i just want to remind everyone that, since the grishaverse is kinda sorta based on the victorian era, and since wealthy victorian families dressed their toddlers (girls or boys) in dresses, and wylan was very wealthy growing up, there are definitely family portraits in existence of baby wylan wearing one of those goofy ass victorian baby dresses
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Okay, now that Dracula Daily has reached it’s end I can finally scream about something that has bothered me for so long:
Why is it always Van Helsing or his descendant in vampire media that’s portrayed as the cool vampire slayer when the Harkers are right there! Yes, Van Helsing is amazing and important but he’s not the one wielding a knife and throwing entire coffins around or using a psychic link to gps locate Drac! Not to mention the fact that Jonathan obviously has something supernatural about him by the end of the story, so it could easily be that Mina is the same way. Which means that they could make for a really fantastic and creepy vampire hunter family! A descendant of Van Helsing? A super academic. A descendant of the Harkers? A vampire hater with possible mysterious vampire powers. It would work so much better!!!!
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In watching more interviews with Liv about Van and the escalation of Van's pragmatism to such dark degrees, I find myself genuinely baffled that anyone could ever think Van the bad guy. I mean, I'm perplexed at finding ANY of these girls The Bad Guy. The bad guy is the situation. It's being lost. It's freezing. It's starving. It's being scraped down to the barest bone of being alive. They make choices that might be snippy, or cruel, or hard-headed, sure--Shauna refusing to just hash it out with Jackie; Jackie being too stubborn to come inside; Taissa refusing to discuss her situation plainly; etc--but by the time we reach the end of season 2, it doesn't even matter. Petty bullshit doesn't matter. Jealousy doesn't matter. Those things are still going to be present and complicated, because--for all their choices, for all the distancing they're trying to do--these kids ARE still human beings. But it isn't the point.
The point is survival. Plain, simple, straightforward. Van's pragmatism is survival. It is the difference between living another day with blood on your teeth or dying pretty. It is the difference between fighting forward through the fire and the snow and the hell of it all, and laying down to die. Van knowing, in watching the ritual violence of Shauna beating Lottie nearly the death, that they will be killing and eating one another soon. Van coming up with the cards for the hunt. Van not blinking when the moment comes, Van choosing a weapon that doubles as a tool to bring the body back, Van refusing to apologize for staying alive--it's not evil. It's not Bad Guy behavior. It's purely about survival, because there is nothing else left to her--or to any of them. They can play the pretty little Sweet Angel Girl game and die, or they can get dirty, bloody, horrific and fight. Van chooses the fight. Van chooses to fight for herself, for her lover, for her team, even knowing not everyone is going to make it out...because the alternate path there is that no one makes it out. Van knew the baby wouldn't live. Van knows the rest of them won't, either. Not unless they start making the hard choices.
And, honestly, the fact that Van sees this narrative coming. Comes up with this plan. Brings out the cards. To me, that is the opposite of Bad Behavior. That is as close to justice as anyone can find in the wilderness. If someone else came up with an idea, maybe it would have come down to voting--but that would have had such a human element to it, with bitterness or hostility or whatever ultimately petty shit always comes of humans selecting who to Other. The cards don't leave room for that. It isn't fair, because the situation isn't fair, because Man vs. Nature isn't fair, but it's as close to a just system as they could possibly find. It's the kindest solution to an unwinnable game. Not to bring it back to American Gods again, but all I can think is "it's easy, there's a trick to it: you do it, or you die." Van gave them that.
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Jesper: Kaz said he has some news from Hellgate about Van Eck
Wylan: Ugh, what does that human blister want now? To berate me further? Or perhaps to inform me of my impending painful death under his orders?
Inej: Its possible the news wont involve you, dont worry
Wylan: Good thinking, you’re right. Maybe my father wants to finally inform us all that hes a Chuksin
Jesper: A what?
Wylan: A Chuksin, its a Korean toilet ghost. It lives in an outhouse and strangles you to death with its hair
Jesper: You know what, I will give in and let you take apart my guns if the news is hes a Chuksin
Kaz: *enters room* Okay everyone, announcement from Hellgate this morning
Wylan: That my father is a Korean toilet ghost? Boooring, we already knew that
Kaz; Jan Van Eck is dead
Wylan: Say what now?
Inej; Van Eck is dead? Truely?
Kaz: The warden confirmed it this morning
Jesper: Wy-
Wylan: Ha! Thats not true, like what my father said when he saw deodorant - Im not buying it
Nina: *Cackles*
Kaz: I assure you the intel is good. He’s dead
Wylan: Oh Kaz, zombies cant die. This is some sort of scam, if he were dead we would be hearing the sound of children singing in the streets
Matthias: Is this how the Kerch grieve?
Nina: *Shakes head*
Kaz: Why would Van Eck fake his own death? Solidifying your inheritance of everything
Wylan: Same reason he visits Ravka once a year to suck the blood from all the goats - for kicks
Jesper: Not the goats
Kaz: I dont know what to tell you, but hes dead. What do you want? To open up his coffin and check for yourself?
Wylan: *standing over Van Ecks coffin checking for himself* Oh damn
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