Frankenstein

Baron Frankenstein
A.K.A.	Victor von Frankenstein Doctor Frankenstein
Character Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Residence	Castle Frankenstein
Children	Frankenstein's Monster
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	PROSE: The Ghosts and the Machine
Also seen in	PROSE: The Book of Evil PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There (mentioned)
Copyright	Public Domain

In many realities, Frankenstein, sometimes the Baron Victor von Frankenstein, was an infamous mad scientist who turned his genius to the creation of artificial flesh creatures, the first and most famous of whom was Frankenstein's Monster. In some worlds, he was a fictional archetype, while in others he was a real man.

Description

Physical appearance

The version of Frankenstein known to the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids was an old man who resembled Boris Karloff. He had steel-grey eyes and a “shock of white hair”, and habitually wore a stained labcoat. He also carried a pair of rusting safety goggles around his neck. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Personality

Frankenstein was a consummate scientist who loved nothing more than his work, particularly insofar as it involved pushing the boundaries of what was thought possible. His attitude to his work was scrupulously amoral, continuing his experiments throughout his life without intending to bring about tragedies, but having no visible remorse at those of his past failures which did so. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Powers & abilities

Pythagoras-858 considered Frankenstein to be a genius on par with Sherlock Holmes. He was the originator of, and the living end on, a new branch of the medical sciences to do with the recomposition and reanimation of dead flesh. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

Biography

In Frankenstein's World

See main article: Baron Frankenstein (Frankenstein's World)

In one world, Baron Frankenstein survived his first creation's vengeful, confused rampage, although the Monster “nearly killed [him]”. He continued his experiments throughout his life, stocking the crumbling Castle Frankenstein with a supply of bodies to work from. At some point, the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids came across him and established some kind of arrangement with him, with one of their numbers apprenticing himself to the Baron and even taking his name.

Decades later from the Crew's perspective, but possibly less from the Baron's, he received a visit from Pythagoras-858 and Sherlock Holmes, who asked for his insights about the psychology of artificial beings rebelling against their creators, as part of their investigation in the mysterious freezing of Madame Tarsa into a magical block of ice and the theft of her cane. The Baron's stories of how his Monster had blended in with the criminal element inspired Pythe to next go looking for Tarsa's hypothesised rebellious creation in the Interdimensional Black Market. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

In the Prime Universe

See main article: Victor von Frankenstein (Prime Universe)

In the “Prime Universe”, Sherlock Holmes knew of “Victor von Frankenstein” as a fictional character. (PROSE: The Time of the Toymaker)

In the Cupid Homeworld

See main article: Frankenstein-818

After the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids discovered Frankenstein's World, a Cupid apprenticed himself to that Baron Frankenstein and took on the name of Frankenstein-818, coming to reside in the Cupid Homeworld in a gothic Castle of his own. (PROSE: The Ghosts and the Machine, The Time of the Toymaker, etc.)

In the 925th Universe

Frankenstein was known to Doctor Know of the 925th Universe by the end of the 19th century or so, when he pondered how to create his perfect successor and briefly considered that he might “take a note from Frankenstein and tailor-make his man” — although, given the Doctor's interdimensional knowledge, this may not have been referring to the 925th Universe version of Frankenstein, whether fictional or actual. (PROSE: Annals of the Jen: One Year of Jenny Over-There: Tetra-None Hepta-Oct and Doctor Know-It-All Talk it Out)