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astrangergivingthestrangewelcome · 2 years

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Mina *crying*: I'm horribly anxious about Jonathan, there is no reasonable explanation for his not writing something awful must have happened and I don't even know where to inquire about him. Oh look there's Mr. Swales maybe he'll distract me.

Mr. Swales: well I don't want you to be feeling bad miss, you see I'm very close to death myself and that's all us old folks can think about is death death death. I bet my death is in that storm out there. Everyone in the world has got to die. Guess I'm dying tonight. Anyway goodbye lovely to talk to you.

Mina *crying again*: god FUCKING damnit

#dracula daily #i think jonathan harker and mina murray #both need to be wrapped up in little blankets #and given some nice cups of chocolate #and I think after they finish them they should take a nap

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archivedible · 6 months

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FINALLY FINISHED MY DRACULA CHARACTER LINEUP !!!

this is not how any of them are described in the books I literally just went off vibes I'm being so honest.

also expect to see more of this renfield design bc i cant stop drawing him

SINGLE CHARACTER REFRENCES UNDER CUT vvv

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mothmore · 7 months

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on my knees sobbing crying throwing up thinking about the love and kindness and friendship between the dracula main characters

#dracula #re: dracula #more of moth #i think what really got me was in like sept 28 #when john is like ‘for the first time ik all my years living in this old house #it finally felt like a home’ when hee with mina drinking tea #i had to grab onto the handle on my car door to not double over crying #THEY JUST ALL LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH #john seward #jack seward #mina murray #mina harker #jonathan harker #van helsing #quincey morris #arthur holmwood

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daemonologist · 1 year

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Something that occurred to me when watching OSP's Dracula video is when Red says that Dracula can't work as anything but a novel, I realized that hey, maybe adaptations to film or television or theater can't capture what makes Dracula Dracula, but a video game could. There have been plenty of Draculas in plenty of games, but I think a near-identical translation of Dracula into the video game medium could be the closest we get to an actual adaptation. And specifically, one that changes styles multiple times throughout the game.

Think, we start with Jonathan Harker on his way to Castle Dracula. It's a fairly normal 3rd-person RPG that morphs into survival horror as the secrets of Castle Dracula and the Count are unearthed. Then it abruptly turns into a visual novel of Lucy and Mina exchanging letters, complete with a romance subgame with Lucy and her suitors. Interspersed throughout the game are Seward's interactions with Renfield through the lens of a puzzle game. Then we're on the deck of the Demeter in a full-on horror game as Dracula feeds on the crew.

We're back to the visual novel style as Lucy and Mina go on holiday to Whitby, which ends when Mina receives a letter about Jonathan being in Budapest. Then once again we're in a 3rd-person RPG, this time as Seward, and we are finally introduced to Abraham Van Helsing. This part of the game would incorporate the puzzle elements of the Renfield sections as we attempt to diagnose Lucy's illness.

After Lucy dies, the game shifts into a more action-focused tone for a time as we hunt down the Bloofer Lady and finally stake Lucy. After this, Jonathan and Mina return to the story and it becomes a mystery game as we track down where Dracula's coffins of earth are. Mina begins to show the same symptoms Lucy did and we get a rhythm game from Van Helsing's POV as he hypnotizes her to aid in tracking Dracula.

In the final section of the game, we follow the three groups in sequence. First, Mina and Van Helsing in a dungeon-crawl game as they reach Dracula's castle, ending in Van Helsing destroying the brides of Dracula. Second, Quincey and Seward's travel as the pair follow Dracula on land, ending with the sight of Dracula's coffin being loaded into a wagon. Third and finally, Jonathan's POV as he, Holmwood, Quincey, and Seward converge on Dracula, and the final fight of the game begins. Afterward, we see the epilogue play out and thus ends the Dracula video game adaptation.

It would probably be insane to pull off but if it were, it would be glorious.

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immediatebreakfast · 6 months

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After these talks of preparation, Jonathan's attitude becoming more and more jumpy as he listens to the people supposed to help Mina talk about her transformation, and the Czarina Catherine being held hostage by the fog... Mina is probably living her own version of hell on earth right now.

Mina is a kind woman, an intelligent woman, an observing woman. Very aware of her surroundings, and the people that walk around her thanks to being a manners teacher. She reached when Lucy couldn't, she guided Jonathan towards information and inspired all of these men to swear loyalty to her alone.

And now Mina is trapped in a limbo of darkness, and coldness. Hearing, and watching how her comrades talk about how to kill her if god gives up on her. Then the hypnosis comes in a shove in the water deep deep down, and suddenly Mina is dead. Not in the body but in the mind.

Feeling dead, but her heart is still beating. Knowing what a coffin feels like, and how no light comes underground. Only hearing the sound of the waves as her breathing becomes shorter becasue what if she can afixiate while doing this? Then Mina wakes up, and the first thing she sees is Van Helsing's face deep in thought.

The report is the same as yesterday... Again, but Mina notices (of course she does) how Van Helsing "subtlely" checks her face, and mouth then talks to Seward in hushed tones. But, not the ones that ladies like her, and Lucy have practiced up to perfection to talk about someone who is present without noticing, no. It's a simple low voice without finesse, or any attempt of masking that they are talking about her, about her letargy, about her pale skin, about her spike in energy on the evenings. Even Jonathan could do a better job, Mina knows because she taught him a little.

Mina is probably more aware than anyone might think, so aware that she probably prefers sleeping than enduring. I wonder Mina thought for even a second "Do they think she is stupid now?"

#It's sadly good that Mina is sleeping most of the time because all of this would wound her #I wonder if she thinks of Lucy while she is in that dull state between sleep and awake #All interactions muddled while only feeling a cold familiar and lovely hand anchoring her down to reality #Oh how I wish Mina had the strenght to grab a pen and write #I bet if she asked Jonathan to hold the paper for her he would #dracula daily #dracula #mina harker #mina murray

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hypo-critic-al · 1 year

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“Thing is not human—not even a beast.”

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a petition to give Mina a sword

i haven’t posted any Dracula fan art yet, here is one :]

#i did this on entrance art school exams #looks nice me thinks #dracula #dracula daily #jonmina #jonathan harker #mina harker #mina murray #artists on tumblr #traditional art #gothic literature #gothic lit #goth lit #classic literature

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vickyvicarious · 11 months

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seeing ppl go "lol jonathan why are you admitting you found them hot what will mina think of you when she reads it!!!" has me go "*shakes you* you are going against the thesis of the book!!!"

I know some of why is dependent on knowledge of future events, and so people new to Dracula Daily won't be aware of it. But to be honest, Jonathan admitting his attraction to the vampire ladies is so, so important to me. On several different character levels, even outside of the entire book proving over and over again that sharing knowledge is absolutely vital (and is also an expression of deep love/trust/support).

Let's just stick the quote in here for reference:

There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth.

Firstly - he needs to keep an accurate record. This is his only place to speak freely, his only opportunity to be precise about what he is going through. It is vitally important for him to keep his sanity intact that he be clear and try to remain logical in this diary. We see him fact-checking again and again. We can extrapolate from other statements that he doesn't always mention everything he suspects unless he feels it relevant or possible to prove. For example, repeatedly noting Dracula himself doing things before ever getting around to voicing the theory that the Count has no servants (he collected evidence first, didn't speak his suspicions until they were proven). Or putting the crucifix above his bed and taking the opportunity to sleep elsewhere, thus pointing to feeling unsafe and possibly experiencing bad dreams in his own room (he mentioned what he does about it, but not the feeling on its own or whatever nightmares he may be having). Jonathan works very hard to keep his diary focused on a few things above all: what the Count/ladies are, what everyone does, what Jonathan observes or learns, his actionable plans. He of course expresses his fears and emotions at times in his diary, more than he can out loud, but never going all the way down the rabbithole of fear, hopelessness, etc. He tries to calm himself by sticking to facts (all the harder when something strange is happening), which is in itself a soothing process for him so that's helpful too. His goal is to make this diary useful to himself and to others, if he ever gets the chance to share it. There is a goal here.

And what that means, is that the things Jonathan writes in great detail are things that feel relevant to him. The entire encounter with the vampire ladies was extremely important. It revealed a ton of new information to him, as well as being a truly horrifying and traumatic thing to go through. Jonathan's feelings are as relevant as his observations/actions here, because both are directly affected by the presence of the vampire women. Jonathan can't move. He feels dreamy. He feels attracted to them. He cannot resist and in the moment a large part of him didn't even want to. These are all effects they are causing, at least to some extent. I know mileage can vary a lot on how much of Jonathan's attraction is just coming from him, but honestly, I can't agree with any version that doesn't have a natural attraction at the very least being exacerbated by supernatural vampire abilities somehow. If not caused or called forth by them in the first place. The way he narrates, with so much obvious fear and revulsion mixed in with the desire, makes that clear to me. He sounds like he doesn't fully understand his own feelings at the time, at least where they all came from or why they were so strong. It goes along with all the other symptoms he is experiencing, and the other abilities they demonstrate. And so, to keep his record accurate - it has to go in. He cannot leave it out. It might become very relevant later.

Secondly - Jonathan is honest with Mina, specifically. I love this about their relationship. I don't think it's so much 'I noticed they were attractive' that he fears might hurt her, because Mina isn't particularly shy herself about noticing both women and men as good-looking, and even admiring their looks while on a date with Jonathan (poor Pretty Girl in Piccadilly). He also called local women pretty in his first entry as well (though he did say "except when you got near them" so it felt a bit backhanded to me), so again it's not the noticing that's an issue either way. It's more that he felt actual desire to act on an attraction, or rather for them to act. This is unusual, this is a separate matter from noticing people are hot, this is something that comes much closer to cheating or at least wanting to, and he feels very guilty about it. There's no real sense that he is worried Mina will be angry at him, and there's no sense that he will ever outside of that one moment ever want to act on any attraction he feels for someone other than Mina (or someone Mina also approves of, varying depending on your polycula headcanons). I personally do kind of tend to view Jonathan as some form of demisexual so how much he even tends to feel attraction to other people is often a little wibbly to me, but that's kind of irrelevant for the point of this. We can also set aside the shared language of "kiss" between Jonathan and the vampire ladies, and how this may point to a desire to become available for being drunk from, rather than necessarily sexual desire specifically, even if that's the type of language used. With regards to Mina: he's not worried about being caught, because he is choosing not to hide. He feels bad talking about the attraction because it might hurt her feelings, but he'll admit to it regardless because it's more important to him to be honest with her. Jonathan hates hiding things from Mina. This actually becomes plot-relevant later on. Even when she herself expressly forbids him from telling her stuff, he feels anguished about it and is certain to ensure that records are kept which she can read later. He trusts her completely. Embarrassment, shame, bad behavior, or whatever else - he will still share that with her. The only times he doesn't confide in Mina are when he's trying to repress everything because he thinks he was crazy (and possibly may even have some PTSD-related memory loss as well), or when he and the other men are trying to make sure she isn't exposed to danger (which is wrong in several ways but this post isn't about that so I won't get into it), and of course when she tells him not to. Every single time he feels upset about it. So yeah, he's going to regret that she may feel hurt, but deliberately hiding things from her would be worse.

Thirdly - Jonathan admitting his attraction here is a huge comfort to Mina later on. I truly believe this. I've talked about it before actually, but let me try to rephrase a bit to keep it on the same post. By being open about his own attraction and experience with nearly being drunk from, he provides precedent for Mina's October 3rd trauma. It makes it easier (though obviously still not easy) for her to admit to the same kind of desire:

"I was bewildered, and, strangely enough, I did not want to hinder him. I suppose it is a part of the horrible curse that such is, when his touch is on his victim."

Mina never blamed Jonathan for expressing such thoughts. She wasn't concerned about the issue being another woman when she came to him in the hospital, and when she read his diary she never mentioned any hesitations or misgivings about this scene at all. But even if she had secretly felt upset before (I personally don't see her thinking that way at all, but for the sake of argument), I think that experiencing something similar would make her grateful for Jonathan's candor. In a moment when she's already feeling deeply unclean and complicit, Jonathan's earlier honesty here relieves her from a little bit of the guilt she is feeling. It lets her recognize her own lack of desire to stop Dracula as something he did to her, just like Jonathan experienced with the vampire ladies when he couldn't/didn't want to move away. It's possible even that Mina felt more explicit desire for Dracula's 'red lips to kiss her' but didn't feel comfortable saying quite that much - even if so, again Jonathan's account would be a comfort.

And having that account written down long ago means she has already internalized this. If Jonathan had kept it hidden only to try and ease her mind later, well... first off, Mina too might have kept her reaction hidden out of guilt. And even if she didn't or he told her then, a confession at that time wouldn't mean nearly as much or carry the same kind of weight, I don't think. It would feel like he's making excuses for her, like he didn't trust her enough to tell her earlier, just... bad stuff mixed in, which are all avoided by having Jonathan be truthful from the start.

#dracula daily spoilers #dracula daily #jonathan harker #mina murray #jonmina #anonymous #replies #my meta #sorry anon i feel like you were wanting to talk more about the 'sharing is caring' thesis so to speak #but this is where my thoughts went for now #obviously also though the book demonstrates again and again that concealing the truth (whether well-meant or not) is NOT HELPFUL #that trust is demonstrated via laying oneself emotionally bare and GIVING INFORMATION even when it isn't in your favor #that dracula specifically thrives on confusion and hidden fear and a lack of communication and that the key to his defeat #is to work together. to show love through being open about everything that is happening to you no matter how shameful or scary #to support one another. and to admit when you need support.#sorry i probably shoulda added a readmore. didn't think about it till later

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yallemagne · 2 years

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Jonathan’s situation is just so isolating.

I’ve seen a few posts talking about how sweet it is that he would include the other members of the team in his will if Mina didn’t outlive him, but really, it’s just so sad. Mina and Jonathan have no living relatives. Besides Mina, Jonathan has no one. Even the other men in the group are just tangential in his life. He doesn’t form connections with each of them as Mina does. They’re practically just coworkers. We only see a handful of interactions between him and the others, and he only bonds with them over two things: Mina and killing the Count.

They have read his journal, but they don’t know him. If he were to die, and Mina not outlive him, no one would grieve Jonathan. They would grieve Madam Mina’s husband. They’d grieve the amazingly brave man they found depicted in his journal, not the man who woke in the night and had to be calmed down from nightmares, not the man who feels responsible for every death and loss that has occurred over the course of the novel. They would mourn a hero, not a man.

Everyone would grieve Mina. She is their star of hope, as Van Helsing has said, a beacon, a sign of Heaven on Earth. She is kind and intelligent and she has touched all their lives, and her loss would be felt beyond just their little circle; it would be a tragedy.

And now Mina has asked Jonathan to be the one to take her life, and he cannot say yes. He can’t muster the words, and in many people’s eyes, he is being selfish and he needs to man-up and just do what needs to be done. But Mina isn’t just his wife, she’s his only true friend. They’ve known each other since they were children and planned to spend their entire lives together. Now, Mina is almost telling him that her death is an inevitability, and he needs to be the one to carry it out for her sake. She doesn’t force the words from his mouth, but she has him read a burial service, and it was so heart-wrenching that Seward couldn’t even finish his account of it.

I have so many feelings about all this. For those who are upset with Jonathan for his hesitation, just imagine Jonathan without Mina because the man himself cannot. The only thing that got him out of that castle was the hope of seeing Mina again, and the only one who could remind him he was no longer trapped was her. Mina is stronger than Jonathan; she can survive without him, but he cannot survive without her.

#yes I have read the book that doesn't mean I can't still cry and be scared #I think the reason why all my story ideas conveniently switch up mina and jonathan #is because I wouldn't be able to cope with mina's death nor Jonathan's grief #jonathan harker #mina harker #mina murray #October 11 #dracula daily #dracula #dracula rant #rant

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thegoatsongs · 7 months

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Mina kept on walking with Jonathan holding her arm, as he had always preferred ("like in the old days"), because she puts him over propriety which has been her bread and butter. She keeps him in mind in her own sorrow.

Jonathan also shows how much he's thinking of Mina's comfort and feelings in the middle of his grief:

After Mr Hawkins' funeral, "Jonathan thought it would interest me to go into the Row for a while, so we sat down". Jonathan takes them to The Row, where people in the Victorian and Edwardian era would be seen riding horses. Mina has already revealed that she's fond of animals, comforted a scared dog, and liked watching "dear cows", so it makes sense that Jonathan thinks that Mina would be interested after burying Mr Hawkins.

Even while grieving, they both are always thinking about each other.

#i just think they are neat #dracula daily #jonathan harker #mina harker #mina murray #dracula #re: dracula

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count-skribula · 8 months

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It’s fascinating to me how vampires have so many weaknesses (crucifixes, holy water, mirrors, garlic, holy wafers, lack of cursed ground, daytime) but they’re still so hard for the characters to stop. And I think that’s because vampires aren’t really the main threat here, it’s lack of communication or friends.

Jonathan has plenty of things to stop Dracula from attacking, but he has no one to protect him when he’s asleep. Lucy has so many people helping her, but only one of them knows what’s happening and does not share and her source of protection (garlic, Seward watching her at night), are taken from her due to the secrecy. Mina has the men protecting her but since they choose to exclude her from their meetings she becomes alone and vulnerable to attack.

The final battle with Dracula is quick and he doesn’t even get up to fight, because once everyone is being truthful and communicating with each other the vampires are easy to kill.

#to clarify I think the secrecy in Lucy’s case was written really well because there’s understandable reasons for why he’s not sharing #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #jack seward #mina murray #lucy westenra #abraham van helsing #count dracula #bram stoker #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #spoilers

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just-an-enby-lemon · 3 months

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A Copolla's Dracula fix it where Mina is the reincarnation of Dracula's past wife but she is still pretty much our train bissexual queen and a past life married to a despote is not going to make her forgive him for killing her best friend and traumatizing her fiance. She might have loved him once. But she doesn't anymore. No, now she loves Jonathan and loved Lucy and she loves her new friends (the Crew of Light) and is just a good person not keen on Dracula killing and terrorizing inocent people.

Jonathan chooses her through and through, Jonathan who would abandon his god and became what he hates and fears the most for her. That writes down the train schedules of places she never went because he knows she loves trains. That smilles when someone compliments her and keeps fishing for it because he just loves to hear about how his wife is amazing. And she chooses Jonathan. Could never not to.

And even if she never had met him she would still not have chosen Dracula again. What she and Vlad had ended long ago. Dracula like the asshole he is does not get the memo and thinks Mina is meant to be his, that they are destined to be together and all that. (alternativaly that but also Crew of Light Polycule)

#jonathan harker #mina murray #dracula #jon and mina are everything to me i love them #i'm listening to murray mysteries and is making me think about them once more

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night-eyes1 · 2 years

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#I don't think bram secretly gay stoker see that coming #Or did he ;)#dracula daily #jonathan harker #count dracula #Dracula #bram stoker's dracula #bram stoker #mina murray #lucy westenra #mina x lucy #lucy x mina #dracula x jonathan

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blitheringbongus · 6 months

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Happy Halloween have some Hermitcraft doodles except they’re characters from Bram Stokers „Dracula“

(Click for better quality!)

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betweenbooksandmoths · 8 months

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That the first thing we hear Jonathan say after being missing for so long is Mina's full name... augh I love them

#dracula daily #Jonmina #jonathan harker #mina murray #mina harker #I think there's like something deeper in there but I can't quite tell what it is #All I know is that I love them

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moonsun2010 · 2 years

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some highlights from 3 October's entry:

Top left: "With his left hand he held both Mrs. Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast which was shown by his torn-open dress."

Top right: "Her face was ghastly, with a pallor which was accentuated by the blood which smeared her lips and cheeks and chin; from her throat trickled a thin stream of blood; her eyes were mad with terror. Then she put before her face her poor crushed hands... and from behind them came a low desolate wail".

Bottom left: "She shuddered and was silent, holding down her head on her husband's breast. When she raised it, his white night-robe was stained with blood where her lips had touched, and where the thin open wound in her neck had sent forth drops."

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"Harker was still and quiet; but over his face, as the awful narrative went on, came a grey look which deepened and deepened in the morning light, till when the first red streak of the coming dawn shot up, the flesh stood darkly out against the whitening hair."

Bottom right: ""Hush! there is someone in the corridor!" I got up softly, and crossing the room, gently opened the door.

Just outside, stretched on a mattress, lay Mr. Morris, wide awake."

#my art #dracula #dracula daily #just a few doodles to get this entry out of my system because holy hell what an entry #cw blood #mina harker #mina murray #jonathan harker #quincey morris #to have all this chaos in dracula happen on my birthday makes this entry extra banger to me hahaha #cw assault #one of these is not like the others lolol #man the aftermath of this is like. chilling. like truly the low point but also the turning point? from here the count is on the run #and jon definitelt wont stop till he gets vengence lol #but i cant help but think of the seeking vengence thing in comparison with shakespeare the rape of lucrece where lucrece is telling the men #who want to avenge her by killing tarquin #that their actions are essentially useless and it wouldnt really help her #theres deeper meaning but its the about gist of it. i cant help but compare that to minas plea to jon to stay when he wanted to go and #immediately hunt down the count too like ik we readers are baying for the counts blood at this point #but its interesting to think of how this idea of vengence and honour intersects with gender stuff in the novel. esp given victorian ideals

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immediatebreakfast · 10 months

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"God help me in my task! Good-bye, Mina, if I fail; good-bye, my faithful friend and second father; good-bye, all, and last of all Mina!" - Jonathan Harker, june 25.

This line broke my heart last year, and it still breaks my heart today.

The documenting, the fear, the risk, the possibily counted pages of the diary, the drying of the ink, everything is for the purpose of escaping. Because escaping means that Jonathan would see Mina again with his own eyes.

Even if Jonathan genuinely thought that he would not survive this endeavor, even if he was in tears for his possible death, he chose to say his last words to Mina. First and last, Jonathan will risk the Count's wrath if it means to take one single step into the direction of Mina.

#It's all for Mina #I think that if Jonathan ended up dead he would still try to go back to Mina #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #mina murray

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