@inception30daychallenge

@inception30daychallenge

funny story right

so i watched this movie like 7 times in 1 week (thanks adhd), devoured a ton of fanfic, then came onto tumblr and realised that, hey, the 30 day challenge is still going! so here i am.

Day 25: What pet(s) does Robert have?

Being the sole heir to a huge corporation - and a very competent businessman in and of himself - doesn't really leave a lot of time to care for animals. He probably has a few fish tanks that he can pay one of his employees to care for while he's out. Nothing too big or gaudy or expensive, but he has some very pretty schools of angelfish, and a few betta tanks as well. It's nice to have something to focus on aside from his work, so when he's got free time he often spends it scraping off algae or polishing the glass to keep away water streaks.

After he dissolves Fischer-Morrow, he does have a little more time to himself. He gets more into the less common animals, like starfish and horseshoe crabs, and sets up some marine tanks. (Nothing metal is ever safe in his office again - staplers last a week at most before they're covered in rust. At least the starfish look cool.)

oh wow thats me!!! small world!!

my friend @alcoholmidgit did the art, i am responsible for putting it to music (and for waking my family at 1:30 am with how loudly i snorted when she sent me the picture)

@halfofawhole - OMG, look! 🤣🤣🤣

This damn fic really is the gift that keeps giving!

What age are the characters (Dracula aside)? I think I remember one of your old posts talking about this, maybe.

[Spoilers: The linked post contains a whole rundown of major characters and is rife with spoilers. The rundown below has allusions to later events/context but is friendlier to people who only want to know the particulars of the characters Dracula Daily readers have already encountered.]

The post where I addressed the whole cast is here. To address just the people we've met thus far, here’s my read on them (keep in mind, these are headcanons informed by some geeky research; only a few characters have established canon ages):

Jonathan Harker: Jonathan’s age isn’t given, but in the 1890s, he would have had to apprentice to a trained solicitor for five years in order to qualify for the exam he just passed. Given some information we learn about his circumstances later on, I find it reasonable to believe he started training reasonably early, and I place him around 21.

Mina Murray: We’ll eventually get an exact age for Lucy, and there is a very recurring theory among critics, adapters, and writers that Mina is a little older than her and that she stayed on at the school they attended together as a teacher. I have wholeheartedly adopted this headcanon, and I like the idea that she’s a little older than Jonathan. I place her around 21-23.

Dracula: If you think he’s Vlad III, he’s a silver fox in his 460s. If you don’t think he’s Vlad III (and I don’t; check out this Notes & Queries article), he’s a little bit younger. I like to imagine he’s a descendant of Vlad III from somewhere in the 1500s, placing him in the middle of his third century.

It’s worth noting that while Stoker definitely drew upon sources purporting to describe vampire folklore in establishing rules for his own vampires, some of the vampire “lore” you see in play in Dracula is original to him. The mirror thing doesn’t seem to have been around before Stoker. While there are regional superstitions one can track down about needing to cover mirrors in the home of the recently dead to prevent their corpse from turning vampiric, the idea that vampires cast no reflection appears to really have had its start with this novel. What’s more, it was only part of what was planned in Stoker’s notes on vampiric irreproducibility. While it never made it into the final text, Stoker wrote down vampires also wouldn’t show up in photographs (which is might be related to Jonathan conveniently mentioning his kodak camera) and that even attempting to paint a vampire would fail. Apparently painting a vampire was just supposed to end up looking like somebody else. Photographs would either come out black or show a skeleton or corpse.

we've all spent all this time learning that jonathan harker is a stupidly devoted wifeguy and i'm so pleased that now you guys can learn that mina is exactly the same way about him

so don't know why I can't send from my dracula daily account but I love your dd content, wanna become mutuals or whatever?

Sure! What's your dracula daily account i'll follow that too 👁👁