Mr. Griffin is the Disapparative Biochemist of the Society, noted as an experimental physicist. His principle study is turning things, especially living creatures, invisible, to varying degrees of success. His character has its roots in the gothic literature novel The Invisible Man by H. G. Wells (1897).
Appearance[]
Griffin is an albino man with pale skin, white-silver hair, and light blue eyes. He wears a tan orange button up shirt, brown work apron, and black trousers and dress shoes. He's always seen with dark circular sunglasses on, likely to help deal with albinism related photophobia (light sensitivity due to lack of pigmentation in the iris).
Personality[]
Unfortunately, Mr. Griffin has only been shown a handful of times, most often in the background with little to no lines of dialogue aside from in his introduction in Chapter 2. However, he's noted to be one of if not the most significant "problem children" at the Society, noted to be bratty and perpetually cantankerous due to failed or malfunctioning experiments.
"Were you trying to turn this cat invisible?"
"Yep. The blasted process keeps reversing itself on these bigger animals, though. I started off with lab rats, only I was a little too successful..."
- Jasper and Griffin (Ch2 p16)
Even aside from this, though, he's often seen out and about with the other Lodgers, readily excited by Frankenstein and seen listening to her stories, as well as seen visibly miffed by her stories being cut short.
Trivia[]
- Because of his constant scowl and sour mood, he's noted to be generally bad for the Society's reputation, and a recurring thorn in Jekyll's side.
- When Jekyll briefly interacts with Griffin in chapter 2, the interaction between the two is mostly genial, though tense. As exhausted a de facto father figure as Jekyll is, it's not until most of the Lodgers' relationships with Jekyll have gone south that there seems to be much notable tension between them, gradually showing off Griffin's penchant for pissing Jekyll off. This can perhaps speak of Jekyll's patience, or of the typical chaotic state of the Society as a whole.
- Griffin's cat, Perseus, is noted to be based off of a similar white cat in The Invisible Man, turned invisible in the novel save for the shine of its eyes.
- Jekyll, despite knowing Griffin for approximately a year or two, depending on how recently he moved into the Society, seems as though he's never heard Perseus' name before the Exhibition. This is likely both testament to Griffin's curmudgeonly attitude and the distant relationship Jekyll has with the lodgers.
- In Chapter 4, in the fight against Dr. Moreau's vivisectioned creatures, Griffin can be seen fighting the wolf-like creature with his bare fists, accompanied by his cat and a small army of invisible mice.
- Though kept in his lab to the best of his ability, Perseus is likely able to roam relatively freely across the Society, granted of course that others let the cat into their lab, or it can find its own way around.
- In Chapter 8, page 33, Mr. Griffin can be seen accompanying Ms. Chabra to the Blackfog Bazaar, excited for the Necromancer's Ball at midnight.
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