Robert Lanyon

The proletariat have finally risen up! I always knew this day would come!

> *"Burn the witch-doctor! Cut off his head and drink his blood and boil his balls in a great big hearty stew! And pair it with, hmm, a nice **claret,** perhaps, or a **cabernet**--"*
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> *"Good day to you too, **Lanyon.**"*
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> - Lanyon and Jekyll (Ch3, p2)
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Dr. Hastie Robert Lanyon is the co-founder of the Society for Arcane Sciences. He helped Henry Jekyll found and fund the Society and is still closely involved in its public image and continued financial success. He is the love interest of Henry Jekyll, friend to Rachel Pidgely, son of Hastie Lanyon Sr., and husband to Everly Solanki.

## Physical Appearance

Robert Lanyon has dark freckled skin, dark brown curly hair, chubby cheeks, and a long prominent nose. He primarily wears clothes in purple and royal blue with gold and red accents. He's seen many different outfits over time, a testament to his wealth and good social standing.

## Personality

Lanyon is notably dramatic, theatrical, and stubborn. He's seldom one to back down when he believes in something, and will go most any lengths to help his friends. However, he doesn't like to be seen as vulnerable by most anyone, often one to gripe for emotional lengths he'll go to (of entirely his own volition), and often puts on airs of finding emotional displays repugnant and being unfeeling.

> *"Hah! Me, worried? You mistake me for someone with **feelings**."*
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> - (Ch3, p13)
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While this is undeniably consciously a coping mechanism to steel himself from rejection, notably stemming from that of his father, he still struggles to balance his urge to deny any sense of sentimentality and his strong loyalty to his friends, not to mention longing and protectiveness over Jekyll which he tries to keep repressed.

He holds a staunch and unwavering distaste for the standards of upper society, but just as easily can be said to dislike/distrust the lower class. Generally, he just doesn't really seem to like *most* people, and doesn't make much of a secret of it.

## Trivia

* He's incredibly averse to uncleanliness, often seen expressing distaste at grease, blood, grotesquely humanoid curios, and other such things he'd hate to touch barehanded.
* Lanyon and Jekyll met in college, Henry's first year and Lanyon's third year.
	+ Originally, Lanyon hated studying, constantly doing anything he could to avoid ever even giving the impression he may be giving in to his father's will for him. However, this changed when he met Henry, who was accidentally roped into becoming his friend as well as helping him study and vice versa (though Lanyon more helped Henry remember to relax than study).
	+ When they first met, Henry's Glaswegian accent was too thick for him to easily understand.
* Lanyon taught Jekyll most everything he knew about upper class society, such as etiquette and dancing.

> *"I only gave him those lessons so I could drag him along to those **awful dinner parties** my family forced me to attend. I imagined us sitting in the back of some stuffy parlor room, **sneering** at everyone, **above** it all."*
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> *"I thought it would be a lark to play elocution instructor for a day, and it all went from there..."*
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* In college, Lanyon invited Jekyll to accompany him to a trip out to his parents' summer home, the setting of Bleeding Heart.
* Lanyon and Henry had an affair in college that lasted about 8 months.
	+ He ended the affair on account of him being arranged to marry Everly Solanki.
* His first design (before both Bleeding Heart and The Glass Scientists) was a pale ginger man with a red/maroon clothing color scheme.
	+ He was originally designed as an antagonist, but Sage said they felt as if there would be an imbalance between protagonists and antagonists, what with Frankenstein and Hyde also being antagonists in their own ways.
* In the end, Sage based Lanyon off the *Strange Case* novel's Lanyon, and the more positive aspects of his personality.

## Quotes

*"The **proletariat** have finally risen up! I always knew this day would come!"*

-(Ch3, p11)

*"You want me to **lie?**"*

*"**Of course** I want you to lie! I want you to do everything in your power to save the Society! To save **yourself!**"*

- Jekyll and Lanyon (Ch5, p3)

*"No one cares what you're like on the inside, so long as you're a decent person on the **outside!**"*

- (Ch8, p29)

*"I hope you're **appreciating** this. You know how **painful** it is for me to say nice things about people."*

- (Ch8, p29)

"Well would you look at **that.** It appears my lizard brain instinctively sought out the most gorgeous boy in the room."

- (Ch12, p3)

## Gallery

Chapter 10, page 6.Chapter 10, page 7.Chapter 3, page 6.Lanyon Concept Art (2014)Lanyon Concept Art (2014)Prototype Lanyon (2013)
1. ↑ An ask answered November 29th, 2018 on the official Glass Scientists Tumblr.
2. ↑ The author's note under Chapter 3, page 2.