Things That Would Probably Be Better For Your Dracula Adaptation Than Having Mina Fall in Love With Dracula
Having Mina remain in love with her actual husband, Jonathan Harker, given that they are super cute together and Jonathan is not actually a debauched, callous, repressive Victorian hypocrite whose flaws are meant to position the Count in a good light
Having Mina fall in love with Lucy Making the fact that Mina already seems totally in love with Lucy in the text 110% evident, given that they are adorable and your dumb book/show/film probably needs more lesbians
Having Mina fall in love with Jack, given that there is already infinitely more textual support for a romance between them (i.e. one sentence in one letter) than there is regarding a romance between Mina and the Count
Having Mina fall in love with Quincey, given that Quincey is a badass and probable secret werewolf
Having Mina fall in love with Renfield, given that her compassion for him and his self-sacrificing attempt to protect her comprise one of the more compelling parts of the novel.
Having Mina fall in love with Van Helsing, given that it is somehow less creepy for her to fall in love with her bff’s much older, eccentric, already-married doctor than it is to fall in love with a monstrous entity who was originally written as brutally violating her
Having Mina fall in love with a piece of man-shaped cardboard, or a large wheel of expensive cheese, or an Arthur Holmwood, given that even random objects void of any personality are still somehow preferable to the aforementioned entity
Having Mina fall in love with anyone… anyone. Mr. Swales, Samuel Billington, the first mate on The Demeter, that news correspondent who can never keep his word count down, time-traveling Edward Cullen… really just anyone. Still better.
Having Mina fall in love with nobody… or with a non-entity… seriously, just have her fall in love with the platonic ideal of stenography or something.
Having Mina develop some degree of sympathy, attraction, or love for the Count in a nuanced, respectfully-written narrative that actually explores the dynamics of affection in abusive or traumatic situations and that still acknowledges or gestures toward the rape-coded assault in the original novel. No. Actually don’t. You inevitably won’t pull this off, and I will be super sad.
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