#And then fall silent and refuse to answer whenever Seward asked what he meant

[ava-does-dumbassery]

Anyway, since I’m here translating random stuff that I like, here’s “the blood is the life!” in Middle Egyptian:

Snfw pw ʿnḫ!

I decided while making this that I really like the idea of Renfield being casually familiar with a bunch of ancient/long dead languages? Like, I don’t think he’d actually be able to speak Middle Egyptian or anything like it, but I think he’d be able to recognize the hieroglyphs and maybe a few specific words or symbols or pieces of iconography. Maybe he’d use the glyphs as part of some sort of cipher, and that’s part of why Seward has a hard time understanding his diary when he steals it from him.

#Dracula #renfield #rm renfield #dracula daily #<- oof thought I’d never use that tag again #R.m. renfield #Id in alt #ancient egypt stuff #ava has thoughts #Since I’ve been reading a bunch of magical texts and stuff recently I’ll say I also really like the idea of him kinda knowing about those #But I don’t know realistic that would be considering publication dates and whatever #Also I don’t think he’d be that interested in what’s in most Ancient Egyptian magical texts #*Except* maybe the Greek Magical Papyri #Specifically I really like the idea of Renfield knowing about that one spell in the PGM that’s about— #—getting Set-Typhon to bully everyone else in the universe into doing what you want. I think he’d really like that one #Also if he knew magical texts then when Seward is doing his asshole doctor thing Renfield could cryptically quote them #And then fall silent and refuse to answer whenever Seward asked what he meant #And think smug thoughts about how his abuser is a stupid little baby twink man who doesn’t know what a Set-Typhon is #And that sounds fun for him‚ I think he should get to do that