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drac-kool-aid · 10 months

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I like how in these past two entries Dracula is just There In the Background.

He's a flying bat, maybe a bird, he's that figure on the seat over there in the distance with the glowing red eyes. This is so different from how he menaced Jonathan (where he was the creepy old man that is Actively Keeping Me Prisoner yet still wants to have nightly chats) or the Demeter crew (where he understand the Nothing is Scarier trope and generally keeps out of sight till the end).

This time, he's just chillaxing in the background because we've had those two instances of different flavors of horror, and now we are thoroughly terrified of him, so just seeing him in the background is enough.

And this kind of tickles me in a weird way because I do so love when you can see the danger. It may not be actively menacing you. In fact, it may be moving away from you. Honestly, you don't even know if it has noticed you, and it's still TERRIFYING.

Like, sure, the idea that the monster is watching you and you not realizing it is scary, but sometimes you watching the monster is worse.

#dracula daily #re: dracula #dracula #i should amend #Mina is not experiencing this #the audience is #this trope works best if you know that the monster far outclasses you #cause then its less “im stalking the monster to initiate combat”#and more “oh shit am i hidden? did it see me? is it going to come after me?”#i mostly get this in video games and ttrpgs obviously #but it can be done well in a book #jurrasic park (the book) has some moments of “oh shit do the dinosaurs see us”#and theres that bit in the movie where they run into the trex hunting on the open plain #the trex isnt actively menacing them #but its terrifying cause if it notices them they are screwed

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