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starandhope) wrote2025-10-19 10:12 am
starandhope) wrote2025-10-19 10:12 am
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Are you over 18? Way over.
Do you have any other characters in game?: N/A
Who invited you?: N/A
Character Name: Mina Harker
Canon: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Canon Point: Just after returning to England with new husband Jonathan, before the "blood baptism" scene.
Age: 20s.
History: An overview of Mina from the novel can be found here. There isn't really a good wiki link for this specific iteration of Mina, but she's quite close to the novel version, with one primary difference: this Mina is also the reincarnation of Dracula's wife, Elisabeta, who's tragic suicide in 1462 triggered the events that led to Dracula becoming a vampire. This link provides a good summary of the film itself. Let me know if you need anything else from me on this.
Is this character an AU? What type?: Nope.
Personality: Mina is, in many ways, a conventional Victorian lady. She espouses conventional morality (sex outside of marriage is bad), conventional gender roles (once married, she plans to be a helpmeet to her husband, rather than pursuing her own career) and conventional religion (she is a Christian). She was raised an orphan in a society that taught her that orphans must make themselves useful, productive members of society, and she doesn't really have any personal ambition for herself. However, this is just to scratch the surface of who Mina is. She's intelligent, self-motivated, highly observant, and has deep, untapped reservoirs of courage. When she sets her mind to something, she pursues it with a passion. She's taught herself many useful skills, including typing on a typewriter and shorthand, as well as doing things like memorizing train timetables on the off chance Jonathan might need them. Honestly, if she had any ambition for herself, she could probably accomplish incredible things. She's generally far too selfless and liable to find ways to put her mind to use to help others, however.
Mina is kind, patient, and loving. She's loyal to her friends and tends to inspire protectiveness in others. She strives to be "good", though she's often drawn into friendship with people who have a darker edge to them, such as Lucy Westenra, who is shockingly forward for a prim Victorian lady. Despite this, Mina admits that she admires her friend, as she believes that she lacks Lucy's ready charm and wit. Still, the men in her life all clearly value and respect her, and she returns that value and respect.
But she has a guilty secret. While her fiance, Jonathan, was imprisoned and tortured in a vampire's castle, while her best friend Lucy was falling prey to said vampire, Mina met a man called "Prince Vlad" - a man who woke in her feelings, desires and passions that she never believed she had. She confesses that with the prince, she "felt more alive than ever [she] had". His strong will, his effusive charisma, his sharp mind and no doubt the edge of danger and the forbidden that hung about him was nearly irresistible to Mina. Even after leaving him behind to marry Jonathan, her "sweet prince" and "strange friend" occupies her thoughts constantly.
Thus, Mina is a woman torn up inside - wanting to be good, afraid she may be bad, afraid of her own desires and yet drawn to the darkness. Will she succumb? Will she find the courage to overcome and be the better for it? These are the questions that torment her, even as she presents a calm, mild-mannered exterior.
Powers and Abilities: Mina is a baseline human, albeit given she is reincarnated, she may occasionally have memories or knowledge of things that a 20something Victorian woman probably wouldn't have. Does she dream in Romanian? Possibly!
Inventory: Apart from the clothes on her back, she'll arrive with a small purse containing a little money, a single (men's) white kid glove, and a paper journal which serves as her private diary (written entirely in shorthand).
Sample: TDM threads
When presented with a choice, is the character more likely to stick with tried and true methods? Or make something new up on the fly? While Mina considers herself a pretty modern, forward-thinking woman, she will usually make the more conventional, safe choice when given the chance. Until or unless her view on something is violently overturned, she tends to accept traditional authority and conventional morality.
What is more important to your character, preserving the past or forging a future? Forging a future is what Mina is much more focused on, particularly building a life and potentially starting a family with her new husband, Jonathan. Even despite recent tragedies that have afflicted her, she's generally a "moving forward" kind of person.
How does your character influence their own story? What about the stories of others? Mina is, quite frankly, the crux around which the entire story of Dracula revolves. She is both his beginning and his end - Elisabeta's death is what caused him to become a vampire in the first place, and Mina's choice (though she doesn't know it yet) is what will decide his ultimate fate, as well as her own. Others recognize this quality more readily than she does - particularly Van Helsing, who calls her "the light of all light".
Are you alright with your character’s canon being used as a Recommended Reading?: Absolutely 100% I would love it.
Player Contact(s):
Are you over 18? Way over.
Do you have any other characters in game?: N/A
Who invited you?: N/A
Character Name: Mina Harker
Canon: Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)
Canon Point: Just after returning to England with new husband Jonathan, before the "blood baptism" scene.
Age: 20s.
History: An overview of Mina from the novel can be found here. There isn't really a good wiki link for this specific iteration of Mina, but she's quite close to the novel version, with one primary difference: this Mina is also the reincarnation of Dracula's wife, Elisabeta, who's tragic suicide in 1462 triggered the events that led to Dracula becoming a vampire. This link provides a good summary of the film itself. Let me know if you need anything else from me on this.
Is this character an AU? What type?: Nope.
Personality: Mina is, in many ways, a conventional Victorian lady. She espouses conventional morality (sex outside of marriage is bad), conventional gender roles (once married, she plans to be a helpmeet to her husband, rather than pursuing her own career) and conventional religion (she is a Christian). She was raised an orphan in a society that taught her that orphans must make themselves useful, productive members of society, and she doesn't really have any personal ambition for herself. However, this is just to scratch the surface of who Mina is. She's intelligent, self-motivated, highly observant, and has deep, untapped reservoirs of courage. When she sets her mind to something, she pursues it with a passion. She's taught herself many useful skills, including typing on a typewriter and shorthand, as well as doing things like memorizing train timetables on the off chance Jonathan might need them. Honestly, if she had any ambition for herself, she could probably accomplish incredible things. She's generally far too selfless and liable to find ways to put her mind to use to help others, however.
Mina is kind, patient, and loving. She's loyal to her friends and tends to inspire protectiveness in others. She strives to be "good", though she's often drawn into friendship with people who have a darker edge to them, such as Lucy Westenra, who is shockingly forward for a prim Victorian lady. Despite this, Mina admits that she admires her friend, as she believes that she lacks Lucy's ready charm and wit. Still, the men in her life all clearly value and respect her, and she returns that value and respect.
But she has a guilty secret. While her fiance, Jonathan, was imprisoned and tortured in a vampire's castle, while her best friend Lucy was falling prey to said vampire, Mina met a man called "Prince Vlad" - a man who woke in her feelings, desires and passions that she never believed she had. She confesses that with the prince, she "felt more alive than ever [she] had". His strong will, his effusive charisma, his sharp mind and no doubt the edge of danger and the forbidden that hung about him was nearly irresistible to Mina. Even after leaving him behind to marry Jonathan, her "sweet prince" and "strange friend" occupies her thoughts constantly.
Thus, Mina is a woman torn up inside - wanting to be good, afraid she may be bad, afraid of her own desires and yet drawn to the darkness. Will she succumb? Will she find the courage to overcome and be the better for it? These are the questions that torment her, even as she presents a calm, mild-mannered exterior.
Powers and Abilities: Mina is a baseline human, albeit given she is reincarnated, she may occasionally have memories or knowledge of things that a 20something Victorian woman probably wouldn't have. Does she dream in Romanian? Possibly!
Inventory: Apart from the clothes on her back, she'll arrive with a small purse containing a little money, a single (men's) white kid glove, and a paper journal which serves as her private diary (written entirely in shorthand).
Sample: TDM threads
When presented with a choice, is the character more likely to stick with tried and true methods? Or make something new up on the fly? While Mina considers herself a pretty modern, forward-thinking woman, she will usually make the more conventional, safe choice when given the chance. Until or unless her view on something is violently overturned, she tends to accept traditional authority and conventional morality.
What is more important to your character, preserving the past or forging a future? Forging a future is what Mina is much more focused on, particularly building a life and potentially starting a family with her new husband, Jonathan. Even despite recent tragedies that have afflicted her, she's generally a "moving forward" kind of person.
How does your character influence their own story? What about the stories of others? Mina is, quite frankly, the crux around which the entire story of Dracula revolves. She is both his beginning and his end - Elisabeta's death is what caused him to become a vampire in the first place, and Mina's choice (though she doesn't know it yet) is what will decide his ultimate fate, as well as her own. Others recognize this quality more readily than she does - particularly Van Helsing, who calls her "the light of all light".
Are you alright with your character’s canon being used as a Recommended Reading?: Absolutely 100% I would love it.