#and even though I have my Opinions on Mina being bitten I love all the supportive husband content from Jonathan

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I think it's a little strange of me to be hyperfocusing this much on what trauma was done to Jonathan Harker but I think what it is is the novel lets the audience in on all the quite severe and longlasting repercussions of Jonathan's ordeal but only hints at what the trauma actually is and that's driving my imagination wild. The pure insanity, the fact that he just slipped into an immediate disassociative state the second he saw Dracula, the fact that according to Mina he is having fully immersive nightmares where he doesn't know where he is and she has to talk him back to himself. When Seward's like "he looks like an old man now" like that's all so real and vivid and my Friend Jonathan Harker was hurt really badly yet it's never confirmed by Stoker that he was even bitten like I need the details I need to know what exactly happened to my good friend Jonathan Harker that made him suffer this much.

#dracula daily spoilers #dracula spoilers #dracula #jonathan harker #for real though I'm so proud of him #he was doing so badly for so long #he was insane in a sanatorium of a foreign country for like 6 weeks before he could remember a single address #like that's... a really poor level of mental health he couldn't remember a single address #and he recovered... he rallied he overcame and he's gonna have a whole life now #I mean he couldn't have done it without Mina but also he has a lot of personal strength #he wanted to live so badly #I think most people wouldn't have made it #and even though I have my Opinions on Mina being bitten I love all the supportive husband content from Jonathan #like he was completely alone in his ordeal he had no support and he will make sure that Mina is supported every step of the way #no one deserves a happy ending more than them

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Speaking of Mina/Lucy, it's interesting that when Lucy gets bitten she has very similar symptoms to the ones Jonathan will be displaying and Mina starts taking care of her like how she will of him, always by her side, being watchful, dressing/undressing her, protects her by going after the threat when she senses he bat Dracula, she takes the caretaker role with them both when they're disabled.

Now that's a point I actually hadn't considered, even though it relates perfectly to my whole opinion about Mina-As-Mother. Like, I literally talked about her caretaking of both of them, but never considered what that says about Mina's perception of them, just what it says about Mina's character.

Or what it says about Jonathan and Lucy as bitten victims who weren't 'baptised in blood' or whatever the phrase is.

Caretaking of a disabled friend or husband were, of course, seen as admirable feminine traits then, just as they often are now. Which, there's a lot happening in that statement, but it is a known phenomenon that when a loved one Gets Sick, the wife/mother is expected to destroy herself to caretake, and do so without complaint. In actual practice this tends to create horrible nested systems of abuse, but we're discussing a Manic Pixie Dream Girl here, so it's fine.

If anything, it's additional evidence that Mina is meant to be pretty self-evidently Good And Pure to make it more fucked up when she gets burnt by the wafer and shit goes to hell.

But to my more immediate interest, does this mean that if Lucy lived, she would also have turned All White and gotten super powers?

Because, like.

Just the visual of Lucy and Jonnycakes going from "haha Mina has a type and it's soft spoken but passionate femmes with The Consumption" to "HAHA MINA HAS A TYPE AND IT'S THE TWINS FROM FF14" like.

It's SO funny to me and I love it SO much.

Her and Jack coming back from IDK The Markets to find these magical waifs in the sitting room and being physically assaulted by the absurdity of it all (still hot tho).

#asks #ask answers #Anonymous #Note: Mina is not Jonathan's manic Pixie she is Jonathan's wife #She is Van Helsing's Manic Pixie Dream Girl #Go on check the tvtropes page and find a trait that her relationship with VH lacks I will wait #ANYWAY describing Alisaie as 'using a spell sword' to make her Deal as Obvious as possible without the jargon of 'RDM' #Ack physically painful lolol like #Imagine saying 'oh yeah yknow Utena is an anime about a girl and her spell sword' #Like okay yes that's... correct... and limited to the relevant conversational details... #But like lads that's not... #Anyway I think Mina is officially now MY self insert #Ain't the public domain grand? #Dracula #Dracula Daily #We love you Mina Harker #Lucy Westena #Jonathan Harker's Gender Markers