#assorted April Foolery from the Polycula (and Dracula)

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Mina is the most likely to play (harmless but funny) pranks. Van Helsing also.

Prankster MOs of the Drac Attack Pack

Mina: So good at her polite mien and poker face that you can never tell when or where the prank is coming. Sometimes it's already happened and she can play so innocent you're left second-guessing. But no. She got you.

Van Helsing: Man loves a good prank. He is full of all the goofs and japes you could ask for. Jack is, of course, his favorite and easiest target. Though perhaps he went too far in briefly taking his fidget-lancet hostage and swapping it out with an ear of corn.

Quincey: Not a threat unless you try to get him first. Emphasis on the word 'try.' He strikes me as the kind of guy who can smell a prank coming--I picture him as part of a very big family with optimal sibling-based training--and always has a counter-prank prepared in advance. Arthur found this out the hard way. Jack was already in position with a Kodak for the payoff, recording The Incident* for posterity. (*The Incident is locked in a safe that no amount of money or dreamy puppy eyes has been able to bribe out. Sorry, Art.)

Arthur: Not the most extravagant of pranksters (see above), but is very good at quiet/covert pranks that are basically a waiting game. He does a Thing and then sets his watch to see how long it takes for the victim(s) to notice it's happened. Once got Lucy for a solid hour as she looked for a specific hair comb around her room, Arthur looking with her. When her back was turned, he took it from his pocket and quickly did up his own curls with it from behind. She didn't notice until he took a seat in front of her vanity with his back to the mirror.

Jack: Has never once succeeded in intentionally pranking anyone. Not counting himself when he spent the better part of an afternoon looking for the glasses that were on top of his head.

Jonathan: Pranks rarely if ever occur to him to play. But rarity doesn't mean never. That he could or would pull a prank is so alien a concept that no one bothers to consider him a suspect. Except Mina, who knows, but would never say. If only because half the time the prank was a couple's activity.

BONUS:

Dracula: "Hello, my good friend, Jonathan Harker ;) I hope you will enjoy the completely normal and very brief visit to my lovely castle ;) Which you will definitely get to leave as a living human being with all your blood and sanity where it should be ;)"

Dracula, two months of traumatizing his solicitor later: "Ha ha, got you"