#quinceysweep

[mrjonathanmurray]

i have to say i’m relieved that quincey didn’t win the sexyman bracket because i think dracula daily tumblr would have imploded if he was crowned sexiest character in dracula and then died like three weeks later

[see-arcane]

To me what gives extra seximan vibes to Quincey is his heroic death. And he did it without trying to harm any humans because he parried and blocked his way to Dracula instead of mowing down, or using his gun or Winchester. And he died smiling. While saying he was just happy to have been of service. Stoker really wanted to emphasize that he's a hero

^^^

Of the two Men of Sacrifice in the cast, he gave all that he had to not only end Dracula, but gift Dracula's last and most long-suffering norm-defying victims the happy ending that had been steadily dragged out of reach for them throughout the book.

In the Watsonian sense, he gave his life to free Mina from Dracula and from the curse of vampirism before it was too late to matter whether the Count died. Without his knife in Dracula's chest, it very likely may not have mattered if Jonathan lopped his head off or not. Quincey went through the guards with his life already bleeding out of him, just to make sure that bowie went in the bastard's chest in time.

In the Doylist sense, he unwittingly fed himself to the narrative's need for a last poignant death so that Jonathan could live. Jonathan, who had been built up and up as the one most likely to face his end. Not only as recompense for the 'sin' of being the one tricked and trapped into arranging Dracula's trip to England, but for the blasphemous desire to go against the group's oath to slay Mina in a worst case scenario, choosing to be a vampire with her and share her fate instead if it came to that.

What a fine tragic moral payoff it would be to see him die at the last, to have Mina tidily paired off with one of the last bachelors standing...

But no.

Consciously, Quincey Morris died to save Mina, the unconventional heroine.

Unconsciously, Quincey Morris died to save Jonathan, the unconventional hero.

In gallant fashion, Quincey Morris, the classic, the stalwart, the man's man of a rugged knight, gave himself to save them both from the miserable and expected ending any other novel of the era would have demanded.

And that's pretty goddamn sexy of him.