His father.

Suddenly Creatures wishes things were different.

Suddenly the whimpers stop.

And suddenly Victor Frankenstein is gone.

His Creature left alone with the dancing sky.

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