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Xlavok In reply to Libra1010 [2019-05-22 17:34:29 +0000 UTC]

Well Dracula was basically telling tall tales (and obviously lying) about his apparent "past" to Jonathon Harker saying he was "Székely" and the "Blood of Atilla Running from these Veins" despite the historical Vlad Tepes was ethnically Vlach and from the Basarab family perhaps in a effort to cover his obvious Vampirism at the time since especially from the Apex Society universe context, the Masquerade was still around during that time and Dracula had to to take careful steps to infiltrate London by appearing to buy property and doing all that while not blowing his cover that is which was also the same reason why he had Jonathon Harker as prisoner in his Castle as well

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Libra1010 In reply to Xlavok [2019-05-23 11:32:10 +0000 UTC]

 That certainly seems to be the Apex Society interpretation of the character; part of the reason I prefer interpretations of the character where Count Dracula is NOT Vlad III Tepes is that making the Angry Old Man History rant a lie from start to finish is less interesting to me than reading it as perfectly sincere but based on dated scholarship & personal prejudices.

 It helps highlight just how isolated Count Dracula has been from the wider world (and for how long), as well as helping explain why he wants to leave his cosy Carpathian establishment; quite frankly Transylvania may be his Motherland, but it no longer feels like Home.

 It lends a certain pathos to the character - and while I don't see the literary Dracula as especially sympathetic, there's room for a certain amount of pity towards a great scholar & proud soldier reduced to the parasitic relic of a past age (in all honesty I've never been quite able to decide whether I see Dracula's character arc as the vampiric equivalent of a mid-life Crisis or an attempt at "Suicide by Slayer"). 

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Xlavok In reply to Libra1010 [2019-05-22 16:15:27 +0000 UTC]

Well if you read the description, The Werewolf James Tennyman and Blacula are about to infiltrate the city soon since apparently nobody who isn't a vampire can enter London now without Vampire assistance like Selene which means if anyone in the Apex Society and the Knights of the Round Table were to follow through, they now have to rely on Varney, Clarimonde, Wampyr and Malia to enter the city from this point on and you can bet on Adam Frankenstein showing up in the future as well.

So there maybe no superheroes available but now it's time for supernaturals like Vampires, Werewolves, etc to clean up their own mess...

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Libra1010 In reply to Xlavok [2019-05-22 16:33:13 +0000 UTC]

 That would be why I was expressing my pious hopes that Team Mortality can hold their end up - if the author decides to add a cruel twist to the tale this might turn out more FEARLESS VAMPIRE HUNTERS than Bram Stoker!

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Xlavok In reply to Libra1010 [2019-05-22 17:17:59 +0000 UTC]

No doubt mortals also play a role too but just saying if they get involved, they gotta need Vampire assistance from this point on just to enter London unless there's remaining mortal resistance left in the city...

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Libra1010 In reply to Xlavok [2019-05-23 11:34:05 +0000 UTC]

 We'll just have to wait and find out, eh? 

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Libra1010 In reply to Xlavok [2019-05-22 15:26:20 +0000 UTC]

 I'd be astonished if that pedestal was ever fit to stand on! (One gets the feeling Countess Karnstein was moved more by desperation than by admiration of The Count). 

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Xlavok In reply to Libra1010 [2019-05-22 16:44:17 +0000 UTC]

I guess this is true that Carmilla joined Dracula out of desperation for safety because she was apparently a running fugitive from the Vordenburg Foundation after they killed her family as revealed in the last issue and engaging in her old habits as shown way back in the first issue as in seeking companionship with mortal women that she grows overly passionate with and always trying to turn them into vampires in a similar fashion how she became a vampire herself (as highly hinted in the original book too since Carmilla's plan all along was turn Laura into a vampire hence her rosy cryptic romantic dialogue, as she also tried to do with Bertha Spielsdorf as well) but instead always end up killing them in the process and always been reliving that tragedy eversince then.

It's more than likely possible that Carmilla from that point on looked up to Dracula as a stand in for the late Count Karnstein or some sort of a father figure or more ultimately a revolutionary hero fighting for the Vampire cause as she originally thought he was doing which originally won her respect towards him while not realizing at the time Dracula is more or less manipulating her and not part of the higher echelon like Sarah Kenyon and now Ruthven is who knows the full picture of Dracula's plan that he fully trusts on.

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