still feel like we have not appropriately tapped into the comedy goldmine that is: Dracula's first canonical appearance features him wearing a goofy hat and a huge false beard. this is uproarious. this is rib-tickling! this has so many implications!!!
where on earth did he get the beard? he lives in the middle-of-nowhere and all of his neighbors are too terrified to cook or clean for him. where did he find someone to sell him a false beard?
was it mail-order, the way presumably all of his books and maps are? did they even have cartoonish disguises available by mail-order back in late 19th cent Romania? did Dracula have to sew it himself? i need to know these things!!!
@chaos-has-theories truly you live up to your url:
#clearly Dracula goes out irregularly as his own servants. The people in the coach weren't surprised to see him as his 'coachman' #he goes to town in his huge floppy hat and hoitily toitily tells everybody that his MASTER wants this and his MASTER wants that #and if they don't comply his MASTER is going to be angry and scahahary and anyway he's having the time of his life #He's convinced that he's fooling everyone. He is not #but the point is he can just buy whatever and the people will be equal amounts terrified and annoyed but they'll get it for him
i like to imagine the villagers are terrified of him BUT also aware that he is rich-as-midas and out-of-touch with human society...so they just charge him a 500% markup and call it a day. over the years he has become the village's primary source of income and this is the true reason he's been allowed to stay. "yeah he's a bloodsucker but he's propping up a half dozen different local economy sectors we're keeping him"
*dracula strolling to the village to buy a roast chicken for his Good Friend Jonathan* "it's one roast chicken how much could it cost 1604 romanian lei?"
APPRECIATE that I had to research & convert historical exchange rates for this post. 1604 romanian lei is an outrageous price for a chicken. appreciate my historically accurate punchline!!!
