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canyourfavesurvivecastledracula · 3 months

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Harry Blackstone Copperfield Dreden, from the Dresden Files

Mr "The building was on fire and it wasn't my fault", Wizard of Chicago, magical right hand thug of Winter, Dad of a small girl and a spirit of intellect, owner of a temple foo dog and a perfectly normal cat, etc. Has canonically fought vampires of the "black court" which are similar to Dracula. Has met the Dresden Files version of Dracula and survived barely.

Survivability will change according to where you are in the series, so let's say at the current book Battlegrounds. If you like, compare with him at the beginning of the series, Storm Front.

"Survived, barely" I think is Harry Dresden's whole mode of being.

I think the question here is going to be less "will Dracula kill Harry" and more "can Dracula kill Harry." Like of course Dracula wants to kill him. Everyone wants to kill Harry Dresden all the time and they're usually right. He aggros vampires on purpose because he is, if you'll pardon the expression, A Little Shit.

Yeah I was gonna say by Dresden Files rules we probably wanna say Dracula is Black Court? I am going to admit right now that I haven't read the books but I have designed a homebrew Sentinels of the Multiverse villain deck around them so I am broadly conversant with them. I've been told the wildest stuff. Santa Claus is there.

(I have seen the TV series but this is about the books)

The thing is... Harry Dresden is protected six ways from Sunday. He has every anti-vampire measure and he knows how to weaponize the rules of hospitality. He'll find some way that Dracula can't harm him while he's a guest in his home, and use that technicality to be an insufferable brat. He's owed favors by tons of ridiculously powerful entities that would love to see him dead. He's a whole wizard, and, unlike some, actually pretty good at it. He's the Winter Knight (is he still after the whole ghost thing?? I can't keep track?) which has got to do something.

And like, he's got that Jim Kirk sex appeal, rendered all the more inexplicable by the fact that he's fundamentally scrungly. For no reason that I've ever been able to determine (again, it might be more clear if I actually read the books), hot immortal women keep sacrificing themselves for him. It would be entirely in character for one or more of the Girlies to be his ex who hates his guts - but then ends up sacrificing herself for him anyway.

I think mechanically Harry should be able in principle to be just fine, BUT because this is Harry "born to suffer" Dresden he will find ways to make trouble for himself and everyone around him. He's creative like that.

......honestly now I want to put Harry Dresden and Harry DuBois in a room together and see what happens. Someone who knows these guys better than I do get on that.

Anyway I don't think it's a Dresden File unless Harry gets beaten within an inch of his life at least in part due to his own poor life choices.

So in all likelihood Harry Dresden, Wizard of Chicago, can survive Castle Dracula. But, as you say, Barely.

#the dresden files #harry dresden #my impression is that everyone wants to kill harry so bad and it makes them so mad when they can't #and also that he's somewhat of a chew toy but also kinda has it coming #wizards and spellcasters

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delivish · 7 months

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i have such a soft spot for tweek/kenny. they're super adorable to me, okay

i see them just being kind've ambivalent toward each other at first. super neutral at best.

'yeah i know that guy's face but i can't say we've ever spoken. we kinda move in different circles, man'. 'oh him? yeah, dude, he's my classmate. we're not really friends, though. i think his parents named him twit, dude, can you imagine? always has some bomb fuckin' weed on him, but don't even ask, he doesn't like to share.'

love the thought of them being forced to work together. and just arguing and cracking on each other the entire time. not even an enemies to lovers situation?? so much as like. here's a person who meant absolutely nothing to me and now we have to work together and its make or break. and you still mean nothing to me even in this situation lmao but since you're here. i guess i'll talk to you. I GUESS. and it doesn't matter if i'm lecherous or super scrungly or riddled with anxiety 'cause after this we're going to go back to pretending the other person doesn't exist. great? great!

except whoops! somehow in the middle of all this we've gotten to know each other better than anyone. and despite everything, we've kinda. become friends? and its genuinely nice. people raise their eyebrows when they see us together because, those guys shouldn't have anything in common. and we don't, but we do. sort of? it's weird. and fuck, that thing that used to irritate the shit outta me is kinda cute now. huh.

but they wouldn't like. be interested. at all. it's too weird. dude, he's cool, he's a friend. (just a friend).

'ngh, hey kenny.' 'hey, tweeker, what's up?'

super casual. a thousand little moments adding up. tweek never does let kenny take a hit (he's a brat and an only child, okay, he doesn't like to share). but one day he gets tired of kenny's bugging and shotguns a lungful of smoke into kenny's mouth. whatever, man. doesn't count as a kiss. (kenny thinks about it for days after).

ANYWAY fucking twenny

#don't #don't look at me #i think about them a NORMAL amount!!!!!#SP Twenny

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