#listen I'm queer and I can't help but write bad things happening to jono

[yallemagne]

I really enjoy the implications of Dracula’s Guest while applied to the wider context of Dracula, though I don’t like the characterization of Jonathan. Clearly, Bram’s first draft of Jonathan was more of a cynical take on British stereotypes and the story is better if we actually want the main character to live, so. I mean, you can totally do a vampire story with an unlikeable main character, but he’s gotta die like Hippy Rowan from A Kiss of Judas or else the story has no good ending. So, in my head, I just rewrite Dracula’s Guest to make Jonathan a bit more of a little guy and a bit less of a twit. 

Anyway, the idea of Jonathan getting into vampire trouble in Munich is interesting and kind of funny. This man is a magnet for vampire shenanigans. He didn’t even think to record the incident in his journal, or he did and lost the record. What more, it’s non-Dracula-related vampire trouble, and for that reason, Dracula is pissed. He didn’t even get to have the first sip of Jonathan*, the audacity. And then, he’s doubly pissed when Jonathan disobeys his warnings and almost gets eaten by his own lackeys, THE AUDACITY. 

*it’s just what I assume. Dracula abstained from Jonathan’s blood for months with the intent to drain him at the very end of his stay, so he’s got self-control, just ignore the shaving incident iopgejr. I’d say Jonathan got a tiny bit bitten and wolf Dracula was lapping the blood away to both clean the wound and sate his thirst so he wouldn’t give in and just kill the man. 

It puts Jonathan in a similar but opposite role to Lucy. Dracula kept feeding off Lucy because how dare these men try to tamper with his food? The fate of the girl is in his hands! She will die when he wills it and by any means necessary! 

Now, Dracula’s obsession with Jonathan doesn’t continue past the castle because Bram is a coward, but let's say... I’m not a coward. 

Jonathan dares to tread where Dracula does not permit. He’s bitten by foreign vampires- a spit in the face to Dracula’s plans for him. And then, when he’s warned again, he strays again, and Dracula has to save him once again. It was insulting enough that the peasants of some far-off village disregard Dracula’s will, but his own creations? But that’s all over and done with. Dracula has dealt with the fool, and the women can have whatever scraps are left. 

But Jonathan is not dead. He’s here in London. He’s disobeyed again, and Dracula will not have that. He is no longer under the Count’s protection - he is Dracula’s prey - and he will pay for disregarding his host’s hospitality.