#darkanachronism

[boyboy-quincy]

You mention your family's first interaction with a vampire, are you implying there's more, I'd hope the dracula thing was a one and done kind of deal.

Oh, no, nothing so bad as the Dracula thing from what I've been told. There's been one or two occasions where they've come across a person who's been getting drained and Dad or someone has to go find the vampire's coffin and stake him in his sleep, but that's pretty much it.

[spnxoververse]

That sounds like a solid way to bridge the gap between the two versions. And how does Mina factor into things, she's pretty important in Dracula, but honestly felt like sort of a macguffin in PD, I guess the same question goes for any of the Dracula characters who show up in both, I admit I've only seen the first few episodes of NBC Dracula, so I don't really know what it did with anyone.

Mina in PD is totally a Macguffin except when she's flashback angst fuel for either Vanessa or her father Malcolm. Fortunately that means we have almost no reliable characterization of her because she's either being recalled by a character who thinks they've terribly wronged a perfect angel, or she's a vampiric minion of Dracula.

Which is great because she is the central character of NBC Dracula (aside from Dracula) so there's a lot of character there (even if it's just one season). The central arc is that she is identical to (implied to be the reincarnation of) Dracula's wife when he was human, Ilona.

Trying not to spoil things for you but she doesn't sired on the show but it's pretty easy to see things heading quickly in that direction.

The things I am struggling with are mostly minor -- there's a Renfield in PD and a Renfield in Dracula. One of them needs another name, they can't be the same person. (The Renfield in PD seems much more like the original book Renfield, so I'm thinking I wanna rename the Dracula Renfield.)

[incorrectdraculaquotes]

Dracula: Gummy worms don’t count as lives.

Renfield: They do if I believe!

[forthegothicheroine]

Will you be blogging about the new season of Twin Peaks as it comes out?

Possibly!  I’ll tag posts with “twin peaks spoilers”.

[necromancatrix]

“Self-care is fighting your own shadow self in the black lodge.”

[incorrectdraculaquotes]

I left for twenty minutes and now Renfield has a tumblr account.

Jack Seward

[forthegothicheroine]

Is Powers Of Darkness a good read? It sounds like a wild ride and I'm picking it up, but is it actually good as it's own thing, I've read some less then stellar reveiws. Also please talk more about the lady vampire. I immediately want to know what her deal is.

I liked it, but I am a bit of a Dracula completist.  The lady vampire’s backstory will be behind a cut, for spoilers.

So, some of this is reading between the lines of what Dracula tells Harker, but she appears to have been one of his wives (he’s had three, all of whom died mysteriously.)  She was his cousin (the Draculas almost always marry their cousins) and appears to have been in some kind of half-vampiric stage where something bad happened to all her lovers.  Once married, she cheated on Dracula, and he locked her and her lover up in a room.  Her lover eventually ended up jumping out of a window, yelling “She is killing me!”

After this, Dracula entered the room and did unspecified horrible things to her.  She died, and now wanders the halls of the castle as a full vampire.  The peasants say that to see her portends bad luck, possibly oncoming insanity.  Dracula does his best to keep her away from Harker, telling him she’s his insane niece who thinks she’s her own ancestor, but she gets in to see him nonetheless when he leaves the window open.  She repeatedly lures him up to the portrait gallery where her picture hangs, feeding on him against the explicit orders of Dracula.

Ultimately Dracula leaves Harker to her, and he of course escapes.  And, to paraphrase the ending of many Russian and German fairy tales, if no one has killed her she is still there to this day.

[forthegothicheroine]

Gef is the best cryptid. Thank you for talking about him.

Cute, helpful, inexplicable.  Everything I want in a cryptid.