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One of Carmilla's influences on Dracula can be found in Lucy Westenra:

Carmilla and Lucy are both victims of a vampire who attacked them and turned them.

Both of them died ill, shy of turning 20.

Both Carmilla and Lucy slip through cracks and locked spaces that are otherwise impossible to get through.

Both are seen at night in white, at times bloodstained.

Both of them move at night in a trance-like state when spotted by outsiders (among trees with Carmilla, among graves with Lucy). Lucy's sleepwalking could have been influenced by Carmilla's nightly trances, from when she prowls to feed.

Both of them will choose a random victim at night, feed on them, and then leave them to their fate, to hunt another day (Carmilla with female townsfolk, Lucy with children). The difference is that Carmilla's feedings prove fatal after a few days.

Carmilla and Lucy both have a target with whom they have formed a romantic bond. They see this person not just as a source of sustenance, but as someone they want to accompany them in undeath (Carmilla with Laura, Lucy with Arthur).

redraw of last year's carmilla piece

✨ 𝕮𝖆𝖗𝖒𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖆 ✨

The ultimate sapphic vampire crossover. Carmilla from Castlevania and Carmilla from the 1872 gothic novel by Le Fanu. It came to me one evening when I was chatting with @belciiboo , after my reread of Carmilla, that I needed to see these two in each others arms, dripping with blood, a scene of beauty, gore, intimacy, and a dash of horror.

Carmilla & Laura