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- I dunno. The idea of were!Ethan seems plausible, but I don't think he's responsible for the murders (though he might think that he is if he's been blacking out). As incompetent as the London police could be in those days, I'd like to think that even they could easily tell the difference between bodies that were sliced apart with a knife and bodies that were ripped apart with claws and teeth. The show might use that as a red herring, though.
- So far, the show hasn't actually stated how the victims were dismembered, so we don't know if the police think they were cut or just torn apart.
- Well they seem certain it was a person, not some creature with claws and sharp teeth.
- Yeah, but how accurate do you think they are? As Sir Malcolm tells Inspector Galworthy, "you're hunting for a man, you need to start hunting for a beast". (This is called back to in 2x08 as Inspector Rusk questions Sir Malcolm over what he knows about the killings.)
- That could go either way. He might have meant a literal beast or a metaphorical "person who acts like a predator". Or even just "an inhumanly cruel and depraved person". That line might turn out to be a red herring.
- Sir Malcolm is a Great White Hunter. He'd naturally recommend hunting anything, human or animal or monster, like one is tracking down a beast.
- There's clearly something supernatural about him; he could control the wolves in the zoo enough to stick his hand inside a wolf's mouth, and when Victor wants some of his blood for a transfusion he flat out refuses, saying that it's "not a good idea."
- No new dismemberments in episode 3 either, which would make sense if his transformations are on a lunar cycle.
- If he's a werewolf based on actual 19th century penny dreadfuls rather than Universal horror films, we can expect Our Werewolves Are Different to apply, e.g. he may have made a Deal with the Devil to become one, and wouldn't be able to transmit his condition by biting.
- One more possible piece of evidence that, werewolf or not, Ethan is involved in the dismemberments: the montage of Ethan's recent stressful experiences at the end of "Demimonde" includes images of the slaughtered victims. None of the other images are of scenes Ethan himself wasn't present for, very strongly implying he'd seen the dead bodies too.
- There is also the matter of how Ethan is able to summon the force of will necessary to exorcise Vanessa in Possession...
- Confirmed in part; he seems to be a werewolf in the style of The Wolfman 1941, though we only see a glimpse of him. We also have hints that he is connected to the murders, and that he seems to fear he committed them, but we don't know for sure yet if he is responsible. By the end of the series, it's heavily implied he is wholly responsible for any that were not just the vampires.
- While all of the evidence for Ethan's supernatural nature has been wolf-related, so far Penny Dreadful has done a good job of putting spins on older tales. It would be much more fitting for him to be either a wendigo or a skinchanger, given where he comes from and the amount of times he speaks about Native American culture.
- The preview for Grand Guignol also foreshadows this, by giving us a shot of what is presumably Ethan's hand, stretching and morphing into something else. There is no visible fur there, but the limb appears to be elongating somehow. Now read the description for the wendigo: "The Wendigo was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash gray of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the Wendigo looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave."
- Jossed, unless the Pennyverse's wendigos look just like the Wolf Man.
- I think that while Ethan's werewolf abilities seem to be following the European style as he seems confused upon waking up and his change may not be voluntary, it is not outside the realm of possibility that there is some Native American connection in this. He makes frequent mentions of their culture, implying he spent time with them and it doesn't seem to be in a necessarily negative way. Unfortunately, how it actually relates, if it does at all, remains to be seen.
- It would explain why the killer seems to be exclusively targeting women...
- The lamplighter was male, though, and the little girl was too small to contribute body parts to a female Creature.
- Killing the lamplighter was probably just an act of necessity. The lamplighter might have seen the killer's face or something. (And for the record, we don't know for sure if the lamplighter was killed. He might have just run off in a panic.) As for the girl, children can donate organs to adults, so it's not totally implausible.
- Awfully foggy night for the lamplighter to be noticing peoples' faces, however, and his lighter's pole was visible enough that it should've been easy for the killer to just keep some distance between them.
- From the sound of things, Caliban doesn't know how to construct a creature like himself without Frankenstein's help. In which case, it's doubtful he'd be gathering raw materials in advance: Victor's bound to drag his feet about getting started, and the parts would spoil before they could be used.
- Maybe he's been trying to build a mate for a while but can't make it work. Victor did leave a bunch of journals behind when he fled his old lab. Caliban might have some of his old research notes.
- But if he'd trying to build a mate for himself, why would he take the "reproductive matters" of a woman who was already pregnant?
- Apparently jossed; see above.
- Plus, episode 3 suggests that Dracula, unlike the Orlok-like Leader Vampire from the first episode, is able to pass as a man.
- Jossed. Dracula is played by Christian Camargo. However, Dracula does look completely human; he even has olive skin.
- Would Victor willingly use a tuberculosis sufferer as a source of body parts, though? His own mother died of the disease, so he's surely studied it in depth and would know how poor of a condition Brona's tissues (not just her lungs) would be in.
- Well, he's perfected reanimation, so it's not much of a stretch to think he might have perfected some sort of tissue regeneration process as well. He might also choose a tuberculosis victim as a way to spite Caliban. "Here's your new bride! Don't mind the cough!"
- Confirmed; Victor performs a Mercy Kill and has her body on the table now.
- I think this is extremely likely; the show likes to subvert expectations of when we're meeting these characters and how the events in their stories take place. The blonde actress Caliban spied on at the Grand Guignol could indeed be a Sylvia who hasn't had her heart broken by Dorian yet, and when she kills herself, Caliban will be ready to swoop in to make her his Bride.
- Jossed, see above.
- That might explain why he's so little-represented in the opening credits' montage.
- Given his actions in "Memento Mori" ( murdering Angelique) this is increasingly likely.
- What motive would anyone have to kill her, though?
- Inherit the estate, perhaps? Victor doesn't presently have much money, yet he seems to have grown up quite wealthy. His mother says it's "just you and me" after the dog dies, suggesting his father was already deceased. Eliminating Caroline before Victor could come of age may have allowed a distant relative to usurp claim to the Frankenstein family fortune.
- His father isn't deceased - he's the bearded guy who first tries to usher Victor away from his mother's sickbed, and then glares at him at the funeral, when Victor refuses to come to the grave. In addition, the three sobbing boys with him are presumably Victor's older brothers, so there would be a lot of murdering to be done before the Frankensteins lost the estate. From his father's reactions to him as a child, and the issues Victor displays both about father figures and more athletic brothers, it seems more likely that Victor is deliberately estranged from his remaining family, and doesn't have money because of that.
- I would argue that his mother was wealthy enough to afford medicine and was probably hiding her illness from her son. Most likely it hit her so bad at that time that she couldn't stop it. Some people are able to hide their TB for a long time and even function normally.
- Except if she'd known she was ill, she probably wouldn't have been snuggling and kissing her son for fear of passing the infection on to him.
- TB isn't spread through kissing, touching (persons or things), or even sharing food and drink, it is spread by inhaling the particles when a diseased person coughs or sneezes. Her being ill has no bearing on whether she hugs or kisses her son.
- Actually it does. An infected person can spread TB simply by talking and breathing since the infectious dose of TB is absurdly small. Just being in the same room with someone who has TB risks infection.
- But depending on the year it was, they wouldn't know that. Up until the 1880s they didn't even know Consumption was contagious, or even that it was a bacterial disease. Some people even thought that it was caused by vampires, granted it is unlikely that the well educated believed this. Also, some people just don't get TB or they have a form of it that never actually manifests symptoms and is not deadly. She could easily have died of TB and still acted exactly the same way she did without causing Victor to have TB.
- The series is set in 1891, and clearly it's known that consumption is contagious, because Brona warns Dorian that he shouldn't risk coming near her because of her illness.
- The series may be set in 1891, but his mother didn't die in 1891. Assuming Victor is in his mid-to late 20s, or even 30, and he was between 8 and 10 when his mother died, then she died somewhere between 16 to 22 years previously in the 1860s or 1870s, before they knew it was contagious or caused by disease.
- Inherit the estate, perhaps? Victor doesn't presently have much money, yet he seems to have grown up quite wealthy. His mother says it's "just you and me" after the dog dies, suggesting his father was already deceased. Eliminating Caroline before Victor could come of age may have allowed a distant relative to usurp claim to the Frankenstein family fortune.
- Or maybe he is a werewolf, because the one he's wanted for killing bit him before it died.
- And the reason he's so visibly disturbed by the dismemberment murders...is because he's afraid he might be the one who did it.
- Jossed, he's the Wolf Man. The thugs his father send to collect him suggest that the killing(s) he's wanted for in the U.S. involved a lot of blood, so probably their victims were ripped apart rather than shot.
- Further jossed in season 3: Although Ethan may have killed as a werewolf in America as well, the murder he's wanted for is that of his U.S. Army commander, whom he shot for gloating over a massacre of Apache women and children.
- One particularly interesting bit of dialogue could support this theory - in "Resurrection", Fenton says to Vanessa "naughty girl, Mother will punish you". "Mother" might not be Vanessa's mother, but the Mother Vampire, Mina Murray.
- Alternately, vampire-Mina isn't in charge, but she's still willingly cooperating with Dracula to recruit her "dear friend" into the fold, so they can be companions again.
- Further evidence for this one - in "Demimonde", Vanessa herself questions if Mina is manipulating them (as it was Mina who lead her to the zoo, where they found Fenton, bringing him back to their home and thus "inviting" the master vampire in) and that she could be "beyond help". Malcolm fires back that she can't blame Mina, as Vanessa has betrayed her in the past, but Mina reminds him he abandoned Mina his entire life before this happened. Sounds like Mina could hold them both responsible.
- Jossed in that Mina refers to the Master wanting Vanessa shortly before Sir Malcolm puts her down. Confirmed in that she's been actively helping him lure Vanessa into his clutches. The Master still seems to be out there.
- Jossed. No sign of him, though it seems that what we thought were the "master" vampires are really more along the line of Elite Mooks and the "true" Master (potentially Dracula) is still out there.
- Confirmed that someone close to him (his wife Hannah) was transformed into a vampire, although it's unclear how much of a chance he had to try to cure her before resorting to Staking the Loved One.
- In the finale, Mina claims that the Master intends to personally breed an army of offspring with Vanessa. Unless the Master isn't a vampire at all, but some kind of possessing entity that merely uses vampires as servants, it's hard to see how he could do this through Dorian.
- Lovecraft didn't start writing about Cosmic Horror until the 1920s, and his work was partly a rebellion against the human-oriented themes of Gothic horror fiction. The styles aren't really compatible when they're played as straight as Penny Dreadful is playing them. Some of Lovecraft's predecessors, like Arthur Machen or William Hope Hodgson, might be workable as inspiration.
- Jossed in that she was never fully human (as she wasn't able to get past the Cut-Wife's supernatural barrier), but she wasn't at all a vampire. However, this has since changed after "Ebb Tide." Vanessa has allowed Dracula to bite her, which will presumably turn her into a vampire.
Perhaps both the fictional characters and their real-life counterparts exist at the same time, inexorably linked yet unaware of the other's existence.
- It certainly was enough to kill *some* of the mooks/Brides, but not all of them considering there are many instances of them shrugging off gunshot wounds. Furthermore, we only see Malcolm shoot her in the shoulder. The second bullet is never seen hitting her, just that she's lying next to Vanessa.
- I dunno about that. If that is the case, why does he keep it locked away in a secret room if he thinks it's just a painting?
- It also doesn't quite jive with Dorian claiming to already have tried everything and getting bored horribly easy. That only makes sense if he's been playing this game for a while.
- Brona clawed Dorian deep enough to bloody him in the second episode, yet there's no trace of any scabs or scars on his back in his later shirtless scenes. Presumably he's been healing himself all along.
- Jossed; John Logan has said that Dorian has "seen the fall of civilizations". Also, as of Memento Mori, we've seen what is in the painting, and it looks old.
- Except Victor's "romantic tendencies" mostly seem to hint that he's not interested in women. And there already is a romantic contender in form of Ethan.
- So far, Victor's feelings toward his creations seem to be paternal ones, which would make an attraction for reanimated-Brona on his part incestuous. Not to say the show couldn't go there, it just may be the wrong flavor of creepy for this program.
- Confirmed. Sorry, but Victor's necrophilia is exactly this program's flavor of creepy. He fondles the not-quite-resurrected Brona, touching her breasts and the scar tissue from his autopsy.
- actually, I went back to re-watch S1, and Brona has a much smaller and less obvious scar than Proteus. I submit that Victor didn't need to autopsy Brona at all... that scar is from when he gave her a lung transplant before reviving her, so she wouldn't be sick in her second life.
- And it seems to be even more complicated then that. Victor confesses to Still-Dead-Brona that he "missed talking to her." Since Victor and Brona hardly knew each other, and we've yet to find out if he had other female acquaintances that only leaves one possible person he might be addressing here - his mother. Poor Victor really seems a lot more messed up than it first appeared. Necrophilia is just the tip of the iceberg here.
- this might verge more on Alternative Character Interpretation, but Inspector Rusk's interview with Ethan (Sir Malcolm mentions 'Christmas is coming up' near the end of S1, and Rusk speaks of 'last year') implies that at least a month or so passes between season 1 and 2; presumably to give all the characters a breather so they don't go nuts from the stress. (and if Victor did switch out her diseased lungs with a healthy set, the way her scars imply, it probably took him awhile to find a good set in a notoriously filthy city like 1890's London) Victor might very well have been talking to Brona in the tank all this time, much the same way many little girls talk to their toys (I know I did); his actions towards her body in the tank could be a case of advanced anthropomorphism combined with 'wow naked chick' (because Victor has the social and sexual development of a mid-teenage boy, let's admit it). Which in itself isn't much less creepy, come to think of it.
- Season 2 confirms that she is a follower of The Master, but so far looks to be only a powerful witch rather than a vampire.
- Malcolm also comments to Vanessa even earlier than that, 'You are the daughter I deserve.' He could have been speaking metaphorically, but what if he wasn't? Also, Vanessa actually does resemble Malcolm quite strongly, with their matching extreme cheekbones and dark hair. BUT, anyone remember what colour eyes Vanessa's mother had? Because Eva Green has blue-green eyes, and Timothy Dalton has green (according to imdb anyway). Blue eyes being a recessive trait, it is unlikely but still possible to have blue eyes if only one parent has them too (one of my friends in high school had a particular shade of blue eyes in her family as a rare dominant trait. Also, I have green eyes, but my mother has hazel and my father had blue, as does my brother). However, it's impossible for two brown-eyed parents to have a blue-eyed child, or for two blue-eyed parents to have anything other than a blue-eyed child.
- Anna Chancellor has blue eyes, fwiw.
There are plenty of clues that link these entities together: Mina and Evelyn Poole both mention "the master", and though Mina never name-drops "Dracula", Evelyn definitely identifies the master she serves as Lucifer. But the vampires are linked with the devil and his plan to conjoin Amon-Ra (himself) and Amonet (Vanessa) together because images of this event appeared on the inner-skin of the vampire that Malcolm and Vanessa take to Frankenstein. Evelyn is also invested in the carrying out of this Amon-Ra/Amonet plan, and it was certainly the intent of the entity that Vanessa identifies as "the serpent, devil of the pit" (a.k.a. Lucifer) that appears to her in the guise of both Malcolm and Ethan at different points of her life, and which was implied to be the very same demon that's been torturing her since childhood. Two more links: in the Comic Con deleted scene, Evelyn is given the line "what games we shall have" (which is what the demon utters just before it possesses Vanessa) and she sings "The Unquiet Grave" in the bathtub full of blood (a song that Vanessa hums while possessed). Whew.
- The only thing this doesn't explain is why it's so important that Evelyn and the witch's coven "find" Vanessa and prepare her for Lucifer. He seems to have been doing this all Vanessa's life without any assistance from vampires or witches.
- Probably Evelyn doesn't really care if Lucifer gets Vanessa now or later on, but she does care about whether she, herself, can claim the credit for him doing so more easily.
- Jossed as of "Memento Mori": Lucifer and Dracula are both Fallen angels, one consigned to Hell and the other to Earth. They're brothers competing to claim the Mother of Evil.
- "A Blade Of Grass" seems to have jossed the idea that Vanessa's demon is a manifestation of either one of them, as Amunet basically tells them both to fuck off and die when they try to seduce an institutionalized Vanessa.
- Jossed. Her new name is "Lily."
- Unless the show has drastically re-written the history of British poetry, Percy Bysshe Shelley is almost 70 years dead by the time these events take place.
- The survivor, Mr. Roper, already is an antagonist for Ethan: He's one of the two bounty hunters Ethan's father sent after him. Which probably Josses this WMG, as presuming to re-imagine the cultured, quintessentially-French Phantom as a sleazy American thug-for-hire would likely get anyone who's a fan of the Opera Ghost's original story to start throwing things at the TV screen.
- Further Jossing comes with the official synopsis for Episode 6 — a plot point is Mr. Roper coming after Ethan for revenge, so that character's thread will likely be done by season's end. (And as far as another antagonist for Ethan goes, there's one already — Inspector Rusk of Scotland Yard, "who sort of becomes Ethan's nemesis" according to John Logan himself.)
- Called it! The Creature has a flashback to his human life in the Season 3 premiere.
- Or maybe, while the Nightcomers are focusing all their scheming attentions on Ethan and Sir Malcolm, Vanessa will turn to the one ally which they've been completely ignoring, by having Victor give her a hysterectomy. She can't very well become the "Mother of Evil" if she can't become the mother of anything, and it'd serve her pursuers right for disregarding Frankenstein as a threat because he's "merely" an expert on science, not magic.
- Jossed by "Memento Mori"; Angelique is mortal enough to die when Dorian poisons her for discovering his portrait, and it was Dracula who got kicked out of Heaven along with Lucifer.
- Jossed; Christian Camargo is playing Dracula.
- Jossed again when referring to Satan; it seems as though Satan doesn't really have a physical form and can only appear to Vanessa as people she knows.
This could even finally bring Dorian into the gang in truth; he's probably got a pretty shrewd idea of at least some of Vanessa's magical talents. Who else could he turn to in order to undo what Angelique's done to herself?
- Jossed, as Angelique is murdered by Dorian in 2x08 after she discovers his secret.
a) Evelyn doesn't need Lady Murray dead to get Malcolm into bed, or to lead him around by his... um, hormones. She doesn't care about scandal, and Malcolm's made it clear that Gladys has officially ceased to give a shit what - or who - he does. The only reason for Evelyn to require Lady Murray dead is in order to replace her.b) It's been made clear that Lucifer not only wants Vanessa to birth his children but as his bride. For one reason or another, a formal ceremony of some kind is required to achieve his aims.c) by ancient traditions (and you can't get much more ancient than Biblical) a daughter's hand in marriage can only be bestowed by her father... or, if the father was dead, her mother. (look, I'm not saying it was fair or right, just that it was)d) ergo, Evelyn wants to marry Sir Malcolm and become Vanessa's stepmother. If Sir Malcolm conveniently dies, she then has the ancient right to marry Vanessa off as she chooses; in this scenario, Evelyn can hand Vanessa over to Lucifer perfectly legally - ritually speaking, anyway.
- Except even if Vanessa is Sir Malcolm's illegitimate daughter, the only person who could really confirm that is Vanessa's mother, who's dead. So far as Vanessa's traditional and legal status is concerned, Mr. Ives is her father, and unless he's openly declared Sir Malcolm to be her lawful guardian, it'd be up to him to consent to any potential marriage. From what we've seen, Evelyn doesn't even know who he is.
- He will be killed off. Prior to this he will either:
- Turn out to be Evil All Along like so many other characters in this show or...
- Be another fundamentally good soul cruelly given the chop, after Peter, Proteus, Van Helsing, Gladys, Angelique...
- As a bonus, whether he's good or evil his death could make things much, much harder for the antihero squad in Season 3.
- He will figure out/learn what's going on but still not be able to bring the heroes to judgment yet, which will provide a plot thread for Season 3.
- He will figure out/learn what's going on, join the heroes, and continue into Season 3, perhaps becoming a regular. With Sembene likely dead after the events of 2x09, and Dorian, Lily, and Caliban becoming a villain team, there's room and need for another member on the Anti-Hero team, and he'd be a great contact with his police connections. He might even turn out to be a Handicapped Badass. And if one wants an extreme twist...
- He will be the REAL Wolf of God in a Prophecy Twist. Assuming that God Is Good in this show's universe, why would He use a indiscriminately murderous werewolf, who has slain children, to do His bidding? Now a Determinator police inspector who hasn't let losing an arm as a solider keep him down, who pursues his quarry carefully and untiringly in the name of law and order...that's someone a good deity wants on their team! Who says the Wolf of God has to be a literal wolf? Not to mention that he'd give the concept of "the left hand of God" a whole new meaning...
- And any of these developments might reveal that he has a supernatural ability or isn't quite human. Up until now, he's only been seen as a Muggle with an open mind, and nothing in the backstory the audience knows of him suggests he's anything but that...but is he just very good at hiding what he actually is?
- In the end, this was all Jossed: He's escorting Ethan back to America to meet his fate. The closest thing he's done to an outright evil deed is holding back on extraditing him simply out of his need for closure on the killings. So now...
Generally, it might be that he is or will become...
- Someone who has a past with monsters and that's how he really lost that arm.
- The reincarnation of someone who figures into the prophecy! His old body might be mummified, peacefully moldering in the British Museum, which would allow a mummy to be part of the story in a sideways manner (Douglas Hodge is Caucasian, so he can't turn out to actually be a mummy such as Imhotep).
- A new love interest for Vanessa. He doesn't seem to have a wife or family, and he's no less valid as a shipping possibility than Ethan, Victor, or John just because he's older and plainer than the first two. (True Beauty Is on the Inside.)
- A Handicapped Badass.
- Possessed. (Will the force be good or evil?)
- Really 700 Years Old.
- A Hunter of Monsters
- Another werewolf, because Ethan will transform during the ocean crossing, kill most of the people on board, and chomp on Rusk before falling overboard. Ethan will awaken washed up on shore somewhere, leaving Rusk with a new reason to keep tracking him: he'll want revenge for, yet also need Ethan to teach him about, the curse. This would account for why Rusk's character was made one-armed: it'll let us always tell who's who if they both transform and start fighting each other.
If he remains morally good, he might be or become...
- A Reluctant Monster / Non-Malicious Monster, who knows how to control transformations into his other form, or hold back killer urges.
- A Noble Demon.
- An Angel Unaware.
- The real Wolf of God in a Prophecy Twist.
- An Occult Detective.
- A Gentleman Wizard.
- The Good Counterpart to Dorian Gray if he turns out to be long-lived or immortal.
If it turns out he's Evil All Along, he might be or become...
- The Mole on Team Dreadful.
- A Fallen Angel.
- He Who Fights Monsters.
- An Evil Sorcerer, perhaps with ambitions of becoming a Sorcerous Overlord.
- Another form of The Master! Given that Dorian and Lily are expected to serve as the Big Bad of the Season 3 arc, having him turn out to be a Greater-Scope Villain would be a great twist.
- Alternately, Sembene will come back as a ghost. We haven't seen a proper Pennyverse ghost yet, which is a huge lapse in a series inspired by Victorian horror literature. He'd be able to continue his role as the quiet dispenser of wisdom to the group, potentially manifesting before each of the others to draw them back together, however scattered they might be. And even his backstory would fit, because for once, it'd make perfect karmic sense for a ghost to be draped in chains, as per tradition, without need for Dickensian symbolism to justify it: he'd be paying the price for his slave-trading days when he'd chained people up.
- Henry Jekyll/Edward Hyde
- Confirmed. Shazad Latif has been cast as Dr. Jekyll.
- Doctor Moreau
- Jossed, possibly forever: the producers wanted him for Season 3, but he's not Public Domain and they couldn't get the rights to use him.
- Ayesha, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed
- The Invisible Man
- The Time Traveler
- A character from one of Bram Stoker's other novels
- Sherlock Holmes, or maybe just Dr. John Watson
- Carmilla
- Semi-confirmed. John Logan says that Carmilla has inspired one relationship every season - Vanessa and Mina in season 1, Evelyn and Hecate in season 2, and Lily and Justine in season 3.
- Arthur Gordon Pym, if the Creature's ship sailed to the Antarctic not the Arctic
- The Canterville Ghost
Upon discovering his son's lycanthropy, Ethan's father, possibly in conjunction with the American Military, began using him as a weapon by waiting until a full moon and then pointing him at whatever group of people they wanted decimated. It explains both Ethan's guilt, and the fact that he is living in hiding from his father.
- Which rather implies that Talbot Sr. wanted Roper and his Native associate to get killed, as he didn't warn them not to try to apprehend Ethan at the time of a full moon.
- Jossed; Ethan's father seems unaware of his son's lycanthropy, and wants Ethan back to force him to atone for giving Kaetenay's Apaches information about the Talbot ranch's defenses.
The character description given is that she is "an acolyte to Brona and Dorian Gray". Given the amount of kinky sex that tends to go on with those two characters and their new megalomania, a character from a work by the Marquis de Sade would fit right in there, especially as the Marquis de Sade's character is a young woman trying to be virtuous but is constantly surrounded by corrupting influences.
- Sembene could also serve as a new magical tutor to Vanessa, teaching her alternative forms of magic.
In the two episodes we've seen him in (as of May 9th), Jekyll has been doing some seriously nasty things, chief of which being planning to brainwash Lily so she can essentially be Victor's love slave. Given how, in the story, Hyde was steadily supplanting Jekyll, and we know that by the time he is introduced in the show, Jekyll has already been performing his experiments, it would make sense if it was revealed that he had already used himself as a test subject and is now either fully taken over by Hyde, or is starting to be.
- Or we're seeing elements of his evil side now, which will become Hyde when he starts playing Professor Guinea Pig. Once that happens, the aspect of him that continues to answer to the name "Jekyll" will be left a much better person, morally, and be repulsed by his own prior misbehavior; unfortunately, without his bitterness or anger he'll no longer have the drive to defeat his other self.
- Alternately, Sembene could have been born in Senegal but moved to Zanzibar because of his work as a slave trader. Slavery had been abolished in Senegal by the French back in the 1850s, but persisted in Zanzibar until 1873.
- Vanessa will return from the dead. How is anyone's guess. Time-travel? Vampirism? Does a guilt ridden John Clare force Victor to bring her back? And we might actually find out what the HELL Amunet is.
- Judging from the newly released comic covers for issues 1-2, Ethan will travel to Egypt to revive Vanessa/Amunet.
- The mummy will be the villain of the first arc.
- Ethan finds out about Brona.
- Sir Malcolm dies at some point given how high father figures and mentors' mortality rates are in fiction.
- Carmilla will appear at some point. Bonus if she's a past lover of Dorian's.
- Lily will team up with "Lord Hyde" at some point as both want revenge on Victorian society for the mistreatment they suffered at the hands at European patriarchy.
- Dracula vs. Ethan at long last!
- Seward will develop witch powers.
- Catriona is the Time Traveler, or his daughter at least.
- Dracula's true form will be revealed.