#Imagine saying 'oh yeah yknow Utena is an anime about a girl and her spell sword'

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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