#vampire polycula

Lucy bat!

The reason she wasn't in the set of bat doodles with the others was because that was for a bad ending AU I have where they failed to kill Dracula at the end and got turned and Lucy at that point is doubly-dead, so she's not currently in that story.

I was having thoughts about Van Helsing's turning in my Vampire Polycula AU and it just spiraled from there.

A couple of wordless images and youtube link below the cut

They are! Their names are Elizabeta, Rosalind, and Beatriz in this AU. I’ve drawn them in this picture, with Beatriz to the left, Elizabeta in the middle, and Rosalind to the right. In this AU, they're more sympathetic to the Crew of Light but not enough to help them escape. There are some lines you just don't cross when it comes to Dracula.

Elizabeta is the oldest and the first vampire he successfully turned, and she is the only one to have been somewhat willingly turned. She was originally in an abusive marriage with few family or friends and unfortunately found companionship in a certain mysterious boyar. After her husband stabbed and pushed her down a flight of stairs, she was found by Dracula, who promised that she would live if she drank his blood. She's the most caring and patient toward the new vampires, as she has gone through this process multiple times before.

Rosalind was a peasant who fell into Dracula’s clutches when she was trying to escape charges of witchcraft and he offered her protection, but when she was in his castle and realized what he was going to do to her, she tried to fight back only to lose in the end as she didn’t know how to kill a vampire and was promptly turned by Dracula. She is most decidedly not Van Helsing's biggest fan at first, as he was the one who nearly killed Elizabeta and Beatriz as well as herself, but does want to protect the rest of them nonetheless.

Beatriz was a young noblewoman who was trying to avoid an arranged marriage to someone she despised. Dracula befriended her and she jumped at his offer to take her far, far away where her family wouldn’t be able to track her down. When she realized what he was and the danger she was in, she tried to escape and hid from him only to be drained and turned. She's thrilled to have new company in the castle, even though she knows they'd much rather be anywhere else.

Because I was looking up what the equivalent of flipping someone off would be in the approximate time period Dracula’s set in, and while finding out day-to-day life things along the lines of what physical gestures people used to be rude with is a bit nebulous because that’s one of those things that socially speaking just sort of develops over time and you can’t pinpoint back then exactly when something began to become mainstream, there is a photo from back then with a baseball player flipping off the camera in protest so it was definitely well understood at that time period what it meant in the US, but was likely relatively recent or at least would be unlikely to be disseminated cultural information to places in Europe, especially remote ones.