The part that's wildest to me is that the book starts off by framing the story for the reader, where it's laid out that what follows is a now-convicted abuser's attempt to convince his jury not to convict
Fast forward to the book being made into fucking musicals and rom coms and shit, and earning an extremely warranted reputation as a book that groomers use for grooming
it's an origin story. he was a hero until he wasn't. he made a tricky deal with evil to defeat his supremely powerful enemies, fell into the trap, freed the demon and became evil forever. probably one of the oldest stories: good goes bad.
"Oh I unleashed an ancient evil but at least I saved my country's children from the Turks" would have been a great ending, but IIRC they had Dracula kill all of the evil vampires at the end and kind of undermined it.
CW CSA
What's next, are we going to start calling Humbert Humbert a creep?
The part that's wildest to me is that the book starts off by framing the story for the reader, where it's laid out that what follows is a now-convicted abuser's attempt to convince his jury not to convict
Fast forward to the book being made into fucking musicals and rom coms and shit, and earning an extremely warranted reputation as a book that groomers use for grooming
Nah more likely they'd start telling us Count Dracula is a good guy, actually.
Did Dracula hurt anyone who wasn't English or Texan? I rest my case.
he ate a peasant baby and had the mother eaten by wolves for complaining
That was cheeky. What a rascal!
Oh so that's why Dio Brando did that thing he did
I wonder why the right has an interest in rehabilitating the image of a blood sucking feudal aristocrat.
This is the plot of Dracula Untold and probably a bunch of other things
Fuckin revisionists
it's an origin story. he was a hero until he wasn't. he made a tricky deal with evil to defeat his supremely powerful enemies, fell into the trap, freed the demon and became evil forever. probably one of the oldest stories: good goes bad.
"Oh I unleashed an ancient evil but at least I saved my country's children from the Turks" would have been a great ending, but IIRC they had Dracula kill all of the evil vampires at the end and kind of undermined it.
Honestly I think the better ending would have been that what he had done was so evil that the Turks were better than what he had become
I mean, that's true for Castlevania Dracula.
There's nazis who think Dracula is a good guy because he impaled a bunch of muslims before he became a vampire.