#dracula's generals

[autumnmobile12]

Carmilla gets a little snarky in this scene, saying 'the Castle moves around' and that's part of her excuse on why she arrived so late after being summoned.

Aside from the fact it's funny Dracula didn't call her out on her bullshit by pointing out the Asian vampires Cho, Raman, and Sharma definitely had a much longer journey, it does raise the question: Why didn't Dracula just use the Castle to pick up his Generals in the ultimate carpool?

#castlevania #carmilla #dracula #cho #castle dracula #dracula's generals #hector #isaac #forgemasters #castlevania netflix #castlevania shitpost #shitpost #i laugh at dumb things

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever

You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules

#dracula #jonathan harker #mina murray #cant decide whether its funnier if theres just one kid per generation whos the bearer of the Curse #(name derived from the entire og polycule+ van helsing) and everyone else just has normal names #or if everyone in the family has at least five middle names just in different orders

[daemonologist]

reading Dracula has permanently altered my brain. i can never see count dracula as a generic character anymore. he isn't an ooky spooky horror monster he's the old bitch that imprisoned my boy johnny in his shitass castle and killed my beloved lucy and quincey. abraham van helsing isn't synonymous with badass monster hunters he's a 50-year-old dutch doctor who talks funny. i see things and think oh wow this is just like my favorite characters from my book that was written 126 years ago.

#count tagula #dracula #dracula daily #dracula spoilers #dracula daily spoilers #count dracula #lucy westenra #jonathan harker #quincey morris #abraham van helsing #classics #bram stoker #there is no dracula like *the* dracula and i can never go back #i can never think of dracula as just like. the generic vampire. no he's the original. the progenitor. he's the baddest bitch of them all #vulture chatter

[sharcys]

Thanks @foone for making this banger possible

#house #dr house #dracula flow #death generator

[nerdpoe]

Vlad meets Lex. He realizes some things.

Vlad meets Lex Luthor at a gala, and Lex is schmoozing hard.

Lex has heard about Vlad's weirdass business deals, knows something isn't right, and he want whatever untraceable power Vlad's got at his disposal.

Lex has done his research, and knows that Vlad got the equipment for cloning, but that no child was ever announced. So Lex starts bragging, going on and on about Kon and talking about the kid like he's a Thing.

And Vlad, listening to this, has some unfortunate realizations about how he was treating Ellie.

So Vlad excuses himself and does some digging of his own, and holy shit do the dead have a lot to gossip about regarding how Superman used to treat the boy, and Vlad...doesn't want to be compared to either of those buffoons.

He's better than both of them combined.

And he's gonna prove it.

He's gonna be the daddest dad that ever dadded.

He'll be way better than Jack, and if he's a better father than Jack then Daniel and Jasmine and Maddie will follow! He just has to learn how to be a good parent.

Easy.

He proceeds to buy every parenting book he can find, and signs himself up for parenting classes.

Ellie, minding her own business, feels a shiver go down her back.

#dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc #dc x dp #story prompt #phanfic #vlad's obsession has switched from wooing maddie with money to wooing her with good parenting skills #redemtion fic #vlad slowly starts to have his obsession switch from maddie to just being a good father #ellie fuckin books it #various justice league members have seen a dracula-esque man chasing a white haired kid through their cities #the only one who could have feasibly done anything was J'onn #he read teh general vibe of “LET ME FATHER YOU” and decided to leave it alone #he did tell batman though #maybe he and that strange dracula meta can bond #the man could use more friends

[johannesviii]

Yes it's more Infinity Train fanart no I don't know how to stop

#infinity train #lake infinity train #alan dracula #this is my general art tag

[quixoticanarchy]

sdfghjkl Jonathan calling Dracula's vampire ladies ‘awful’ and then immediately clarifying that he's casting no aspersions on women, women are great, Mina is a woman after all

#god forbid he even accidentally insult her while in absolute mortal peril! guy has priorities #now just learn not to make offensive generalizations about the local ppl too... #dracula daily #dracula #dracula spoilers #?

[ibrithir-was-here]

Made another rough comic for the “Time Traveling Quincey Harker helps save Jonathan” AU

Original concept here

Part 2

#my art #Quincey time travel AU #Dracula #jonathan harker #Quincey Harker #(did the Kukri just self generate in this timeline? who knows xD) #dracula daily #kinda #probably ok to still tag it as it’s what got Tumblr excited about Dracula anyway xD #dhampir #dhampir adjacent anyway #the soldier and the solicitor

[see-arcane]

Van Helsing: “Mina you should not be involved any further for safety’s sake—“

Jonathan, thinking: Yes, she shouldn’t be put in Dracula’s reach, good good good—

Van Helsing: “—helpful as you’ve been every step of the way, you do still have a chronic case of Being a Girl and so cannot be trusted to keep up with us men and our man-work.”

Jonathan, personal heroes including Mina, Scheherazade, and Mina again, grinding his teeth into dust: …That Is. :) A Way to Frame It. :)

#there’s also the social caste element in play I think #yes the Harkers have been instrumental #but they don’t have the numbers and resources on VH and the Suitor Squad do #likewise their general standing #quick friends or not; the Harkers feel they have to bite their tongues now (and in ensuing scenes) when the social more wedge gets driven #between them ~for their own good~ #even so #you know these two are chafing #not looking forward to the next few days… #dracula #dracula daily #re: dracula #jonathan harker #abraham van helsing #mina harker

[thefaeriefeatherdark]

A fundamental issue of all the Dracula adaptations that do the Dracula and Mina are in love thing is that they always do it in this stupid "Dracula's dark and alluring mysterious aura draws in Mina" instead of someone asking at a train station when the train for Liverpool is supposed to arrive with both Dracula and Mina answering at the exact same time in sync and then locking eyes across the station.

#It is the one thing they share in common and yet every adaptation erases it. #I mean Mina X Dracula is shit either way but at least make it funny. #Mina harker #I really do think that every Mina X Dracula take requires completely ignoring Mina's entire personality and turning her into a cutout. #Dracula #It wants to subvert the book but at it's core it walks in and says “Lucy's life doesn't matter because Mina thinks her killer is hot”. #It also generally is just kind of gross.

[immediatebreakfast]

Well, the consequences for Jonathan's disobedience were quite terrifying, on top of destroying an aspect of Jonathan's beliefs as a character.

We already have seen plus noticed how Jonathan identifies with what femininity, and women represented in the 19th century. He is a male character that expresses so much love for the ideas of safety, and comfort that the feminine entails without the narrative trying to paint this in a derogative light anywhere.

So, it's not wonder that the visit from the Weird Sisters (a.k.a. the speculated brides, and housemates of Dracula) left him totally traumatized. Nothing that Dracula has done so far has gained such huge reaction from Jonathan.

Great God! merciful God! Let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.  ... for now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn to my diary for repose. The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me.

In his journey as a gothic heroine as he is trapped in the castle, Jonathan has been surviving by employing the same ideas used by fictional heroines he admires and looks up to in dire times, and he has comforted himself with Mina's memory, and his undefying love for her. Everything that Dracula represents regarding masculinity means danger for Jonathan, he is scared how the power that the Count holds over him; not as a man towards another man, but as a man towards a conceptual woman within Jonathan's mind that is part of his being.

All of this concludes in Jonathan taking a nap in the ladies' chamber room, away from Dracula's aggresive masculinity in his tainted designated room, and inside what he now deems a safe space because women lived there.

Then the Weird Sisters appear in their ethereal, beautiful glory, and as Jonathan recalls the incident in his diary, the feeling of angry loosing sanity is written with an underline tone of pure defeated betrayal. It feels as if Jonathan keeps asking himself "why did they do that to me? Aren't they in the same position as me?"

The feeling of what Jonathan calls repulsion cut through the sexually charged scene like a knife. All of the soft adjectives to describe the Sisters' appearance, Jonathan's attraction to them as he shames himself for thinking like that because of Mina, the emphasis of voluptuos charm laced with danger, all of it gets cut when Jonathan realizes what the Weird Sisters are planning to do.

There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal.

The ladies that he thought were a dream at first are there to use him the same way that Dracula has been doing... the only difference is that the vampire ladies made very clear that they will kill him. So out it goes the kind language to describe women, and what enters is the language that Jonathan uses to describe the Count.

The femininity that Jonathan felt comfort in to shield himself from the horrors he has seen is now fractured to incorporate the monsterhood of the Weird Sisters. It's a realization that shatters him, not all women are soft, and kind, these women would have killed him if not the Count arriving, and if Jonathan cannot go to the Weird Sisters for safety against Dracula, then it means that the only being who stands between his death and life is the Count himself.

The man who is keeping Jonathan as a prisoner in everything but name is who he has to run to if Jonathan wants to keep living... What a nightmare indeed.

#Jonathan's world view on women and femininity in general is still painted in social biases despite being his preference over masculinity #The assumption that the brides could be ladies like all women he has met was shattered #Not all women are interested in being warm protectors #Specially lady monsters made exaggerated on purpose for the narrative #dracula daily #dracula #jonathan harker #brides of dracula #the weird sisters

[autumnmobile12]

Where his vampire lineage is concerned, I feel like Alucard led a pretty sheltered life before Lisa died.  He certainly knows how to use his vampire abilities, but I don’t think he knows very much about his father’s people.

When Sumi and Taka mention Cho, Alucard apparently did not recognize her even though he and Sypha are the ones who killed her.  So he never met Cho, even though she was one of Dracula’s generals.  Sure, this can probably be explained by distance.  Wallachia and Japan are thousands of miles away from each other, but this still doesn’t explain why Alucard didn’t even know/recognize her name.

Also, in Season 2, he never once tells Sypha or Trevor anything about the vampires who fight for his father, which would have been extremely useful information.

Based on all of this, Dracula probably never told him anything about his Generals.

Isaac straight up refers to Alucard as a spoiled child and doesn’t even regard him as a threat.  There’s a history here we didn’t get to see, but clearly Isaac didn’t think too much of him.

Then there’s this scene.  He’s pretty bitter and hostile toward the Belmonts.  But if we look at it from the context to Lament of Innocence, Alucard conveniently leaves out how Dracula orchestrated the kidnapping and murder of Leon’s fianceé.  So either he doesn’t care, which is out of character, or he was never told this part of the story.

Even if we don’t take the video games into consideration though, there’s still what Dracula did to the merchants at Kronstadt.  We don’t know what his issue was with them, but what is the worst a group of humans can do to seriously offend a vampire?  (Lisa’s death excluded.)  Did the punishment really fit the crime?  Plus, this can’t be the only horrible thing the vampire has done throughout his career, and I imagine even Dracula isn’t one to sit his son down and tell him all about the lives he’s taken.  This makes sense if he dedicated his final years to his human wife and his child.

I’ve mentioned in a previous post how the skull Alucard is looking at in this scene is the skull of a vampire infant, so I really think this scene is a subtle nod to ‘atrocities are committed by all sides in war.’

In Alucard’s mind, Trevor is a useless drunk, but Trevor might’ve viewed him as just a brat who only knows one side of the story and that’s the side that puts his father in a favorable light.

#castlevania netflix #castlevania #alucard castlevania #trevor belmont #character analysis #vampires #alucard childhood #castlevania dracula #dracula and lisa #sypha belnades #alucard analysis #castlevania isaac #sumi and taka #cho #japanese vampire #dracula's generals #netflix #lament of innocence #leon belmont

[eyeballsoup7310]

They SELL dracula daily?? In actual book stores???? What

#just talking #general #dracula daily

[k1ranishf4]

I want what they have

#i want what these bitches have #it’s a need #basically I want a weirdo who’s most likely autistic to my weirdo who has adhd #addams family #morticia addams #gomez addams #gomez and morticia #crimson peak #sir thomas sharpe #edith cushing #sally the ragdoll #jack skellington #jack and sally #jack x sally #castlevania #vlad dracula tepes #lisa tepes #dracula x lisa #monster high generation 1 #deuce gorgon #cleo de nile #cleo x deuce #draculaura #clawd wolf #clawd x draculaura

[moonsun2010]

putting out milk and cookies for our good friend jonathan harker and waking up early on Christmas morning to check what he's left in the email inbox

#dracula #dracula daily #note to self: dd2023 #a certain hungarian dish would fit better but idk if thatll be a spoiler #i celebrate neither christmas nor would the emails drop in the morning for my timezone but yknow. the general vibe

[vole-mon-amour]

I LOVE when a character is at least 200-300 hundreds old and they TALK like one, too. Thinking of Astarion, Halsin, Dracula (in all media, but I am especially fond of Castlevania and Penny Dreadful ones), Alucard, The Outsider (yes, hi, he's 1500 years old God). My fav pals.

All of them coming up with such exquisite compliments, insults, and general comments. L O V E that.

#halsin #alucard #bg3 #dracula #penny dreadful #castlevania #the outsider #dishonored #dishonored 2 #fiction #halsin with 'my heart' and the way he generally speaks #astarion quoting passages from books #dracula being DRACULA #'the creatures of the night. what music they make.' #not to mention him going full on 'i'm in love with you' with vanessa #all the best stuff really