Set during the time period of the middle to late 1800s, Victorian Age, the world around them has become firmly grasped in steam punk during the break of the industrial revolution. Disturbia is an allusion to Mary Shelly's Frankenstein and the world they'r

Frank wakes up after the events of Mary Shelly's Frankenstein in a coffin floating down river in London, how long he's been asleep he doesn't remember. In this coffin with him is a copy of Frakenstein; he begins to read it, well parts bits at a time until he realizes the character in the book in actually is him. Therefore Frank begins his story in trying to free himself from his actions of the past. The story begins with the story of Sweeney Todd as our first villain in Disturbia, which really fits well considering "There's No Place Like London" is very good foreshadowing for the majority of the rest of the story.

As I mentioned before, Disturbia pays homage to his memory aka Mary Shelly's Frankenstein; for instance housed in the same place that Sweeney's daughter is Alice, who in this story is a mental patient in Foggs Asylum. However, during the time in which Anthony helps Johanna escape, Alice escapes as well and later on is approached by the invisible man, who finds her eating out a trash can. To her he takes on the appearance of the Chesire Cat considering you can't see anything of his body but the glare from his glasses and his teeth when he smiles, but Alice is crazy as it is and he tells her that he'll help her escape from Wonderland ( after he finds out why she was committed to Fogg's Asylum in the first place) through the looking glass which in reality means he's leading her to her death; all she need to is follow the white rabbit. In reality the "white rabbit" is poster of the magician's show of him pulling out a white rabbit out of his hat.

(Have you seen the Prestige? Do you remember that trick where Cristian Bale's character opens the door on stage and throws a ball and in seconds appears out of the other door and grabs it? Well that is this magician's big "Presitge" move in his show)

The invisible man " Chesire Cat" has convinced her to kill the rabbit, because doing so will get her that much closer to escaping Wonderland. In this trick (here's where some steam punk comes in) it's a booth of sorts, two to be exact. In one is the magician and in the other is nothing. He gets into the booth and ask his assistant to pull the switch and she does so and as the trick is beginning from the left part of the stage you see a girl in a rabbit mask put the white rabbit into the left side. The audience thinks it's a part of the show when she takes off the rabbit mask mask and gestures "Shhhh" to the crowd before she disappears off stage. The trick ends. He appears in the left booth,opens the door and takes a bow but, there is no applause. some are screaming, several people have fainted, but overall everyone's mortified. Looking over to the right booth he see's a human like rabbit hoping out of it and begins to feel his face, while catching a glimpse of himself in an audience members glass He's essentially turned into a giant deformed rabbit human creature and he runs off hiding his face; he later returns as a villain.

Back to Alice, the point of her is to show the promise of redemption to Frank. He's trying to save her from death after Sherlock Holmes (who appears during Sweeney's appearance back in London. He's the antagonist to Frank in the sense that ever since Frank showed up in the streets of London there have been more murders reported-he starts notices Frank's foot prints and eventually catches up with him after several failed attempts to catch him-Sherlock being the detective he is has his eye closely watching Frank until he realizes he's innocent) figures out that this "Chesire Cat" is manipulating her to do these things after Alice is guided by him to kill by convincing her that he's the only obstacle keeping her from escaping Wonderland, but as in the original Frankenstein story the little girl dies. (In the original story, Frankenstein see's a little girl throwing flowers in to a lake and thinking she'll be just like the flowers picks her up and throws her into the water, but she drowns.) Frank accidentally causes her death, but Alice was going to end up dying anyway, because the only other place she had left to go was back to Fogg's and no one that unstable can be allowed to survive; Alice was beyond saving but Frank doesn't figure that out until after the fact.

Sweeney essentially dies the same way in the sense that Frank and Sherlock both get there too late. I must also mention that Frank only goes out at night, because of how grotesque he appears.

Sherlock suspects Frank is involved in the murders but after a couple times of seeing Frank's true colors he changes his mind, but the fact that Frank is in fact from Hell, the gritty underworld parts of London he see's him as beneath him, therefore he won't ask him for help unless there is no other alternative.

Now on to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Dr. Jekyll has cancer or some other terminal disease and as you've probably already guessed,he's a scientist. Through trial and error creates this potion at first everything is fine except for the occasional mood swings and insomnia, but as he continues to take more of the potion it's effects shorten each time as a result he starts strengthening each new dosage.Therefore he begins to change, Hyde however isn't like we've seen him. He's extremely intelligent and is more human like than a monkey. True his arms get longer and he gets hairy but he is nowhere near as bulky and rather than a knife Hyde now uses a sledge hammer.

Here's a rather interesting scene I came up with a couple days ago for Hyde; Sherlock figures out what Jekyll really is, it's gotten to the point where instead of trying to fight the urges to take the potion he's given in completely to his other half so much so that he even starts hearing Hyde's voice and seeing his image in the mirror rather than his own. Anywho, as Sherlock is talking Jekyll offers him a drink, but Sherlock being the kind of person he is doesn't accept a drink he didn't make, because you never know. Jekyll takes the drink and downs it in front of Holmes, but as they continue talking Jekyll's eyesight starts getting out of focus to the point that he can't even make out Sherlock's facial features clearly. Soon after begins laughing a bit after everything Sherlock questions him about and as Jekyll starts laughing and holding his stomach, as if to signify he's in some sort of pain, Sherlock tries to see if he's okay but gets pushed back. By this time one of his eyes is already starting to change and Sherlock stumbles back accidentally knocking over the glass off the table which (and this is homage to the page master) eats through the floor. Jekyll falls on the ground laughing uncontrollably, signifying he's fully transformed and introduces himself to Sherlock as Mr. Hyde all aggressive like As Sherlock slowly tries to move backwards, Hyde picks up the sledge hammer by the table and starts stalking Sherlock who tries running away at which point he see's Frank coming right at him and jumps out of the way. Frank clotheslines Hyde, who then scurries away picking himself up with the help of the tables edge, grabs some of his potion as Frank grabs him by the collar and throws it in his eyes. Frank is of course groggy and temporarily blind and finally opens his eyes but Hyde is gone.He looks around and from his blind spot, from the shadows comes Hyde with the sledge hammer just as Frank turns around and hits him across the face.

Also note that Hyde is going to die in the way that he always has, die via falling to his death to which he should tell Frank and Sherlock things will only be worse from here and that the next assortment of villains they come across will be a lot more formidable than he.

On to Pinocchio. Gephetto originally was a puppet maker yes, but thanks to one mistake he looses both his wife and son. Heart broken and willing to do whatever it takes to have them back, he builds a puppet made from parts of his son's dead body (his eyes are a big example of this) and uses what he knows of Alchemy to bring the puppet to life but as you know the laws of Equivalent Exchange. Gephetto dies in the process of giving this puppet it's life and to make matters worse even though he's asked for his son's soul, what he receives is the corrupt version of his son. A demon acting as his son. As Gephetto lies weak on the floor the puppet who he thinks now habits his son's spirit slits his throat. For a while the only thing Pinocchio can say is "I'm a real boy...". But because he's a doll you can't kill it using normal means; Frank also finds it hard to kill him because they're essentially the same, made from someone Else's hand.

In this story we've also got Dorian Gray, who kills and is killed by Sherlock Holmes. Unlike the plot of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, he can actually look at the portrait, which is how it is in his original story. Sherlock finds the picture via snooping around, as a means to convince him to change and answer for the crimes he's committed over his extend life span. However, Dorian doesn't want to hear it and stabs Sherlock through the painting not knowing it would kill him too (He does this out of the rage of the site of his decaying portrait and because of the fact that someone else is actually trying to control him) and yes the picture will look horrid.

Later on in the story we have the underlying plot that Dracula is the head of the government in Europe (Which I personally find funny given our current economy and our own government trying to suck it's citizens dry). This of course would also mean that every part of the government is governed by vampires as well.

Let me introduce Jack the Ripper here. He himself is a vampire, but of a lower class and therefore able to work under those on the higher ups in the government's radar. Jack has also been marked as a traitor by his own kind and when he "kills" the other vampires, he chops up the bodies, starting with the head. Because they're vampires, just cutting their head off won't kill them. So he leaves the bodies for the police/etc. to find, and keeps the heads that are still alive. His is where his "From Hell" note comes into play. If you know anything of Jack the Ripper, you'll know that the original "From Hell" note was highly illegible and in this same way, Sherlock figures out that it's not written in English. He does his research until he figures out what language was used and eventually across an ancient satanic scripture with similar writings, but it's not exactly a match so he has his doubts. Knowing he's stepped into something far greater than himself, he goes to Van Hellsing to decipher the letter and Hellsing immediately recognizes it as a code used only by vampires, and says that it's a threat to all (either non-comformant to the corruption or actually corrupted) vampires that he is after their heads. That's when we get the first hint that the vampires control the government which eventually leads to uncovering the lies spread by the Vadakin In Rome. The Pope is a werewolf who's also blind and has a scar on either side of each eye. With the whole of Europe finding that out the church would crumble therefore begins the cover up. Every time they Frank and company try to ask questions no one wants to say anything, they even talk to the Pope himself. That is until they eventually they are confronted on the eve of a full moon and as the werewolf is attacks, Sherlock realizes it's blind, hunting by smell and hearing alone and makes the connection. And I just love the hypocrisy in Hellsing's character considering he's a murder of the church and yet he helps to take out the Pope.

I've almost neglected to mention is Calico Jack, who is the actual guy Jack Sparrow is based off of. He'll be the way Frank gets to Italy. His crew and he stumble upon Aqua de Vida when they go into hiding around the time of the last of the pirates are being wiped out. They sail the seas again after the slaughter has ended but they cannot die Frank while on the run from Hellsing (this is before Hellsing realizes he's not the real threat in all of this mess)

In Disturbia esssentially each person Frank comes across is a testament to his own past and the need for a change in his life from. To break the chains that bond him to the unspeakable evils in that same past.

For example: Dorian Gray tries to convince Frank that self indulgence is the only way tot live, alluding to the time in Franks life when he allowed his rage to consume him and indulge himself in destroying his creator's life.

Yeah it could stand to use some work and re-editting but for now I'm liking what I've got so far and if anyone is interested here's some of the artwork for Disturbia.

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