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wherethestoriesare · 10 months

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#dracula #holy fucking shit #holy shit #i never knew i needed this #last voyage of the demeter #do they know about dracula daily #because this is the film we need #Youtube

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yallemagne · 2 years

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What’s funny about Jonathan’s magical girl transformation with the stark white hair is that it’s just impossible. Like, yes, we all know it is, but I hadn’t been focussing on that until now.

I was like “yeah, stress can cause early greying bc you’re no longer producing the melanin in your hair--” and then I realized like “wait, why would that change the colour of the already-grown strands as if they were fucking dead coral?” Because it’s not like if you pulled out a strand of your own hair, the colour would fade and go white.

Jonathan’s hair is alive? Dead now, alive before? Jonathan’s out here being Rapunzel from Tangled and everyone surrounding him is like “seems aight”.

#people responding to this post thinking I don't know about Marie Antoinette #I do you can stop now #I know this was a victorian trope you can stop typing #it's like a hair dyer's dream #don't even have to bleach anymore #just experience horrors beyond reasoning and then your head is a canvas #yes it made me think of tangled #yes you will have to restrain me from drafting a tangled au #it's your duty as my followers to keep me from doing it #dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker

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immediatebreakfast · 10 months

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There are no wolves in England.

Modernity, and its need for land killed their home, and in consequence killed them too.

The people of Transylvania live with their legends at their front door, covering their necks with rosaries, and prayers. Closing windows, and hanging flowers. Less another life gets taken by that Evil Being whose eyes now point beyond their borders. A young english man was the last victim, who knows if his visage now walks in those forests, waiting for an unsuspecting traveler like he was.

There was something Inhuman aboard on the Demeter. It killed the crew, and pushed the captain to the edge of humanity, yet he held his head high, and made himself deserving of honor among the sailors of Whitby in death. All proud of the captain who completed his duty to the end.

"It almost seems as though the captain had been seized with some kind of mania before he had got well into blue water, and that this had developed persistently throughout the voyage."

A huge, unknown dog jumps from the tragedy of the Demeter, and hides in the shadows. Because it couldn't be anything else than a dog, there are no wild canines in England.

The log of the captain doesn't mention a dog. However, it is weirdly filled with superstitions.

Something, a horrible unknown beast is killing the poor dogs. We must do something! What if it gets the poor dog that left the Demeter in such a hurry, it might get hurt!

Even the oldest people in Whitby laugh at their legends. Only constructed to bring in tourists who are curious about them.

They could be true! Says an old sailor, but we don't need those anymore. There is no need to put rosaries on our necks, nor lock our doors.

After all there are no wolves in England.

#Modernity may protect us from modern danger #But what do the people of Whitby do against an ancient evil? It's something imaginary of course #Something something don't think about legends as something of the ignorant past #You don't know when those things that your grandparents told you may knock at your door #dracula daily #dracula #whitby correspondent #the demeter

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melannen · 1 year

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Dracula cross-stitch sampler pattern

Since I've had time on vacation, I finished up a cross-stitch pattern I started a year ago in the first Dracula Daily round, based on the words Dracula uses to greet Jonathan Harker when he comes to the castle: "Welcome to my house. Come freely, go safely, and leave some of the happiness you bring".

I wanted a sampler for my front hall, but all the patterns I could find were very Hot Topic Goth. Nothing wrong with that, but my goth aesthetic is more "creepy thing found behind the wall in an old attic", and I wanted a pattern that my aunt wouldn't realize was anything out of the ordinary. I was looking around for inspiration and stumbled on an 1871 sampler by 12-year-old Jemima Clements in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London. It's a little bit early for Dracula but the aesthetic was spot on, so I spent a long time squinting at a zoom of the best download of it they had to copy the wolves and the letters, and then left it for almost a year because I got frustrated trying to figure out how to get a good-formatted pattern out.

When we came up on a year I transcended frustrated and went with the good-old fashioned grandma method and transferred my pixels to a spreadsheet. So on the off chance you want a creepy Dracula sampler for your front hall, I now have it in .pdf and a downloadable Google Sheet. The .pdf is formatted to print on legal paper, but it will be a bit small that way; you are welcome to fiddle with the spreadsheets to get it the size you want.

PDF of the pattern of the Dracula quote ^this will not work if your browser redirects to https because my webhost messed that up, but it should work if you force http

Google Drive link to a shareable/downloadable Sheets file

The pattern uses 7-10 different thread colors; I don't believe in locking in brand-name floss, so the pattern includes color description and it's up to you to find stuff in your stash that looks good together.

I could not come up with a decision on the border, so the options are:

Make all the flowers plain lavender

Use a variegated purple for the flowers

Pick 4-6 different shades of lavender/light purple and alternate them - this is most similar to Jemima's border

Use the "allium flower" pixel art pattern I coded into the pattern (recommended only if you recognized the allium flower pixel art pattern I used.)

#dracula daily #dracula #cross stitch #cross-stitch #sampler #embroidery #pattern #welcome to my house #come freely #go safely #and leave some of the happiness you bring #don't recommend putting this on the front door since the caveats on the welcome are pretty vague #wolves #the children of the night #not the music the original sampler meant #(probably but never underestimate the creepiness of twelve year old girls)#(I don't know why else you'd do howling wolves for a prayer about music)

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spikemd · 2 years

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The best thing about Dracula Daily is that I’m learning that despite this being an iconic novel that has been adapted countless times, I’ve somehow managed to avoid absorbing any information about it beyond 1. there is a count and 2. he is a vampire.

Like, I don’t even really know the genre — is this a tragedy where everyone involved is going to turn into a vampire or die? Or is a band of plucky heroes going to stop the Count? Do the characters ever converge in one location? Why do I need to know about the fly-and-spider-collecting man? What will happen to the London polycule? How is Jonathan writing journal entries when all of his notebooks were confiscated?

So many questions and I absolutely refuse to sit down and read the book in its actual order because this is far more entertaining.

#dracula daily #how do I know so little about this story

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nebulousboops · 2 days

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So Jonathan's pretty gender, yeah? Anyway I drew him in one of those androgynous wedding dresses

#dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker #I know he wouldn't have been able to get his hands on a bouquet of that size #but I do not CARE #I'm drawing the victorian man in a wedding dress do you think I care about historical accuracy

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meggettes · 7 months

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it’s so wild watching movies that originate major pop culture phenomena

currently watching Dracula (1931) and i can’t stop thinking like oh okay so this is where it all comes from

but then also listening to @re-dracula and hearing the original-original, watching Drac is especially feeling like discovering the missing link

#it’s amazing!#what an incredible viewing & media experience #dracula (1931)#but jeez none of the adaptations or successors ever knew what to do with #my good friend jonathan harker #dracula daily #re: dracula #and then all the other vampire media i’ve been surrounded by #what we do in the shadows #twilight #true blood #interview with a vampire #buffy the vampire slayer #& more #guess I gotta watch the Coppola adaptation next and im not too stoked about it #you know maybe I’ll do that after dracula daily is done #greatest hits

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prettyboysdontlookatexplosions · 8 months

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(1) quincey’s Laconic (tm) support

(2) very funny that mina assumes this is the first time arthur has totally fallen apart in a heap of grief and tears given that we’ve watched him slide to the floor in grief from seward’s eyes and practically need to be carried out of the graveyard by the boys

(3) in even MORE Bram Turn On Your Location news, i’m obsessed with the moment where mina chooses to place human kindness over propriety and touch arthur’s hand and also swiftly concludes that because arthur also has his third eye open he’ll get it and not make a thing about it. social mores are very important to the characters in this novel but also the characters in this novel are never punished for breaking social mores (which they do repeatedly) and arguably are (also repeatedly) punished for following them, and i am supposed to be normal about this? hello????

#sorry i know we’re all preaching to the choir on this but like #literally whomst is out here reading mina as traditionalism embodied…#like how do you….. like but that’s not in the book. it’s not what the book is about. it’s #whatever. it doesn’t matter. here at tumblr dot edu we are all agreed. it’s fine.#dracula daily

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moonsun2010 · 2 years

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Sleep well now Lucy.

#my art #dracula daily #dracula #lucy westenra #[banging the table] how many more ophelias! no more! no more!!#girls drowning under the weight of their own fate whether they know it or not hunted by the spectre of the story #(they never had any other way out)#this is the thing they do not tell you about stories: they are both endless and yet finite #one day you will open a book and your death will look back at you from the pages #going feral over this entry actually!!!#yea pose is a reference to millais's ophelia painting. you know the one

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see-arcane · 2 years

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So, What the Hell is Jonathan Harker?

I’m asking honestly. Because by the end of Dracula the answer sure isn’t, ‘human.’ Nor do I think he’s a vampire. But he is something.

SPOILERS BELOW FOR THE END OF DRACULA, LOOK AWAY, YOU’VE BEEN WARNED

The whole ‘revenge makes you a monster!’ thing is only barely in play, if at all, when it comes to his part of the hunt for the Count. Van Helsing even admits he’s owed the chance at delivering the killing blow. Which he does, alongside Quincey. He gets to chop off Vlad’s head!

In one blow! With a Kukri knife! Not an axe! Not a saw blade! Just the little brother to a sword!

Which is after lifting an entire coffin, weighted by the Count and several pounds of earth, off the wagon! With his bare hands!

Which is after bulldozing through the Count’s guards, taking no damage, while Quincey Morris, the established Man’s Man and hunter/fighter takes the fatal wound!

Which is after days upon days of whetting his blade, all rictus grins and plotting, now unexplainably ‘ice-cold’ in manner and body!

Which is after having his hair turn solid white—a pallor that apparently matches his eyes, according to Seward—upon learning of Mina’s attack, deciding to join her in undeath if she cannot be cured, and proceeding to nearly fillet the Count like a fish with the Kukri!

Which is after finding sudden relief from realizing, good news, he’s not insane, but monsters from the pit of Hell are real and were, in fact, trying to exsanguinate and turn him into a bloodsucking demon for eternity! What a relief!

Which is l o o o n g after he scaled a castle wall and a vertical cliff face by his hands and bare feet, plus a nice stint of running through the Transylvanian wilderness of wolves and Brides to reach a train!

Which is all after he somehow landed the first and only lasting wound to Dracula, by way of the shovel blade scar to his forehead! A fact that is never once explained by anything in the book, despite the fact that unless that was a mystical Sacred Shovel, Jonathan managed to do the only permanent injury to Dracula without any holy assistance!

I know, I know, Mina chalks up chucking the coffin and the head-choppery as ‘a miracle.’ But our boy has showing distinctly Not Fucking Normal signs for far, far longer than the climax.

What are they signs of? Do they ever stop to wonder after all the vampire hype is over? Because I don’t see all of these changes in physicality and mentality suddenly going poof once the Count’s gone.

By the book’s end, Jonathan Harker, not a vampire, but definitely Something Else, is just chilling as-is. Imagine going to his office for some lawyerly help, and you see this white-haired, thousand-yard staring gentleman with a bloodstained Kukri sheathed over his business attire, smiling apologetically as he gently sets down the wall-sized bookcase he was hoisting up to retrieve a lost pen, terribly sorry, give him just a moment and he’ll be right with you! :)

Like,

It is just never brought up by anybody but Seward throughout the book—not even Van Helsing mentions it! I assume it’s because they had so much going on already, but in the Epilogue phase it has to be raising so many questions that I think everyone has an unspoken agreement to just Not Point It Out Because It Is Not a Problem, It’s Fine, He’s Fine, The End

Seward, making attempt #214 to broach the topic: Professor, I’m not saying it’s…unhealthy, but Harker clearly went through some kind of metamorphosis during that time, and he’s yet to change back—

Van Helsing, halfway through his brandy: He had no ill reaction to the Cross or the Wafer. It is fine. God’s will and all that.

Seward, watching Jonathan smile a would-be mugger into submission before he can get in ten yards’ reach of Mina and Little Quincey, never blinking, while half the street’s pedestrians give the Harkers such a wide berth they’re running into the cab horses: …Sir—

Van Helsing, around his flask: It’s fine.

In short, does anybody have theories about what Mr. Harker’s whole deal is? Because our guy is neither human nor bloodsucker and Bramothy Stoker kind of just left the monster makeover implications hanging.

#in which I am deep in My Thoughts and Theories about Mr. Harker #I do actually have a solid idea of what he is/was becoming #enough that I think I'm on my way to writing a goddang book about it #but if anyone else has ideas beyond 'diet vampire' I genuinely want to know #anyway #spoilers #dracula spoilers #dracula #dracula daily #jonathan harker

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vickyvicarious · 15 days

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There were even such books of reference as the London Directory, the "Red" and "Blue" books, Whitaker's Almanac, the Army and Navy Lists, and—it somehow gladdened my heart to see it—the Law List.

Me at first: I am getting cute aggression stop!

Me now: Wait, what if Dracula is studying the Law List in order to find ways around the system like what legal strings must be pulled to enter an inhabited house uninvited.

Well, he is still deeply adorable. Baby Solicitor comforted to see Law in the wild. I love it just as much now.

But yeah, also that's an alarming idea, and something I 100% would believe. Something I don't think Dracula often gets enough credit for is how innovative he is about the rules of vampirism in this book. He absolutely does some rules-lawyering of his own, and in fact his entire plan is dependent on a pretty clever move with the whole if I surround myself in my native soil then I'll be fine to cross running water trick. And he also is pretty good at thinking of backup plans and contingencies. He eventually has a bunch of those here in the castle with Jonathan, such as:

Jonathan is locked in so he can't get out

He doesn't know the exact way back even if he did

While he's lost in the wood wolves could hunt him down before he found friendly people, if he did escape

Dracula's impersonation of him turns the locals against him if he did get to them, past the wolves, lost in the woods, through the locked doors

Also no one at home will know what happened to him because of his dictated letters and Dracula's impersonation, suggesting an entirely different timeline/location for him vanishing

And all of this layers well with other goals, such as isolating and emotionally torturing Jonathan. Stuff like his multiple lawyers/homes for his multiple dirt boxes to be stashed are also really clever. Dracula can make a good plan... given enough time/control over a situation. But he consistently underestimates his opponents, because he believes he is so innately superior to them. In doing so, he leaves gaps, opportunities they can take advantage of without him even realizing (sticking to the Jonathan example: his diary, some of his more extreme snooping, the final escape. Or later on, a fantastic example is Mina turning his attack on her against him, both choosing to spy back on him, and figuring things out from his triumphant evil monologue).

He also gets impatient and stubborn. I've mentioned before how he could have played the entire Lucy situation much smarter had he been more patient/less outraged at people here figuring out a way to temporarily hold him off. And when things go wrong, he's not great at pivoting in any kind of subtle/clever way. He defaults to anger, force, shows of power. And again, that can be used against him.

Sorry, I got totally away from your point. Yes, I agree, he'd try. And it would be completely in-character for him to overlook that actual lawyers might be able to out-maneuver him in such an area, and he'd get stupid-mad should they mess up some plan by doing so. That could be a fun thing to incorporate into some kind of AU (where Lucy survives: imagine if Mrs. Westenra's lawyer insisted on putting in some kind of clause that she kept the house at least until her marriage was finalized) (preventing Mina's attacks/saving Renfield: if the lawyer characters put together the stuff with Lucy and looked into the legal documents for the asylum, maybe putting some document together that changed the wording to restrict his access unless only Seward invited him in, or Renfield's invitation only went for the main asylum, not Jack's private rooms, or whatever).

#dracula daily #dracula daily spoilers #count dracula #anonymous #replies #i don't know enough about lawyering/invitations to flesh it out but. you could do stuff with that i'm sure

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empressofthelibrary · 16 days

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Do you think the villagers and the couple running the Golden Krone know about Jonathan's time loop? Do you think that's why they were trying so hard to stop him, to save him? How many times have they seen this young man walk blithely into peril, unaware that he's been here before? How many times has he forgotten them, while they remember again and again every detail of his face, his clothing, committing him to memory, so they can try and find him, try and free him?

How many times have they failed?

How many times have they kept trying?

#dracula daily #obviously i know they don't ACTUALLY know about the time loop #but it's fun to pretend they do

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museenkuss · 8 months

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OCTOBER. the first lines in a new notebook. chestnut mousse. studying runway shows. the scent of leather. rainy nights spent reading. mini perfume atomisers kept in overstuffed handbags. chai. hunting down the perfect paisley scarf. poached pears with vanilla sauce. jotting down thoughts on scraps of paper that’ll be found inbetween the pages of a book, years from now. honey face masks. learning poems by heart. dark chocolate and red wine. Draculean nightmares and Wildean dreams (opulent, melancholic, homoerotic).

#Museenkuss #monthly thoughts #dark academia #it’s Oscar Wilde’s birthday on the 16th #don’t forget!!!#Bosie was a libra too btw. THE libra x libra couple imo #I was about to say it’s a cautionary tale but tbh there’s a ‘goals’ aspect to it isn’t there #Libra are just like that #Dracula daily #<- I’m still stuck at the beginning of September and since I do read it at night the horror does translate #also I do think those two - D nightmares and W dreams - can be very similar #weren’t Stoker & Wilde friends?#anyhow. I do love horror and Dracula really does hit. I was surprised to be honest #because of course you know the story etc your it still REALLY sucks you in #October

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ieidolon · 18 days

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My favorite wild Dracula take comes from an article that confidently asserted normative masculinity was restored by the end of the novel because the two male characters who had been personally victimized by Dracula, by which the author explicitly stated they meant Jonathan and Quincey Morris, kill him

I don't know what alternate universe this article came from but I want to read their version of Dracula so bad

#dracula #dracula daily #Dracula spoilers #Dracula daily spoilers #how do you publish an article with that big of a mistake in it. reeling #and he added no clarifications or context either #i know we all make mistakes BUT THIS ONE'S PRETTY EGREGIOUS #rest of the article fucked though. overall it was pretty good #it was just such a bold statement to make with zero evidence....#i know there are little discrepancies between the British and American edition but I think I would have heard about this one

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almostsweetangel · 2 years

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the tragedy of paradise lost is that adam knew that if he ate the apple he would be damned. he was untainted by the serpent's wiles, but the second he saw that eve had fallen, he realized he didn't want to live without her. he didn't want another eve. and he didn't want her to suffer damnation alone. so he eats the apple, falls into sin, and the very reason he sacrificed his place in eden for, he ends up hating, because the horror of damnation isn't knowledge or mortality, it is that it warps you, changes you, perverses what made you you. their love is suddenly violent, brutal, chafing; they fight, they argue, they blame and scream and rage at each other. adam sacrifices himself and yet it's meaningless bc damnation took everything in the fall

in dracula, jonathan stands safe from being turned into a vampire but he sees that mina might not be. but he doesn't want to live without her. he doesn't want another mina. he doesn't want her to suffer damnation alone.

and yet he also knows what happened to lucy. he must, when the entire purpose of the crew gathering all their experiences is to bring to light the horror of dracula's deeds and what the transformation to vampirism does to a person. he must know that if they both become vampires, whatever love he holds onto now may be perverted, corrupted, turned. he must know damnation will take everything in the fall

AND YET! IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH! FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE! IN HEAVEN OR IN HELL! FUCK IT ALL, HE'LL TAKE THAT RISK FOR EVEN THE CHANCE TO STAY WITH MINA. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

#do you know how ling ive held this in i have so many fucking thoughts. im insane about jonathan i can't take it anymore AGSGSGSGSGSGSHSHSHSH #(opens synth v) solaria wake up. i need to write music about this. im going mad #dracula daily

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thedarkone121 · 2 months

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How I would try to Adapt “Dracula”

Hello, resident Film student that is about to graduate here and I have been through the deep-dive of the Dracula by Bram Stoker waters. Suffice to say, I feel in love and was very disappointed that the cultural osmosis of adaptations that I grew up around to understand Dracula does not even come close to the masterpiece that I found within the original story. It’s Jonathan and Mina, by the way. Their relationship is the masterpiece of this story. Go away very problematic themes, stereotypes, and ideas, I will not let you take this relationship away from me.

Seriously, how was it possible for me to ship a Victorian couple so hard? Why do we not have this in more adaptations?! WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU HOLLYWOOD?!

…AHEM! Once again, I am sorry to my followers for another fixation has caught my attention. At least this is something I could probably put in a portfolio…

Moving back to my idea, I should make a point that I am a storyboard artist so my idea generally falls to making it into an Adult Cartoon Series. Something along the lines of the Legend of Vox Machina — because I really like that art style and it feels like it fits best with my plot.

Speaking of which, let me get into the plot! Strap in newcomers because I am a bit of a storyteller when it comes to explaining my whacky ideas, if you didn’t already figured that.

DARKY’S DRACULA ADAPTATION, GO!

The setting of my adaptation takes place relatively the same time period. In fact, things are largely the same as the beginning of the novel; Jonathan travels to the Count’s castle, he notices the strong ongoing, he has that horrible encounter with the Vampire Ladies, Dracula does who know what to him, he even has his refined taste for paprika!

You might ask yourself: “Well, how is your adaptation any different from the book?” Well, that’s easy, my good friends. Because Jonathan manages to kill Dracula that day on June 30th, where he successfully decapitates the monster that’s been tormenting him.

It all sounds well and good, right? That means no one to torment Lucy and she can have her big day with Arthur. Mina will be safe, no children get bitten. It sounds wonderful…

…But Jonathan can’t get out of the castle. He remains there, trapped, with the Vampire Ladies and a presence that won’t go away.

Months go by and Mina receives a letter, one from her missing fiancé. He is still in Romania working with the Count, but he would like for Mina to come by and look at the land. Thinking how it would be a wonderful place for a honeymoon.

Mina is confused by the contents of the letter, but it is her proof that her fiancé is alive. And now she has a location of his whereabouts.

With a sadden goodbye to Lucy due to the fact that she will miss her wedding, Mina heads to Transylvania in order to find Jonathan.

But when she arrives at the Castle, welcomed by the Three Women, Mina realizes what horrors had plagued Jonathan and now it will soon come to her.

And that’s the outline of the Pilot I had in my head. Do I think it’s possible for Jonathan to decapitate Dracula with the shovel? Probably not, but it needs to in order for this adaptation to work. And before anyone says, yes, this Adaptation is pretty much Mina Murray going all Resident Evil 7 on Dracula’s castle.

She deserves to have her rage moments. Also, she really wants to get married. If it means she has to storm a castle, then she will do that!

Some other facts that I wanted to include:

Lucy gets more of an active role in the story. She’s been poorly adapted for so long, I wanted to give her something more. She’s the Galinda to Mina’s Elphaba. You bet she’s going to lead a search party that involves her husband, their two best friends, and the silly Professor that was interested in the location in order to find her two childhood friends.

Also, yeah. Lucy and Arthur got married. I’m going to give these two a chance to be happy before things go wrong when they arrive at the castle.

The Vampire Sisters get a chance to be main villains for the first half of the show. Yes, I called them Sisters instead of Brides cause I read that two of the three look like Dracula and I’m just going to leave it at that. Also, I think the Blonde one is their mom? I’m not a hundred percent sure. It’s an adaptation. They’re getting more screen time and depth, is what I’m trying to say!

Mina has a gun, watch out.

Dracula still has a role in this story. That I can include.

I know I likened the plot to Resident Evil 7 so I ‘m just gonna go ahead and say this; Mina will not loose any of her hands.

Expect a lot of Jonmina moments, flashbacks and when they reunite included.

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