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Jekyde is the slash ship between Henry Jekyll and Edward Hyde from the Jekyll and Hyde fandom.
Canon[]
Henry Jekyll, an accomplished scientist hailing from a rich family, had always stood at a high position in life, but realized that it came with a cost of his own freedom. This repression fuelled his theory that every person has a good side and a bad side in them, and he had begun to hate how one represses the other, so he decided to create a potion from obscure chemical materials that would allow for him to change his appearance. He later described it as an agonizing process, but it felt like recovering from an illness when it subsided. Though his transformation made him shorter, it also made him feel younger, he couldn't have examined the changes the first night as he had to purchase a mirror specifically to watch them happen. He resorted to walking to his bedroom from his laboratory in the dark of the night, upon arriving, he examined himself in the mirror and saw a different man (whom he later named "Edward Hyde") staring back at him.
He realized that Hyde was younger than Jekyll, but it didn't make him more attractive. While Jekyll was plain, having done a lot of good in his life, Hyde had "evil" written all over his face. But Jekyll wasn't uncomfortable when he saw Hyde in the mirror, quite the contrary, he regarded Hyde as just another facet of himself. When continuing to stare at his reflection, Jekyll/Hyde had the idea of making this experience the basis of a second experiment: Whether he had lost his identity as Hyde and would've been treated like a stranger in his own home. However, the rational side of him panicked and hurried back to drink the potion again, which turned him back into Jekyll before anything else could've happened.
Jekyll felt compelled to keep turning into Hyde, instead of keeping his inner inhibitions locked up. So to ensure that Hyde would always have a place to flee should anyone alert the police, Jekyll prepared his house in Soho and told his servants about Hyde, but deliberately made it look like Hyde was a distinct individual. Going a step further, he as Jekyll wrote in his will to give all his material possessions to Hyde should anything happen to Jekyll in his regular identity. This however alerted Jekyll's friend and lawyer Utterson, who had already heard of the bad reputation Hyde had earned among the townsfolk, thus rousing suspicion that someone as upstanding as Jekyll would ever trust Hyde with his inheritance. But since Hyde could simply "disappear" into Jekyll simply by mixing a few chemicals, Jekyll saw little reason to worry of the consequences.
Eventually, Jekyll developed a complex, even he was shocked at how far Hyde/he himself was willing to go. But he spoke himself free of any blame by shifting it entirely to Hyde, then work to fix the damage Hyde had done as Jekyll to ease his conscience and further throw the authorities off of his track. But as Hyde was even going so far as to hurt a local child, Jekyll saw himself forced to fix Hyde's damage as Hyde until it was possible for him to make a second account at a different bank. Jekyll's alternate identity further caused him distress as he woke up in Jekyll's bed somehow having turned into Hyde overnight, and since it was already morning and Jekyll's servants were already up, the only solution Hyde/Jekyll saw was dressing Hyde as Jekyll and then walking to the laboratory to change back.
In horror, Jekyll realized that his body was starting to turn into Hyde naturally, and his mind started losing grip on his original identity. He noted that, though he and Hyde shared memories, Hyde absorbed all of Jekyll's worst qualities, thus he eventually considered Hyde a different person. Though Jekyll saw Hyde like a son, Hyde saw Jekyll with indifference that would be typical of one. Jekyll knew his limits and was hesitant to exceed them, Hyde did not care what he would lose if he died. In the end, Jekyll admitted that he preferred his old self, yet could never bring himself to disown Hyde and unperson him for good. He eventually admitted that it was his weakness compelling him to swallow the potion yet again.
However, as Hyde murdered Sir Danvers Carew and became a wanted criminal in the whole city, Jekyll felt himself pressured to keep Hyde contained at all costs. Even as Utterson visited to check on Jekyll about Hyde, Jekyll reassured him that Hyde is "safely contained" without elaborating. Jekyll admitted that he was happier with his true self, but then realized that he was turning back into Hyde without use of the potion. He had no way of turning back outside and actually entering Jekyll's home at daytime could've led to Jekyll's own servants having him arrested. However, he remembered that Jekyll and Hyde had one commonality: they had the same handwriting, so he used that to write a letter to Jekyll's friend Lanyon. Giving Lanyon instructions to carry the drawer containing the chemicals from the laboratory to his own house, then waiting until midnight for Hyde to arrive. On his way to Lanyon, Jekyll stopped seeing Hyde as himself, starting to refer to him in third person and to stop seeing him as human. When Jekyll turned back into himself right in front of Lanyon, the latter's shock and disappointment in him moved him to the point where he no longer feared ending up in the gallows as long as he wouldn't turn back into Hyde.
As he went back home that night, he had slept so well that he almost had hope that things would end well for him. But shortly after breakfast, he felt those same sensations again and could only barely make it back to safety in his cabinet, managing to turn back into himself, but then feeling the same sensation after only six hours. He had noticed that he now could only turn back into Jekyll temporarily and even if he only fell asleep for a few seconds, he would wake as Hyde. Jekyll also noticed that Hyde started to return Jekyll's hatred for him, feeling that he would have to commit suicide daily just so that Jekyll could have a chance at a normal life. Thus, Jekyll observed that Hyde even took control when he wasn't active, writing insults to Jekyll while Jekyll was noting something down or destroying portraits of Jekyll's own father just to spite him. Jekyll realizes the only things stopping Hyde from killing himself are his fear of death/love of life and his desire to see Jekyll suffer. However, the potion that kept Jekyll as himself couldn't be properly replicated anymore, as the entirety of London was running out of ingredients. With the last of his time as himself, Jekyll writes a lengthy explanation for his friend Utterson and gave it to his servant so Hyde wouldn't know where it was and destroy it.
As Jekyll's servants notice that he had gone missing, they recruit Utterson for help. But as they break into the cabinet with combined efforts, all they find is Mr. Hyde's corpse, having somehow self-destructed. Utterson then finds a note by Jekyll, which leads to the servants giving him the rest of the documents, meaning that Utterson would be the only living person who knew that Jekyll and Hyde were one and the same.
Fanon[]
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The story of Jekyll and Hyde helped set the template for future split personality stories.
Fandom[]
- FAN FICTION
- Edward/Henry tag on AO3
- Edward & Henry tag on AO3
- Jekyll/Hyde (OUAT) tag on AO3
- Berserker/Assassin (Fate) tag on AO3
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| Jekyll & Hyde Ships • Jekyll & Hyde Characters | ||
| SHIPS | slash | Henriel • Jekffin • Jekyde • Jekyllstein • Jekyon • Lanyde |
| CHARACTERS | male | Dr. Jekyll |
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| The Glass Scientists Ships • The Glass Scientists Characters | ||
| SHIPS | het | Pidglock |
| slash | Jekffin • Jekyde • Jekyon • Lanyde | |
| CHARACTERS | male | Henry Jekyll |