DracMina

DracMina is the het ship between Count Dracula and Mina Harker from the Dracula fandom.

Dracula - Bram Stoker
Mina was engaged to Jonathan Harker, who travelled to Transylvania from England in what both assumed would be just a regular business trip for him. Mina became worried sick when she heard almost nothing from Jonathan for months, as any attempt for Jonathan to reach out was thwarted by Count Dracula, a business partner of Jonathan who turned out to be a Transylvanian vampire who used Jonathan's solicitor status to establish an empire in England. Mina's first encounter with Dracula is when she notices her friend Lucy sleepwalking, only to fall prey to a man in the dark. Mina was able to chase the man away, but then noticed two puncture wounds on Lucy's neck, which she initially thought were inflicted by her when she used a pin to hold a shawl she wrapped around Lucy's neck in place.

When there's finally a word from Jonathan, he is at a convent in Budapest, the nuns having sent Mina a letter to come and pick him up. Mina manages to travel there by herself, but Jonathan was to traumatized to explain what happened to him, he is mostly unharmed but Dracula broke his spirit. Mina nurses him back to health and marries him right then and there, they return to England as newlyweds. However, there they find out that Lucy had died in Mina's absence, with a professor named Van Helsing explaining that he tried to treat her illness, but all attempts were thwarted and they had to behead Lucy and put a stake through her heart before burying her, she had turned into a vampire.

From that point onward, Mina and Jonathan are on the lookout for vampires in London. Mina spots a mysterious man he was stalking an Englishwoman who was just out shopping and minding her own business. Mina thwarts him, which saves the woman's life but brought unwanted attention from the man towards Mina. Sure that the man was Dracula, Mina collects all information on Dracula she has and was the one to create the novel in-story. When Van Helsing assembles a group to track Dracula down and kill him before he turns another innocent soul, Mina makes multiple copies of her notes and hands one to each of the men, giving one to Van Helsing, Jonathan and each of Lucy's three suitors who want to kill Dracula to avenge her death.

Using Mina's notes and Jonathan's information on which London buildings Dracula had purchased, the group attempts to track the Count down. However, the Count quickly catches on to their plans and takes advantage of the group's dismissive attitude towards Mina to bite her multiple times. He waits for an opportunity for her teammates to be present as he forces her to drink his own blood, like he was nursing her. This ensures that Mina will become a vampire, with even Van Helsing's treatment of her proving ineffectual when they initially worked on Lucy. Attempting to exorcise her only left her with a scar on her forehead, proving that Dracula's plan to turn her is working. The group soon discovers that Mina is telepathically linked to Dracula now, but Van Helsing manages to use that to their advantage by hypnotising Mina and using their connection to track the Count down far more effectively.

Dracula realizes this and flees back to Transylvania, where the group splits up to try and ambush both him and his minions, the "Weird Sisters". Van Helsing takes Mina with him, but dreads at the sight of her as she starts to become more like Dracula every hour, losing her appetite for human food and starting to sleep during the day. Van Helsing kills the Weird Sisters, while the other four men manage to ambush Dracula on his ship just before sunset. Mina feels the scar on her forehead disappearing and feels the life coming back as the sunlight shines on her, Dracula's curse on her had been lifted.

Seven years later, Jonathan and Mina have a son whom they name "Quincey", after Quincey Morris, the man who died putting his Bowie knife through Dracula's heart. Visiting Dracula's castle again for old time's sake, the Harkers, Van Helsing and the remaining two all agree to tell Quincey the whole story when he's old enough.

Fanon
Though DracMina is still a popular ship in the tag for the novel on AO3, there is an even split between fans of the book and fans of the adaptations when it comes to the general opinion surrounding it.

Movie fans love DracMina, believing it to be a beautiful tragic romance that humanizes Dracula considerably. Book fans despise it, seeing it as a romanticization of a woman being assaulted by a far more powerful man.

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