#dracula project au!

[ashiemochi]

say yes to me | qh

✠ say yes to heaven ↳ say yes to me

➶ blurb for Dracula Project Chapter 27 ➶ pairing: OC x OC (Quincy Harker x Han So Ah) ➶ genre: mild angst bc desperation and denial, fluff ➶ word count: i cant count ➶ credit goes to @lottathoughts <3

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a/n: this is based on her AU that I 100% recommend reading! It starts off slow, but things get more intriguing as you continue reading! I take no credit for her characters or the story! In this AU, So Ah is dating Piers but is in denial about Quincy (me too girl, me too). And in all honesty, I'm slowly getting back to writing bc of these blurbs!!

I'm such a slut for the villain-turned-good-guy-bc-of-love trope

!!read this for context. It's a short but super sweet blurb!!

"Why did you do that?"

She had to get out. Classical music was one of her favourite genres but right now, she needed everything to disappear for just a moment to breathe – to think. Her sweaty hands were gripping her dress to lift it up off the ground just so she wouldn’t trip as her cinnamon eyes darted around for a way out.

People were everywhere, muttering small apologies as she’d accidentally bump into them before she finally reached the main entrance hall. Her chest heaved with air, sniffling as she looked behind her. Through the crowd of people, she could see him. His back to her as he seemed to be searching for her – dear god, why did he have to be so goddamn stubborn?

“Because I love you, So Ah.”

The sentence itself made her heart pound harder against her ribs and she could feel certain inhuman eyes set on her. With blood rushing up to her face, she knew she had to leave to find a safer room.

“Focus, So Ah,” She muttered to herself in her mother tongue, starting to move again as she rushed to the stairs, “Just a few more seconds, please.”

So Ah knew she can’t handle being overwhelmed. She’d always try to find some peace and quiet to get her bearings without attracting attention. She only hoped she’d find an empty room – maybe with a drink or two to wash off what he did.

The moment she got up to the first floor, So Ah threw a quick glance over her shoulder and then down. The man she was trying to avoid was in the hall, walking briskly with his head turning left and right.

From what she was told by her best friend, Jessie, vampires have heightened senses of hearing, scent, and sight – meaning, her fast heartbeat was probably dinner for any rogue bloodthirsty creature.

A soft gasp emitted from her when the man below tilted his ear in her direction and she dipped down the corridor. Every door looked the same and most of them were locked. A whimper practically came from her red lips when she tried to open one of the fancy doors.

“So Ah, wait!”

Shivers ran down her spine, teary eyes widening as she looked to her side only to see the only person she was avoiding; Quincy Harker.

The same man who massacred Jessie’s close friends.

The same man who took pleasure in seeing his victims in pain.

The same man who broke several laws for her.

The same goddamn man who kiss – would this fucking door open already?!

The door let out a small click and she nearly fell when it swung open. Quickly, So Ah stumbled in and slammed the gate shut behind her. Her hand went down to the lock but it needed a key. Trying to act fast, she located a chair next to her and hastily grabbed it, dragging it to halt the knob from being moved.

Knowing how dangerously strong vampires can be, this technique didn’t mean shit – but she needed some time. Quincy wasn’t the type to be that patient when it came to making her flustered.

“So Ah, c’mon.” His deep smooth voice came from behind the door followed by several knocks, “We can talk about this.”

“Go away!” Her voice came out wavering, hugging her arms to her chest for some sort of comfort as she let her eyes scan the room she was in.

Of course, the so-called King of this forsaken virus would own a library. A small bingo! rang in her head when she found some fancy bottle of alcohol on the long table with several glass cups next to it.

“You know, this isn’t the first time I had a girl run away from me.”

So Ah didn’t respond to his dark humour, almost stumbling as she sped to the table and picked up the skull-shaped bottle filled with Campari; dark red coloured liquor, very classic. Opening it, she poured a shot.

“This whole denial thing is getting pretty boring, Han.”

Downing the shot, So Ah practically gagged at the strong liquor stinging her throat and she coughed a bit, and snapped back, “There is no denial in this.”

“Is that what we’re gonna do now? Lie?”

She could tell he was growing frustrated and to be honest, she was too.

“I put my life on the line just being around you every damn day. I’ve helped you and your sweet little friend by providing you with the information you need to find her crazed fiance. If you wanna lie, then lie to yourself all you want, but you can’t keep lying to me, So Ah.” Quincy retorted, voice growing deeper with a sense of… Desperation?

Downing another shot as she heard him ramble on and on about everything he’s done for her, she couldn’t help but tear up. This was all so wrong. She was with someone else. She shouldn’t be having these emotions for anyone else but her own Piers.

But it was so strong.

Her trembling hand went up to her red-tinted lips, fingertips brushing slightly over them and she could feel the lingering kiss. All her emotions were clashing, hurting her head and the rattling of her heart was making her throat run dry. Her teary eyes were wide behind her fancy mask, the pounding of her heart blocking out the noise of the man behind the door.

This kind of love was new to her – it scared her.

“This is so wrong…” So Ah whined quietly to herself, hand covering her mouth with cheeks blazing bright red, “This is all so wrong.”

What would she ever tell Piers?

He called her before she went to this masquerade, telling her to be careful and that he loved her. He wished he’d come along, chuckling as he said she probably looked so beautiful – a sight for sore eyes.

But then the infamous Quincy fucking Harker showed up.

“Open up, So Ah.” Quincy spoke, “Don’t make me beg for it because god knows I would… If it’s for you.”

Her cinnamons darted down to the bracelet around her wrist; the one Piers gave her after the ordeal at Green Life years ago.

“I’m…” She breathed in shakily, shaking her head as she couldn’t keep him out of her head, pouring a third shot, “I can’t.”

It was silent when she tipped the shot down but then–

“Well, I can.”

The chair crashed loudly across the floor when the door swung open, making her yelp and jump. Momentarily, the drink went down the wrong hole and she wiped the seeping drops from the corner of her lips as she stared wide-eyed at Quincy.

His arctic eyes were dark, his chest broad and shoulders squared that even a few buttons of his white button-up shirt were undone, and the black bow tie was nowhere to be seen. He still had his fancy black mask and it made his bright eyes pop out more at the contrasting colours. His lips were parted for his breathing.

He was the only one in the room yet she felt suffocated.

So Ah swallowed thickly as she turned to face him, hands hovering behind her on the edge of the table, “Quincy, please leave.”

He huffed, slowly making his way towards her, “You’re gonna have to try harder than that, So Ah.”

Her bottom lip trembled as she quickly went around the table to have something in between them. Maybe it symbolized something but right now, she didn’t like how he was making her feel – how good he made her feel.

Where was Jessie when she needed her?

At least her best friend knew how to tell him off.

Quincy gave her an ‘are you serious’ look then glanced behind him for a split moment.

“Do you know how stupid you’re being right now? Running away like that?” Quincy scolded and one would almost mistake his tone for concern, “Your scent was practically everywhere that I would bet even the big guy’s goons outside had caught a whiff of you.”

“Aren’t you one of his goons too?” So Ah retorted, stepping back when he stopped at the table, “The only stupid thing I’ve done was come here with you in the first place.”

His brows furrowed into a deep crease at her assumption, “You’re kidding, right?” He snapped, “I risk my life to be with you. Everything I’ve done for you would only end me up with my head on a stake.”

“I didn’t ask for this, Quincy.” She said, voice coming out louder but still weak, eyes avoiding his as she continued, “I’m here for Jessie only. She needs me–”

“This isn’t about her right now and you know it.” Quincy interrupted, pair of eyes gazing deep into her soul, “This is about us – about what we have.”

So Ah would’ve rubbed her face if it weren’t for the mask she wore. She felt it was feebly hiding her last bits of dignity. She let out a small groan, desperate as she cried out, “We have nothing, Quincy! There is absolutely nothing between us!”

Quincy seemed taken aback by this, lips parted to say anything but nothing came. His pupils dilated and darkened, jaw locking at her lies. He could hear her heart and smell her sweetsweet blood.

“God damn it, So Ah!”

The Han girl let out a hitched gasp when he so easily shoved the only barrier separating them – the clearly hefty table – aside. It slid noisily on the shiny floor, several books and the bottle of Campari tipping over to the floor. The glass shattering made her wince but it was long overlooked when her eyes locked with Quincy.

“Are you even hearing yourself?!” Quincy shouted at her, “If you really believe you feel nothing for me then why did you let me kiss you? Huh? Or was that for Jessie too?”

The sneer at the end was a clear sarcastic comment and So Ah slammed her mouth shut, the floor beneath her suddenly seemed unstable when she took steps back.

“I know what you feel for me,” Quincy spat, nearing her as if he was cornering a deer but this wasn’t a hunt for him to feed, “What hurts more is the fact you keep fucking lying to yourself.”

It was a hunt for the truth.

His lips were formed into a snarl, eyes turning bloodshot as the veins beneath them darkened.

“Quincy–”

“That better be the truth coming from your lips because I’m done playing this cat-and-mouse game.” Quincy cut her off, glaring harshly at her – was it just her eyes playing tricks or were they shining?

Her head felt heavy as she swallowed, taking in a deep breath as she carefully picked her words. She won’t lie that she had seen Quincy mad before – she never saw the virus in action.

“We… We can talk about this after the masquerade, okay?” So Ah said calmly and his pupils almost engulfed his iceice irises, “Right now, Jessie needs us–”

A sarcastic cackle of disbelief came from him at her obvious attempt to drag this out longer than it needed to be. Her heart dropped to her stomach at the feverish look in his red eyes and the growing fangs.

“She’s got Dumb and Dumber to keep her safe.” Quincy replied, his glare sharp then a light bulb clicked in his head.

Quincy knew about her Tom and Jerry chase at the pharmaceutical company and how she let the BSAA chase her around endlessly – she was never going to stop running away.

Quincy shook his head before tilting it to the side, “We are getting to the bottom of this now.”

So Ah’s eyes widened at him approaching her and she gasped, nearly tripping when she tried to put more space between them, “Quincy, Quincy, stop.”

She feared she pissed him off enough to probably end up in the hospital.

Before she could turn around and book it down the tall shelves, a cold hand grabbed her wrist, making her yelp. She struggled uselessly against his hold, feeling her heart rattling once again. Quincy, for a moment, felt her fear when her big doe eyes shook at the sight of him and it made his fangs shrink. Her other hand held onto his to try and pry it off.

There was no going back from this.

“Quincy – !” A sharp gasp emitted from her when she was backed to the bookshelves, hand slammed against the books. The impact shook the shelf, letting a few books tumble down over them and she squeezed her eyes shut.

A low snarl came from him, his other hand coming up to grip her mask and he ripped it off, tossing it aside. Then he gripped her jaw to force her to look at him. His broad shoulders concealed her from anyone's eyes if there was someone around when he towered over her, head tilted down so his face was close to her.

“You aren’t at Green Life anymore, Han So Ah.” Quincy spoke lowly, following her eyes wherever they went, “You can’t run away from this.”

She heaved in air, holding onto his wrist, “We can’t do this, Quincy,” She whimpered before glaring back at him through teary eyes from behind her fallen strands of her auburn hair, “I have Piers.”

Quincy’s nose twitched for a split second, the anger in his eyes fading just like the veins, his voice came out surprisingly calm despite the desperation in his tone.

“But does he have you?”

Her cinnamons widened, ceasing her struggles under his stare. His hold on her wrist softened, leaving behind red angry marks on her skin at how tight he held her. There was no fighting this anymore.

Defeatedly, So Ah shook her head and the hand holding his dropped, letting out a small and weak, “No…”

Quincy’s big hand trailed up to her face, fingers finding their place in her hair as he tilted her head up. She truly looked ethereal, her cinnamons shining more due to her tears but the dilation of love in them made them seem bigger. He could smell the Campari on her lips with that lingering scent of her cherry chapstick.

With her pounding heart against his chest, Quincy’s lips met hers in a needy kiss and his brows furrowed deeply, his dead heart seemingly beating when he felt her lips move – and she kissed back.

[ibrithir-was-here]

More Time Travel AU! part 1 here

(Will try and do a next part soon but it’s been a wonky day and it’s 1 am where so all for right now)

Part 3

[dazais-guardian-angel]

With today's entry, I was rather surprised and confused that Johnathan seemed to turn around so quickly from the absolute pit of despair he was in yesterday, having newfound determination and energy when he's seemingly been completely hopeless and inactive for weeks now (and for good reason). Not that I ever thought he'd completely given up, but there's definitely been a slow decline in how descriptive his journal entries have been to reflect his declining mental state (more robotic, less of his actual feelings about things), and today was a sharp contrast; it feels more like the early entries again. I thought, well, his mind is probably just so cracked at this point that he's looped all the way back around to being bold and energetic again, because by now he's desperate enough to throw caution to the wind: he either succeeds doing something extremely reckless to escape, or he fails and meets his end in a far better way than if he just waits for his fate by Dracula's hands.

...But having thought about it and reading other posts, I realized (probably stupidly obvious as it is) that his sudden change in mood probably has to do with what happened to the baby. Despite how scared he's been all this time, yesterday he didn't hesitate for a single second to try to save the baby once he realized from the previous incident what was happening, not thinking about his own life at all. And then he despaired when he couldn't save the child, the first time he's mentioned crying in the book at all, and then he had to witness the mother blaming him for her baby's death, and being killed herself for trying to rescue it. Now, the day after that horrific and heartbreaking failure, he's suddenly more determined than he's been in ages to escape. Maybe that was a turning point for Johnathan, and lit a fire under him... maybe he's clinging to the need to escape not just for himself and the people he loves anymore, but for the vain hope that he can put a stop to Dracula's schemes somehow once he gets out, because he doesn't want to let any more children die :' )

[beevean]

Hector: Can I ask how you became a vampire?

Joachim: Hah! A tale as old as time, it is. Young, naive, pathetic little human knocks on a vampire's door. The vampire takes him in, promising shelter and power beyond his imagination. The human is entranced by the vampire, he follows him everywhere, he learns forbidden arts from him. The vampire drinks from him and takes him to bed as soon as his body can handle it - and convinces him that it's all normal and to be expected. The vampire won't shut up about how cute and special the human is, and the human is dumb enough to believe every word dripping from his stupid mouth. grins Does any of this ring a bell, boy?

Hector, looking away: ... it does.

Joachim: So predictable, really. Well, I was a bit younger than you when Walter - that is the bastard's name, may he rot where he belongs - proposed me the gift of immortality. I eagerly accepted it, believing it would made him more powerful. And it did! I'm strong, fast, can fly, turn into animals, bend objects and people to my will! But... I had no idea about the bond between sire and child. Walter never mentioned it to me, of course he didn't. So let me tell you this, before Mathias turns you--

Hector: Lord Dracula won't turn me.

Joachim: I thought you were smart. Do you really still trust him that much?

Hector: I know that he won't turn me, because he needs my powers. Only humans can create life.

Joachim: scoff Then what the hell is he doing, wasting time with something that will die in a few decades?

Hector: Lord Dracula never even turned his wife: he was ready to welcome her natural death. While he needs my human nature for the war, I think... he appreciates humanity, in a way. Or, he used to, before...

Joachim: How sweet. He likes surrounding himself with weaker things he can toy with, then.

Hector, increasingly annoyed: If you think that, then why did your sire turn you? If he was as cruel as you painted him, wouldn't have he preferred to keep you vulnerable?

Joachim: Oh, Hector, do you think Mathias is keeping the lot of you human out of some sense of decency? The truth is that he's still a child. He still hasn't understood all the potential of his new nature. smiles without mirth Humans are fragile creatures that can be killed with ease. Vampire can be broken in so many unique ways, and live through it. We make for far more powerful beasts... and sturdier dolls.

[hoybero]

i keep doodling (my versions of) nelson syphus and benjamin cobalt as dracula and renfield loll. maybe some day ill write it

[see-arcane]

Our good friend Jonathan Harker is getting ready to leave for his business trip, Mina Murray is picking out a new journal, Lucy Westenra is charming a gaggle of smitten suitors, Abraham van Helsing is wrapping up his lectures, and Castle Dracula is prepping the guest room for a very long stay.

Which must mean that Dracula Season is here again!

 ‘Dracula Season’ being a catchall term for the voracious reading, memeing, writing, illustrating, analyzing, and general fun-having that’s ensued since Matt Kirkland’s project, Dracula Daily, caught on with us back in 2022. The Substack had already been running before then, but it sparked a conflagration as time went on and readers old and new to Bram Stoker’s Dracula—the actual novel, not Coppola’s fanfiction—devoured it in a way that scratched an itch none of us knew we had. Stoker wrote the book in epistolary fashion, clumping sections together as needed for the pacing without perfect adherence to chronological order. Matt went ahead and put all the events in order and proceeded to set up a lovely chain of emails that delivered entries on those correlating dates.

This style of organization and pacing turned out to not only make the virtual book club that much easier to engage with, but left space in-between to stew on the story and relate with the characters themselves. Every day of waiting in the book feels weightier when you have to pace and sweat and worry in tandem with poor Jonathan trapped in the castle or Lucy wasting away or Mina running out the clock before she loses the fight for her own humanity. And while we sat with the story or the lulls between Dracula Seasons, some of us found ourselves craving more of that ghastly gothic horror goodness to the point that we figured:

“Well. Why don’t I make something?”

And then we did! Tons of creative works have been churned out in the wake of Dracula Daily’s high. I figured that while we’ve still got a bit of time to wait for May 3rd, we should check out all this new stuff in the meantime. (Plus a handful of neat stuff that just clicks with the Dracula itch overall.)

So, in the interest of Dracula Season pregaming, let’s take a look at…

FICTION

Blood of My Blood – A recent addition to the Dracula Bad Ending AU pile, and definitely one of the most harrowing and addictive group-produced narratives I’ve ever come across, Blood of My Blood is the dramatically gothic currently-WIP work of @ibrithir-was-here and @animate-mush’s devious design. Give or take a heap of other fascinated folks (hello!) adding ideas to put more Horror into the Horrors that our cast has to face. The premise:

The Transylvanian climax went fatally sour and the Harkers were forced to shelter with Dracula himself, including their half-vampire son, Quincey. Cut to two decades later, and Quincey finds himself out in modern London, smitten with Lu, adopted daughter of Arthur and Jack, and diving into certain bloodstained old documents that detail the real history of how his parents came to live in the castle. Said revelations coming not a moment too soon, as a storm is coming for him straight from the Carpathians…

Dracula Daily Sketch Collection – An array of illustrations that captures every entry beat by beat, the Dracula Daily Sketch Collection by Georgia Cook, alias @georgiacooked was dished out over the course of the last Dracula Season. Some of the most fun character designs out there.

Fanfiction Spotlight: BlueCatWriter – With a whopping 99 works devoted to the novel Dracula (so far, the number may have gone up since I blinked), @bluecatwriter is one of the most prolific and talented fanfiction scribblers out there. Romances, nightmares, and overlaps between the two seem to crop up the most, give or take a crossover. Seems fitting that those blue paw prints have contributed to BoMB too.

The League of Extraordinary Gentlefolk – An ongoing comic in which all your favorite characters from the Classics section get together and tackle some perils ranging from the mundane to the monstrous. Started by the amazing @mayhemchicken and posted on @lxgentlefolkcomic, this series is a love letter to beloved Victorian era lit, with a spotlight on the two couples leading the League. Namely, the Harkers, ala Dracula, and the Nortons, ala Sherlock Holmes,’ “A Scandal in Bohemia.” Mina and Irene are the driving investigative and steering forces here, and still deeply in love with their likewise-infatuated husbands, just like in their canons! What a concept! Alan.

Without spoiling the full character list, just know there are going to be a ton of familiar faces roaming around before you finish reading the first arc. Said arc having conveniently wrapped up just a few days ago! Give the comic and its bonus silliness a look if you’re in the mood for a new comfort-adventure epic.

Re: Dracula – Probably the most well-known and incredible thing to come out of the initial Dracula Daily wave. This podcast is a full audio drama that follows the same format as the Substack, with episodes coming out in time with the entries themselves. And it has an unfairly cool soundtrack. They have a Tumblr with @re-dracula, a site and a Patreon to check out before the series kicks up again on May 3rd. (Also, keep an eye out for their next work, an audio drama in the same style with Carmilla.)

The Soldier and the Solicitor – Another treat from @ibrithir-was-here, this one involves a bit of time travel trouble. Quincey Harker has stumbled out of World War I and into the same dark forest where his father once fled for his life…then runs into the man himself, on that same night. Jonathan Harker, young and starved and lost, who has no choice but to trust this stranger while the Weird Sisters are at his heels…despite said stranger having no shadow. It’s a tasty emotional trek, already complete on Tumblr, but now it’s turning into a Webtoon. While Ibrithir is juggling a number of other stories, she’ll be redrawing spruced up versions of the comic and adding a few new scenes as things unfold.

Substack Stack – You know what’s better than one emailed-out public domain book club? A mountain of them. Just. So, so many of them. You’ll see that a lot of these are finished, but some are still ticking along. Either way, they’re all great picks if you’re craving some more old school lit to fill the void between undead emails.

Frankenstein Weekly – Frankenstein

Jekyll and Hyde Weekly – The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Voyage of the Nautilus – Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Letters from Watson – Sherlock Holmes

The Invisible Mail – The Invisible Man

Letters from Bunny – E.W. Hornung’s short stories of the eponymous Bunny and Raffles

Letters Regarding Jeeves - P. G. Wodehouse’s Bertie Wooster short stories, including the novel, Right Ho, Jeeves

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…The Beetle Weekly – The Beetle (NOTE: Do Not Read This.)

The Vampyres – A novella I finally wrenched through the gears of self-publication as of March this year. Starring a petite but powerful paranormal cast, The Vampyres, centers on an unscrupulous undead fellow who finds that the revenants of the world are being mowed down by an entity known only as ‘Quinn Morse.’ Between trying to save his neck and figure out where the shadowy bastard came from, the Vampyre in question crosses paths with a new paramour and handy human shield in the form of a grieving Good Samaritan. He’s even polite enough to invite the Vampyre into his home while he’s in dire straits! Surely this will end well. All the info is available here and a little author site is over here.

What Manner of Man – This is the one made for everyone who started out hoping there’d be a real love story with our good friend Jonathan Harker and the Count when he was at his most charismatic. Where that sea of wonders dried up into a mire of horror, What Manner of Man by @stjohnstarling keeps things firmly on the romantic tracks. This Substack stars the letter-writing priest Father Victor E. Ardelian as he finds himself meeting with one enigmatic Lord Alistair Vane. It isn���t long before interest turns into intrigue and intrigue into undead intimacies.

The entire novel has been completed—along with multiple epilogues in the author’s Patreon, allowing readers to choose for themselves just how the uncanny romance plays out in the end—and the Substack now has a number of other gothic goodies piling up in the meantime.  

NONFICTION

Dracula Daily: A Unique Reading Experience: This one comes courtesy of @realwomenofgaming. It’s a short and sweet piece that amounts to a fun snapshot of the entire Dracula Daily ride. A cozy couple-minute read.

‘Dracula Daily’ is the One Substack You Need a Subscription To: Features my favorite Matt Kirkland interview. @mattkirkland, if you’re still floating around on here, thank you for dispatching our vampire newsletter again this year.

Dracula Daily is Tumblr’s hottest new book club: Alright, the ‘new’ part is worn out by now, but this one is still a delightful article to swing back around to. Two years on, this Polygon piece is a time capsule of those early months when people outside our bookworm bubble realized we were all happily receiving letters from our favorite classic gothic horror blorbos.  

“How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” – Princess Weekes, if you ever read this, thank you, thank you, thank you. I am sending oceans of love and millions of rewatches to your video essay. If you haven’t seen it yet, “How Mina Murray Became Dracula’s Girlfriend” is one of the most refreshing and well-made breakdowns of both the title subject and numerous other issues that have proliferated in the public view of Dracula’s cast and plot as adaptations endlessly warp or outright bastardize the actual novel. An incredibly cathartic watch.  

Literary play gone viral: delight, intertextuality, and challenges to normative interpretations through the digital serialization of Dracula: A mouthful of a title for an even more elaborate article about the Dracula Daily phenomenon. This one is a full-on study that analyzes just what happened within the big bloodsucker book club surge and how its ‘wandering reading practices’ enriched the experience for participants.

 “The Undying Undead: An analysis of the Dracula Daily community for a theory of online community formation and interaction” – We have a thesis on here! Look at that! @sirangelothebestest’s MA thesis used our vampiric book club as the bones for a massive brick of an academic piece that definitely deserves a look.

…And I think I’ll go ahead and cap things here.

This isn’t everything I got recommended, but if I had squashed all of it in here, I think folks’ eyes would start to fall out of their head. I hope you can find something cool to comb through here. Or, if there’s something great I overlooked, tack it onto the list! We’ve got just two weeks to go until we’re off with Mr. Harker. Let’s enjoy our respite before those castle doors close behind us.

[butchxenomorph]

ask and you shall receive... i will be expanding on this when I have time

vlogatan harker lore drop will happen.

should i expand on my modern day dracula au where jonathan is a vlogger. would anyone care if i made that A Thing

[erosyrup]

—To know that, despite it all, there will always be good men in this world, even if there are monsters.

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Another Les Mis x Dracula AU doodle to close out Halloween 🧛‍♂️. Check out the fic below if you want any last-minute Halloween spookiness!

[syrupsyche]

Still thinking about vampire!Enjolras from my Dracula AU...😌

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If anyone's interested in checking it out, you can find it here!:

(there may or may not be one-shot smut in Part 2 😳)

[ashiemochi]

a leon kennedy x reader x quincy harker blurb for ya bestie

"Hey, sexy," Leon says, hand under your chin as he leaned in - lips brushing against yours.

Eyes fluttering shut before you felt a pair of hands on your waist from behind you, you smelled bourbon and something minty. Quincy's voice was quiet in your ear.

"Missed me, sweetheart?"

"Fuck off, Harker." Leon spoke as he pulled away, causing you to open your eyes, "She's mine."

Quincy laughs before pulling you close to him, "She could be ours. Let's ask her, hm?"

He glanced down at you, you felt so small between both men that it caused you to swallow hard. You took a deep breath, Leon eyes you, "Sweetheart?"

Two gorgeous men held you under their gaze, you couldn't possibly refuse such an idea, right?

"...I think," You spoke as you looked between the both of them, "Having both, isn't such a bad idea."

Leon hums as he walks over to you, "That really want you want?"

You looked between both men, "I'm sure."

Quincy chuckles before his lips met yours, you could feel Leon's on your skin. He pulls away for a brief moment.

"You're our girl now." Quincy said against your lips.

You liked the idea way too much.

Weren't you the luckiest one in the room?

I'm never recovering from this. I'm bedridden and it's all your fault. calling god on u rn. unfair to give me these fantasies about nonexistent men. actually suing you. crying rn

[rindragon-from-twewy]

Forte swap au character intros part 2!!!

I love these so much genuinely I'm just so happy with where my art style's been at recently!

Ok I have a lot to say so it's under the cut. Remember; Spoilers for the og story!

I'll go from right to left since that's the order I designed them in (buckle in, this is a long one-)

Fubuki now has Spectral Projection. I liked the idea of giving it to her as she and Vivia are basically polar opposites so giving her his forte would really shake things up. Instead of calling her "Princess" and stuff, I think people would rather call her "Sleeping Beauty" and the themes of that fairy tale would end up seeping in to chapter 4, as well as its mystery labyrinth. Her hair flower is now a rose as a further reference to that. I used nightwear as references for her clothes, imagining them mostly being made out of more silky fabrics for that "rich girl" aura. I kept her hair down and messy and really just focused on making her look comfy. After all, if she's sleeping all the time, she should be in the appropriate attire for doing so, no? But thankfully The Chief gave her some wellie boots so she's not running around the city in soggy slippers. Her tattoos are now a string of stars on her collar bones to further emphasise the idea of dreams/sleep and also the "Z" in her name stands for "Zzz" because I thought they'd be funny. The last name "Bramble" is not only another reference to roses and sleeping beauty but also to Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula because yes, the vampire themes have been ripped away from Vivia and given to Fubuki instead!

Moving on to Halara- I knew right away that by giving them Time Leap, I should make them look more like a time traveller. Initially I wanted to try to make them look like they'd fit in well with the line up for the various Doctors in Doctor Who but unfortunately I couldn't figure out a way to do that without just... putting them in one of the outfits. So I instead decided to use steampunk as a main reference. I like to think that they stare at their pocket watch just to ignore people or as a passive aggressive way of telling them that they're wasting time. Their shoulder tattoo is meant to vaguely resemble an hour glass since that seemed appropriate. I had no idea what I wanted to do for their shirt under their coat so I settled on that black turtleneck tank top that makes the fangirls go crazy and made sure to give them Fubuki's necklace so that they can use their forte! The hardest part was deciding to give Halara goggles instead of glasses. They just seemed wrong without their glasses but it was just as wrong to have glasses and goggles? And so I settled on no glasses. (Mostly cuz I forgot to add them in and by then, I was used to looking at their empty face lol-) When they first arrived in Kanai Ward, Chief gave them the frilliest umbrella at the store because it had the same colours as their coat. Lastly, for their name chance, I changed it to "Clocksmith". It's the name of the profession for a watch mender, similar to Clockford and also "Smith" is the last name The Doctor uses when he needs to use a fake human name.

I'll be deadass, I did Vivia's design at like 3am and was running purely on vibes. So there isn't much perpousful intention behind him like the others. His hair now covers his left eye to make using Post Cognition much easier (sometimes it just activates on its own thanks to his eye already being obscured) but just underneath it you can see his tattoo; a big purple tear streak. I think I was watching a fnaf video at the time so. Marionette reference. Now you may be asking: Why is his hoodie so cropped? Why are his trousers so low cut? Idk- because I think it looks cool? I probably should've (and will in future) give him more bandages around his torso cuz looking at it now, that's not really that many. His big sleeves cover his hands and yes, I know that combining those sleeves with that stances just screams "Hatsune miku", that was completely accidental but I'm kinda here for it??? Gave him like 9 belts cuz I like drawing belts and I feel like his suicial ass would've been put in a real straight jacket at least once. People probably aren't sure if he's a real human entity anymore so Shinigami would probably call him a zombie. But nevertheless, The Chief makes sure he eats something at least once a day cuz his rib cage is definitely visible. For his last name, I changed Twilight to Midnight because it's got the "night" from Halara's "Nightmare" while still being a time of day.

And that's about it. Wow that's... a lot. Honestly if I didn't aspire to be a show runner, I'd probably settle for being a character designer. I'm super excited to show off what I've got in store of this AU's storyline but I've still gotta introduce a couple other characters first! ^vO

[beacedocrime]

Art of the characters from @basilthesnakingthing 's Monstrous Children AU. Check it out!

Close ups and explanations of my thought process for some of my decisions under the cut

First of all, Victor Frankenstein. His physical descriptions are sparse, except for how ill he looks. I tried to give him a slightly sickly looking skin tone, but skin in general isn't my forte, so I'm not sure how much I succeeded. Other than that, I always imagined him with black hair and green eyes, and as having somewhat sharp features.

For the colours, idk, I just thought purple would look on him. I wanted the vest to have simple gold detailing on the lapels, but the watercolour wasn't really obvious, and I couldn't be bothered to search for my pencils. He's never described as wearing glasses as far as I'm aware, but I liked how he looked with them better.

After inking him, I could tell there was something I didn't like about his face, but I couldn't pinpoint why. Later, I realized his eyes weren't spaced correctly. I made a quick little sketch to correct this.

Basil said the gravedigger guy was gonna be inspired by some other classics character, but she hadn't given an example and I didn't have any ideas so I decided to make him as generic as possible. I thought he'd look funny among all these fancily dressed children.

When I drew these, I hadn't been told that in this au Jekyll and Hyde would be their first names, so I drew Victor calling out to 'Henry' with Jekyll in mind. However, since this isn't possible in this universe... thoughts on Henry Clerval 👀?

Jekyll! Drew him slightly sleep deprived and did not make good decisions about that vest. Fixed it later. Like Victor, not a lot of physical descriptions, so mostly going off of how I imagined him- brown hair and brown eyes, softer features.

Debated a bit on the colour scheme, before deciding mellow browns and yellows would be a good fit. Don't know why his sleeves are rolled up other than I thought it looked nice.

Not much else to say about his appearance, I was fairly satisfied with him (other than the vest). Though his jawline came out a bit uneven, and the shape of his pants look weird (I was not inking this on a table like a normal person and he slightly suffered for it)

Basil mentioned once that this version of him and Hyde also have the talking in the mirror thing, so I made a small doodle of that.

Hyde! With a quick bonus Dracula.

So, just to say this quickly, I did not think at all about Dracula's clothes, it was just a quick sketch cause I really wanted to draw this scene. Also his proportions are weird, and his skin not pale enough.

Hyde! Similarly to Victor, I did not like something about his face in the first inked version, so I fixed it in a quick sketch. This time it was his chin. His face felt too long, and I wanted it to be rounder.

Like the other two, Hyde doesn't have a confirmed hair and eye colour as far as I'm aware. His descriptions are along the lines of 'pale and short with bad vibes'. I imagined him with reddish brown hair, and the same colour for eyes.

I didn't mean his vest to be pretty much the same colour as his hair, but it happened, and I like it, so. I made his vest the same kind as Jekyll's, just on the other side. He doesn't have a necktie because things around my neck give me sensory issues, and I'm projecting. His button-up is pink because, like many other design choices, I thought it would look cool.

The sharp teeth were one design choice that the creator of the AU wanted him to have.

Other stuff- they all have coats/jackets (not sure which one is the correct term) that I haven't drawn here. I tried to give the colours a slightly washed-out look to fit in with how the creator described the setting to look, though I'm not sure how successful I was. I wanted Creature to be bigger, but by the time I'd realised that it was smaller than I wanted, I couldn't really go back.

[yallemagne]

This pain SENSATION! Dark-Darker DEVASTATION! Before-fore-fore the symptoms of red-red INFLAMMATION!

Neroism - Anthong the Gay [English Cover], KarikiBear [Original]

This is one of four drawing projects I have assigned to myself per this post. This song was my most listened-to song from March to May this year. Of course, like most of the songs I listen to too much, I have a mental music video for this one.

(by the way I have a Ko-fi.)

Neroism is one of the few songs I have in my gem playlist, an appallingly short playlist for my Gem Dracula AU as partially explored in this post featuring the designs of Hematite (gem Jonathan) and Jasper (gem Mina).

In this verse, Hematite is sliced in half by Andradite, a warmongering gem who Hematite was sent to placate and inform of the establishment of Little Homeworld on Earth. For any other gem, a disruption to their physical form of this magnitude would cause them to immediately "poof" and retreat into their gem. However, Hematites, while not purposefully designed to have this functionality, can temporarily remain physically formed in cases of dismemberment and can use their polarity to manipulate the severed parts of their physical forms and even reattach them. Nevertheless, this is an incredibly traumatic thing to happen to a Hematite, and the only way to process the trauma and heal is to retreat back into their gemstone and reform properly.

Unfortunately, Hematite does not retreat back into her gem after this incident, paranoid that if she lets her guard down for even a moment, Andradite will find her.

[luneemeritus]

I've made a very old post about Erik headcanons and I decided to write down another one. This is for a modern AU.

I will use all pronouns for Erik (read the post for explanation). This is mostly Leroux-based, original deformity, skinny body, yellow skin, except he has hair.

There will be triggering headcanons (it's Erik) and a little NSFW in the end, it will all be warned.

「Modern Erik headcanons」

• Romantic Goth

• His favorite goth band is London After Midnight (something something self projecting)

• He is also a very eclectic person

• AMAB Gender fluid (HE/SHE/THEY)

• Bi/pansexual (he identifies as both)

• Their favorite colors are red and black

• Their favorite novel is Bram Stoker's Dracula

• loves flowers, her favorite is black Perfect-love

• loves greek mythology, specially the myth of Hades and Persephone

• Theatre kid

• Does drag performances, her name is Phantasma

• Monsterfucker. Because yes

• He's an anarchist

• Autistic

• BPD

• Agnostic

• Has social anxiety

• Sleeps hugging pillow, one in the arm and one between the legs

• Doesn't know how to act when someone praises them, he almost cries

• 100% little spoon

• Is currently dating Daroga 🏳️‍🌈

「TW: TRAUMA RESPONSE, S/H, TYPICAL SELF-DESTRUCTIVE ERIK BEHAVIOUR, TOXIC ERISTINE」

• used to blame himself for being "mentally broken"

• has constant nightmares, wakes up screaming, sweating and struggling

• has PTSD

• has scars all over his body. He tries to hide all of them with his clothes

• used to do self harm. Like isolating himself, not eating properly, not sleeping properly, not taking care of their own physical and mental health (1/4)

• when his relationship with Christine was going terrible (Erik's fault), the self-harm tendencies got worse (2/4)

• he went to therapy and distanced himself from Christine. Daroga is helping them, and he stopped the self-harm (3/4)

• she and Christine got closer again after some years. Christine forgave them and now they're friends (4/4)

「NSFW」

• has sensitive nipples 🫣

• LOVES bites, specially on his neck

• loves toys (specially dildos), he loves using on himself and his partner

• cuddle sex>>>>> 💖

• cried of emotion during his first time 🥺 (... also screamed, drooled, trembled and farted, it was very awkard)

• switch

• they dated Christine and she used to pegg him 👀

That's it. Maybe I'll do with Daroga next

[see-arcane]

Inspired by this.

I genuinely believe that Clarimonde would have been the perfect vampiric third for the Harkers--as she would certainly agree--but Mina and Jonathan are still too rattled post-Dracula to dabble with the possibility for now, RIP

(AU where Clarimonde is the one to hunt Dracula down and throttle his whole head off for ruining her perfect gothic throuple before it could even begin)

For those who haven't met her, do give Clarimonde's story a read! It's a lush short story by Théophile Gautier and you can take a gander on Project Gutenberg here.

[basilthesnakingthing]

Have been thinking about that Jekyll and Hyde AU that I could possibly make into a real show because the original book is public domain.

My idea is that it would be an asylum/ boarding school/ orphanage for "monstrous children" like changeling children that parents abandon there to avoid a cuckoo bird invader situation, or kids that are just very troubled in a supernatural seeming way.

Other characters I would include are:

Dracula: Going idea is that he's a long time resident of the place (I need to call it something, but it has so many functions, I don't know what to go with.) who Hyde looks up to. But unlike Hyde who is just kind of a menace, Dracula is more of an active bully. He has a posse of other vampires - younger ones that treat him like a gang leader, but in a preppy way, do you know what I mean? The blood thing is treated like dietary thing that only comes up at meal times. Like in households where everyone is used to one kid having an allergy. Nobody mentions it, that's just what he's eating. There's gotta be some silly place they get it from, though. Some half wholesome, half dreary process that matches the vibe. There are nice vampires that aren't rude to Jekyll and his friends and like, try to include them in stuff. I can't have a situation like with Slitherin in Harry Potter where if you belong to one group you automatically act like a jerk for no reason, because I always hated that. But those ones will be background characters.

Victor Frankenstein: Jekyll's best friend. Fascinated by "icky" things like mushrooms and creepy crawlies and dead stuff and how they work. Equally terrified of them in person. Was already attending the boarding school before Jekyll arrived (Maybe I should call it "The [Name] Boarding School For Monstrous Children". Cause even the kids who are living there permanently still go to classes.) Was a star student, especially at math and biology. Made friend's with Jekyll on day one after finding out they had similar interests.

Abraham Van Helsing is a professor and so is Merlin.

Peter Pan and the Mad Hatter are also there, and they're also menaces, although not to the same degree Hyde is. They're friends with the mischievous ghost who haunts the school. They are the theater kids.

Jekyll and Hyde know about each other from the beginning. They're a naturally occurring DID system in this version (as in, there was no serum.) It's not completely realistic because this is a silly cartoon, but I do intend to portray them compassionately and not as a scary gimmick. At first they don't really like each other. Then I'm going to escalate it under the audience's noses until they both break down crying at some point about how the consequences of the other's actions are unfair. They get to the point that they hate one another.

There are two pivotal events that start to make Jekyll start to see Hyde in a different light. One is when the cool teacher, Professor Van Helsing, takes Hyde under his wing and finds chores and other productive activities that the violent alter actually really enjoys. Hey come and direct all your aggressive energy into this one productive task. And because I'm projecting, it works really well. He actually finds it really cathartic. If it's "Prep these items for me" Hyde will come back again in a comically short amount of time, stary-eyed and eager to make you come see his comically large pile of that item. If it's "Rake the leaves from this entire part of the grounds" he will go at it so hard. He will go at those leaves like he's waging war. It's adorable. And two. Dracula picks a fight with them while Jekyll (who would lose badly) is controlling their body. And Hyde immediately takes over and defends them. He kicks Dracula's ass, and the next time they're talking in the mirror, Jekyll hesitantly thanks him. He hadn't thought about how Hyde could protect him in situations like that. And when Hyde is like, "I did that cause I like fighting stuff," Jekyll kinda starts to consider, maybe it's not all bad that he likes violence. At least, not all the time.

(And another thing!)