#bersicker

[cjbee]

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[treesaspen]

Non-phonetic transcription of Mr Bilder's conversation with Dracula at the London zoo

He had a hard, cold look and red eyes, and I took a sort of mislike to him, for it seemed as if it was him the wolves was irritated at. He had white kid gloves on his hands, and he pointed out the animals to me and said: 'Keeper, these wolves seem upset at something.' 'Maybe it's you,' said I, for I did not like the airs as he gave himself. He didn't get angry, as I hoped he would, but he smiled a kind of insolent smile, with a mouth full of white, sharp teeth. 'Oh no, they wouldn't like me.' 'Oh yes, they would,' said I, imitating him. 'They always like a bone or two to clean their teeth on about tea-time, which you have a bagful.'

[lauralot89]

I have been trying to find us all some nice official Bersicker art (preferably of the window scene, though I'm not picky) but unfortunately the best I've got are these:

This illustration from the 1975 The Annotated Dracula, drawn by Wilfried Satty

This illustration by Greg Hildebrandt:

Blurry screenshot of Dracula (not Bersicker) smashing Lucy's window (Bram Stoker's Dracula, 1992)

Bersicker (called Berserker in a newspaper article shown earlier) evading capture in the Bram Stoker's Dracula comic by Roy Thomas, Mike Mignola, and John Nyberg:

Bersicker/Berserker from the same comic encountering Mina and Dracula inside the cinematograph:

Bersicker/Berserker escaping the London Zoo in Bram Stoker's Dracula (3:01 to 3:08):

Bersicker/Berserker in the cinematograph in Bram Stoker's Dracula:

This wolf on the cover of Baby's Classics Dracula who may or may not be Bersicker (probably not, as the wolf first appears in Transylvania):

And that's all the official Bersicker I could find. Very sad that there isn't more. Here's an illustration I made of him being yote through a window:

[count-skribula]

Poor Bersicker had a really terrible day. He better get extra tea and ear scratches

[jorrmungandr]

You know, yesterday I remembered that the wolf one was one that escaped from the zoo, but it turns out that's not really accurate.

Dracula pulled a heist on the zoo. He stole that wolf, and it returned as soon as it was able to escape his clutches.

[uri59]

*Jonathan's mirror and Bersicker the Good Boy seeing Jonathan yeeting Dracula out of the cart and hit the floor*: Ha! How does it feel to be thrown at places?? Asshole!!

[cherryqueenoftarts]

Mina not telling Jonathan or anyone else her "dream" makes perfect sense to me. When they kicked her out of the clubhouse they broke trust with her. Even if she doesn't articulate it that's what happened. She's was the one most emphatically encouraging openness and trust. She was so confident. Their well-meaning rejection destroyed that confidence.

I'm not especially disturbed that Jonathan hasn't connected the dots wrt Mina's paleness. Of course he hasn't. He's convinced that order has been restored to the universe because the men have taken charge. Experts are experting. This, in all of their minds, makes Mina *safer*. They will all have to overcome their self-satisfaction and wishful thinking before they'll be able to recognize the clues.

I'm infuriated, but not surprised, on a general level, at the idiots for cutting her out and leaving her vulnerable. And I'm a little disappointed in Mina for not realizing right away that it wasn't a dream and Dracula is hunting her, honestly. She should at least be worried about it, and maybe trying to rationalize it ("Reading Lucy's diary put this nightmare in my head").

On a meta level, though, kudos to Stoker.

I'm so impressed with his messages, whether they were intentional or not.

Lucy's story: raising ladies to be submissive is bad, actually.

Mina's story: men are wrong to sideline women, and their machismo puts the women they're supposed to protect in more danger.

Bersicker's story: wolves are good bois and the long history of their villainization isn't their fault.

Stoker is *way* more enlightened than I expected.

[arbitrarity]

the wolf, sticking his head into Lucy's second-floor window: