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It'd be interesting to make a chart of various Dracula adaptations and how they deal with certain issues. Things like:

Dr. Seward is:

Lucy's ex

Lucy's father

Lucy AND Mina's father

some rando

non-existent

Renfield is:

Just some guy (old)

Just some guy (young)

Jonathan Harker

Jonathan's employer

Jonathan escapes the castle by:

Dying immediately

Getting killed by the Girlies

Getting turned into a vampire

Becoming Dracula's thrall

He just leaves

He was never in the castle in the first place

This character does not exist

Seriously the options are WILD. I haven't consumed nearly enough adaptations to do it myself but I think it would be a very funny group project

Something I love about the romance in The Locked Tomb is how Gideon as our first POV narrator is like "this is Harrowhark Nonagesimus, she thrives on scorn and ambition and death" and as a seasoned enemies-to-lovers fan, my first reaction was "I love it, I support women's rights and wrongs, and I can't wait to see this cold evil character discover feelings eventually" but then the plot twist is actually that Harrow is a pathetic desperate emo who barely needs an excuse to say the most romantic shit imaginable.

Which is already a good payoff and the characterization is superb, but then you see inside Harrow's head in the next book and discover that despite her trauma and 35 mental illnesses, she is so much of a fucking soft marshmallow simp that not even her DIY lobotomy can keep her from indulging in a coffeeshop AU (?!?!) to soothe her yearning soul. Which makes rereading GtN delightful because now you can read between the lines and realise like "oh wow, she was down bad the whole time and Gideon just didn't notice". It gives so much lesbian Pride and Prejudice that you can only fully appreciate during a reread. I adore it.

Harrow: my deepest darkest trauma is that my parents killed a bunch of children in order to make me into a powerful necromancer. they died for me. their blood is on my hands.

Gideon: that sucks dude. anyways I'm going to sacrifice myself to save your life. you'll be an even more powerful necromancer. pretty sick, huh?

Gideon: why are you so upset about this

Gideon: is it because you don't like me

☆ - ̗̀✨ He's just Ken ✨ ̖́- ☆

Vex (ft. Trinket)

How much longer are you willing to play the role of a corpse?

"Because I am the Rose Bride, because I am a doll with no heart."