Um!! One thing that's standing out to me as I'm rereading this page is how Jekyll never shows this side of himself to anyone but Hyde (which is to say, he never shows this side of himself to anyone). He's so blunt and straightforward here, not fawning or people-pleasing or any of the other things he thinks he has to be in order to be liked by others. He doesn't feel safe enough in any of his relationships to believe they would stick around if he produced in them any negative feeling toward him.

And that's a bit sad, because I actually really love writing this version of Jekyll. He's got some spice to him and, as I'm pretty sure I've written earlier, he feels most true to what it actually feels like to grapple with your own inner demons as an adult--more weary than terrified, irritated by your own negative loops and self-sabotaging. Now that I'm thinking about it, I wish I had more opportunities to write him this way. Maybe a side story . . . ?