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projecting your ailments onto a fictional character is such a funny concept. i love you so much im giving you this disorder

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sorry i'm being an absent friend i'm being an absent self too

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It's me and my finished cbbc show from 2011 with 12 fans against the world

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falling into a young dracula spiral is the worst why do i have withdrawal shakes

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sorry can’t talk i’m too busy romanticizing vampirism

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oh my god yes!! i have believed for a whole that the reason the blood cravings hit him so hard is because of a previous addiction he's unaware of. he was so close to death after the crown of power and i think during this time the count was probably giving him blood as a means of medicine/something to build strength. when he came around enough to be aware of his surroundings the count stops (potentially even tries but vlad says no) and vlad is none the wiser.

i have so many headcanons regarding vlad and his relationship with blood, and also commentary on this specific scene which i need to post about at some point but as a scene it makes me go insane so i struggle to get all my thoughts about it out but i will manage it some day. i don't think enough attention is given to vlad being an addict though and it really bothers me its not touched on in canon again.

i'm just rewatching young dracula episodes right now and i just watched s4e8. the end scene of vlad sat in front of the fireplace swigging from a bottle of blood whilst being filled with self-loathing is so precious to me. i really wish that his struggle after was explored in more depth other than the odd clip of him sniffing a bottle and putting it down again. i know it was a kids show but moments like this just make me wish this show explored topics in more depth than they did

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i also follow the headcanon that his transformation was triggered at 13 (i also think during the time they were fleeing and he was close to death after the count was giving him blood to help him heal but vlad never knew)

enforcing pe all the way through sixth form is rough, my school had given up on enforcing it halfway through year 11 and instead let us sit in a class 'revising' - basically school sponsored gossip session because the teachers left us alone.

maybe because i largely choose to ignore the timetable shown, i think it's funnier to believe the count found that one on the ground and just figured everyone must have the same and wrote over it, and some year 7 is running around looking for his lost one. he's not actually familiar with the school system after all. the reality is that it's a broken timetable and interferes with my own headcanons about vlad's a level choices (german, politics, history, and maths btw).

you're right though about pre a level pe and i suppose a doctors note must be the option. either that or the count tells mccauley that him and vlad do heavy exercise in their own time and he doesn't want it interfering. also possible that vlad just bunks off pe. we constantly see him skipping lessons so it's not out of the realm of possibility.

regarding his birthday i place him in early june - the wiki states his birth year as 1994, although the whitby goth festival didn't start until that year so he couldn't have been. the wiki also states that the count met sally in 1995. both the 1994 and 1995 festival (depending on which year you lean towards) were held in the first few days of september. 9 months from then would be early june - which coincidentally makes him a gemini which i think is poetic considering his two halves. the june theory also makes sense considering we know his birthday is later in the year than ingrid (may 1) because they both celebrate in s1, not too far apart.

We know Vlad did do PE (timetable) which makes me wonder if his school did it outside how he got oit of it.

We did see Garside had a school gym and we dont see much of the grounds but i feel its safe to assume that not all PE lessons would have been inside.

Im curious if Vlad claimed some medical reason - medications/sun allergy - or if he mysteriously managed to find a way to skip every outdoor session. I could also see him happily hypnotising the teacher to get out of it.

I feel bad for Vlad who used to love rugby suddenly being stuck unable to participate whenever it was putside PE lesson

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i always figure vlad is doing his a levels at this point in time so doesn't have pe in his timetable to avoid the issue - he is 17 by this point afterall. if not then i would guess he has some kind of medical exemption

We know Vlad did do PE (timetable) which makes me wonder if his school did it outside how he got oit of it.

We did see Garside had a school gym and we dont see much of the grounds but i feel its safe to assume that not all PE lessons would have been inside.

Im curious if Vlad claimed some medical reason - medications/sun allergy - or if he mysteriously managed to find a way to skip every outdoor session. I could also see him happily hypnotising the teacher to get out of it.

I feel bad for Vlad who used to love rugby suddenly being stuck unable to participate whenever it was putside PE lesson

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I wonder about vlads cousin Olga's transformation sometimes.

She's referred to as about choles age, meaning she's probably only a few years younger than vlad.

Was Ivan sat there during s3-5 writing letter to the count like:

"Dear county,

I know that you're in hiding after your son was revealed to be the chosen one, and your daughter took over your castle and went on a rampage. Sorry, it's probably my boys fault after he killed the grand high vampire and tried to frame you </3

Anyway its my daughters 16th soon any chance you could foreward your address so we could come use the mirror. Im sure itll go better than last time.

All the best,

Ivan <3"

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There's quite a few things I love about this scene, and the way they handled vampire telepathy in YD. For one, the cinematography in this scene is perfect, the Polaroid, the lighting, and the last shot of the camera panned out - where you can see how alone Vlad is and feels in that moment. Especially knowing he has some form of a family out there that aren't Draculas.

Secondly, the mixing/overlays of Sally going about her life that Vlad is able to see. Also showing how he's using his powers for good yet still rebelling against his father - very in character. Tbh though I do wish at some point in s4 or 5 Vlad had managed to see Robin and his family again, either in visions like this one or in person. It would have really brought the story together fully.

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cursing my name, wishing I stayed, look at how my tears ricochet

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vlad and fire

i've been rewatching the show and when watching some of s1 noticed thart vlad's bed is placed in the area of his room where the fireplace should be. now i could write this off as basic set design decisions, but there isn't any fun in that and instead i'm choosing to look at it as symbolic. there were a couple of theories i had regarding this:

the bed is there as a representation of the lack of warmth within the dracula family. the place where vlad should in theory be the safest and most welcome has no source of warmth and the room (and family) is instead cold

vlad being the central part of the home (family), and by extension, the castle. vlad is obviously the most human of the family and the one to bring life into the undead (cold) family

i also think using fire as a metaphor for vlad coming to accept that he is a vampire is particuarly interesting

looking at my third theory, i've looked (admittedly not in a lot of depth) at how fire is used through the show. aside from providing atmospheric lighting, it can be used to tell a story.

in s1-2 vlad's bed is in the fireplace, the fire cannot be lit because he is actively blocking it off. we see the fireplace inside the castle be lit with candles instead of an actual fire. to me this feels like its showing that vlad is actively supressing his vampirism by trying to block it at the source

in seasons 3-5, we constantly see the fireplace in the living room in garside lit. vlad can no longer hide from who he is and has come to accept it.

at the end of s4e8 (loyalty's for breathers), we see vlad at one of his lowest points in the show and he is sat in front of a well stoked fire, swigging blood from a bottle. i could write so much about this scene alone and will likely come back to it at a later point in another post because it's one of my favourite scenes in the whole show. but in this moment, vlad has no way of hiding who he is, instead he embraces the warmth of the roaring fire as he likely feels the most like a vampire as he ever has.

in the first photo you can even see the flames flickering at the bottom as he considers taking a drink.

the links between vlad and fire don't end there either. in s2e6 (baby dracula), vlad manages to create a fireball for the first time. this is the only time we really see him get excited over a vampire power, especially this early on. whilst he came to accept hypnotism as something extremely useful fairly quickly, especially in the episodes following this one), at first he was very apprehensive of it. the same can be said for turning into a bat. when it comes to fireballs however he is excited from the off.

he also uses fire when talking to erin about the perks of vampirism in s3e4 (fangs for the memories), and demostrates the candle lighting thing

another observation is his aura having flames when talitha sees it in s5 (i unfortunately can't remember the episode off the top of my head)

with vlad it seems to constantly draw back to fire which is just so interesting to me.

outside of these surface level observations, one of my personal favourite themes through the show is the use of blood addiction as a thinly veiled metaphor for alcoholism. this is once again something i could talk about for so long but fire (vlad's relationship with vampirism) and alcohol (blood) don't mix and when they do it's not a good thing.

the final thing which i noticed today when rewatching the finale, is that we see vlad and sally infront of the fireplace as he makes his final choice to leave any links to humanity behind. the fire is lit and well tended despite what has been happening in garside.

anyway those are my current thoughts on it but its a concept i've been unable to escape for the last few weeks since i first noticed the bed in the fireplace. as i rewatch more i hope i'll notice some more links but overall i think it is such interesting symbolism.

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11 year old me walked so i could run (to my computer to draw these)

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when ur talking to a new online friend and they say "bloody" for the first time

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i think what we really need is a spinoff,cute cozy show about vlad going to live with sally and george for a bit and all the shenanigans that would occur. not any supernatural life threatening things.

just like, vlad having to enroll in a college or something, or hiding him from the neighbours (bonus points if one of them is a little robin branagh-esque) or george having some kind of school project and he has to learn about breather things like geography or gymnastics. them playing tig or hide and seek and vlad uses some of his vampire powers. or sally has a dinner party and vlad has to pretend to be human and george coaches him in what she thinks normal boys like, which is hilariously off (or they go in the opposite direction and just play him off as moody emo teenager and he has to walk around being weird and listening to music on a computer in his room or something)

i just think it would be so fun.

heres how the 1st episode could play out:

we open on them pulling into the driveway, they hurry to cover vlad with something,maybe a hoodie and then they run inside while he’s smoking profusely. they get inside and show vlad around,then they show his room and explain that he can decorate it if he likes. then they are interrupted by the doorbell.

we meet the nice neighbour lady, who asks what the smoke was about. she has to think on her feet and make something up,like she recently found her teenage son who she gave up years ago, and he has some behavioural issues (implying he vapes/smokes) and that theyre working on it. the neighbour makes some remarks about “oh you poor things!” and then leaves.

sally closes the door and we cut to george running around and closing all of the curtains and sticking up some black card on vlad’s windows telling him all about how it's “like they did in world war 2” then vlad thanks her and sally calls them downstairs.

they are all stood in the kitchen and sally is pottering around making food for lunch/dinner she tells george to lay the table and then stops “sorry vlad! i forgot,um, will you be needing… you know” and he has to awkwardly just be like “no. its fine…” and explain his prefered diet and all.

after they eat vlad goes ip to his room to get some sleep.

maybe a bit later the nice neighbour turns up at the door with her own child(or children.maybe she has a child georges age) and says that she thought that they could rub off some good on him,and since theyre of a similar age it could be nice. sally has to awkwardly let them in and run off to tell vlad of the situation, cue him having to get out of his coffin, throw on a hoodie or something and make his way downstairs. then he has to try not to fall asleep while stopping them from finding out his secret and keeping them entertained. shenanigans ensue.

we end the episode with the teen leaving and vlad and the others sighing with releif

wouldnt have to go exactly like that of course, but it would be a way to introduce the new story and characters while keeping it lighthearted. i think it would be much more of a silly kids show like the first 2 seasons than a dark teen drama like seasons 3,4&5

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