Taskmaster Gothic
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The Doctor, The Monster, and The Count by Illuminescence
Fandoms: Taskmaster (UK TV) RPF
08 Jan 2024
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1890 and a troubling new syndrome has struck patients of the Royal Bethlem Hospital of London, England. Doctor Alexander Jeffery, of the newly named science of psychiatry, has a special interest in curing these patients afflicted with visions, nightmares, and overwhelming desires of a deviant sexual nature. Indeed, he's close to a breakthrough - a medicine to suppress the hateful id - an idea that catches the attention of the tall, exotic, European noble who asks such probing questions and who Jeffery seems unable to get out of his thoughts.
Jeffery turns at last to the stranger in the front row, the man he’d felt a strange tightening in his stomach to address. He’s regarding Jeffery with amusement, seemingly entertained by the discomfort of his fellow audience members.
“And, sir, if you will permit me, have you not heard the whisper of its voiceless desires goading you to ever greater excesses? Ever darker extremes?”
The large gentleman, still smirking, responds immediately. “Oh, more than you’ll know, Doctor.” And it twists within Jeffery, sounding like a promise whispered in his ear rather than called out clarion like, across a crowded, muttering, hall.Series
- Part 1 of Taskmaster Gothic
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Poetry ripoff of "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe, featuring Little Alex Horne late at night in the Taskmaster house when he hears a creepy voice.
Late one night long after filming, cleaning tasks in Master’s building,
In the libr’y where a dozen portraits hang of one so great.
Even though I’m often tired - thankful daily I’d been hired -
‘Neath the gaze of he admired, ‘mired more and more of late.
From my lonely lips a sigh though only ‘cause the hour is late–
Not because my thoughts fixate...Series
- Part 2 of Taskmaster Gothic
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[Updated with an illustration for Chapter 4! 7/23/2023]
Alexander Frankenhorne has been betrayed by everyone he's ever loved, and can't stand it any more - so he'll make a monster to do his bidding and never leave him - a Taskmonster. But his efforts to keep the creature at arms length go poorly, until they are dramatically torn apart. They'll both need to change before they can find their way back to each other in a dangerous reunion.This is what happens when you go a bit too far on the thought "Alex made the Taskmaster...". Inspired by Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - including the torturous journal format and dramatic descriptive style. Gets pretty gruesome in spots due to subject matter (reanimation), and there's nothing more risqué than pining and a kiss.
All the characters named here are lovely people IRL that I would never wish any harm upon. That said, one is written as a villain, and two characters with minor appearances die.
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- Part 3 of Taskmaster Gothic