About Herbert & I...

Fanart coming soon...hopefully!

So, you might be wondering...Sam, why the HELL would you want Herbert...ew!!!!!
And, I really don't have an answer. When I watched the first two movies, I of course shipped DanBert, because the dynamic is quite good. I still read fic for them to this day! I found the bratty scientist cute, ok? Sue me. To actually answer your question, though, I first "discovered" my attraction for him sometime in November of 2023, and sent my first message to the discord server I run with my friends on the 23rd, talking about how attractive he was and how I wished we were gay married. Yup. Took me a bit, but I fell pretty fast. I find him deeply interesting, and I want to make him worse. I want our evil sp5xsp5 dynamic to ruin the world, and cure death at the same time. Evil yaoi will change everything. We both need our alone time, of course, but I want to be there in the breaks between our shifts at the hospital when we're still figuring out the serum, taking his things for him as he comes home to a dark house, brushing our teeth side by side, listen to him complain about his "mouse brained colleague who drains his long-gone hope for humanity" (his words, not mine).

In terms of how I ship myself with him, I do use a sort of "sona" or self-insert oc, but it's just me with extra flavor, and in the 80's. I, like Daniel, am a medical student, pressured into schooling by my parents, who have decided that the arts are too frivolous of a passion. We don't meet the way Herbert and Dan do, in fact I think we meet after the events of "Re-Animator", when Herbert and Dan are living together and working. After Daniel proves that he'd rather get some puss than dedicate himself to the work, Herbert decides to take his chances in hopes that he can find SOMEONE's life to ruin, and lo and behold, there's me, who just lost a patient. Perhaps we're caught in an elevator, or meet in passing, and I vent my frustrations. He listens, sees his golden ticket, and offers me the chance to change it all. The rest is history.
Okay, well, maybe not history. The events of "Bride" change quite a bit...Dan is of course hurt that Herbert seems to be replacing him, but The Bride still comes to her fruition. All the while, I become a student to Herbert and become more obsessed with him by the minute. Things come to a head when the crypt collapses as it does in canon, but I'm there to get him out of the rubble and drive us out far. Herbert is of course at large, but I'm just reported missing, and so I finish my schooling and we continue to work in relative isolation. Our story "ends" with his success, and we're seemingly immortal.

OK...that was a lot of gushing...so be prepared for more!
Over the years it takes for him to perfect the serum, I am at one point reanimated myself. One of the experiments fights back, as they tended to in the early years, but this situation would have resulted in my death if not for the fact that spare parts were present, and Herbert was able to do what he does. I acheive my dreams of my body - a man's chest, and smooth all the way down. That's right baby, Ken Doll style! XD
Of course, the adjustment to being reanimated with new parts, and the fact that my death partially comes from head trauma leave me quite disoriented when I'm brought back from death's veil, and so for the first while of my recovery, I'm completely dependent on Herbert, and he loves it. My left leg is mangled, but we both like my legs so he keeps it, though that does come with the need for a cane. If we somehow weren't close already, we're definitely close now, with my being all but attached to his side. Normally he'd hate this, but the fact that it's me? Living proof of his work that's a success, that's something he cares about in more than just a clinical way? He manages to be happy about it, in his own fucked up way. I'm his fucked up dress up doll, and once his name is swept under the rug due to the passage of time and the success of his work, he tolerates the galas and panels we're invited to, for the fact that it brings me a little too much joy to hang on his arm as he introduces me as his partner. Because it's the early 00's, the tabloids go wild.

Our Playlist...

My Heart Goes Bang(Get Me To The Doctor) - Dead Or Alive
Blood Makes Noise - Suzanne Vega
Hold Me Now - Elastica
No Talking Just Head - The Heads, Debbie Harry
Electric Barbarella - Duran Duran
Shake The Disease - Depeche Mode
Uncontrollable Urge - DEVO
Darker Times - Soft Cell
Cccan't You See - Vicious Pink
Mental Hopscotch - Missing Persons