Not precisely though the mirror is based upon the core principle of the good doctor's experiment. A work of fiction, yes, but who knows? Perhaps in some world, it actually happened and this mirror evolved out of it somehow.
[He conjures some flame over the palm of one clawed hand, shaping it into a human. A distinguished older gentleman.]
Dr. Henry Jekyll was a fine, upstanding member of the community. However, despite his rigid morals, he had darker, more twisted desires which he forced himself not to submit to. He felt as if he were constantly doing battle with two sides within himself: one good, one evil. Being a man of science, he decided to develop a serum to separate the two parts.
[The flame man shifts, shrinking and twisting to the point of being unrecognizeable. Every feature of the now-younger man radiated malintent.]
The serum transformed him into a completely different person whom he named Edward Hyde, a man ruled by his dark desires. And because it was a complete physical transformation that rendered Hyde unrecognizeable from Jekyll, no one would ever realize the two men were one and the same. So Jekyll would drink the serum to indulge those desires and simply revert back to himself once it wore off with the police hunting a man who technically didn't even exist.
Unfortunately, the situation changed which he realized after he transformed in his sleep into Hyde without partaking of the serum and required doing so to become Jekyll again. He stopped using it for a bit before giving into temptation. Then he started transforming while he was awake, requiring more and more of the serum to become Jekyll because Hyde had grown more and more powerful with each dose the doctor had taken to the point where he didn't need the serum to manifest.
[He pauses to look at the mirror. He's standing on the very edge with only the smallest bits of himself visible yet hints of a literally and figuratively darker version of himself lurks in even that small sliver of his reflection, dressed in his usual outfit only in black with black ears with red tips.]
Tragically, Jekyll ran low of one of the serum's ingredients: a particular chemical salt. It was easily-obtained yet every subsequent batch of the serum made with fresh supplies failed to work regardless of which chemist he had an assistant purchase more from. He theorized that there'd been some foreign contaminant in the batch he'd originally used in the serum which was missing from the fresh batches. In the end, he disappeared into Hyde, effectively dead.
[The flame in his hand goes out as he reaches out to trap the mirror with one claw, its reflection mirroring it perfectly.]
This mirror takes Jekyll's serum one step forward, actually creating a physical representation of that other half.
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[He conjures some flame over the palm of one clawed hand, shaping it into a human. A distinguished older gentleman.]
Dr. Henry Jekyll was a fine, upstanding member of the community. However, despite his rigid morals, he had darker, more twisted desires which he forced himself not to submit to. He felt as if he were constantly doing battle with two sides within himself: one good, one evil. Being a man of science, he decided to develop a serum to separate the two parts.
[The flame man shifts, shrinking and twisting to the point of being unrecognizeable. Every feature of the now-younger man radiated malintent.]
The serum transformed him into a completely different person whom he named Edward Hyde, a man ruled by his dark desires. And because it was a complete physical transformation that rendered Hyde unrecognizeable from Jekyll, no one would ever realize the two men were one and the same. So Jekyll would drink the serum to indulge those desires and simply revert back to himself once it wore off with the police hunting a man who technically didn't even exist.
Unfortunately, the situation changed which he realized after he transformed in his sleep into Hyde without partaking of the serum and required doing so to become Jekyll again. He stopped using it for a bit before giving into temptation. Then he started transforming while he was awake, requiring more and more of the serum to become Jekyll because Hyde had grown more and more powerful with each dose the doctor had taken to the point where he didn't need the serum to manifest.
[He pauses to look at the mirror. He's standing on the very edge with only the smallest bits of himself visible yet hints of a literally and figuratively darker version of himself lurks in even that small sliver of his reflection, dressed in his usual outfit only in black with black ears with red tips.]
Tragically, Jekyll ran low of one of the serum's ingredients: a particular chemical salt. It was easily-obtained yet every subsequent batch of the serum made with fresh supplies failed to work regardless of which chemist he had an assistant purchase more from. He theorized that there'd been some foreign contaminant in the batch he'd originally used in the serum which was missing from the fresh batches. In the end, he disappeared into Hyde, effectively dead.
[The flame in his hand goes out as he reaches out to trap the mirror with one claw, its reflection mirroring it perfectly.]
This mirror takes Jekyll's serum one step forward, actually creating a physical representation of that other half.