Dr. Jekyll

*This article is about the character. For his novel counterpart, see **Dr. Shamas**. For his split personality, see **Mr. Hyde**. For the episode containing the name of the character in the title, see **"Jekyll and Hyde"**.*

**Doctor Jekyll** is a character on *The Altered Adventure* Minecraft series. He débuts in the sixth episode of the first volume. He is voiced by Vince.

## History

Before Gizzy's Arrival

Dr. Jekyll falls in love with a woman named Letvia. They get married and have two children, Vantor and Gail. ("Take Back Your Life")

Years later, as they prepare for a threat to the universe in a safe house, Jekyll and his family make a bed for their aunt Elizabeth. Soon after, it is revealed that Elizabeth fought off against the Demon and became the Water Guardian when the king died during the battle. Unfortunately, Elizabeth is killed by Barath out of rage. Voice comes to Letvia, asking if she wants to be the next Water Guardian, to which she accepts. In order to become a Guardian, Letvia leaves her family to protect them from harm. ("The Power Born", "Origin")

Running low on firewood, he goes out to collect more. While roaming the woods, Jekyll is cursed by a vampire after being bitten. The curse makes him turn into a vampire at night. He returns to the house, telling Vantor that him and his sister must go into hiding so he cannot hurt them in his cursed form. Before leaving, he says goodbye to his children. ("Origin")

Jekyll ventures far from his kids and isolates himself inside a giant dirt sphere in the sky and tells his son the location of it before leaving. By summoning a fairy familiar named Benji, Jekyll is cured of the curse and learns how to use his morphing abilities properly. He also becomes good friends with the fairy, telling him of previous life with his family, but eventually, he de-summons him. After a while, Jekyll develops a dangerous and murderous split personality named Mr. Hyde. He makes his new home cozy with furniture, but at the same time, Hyde starts decorating it with the heads of his victims. ("Jekyll and Hyde")

Volume One

Some time later, Jekyll is visited by a man named Gizzy who is accompanied by Benji the fairy. Gizzy requests to learn how to use the morph ability because he too was cursed with it. The doctor teaches him how to, but warns him if he stays morphed for too long, he'll forget he's a human. Gizzy thanks him for his aid, but as Gizzy leaves the sphere, Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hyde. Hyde starts creepily repeating "The curse never leaves." Gizzy gets frightened and manages to escape the sphere with Benji's gliding ability. ("Jekyll and Hyde")

Volume Two

Hyde starts becoming more dangerous and collecting more heads. A couple of days later, Jekyll is once again visited by Gizzy. Once again, Gizzy requests Jekyll's help on learning about split personalities. He reveals that he too has developed a split personality and asks how to control it. Jekyll explains that split personalities are triggered by an action. Gizzy asks if it can be death, which Jekyll says that it is possible. He leaves and thanks him once again for the help.

After Gizzy's departure, Jekyll is confronted by his wife and son. Letvia warns him that the universe is in trouble so she wants him to take care of their children. But as soon as Letvia finishes the sentence, Jekyll transforms into Mr. Hyde while saying "The curse never leaves". Vantor tries to encourage his father to fight off the demon, but Letvia takes a rash decision and kills Mr. Hyde (and Jekyll) to protect themselves. Letvia tries to tell her son it was the best choice, but Vantor runs away in disgust and hatred of his mother's actions. ("Take Back Your Life")

Jekyll's body was later buried at the Graveyard where his epitaph reads: "Here lies Dr Jekyll, Father, Husband, A bit crazy." His grave is visited by Gizzy and Benji who are on their way to retrieving Elizabeth's Locket. ("Divine")

## Physical appearance

### Current

Dr. Jekyll is a man with dark brown skin, short brown hair, and lavender eyes. He wears a long black coat with white buttons over a white shirt and red tie. He also wears grey pants, white socks, and black shoes.

### Former

In "Origin," Dr. Jekyll wears a different outfit. He wears a black vest with white buttons over a white shirt with grey cuffs. He has a red bow tie instead of a normal tie. He still wears grey pants and black shoes. When he goes out to search for firewood, he wears a leather helmet.

## Personality

Dr. Jekyll is a smart and loving man who cares deeply for his family, but his alter ego Mr. Hyde unbalanced everything. Dr. Jekyll loves his wife and children, and is also understanding towards them, allowing Letvia to leave them in order to become a Guardian. Jekyll is also protective of his children, as far as to sacrificing his own life to keep his children away from his vampire self. He valued their safety over their comfort, which says that he knows how to make big sacrifices. Jekyll prefers to solve problems on his own and doesn't want anyone to help him, probably out of shame. ("Origin")

However, once he was bitten by a vampire, Jekyll became isolated in a Dirt Sphere, away from society and his family. And when Mr. Hyde was born, matters got worse, as the split personality started collecting heads from victims. It's possible that the doctor lives in fear and guilt over Mr. Hyde and the damage he can inflict on other people while Jekyll is helpless to prevent it. In order to make the best of what he had, Jekyll learned more of his power and discovered fascinating facts about his curse, such as the functionality of the morph ability and the trigger of the split personality. ("Jekyll and Hyde", "Take Back Your Life")

## Powers and abilities

### Current

* **Curse of the Bite:** Jekyll was bitten by a vampire, cursing him and turning him into vampire as well. However, Jekyll cured himself of the curse by summoning a fairy familiar and is no longer Jekyll, but he still possesses the secondary effects from the curse, such as the morph ability and the split personality. ("Jekyll and Hyde")
	+ **Morph ability:** Along with the Curse of the Bite, Jekyll can morph into any other animal or species that he's previously killed. By turning into other species, he can receive their special traits and use them in sticky situations. Should someone stay in a morph for too long, they'll eventually forget who they originally were. ("Curse of the Bite", "Jekyll and Hyde")
	+ **Split personality:** When the Curse of the Bite is cured, there's a chance that a split personality is formed. A split personality is an alter-ego that has a mind of its own when it is not trained properly. The cause of transformation is usually associated with a specific trigger which results in the alteration. ("Take Back Your Life")

### Former

* **Vampirism:** It is unknown how vampires looked in the Altered Universe as Jekyll was never shown as full vampire, but it can be assumed that they have similarities to Mr. Hyde's appearance. When he was converted, Dr. Jekyll presumably obtained the power to convert others into vampires through his cursed bite. He later lose this power when he was cured by Benji. ("Jekyll and Hyde")
* **Gliding:** With Benji the fairy familiar, Jekyll could glide when falling, as in move through air without being able to apply thrust and thus have no ability to extend their flight over certain ratio of descending or gaining height by themselves. This could also negate the effects of fall damage. Dr. Jekyll later lost this ability when he desummoned the familiar. ("Jekyll and Hyde")

## Trivia

### Production

* Dr. Jekyll narrates the "Previously on Altered Adventure" segment of "Take Back Your Life".
* Dr. Jekyll has had the second longest gap between his first and second appearances with 12 episodes between "Jekyll and Hyde" and "Take Back Your Life".

### Gameplay

* The skin texture for Mr. Hyde is the same as Rascal.
* Jekyll's skin is the TuxedoSteve from the Custom NPC mod.
* Before he was cursed, his skin was the WaiterSteve from the Custom NPC mod

### References

* Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde are based on the novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson originally titled *Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde*, or simply *Jekyll & Hyde*, published in 1886. It is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr. Henry Jekyll, and the evil Edward Hyde.