#RIPieces asshole

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Picturing how the Weird Sisters are taking this turn of events now that we know there's a direct psychic feed to Drac-O-Vision once you're vampire'd. Specifically,

Weird Sisters: Who's that 1890's white-haired anime man? Oh! Oh shit! That's Bloodbag Boytoy!

Dracula: I see that.

Weird Sisters: Oh, that's a huge fucking knife

Dracula: I see that too.

Weird Sisters: Fuck him up, Bloodbag! Fuck him up, Bloodbag!

Dracula: First, thank you so much for the support. Second, keep dreaming, even by day I'm fast as hell--AGH FUCK

Weird Sisters: Ha! Mugged your ass!

Dracula: Can you all shut up long enough for me to monologue?

Weird Sisters: Don't think you have time for that.

Dracula: What do you--oh. Oh shit.

Weird Sisters, as Jonathan lizard fashions his way out the window with the kukri in his teeth: Oh shit! :D :D :D

Dracula, sweating: He wouldn't try anything in broad daylight. Not in front of witnesses.

Weird Sisters, as Jonathan prepares to come skin the Count in broad daylight, in front of God and Piccadilly Square: Yeah, you should definitely wait for him to politely not gut you. Just stay right there.

Dracula, running and locking the door behind him: Bah!

Weird Sisters: -laugh-wheezing in the castle-

I can only imagine how things are going now, as he huddles in his last little box of dirt, sailing back to hide in the Carpathians again. He is sincerely debating just going to the first restaurant on land and dying by garlic bread to avoid the welcome waiting for him at the castle.

#RIPieces asshole #enjoy the roast-a-thon #brides of dracula #dracula #jonathan harker #re: dracula #dracula daily

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"trying so hard not to fall down the 'Jonathan in Jack's Asylum' AU rabbit hole again"

I Would Like To See It (please)

It's just what it sounds like! Jonathan doesn't get to fly by on mere brain fever and amnesia, so he winds up in Jack's asylum right next door to Dracula's new hideout. Main points include:

Dracula playing patron to get easy sadist access to chat with/torment his good friend total stranger of a madman, Jonathan Harker, who he feels such pity for, a connection, perhaps once he's well again the Count could take the poor man into his employ (wink wink). Jonathan takes this threat/promise as well as you'd expect.

Renfield loses his crush very, very fast on seeing Dracula in action. He and Jonathan bond, with Renfield being his only truly believing ally on the inside; he has to wrestle a knife away from the younger man once, as he attempted to end his own life rather than succumb to the change trying to take hold in his emptying veins.

Other patients disappear/get drinked outright ala the Demeter sailors.

Mina has unknowingly put herself in the Count's sights with her constant visits. She also is 0.5 seconds from wringing Jack out like a washcloth upon seeing how much worse and miserable Jonathan has become under his 'care.' He's not being helped, he's being tortured! And look how pale he's become! (Dots connecting...)

Lucy also turns up, being the link between Mina and Jack. She and Jonathan have a 👁👁! to 👁👁! moment of recognition.

Jack finally starts picking up red flags when the Count reacts very poorly to having his patronage/visits to Jonathan denied. No amount of cozening can hide how distressingly Focused this man is on a patient he claims to have no former connection with.

Long story short, the climax comes a lot earlier here than it would in the novel, namely by way of Jonathan and Renfield getting to bust into Carfax and confront the bastard-in-the-box. This time armed with more than a shovel. RIPieces, asshole.

Jonathan gets his life and reputation back by way of Jack guiltily (and quite deftly) spinning a tale about how his initial vampiric delusions were seeded by an aristocratic host who had poisoned his food and drink during his work trip, psychologically torturing the poor man as he hallucinated. The game resumed when he discovered his victim in reach of his new estate on English soil. As of now, the noble in question has disappeared, perhaps under an alias.

Also Renfield gets to walk out of the asylum because I say so.

#I am an excited dog and Jonathan Harker is my favorite chew toy #jonathan harker #jack seward #r.m. renfield #mina murray #lucy westenra #dracula #re: dracula #dracula daily