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Because I’ve had the book on the brain since I started working on some writing projects, how about this?
Admittedly I might be remembering the book a little weird, but from what I remember, the creature had no idea who he’d run into until William Frankenstein actually said who he was related to (the musical implies that the creature had known exactly who he was looking at and planned it like that), the murder of William being partially an in the moment type of a move though it turns into some Chessmaster-type finagling when the creature plants a locket that William had on Justine, framing her for the murder of William.
So, my thought is this. Whether it’s premeditated or not the creature goes into the woods, finds William, and gets confirmation of the kid’s connection to Victor. However, before the murder can actually happen, the kid finds out that his older brother made the creature…and instead of being freaked out, William asks if that means he’s the creature’s uncle.
This throws off the whole murderery vibe the creature’s got going on, and he ends up answering out of pure surprise that, well, yes, that would be correct.
William thinks this is awesome and now it’s kind of like the middle of the Iron Giant but the Giant is actually more mature than Hogarth and with a bit of a chip on his shoulder though they still pal around and get into shenanigans together.
The creature has no idea how this happened and while there’s a part of him that kind of expects this to be short-lived he can’t help but indulge this kid that definitely knows what he looks like but somehow just…likes him anyway? It’s all strange but maybe this is better than the whole murder idea.