#dracula polycule

[friendly-jester]

Somehow Re:Dracula has made the polycule even more believable to me then before. I was fully onboard with it last year but this year I'm even more on board with it.

Jonathan and his wife Mina and Mina’s girlfriend Lucy and Lucy’s husband Arthur and their boyfriends Quincey and Jack and Jack’s sugar daddy Van Helsing-

[draculasweedsmokinggirlfriend]

I love Van Helsing so much, such a weird guy that the polycule just welcome with open arms

[nyxshadowhawk]

Then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me, with my poor wife dead to me, but alive by Church's law, though no wits, all gone—even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am bigamist.

The polycule is canon!

[thebibi]

I think Mina should get Valentine's cards from all the Boys.

Arthur gives her a most beautiful and ornate card with with gold leaf and different types of lace. Jack writes her a poem, simple, heartfelt, and yet Mina knows how much effort it took. Van Helsing sends her a lengthy message within an austere card with a church and angels on it. Lastly, Jonathan gives her a pretty homemade card with a message written in shorthand, so that no one else in the household can read the message except for the two of them.

[thethirdromana]

Valentine's cards for the Dracula polycule

All cards are authentic Victorian Valentine's cards taken from the Museum of London collection.

From Mina to Lucy, because this is sweet just like they are.

From Mina to Jonathan, in recognition of the long distances they've travelled together.

From Arthur to Jonathan, because he's still amused by the "Judge Moneybags" thing.

From Dracula to Lucy, a suitably sinister Valentine's card.

On the left, from Renfield to Seward, because there's nothing more romantic than a dead bird.

On the right, from Van Helsing to Seward, because he does love to call Seward maidenless.

From Lucy to Arthur on the left, because I think she'd like the old-fashioned theme of the card. From Arthur to Lucy on the right, in anticipation of their wedding day.

From Jonathan to Mina, his beloved train fiend <3 He can't decide which one he likes better, so he sends her both.

From Seward to Quincey on the left, and Quincey to Seward to on the right. I hope we all agree that the rivals should kiss.

[constantly-chaotic-and-confused]

Ahahaha never did I truly believe that Jonathan’s baby would be canonically implied to be named Quincey Art Jack Abraham Harker that’s so iconic

[trudemaethien]

dracula polycule vibes off the chart with mina meeting seward. he’s so awkward at her but the VERY first thing he notices is that she’s pretty

a sweet-faced, dainty-looking girl

and immediately the attraction is returned

"I knew you from the description of poor dear Lucy; but——" She stopped suddenly, and a quick blush overspread her face.

The blush that rose to my own cheeks somehow set us both at ease, for it was a tacit answer to her own.

looook at them blushing at each other! omg awwww.

not a hint of impropriety but that evening they swap diaries and read all about each other’s lives…

(also can Van Helsing help himself? he meets his people and falls in love straightaway. yes i know stoker was sort of setting him up as a fatherly figure. but dilf, ok? ok)

[decaffeinatedmisery]

Catching up on Dracula Daily and just wanted to talk about the most lesbian lines in the girls initial letters to each other

Mina to Lucy:

“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.” She just wants to be with her

“It must be so nice to see strange countries. I wonder if we—I mean Jonathan and I—shall ever see them together.” The fact that she feels the need to specify that the we is Jonathan makes me feel like she was originally thinking of her and Mina traveling to strange countries together

“Your loving Mina” 🥺

Lucy to Mina:

“I have nothing to tell you. There is really nothing to interest you.” Why wouldn’t the man you’re in love with be interesting to your ‘best friend’ Lucy? 🤨🧐

“Mina, we have told all our secrets to each other since we were children; we have slept together and eaten together, and laughed and cried together” they are each others person

“I wish I were with you, dear, sitting by the fire undressing, as we used to sit” AY YO

In conclusion, they are in LOVE and should be allowed to be together and also have husbands.

[the-bitch-files]

it seems that with both dracula daily and cobra kai season 5, 2022 has been the year of the polycule. with dracula daily featuring the Lucy-suitor squad polycule - Lucy Westenra, Jack Seward, Arthur Holmwood & Quincey Morris - and cobra kai featuring the Daniel LaRusso-karate rivals polycule (karatecule?) - Daniel LaRusso, Johnny Lawrence, Chozen Toguchi, and Mike Barnes (as of the end of S5).

[thebibi]

You know it would be funny if after Jonathan's Exotic Food Adventure he and Mina discover even after years of friendship that they have the polar opposite food tastes. Plot twist Mina's food tastes best align with Jack's.

Ooooh yes! This is already canon to me, LOL. Jonathan actually enjoys trying new cuisines and spices while Mina is struggling to cope with the tiniest clove of garlic. And not only do her and Jack share the same food preferences, Jack actually encourages Mina to stand her ground bc eating 'spicy' food is just asking for indigestion later.

I wrote this previously that Jack and Van Helsing might both have very weird bland food preferences because "clean eating" relating to better health was already a thing back then. HOWEVER, when Van Helsing and Mina are travelling to the Castle, Mina is the only one complaining about the food. So maybe the professor is absolutely open minded about trying new dishes as well.

You have Jonathan and Van Helsing "hey paprika is good if not making us thirsty" on one side and Mina and Jack "I can't abide garlic" on the other. Arthur remains neutral (he caves in and sides with Mina and Jack bc paprika is spicy).

[why-is-it-always-autumn]

hey why are the Van Helsings always the Vampire Hunting Family in modern Dracula stories. Abraham Van Helsing might be the guy who knows stuff but his family is off in the Netherlands and/or dead and totally uninvolved in the plot. Abraham's great-great grandson has no reason to be doing backflips and chopping off heads or whatever

You know who is a family who hates Dracula so so much and would totally teach their kids how to hunt vampires? The Harkers. Give me a modern vampire story where the protagonists are about to die when out pops Quincey Arthur John Lucy Abraham Murray Harker the Fifth, armed with a giant knife and an encyclopedic knowledge of train schedules

[kyanitedragon]

#She does feel what they are feeling through their blood

#Lucy holding on Seward's blood: ''OUR love for Van Helsing''

(Tags via @ImmediateBreakfast)

Lucy, Sept. 9, having recently received a transfusion from Arthur, writing about how she's thinking of their love for each other and how she knows he is thinking of her: "Somehow Arthur feels very, very close to me. I seem to feel his presence warm about me....My dear, my dear, your ears must tingle as you sleep, as mine do waking."

Lucy, Sept. 12, having recently received a transfusion from Seward:   "I quite love that dear Dr. Van Helsing."

[hamletteprinceofdenmark]

Jonathan really said I leave everything to my wife 😌and if she should die 💔😔 I leave everything to my husband 😘 and if he should die 😭 I leave everything to my husband 🥰 and if he should die —

[fuckingshitupjacket]

The small reading Dracula statue says happy pride 🏳️‍🌈🫶🏳️‍🌈

[polycule-playoff]

Abraham Van Helsing & Dr Jack Seward

[thebibi]

I hope you know in the scenario that Jonathan and Van Helsing are digging up the entire Harkers' garden and Mina and Jack are figuring out the best order to plant things in, Arthur is pouting in the background because everyone rejected his preferred landscape designer (that he would have paid for!!) and opted to DIY everything instead