Jonathan Harker was late to "Stabbing Dracula with a Shovel Day" because he was too busy looking for his Kukri.
This is a hand-painted 3D model of Jonathan Harker in the pose of Benvenuto Cellini's Perseus with the Head of Medusa! @quackysprouts incredible illustration was a huge inspiration to begin this project!
As well as the texturing style of Arcane! I yearn for a stylized 3D animated book-accurate retelling of Dracula 😳
If you want to see a breakdown of how I made this piece, you can see it here! You can see Jonathan looking not scary and also play around with the model and it's handpainted normal maps.
Concept: The lady vampires sired Dracula instead of the other way around, and that's why they're so dismissive when he yells at them for bothering Jonathan. It's the equivalent of your child/little brother yelling at you for not following some house rule they tried to unilaterally apply
Quincy: Hey, so Arthur, you willing to get drunk with us two rejects? I kinda figured it'll be good to get Jack away from work before he causes like three lawsuits.
I love the fact that Quincey Morris canonically plays up his Texan accent and mannerisms to woo Lucy (as Lucy correctly deduced).
It is not because "Bram Stoker never met an American", Stoker travelled to the USA with Irving's theater troupe at least eight times, where he became friends or acquaintances with Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, William Frederick Cody, William McKinley...
I love when a character wants to be someone's dog so so bad. Dont mean it in a sexual way (although that can also be a part of it) I mean like. Let me be your loyal companion let me stay by your side give me a purpose in exchange for endless unconditional love let me stop being a person love me like it's my only use. Love me like that's the only thing I was made for. As you can tell. I'm normal.
This season of Dracula Daily, I've been asking myself the question: When did Dracula first feed on Jonathan?
Jonathan never mentions being bitten, of course, but we know from later in the book that Lucy also has no memory of the event every time her blood is drained, so we can assume that vampire-bites include some amnesic effect. Also, Jonathan, being the stiff-upper-lip Englishman that he is, might not write such a thing in his diary, especially after May 31, when Dracula steals his extra paper.
Anyway, I've identified several possibilities (further discussion for or against each date under the cut). Tumblr, what are YOUR headcanons?
When did Count Dracula FIRST feed on Jonathan Harker
May 3- Jonathan reports queer dreams and a howling dog
May 16- "This man belongs to me"
May 28- Jonathan falls asleep on the sofa
An unspecified date in May or June- before Jonathan's first lizard-crawl attempt
June 29- "Tonight is mine"
Never- Dracula got his food elsewhere
Another dated diary entry (reblog with your reasons!)
Voting ended onJul 7, 2024
May 3: Jonathan has not yet arrived at Dracula's castle. He spends the night at an inn, and reports queer dreams, as well as a dog howling all night outside his window. Though Jonathan blames the paprika, we know from Lucy that strange dreams are a side-effect of being bitten, that Dracula has a dog form, and that he can lure victims to their bedroom window while in animal form. Additionally, we know that Dracula first poses as a coachman to bring Jonathan to his castle, so it is possible that he actually intercepted Jonathan slightly early in the journey (while keeping himself disguised as a dog) This is perhaps not the most likely possibility, but it is nevertheless an intriguing one.
May 16- The Ladies attempt to feed on Jonathan, and Dracula busts into the room saying "This man belongs to me!" Jonathan reports falling unconscious, then awakening in his room partially undressed, his clothes folded but his watch unwound. In theory, Dracula almost certainly had the opportunity to take a little snack here, though he would likely have had to do so before putting Jonathan to bed, because Jonathan already placed the crucifix over the headboard on May 12.
May 28- Jonathan attempts to write some letters, Dracula burns the shorthand letter to Mina, while sending (or at least claiming to send) the note to Mr. Hawkins. Dracula then goes out for a few hours, and Jonathan falls asleep on the sofa, mentioning that he awakened when Dracula re-entered the room. Jonathan reports no dreams when he goes to bed, but, the Count still did have a potentially crucifix-free opportunity here.
Sometime in early-mid June. We go a while without diary entries here, but, if Jonathan doesn't remember being fed on and lacks paper, he may simply not be reporting it. We do know that by June 25, Jonathan is able to lizard-crawl down the walls to Dracula's room. It's possible he starting to turn and gain unusual powers (as we see with both Mina and Lucy later), though there still exists the more mundane possibility that Dracula's castle has climber-friendly footholds and Jonathan was simply neither brave nor desperate enough to try them until this point.
June 29. "Tonight is mine." This is the most obvious option- as we see the following day that Dracula is looking both youthful and bloated, with fresh blood on his mouth- he's clearly fed on SOMEONE and I doubt it was one of the Szgany workers. However, once again, Jonathan goes to bed praying, wakes up praying, and presumably still has the crucifix over his bed, which may have deterred Dracula from getting to him in his room. We also see Jonathan doing more lizard-crawling, get violent with a shovel, and run off into the woods.
There remains one final possibility, that Dracula never actually drank any of Jonathan's blood. Instead, he got all of his food from elsewhere, and all of Jonathan's symptoms later observed by the nuns were caused only by Dracula's gaslighting/emotional abuse, not by any vampiric/supernatural/physical injuries; though of course there was the physical toil of surviving in the woods for several weeks (which... would Jonathan have been able to do that without some vampiric powers of his own? Perhaps so, perhaps not.)
Note that I'm only asking about the FIRST time, and that choosing an earlier date does not necessarily negate the later ones.
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