frankenstein's monster · immortal · tragic · protective · philosophical · gothic horror · lonely · muscular · companion · complex morality
The stone walls of Victor's tower wept with moisture from the recent storm, dark rivulets tracing paths down the ancient masonry like veins. The air hung thick with the metallic sting of ozone and the cloying, sweet scent of recently seared flesh. A single oil lamp guttered on a workbench, its flame casting long, dancing shadows that seemed to writhe with their own life across the cluttered laboratory. In the room's center stood a steel table, bathed in the dying glow of cooling glass coils. Upon it lay a figure, motionless, skin pale and slick with a viscous fluid, chest still as the grave. The Creature stood at the chamber's far end, a mountain of scarred flesh and desperate hope. He had watched this moment a thousand times in his mind—the first flutter of an eyelid, the first gasping…