[ SECRET POST #3025 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3025 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 019 secrets from Secret Submission Post #432.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 1 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

Book is frustratingly stupid tho

Hmmmm my girl started getting really tired all the time and has weird cuts on her neck, wonder what up with that. Well I'm sure it's totally fine and nothing to do with the vampire we're hunting.

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

that's what makes it so fun though. the movie should also include an incredibly lengthy scene about the dirt that Dracula brought to England from Romania (I honestly can't even remember WHY he needed the dirt, but I feel like I read nearly twenty pages about it)

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

Vampires in (some) European folklore can only rest/regain strength in their native soil, since it would have been the soil they were buried in before they came back to life, their 'final resting place'. Drac had to bring Transylvanian soil with him so he wouldn't arrive in England an undead insomniac invalid, basically.

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

ayrt

Ah, there we go. That rings a bell

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

To be fair, though, at this point the characters hadn't even heard of vampire lore. It was much more likely she had 'consumption' or TB.

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

I'm thinking of the later time

with... Mina, not the... first girl?

it's been a while since i read it tbh

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

Lucy is the first girl.

Yeah, you're right, I guess they should have been more on their guard after Lucy TURNED INTO A VAMPIRE AND STARTED DRAINING THE BLOOD OF CHILDREN, but hey. Holding the Idiot Ball to increase the dramatic tension.

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

It sounds like you haven't read actually read the book. If you're referring to Mina (because when Lucy dies, the main characters have NO knowledge of vampires or vampirism until Lucy falls gravely ill and Van Helsing is summoned, and Jonathan was not present for that), then she doesn't have "cuts on her neck". The fact that she's tired isn't very alarming-- they're ALL tired from trying to track down Dracula, and Mina is dealing both with the death of her closest friend and a recovering invalid husband, so being tired isn't a huge red flag.

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

I've read the book but it was a long time ago, so perhaps I'm misremembering it. I just remember the foreshadowing being far too blatant and also distinctly remarked on by the main characters. Which is not a great combo.

Re: Movies that SHOULD be remade

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt - I read it not too long ago and recall there are definitely hints that something's going on, but they're not like you describe. No marks are ever found on Mina's neck. She has a very vivid, menacing dream that's definitely foreshadowing, but one, considering what she's been through and what materials she's transcribed from Dr. Seward's journal, that's not very strange and two, she doesn't tell anyone about it. She only mentions to Seward that she hasn't been sleeping well and requests a sleeping draught.

None of that is a particularly obvious clue that screams "OMG VAMPIRE!", so you can't really blame the other characters for being stupid. Even with what happened to Lucy, vampirism is still a very new, bizarre experience for everyone except Van Helsing. It's as if you discovered tomorrow that aliens really are visiting earth in flying saucers and have been for centuries in human disguise, and someone calling you stupid because you can't immediately identify one.