#mina murray-harker

[highfemmeharker]

its almost the end of pride month so im gonna list my gender headcanons for the gang in my au before i forget:

Jonathan Harker: I think he's a demiboy for gender because their masculinity might be important but also I don't think it matters to him THAT much and also they give genderless little rat vibes. he/they

Mina Murray-Harker: she probably experimented with being more masculine and decided that it wasn't for her and also because its femininity is important to the plot i think it unlocked cis+ so she's still a woman it's but kind of futch about it. she/it

Lucy Westenra: that's literally a beautiful trans woman. she/her

(Dr.) John (Jack) Seward: I'M NOT SURE YET...in the book he leans more transfem but i really really like it being trans masc. plus i really like him complementing van helsing by being a fem fag. either way he has a job so it drc about that. he/it no matter which way he's trans

Quincey Morris: that's literally a handsome trans man. he/him

(Honorable) Arthur (Art) Holmwood (or Lord Godalming): might be the only other cisgender in his friend group but he will 100% play with his gender expression kind of like mina, like cis and a half. he/him

(Professor) Abraham Van Helsing: that right there is a transmasc butch thank youuuu. he/she

R.M. Renfield: scary somewhat masculine creature, kind of masc leaning nonbinary. it/they

Dracula: He is above gender, so you could argue agender but in like a god way. He/Him

and orientation headcanons:

Jonathan Harker: biromantic demisexual. i think they struggle with sexuality a lot especially after leaving dracula's castle but he's a very devoted lover no matter what.

Mina Murray-Harker: pan. she loves jonathan it loves lucy she doesn't care its wonderful.

Lucy Westenra: polyamorous panromantic asexual. she wants to marry all her boys and get with her girlie <333 also she's ace because she's such a romantic lover i think she doesn't need/want the other stuff :)

(Dr.) John (Jack) Seward: polyamorous gay leaning bi. no matter how it loves his friends it's always really gay. he has 'can't stop falling in love with its friends disease'

Quincey Morris: polyamorous arospec bisexual. he certainly likes his friends and he certainly harbors love for those close to him but he seems like such a friend guy and i feel like him being arospec is just. right. yk?

(Honorable) Arthur (Art) Holmwood (or Lord Godalming): that right there is a flaming faggot, probably bisexual because he is still sososo in love with lucy but like that's literally the gayest person i've ever seen hoooly shittt. also poly because of da bois

(Professor) Abraham Van Helsing: bi dyke. no i dont take suggestions. dyke4fag seward. sapphic ex-situationship with dracula. like be serious

R.M. Renfield: aromantic gay. it doesn't need love it needs devotion and they know this. so good so good.

Dracula: arospec pansexual. is that weird. i dont think so. He says He can love but He cant really and He'll eat anyone. i think it fits.

id like to know what you think: :)

[piannpire]

castle dracula arc my beloved

original:

[wiliecoyotegenius]

big day today

[can-of-w0rmz]

Goth girls love trains

[tiffycat]

hot girl summer vs jonathans's no good very bad business trip

[jonathanharker]

cinema: jonathan harker doesn’t really love mina that much. we hate women btw

literally jonathan harker:

[charonnyxtides]

Bram Stoker wrote Mina Harker phenomenally then everyone else has been trying to "fix her" and falling flat on their face tripping over their own clown shoes

[cry-ptidd]

Starting out Dracula season with my interpretations of the characters!

[strigoi-diabolicum]

Lucy and Mina If Lucy lived and they teamed up to murder Dracula.

[evydraws]

9 May - Mina Murray to Lucy Westenra

(Jonathan's coming home in about a week, and he's well, you heard it here first.)

[rikiteekeetavee]

This is why no matter what, Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula and every tv show and musical out there will never be hated close to enough actually

[highfemmeharker]

#2. Mina Murray-Harker ref

Here are some pics:

Here are some basic things about her:

still a schoolteacher, still 20, still super in love with Jonathan and Lucy

Still the hero of the story she's so brave and smart and amazing

Somewhat alternative, kind of progressive she definitely supports queer rights and everything :)

STILL THE TRAIN FIEND!

Autistic adhd little menace no social cues will hold her back

Still British and stuff. I guess. Booorinnng but she's done some traveling with Jonathan so it's whatevers ALSO HER ACCENT HAS A TINY BIT OF SCOTTISH

guhhh PANSEXUAL FUTCH ALERT!!!! She/it

Draculas #1 OPP and hater

Will to anything to save her friends!!!

outta my way van helsing mina is the leader of the crew

Here's the Character Hub ref if you want to go into detail!

[hugsandnoregrets]

actually insane that i wasn't sure if i should read dracula because i had seen so many 'academic' claims of misogyny and then i finally read it and mina murray harker is literally one of my favorite characters in like a decade. like she's got so much personality and agency and like yes she has internalized the expectations of women at the time but they literally can't beat dracula without her, she is essential. she is intelligent and funny and intense and weird and i adore her.

what the fuck is everyone smoking to claim that she's a sad little housewife who is dracula's bride or whatever.

[high-in-the-tower]

It actually meant so much to me to see the original Mina/Jonathan dynamic honoured in Nosferatu (2024). The way they loved each other so much, did everything for the other, clung to each other in the face of the Count's individual assaults upon them...I'm so used to seeing adaptations take this actually really great couple and tossing them into a blender for the sake of propping up the Count's character and his *not book accurate* relationship with Mina. I was so worried going into this movie I'd been hyping up since the beginning that it would fall into the same trap, and it soothed my fears immediately. The only straight couple ever in my eyes <3

[octoberwitchsblog]

Reading Dracula makes you particularly hate the fact that movies and adaptations have been so adamant on putting Mina with Dracula and treating Jonathan as a cold Englishman because that man ADORES Mina. We're only at the very first pages of the book and already, he talks about her all the time. "Get this recipe for Mina", "write about the trip to give all the details to Mina", like PLEASE. There's not one entry in his journal where he doesn't mention her or even dedicate his words to her when she'll find the notebook. This man is OBSESSED with his fiancé !!

(I'm editing this because someone mentioned it in the reblogs, but my introduction to Dracula was the french musical and Jonathan LOVES Mina in that one. It still pretty much adapts Coppola's version more than the book, but they gave a whole song to Jonathan as to how he feels completely helpless and betrayed when Mina cheats on him with Dracula. But he still stays at her side ! She's the one to kill Dracula but he's always around to support her ! He stands on business during the whole musical !!)

(also the musical makes dracula silent and he expresses himself through dance and through three other characters who are basically personnifications of his soul, his conscience and his emotions. that part is dope asf)

[tiffycat]

Our favorite solicitor is once again eating paprika hendl and thinking about his fiancé